On the side of Changsha Mansion, the State of Chu arranged 20,000 forbidden troops and 70,000 people to garrison, a total of 90,000 soldiers and horses.

Among these 90,000 people, 1,000 forbidden troops and 9,000 people were also drawn out, totaling a 10,000-person army, which was arranged on the Chuning junction of Changsha Mansion as a peripheral guard.

Such a rabble vigilant legion can't stop the 100,000 elites led by an innate grandmaster.

The 10,000 soldiers and horses on the border of Changsha were defeated in less than half a day in the face of Ning's surprise army.

Then the Ning army killed the city of Changsha in two days.

Fortunately, in Changsha City, counting the people, there were 80,000 defenders. and urgently recruited some Ding Zhuang in the city, and reluctantly drew out an army of 100,000.

With such a strong force, he finally blocked the fierce offensive of the lower end and did not let the city fall.

Sun Siwen, who is now sitting in Baling, heard the news, and has rushed to Changsha City overnight, as a top master, to fight against Xiang Duan, the innate grandmaster.

However, even if Changsha City is stopped by Sun Siwen, it can be safe.

But in the south of Hengyang and Luyang, there is no second innate grandmaster, so they rushed to support.

Therefore, Sun Siwen urgently sent this news to Lu Yuan and asked him, the king of Chu, to make a decision.

As Ning Guo guessed before, when he couldn't make progress on the frontal battlefield, he started thinking of breaking through from the side. ’

After reading the letter, Lu Yuan couldn't help but say secretly in his heart.

In the past month, with the frontal battlefield on the side of Jiangxia City, it has hit a wall one after another. The Ning army, both on the water and on land, suffered heavy setbacks one after another.

After careful calculation, the naval division lost more than 30,000 soldiers, and 40,000 soldiers were killed and wounded, and the soldiers and horses lost by Ning Guo in Jiangxia City have exceeded 70,000.

That's not a small amount.

You must know that Ningguo's soldiers and horses on the side of Jiangxia City, the combined army of the land and water are only 230,000.

At this time, the loss of 70,000 yuan has already lost one-third.

With such heavy casualties, there were only 160,000 soldiers and horses left in Jiangxia City.

Although these soldiers and horses are still huge, compared to the Chu State, they no longer have an absolute numerical advantage.

In these major battles, although the losses of the Chu army were not small, they were only wounded, and the main force was not damaged at all.

Up to now, the main force of the Chu State has forbidden troops, and there are still 90,000 people in the city. There are also as many as 40,000 sailors outside the city.

The two soldiers and horses combined, there are also 130,000 people.

With 130,000 against 160,000, one side is in high spirits, but the other side has been defeated and retreated one after another, losing troops and losing generals, and the two sides really fight, even if there are 30,000 more people and horses in Ningguo, they basically can't bargain much.

After a month of confrontation and attrition, Ning's military advantage was already minimal. Next, it will almost be as Chu Wei said, after a day or two, Ning Guo will collect his troops, and the echo battalion will lick its wounds.

And those recruits of the forbidden army in the city have also been tempered by the war, gradually grown up, and began to transform into veterans.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, you may be able to take the initiative to go out of the city and seek war with Ningguo.

If you can defeat the main force of Ning in one fell swoop on the frontal battlefield.

Maybe I don't have to wait for the other three flank battlefields to win, I can take advantage of the victory to pursue, all the way into the territory of Ningguo, go straight to Jinling, and destroy this country first. ’

Lu Yuan thought of this, and his eyes couldn't help but flicker.

After some pulling and consumption, at the level of the low-level soldiers, with high morale and gradually honed experience.

The Chu army has a slight advantage over soldiers and horses, but the morale is low, and the chances of victory are still quite large, at least five or five.

As for the innate combat power at the top level, the Chu State has two people, Lu Yuan and Lingnu, on the side of Jiangxia City.

Among them, Lu Yuan needless to say, after those Kyushu monks left, he was the number one master in the world.

And the "Secret Method of Cultivating Sex by Borrowing Life" cultivated by the spirit girl is not the true element possessed by the martial arts master, but the same high power as mana, divine power.

With this divine power, the spirit girl can live for two hundred years, and her strength is stronger than that of ordinary martial arts masters, which is enough to reach the combat power of the innate second realm.

With the two of them here, even if they come to ten congenitals, they will only lose one game.

How many innate grandmasters in the Ning military camp on the other side came, Lu Yuan hadn't figured it out yet.

However, after these days of exploration, it can be generally determined that Emperor Ning Shenqiu, Wu'an Hou Bai Yi'an, and Wuyang Hou Li Dao, these three people are clearly here in Jiangxia.

