The drunk Xihe lay on the table all night, and woke up very early the next day.
Li De threw half of the soldier talisman that mobilized Jiang Lianqing to her, Xihe caught it and put it in his arms seriously, and then said to Li De:
"You guys going to fight Tian Cheng next?"
Lied nodded:
"Among Tian Cheng's fifteen territories allocated by the royal family, we also plan to take a share."
Xihe said seriously:
"Then you have to move faster. I heard that the Luxin Territory and the Shenghe Territory have dispatched troops, and Duke Huai has also secretly assembled troops; besides that, there is Yunhai. If Yunhai doesn't want to go north with you Head-to-head, they can only break out in the northeast direction, and Tiancheng Territory is also a must for them."
Of course Lide was aware of this. Not long after he came back, he heard that Baifeng did not withdraw his troops at all, but let Yunhai's elite troops directly stationed in the northern part of Yunhai. At present, Yunyang has sent another general, Takis, to lead troops to confront Yunhai, but Yunhai doesn't seem to have the idea of fighting over. Fang Shisan listened carefully to the report from the front line, and judged that Yunhai should want twenty cities in the south of Tiancheng, which involves an important marching route.
Just like playing Go, the current situation of Yunhai is not optimistic. After occupying a corner and being suppressed by Yunyang, he naturally intends to win back; Tiancheng is the next battlefield for fighting. If Yunhai wins Tiancheng, Yunyang will only be able to Head to the northeast, but there is another troublesome opponent there—Duke Huai's territory. Bai Feng probably planned to use this method to force Yunyang to face some powerful territories in advance, so as to consume Yunyang's strength, which can be regarded as a conspiracy.
But on the contrary, if Yunyang gets Tiancheng again, Yunhai's idea of going north may come to nothing, and he can only seek a breakthrough all the way east. But the situation in the east can't be said to be particularly optimistic. Even if Yunhai can defeat several powerful opponents one after another, and go all the way to the east, he will directly bump into the rebel army led by Huangyan.
The current situation is still unclear, and Xihe can't see the future direction, so he can only kindly remind Lide to act first. However, Lid just nodded with a smile and replied:
"Shanren has his own tricks, don't worry."
Xihe didn't say anything more, just said yesterday that he wanted to be the best ordinary friend, and the most taboo thing among ordinary friends is to talk lightly.
In fact, Yunyang does have the capital to be calm, because Yunhai can only be regarded as an "solitary son" now, but Yunyang and Zhaochen can echo each other. If Zhaochen is not controlled by Yunyang now, the situation will be very unfavorable to Yunyang. Once Tiancheng is taken by others, Yunyang will face the east, north and south three fronts in an instant. But now with Zhaochen in the north, even if Yunyang suffered a loss in the battle for Tiancheng, it would be a big deal to use Zhaochen as a springboard to continue to break out.
Of course Lid wouldn't just watch, he was waiting for an opportunity.
In the eyes of many territories, Tian Cheng cannot be said to be a piece of fat, but it must be a territory worth fighting for. Tian Cheng doesn't have a decent army, and the ranking is also at the bottom, but the population is large, and the people are almost cornered, and anyone who stutters can be tricked into becoming a soldier. The most important thing is that Tian Cheng can be regarded as a relatively important transportation hub in the west of Eternal Heaven Kingdom, getting it is tantamount to strangling the throats of Yunyang and Yunhai.
But it's also like a swamp.
The army of Luxin Territory is the first to move, because it ranks relatively low among all the surrounding territories, occupying only the nineteenth seat in the thirty-six territories of Eternal Heaven. It also knew that this crusade against Tian Cheng was bound to develop into a fight between gods, and if it entered the arena slowly, it might be fruitless. Compared with Xin Territory, the only chance is to act quickly, so that it is possible to reap some benefits before others.
But something strange happened.
The army pressed the border, and indeed did not encounter any resistance, so that Lord Luxin was complacent about his decisiveness at first. However, battle reports soon came from the front, saying that many soldiers lost contact for no reason. The officers of the Luxin Territory didn't take it too seriously, they only thought that those people ran away after looting a lot of civilians, and continued to lead the army to the hinterland of Tiancheng Territory.
This advance army of about 20,000 people never returned.
The whole thing was creepy, Lord Zhaoxin once wondered if Tiancheng's family had practiced some evil method - it is said that there is a kind of witchcraft that kills people invisible in Nanchu, as long as the formation is set up, no matter how many people are Back and forth. However, it is impossible for the 20,000 army to be wiped out after all. Afterwards, a dozen or so people ran back sporadically, their eyes full of panic.
That's no place for people, they said.
After the army was stationed at the same place, there were many people from Tiancheng moving around one after another, but the general didn't care. Their goal was to capture Tian Cheng's main city, and seeing that there was no Tian Cheng's army around, they confidently plundered around. Unexpectedly, one night, countless people from Tiancheng flooded into the barracks and looted them in turn—
Those people robbed their food, chopped down their horses, took away their armor, and even devoured their flesh and blood! At that moment, Zhaoxin's army actually felt hairy on their backs, as if this place was no longer the world, but a living hell. Those hungry people were not afraid of death at all, they launched an attack like crazy, using their hands, feet, teeth and the weapons they had seized to fight non-stop, biting them like gadflies to suck their blood, and forced to kill this caring army. escape. And once the army is dispersed, it is even more impossible for the soldiers to return to the territory of Zhaoxin alive-there are pairs of eyes staring at them within a hundred miles!
The same thing happened once in the army of Shenghe Territory. However, Shenghe Territory was more cautious, and the 100,000 troops did not disperse, and were finally preserved. Although they retreated completely, those soldiers still felt a little nervous when they recalled what they experienced in Tian Cheng. Those Tiancheng people stared at them in the dark night, without the slightest expression on their faces, those eyes were not what normal human beings should have at all.
When the Yunyang Territory fell into civil strife, the various Yunyang sons also formed a so-called "big army", starting with tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands, but they would collapse in front of the regular army. Because those common people have not lost their basic humanity and are still afraid, so they will be extremely timid in front of a more powerful army.
But Tiancheng's people would not.
They have been so poor all these years that they have to change their sons to eat. Who is still alive who is not covered in blood? Brothers killing each other, father and son killing each other, and lovers killing each other, they have become accustomed to being cruel and ruthless, and even become numb to the feeling of death. They only know that those troops have something to eat, so they will grab it, try their best to grab it, and grab it without fear of death.
Because hunger is worse than death.
Burning feeling in stomach, dizzy feeling, unsteady walking feeling. The kind of torture like blunt knives cutting flesh has happened to them for many years. Compared with it, death may be just a kind of relief that can come in an instant.