The arrival of the year 4872 brought a brief calm to the battlefield in Nannuma Prefecture, and the people in the occupied areas of the Shaodian Kingdom spent the most fearful New Year.

The invaders of the three kingdoms of Meng, Cao, and Qi were different from the past, and there was no burning, killing, and plundering, except for the officials who had been in charge of the local area were arrested, and the others were not harassed too much.

Jiang Xi, the supreme commander of the theater of operations, received information from Shao Dianmi personally a few years ago:

The supreme commander of the Three Kingdoms Alliance is named Helian Yu, the first heir of Meng Guo's Zhenhai Gong, she is only twenty years old, she is the "new general god" of Meng Guo's recent limelight, and the Seventh Army Corps, the main force of the Meng Army, is her direct force.

"A twenty-year-old girl is the commander of the Three Kingdoms Alliance?" Jiang Xi felt incredible.

Shaodian said expressionlessly: "In the past half a month, I have left Nanqiu County, Yanling County and Jinping County, and there is no doubt that Helian Yu is the supreme commander of the enemy's army. ”

Jiang Zhi, the new chief of staff of the Eighth Army Corps, was strongly recommended by Jiang Xi and was also very young, only turning twenty-five years old after the New Year, he said: "Lord Commander, the commander of the army cannot be judged by age, gender, and personal force, Helian Yu is the first heir of Zhenhai Gong, and he must have something extraordinary.

Judging from her previous tactical arrangement, this person likes to concentrate forces to attack the weak, and we have just arrived on the northern front, and we have a strong local force in a short period of time, and the enemy army must be mainly defensive.

In the opinion of his subordinates, the Eighth Army Corps drove to the front of the enemy army to attract the enemy's attention, and the Eleventh and Fourteenth Army Corps organized assault troops to attack ** and recapture one or two occupied cities. ”

The reason why Jiang Xi promoted Jiang Zhi to be the chief of staff was because he believed in his ability, knowing that this Jiang clan's side disciple had no last resort against the enemy and was good at grasping the enemy's weaknesses.

"Good, according to your plan, you take my military order to find Zhai Yu and Hu Qin, and let them form a commando team and hand it over to you. I will lead the main force to attack head-on, and you will lead your troops to wait for the opportunity to retake the occupied city. Jiang Xi gave Jiang Zhi a military order.

Only two days after the New Year of 4872, a great battle broke out at the regimental level.

The Seventh Army of the Meng State sent people to Jiang Xi's camp to challenge the book, and asked the Eighth Army of the Shaodian State to go to the Pingzhou Plain to compete to see which of the main armies of the two countries was more powerful.

Jiang Xi led the Eighth Army for the first time, and he had not fought a battle in the real sense, and in order to cover Jiang Zhi's actions, he gladly responded to the battle knowing that the enemy might be deceitful.

On January 3, the 8th Army of Shaodian State and the 7th Army Corps of Meng State set up positions on the Pingzhou Plain, more than 70 miles southeast of Jinping County, and the two sides were going to have a head-on decisive battle.

A one-on-one frontal provocation has not been encountered by the Eighth Army in the past 100 years, and the whole army has been holding back its strength to teach the people of Meng a good lesson.

Sure enough, in less than half a day, Meng's Seventh Army gradually could not withstand the onslaught of the Eighth Army and began to retreat to the southeast.

How could the Eighth Army easily let go of the enemy, and the whole army pressed on, chasing and fighting all the way.

Until Meng's Seventh Army retreated to the edge of the Pingzhou Plain, two ambushes suddenly came out and outflanked the Eighth Army from the north and south, and Meng's Seventh Army stopped retreating and turned around to launch a counterattack.

Jiang Xi had anticipated this, and ordered the troops to quickly leave the battlefield, the front army changed to the rear army, and the rear army became the front army, and retreated in an orderly direction to the northwest.

The two ambush armies were the armies of Cao and Qi, of which the Qi army fought out from the north, and its speed was very fast, and the advance had already stopped the rear of the eighth army.

At this time, the Eighth Army suddenly came forward and attacked the Qi army.

The number of Qi troops was comparable to that of the Eighth Army, only about 100,000 people, and the formation was too long, where could it withstand the onslaught of the Eighth Army, and it was defeated before Meng and Cao's troops arrived.

The 8th Army broke through the encirclement of the enemy and successfully withdrew to the county town of Jinping.

Jiang Zhi did not live up to Jiang Xi's expectations, and led his troops to suddenly surround Xintian City, the northernmost part of the battle line, attracting the defenders of Lengshui City to support, and the Shaodian army ambushed under Lengshui City took the opportunity to kill and recapture the occupied Lengshui City.

In this battle, after the Eighth Army was ambushed, it retreated with its strong strength, Jiang Zhi led his troops to recapture Lengshui City, and Shaodian Kingdom won a big victory at the beginning of the new year.

However, after the battle, Jiang Xi received a letter written by Helian Yu as the commander of the Seventh Army, in which he mocked the defeat of the Eighth Army to the Meng Seventh Army under the command of a woman, and fled back to Jinping County in embarrassment, without mentioning the ambush of Cao Qi and the two countries.

In the people, there are constantly spies of the Meng State spreading rumors, saying that there is no successor to the protector of the Shaodian State, and the Eighth Army is declining, and even the army led by a young lady cannot win, so that the Eighth Army will simply be disbanded as soon as possible, and the prestige of the undefeated army can be maintained.

