() Dong Castle, Hall.

"What should I do, that kid surnamed Li has captured our people!" asked a young patriarch with a blank expression.

"Yes, he has arrested our clansmen and threatened him, what should we do? Dong Lao, you can say something!" The middle-aged nobleman's face was also full of eagerness at this time, although it was not his own clan that was going to be executed today, but what about tomorrow?

"Tell me, what do you want to do?" Elder Dong did not answer the questions of the other two nobles, but threw the question to the other young patriarch. At this moment, it was his people who were tied up in front of the battle outside the city and waiting to be executed.

At this time, the young patriarch was obviously out of order, his eyes were full of blood, his hands were clenched, and his lips were bitten out of his teeth and he didn't know it.

When the other three patriarchs saw this scene, they could only shake their heads helplessly, no one could think of a good way, and the entire hall suddenly became very silent. Everyone is asking themselves in their hearts what can be done to reverse this unfavorable situation.

However, time does not stand still because of their silence, it still passes minute by minute.

"It's noon!" Suddenly there was a scream of the guards outside the hall!

The young patriarch, who had never spoken, jumped up at once when he heard the shouts of noon. Probably due to being too excited or nervous, he passed out on the ground the moment he stood up.

When the other three patriarchs heard the shouts that had arrived at noon, their faces also became gloomy, and the whole person was unconsciously terrified, and a chill surged up from the low feet of the feet, and the hair on his head stood up. When they found the young patriarch fall to the ground, they all stood up and helped him to the chair.

After a while, the patriarch woke up from his coma, and the first thing he said when his eyes opened was, "What's wrong with my people?"

Seeing that everyone had no reaction, he shouted, "Help me to the city tower, I want to know what happened to my people!"

The other three held back the sourness in their hearts and helped him up to the castle tower.

Blood, bright red blood, bright red blood flowing all over the ground.

One hundred and seventy-two men, women, and children, none of them escaped the call of death. Heads large and small rolled to the ground, and headless corpses fell to the stake. Bright red blood was still dripping out of the severed head.

"It's hell, it's the slaughterhouse of the Asuras!" Dong Lao couldn't help but curse.

The other two nobles were stunned by the sight.

Could this have been done by a human being?

They may have forgotten that there was a time when the servants of their household were beaten to death for a trivial matter, that there was a time when the women of the commoners were humiliated in their beds worse than dead, and that there was a time when lowly slaves were ants that they could trample to death at any time.

"I'm going to kill you!" the slaughtered patriarch broke free from the other two nobles, drew his sword from his waist and rushed down the tower.

"Stop him, stop him!" Dong Lao shouted loudly from behind.

But when a person sees all his relatives die in front of him in an instant, there is absolutely no force in the world that can stop him, except death.

A quarter of an hour later, the drawbridge of the Dong Castle was lowered. Two thousand soldiers rushed out under the leadership of the nobleman. It was a bunch of crazy people, with no formation to speak of, each with a weapon in hand, moving their legs and rushing forward mechanically.

"A herd of bulls!" Li Yuxuan, who was in front of the formation, said contemptuously. A shield wall was erected in front of the "homeland" array, and the longbowmen and shortbowmen behind the wall kept shooting arrows at the group of "bulls" in Li Yuxuan's mouth, and many soldiers were shot before they rushed to the front of the formation, and the nobleman had been hit by several arrows at this time, but he still rushed forward desperately.

When the aristocratic army rushed to a distance of only a hundred steps from the shield wall, Li Yuxuan raised his right hand, raised his index finger and middle finger and gently moved forward, and the two cavalry rushed out from both sides of the formation, smashing into the scattered infantry group of the nobles from the oblique side.

"Massacre, this is a massacre!" the old marquis watched as the two thousand noble troops who rushed out fell in pieces under the impact and slashing of the "homeland" cavalry. In only two quarters of an hour or so, there were less than five hundred nobles left on the battlefield, and the young patriarch was already a bloody man at this time, but he was still stabbing with his sword.

"Family master, can you take down these infantry now?" Xu Ruoyu on the side finally couldn't help it and asked.

"I don't want to kill more than a hundred unarmed women and children tomorrow!" Li Yuxuan's glaring at Xu Ruoyu made him think of death.

"Get a bow!" Li Yuxuan shouted to his own soldiers behind him.

The "Cloud Piercing Bow" was once again pulled to the full moon in Li Yuxuan's hands. The soldiers on both sides of the enemy and the enemy turned their attention to him at the moment when the "Cloud Piercing Bow" returned to Li Yuxuan's hands, not knowing what the target of this arrow was.

Xu Ruoyu glanced at the nobleman who was still fighting in the court, and the corners of his eyes seemed to be moist.

