The spring of the fourteenth year of Tiancheng.
The northern army was divided into three groups with great momentum. Jiang Yuan served as the commander-in-chief of the Chinese army and gnawed the hardest bone. He went all the way south, passing through Youzhou and Qingzhou and heading straight to Cangzhou.
Cangzhou is the gateway to Zhongzhou, and the general stationed in Cangzhou is named Xue Cheng, who can be regarded as one of the best among the new generation of the Liang Dynasty.
Although Xie Wujie does not understand politics and military affairs, at least he listens to advice, and he can see into people's hearts and know whether what others say is lying to him or the truth.
Hence, there are no problems with the civil and military officials he has appointed in recent years. At the very least, it ensures that the Liang Dynasty is surrounded by foreign enemies and will not be in chaos during successive years of war.
And Xue Cheng is the top general who has emerged in recent years.
Not only that, the Liang Dynasty was also researching new weapons after the battle with the Northern Territory.
Although they were unable to reproduce all the new weapons in the North one-to-one, they were able to reproduce a lot of horseshoes, stirrups, repeating crossbows and compound bows.
These weapons were used on the battlefield, and it was difficult for the Chiyue Dynasty, Dayan Dynasty, and Tianshui Dynasty to parry.
As early as he noticed the movement of troops in the north, Xue Cheng began to build fortifications and asked Tiancheng Emperor Xiao Yan to send more troops. At the same time, he was also gathering troops from Cangzhou.
Now the entire Cangzhou has gathered 400,000 soldiers and horses, which is almost the limit.
Xue Cheng had no idea whether he could defeat the 300,000-strong army of Prince Zhenbei, because at least half of his 400,000-strong army were new recruits.
Among the remaining 200,000 troops, half have never seen blood, and they have to face the 300,000 tiger and wolf divisions equipped with new weapons.
The gateway to Cangzhou is rejected by Beiguan.
Xue Cheng stood on the city tower wearing armor, looking at the northern army like a torrent of steel, and couldn't help but feel chilled in his heart.
Tiancheng Emperor Xiao Yan ordered him to defend Cangzhou and not to put the northern army into Zhongzhou, but he felt that he might not be able to defend it for even a year.
"Heavy ballista, smash the city gate to pieces!"
Jiang Yuan led the army to Jubei Pass and started fighting without saying a word.
Because this pass was newly built in the past two years, and he didn't like the name very much, more than a dozen specially-made heavy-duty crossbow carts were pulled up, and three Zhenqi realm martial arts masters worked together to open it.
咻咻咻咻!
· Putting on the special crossbow arrows, there are thirty crossbow arrows in one shot, and more than five hundred crossbow arrows are sent out in one round. When fired on the city wall, it can shoot directly through the thick city wall, and when shot on the thick city gate, it can also directly penetrate.
Soon the city gate was beaten into a sieve and collapsed to the ground with a bang. The soldiers behind the city gate who were pressing the city gate had already been shot with their bones scattered everywhere!
Jubei Pass was broken open in this way!
"You haven't fought yet, are you losing like this?"
Xue Cheng looked at the northern army approaching the city, and a sense of despair arose spontaneously.
"Since we have admitted defeat, is it necessary to continue fighting this battle?"
I don't know when, Jiang Yuan came to the gate tower of Jubeiguan.
"There are assassins, protect the general!"
Soldiers on both sides of the city gate tower saw Jiang Yuan's arrival and raised their spears to attack Jiang Yuan. Jiang Yuan slapped his sleeve on the left and his sleeve on the right. Hundreds of soldiers were all thrown away by him, unable to resist!
"Your Highness, please stop, we are willing to surrender!"
Xue Cheng very aware of current affairs knelt down on one knee and bowed to Jiang Yuan.
"Aren't you going to fight again?"
Jiang Yuan said with a smile.
"If I swear to the death and refuse to surrender, His Highness the Prince may just move his fingers and I will die. At that time, whoever commands this army will be killed by His Highness the Prince, and the army will always be leaderless."
"Although Cangzhou has assembled an army of 400,000 people, less than half of them are capable of fighting. Now that the city gate has been broken, if we really have to engage in a close encounter with the northern army, it will only increase casualties."
Xue Cheng said truthfully.
