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Chapter 132: Epitome of Troubled Times

A kite roared in the sky, and a flying eagle flew across the mountains and fields. The vast earth was filled with blood, and the solemn and murderous aura lingers in the wilderness.

In the summer of the sixth year of Yonghe, Shu Prime Minister Yang Xian led an army of 50,000 to Nanyang. Ten thousand Shu army vanguards entered Dankou and repelled 30,000 Liang troops in one battle.

At the same time, the Chu army, which originally adopted a defensive strategy in Nanyang, launched a large counterattack against the Liang army near Wancheng, which was abnormal.

Wancheng is the county town of Nanyang County and a major city in the world. Even during today's war, it also had a population of hundreds of thousands. Ten years ago, Jin Xiu, a small prince in Wancheng, surrendered to Liang. After that, a large area of ​​land in the northern part of Nanyang County was planned under the rule of the Liang army.

Cai Tong has always regretted this matter.

First of all, although Jin Xiu was just a small prince, his Heizai army was a powerful army in the world. In addition, although Jin Xiu held small land in the north of Nanyang, the strategic location was very important and the population was dense.

Jin Xiu's surrender made Huan Wu pick up a huge advantage in vain and mastered two important places, Wancheng and Rang County, in central and northern Nanyang.

The Liang army stationed 130,000 troops in the north of Nanyang, but the threat to the State of Chu was fatal.

If these two cities were in the hands of Jin Xiu, there would be a strategic buffer between Liang and Chu. However, in the hands of Huan Wu, the Liang army would have a huge advantage in Nanyang. The Liang army had a small number of soldiers, but the land combat power was strong, and they had been taking offensives against the Chu army.

In order to deal with the Liang army, Cai Tong could only deploy more than 100,000 troops of Chu State near Xiangcheng in the southern part of Nanyang. Once Xiangcheng is lost, the Liang army can march straight into the hinterland of Chu State, and Chu State will not be far from the collapse of the country.

Cai Tong was wearing a commoner and stood in the middle formation. In the wilderness, the Liang army in front lined up and waited. The Liang army could not bear the Chu army at all. Cai Tong led the fifteen major troops to attack Wancheng. However, the Liang army, whose troops were obviously at a disadvantage, did not defend the city, but wanted to fight the Chu army in the wilderness.

The meaning of contempt came out.

The reason why Cai Tong was confident was that Yang Xian had 50,000 troops, and his total military strength in Nanyang reached 200,000. The comparison of the forces between Shu and Chu armies and Liang armies reached 2 to 1. After the 30,000 troops in Dankou retreated in the first battle, the main force retreated to Rang County and guarded the flanks of Wancheng.

Yang Xian's offensive was swift, and the warships went down the river and broke through several blockades of the Liang army. Not to mention Huan Wu in Shendu, even Huan Zhong on the front line did not expect that Yang Xian's speed was so fast. It took less than eight days to send troops from the Nanzhong to the occupation of Dankou.

When Huan Zhong was in Wancheng reacted, Yang Xian had occupied the passage passes outside Dankou, and the warships drove into Dan Lake north of Dankou.

Danhu is adjacent to Rang County, separated by layers of mountains. Huan Zhong is worthy of being a stormy general. He immediately responded and ordered the Liang army in Danhu to retreat across the line, gather defeated troops, defend the mountains outside Rang County, and transferred 20,000 reinforcements from Wancheng to Rang County. Fifty thousand troops were deployed layer by layer, intending to stop the offensive of the Shu army.

There are only 80,000 Liang troops in Wancheng now, and Cai Tong naturally cannot give up this thousand-year-old opportunity and set up fifteen major troops to attack Wancheng directly.

As long as Wancheng is captured, the 50,000 Liang troops in Rang County will naturally become a turtle in the jar. If Cai Tong gets the northern part of Nanyang, the situation in the world will change drastically.

After that, whether it was to cooperate with the princes from Yizhou and Liangzhou to attack Yongzhou, or the Wu attacking Yu and Xuzhou in the Central Plains, the initiative was in the hands of Cai Tong.

No matter which direction you have made a breakthrough, it is a fatal danger for Huan Wu. Cai Tong can use his duty to serve the king to call on the princes of the world to go to the capital of Shen, causing Huan Wu to die.

At that time, he will be the leader of the princes and the loyal minister of the Great Zhou who saved the emperor from danger. This is a huge temptation. Now, no prince will let it go.

Cai Tong was wearing a cloth armor, looking at the Liang army with a compact array in the distance and the solemn soldiers. Just looking at the Liang army's method of setting up the formation and strict military discipline, we knew that the Liang army in front was one of the few elite troops.

The army set out, and before the battle was fought, the secret spies of the two armies went back and forth and inquire about information. What made Cai Tong laugh was that Huan Zhong decided to first defeat the 150,000 Chu army with the elite troops of 80,000 Wancheng, and then surrounded the Shu army with the 50,000 Liang army in Rang County.

Be sure to capture and kill Yang Xian in Dankou!

In this plan, Huan Zhong focused on Yang Xian, and obviously did not take Chu Jun and Cai Tong seriously.

Huan Zhong led the elite main force out of the city, and the best proof of his attempt to fight the Chu army quickly was the best proof.

Cai Tong's eyes flashed and he said to himself: "Huan Zhong, since you want this opportunity, I will give it to you!"

The drums were ringing, and the Chu army began to march.

In the wilderness, the blood-killing aura rushed straight into the sky, the clouds in the sky were rolling, and the strong wind whistled.

When the most powerful creatures on the earth fought in groups, all the creatures in the Zhou Dynasty retreated. This was a battle that reached the climax from the beginning, and neither Cai Tong nor Huan Zhong held back.

On this battlefield, the Chu army had an advantage in number, but was not good at land warfare. The Liang army was different. Although they had a small number of people, they had a good formation and strong combat power.

It is unquestionable that this is a big gamble. The commanders of the two armies gave up the traditional method of using troops, conquering and competing each other by land, and instead used the most intense method to fight the decisive battle.

Huan Zhong was fighting for time, and in order to defeat the Chu army, he could mobilize troops as soon as possible to siege Yang Xian.

Cai Tong was also competing for time to make a breakthrough before Yang Xian. He also wanted to occupy the northern part of Nanyang before Huanwu's reinforcements arrived and defended the dangerous situation.

The sound of collision, the sound of fighting, howling, the sound of war drums...

Various voices were mixed together, and Liang Chu and Liang army were fighting in the most tragic way, with the fighting spirit.

The battle between life and death is intense. The two armies are stirring up and leaping figures shine in the battle formation, and a large number of soldiers are in it, rising, thriving, maturing, and then falling, completing the most cruel trajectory of life.

Cai Tong and Huan Zhong are all generals who have experienced battle formations and are well versed in military tactics. They are all looking for the flaws of each other and finding the silk fighter jets. Even if this silk fighter jet requires the lives of a large number of soldiers to accumulate and fill them.

Huan Zhong found it, and a gap appeared between the left wing and the middle formation of the Chu army. He immediately ordered all the elites around him to enter. As long as he broke through Cai Tong's middle formation, Cai Tong would have no way to be defeated.

Cai Tong also found that under the hills of Huan Zhong's formation, the most elite halberd soldiers of the Liang army had already shown their disadvantages. As long as they were surrounded and broken, Huan Zhong would have no last support.

The commanders of both sides issued orders almost at the same time, and the rest was to fight for whom they were faster!
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