Nanchong Fucheng, countryside.
"Is this the Nanzhao Army?"
On a hillside, dozens of guards stood around him. Lu Yuan stood on the top of the mountain, looking at the continuous military camps on the plain in front of him. He couldn't help but smile: "The number of people doesn't look that many."
Everyone followed suit and saw a series of camps set up in the north, west, and south directions outside Nanchongfu City in front of them.
The camps on the Nancheng side cover an area of about three square kilometers and are divided into thirteen camps, four large and nine small.
According to everyone's experience in commanding troops, the small camp can be stationed with a maximum of 500 people, and the large camp can be stationed with a maximum of 2,000 people.
In the entire Nancheng area, the number of Nanzhao troops was only about 12,000 at most.
As for the Xicheng side, the camp was nearly twice as large as the Nancheng camp, and the number of people should be even greater, perhaps around 25,000.
The two camps in the north are blocked by the city, and some of them cannot fully see their faces. But it can also be vaguely seen that the area covered is not wide, it is about the same size as the camp in Nancheng, and the number of soldiers and horses stationed there should be about the same, both 12,000.
Calculated in this way, the total number of Nanzhao troops in the three directions was nearly 50,000.
This small number of troops was not much more than the troops and horses brought by Lu Yuan this time, and their level of eliteness was far inferior, which naturally made him look down upon them.
“Since early summer and April, the eldest prince of Nanzhao, Zhao Changqing, has been leading 60,000 troops to continuously attack Nanchong Fucheng.
According to reports from Brother Ning, who led the army to assist in the defense of Nanchong Fucheng, in the past two months, Nanzhao's army attacked the city more than 20 times, and Zhao Changqing even ascended the city several times.
The fighting here is extremely fierce, and the forbidden army led by Senior Brother Ning has suffered over 10,000 casualties.
Our army's defense suffered such heavy casualties.
Even if Zhao Changqing killed many people because of his innate body, the Nanzhao army fought hard to attack the city, and the casualties would never be small.
I heard that when they arrived, there were nearly 70,000 troops.
Now, two months into the offensive, there are still more than 40,000 people left. Compared with the siege, the casualties are already small. "
Next to him, Lu Yuan's direct disciple, General Mo Nianfeng of Hengye, heard his master's words and explained at the side, and then he also laughed and said: "But now that the king is here, with the prowess of our Chu army, the king's Shenwu, Zhao Changqing and the Nanzhao army are naturally not worth mentioning and can be defeated with a wave of their hands."
As for the senior brother Ning he was talking about, it was only Ning Wu General Ning Jizhong who had been arranged by Lu Yuan to lead a forbidden army to assist in the defense of Nanchong Fucheng.
These two people are newly grown disciples from a group of registered disciples in Changsha after changing the name of the country to Chu in recent years. They have fought with Lu Yuan for more than ten years, and their strength has also reached the first level, and they can be called the Chu Kingdom. Warrior.
Moreover, Mo Nianfeng, who was used to seeing the elites of great powers such as Zhou and Qianyue, honestly looked down upon the southwestern barbarians like the Nanzhao Army.
To be honest, these Yi people, who live in a small place and have not seen war all year round, are far inferior to the elites of the great powers of Kyushu.
The best proof of this is the first battle between the Great Chief and the army at the beginning of the conquest.
At that time, the Da Changhe army had experienced several years of war and was tempered by Li Xiong. It could barely be regarded as a strong army that had experienced blood and fire.
But even this kind of powerful army in the southwest faced the elites of Da Chu. Even though there were nearly two or three times more troops and horses, they were still defeated in a head-on confrontation and were defeated steadily, and finally fled to the west of Lu River.
This is true for the Da Changhe army who have been tempered by the war, not to mention the Nanzhao army who have not been trained by the war and whose willpower and strength are even worse.
With the defeated generals like Da Changhejun in front of them, it is really difficult for the so-called three major barbarian countries in the southwest to be taken seriously by this group of arrogant soldiers and generals from Chu State.
The only people these Yi people fear are those innate masters who are like gods and demons.
Faced with such terrifying force that is beyond mortals, no innate person would not feel awe and fear.
However, they are both Xiantian. Compared with the little-known Nanzhao eldest prince, there are now three Xiantians who have killed their own king, which obviously makes Mo Nianfeng more confident.
