Traveling the Heavens in Thunderbolt

Chapter 1117: Storm Rising at the Gate of Jubei City

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When Yuan Tingshang led the elite troops from Liaodong to arrive, Xu Gong, who was confident of his military advantage, immediately ordered the entire army to attack.

Qi Shence and Yuan Tingshan led their troops to attack the weak points of the Chu army's defense line. After suffering huge casualties, they finally broke through the Chu army's defense line.

The Chu army began to retreat, and Xu Gong ordered a pursuit in order to achieve his goal in one battle.

The natural result was that he stepped into the trap carefully prepared for him by Zhang Bianguan.

In the days of attack and defense with Xu Gong, Zhang Bianguan chose to combine the real and the fake, thus revealing his flaws.

After Xu Gong attacked, he created the illusion that the defense line was broken by the elite troops of Yuan Tingshan and Qi Shence.

They retreated for more than thirty miles, abandoning countless supplies, weapons, and battle flags along the way, creating the illusion that they were defeated and fleeing.

Xu Gong was fooled as expected. Seeing that the opportunity to end the stalemate at the West Wall was right in front of him, he continued to lead his troops in pursuit.

Zhang Bianguan had already sent his elite teammate Han Liangchen to lead an ambush from behind.

After Zhang Bianguan retreated to the designated location, he immediately turned around and counterattacked.

The Chu army, which had been lurking for a long time, attacked from the flanks and rear of the Liyang army.

Under the attack from three sides, Li Yang was defeated and his 130,000 troops were dispersed in one fell swoop. Qi Shence, who Li Yang had high hopes for, was killed by Han Liangchen in the chaos.

If Yuan Tingshan had not led his elite guards to risk their lives to rescue Xu Gong from the encirclement of the Chu army, I am afraid that Xu Gong would have died in the West Wall Fortress.

When Xu Gong and Yuan Tingshan returned to the camp, they saw Chen Zhibao, who had been waiting for a long time and had repelled the sneak attack of the Chu army.

It turned out that Chen Zhibao saw that Xu Gong would fall into Zhang Bianguan's trap this time.

After Xu Gong led the army in the camp to leave, Chen Zhibao immediately mobilized all the 3,000 men in the city and took over the 5,000 men left behind by Xu Gong in the camp without any hindrance.

Soon after Chen Zhibao took over the camp again, he received news of Xu Gong's defeat.

Chen Zhibao arranged for people to receive the escaped soldiers and horses while building defensive fortifications in the camp, waiting for the arrival of the Chu army.

During this nearly one year, Chen Zhibao had fought with Zhang Bianguan many times, and he knew that he would never miss any opportunity when facing the enemy.

Sure enough, not long after receiving the news of the defeat at the front line, the Chu army arrived.

However, after seeing Chen Zhibao's flag, they made a symbolic attack and then retreated without hesitation.

Zhang Bianguan also understood his opponent Chen Zhibao. The main forces of his army were on Xu Gong's side, and the one that could be sent to attack the Liyang camp was only a small detachment of the Chu army.

We had already given orders that if we saw Chen Zhibao's flag in the Liyang camp, we could withdraw.

With Zhang Bianguan's order, the Chu general of this detachment did not want to fight at all and withdrew to join the main force of the Chu army.

In this battle, Zhang Bianguan beheaded 80,000 people and captured more than 30,000 Liyang soldiers.

If Chen Zhibao had not gathered the remaining soldiers in time and defended the camp, Xu Gong and Yuan Tingshan would have died in the west wall.

The Chu army, led by Zhang Bianguan, will march into the Lianghuai territory, an important tax-collecting area of ​​Liyang.

The news of Xu Gong's defeat and Qi Shence's death in battle spread back to Tai'an City, shocking the court and the public in Liyang.

After the battle on the Southern Xinjiang Road, Li Yang suffered another major defeat.

After this battle, only 20,000 of the 130,000 soldiers were left. Zhang Bianguan showed his sharp claws to the world and became the new military saint of Western Chu after Ye Baikui.

In response to this, Zhao Zhuan summoned Qi Yanglong and others to the Yangshen Palace after the court was dismissed for a day-long discussion and reached a conclusion.

Zhang Bianguan had to be dealt with by Chen Zhibao, so Li Yang reappointed Chen Zhibao as the commander of the West Wall and immediately replenished his troops to 80,000.

Just to suppress Zhang Bianguan and prevent him from breaking into the important areas of Lianghuai.

