The incident went so smoothly, which gave Zhong Xiang an illusion, as if he was really the emperor of heaven, and recently he began to build a palace frantically, wanting to make himself a real man who lived in the palace.

It's a pity that with the arrival of Ye Tianlong, he woke up from the dream, and all that was left was endless panic!

And at this time, a strategist Zhou Wu, who had just taken refuge in Zhong Xiang, gave him an idea, that is, to surrender by fraud, and then directly assassinate the emperor of the Qinglong Empire when he found an opportunity.

This is because Zhou Wu learned that Ye Tianlong, the emperor of the Qinglong Empire, was personally recruited, and this can certainly improve the morale of the army, but once the emperor is killed, then the army will inevitably be in chaos, and when the time comes, they will take the opportunity to lead the army to cover up and kill, and they will definitely be able to break the enemy army. In order to increase the success rate of the assassination, you can also select several dead soldiers with strong martial arts from the army, pretend to be messengers to negotiate the conditions of surrender, and when they reach the front of Ye Tianlong, use the quenched dagger to strike a blow, that Ye Tianlong is just a mortal fetus, once hit, he will definitely die.

After Zhong Xiang listened to the other party's suggestion, he felt that this might be the only way for him to turn defeat into victory, after all, if he fought hard, with those miscellaneous fish soldiers under his command, it was estimated that even the militia of the Qinglong Empire would not be able to defeat him.

However, there is still a certain risk in defrauding the surrender, if Ye Tianlong refuses to see his envoy, then the dead soldiers on his side will not have a chance to get close to the other party at all. At that time, it will not be possible to let those dead soldiers assassinate Ye Tianlong.

But Zhou Wu told Zhong Xiang at this time, as far as he knew, although Ye Tianlong, the emperor of the Qinglong Empire, was more ruthless to foreign races, but he was very merciful to his compatriots who were also Han people, like many of the captured generals under the command of Fang La before, and now they have regained their positions in the Qinglong Empire. Therefore, if Zhong Xiang surrenders, it should not be a problem for the envoys under his command to get a chance to meet each other.

Zhong Xiang listened to the other party's analysis, and finally put his mind at ease, so he immediately began to gather most of the soldiers under his command to Jiangling City, and at the same time asked his subordinates to find a lot of highly toxic drugs for experiments, and they must find out the highly toxic drugs that can quickly kill people as soon as possible.

After a week or so, the enemy army under Zhong Xiang's command was finally assembled, and Zhong Xiang also selected more than a dozen martial arts and brave and careful dead soldiers from among the hundreds of thousands of soldiers.

At this time, Ye Tianlong was also very coincidentally about to hit Jiangling City, so Zhong Xiang immediately asked more than a dozen dead soldiers as messengers to meet Ye Tianlong to discuss the specific matters of surrender.

After Ye Tianlong got the news, he was also a little surprised, after all, in his impression, most of the people in this group of Ming Sect were very stubborn, especially high-level people like Zhong Xiang, shouldn't they resist to the end like Fang La! How did this surrender so quickly!

Instinctively, Ye Tianlong felt that there was fraud in this, but he was a master of art and bold, so he asked people to bring the messenger of the bell to see what tricks the other party was going to play.

Soon, Zhong Xiang's envoys were brought up, but Ye Tianlong looked at it, these envoys seemed to be a little too majestic!

Just when Ye Tianlong looked at these messengers, these guys were all very nervous, many of them began to shake their legs, and the cold sweat on their heads immediately came down.

Fortunately, one of the chief envoys was quite calm, and after meeting Ye Tianlong, he said that he had a letter from his majesty to present to Ye Tianlong.

Ye Tianlong had already completely determined that these people were doing something at this time, so where would these guys come close to deliver any letters, and with a direct wave of his hand, dozens of heavily armed heavy infantry would rush into the camp tent to take down these so-called messengers.

Seeing that the other party had already recognized their identities, the envoys sent by the bells immediately gathered around the chief envoy.

And the chief envoy also snapped open the box that was said to contain the Zhong letter before, but the letter was only placed on the top layer, and at this time, as the chief envoy pressed the mechanism to open the dark layer below, more than a dozen daggers that had been quenched appeared in Ye Tianlong's sight.

Then the group of dead soldiers grabbed a dagger one after another, several of them rushed directly towards Ye Tianlong, and some of them went to fend off the heavy infantry who were about to rush into the camp.

Ye Tianlong saw that the daggers in the hands of those assassins were showing a strange dark blue, and immediately understood that these daggers must have been quenched with poison, so he saw those assassins rushing towards him, and immediately activated the innate Gang Qi in his body, and suddenly a golden translucent Gang Qi shield protected him, and the daggers of those assassins stabbed on the Gang Qi shield, which only caused a little ripple on the surface of the shield, and it was not able to break through the defense of this Gang Qi shield at all.

