Infinite war begins with Cao thief.

Chapter 424 Liuwei Dihuang Wan Wuji Baifeng Wan and Yin Hou
Yang Guang had no choice but to retreat.

At this point, even someone as conceited as him realized that the situation was not good.

No matter how many plans and ideas he had for this Eastern Expedition, he had to give them up because life was the most important thing.

However, Yang Guang realized it too late.

Yang Guang's enemies were not only Zhuge Liang's troops in Liaodong City on the east bank of the Liaohe River, but also a large number of Dayu troops appeared on the west bank of the Liaohe River.

Jia Xu's commander-in-chief, Zhang Liao, Wutugu, Lian Po, Xu Huang, Le Jin and other legions successfully bypassed the Sui army by transporting troops by sea and landing. They appeared behind the main force of the Sui army with flags flying and high morale, not only cutting off the Sui army's retreat, but also cutting off its supply line.

When the Sui army was in a panic, Zhuge Liang's troops finally left the city, and Yue Fei's troops were also on the way.

The Sui army had no choice but to take advantage of the fact that the Dayu army had not yet completed the encirclement. They first defeated Zhuge Liang's troops who were leaving the city, cut off one arm of the Dayu army, and then concentrate all their efforts to defeat Jia Xu's troops in Hexi.

However, this choice of the Sui army was also expected by Zhuge Liang.

Zhuge Liang had even arranged the battlefield long ago.

At this time, the main force of the Sui army under Yang Guang actually numbered more than 700,000, with even more civilians and auxiliary soldiers.

This is also Yang Guang’s confidence.

After all, Yang Guang was not ignorant of military affairs. He was even the commander-in-chief who destroyed the Chen Dynasty. Of course, his knowledge of military affairs was relative. In fact, his military level was not even as good as Dong Huang's.

For the Sui army and Yang Guang, the best option at this time would be to send people to cover the rear and block the pursuers, and then the main army would force a crossing of the Liao River, defeat Jia Xu's troops or at least tear apart Jia Xu's defenses and retreat back to the borders of the Sui Dynasty.

However, Yang Guang wanted to fight.

To put it bluntly, it was his face that was at work; he didn't want to retreat in such a disgraceful manner.

As a result, just as the Sui army approached the position where Zhuge Liang's troops were deployed, a huge explosion occurred in the center of the Sui army's thick formation.

The 600 billion detonating talismans buried underground were detonated at the same time. At the center of the explosion, people and horses were all killed, and a large number of people in the surrounding areas were also killed. A large number of war horses were frightened and ran away wildly.

There were many loopholes in the Sui army's solid formation.

Taking advantage of the chaos in the Sui army, Zhuge Liang, who was very good at commanding formations, calmly commanded elite troops such as the Wudang Flying Army to charge into the Sui army. The heavy cavalry troops of Dayu then aimed at the weak points of the Sui army and began to break through them.

The Sui army fell into great chaos. Some fought back with courage, some fled in all directions, some knelt on the ground to surrender, and some were in a daze, not knowing what to do.

The Dayu cavalry almost tore the Sui army in the center into two.

In times of crisis, several generals of the Sui army stepped forward.

Yang Xuangan, who was supposed to rebel the next year, turned out to be a loyal minister this time. He showed his bravery like Xiang Yu and led part of Yang Guang's imperial guards to fight back, and actually managed to stop Huang Zhong's troops.

Yang Xuangan and Huang Zhong were actually evenly matched.

The most elite Xiaoguo Army of the Sui Dynasty also blocked Huang Zhong's troops.

However, Yang Xuangan's participation in the battle this time was not really out of loyalty, but because he realized that if no one could turn the tide, the Sui Dynasty would be doomed to a crushing defeat!

The army was defeated. In this situation where he was surrounded on three sides, Yang Xuangan could not guarantee that he could escape.

So, he was also saving himself.

He felt confident that with his bravery, he should be able to retreat calmly after this performance!

In addition to Yang Xuangan, generals Tu Wanxu, Yu Juluo and others also stepped forward and led the remaining troops under their command to fill the gap.

Li Jing, Fan Zigai, and even Li Yuan, Pei Ju and others also displayed their abilities.

These famous generals and elite soldiers fully demonstrated the strength of the military nobles and powerful soldiers who had emerged from the great waves of the Northern and Southern Dynasties.

