?en ???． ranen'org Therefore, when attacking other cities, Lu Chen must use this strategy of fighting to support war, so that he can quickly develop and expand his strength. Otherwise, no matter how strong his army of 100,000 is, it will be consumed in one big battle after another.

After capturing the territory of the Wuning Jiedu envoy, Lu Chen's army had soared from the 30,000 he had led before to more than 60,000.

Lu Chen did not stop the pace of attacking. After he left 20,000 troops to guard Xuzhou and other cities, the remaining 40,000 troops followed Lu Chen to other Jiedu envoys again.

The war lasted for more than half a month. In the past half a month, the generals of the rebel army led the army to occupy almost all the territories of the major forces in the north, and only a few Jiedu envoys were still holding on to their own territory, but depending on the situation, these people could not hold on for long.

To the south, it was almost occupied by land dust. After this series of wars. Lu Chen's total strength has reached 200,000. has developed to the present, neither the An Lushan rebels nor the imperial court dare to underestimate Lu Chen.

Especially the rebel general of Cangzhou City who cooperated with Lu Chen before, after learning that Lu Chen had developed so rapidly. He was very remorseful, he should have rushed directly to Yanzhou City to destroy Lu Chen first.

However, at that time, he was reluctant to let go of the territory of the northern Jiedu envoys, so he had no time to estimate Lu Chen. As a result, Lu Chen developed rapidly. Now Lu Chen's troops are nearly 50,000 more than him, which makes him a little afraid to fight Lu Chen in a short period of time.

Although the area to the east of the Tang Dynasty has become stable for the time being. However, everyone understands that this so-called stability is only temporary, after all, this pattern is obviously impossible to exist for a long time.

At the same time, the battle situation between the Tang royal family and the An Lushan rebels in the Central Plains has also undergone new changes.

After Tang Xuanzong experienced the accident of Ma Weipo and was forced to order the execution of Yang Guifei, Tang Xuanzong became a little disheartened. Moreover, it seems that the current war is no longer as concerned as before.

At the same time, he parted ways with Tang Xuanzong and went to Li Heng, the crown prince in the north of the Tang Dynasty. On the way, he frequently called on generals from all walks of life to unite to resist the rebels of An Lushan.

However, the strength of An Lushan's rebels is too strong. Even though Li Heng gathered close to 100,000 troops, he was almost defeated by the rebels in the duel with An Lushan's army. Fortunately, at the critical moment, Lu Yi led the army to arrive, and the front and rear attacks were flanked, and An Lushan's army was repulsed.

The other army was led by An Lushan's right-hand man Yin Ziqi. Approaching directly to the south, the momentum along the way was like a bamboo, and there was no city that could resist it. But such a large army was blocked by a little-known small city, Suiyang City, not long ago.

There were only about 6,000 garrisons in this small city, and there were not many people in the city. It can only be regarded as a small and medium-sized city. It was such a small city, but it stubbornly blocked hundreds of thousands of rebels for half a month, making it impossible for them to go south.

After learning of this, Lu Chen immediately sent an army of 50,000 to the city to rescue.

For this big battle in Suiyang City. Lu Chen is no stranger, he had heard of the deeds of Zhang Xun and Xu Yuan in his previous life. It was these two people who used an ordinary small city and thousands of soldiers and horses to block the enemy's hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses. So that the south avoided this catastrophe.

Although in the end, the soldiers in the city began to eat human flesh and drink human blood, Lu Chen still admired the two of them very much. Moreover, according to the memories of Lu Chen's previous life, if no one came to the rescue, Suiyang City would probably not be able to avoid the fall in the end.

After Lu Chen sent this 50,000 army, he ordered 30,000 troops again, and personally led Yin Ziqi's army attacking Suiyang City from another direction.

The 50,000-strong army was the first to reach the outside of Suiyang City. When the rebel general Yin Ziqi saw reinforcements coming, he immediately ordered a general attack on these reinforcements. But before the soldiers on both sides could make contact, four loud noises suddenly came from one side, and then four black balls fell from the sky and fell directly into Yin Ziqi's army.

The next moment, four deafening explosions spread from its army into the distance.

This change caused hundreds of thousands of rebels to suddenly fall into disarray. And Lu Chen's army of 50,000 did not rush in when they saw this scene. Only a few thousand people rushed out, but each of them had a black ball in his hand and threw it at the rushing enemy.

Boom boom boom~

In an instant, hundreds of explosions spread around. In the midst of this successive explosions. Before Yin Ziqi's army could make contact with Lu Chen's army, there were already more than 10,000 casualties.

By the time the armies of the two sides started a melee battle, Yin Ziqi's army had no fighting spirit. In addition, the 30,000 army led by Lu Chen had already been ambushed on both sides. Under the outflanking of the two roads, more than 100,000 coalition troops composed of various forces were instantly defeated by Lu Chen.

Looking at the one-sided battle situation, Yin Ziqi finally ordered a retreat with an unwilling face. If he continues to fight like this, I am afraid that his army of more than 100,000 will be blown up by the other party. However, even when he retreated, his mind still had the other party's large and small black balls. The power of this round ball is so powerful that it can directly decide the outcome of the battle.

After repelling the enemy army, the army led by Lu Chen entered Suiyang City under the greeting of Zhang Xun and them.

As soon as he entered the city, whether it was Lu Chen or his subordinates, they were immediately stunned by what they saw.

But I saw a large cauldron in the distance, and the pot was full of steaming broth. And next to it, there were the corpses of some women and children and soldiers who died in battle, and some of the flesh on these corpses had been cut off.

Seeing Lu Chen, they looked shocked. Zhang Xun and Xu Yuan couldn't help but tearfully explain: This Suiyang City has too few residents. So, there wasn't much left to eat. During the period of being besieged by the enemy, the surplus food had long been eaten. Later, even the rats and leaves in the city were eaten.

With nothing to eat, the soldiers defending the city were starving and almost without fighting spirit. Seeing this scene, Zhang Xun gritted his teeth and killed his wife and concubine to let the soldiers eat his flesh.

At the end of the day, Zhang Xun, a general who had experienced a hundred battles, couldn't cry anymore.

And the iron-clad men around him couldn't help but reddened their eyes when they saw this scene.

After Lu Chen sighed lightly, he immediately ordered that all the corpses in the city be buried.

Subsequently, Lu Chen stayed in the city for a few days, and helped Zhang Xun and them repair the city wall, and finally left them enough food before leaving.

From beginning to end, Lu Chen did not mention the intention of recruiting the two. This kind of person who can put life and death aside for the sake of Datang, Lu Chen knows very well in his heart that it is impossible for him to recruit them.

However, after this big battle, Lu Chen and An Lushan have completely gone to the opposite side.