Without the rapid attack speed of cavalry, relying solely on the charge speed of infantry can basically be said to be a delivery of vegetables.

The Central Kingdom's weapons are much behind that of the Xia Kingdom.

Even if you rush up without fear of death, you can only exchange more for less.

This situation was not relieved until their thousands of artillery advanced within 1 kilometer of the Xia Kingdom array.

Artillery is the mainstream arms nowadays. Even if Xia State developed howitzers, it still reused artillery, with a large number of them.

The Central Kingdom finally found the opportunity to open fire, so it naturally bombed and poured fire on the Xia Kingdom side.

The army of Xia State gradually came up and fought in joint operations with the vanguard army, using the tactics of encircling the two sides and advancing in the middle to advance along the way.

Chen Li did not take action, but just took a look at the overall situation with Xu Ao and others, and from time to time he used his keen hearing to help remind some of the enemy's movements.

Suncut and Chen Ping did not take any action, but just took charge of the central army to prevent the commander and others from encountering assassination.

The only extraordinary strong man who took action was Shi Gu, and he also followed Chen Li's instructions. He did not use the power of the God of Killing and fought with his own combat power.

The purpose of Shigu is still the same, attacking and killing the enemy's commander and important generals, and disrupting the enemy's tactics.

The Central Kingdom was probably used to being beaten by this style of fighting. Now the coach does not wear general armor or high-level battle helmets anymore. He pretends to be an ordinary soldier and asks the flag soldiers to pass on the orders.

If the flag soldiers die, there will be others to take over, which greatly reduces the risk of chaos in the entire army.

However, even so, Shi Gu was able to find some generals and leader-level generals from the chaos, and made countless contributions.

The sound of artillery fire did not stop for a second.

As we fought, the sky gradually became brighter.

The plains are full of corpses of people and horses, falling weapons and broken cannon cars, and they are everywhere.

And this is just the beginning of the decisive battle.

After the Xia army attacked, the right-wing national protection army of the Central Kingdom received an order to attack the Xia army from the rear.

Xu Ao had already been on guard and sent 150,000 people to defend.

The situation of being attacked from both sides and back is under certain pressure for Xia Kingdom.

However, the advanced weapons made them win and rarely suffer losses.

Chen Li felt a little guilty as he watched the war progress and the fresh lives died.

But then I thought about it, it is normal for someone to die in war. As long as the economy and technology are developed well after the war is over, the deaths of these people will make sense.

Most wars in history can promote social development.

This is not the original purpose of war, but it is an objective fact.

If the Xia Kingdom can unify the world, the technology of the primitive islands and Lizhou factory can gradually become popular in the rich continent and drive the development of civilization throughout the continent.

This is the benefit of the Xia Kingdom War.

This war has been fought for a long time.

It's longer than the Battle of Crossing the River.

The war between the Central Kingdom to defend the capital has brought about the foundation and bloodline of the two thousand years of empire.

The power of Xia Kingdom's weapons did not become their target of fear, but became their driving force for fighting.

Many powerful generals and elite soldiers from the Central Kingdom, fearlessly carrying explosives to attack the howitzers and mechanical cannons in the rear of the Xia army, trying to blow up these two killing weapons.

Most of the people who rushed up were stopped by the soldiers of Xia Kingdom. Only a few people achieved their goal and destroyed several large weapons.

Chen Li was able to prevent this from happening, but he didn't do that.

As a leader, he has done enough, so there is no need to interfere in such things.

The Xia Kingdom was strong enough and mature enough. Unlike the Middle-earth dynasty many years ago, he had to do everything himself.

Half a month later, the Xia Kingdom destroyed more than 600,000 troops from the left and right armies of the Central Kingdom's National Protection Army at the cost of 170,000 deaths.

Only more than 100,000 people left retreated to the Imperial City in a panic and joined the last 600,000 city-modified army.

At this time, the Central Kingdom still had more than 700,000 troops, while the Xia Kingdom had 450,000 troops.

Compared with 1.2 million to 600,000 before the war, the strength of the two is already very obvious.

The final battle is to siege the city.