In addition, on the side of Changsha City, there is also a Wuxin Marquis Xiangduan.

At this point, four of the six innate grandmasters of the main army of the Ning Kingdom have revealed their positions.

There are still two innate grandmasters left, who have not shown their traces, and they don't know where they are hiding.

But even if these two people were also in the Ning military camp outside the city, there were only five innate grandmasters, even if there was Shen Qiu, the innate second realm, Lu Yuan was not afraid at all.

Therefore, after careful calculation, the winning rate between the low-level soldiers, between my Great Chu and Ning Guo, is a five-to-five odds. And in terms of the combat power of the innate high-level, it is only in an absolute advantage.

If this battle is fought, our side will win.

However, Ning Jun has suffered losses these days, and he knows that my side is not so easy to fight, so he can be regarded as hitting a hard nail.

Now I'm uncharacteristically taking the initiative to invite the fight, and that guy from Shenqiu doesn't know if he dares to fight.

If he had learned from me a few days ago, he had cowered in the camp and guarded the camp, then he would have to gnaw on the turtle shell instead of me. ’

Lu Yuan thought of the Ning army camp outside the city, which was spread over more than 20 miles, and his head ached.

Although the camp of the Ning army is far less solid than Jiangxia City, it is also set up in accordance with the regular art of war, and there is no shortage of defensive facilities such as traps, fences, antlers, arrow towers, and battalion strength.

And there are also a large number of trebuchets, ballistas, and wells in the battalion...... and other powerful weapons of war.

With these defenses, the Chu army wants to break through the company camp for more than 20 miles, which is definitely a big project, and it is definitely a daunting flesh and blood grinding plate.

If you really want to fight the camps one by one, even if Lu Yuan and Lingnu make a move, in a few months, if you don't kill 100,000 people, you will definitely not be able to take the Ning army camp.

And what's even more desperate is that.

As far as the Ning army outside the city is concerned, it is only a part.

In addition to the soldiers and horses in Jiangxia City and the soldiers and horses in Changsha City, Ning Guo was in Yuzhang County, but there were still about 100,000 main forces that did not move.

These 100,000 people are stationed in the Peng Li camp, and as long as there is a need, they can be mobilized at any time and rush to various places to support.

If these 100,000 people were transferred to the Jiangxia battlefield and followed to defend the camp, I was afraid that Lu Yuan's men and horses in Jiangxia would all die cleanly, and they would not be able to defeat the Ning army camp.

'After two days, when the Ning army retreats, and after the siege of the city, you may send people to invite the battle. But whether it works or not, it's always right to try first, maybe Shen Qiu is really stupid and wants to have a decisive battle with me? ’

Lu Yuan made a decision in his heart.

First find a way to solve the main force of the Ning army in front of you, and try to see if you can do it once and for all. If Shen Qiu doesn't take the bait, it's not too late to deal with the rest of the battlefields.

Over there in Changsha City, there is Sun Siwen.

Although this grandson brother was born in a literati and is not very good at fighting with people, no matter how he says it, he is also congenital, and with the city defense, there is no problem in blocking the phase.

As for the other Luyang and Hengyang two mansions, whether they will be attacked by the remaining 100,000 troops left by Ning Guo in Yuzhang County, as well as those two hidden innate attacks, don't worry too much.

In these two prefectures, after all, there are almost 100,000 soldiers and horses stationed, if they do not take the initiative to attack the waves, but blindly defend the city.

Even if the innate grandmaster led the army to attack, he was in a hurry, and he didn't want to break through the city.

The fact that Changsha City was able to survive in the hands of Xiang Duan is the best proof.

When these two mansions are really attacked by the Ning Kingdom, Lu Yuan will dispatch the Innate Sect Master and rush to support, and nothing will happen.

And now it's November, and under the influence of the cold wave in the north, the wind and snow have become heavier and heavier.

Even on the side of Jiangxia City, the snow on the ground has not reached the soles of the feet, and it is rapidly thickening.

Luyang and Hengyang in the south, although they are a little better, but it is estimated that they are also full of snow.

After a while, the road was almost closed by heavy snow, and the sky and the earth were white.

In the face of this celestial phenomenon, it is simply difficult for manpower to disobey.

If you want to send troops under this kind of wind and snow, Ning Jun should first prepare to go all the way and die more than half of the people first.

And even if more than half of them died, when they arrived at the city, they would face a defender who relied on the city defense, had enough supplies to ward off the cold, and recuperated.

With these many advantages, Lu Yuan really couldn't imagine how the Ning army should break through the city.

