During these thirteen years, the Tiannan Kingdom and the Yue Kingdom not only opened up land passages into Nanli, Nanzhao and Anxi, but also integrated the clan forces that had fled to Yunling and Hengduan Mountains to a certain extent. After the first year of Longqing, Tianji war weapons were vigorously cast in Nanzhao, Nanli, and Anxi. The Xuanyuan Army, led by the Lieutenant Qin Ran, also gained a certain degree of strength after integrating the forces of the original Nanzhao clans. of recovery.
The three families joined forces to organize the largest battle in the area south of Tengwang Mountain in the past 20 years since the outbreak of the Demonic Tribulation. Although Beiling was beyond reach, hundreds of elite scouts were sent into the area south of Tengwang Mountain to get closer. Observe the progress of the battle and transmit the latest battle situation information back to Lingzhou in a timely manner.
This time, King Liu Fen of Yue Zheng personally led 200,000 elite soldiers and horses across tens of thousands of miles to advance to Tengwang Mountain. In the spring of the fifth year of Longqing, it seemed that it was just a regular intrusion of the Yue Ting's Eastern Expedition Demon Army into the area controlled by the demons to sweep away the miscellaneous people. Demon, a military operation to weaken the main force of the Demon clan.
It was not until a few years before Emperor Jianxing of Chongguo ascended the throne that Emperor Qianyuan Liu Xing quelled the rebellion of the six kings one by one.
Even before Liu Mian, the real person in charge of Xuanhuang Tianqian and the first emperor of the Yue Dynasty, was enthroned, because Liu Mian enshrined the clan and compressed the living space of other sects and noble surnames, resistance and rebellion led by other sects of the Yue Kingdom occurred frequently. ; During this process, the Beiling Xuanhuang Palace, headed by Yuan Zhou, separated from the Yue Kingdom and fled to Chongguo to seek refuge.
Liu Fen, King of Yue Zheng, was a rare warrior in the Yue Dynasty.
Tengwang Mountain is located in the southern part of the Zhongzhou Great Plain. The mountains are not very majestic and wonders. The highest peak is only six or seven thousand feet, but it occupies a large area. It stretches for more than 10,000 miles from north to south and more than 30,000 miles from east to west. , is the only place where the main force of the southern line's demon troops retreats from the north of Dongting Mountain to Yongjing and Fengyong Mountain.
In addition, Lu also spent three years digging more than 4,000 miles of canals in Huangshan, the upper reaches of the Yin River, and at the northeastern foot of Minshan, the upper reaches of the Jinsha River.
In response to this, the demons only sent more than 200,000 elite demon soldiers composed of demon cavalry, winged demon elites, and blue-scaled demon guards into Tengwang Mountain, hoping to drive Liu Fen out so that the miscellaneous demons and new students could be The demon soldiers and generals are constantly replenishing their energy to Dongting Mountain, ensuring that the southern demon soldiers can continue to devour and weaken the power of the human race on the southern front.
This is directly reflected in the scale of Tianji war machinery.
On the one hand, there are 12 million soldiers and horses, which exceeds the main force of the southern front in terms of number. On the other hand, the Tiannan Kingdom and the Yue Kingdom have gathered their weapon refiners to build Tianji war machines. They have saved up for several years and invested in the southern front. There are as many as 120,000 light and heavy Tianji chariots and as many as 20,000 wind flame airships.
Liu Fen, King of Yue Zheng, fought very tenaciously in Tengwang Mountain throughout the summer. Depending on the terrain, he either defended or wandered among the mountains and rivers. He was not driven out from Tengwang Mountain by the elite demon soldiers. In the autumn of the fifth year of Longqing, Yue Ting's troops The Demon Army of the Eastern Expedition began to strengthen reinforcements to Tengwang Mountain. Small groups of soldiers and horses continued to enter Tengwang Mountain across tens of thousands of miles of wasteland. This caused the human race's number of troops deep in Tengwang Mountain to continue to grow, and several easy-to-defend positions were built. A difficult stronghold.
In the winter of the fifth year of Longqing, after a considerable part of the southern part of the Zhongzhou Great Plains was frozen, Gui Xi Mozun first divided his troops and tried to break through from the eastern front where the Xuanyuan Army was responsible for intercepting.