This angered all the officers and soldiers of the Eighth Army, and the exposed Dong Ba repeatedly asked to fight, and he had to lead his 71st Division to fight Meng's Seventh Army alone.

When Jiang Zhi heard the news, he hurriedly rushed back to the Eighth Army Corps, and bitterly dissuaded Dong Ba and several other grumpy division commanders, "This is Helian Yu's Yang Scheme, which clearly wants to separate the generals of the Eighth Army Corps, and provoke you to attack rashly with outnumbered attacks and fall into the trap she set against you."

If the Protector Marquis is in the army at this moment, will you be allowed to fall into the enemy's treacherous schemes? It is true that Helian Yu is a woman, but she is the supreme commander of the Three Kingdoms Alliance, and she will not fight with you in a dignified manner. If she agrees to fight with you in person, I will not stop you, and we should encourage the supreme commanders of the two legions to fight one-on-one. ”

After some hard persuasion, the restlessness of the Eighth Army gradually subsided, and Jiang Zhi also replied to Helian Yu as the chief of staff, asking the commanders of the two armies to have a peak showdown, and the real losers who did not dare to accept the challenge were the real losers.

Although Jiang Zhi's witty response did not completely eliminate the influence of the rumors, it also cracked Helian Yu's plan to attack the heart to a certain extent, and at the same time established a little prestige in the Eighth Legion, and was the first person to sit in the position of chief of staff of the Eighth Legion in many years.

Helian Yu had no plan and another plan, so he sent someone to send an agreed document to Mu Shaodianxi in Nannuma Prefecture through a special channel, and put forward a suggestion.

As long as the Shaodian State does not increase the number of troops in Nannuma Prefecture, then the three kingdoms of Meng, Cao, and Qi will not increase their troops in Nannuma Prefecture, and the two sides only retain the existing armies to face off in Nannuma Prefecture.

Jiang Zhi couldn't help but sigh after knowing it: "Helian Yu is full of wisdom and scheming, focusing on attacking the heart, and he is indeed an extremely difficult opponent. With her one day, if the Shaodian Kingdom wants to regain the lost land, it must pay a great price. ”

After receiving the agreed document, Shaodianxi did not dare to make his own decisions, and hurriedly teleported back to the capital of Zhenjing, which once again caused a quarrel in the court of Shaodianguo.

Of course, the Commander's Office opposed Helian Yu's suggestion, on the grounds that the enemy leader was cunning and abnormal, not a person who believed in his word, and this agreement was actually a delaying tactic, so that Meng, Cao, and Qi had time to mobilize more troops to Nannuma Prefecture.

The government council agreed, on the grounds that the initiative was in the hands of the enemy anyway, and if the scale of the war could be limited by a paper agreement, it would greatly reduce the burden on the Shaodian Kingdom, and it would also buy time for the country's army to assemble its own army.

Both parties had their own reasons, and after a few days of arguing, Shaodian Dan's ears were calloused, and just when he hesitated, someone finally came forward at the risk of death.

Wang Deng, deputy commander of the Commander's Office, issued a military order to die, Helianyu's so-called agreement was a divisive plan, and the three kingdoms of Meng, Cao, and Qi were determined to occupy the territory of Shaodian State this time, and it can be seen from the fact that the lives and property of the people in the occupied areas have not been violated.

Helian Yu did not want to delay time, let alone control the scale of the war, but to stimulate the internal contradictions of the Shaodian Kingdom. She can adjust her strategy at any time according to Shaodianguo's reaction, and can fight against factions with different views regardless of whether she has more troops or not.

When the agreed document was delivered to Shao Dianxi, and Shao Dianxi sent it to Zhenjing, Helian Yu's discordant plan had already succeeded.

"Your Majesty, the plan for the present is to carry out the plan set before step by step, as long as nothing agreed upon happens, do our own thing, and do not cause internal disputes because of the enemy's actions.

As long as we send troops to attack Qi, Meng and Cao will inevitably increase their troops in Nannumazhou, and that agreement will become a blank slate, and if the enemy army does not increase its troops, he will be willing to be dealt with by military law. Wang Deng knelt in front of the palace and admonished.

"Okay, then let Shaodian Xi write back to Helian Yu, pretending to discuss the specific terms of the agreed document, and delay as much time as possible; the Commander's Office arranges a tentative attack on the Qi State, and at the same time cannot stop the conscription plan in the states; the Government Council issues a tax increase decree to increase taxes immediately; the Clan Mansion collects war subsidies to give the children of the Shaodian clan the opportunity to exchange money for the title; and the Senate solicits noble volunteers to reduce the conditions for title promotion. "Shaodian Dan finally made up his mind, he must not be a king who has lost his land.

In the name of the king, Shaodian Dan forcibly suppressed the controversy in the court, relaxed the title promotion system that had been tightened for many years, stimulated the ambitions of many people, and triggered a new round of struggle in the aristocratic system of Shaodian State.

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The strange fish near the black hole felt the breath of the water overlord and were so frightened that they scattered and fled, and Ao Yu dragged Ding Kui into the black hole.

They swam a few dozen meters and found that the passage of the black hole had narrowed, allowing only two people to barely pass side by side, and the direction was no longer blindly pointing down, and they began to go up diagonally. After nearly 100 meters or so, the passage gradually widened, and finally entered a bottomer with no edge in sight.

At this time, Ao Yu pulled Ding Kui to swim quickly, and only rose twenty meters before he surfaced.

It was pitch black on the water and there was no light, Ding Kui took out the night pearl and took a photo, barely seeing that this was a big cave, and he and Ao Yu were in a pool.