At the first time, Yakov did not evacuate with a large army, because he did not know what kind of environment was around him. He only knew that a sporty army was extremely weak in defense. Known as the general of the fortress, he immediately decided to take advantage of his advantages, and immediately ordered the army to camp in place and began to build a defensive position, and at the same time he also wrote a letter asking for help to send back.

The army of the Celestial Empire, which had just destroyed Allah, took advantage of the victory to surround the Yakov army. But Zhang Chao did not order the attack at the first time. First, they had just destroyed Allah, and the soldiers needed to rest after a bloody battle. Second, the scout looked at the enemy's defensive formation and set up eight lines of defense in a short period of time, which made Zhang Chao not confident that he could attack in one shot. In this way, the battle fell into a brief stalemate.

In saying the Grand Prince Anatoly here. Allah was killed, the legion was destroyed, Yakov was also besieged, and when he got the news at the beginning of the year, he was so angry that he almost didn't spurt out a mouthful of blood.

The development of the battle situation so far can be said to be completely unexpected by him. He originally had an advantage in the northwest front, but now he is already overstretched in terms of troops, so if this continues, where can he send any reinforcements?

While Anatoly was still thinking about where to send reinforcements, something happened to the city of Sanlilbey.

The guard general Nikita actually fell into Zhao Yun's trap, took the initiative to go out of the city to fight, and fell into the encirclement, although it was said that he finally broke out of the encirclement, but the 300,000 troops in his hands were indeed killed and wounded, not only that, but also lost the city of Sanlilbe.

The word Nikita, translated into Chinese, means victory. It's just a pity that he rarely does anything victorious.

When Zhao Yun learned that the defending general of Sanlilbe City had been changed from Yakov to Nitaki, and that the defenders in the city had changed from 800,000 to 300,000 now, he knew that his opportunity had come.

After consulting with Dian Wei and others, he deliberately took the initiative to appear not far from the city of Sanlilbey, and also escorted a large number of looted military rations. Finally lured the fish to the bait, Nikita took the initiative to make a move, thinking that it was an opportunity to make meritorious contributions, but he didn't know that this was indeed the palace of Hades.

Nikita made a move, Zhao Yun deliberately feinted defeat and retreated, and sure enough, he led his troops to advance, and in this way, Dian Wei and others rushed into the city of Sanlilbe and captured the city.

Nikita was fooled and hurriedly led his troops back to help, but he only led his troops to rush through the city, and he was really unable to defend it. In this way, after fleeing back to the capital city of Great Rus, he appeared in front of the Anatoly prince with less than 20,000 remnants.

Knowing that the city of Sanlilbe had been lost, and that he had not even brought out the military rations in the city, and had lost more than 200,000 soldiers, Anatoly beheaded Nikita in a fit of rage.

The change in the situation greatly surprised all expectations, and with the city of Sanlir Bay being taken by Zhao Yun, they finally had a foothold and were able to survive the winter completely. Soon after, Huang Zhong, who was hiding in the mountains, also entered the city with his cavalry army and joined Zhao Yun's army.

The original plan to trap Zhao Yun was ruined. If it weren't for the cold winter and heavy snow, I am afraid that Zhao Yun's troops would attack Great Rus City next.

Because of the heavy snow, the two sides invariably stopped the war, on the surface, it seems that everything is calm, but only Anatoly knows very well, but because of the heavy snow, the two sides temporarily ceased fighting, once it comes to the spring of next year, the war will continue, and at that time, the whole situation will develop in a very unfavorable direction for themselves.

Sanlil Bay City was captured by Zhao Yun, and when the news came, Zhang Chao was naturally overjoyed.

What he was most worried about was how Zhao Yun and other troops of the Northwest Route Army would survive the winter. Without a city to live in, it will be very difficult to survive the cold winter. Now that he has the city to guard, he doesn't have to worry about things there.

Also because of the heavy snow, Zhang Chao also stopped the campaign against Yakov's army. Fighting in the snow, the cavalry cannot give full play to their advantages, even the infantry is walking with a deep foot and a shallow foot, in such an environment, how can we talk about the road of attack?

In desperation, Zhang Chao also led the army to retreat to Pahan City to start the winter. Leaving Yakov's army in agony in the snow.

The battle situation fell into a truce stage due to the weather, but under the surface calm was indeed an undercurrent of waves.

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The land of the Central Plains.

It has been nearly two years since Zhang Chao, the first emperor of the Celestial Empire, led a large army to conquer the Rus' country.

In these years, both the defeated Zhuge Liang Department and the Sun Jian Department in charge of Eastern Wu have been given time to breathe and begin to develop vigorously.

In two years, recruiting troops and buying horses has made their strength develop a lot. Their strength has increased, and they have also become impatient, and they have begun to set their sights on the Celestial Empire, and they seem to want to take the opportunity to do something.

