It was already completely dark, and the lights were lit up inside and outside the palace in New South City.

The King of Nandi had just convened a pre-battle mobilization meeting for the civil and military ministers, and judging from the information sent back by several scouts, the Gene Man Legion would launch a second major battle tonight.

The courtiers had dispersed, and Kapok and Princess Nanling remained in the king's office.

Although the mood of Kapok and the father and daughter of the king of Nandi was a little nervous at this time, they were not very pessimistic about the upcoming second big battle, because they had already received good news from the military advisor before the pre-war meeting. On the way from Wanghai City to Jucheng, Jiesheng sent them a telegram saying that the King of Linhai had strengthened his determination to resist the war and sent ten cavalry regiments to reinforce Shenhai Kingdom.

With the ten cavalry regiments of the Linhai Kingdom to support the defense of Shencheng, Kapok Zi and the father and daughter of the king of Nandi believed that even if Shencheng could not stand it, it would greatly consume the enemy's combat power, and with the blockage of Luocheng, the threat to the east of Xinnancheng was not big for the time being.

At present, the three of them are most worried that the King of the Ancient Land has secretly reached some kind of secret deal with the genetic people to give up the war of resistance, because the scouts have sent information that the defenders of the ancient west city of Chenggu have not actively prepared for war outside the city.

As soon as the king's office was lit with oil lamps, the telegraph operator next door sent a telegram from the scouts monitoring the movements of the enemy troops in the western city: "More than 200 enemy chariots and troop carriers in the western city are all dispatched to the south, and the target is directly aimed at Hecheng, a small city in the north of the famous sea country. River City is only three hundred miles away from Xidi City, and it is only garrisoned by five corps of the Minghai Kingdom. ”

The second battle really started tonight, and the Gene Man and the Ancient Land King had secretly made a deal, and the battle turned to the worst.

Kapok Zi hurriedly opened the map with the father and daughter of the king of Nandi to check, and they found that Hecheng was only two hundred miles away from the famous city, and it was only two hundred miles away from the western border of Xinnancheng.

The weak defenders of River City will definitely be broken by the gene people with one blow, and there are two possibilities after the gene people capture River City, one is to continue to go south and besiege the famous city with the other gene army army, and the famous city will definitely be lost soon under the siege of the two gene corps.

Another option for the Gene Man Legion to capture River City is to attack the city directly, although the King of Nandi has ten legions stationed in the city, but five of the legions are newly recruited recruits, and the city is not equipped with the vehicles and cannons of the expeditionary force, so if there is no emergency rescue, the city will also be defeated with one blow.

After the gene people captured the famous city and left the city, there was no suspense about the next plan of action: the two gene people would work together to besiege the new southern city from the southwest and two directions. With the expeditionary force already dividing and leaving, it will be difficult for New South City to resist the combined attack of the two gene people.

If effective action is not taken immediately, the city of New South will be destroyed tonight.

The three of them quickly agreed that they must urgently reinforce the departure of the city, that they must consume part of the enemy's combat power in the departure of the city, and that they must resolutely prevent the enemy from launching an attack on the new southern city tonight.

As a result, Kapok ordered the telegraph operator to send urgent telegrams to Tielei, Jiesheng, Yagu, and Haidong.

When Jiesheng received the telegram from Kapok, he was on his way to Jucheng at full speed with the cavalry regiment led by General To.

He pondered for a moment, and successively sent a telegram with the same content to Yagu and Kapok: "The expeditionary force needs reinforcements of Xinnancheng, General Yagu only needs to leave ten chariots and twenty cannons in Los Angeles, and a cavalry regiment in Los Angeles will escort the chariots and cannons to the west gate of Shencheng and station, and Jiesheng will meet with the cavalry regiment of Linhai Country there in two hours." ”

The king of Nandi sent a telegram with the same content to all the defenders of Los Angeles and Jiesheng through Yagu: All the soldiers of Los Angeles will obey the full command of the Jiesheng army from now on.

In Langcheng, since the second prince and the treasurer left, Haidong and the other seven remaining army commanders had been gathering in the General's Mansion, and they were uncertain waiting for news from the ancient city.

When Haidong received the telegram from Kapok, he was taken aback, and instead of attacking the ancient city to the east as expected, the genetic people of Xidi City turned around and headed south. In this way, Tie Lei's expeditionary force will face a huge threat, and at the same time, it shows that the changes in the ancient city palace may be directly related to the genetic people, and the genetic people and the ancient land king have secretly reached some kind of deal.

While everyone was speculating about what had happened to the palace of the ancient city, the guards sent by Haidong to the ancient city hurried back, and he reported in detail to the cavalry commanders what they had seen and heard in the ancient city.

According to the guard's report, Haidong quickly came to another conclusion: the change in the palace of the ancient city was related to the Emperor of Qizhou, and the gene people gave up attacking the ancient city at this time, it should be that the Emperor of Qizhou and the gene people secretly reached some kind of secret agreement.

However, the exact truth will have to wait for the second prince's cavalry regiment to bring back further information.

