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Chapter 831: Chapter 356 The Overall Situation is Set_3

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The fact proved that Lu Yuan’s strategy of holding firm on the main battlefield was extremely correct.

In the secondary battlefield of Jiangbei Xiangyang Prefecture, Zhou Qing seized the opportunity for a breakthrough due to the influence of the main battlefield.

The other two fronts, already significantly advantageous in the Lingnan Battlefield, didn’t require support from Lu Yuan’s main forces to gain an enormous advantage right from the start.

On the 27th day of the ninth month in the tenth year of Shenwu, Qingyunzi led 160,000 Chu troops southward, attacking Southsea Country in Lingnan.

Since Southsea Country had decided to defend the capital, the other prefectures, having deployed a large number of their elite troops, became extremely vulnerable and were quickly conquered by the Chu army without much effort.

In just half a month, the Chu army spent their time marching and taking over the cities they encountered along the way.

By the time Qingyunzi led the large army to the vicinity of Nanhai City, six prefectures to the north and west had already changed banners, submitting to Chu State.

However, by this time, the reinforcements from Ning Country had also marched south from Yuzhang, arriving from the east almost at the same time as the Chu army at Nanhai City.

Subsequently, Qingyunzi took the initiative to engage the reinforcing Ning army in battle outside Nanhai City, resulting in several large clashes.

The Southsea Army, accustomed to a tortoise retreat, displayed their longstanding tradition by simply hiding within the city walls, watching the Chu army battle it out with the Ning army.

Only after being unable to withstand the requests and threats of the Ning army did they reluctantly deploy an army of 50,000 civilian workers to assist the Ning army against the Chu forces.

But the Southsea reinforcements might as well have not come at all; once they arrived, the Ning army, which had been holding its own against the Chu forces, suddenly experienced a turn for the worse.

The hastily summoned civilian workers were not only potentially unfamiliar with swords and spears, but also completely clueless about military formations, recognizing banners, and other martial knowledge.

Such a ragtag army might just barely be useful for throwing stones or pouring sewage from atop of the city walls,

but sending them out to face the Chu army, which had seldom lost a battle across the world, was tantamount to handing over military achievements to the enemy.

As a result, after the Southsea Army joined the battlefield, the Ning forces, which had been evenly matched with the Chu Army, suddenly revealed a huge vulnerability, which was swiftly detected by Qingyunzi.

He immediately ordered Li Xiong to lead a chosen group of elite troops in a fierce attack on the Southsea Army’s formation, routing the ragtag army in moments, sending them fleeing in a disastrous defeat across the battlefield.

After that, things became simple—chasing down the fugitive soldiers, striking the Ning army’s camp.

Seizing the opportunity of the enemy’s defeat and low morale, Li Xiong led his troops to repeatedly break through Ning People’s formations and even reached the opponent’s encampment in one go, capturing several Ning camps and taking over ten thousand Ning fighters prisoners.

Qingyunzi too, on the main battlefield, took advantage of the flanking collapse and rising panic within the Ning army, launching a fierce assault.

Eventually, the Ning forces could not hold on and retreated in a great rout while the Chu forces pressed on with the pursuit, gaining numerous captures and surrenders.

Even an Inborn Grandmaster from Ning was seriously injured by Qingyunzi when he saw the opportunity, nearly dying on the battlefield.

Even though he narrowly escaped with his life, he lost a great deal of his fighting ability and would not be of much use until his injuries healed.

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This major victory not only led to the Chu army’s decimation of Southsea Country’s 50,000 makeshift soldiers but also resulted in over ten thousand Ning casualties, the capture of over twenty thousand and the destruction of more than thirty thousand of Ning’s main force, including severe injury to one of their Inborn Grandmasters.

Taking into account the previous battles’ gains, the one hundred thousand troops sent by Ning to Southsea Country had suffered losses exceeding fifty thousand, essentially losing their main force.

