Three days later, Ge Changhe appeared outside Baishi City with 50,000 soldiers and horses.

It can be seen that these soldiers and horses have been carefully selected, so they are all strong, and they are not much worse than the 80,000 elite soldiers under Xia Fan's command.

Seeing these elite soldiers, Xia Fan was greatly overjoyed, and he also understood why Hehuan Shendao had gone to great lengths to win over those Divine Spirit Realm powerhouses, and then borrowed troops through them. Obviously, by doing so, not only can you borrow enough soldiers and horses, but the quality of the soldiers is definitely quite high. After all, no matter what small country the lord is, as long as he doesn't want to fall out with his own national teacher, he will definitely not cheat and play tricks on such things as soldiers and horses.

"What about Xiao Fan, haven't come yet?" Ge Changhe couldn't help but ask when he saw that Xia Fan was only followed by Jinsuo.

"Nope. Xia Fan shook his head.

"I knew this guy wasn't reliable. Ge Changhe squeezed his fist very unhappily, with a posture that Xiao Pan would kill him with one punch if he was in front of him.

"It doesn't matter if he comes or not, it's enough for you to come. Xia Fan patted Ge Changhe on the shoulder, comforted him twice, and then said his plan to capture Yunhuan Lake.

"Baishi City must always leave some soldiers and horses, right?" Although Ge Changhe is a cultivator, he has also served as a soldier and led soldiers, so he still knows a little about marching and fighting.

"It's enough to leave a thousand people. If you can take the Yunhuan Lake, then the White Rock City will naturally be as stable as a rock, if you can't take the Yunhuan Lake, no matter how many people are left in the White Rock City, it will not be of much use, although the White Rock City occupies a favorable location, but the surrounding land is barren and there is no population, it is really not enough to be the foundation for a life, so I want to take the Yunhuan Lake. Xia Fan also trusted Ge Changhe quite a lot, so he said all his considerations.

"In that case, then let's go all out and take the Yunhuan Lake. Ge Changhe nodded.

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Since Xia Fan captured Baishi City and continuously sent troops to harass Yunhuanhu, in order to monitor the enemy situation at any time and better defend in case of attack, the Yunhuanhu garrison built a series of tall permanent fortresses on the south bank of Yunhuanhu Lake.

Each of these forts is 1,000 zhang long, 300 zhang wide, and more than 30 zhang high, and can garrison more than 1,000 people. In the face of an army of thousands of people, although it can not be of much use, it is not a problem to deal with small-scale harassment and attacks.

There are more than fifty similar forts on the south bank of Yunhuan Lake, although they are not connected, but they are not far from each other, as long as one is attacked, then the defenders will light the beacon fire, and the nearby defenders will immediately send troops out to support, but they have also repelled several attacks by the soldiers and horses of Baishi City. It's just that if you encounter an attack by the barbarians, such a precautionary measure is useless, because no matter how many reinforcements come, the barbarians will not hesitate to rush forward and kill everyone.

Zheng Liu and Liu He were the defenders of one of the many forts on the south bank of Yunhuan Lake, and it was their turn to stand guard at night on this day.

Although it is not autumn and winter at this time, the temperature is still slightly cool after nightfall, especially the abundant water vapor in the cloud ring lake, which often makes people feel damp all over the body, and the armor is quite uncomfortable to wear.

"What's the deal, if you stay here for another half a year, even if you don't get killed by those barbarians, Lao Tzu will have to live half a year less. Zheng Liu took a sip of wine gourd and handed it to Liu He, who was staring at the south next to him.

"I won't drink it, you can enjoy it yourself, lest you drink too much and be dazzled, and you won't be able to find out if there is any enemy in the future, and then not only will it hurt the brothers, but our heads will have to be moved. Although Liu He's saliva was almost dripping out, he still resisted the urge to take a sip and pushed the wine gourd away.

"Don't worry, in my experience, those guys in White Rock City will never attack us at night...... Poof...... "Zheng Liu was just about to hand the wine gourd to Liu He again, when a cold light flashed, and his head had already burst open.

"Enemy ......" Liu He was startled, and he was about to shout at the enemy attack, but at this moment, he suddenly felt a cold neck, and the shout that reached his mouth also turned into a sound of blood spraying wildly.

At this time, it was definitely not only Zheng Liu and Liu He who were killed, the fifty fortresses on the south bank of the entire Yunhuan Lake were all attacked at the same time, and except for the only two fortresses that encountered crazy resistance, so that they were able to capture the fortress after killing all the defenders in the fortress, the other fortresses were easily taken without much effort.

The reason why this is the case, on the one hand, is that Yukong Yue has been harassing these fortresses with people some time ago, and the battle of Xiao Intensity is not said to be fought every day, but there will be one every two or three days. Such frequent battles will not only make the defenders very tired, but also gradually numb, plus the attacks commanded by Yu Kongyue are carried out during the day, which also gives the defenders of Yunhuanhu a delusion, thinking that they will not attack at night, so most of the defenders of the fortress sleep very soundly, and some even take off their armor, so suddenly attacked, of course, they were captured without even having a chance to resist.

