On the tenth day of the war, the White Tiger Army could no longer hold on, and the adult men of Datong Mansion were almost emptied, and the people fled one after another, but the sacrifice of the soldiers was still at a rate of at least 2,000 per day. For the White Tiger Army, they were a great success, they waited for reinforcements, and the township army transferred from the states was as many as 50,000 people, although they were not elite, but their arrival still gave the Han army a respite. And the Rakshasas finally realized that they had been deceived, that there were not so many enemies on the other side, and that their forces had also been greatly reduced.

Ivanov then changed his strategy, leaving part of his army behind to contain his opponents, and sending another part of his army to suddenly attack Qingzhou to the east. Because the Qingzhou army supported the White Tiger Army in Liangheling, so that there was no one to defend it, and the Rakshasa people conquered more than a dozen county towns one after another, burning, killing and looting countless times.

Dushanbo knew that the other party was disrupting their rear, and he divided his troops to support them, but Lianghe Ridge was the key to the battlefield, so he could only write to Zhang Xiaowu and ask Zhang Xiaowu to send troops to subdue Qingzhou.

At this time, Zhang Xiaowu had basically reorganized the army of Longdu City, and he requisitioned 100,000 troops and 40,000 people, including 25,000 Longdu Army, 75,000 Southern Township Army and Soldiers. He left 5,000 troops to defend the imperial city, including 3,000 Imperial Forest Army and 2,000 Longdu Mansion officials, and the general who stayed in Longdu Mansion was the old general Lang Cangyu.

On November 30, when the army was ready, Zhang Xiaowu remained alone in the central palace, he withdrew everyone, and sat on the stone steps looking at the entire imperial city. The location of the Central Mansion is very good, and it is only 800 steps away from the Zhengde Palace, and all the buildings of the Eight Ministries and Six Courtyards are in front of it.

The cold wind blew, Zhang Xiaowu felt a little cold, maybe he hadn't exercised for a long time, which made him feel that his body was not as good as before. At his feet is a book of information, about the battle of Liangheling and about the war in Jiangnan.

The war in Jiangnan did not lead to the strength of the puppet Wu because of the departure of the White Tiger Army, but because of the withdrawal of the White Tiger Army, the puppet Wu began civil strife. The puppet Wu civil strife had been foreshadowed for a long time, and if it weren't for the White Tiger Army's approaching step by step, they would have been in civil strife long ago.

After the puppet Wu Emperor Wang Deyue announced the abolition, he married the new Empress Tao Xianzi, and the hundred officials and troops loyal to Empress Wu immediately announced the abolition of the emperor, supported the daughter of the old sect leader as the head of the Tianhuo Sect and respected as the empress of the Great Zhou State, and fought against Wang Deyue's Wu State Division. Wang Deyue never expected that instead of quietly retiring in Yuezhou, his yellow-faced queen mother took the Tianhuo Sect and his friends to make her own rebellion, and she was suddenly angry. He immediately dispatched Deng Fang and Hong Pingjiu to lead an army of 50,000 to defeat the Heavenly Fire Sect army.

Unexpectedly, there was an internal response of the Tianhuo Sect in the army of Wu State, and after the 50,000 army entered Yuezhou, it ran into walls everywhere and suffered repeated defeats. Deng Fang, who realized that there was a problem in the army, immediately suggested withdrawing the army, and Hong Pingjiu also thought that the gap must be cleared first, so the two immediately returned to Jiangzhou.

After returning to Jiangzhou, the two informed Wang Deyue of the reason for the ambush one after another, and explained that many people in the Heavenly Fire Sect were concerned about Empress Wu and frequently leaked news about the army, which made them suffer repeated failures everywhere.

Wang Deyue listened to the advice of Zuo Xiang Gu Huan, and began to camp separately from the ordinary soldiers in the general, he slowly began to distrust the Tianhuo Cultists, and sent the Tianhuo Cultists to the most dangerous battlefields, using the army of the Zhou State to get rid of the army composed of the Tianhuo Cultists.

And when the Wu army lost the Heavenly Fire Sect members in the army, the combat effectiveness was sharply reduced, and neither side took advantage of each other. Soon after, there was a joke in Jiangzhou City, it turned out that Tao Fairy was unwilling to marry Wang Deyue, and he actually fled on the wedding day, Wang Deyue was furious and ordered everyone to look for Tao Fairy. It's a pity that the Tao Fairy seems to have disappeared out of thin air, and it is difficult to find traces anymore.

Wang Deyue believes that the reason why Fairy Tao disappeared was because he was kidnapped by the Tianhuo Sect, that is, the spies of the Zhou State made trouble. In order to relieve the anger in his heart, he personally drove to Yuezhou and fought fiercely against the main force of the Zhou army in Yueyang Mansion. Perhaps because of the perennial lack of war, Wang Deyue's 80,000 army was defeated by the 30,000 Zhou army led by Xie Pengfei and fled back to Jiangzhou City in embarrassment.

The state of Zhou and the state of Wu were incompatible, and they were in a mess, and although the battlefield in the south of the Yangtze River did not have the army of the imperial court, it was even more chaotic.

In the Battle of Lianghe Ridge, it was always difficult for the two sides to completely defeat each other, so they formed a balanced confrontation with each other, but when the list of fallen soldiers was sent to the imperial court, many people were silent. Among the generals who died in battle, more than ninety percent of the officers were born in the Shi clan, on the one hand, because there were more Shi officers, and on the other hand, because the Shi officers would rather die because of honor and patriotism, but some civilian officers abandoned the army in order to save their lives when they were defeated and fled. Of course, this does not mean that civilians are unpatriotic, but that the nobles are more patriotic, because almost 100% of the soldiers who died in battle were civilian soldiers.

After ten days of fierce fighting at Liangheling, the Han army lost 50,000 casualties, and it is said that the corpses were piled up into a hill. It is even said that the White Tiger Army built the corpses of their comrades into a wall and used the frozen corpses to defend against the opposing cavalry.

"Alas, why give up the Wolf Pass?" Zhang Xiaowu still couldn't figure it out, but no matter how much he complained, he had nowhere to blame him with the death of Murong Yan, the commander of the Wolf Guard. Yes, just three days ago, Murong Yan died in battle with his second son Murong Chi, and his ninth son Murong Lie died in battle because he was attacked by the Rakshasa when he held the Two Wolf Pass a month ago, plus Murong Zhan, who died of illness due to the plague last year, so that the second-generation male of the Yingchuan Hou family was the only Murong Yin.

Zhang Xiaowu originally planned to punish the Murong family after this battle, but now it seems that there is no need to punish the Murong family, because the Murong family has only one Murong Yin, who is neither male nor female.

"Lord Linggong, the 25th Regiment led by General Hu has set off overnight, and 12,000 troops have arrived in Ping'an County." Wang Yijin rushed to report that although the next day was the day of the march, the forward troops of the Qinglong Army set off first tonight.

Yes, Zhang Xiaowu rebuilt the Qinglong Army, including the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, and 6th regiments of the forbidden army, as well as the 25th, 26th, 27th, and 28th regiments, each with 12,000 men, a total of 120,000 people.

Zhang Xiaowu personally served as the commander of the Qinglong Army, the military advisor was Wu Song, and the second commander was Helan Zong. The rebuilding of the Qinglong Army made Helanzong and Chen Qing and other Qinglong Army veterans happy, after all, Zhang Xiaowu was also from the Qinglong Army, and everyone was a real comrade-in-arms.