Although the destruction of the fortress of Toyoyama Island only wiped out some of the elite forces of the anti-army alliance, in the face of this overwhelming absolute disparity in strength, those leaderless rebel soldiers were frightened and had no intention of resisting anymore. The remaining anti-army forces threw off their armor, surrendered, and fled, and under the pursuit and suppression of several lines of officers and soldiers, they were simply unable to form an effective resistance, and it did not take much time for the "anti-army alliance" that had once been in the limelight and dominated the world for 30 years to collapse and disappear.

The "Brave Army" led by Lu Zhan only fought a few rounds with a few bands of thieves in the mountains on the west side of Jinliang Lake, and did not encounter any major battle scenes, but just a few small-scale encounters, but let him take this opportunity to exercise his troops well, and he was basically able to do the prohibition written on the "Complete Book of Heavenly General Evolution".

A war of soldiers and thieves that was originally evenly matched, but due to the birth of the "Floating Immortal Island", the balance of power of all parties was fundamentally broken, and the dream of the four princes to achieve the imperial industry was completely shattered.

The battle of Jinliang Lake made the world fully see the supreme power of the "Floating Immortal Island", and since then, the prestige of the Great Chu Empire has been greatly enhanced, and the empire has become extremely active in foreign conquests.

Among the surrounding countries of the Great Chu Empire, although the barbarians on the southeast border often penetrated deep into the border, burning, killing and looting, it was very hateful. However, because the terrain in the territory of the Barbarian Alliance is very complex, with thousands of mountains and poisonous swamps, and the area is super deep and vast, the soldiers and civilians of those barbarian tribes often do not have a fixed living city, and are accustomed to being stationed far away. His whereabouts are erratic, so even with the ultimate weapon of "Floating Immortal Island" to help, it is very difficult to attack this wild and boundless country in a hurry, and it will take a lot of time and energy to achieve results.

This was not the case with the Sangyang Kingdom in the northwest of the empire and the Great Sui Empire in the northeast, both of which were powerful and wealthy, and often sent troops to invade the territory of the Great Chu Empire.

In particular, the Great Sui Empire was much stronger than the Great Chu, and it was also one of the extremely powerful countries in the entire Eastern Land Continent.

The two families of the Great Sui and the Great Chu have long been feuding. The Great Sui Empire coveted the land and abundant products of Great Chu. Over the past few hundred years, countless troops have been sent to launch invasions in a vain attempt to annex the entire territory of Chu, although the army and people of Great Chu have resisted hard, and they have barely resisted the continuous invasion of the Great Sui. But its territory is being eaten away by this powerful neighbor step by step.

Therefore, when the "Floating Immortal Island" became the ultimate weapon of the Great Chu Empire to suppress the national fortune, the national teacher of the Tianji Academy, who had always been bitter and bitter, advocated waging war against the two old enemies of the Sangyang Kingdom and the Great Sui Empire, and this proposition was soon supported by His Majesty the Emperor and the Manchu Dynasty civil and military because of the mastery of the Floating Immortal Island.

As the actual controller of the Floating Immortal Island. The Eighth Prince originally wanted to wait until he successfully seized the throne, and then use the Floating Immortal Island to conquer and annex the great cause of the surrounding countries. In the name of the emperor, the national teacher insisted that the proposal of this expedition be put in the position of the top priority of the government and government, and won the unanimous support of the government and the opposition. Therefore, although the eighth prince was unhappy in his heart, he had no way to oppose it.

Under the urging of the national teacher, the Great Chu Empire first launched a war against the relatively weak Sangyang State, and at the same time issued a letter of persuasion to surrender.

This Sangyang Kingdom is the weakest of the surrounding countries, and it also lost more than a dozen of its own powerhouses during the previous battle for the Floating Immortal Island.

