On June 18, the 17th year of Hongwei, Xiao Jinwu suddenly gave up Guang'an City, which had been held for more than half a month, without warning, and led the remaining more than 50,000 people to break through to the north.

The main forces of the Northern Dynasties, which were isolated on the periphery, attacked the defense line of the Southern Dynasties in three ways, pulling space for Xiao Jin's military department.

However, all of this is under Zhong Qingyuan's control.

From the very beginning, Zhong Qingyuan and Lu Dongqing just wanted to surround the point to send reinforcements, and through the bait of Xiao Jinwu, they ate the main force of the Northern Dynasties on the periphery in one fell swoop, and they were all in one battle.

Otherwise, even if there are tens of thousands of troops of Xiao Jinwu, if Zhong Qingyuan is really determined to take it, how can he hold on for more than half a month?

Seeing that Xiao Jinwu was as expected, he began to break through to the death, and several other people came to help, and the generals of the Southern Dynasty were suddenly overjoyed and began to prepare for a beautiful battle of annihilation according to the original plan.

Shortly after Xiao Jinwubu left the city, Tong Yang's Silent Annihilation Army was dispatched to intercept Xiao Jinwu's troops in the wilderness, Lu Dongqing personally led the Rhino Horn Army to shrink the defense on the periphery, and at the same time tied up his pockets, preparing to welcome the main force of the Northern Dynasty into the encirclement, while Zhong Qingyuan led the Black Flag Army to all come out, as the main force of the annihilation war, intending to end the battle in the shortest time.

The three Wuling pro-armies performed their own duties, and the three commanders went into battle together, and finally showed their sharpest fangs to the Northern Dynasty army, seeing that a decisive battle that could determine the ownership of the world was in front of them.

However, the direction of the battle did not follow the script written by the Southern Dynasty.

First of all, the Silent Annihilation Army was too scattered from all walks of life, which made it difficult to assemble, and the encirclement of sniping Xiao Jinwu was two hours later than planned, and there were many loopholes in the middle, so that Xiao Jinwu calmly found a gap and drilled out.

Later, Lu Dongqing's rhino horn army made a major mistake in encircling and suppressing the reinforcements of the Northern Dynasties, and there was a gap more than four miles wide in the good encirclement, and the 20,000 horses responsible for blocking this gap were struggling in the swamp more than ten miles away.

What's even more incredible is that at the moment of engagement, the Rhino Horn Army discovered that the 3,000 barrels of fire oil that should have been transported to the battlefield a day earlier were still on the way, so that the fire attack that had been planned for a long time was instantly lost, but was caught off guard by the Northern Korean army.

If it weren't for the fact that only the Black Flag Army, which had already assembled and had no problems, had successfully defeated the reinforcements of the two Northern Dynasties at the moment of crisis and stabilized the situation, I am afraid that the Wuling pro-army would have been wiped out in this battle, not to mention the triumphant song.

A series of accidents sounded the alarm for the generals of the Southern Dynasty, and Zhong Qingyuan set out a fire after the first battle, ordering the whole army to thoroughly investigate the causes of this series of mistakes.

I don't know if I don't check, and I'm shocked when I check it.

To say that the Wuling pro-army is indeed a strong force, in just one hour, the news flew like snowflakes to Zhong Qingyuan's tent, and then the generals of the Southern Dynasty were shocked to find that long before the battle began, their several large armies were no longer in the predetermined position, and some even deviated from the target for more than 70 miles, how could they accurately launch an attack according to the pre-war deployment?

The three pro-army commanders immediately realized that something was wrong in the rear, but they did not have time to pay attention to these details at the moment, because Xiao Jinwu's troops had already broken through the defense line of the Rhino Horn Army two hours earlier, and they were only sixty miles away from the last Northern Korean reinforcements.

Seeing that the well-planned war of annihilation was about to go bankrupt completely, the three commanders of the pro-army immediately made a decision, adjusted their deployment, and launched an all-out attack on the army of the North Korea based on the current position of all men.

A battle of annihilation that was sure of nine out of ten suddenly turned into a chaotic war full of variables, the southern army held the initiative on the battlefield and the advantage of strong combat power, and the main force of the northern dynasty occupied the upper hand in numbers, and both sides had a chance.

The unexpected results are naturally all good plays directed by Xu Rui.

Xiao Jinwu's division of troops was originally a continuation of Xu Rui's idea of "delaying time and avoiding a decisive battle" set before the war.

Xu Rui expected that it would be impossible for the army of the Southern Dynasties to spend a year or two and pay more than half of the casualties, and that it would gnaw hard bones one city after another, and would definitely force the Northern Dynasties to fight a decisive battle as soon as possible.

In order to achieve this strategic goal, the Southern Dynasty could only be forced to choose to divide its troops and control a broader battlefield, so as to fully encircle the city of Guang'an, where Xiao Jinwu was located, form a high-pressure situation against the Northern Korean war situation, and force the main force of the Northern Dynasty to fight a decisive battle with itself.

In this way, in the general situation, they will firmly occupy the initiative on the battlefield, and they can attack and retreat.

In terms of tactics, they can also give full play to the super combat effectiveness and mobility of the Wuling pro-army, and involve a large number of Northern Korean troops with a small number of men.

Then the Northern Dynasties completed the assembly one step ahead, took advantage of the time difference, ate the scattered Northern Dynasties armies with superior forces, and won the final victory in one fell swoop at the smallest cost.

