Seeing that Zhou Tianci had been killed in front of the city tower in a blink of an eye, Gukar had nowhere to escape, his eyes couldn't help but widen, his face was full of crazy roars, his right hand with black iron gloves instantly shone brightly, and Zhenyuan gathered frantically, raising his hand and blasting at Zhou Tianci who was coming straight to him!

Zhou Tianci's face was full of coldness, his killing intent had been decided, in the face of the vast true yuan blasted out by Gukar, he did not avoid it, and his body was surrounded by endless cold sword light, and with an indestructible momentum, he directly passed through the vast true yuan blasted out by Gu Darker!

Then, the dragon and tiger closed the city, and a crisp sword roar sounded!

The thousand-year-old sword in Zhou Tianci's left hand was three inches out of the sheath, and then returned to the sheath in an instant, bringing up a touch of cold and sharp sword light!

The sword light flashed, and then, at the head of the Dragon and Tiger Pass, a bright blood rain flew up!

Zhou Tianci flew through the blood rain, his body flew up, and the sword light of his body came to the top of the city tower of Dragon and Tiger Pass!

Zhou Tianci, who flew to the top of the city tower, stood with his back to the outside of the gate, standing in the wind, his left hand, holding the Liuyun Sword that seemed to have never been unsheathed, and his right hand, holding a head!

It was the head of the Nine Kings of Mohan, Gukar.

Dragon and Tiger closed the city, and the corpse of the Nine Kings who had been beheaded fell down in the rain of blood. On the city tower, the head in Zhou Tianci's hand, the dripping blood slowly flowed along the tile roof of the city tower, and finally dripped from the eaves and dripped onto the city head of Longhu Pass!

The Mo Khan soldiers at the head of the city, looking at the nine kings in different places, looking at the blood falling from the eaves of the city tower, their hearts were terrified! Panicked with a frightened face!

Outside the pass, Chai Shirong looked at the fallen Mo Khan national division, and looked at Zhou Tianci, who had killed the head of the city alone, and without hesitation, he immediately ordered the whole army to launch a fierce attack on Longhu Pass!

More than half an hour later

Zhou Tianci, Chai Shirong, Zhao Kuangyun, and Yang Haonan led the army into the Dragon and Tiger Pass, and stood at the place where he led the mission and the army of Mo Khan to kill.

Standing on the land that was once soaked in blood, Zhou Tianci and Zhao Kuangyun's faces became full of sadness and heaviness.

Back then, on that day, the sky was as cold and solemn as it is today.

But the difference was that it was colder than today, cold to the bone, and snow was falling.

And at that time, they were besieged by tens of thousands of Mo Khan troops, and their companions fell to the ground of blood one after another, and never got up again. Zhou Tianci still remembers that when they fell, they all faced the south without exception, in the direction of their dreaming home.

Zhou Tianci and Zhao Kuangyun stood in the center of the former battlefield, looking up at the sky, and slowly closed their eyes.

Closing their eyes, they seemed to have returned to that day in an instant, and there seemed to be endless desperate shouts of killing around them, as if they were floating again, the goose feather snow that was cold to the bone marrow!

Zhou Tianci and Zhao Kuangyun stood silently on that land for a long time, Chai Shirong, Yang Haonan and all the soldiers of the Left Route Army all kept quiet and did not disturb them.

After a long time, Zhou Tianci and Zhao Kuangyun slowly opened their eyes.

The eyes of the two swept over the land in front of them, took a deep breath, and gradually calmed down. Then, the Left Route Army, led by a few people, continued to set off and advanced northward!

Zhou Tianci returned to the Dragon and Tiger Pass, slashed the nine kings of Mo Khan with a sword, led the army to break through the Xiongguan, and stood on the battlefield of the year.

There, Zhou Tianci and Zhao Kuangyun stayed silent for a long time, reminiscing about the past and mourning Xiao Feng and all the heavenly soldiers who were buried here.

After that, several people led the Left Route Army to continue to set off, advancing northward, and directly pointed at the capital of the Mo Khanate.

Seven days later, Zhou Tianci and Chai Shirong led the Left Route Army of the Northern Expedition into the capital of the Mo Khan, captured the King of the Mo Khan, Xibi Khan, and destroyed the Mo Khan.

