Chapter 161 Attack and Capture of Sun Yannan
The sky was overcast and gray.
The mountain peaks and treetops were shrouded in mist, and walking through such foggy mountains only made one feel extremely damp and cold.
But at this moment, the hundreds of thousands of people here are completely oblivious to the weather and temperature, because they are fighting to the death.
Sun Yannan's army of hundreds of thousands has dwindled to only twenty or thirty thousand, and they are being attacked from both sides by Ning Huai'an and Yue Yao in this mountainous region.
Fortunately, Zhu Yunze arrived with reinforcements from the capital, only to encounter Yue Yao's troops who were well-prepared. The two sides attacked from both sides and fought for several months.
Ning Huai'an's side had powerful firearms, coupled with tough barbed wire and archers, making it difficult for Sun Yannan to fight back.
Zhu Yunze's arrival relieved some of the pressure on Sun Yannan.
However, the Yun Kingdom's army was already strong and well-equipped, and it was not just relying on firearms. Therefore, even after the reinforcements joined the battle, they could not turn the tide, and Sun Yannan's side could see that they had no chance of winning.
The leaves turned from green to yellow, twirled and fell to the ground, only to be buried by the snow in the blink of an eye.
Winter has arrived.
The soldiers' hands, which were holding guns, developed frostbite, and some even caught colds, but given the current situation, no one was willing to back down.
Carrying swords, spears, bows and arrows, and pushing catapults, they charged forward without hesitation.
Some fell, some were injured, and some wiped the blood from their faces and kept going.
Fireballs exploded, kicking up clouds of dust; cannon fire was deafening; arrows rained down; and swords and spears were icy cold.
Amidst endless shouts of battle and the neighing of horses, hooves clattered over the corpses of enemies and comrades.
Blood stained the forest floor.
"Will Xiao Yong come from Qingzhou to provide assistance?" Ma Jinsheng asked.
Pan Songshi said, "He will definitely come. He can't just watch Sun Yannan be killed by us."
Without Sun Yannan, what is Xiao Yong doing guarding Qingzhou?
Shi Zhongliang smiled and asked, "Can he make it?"
Ma Jinsheng said, "General Hu is fighting with Ning Guo and cannot come to his aid. Will General Meng intercept Xiao Yong?"
Yu Yan nodded. "Most likely."
Qi Shuyu brought over the doctors and nurses from the medical camp and handed each soldier a bowl of herbal soup to treat colds.
Yu Yan smelled the bitter medicine, frowned, and forced himself to finish the soup in one gulp.
The nurse took the bowl of medicine and gave him a thumbs up.
Yu Yan smiled helplessly.
Qi Shuyu said that their medical camp recently produced frostbite ointment, and soldiers whose fingers, toes, and ears were frostbitten could go to them to get the medicine.
Upon hearing this, Pan Songshi immediately stood up. "Dr. Qi, you are truly living bodhisattvas! Some of our brothers in the camp have recently developed frostbite. I'll go with you to get it right away."
Shang Xiaorong sighed, "It's wartime now, and we don't know if the ointment will even work. If we really want to recover, we'll have to wait until the war is over and go to the capital to recuperate."
Qi Shuyu laughed, "The winters in the capital aren't warm either."
Winters in the capital are not warm, and winters in Gyeongju are also very cold.
Xiao Yong gathered supplies and led his army out of Qingzhou, only to be met with Meng Junping from Liangzhou who came to seize Qingzhou.
Upon receiving the message, Xiao Yong sighed and said, "Let her be."
It's more important to rescue our lord from Ning Huai'an's encirclement.
Xiao Yong frowned. This Ning Huai'an really liked to use encirclement tactics.
I used the same tactic when fighting Lu Wei, Lu Hong, and now my lord: trapping him from both sides and then wearing him down.
After inflicting heavy losses on the opponent, then pursue and kill them.
Song Zhiyun, who intercepted Xiao Yong's army, used a head-on confrontation tactic.
