Zhao Xuanqi was the commander-in-chief, leading more than 100,000 elite soldiers of the Northern Wei Kingdom, as well as tens of thousands of elite iron cavalry, to the south.

Cross the Lethe River.

Go south to the Southern Zhao Kingdom.

The soldiers under his command were imposing, and none of them were afraid.

Under the patriotic spirit of longing for great unification, everyone understands that this is a great cause for a thousand years.

As long as you complete this feat, you can recast the glory of the Han Kingdom, and there will definitely be rich rewards when you are rewarded for meritorious deeds, and you will even have the opportunity to leave a name in history!

Leaving a name in history, sealing the marquis and worshipping the prime minister, this is a fatal attraction for everyone!

The army of tigers and wolves of the Northern Wei State approached the Southern Zhao State.

When approaching the border, Zhao Xuanqi successfully encountered the elite of the border army of Southern Zhao.

As we all know, no matter how corrupt and dilapidated a country is, its border army will always be the most elite and the most capable of fighting.

The border troops of the Southern Zhao State were about 50,000.

What's more, as the defender of the city, the Southern Zhao Kingdom is blocked by tall city walls, and it is definitely not an easy thing to break through and enter.

Zhao Xuanqi believes that an earth-shattering war is likely to break out.

However, the truth was beyond his imagination.

The degree of decay of the Southern Zhao Kingdom was even more serious than he imagined, as the most elite border elite of the Southern Zhao Kingdom, he actually took the initiative to open the city and surrender at the first time!

Zhao Xuanqi effortlessly broke through the enemy's border passes, and there were 50,000 more troops who surrendered!

After some inquiry, I learned that the border army of Southern Zhao was really bitter, and the imperial court had been in arrears for several years, and in the past few months, there was no food to eat, and the imperial court refused to transport food over.

Every soldier was so hungry and thin that he was skinny and sallow in complexion, and the border generals were so hungry that even the armor and weapons in the army were sold by the generals, and they were all dressed in tatters.

The emperor of the Southern Zhao State was incompetent, the domestic famine broke out, and these border generals had a long-standing grudge with the high-level of the imperial court, and these border soldiers had long been ready to rebel.

At this time, Zhao Xuanqi led his troops to attack, and they had no mind to resist.

It can be said that

Just give them a bite to eat and let them go east, and they will never go west.

As long as they are given enough money, what bullshit emperor will never be soft when he cuts it.

Facts have proved that the famine in the Southern Zhao Kingdom is indeed serious to a terrifying situation.

Not only did the people not eat food, but even the border generals and soldiers did not eat food.

Corrupt officials and corrupt officials are also so serious that they can even withhold the money at the border for several years, and even the generals need to sell their armor and weapons in exchange for a bite to eat.

It just so happens that Zhao Xuanqi is not short of money, and there is food.

He recuperated at the border for three days, so that these long-starving soldiers of the Southern Zhao Kingdom could get enough food, and drew a large pie, promising them great benefits, and successfully revitalizing the fighting spirit of these soldiers.

Then take the 50,000 border troops of the Southern Zhao State as the cannon fodder troops to take the lead, and directly attack the Southern Zhao State.

With the surrendered soldiers of the Southern Zhao State taking the lead, Zhao Xuanqi led the soldiers of the Northern Wei State to follow behind to pick up leaks, follow behind to supervise the battle, and achieve minimal damage.

That's what it means to get the most out of the damage.

The results were bigger than anyone could have imagined.

Not only Zhao Xuanqi himself was surprised, but even the generals of the Northern Wei Kingdom under him, as well as the strategists, were also surprised.

Originally, I thought that there would be a lot of tough battles to be fought in the war of annihilation, but I didn't expect that the fight would be blown, and I would be invincible!

In just three months, the seventy-two cities of the Southern Zhao Kingdom were connected!

There are nineteen mountains and rivers in the Southern Zhao Kingdom, and in just these three months, Zhao Xuanqi has already broken through half of the rivers and mountains of the Southern Zhao Kingdom, and has broken through a full ten rivers and mountains.

And the most terrifying thing is that the soldiers under him not only do not have any consumption, but they fight more and more, and there are more and more generals under him.

This is because the Southern Zhao side has no ability to resist at all, once Zhao Xuanqi's army arrives, most of the people flee in despair, and there are no escapees left, so they surrender directly.

Either flee or surrender.

Zhao Xuanqi didn't even meet a decent resistance.

It is expected that even the elite of the border pass in Nanzhao Kingdom is so miserable that they have no fighting spirit.

What about other local armies that are even more collapsed?

The treatment of the army in other places can only be worse, and it is basically impossible to survive in the Southern Zhao State, and surrender is the best choice.

At least if you surrender, you can still have enough to eat, if you don't surrender, sooner or later you will be tossed to death by the corrupt officials on top of your head!

It's a big deal to surrender!

Not only did the local soldiers surrender, but even the local people continued to surrender, and for the arrival of Zhao Xuanqi and others, these people could be described as welcoming and cheering.

There was no feeling of ruin of the country at all, but Zhao Xuanqi and others were warmly welcomed as saviors.