On the other hand, the elites who were responsible for the attack this time were all specially selected by Xia Fan from the 130,000 army under his command, and they also conducted a surprise training long before starting today's night attack.

These people themselves are all elites in the army, and they generally have the strength to cultivate the spirit realm, and they are usually at least a good leader in the army. Now that he was ordered to sneak attack, it was definitely a bit overkill.

In addition, in order to be more secure, Xia Fan also sent nearly 10,000 souls to fight with him, and they were absolutely comfortable fighting in the dark night, which also made the entire night attack operation relatively smooth. Although there were accidents, they did not affect the overall situation.

Fifty fortresses, each with more than a thousand defenders, and at least forty-five or six thousand, in addition to those who were killed, were taken prisoner almost from their sleep.

As for how to settle the prisoners, Xia Fan, Yu Kongyue and others had already discussed, so although the number of prisoners at this time was large, it did not affect their subsequent attacks, and naturally someone would come over to accept and place these prisoners. And about ninety percent of the soldiers and horses who were ordered to do this were Fang Sen's soldiers and horses at the beginning, and they were later recruited by Xia Fan after being captured, and now they are serving under his command.

With these people appearing to speak, it is enough to calm the uneasy hearts of those captives. Of course, in addition to appeasement, appropriate deterrence is also indispensable, and some of the thorns will definitely be singled out and killed in public, which can not only reduce trouble, but also kill chickens and monkeys, which can be described as killing two birds with one stone.

Xia Fan's army broke through the fortress complex on the south bank of Yunhuan Lake relatively smoothly, but when it continued to attack, it encountered extremely stubborn resistance. And this is not surprising, because although the defenders in the fortress on the south bank were not able to block the night attack of Xia Fan's army, but at least they played a warning role, and although the defenders of Yunhuanhu Lake have been quite tired recently due to the constant harassment of people in the sky, their combat power will not be greatly affected, and the Blue Jade Country has always attached great importance to the important grain-producing area of the Yunhuanhu River Basin, otherwise it would not have routinely stationed 100,000 troops, so all kinds of defensive measures are quite complete, and they can completely resist an invasion of more than 100,000 people。

It was with such a defensive foundation, coupled with the warnings of the defenders in the fortress before they died, that it suddenly became much more difficult when Xia Fan's army broke through the fortress group on the south bank and then went deeper.

Since Xia Fan and his generals had made sufficient preparations long before the war, they naturally considered that they would encounter such a situation, so when they encountered stubborn resistance, the army on Xia Fan's side did not panic at all, but attacked the fortified step by step according to the pre-agreed strategy. Although the progress was slightly slower than the initial estimate, it did not exceed the prediction of Xia Fan and others, so it was still smooth.

As the commander-in-chief, of course, Xia Fan did not need to charge ahead, he only needed to sit in the rear to stabilize the morale of the army, and he directly handed over the battle on the battlefield to Yu Kongyue and Bu Fenghou to be responsible. Although Ge Changhe was strong and brought 50,000 elite soldiers to take refuge, after all, he had just joined Xia Fan's command not long ago, so Xia Fan could not promote his position too high at once, and just handed it over to Yu Kong Yue to command. After capturing Yunhuanhu Lake this time, when the meritorious deeds are rewarded, Ge Changhe can naturally be promoted.

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Since Yunhuanhu Lake is very important to Lan Yuguo, especially to the current Lan Haolin, he specially told his subordinates that no matter what time it is, as long as there is news of Yunhuanhu, they must be handed over to themselves as soon as possible, otherwise, if they delay the big event, no matter who they are, they will be killed.

It was precisely because of Lan Haolin's strict order that when the information that Yunhuanhu was attacked by Xia Fan's army had just been handed over from below, the henchman who was responsible for helping Lan Haolin deal with the information hurriedly knocked on the door of Lan Haolin's bedroom.

At this time, Lan Haolin was sitting in the middle of the house and cultivating. Since returning to the Blue Jade Country and becoming the lord of the country, Lan Haolin has been entangled in all kinds of military and government affairs all day long, and the time that can really be used for cultivation has become much less. Although it was Lan Haolin's wish to hold the royal power and command the world, immortality and eternal immortality were also what he wanted, so no matter how busy he was, he always had to find some time to cultivate.

Today is rare to be free, Lan Haolin returned to the bedroom early to meditate, he has a hunch today, the bottleneck that has been stuck in him for a long time may break through today, if he can step into the realm of gods in one fell swoop, then there will be a new world in front of him, Lan Haolin is full of expectations and desires.

Just as Lan Haolin continued to operate the exercises, feeling that the bottleneck restricting his strength from breaking through was loosening more and more, suddenly there was a sharp knock on the door. The knock on the door was too abrupt and too noisy, and it suddenly woke Lan Haolin up from the mysterious state before the breakthrough, so the breakthrough that should have been a matter of course was soaked in the soup.

At this moment, Lan Haolin was not only extremely depressed, but also extremely angry, and at the same time, because he was in a hurry to get out of that breakthrough state, so that the blood and qi in his body surged, which made him feel like he wanted to vomit blood.