Now facing this invincible floating immortal island, there is no resistance at all. And the monarch of the Sangyang Kingdom and the Chinese Wu of the dynasty had also heard in detail from the scouts sent to the Great Chu Empire how the "Floating Sky Immortal Island" used the means of the Yunhai Immortal Family to destroy their own domestic anti-army alliance. ...,

Out of the fact that the immortal cannon on that island could destroy the impregnable steel fortress in an instant with just one cannon, and the supreme power that killed hundreds of thousands of elite soldiers and horses far beyond the imagination of ordinary people was both terrifying and terrifying. So under the trade-off. It is still important to save his life, so he soon made a peace agreement with the Great Chu Empire, and the monarch of Sangyang and the crown prince personally entered the Great Chu as hostages, and ceded the land and paid tribute, and bowed down to the vassals. From now on, it will always be the barrier of Dachu.

Next, the Great Chu Empire proudly sent a war letter to the Great Sui Empire, asking this feuding country to perish like the Sangyang State.

The land area of the Great Sui Empire is more than twice that of the Great Chu Empire, and the comprehensive national strength is much stronger than that of the Great Chu. The destruction of the country and the extinction of the species, that is absolutely unacceptable.

As a result, the war of annihilation between the Great Chu Empire and the Great Sui Empire was inevitable.

This national war is related to the luck of the Great Chu Empire, and the empire will carry out this war with all its strength. As for the choice of the commander of the expeditionary force, it must be the Eighth Prince, and Lu Zhan, as the henchman under the command of the Eighth Prince, will lead 50,000 "brave troops" to go on the expedition.

At the beginning of December of that year, when the sand and dust at the border pass were the greatest and the cold wind was the most chilling, the Great Chu Empire gathered nearly three million troops, with the eighth prince Prince Ying as the commander, and drove mightily to the front of the Devil May Cry Ridge, in order to level the entire territory of the Great Sui in one fell swoop.

Devil May Cry Ridge is located at the junction of Great Chu and Great Sui.

To the north, there is the vast blue Canglong Sea, and to the south, there are towering, precipitous and unobtrusive snow-capped peaks, and only a narrow plain in the middle is relatively flat enough to accommodate the passage of large troops, which has become a key border pass between the two countries.

Because large-scale battles often break out between the two countries, it is not uncommon to see tragic scenes of corpses and rivers of blood flowing in this area. At night, many ghost fires will appear in the ruins of the ancient battlefield, and there is a faint sound of whining and crying in the distance, so the name "Devil May Cry Ridge" comes from this.

The Eighth Prince led the expeditionary army to camp and settle down on the border of the Great Chu, and the huge "Floating Immortal Island" floated in the air about 300 zhang above the ground, facing the Blue Blood Pass, which was built by the Great Sui Empire on the opposite side, and was known as the first steep pass between the two countries.

The reason why the Blue Blood Pass is called the first Xiongguan of the two countries. Because this city pass is as high as more than 30 zhang, the city wall is made of extremely hard, each piece weighs thousands of catties of "Panyun Iron Xuanshi" to build, on the thick city wall is also equipped with 200,000 elite soldiers of the Great Sui and countless sophisticated weapons to defend.

No matter how powerful the siege weapon is, it is helpless to encounter this kind of surprisingly high defensive wall.

From afar, I can see that the whole city tower of the blue blood pass is majestic and magnificent, and it is quite a husband. The momentum of the incomprehensible.

In the afternoon of this day, the Eighth Emperor led Qin Baiyu, Tie Heng, General Wu, Lu Zhan, General Huang and other generals in the army to stand on a dangerous peak on the national border, looking at the Blue Blood Xiongguan on the opposite side. A big bit refers to the country, looking at the meaning of the wind and clouds.

But in front of the majestic and magnificent "Blue Blood Pass", there were flags fluttering. The camp tents are densely packed, and the dense military tents stretch for more than ten miles, neatly arranged in front of the pass, and all kinds of flags are waved in the wind, and there are soldiers wearing various colors of armor passing through and fro.