Therefore, in addition to the Changsha Mansion that is now fighting, the remaining Luyang and Hengyang Prefectures should be impossible for the Ning army to invade this winter.

The remaining 100,000 troops of the Naning army will probably only shrink to the Peng Li camp this winter, and it is impossible to brave the wind and snow and rush to various battlefields.

The current situation on the Dongting battlefield is estimated to maintain the current stalemate, and then see which side can't help it first, it will make a mistake.

Lu Yuan analyzed this in his heart, and he already had some bottom, but he no longer worried too much.

Then he looked at the generals in the camp, gave them a few words, and then let everyone go back to work.

Even if it's only the last few days, the last madness of Ning Ren is not so easy to get.

If you don't take precautions carefully, you will finally be found by the Ning people and take advantage of the situation to break the city, it will be funny.

Lu Yuan didn't want to make such an oolong in the end.

Be careful, you still have to have.

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After making a decision, Lu Yuan began to lay out according to his own plan.

And the Ning army outside the city, as expected, attacked for three more days, and then left more than 7,000 corpses, and chose to retreat from the army for a truce.

After that, for two days, the Ning army returned to the turtle camp and closed the door.

Even the routine cavalry battles between the two armies in the past have become much less frequent and smaller with the shrinkage of the Ning army.

Seeing this situation, everyone still didn't know that Ning Ren couldn't bear the loss and was afraid.

The soldiers in the city suddenly cheered and jumped for joy, and they were glad that they had survived the catastrophe, and they could finally breathe a sigh of relief.

However, compared to the happy soldiers below, Lu Yuan gave the order to go to battle when he was happy.

First of all, a large number of rangers were scattered, dozens of cavalry teams were divided, and they took the initiative to go deep into the vicinity of the Ningguo camp, and even behind the camp, to spy on the news, and took the initiative to hunt down and kill the soldiers and soldiers of the Ning army, trying to attract the soldiers and horses of the Ningguo out of the camp.

However, in response to this provocation of the Chu State, the Ning army sent a cavalry army to expel it at the beginning.

But under the siege of the cavalry of the Chu State, which was more powerful and had more people, more than a thousand corpses were left in ashes, and they retracted into the camp and were no longer out of the station.

Seeing this situation, Lu Yuan sent another 10,000 infantry troops, took the initiative to go out of the city, and invited Ning Guo to fight.

But the Ning army on the other side, watching the Chu army show off its might outside the camp, still made up his mind, let it be provoked, and refused to come out.

Later, Lu Yuan even sent Chu Wei to lead the sailors to find the Ningguo sailors on the river for a decisive battle, but except at the beginning, some of the Ningjun sailors were defenseless and were destroyed dozens of ships.

After that, the rest of the Ning Army's sailors who got the news returned to the nearby Xiakou Water Village, shrank in it, and refused to go out.

In the face of the invitation of the Chu army on the Jiangxia side, the Ning army adopted an extremely cautious strategy, and did not attack rashly, but chose to defend to the death.

It seems that Ning Guo also knows that now in the Jiangxia region, the strength of his side is already at a disadvantage, and compared with Chu State, there is already a gap.

At this time, if you attack rashly, the result is likely to be defeated.

And Ning Guo now, but there are still a lot of hole cards that have not been played, and there are still a large number of soldiers and horses in the rear country that can be mobilized.

Now there is no way to do it, and when the forces are not fully gathered, they hurriedly fight a decisive battle towards the Chu State.

Opposite.

In Shen Qiu's view, at this time, the Chu army had a slight advantage, so it hurriedly dispatched troops, which proved the weakness of the Chu State in disguise.

Knowing this, he couldn't easily send troops and fulfill the wishes of the Chu State.

The Ning army closed the camp like this, and on the Chu army's side, Lu Yuan looked at the Ning people who were shrinking turtles, and there was nothing too good to do.

The time spent on attacking the camps one by one will not only take a long time, but the losses will also be too great.

Even if the Chu State has a rich family, it can't withstand such consumption.

Therefore, after tentatively attacking one or two Chu army camps, and confirming that the other party was well guarded and could not be easily obtained, Lu Yuan threw down more than a thousand corpses, and then chose to collect his troops and return to the city, no longer continuing to toss.

After a few days of commotion, the time came to the beginning of December in a blink of an eye, and the heavy snow between heaven and earth became heavier and heavier.

The snow not only reached the soles of the feet, but also reached the calves, and it felt like it would not be long before the adult knees were reached.

With such a heavy snowfall, let alone going out to fight, even if you want to go out in the city, you have to risk freezing to death outside the house.

In the face of this terrible natural disaster, neither the Chu army nor the Ning army dared to toss it anymore.

