After chatting for a while, Yan Wangqiu pulled Lu Yuan and started talking about business.
"When the lonely king was in the South China Sea, he heard many times that in the land north of the Yangtze River, the king defeated the Zhou people, conquered several cities, and took back the Tianmen Mansion. Such bravery is amazing."
Yan Wangqiu first said some complimentary words, and then changed the topic and asked: "Your Majesty, who has been fighting for a long time, must know a lot about the battle in Tianmen Mansion.
You and I have a good alliance. Please tell me, Your Majesty, what is the situation over there?
Now that the troops are heading north, is it possible to fight? "
When he was in Nanhai Kingdom, in order to urge Yan Wangqiu, the imperial envoys could be said to have good news every few days, which never stopped.
But things in the world are never just superficial.
Although the court said it was a series of battles and victories, Yan Wangqiu still had doubts about the war in Tianmen Mansion.
He still remembered that when he left Dongting County half a year ago, the Zhou people in the north of the Yangtze River had hundreds of thousands of troops, but they were in a posture of being overwhelmed by Mount Tai and ready to cross the river southward at any time.
How prestigious was Beilu at that time?
Why is it that only a few months have passed and the Zhou people are no longer good?
This is obviously unreasonable.
Therefore, when Yan Wangqiu was thinking about it, he naturally felt worried. I finally met Lu Yuan this time, and I wanted to learn the truth about the matter from my ally.
Lu Yuan listened to Yan Wangqiu's group's questions, thought for a moment, and finally said: "Now that the handsome soldiers are heading north, they can naturally fight. But this fight is not as easy as outsiders think."
Yan Wangqiu frowned: "What do you mean by this?"
Lu Yuan sighed and said: "The recapture of Tianmen Mansion this time, although in the eyes of outsiders, it was the imperial court that defeated the Zhou people and defeated them. But in fact, this is not the case."
Looking at his ally, he told the truth: "In this Northern Expedition, although our coalition forces fought hard and had the courage to take the lead. We did win several battles and forced the Zhou people to retreat.
But these victories were all tragic.
The Battle of Jiangbei consisted of seven large and small battles, involving more than 100,000 troops. After several rounds, although they won every battle, they also captured more than 70,000 Zhou people.
But our losses were also no less than 50,000.
Moreover, after interrogating the prisoners, it was found that the soldiers and horses lost by the Zhou people this time were all the original Yue surrender troops and Qiang miscellaneous captives. The losses of Zhou's elite soldiers were not large.
Therefore, although they were defeated in consecutive battles, the main force of the Zhou people was not damaged, and they still had 240,000 soldiers.
Even at this time, they had retreated to the rear, shortened their logistics supplies, and defended the fortified city. If they wanted to break it, it would never be as easy as before.
Therefore, this time we go north, we can certainly fight. But if we want to achieve results, we don't have to kill more than ten or two hundred thousand people, or we won't see any results. "
Just like Lu Yuan used this Northern Expedition to consume the Miao people in the country and surrendered troops, this time the Zhou people also used the Yue people's Northern Expedition to consume a wave of miscellaneous soldiers under their control.
Therefore, in the successive battles, the coalition forces seemed to be very powerful, but in fact, they did not gain much advantage.
Even when the Zhou people retreated at this time, it was not because they were afraid of the coalition forces.
After all, the Zhou people still had 2,340,000 soldiers and horses at this time, while the coalition forces only had about 200,000 left.
The opponent has more soldiers and horses, how could he be afraid of you?
When Yan Wangqiu heard this, he couldn't help but take a breath: "If this is the case, I don't know how many of my hundred thousand Lingnan descendants will be able to return this time."
Next to him, Lu Yuan shook his head and said: "Don't talk about the children of Lingnan. Just talk about me, the son of Dongting. Since the Northern Expedition, I have lost nearly 20,000 troops. When the war ends, I don't know how many people will survive, and whether half of the troops can come back."
Although most of the 20,000 people who died in the battle were Miao people.
But with Lu Yuan's current life, even if the Miao people were wasted in such a waste, it is heartbreaking.
With so many people and horses, wouldn’t it be better to use them elsewhere?
Now they all died in Jiangbei.
When Yan Wangqiu heard this, he did not expect that Lu Yuan would suffer such heavy losses. He finally had to sigh: "The war is very dangerous. I only hope that this Northern Expedition can end soon. Then we will wait for the other countries to stop their troops and rest in peace. From now on, there will be peace." Joy.”
The King of South China Sea is getting older, and now he hates this kind of fighting and killing more and more, and just wants to spend his old age peacefully.
Being able to watch the Nanhai Kingdom continue its smooth transition has become the obsession of the other party.
Lu Yuan looked at the aging hero and his ally, and sighed in his heart, but said: "I hope this is the case."
Having said that, I do know it in my heart.