In the spring of the 39th year of Jianxing's reign, the Tashan defense line collapsed, and the situation in Chongguo's war against demons deteriorated. The clans in the south and Anxi had no intention of defending their territory, and fled from Chongguo one after another. They wanted to take refuge in Tiannan Kingdom and Yue Kingdom, but were blocked by Tiannan Kingdom. , Yue's persecution, had to concentrate on establishing defense lines in Hengduan Mountains, Yunling and other places.
Even so, the demons did not think that King Yue Zheng Liu Fen had any big intentions. After all, the demon army in the Eastern Expedition only had more than 200,000 soldiers and horses hanging outside. The supplies were difficult to sustain and it was impossible to play any big role. .
After the spring of the sixth year of Longqing, Zheng Chan led the main force of Tiannan's Demon Army to suddenly launch an attack on the central area controlled by the Southern Demon Army. He wanted to take advantage of the Southern Demon Army's millions of soldiers and horses to be defeated by Qin Ran and Liu. When Fen was entangled and there were less than three million demon soldiers and generals lagging behind Shouyang Mountain, they wanted to defeat the main force of the southern front demon soldiers with nearly twice the superior force.
As the remnant of the Xuanyuan Shangdian, the Xuanyuan Army has recovered its strength after merging the Nanli clans, but it is undoubtedly unable to compete with the Tiannan Conquest Demon Army and the Eastern Expedition Demon Army, which are supported by the Tiannan Kingdom and the Yue State. Comparable.
Even when Liu Fen led reinforcements into Anxi to ward off the demons, he often took the lead and dared to confront the main force of the demon soldiers. In the third and fourth years of the Emperor's succession, the Anxi Lu family abandoned their troops in the Yinjiang and Maozhen Mountains. , but it was Liu Fen who led his troops to annihilate hundreds of thousands of demonic soldiers, fought inextricably with the northern front demonic soldiers, and defended the west bank of Yinjiang River without losing anything.
Although the Yue Dynasty has no border with the demon clan, and the demonic calamity has not directly affected the Yue Kingdom in the past ten thousand years, the territory has not always been peaceful.
However, even so, there were still a small number of rebels in the Yue Kingdom who fled into the Falling Star Sea or the barbaric plains in the southwest of the Yue Kingdom, unwilling to surrender.
The soldiers and horses on the southern front who tried to enter the southern foot of Tengwang Mountain to establish a stronghold were resolutely attacked by Liu Fen, King of Yue Zheng. They lost five to six million soldiers and horses. Not only were they unable to establish a stronghold, they were also driven out from the southern foot of Tengwang Mountain.
Among so many Beiling scouts, there was an inconspicuous young man with black hair who was only in the early stage of Tao Fei Realm. He was squatting in the depths of the woods on a mountain, silently watching the main force of the Tiannan Demon-Conquering Army heading east in the distance. .
At this time, a figure was like a wisp of smoke, rushing towards this side of the forest.
The elite winged demons of the demon clan were exhausted in many fierce battles with the Beiling Army and Yongjing Army. Subsequent replenishment was limited and the scale was reduced to less than 60,000. However, the Xuanyuan Army, the Tiannan Demon-Destroying Army, and the Dongfang Army of the Yue Kingdom The demon-conquering army assembled 110,000 demon-controlling elites on the southern front, as well as twenty-seven modified floating warships.
During the more than 400 years since Liu Xing succeeded to the throne, six members of the Liu clan rebelled, which was the so-called Rebellion of the Six Kings.
On the one hand, the Emperor Qin Ran personally led the 4 million Xuanyuan Army, and the Prince of Tiannan Kingdom, Zheng Chan, personally led the 5 million Tiannan Demon Army, approaching Dongting Mountain from the east and west wings. On the other hand, King Zheng of Yue, Liu Fen, personally led the 3 million army. The elite entered Tengwang Mountain and blocked the passage for the southern line's demon soldiers to retreat north.
After Liu Mian was enthroned and Emperor Qianyuan of Yue State Liu Xing succeeded to the throne, the former emperor Liu Mian hoped that the clan would become the foundation for the Liu family to rule the country and enfeoffed the descendants of the clan as vassal kings. On the contrary, after Emperor Qianyuan Liu Xing succeeded to the throne, , the most unstable turbulent factor in Vietnam.
It is not easy for six to seven million demon soldiers to break through. It does not mean that there is a gap between the three groups of human soldiers and horses and they can pass through directly.