Thanks to their efforts, the Sui army was able to reorganize its rear troops and regain the strength to fight.

However, the price paid by the Sui army was also extremely heavy. When Yang Xuangan turned around to escape, he was shot in the back by Huang Zhong and died; generals such as Tu Wanxu and Yu Juluo also died in the battle, and the troops they led were basically wiped out.

The front troops of the Sui army were almost wiped out.

In just one engagement, the Sui Dynasty lost more than 200,000 people.

It is a pity that Yang Guang did not seize the opportunity that his ministers fought so hard for.

Yang Guang panicked and hesitated on whether to fight or retreat.

Yang Guang did not push his army into a desperate battle, but ordered Wang Rengong to lead the troops to cover the rear, while he personally led the army to retreat.

Being the last one to leave here is actually no different from committing suicide.

As a loyal minister, Wang Rengong could only obey orders.

Wang Rengong wanted to hold the camp to the death and wait for the main force of the Sui army to cross the river before breaking out, but the army with low morale was quickly defeated by Zhuge Liang's troops. Wang Rengong was killed by his men and surrendered with his head held high.

At this time, only one-third of Yang Guang's army had crossed the river.

When about half of Yang Guang's army had crossed the river, the Dayu army in Hexi finally launched an attack.

Wutugu's elephant soldiers took the lead.

The Colossus, which has been selected and cultivated in multiple worlds and is equipped with heavy armor driven by 108 regeneration cores, is a heavily armored monster on the battlefield.

Not to mention powerful bows and crossbows, even the bed crossbows in this world may not be able to break the defense.

The elephants charged forward invincibly and no enemy dared to stop them.

A small number of Sui soldiers wanted to resist with spears, but the spears pierced the heavy armor, only producing sparks, and the spear shafts broke immediately, and the soldiers holding the spears were trampled into meat paste by the elephants.

The heavily armored war elephants that move as fast as the wind are terrifying enough. The giant warriors like Wutugu on the war elephants are not easy to deal with either. They wield heavy weapons, are invincible, and can wipe out a large area with one sweep.

When the level difference is not big, the advantage of size is very terrifying.

The Mo Dao, which was dozens of meters long, could shatter both the man and the horse when it was swept across.

The Sui army's vanguard suffered heavy losses and had no desire to resist.

Even Yang Guang lost his momentum and was terrified.

"Someone, come and protect the emperor! Quickly protect the emperor!"

Yang Guang was about to tremble.

When Wutugu's troops launched the attack, Zhuge Liang's troops, Yue Fei's troops and Jiang Qin's navy troops also arrived one after another and successfully divided Yang Guang's army on both sides of the Liaohe River, making it impossible to take care of both ends.

The battle lasted for half a day and the Sui army suffered heavy losses. However, because it had too many famous generals and elite soldiers, the Sui army still managed to hold its camp and was surrounded by the Dayu army.

Yang Guang decided to fight a desperate battle.

However, what he didn't know was that most of Dayu's current senior generals had defeated Han Xin, the top commander in the "Back to the River" battle.

Before Yang Guang's army had the chance to fight a decisive battle, they were already feeling the pain of being attacked from all sides.

A large number of Sui soldiers who had been captured by Yue Fei's troops and those defeated by Dayu's troops in recent days sang Sui songs outside the tents.

The morale of the Sui army plummeted.

At the suggestion of his famous generals, Yang Guang ordered a breakout from all sides, and gave the dragon robes and ceremonial guards to his death squads. He then changed into ordinary cavalry uniforms and fled among the crowd. However, just as the Sui army took action, they were ambushed by the Dayu army from all sides.

The Dayu army, which had the advantage in reconnaissance, hardly let a single enemy escape.

Yang Guang, whose identity was not recognized, was also surrounded on a small hill.

By this time, Yang Guang knew he could not escape and was unwilling to surrender, so he finally chose to hang himself on a crooked tree.

During the entire battle, most of the Sui army's generals, including Yang Xuangan, Yuwen Shu, Wang Rengong, Mai Tiezhang, Lai Huer, Tu Wanxu, etc., were killed in battle. A small number of generals, such as Li Yuan, chose to surrender. In total, more than 700,000 Sui soldiers were taken prisoner.