What the other party hopes for is simply impossible to achieve.
Because he didn't want to, the court didn't want to, and even Zhou and Liang would never see peace in the world.
There is only one way for countries to achieve peace, and that is for a powerful country to eliminate other countries, thereby unifying the world and integrating the four seas.
In this way, if the world returns to one country, there will naturally be peace and no war.
But is this possible?
In other words, if we want to realize it, how many wars and chaos must we go through and how many people must die?
And until this goal is achieved, the war will never stop.
The topic between the two people came to an end in this melancholy.
…
Three days later, with the arrival of Yan Wangqiu, Su Xuange finally led his troops and horses to Changsha City.
Lu Yuan led Yan Wangqiu to greet him, then took the time to look at the army under his command, and finally shook his head secretly.
Like the army of the Nanhai Kingdom, these northern soldiers and horses of the Ninghai Kingdom are also just civilians.
The two countries were still short-lived, and as expected, they could not recruit any elite soldiers and could only forcefully recruit some strong men to deal with the problem.
Fortunately, Lu Yuan did not expect the two countries to contribute much in this regard.
What he really valued were the two innate masters, Yan Wangqiu and Su Xuange.
As long as these two arrive, including him and Lan Cai'er, the coalition will have an absolute advantage in top combat power over the Zhou people, with four more innate masters.
Four innate masters, this is no small force.
Calculated according to the calculation, an innate master can defeat ten thousand armies by himself. Four innate masters, gathered together, are equivalent to 40,000 elite soldiers and horses on a small battlefield.
The above are just simple numerical conversions.
In fact, on a real battlefield, in a small area, the effectiveness that four grandmasters can exert is far greater than that of an army of 40,000.
Just the simplest example.
A fortified city can only station 30,000 to 50,000 soldiers and horses in the city. These soldiers and horses are assigned to a certain section of the city wall or a certain city gate, and there are only a few hundred or even thousands of people.
And facing these hundreds or thousands of people, let alone four innate masters taking action together. Even if there is only one person, these defenders can be eliminated within a dozen breaths.
In this way, as long as an innate master takes the lead, the defenders within a section of the city wall can be quickly cleared and a city captured.
The four of them take action together. Without the same number of top combat forces to intercept them, which city in the world can be defended?
This is the intimidating power of an innate master.
It is precisely because of this deterrence that even though the Nanhai Sect and the Jiuchuan Sword Sect originally did not have many elite soldiers, the imperial court still made concessions and compromises in the face of the coercion of the two factions.
Because the imperial court knew that it would not agree to these two factions, even if these people could only bring together a small crowd.
But with the cooperation of the Xiantian Grandmaster, they can really conquer cities and territories and be invincible.
At this time, as Lu Yuan and others were bribed by the imperial court, the pressure shifted from the imperial court to the Zhou State.
I just don’t know if Zhou Guo is tough enough this time and can he survive it?
…
On November 27th of the seventh year of Hongdao, the army of Ninghai State rested in the camp outside the city for a day, and then joined forces with the army of Nanhai State. The armies of the two countries continued to advance towards the north of the Yangtze River.
On the third day of December, 200,000 troops from the two countries arrived at Baling City. After resting for two days, with the support of the Yue navy, they crossed the river and headed north.
On the seventh day of the lunar month, the army arrived at the Dangyang battlefield in Jingmen Prefecture of Zhou State.
After hearing the news, Wu'an Hou Bai Mengyang personally led the army lieutenant general and came out of the camp to pick him up.
At this point, Lu Yuan finally met the prestigious Marquis Wu'an.
"I have met the King of Changsha, the King of Nanhai, and the King of Ninghai."
Although they are both innate masters, and even Marquis Wu An is stronger, there are differences between the king and his ministers.
Therefore, when facing Lu Yuan and others, Bai Mengyang still performed the courtesy of a foreign minister.
"Marquis Wu'an."
Lu Yuan also respected this veteran with great military exploits. After receiving the courtesy from the other party's minister, he immediately returned the courtesy.
On the other hand, Yan Wangqiu and Su Xuange's performance was much worse than his.
Facing Bai Mengyang's salute, he didn't dare to bear it and avoided it. Later, he performed the courtesy of an ordinary person, which showed no resemblance to a king.
Compared to Lu Yuan, the two of them were obviously much more afraid of the Marquis of Wu'an.
Lu Yuan next to him couldn't help but be surprised when he saw this.
He didn't understand why his two allies acted like this, and they lost their momentum in vain.
Su Xuange and Yan Wangqiu felt bitter in their hearts when they noticed their allies' gazes.
The two of them wanted to be tough on the Marquis Wu'an, but deep down in their hearts, they really couldn't be tough.
The reason is also very simple. After the Taiping Road rebellion in Jian'an County broke out, it was the Marquis of Wu'an who personally led the troops and suppressed it with all his strength.
