Chapter 539: When the Great War Begins, the Wind Rises

Most of the previous battles took place in the Huzhou realm, for Jiangzhou, although it was close at hand, it was not in his own home after all, so it was barely peaceful, but this time the battle that happened at the junction of Jiangzhou and Huzhou finally broke the peace of Jiangzhou for nearly a year.

With Wei Wuji's order, Yu Kuang's department officially engaged the Wei army, and after several battles, the Wei army was defeated, and the Wei general Huang Xiao had to lead nearly 100,000 troops to retreat in the direction of Zhuolu in order to alternately cover, but in the eyes of Yu Kuang, who was defeated in the battle of Dongting Lake, this is a piece of fat that has been dripping with oil, and it must not be let go.

This time, Huang Xiao led the army to withdraw from Xin'an Mansion, as long as he crossed the Dongjiang Grand Canal, which had been frozen, backed by Zhuolu, and wanted to swallow this piece of fat again, it would be difficult, and he might have to be broken out a few teeth, so Yu Kuang did not hesitate at all, and ordered the whole army to give up all baggage except for the dry food for three days, and pursue it with all his might, so as to annihilate Huang Xiao's army and capture Huang Xiao alive.

For a time, tens of thousands of troops took advantage of the situation to pursue, morale became higher and higher, the cavalry was in front, the infantry followed, mighty, like a landslide and tsunami, and even made the army stretch out a very long line, this kind of pursuit regardless of the formation, for any time, it must be regarded as a taboo for soldiers, and the generals who lead the troops will even be impeached for treating the country's major affairs as child's play, but the reason why Yu Kuang can be listed as one of the four famous generals is that he knows when and how to fight, and the fighters on the battlefield are fleeting, and they must not stick to the rules.

At this time, the formation of the entire pursuing army has been completely chaotic, but the morale of the whole army is high, from the general to the ordinary soldiers, they all know in their hearts, they all understand, and they all have the bottom, as long as they chase, catch up, fight, and they will definitely win, that is the military merit of pouring the sky.

It is said that the defeat of the army is like a mountainfall, but the victory of the army is also like a landslide and tsunami, which is unstoppable.

Huang Xiao is not a rout this time, but a retreat, he also knows that the retreat must be orderly, if it is a swarm of retreat, then from retreat to rout, then it will be a rout, the defeat is like a mountain, and it can no longer be cleaned up, so he deliberately left two elite car battalions equipped with full full of firearms and artillery as a cover behind the palace, but these two car battalions just put on a position, they encountered the elite army led by Yu Kuang himself, and were rushed and defeated, and then followed by a large number of infantry troops arrived, and the two elite car battalions were immediately wiped out in the case of no danger。

However, Yu Kuang's appetite is not something that can be filled by two small car battalions, and he personally led three thousand elite cavalry to bite the tail of Huang Xiao's army, and at another time, even if Yu Kuang had great courage, he did not dare to attack 100,000 people with only 3,000 people, but at this time it was different, there were nearly 100,000 Qi troops behind Yu Kuang one after another, if Huang Xiao dared to stop and turn around to fight back, he would immediately be caught up by the Qi army that followed.

Under this circumstance, Huang Xiao had to do the strategy of breaking the wrist of a strong man, and divided 20,000 people to be led by his henchman Tian Yan, after the army was broken, Tian Yan led the army to garrison Yaowan Town, so that Yu Kuang's pursuit footsteps finally had to stop, the two sides fought fiercely here for more than a day and a night, almost razing this small town to the ground, and finally Tian Yan did not surrender, and killed himself with a horizontal knife, and his remnants of the army collapsed in an instant, which was equivalent to Huang Xiao being cut off an arm.

However, Huang Xiao finally took this opportunity to enter Zhuolu City and wait for help.

Around Zhuolu City, nearly 600,000 troops on both sides of Great Qi and Wei launched a fierce battle, under the strict orders of Xiao Jin, the king of Wei, several armies of Wei were red-eyed, and they moved closer to Zhuolucheng at all costs, intending to rescue Huang Xiao's army from the encirclement, but in this process, Yu Kuang's army finally successfully joined forces with Xiao Maha and Xiao Quji's army, and the two armies fought side by side to jointly block the reinforcements of Wei.

Contrary to all previous expectations, this battle was actually launched under this situation, and formed a decisive battle around Huang Xiao's army and Zhuolu City, and the two sides changed their offense and defense, the Wei army struggled forward, wanting to move closer to Zhuolu City, and the Great Qi army held on to the death, not giving up half a step, that is, to divide the Wei army into two halves, so that it could not take care of each other, and after the Wei Wuji army arrived, it was a battle.

The two sides fought fiercely for several days, and for a while no one could help the other party, but the commanders of both sides were not idle people, Xiao Jin believed that since the attack from the front had little effect, then he would follow the example of Wei Ban when he stole over Yinping, and detoured from the side, maybe there would be a miraculous effect, if he could bypass Yu Kuang's army, he would stab a knife in its side, and cooperate with Huang Xiao's army in Zhuolu City to block its retreat, so that it would suffer from the enemy on its back and collapse without a fight.

At the same time, although Xu Beiyou is not good at military affairs, Wei Wuji is a veteran general on the battlefield, when he led the troops, he was known for his unpredictability, at this time he also thought of the idea of a side detour, if Xiao Jin also thought of it, it was nothing more than as a first defense, not to lose anything, but if Xiao Jin did not think of it, it would be a big profit, maybe he could settle the situation in a battle.

The situation on the battlefield was changing rapidly, and at this time, the herald cavalry on both sides could not even keep up, Xiao Jin, the king of Wei, and Wei Wuji, the commander of the Jiangling camp of the Great Qi, were both staring at the map, and then the two of them invariably set their eyes on the same place.

Peng Lao Town.

Whether it is on the map, or looking at the entire Jiangnan, this is a small place that can not be smaller, located in the southeast of Zhuolu City thirty miles, but no one thought that this little-known place is destined to go down in history, and it actually determines the direction of the general trend of the whole world.

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Jiangling Mansion, Xiao Jin slowly walked into the main hall of the Li family's mansion, at this time the hall was already full of generals of the Wei State, but compared to some time ago, there were still many people, some people were no longer there, such as Shangguan Tan, and some people had already gone to the battlefield, such as Huang Xiao.

In short, there are fewer and fewer old faces and fewer and fewer old people.

This made Xiao Jin, who had always been unfazed, finally have a faint sadness in his heart.

Could it be that the foundation he has planned for most of his life is finally coming to an end?

Could it be that even if Xiao Yu is no longer alive, he still has the last laugh?

Is this destiny?

Xiao Jin's fist hidden in the sleeve of his wide robe clenched fiercely.

He has never believed in the Mandate of Heaven, since he came to this world, since Xiao Yu did not die in the grassland but entered the Northwest Central Capital, he has not believed it.

He was unwilling, unwilling to end so dismally.

So he has to fight to the death, fight out a peak and loop, and fight out a cloud to see the sun.

The worst thing is death, and he will tear off a piece of meat from Daqi's body.