The women's army had been stationed on the frontier for over a decade, accustomed to the dangers of life and death. They fought like madmen, which truly surprised Xiao Yong.
His men also suffered heavy losses due to being caught off guard.
After Xiao Yong reacted, Song Zhiyun also adjusted her tactics, and the two sides engaged in fierce fighting.
The plum blossoms bloomed and then faded.
The withered grass on the ground sprouted tender green leaves, the pine and cypress trees in the forest grew new green leaves, and the wild cherry trees in the mountains bloomed with pink and white cherry blossoms.
He Qinglan, who was far away in Jinzhou, received a letter from Ye Hui seeking peace.
She calmly read the letter, picked up her pen, and replied: "I will not give you any other places except Ningzhou."
“Ye Hui will definitely be very angry when she sees this,” He Chen said.
Fang Wangshu laughed, "It's better to be angry now than to be angry later."
He Chen was puzzled.
Fang Wangshu slowly explained to her, "When the goddess unifies the world in the future, she will not leave behind Ningguo, which has three provinces, as this is not conducive to centralized power. Even if she is forced to leave it behind when she establishes the country, she will eventually reduce its power."
It will be nerfed either during the reign of the Goddess or during the reign of the Crown Princess.
He Qinglan said calmly, "Human desires are insatiable. Even if I don't take action against Ningguo, Ningguo will rebel sooner or later."
That was a country of three states; how could its ruler not have the ambition to conquer the world?
This hidden danger is too great, posing a constant threat to imperial power and the central government.
Fang Wangshu nodded, "Exactly. If any natural or man-made disaster strikes the central government, Prince Ning will immediately point his sword at the central government."
He Chen understood. "How can I allow others to sleep soundly beside my bed?"
Fang Wangshu laughed and said, "Even if there were a country with three states, you still wouldn't be able to sleep."
Ye Hui was angry after reading He Qinglan's reply, but it was also expected.
If the situation had reversed, she wouldn't have left such a big hidden danger.
Li Xianyu asked, "Shall we continue?"
Ye Hui tore the letter to shreds and said in a deep voice, "Hit!"
Hu Dazhu's forces did not stop there; he led his troops in a carpet-bombing campaign to occupy the counties of Chaozhou and Chuzhou.
They drove the Ningguo army from Chaozhou to Chuzhou.
Xiang Yuesheng, Hu Dazhu, and the soldiers sat together eating hot pot. After this meal, Xiang Yuesheng was going to Chaozhou to become the new governor.
He instructed Hu Dazhu, "Be careful. Ye Hui's people are not useless. Don't let them find an opportunity to drive us all the way from Chuzhou to Chaozhou."
Hu Dazhu placed a piece of beef on Xiang Yuesheng's plate and laughed heartily, "Don't worry, don't worry, I've fought so many battles, I'm very experienced."
Xiang Yuesheng chuckled. "Experienced? Look through history books and military treatises. Aren't there plenty of experienced people who still made a fool of themselves?"
Upon hearing this, the soldiers sitting around them all burst into laughter.
Even the best swimmers can drown.
"Many people in history have indeed failed because they were too confident in themselves."
"Wasn't that guy led into a trap by the enemy who were feigning defeat, and then suffered a crushing defeat?"
"He won countless times, but lost only once, and was thus ineligible for the throne."
But we are different from them!
One of the lieutenants blinked frantically at the others, and everyone realized they weren't telling a historical story, so they comforted Xiang Yuesheng.
"Strategist, you can go and become the governor without worry. We won't be tricked by the people of Ningguo!"
"The General will surely lead us to successfully capture Chuzhou and drive Ye Hui back to Ningzhou!"
"This world will surely belong to our goddess!"
“The people of Ningguo are clever, but we are no less so. I think the general is quite cunning.”
No sooner had the speaker finished speaking than Hu Dazhu slapped him on the back of the head, laughing and scolding, "What nonsense are you talking about? If you can't compliment someone, then don't compliment them."