As for the defeated Xu Gong, Li Yang also gave him a punishment, demoting him to General of Jizhou, and asked him to return to Jizhou to continue to manage the defense line and concentrate on dealing with possible attacks from Beiliang. Yuan Tingshan, as a guest army, was not the commander in chief of this battle, and he saved Xu Gong in the battle.

Therefore, Li Yang was not punished and was allowed to return to serve under Gu Jiantang.

It was also because of this great defeat that the Li Yang Dynasty finally woke up to the idea of ​​turning the tide of the war by taking down the Western Wall.

Since the western wall is at a stalemate, if we want to break the deadlock, we can only find a way from Lu Xiangsheng.

Therefore, Li Yang continued to increase his support for Lu Xiangsheng.

This was also an important reason why Lu Xiangsheng was able to counterattack after being stationed in Jiangnan Road for less than a year.

During this period, the Li Yang martial arts world was also not idle. Thanks to the intentional guidance of Xuanyuan Qingfeng, the leader of the martial arts world, and the publicity of a group of martial artists who had returned from Beiliang before, the heroic deeds of Beiliang in the battle between Liang and Mang were constantly circulated among the people.

A ballad was sung across the Central Plains.

You only see, you only see the thousands of carp jumping over the Dragon Gate in Tingchao Lake! But you don’t see the countless famous stone tablets on Qingliang Mountain!

You only see the skulls on the gourd-shaped roofs of the Jingguan. But you don’t see the dead skeletons supporting each other under the high walls.

You only see, you only see the horses whistling in the west wind in the north of Liangzhou! But you don’t see the sound of reading books coming out of the broken hut in the south of the border!

You only see, you only see 300,000 cavalrymen, the best in the world! But you don’t see the people of Beiliang, every household is in mourning, and the Central Plains can enjoy peace!

This song tells the tragic story of Northern Liang during the Liang-Mang war.

It also made those who had experienced the war in the South realize something, something they had ignored for a long time.

How did Beiliang, a vassal state of a foreign king with only three states, defeat Beimang with a million soldiers without the support of Liyang?

This achievement was something that even the two Liao border armies that the Liyang Dynasty had always boasted about had never achieved.

The song was sung throughout Liyang, and the imperial court continued to sing it despite repeated bans.

Therefore, when a new round of war between Liang and Mang was about to begin, many martial artists chose to enter Beiliang and rush to Jubei City.

Among these people are Yu Xinlang, Jiang Fuding, Yu Dilong and a group of young martial arts masters.

Wu Jian, the owner of the Wu family sword tomb, together with Wu Liuding and Wu Cuihua, brought the Wu family's hundred swords to Jubei City.

On the Autumnal Equinox in the third year of Xiangfu, the Northern Liang King Xu Fengnian personally led 300,000 Northern Liang infantry and cavalry to station troops to defend the northern city.

Beimang took out its last trump card, and sent out 400,000 infantry and cavalry, but the commander turned out to be Tuoba Bodhisattva, the military god of Beimang who was supposed to fall from grace because of the destruction of his magic weapon.

According to the intelligence sent back by Fushuifang, Tuoba Bodhisattva not only did not lose his strength, but his strength was even greater than during the first war between Liang and Mang.

Only Xu Fengnian knows the reason behind this.

Tuoba Bodhisattva's comeback is not a good thing for Beiliang.

With his prestige and strength in Beimang, he is able to suppress all voices of dissatisfaction.

Dong Zhuo, Yang Yuanzan, Li Mibi and other important ministers and generals of the Northern Mang all served under him.

Even the Crown Prince of Beimang, the heir to the throne, and his Crown Princess, Han Gu from Qilejian Mansion, served in Tuoba Bodhisattva's army and went to the front line to boost the morale of the Beimang army.

Even the Qiexue Army, which was the last barrier guarding the imperial court, was ordered to be led by Tuoba Bodhisattva.

The Queen of Beimang has made up her mind about this battle, and she will die if she fails.

The same is true for Beiliang. The Great Snow Dragon Cavalry, the Dragon Elephant Army, the White Horse Righteous Army... Yuan Zuozong, Chu Lushan, Yan Wenluan, Zhou Kang, Lu Dayuan... and other world-famous elite soldiers and veterans of Beiliang gathered in Jubei City.

Both Beimang and Beiliang put out almost all of their elite troops to stage a decisive battle in Jubei City, a new city that had been built less than two years ago, to determine the future fate of the world.

(End of this chapter)