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Chapter 41 Trouble in the Southeast
During the three-month pause in the smoke at Yumen Pass, Xirong's main force of 30 troops approached the hinterland of Hehe. The Lejia Dynasty was panicked and asked Dongqi and Beiling to send troops for rescue. At the same time, Lejia Pengkang was secretly sent to Sanxing Academy.

However, the strange thing is that the Xirong army did not attack the city after they arrived. Before the Beiling army arrived, they swaggered around the border of Hehe and the southwest, followed the Ling River, and directly attacked the important town of Dongqi adjacent to Beiling.

The city's defenders were poorly prepared for war, and were captured by the Xirong in less than two days. After the Xirong captured the city, they carried out massacres for three days and three nights. The corpses of the people lay everywhere in the city, flies and maggots grew everywhere, and eagles hovered in the sky, and their screams echoed through the streets.

Judging from the current battle situation, Xirong seems to be attacking Dongqi in three directions. In fact, before declaring war, he has ordered two [-] cavalry troops to secretly lurk in the west and north of Dongqi. After the war letter is announced to the world, they will quickly make a detour. Harassing the border, deliberately exposing the intention of the offensive line, attracting the main force of the Northern Qi Army and the Zhenxi Army to fully face the enemy at Yumen Pass and Jiazigou.

However, after making an attack on the east and attacking the west, the Xirong army detoured around Hehe in a mighty manner, using the power of destruction to force Hehe to open its official roads. Finally, they chose the foot of the Yushan Mountains and sealed off the city at the junction of Dongqi and Beiling for a massive attack. Although it seems unreasonable, it actually has a hidden meaning.

In fact, Xirong neither dared nor wanted to attack Hehe.

He has already started a war with Dongqi. If he attacks Hehe again, Beiling will definitely send troops to protect him. When the three countries join forces, Xirong will be defeated and fall short.

Therefore, Anuda performed a show of concealment in front of the capital city of Hehe with great fanfare, and then attacked Fengcheng before Beiling's army went south.

From Dong Qi's perspective, this series of actions was a secret alliance between Xirong, Beiling, and He He, and they were working together to fight against Dong Qi, in order to achieve the goal of dismantling the old alliance that had been jointly controlling the West for hundreds of years in the Eastern Continent.

On the battlefield between Dongqi and Beiling, because the main force of the Northern Qi army was guarding the northwest and could not immediately go to support, Ning Wang Qi Jijue, who was closest to the city, led the 20-strong Western Army to the northeast to meet the enemy. At the same time, Emperor Ming also returned Deploy [-] Dongding troops to advance northwest and attack the enemy from two sides.

However, Fengcheng faces Lingshui, with Yushan Mountain at its back, and the terrain is steep. Although it is not suitable for cavalry operations, Xirong has already occupied the powerful terrain of Yushan Mountain in advance, ambushing shooters and rolling stone traps. Qi Yijue lacks actual combat experience, so although he did not advance rashly , but they hesitated and missed the best opportunity to attack before the heavy snowfall at the winter solstice. The Zhenxi Army advanced and was ambushed by the Xirong Mountains, causing heavy losses.

On the other hand, the Dongding Army's march was delayed due to heavy rain. Fortunately, it was because of this that it retained most of the strength of the Dongqi Eastern Front Army.

Then, the Xirong army divided into two groups, one group occupied Fengcheng, and the other group stationed troops at the border of Zhahe and stayed still.

The city was easy to defend but difficult to attack. After Xirong captured it, the city gates were tightly closed. Dongqi's army attacked several times and not only failed to break through, but its strength was too large. They had to retreat to the shore of Lingshui to camp and rest, while Dongding's army The men in light armor lurked in Yushan, keeping calm and waiting for the opportunity.

Qi Jinjue was very anxious. He was leading an army for the first time. If he could not earn a military merit and go back, then he would probably lose his way of martial arts under Emperor Ming. The power of the civil servants in the court alone would be difficult to compete with Qi Ji in the future. Therefore, he must capture this blocked city.

However, the terrain of Yushan Mountain was steep, making it difficult for the army to engage in large-scale operations. Lin Feng, the commander-in-chief of the Dongding Army, adapted to local conditions and secretly ambushed Yushan Mountain with five thousand elite troops in light armor. The rest of the army took boats up the Linghe River to join the Zhenxi Army on the front battlefield, and Fei Ge sent a message to get in touch with Qi Jinjue, which increased his chances of winning by a few percent.