The unbelieving assassins once again stabbed towards the Gang Qi shield in front of them with all their might, but this time the tiger's mouth was shattered by the force of the shock and could not break through the shield.

And those assassins who went to resist the heavy infantry were also quickly subdued, after all, the heavy infantry of the Qinglong Empire are all elites, and these heavy infantry that can be used as Ye Tianlong's guards are even more elite among the elite, and it is not too easy to deal with these assassins who are just equipped with a dagger.

Ye Tianlong saw that his subordinates had already eliminated those assassins, so he didn't rub it off, and after getting up, he pulled out the Tang knife at his waist and swept out with a knife, and the heads of the five assassins besieging him fell off their necks with a brush.

To tell the truth, these assassins found by Zhong Xiang are indeed masters, and if he faces an ordinary emperor, I am afraid that he will really be successfully assassinated by these assassins.

It's a pity that Zhong Xiang still underestimated Ye Tianlong's strength and vigilance, after all, Ye Tianlong was killed all the way from the corpse mountain and sea of blood, how could he be overshadowed by such a small trick as an assassin!

And Zhong Xiang's assassination also exhausted the last bit of patience in Ye Tianlong's heart, and then he was not ready to talk with the other party again, but was ready to directly lead the army to kill and capture Jiangling City.

However, to Ye Tianlong's surprise, before he could lead the army to kill him, Zhong Xiang led the army to take the initiative to come out of Jiangling City, and then led the remaining more than 500,000 troops under his command to kill the place where he camped.

Obviously, Zhong Xiang is ready to take the opportunity to attack regardless of whether the assassination is successful or not, after all, this is his last chance to win, and if he doesn't send troops, he can only wait for death in Gangneung City.

In Zhong Xiang's opinion, he selected more than a dozen assassins with high martial arts skills to assassinate Ye Tianlong, even if the other party was not dead, it was estimated that he was still in shock at this time, and maybe he was injured a lot. Under such circumstances, the army of the Blue Dragon Empire would definitely have a certain degree of chaos.

And this is a good time for him to send troops, as long as he can take this opportunity to defeat the army of the Blue Dragon Empire, then he can turn defeat into victory, and then maybe he can really become the founding emperor of the Central Plains!

However, the army of the Blue Dragon Empire was not in the slightest chaos at this time, and Ye Tianlong, the target of the assassination, was not injured at all, but was holding back a wave of anger in his heart because of Zhong Xiang's despicable and shameless assassination!

At this time, seeing that Zhong Xiang took the initiative to send this guy to the door to be beaten, Ye Tianlong couldn't be happier.

When he saw that the enemy army was scattered because of the need to march quickly, he personally led 30,000 heavy cavalry and launched a charge against Zhong Xiang's army.

When the 50,000 light cavalry saw that their Majesty had personally charged into battle, they quickly followed.

Zhong Xiang couldn't help but be shocked when he saw a large group of cavalry suddenly rushing out of the enemy camp, after all, in his prediction, the enemy army should be in chaos now because of the emperor's assassination! How was it possible to react so quickly to send troops to fight back?

Although he was very puzzled in his heart, Zhong Xiang was worthy of being the remnant of the Ming Sect who could be called the emperor after Fang La, and he quickly calmed down at this critical juncture, and ordered his soldiers to immediately stop advancing and start to form a gun formation, preparing to resist the impact of the enemy cavalry.

It's a pity that although Zhong Xiang gave the right order in time, the soldiers under his command are not the kind of elite who can do what is ordered.

With Zhong Xiang's order, only a few soldiers were able to stop their advance immediately, and most of the soldiers were still shouting and rushing forward, not paying attention to the latest military orders shouted by the officers.

As a result, the originally scattered formation of the Zhong Xiang army became even more chaotic, and the soldiers in some places were even more because some soldiers ran forward, and some soldiers stopped and collided in place, not to mention letting them set up the formation, it was difficult for them to stand firm immediately.

Ye Tianlong was overjoyed when he saw this, and once again led his cavalry to speed up, rushing through a distance of thousands of meters in less than a minute, and directly collided with Zhong Xiang's army, which was still in a state of chaos.

The light infantry, which failed to form a formation, could be said to be powerless in the face of the charge of the heavy infantry, and the two armies were frightened and collapsed by the terrifying momentum of the heavy cavalry in the moment of contact.

Most of the heavy cavalry didn't even have time to charge with their rifles, as the enemy had already fled, and they only needed to pull out their spare secondary weapons, such as sabers and knight's swords, and take their lives with a single stroke after catching up with the rout.

However, Ye Tianlong didn't want to kill or injure too many Han compatriots, so he quickly asked his subordinates to shout, "Surrender or kill!" ”

The soldiers of Zhong Xiangjun, who were already frightened, heard this shout, and in order to avoid being hacked to death by the enemy cavalry, they all dropped their weapons and raised their hands in surrender.

Zhong Xiang saw that the hundreds of thousands of troops were completely defeated in the blink of an eye, and after a depressed sigh, he prepared to flee here on horseback with dozens of personal soldiers beside him.

