Outside the city of Xunzhou, all kinds of weapons of the Tiance army have been reckless, and Xunzhou City has reached the brink of destruction after more than 100 years of establishment. But this scene did not move Chen Yu at all, for him, it was not so much attacking Xunzhou as the Tang Empire behind it was sweeping away all the old forces. At this time, among the many feudal towns in the southwest of the Tang Dynasty, only Qu Chengmei was left with a little Han blood, as for Pang Juzhao and Ye Guangluo in front of him? Chen Yu smiled coldly, and the demolition team came to the city gate after avoiding the arrows of the soldiers who were forced to attack on the city tower.

"Ready, ignition." When Chen Yu saw the last group of demomen pull the lead and run back, he made a move with his right hand, and the war drum team behind him suddenly shook the sky, and the Tiance army was concentrated outside Xunzhou at this time, and tens of thousands of troops were fully prepared, and the Tiance army formed countless squads to assemble and standby.

"Boom" An earth-shattering explosion suddenly remembered, the tower of Xunzhou City rushed into the sky as if on a plane, and this explosion was like lifting the entire city wall, and then slammed on the ground, dust rose all over the sky, and flew with this firelight.

"Charge the whole army, charge me." Chen Yu roared angrily, and all the Tiance troops roared out and rushed towards Xunzhou City. And the explosion on Chen Yu's side also brought a new opportunity to the battlefield where Chai Jia was located outside the Xicheng of Xunzhou. As if it was a momentary opportunity, Chai Jia also launched a full-line impact at the same moment. The 50,000-strong army against the opposite side of nearly 100,000 people did not have the slightest fear, Chai Jia even personally led the team to launch an attack, the dense crossbow arrows of the mechanical crossbow broke the attack pace of the small tribal coalition on the opposite side, and the dense explosion made this group of rabble unable to organize an effective attack at all, and was forced into their own formation by Chai Jia's troops. This scene made Chai Jia ecstatic, and while leading the team to attack, he quickly asked the mechanical crossbow behind him to quickly adjust the angle and firing distance, and opened the situation along the arrows of the front-line charging troops.

The action of the Tiance army in the two sides outside the city of Xunzhou made Pang Juzhao and Ye Guangluo's plan suddenly come to naught, compared to Pang Juzhao still has some courage, and led the troops to fight with the Tiance army in the city, blocking the pace of the Tiance army entering the city, Ye Guangluo was planning a retreat at this time, and the three large-scale battles with the Tiance army made Ye Guangluo lose the courage to deal with the head-to-head confrontation. It's just that at this time, his troops have been entangled with the Tiance Army, and it is impossible to retreat with his whole body, so after hesitating, he can only grit his teeth and urge the troops to follow Pang Juzhao to charge forward, but the personal guards around him have always guarded the south city gate, thinking about how to withdraw.

In fact, Ye Guangluo was thinking too much at this time, and the Tiance army basically had no ability to set up an ambush in Nancheng at the same time after attacking on two fronts, which also saved Ye Guangluo's life in the end, allowing him to escape from Xunzhou at the last moment.

But at this time, under Chen Yu's prior planning, the Tiance army was basically one-sided in the street battle to gain an advantage, the three-person team continued to shuttle around the city, relying on the advantage of alternate support between far and near to block the attack against the superior forces, in the case of the terrain disadvantage, not only firmly maintained the battle line, but also was able to quickly attack forward after the large group of men and horses entered the city, tens of thousands of archers in the back of countless melee troops cold arrows, Pang Juzhao's soldiers were killed one by one, The covering shieldmen and pikemen continued to advance, rushing towards the Jiedu Embassy in the city.

In front of the field troops of the Tiance Army, although a few tribal coalition forces occupy the advantage of strength, they have not been able to stop Chai Jia's pace at all, the combat power of the Tiance Army is like a rainbow, constantly cutting the strength of a few tribes, and Chai Jia personally led a team of men and horses to quickly advance into the position of the opponent's Chinese army, disrupting the opponent's deployment from the inside and making the other party completely confused.

It can be said that Chen Yu and Chai Jia have achieved absolute superiority in both battlefields, and if it weren't for Chai Jia's desire to annihilate the main force of a few tribes in one fell swoop, this battle would have basically ended. After Chai Jia led the team to charge, the ballista transferred from the siege force also began to exert its might, the power of the explosive package is not comparable to the mechanical crossbow, the huge explosion continued to sound in the crowd, so that the small number of tribal coalition forces completely collapsed, and the ground was full of these chaotic soldiers scurrying around, this scene made Chai Jia frown a little, but soon adjusted the deployment, changed the formation to a four-sided encirclement, and drove these small number of tribal soldiers to the middle, and the rear explosive bag was concentrated on the middle of the crowd bombardment, This time, Chai Jia was determined to use the power of gunpowder to make these people lose their souls, deter all the surrounding tribal forces in one fell swoop, and lay the foundation for the future rule of the Tang Dynasty.