Everyone waited restlessly for about three hours, and suddenly there was a commotion outside the silent general's mansion, and after a while, two cavalry commanders hurriedly walked in. As soon as they entered the door, they were out of breath and shouted, "Something big has happened to the ancient city!"

Then the two army commanders who fled back from the ancient city said a word, and the three of the ancient land king, father and son, appeared in the ancient city tower, and then the second general and the treasurer joined the army and entered the city.

Finally, one of the regimental commanders said: "We waited outside the south gate for about an hour, and suddenly the south gate opened, and out of it rushed out a large group of palace guards, all of them with strange faces, and by the means of the windproof lamps hanging around the necks of their horses, we saw that the fourth general and several of his corps commanders were among them.

One of the guards said to us, 'Your Majesty has decreed that you must return to Lang City at once, or you will be guilty of treason.' ’

We asked to meet the Second General and the Treasurer to join the army, and they said that the Second General and the Treasurer should stay in the palace to discuss state affairs with His Majesty. Although we knew at that time that something had happened to the second general and the army, because the second general had told us not to storm the palace alone, we had to come back first to discuss with you what to do. ”

Everyone looked at each other, Haidong looked at the two cavalry commanders and said, "So, haven't you heard a word from Your Majesty and the four generals?"

"Nope! This is also where we feel that something is wrong, depending on the situation, His Majesty and the third and fourth generals are all involuntarily involved, they are undoubtedly being manipulated, otherwise there is no reason not to say a word. We can see that the four generals who came out of the south gate were also manipulated, and he was expressionless and demented and didn't say a word. Just imagine, if the four generals were in their normal senses, how could it be the turn of the palace guards to convey the royal order? ”

As the apprentice of the demented mage, Haidong had already guessed what was going on in his heart, and he said in a tone of certainty: "There is no doubt that Your Majesty and the guards in the palace have been poisoned and made stupid. But overnight, the heavily guarded ancient city palace was mixed into so many Qizhou guards, there was only one possibility, they were unable to guard from the sky.

The only person who can descend from the sky to control the palace of the ancient city is the emperor I told you, or the people who went to the outer world with his gang. I will report this to the prince of the prairies at once, and only he and his extraterrestrial friends can deal with them.

Brothers, the genetics will attack New South City tonight, and if New South City is not protected, our Lang City will be even more vulnerable. Now my brothers and I have no choice but to join the expeditionary force to defeat the gene people in Xinnancheng first, and then follow the prince of the prairie to recapture the ancient city to rescue His Majesty and the second general. ”

Haidong had always enjoyed high prestige among the commanders of the legions, not to mention that there was no choice in the current situation, and after a brief discussion, everyone unanimously agreed to Haidong's proposal to fight with the Prairie Expeditionary Force.

The king of Nandi urgently dispatched troops, and he ordered all the five corps stationed in Tiancheng to the north of Xinnancheng to retreat to Xinnancheng to defend, and at the same time sent the only five cavalry regiments in Xinnancheng to leave the city for reinforcements, and asked the cavalry regiment to bring a hundred cannons, of which half were made of new cannons made of kapok.

Yagu conveyed a telegram from the king of Nandi to the defenders of Los Angeles, and left ten chariots and twenty cannons to support the defense of Shencheng according to the request of the military division. Subsequently, he led the expeditionary force to turn around and march at full speed in the direction of New South City.

When Yagu's team was approaching Xinnancheng, he received a telegram from Kapok: Hecheng in the northern part of Minghai Country had been lost, and almost at the same time, the other three genetics launched an attack on Shencheng, Mingcheng, and Nancheng respectively. The genetics who captured River City did not stop at River City but marched in the direction of Licheng, and His Majesty had already sent five cavalry regiments with a hundred cannons to Licheng for reinforcements.

Yagu thought about it for a while, and then called Kapok back: We are already close to Xinnancheng, because the time is urgent, and the troops leaving the city are enough, our artillery and the three chamber of commerce cavalry regiments are stationed in Xinnancheng, only the chariot team will go straight to the city to reinforce, but the city will definitely be difficult to hold, our goal is to consume the combat power of the genetic people in the city, and then snipe along the way to prevent them from directly attacking Xinnancheng tonight.

Kapok quickly called back to agree to Yagu's deployment.

Soon, Kapok Zi received a telegram from Haidong, saying that because there was already civil strife in the palace of the ancient city, the second general and the treasurer were controlled by others like the king of Gudi after joining the army and going to the palace, so the ten corps of Langcheng decided to join the expeditionary force to reinforce Xinnancheng.

In their opinion, the changes in the ancient city palace did not pose a direct threat to the new southern city for the time being, but the ten corps of Langcheng joined the expeditionary force was great news.

More than two months ago, the Nandi Kingdom sent 20 corps to capture Langcheng, but after many battles, the losses and losses of the generals failed to reach the city of Langcheng, and it was proved that the combat effectiveness of the 10 corps of Langcheng was no less than that of the 20 corps of the Nandi Kingdom. With them joining the defense of New South City, victory is a little more certain.

After Haidong reported the good news, he immediately sent a worrying message to Kapok.