It's just that in the era of lack of means of communication, once the division of troops is carried out, it will become very difficult to communicate with the scattered people of the Southern Dynasties, and Xu Rui has grasped this fatal weakness.

When Xu Rui planned to deal with Han Qi, he made hundreds of Heavenly Qiwei pieces, disguised himself as a Southern Dynasty scout, and threw them on various traffic arteries like sprinkling beans, using all means to deceive the passing Southern Dynasty army.

The Heavenly Apocalypse Guards didn't need to fight bloody battles at all, as long as they staged a play in a fake and real way, pointing the scattered Southern Dynasty army in the wrong direction, they could easily and completely disrupt the meticulous deployment of the top level of the Wuling pro-army.

And this kind of task is simply easy for Tian Qiwei, who is full of soldiers and has received special training from Xu Rui.

This is also the reason why as soon as the battle started, Zhong Qingyuan felt that the battle line was all chaotic, and the attack and defense were full of mistakes and omissions.

However, this method can naturally only be used once, with the strict military discipline of the Wuling pro-army, once the clues are discovered, it will be difficult to make a trick, Xu Rui will naturally not be stupid enough to throw himself into the net again, and then he can't be tricky, so he can only fight with real knives and guns.

On June 19 of the 17th year of Hongwei, the army of the Southern Dynasty began a full-scale attack, and the silent army assembled on the spot intercepted Xiao Jinwu's troops forty miles north of Guang'an City.

However, Xiao Jinwu had already used ample time to arrange the defense line in advance, and there was no way out for the headquarters to retreat, so the whole army was in a desperate fight, and in the face of the powerful Silent Annihilation Army, he fought vigorously.

The battle lasted from early morning to dusk, and the fire oil array, return artillery, and bow and crossbow beds of the silent annihilation army were all in battle, and both sides paid a lot of casualties, but the battle line only advanced three or four miles, and it was still far from completely defeating Xiao Jinwu's army.

On the other side, Lu Dongqing used half a day to regroup and purge the Rhino Horn Army, pursuing the previously routed Northern Korean reinforcements, trying to completely wipe them out first, and then use the opened road to go around behind the main force of the Northern Dynasty to launch an attack.

It is conceivable that if this plan becomes a rhino horn army, it will definitely fall from the sky, and the morale of the army of the Northern Dynasties will immediately be in turmoil, and once the soldiers will flee in fear, hundreds of thousands of troops will immediately become sheep to be slaughtered.

However, Lu Dongqing's wishful thinking came to naught after all.

As the saying goes, you can't keep up with one step, and you can't keep up with every step, because of the half-day time of the purging of the troops, the defeated Northern Korean reinforcements also completed their rest, and made peace with the follow-up galloping people, calmly arranging the defense line.

On June 20, when the two armies met again, Lu Dongqing's expected 50,000 enemies turned into 100,000, but he had to send his sword on the line, so he had to rely on the super combat effectiveness of the Silent Annihilation Army to fight a tough battle.

Li Guangzu led the reorganized Nanwuwei to retreat under the attack of the Rhino Horn Army wave after wave, but still gritted his teeth and persevered, trying his best to keep the front from crumbling.

The commander of Nanchang Xingwei, who fought side by side with Li Guangzu, and the general Guo Fu of Zhaoyi, did not retreat but advanced, and led his army to break through to the west, in an attempt to break the offensive of the Rhino Horn Army by pulling the battle line.

The battle was extremely fierce, and in just four hours, the three most elite battalions of Nanchang Xingwei were all wiped out, and the commander Guo Fu led the pro-guard battalion to personally take the lead in rushing and killing.

This move greatly boosted the morale of the whole army, and maintained a strong counteroffensive posture in the face of the huge disparity in combat strength, and actually broke through the front line of the rhino horn army.

By the early morning of 21 June, the battle was over, and Nanchang Xingwei finally broke through the five lines of defense, and there was no enemy in front of him.

But they also paid a very painful price, the original 50,000 troops were only half left, the commander Guo Fu died in battle, and the deputy general Li Linzhao took over the handsome flag, an hour later in front of the battle ten thousand arrows pierced the heart, and died with the handsome flag, and at this time there was only half an hour left from the end of the battle.

In this battle, the generals of Nanchang Xingwei and above the sixth rank were killed and wounded, and the army basically lost its combat effectiveness, but it greatly shared the pressure of Li Guangzu and successfully dragged Lu Dongqing's footsteps.

Two days later, the huge battlefield gradually showed a stalemate, and the only one who still maintained its mobility and combat effectiveness was Zhong Qingyuan's Black Flag Army, and their opponent was the last reinforcement led by Wang Yi.

If he can completely defeat Wang Yi, he can turn his head and join forces with Tong Yang, quickly eat Xiao Jinwu, and completely tilt the balance of war to the side of the Southern Dynasties.

So on this huge and bloody chessboard, everyone turned their eyes to the big battle that was about to start!

But at this time, there was an astonishing news from the camp of the Southern Dynasty.

The grain and grass in the rear were burned by an unknown army of only a few hundred people dressed as soldiers of the Southern Dynasty, and the 100,000 denier of grain stolen by the Southern Dynasty army along the way was instantly wiped out, and it seemed that there was not much time left for Zhong Qingyuan.

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