C1969 Final volume
C1969 Final volume
On the third day after Xiao Xiang had completely eliminated her Family Army, the various attendants of Chuan Country began to openly urge Xiao Xiang to go forward.
Xiao Xiang had now firmly grasped the military and political power of Chuan Country, and she also had the desire to inherit the throne.
Of course, Xiao Xiang also couldn't avoid the clich?. When the group of servants advised three times, she rejected them three times, and only on the fourth time did Xiao Xiang 'reluctantly' accept it.
So far, the new Sovereign King of Chuan Country had been officially born. What was rare was that Xiao Xiang had even become the first female Sovereign in the history of Chuan Country.
After Xiao Xiang ascended to the throne, the first thing she did was to eliminate the potential threat that the royal family posed to her.
But in reality, she had not given them half an inch of land, nor did she give them any substantial rights of control over it. Furthermore, she had strictly prohibited them from leaving the capital, so the status of Marquis of these young masters and princesses had become completely empty, and in turn, she had been placed under Xiao Xiang's house in the city, completely under the control of others.
After Xiao Xuan's death, the fierce battle for the throne over her Chuan Country had come to an end. Xiao Xiang had stood out amongst the numerous siblings, and it was true that this had something to do with her exceptional abilities, as well as the existence of luck and coincidence.
Only after Xiao Xiang dealt with the various hidden dangers of the outer court did she attack and deal with the rebellion of Zhen Country.
After being delayed for so long, the current situation of the Zhen Country rebellion was completely different from before.
Ever since Li Shu received secret funding from the Feng Country, his arms and money was more than enough. His strength expanded extremely quickly, and in a short period of time, his military strength had increased again to over two hundred thousand.
At this time, Li Shu's self-confidence had also expanded like never before, and he was no longer satisfied with the fight over a city and a county.
Li Shu had already set Western Zhen as the foundation, then gradually expanded towards the east, finally completing his strategy of reclaiming the entire Zhen Country. It was just that these three counties had large amounts of Central Army stationed, including the ninth, eleventh, sixteenth, and seventeenth legions of the Chuan Country.
If he wanted to use more than two hundred thousand people to defeat more than four hundred thousand people in Chuan Country, even People of Zhen Country would find it hard to do so. However, Li Shu had this kind of resolution and courage. He led his subordinates and the rebel soldiers to attack the Bainan County first.
Amongst the four legions of Western Zhen, the seventeenth army was the weakest, at least a hundred thousand people, and their fighting strength was also the weakest. Their commander was not too famous, a Middle General named Dong Bo was unknown.
In addition, what Li Shu despised the most was that the 17th Legion didn't have a central defense force in the Bainan County. It's forces were scattered throughout the towns and cities of the various counties, one to the east and one to the west. It was very easy to give the rebel army a chance to take them down one by one.
Because of these reasons, Li Shu attacked Bainan County first, and directly confronted Chuan Country's 17th Legion.
The rebel army in the middle of Zhen Country had actually fled to the Western Zhen and took the initiative to attack them. This was truly something that the Chuan Army had absolutely not expected. From the start of the battle, Li Shu led the rebel army, unstoppable like a hot knife through butter, rushing straight into the heart of the Bainan County.
Although the Seventeenth Army of the Army fought desperately against the defenses of various places in the Bainan County, they were forced to retreat to their garrison grounds due to the lack of troops.
In merely half a month's time, the rebel army had gone from the most eastern part of the Bainan County all the way to the most western part of the Bainan County.
After clearing the border, Li Shu immediately sent out an envoy to the Chiyue to pay respects to the King of Chiyue, Xu Yi Man, and asked him to send reinforcements.
Chiyue was one of the many enemies of Zhen Country. However, in the later battles, the Chiyue soldiers who invaded Zhen Country were defeated by the Chastity Army, and the Chastity Army seized the opportunity to pursue them. They charged into the borders of the nation of Chiyue and killed and looted them along the way, forcing the king of Chiyue to hand over his Capitulation. The first was that the place was too small, and at that time, the Zhen Country was ambitious, so they didn't really take it seriously. The second, although the Zhen Country was a barbaric country in the eyes of the other Duchies, and was similar to the barbarians of Pangaea, the Zhen Country itself held itself high, disdaining to occupy an uncultivated and barbaric land like the Chiyue.
With regards to Zhen Country's' magnanimity ', Chiyue was extremely grateful. Thus, their relationship became good, and Chiyue was truly feared by the People of Zhen Country. From the bottom of their hearts, they were truly afraid of the People of Zhen Country, and they also respected him.
After that, the Zhen Country was destroyed, and the Chiyue that had always been peaceful began to stir again. From time to time, they would send troops to invade the border, but since the Chuan Country was helpless, they could only camp an entire legion of soldiers at the Bainan County border to defend the border.