This made Zhao Xuanqi feel extremely strange, this feeling was like when the Eight-Nation Alliance invaded China, the people of the Qing Dynasty did not have any resistance, but carried cannons and food baggage for the Eight-Nation Alliance.

Now, that's what he's facing.

The people of Nanzhao not only did not resist, but also took the initiative to help, as long as they gave them a little money and a little food, they kowtowed and worshipped.

Therefore, Zhao Xuanqi originally brought only more than 200,000 soldiers from the Northern Wei Kingdom, and 50,000 iron cavalry.

In the past three months, the soldiers under his command have been known as a million army, 300,000 iron cavalry, occupying most of the territory of the Southern Zhao Kingdom!

He constantly killed powerful landlords, corrupt officials, and corrupt officials, and gained the hearts of the people, and obtained countless burdens and property.

He divided the assets, land, and money of these powerful landlords among the people of Nanzhao State, helped them kill corrupt officials, etc., and even opened warehouses to release grain, and used the grain of Nanzhao State to suppress the famine in Nanzhao State.

It's also funny to say that the famine in Nanzhao is not because there is no food, but because there is too much food.

There is a lot of grain in the warehouses of the imperial court, but unfortunately all of it is concentrated in the hands of those corrupt officials and merchants.

They collect all the grain, refuse to sell it, raise the price of grain, take advantage of this famine, want to earn hard-earned money, and do not treat the people under them as human beings at all.

That's what led to the famine that swept the country!

Zhao Xuanqi's behavior made the people of Southern Zhao State shout a peculiar slogan:

"Lord Qingtian is here, divide the land, divide the property, divide the wife, divide the grain, everyone no longer has to pay taxes, everyone opens the city and surrenders!"

In this way, Zhao Xuanqi was invincible.

But sometimes it doesn't go so well.

After all, the Southern Zhao State has ruled the country for more than 200 years, which is extremely profound, and there are also some loyal and capable people who are willing to embarrass the Zhao State to death.

There were also some generals who united to resist Zhao Xuanqi and led tens of thousands of troops in a vain attempt to defeat Zhao Xuanqi's invasion.

It's a pity that their so-called cavalry, the so-called infantry, are completely vulnerable in front of Zhao Xuanqi's musket and artillery troops.

In the encounter outside, Zhao Xuanqi asked the soldiers to hold muskets in their hands, plus artillery fire, they could easily defeat tens of thousands of enemy troops, kill tens of thousands of enemies, and damage only 100 people himself.

This is not only the crushing of the elite level of Zhao Xuanqi's soldiers, the crushing of mental and physical aspects, but also the crushing of cold weapons by firearms and artillery, artillery and muskets, which is simply a dimensionality reduction blow.

Even if it's a battle to defend the city.

Some loyal people of the Southern Zhao Kingdom concentrated a lot of resources to hide in the tall city walls, wanting to rely on the city walls to resist Zhao Xuanqi and delay the opportunity for the country to resist.

Unfortunately, it's all just a joke.

Zhao Xuanqi ordered the soldiers to take out the red-coated cannons, and a dozen shells went down, directly blasting the city wall into a corner, and then led the army to attack towards the gap, and easily broke through the city.

After dozens of wars, Zhao Xuanqi has won many battles, and none of the wars have been lost, and he has won all battles.

Every war yields great results, killing the most enemies with the least sacrifice.

Gradually, the rumor that "the soldiers of the Northern Wei State were invincible" spread throughout the entire Southern Zhao Kingdom, forming an invincible mountain that pressed on the hearts of all of them.

Zhao Xuanqi is a three-headed and six-armed demon god who has been demonized, which has frightened countless people and frightened countless people.

"As long as the Northern Wei Kingdom is full of soldiers, it is impossible to defeat at all!"

"They are not people, they are heavenly soldiers, they can rain meteorites from the sky, they can make the earth dragon turn over, and they can roll thunder in the sky!"

"We don't know how we were defeated, obviously we are still far from the other side, but they can use methods that we don't know to inflict heavy damage on our army!"

After Zhao Xuanqi won various victories, the officials and generals and soldiers of the Southern Zhao State were already frightened, and they did not have the slightest spirit to resist.

Plus he later shouted:

"As long as those who surrender voluntarily do not kill, they still retain some rights and gain glory and wealth."

So those powerful landlords, those corrupt officials and corrupt officials, why should they protect you as a mediocre emperor?

Whether it is the top or the bottom, they have completely lost the mentality of resistance and want to surrender.

For the sake of their glory and wealth, for the inheritance of their descendants, they did not hesitate to sell the emperor of the Southern Zhao Kingdom.

In this way, it took more than two months for Zhao Xuanqi to fight steadily, attacking the city and plundering the land all the way, steadily digesting the occupied territory all the way, and finally approaching the capital of the Southern Zhao Kingdom.

Zhao Du!

Zhao Xuanqi led hundreds of thousands of elite soldiers, with countless cannon fodder troops, as well as countless baggage and engineering equipment, stationed outside Zhao Capital.

Soldiers are coming to the city, that's exactly what happened.

Zhao Xuanqi walked out of the barracks, and when he looked at it from afar, he could see the majesty of Zhao Du.