"Hey, it's really weird!" General Huang said strangely: "In the open space in front of this 'Blue Blood Pass', there were countless trenches and barrier walls crisscrossing in the past, mainly to prevent the surprise attack of our soldiers and horses, and to increase the strength of the defense. And the trench was full of sharp stakes and iron thorn nets. But now the trenches were gone, and the ground looked as if it had just been leveled. ”...,

Another general who was accompanying him said, "It's a bit strange indeed. The enemy not only filled in the layers of trenches with sand, but also set up camp in front of the city pass of Bixue Pass, and stationed a large army, instead of stationing in the pass according to common sense. ”

"Well, the two generals are right. The army was supposed to be stationed within the city walls. The soldiers were able to go up to the city wall and take on the task of defending and guarding. At present, there are troops stationed outside the city pass, so what's the point of being close to the city wall, it's better to kill it directly and have a decisive battle with my Great Chu Wangshi.

The Eighth Prince turned his head to look at Qin Baiyu beside him, and asked with a smile, "What is the opinion of the little national master on this matter?"

Qin Baiyu still shook the folding fan slowly and calmly, and replied: "Actually, the reason is very simple, the leading figures of the Sui State know that once my Great Chu King Division uses the immortal machine cannon on the 'Floating Immortal Island' to bombard them. No amount of moats, no matter how hard the walls were, had no effect. Most of the generals present had seen the power of the 'Spiritual Light Cannon' emitted by the 'Floating Immortal Island' in the Battle of Fengshan Island, and the immortal family's means were bombarded, and the huge energy could make everything in front of them evaporate and vaporize, even if the 'Blue Blood Pass' was known as the first heroic pass, but in front of the immortal machine cannon, it would just turn into a pile of ruin residue in an instant. ”

Tie Heng laughed and said: "That's right, then let's just let the 'Floating Immortal Island' bombard this 'Blue Blood Pass' with a few shots, so that they will become a ruin, where is there still no need for me to wait for thousands of troops to charge into battle." ”

"No, you can't. The Eighth Prince shook his head and said, "You are all close to the Prince's confidants, so I won't hide it from each other - you must know that the energy of the Immortal Family Qi Machine of the 'Spiritual Light Cannon' launched by the 'Floating Immortal Island' is by no means inexhaustible, after all, the Immortal Island has been drifting in the void turbulence for a long time, and the island has long been unable to regenerate the Immortal Qi Machine." In fact, after the National Teacher and the figures in the Heavenly Machine Academy inspected it before, they came to the conclusion that this immortal light cannon was enough to be launched only twenty or thirty times, and this kind of immortal thing could not be repaired by mortals such as us, once it was damaged by frequent use, it would be impossible to fire the cannon again, so unless it was forced to do so, it was impossible to use the killer weapon of this 'spiritual light cannon' easily. ”

Qin Baiyu frowned slightly and said, "Everyone, according to the report of the spies, the Great Sui Empire sent Li Ruoshan and his son to fight this time, it seems that they have decided to fight with us with all their strength at the 'Blue Blood Pass' and fight to the death." ”

"Li Ruoshan, and his son?" General Wu said in surprise: "I didn't expect Li Ruoshan, the first marshal of the Great Sui Empire, to come to the 'Blue Blood Pass' in person to face the battle. I heard that Li Ruoshan's martial arts attainments are about to break through to the late stage of the Huajin realm and become an existence that can be compared with the national teacher, and his eldest son Li Jinjia has also entered the middle stage of Huajin, and the second son Li Yimu and the third son Li Dingshui have also reached the early stage of the Huajin realm. Could it be that all four of them, father and son, are here this time?"

"Exactly. Qin Baiyu nodded, "If we can win this Li father and son in this battle, it will greatly shake the morale of the Sui State's army, and it will be quite beneficial to our Northern Expedition." (Your support is my biggest motivation.) )