The four million Xuanyuan Army has only 20,000 light and heavy Tianji chariots. The casting of Tianji war machinery mainly focuses on heavy-bore crossbows and six-bore reloading to enhance the combat effectiveness of ordinary generals in the field. There is no They don't have the ability to build sharp weapons like the Green Flame Concentrated Cannon; they don't have a floating warship that can control the airspace.
These three families decided to fight a battle with the main force of the demons on the southern front, and the strength they unleashed was extremely astonishing.
The young man looked back at the visitor, sighed softly and said:
In particular, the rise of the Beiling Army not only consumed a large amount of the Demon Clan's effective forces, but also forced the Demon Clan to focus on the northern front in the later period, and was unable to organize a truly threatening offensive against the Yunling and Hengduan Mountain defense lines.
From the balance of strength, the human race had an absolute advantage on the southern front for the first time.
"Zheng Chan is too eager. The Black Flame Old Demon has not made any big moves on the southern front in recent years. There may not be other arrangements in Shouyang Mountain! Did you find anything when you sneaked into Shouyang Mountain?"
As the brother of Liu Xing, Emperor Qianyuan of Yue State, King Liu Fen of Yue Zheng played an important role in quelling the rebellion of the Six Kings and established great martial arts. He was also one of the few warriors of Yue State who could fight tough battles.
However, as the remnants of Xuanyuan Shangdian and Yongjing, the elite generals of Xuanyuan Army have been fighting on the front line of controlling demons since the outbreak of the demonic calamity. Whether they are generals or ordinary soldiers, they have gone through hundreds of battles.
In the spring of the fifth year of Longqing's reign, King Liu Fen of Yue Zheng personally led 200,000 elite soldiers and horses out of Maozhen Mountain, bypassing the south side of Yinhun Ridge and heading directly towards Tengwang Mountain in the south of Zhongzhou.
These two lines of defense seemed extremely fragile at the time, but until the autumn of the fifth year of Longqing, almost more than thirteen years, there were several battles in Chongguo, including the Battle of Dayanshan, the Siege of Yongjing, and the Battle of Taoyuan River. , the blocking battle at Chiying Peak, the battle at Broken Star Gorge, and the battle at Jingshan, etc., were mainly undertaken by the Yongjing troops and the Beiling army.
This move connected the Wantao River with the Jinsha River flowing into Huangtian Ze in the south, allowing a total of more than 200 Blue Whale-class and Silver Shark-class armored warships built by the Yue Kingdom and 600,000 demonic troops to be conquered in the East. The elite navy was able to directly enter the Huangtianze at the western foot of Tengwang Mountain; it was also able to directly transport billions of grain and grass from the waterway to the front line of Tengwang Mountain to fight against the main force of the southern line's demon soldiers escaping north.
"I don't dare to go too deep, but from the outside of Shouyang Mountain, there is nothing unusual." Ning Chan'er shook her head and said.
Perhaps it was because the demon soldiers were not as ferocious as expected, or perhaps because he saw that the demon soldiers on the southern front were tending to forcefully break through the gap between Yandang Mountain and Tengwang Mountain, the Tiannan Crown Prince Zheng Chan was worried that he would not be able to win a battle to establish his personal military honors. Military merit.
At this time, the Xuanyuan Army led by the Lie Emperor Qin Ran and the main force of the Tiannan Demon-Destroying Army led by the Prince of Tiannan Zheng Chan also moved towards the two wings of Dongting Mountain. Only then did the Demons realize that the three groups of soldiers and horses were on the southern front. intention to engage in battle.
In particular, there are more than 200,000 wheeled and tracked baggage vehicles, which fundamentally solves and solves the traditional logistics supply dilemma; otherwise, 12 million soldiers and horses would have to leave the defensive positions 20,000 to 30,000 miles away and enter Fighting in an uninhabited wasteland with only endless monsters wandering around would be a huge disaster for logistical supplies.
When the demonic troops on the southern front needed to divide their forces to target Liu Fen and Zheng Chan, and could only allocate two million soldiers and horses to try to push back the front line of Xuanyuan Army from the east in six directions, Xuanyuan Army performed extremely well. With a strong will to fight, they fought six battles with the demon soldiers along the Nanxiang River. Both sides lost millions of soldiers and horses. The Xuanyuan Army not only did not shrink the front line, but also advanced the attack line to a distance from the southern line of the demon soldiers. The main force was less than three thousand miles away from the Yandang Mountain area, forcing the main force of the demon soldiers to move slowly towards the southern foot of Tengwang Mountain.