Li Chengjing instructed the camp to cook Laba porridge for the soldiers of the three armies on the day of the Laba Festival, and specially allowed the local soldiers of Wenqiong to go back to drink porridge with relatives and friends on the same day, and then come back in the evening to report on their work.

The generals couldn't persuade anymore, so they had to spend the festival with peace of mind. In the blink of an eye, it is the day of Laba, and from the morning, the people in the city walk the streets and alleys, bustling, lively like the New Year. The soldiers in the battalion can still drink a bowl of hot laba porridge when they leave their hometowns, and they also feel warm. At night, many people in the city also set off fireworks, clusters, brilliant and colorful.

There is no custom of fireworks in Japan during this festival, and it is the past few years that Li Chengjing has been in power, and she has indeed done her best to make the people under her rule seek stability in the troubled times. Because of this, even in the most unfavorable time of the war, the people still did not give up, and the soldiers of the three armies were willing to defend the city for her with their lives.

At four o'clock in the morning of the next day, the officers and men of the three armies got up and regrouped, according to the marching strategy set by Li Chengjing and the generals before: a total of 30,000 troops were sent by water, with Commander Jiang as the commander as the commander and Chen Zui as the deputy general, and went up the river to the southwest. The 250,000 army attacked Heyang Pass head-on in three ways, and the remaining tens of thousands of soldiers were responsible for guarding Wenqiong.

The three armies were regrouped outside the city, but only the commander-in-chief arrived. The generals were puzzled and wanted to send someone to invite, but at this time, Adjutant Wen rushed over, and he told several generals and commanders-in-chief that they had captured Heyang Pass.

Several generals said "ah", where are they willing to believe, and the scene is in an uproar. Adjutant Wen obviously didn't want to explain so much to them, he took out four warrants and handed them to the four commanders, who opened them and saw that they were the commander-in-chief's personal orders, and no matter how full of doubts, they could only obey the orders and march according to the instructions on the warrants.

After the victory in the Battle of Qiongjiang, Li Chengjing did not think about immediately sending troops to recapture Heyang Pass. Li Chengjing realized from the previous two defeats that they had guarded Heyang Pass like an iron bucket in peacetime, and now that Bai Jingyi heard the news of the defeat of the naval army, he would definitely increase his troops to defend Heyang Pass.

At this time, the attack may not be defeated, and even if it can be won, it will take time, and the vanguard will definitely suffer heavy casualties, which will hit the morale of the three armies, and the gains outweigh the losses.

Li Chengjing suddenly remembered that they took advantage of the Chinese New Year's Eve to sneak attack Tongqu Pass, just as Laba was coming, and she decided to repeat the plan.

After some deep thought, first of all, she selected 20,000 soldiers and generals from Wenqiong's local soldiers and ordered them to secretly assemble outside the West City Gate at ten o'clock on the night of the Laba Festival.

Then she sent a telegram to Duan Shaoling, because she knew that Bai Jingyi not only stuck to Heyang Pass, but also had heavy troops in Tongqu Pass, as long as Li Chengjing attacked Heyang Pass, Tongqu Pass would definitely support, so she needed Duan Shaoling's soldiers to divide into two ways, all the way to ambush outside Tongqu Pass to intercept the enemy's reinforcements, and all the way to assist her from behind to capture the pass.

At this time, Li Chengjing received a secret report from Master Liu: Song Bai's army should send troops to Zhongnan in three ways, 30,000 sailors all the way, and 50,000 troops on both routes, and march from Fengming Mountain and Tianmu Fort to bypass Heyang Pass.

Li Chengjing immediately made arrangements: the waterway offensive route remained unchanged, the three routes of the army, one route remained the same, frontal support for the front line, and the other two routes were divided into Fengming Mountain and Tianmu Fort to intercept and kill the enemy troops on both routes. After arranging everything, she wrote the warrant and handed it to Adjutant Wen, asking him to hand it over to several commanders at the agreed time.

On the night of the Laba Festival, Li Chengjing personally led 20,000 soldiers to Zhaoye and went straight to Heyang Pass.

The soldiers in Heyang Pass were on guard against Li Jiajun day and night, just because today was the Laba Festival, and the spies heard that Li Jiajun was holding a grand festival in Wenqiong, so they concluded that they would not attack the city tonight, so they relaxed their guard.

When Li Chengjing's army opened fire under the pass, the soldiers and generals in the pass woke up from their dreams and hurriedly met the enemy. After half an hour of fighting, suddenly a soldier came to report that there were enemy troops attacking in the rear.

Li Chengjing was overjoyed and ordered a fierce attack to buy time for Duan Shaoling to enter the customs. The soldiers in the pass fought hard for more than two hours, but they could not wait for reinforcements but waited for the news that the rear was broken by the enemy, and the morale of the army was completely disheartened.

Li Chengjing encouraged the soldiers to launch a final offensive, and half an hour later, Heyang Pass was broken, and Li Chengjing occupied Heyang Pass again.

After Li Chengjing entered the customs, Duan Shaoling's men and horses also retreated to the customs, and Li Jiajun never committed any offense to the people wherever he went, and those who violated the order were beheaded.

As soon as the reinforcements arrived, Li Chengjing left 10,000 soldiers to guard the pass for rectification, and then went straight to Tongqu Pass in one go.

At the same time, she sent Duan Shaoling to lead all the soldiers of the Sun Society to the north to intercept Song Jiujue's reinforcements, and she also told Duan Shaoling that she had secretly planted 5,000 men and horses outside Changling, and she was planning to sneak into Changling from the secret passage of the Outer City River one day.

Now she also handed over the military order to Duan Shaoling, saying that the 5,000 men and horses were completely under his command, and asked him to drag down the Song army no matter what, and not let the Song army have a single soldier to support the southwest.