Of course, Dayu also suffered heavy losses, and its elite troops suffered the greatest losses since the battle with Qin.

Over 200,000 regenerative cores were lost due to destruction or overuse.

Every regeneration core represents the life of a ninja or White Zetsu!
However, although the losses were great, the gains were even greater.

After the entire Liaodong Campaign, the qualifications of all the soldiers participating in the Dayu Army have been improved to a certain extent, and some personnel, especially low-level personnel, have achieved a breakthrough in their realm.

Dayu has become stronger in terms of both foundation and strength.

Even Dong Huang, who was working on Hou Xin, felt that he could last longer.

And with Dong Huang's initial efforts, Hou Xin's realm finally achieved a breakthrough, reaching the eighth level of mythology, and soared all the way to the peak of the eighth level of mythology.

Before, Hou Xin’s accumulation was actually enough, and what she lacked was just the finishing touch. Now that Dong Huang had broken through, it was natural for her to break through again.

With the density of spiritual energy in this world, Hou Xin even felt that she could break through to the ninth level of mythology.

While the decisive battle was taking place in Liaodong, other people from Dayu were also busy.

Commander Fa Zheng led his own troops as well as the troops of Xu Huang, Wei Qing, Wei Liao, Zhang Han, Wang Li, Wanyan Chen Heshang and others to attack across the sea. Fa Zheng sent Wei Qing to lead another force to launch a surprise attack on Linyu Pass (Shanhai Pass) and capture Beiping County. He personally led the main force to advance by land and water along the Yongji Canal and directly capture the Li County.

(Publish a roadmap for advancement)

At this time, the defenses of the Youzhou counties were at their weakest. Even the civilians were mobilized to transport supplies to the front line, and the garrison was extremely weak.

Fa Zheng's troops easily occupied Zhuo County, and Wei Qing also raided and captured Linyu Pass.

At this time, the most organized resistance force in the entire Youzhou was actually Luo Yi's troops.

Previously, when Emperor Yang of Sui sent troops to the east, he ordered Luo Yi to lead the army in Xinchang County, the capital of Beiping County (now Jianchangying Town, Qian'an City, Hebei Province). Under him were the Tiger Guards Zhao Shizhu, Helan Yi, Jin Wenyan and others, as well as more than 30,000 troops.

The only choices before Luo Yi now are surrender and retreat.

After hesitating for a while, Luo Yi chose to surrender, and set up a banquet to invite Zhao Shizhu and others who were also Tiger Guards. After three rounds of drinks, Luo Yi was about to persuade them, but he didn't expect that Zhao Shizhu and others would speak first to test Luo Yi's thoughts and show their intention to surrender.

Historically, Zhuo County was rich in resources, with good weapons, full granaries, and a lot of treasures, which attracted many thieves to invade and plunder. The officials who stayed behind, such as Tiger Guards Zhao Shizhu, Helan Yi, and Jin Wenyan, were unable to resist, and only Luo Yi went out alone and killed countless enemies.

Later, Luo Yi killed Zhao Shizhu and others and established himself as king in Youzhou.

In this time and space, when Luo Yi saw that everyone had the same idea as him, he burst into laughter, then smashed the cup as a signal, and his men rushed in and chopped Zhao Shizhu and others into meat paste.

"Father, they are willing to surrender, why do we still need to..."

Luo Cheng, who firmly carried out Luo Yi's order and led the executioners to kill people, couldn't help but ask after the killing.

Luo Yi waved his hand and asked everyone else to leave. He then said to his son, "If you surrender with them, the credit will belong to everyone. If you kill them and surrender, and tell Dayu that it was us who killed those who didn't want to surrender and then surrendered the whole city, then the credit will belong to us!"

Luo Cheng bowed in admiration.

With Luo Yi's surrender, more and more cities in Youzhou chose to surrender. At this time, Dayu also entered the pass with the body of Emperor Yang of Sui and a large number of surrendered soldiers. Dayu implemented a strategy of light taxes and levies, reducing labor while opening warehouses to release grain. Youzhou was quickly pacified.

The main force of Dayu in the north was then divided into three routes. One route went south to pacify Hebei, one route went west to attack Shanxi, and the last route was led by Yue Fei, Wei Qing, and Huo Qubing to attack the Turks.