The remaining forty thousand surviving soldiers could no longer match the Chu forces and had retreated to below Nanhai City to re-establish their camp, depending on the city’s Southsea Army, hunkering down and steadfastly refusing to come out.

Qingyunzi took advantage of the situation to attack the city walls and camps, and after realizing that little advantage could be gained, he led the main force to encamp outside the city, surrounding and constraining the united army of Two Countries besieging Southsea City.

Then, he ordered Li Xiong to lead a detached army eastward to attack three other prefectures on the eastern side of Ning Country.

By the time he returned with his army, of the one county and ten prefectures of Nanhai Country, only the last stronghold of Southsea City remained, stubbornly resisting the great army of Chu State.

To resist The World with a single corner was naturally unsustainable in the long run.

Within Southsea City were more than a hundred thousand soldiers and horses, and several hundred thousand civilians. The astronomical amount of grain consumed every day by men and horses was immense.

The opponent, even if they intended to defend the city to the death, would not be able to hold out for long.

The fall of Southsea City and the downfall of Nanhai Country were as certain as a nail hammered into a board, just a matter of time.

The Chu army on the eastern route of Lingnan had already gained absolute advantage on the battlefield.

Not only was Qingyunzi’s side progressing smoothly, but Lan Cai’er’s side was also making equally pleasing progress.

After receiving the tasks assigned by Lu Yuan, the Queen, accompanied by Han Hu, immediately headed south, rushing to Lingling Prefecture. There, she took command of the seventy thousand troops already assembled locally, and blocked the United Army at Yue City Pass.

After several great wars, relying on the strength of the Male Pass and the fortress, like Lu Yuan in Jiangxia, they fiercely dashed the spirits of Su Xuange and others, holding the United Army below Guan City.

Besides guarding the pass, Lan Cai’er also ordered Shi Hanliang, the Qianzhong Defense, and Li River, the Grand General of Chilih Country, to jointly dispatch 140,000 troops to attack Tonghai County of Su Country from behind.

Su Country was already short on soldiers, and had only left 10,000 prefectural and county soldiers in Tonghai County to suppress the region; even if they mobilized civilian workers, the sparse local population of just one or two hundred thousand couldn’t muster up twenty or thirty thousand people.

Ultimately, in less than half a month, the entire Tonghai County fell directly into Chu hands as the army passed through.

Then, the two Inborn Grandmasters, along with the 140,000-strong army, entered Yulin County, and Su Country, vulnerable in the rear, could not resist. In a short time, most of the prefectures and counties had already fallen.

Su Xuange at the front line received the news and was so frightened that he led his troops to retreat overnight, fleeing all the way back to Yulin City.

As for Xie Ning’s seventy thousand Song Army, they were sold out completely.

Eventually, under a pincer attack from Chu forces, they were utterly defeated. Even Xie Ning himself, under the joint assault of several Inborn Grandmasters, fled severely wounded.

Thus, the entire seventy thousand Song Army was annihilated, with only their sovereign escaping on horseback, his life spared.

The Su-Song United Army had become a complete joke.

Even to the extent that Xie Ning, who narrowly escaped death, upon returning to his country, immediately executed the son whom Su Xuange had sent to Song Country as a hostage, in order to vent his fury.

The Two Countries became sworn enemies, never again able to ally.

Meanwhile, Lan Cai’er, having achieved a great victory and gathered up the prisoners, led the more than two hundred thousand-strong army magnificently into Yulin County, besieging Su Country’s capital, Yulin City.

Inside the city were only Su Xuange himself and the ragtag array of forty thousand demoralized soldiers he had managed to scrape together.

Under the siege of four Inborn Grandmasters and the more than two hundred thousand-strong Chu army, the fall of Yulin City, like the extinction of Nanhai Country, was also just a matter of time.

The Two Routes of Lingnan, with Lu Yuan’s deliberate diversion of resources, had finally borne fruit, yielding sweet rewards.

In this decisive battle over Jiangnan, the overall situation of Chu State had been set.