In the previous Xiangmuro Kingdom, such affairs have been handled very skillfully, and when it comes to Zheng Muruguo, it is only necessary to do it as usual. The Northern Dao clan's march was very smooth, but it was not as smooth as Shaowu's entry into the Xiangmuro Kingdom, and every time he captured a city, he would encounter more or less resistance from different Cheng Dù, so he adopted the tactics of steady advance.

General Ruichuan urgently mobilized an army formation to meet the hasty battle, and by the time the army rushed over, the Beidao clan had already captured two cities. The morale of the army of Bamuro was booming, Ruichuan was defeated in three battles, and while constantly mobilizing reserve troops to reinforce, the defense line was also constantly retreating, and Zheng Muroguo lost three cities in succession.

After losing the five cities south of the West Boundary Mountain one after another, Zheng Muguo barely managed to stabilize his position. At this time, the army led by the Beidao clan was not far from Zhengdu City, and did not continue to be greedy for merit. This battle was different from Shaowu's entry into the Xiangmuro Kingdom, although it was a surprise at first, Rui Chuan retreated very quickly, and the three new castles captured by the Northern Dao clan were almost abandoned by him on his own initiative. Rui Chuan is to shrink his forces to defend to more favorable terrain and look for opportunities to counterattack, and there is no flaw in the art of war.

When the North Dao clan was a child, he was called Dao Wa, and when he became an adult, he was called Dao Han, he and Rui Chuan were actually old acquaintances, both of them went to Wufuqiu to learn art, and in the same year they climbed the main peak to become a disciple of the main tradition, and the relationship was not bad. When they left the mountain, they became the generals of Zheng Muguo and Xiangmuro respectively, and now they are their own masters and meet each other on the battlefield.

The Beidao clan also knew that Rui Chuan could not give him the opportunity to drive straight in, the longer the battle line was stretched, the tighter the position of Zheng Muroguo's defenders was compressed, the greater the resistance encountered, and the more difficult it would be to supply logistics, so every step pursued steady and steady, leaving no hidden dangers in the rear.

At the same time, Zheng Muguo was already in a panic, and Zheng Gu summoned his ministers to discuss countermeasures together, and they all had any ideas.

Some people think that Shao Wu should be emulated. Since the Bamuro Kingdom marched from the Western Boundary Mountain, the Zheng Muroku Kingdom directly attacked the Bamuro Kingdom from the east. Of course, this Jianyì was vetoed, because the shape of the battlefield was different from that of the Ba Mu State and the Xiang Mu State during the Great War, Shao Wu had returned to Ba Du to preside over the overall situation, and the Wei Mang army did not move at all on the eastern border.

The most disadvantaged place of Zheng Muguo in this battle is that they originally gathered heavy troops to confront the Weimang army on the border, and the elite main force in the country was all in the east.

There are also people who build yì to transfer the heavy troops on the eastern border to the western border, and together with the army led by Rui Chuan, they flank the Beidao clan. In this way, the enemy will be defeated. However, if this is done, it is necessary to prevent the Weimang army from taking the opportunity to enter the country, and it is best to transfer half of the army to the west to participate in the battle, leaving the other half of the army to guard the border pass.

At this time, the general Rui Chuan provided a complete set of combat plans. First of all, it is necessary to stabilize the defense line in the northwest direction of the national capital, and after abandoning the three cities in a row, the concentrated reserve army formations in the defensive passes of each pass can now resist the continued attack of the army of the Bamuro Kingdom, but there is no strength to counterattack and regain the lost ground.

In order to turn defeat into victory in this battle, it is necessary to bring back the elite army formations deployed on the eastern border, and the action must be fast. Together with the defenders of the back of the country, they will flank the North Dao Clan, and strive to annihilate the opponent south of the West Boundary Mountain, and drive back the army of Bamuro Country at the worst. Due to the supply of the Northern Sword Clan's army, it was necessary to cross the Western Boundary Mountain from the Xiangmuro Province to the front line. Being alone is at a disadvantage.