The arrow hit the young nobleman's chest impartially, and he took his body back more than ten steps. But what is strange is that the patriarch who has obviously lost his breath is still with his eyes open at this moment, using his sword as a staff, and his whole body is supported there. When the soldiers on both sides were amazed by the power of this arrow, they were also surprised by the scene of this man dying and not falling.

"Choke!"

Li Yuxuan unsheathed the Coiling Dragon Ancient Sword in his hand, and led five hundred "Black Dragon Knights" to rush out from behind the shield wall, and the five-foot-long Coiling Dragon Ancient Sword glowed with an eerie cold light.

Li Yuxuan led five hundred cavalry to rush to the patriarch's body. The five-foot Panlong Ancient Sword waved, and the head fell into Li Yuxuan's hand, and the unbalanced corpse fell to the ground with a bang.

Tie the head to the horse's neck, Li Yuxuan raised the blood sword in his hand and ordered loudly: "Kill, no forgiveness!"

When the last noble army on the battlefield fell, so did the old marquis standing on the city wall, and his already decaying body could no longer withstand such a blow.

In the evening, the old Marquis of Feng Xiang finished his life's journey and closed his eyes forever on the hospital bed. When he was dying, the warning he left for the other two patriarchs was the word "forget it".

Feng Xiang is finished, Feng Xiang is finished!

The old marquis muttered to himself towards the embrace of death.

On August 27, 174 years of the imperial calendar, the Dong Castle lowered the banner of Fengxiang, and the Dong Castle, which was called "the first fortification of Fengxiang" by the King of Fengxiang, failed to stop Li Yuxuan's advance. The Fengxiang Kingdom, the oldest country in the south that had lasted for more than two hundred years, was finally swallowed up by the torrent of history, and only one head was still floating on the water.

Upon learning of the fall of Dong's castle, Gongye Ruiliang rejected the king's plan to order his troops to march west to Kefield through the Guò border, and hoarded his troops under the city of Broomfield. Eventually, the general who had defeated the Wind Sky Yang Legion was removed from his post and replaced by his deputy as commander of the Second Legion.

On September 2, 174 A.D., the main force of Fengxiang's Second Army, 17,000 ironclad infantry, crossed the original border and advanced towards Kefield.

The city of Ignatius, the castle keeper.

On September 5, 174 A.D., on the third day after the invasion of the main force of Fengxiang's Second Army, all the generals of the "homeland" who participated in the southward movement gathered in the city of Ignatius to discuss the next strategy.

At the meeting, Xu Ruoyu, who was the chief of staff, spoke first.

"The 17,000 men of the 2nd Regiment of Fengxiang have crossed the original border and advanced towards Kefield the day before yesterday, and are expected to arrive in Kefield in four days, and now we have 6,000 infantry and 4,000 cavalry stationed in Kefield, and I am responsible for the unification. This may not be good news, but I do have good news for you here. From the four major family fortresses, we have found a large amount of reserve grain, with a total amount of about 3 million catties, which has completely solved the problem of insufficient military rations in our army at this stage. By the middle of October, Luoping could have levied 5 million jin of military rations, and Fengxiang had 7 million catties, thus providing sufficient food supply for our army's winter offensive. ”

"Winter Offensive?" none of the generals had heard of the so-called "Winter Offensive" before attending the meeting. Now when I heard Xu Ruoyu mention it, I was puzzled.

"It's a winter offensive, a 174-year winter battle plan drawn up by the head of the family, me, and Wan Qi Dutong. ”

"But winter is not conducive to combat, and the Atbury army finally failed because it committed this taboo and was unable to pass through the Guò Brin Mountains for its logistical supplies!" Li Fang agreed with most of the generals after he finished speaking. Tang Xu and other generals who participated in the battle for Luo Pingyuan still shudder when they think of the taste of fighting in the ice and snow.

Xu Ruo saw that everyone had doubts about the winter battle, and focused his attention on Li Yuxuan. As Li Yuxuan, as the commander of the first army, the influence of the words that come out of his mouth must be different.

"In fact, before this battle, there was one thing I never told you. There is a big loophole in our plan to invade Fengxiang, that is, we ignore the Basr that we put later. As soon as Li Yuxuan mentioned Basir, the faces of the generals present changed, and they obviously understood the meaning of Li Yuxuan's words.

