Chapter Fifty-Eight: Crossing the River (II)

"Third brother!" A cry of grief came, and then the remaining three generals rushed towards Jiang Cheng even more desperately, they really didn't want to die at this time, and they didn't want to kill Jiang Cheng at all.

"Puff puff!" As the last few blades slashed across their necks, the three generals fell, all of them hacked to death by Jiang Cheng.

"Kill the King of Guangyang!" A loud roar followed, and then Jiang Cheng took the lead and rushed towards the King of Guangyang, who had no defense.

"Knock knock!"

"Roar! no!" With an unwilling roar, Jiang Cheng cut off the head of the King of Guangyang with a single sword, and then broke the banner belonging to the King of Guangyang.

"King Guangyang is dead!" "King Guangyang is dead!" "King Guangyang is dead!"

The sound that resounded through the battlefield kept sounding, and all the soldiers subconsciously looked at Jiang Cheng, who was holding the head of King Guangyang.

"Kill!"

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This landing war lasted for two days, the battlefield spread over a range of hundreds of miles, everywhere was fighting, everywhere was death, and after two days of brutal fighting, finally the perennial war of the Chu army was victorious.

Of course, in fact, the coalition army is not a defeat, because the two sides really couldn't fight in the end, and this battle caused more than 200,000 soldiers on both sides to die, which is already a nerve-wracking.

It was a pyrrhic victory, but even this was worth it, because they had finally crossed the river, and a solid beachhead had been arranged.

And because of the heavy casualties of the coalition forces, most of the princes retreated one after another, and they retreated to repair in Wuzhou, while Xizhou, that is, the entire state close to the Yangtze River defense line, was almost abandoned.

After seven days of repairing the beachhead, the Chu army began to enter Xizhou.

And in these seven days, the statistical losses are a little unbearable, the Chu army lost 120,000 people in battle, and many were seriously wounded, as for the seriously injured and need to be discharged, only 250,000 people who crossed the river in the end were able to continue fighting.

Moreover, many senior generals were killed in this battle, and thirty-eight generals above the fourth rank died, and you must know that there were more than 60 senior generals in total.

Now more than half of them are dead, of course, it is these people who are dead, so that Jiang Cheng can be promoted.

In this battle, Jiang Cheng killed the king of Guangyang alone and tore a hole for the army, so in terms of meritorious deeds, he was directly promoted to the general of Zhengbei.

The position of the four expeditions and four towns is no longer small, and after Jiang Cheng becomes the general of the expedition to the north, he has the right to control the army of more than 50,000 people.

He led 30,000 troops into Xizhou alone, and there was no one in the process of blocking it, and thinking about it, Xizhou was close to the Yangtze River, and the people in it knew exactly what was going on there.

Besides, after the war, most of the coalition forces still fled for their lives, and they were clear about these gestures.

Therefore, after the Chu army entered Xizhou, no one dared to object, and after taking over the entire state and county, he ordered martial law to begin, and then ordered all shops to open within a time limit, otherwise there would be no forgiveness.

In particular, all grain merchants must sell grain, and they must compare the market price to the bottom, otherwise the whole family will be killed.

Under Jiang Cheng's move, the entire Xizhou was really calm, and then the army in the rear began to enter Xizhou.

In the blink of an eye, it was four months, and there was no war on either side in these four months, what they needed now was peace, to recuperate, and besides, it was already winter.

How to fight on a cold day, the winter at this time is particularly cold.

And on this day, Jiang Cheng also led a few of his own soldiers around the city, looking at the peaceful appearance of the people around him, Jiang Cheng was still very satisfied.

This is the county town where his army is stationed, and he must ensure the livelihood of these people, so that his logistics can not have problems.

"Well, let's take a look at what's up ahead. At this time, Jiang Cheng saw the crowd gathered in front of him, he frowned, and then ordered the soldiers behind him to go and take a look.

"General, it's a fortune teller, and I heard that the calculation is accurate, so these people come to tell the fortune. ”

"Oh, let's go, go see. Hearing that it was a fortune teller, and it was quite accurate, Jiang Cheng showed a mysterious smile, and then led everyone towards the crowd.

"Go away, go away!" His own soldiers were all strong men with tigers on their backs, although there was no military uniform, but these people did not dare to provoke, and they were squeezed out of a road after a while.

"I heard that you are quite accurate in your fortune telling. Jiang Cheng came to the other party and spoke softly.

"Yes, does this noble man want to tell a fortune!"

"Of course, then you can count me in. ”

"Then the old way is offended. ”

The old Taoist priest looked at Jiang Cheng carefully and then spoke: "The noble heavenly court is full of square circles, which is the life of great wealth and nobility, and looking at the number of qi knotted between the nobleman's eyebrows, it seems that the noble man has already made a fortune. ”

Hearing the words of this old Taoist priest, Jiang Cheng was noncommittal, and then let him continue to speak.

"The nobleman's eyebrows are murderous, if the old man is not mistaken, the noble man is from the army, and looking at the appearance of the nobleman, he should be the general who controls one side, I don't know if what the old man said is right. ”

"Well, that's good. After listening to the other party's words, Jiang Cheng also nodded in agreement with the other party's judgment that it was right.

"Give the money and go. Jiang Cheng commanded, and then the soldiers behind him dropped a piece of gold to the other party.

And the surrounding people all got out of the way after hearing the old Taoist priest's hexagram, but they heard it clearly, this is for the general, and what other generals exist in Xizhou County today? There is only one, that is, Jiang Cheng, the general of Zhengbei who stopped in Xizhou County.

"General, this old Taoist priest is quite accurate. When he was on the road, the pro-soldier lieutenant beside him couldn't help but speak.

"Heh, you really think he figured it out. Jiang Cheng snorted disdainfully, and then the CIA spoke.

"What does the general mean?" the pro-military lieutenant was still puzzled.

"This person, it's either Xuan Zhendao or some spies, in this way, you go back, kill him, remember, you must kill him in front of everyone, the crime is rebellion. ”

"No!" After hearing Jiang Cheng's order, the captain of the pro-soldier beside him immediately led the three soldiers towards the place where the old Taoist priest was staying.

"Okay, okay, the old way is full of hexagrams today, and if you want to count the hexagrams, you will count them tomorrow. ”

When the captain arrived, the old Taoist priest was already preparing to leave.

"Hmm. ”

"No!" the pro-soldier captain glanced at him, and the three soldiers around him drew their knives one after another and blocked in front of the old Taoist priest.