He believed that if his own king took action, even if a mere Nanzhao prince was lucky enough not to be killed on the spot, he would inevitably end up running away with serious injuries.
This is the supreme prestige that Lu Yuan has accumulated from winning hundreds of battles over the past ten years and belongs to the invincible military god alone.
This prestige makes people subconsciously believe that as long as they follow the person in front of them and as long as the other person is willing, there is nothing in the world that cannot be accomplished.
If there is a strong enemy ahead, draw your sword and kill them to win.
It's so natural and makes no sense at all.
As it happened, the entire Chu army thought so.
"Hahaha, Nianfeng, you are right. The Nanzhao Army is just a local chicken and a dog in front of Gu."
Listening to the compliments of his disciples and the admiring looks from the surrounding guards, Lu Yuan couldn't help laughing, then he got up and mounted his horse, and said boldly: "All the soldiers obeyed the order, followed the lonely king, defeated the Nanzhao army, and captured it. This victory.”
As soon as he finished speaking, he waved his riding whip, and the remaining horses immediately jumped up and headed towards the Nanzhao military camp far down the mountain.
At this time, at the foot of the mountain, after a long journey, groups of Chu army vanguards also arrived in the wilderness south of Nanchong City and stopped about three miles away from Nanzhao's army.
Then in accordance with military orders, the formation began to form here.
Opposite the Chu army, the Nanzhao army was already on guard. At this time, a pair of soldiers came out of the camp, lined up their troops, and started a confrontation with the Chu army.
This time Lu Yuan led an army of 40,000 people to the north. The march stretched for nearly ten miles. The momentum was so great that it was impossible to hide it with smoke and dust covering the sky.
And Lu Yuan didn't want to hide it.
He just wants to lead the army to fight the Nanzhao army in an upright manner, and then defeat the opponent with absolute strength.
Just as Mo Nianfeng thought, with the elite Chu army, it would be easy to defeat the Nanzhao army.
Lu Yuan also firmly believed in this point.
He has been farming for more than ten years, fighting for more than ten years, and spending countless efforts to build a strong army. Even a southwestern barbarian army in a remote rural area cannot defeat it.
Then just pack up and go home, don't play any game of world supremacy, just go back to the mountains and forests.
The only thing that worried him was whether Lan Zhaojun, who was on the opposite side, would see that he was too strong and avoid fighting, leading his troops to flee.
In this case, if you want to lead the army to chase and annihilate the opponent, you will have to spend a lot of effort, and in the end you may not be able to do your best.
However, Lu Yuan was already prepared for this.
As early as early April, the battle across the river was launched and the defenders of Dachang and Huichuan were defeated in one fell swoop.
Lu Yuan, who had no need to cross the river at that time, had directly ordered Chu Wei to lead the navy to march westward directly along the Yangtze River, blocking the waterway transportation between Xichuan Kingdom and Nanzhao Kingdom, and isolating the other side from Nanzhao Kingdom. Native connections.
For the Nanzhao army, which had no naval force, there was nothing they could do against Chu's strong ships.
Under the naval blockade, not only the aid from Jiangnan was cut off, but even the news from the barbarian areas in the southwest of Jiangnan was blocked, and communication was slow or even cut off.
Therefore, the Nanzhao army in Xichuan did not know at this time that the Dachanghe Kingdom had been destroyed and the Chili Kingdom had surrendered.
They had no idea that the Jianchuan Kingdom had been attacked by the Chu Kingdom, and that the Nanzhao Kingdom itself was also facing an invasion from Chili and Kunhai.
Little did they know that Han Shun was leading a sneak attack on their rear, cooperating with the navy, and completely blocking their retreat.
The only thing the eldest prince of Nanzhao knew was that the army of Xichuan County led by Li Liang was currently fighting against the Nanzhao army that was monitoring the movements of the Chu army. The situation here was not good for him.
But even if he knew about it, there was nothing he could do.
Because just two days after the news came from the south, the Chu army led by Lu Yuan had already arrived.
At this time, he was forced to his door and issued a provocative invitation to fight.
If he doesn't deal with the enemy in front of him, no matter what he wants to do, he will be hindered in every possible way and will be unable to do anything.
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In the south of the city, there is the Nanzhao military formation.
The flags are hunting, and the spears are like a forest.
The Nanzhao Kingdom believed in the Wuyu God. According to the inheritance records of their Yi people, this was a winged god with the body of a bird and the head of a bird, and a bow and arrow that opened the sky.
