At the beginning of the year, when the Yuezhou Army attacked Qingnan and Taihe, two or three people from other nearby states also ran to Yang Hongjin to surrender.
Now Yang Hongye only has one capital city and a few relatively poor states near the northern border.
The remaining states are mostly in the west, which is too far away to put out the fire in time.
On the other hand, the Yuezhou Army has been advancing rapidly from south to north over the past year and has occupied more than half of Dayong's territory.
After the Yuezhou Army entered Taihe City, they reorganized themselves a little and left Yuchi Zhong and Jiang Hai in the city to deal with post-war matters.
Guo Hao led his troops out of the city in pursuit. This time, there were fewer Taihe defenders fleeing north, and the troops on Qingshui River Road should have been ready to cut off their retreat.
A group of defeated soldiers are already like fish on the chopping board.
The distance between Taihe City and the capital is not far, it is just separated by the Qingshui River. A normal fast horse can reach there within a day.
If we march slowly, it will only take a day to reach the Qingshui River.
At about the same time the next day, Guo Hao's army blocked the defeated troops of Taihe City on the banks of the Qingshui River.
The defeated army was chased all the way and lost all their weapons and armor.
Guo Hao was also well versed in the tactics of pursuit, so he followed the opponent's tail all the way without rushing forward to fight.
The pursuit lasted for a whole day and night, until the defeated army, exhausted both physically and mentally, arrived at the bank of the Qingshui River, where someone was still waiting for them to fall into the trap.
Lu Laotie was on the boat, holding a telescope with his neck stretched out, waiting for the defeated army to escape over here.
Seeing these defeated soldiers fleeing in panic, Lu Laotie grinned obscenely and ordered the artillery to fire a round at the shore.
Although it didn't hit the enemy, its effect was achieved, directly destroying the enemy's last glimmer of hope.
Guo Hao's army slowly surrounded them, and the situation was similar to that in Canglan River, where they surrendered their weapons but were not killed.
The deafening shouts made the enemy soldiers drool in fear.
This time, there was a hot-tempered enemy general who led his troops to break out from one direction.
Then, the Xincheng Legion took out a grenade, which was even more violent than his temper, and directly sent the small group of resisting enemy troops to the sky on the spot.
Most of the remaining troops in this small group of enemy troops were injured or disabled. Even if they fought to the death, they could not defeat the well-armored Yuezhou Army.
It didn't take long to put down this small riot.
The quick time and shocking scene made the defeated army tremble in fear.
The effect was also very obvious. The rest of the defeated troops saw that things had come to this point and were powerless to turn the tide.
They had no choice but to drop their weapons, surrender and be taken away.
Guo Hao led the army back along the original route and headed towards Taihe City.
Like driving a flock of sheep, they brought these captives back to Taihe City.
After another day's journey, the army returned to Taihe City.
Despite the continuous pursuit, the Yuezhou army was still in high spirits.
After entering the city, everyone met each other, and Guo Hao smiled heartily.
"Hahahaha, great! We've captured nearly 30,000 more prisoners."
Although he had just finished the pursuit and had not had enough rest, there were still some bloodshot eyes in Guo Hao's eyes.
But he was still in high spirits, his excitement had not yet worn off, and he didn't look tired at all.
Jiang Hai gave him a thumbs up.
"General Guo, go and rest quickly. Leave the rest to us."
Guo Hao nodded in agreement and left to rest.
After the returning army and prisoners of war were settled, Jiang Hai and Yuchi Zhong said,
"We will temporarily stop in Taihe City to rest and have Lao Liu gather the troops. After some time, we will cross the river and attack the capital."
"That's right," Yuchi Zhong nodded. "Have you always called him Lao Liu?"
"Hey, it's just a name, don't take it too seriously."
Jiang Hai chuckled, and Yuchi Zhong also laughed. These two sons-in-law were quite casual.
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Yang Hongjin in Guhezhou was quite excited when he received news from the front line.
According to the plan, most of the troops in the south will be gathered together and marched to Taihe City to meet up.
It took more than ten days for the troops to gather and travel, and they arrived at Taihe City.
They brought more than 100,000 troops, and together with those in Taihe City, the total number was close to 200,000.
In fact, the capital city could be captured without so many soldiers. Jiang Hai simply thought it looked better this way.
While the war was going on here, the arms from Xincheng were gradually transported to the front line.
At this time, the Xincheng Corps had sufficient firepower.
And from the beginning to the end, Jiang Hai never let Qin Shi's Feitian Camp show its strength.
Young Master Jiang has a bad idea. He will let the Feitian Battalion perform in the sky in broad daylight for Yang Hongye to see.
Or just fly to the palace and scare him.
At this time, in the imperial palace of the capital, Yang Hongye was furious and tore up the military report.
"What have you generals been eating? You keep losing battles, every time.
We've been losing for a year.
Now, we have reached Taihe Province and are about to attack the capital. What do you think we should do?"
The Northern Expedition of the Yuezhou Army this year made Yang Hongye very heartbroken.
From not taking it seriously at the beginning, to gradually taking it seriously, to feeling deeply that something was wrong, to now facing collapse.
The civil and military officials in the hall were all speechless.
The civil servant was thinking that the court seemed to be changing hands again, and he didn't know if he could continue to stay in power.
The generals were thinking, I can’t win, I really can’t win.
But no one spoke in tacit understanding.
Even Yang Hongye's confidant Huang Jianmu pretended to be a coward.
Finally, King Xuan stood up.
"Your Majesty, please allow General Cui to accompany me to meet the enemy."
After Yang Hongye seized power, King Xuan returned to the capital and replaced him with someone else to garrison the northern border.
Cui Dongcheng, who was named by King Xuan, felt annoyed and wondered why the old man had to drag him into this.
Originally, Cui Dongcheng didn't care too much about it, thinking that he would not die regardless of the outcome because of his martial arts skills.
After the deaths of Hong Tao and Lv Liu, he began to re-examine this issue: Is the Yuezhou Army so terrifying?
Well, Cui Dongcheng was also a little scared, afraid that he would be killed by the Yuezhou Army like those two people.
At this time, the existing troops around the capital city only numbered about 200,000.
In ancient times, people generally liked to exaggerate when reporting military strength. If a country had hundreds of thousands of soldiers, they would simply say it had an army of one million.
Darong's army actually only had a few hundred thousand soldiers.
Excluding some border guards who could not return, this was the only number left for Yang Hongye to mobilize.
This year we suffered a lot of losses in our confrontation with the Yuezhou Army.
There are only so many troops nearby at the moment.
They were on par with the Yuezhou Army that was about to cross the Qingshui River.
If we ignore the cheating behavior of the New City Legion and directly fight with cold weapons and real guns, it will still be difficult to win.
After all, the defenders had a much greater advantage. Without a surprise attack, it would have been a fierce battle.
But this is the situation. The Yuezhou Army fought hard all the way.
Now even the troops in the capital knew that the Yuezhou army had weapons that could strike thunderbolts. They were so powerful that they could collapse mountains and split rocks.
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