Realm of Power

At dawn in Lanzhi City, the thin winter day gradually rose. The sunlight passed through the forest in front and reflected on a piece of charred black land. There was the camp of the Lanzhi Army recruited by Princess Mingyue. It can be seen that Princess Mingyue wanted to choose this land. A lot of thought was put into this place

The terrain is above the periphery of Lanzhi City, and the outer wall is dug out. It is condescending. There is only one road in front of it. If sufficient preparations are made, only two or three thousand people are needed to sustain it for a long time. Princess Mingyue is originally I wanted to wait until the deadline and hide here, waiting for reinforcements from the empire. Now that I think about it, I feel so cold behind my back.

At this moment, the original military camp had been reduced to ruins by trebuchets, and the only road was filled with corpses of people and horses.

Fatty and Princess Mingyue stopped their horses at the end of the bridge. The corpses all over the bridge came into view. Princess Mingyue's pretty face was like a piece of frost. Her hands holding the reins of the horses couldn't help but tighten. Under the horses' hooves, the color of the soil on the ground was Blood red, that is a layer of frozen blood,

It can be seen how tragic the battle last night was

The bridge piers are covered with red ice more than a foot long. Because too many people died, the bright red human blood flowed downwards like a stream along the gully on the bridge deck, so it became what it is today in the cold weather. This scene looks like a layer of red ice covering the ground.

The horse's hooves stepped on it, making a crunching sound, which made it even colder.

"How is Your Majesty going to deal with the bodies of these Long family dead soldiers?" Princess Mingyue looked away from the bridge with a complicated expression.

"How do you want to deal with it?" The fat man looked at her with bright eyes.

"I wonder if you can agree to my merciless request. Although these dead soldiers of the Long family are enemies, they are also Central Asians. I hope Your Majesty will not let them die in the wilderness and feed the wild beasts like this." Princess Mingyue said with a complicated expression. Gritting his teeth, his eyebrows furrowed slightly

"Are these people here to kill you?" The fat man looked slightly stunned.

"People are dead. No matter what they are here for, they are already dead. As members of the Long family, they are not wrong in sacrificing everything for the family!"

Princess Mingyue said with a forlorn look, "The royal power of Central Bia has fallen, local powerful forces have emerged, millions of people have been massacred, and tens of millions of Central Bian people have been displaced. It is natural for the Central Bian royal family to be resented. If someone really wants to do this If I am responsible, as the eldest princess of the royal family, I, Mingyue, should bear a share! As a person who has left his hometown, I just hope that these people can return to their hometown."

Fatty looked at the black smoke of the houses in the distance that had not been completely extinguished and shot straight into the sky. He sighed secretly and said, "Originally, I ordered to persuade them to surrender, but after discovering that the imperial slings were enough to destroy their defenses, the Long family people He actually launched a desperate breakout, and finally As a result, "" was shot one by one in front of the imperial crossbow, so most of the corpses on the bridge fell face down, because they were all killed in the breakout and temporarily maintained their In the forward posture, more than a thousand people, in the end, no one surrendered, With the overwhelming power of the Imperial Guards, assisted by the Imperial Heavy Crossbow, in this interception, twenty-four Guards were killed and sixty Guards were injured. The spirit of these Long family dead soldiers was indeed amazing. People admire me. Fortunately, I heard that the total number of Long family dead soldiers has never exceeded two thousand. Otherwise, if the Long family has tens of thousands of these warriors who are not afraid of death, it will be quite troublesome. ""Cermate the corpses together, and find an intermediary force to send their ashes back to the Long family," the fat man said. He raised his hand and gave instructions to a guard officer behind him.

"Yes, Your Majesty," the Guards officer replied respectfully.

Princess Mingyue sighed slightly, raised her head, and showed a sweet smile to the fat man on her beautiful face. The empire would not hesitate to go to war with the Long family for her. I am afraid that she may not be able to repay this favor even if she risks it! No matter how aloof and arrogant Princess Mingyue is, she is always a woman. Since ancient times, there has been a saying in China that a man can become a beauty because of his anger. It means that a man will not hesitate to start a war for the woman he loves. This is a manifestation of love and justice. As a A woman, no matter how cold her heart is, is already hot at this moment!

"Your Majesty, Lord Mulihe has broken through the Kaishan camp of the Long family, killed and captured more than 20,000 Long family soldiers, and captured the Long family general Long Xueshan!" At this time, an imperial guard came flying from a distance. The fat man reported in front of him and said

"Caught Long Xueshan!" The fat man grinned. "Okay, Mulihe did a good job. Long Xueshan issued a ten-day period to Lanzhi City in a grand and high-profile manner. He himself had ulterior motives and wanted to take advantage of the empire's inability to mobilize. In the absence of military strength, borrow orchid The victory in Zhicheng made the whole of Zhongbia think that the Long family was strong enough to fight against the empire, surpassing the Southern Song family who controlled the court in Zhongbia, and truly established the status of the new king of the Long family. Now that Long Xueshan has been captured by me, I will see Look how the Long family slaps themselves in the face!"