The soldier fawned over Hu Dazhu, placing a piece of cooked wild vegetables on his chopsticks. "Hehe, General, I believe you."
If the war ends soon, we can go home.
It was February again.
The cherry blossoms have faded, the peach blossoms have faded, the plum blossoms have faded, and the pear blossoms have faded too.
The lotus flowers in the pond have sprouted pink buds, swaying gently in the wind.
Hu Dazhu's army forced Ye Hui to retreat from Chuzhou.
Meng Junping successfully planted the Yun Kingdom's flag on the city wall of Qingzhou.
Xiao Yong was overwhelmed by Song Zhiyun's women's army and had no chance to fight back. In the end, he was captured alive by Song Zhiyun.
Ning Huai'an and Yue Yao engaged in both encirclement and swift battles, leaving Sun Yannan without ammunition or supplies.
Although Zhu Yunze, who was attacking Yueyao, had a slight advantage, he could not save Sun Yannan, nor could he send supplies to Sun Yannan.
Therefore, Ning Huai'an and Yue Yao remained calm, but Zhu Yunze was indeed restless.
"If I can trap Sun Yannan to death, what does it matter if I suffer some losses?" Yue Yao laughed, picked up the wine pot, and took a sip of wine.
The captains nodded in agreement. "Exactly. So what if he attacks us? Zhu Yunze can't send food and weapons to Sun Yannan."
"We must not allow them to break through our defenses under any circumstances."
When does General Ning plan to take down Sun Yannan?
Yue Yao clinked his wine jug with a captain and said, "The general said that when the time is right, he will make his move."
"Timing? What timing?"
"It's probably unlikely that we can really trap Sun Yannan to death, right?"
"...Do you really want him to starve to death?"
"It's not that bad, it's not that bad."
Yue Yao had no idea what opportunity Ning Huai'an was waiting for.
Ten days later, Ning Huai'an suddenly dispatched troops, delivering a fatal blow to Sun Yannan's defeated army.
Sun Yannan was captured alive.
The meritorious person was a captain who infiltrated Sun Yannan's inner circle several years ago. He was a spy sent by the intelligence department, named Jiang Wuxia.
Sun Yannan looked at the man with the honest-looking face, his face filled with disbelief.
Jiang Wuxia was a low-key and honest person who rarely made mistakes, but he also didn't achieve any great feats. You could say he was neither particularly meritorious nor outstanding.
He's actually one of He Qinglan's people?!
Why? Hasn't he treated him well all these years?
Jiang Wuxia revealed a simple and honest smile, "If I didn't have military merits, you wouldn't give me money or rewards."
“The goddess is different. Even if I were an idiot, the goddess would still take care of me.”
In this world, most people are ordinary people who cannot achieve great things, such as his parents, wife and children, brothers and sisters, neighbors and relatives. They will never catch the eye of important people in their entire lives.
But the goddess can see them, she will give them food, and she can make them live a good life.
"Xiao Wuxia betrayed our lord, and our lord has fallen into Ning Huai'an's hands?"
Zhu Yunze was stunned. How could such a thing have happened so suddenly?
He immediately realized what was happening and summoned his generals for a meeting, determined to rescue their lord as quickly as possible!
He did not get what he wanted.
Because Song Zhiyun arrived with her women's army.
Zhu Yunze, who initially held the advantage, suffered repeated defeats under the combined attack of Ning Huai'an, Yue Yao, and Song Zhiyun.
June.
Pink, white, and red lotus flowers bloomed in pond after pond, creating a breathtakingly beautiful scene.
Zhu Yunze was captured by Song Zhiyun and met his lord Sun Yannan at Ning Huai'an's place.
Song Zhiyun and Ning Huai'an, the future couple, finally met for the first time in Pingzhou.
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Author's Note: The next chapter will be about the ascension to the throne.
Once it's finished writing, it'll be complete! [Sprinkling flowers][Sprinkling flowers][Sprinkling flowers]
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