As the Jiuchuan Sword Sect was originally a local leader in Jian'an County, it was natural that they had to deal with the Marquis of Wu'an at that time.
During this contact, Su Xuange naturally saw how powerful Wu Anhou, who was feared as the God of War, was.
To this day, when I look back on the past, I still feel happy.
Same thing.
The previous rebellion in the Jinghai Kingdom caused great harm to Lingnan.
In the end, it was the same Marquis of Wu'an who personally pacified the situation, and even directly attacked and destroyed the Jinghai Kingdom and designated it as the Jiuzhen County of the imperial court.
At the beginning, the two counties of Yulin and Nanhai were seriously harmed by Jinghai Kingdom.
As the local leader of the Nanhai Sect, many of its disciples died in this turmoil.
I still remember that time, because I was angry, my disciples were killed and my hometown was in trouble.
Yan Wangqiu even changed his past shy image and took the initiative to find the innate grandmaster of Nanhai Kingdom and fight against him.
But this is the result...
It will become clear after looking at the subsequent development of events.
Yan Wangqiu was no match for him. He was beaten and fled in embarrassment. From then on, he did not dare to get involved in this mess again.
Therefore, it can be said that the King of Nanhai has a good understanding of the power of Jinghai Kingdom.
That is the real sharp armor and powerful force, which cannot be taken for granted.
But it was such a powerful enemy that after Wu Anhou arrived with an army of 100,000 people, he originally invaded the two counties and made the Jinghai Kingdom arrogant.
In a short period of time, he was expelled from Nanhai County.
After several battles, he was defeated by Bai Mengyang and captured tens of thousands of people.
But in more than a year, he was expelled from the territory of Yue.
After that, Bai Mengyang marched straight in and led his troops into the Jinghai Kingdom. In more than a year, he defeated the southern barbarian hegemon in a row and surrounded the opponent's capital.
Later, even among the thousands of troops, he personally killed the innate grandmaster of Jinghai Kingdom.
This is the Formation Slayer Grandmaster!
Especially those who were killed were not the kind of novices who had just entered Xiantian for a short time, but the old masters who had been famous for decades and had strong combat power.
Not to mention how shocked the hearts of other innate masters were after this news came out.
Especially for someone like Yan Wangqiu, who had been defeated by the Grandmaster of Jinghai Kingdom.
Because he knows it very well.
The Marquis of Wu'an in front of him was able to kill the Grand Master of Jinghai Kingdom in the midst of thousands of troops, so now he can naturally kill himself in the midst of thousands of troops.
When such a person is placed in front of him, he doesn't need to do anything, it is a very strong deterrent.
At this time, the two new kings of Lingnan were intimidated.
As a master, Bai Mengyang was naturally keenly aware of the changes in the expressions of the two people.
After smiling in his heart, he did not deliberately target these two "old friends" in the past, but said enthusiastically: "The arrival of the three kings with troops this time has really solved my urgent need. A banquet has been prepared in the camp, and the three kings have Your Majesty, please come in quickly."
While speaking, Bai Mengyang glanced at Lu Yuan emphatically, with a strange color flashing in his eyes.
This Changsha king, who has been in the limelight in recent years, is indeed an extraordinary person.
In other aspects, we haven’t learned much about him yet, so it’s hard to say much about him, the Marquis of Wu’an. But in terms of courage and magnanimity, compared to the two next to him, he is much more comfortable.
At least he didn't lose his composure when facing his own God of War.
You know, since he became famous, how many people in the world dare to say that they are not afraid of Marquis Wu An's face?
Anyway, in Bai Mengyang's impression, there are no more than two hands of people he has met who can still look calm when facing him.
Whether the Lu Yuan in front of him is young and frivolous, or whether he is pretending to be so, the fact that he can show this kind of magnanimity is enough to show that he is extraordinary.
'This child is indeed a serious problem for the court and needs to be eliminated as soon as possible. 'Bai Mengyang thought so in his heart.
Lu Yuan didn't know what Marquis Wu An was thinking. Even if he knew, he would probably laugh it off.
If I want to get rid of him, I'm afraid Bai Mengyang won't be able to see this scene before he dies.
And with the death of Marquis Wu'an, the imperial court's strength has further declined, and it has become increasingly difficult to get rid of him, even to the point of being almost impossible.
That's why Lu Yuan had no scruples in his heart. After hearing Bai Mengyang's invitation, he smiled and said: "The Marquis of Wu'an is famous in the world, and I have longed for it. I'm so lucky to be able to get it today!"
I have also been studying military affairs for a long time and have gained some experience. I hope that Marquis Wu'an can give me some advice during battles in the future. "
This conversation was quite grand, and he actually planned to ask Wu'an Hou for advice on military matters.
This is because Lu Yuan saw that his allies were defeated and planned to forcefully hold up the situation.
