The Wuling army wanted to quickly break through the encirclement of the Northwest Army and join the besieged 300,000 Southern Dynasty West Road army.

However, with the echo of Zhong Qingyuan's 70,000 vanguard army, the Wuling pro-army was mired in trench warfare head-on, and the flanks were secretly attacked by Zhang Zuofeng, who was secretly driven back, and was in danger of overturning.

This was also the first time in history that the army of the Northern Dynasties posed a mortal threat to the Wuling pro-army.

However, even then, the battle was very difficult.

Zhang Zuofeng's troops used up more than 60,000 shells in one day, but they could not completely break the defense of the Wuling pro-army, and the two sides fought repeatedly for every trench and every commanding height.

Although the Wuling pro-army was generally passive, it still resisted stubbornly.

The closest time, Zhang Zuofeng's troops broke through the enemy's three defense lines in a row, and a company of Apocalypse chariots took advantage of the chaos to slip through the gaps in the defense and approached the big tent of the Chinese army of the Wuling pro-army, and even one or two chariots could already see Lu Dongqing's handsome tent with the naked eye.

In desperation, Lu Dongqing had no choice but to order the artillery that had been keeping ammunition to open fire with all his might, and dump all the shells that were originally reserved for counterattack into the open space outside the tent of the Chinese army.

The Apocalypse Chariot Company that had broken through was instantly covered in artillery and erased from the Northwest Army's sequence.

However, without the support of artillery, the frontal defensive pressure of the Wuling pro-army increased sharply.

Zhang Zuofeng also worked desperately, organizing a number of well-equipped death squads to take the opportunity to bypass the defensive position and infiltrate the enemy's fragile ribs.

After passing through the outlying positions, the death squads were reunited under the command of the telegraph, and cut off most of the Silent Army from the positions of the Wuling pro-army like a sharp knife.

Because the battle line was too long, the Wuling pro-army relied on manpower to transmit information, and the reaction was very slow, and it was not until the silent annihilation army, which had almost turned into artillery, was surrounded by regiments that Lu Dongqing learned the news.

At this moment, he is no longer able to send people to rescue the Silent Annihilation Army, because once the front is opened, it may cause a complete collapse of the front, and if he ignores the crisis of the Silent Annihilation Army, and waits until the Annihilation Army is eliminated, Zhang Zuofeng can join forces inside and outside, and completely divide and surround the Wuling pro-army.

In desperation, Lu Dongqing could only reluctantly give up most of the Silent Annihilation Army, and led the remaining Wuling pro-army to quickly withdraw from the battlefield and readjust the position.

But Zhang Zuofeng seemed to have calculated Lu Dongqing's reaction a long time ago, and a telegram transmitted the order to the front line of the battlefield as soon as possible, and Zhang Zuofeng's troops were mobilized very quickly.

As soon as Lu Dongqing adjusted the position of the army, he bit it like a mad dog.

Tong Yang, the commander of the Silent Annihilation Army, led part of the unsurrounded Annihilation Army as the rear of the Great Army, covering the retreat of the main force of the Wuling pro-army, and was bumped head-on by the third brigade of the Apocalypse Army that came up with reinforcements.

Under the ravages of hundreds of light machine guns, the Silent Annihilation Army behind the Palace, which lacked the cover of the position, was completely wiped out within an hour.

Tong Yang, one of the three commanders of the Wuling pro-army, was shot six times and died on the battlefield.

The remaining more than 20,000 silent annihilation troops who were still in the encirclement were still trapped in a two-kilometer-long position, and they could not hold out for half a day without foreign aid, and they would follow in the footsteps of their comrades.

Faced with the good situation, Zhang Zuofeng decisively ordered to expand the results of the battle, and temporarily ignored the Silent Annihilation Army in the encirclement, but concentrated the main force to pursue the Wuling pro-army.

The Wuling pro-army counterattacked on the spot, and after many rounds of counterattacks, it also caused great casualties to Zhang Zuofeng's troops.

The battle lasted another day, and by dawn on the 22nd, both sides were exhausted, the only difference was that the ammunition supply of Zhang Zuofeng's troops was still sufficient, but the ammunition carried by the Wuling pro-army had bottomed out.

Originally, Zhang Zuofeng wanted to take advantage of this advantage to quickly and completely leave the Wuling pro-army, but at this time, Zhong Qingyuan's 70,000 forward army Shanshan came late and rescued the Wuling pro-army in crisis.

Seeing the sudden change in the battle situation, Zhang Zuofeng did not dare to continue the battle, and immediately returned to the east of the division to wipe out all the silent annihilation troops in the encirclement.

And Zhong Qingyuan was shocked that the Northwest Army could inflict such a fatal blow on the Wuling pro-army, and the enemy army retreated fraudulently, so he did not dare to attack rashly, but helped the Wuling pro-army repair as soon as possible and waited for the follow-up army of King Wuling.