Today, Li Chengjing realized that she was not sure of victory if she had to deal with two warlords at the same time, so she asked Duan Shaoling to hold Song Jiujue so that she could concentrate all her forces to eliminate Bai Jingyi first, and then lead her army north.

Li Chengjing's decision proved to be accurate, she first won the Tongqu Pass, and soon the other two reinforcements also defeated the two enemy forces and successfully merged with her. In just over two months, the Li family's army was like a bamboo, and the soldiers came to Fengyong City, Bai Jingyi's old nest.

The 30,000 naval army led by Commander Jiang encountered 30,000 enemy troops in Qianyang Bay after crossing Jingu, and the two sides fought head-on, and after fifteen days of fierce fighting, Commander Jiang finally repelled the enemy, and then marched all the way to the port in the southwest hinterland, and the general crossed.

Commander Jiang ordered all three armies to go ashore and set up camp on the spot.

Then a meeting with the generals, Commander Jiang took out the map, according to the map, they are now on a hill on the edge of the port, beyond this hill is the northern city of Fengyong City, Dianzhou.

At the end of the warrant, Li Chengjing wrote that Commander Jiang should lead the army to capture Dian Zhou, and then hold on to Dian Zhou. Once her soldiers and horses defeated Wuhuan, they had to send troops from Dian Prefecture at the same time to attack Fengyong City.

There are mountains on all sides, and Commander Jiang was afraid that the enemy would ambush the soldiers to sneak attack, so he arranged for the soldiers to replace patrols and stand guard in front of the camp all night, and even the sleeping soldiers were asked to sleep with their clothes closed.

Chen Zui, Shen Hong, and Lu Baiting took the initiative to ask to lead troops to patrol the night, and Commander Jiang agreed, and allocated 50 soldiers to each team, each patrolling for two hours.

Starting at nine o'clock, Shen Hong led the first team to patrol, and two hours later he handed over to Chen Zui, and two hours later it was Lu Baiting's turn.

At about two o'clock, I suddenly heard gunshots in front of me. Shen Chen and the others immediately led people to investigate, and on the way, they saw that there were soldiers on patrol who ran back three times, shouting: "There is an ambush, there is an ambush in front...... As soon as the words fell, fire bombs flew over on both sides of the northwest side of the barracks, and the barracks were suddenly ablaze.

An emergency whistle sounded throughout the barracks, and the soldiers of the three armies immediately rose up and prepared to meet the enemy.

Shen Chen and the others read about the safety of Bai Ting, and led people to answer them. When the two arrived with their troops, Lu Baiting and his soldiers were hiding behind the rocks to defend against the enemy, and everyone would come to one place and fight and retreat.

When he returned to the barracks, he saw that there were fires in many parts of the barracks, but the enemy troops were quickly repelled by strong resistance from the three armies.

After reorganizing the base camp, Commander Jiang divided the three armies into five routes and marched separately to prevent the enemy from laying ambushes in the terrain around the mountain.

Sure enough, they were ambushed by the enemy many times along the way, and although they were defeated one by one, they also inflicted nearly 1,000 casualties on them, and delayed the speed of their march, until three days later, the three armies arrived at a distance of thirty miles north of Dian Prefecture and set up camp.

In the past few days, the officers and men of the three armies have been exhausted under the continuous intrusion of the enemy, and they are worried that the enemy will attack again, so Commander Jiang issued a military order to rest in batches.

The strange thing is that in the next few days, they did not see a single shadow of the enemy, thinking that the enemy army failed to make many sneak attacks and suffered many casualties, so they gave up, and this just gave the three armies a chance to breathe.

After seven days of rest, Commander Jiang began to attack Dianzhou in three ways, this battle did not go as smoothly as expected, it took more than 20 days to capture Dianzhou, and on the day of the city break, he also captured the enemy commander - Pan Chong, a rebel general in the former northwest.

Under pressure, everyone learned that Bai Wenhao was not only the murderer of Instructor Liu, but also that he personally sent the killer to Guicheng to kill Chen Zui, the purpose was to make the Xiao Gang chaotic and isolate the Li family, which killed Leng Chuxian.

Chen Zui killed Pan Chong in anger after getting Commander Jiang's acquiescence.

After conquering Dianzhou, Commander Jiang followed Li Chengjing's orders to hold the city. A month later, they received news that the commander-in-chief's army had defeated Wuhuan and was advancing into Fengyong City.

Commander Jiang personally stayed behind to defend the city, and then ordered Chen Zui to lead 20,000 soldiers to attack Fengyong City, and finally joined Li Chengjing's army and surrounded Fengyong City on all sides.

All routes to support the southwest were also cut off by Li Chengjing, and Fengyong City was like an isolated island in the vast ocean.

However, Fengyong City was unusually strong, and there were more than 200,000 elite soldiers and strong artillery in the city, so that Li Chengjing attacked for a month without any signs of breaking the city, and had to stop the attack.

Li Chengjing and the generals discussed for a long time, but they were at a loss, but everyone looked at Fengyong City, which was close at hand, but felt that it was out of reach.

At this time, Li Chengjing received a call from Duan Shaoling: There are changes in the north.

After Duan Shaoling led his troops north, he held all the fortresses and ports in the southwest of Beitong, and repelled Song Jiujue's reinforcements many times. However, the Song army was powerful, and he did not dare to fight hard with the Song army, so he could only deal with them in a guerrilla way, and repeatedly sent Li Chengjing's 5,000 soldiers to set up suspicious formations in the middle of the road, so that Song Jiujue could not figure out the reality of their troops, and did not dare to send troops in a big way, and missed many good opportunities.

Duan Shaoling was fortunate not to be dishonored, and until Li Chengjing besieged Fengyong City, he did not let Song Jiujue send out a single soldier.