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Chapter 825 Regaining Cangxue
In mid-October, the Eternal Army fully withdrew from Xuecang Prefecture and returned to the plateau.Seeing this, Yun Zhaoguo, who was entrenched in the central and southern part of Cangzhou, knew that he could not resist Tianhua with his own power, but he was unwilling to give up Cangzhou, so he continued to defend Cangzhou with some hope.

Immediately afterwards, the Tianhua Army stationed in the west of Yunzhou entered Erzhou to take over the counties and counties that had been abandoned forever.

Seeing that the two Cangxue prefectures, which had been lost for three years, were about to be recovered, they did not expect that the Yunzhao Kingdom, which occupied most of Cangzhou, refused to return the cities of Cangzhou.He just sent envoys to try to persuade Tianhua to give up claiming Cangzhou.

Zheng Han didn't even see the envoy, so he ordered someone to blow him out of the barracks, and sent a message to Yun Zhaojun that Tianhua would never negotiate any territorial issues, and they were given an hour to leave the city immediately, otherwise they would face the wrath of the Tianhua army .

After listening to the envoy's words, General Yun Zhao couldn't help becoming angry from embarrassment, thinking about how to deal with the Tianhua army and defend the city.

That's right, General Yun Zhao didn't consider retreating, but wanted to stick to the city and test the strength of the Tianhua army.Anyway, Yunzhao is located in the smoky place in the south, even if he can't fight, he can return to the country.The Tianhua Army can recover the entire territory of Cangzhou at most, and absolutely dare not go south.

You must know that all the dynasties of the Central Plains have tried the Southern Expedition, but most of them ended in failure.

Even if it is occasionally occupied, it can't last long, so it can only retreat. In the end, it has to admit the existence of the southern countries and maintain the majesty of the Central Plains in the name of giving the southern countries vassal states.

Therefore, under the command of General Yun Zhao, the more than [-] defenders stationed in the county city immediately entered a state of combat readiness to build the city defense with all their strength.

When Zheng Han saw this, he couldn't help being angry. There were only [-] soldiers who went south to recapture Cangzhou this time, and most of them were newly adapted Tianyun soldiers.

Originally thought that the general trend was the general trend, Yun Zhaoguo could only give up Cangzhou and let the Tianhua Army take over.Unexpectedly, Yun Zhaojun was so arrogant and refused to give up Cangzhou.

That being the case, it is a good time to use these cloud summoning troops to practice the combat power of the new army.

An hour later, Zheng Han immediately ordered the attack.Dozens of artillery were lined up, and there was a burst of shelling against the city wall.

As soon as the battle started, General Yun Zhao felt the gap between the two sides, and he immediately regretted his recklessness.He never expected that the legendary Tianhua Army would be so powerful, with such sharp artillery.

In fact, he didn't know at all that most of the Tianhua Army under the city came from the original Tianyun Army, which was formed less than three months ago.But at this time the battle had already begun, and there was no room for him to stop.

Braving the attack of the Tianhua army's artillery, the Yunzhao army also used the artillery seized from the Tianyun army and purchased from the Eternal Kingdom to try to launch a confrontation.

However, the gap between the artillery of the two sides is very obvious. The Yunzhao Army, who has just come into contact with artillery for the first time, is not able to operate the artillery proficiently at all. In addition, its artillery is old-style, and its range is far lower than that of the Tianhua Army.

Therefore, the Yunzhao Army's artillery not only failed to kill the enemy, but exposed the location of the artillery, and was immediately attacked by the Tianhua Army.

After a while, more than a dozen artillery pieces were completely destroyed.Without artillery, Yun Zhaojun could only guard the city and be beaten, without the ability to fight back.

After firing cannons for half an hour, Tianhua's army began to attack the city, and all kinds of long and short firearms advanced one by one to cover the siege soldiers.Yun Zhaojun was beaten so hard that he couldn't even show his head, and he couldn't stop the Tianhua Army's attack at all.

