The heavens are kings, starting with Qing Prince Li Chengqian

Chapter 168
Nanjing is a rare majestic city in the world.

Unlike Nanqing, which rose for only a few decades, Wei State, the predecessor of Northern Qi Dynasty, was a great country that almost unified the world.

And Nanjing has existed for more than a hundred years.

As the capital of the country alone, it has gone through no less than three dynasties.

Its majesty is that Shangjing, the capital of the Northern Qi Dynasty, is slightly different from the capital of the Southern Qing Dynasty.

The city wall is more than eighteen feet six feet high, nine feet wide at the bottom, and the Great Wall on all sides adds up to more than 25 kilometers.

In front of such a majestic city, people are like ants, inconspicuous.

Not to mention, around the city of Nanjing, there is a moat water system that is more than [-] meters long. The largest Xuanwu Lake is more than [-] meters wide, and the water depth is about three meters.

Such a moat plus a city wall is almost equivalent to a ravine. Since ancient times, there have been few cases of Nanjing being captured.

So Uesugi Tiger stood on the top of the city wall, looking at the densely packed Qing army, his mind was extraordinarily calm.

Before the Qing army came, he had already made plans for a long-term battle.

Not only ordered people to fortify the walls and clear the fields, but also transported all the food and materials outside the city into the city, even the houses were demolished, and all the wood, bricks and tiles were collected.

Arrows, giant trees, rolling stones, and kerosene are well prepared.

The more than [-] Northern Qi troops in the city were also divided into three, six, or nine ranks by him one by one, each performing their own duties, ensuring full operation day and night at twelve hours a day.

At this moment, he had enough self-confidence to stop the Qing army under the city of Nanjing.

Even, he had prepared for the worst.

Even if they can't defend Nanjing in the end, the Qing army will be seriously injured in this battle, and they will not dare to start another war for at least ten years.

Of course, he felt that the possibility that Nanjing City could not be defended was not high.

Because the arrival of Ku He brought him confidence beyond imagination.

With the cooperation of the Northern Qi army, a grand master can unscrupulously kill the opponent's generals on the battlefield.

Once the generals of the Qing Dynasty died, it would be devastating for the Qing army.

And at this moment in a secluded place outside the city, Ku He, the patron saint of the Northern Qi Dynasty in Uesugi Tiger's eyes, looked solemnly at the middle-aged man in a plain gray shirt opposite him.

There is only another great master who can make a great master so awe-inspiring.

Li Chengqian and Emperor Qing were still in the capital, so it was impossible for Sigu Jian to easily intervene in the national war between Northern Qi and Nanqing.

So this person is naturally Ye Liuyun.

There was a faint smile on his ancient face: "Long time no see, Brother Ku He."

"Ye Liuyun!" Ku He's expression showed a bit of indifference, and he said, "Is that emperor in the south planning to launch a war to destroy the country?"

Even the Great Grandmaster was dispatched, this time was clearly not the small fight of the past, the city of Nanjing might not necessarily be the ultimate goal of Qing Kingdom's battle.

Ye Liuyun smiled, but said nothing.

The war of extermination?

In his opinion, if the father and son in Qingguo cooperate closely and take this opportunity to wipe out Beiqi in one fell swoop, it is not impossible.

Not to mention the mysterious master who may exist behind the East Palace, Li Gaoming and Li Chengqian alone are already terrifyingly powerful.

Adding him and Emperor Qing, this is a total of four great masters.

With the combined efforts of three great masters, they are absolutely sure to besiege and kill one great master, let alone four?
With the cooperation of the four great masters, Ku He will not even have a chance to escape.

It's a pity that the father and son hid each other deeper than the other, and now the whole world probably thinks that there are only two great masters in Qing Kingdom, he and Li Gaoming.

Thinking of this, he looked at Ku He with a bit of pity.

Seeing that Ye Liuyun didn't answer, Ku He frowned slightly, then eased and turned into peace.

Ye Liuyun came here just to contain him. The real outcome depends on the results on the battlefield.

Although he didn't know anything about war, he also knew the difficulty of besieging a city, especially a mighty city like Nanjing.

He believed that with Shang Shanhu's ability to lead the army, the fate of this battle must be in order.

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In the Qing army, Qin Ye glanced over countless pawns charging towards Nanjing with deep eyes.

He also knows that the siege battle is difficult, and the soldiers need to cross the moat and the trenches below the city before they can really start to take over the city and initiate the battle of climbing the city.

Although the Qing army brought all kinds of siege weapons for this battle, the siege weapons that can be used on the tall city walls of Nanjing City cannot be simply cast, but the simplest ladders. The hardness and weight, the required materials are also very rare.

There are very few spare equipment. Once the siege is blocked and some equipment is damaged, it will add great difficulty to the subsequent siege battle.

At the same time, the Battle of Climbing the City is also known as Ant Attachment. As long as you think about the picture of thousands of people climbing up the ladder with arrows, rolling logs, huge stones and kerosene, you can know the tragedy.

Qin Ye was already used to the dead, but what he was worried about was what an astonishing blow to the morale of the Qing army would be if there were too many casualties.

Once morale is lost, the difficulty of this battle will increase by several tense.

At this time, one of the generals looked at the thousands of cavalry who were not moving in the front army and couldn't help but questioned: "General, Zhao Yun kept saying that he was going to break the city, so he brought thousands of cavalry to watch? Moreover, Isn’t it a joke to put the cavalry first in the siege battle?”

Upon hearing this, Qin Ye's eyes fell on the cavalry in front of him who were in an extremely neat formation, or in other words, on the young Zhonglang general who was at the head of the cavalry.

In the Battle of Lishan, Zhao Yun brazenly defeated Uesugi Tiger, causing the Northern Qi army to retreat in a hurry, and saved the Qing army from a possible huge loss, and made great contributions.

If it weren't for the rush of time, Zhao Yun at this moment would have been promoted to a general who can command tens of thousands of people.

Moreover, it has not even been half a year since Zhao Yun joined the army.

It can be said that the speed of his promotion has almost reached the point of shocking the world.

However, such a speed of promotion is only possible under Qing's military merit system.

Of course, Zhao Yun was able to defeat Uesugi Tiger. Although it was a bit thrilling, it also showed the strength of the ninth rank.

Coupled with his amazing ability to command troops, it has to be said that it is understandable to be able to have such a speed of promotion.

It's understandable, but Qin Ye inevitably felt a great threat.

He is old, but Zhao Yun is young, like the rising sun.

Fortunately, he used the strength of the Qin family to investigate Zhao Yun's resume in detail. He found that his net worth and background were clean, and he naturally wanted to take it for his own use.

This is also the main reason why he chose to support Zhao Yun amidst many doubts when he went to Haikou before the war and said that he would break the city in World War I.

Of course, it may not be that Zhao Yun was frustrated, and then he was kind, so that Zhao Yun would return to his heart.

However, since he had already agreed to Zhao Yun, he naturally would not allow others to question it easily.

This seems to be questioning Zhao Yun, but it is also a challenge to his authority.

(End of this chapter)