No wonder the fat man is so angry. It is obvious that your Long family wants to become the new overlord of Central and South Africa, but you shouldn't stand on my empire's head to stand out. You don't dare to fight with the grassland people, but you just... Putting the blame on the empire was 80% the idea of ​​Long Po.

The Kaishan camp of the Long family was crushed by the imperial cavalry. The tens of thousands of troops killed more than 10,000 people and captured 25,000 people. General Long Shi of the Long family was captured alive by the empire. General Long Xueshan fled to Guangbo City in embarrassment. The news came back There was an uproar immediately in Guanglin, the headquarters of the Long family! In the candle-lit hall of the Long family's headquarters, dozens of generals from the Long family were inside.

"Ever since the previous head of the family died in Yanzhou, our Long family has never suffered such a defeat." Hearing that it was the imperial cavalry who undeclared war and brazenly attacked the Kaishan camp, an experienced and steady general punched the table with his fist in anger. "That's an army of tens of thousands. How can Long Xueshan still have the honor to be alive after being defeated like this!"

"Yes, why is Long Xueshan still alive? Why was Long Shi captured? Aren't they all supposed to die in Kaishan?"

Everyone's eyes were red with anger, and all kinds of messy quarrels made the entire hall of the Long family's headquarters a mess. Some people said that Long Xueshan should apologize and commit suicide. The General of the Long family who lost tens of thousands of troops has been in chaos for decades. There is no living precedent. Some people defended Long Xueshan. Although tens of thousands of troops were lost, Yes, it does not count as escaping without permission. If Long Xueshan hadn't desperately blocked the empire's pursuing troops in Guangbo City, the empire would not only be a Kaishan, but would have broken through Guangbo City and entered the dangerous situation in the southwest hinterland. Now is not the time. Discuss how to punish Long Xueshan, but should immediately send reinforcements to support Guangbo City

"Pop!" The hall door was pushed open.

The sound of heavy footsteps came, and the generals looked over one after another, and saw several murderous Long family generals, surrounded by a white-haired veteran wearing a general's glorious armor, walking in. The veteran's figure looked very thin, but he had a pair of The eyes are flashing and the steps are heavy, but they are abnormal He was firm and steady, and the generals of the Long family who followed behind him did not say a word. They just stood behind the seat where the veteran was sitting. A solemn coldness spread invisibly around him. When he saw the veteran sitting down, the people in the hall The generals were all stunned and immediately stopped arguing.

"It's so noisy, why don't you stop arguing! The enemy has already reached the door of your home, and you are still making a fuss here, but you won't stop until the enemy reaches Guang Linchuan!" The veteran's eyes swept over each one like a sharp blade. The faces of the silent generals,

The veteran who walked in was named Long Shan. He was the general in charge of guarding the southern front of the Long family. When the dragon broke through and marched north, this veteran would be in charge of the Long family's headquarters.

In terms of seniority, even if the current head of the family, Long Po, sees him, he must respectfully call him "third uncle". As the southwest guard, the Long family not only targets Gaul, but also needs to deal with the southern mountains, especially for the Long family. It is said that when the Long family was transferred to the southwest by the court, its main task was to suppress the southern mountains. The Longshan faction was responsible for the southern front.

Over the decades, no matter how the Long family changes, the Southern Front has always been the elite of the Long Family. The veteran Long Shan has been in charge of the Southern Front for more than thirty years and is trusted by two generations of the Long family, regardless of seniority within the clan. The power to make decisions on the southern front gave him a transcendent status in the Long family.

In particular, the former head of the family, Long Yang, died in Yanzhou, and most of the generals from his faction also died in Yanzhou. One after another, the number of generals from the Long family who came from the southern front increased greatly, and this time Long broke through to the north. Jin took away most of the generals from his own family, and the rest were basically generals from the southern front.

"Sir! The Kaishan camp was defeated by the emperor's army, and tens of thousands of Long family's northern troops..." A general wanted to speak

"I already know this!" Longshan waved his hand and snorted with a heavy nose, "Although the Lanzhi City matter was arranged by the family head's secret letter, as the head of the camp, I will not push back on this disastrous defeat." If you blame other people, if you lose, you will lose. When the head of the family returns to the west, Nan, I will naturally apologize to the family leader, and the same goes for Long Xueshan. He has already sent someone to send a letter of apology to the camp. As long as the invasion of the empire is repelled this time, he, Long Xueshan, will commit suicide and apologize! So don't do this! Let’s discuss it again, or discuss how to rescue Guangbo immediately!”