As a result, they had just turned around and ran back, when they found that the enemy's 50,000 light cavalry had outflanked the rear of the army at some point, and cut off their retreat.

Zhong Xiang also wanted to lead the army to break through, but in the process of breaking through, he was shot in the neck by a loss, fell off the war horse, and died on the spot, and then the body was trampled into a pile of minced meat that could not be seen in human form by the war horses and soldiers running back and forth.

And with the death of Zhong Xiang, the emperor of the Great Chu State, the remaining Chu soldiers had no fighting spirit, and in the end, more than 500,000 troops, about 400,000 surrendered, and only 100,000 were killed or scattered on the spot.

Ye Tianlong felt that he should be able to pick out at least 100,000 militiamen from the 400,000 surrendered troops, but now that these Chu troops have newly surrendered, they have to find a way to eliminate the influence of Mingjiao among these Chu army soldiers before they can select young and strong soldiers from among them.

After cleaning up the battlefield, Ye Tianlong did not see Zhong Xiang's body, but it was confirmed by several captured Zhong Xiang soldiers that Zhong Xiang should indeed be dead.

After learning that Zhong Xiang was indeed dead, Ye Tianlong took the large number of Chu army prisoners and rushed towards Jiangling City, which was not far away.

And the civil and military officials of the Chu army in Jiangling City, many of them were not very optimistic about Zhong Xiang's battle this time, and after seeing that it was the Qinglong Empire's side that won a big victory, these guys immediately rebelled on the spot, opened the city gate and lined up outside the city to welcome the arrival of the Wang Division's army.

Ye Tianlong glanced at these guys, but he didn't embarrass these people, after all, in fact, these guys' initiative to open the city and surrender also reduced casualties, which was in line with his wishes. However, many of these civil and military ministers of the Great Chu State are unqualified in his eyes, and I am afraid that this official position and power will be greatly reduced in the future. I don't know how many people will be dissatisfied with this and rebel again.

Under the guidance of a large number of civil and military ministers of the Great Chu State, Ye Tianlong soon came to Zhong Xiang's palace complex that had not yet been completely built, and found a large number of treasures looted by Zhong Xiang here.

didn't say anything, most of these treasures were soon rewarded by Ye Tianlong to his soldiers.

These soldiers who followed him to fight in the north and south during this period of time, they didn't have much time to rest, and it was really hard, so Ye Tianlong would not be stingy with the rewards given to these soldiers.

It is also because of Ye Tianlong's generous reward style that the soldiers of the Blue Dragon Empire are quite wealthy in their hands, and if the hostile forces want to use money to buy them, they will often fail, and sometimes they will even be reported by the soldiers on their own initiative. Because those soldiers felt that the price offered by the enemy was too low, and they were completely insulting themselves.

After rewarding his soldiers, Ye Tianlong learned from the civil and military ministers of the Great Chu State that Zhong Xiang had basically exhausted the troops of other cities on the territory in order to fight him, and immediately realized that this was a good opportunity to quickly recover those cities.

So he divided his army into ten routes and went separately to capture different cities.

In the end, it took less than half a month to recover all the territory occupied by Zhong Xiang.

And when the army was attacking everywhere and quickly recovering the city, Ye Tianlong also learned about the situation on Zhongxiang's territory, and found that it was very bad.

In addition to the local tyrants and gentry in various places who colluded with the Ming Sect to oppress the people, there were also many siltation of rivers in various parts of the Zhongxiang territory, resulting in many areas that were originally fertile fields having become uninhabited swamps at this time.

And if this situation occurs, Zhong Xiang can't be blamed, this is all because the faint monarchs of the Song Kingdom have not dealt with it for a long time and slowly evolved into this.

Ye Tianlong was not the faint monarch of the Song State, and after learning about this situation, he immediately sent most of his militia and all the Chu prisoners of war to attack everywhere, going to clean up those silted rivers and repair those damaged water conservancy facilities.

After those soldiers returned to Gangneung City after fighting, they only rested for a few days and joined in this big project.

In the end, Ye Tianlong spent more than three months, which can be regarded as minor repairs and repairs to the rivers and various water conservancy facilities around Jiangling City, and if he wants to do it completely, he will have to spend a lot of effort after that.

And now Ye Tianlong has no time, because Vietnam and Dali seem to be not satisfied after occupying a large area of territory, and they have the intention of continuing to march deeper into the Central Plains.

A few days ago, Ye Tianlong had already obtained a lot of information from Shi Qian, showing that the Vietnamese and Dali people had sent several small forces into the territory that originally belonged to Zhong Xiang to probe it.

Ye Tianlong was already very annoyed by these two jumping clowns who frequently provoked him, and at this time, seeing that these two guys dared to continue to stretch out their claws to the territory he had occupied, Ye Tianlong couldn't help it at all, and immediately led the army to set off.