Chen Liyuan looked at the huge ancient city located on the plain, and was quite entangled inside.

Renhuang City is the oldest and most prosperous ancient city on the Fengrao Continent.

It would be a pity to be destroyed by artillery fire because of war.

But if we don’t fight, the central country will not surrender, and we will still have to fight in the end.

At this point when Xia State marched, there was no way out.

The ammunition and supplies are only enough for the last battle. If the enemy is not destroyed, the last one will die will be his own people.

In addition, the secret spies who sneaked into the enemy also found out that the Central Kingdom was mobilizing troops from the south to return to aid, and they would arrive near the Renhuang City in the next two days.

If they were allowed to form a situation of attacking from front to back, it would be very unfavorable for the Xia Kingdom Legion.

Therefore, after a brief renovation, the siege battle started soon.

Siege is actually a little simpler than the plains war.

Because Xia Guo possesses a range, he can use firepower to consume several rounds first to reduce the morale of the enemy.

This is true. Under the suppression of long-range firepower, the central army of the Central Kingdom's city protection had no power to fight back and could only be passively beaten.

The troops stationed outside the city rushed up and could only be wiped out by the front army of Xia.

Moreover, they cannot give up on the defense of the city wall, otherwise they will likely be attacked.

Under the bombardment of artillery fire, both sides were waiting for an opportunity.

The Central Kingdom was waiting for the Xia Kingdom to run out of shells, and was unable to continue to suppress it, and was waiting for the arrival of reinforcements from the southern part.

On the other hand, the Xia Kingdom was waiting for the enemy's morale to decline, and the city gate's defensive facilities were weakened to the point where they could easily break through.

The two were experiencing each other for three days.

Three days later, Xia Guo's howitzer shells were finally used up.

The army returning to the south of the Central Kingdom also came to the vicinity of Renhuang City.

The morale of the central country was greatly boosted, and he prepared to attack internally and externally, and annihilate the Xia army in one fell swoop.

But just as they opened the city gate and rushed out, the howitzer fire rang out again!

Chen Li... took out the 1,000 shells he brought with him as his last killer weapon.

This wave of actions made the Central Kingdom curse cunning, thinking that they were deliberately making fraud.

But they did not retreat.

The army has come out, and we can't retreat in shame.

Behind the Xia Kingdom was a legion returning to the rescue and helped fight together, attacking each other from front to back. Even if they couldn't win, it would be fine to exhaust some of their troops.

Therefore, the soldiers who left the city to fight were all brave enough and determined to fight to the end with the determination to die.

The Xia Kingdom side was cautious in the fight and did not dare to be careless.

Chen Li knew that 400,000 enemy troops were coming from behind, and he was also a little worried.

Xu Ao has already planned to draw 150,000 people to come back to fight.

At this moment, a voice suddenly sounded in Chen Li's mind.

"The commander of the rear army is Shen Huangsha, your chance is here."

Chen Li:?

Who is Shen Huangsha? Why doesn’t he remember it?

Tinder No. 8 prompted: "You have gained favorability and owed me 280 million energy points for this."

"Damn?" Chen Li was stunned.

Meaning... those 400,000 people are all his "little fans"?

"You mean, let me persuade that army?" Chen Li showed a laughing and crying expression.

Fire No. 8 said: "I can send some signals to stimulate their brains and temporarily form the effect of 'brainwashing'. If you say something more persuasive, you may take them for yourself."

"Why didn't you say that there is such a good way? How good is it to directly take over all the troops of the Central Kingdom?" Chen Li said angrily.

"The battle of founding a country must be fought, I just push the boat. Moreover, these 400,000 people have a good impression of you, the effect of hypnosis and brainwashing will not be too abrupt, and their acceptance will be relatively high." Tinder No. 8 explained.

"Well... OK, then I'll try it. But then, you must have energy points again when you are dedicated, right?" Chen Li curled his lips, and was already very familiar with the "character" of Tinder No. 8's obsessed with energy points.

Sure enough, Fire No. 8 replied briefly and bluntly: "560 million."
Chapter completed!