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After clearing out these enemy troops, Lu Chen immediately sent out a large army and tried his best to occupy all the cities under the command of the Xuanwu Army. In particular, those large cities must be attacked at all costs.

The reason why Lu Chen was so eager to capture these cities was mainly because he was afraid that the fruits of his victories that he had won so hard would be taken by other forces.

Although Lu Chen didn't lose much of his troops in this battle, outsiders don't know!

After all, at the beginning, Lu Chen's troops were even smaller than those of the Xuanwu Army. In the eyes of outsiders, even if Lu Chen won this battle, it would probably be a miserable victory. For a force that has suffered heavy losses, they will naturally not be patriotic and fearful. In addition, now the Tang royal family has no time to take care of itself. The forces around this area will definitely be tempted to send troops to capture these cities under the jurisdiction of the Xuanwu Army's Jiedu Envoy.

Although with Lu Chen's current strength, he is not afraid of any force, but if the major forces around him jointly invade, then Lu Chen will no longer be able to compete. Therefore, the best thing to do now is to take control of the large surrounding cities in your own hands. After the other forces saw Lu Chen's strength, they naturally retreated.

And the development of events was just as Lu Chen expected, while he sent a large army to recover the territory belonging to the Xuanwu Army. The Huainan Jiedu envoy in the south also sent troops to occupy the two cities in the territory of the Xuanwu Army's Jiedu envoy.

In the north, the Wuning Army Jiedu Envoy, Yanhai Jiedu Envoy, etc., the surrounding major forces have sent soldiers to encroach on the territory of the Xuanwu Army's Jiedu Envoy. They did not send many soldiers, only three or four thousand, and they were only able to attack small and medium-sized cities. After all, they still don't know what the losses of both sides after the war will be caused by Lu Chen and the Xuanwu Army. Therefore, they did not dare to be too presumptuous to prevent major losses.

For these forces, Lu Chen immediately sent an envoy to indicate that the cities that these forces had already occupied would be given to them. If they dare to occupy the rest of the city, it will be equivalent to being an enemy of him Lu Chen.

These surrounding forces saw Lu Chen's tough attitude, and learned through the spies that Lu Chen did not suffer a heavy blow this time. Shocked, they withdrew their troops one after another. After all, most of their strength is similar to that of the Xuanwu Army, and even if they are strong, they can't be too strong. Since Lu Chen was able to destroy the army of the Xuanwu Army, he would naturally be able to destroy them. What's more, Lu Chen is not too ruthless, as long as the city occupied by these forces, Lu Chen has not recovered it.

However, even so, there are still forces that are lucky. They thought that Lu Chen was just bluffing, and on the surface it didn't seem to cause much damage, but in fact, it was just to cover up the emptiness of their troops.

Therefore, even after Lu Chen sent an envoy to express his attitude, they still went their own way in the territory of the Xuanwu Army's Jiedu envoy and occupied the city in a big way.

Seeing that these people ignored him, Lu Chen did not hesitate to immediately send a large army to investigate. After Lu Chen captured three medium-sized cities in succession. Those forces finally understood, but Lu Chen's strength was not hit hard. After knowing this, the forces that still remained on this territory also immediately expressed their attitude that they would not encroach on the territory of the Xuanwu Army's Jiedu envoy in the future.

However, there are exceptions to everything. Even if Lu Chen has done so much, there are still forces that ignore Lu Chen's warnings and wantonly invade the territory of the Xuanwu Army in the north, and even continue to increase troops in its jurisdiction.

This force is the Yanhai Jiedu envoy in the northeast of the Xuanwu Army's Jiedu Envoy's territory. As for why this force is so stubborn in sending troops to attack, Lu Chen also knows some reasons.

According to the information found by Lu Chen, this Xuanwu Army Jiedu envoy has a very good relationship with Yanhai Jiedu envoy. It is said that when the two joined forces to fight against the Turks, the Xuanwu Army Jiedu envoy also saved the life of the Yanhai Jiedu envoy. Therefore, now that Lu Chen has occupied the territory of the Xuanwu Army's Jiedu envoy, the Yanhai Jiedu envoy naturally wants to avenge it.

However, what made Lu Chen a little puzzled was why the Xuanwu Army Jiedu Envoy didn't ask for help from the Yanhai Jiedu Envoy before? It can be seen from the behavior of the Yanhai Festival envoy that the friendship between the two is undoubtedly very deep. If the Xuanwu Army Festival envoy went to borrow troops at that time, it should be easy to borrow them.

In fact, Lu Chen didn't know that the Xuanwu Army Festival was not without taking this into account at that time. It's just that in his heart, he is afraid that the Yanhai Jiedu envoy will take advantage of this to encroach on his territory, after all, the Xuanwu Army Jiedu envoy is notoriously cautious. Besides, Lu Chen only had an army of 20,000 at that time, and he thought that his own troops alone would be enough. That's why he didn't ask for foreign help.

However, although it is known that the relationship between the two sides is very good. But it was impossible for Lu Chen to let them behave in the territory of the Xuanwu Army's envoys. Otherwise, how could Lu Chen gain a foothold here.

And just when Lu Chen was about to fight with the other party, Lin Lao sent someone to send the news: they had taken control of Bianzhou City, and by the way, they also occupied several small and medium-sized cities around them. However, the Yanhai Festival in the east made Bianzhou City eye, which made Lin Lao very worried. Moreover, according to the report of the spies, the Yanhai Jiedu envoy has recently sent a total of more than 15,000 troops to invade the northeast region, and his army is constantly approaching Bianzhou City.

After getting the news, Lu Chen just sneered. He immediately sent people to Yingzhou City, brought all the bombs used to defend the city there, and went to Bianzhou City. In order to defend Yingzhou City, he left nearly half of the bombs there. As a result, the army sent by the Xuanwu Army Jiedu was completely annihilated by Lin Lao before he could attack the city, so those bombs were not used.

After secretly transporting all the nearly 1,000 bombs to Bianzhou City, Lu Chen then led an army of 8,000 to Bianzhou City.

And the army of Yanhai Jiedu, who had already come to the vicinity of Bianzhou City, got the news that Lu Chen was rushing here. Their generals immediately ordered an immediate siege of the city. They knew very well in their hearts that if Lu Chen rushed over, it would be difficult for them to capture this city again.

The battle went very smoothly, and under their fierce attack, it didn't take long for the defenders on Bianzhou City to show some weakness, and even the sharp arrows that kept falling down on the city wall seemed to be no longer as sharp as before.

At this time, the gate of Bianzhou City was suddenly breached.