The capital of Zhao is very tall, the city wall is full of traces of time, every brick has traces of knife splitting and burning, witnessing countless historical events, the sense of time is coming, however, the decay of the years can not hide its magnificent growth.

The moat was wide and wide, and the walls were high and large.

It is definitely a rare male city in the world, and it is not much better than Chang'an City in the Northern Wei Kingdom.

Anyone who wants to break through this wall will have to pay a huge price, countless blood, tears and lives.

Zhao Xuanqi stood in the distance, looked up at this tall city, and couldn't help but sigh:

"What a tall city!"

"This is Zhao Du, and it really lives up to its name."

"As long as we capture this city and capture or kill the emperor on the opposite side, we can completely destroy the Southern Zhao Kingdom and realize the unification of the north and the south."

"The collapse of the Han State led to the division of Southern Zhao and Northern Wei so far, which has a history of more than 200 years.

In the face of such a major event, Zhao Xuanqi was full of pride in his heart.

Even if it was him, he couldn't help but feel proud of what he was going to do next, and his blood was boiling.

Why don't the men take Wu Hook and collect Guanshan Fifty Prefectures.

This is a great cause of great unification!

What man can't be fascinated?!

It's just that Zhao Xuanqi knows a truth, the more you want to succeed, the more you can't be in a hurry.

The capital of Southern Zhao is tall and large, and there are countless grains and resources piled up in it, and the emperor also has more than 100,000 troops in his hands, and there are some capable people under his hands who are willing to die.

Although these hundreds of thousands of troops may be a miscellaneous army, and their combat effectiveness is unimaginable, relying on the height and thickness of Zhao Du, they cannot turn defeat into victory.

In order not to capsize in the gutter, you must work steadily and come up with a good plan to break the city.

"If you attack it, you will definitely lose a lot of children's lives, and I will capture this city at the least cost!"

Zhao Xuanqi decided to adopt the most stable method, that is, only besiege and not attack.

As long as those armies are stationed here.

Then exclude other generals to continue to attack the city and plunder the land, cross this capital to occupy other lands, and wait for other generals to continue to conquer other areas of the Southern Zhao State.

When the entire country of Nanzhao was captured, all the nineteen mountains and rivers were captured, and there was no strength to resist at all, only this one capital was left to defend here, and it was a matter of time before the other party surrendered.

In this way, there is no chance of a comeback on the other side, and there is no chance of victory.

This is the so-called 100% win rate play.

Although Zhao Xuanqi could directly storm Zhao Capital with a large army, the damage to the soldiers was definitely great.

Zhao Du is too thick, even artillery can't break through the city wall for a while.

If it is attacked, those cannon fodder troops of the Southern Zhao State are simply overwhelmed, and if they want to really break through the city, they can only use the elite of the Northern Wei State to attack the city, which will cause damage to their own soldiers, and the gains outweigh the losses.

If you can clear the customs without injury, why rush it?

In this way, Zhao Xuanqi constantly ordered those powerful landlords of Southern Zhao to transport baggage to this place and food to this place, preparing to be trapped in the lonely city.

The time of a month slowly faded away.

This month, Zhao Xuanqi was not in a hurry, only more than 100,000 troops were stationed here, and every day he could receive good news from other generals, good news about attacking cities and plundering land.

On the other hand, in the Zhao capital, the Emperor of Southern Zhao, who was trapped in the lonely city, and some of the generals inside, were already in a hurry like ants on the hot nest, and even organized several breakthroughs, but unfortunately they did not succeed, but suffered heavy losses.

They also realized that they would definitely lose if they continued like this, so they could only do it in a hurry, there was already chaos inside, people's hearts were surging, and civil strife was sooner or later!

If it weren't for the suppression of capable people in Zhao Capital, I'm afraid those surrendering factions would have surrendered a long time ago and would have sacrificed the emperor's head!

In short, in two or three months, Zhao Du will be broken sooner or later!

Either surrender and sacrifice the city, or the fish will die and the net will be broken, and only these two inevitable endings are waiting for them!

Zhao Xuanqi won the ticket and sat firmly in the Diaoyutai.

The generals and soldiers under their command are also full of morale, and in these days, they can eat and drink enough every day, and they are full of energy, just waiting for the day when the city will be broken!

Waiting for the next cheer!

Everyone will see.

However, accidents always come unexpectedly.

At this critical juncture, an unexpected unexpected change suddenly appeared.

On this day, an urgent report of 800 miles suddenly came from within the Northern Wei Kingdom.

Emperor Qinglong suddenly sent a eunuch to invite Zhao Xuanqi to return to China!

And it's very hurried, very panicked.

The chief eunuch who was responsible for conveying the news brought a blockbuster news: Emperor Qinglong was infected with a disease, was seriously ill and was about to die, and the government was in chaos, so he asked the Taishi to return to China as soon as possible and preside over the government!

In less than three or four days, he has already won twelve gold medals in a row, frantically urging Zhao Xuanqi to return to China, urging him to stop for a moment!

The country is about to be broken, and there are twelve gold medals coming from the north and ordering the troops to retreat!

(End of chapter)