345. Chapter 343
"Oh?!" Jin Yanhuan re-entered the pavilion and said in surprise: "That little ghost head of your family, what did he let you say?!"
"Hehe! He reassures you, even if you are not my Du Zhentian's classmate, in the name of your Zhenhai General, he will not use assassination methods against you! He said that he will only defeat you head-on with all kinds of tricks on the battlefield!" Du Zhentian laughed dryly, and then said Du Long's words.
At the other end of the wine table, Jin Yanhuan, the general of Zhenhai, was suddenly suffocated, and then he was relieved, he didn't believe that it would be his own words that leaked out, so he could only tell Du Long that this guy was too demonic, and he actually guessed his little tricks in an instant!
"Alas!" sighed, Jin Yanhuan reached out and lifted the wine jug, poured a full wine for Du Zhentian, and then poured it for himself, then picked up the wine glass and said: "Zhentian! I really envy you! I actually gave birth to such a son who defended the sky! I really deserve to be the saint of the Immortal League, come, I will toast you!"
Du Zhentian happily raised his glass and touched him, drank it all, and then asked: "Lao Jin, I heard that over the years, you have married several wives, and your children are even more grouped...... Alas!"
"Haha...... Since you are so dissatisfied, why don't I exchange all my children for this one son with you?!" Jin Yanhuan was obviously very disdainful of his words.
"Cut! No matter how many children there are, what's the use of not being biological?!"
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In the pavilion, these two classmates and best friends, who had not seen each other for twenty or thirty years, were drinking and eating, chatting with each other in the sea and the sky, chatting about some of the other party's troubles when they were young, and also chatting about the carefree life at that time, etc.
In Haotian Shuai's tent, Du Long seemed to close his eyes and meditate, but in fact, he was always paying attention to the movements on his father's side, although he heard that Jin Yanhuan said that he would not move his father, but he didn't dare to be careless!
In addition to paying attention to his father's safety, he also eavesdropped on the conversation between the two people, and remembered some of his father's troubles when he was young......
Just as the army of the West Road led by Du Long personally arrived at the capital of the Blue Moon Empire, the armies of the Middle Road and the East Road were also advancing southward in an orderly manner!
Du Fengzhong and the old emperor went to the Middle Route Army to support, and Wei Xuan went to the East Route Army to support the Wei family's legions, and there were fewer Acropolis towns on the East Road, so they went all the way south very smoothly!
Fortunately, Du Long let Du Fengzhong and the old emperor rush to the middle to support, so he quickly opened the gate of Surabaya City with the strength of the spirit level, and then broke through the fortified city on the south bank of the Hans River!
Thinking back then, the Blue Moon Empire had attacked the Chishui Kingdom for many years, but it couldn't break it, in addition to the Chishui Kingdom also having the strength of the spirit level, the gate of the Red Moon Pass facing the Blue Moon Empire was directly sealed, even the master of the spirit level strength could not easily open it, this is one of the main reasons why the Red Moon Pass was not lost!
And the area around Surabaya City has been in the era of peace for too long, although the armament is not weak, but it still lacks the experience of dealing with real wars, so the city gate was easily opened by the two great spirit level masters of Haotian!
After breaking through Surabaya City, the army of the middle route continued to move south, followed by the acropolis of the three capitals of Zhanshan, Jinlong, and Tianqi waiting for them to gnaw down one by one.
These acropolises are the military towns of the Blue Moon Empire, so for the middle lane army, every time a city is captured, it is much more difficult than the other two road armies, and under the time and effort, the speed of the middle lane army is naturally more than twice as slow!
When Du Long arrived in the Blue Moon Capital, they captured two important military towns, Surabaya City and Zhanshan City!
There are also Golden Dragons and Amazaki Castles that need to be conquered!
On the second day of Du Zhentian's meeting with Jin Yanhuan, the East Road Weijia Army finally successfully arrived at the east gate of the Blue Moon Capital, and joined the main army of the West Road outside the Blue Moon Capital!
The East Road Army is composed of 400,000 people from the two major armies of the Wei family, plus 200,000 reserve troops, and 200,000 troops from the original Haoyue Kingdom, with a total of 800,000 horses!
With an army of 700,000 on Du Long's side, a total of 1.5 million horses, the Blue Moon Capital was surrounded in a half-moon shape, leaving only a south gate, I don't know what kind of medicine is sold in Du Long's gourd!
In order to facilitate the command, Du Long deliberately set up the headquarters in the large camp opposite the north gate of the Blue Moon Capital, at this moment, in the commander's tent, the main generals of the major legions of the East and West Second Roads who finally met the division, and some important deputy generals all gathered here!
"Marshal Du Long, the strength of our 1.5 million army is enough to surround the entire Blue Moon Capital, as long as we attack with all our strength, we should be able to defeat the Blue Moon Capital in one fell swoop, why do you want to leave the south gate unsurrounded, and still hold your troops?!" the Prairie King asked with some puzzlement.
"Hehe! King Halujie doesn't need to be anxious, in the capital of the Blue Moon Empire, there are enough 800,000 troops from all over the country to support, and we can't swallow it in one bite! We must wait for the middle lane army to wipe out all the acropolises in the north, and there are no worries, so that we can deal with this largest city in the Star Continent with peace of mind!" Du Long replied with a disapproving smile.