The main force is in the Rus' country, and the dragoon army went to the Western Regions again, and now the territory of the Celestial Empire can be said to be empty, and it is the weakest time.

Everyone can see this opportunity, and the left-behind Guo Jiajun can also see it, in order to live up to the trust. While he continued to recruit troops to increase his own strength, he also deployed troops to prevent accidents. For example, to deal with Zhuge Liang's remnants, he used the Seventh Army Zhang Liao's department.

Zhang Liao is cautious and responsible. This person is stationed in Chengdu, which can make people feel a lot more at ease.

Facts have also proved that Zhuge Liang did attack a few times tentatively, but because of Zhang Liao's effective defense, he did not suffer any losses.

For Sun Jian of Eastern Wu, Xu Huang and Xu Shu of the Fifth Army Corps sent by Guo Jia, with the close cooperation of Shuangxu, can also temporarily stabilize the situation. But in the final analysis, there are still too few troops, once this goes on for a long time, what will happen, Guo Jia doesn't know, it is difficult for a good woman to cook without rice, and he can only hope that the affairs of the Rus Kingdom will be solved soon.

Winter went to spring, after nearly half a year, to the end of April of the following year, that is, in 212 AD, April of the tenth year of the Celestial Empire, the ice and snow of the Rus' country melted, the grass began to sprout, and a new round of offensive brewed by Zhang Chao was about to begin.

The first place to attack was the Imperial Palace, where Prince Ivan, who was closer to Phra Han City.

The reason for choosing Ivan Palace is that all kinds of news indicate that the Grand Prince Anatoly will never send troops to save his royal brother. In other words, Ivan has lost his ability to lure the enemy, and it is time to make a move against him.

The Land of the Palace. When Yaxiong Fuqiang was alive, it was so prosperous. Especially when he came here from the Great Ross City to rest, it led to a lot of traffic here, and it was very lively.

But now, there is a depression everywhere.

Although spring has arrived, the grass has begun to sprout, and patches of green give people a sense of vitality. But on both sides of the street outside the palace, there were scrawny people. From time to time, I would see soldiers leaning against the trees, looking listless and pretending to sleep.

Near the palace, which has been out of food for almost half a year, all you see everywhere are hungry people. If you can't eat enough, how can you talk about ideals and life? Where does the prosperity come from?

On the contrary, after such a long delay, the current palace has long been full of people's hearts and low morale.

Zhang Chao's choice to do it at this time is obviously the most appropriate. For this reason, when Wen Chou, the army of the Heavenly Dynasty, appeared outside the palace with the cavalry army, he was not even prepared to attack, and he was in chaos inside.

Although loyal, but greedy for life and fear of death, Terekin was the first to make a suggestion to Prince Ivan when he learned that the Celestial Empire army was going to attack, that is, to surrender. He even said in the ancient saying of the Celestial Empire: "His Royal Highness the Second Prince, it is better to die than to live, only by living can there be hope." ”

"Shut up!" At this moment, Ivan was furious.

How to say that he is also the descendant of the powerful emperor of Yaxiongfu, and he also has the blood of this heroic emperor in his body. He could not have done anything to surrender.

Drawing the sword on his body, Ivan raised it high, "In the Great Rus' country, there are only standing dead people, and there are no kneeling living ghosts. I am desperate to fight to the death with the Celestial Empire, what is your attitude? ”

Under Ivan's angry gaze, Terekin hurriedly got up and echoed: "His Royal Highness the Second Prince is willing to personally go into battle to kill the enemy, and the ministers will naturally accompany him and die for himself." ”

"The ministers are willing to accompany them and die for themselves." The other ministers, including General Yesenin and others, all echoed each other. It's just that the sound is not very loud, and no matter how you look at it, it looks like you are being forced.

It's just that at this time, Ivan really didn't pay attention to it so much, but saw that the ministers were all echoing him, and said with great joy at the moment: "Okay, that's the case, everyone will go out with this prince, and let those soldiers of the Celestial Empire know that there are no people in our Rus Kingdom who are afraid of death, go!" ”

Ivan was the first to leave the main hall, raised his sword and left, followed by all the retinues, but the ministers who were originally willing to squeeze forward, at this moment they were as heavy as pouring lead on their feet, and they all walked very slowly.

The Wenchou cavalry road army and the Sun Li infantry road army all came to the camp city at this moment, and the bundles of explosives have been placed and can be attacked at any time.

On the tower of the palace, Ivan's figure flashed first, and he saw the second prince in a yellow robe holding a sword and pointing towards the city: "Listen to the order of this prince and release the arrow!" ”

The arrows rained down, and they fell from the top of the city tower as if they were covering the sky and the sun, but the momentum was good, and they did not hurt too many Celestial Empire soldiers, but they all landed on the shield raised high, and there was only a crackling and dense sound.