Call of the Heroes of Chaos in Another World

Chapter 2191 Li Jing's Thousand Cavalry Capture Guangyang, Seizing the City Through a Clever Inside-Outside Coordination

When Ma Qianli of Zhennan led 120,000 troops northward, it was clear that the 50,000 troops under General Wang Zhen'e of Guangyin would not be able to stop him.

Just like the 120,000 troops that the Great Yan once had in Heyang, on the surface they seemed to have a lot of troops, but these troops could not possibly be gathered together.

Although everyone speculated that Li Jing would at least mobilize some troops to reinforce the area, the remaining forces would continue their fierce attack on Guangyuan County, thus striking directly at Xuanyuan Huang's flank.

However, Li Jing surprised everyone at this moment.

Of his 250,000 troops, he ostensibly left 100,000 behind to continue the attack on Guangyuan Dahong.

He then led the remaining 150,000 troops, turned his horses around, and joined forces with Wang Zhen'e to defeat Ma Qianli.

Even Wang Zhen'e thought so.

Little did he know that Li Jing had even deceived his own people.

On the way back to Guangyin, the army suddenly changed direction and headed straight for Guangyang.

Before anyone could react, or rather, before anyone had time to react, he personally led 5,000 iron cavalry, along with Liu Tianxiao, Wang Yanzhang, and others, in a surprise attack on the Guangyang government seat, directly destroying the entire command center of Guangyang in one fell swoop.

Using this as a base, and uniting with subsequent main forces, they captured Guangyang within a short period of one month.

This completely separates Zhennan and Dayan.

Although Guangyang Road was less heavily guarded than the other three roads, the Great Yan still had 50,000 troops within it.

However, they were mostly new recruits. After all, the elite troops of the Great Yan Dynasty had already been deployed to the front lines.

However, there were still 20,000 troops stationed within the Guangyang administrative center.

Li Jing led 5,000 light cavalry to attack. Even if these 20,000 soldiers were all new recruits with low combat effectiveness, they would not be able to fight against Li Jing's 5,000 light cavalry in open field battle.

However, with the Great Yan army backed by the fortified city, and under their all-out defense, it was impossible for Li Jing's five thousand troops to scale the city walls.

Not to mention, these 5,000 light cavalrymen came lightly equipped and could not possibly be carrying any heavy equipment.

Furthermore, the Great Yan Dynasty had a solid foundation of popular support in Guangyang Province, which was completely different from the situation in Heyang Province.

Li Jing was able to capture Guangyang city with a mere 5,000 light cavalry overnight, which means that someone was helping him behind the scenes.

And this person was none other than Koos, one of the two great chess pieces of the Great Han Dynasty, alongside Tetis.

To this, Li Jing could only say that arriving early is not as good as arriving at the right time.

According to his initial calculations, once the Ma family of Zhennan joined their battle...

Therefore, Li Jing was indeed prepared to return to provide reinforcements.

He initially attacked from south to north along the Heyang Road, rather than from north to south, precisely because the southern part of the Heyang Road would allow him to return to Guangyin more quickly.

However, things developed beyond his expectations. First, because of Thetis's existence, they caught Xuanyuan Changyi by the tail.

Thus, by using this strategy of besieging the stronghold and attacking reinforcements, they not only eliminated the troops of several counties in the surrounding Great Yan region in one fell swoop, but also easily captured the territory of several counties.

Moreover, they also took care of Li Mu, a key general of the Great Yan Dynasty, in the process. From then on, Guangyuan County not only lost a significant portion of its garrison but also its main commander, Li Mu.

In order to defend Guangyuan Road, Da Yan was forced to give up the entire northern part of Heyang Road, along with the northern part of Qingnan Road, which was equivalent to giving up the territory of an entire road.

This caused the battle to progress faster than Li Jing had imagined.

Meanwhile, during this incident, Li Jing finally came into contact with the "dead" Thetis.

Thus, she also revealed the existence of a person named Koos.

It was precisely because of this that Li Jing had a new idea.

Among the celestial beings of the Great Yan, Cangjie is the foremost. However, he is not currently within the Great Yan, having gone on a business trip to Weishui, just like Zhunti. It is almost impossible to see him within the Great Yan for the next year.

However, Cangjie only represents the Great Yan Dynasty, while Zhunti, in addition to representing the Great Han Dynasty, also represents Mahayana Buddhism.

The Eastern Emperor and his group did a series of things in the Great Qian Dynasty, which had a significant impact. It is said that Gu Qingzhu personally represented the academy, while Confucius, another master of equal caliber from the Confucian school, represented the Sage's Lecture Hall.

The strongest group of experts in the world have basically all gathered there now.

Therefore, the people sent by the major dynasties or feudal forces were not just any Tom, Dick, or Harry.

Besides Cangjie, Rongcheng and Qibo, the two celestial beings, were also merely cultivators with high levels of cultivation, belonging to the type who were not good at fighting. Both of them cultivated the same kind of health-preserving techniques.

Therefore, only Tethys and Coeus were able to travel on business.

One of these two people was traveling with Xuan Yuan Changyi, while the other was traveling with Chu Liang, accompanying him on a mission to the Ma family in Zhennan.

After the Ma family of Zhennan sent troops, Chu Liang naturally returned home after achieving his goal. Since he was returning to Donghai Road, he would naturally pass through Guangyang Road.

It was precisely because of this that, upon learning that such a person happened to be in Guangyang, Li Jing temporarily overturned his previous battle plan and directly decided to launch a surprise attack on the Guangyang capital with light cavalry.

When Li Jing's 5,000 troops arrived at the city gates, the soldiers inside were still in a panic and didn't know what was going on. Koos, along with the assassins from the Luo Wang organization he had contacted beforehand, launched a surprise attack on the city gates and let Li Jing's troops in.

After a night of fighting, Guangyang was completely in Li Jing's hands. Of the 20,000 soldiers in the city, only a few thousand had died in battle.

The rest had become Li Jing's prisoners.

Lu Huaizhen, the governor of Guangyang Road of the Great Yan Dynasty, along with officials Yan Di and Lu Geng, Xue Wang, the general of Guangyang Army, and the garrison commanders Bai Rao, Sui Gu, and Xin Sizhong, all died in this battle.

The East Sea Road and the Guangyang Road were the two regions with the strongest foundation of the Great Yan's rule. The important officials here were either the group that started out in the Celestial Masters Sect, or they were personally promoted by Xuanyuan Huang later.

The officials in this group all showed a strong will to resist.

However, no matter how strong their will to resist was, with their troops weak and without the protection of the city walls, coupled with Li Jing's sudden arrival, they were caught completely off guard.

Therefore, it was ultimately just a futile attempt to stop a chariot.

At the same time, also in the city, upon learning that it was Koos who had accompanied him on the mission who had become Li Jing's inside man, Chu Liang, as a high-ranking official of the Great Yan, felt ashamed to face Xuanxuan Yuanhuang again.

After realizing that there was no way to reverse the situation, he angrily drew his sword and committed suicide.