Because Zhou Tianci promised Mu Xi not to hurt the life of Xibi Khan, Zhou Tianci ordered people to send Xibi Khan and the members of the Khan to Tokyo, and Chen Yu gave them a fictitious title, and they all stayed in Tokyo to live in the future.

After taking the national capital, it took nearly a month for the Left Route Army to finally completely pacify the entire territory of Mo Khan, and the entire territory of Mo Khan was included in the territory of the Song State!

The Song Kingdom, which was already the largest in Jinzhou in terms of territory, soared again in terms of territorial scope, and reached the border in the northwest direction.

Youruo has always been at odds with Shang and Mo Khan, and has a good relationship with the Song State. Now the Song State has become a very powerful behemoth, becoming its own neighbor, in recent years, the Shang State has been beaten to the nose and face swollen and the stomach is on fire, but also did not hesitate to seize the opportunity, directly expressed his willingness to the Song State to be a vassal state, become a vassal state of the Song State.

The Song court, naturally, readily agreed, agreed to Youruo's submission, and did not send troops to attack again.

With Youruo's annexation, the actual control territory of the Song State directly reached the border of the Shang State, and became a direct border with the Shang State!

In the face of the continuous expansion of the territory and the growing strength of the Song State, the Shang State had long been nervous, and it was vigorously reorganized for war, and it deployed heavy troops on the border with the Song State!

And the Song State did not disappoint them, after Youruo was attached, Zhou Tianci immediately ordered the right army to be transferred over, and joined forces with the left army to prepare the whole army to attack the Shang country.

The Shang Kingdom is different from Da Cai, Xia Xi and other countries, and its strength is very strong. Not only are they almost not weaker than the Song Army in terms of firearms and armaments, but at the level of saint-level masters, their national teacher Tianchenzi is the same as the existence of Xingzi and Wang Hongsleeve, and they have reached the peak of saints many years ago, and there is only a line between them and Tongtian!

But even so, Zhou Tianci and Chai Shirong still decided to attack Shangguo, and there were three main reasons.

First, it is difficult to accommodate two tigers in one mountain on the Jinzhou continent, and the Song State and the Shang State, two equally powerful and adjacent countries, are destined to exist only one, and war cannot be avoided.

Second, it was Zhou Tianci who promised Wang Qi that once the firearms of the Song Kingdom were achieved, he would definitely return to the Shang Kingdom again and save him from leaving.

Third, it was said by Zhou Tianci and Chai Shirong at the beginning that there may be secrets about the earth, the alliance, and other armies in Chaoge City.

Therefore, after Youruo returned to the Great Song Dynasty, Zhou Tianci and Chai Shirong immediately began to reorganize the army, replenish ammunition, and prepare to continue to the north and attack the Shang Kingdom.

A month later, Zhou Tianci and Chai Shirong finally completed the whole army, and the two led He Jingyun, Yang Si, Zhao Kuangyun, Yang Haonan and other generals to lead the Northern Expedition army that had been merged into one place to drive out of Youruo, and arrived at the border of the Shang Kingdom!

Although the Northern Expeditionary Army suffered casualties when it swept through Da Cai, Xia Xi, Mo Khan and other countries, and left some men and horses to cooperate with the new soldiers and horses in the country to stabilize the territory after the war, but this time the Northern Expeditionary Army led by Zhou Tianci and Chai Shirong still exceeded 100,000 troops!

When the Northern Expeditionary Army led by Zhou Tianci and Chai Shirong arrived outside the border city of the Shang State, the Shang State, which had already learned of the movements of the Song army, was already about to attack the Song army

More than 70,000 defenders, hundreds of artillery, and tens of thousands of muskets gathered in the border city.

In the face of the Shang army, Zhou Tianci and Chai Shirong did not dare to slack off, and still ordered the artillery division to step forward and use the longest-range and most powerful artillery as far as possible, in order to be superior to the Shang army in terms of firepower, so as to form a suppression!

The battle outside the border city of Shang Kingdom soon began.

As soon as the battle began, the armies of the Song and Shang sides directly began to bombard each other with more than 300 artillery pieces each!

Inside and outside the border city, it was soon covered by dense cannonballs like raindrops, and the loud sound like thunder sounded one after another, deafening!

Even the solid ground seemed to be unable to withstand such a dense firefight, and it continued to tremble in the sound of artillery, as if an earthquake had occurred.