At this time, the combat effectiveness of the Dayu army had generally improved, and large numbers of them had broken through their original realms. In terms of the level of naked soldiers, they were no less than the world's top elite. However, Dayu also had the advantages of equipment and logistics, which was enough to support Dayu's attack on three fronts.

In addition to these three groups of people, Dayu’s previous back-up plan was also launched at the same time.

Cheng Yu and Han Xin sent out their troops. Cheng Yu attacked Wagang and established Wagang Stronghold, while Han Xin adopted a strategy of luring the enemy deep into his territory. Then he fought a real battle at Weishui. He defeated Zhang Xutuo's troops without using almost any army of Dayu, but only relying on the indigenous troops he had conquered along the way.

Zhang Xutuo and his generals Fan Hu and Tang Wanren were killed in the battle, while Qin Qiong, Luo Shixin, Jia Runfu and others surrendered.

Han Xin then divided his troops and marched south to capture Yishui and other places. It was only a matter of time before he took over Shandong.

Xiang Yan's troops captured important places such as Pengcheng and approached Jiangdu.

Jiangnan, Haojing.

The ones in charge of the battle here were mainly the female generals under Dong Huang, including Queen Zhu Rong, Hua Man, Lü Lingqi, Huang Yueying, Wang Yi, Sun Shangxiang, Huang Wudie, Ma Yunlu, Hu Sanniang, Bu Lianshi, Liang Hongyu, Lu Meng, Zhang Yulan, Zhang Qiying...

The tigresses who had been holding back for too long, with the cooperation of the navy, cut off Wang Shichong's retreat. Queen Zhurong injured Wang Shichong with a flying knife and captured him alive.

Lu Lingqi and others went to Yuhang.

Liu Yuanjin and others who ruled a certain area were panicked, but they still went out of the city to fight a decisive battle under the instigation of the war agent.

As a result, the female generals dispatched more than 30 "Golden Men" at once, directly overturning the military formation of Liu Yuanjin and the war agent coalition forces.

Female generals like Lu Lingqi who did not like being restrained rode their horses into battle, like gusts of wind, tearing apart the last courage of Liu Yuanjin's troops.

Liu Yuanjin, Guan Chong and others were killed, and all of Liu Yuanjin's subordinates surrendered.

The female general's army then headed north and joined forces with Xiang Yan's troops to capture the city of Jiangdu.

At this time, the Hebei area, which was not sufficiently prepared, was also completely occupied by Dayu.

At this point, from the Northeast to North China, Shandong and then to Jiangdong, they were all occupied by Dayu.

The world was shocked.

Yang You, the King of Dai who was guarding Chang'an, hastily proclaimed himself emperor with the support of his ministers. He was eight years old (in lunar years).

Yang You was the grandson of Yang Guang. His father was Prince Yuande Yang Zhao and his mother was Concubine Wei.

Because Yang You was young, the ministers asked Yang Guang's queen, Empress Xiao, now known as Empress Dowager Xiao, to act as regent.

Empress Xiao was gentle, intelligent, well-educated, naturally beautiful, and still had charm. She was nicknamed the Emperor of Six Flavors.

Legend has it that after Yu Wenzhi murdered the emperor and became emperor, he took Yang Guang's concubines into his harem and loved Empress Xiao, who was 51 years old at the time, very much;
After Dou Jiande killed Yu Wenhuaji, he was also amazed by Empress Xiao, who was in her 50s, and he reveled in music and dance every day.

After that, there was his brother-in-law, Choro Khan;

After Chuluo Khan died, he and Chuluo Khan's wife, who was also Emperor Wen of Sui's cousin, were given to Chuluo Khan's younger brother, Jie Li Khan.
Finally, it was passed on to the Heavenly Khan Li Shimin...

In short, this is also a woman riding.

Dressed as an empress dowager and ruling the country from behind the curtain, there is a special charm to it.

If Dong, who is known for playing with black chickens and hundreds of phoenixes, saw this, he would definitely lose control.

However, Dong Huang is still unable to get Empress Xiao who is far away in Chang'an. He can only interrogate Empress Zhu Yuyan who has fallen into the trap to calm her nerves...

I can only say that there is only a wrong name, not a wrong nickname, Yin Hou lives up to his reputation...

(End of this chapter)