The hostages were all fake. Dahuang staged a fake one to make it look real. After confirming that Huang Lingxu was not in Fengdu County at all, Lin Xiaoman fired a flare and attacked the city!
With the help of internal and external forces, Fengdu County was captured with almost no artillery shells consumed.
Capture the city, pacify the people, detain prisoners of war...all kinds of reorganization.
Three days later, the Tianhuang army set out from Fengdu County. At this time, Lin Xiaoman had already sneaked into the next county town and killed the army leader in the same way.
When the Tianhuang army was approaching the city, the civil servant in charge of the county city cowardly raised the white flag and surrendered.
The next few counties were taken smoothly under Lin Xiaoman's policy of internal and external cooperation.
Just dozens of counties later, when the Tianhuang army was still resting in the city, Lin Xiaoman received news from the scouts ahead.
A large number of refugees are approaching.
refugee?
After a few hours of confusion, when the detailed information was sent back, Lin Xiaoman could only cry out in anger.
The Shangyang County ahead was a prosperous county with fertile land and abundant products. However, just a few dozen days ago, the imperial court levied a war tax, and the officers and soldiers robbed all the food from the people's homes. Most of the food was transported away, and the ones that could not be transported were directly burned!
Because they brought their own military rations, the Tianhuang Army did not need to replenish food and grass every time they captured a city. The people in the city continued to live and work in peace and contentment, and their lives were even better than before.
Therefore, some people who believed in Tianhuang came here after they ran out of food. Of course, there were even more who fled to the county town further inland.
Although we know that there must be enemy spies hiding among the refugees who come for shelter, 90% of them are definitely real refugees.
The slogan of their Tianhuang Western Expedition is "Save the People of Dawn", so of course they can't just stand by and watch them die, they have to win people over with virtue!
Therefore, after the influx of refugees, when the requisition of local food was still not enough, they had no choice but to release military rations.
After releasing the carrier pigeon, Lin Xiaoman wrote a secret letter to increase the supply of food and fodder.
Because of the bumper harvest of potatoes and sweet potatoes, Tianhuang’s grain reserves reached an extremely terrifying number.
However, it takes time to increase the food and supplies.
The next few county towns all surrendered, but only a bunch of starving refugees and enemy spies hiding in the cities remained.
The spies hidden in Dahuang attacked the food supplies in various ways. It has to be said that the Dahuang Resistance Army, which gave up direct resistance and turned into a guerrilla force, caused Lin Xiaoman a lot of trouble.
There was no way, the Tianhuang Army slowed down its offensive.
Although the advancement speed is slow, it is steady and the hidden dangers in the later stage are smaller.
Don’t be anxious, you can’t eat hot tofu in a hurry!
Lin Xiaoman could only comfort herself in this way.
Time flies, and half a year has passed. When the empress led the army in person, Lin Xiaoman originally estimated that he could conquer Dahuang in half a year, but in fact, he fought for half a year, and expanded the territory to half of Dahuang on the basis of the empress.
Although the time was a bit slow, they were absolutely victorious along the way. Wherever they passed, the enemies had almost no chance to fight back. They spent almost no time on the war, and more time was spent on organizing the city and marching on the road.
After basically eliminating all the hidden dangers in the rear and having sufficient food and grass, the Tianhuang army marched again and approached the next city - Zhongyuan County.
Zhongyuan County is an extremely important military stronghold of Dahuang, a vital city.
After crossing Zhongyuan County, you can march straight to the imperial city of Dahuang.
This time, Dahuang could not give up defending the city. Sure enough, the scouts brought news that Zhongyuan County was heavily guarded. Because there were so many soldiers, the entire city wall was brightly lit even at night, so it was not so easy to sneak in.
Lin Xiaoman thought about going around from the side and then sneaking in, still with the plan of internal and external cooperation, but before she could take any action, several artillery shells came down from the city.
Of course, their army was still out of range, and the shells only blasted a few deep holes in the ground.
Lin Xiaoman: This is a demonstration!
Tsk, they really developed a cannon!
After a round of artillery warnings, Dahuang sent an envoy, who brought the attitude of Queen Huangjue.
Empress Huangjue knew that she was powerless to resist and was willing to surrender. However, if Tianhuang had no intention of negotiating... If Zhongyuan County was lost, she would rather burn down the remaining county cities and kill all the people than let the Tianhuang Empire get away with it!
Regarding Dahuang's peace talks, all the generals of Tianhuang said: They have a conspiracy!
The Queen of Huangyuan was plotted against because she trusted the Great Phoenix too easily.
There must be conspiracy or something. Lin Xiaoman knew without guessing that it was probably an assassination. However, since Dahuang proposed peace talks, they had to put in some superficial effort. After all, they were "conquering people with virtue". What's more, in front of a Seventh Realm, all conspiracies and tricks were paper tigers.
Despite opposition from a group of generals led by General Yu, Lin Xiaoman still rejected the general opinion and agreed to peace talks.
On the appointed day, as before, the two armies were in a state of standoff outside the city. Lin Xiaoman led General Yu and several guards out of the army.
On the opposite side, Empress Huangjue was still riding in a chariot, with a group of guards guarding her on both sides.
From such a short distance, Lin Xiaoman confirmed that it was the Queen Huangjue herself, so he rode straight over on his horse.
"Your Highness! The distance is too close. We are almost in the range of the enemy's artillery." General Yu, who was following closely behind, spoke with concern.
"It's okay." Lin Xiaoman didn't worry at all.
In the past six months, those county towns were too easy to defeat, and she didn't even have the chance to use her ultimate move, but today... hehehe!
There was less than fifty meters between the two sides, and Lin Xiaoman finally stopped his horse.
"Empress Huangjue!"
Lin Xiaoman looked at the terminally ill woman in the chariot with a cold gaze. She would bet a bag of spicy noodles that the old woman had been poisoned by Su Rongxuan, and she didn't even know it. Maybe Su Rongxuan was even pretending to be a miracle doctor and keeping her alive, and the old woman would be grateful and regard him as her benefactor.
I have to say, the truth about Lin Xiaoman has been revealed.
The reason why Empress Huangjue risked the world's condemnation to help Su Rongxian ascend to the throne was not only because she doted on him, but more because she valued his life. Only Su Rongxian, who had excellent medical skills, could save her!
The older you get, the more you value your life. Even though Empress Huangjue has guessed something, she can only be controlled by Su Rongxian in order to survive.
"It's true that the disciple is better than the master. You can't deny your age." Seeing Lin Xiaoman, the dejected Queen Huangjue couldn't help but sigh. You can't deny your defeat.
"Let's stop talking nonsense. What are your conditions?" Lin Xiaoman went straight to the point.
"I can acknowledge that the territory you have captured belongs to Tianhuang..."
Lin Xiaoman raised her eyebrows, feeling a little amused. Since they were all occupied by her, of course they belonged to their Tianhuang.
"I can also cede a few more counties, as well as gold, silver and jewelry..."
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