The heavy ballista shot directly into the city gate made of fine iron, and the prince of the north, who was known as the one above heaven and man, instantly appeared in front of him. From that moment on, Xue Cheng knew that he had been defeated!
Good.
"Reorganize your troops and follow me to conquer the whole territory of Cangzhou. Then you can lead your troops to the customs town to help Marshal Jiang Han."
"I know that Tiancheng Emperor Xiao Yan is your old master, and I don't want you to fight with him."
Jiang Yuan helped Xue Cheng up, patted his shoulder and said.
Knowing what the Lord said before, you have killed Emperor Tiancheng a long time ago, I think you are right. Emperor Tiancheng has been dead for a long time. The person I am loyal to now does not understand military affairs at all, so naturally he cannot be Emperor Tiancheng. "
Xue Cheng said.
As a new general in the Liang Dynasty, he naturally went to the imperial capital many times to meet with Tiancheng Emperor Xiao Yan.
He felt that something was wrong with Tiancheng Emperor Xiao Yan. He spoke intermittently, like an old man who had suffered a stroke, and his thinking was not very clear. When talking to him, he sometimes answered questions that he did not understand.
So from that time on, he suspected that the other party was not Tiancheng Emperor Xiao Yan at all, because he had known Tiancheng Emperor Xiao Yan a long time ago, and he knew that the other party was not that kind of person at all.
"It is indeed Tiancheng Emperor Xiao Yan who is in the imperial court now, but now he is a walking corpse controlled by others. The real Tiancheng Emperor Xiao Yan was killed by me as early as the winter of Tiancheng's ninth year."
Jiang Yuan briefly told Xue Cheng the truth of the matter, and Xue Cheng couldn't help but feel horrified after hearing this.
It turns out that what he met several times when he entered the imperial court was a walking corpse that was controlled by someone.
Taiyin Sect, Xie Wujie.
It’s simply terrible!
Jiang Yuan opened the gate of Cangzhou almost without a fight. He reorganized his troops at Tianju Beiguan. The 400,000 troops under Xue Cheng's command were selected and streamlined, becoming an army of 150,000.
Combined with Jiang Yuan's 300,000 troops, they turned into 450,000 northern troops, and it took three months to occupy the entire Cangzhou.
Jiang Yuan left a hundred thousand troops to guard various parts of Cangzhou, and then added another hundred thousand troops from Xue Cheng's army and dispersed them into various camps.
Finally, 50,000 northern elite troops were allocated to Xue Cheng, who were combined with the remaining 50,000 troops under his command, and ordered to march eastward to aid Jiang Han.
This time he asked Jiang Han not only to guard the town customs, but also to take the initiative and attack the Tianshui Dynasty!
Jiang Yuan still led an army of 300,000 to knock on the gate of Zhongzhou.
Zhongzhou is fertile and wild for thousands of miles, and there are endless plains as far as the eye can see. Although there are many passes in Zhongzhou, it is simply impossible to defend them with the current military strength of the Liang Dynasty.
Jiang Yuan came to Zhongzhou and killed 18 generals of the Daliang Dynasty clan within one month. He completely occupied the entire territory of Zhongzhou within three months. He then sent 150,000 troops to guard Zhongzhou. He himself took the remaining 150,000 elites to besiege the capital of Daliang Dynasty!
"Xie Wujie, come out and speak!"
Jiang Yuan was riding on the back of the innate black tiger monster and said loudly, his voice shaking all directions.
Soon a middle-aged man wearing a black robe appeared on the gate tower of the north gate of the imperial capital.
Beside him, hundreds of corpses of martial arts masters followed him. He looked at Jiang Yuan with a terrifyingly gloomy expression.
He is Xie Wujie, a disciple of the Taiyin Sect from the great world of cultivation!
After four years, Jiang Yuan and he finally met face to face.
"I have seen you."
"But you have never seen me!"
"What do you want to do today when you lead an army to besiege the imperial capital?"
< br/> "Are you provoking me?"
"You should know my origin. Since you know, you still dare to come here, are you really looking for death?"
h Xie Wujie said coldly.
I saw the evil energy rolling around him, turning into a terrifying skull in the sky. The skull synchronized with him, and the sound vibrated in all directions, full of intimidation.