This scene doomed death and iron blood, and the explosives bag constantly overturned countless rebels, and severed limbs and stumps flew in the air. The small number of tribal rebels who were beaten were scurrying around in the huge encirclement of the Tiance Army, and they could not find a way to flee at all, so they could only disappear in this explosion.

The explosion outside the city also made Chen Yu nod slightly, and his siege troops also began to purge Pang Juzhao's troops in the city. This scene made Ye Guang, who was in Nancheng, frightened, and couldn't care about anything else, so he took the personal guards around him and began to escape from Xunzhou City regardless of opening the South City Gate. His escape made Nancheng quickly lose the strength of the garrison, and also made Ye Guangluo's own troops lose their military spirit quickly, the situation in Xunzhou City became even more chaotic, and the generals on the front line of the Tiance Army quickly noticed the abnormality, and almost before the arrival of the Chinese army's order, they quickly increased the pace of attack, and many soldiers of the Tiance Army rushed directly towards the main street of Xunzhou City, where Pang Juzhao had the most powerful defensive strength.

However, compared to the situation in the city, Chai Jia outside the city ended the battle first, and after the endless explosion, the remaining few tribal rebels were killed and completely lost their souls, seeing the Tiance army closing the encirclement layer by layer, they were almost impatient to put down their weapons and raise their hands to surrender, this scene made Chai Jia nod, waved his hand to let the troops around him start to capture the prisoners, and quickly escorted these people to the camp to take care. At the same time, the troops were dispatched to converge with the ballista troops and began to attack the gate of Xunzhou Xicheng, and the Pang Juzhao troops in the city were flanked before and after. In this way, it is equivalent to cutting off Pang Juzhao's back road, and the defenders in the city almost completely lost their military spirit at the moment when the explosion sounded from Xicheng, and even Pang Juzhao himself was terrified, and the weapon in his hand could no longer be held, and fell to the ground with a bang. His action seemed to have caused the people around him to lay down their weapons together, and at this point, Xunzhou City officially fell into the hands of the Tiance Army.

After capturing Pang Juzhao, Chen Yu led his troops to quickly capture the prisoners in the whole city, and then escorted them to the outside of the city to be detained. Chai Jia led his troops to sweep the surrounding Yanzhou, Hengzhou, Baizhou and other places, and seized the time to take the other prefectures and counties of these two feudal towns. And Chen Yu in Xunzhou City did not seize Ye Guangluo after sealing Pang Juzhao's property and the Xunzhou Mansion Treasury, so he quickly sent a sea fishing document to start arresting Ye Guangluo.

It's just that at this time, Ye Guangluo had already given up all his territory, and went to Jiaozhou with the defeated troops along the way to defect to Qu Chengmei, intending to rely on this last Han feudal town force to protect himself.

At this time, Chen Yu sent a battle report to the headquarters in Guangzhou, reporting the course of the battle of Xunzhou, handing over most of the prisoners to logistics and escorting them to Guangzhou, and at the same time urging the receiving officials to come to Xunzhou and other places. Chai Jia had also led his troops to sweep Baizhou and other places at this time, and the Tiance army quickly crossed Ye Guangluo's territory and arrived at Qinzhou to join a battalion stationed here by Xue Wanli, and then stopped through Huzhou in the west, heading towards Qu Chengmei. And Chen Yu also set out from Hengzhou with the main force and began to attack Penn and Chengzhou to the north, converging the battle line and the Western Route Army on the southern border of Qiqi.

In this way, the forces of the Tiance army in the southwest were finally completely connected, Chai Jia and Qu Chengmei in the south were looking at each other from afar, and Chen Yu and the West Route Army in the north were already preparing for the war against Nanzhao after they converged.

When the news was sent to the Guangzhou headquarters, Yang Tiancheng and Wang Houchun smiled together, and finally only Qu Chengmei was left in the southwest region, and Qu Chengmei had also been included in the ranks of the targets for elimination by the Tiance Army after the navy had been stationed in Lianzhou Port. However, at this time, it was the end of December of the second year of the Apocalypse, and after he and Wang Houchun explained everything, they delegated the command of the front line to Chen Yu, and then the two led the command personnel to board the ship and leave Guangzhou, go north to Hangzhou, and then return to the Chang'an base camp.

The departure of the two means that the tasks of the Jiangnan Headquarters of the Tiance Army are all over, and the rest can be handed over to Chen Yu. However, at this time in the Chang'an base camp, Xue Yang and a few people took Lan Jin, the high priest of the Qi Dynasty, to the Changqing Hall of the Tang Empire, and Li Xuanqing accepted Lan Jin's book and table, but then Qiaoxi took Lan Jin back to the harem to give a banquet. Li Xuanqing and Cen Tianshi looked at each other, looked at Xue Yang and laughed.

"Your Majesty, I think that Xue Yang and them will be able to marry after the beginning of the year, and when Xue Yang returns to Qiqi, he can marry directly." Xu Ying on the side said with a smile.