And with the silence of the main forces of the two armies on the Jiangxia side, the first confrontation between the Chu State and the Jiangdong Lingnan Four Kingdoms also slowly came to an end.

Taking advantage of this wind, snow and freezing land, news from various battlefields in Jiangbei and Lingnan also spread to Jiangxia City one after another.

The first to spread the fastest is naturally Xiangyang County, which is only separated by a river.

As early as when Lu Yuan sent troops out of the city to find the Ning army to invite battle.

In Xiangyang County, where the cold wave and ice and snow come faster, the first confrontation between Chu and Ning has already had a result.

When the 30,000 sailors who originally lived in Xiangyang County, Ningguo, were transferred to Jiangxia to participate in the main battle, their own surface forces were greatly reduced, and it was difficult to threaten the waterways of Xiangyang County in Chu State.

Zhou Qing seized the opportunity to leave the 30,000 local county soldiers in Xiangyang County to garrison various cities and Shuijin arteries to guard against possible changes between the 20,000 sailors of Ningguo and the Zhou State of Jiangbei.

He himself led the four armies in the county to march with 80,000 soldiers and horses, took the initiative to attack, and without waiting for Ning Guo to hit the door, he took the first step to kill Ning Guo's Jingmen Mansion in Xiangyang County.

The strength of Xiangyang County in Ningguo, except for the 20,000 sailors who could not go ashore, only 50,000 soldiers and horses on land.

Originally, relying on 50,000 water divisions, the Ning army relied on the ability to pass through the Han River waterway at any time and attacked the Chu army's various fortresses along the river, which can be said to have greatly restrained a large number of soldiers and horses in Xiangyang County of Chu State.

Even if the soldiers and horses of the Chu army in Xiangyang County obviously have more troops than the Ning army, because of the need to divide troops to garrison various places, the soldiers and horses that can be drawn out in the end are less than those of the Ning army.

But now, with the frontal battlefield of Jiangxia, the Ning Army's naval division was defeated, and the original control of the Yangtze River and Hanshui waterways also fell into the hands of the Chu Army's naval division.

And the sailors of Ningguo also shrank to Xiakou Shuizhai in Xiangyang County, Ningguo, and were blocked by the sailors of the Chu army and couldn't get out.

At this point, the threat of the Ning Army's water division can be said to have completely disappeared, and it can no longer threaten Xiangyang County of Chu State.

In this case, Zhou Qing only needed to leave a part of the local soldiers and horses to assist the Chu State Navy Division to block the river, and he could completely isolate the threat of the Zhou State in the north.

After relieving their worries, the soldiers and horses of the Chu army in Xiangyang County could naturally be drawn out to participate in the frontal battle.

Therefore, after one side was transferred, Zhou Qing finally gathered 80,000 forbidden troops and entered Xiangyang County of Ningguo in a mighty manner.

The opponent opposite him was only the 50,000 Ningguo defenders led by Yang Jing, the Marquis of Wuxuan of Ningguo, and the offensive and defensive momentum could be described as completely disformed.

At the same time, at the innate level, Zhou Qing, who has the help of Hanhua, is also not afraid of Yang Jing joining forces with another martial marquis, and there is no disadvantage in the top level of combat power.

Therefore, as soon as the Xiangyang army of Chu State set out to fight, it won successive battles, not only in the early battle, but also defeated the main force of the Ning army of 10,000 people.

It was even more that when the Ning army began to hold the city, with the Chu State Water Division, which had already controlled the waterway, let Hanhua lead a partial division to transport troops from the waterway, and raided the empty Anlu Mansion behind Xiangyang County of Ning State, and captured the city in one fell swoop.

So far, in addition to Jingmen Mansion and Jingling Mansion, which are respectively guarded by two congenital towns, and the three mansions of Xiangyang County of Ningguo, one of them has been captured by Chu State.

Moreover, in the remaining two prefectures of Xiangyang County of Ningguo, there are only more than 30,000 remaining soldiers and horses, and even if the people are temporarily recruited, the number of troops does not exceed 100,000.

On Zhou Qing's side, the strength of the 80,000 main army was not damaged, and some casualties were missing, and they were quickly replenished from the rear county soldiers.

At the same time, the remaining 40,000 sailors of the Chu State, in addition to keeping an eye on the Ningguo Sailor Army in the Xiakou Water Village of Jingling Mansion, can still draw out a partial army from time to time to participate in the joint war.

In the land of Jiangbei, because Lu Yuan gained a battlefield advantage in Jiangxia City, the Xiangyang battlefield was also affected, and the situation of the Chu army became very better.