The soldiers of the Immortal Golden Immortal were hungry, but Li Zheng's soldiers were feasting not far away, eating meat and drinking wine, and were very happy. This was naturally done deliberately by Li Zhengming, so that the soldiers of the Immortal Golden Immortal could see that they could not eat, and psychologically break down their resistance.
As expected, the scene of Li Zheng's soldiers eating large bowls of meat and drinking large bowls of wine made all the soldiers of the Immortal Golden Immortal feel dejected and lost all will to fight. After all, hunger is the most unbearable thing, not to mention that they are still facing a life and death battle at any time, and the soldiers of the Immortal Golden Immortal are about to collapse.
A few days later, some of the hungry enemy soldiers chose to surrender. They quietly came to the front line and surrendered to Li Zheng's army less than three miles away from Taiping Town, just to get a full meal. In the face of hunger, not many people can resist the temptation of delicious food.
Seeing that the time was ripe, Li Zheng ordered the entire army to shout in unison and shouted the slogan "surrender without killing" to induce the enemy soldiers to surrender voluntarily.
Li Zheng used this strategy at the right time. The enemy soldiers who had been trapped and hungry for several days surrendered one after another, and even their commander could not stop them. Although some enemy commanders ordered the execution of some of the soldiers who wanted to surrender, temporarily curbing the desire of their subordinates to surrender, this actually caused some riots and made them internally unstable.
In one day, nearly 100,000 soldiers of the Immortal Golden Immortal surrendered. They were imprisoned together, put on shackles, and became prisoners of war.
After Li Zheng gave these prisoners of war a good meal, he selected some who were truly willing to surrender and ordered them to bring delicious food to the front line to recruit their comrades. The effect of Li Zheng's move was surprisingly good. In just half a day, nearly 100,000 people were recruited and surrendered.
Two hundred thousand prisoners of war were ordered by Li Zheng to be imprisoned in a quiet valley twenty miles away from Taiping Town. They were put in shackles and their spiritual power was sealed, so they had no way to resist. This is also for safety reasons. After all, they are enemies. Once they are fed and drunk, they may rebel again.
There are currently 300,000 troops in Taiping Town. They are unwilling to surrender and have withstood the temptation of Li Zheng's delicious food.
These 300,000 remaining enemy soldiers should all be close followers of the Immortal Golden Immortal. They are unwilling to surrender, even if they are hungry, even if they know that they will die if they don't surrender. Li Zheng did not insist. After sending people to negotiate to no avail, he decisively ordered an attack. A million troops who had rested for several days swarmed forward and annihilated the three hundred thousand hungry and dizzy enemy soldiers in Taiping Town.
From the outbreak to the end of the battle in Taiping Town, the Immortal Golden Immortal was unable to send a single soldier to support the rescue. Anyone who knew the inside story knew that it was not that the Immortal Immortal was unwilling to send troops to rescue, but that his reinforcements simply failed to reach Taiping Town. The reinforcements of the Immortal Golden Immortal were all blocked by the troops of Qilin Kingdom, Feixian Kingdom and Red Dragon Kingdom, and could not get even half a step closer to Taiping Town.
There was no peace in Taiping Town. Rivers of blood flowed and corpses piled up like mountains. It was too horrible to see. After this battle, no one dared to enter this area for a long time. The world sealed this area as a forbidden land and called it the "Land of Death".
Some people also call this area of Taiping Town a "battlefield of death." Anyone who knows about this battle warns those around them not to enter this area, because there are too many innocent souls here and the yin energy is too strong. After entering, you will encounter to all kinds of unexplainable strange events.
Someone once tried to enter, but all those who entered felt chills on their backs and creepy hair, and had to withdraw quickly.
Three hundred thousand enemy troops in Taiping Town were wiped out, and Pingyi City was finally captured by the Qilin Kingdom. If this battle is counted from the last attack, it will not last long, but compared to many large battles, the time spent is still not long.
Li Zheng was personally commended by Qi Feihong, and all the soldiers who participated in the war were rewarded, either promoted to officers or given spiritual coins and magic weapons. The sacrificed soldiers and their families also received the compensation they deserved, and Qi Feihong has not forgotten them.
After this battle, Qi Feihong ordered the army to rest for a month, and at the same time ordered Li Zheng to count the soldiers. He wanted to know how many soldiers in the Qilin Kingdom could continue the Northern Expedition.
The Northern Expedition has just begun. After Pingyi City, there are still many cities that need to be conquered by the Qilin Kingdom's army, and there are still many enemies that need to be eliminated by the Qilin Kingdom's soldiers.