It is precisely for this reason that many of these Wuyu Yi people from the southern mountains are good at bows and arrows. Just like the hunters Lu Yuan liked to recruit in the early days of his army, they all have good archery skills.
And because they were born in a mountainous area and were relatively poor, the army recruited by the Nanzhao Kingdom had a sense of bravery.
Relying on this momentum, even though many of them were recruited militiamen, they still had some good combat power, and even defeated the Xichuan Kingdom with this.
This also gave them an illusion.
It has been passed down from generation to generation in the clan that the Dongyang people, who have wiped out countless clans and are extremely terrifying, seem to be nothing more than this.
look.
Now, with just a little effort, we have almost wiped out a country of Dongyang people.
Now their king is surrounded in this small city in front of them. As long as it is broken, the Xichuan Kingdom will completely cease to exist.
Since the surprise attack in June last year, and until now, the continuous victories in the past year have made many Nanzhao army soldiers feel arrogant and despise the Dongyang people and consider themselves invincible.
Infected by this arrogance, as the commander of the army, Zhao Changqing, who was very powerful and also young and energetic, naturally had the same thoughts.
So when Lu Yuan was wearing dark black armor and a bright red cloak, riding a divine war horse, he was walking back and forth in front of the two armies, inviting Zhao Changqing to fight.
This proud man of heaven was immediately aroused to be competitive.
"The Chu thieves are really rampant. Thousands of troops are standing in front of them to invite battle. Do you really think that there is no one in Nanzhao?"
In the command car, Zhao Changqing looked at Lu Yuan, who was constantly showing off his power in front of the two armies, with fire in his eyes.
Young people can't stand being stimulated, let alone seeing others in the spotlight than themselves.
He has always been proud of his peers in Nanzhao, and has long been accustomed to everyone's attention being focused on him, becoming the center of attention.
And now that he has achieved the feat of destroying the country, Zhao Changqing is even more proud, feeling that he has confirmed his status as the proud son of heaven.
Under this halo and record, even if he was facing the world-famous Chu King Lu Yuan, he didn't have much fear.
He just felt that there were no heroes, so he made Shuzi famous.
Previously, I just stayed in the southwest, so I didn't make a name for myself.
But now that he came out of the mountain, he destroyed an entire country.
This is something that even Lu Yuan has not done.
In comparison, the other party's rumored deeds of killing two innates in a row seemed so insignificant.
So without any fear, he held down the sword in his hand, and wanted to go forward and kill the opponent directly, adding to his achievements.
"Not allowed, Your Highness."
However, young people are impulsive, while older people are much more stable.
Seeing that Zhao Changqing was about to go into battle, the veteran Hua Kaiyun who accompanied him quickly stepped forward and grabbed him: "King Lu Yuan of Chu is famous throughout the world and is recognized as a strong man by all countries.
Although His Highness has achieved a breakthrough in Xiantian, it has only been two or three years, and it is really a big disadvantage to suddenly face such a veteran and powerful person in Xiantian.
At present, our army is far more numerous than the other side, so why bother to engage in a bloody battle with the other side?
His Highness, with his rich body, can just sit firmly in the army and command the army to kill the enemy.
He ended up in person and lost his identity for nothing. "
Although Zhao Changqing personally went into battle several times before and repeatedly caused heavy casualties to the enemy, he was very famous.
But when he went to the battlefield before, he was just taking advantage of his innate power to bully ordinary soldiers who were inferior to him.
The person facing him right now was the king of Chu, Lu Yuan, who was recognized as a strong man in the world.
No matter how confident Hua Kaiyun was in her prince, she was not so arrogant as to think that His Highness could defeat him.
"open!"
Then in the face of his dissuasion, Zhao Changqing, who was full of energy, ignored him at all. With a wave of anger, he pushed the opponent away and said: "The enemies are all in front of the door. If I retreat without fighting, what will the soldiers think of me?" ?
When the time comes, they will definitely think me cowardly and afraid of the King of Chu.
The courage of the generals, if I retreat, all the soldiers will follow suit.
If one thing goes down and the other goes up, the morale of the Chu people will be greatly shaken.
If this is the case, how can we continue this battle?
General Hua, there is no need to persuade him any more. I am determined to fight the King of Chu.
Don't worry, everyone is innate. It only took more than ten years for King Chu to achieve this state. At most, he is in the same state as me.