Cen Tianshi shook his head and said, "It's better to get married in Chang'an." After a while, Xiao Si sent someone to pass the decree, and Li Yang and the Great Elder came to Chang'an to see the emperor, and by the way, they participated in the wedding of the high priest and Xue Yang. ”

Li Xuanqing nodded and smiled: "I think it's not just him, but also a few of them, just hold a collective wedding, the ancients became a family, and now you are all generals who command the army, I'm afraid you don't have time to think about other things, I think Mr. might as well do it for them." ”

"The emperor can rest assured, this matter will be handed over to me and Xiaosi, and I promise to satisfy them." As soon as Cen Tianshi left, Hu Xiaosi walked in and glanced at Xue Yang and said with a smile: "Congratulations to my Xue Dashuai, I heard that you are going to get married, and you are still the high priest of other people, which is amazing." ”

Several people made fun of Xue Yang, and then listened to Xue Yang and Xu Ying's report on the war situation of the Western Route Army in the past year, and then Hu Xiaosi said: "Your Majesty, Tiancheng and Houchun have already set off from Guangzhou to return to Chang'an a few days ago. Chen Yu's side has also captured Xunzhou and other places, and at present, only Qu Chengmei and Nanzhao are left in the southwest. Qu Chengmei is okay to say, after all, it is still the power of the Tang Dynasty. It's just that this Nanzhao Kingdom is a bit difficult to handle. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has already received a letter from Nanzhao, and the envoys of Nanzhao have already set off for Chang'an, and I heard that they want to negotiate with us, but the specific situation is still unknown. ”

"Negotiations? What is there to talk about? In the Xianzong era, they attacked Sichuan three times, killing and injuring me, and countless people shouted, such a big grievance is like this? And knowing that my Tiance army is approaching and not surrendering, still thinking about negotiations? Xu Ying was dismissive of Nanzhaoguo's behavior.

"Again, if you want to negotiate, you should surrender. I went back to Mr. Cen and asked the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to inform them to prepare the table reduction, otherwise they would just call him. Hu Xiaosi suddenly remembered something after he finished speaking: "Your Majesty, I don't think Nanzhao will re-establish contact with the Tubo people and borrow troops to resist the attack of our army." ”

Hu Xiaosi's words made the people present stunned, and then reacted, before Nanzhao's attack on Sichuan was to accept the bewitchment of the Tubo people, I am afraid that this time it will really let them succeed and borrow troops to fight against the Tiance army.

However, Li Xuanqing didn't care, Tubo was scattered and divided like the Tang Dynasty for so many years, and the local Yangqiang and other royal systems were becoming more and more corrupt, and it was estimated that there was not much strength to lend to Nanzhao.

"Xue Yang, your Western Route Army will join Chai Jia to attack Nanzhao State after the New Year, if the other party borrows troops, they will simply enter Tibet from the southern front and completely defeat Tubo. It is also time for the northern Tibetan plateau to be included in the territory of the Tang Dynasty. Li Xuanqing nodded and said, "Xiao Si will inform your father-in-law when the time comes, and all their soldiers and horses will be included in the system of the Tiance Army, and they will enter the Tibetan area as the second route of soldiers and horses." ”

"Your Majesty, I remember that Tianxiang has no plan to attack Tibet next year in his plan?" Hu Xiaosi nodded, and then said with a wry smile: "I'm afraid that it may not be easier to enter the Tibetan area than to go west to Hexi, is our preparation a little less?" ”

"The emperor doesn't have to worry, if you enter the Tibetan area, you will hand it over to our Western Route Army, Xue Yang promises to take the Tibetan area and include the entire northern Tibetan plateau into the territory of my Tang Dynasty." Xue Yang saluted: "Our Western Route Army has basically been fighting in the mountains for a year, and we are familiar with the terrain of mountain operations, and the mountain battalions have also been stationed in Tibetan areas for a long time to adapt to plateau operations, so it is most suitable for us to hand them over." ”

Li Xuanqing glanced at the two of them and nodded: "You go and explain, Xuan Yingwei will go all out to explore the intentions of Nanzhao, if the Tubo army advances eastward, your Western Route Army will immediately set off to completely eliminate the great disaster in the southwest and win a stable southwest for my Tang Dynasty." ”

"Xu Ying, you should know the two Jingguan erected by Hou Chun and Wan Yi in the northwest back then, right?" After a few people withdrew from the Changqing Palace, Hu Xiaosi grabbed Xue Yang and Xu Ying and said: "Tubo and my Tang Dynasty have a century-old blood feud, and the hatred of Anxi Massacre is still a century-old regret of my Tang Dynasty, if you enter the Tibetan area, I think you should know what to do, right?" ”

"A tooth for a tooth, blood for a blood." Xu Ying's face was stunned, and she spit out a few words coldly, making the air around her even colder. He and Xue Yang were both generals who had experienced the First Battle of Yuanzhou that year, so they naturally knew what to do to resolve this national feud from a hundred years ago. At this time, Hu Xiaosi's reminder was to tell the two of them that this hatred needed to be eliminated by their generation of generals with their own practical actions, and the military soul of the Tang Empire and the Tiance Army needed the blood and bones of the enemy to wash the snow