"Since we know that the Blue Moon Empire is having a steady stream of support troops entering the capital from the south gate of the Blue Moon Capital, and there are still many nobles from the Blue Moon Capital City fleeing from the south gate, why don't we block the south gate and not let anyone enter or leave?!" Kang Tuo, the commander of the Guide Legion, interjected puzzled.
"That's right! With our army of one and two hundred thousand, we can drive the two or three million troops of the Blue Moon all over the grassland, how can the marshal come to the Blue Moon Capital and not dare to attack with all his strength after arriving here in the Blue Moon Capital?!" the Prairie King added again.
"I'll just gather your two questions and answer them together! First of all, the boss in the Blue Moon Capital is no longer those wine and naan rice bags, but the world-famous Zhenhai General!
Secondly, on the occasion of this crucial battle, the reason why I did not block and surround the South Gate was to let these last soldiers of the Blue Moon Empire see that there was a way to escape!
"Could it be that Lord Marshal is afraid that General Zhenhai will not succeed?! Otherwise, why would he change his past siege method and not move forward?!" Du Long's answer immediately attracted the question of a general.
This guy's slightly rude words attracted everyone's dissatisfied eyes on the spot, you know, Du Long is an incomparably noble existence in the minds of all Haotian generals, how can anyone be rude!
Waving his hand disapprovingly, Du Long looked at the general with a smile and said, "You are General Qin Sen, the chief general of the Jing Navy Regiment of the Tonghai Customs Reserve Regiment, right?
Since all the soldiers believe in Du Long and put their lives in the hands of Du Long, I will try to bring them back alive as much as possible, instead of letting them die in a foreign land and let their relatives in their families fall into endless pain!
Seeing that this expedition is about to return to the court with a big victory, Du Long must be more cautious, and he does not want to make too big a command mistake at the last moment, resulting in heavy casualties!
Therefore, this battle does not seek to completely annihilate the enemy army, as long as we can drive it out of the capital of the Blue Moon Empire, we have a chance to slowly clean up those remnants of the defeated army!"
"Your Excellency Marshal said it well! After so many battles, we have destroyed countless enemies, but our own casualties have been reduced to a minimum, and all of this is the work of the marshal!"
"That's right! The marshal loves soldiers like sons, and is a blessing for all the soldiers of Haotian!"
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Immediately, a large number of generals opened their mouths to support Du Long, feeling that it seemed to cause public anger, and Qin Sen, the commander of the Jing Navy Regiment who was born in the royal family, hurriedly bowed his head and was silent, not daring to say more nonsense!
Waving his hand, Du Long waited for the generals to calm down, and then continued: "I decide! Before the middle army conquers the last two acropolis of the Blue Moon Empire, resolutely not attack the capital of the Blue Moon Empire, and the outside of the south gate of the Blue Moon Capital must not be intercepted and blocked, and the people in the Blue Moon Capital can enter and exit freely from the south gate!"
"Lord Marshal, don't you even stop the troops that have come to reinforce the Blue Moon Capital, or the grain and grass?!" Kang Tuo asked again.
"That's right, no one is allowed to intercept anyone entering or exiting through the gate of the Blue Moon Capital, and in addition, we have to send this news to the city!" Du Long replied with blazing eyes.
Under Du Long's strange general order, Haotian's 1.5 million army actually did not besiege the Blue Moon Capital, but kept the passage of the south gate, and also publicized it.
In the Blue Moon Capital, the ordinary people who learned the news went out from the south gate with their families one after another, but they really did not receive any attacks, and for a while, the people of the Blue Moon Capital City who were originally skeptical all believed it.
More and more people began to flee from the South Gate, in this regard, the Zhenhai General Jin Yanhuan did not stop them, but let them leave, just asked his subordinates to pay close attention to the situation of the enemy army outside the South Gate, and did not relax their vigilance in the slightest!
In the meantime, something incredible happened!
The Blue Moon Emperor, with a few of his favorite concubines, as well as the princess and princess, dressed as ordinary nobles, with hundreds of master guards, also escaped from the south gate!
Their escape was actually under the surveillance of the Ring Spirit Beauty, and Du Long had already learned everything, the reason why he let go of the south gate of the Blue Moon Capital and ignored it was this day!
In fact, the words he said to the generals at the beginning were just thoughts on the surface, and secretly, he still wanted to lure the snake out of the hole, and that snake was the Emperor of the Blue Moon Empire, Jin Yanzhen!
The beauty of the ring spirit inadvertently discovered that this emperor had already had the idea of escaping the capital, but he had been suffering from the lack of a proper opportunity, and Du Long wanted to create an opportunity for him!
Whether it is a soldier, a noble army, or those ordinary people, it is safe to enter and exit the south gate, and the emperor specially sent several troops for this reason, and after several trips in and out of the south gate without encountering any danger, he finally made up his mind to escape!
Soon, a pursuit team composed of two thousand Flame Tiger Cavalry set off from the Haotian camp, and the target was the Blue Moon Emperor and his party who were pretending to be ordinary noble families from the south gate of the Blue Moon Capital!