Li Zheng did not dare to hide anything this time, and ordered his people to report the number of soldiers of his Third Army truthfully. The Third Army was the main force attacking Pingyi City and suffered heavy casualties. Since the war began, the number of soldiers killed has reached an astonishing 250,000, and more than 30,000 were seriously injured and unable to continue fighting. The total number of soldiers is 280,000. Loss.
However, the Third Army accepted the surrender of more than 200,000 enemy troops, and recruited tens of thousands of new soldiers from Pingyi City. Some people came to join the army voluntarily. The total number actually increased instead of decreasing, reaching 111. More than 100,000 people.
Li Zheng drew more than 100,000 soldiers from the Third Army to add them to other armies participating in the war to make up for the personnel losses of those armies. The Third Army still had one million soldiers. They are still the main force in the Northern Expedition, and they will still continue the Northern Expedition under the command of Li Zheng until they completely defeat the Immortal Golden Immortal.
Qi Feihong ordered other armies to garrison the occupied Pingyi City, Yinlingzi City and Yulei City on the spot. The First Army heavily guarded Yulei City to prevent the enemy from counterattack. Yinlingzi City borders Chiyou City, the capital of Immortal Golden Immortal. Qi Feihong ordered Li Zheng to lead the third army to directly garrison the city, and at the same time be prepared to attack at any time.
Jin Xing and Yu Wenxian each led their troops to attack the northern city. Although they did not achieve as obvious results as the Qilin Kingdom, they were able to contain a lot of the Yongsheng Jinxian's troops, which could be regarded as fulfilling the responsibilities and obligations of allies.
After the battle in Pingyi City, everything was in ruins. Qi Feihong ordered Jiang Jun, who had just completed the task of building the main hall of the Imperial Palace, to personally take people to Pingyi City to repair the buildings that were damaged in the war and quickly restore Pingyi City. Infrastructure construction so that the people of Pingyi City can quickly settle down.
Jiang Junzi went to do this big project that took a lot of time to complete. He was familiar with the road and Qi Feihong hardly had to worry about it.
Besides, Yu Wenxian sent troops to attack Xingtian City, but the progress was very unsatisfactory. They encountered stubborn resistance from the Immortal Golden Immortal and lost hundreds of thousands of soldiers, but there was no hope of breaking the city. Perhaps it was because the entire Pingyi City garrison was wiped out, and Yongsheng Jinxian lost five cities in a row, losing nearly half of its territory. Yongsheng Jinxian did not want to lose his second capital, Xingtian City, so he was very tenacious when facing Yu Wenxian. Not giving an inch.
Yu Wenxian personally went to the front line to command the battle, but the effect was still not good, and he was unable to break through Xingtian City. Yuwen Xian's third prince, Yu Wenchao, personally charged into the battle, but still failed to capture Xing Tiancheng.
After a long attack with no results, Yu Wenxian had no choice but to send people to Qi Feihong for help, hoping that Qi Feihong would send people to support them and help them capture Xingtian City.
Qi Feihong personally entertained Yu Wenxian's envoys, but never personally promised to send troops to assist in the war. The envoy didn't dare to ask any more questions. After waiting for two days with no results, he could only say goodbye to Qi Feihong and left Qilin City disheartened.
After Yu Wenxian's envoy left, all the ministers speculated about Qi Feihong's intentions. They all thought that Qi Feihong was unwilling to help because of Yu Wenxian's previous actions. After all, Yu Wenxian had done some things before that were not a gentleman.
However, Shangqing San and Zhao Hai believed that the Qilin Kingdom and the Red Dragon Kingdom were allies and could not sit idly by and allow the soldiers of the Red Dragon Kingdom to be killed by the Immortal Golden Immortal. The two came to see Qi Feihong together and wanted to persuade Qi Feihong to send troops. Qi Feihong knew what they meant. After meeting with the two of them, he kept talking about things without giving them a chance to talk about it.
Although Shanren Shangqing was Qi Feihong's master, he could not force Qi Feihong, the leader of the country, to listen to him. In the end, he could only endure the anxiety in his heart and say goodbye with Zhao Hai. They felt that Qi Feihong would really not help this time. Although this was different from Qi Feihong's usual approach, the two people who knew the inside story could not persuade him any more.
Judging from the fact that Qi Feihong personally entertained Yu Wenxian's envoys, he would not ignore it, but no one would know what he was going to do unless he said it. Qi Feihong was definitely not someone who would sit idly by and ignore the difficulties of his teammates. He was just afraid that he had some secret moves that could not be known to others.
