"Father! We can't stop the enemy, so let's quickly withdraw from the north gate! Chong Hao came to the side of the seed master and urged anxiously.

Looking at the half of Shouzhou City, where the sound of guns and cannons and shouts of killing was endless, the cultivator said after a moment of silence: "Now that the imperial army has attacked from the east, west, and south, and only the invincible soldiers outside the north gate are besieged, it seems that this is a way for the imperial army to avoid our jade burning, but I'm afraid it's not that simple." ”

Chongxi asked suspiciously, "Father, do you mean there is an ambush outside the north gate?" ”

"Hmm."

Seed Master Dao nodded and explained, "I have been observing the offensive of the Imperial Army from the city, and although it seems that they have hit all their forces on three sides of Shouzhou City, these little tricks cannot hide from my eyes. In fact, there were only 80,000 or 90,000 soldiers and horses in front of us, so where did the 30,000 soldiers who did not appear go? ”

"On our way back?" Chong Hao was shocked.

"If I'm right, those 30,000 people will definitely be on our way back to Tokyo and ready to ambush." ”

After all, it is still necessary to do it.

Seeing through the intentions of the imperial army, Tane Hao ordered Tane Hao to lead the elite of the army equipped with muskets to break through from the north gate.

The north gate was a gap deliberately set aside by the imperial army, but Spartacus and the others did not expect that the cultivation master Dao would lead the remaining 100,000 Song troops to the east.

Although the Song army did not flee to the ambush point of Pang Wanchun's Fourth Army, several corps commanders could not sit idly by and let the living forces of the Song army leave easily.

To the north of Shouzhou City, the fierce war drums sounded, and except for the Third Army Corps, which was left to clear the remnants of the enemy, all the rest of the imperial army pursued in the direction of the northern planting and Taoist army.

In the dark night, you can see the light of the musket shooting almost at any time, as if there are many twinkling stars on the black earth, blooming in the night, although it looks beautiful, but it represents a cruel death.

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In this battle, which was later called the Battle of Shouzhou, the Seed Master Daobu lost about 50,000 people in the siege battle, and another 30,000 were annihilated and captured in the subsequent pursuit battle, and in the end, only 70,000 people escaped.

The Daoist Department of the Seed Master fought and retreated, and finally stood firm when he retreated to Ying Tianfu.

With such a fiasco, the Breeder Dao did not dare to hide it, so he ordered the messenger to report to the Qinzong Office in Tokyo quickly.

Qinzong Zhao Huan was surprisingly tolerant this time, not only did he not blame him for the defeat, but also comforted the seed master in the holy decree, saying that he knew that the equipment of the Song army was far from the imperial army, and this battle was not the crime of the master and so on.

In fact, it is not to blame Qin Zong for speaking like this, but he has to do this.

Now that the Song State has been invaded by the imperial army, Qinzong can only rely on these armies led by the Seed Master Dao and Li Gang, if the Seed Master Dao is disposed of at this time, then the south of the Song State will have no troops to defend, and the Imperial Army can easily come directly to Tokyo City as a guest.

After kneeling and receiving the holy decree, all kinds of feelings in the heart of the cultivator gathered together.

As a famous general who has been fighting in the north and south for many years, he has actually been thinking about how to deal with the imperial army with huge firearms.

The Song Kingdom fought several battles with the Empire, and almost every battle was bound to be lost. The fundamental reason for this was the corruption of the monarchs and ministers of the Song State, and the soldiers not only lacked training for a long time, lacked salaries, but also had equipment that was too different from the other party.

This kind of gap in hardware is difficult to make up for with strategy and experience, so the only remaining famous general of the Great Song Dynasty thought about it in every possible way, and he couldn't think of where the weaknesses of the imperial army were, and how to defeat them.

Just when the planting master Dao was thinking about countermeasures and collecting the remnants of the army and the garrison of the nearby state capital everywhere, the four major army corps of the empire participating in the defense of Shouzhou were sweeping the east and west roads of Huainan.

Sienna, who was secretly attacked by the seed master some time ago, suffered a lot of losses in that battle, and deliberately returned to the imperial capital Changsha to take the blame, and suffered the 'intimate' punishment of His Majesty the Emperor.

Sienna, who was holding back the monstrous anger in her chest, after leading her Fifth Army to cross the river, began to frantically pursue the middle of the seed division.

The defense of the Seed Division is the Jingnan Road, and even if you want to evacuate and join the army in the Seed Division, the road is too far, so you can only flee to the north.

As the last legion established in the empire, and the leading general is still the favorite concubine of His Majesty the Emperor, because the Ministry of Defense also leans towards it, the cavalry that is scarce in the empire also has two cavalry regiments in the fifth legion.

The Imperial cavalry was well-equipped, with the standard 'Southern Fire Serpent II' rifles, as well as two 'Thunder' pistols, a saber and twelve of the latest 'Celestial Maiden Scattered Flowers' grenades for each cavalry.

Sienna ordered the adjutant general Dadao Guan Shengshuai infantry to pursue, and she herself personally led 3,000 cavalry to chase and fight wildly, and finally captured him alive on the road to Xiangzhou.

The war report from the Song State flew like a snowflake to the imperial capital Changsha and was delivered to the hands of the emperor Li Nan, who had already returned.

After seeing these good news, although he knew that his side would win, Li Nan, who was changing history, was still relieved.

Now the five armies of the empire have crossed the Yangtze River and occupied the Huainan Road and the Jingnan Road, which has pushed the empire's territory one step further north, connecting the provinces of Sichuan with these state capitals.

The next thing the empire has to do is to defeat the remnants of the Seed Master Dao, advance directly to the north, and attack Tokyo, the capital of the Song State on the Gyeonggi Road, as long as the political and economic center of the Song State is defeated, and the Qinzong Zhao Huan and the ministers are captured, then the entire Song State will basically be controlled by the empire.

Now in addition to the remnants of the Cultivation Division, the Song State also has the Li Gang Department who has withdrawn to Tokyo from Jingdong Road, and the Liu Yanqing Department who is recruiting troops from all over the northwest.

As the saying goes, a skinny camel is bigger than a horse, and although the Song State lost most of its country, it still exceeded the five major legions of the empire with the addition of troops recruited from the northwest and other places.

Of course, Li Nan and the ministers of the military staff were not worried about the military strength of the Song State, and what made them most nervous was the powerful Jin State in the north of the Song State, and the Western Xia in the west, which had already allied with the Song and Jin.

There is a saying that Cao Cao, Cao Cao arrived, just when the empire was a little worried about the Western Xia, the secret envoy sent by Li Qianshun, the lord of the Western Xia, arrived in Changsha, the imperial capital.

Although Li Nan and the imperial ministers looked down on the Western Xia, after all, it was an envoy from a country, so after retreating from the court, he instructed the Minister of Foreign Affairs, and the Roman princess Ludia received him.

The envoy of the Western Xia was actually a Han man, named Ren Dejing, who was originally the governor of the Song State, and he was captured and surrendered after the Western Xia invaded the Song State, and dedicated his seventeen-year-old daughter to Li Qianshun as a concubine.

In Western Xia, a high-ranking official from the Song State was very useful, not to mention that Li Qianshun loved Ren Dejing's daughter very much, so he appointed him as the defense envoy of Jingzhou.

This time, Li Qianshun deliberately selected Ren Dejing, who was also a Han Chinese, as an envoy, hoping that the eloquent Ren Dejing could reach an agreement with the Chinese Empire, but he didn't expect that it was a beautiful woman from outside the country who saw him.