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As an important town on the border of Chu State, Wancheng at this time was under the remnant sun, filled with a blood.

The gates were wide open, the walls were still stained with blood that had not yet been drained, and piles of corpses, burned outside the city, exuding a strong smell of meat, but it was disgusting. The people in the city were sneaking around the broken city gate, and when they saw the army of Chu River coming with their banners high, they all ran home in a hurry in embarrassment.

This situation and this scene can naturally show that Brother Pingtou's blitzkrieg was successful.

According to the plan, the defenders out of the city were lured out of the city with a small force, and then the cavalry was used to quickly cut and strangle the defenders out of the city. Then blow open the city gates with gunpowder, break into the city, and kill the recalcitrant resistors.

In the end, in addition to leaving a small team of wounded warriors to guard the 'empty city' and a bunch of prisoners, waiting for the arrival of the large army, the remaining cavalry, under the leadership of Brother Pingtou, continued to go deep into Chu and rushed straight to the next station, Dengcheng. As for some small cities centered on important towns and radiated, they relied on the large army of the Chu River to break through and conquer them.

After Chu He occupied Wancheng, there was nothing to say, except for sending people in the city to appease the people in the city as usual, that is, to collect the grain, grass, materials and ordnance in the city.

As for the soldiers of Chu who were captured by Brother Pingtou and tied up and locked in the city, they were also handed over to his subordinates for 'probation'.

The slave soldiers from the Jin State were responsible for the frontal 'probation', while the original Chu soldiers were responsible for the side 'persuasion', and after these Chu soldiers surrendered, the Chu River would break them up and then integrate them into the army.

After repairing in Wancheng overnight, leaving 1,500 soldiers and 3,000 old, weak, sick and disabled to Sister Mimi, the army continued to go deeper.

There is no way, Wancheng is the first city laid by the Chu River, and it is also equivalent to the big rear. The resources that Wu Jianwei will transport in the future will also be directly sent to Wancheng, so Wancheng is very critical.

Other people Chu He can't trust it, so he can only let Sister Mimi sit in Wancheng.

Attacking the city all the way, but in just thirty-five days, Wancheng, Dengcheng, Tangcheng, and Suicheng were all broken by the army of Pingtou with Pingtou as the sharp knife and the Chu River as the backing. Some of the surrounding small towns naturally fell into the hands of the Chu River at the same time.

Everything was going too well, and it seemed a little unreal.

Not counting those wild lands, the real and effective territory of the Chu State has been captured by the army of the Chu River.

Of course, Chu He was able to take Zhucheng so smoothly and did not cause a backlash from the local wealthy families, precisely because he was also a nobleman of Chu State, and he was a nobleman with royal blood.

This battle was characterized as a civil war in Chu from the beginning.

If it is invaded by a foreign enemy, it will be a disaster to destroy the country. Those aristocratic and wealthy families of the Chu State will no longer choose to protect themselves, but will lead the private soldiers in their respective families to resist.

In that case, if you want to break through a city, the difficulty will increase tenfold.

With a quarter of the territory of Chu as a territory, Chu He recalled Brother Pingtou, gathered his military strength, and no longer went forward to attack Jingling, breaking the last barrier of Shangying in one go.

On the contrary, it developed horizontally, and began to lead troops to attack Xiyang, Baiju and other cities, intending to form a situation of encirclement.

Through capture, absorption, and conscription with high salaries, in just thirty-five days, Chu He's army had expanded to 80,000 men.

Of course, among these 80,000 people, there are not many elite soldiers who can really be relied on.

It was only at this time that King Chuping finally came back to his senses.

Xiong Ju's reaction was so slow, although it greatly surprised Chu He, but it was also reasonable.

In order to consolidate his own rights, the officials appointed by Xiongju are all mediocre and incompetent.

Although these people will not cause trouble to Kumaju, they will not be able to provide much help when the matter is approaching.

The limitations of the bear house are on full display at this moment.

