Breaking through Youxian Pass made the officials and soldiers of Dayue breathe a sigh of relief, and even made their extremely suppressed morale quickly rebound.

Just like the flow of a river that has been blocked by a dam, when it suddenly finds an outlet, it is even more turbulent than before, almost monstrous.

Although it was still freezing and although it was approaching the New Year's Festival, the army did not have the slightest intention of postponing the northward advance, and asked Sun Ning for battle.

And Sun Ning did not have the intention of suppressing everyone, and immediately according to the situation, he decisively divided the army into three routes and launched an attack on the cities in front.

For the Dayue soldiers, the loss of Youxian Pass is naturally to open the shackles, so as to drive straight in; However, for the various state capitals and cities under the rule of Liang Zhou, this was a disaster that completely hit the morale of the army.

In the past, many local guards and officials still counted on Youxian Pass to stop the imperial army in the south, and also used this to encourage and appease the army and the people. As a result, the words were still in my ears, and the bad news that Youxian Pass was broken quickly came back, which naturally led to a great panic among the soldiers and civilians in the cities, and the morale was even more depressed.

At this time, the imperial army followed closely behind, and the pressure completely fell on the officials and generals, so that they could not afford to resist at all.

So, in just a dozen days, Lianzhou, Xingzhou, and Hecheng ...... More than a dozen cities, like those under the rule of Liangzhou, chose to open the city and surrender. The Da Yue official army has advanced for hundreds of miles almost without bloodshed, not only has its own strength not been damaged, but on the contrary, it has doubled its strength and increased its strength.

By the time Sun Ning ordered the reorganization of the Northern Expeditionary Army, the number of soldiers and horses under his command had rapidly climbed to an astonishing 200,000.

Even though there may not be too many soldiers and horses who really dare to fight well, just this number and scene, pressing into the rear city is enough to make many city guards who are already not strong-willed choose to open the city.

These cities under the rule of Liang Zhou surrendered so quickly, in the final analysis, because Guo's influence here was not far-reaching enough.

These cities and prefectures have been conquered one by one by Guo Yan in these years, but they are only intimidated by their military might, and they have not received more benefits from Guo Yan's governance, so it is naturally impossible to really work for them.

Moreover, there were previous examples of city officers surrendering to the imperial court without being held accountable, so they were naturally more inclined to protect themselves.

In this way, near the end of the year, the imperial army finally reached the original core of Liangzhou.

At this point, Sun Ning knew that the next battle would not be so easy. Because the cities behind are all guarded by the elite henchmen cultivated and promoted by Guo Yan, it is impossible for the city to surrender as soon as the army arrives.

Moreover, by now, the situation here should have been reported to the Lianghuai battlefield on the other side, and maybe the main force of the Liangzhou Army over there will also arrive.

At the beginning of the new year, a real decisive battle between us and the enemy is inevitable.

He's ready for everything!

However, what Sun Ning, who was in the core area of Liangzhou, didn't know was that in fact, the people in Liangzhou were already floating at this time, and he didn't know how to deal with the current situation.

It was not because of the great pressure caused by the successive defeats before, but because of their backbone, Taiwei Guo Yan, whose condition became more and more serious at this time, and he had not woken up for many days.

Before, when he retreated from defeat, Guo Yan had already fallen seriously ill due to frustration and exhaustion. But for the sake of safety, everyone still ignored his illness and weakness, and traveled thousands of miles to transport him back to Liangzhou City.

As a result, his condition became more and more serious after a tiring journey.

Even though the best doctor administers the medicine stone, the effect is mediocre, and for many days, it has been muddy and uncontrollable.

This made the people of Liangzhou even more at a loss, so they could only temporarily take Guo Rin and a few others as the leader, and then hope that God would bless that Guo Taiwei could recover as soon as possible.

At this time, Guo Yan has always reused military generals, and the consequences of sending the most reliable group of subordinates to fight in Lianghuai also appeared.

Now the manpower capacity of the people left in Liangzhou is really insufficient, and there are actually some battles because of the so-called power in front of them, so to this day, it has not been decided whether the main force of Lianghuai should be recalled.

Among them, the one who is most opposed to recalling the main force is naturally Guo Rin.

Because he knows very well that if he maintains the status quo, he will have great power in Liangzhou, and if his father really has a good one, he can even take the opportunity to take the throne and become the lord of Liangzhou!

But if the main force on the front line is recalled, when the second brother Guo Han returns with the army, with his prestige and strength, he is afraid that he will not be able to compete with it at all, so it is better to drag it out.

Moreover, judging from the battle situation that came before, Youxian Pass is enough to block the Vietnamese army by virtue of its terrain, which means that Liangzhou is absolutely safe...... Then there is no need to recall the main army, so that the Vietnamese army on the other side also took advantage of the situation to kill.

Anyway, he used this reason to convince himself and the rest of the city.

It's just that the subsequent changes came too quickly, and suddenly, Youxian Pass was broken by the Vietnamese army. Then they were even more powerful, and it took almost only ten days to conquer more than a dozen cities and kill less than three hundred miles away from Liangzhou.

This made Guo Rin feel great fear, and after regretting it, they wanted to order the front-line army to be transferred back.

However, it is not so easy to transfer such a main force back, not only to explain the emergency, but also to have Guo Yan's commander Dayin. As for this seal, Guo Rin has never been able to get it.

Tonight, he went straight to his father's bedroom, trying to find out what was at stake.

After a few personal guards guarding the room sent out the door, Guo Rin searched through the boxes and cabinets in the room.

He remembered very well that when he returned to Liangzhou, his father was still a little sober, in addition to entrusting the affairs of the city to himself and several officials, he also mentioned that Shuai Yin had a major role to play and should not be with others at will.

That obviously means that he still has this seal by his side.

But after this search, he searched almost every corner of the room, but still found nothing.

"Could it be ......" Guo Rin's heart suddenly moved, thought of a possibility, and cautiously came to his father's couch who was asleep.

At this time, Guo Yan's whole body was covered with a thick futon, so that people could not see what was going on underneath.

Now the whole house has not been searched here, and Guo Rin doesn't care about anything else, so he immediately stepped forward and slowly lifted the futon, and sure enough, he saw a sandalwood box being placed in his father's hand.

This made him happy, and he immediately reached out to get it, and at the same time subconsciously looked at his father and opened his mouth to say something.

As a result, this glance made him almost cry out in fright.

Because Guo Yan's eyes suddenly opened, staring at him!

Some people died, but not completely......