Based on many years of experience in fighting, the generals of the Zhenxi Army believed that the Xirong army must not join forces to close the city. The purpose of closing the city gates tightly and guarding the city was to consume Dongqi's armaments. In addition, there must be other conspiracies. If an encirclement and suppression plan was set up, , the current situation is extremely unfavorable for Dongqi.

Although Qi Jinjue had no way of judging the situation of the war, he was still a smart man. Therefore, he followed the advice and sent spies to explore the area within [-] miles of the camp, especially within the Hehe Kingdom, to see if there was any suspicious army ambush.

Sure enough, Xirong had sent people to rob and kill Dongqi's supply army, cutting off the army's supply of food, grass and medicine, while leaving half of the army stationed at the border of Hehe to wait for opportunities.

The siege of the city must be carried out without delay, otherwise when the military supplies are exhausted, Dongqi's army will face the situation of being surrounded by enemies from both sides.Fortunately, the Dongding Army may ambush Yushan or rush to the front line by water. Therefore, judging from the current situation, the two sides are in a situation of mutual siege. Whoever can seize the opportunity can win in danger.

As soon as the spring equinox arrived and the ice on the Lingshui River melted, Qi Jinjue thought about it for a long time. Finally, he refused to listen to the dissuasion of most of the Zhenxi generals and destroyed the landscape bridge across the Linghe River overnight.

He believed that Xirong was impassable, so half of its troops could be temporarily contained, and Dongqi's army could safely retreat to the shallows of the Ling River and use Ling River fish and shrimp as food and grass supplies.

After waiting for the Zhenxi Army and the Dongding Army to attack back and forth, capture Fengcheng, and successfully join forces, they can then gather their forces to compete with the Xirong troops in Hehe Kingdom for a showdown.

But this move is also very risky. If you can't hit it with one blow, you will be trapped in a cocoon.

If Fengcheng is captured but the mountains and rivers bridge is destroyed, the escape route will be completely cut off. Although the city can hold up for half a month, it will also give Xirong a chance to counterattack, and then the military achievements of capturing Fengcheng will disappear.

Therefore, in order to ensure the best chance of victory, Qi Yijue sent a letter to Qidu City by flying pigeons overnight, exaggerating the current favorable battle situation and huge difficulties, and begged Emperor Ming to send Pingqi troops to support.

In this way, if the success fell short, it can be said that the Pingqi army did not provide enough support and delayed the opportunity to fight, thus causing the captured Fengcheng to fall again, and his own military achievements in siege can be regarded as being preserved in name.

In Yumen Pass, before receiving the transfer order from Beijing, King Qin had already led a large army to approach the junction of the Three Kingdoms.At this time, Qi Jinjue, the Western Army of Zhenzhen, and the Western Rong Army of Fengcheng had been fighting for three days and nights.

Judging from the anxious situation of the war, Qi Jinjue's predictions were too optimistic. Although Xirong was not good at water warfare and could not cross the river without a bridge over mountains and rivers, Xirong's crossbows were unparalleled in the world. They used kerosene as a guide and used crossbows. Later, they attacked the camp of Dongqi's army.

The fire was raging along the Linghe River, reflecting the fact that the entire river seemed to be on fire. Black smoke enveloped the boiling river water, scorching the cold corpses and dying souls all over the ground.

The Zhenxi Army had no way to retreat, so they had to storm the city. The Xirong troops in the city fired their bows and arrows, and the first siege troops were destroyed batch after batch.

Although the main force of the Dongding Army arrived first by boat, the five thousand elite soldiers who were ambushing Yushan were not able to completely break through the rear siege and sneak into the city for a while because of their light armor and daggers. Fortunately, they finally rushed to the west of the town. Before the army ran out of ammunition and food, they disrupted Xirong's offensive from the inside. Finally, the city gate was wide open, and Xirong had to break through and push to the Lingshui River.

Just as the Zhenxi Army and the Dongding Army were working together to annihilate the Xirong, more than a thousand small boats approached from the other side of the Ling River, and thousands of arrows were fired.

The first batch of reinforcements from Xirong arrived, turning the battle situation around instantly.

Dongqi's soldiers suffered many casualties. Almost none of their strong bodies was intact. The wounds and chilblains that were barely covered had been chapped countless times. Their eyes were bloodshot and ferocious, and they refused to let go of their hands holding the sword even if they were trembling with cold.

But Xirong's warships arrived one after another, and they realized that the strength of the Xirong army that had invaded the city was only one-sixth. Now that the main reinforcements had arrived at the scene, it was time to capture the frogs boiled in warm water alive.

(End of this chapter)