There is not much difference in the number of artillery guns fired by the Song and Shang armies, but most of the artillery of the Song State surpassed the artillery of the Shang army in terms of range and power.

Because these artillery pieces that fired first in the Song army were the best ones in Wang Qi's design drawings, these cannons were not available in the Shang Kingdom!

While the artillery of the Song army had an advantage and a certain suppressive force, Zhou Tianci, who was standing above the artillery position in the air, also did his best, constantly blocking the artillery fire of the merchant army in front of the position and protecting the position!

Although Zhou Tianci could not intercept all the artillery shells of the merchant army, he was able to intercept most of them, so that his own positions were not subjected to indiscriminate bombardment, which greatly reduced casualties.

In comparison, the head of the border city of the Shang Kingdom and the merchant army in the city were more miserable. They had no good way to intercept the Song army's shells, and although the city walls provided them with shelter, under the Song army's constant roaring and intensive artillery fire, not only was the city severely damaged, but their casualties were even greater!

Behind the artillery position of the Song army, Zhao Kuangyun looked at the Shang army with heavy casualties at the head of the city, and then looked at Zhou Tianci, who was constantly protecting the position above his own position, and looked up to the sky and laughed: "Grandma, see if you Shang children are still crazy, fight with us, we have an anti-artillery defense system!" Do you have one? Ha ha. ”

Zhou Tianci, who was in mid-air, almost vomited blood when he heard Zhao Kuangyun describe himself as an anti-artillery defense system.

At the same time, Zhou Tianci, who had been looking at the head of the border city of the Shang Kingdom, frowned slightly, a little strange. After the battle began, the reason why he always stood in the air above his artillery position and did not directly go to the enemy's city to kill the general was because he had some scruples.

Zhou Tianci's scruples were Tianchenzi, the national teacher of the Shang Kingdom.

This time, Zhou Tianci personally led the Northern Expeditionary Army to attack the Shang State, and the Shang State must have received information and knew where he was. In this case, there is no reason why the saint of the Shang Kingdom should not come to stop him in front of the army, because if he does not come, then Zhou Tianci will be almost invincible, the artillery of the Shang State will not be able to threaten him, and the generals in the army will not be his opponents!

Yes, Zhou Tianci originally thought that Tianchenzi was very likely to have come to the front line, in this city.

It is based on this consideration that Zhou Tianci has never dared to rush into the city alone, so as not to have uncontrollable accidents.

Zhou Tianci originally thought that Tianchenzi, the national teacher of the Shang Kingdom, was very likely to have come to the front line, and based on this consideration, Zhou Tianci did not dare to rush into the city alone, so as not to have uncontrollable accidents.

However, at this time of the battle, when the defenders of the border city of Shang suffered very heavy casualties, Tianchenzi was still nowhere to be seen, which couldn't help but make Zhou Tianci frown slightly, a little strange.

Looking at it like this, could it be that the king of Shang didn't choose to let Tianchenzi come to the front line?

Thinking about it like this, Zhou Tianci still didn't dare to slack off, and still stayed in the air defense over the artillery position, and did not go to the city alone.

Because judging from the current battle situation, if Tianchenzi really did not come to the front line of the merchant army, then even if Zhou Tianci did not kill the head of the city, it would only be a matter of time before the Song army took this border city.

Zhou Tianci still stayed in the air above the artillery position to defend, and the battle continued to be fierce.

As time passed, the Shang army's defending army suffered more and more heavy casualties, and it became more and more difficult to support, and the Song army occupied the absolute top of the battlefield

Wind.

However, the Tianchenzi guessed by Zhou Tianci was still nowhere to be seen.

After more than an hour after this siege battle, the Shang army, which suffered huge casualties, was finally completely defeated, and the Song infantry cavalry, which was equipped with muskets and cold weapons, roared into the city under the leadership of Chai Shirong, Zhao Kuangyun and others, and completely took the city.

Zhou Tianci also entered the city in the sky.

After scanning the scene in the city and the fleeing Shang army, Zhou Tianci finally determined that Tianchenzi really did not come to the front line of the merchant army to help in the battle.

Without paying much casualties, they took the city garrisoned by the heavy troops of the Shang State, and the morale of the Song army was greatly increased for a while, Zhou Tianci and Chai Shirong led the army to take advantage of the victory and continued to march into the territory of the Shang State, pointing directly to the direction of the capital of the country!