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Chapter 585 - 42 Eight Gates Golden Lock, Protecting Jiangnan! (Big - for Monthly Tickets)_3

Chapter 585: Chapter 42 Eight Gates Golden Lock, Protecting Jiangnan! (Big Chapter for Monthly Tickets)_3

Meanwhile in Ying Country, it was rumored [Li Guanyi, after all, is a Chen man; he and Chen Country plan to join forces and march, expelling Ying Country from the Jiangnan area].

Thereafter, each time the Qilin Army changed guards, it was a grand display, and the soldiers of Chen Country gradually grew accustomed to it. Yuan Zhi let Mr. Lei Laomeng lead the Exotic Beast Army to go hunting near the opposing city for no particular reason. Initially, the people of Chen Country were extremely vigilant, but eventually, they became lax.

Though they appeared alert, in reality, they were merely going through the motions.

Sometimes, when hunting at midnight, the opposing side couldn’t even be bothered to get up.

So after more than a month, Yuan Zhi informed Li Guanyi, saying the time had come.

The young strategist smiled, "With a great army and a river basin, victory lies with us; how could we possibly lose? Not to mention, what price would we have to pay!" The top strategic military thinker among the younger generation finally revealed his sharp teeth.

That day, Shaking Light conducted astrology, stargazing, and divined a night with no moon or wind.

Outside East Crossing City, banners were still scattered everywhere, and the noise was thunderous, but the army of Chen Country within Chunyang City had all grown used to it. Even the elite forces would find it difficult to maintain vigilance every single night throughout the month-plus of such activities, and no one knew.

A fleet passed through East Crossing City.

Following the river basin downstream, they arrived at Chunyang City before sunrise.

And only at that moment did the weary soldiers of Chen Country, who had been harried for well over a month, lift their heads and in the dim firelight, saw the terrifying navy above the waters, with the armored Angry Scale Dragon King soaring into the sky.

Military forces converged and formed into a formation. The Dharma Form of the Flood Dragon of the Angry Scale Dragon King soared into the sky.

Grandmaster Level generals personally led the charge into the battle.

The massive Mo Family Mechanism Mechanical Crossbow, carried by the [Azure Dragon Flagship], broke through the city’s defenses, and Generals Ling Pingyang, Fan Qing, and Yu Wen Hua, attacking from three sides, entered the city using the strategy of the prepared against the unprepared. By sunrise, a crimson battle flag was placed on the walls of Chunyang City.

The Qilin Army, outside the city type entrance, captured the main city.

Ling Pingyang and others led the Cavalry to pursue and surround, forcing Chen Country to break out of the encirclement, yet they had to retreat.

The sphere of influence of Chen Country contracted, leaving only Qu Shui City and its surrounding strongholds in Jiangnan. Chen Dingye, in great rage, issued an Imperial Decree, arriving swiftly by night and ordered the three generals to capture Li Guanyi without any mistake.

The Imperial Decree from the Emperor of Ying also arrived.

The famous generals of Ying made a quick decision, deciding to leave some to defend the city while the main force entered the land area of Jiangnan directly, abandoning the waterways to prepare for a decisive land battle to avoid the terrifying naval attacks of the adversary.

Although Ying Country was powerful, it was not skilled in water warfare.

As for this, the forces of the Qilin Army.

Infantry and logistics totaling eighteen thousand five hundred.

Navy of thirty thousand.

Battalion of battleships, one.

Thus gathering a force of sixty thousand, they displayed magnificent might at the southern tip of the world. The famous generals of both Chen and Ying simultaneously chose similar strategies, or rather, were forced to, abandoning the waterways to step into land warfare.

They all abandoned their cities because they were famous generals, and thus realized a very deadly point: staying honestly within the water-area cities while the opponent directly controlled the waterways and had a world-class fleet of battleships meant sitting ducks.

Two forces of spearheads, one attacking from the north and the other from the south.

It seemed like an unspoken understanding amongst famous generals, subtly converging into an encirclement, forming an army of one hundred thousand, aiming to devour the entire Qilin Army of only twenty thousand infantry, and everyone who knew of this change was watching this play out.

This was the counterattack of the two great nations.

Only Lu Youxian, in great anger, sent a report overnight, requesting an immediate withdrawal to defend the city: "The enemy only lightly harasses us, and it must be for a specific purpose—to make us abandon our defenses. Being disturbed by the enemy is a great taboo in the Military School!"

This top city-defending general was, however, benched at home due to the affairs in Guan Yi City.

This proposal ultimately was not taken seriously enough.

Chen Country and Ying Country’s forces directly marched into the land area, rendering the role of the navy obsolete, or perhaps, this was the ultimate aim of Yuan Zhi’s strategy. But at this moment, this ordinary-born strategist hesitated slightly.

He was silent for a long time, then asked Li Guanyi, saying, "My lord, if we retreat now and fortify the cities, we could still hold out for a while. If we truly follow my strategy, I am really just a scholar, such strategies, I have never implemented..."

"Should it fail..."

Li Guanyi replied promptly, "It would merely be the same as before!"

"Trust those you use; do not use those you doubt, sir, please proceed with the strategy!"

Yuan Zhi clenched his teeth, looking at Li Guanyi, the young famous general, and the similarly young strategist, whose youthful passion was setting the world aflame. They almost adopted an absurd strategy, simultaneously dispatching generals to challenge the forces of Ying and Chen.

Yuan Zhi, holding the strategist seal, stood up and declared loudly:

"This time, the renowned generals of Ying and Chen subtly coordinated to encircle us, annihilation is impossible now; the goal is a major victory!"

"Those are great nations. As we occupy this vital point, a counterattack will inevitably come. Only by meeting this counterattack with an even more resolute and direct approach can we thoroughly defeat it, possibly completing our first strategic goal of occupying the entire Jiangnan Eighteen States and indirectly controlling the surrounding Seventeen States."

"Expanding our influence to an area thousands of miles around."