He is ambitious at home and has a strong desire to control power. But he lacks enough overall vision, and can only be regarded as a turtle mountain king.

However, now that the king of Tu Turtle Mountain has a heavy army in his hands, and he has the resources that the Chu State has accumulated for many years, it is not so simple to defeat him.

What's even more troublesome is that King Chuping, who came to his senses, worshiped Wu Hao as a general, commanded 100,000 Chu soldiers, and was already heading towards Suicheng.

And Huangcheng, Shouchun, Liucheng, Shucheng and other places also began to gather troops to encircle the rear.

So far, it has only been ten days, not only has the sharp momentum of the Chu River been blocked, but the good situation has a tendency to be reversed.

Wu Hao used troops, extremely prudent, and did not rush forward, but based on the large number of soldiers and abundant food and grass, and abundant armaments, he continued to move forward, first surrounded Suicheng with soldiers, and then directly sent a large force of troops to recapture Tang City, cutting off the direct communication channel between Wancheng and Suicheng.

This is tantamount to cutting off the logistical supply of the Chu River army.

The Chu River can indeed directly collect grain and grass in Suicheng.

But he does not completely occupy the name of righteousness now, although he has the edict of King Zhou in his body, but it is only a rhetoric, and it is not convincing. Once the grain and grass are expropriated and the land is scraped, it is bound to be hostile to the local tyrants.

Originally, most of the nobles who sat and watched a good show, and the nobles who did not help each other were very likely to fall to King Chuping because of this. And if Chu He uses tough means, he will make an example of him.

The effect can only be that the nobles from all over the world, who were originally just waiting and watching, will definitely endanger themselves.

At that time, what Chu He would have to face was not the king of Chu Ping, but the power of the entire Chu State.

On the battlefield outside the city, there was a roar of shaking the sky.

It was Xue Qijiang and Xiang Ba fighting.

Xiang Ba is the strongest person in the Xiang family today, and his strength can be ranked among the top three in the Chu State on the bright side.

Xue Qijiang is a veteran general of the Chu State, and his strength should naturally not be underestimated, coupled with the battle armor and bronze ancient spear sent to him by Chu He, it is difficult to solve the problem with Xiang Bazheng at this time.

"Brother Pingtou, the one who leads the army on the left is Gongzi Yan, who is proficient in the methods of the Yin and Yang family, can you be sure to defeat him?" Chu He looked at the map and pointed to the map.

Anywhere else can be left for now.

But Xiyang City must be taken.

Because Xiyang City can go straight to Yangcheng.

As long as he can contact Yangcheng and not go through Wancheng, Chu He can also get resource support from Wu Jianwei.

Nowadays, people eat horses and chew them, and the daily consumption of grain and grass alone is an astronomical amount. Those nobles and heroes who followed the city saw through Chu He's weaknesses, and the price of food was three times a day, even if Chu He originally held a large amount of jewelry and jade, and he couldn't withstand it if he consumed it like this to fill the bottomless pit.

If the stalemate continues, without supplies, the army of the Chu River will drag itself down, and there is no need for Wu Hao to lead his troops to attack head-on.

Wu Hao may have also seen through this, so he did not directly start a full-scale head-to-head battle, but first cut off the grain route of the Chu River, and then carried out a siege plan.

Brother Pingtou led 3,000 cavalry before, conquered dozens of walled cities along the way, and even won several important towns. There is blood on his hands, and I am afraid that there are hundreds or even thousands of people, and at this time, a fierce aura will come to his face.

Cultivation has risen to the ninth layer of the foundation, and it is possible to jump out of the pagoda at any time with a little spiritual light, and then give birth to a golden pill between heaven and earth.

The soldier monk is originally a battlefield cultivator.

In modern warfare, most of them are only left with some local games, which cannot meet the needs of soldiers and monks for battlefield evil. When you cultivate, you will naturally not be able to improve quickly.

Hearing Chu He's question, Brother Pingtou said very calmly and decisively: "Give me three thousand iron horses and swear to Xiyang City!"