Although the Zhen Country had been swallowed up by the Chuan Country, the people from the Chiyue were not afraid of it, and did not have any sense of reverence towards it. However, after Li Shu, the envoy sent by the rebel army, was treated as a guest of honor by the people from the Chiyue, and even the king of the Chiyue personally received the envoy from the rebel army. When he heard that the descendant of the original clan of the royal clan, Li Shu, wanted to restore his Zhen Country to its former state, he made a promise on the spot, and was willing to send thirty thousand elite warriors to assist Li Shu.
Borrowing 30,000 elites from the Chiyue had allowed Li Shu's strength to once again increase. After that, the rebel army swept across the entire Bainan County, directly sending the seventeenth army of Chuan Country into the territory of the Pangu prefectures.
Taking over all of Bainan County in one go, the rebel army was encouraged, and the citizens of the People of Zhen Country came one after another to support them. Li Shu, who had fought well, was even more confident. He immediately started to prepare his attack against the other countries.
In the rebel army, there were not only People of Zhen Country s, there were also people from the wind, and according to the agreement between Tang Yin and him, the Feng Country had an army monitoring them. Although he looked young, he was only in his early thirties, but he had participated in too many conquest before. From the moment he fought against Tang Yin, he had been by his side, and could be considered an 'old general' who had gone through hundreds of battles. After all these years, Tao Yuanfeng had also grown up from a nameless nobody back then to a dignified Middle General.
When Li Shu was fighting Bainan County, Tao Yuanfeng supported him, but now that Li Shu wanted to attack the various counties, Tao Yuanfeng expressed his opposition.
Pui Li County was one of the three counties in Western Zhen, and had the largest number of garrison troops. Originally, there had been two legions stationed there, but now, the remnants of the seventeen legions had fled to the other counties, and their forces were equivalent to three legions.
However, in the battles of various sizes, the casualties of the seventeen legions were less than a thousand. When the rebel soldiers saw that they could not win, they immediately chose to retreat, so in so many battles, the main forces of the seventeen legions were not injured, with their military strength still at eighty to ninety thousand people. Right now, the ninth, eleventh and seventeenth armies of Chuan Country were gathering in one area within the Pangu County. If the rebel army were to attack the other counties, it would be extremely difficult for them to obtain victory.
Tao Yuanfeng's opinion was that they should go around the counties and take the prefectural city that the Sixteenth Legion was stationed at. After taking down the prefectural city, they could send troops from both Bai Nan and Jing Valley at the same time and attack the prefectural city from the north and south, maximizing the spread of the Chuan Army troops in the prefectural city.
Li Shu still paid great attention to Tao Yuanfeng's suggestion and took it seriously, but in the end, they still thought that he was overthinking it. Their side had won with a great momentum and their Chuan Army had lost and their morale was low.
Li Shu did not adopt Tao Yuanfeng's tactics, he insisted on his own opinion, and decisively started his all-out attack on the Peerless Battalion.
It was just that in this battle, the rebel army's initial attack had been met with a huge setback. The Chuan Army within the territories of the numerous countries resisted with all their might, waging a bloody battle with the rebel army.
In the battle against the Supremes, both sides fought extremely intensely, to the point where they could fight for every inch of land. The rebel soldiers kept pressing down on them step by step, while the Chuan Army could not be restrained at all.
After a month of fighting, the rebel army had only advanced about a hundred miles within the borders of the country.
At this time, the rebel army had already appeared to be in a weakened state, the consecutive attacks and battles had caused the rebel army a headache. At this critical moment, which was impossible to step down from, the Chuan Army army had the intention to fight a decisive battle. The Ninth Regiment, the eleventh and the seventeenth legions, a total of two hundred thousand soldiers, were all gathered in the Western Plains of the prefectural city. After hearing the news, Li Shu thought the fighter jet had arrived, and immediately ordered all the troops to gather at the Western Plains to fight a life and death battle with the main force of Chuan Army.
Chuan Army had arrived long ago, and the rebel army had been travelling long distances, after many battles, the entire army was exhausted. It could be said that before the battle had even started, the rebel army had already lost by thirty percent.
Li Shu was not too concerned about this, in his view, the two sides' forces were equal, and only one was enough. Under a situation where both sides' forces were equal, he was confident that there would not be any army in the world that could defeat the Chastity Army in a frontal battle.
In this battle, both sides had invested all of their main forces into the battle and both sides had around two hundred thousand people on each side. This was also the largest battle since the start of the rebellion against the Zhen Country.
When the battle officially began, the Western Plains would become a veritable meat grinder. The intense battle between the two armies caused the entire Plains to become a hell on earth.
During the battle, the soldiers of a single regiment seemed insignificant. If they were thrown into the battlefield, it would be like a stone sinking into the ocean. After several hours, only corpses or heavily injured soldiers with severed limbs would be carried down.