If the Northern Dao Clan wins all the way, it is better to say that once it is frustrated and cannot hold on for a long time, retreating will be the only option, otherwise it may be encircled and annihilated. But such a strategic arrangement. It is necessary to guard against the invasion of the Weimang army from the other direction.

Therefore, Rui Chuan made another construction, taking the initiative to abandon the two castles bordering the border with the Xiangmuro State and retreating the defensive line. Concentrate the elite main force to move closer to Xiangmu City. After annihilating or repelling the Northern Sword Clan's army, turn back and clean up Weimang. In short, it is to concentrate forces on one front, first abandon the two cities in the east, recover the five cities in the west, and then fight back until the situation in the rear is consolidated.

His battle plan was decent, Zheng Muruguo was different from the original Xiangmuro country, and did not take the initiative to enter the Bamuro country, and the main field elite of the country was not damaged. You can first concentrate on flanking the lone army of the Northern Dao Clan, and then stabilize the rear before facing the opportunity to attack the Weimang army.

However, if this is done, at least two more cities will be abandoned, and the army of Weimang will be led into the country from the east.

Lord Bingzheng Xingzhu resolutely opposed this mention, and he believed that the defense line could not be retreated any longer. In addition to the national capital, Zheng Muguo has a total of sixteen cities, the east first lost Baiguo City, and now the west has lost five more cities, and only ten cities are left in the country. If the two cities are abandoned on his own initiative according to Ruichuan's plan, it will be equivalent to half of the country's land falling, which will be a great blow to the morale of the army and the people.

In Rui Chuan's view, now that the defense line is built with Zhengdu City and Xiangmu City in the south, it can already resist the attack of the Northern Dao Clan's army, and can rely on the favorable terrain to fight a protracted war of attrition with the Bamuro Kingdom. Although the Northern Dao clan had captured five castles, his rear was in the Xiangmuro country at the other end of the western boundary mountain, which was the newly conquered territory of the Bamuro country, and the truly more stable rear was even more distant.

In this way, the lone army will fight deeply, the longer the time elapses, the more unfavorable it will be to the Northern Dao Clan, and if the sharp spirit is lost, it will be an opportunity for Zheng Muguo to counterattack, and it will not be difficult to repel the Northern Dao Clan. On the original border between Zheng Mulu and Ba Muru, a part of the elite military array can be drawn to reinforce the capital and Xiangmu City to strengthen the defense and use it for future counterattacks. However, we must not draw too much, and the defense line must not retreat, and we must maintain a confrontational posture with the Weimang army, so that the other side has no chance to take advantage of it.

The opinions of these two factions were not in line with each other among the ministers, and Zheng Gu was unable to make a decision for a long time, which was actually equivalent to maintaining the status quo and doing what Xingzhu wanted, and only part of the elite reinforcements and Xiangmu City were temporarily withdrawn.

When the war situation temporarily reached a stalemate, Zheng Muguo also sent envoys to try to ask for peace talks with Ba Muruguo. In Zheng Gu's opinion, the longer the time drags on, the more unfavorable it will indeed be to the army of the Northern Dao Clan, and the other party will cross the Western Boundary Mountain for a long-distance attack.

Zheng Muruguo proposed that as long as Bamuguo withdrew its troops, it would be easy to say what compensation conditions there were. He also pointed out that the five cities occupied by the army of the Northern Dao clan were separated from the land of the original phase of the country by the Western Boundary Mountain, and were even farther away from the hinterland of the country of Bamuro, so it was better to retreat as soon as possible. Zheng Muroguo was willing to spend money and goods to recover these five cities and achieve a final truce between the two countries.

Regarding Zheng Muroguo's request for peace talks, Shaowu only put forward one condition - to cut Zheng shares first!

The slogan of Shaowu's war is to crusade against Zheng Stock's injustice, and the reason goes without saying. If there is another person, Zheng Muguo will hand him over directly, but Zheng Gu is the monarch, how can he hand it over to the other party?