When the siege soldiers climbed up the city wall, there was another wave of grenade attacks. After clearing the defenders at the top of the city, they jumped onto the city wall one after another, forcing the remaining defenders back from the top of the city, clearing a space.

Then the musketeers boarded the city wall, and under the cover of the swords, shields and spearmen, they lined up and began to shoot.Wave after wave of Yunzhao army leaders fell under the muskets, unable to get close to the Tianhua army at all.

As more and more troops were thrown into the city, the muskets became more and more powerful, and a large number of Yunzhao troops fell on the way to charge.

This tragic death and injury immediately caused Yun Zhaojun to collapse.Countless people swarmed and fled backwards, never wanting to face the fire of Tianhua muskets anymore.

Seeing the collapse of the Yunzhao army, the Tianhua army immediately launched a full-scale pursuit and drove the Yunzhao army off the city wall in one fell swoop.Not long after, the city gate was emptied of debris and burst open.Numerous soldiers and horses swarmed in to encircle and suppress the chaos.

An hour later, the remaining Yun Zhao army surrendered one after another, and even the stubborn general was captured.

After stabilizing the order in the city, the battle report came out. In this battle, the Tianhua Army suffered nearly a thousand casualties, wiped out more than 4000 Yunzhao Army, and captured more than [-] people. No one escaped, and the entire army was wiped out.

After leaving 3000 troops to garrison the county, the army only rested for an hour, and immediately set off again, sweeping the remaining counties.

With the prestige of this battle, the rest of the Yunzhao army knew that they were no match for Tianhua, so they all abandoned the city and fled without a single soldier who dared to fight.

In the first ten days of November, the two states of Cangxue were fully recovered.A group of officials dispatched by Tianhua soon entered the two prefectures to carry out post-war reconstruction.Compared with the Yunfeng and Yunfeng prefectures, the Cangxue prefectures were ravaged by Eternal and Yunzhao. The localities were dilapidated, and the people were oppressed and starved of food. They urgently needed a large amount of relief supplies.

In addition, the gentry and ruling institutions here have already disappeared. Although they are dilapidated, they are beneficial to Tianhua's direct management.Therefore, two state shepherds were directly appointed in these two states, and they were completely under Tianhua's jurisdiction.

And Zheng Han's army did not return to Yunzhou, but instead dispatched [-] soldiers to the south to prepare for the conquest of Yunzhao.

Now Tianhua Chaotang has made a strategy. After regaining Tianyun, it will continue to use troops against Yunzhao, take down Yunzhao country, expand the empire's territory to the south of the southwest, and insert it into the southern countries.

To the east of Yunzhao are Lingnan Kingdom and Liyue Kingdom, and to the south is Wuze Kingdom.Winning Yunzhao will cut off the connection between the three countries and create conditions for their future annihilation.

More importantly, Tianhua needs to win Yunzhao to adapt to the hot climate in the south, investigate the intelligence of the other three countries, and make all preparations for cutting off the southern countries.

Before, the [-] troops from Haizhou had passed through Pingnan County and entered the territory of Liyue Kingdom. They joined the vassal state and attacked Yunzhao's rear to contain Yunzhao for the battle of Tianhua.

But now that the sky is calm, the Tianhua army regained the four states of Tianyun in one fell swoop.After Li Yueguo heard the news, he immediately slowed down and was unwilling to lead the way for the Tianyun Army.Without the assistance of the Liyue Kingdom, the Tianyun Army was struggling in the southern jungle and could only order a retreat in the end.

In late December, Lin Yifan ordered the dispatch of a large amount of food and supplies to Cangzhou in preparation for the southern expedition.At the same time, he ordered Haizhou to assemble [-] troops and rushed to station near Jinghai City.

And above the East China Sea, countless warships were loaded with a large amount of supplies and sailed towards Haizhou.

(End of this chapter)