Chaos, total chaos.
The Yuzhou battlefield had turned into a complete ss the mont the Chu army made its move.
The fourth Northern Expedition of the Chu State, eagerly watched by the entire world, progressed wildly, like an out-of-control war chariot, with exhilarating speed.
The Chu army set out from Liang in February and attacked Yu Bi City in March, initiating the first battle of the Northern Expedition.
Up to this point, everything seed normal.
That was until Yu Bi City was breached in a single day and taken by the Chu army.
After that, Emperor Chu Luyuan’s army, as if it had a cheat code, broke through Gaoyang, Pingyang, and Hexi Prefectures in just one month, obliterating the main forces of Zheng and Tang, stationed in the western territory of Yuzhou, in a single stroke.
By April, after annihilating the main Tang force, they turned eastward, invading the lands of the Xu State.
Here, they replicated the scenario previously seen in Zheng and Tang.
One day to break a stronghold, ten days to break a prefecture, one month to conquer a state.
In just one month, the Chu army slashed through the Longquan and Wencheng Prefectures of the Xu State, then, without stopping, breached Jiaoxian Prefecture of Jin Country and successfully returned to the Xianyun Prefecture of Great Chu, where they t up with Qingyunzi’s southern military expedition from Great Chu.
In fact, before Luyuan’s victorious army, which had crossed four kingdoms and broken through six prefectures, arrived at Jiaoxian, he had already ntally contacted his avatar Qingyunzi to coordinate and support the army’s operations in the south.
After all, having defeated Zheng, Tang, and Xu, crossing nearly ten thousand li, and traveling two months on the road, even iron n would be exhausted.
Not to ntion, the Chu army had been taking cities and fortresses all the way, and there were quite many counties and prefectures that had been broken through. In order to preserve these victories, troops had to be stationed along the way to guard them.
After making such arrangents all along the way, by the ti they arrived at Jiaoxian in Jin Country, Luyuan only had twenty Inborns and around thirty thousand soldiers left in hand.
Frankly speaking, this strength was sowhat strained to break through Jin Country’s ticulously crafted southeastern defense line.
So at this ti, Luyuan decisively played to his strengths and called for avatar reinforcents.
After all, it’s still himself, so it can’t be considered bullying.
Anyway, with the cooperation of the southern military expedition, the Jin army in Jiaoxian was annihilated by the Chu army in rely five days, and this place was also taken down.
And the southeastern defense line of Yuzhou, led by Jin Country, was declared broken the mont Jiaoxian fell.
After the loss of Jiaoxian, Jin Country was left with only its capital, Beijie City, in North Xiang County.
By now, any clear-eyed person could see that Chu State had essentially won the war against the Four Kingdoms of Yuzhou.
Because originally, the Four Kingdoms occupied about ten prefectures in the northern and eastern regions of Yuzhou.
But after this battle, the northern part of Yuzhou fell to the Chu army with Gaoyang, Pingyang, and Hexi Prefectures taken first.
Then they broke through Longquan and Wencheng Prefectures of Xu, as well as Jiaoxian of Jin.
Luther, when the Chu central, western, and Tang troops arrive with the main forces, the remaining Zheng prefectures of Yidu and Pingchang, as well as the main forces of Xu at Beigu City, and Yuyang, the last prefecture Xu has in Yuzhou, will also be taken by the Chu army.
Emperor Xu and the main Xu forces were also surrounded in Beigu City.
Now, in the entire eastern part of Yuzhou, only Beigu City in Yuyang Prefecture and Jin’s North Xiang County remain out of Chu control.
In the northern part of Yuzhou, only Zheng’s Imperial Capital, Zhuxu City, was left as a tough nut to crack due to the gathering of more than six hundred thousand Zheng troops and nine Inborns, so it was difficult to take action.
The Chu side, not wanting to suffer too many casualties, simply surrounded but did not attack the city.
Now, at Zhuxu City, the entire main force of the Chu western military expedition has gathered, totaling one million soldiers and ten Inborns, sealing the city tightly.
It might be difficult for the western military expedition alone to take down this city.
But to besiege and not let a single Zheng person escape from the city, that’s still no problem at all.
As long as the Zheng people inside the city are watched over, what’s left is just waiting for the rest of the Chu main forces to win on other battlefields in Yuzhou and then return with the large army.
At that ti, taking down little Zhuxu City would certainly be a piece of cake.
The ten prefectures in the north and east of Yuzhou would thus be left with only one prefecture and two cities not yet taken by the Chu army.
But that’s just a matter of ti.
When the Chu army slowly exerts power to take down these three places, it wouldn’t require much effort.
The downfall of the Four Kingdoms of Yuzhou was already counting down.
And for Chu State to unify Yuzhou was also a foregone conclusion — effortlessly within reach.
Next, all that’s needed is to wait two to three months for the Chu army to consolidate control over the swiftly conquered territories, after which the main forces will be stationed throughout Yuzhou.
The next round of the Chu offensive will then continue.
That will be the mont for complete unification of Central State.
However, perhaps there’s no need to wait that long.
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In Pingchang Prefecture, Zhuxu City.
While Luyuan road unbounded across Yuzhou, a surging undercurrent was also brewing within this imperial city of Zheng Kingdom.
When the Chu army successively took Yidu and Pingchang Prefectures before completely surrounding Zhuxu City, the news that the Chu army had annihilated the Tang main force and entered Xu, defeating the Xu army in succession, had already reached inside the city.
The Zheng people inside were aware of the situation outside.
Onlookers from the rest of the world, based on this, could infer that the Chu army had won the great war of Yuzhou.
How could the high-level officials of Zheng, under the direct pressure of the Chu army and governing the state’s politics, fail to see this?
Originally the alliance of the Four Kingdoms of Yuzhou seed imposing and strong; however, the Chu army also truly appeared to be at the end of its strong crossbow, visibly tired, and not as formidable as before.
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