As long as Zheng Quan is still the monarch of the Zheng family, this battle must be fought. The Northern Dao Clan launched another tentative attack on the front line, and it was mainly the soldiers of the Genzomuro Kingdom under the command of Lingbao who entered the battle. Rui Chuan didn't expect that this wave of attacks was quite strong, and the front pass was almost breached, and the leader of the army charged ahead was actually Yue Xuan, the general of the Zhenguo of the original phase muro.

Yue Xuan is Lingbao's deputy, and he doesn't need to go into battle directly to kill. But after following the army into the Zheng Dynasty, Yue Xuan felt very aggrieved, and the general of the town led the whole army to surrender, and now he is only doing chores under Lingbao, and when he saw the soldiers under his subordinates in the past, he felt a little unable to raise his head.

Later, he said to Lingbao: "Please allow me to go into battle, and I will only be the captain of an army." I personally led the charge forward, even if I died in battle. ”

When the Northern Dao clan heard the news, they really appointed Yue Xuan as the captain of a military formation, which was composed of the most elite warriors in the original phase room country selected by Yue Xuan. Yue Xuan's cultivation has been five realms and nine turns, originally as a general of Zhenguo, he only sat in the command of the Chinese army, and he didn't need to go into battle in person, but now he has become a leading stormer.

After the army of the Northern Dao clan entered the Zheng Dynasty, if it was about the military exploits of beheading, Yue Xuan was the most. When he goes to the battlefield and cuts people with his own hands, who can cut him down the front-line soldiers?

Although Rui Chuan finally held the pass in front of the national capital, he also lost his troops and paid a great price. So he urged Zheng Gu to make a decision as soon as possible, act according to his plan, and quickly shrink the eastern front to reinforce the western front. It was at this time that the Bamuro Kingdom launched an unprecedented offensive, a campaign personally planned by the young man sitting in the national capital.

The Weimang army took the initiative to attack, and the front-line leader was Hanxiong. Wei Mang, the general of Zhennan, did not enter the Zheng Mur Kingdom and was still sitting at the border pass, while Hanxiong left Shanchuan Castle and led an elite army to the other end of the Zheng Chamber's defense line, and raided the pass to attack Xiangmu Castle from the east. At the same time, the army of the Northern Sword Clan also changed the direction of the main attack, gathering the main elite to attack Xiangmu City from the west.

This was the fiercest battle since the start of the Battle of Ba Yuan, and it was much larger than the scale of Shaowu's decisive battle with Yuxuan's army outside the city of Xiangdu, and it could even be said that it was at any cost. Xiangmu City is located south of the capital of Zheng Dynasty, close to Meng Yingqiu, which is not only a barrier to guard Zheng Capital, but also separates the two armies of Wei Mang and the Northern Dao Clan.

Both Ruichuan and Xingzhu knew the importance of this city, and Zheng Muguo deployed heavy troops here, and also transferred several elite military formations to reinforce them.

Therefore, this is a big battle with no ingenuity at all, and it is purely a hard-fought battle, and when the young man gives the order, he shows an unprecedented tough attitude and orders the front-line army to take the city. The two armies flanked left and right, fought fiercely for nearly a month, and after paying a huge price in casualties, they won a crushing victory, and finally captured Xiangmu City.

Shaowu's desire to unify Bayuan must be realized by strength after all. In the Battle of Kamuki Castle, the various losses suffered by the Bamuro Province exceeded the sum of all previous battles. Although only one city was captured, it was a turning point for the overall war. The Beidao clan joined forces with Hanxiong, and this lone army that crossed the Western Boundary Mountain and inserted into the hinterland of Zheng Muroguo opened up the connection with Bamuroguo.

After Xiangmu City fell into the hands of Shaowu, Meng Yingqiu was completely surrounded by the city occupied by the Bamuro Kingdom, and was no longer located at the junction of the Three Kingdoms as it had been. (To be continued......)

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