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And the state, Yanmen Pass.
In just a few days, Wang Fugui operated for ten years, and the border gate iron city that Lu Bu repaired for three years was beaten into ruins.
The huge city, on the fifth day after it was broken by the Steppe Empire, there was no longer a slightly complete building in sight.
The whole city was carved with the traces of war, and every inch of land was dripping with bright red blood.
This huge meat grinder has killed more than a million people here in just five days.
On the fifth day after the Yanmen Pass was broken, the 1.5 million war slaves of the Grassland Empire had basically been exhausted, and the 500,000 elites under their own command also suffered certain losses.
On the other side, the losses on Lu Bu's side, or rather Da Zhou's side, were even more serious.
Of the 300,000 troops under Lu Bu's command, less than 50,000 survived five days later, and the remaining 600,000 tripartite coalition troops were only about 10,000.
The tragedy of this battle is jaw-dropping!
In fact, the battle was fought to this extent, and the Great Zhou side could be said to be completely defeated.
Although there is still resistance in Yanmen Pass, more than 60,000 people under Lu Bu's command are still resisting stubbornly in a corner of the city, but most of Yanmen Pass has fallen into the hands of the Grassland Empire, and they can be said to have knocked on the gate of the Great Zhou at this time.
And despite this, the Yanmen Pass side still has not given up resistance.
Lu Bu took the remaining 60,000 troops, and he was still trapped in a corner of Yanmen Pass, with a posture of not fighting to the death.
And at this time, the Grassland Empire was too lazy to attack Lu Bu.
If they don't die, they can't take it, but the cost of taking Lu Bu is too great, the position they occupy in the end is the most suitable position for defense, and the last surviving soldiers are also the most elite soldiers, if the Grassland Empire wants to fight, it will be difficult to take Lu Bu without losing tens of thousands of elites.
Although tens of thousands of elite grasslands are not unaffordable, they don't think that a mere Lu Bu is worth fighting with tens of thousands of elites.
Besides, Lu Bu was trapped in a corner, and the logistics supply was seriously insufficient, so they didn't need to storm and besiege it for a while, and Lu Bu himself would be able to starve to death.
Therefore, the grassland empire ignored the dying and struggling Lu Bu, and in addition to leaving 100,000 elites to use Yanmen Pass as their base for invading the Great Zhou, the remaining 350,000 troops began to go all the way south.
The basic cavalry strength of the Steppe Empire is as high as 55, which is already the threshold of the legendary class.
350,000 cavalry with 55 armed forces went all the way to the south, and when Lu Bu, the largest warlord in Bingzhou, was suppressed at Yanmen Pass, and the reinforcements from the three states of Youji Division were defeated, the offensive of the Grassland Empire could only be described as destroying and decaying.
In just three days, three county towns were connected, and the places where they passed could not be said to be without grass, but they also stained the earth red with blood.
Conquering one city directly drove the people of one city to the next city, and their momentum snowballed along the way, and the army expanded from 300,000 to more than 1 million in just three days, and this number is still rising.
Of course, as soon as the fierce offensive on the side of the Grassland Empire and the terrifying strength were revealed, most of the warlord forces of the Great Zhou could not sit still.
Even the three parties of Tang, Han and Chu couldn't care about any plans to sweep the world at this time.
After all, there was already a player from outside their chessboard who jumped on the board with the strongest attitude, and at this time there was no possibility of their original plan being implemented.
And among all the forces, the fastest reaction was Cao An, who began to act as early as when the Yanmen Gate was broken.
On the one hand, he mobilized all the elites under his command and sent them to Bingzhou, so that they could stop the rolling iron hooves of the grassland empire, and at the same time began to contact all the warlords of the Great Zhou and called on the world to go to the national disaster together!
At another time, in a different place, no one would respond to Cao An's call, but no one dared to ignore it at this time.
After all, the strength of the Steppe Empire is obvious to all, and in the siege warfare that they are not good at, they can easily break through the border barriers, and it only took five days to slaughter nearly a million elites, while their own elites only lost less than 50,000.
Who dares to ignore such a record and such a terrifying strength, and who dares to underestimate it?
Cao An's call at this time did not respond to them, and the steppe empire horse's hooves went south, which of them could resist alone?
Therefore, at this time, the forces of all parties are quite positive, especially those on the edge of Bingzhou, whether it is the Great Sui of Youzhou, the Han of Jizhou, and even the Tang Dynasty in Yanzhou is also quite active at this time.
As soon as Cao An's side was summoned, these three forces sent their own troops again.
Moreover, the armies dispatched by the three parties this time are the top armies of each force, and the Datang side is commanded by Xue Rengui, who has invaded Qingzhou before, and there are a large number of outstanding generals under his command.
The Great Sui is the first military general Yuwen Chengdu to take the lead, followed by a series of Sui and Tang Dynasty heroes such as Yang Lin, the backer.
And to say that the most gorgeous is the big man, the big man dispatched two people this time, one is Wei Qing and the other is Huo Quai, who died young.
The lineup of these three forces alone is already extremely gorgeous, and after these three forces correspond, several forces in Da Zhou have stood up one after another, Da Song, Da Ming, Da Chu and even Liu Cheng have sent a group of people to join in the fun.
Of course, people are worried about the cold lips and teeth, but the situation is not like this on Liu Cheng's side.
In fact, Liu Cheng had no interest in this battle from the beginning, and the reason why he chose to send troops to support was purely out of the consideration of appeasing people's hearts.
The army under Liu Cheng's command can probably be divided into two types, one is the system corps, Liu Cheng's descendant troops.
Now Liu Cheng's system legion has nearly one million in his hands, and in addition to this nearly one million system legions, he also has another legion, and this legion is the indigenous legion.
There are also many indigenous legions under Liu Cheng's command, and the number has reached millions, among which there are also a large number of outstanding generals.
And among the generals of this indigenous legion, a large part of them were for Wang Fugui to serve Liu Cheng.
They actually still have thoughts about the Great Zhou in their hearts, and now that the Grassland Empire is invading, this group of generals will immediately be unable to sit still.
Liu Cheng also discovered this sign, so he directly mobilized a group of such generals to let them support the state side.
After throwing this army over, Liu Cheng sat down to watch the play with peace of mind, of course, he will inevitably make some preparations when watching the play, after all, this battle is a catastrophe for the forces of the Great Zhou, but for Liu Cheng, it may be an opportunity, an opportunity to dominate the world......