With my ability, even if I can't defeat the opponent, I can still escape intact.
No matter how bad this battle is, it will only be my defeat.
Compared with being defeated, not daring to fight is obviously worse.
I, Zhao Changqing, was born between heaven and earth, and I have never been afraid to shrink back.
I have seen King Xichuan before, but occasionally, he was defeated.
Isn’t it King Lu Yuan of Chu now?
Let me meet him and see who is better, this hero praised by the world, or me, the hero of Nanzhao. "
As he spoke, his high-spirited and vigorous attitude was simply hard to conceal.
Seeing this scene, Hua Kaiyun opened her mouth and felt in her heart that what her prince said was indeed reasonable.
With the ability of an innate master, even if he can't win against his peers, he can still escape with his life.
A Grandmaster is not that easy to kill.
In contrast, if you dare not even fight, it will undoubtedly damage the morale of the military even more.
Therefore, after thinking about it, he finally sighed: "Since His Highness is determined, it is not easy for me to stop him. I just hope that Your Highness has the overall situation first, so you must take care of your precious body and do not take risks."
Zhao Changqing laughed: "Old General, don't worry, I am confident."
After that, he floated down, also rode a war horse, and drove straight out of the formation.
Along the way, the soldiers moved out of the way and ordered their princes to go out into battle.
After a while, they arrived in front of the two armies.
When the King of Chu in front saw him coming, he stopped his galloping horse and looked over.
Looking at the tall and straight body on the opposite side, Zhao Changqing also felt a scornful aura in his heart. He reined in his horse, and when the horse's front hooves were in the air, he shouted sharply: "Nanzhao Zhao Changqing is here. King Chu Lu Yuan is here to die." .”
As soon as he finished speaking, he slapped his horse and flew up. A round of blue light erupted from behind, and dozens of vines flew out, whipping directly towards Lu Yuan.
Although he was confident in his heart, Zhao Changqing also knew that he was probably still inferior to his opponent, King Chu.
Therefore, he did not seek to win this battle, he only sought to outdo the opponent in terms of momentum, or at least achieve a "tie" in front of everyone, so as to stabilize the morale of the army.
In this case, "defeating" the King of Chu would not only make him famous, but also severely weaken the spirit of the Chu people.
After all, the opponent is an old master, but he is just a newcomer and younger.
This can "draw" the opponent, which is undoubtedly a victory.
So at this time, make a surprise attack first, gain the upper hand, and catch the opponent by surprise.
However, the abacus jingled, and Zhao Changqing released his martial arts outer body. However, when the King of Chu across from him saw his surprise attack, he was not as panicked as he expected. Instead, he showed a scornful smile.
His heart suddenly suddenly felt uneasy.
And this uneasiness soon turned into reality.
On the opposite side, King Chu didn't panic at all when facing the incoming green vines. He just waved his hand, and red flames ignited out of thin air in front of him.
The terrifying flames covering a radius of more than ten feet instantly twisted and burned the air.
Since breaking through the condensed energy, Lu Yuan's soul and body have been sublimated.
The breakthrough in Immortal Dao cultivation has also led to the improvement in martial arts cultivation.
Now, his martial arts cultivation has successfully reached the second level of Xiantian. His true energy is so strong that his martial arts skills are several times more powerful than before.
At this time, dealing with Zhao Changqing, who had just broken through the innate martial arts outer body, was like a junior high school student bullying an elementary school student, who could be suppressed with a wave of his hand.
As soon as the dozens of green vines came into contact with the Red Sun True Fire, they were ignited with a bang. The top of the vines near the center of the flame burned into flying smoke in a flash.
"How can it be?"
Zhao Changqing's eyes suddenly widened when he saw this scene, his face full of disbelief.
At the same time, my heart was filled with a sense of crisis, and I immediately realized that I had done a very stupid thing. Ignoring my anger, I subconsciously wanted to turn around and run away.
The power of King Chu was beyond his imagination.
The terrifying appearance of the martial arts is definitely not the first level of innateness.
He is not his opponent, and if he continues to fight, his life may really be in danger.
However, as soon as the idea of escape came up, there was a thunder in his mind, and then his eyes became dizzy.
At the same time, out of the corner of his eyes, he seemed to see a ray of yellow light flying towards him quickly, and a thick pillar emerging from the ground, followed by a pain in his body, and his consciousness sank...