"It's an adventure. Luckily, we won. But in the process of our attack on Fengxiang, another problem suddenly popped up, that is, the victory of the Second Army of Gongye Ruiliang. Fortunately, we captured Dong's castle in time, so that we were not cut off by Gongye Ruiliang. However, Basr's current silence does not mean that he will remain silent in the future, and Deciduous City is still in Basr's hands, and it can cross the Luoshui to attack the Kefield area at any time. To us, it is like a thorn in our back, restricting our actions. ”

"In front of us, the ancient kingdom of Fengxiang is now an egg stripped of its shell, soft and without the slightest resistance. Eating it is our main goal now, as long as we eat it, we will become a giant in the south of the continent, and truly embark on the road to conquer the world. Now it's not just us who want to eat it, and Basr is the key, and now it's all about seeing who moves fast. If we delay the attack on Fengxiang until 175, then Basr, who has recovered from the battle for the Haas Valley, will send troops to Fallen Leaf City to contain us and invade Fengxiang at the same time. By that time, our army will be in a dilemma. Once Basil takes Fengxiang, it will constitute a strategic encirclement of us, and the consequences will be unimaginable. In order to eat the egg before the old fox, I devised a plan to fight in the winter of 174. ”

The map was spread out in front of everyone, and everyone focused their eyes on the map.

"The winter battle plan will be organized into three corps, namely the Northern Corps, the Ignatius Corps and the Southern Corps. The command of the Northern Corps will be held by Major General Xu Ruoyu, whose task is to garrison Kefield, ensure the connection between our army and Luo Pingyuan, and launch a counterattack against the invading Fengxiang Second Army under favorable circumstances, under the command of Yao Qian's 6,000 ironclad infantry and Tang Xu, Langzhong's 4,000 cavalry. The command of the Ignatius Corps will be held by Major General Bai Yunqi, whose task is to ensure communication with Kefield, prevent the enemy from cutting off the retreat of our southern corps, and ensure the logistical supply of the southern corps, under the command of 4,000 ironclad infantry. I personally took charge of the command of the Southern Corps, and the task was to completely and cleanly eliminate the remnants of Fengxiang's forces, under the jurisdiction of Li Fang and Li Yuyang's two infantry corps, a total of 12,000 ironclad infantry, and Wan Qi Ruiyun would serve as the staff officer of the Southern Corps. ”

"A powerful empire!" Li Fang sighed heartily after studying Li Yuxuan's plan.

"Yes, if we can complete this plan along the way, we will become the two largest empires in the southern part of the continent with the current Jungar!" Tang Xu couldn't help but exclaim.

"But, family master, Fengxiang's Fengcheng garrison, the city guards plus the Praetorian Guard army reached 26,000 people, which is twice the strength of our southern corps, plus the private armies of the nobles from all over Fengxiang, its strength is enough to stop the advance of our southern corps!" Li Yuyang, who had been to Fengcheng, obviously knew much more about Fengxiang's troop deployment than the other generals present.

"Where will Jiang He's gang of old boys get out of their turtle shells, and when our southern army hits the foot of the city wall of Fengcheng, they may still hide inside and refuse to come out. Li Yuxuan is quite confident in this point, and Li Yuxuan is very clear about these nobles who are greedy for money and regard their interests as more important than a single qiē.

"But Fengcheng can be called the first fortified city in the south, and with the protection of the moat, it can't be broken by our troops!" Li Fang heard that Feng Xiang had such a large force in Fengcheng, and he also raised objections to the plan to annex Feng Xiang.

"Wan Qi Ruiyun, tell everyone about your idea, so that they don't have to worry!" Li Yuxuan said with a smile.

He nodded slightly to all the generals present, and at the same time took the wooden stick in the hand of the head of the family, pointed to a blue line at the bottom of the map, and said: "This is the Nile River, and its downstream is Fengcheng, and the water of the Fengcheng moat is led to the Nile River." Everyone knows Fengfei Lake, and the shoe island in the center of the lake. The water of Fengfei Lake is also channeled to the moat through underground channels. Therefore, it can be said that Fengcheng is also part of the Nile River system. ”

"It's a pity, it's a pity!" Xu Ruoyu suddenly sighed when he heard this. Drew all the eyes that had been on the map to him.

"What is a pity?" Lang Zhong was the first to ask.

"It's a pity that I will never have the opportunity to go to the East Building on Shoe Island and taste the oriental delicacies with all of you in this life!"

"Lord Keqing is really powerful, just listen to me talk about the Nile River, you know what method your subordinates use!" Wan Qi Ruiyun showed an admiring look on his face.

"Keqing, Wan Qi Dutong, what kind of dumb riddle are you two playing, we don't understand!" Tang Xu protested on the side.

"Don't worry, our Lord Keqing is about to invite everyone to a big meal of 'catching turtles in an urn'!" Unexpectedly, the head of the family, Li Yuxuan, also made a joke, obviously he was in a very good mood at the moment.