On the other hand, the encirclement of the army on the western route of the Southern Dynasty became smaller and smaller, and Cao Siyuan's 1st and 2nd Brigades, after exhausting a large amount of ammunition from the enemy, ushered in more than 10,000 servant troops, as well as a large number of reinforcements from the newly formed 1st and 2nd Brigades.

Seeing that the army was about to be split in half, the generals of the Southern and Western Route armies were very anxious and kept sending messengers to ask for help.

Regarding the news blockade, Xu Rui played a trick, and he didn't let go of the news that came in from outside the encirclement, but the news from the encirclement was not blocked at all.

Soon, the precarious caution of the Western Road army flew to Zhong Qingyuan's hands like snowflakes.

At this time, Zhong Qingyuan happened to find that Zhang Zuofeng's troops did not have any reinforcements when they retreated, and he was annoyed that he was too cautious at the beginning, so that he missed the opportunity to counterattack.

And Lu Dongqing, who lost the Silent Annihilation Army for the first time when he was fully in charge of the Wuling pro-army, was even more ashamed of this battle, and wanted to get back to the field with a breath of anger.

After receiving the letter of help from the Western Route Army, Zhong Qingyuan and Lu Dongqing were not only pessimistic, but even overjoyed.

Because according to the description of the Western Route Army, nearly 200,000 people participated in the encirclement and annihilation of the Western Route Army, which means that Zhang Zuofeng's department, which had previously dealt a fatal blow to the Wuling army, was just Xu Rui's only fighting army.

After several days of high-intensity battles, Zhang Zuofeng's combat effectiveness has fallen to the bottom in a short period of time, but the 70,000 horses in Zhong Qingyuan's hands are still a new force.

As long as they can defeat Zhang Zuofeng's troops, they can directly insert themselves into Xu Rui's heart, completely turn the tide of the battle, and even defeat Xu Rui's army on all fronts.

Thinking of this, Zhong Qingyuan and Lu Dongqing immediately decided not to wait for King Wuling's follow-up army to take place, and immediately launched a full-front attack on Zhang Zuofeng's troops who were in front.

But what they didn't expect was that due to the information blockade, the army of the Western Route of the South and the DPRK had lost their scientific judgment of the situation, especially after Zhang Zuofeng's troops withdrew from the battle line, they still used artillery to suppress them uninterruptedly, making the army of the Western Route mistakenly believe that there were still tens of thousands of troops attacking on the eastern front.

In fact, there were only 90,000 men and horses involved in the attack on the Western Route Army, and the most elite Tianqi Army was only two brigades under Cao Siyuan.

This mistake was passed on to Zhong Qingyuan and Lu Dongqing through a letter asking for help, and under the huge disadvantage of information asymmetry, these two famous generals of the Southern Dynasty finally made a fatal mistake.

It was not only the two tired brigades of Zhang Zuofeng's department waiting for them in front, but the entire 110,000 troops squeezed out by Xu Rui in many ways.

Zhong Qingyuan and Lu Dongqing were like moths who knew nothing about the danger, crashing headlong into the big net woven by Xu Rui, and they were already divided and surrounded a day later.

On the other side, because of the information blockade, all the requests for help from the army on the Western Road of the Southern Dynasty were sunk into the sea, and the frontal defense line was broken through by Cao Siyuan's troops one after another, and the army was already in despair.

Xu Rui continuously sent eloquent staff officers as lobbyists to persuade the enemy to surrender, fighting and pulling at the same time, playing psychological warfare, and the army of the Southern Dynasty and the West Road completely became blind people trapped in the dark, and the panic continued to increase.

At this time, the situation was already very good for the Northwest Army, if everything went well, Xu Rui could even eat the Southern Dynasty West Road Army, Wuling Pro-Army and Zhong Qingyuan's vanguard army in one bite, nearly 500,000 horses.

But at this time, an order was sent to the entire Northwest Army by telegram - "All the great armies stop attacking!" ”

Lin Shaodong, who was working on the next stage of the battle plan at the General Staff, was shocked when he heard the news, and immediately put down all the public information at hand and hurriedly came to Xu Rui.

"Why stop attacking?"

In the headquarters, Lin Shaodong said to Xu Rui anxiously: "Great Marshal, although the current situation is very good, but King Wuling's 400,000 army will arrive soon, if we can't complete all the strategic goals before the arrival of his army, and then quickly flee back to the northwest, then we will lose this battle!"

We have few people, and we can hold out until now because of the information advantage and firepower advantage in our hands, we will give everything we have in this battle, if we can't win, we will not have the strength to compete with King Wuling again, and then the whole army will be wiped out by us! ”

Looking at Lin Shaodong, who was in a hurry, Xu Rui, who had a gloomy face, suddenly raised his head and said in a deep voice: "It was the commander who ordered the whole army to stop attacking." ”

"Why, exactly?"

Lin Shaodong asked puzzled.

"Because King Wuling wants to make peace with me!"

Xu Rui said in a deep voice.

"What?!"

Lin Shaodong's mouth opened wide when he heard this.