"yes"

The generals nodded solemnly one by one. Most of them were once Longshan's subordinates. Facing the entire old superiors, who dares to say anything? Although Longshan is already sixty-five years old, who in the entire Long family dares to look down upon this person? A veteran who has been fighting against the Song family for decades

"In that case, you should make some plans and show your true skills. Don't let me disappoint you again!" Seeing the suppressed situation, Longshan's thin cheeks trembled slightly, and finally suppressed the situation. It is not terrible to be defeated. What is terrible is that the morale and morale of the Long family's army, which has been mobilized with great difficulty, must not be shaken by this. As long as the military morale and morale of the Long family are still there, the losses in manpower can be made up for.

The generals quickly began to lay out the battle plan. Supporting Guangbo City itself was not a complicated matter. It was just that it was in a mess and I didn't know whether to save it. Now that I had a backbone, the plan to dispatch reinforcements was soon placed in Longshan. before. After Longshan took a rough look at it, he nodded in agreement.

"Long Haiyue's Long Family's Fifth Army and Long Lin's Seventh Army immediately reinforced Guangbo. After the other armies gathered, they marched towards Guangbo with the main camp."

Longshan closed the plan book in his hand, looked at the generals, and said sternly, "I believe everyone knows how powerful the empire is, but so what, we are the Long Family, the Southwest Long Family, and it's not like we didn't follow Oppa at the beginning. We fought with the Gauls of Luo, and later we fought with the grassland people. When we entered the northwest and fought against Yanzhou and Xiadaizhou, the master of the family showed great authority to our Long family. We, the housekeepers, must not embarrass the master of the family. If anyone dares to hesitate before the battle this time, don’t blame me! Longshan's ugly words are ahead. Anyone who disobeys military orders will be killed. Do you understand?"

"Understood!" The generals all stood up and said,

"Let's all get ready!" Veteran General Longshan waved his hand, and the generals left the hall. In the entire hall, only Veteran Longshan was standing at the window, staring at the rushing Linchuan River in front of Guang Linchuan. The Long family, this time Can you really handle it?

As the guard of the Long family headquarters, he knows far more than other generals. For example, why he suddenly agreed to Long Xueshan to attack Lanzhi this time, and why he issued a ten-day period. In fact, all this is not as simple as it seems.

Long Po fought in Daizhou and gained a lot from the grassland people. The grassland people were defeated too quickly because they were maimed in the battle at Longshi Castle. Many supplies were evacuated before they could be transported away. Daizhou, as Yelu Our northern frontier defense had been hoarding supplies that could support an army of more than 100,000 for half a year. All the military supplies and supplies now fell into the hands of the Long family. With such capital, Long Po recruited young people from Central Asia in Daizhou. His strength was said to be 500,000, and his troops were directed towards the imperial capital of the Yelu family. In Pingyuan, the Long family's current military and moral support has accumulated to a considerable extent.

What the Long family lacks now is that finishing touch

Invading the Imperial Capital and regaining the core of Zhongbia will certainly allow the Long family to truly realize their dream of leaping over the Dragon Gate. However, although the grassland army was defeated miserably in Daizhou, it is still very powerful, and the number of grassland cavalry troops in each department is still considerable. It's amazing. As the main fighting force, the Yelu family is waiting for work in the Imperial Capital area, waiting to see what happens. Don't look at Long Po's slogan of breaking into the Imperial Capital. In fact, he is afraid that he is a little vain in his heart.

After all, once you enter Daizhou, there is a large area of ​​plain terrain, and the disadvantage of the Long family's infantry will be exposed. There will not be a second Dragonstone Castle for the Long family to put on a good show.

In comparison, the Imperial Lanzhi City, which has almost no defense power, is simply an excellent choice.

Lanzhi is originally under the control of the Long family. The Long family knows everything about Lanzhi's situation, and many of the wealthy families in Lanzhi are related to the Long family. The miraculous rise of Lanzhi City has also made Lanzhi City famous, and it seems to have become a central city. The most important thing about the trend of Biya Trade Center is that behind Lanzhi is a famous empire!

The whole of Central and South-Bia knows that even the ferocious grassland people are fearful of the Empire. Compared with the grassland people, the Empire is obviously a more powerful existence, and in the logical thinking of most Central and South-Bia, if the Long family defeats the Empire , that kind of glory and inspiring vanity is not when the Long family defeated the prairie people and broke into the imperial capital.

Since the Imperial Capital cannot be defeated for the time being, then the important road of Lanzhi must be taken back from the Empire! Undoubtedly, it was more cost-effective, but I didn’t expect that this time I messed up. Instead of eating the fat piece of Lanzhi, I lost two front teeth to the empire! (To be continued.)

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