Nagato has such a slim waist

Chapter 497 Things change in a blink of an eye
A war that everyone thought would last for at least three to five years if they met their opponents, suddenly changed the direction of the war because of the surrender of the enemy generals.

Zheng Shoushan opened the gate of Chuzhou, and the Beiyong Army turned from defense to offense and crossed the Tonghui River. The iron hooves cut through the dim night like a sharp sword, and Li Zongxun's legendary iron-barrel-like 500,000-strong army was destroyed. The defense was tight and a long gap was opened.

Wen Xing ordered Ao Qi, Shi Yin, and Yu Zhong to divide their troops into three groups and march up the Tonghui River to block the ferry and wharf and attack the Yecheng army from a flank.

The three men had been on the battlefield for a long time, and their movements were extremely fast, as fast as a sword unsheathed. In just half a month, they encroached on a large area of ​​Yecheng court territory, and Ningcheng, Yuncheng, and Shouan were lost one after another.

After Zheng Shoushan returned to Xijing, he had no other choice but to fight against the odds.

In order to show his merit, while leading Chuzhou soldiers and horses to work hard on the battlefield, he also personally wrote letters to several close friends, detailing his grievances and grudges with Li Zongxun, adding fuel to his backstabbing...

As a result, several local warlords who had had an affair with Li Zongxun immediately closed their doors and drew a clear line with Yecheng.

Zheng Shoushan added another achievement.

Within a month, Wen Xingsu's good news reached Xijing as many as fifteen times, which shocked the government and the public. Including Ruan Pu, the old ministers who had doubted Wen Xingsu in the past all praised General Long Ji's "flag concealment". The sky covers the sun and moon, and the cold light of the sword shines on the frontier"...

As soon as the imperial award arrived, Wen Xingsu also rectified Pei Ran's name.

He personally showed the world that he could become the commander-in-chief of the Northern Yong Army, not because of nepotism. Even if he was not Pei Man's brother-in-law, he still deserved it.

Beiyong's army was as strong as a broken bamboo, and the more they fought, the more courageous they became.

The Yecheng army was retreating steadily. Since most of them were infantry, their movement speed was much slower than that of the Beiyong army. They rushed to fight every time and were exhausted physically and mentally...

but--

With an army of hundreds of thousands and heavy fortifications, even if it is outnumbered, it will be difficult to defeat it in one blow.

In June, Li Zongxun appointed his confidant Li Shen as the governor of Fengzhou to supervise all military affairs in Fengzhou.

At the same time, he sent his eldest son Li Zaidao to travel around various places to recruit people to join the army. He also selected talented people among the people to offer suggestions and promoted good generals in the army to reassure the soldiers.

In July, Wen Xing's troops arrived in Fengzhou.

Ao Qi asked himself to be the vanguard and led 10,000 elite cavalry to attack Qinhuang Pass in Fengzhou at night and burn the food and grass...

The two sides fought fiercely for an hour that night. Ao Qi's light soldiers simply obeyed and moved in and out quickly, killing the opponent by surprise...

What is more serious than the battle damage is the military morale.

The people cleaning the battlefield discovered that Ao Qi had left a large number of leaflets persuading him to surrender, detailing dozens of Li Zongxun's major crimes, and bluntly saying that surrendering at this time would still be treated leniently. Once the Northern Yong Army reached Yecheng, there would be no chance of surrendering.

Three days later, internal strife broke out again in Fengzhou——

Li Shen was an idiot who only talked about military affairs on paper. In order to shirk responsibility, he severely punished two generals who failed to guard the Qinhuang Pass.

The two generals of the Yecheng Army were unwilling to give up and took their confidants to escape from the camp at night and defected to the Northern Yong Army.

This made the Yecheng army, which was already severely weakened, panicked.

Li Zongxun got the news in Yecheng and became furious.

He ordered Ge Pei to lead 80,000 Yecheng troops to attack Yunzhou on that day in order to contain the Northern Yong Army and reduce the pressure on Fengzhou and Yecheng.

The Beiyong Army fought on two fronts and had to adjust its strategy.

Wen Xingsu deployed defenses in Chuzhou and ordered Shi Yin to lead 50,000 purple lightning troops to attack Ge Pei. He personally led the main force of the Northern Yong Army and besieged Fengzhou on a large scale.

In September, Fengzhou fell.

After defending for two months, the Yecheng army had to retreat to the north of Yishui River.

On the day of the retreat, a group of people had broken armor, low morale, and their horses were mute. They were exhausted from top to bottom and felt at a loss.

The shadow of the Northern Yong Army loomed overhead.

Ge Pei led such an army, fought and retreated, and could no longer engage in a head-on battle with the Beiyong Army.

The front quickly advanced to Xiangzhou.

The painful price brought by several confrontations made Li Zongxun, who was at the end of his rope, unwilling to be a trapped beast again.

He recalled Ge Pei, concentrated his troops, and prepared to defend Yishui and fight to the death with the Beiyong Army——

Yishui is the border of Xiangzhou and the southern gate of Yecheng.

Once it falls, Yecheng will be in danger.
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Fangyun Palace.

Li Sangruo was anxious when he got the news.

Several months had passed since the war started, and she was so distraught that she never had a good night's sleep.

The whole person is like a madman. He often walks back and forth in Fangyun Palace, hysterical and mad, and beats and kills palace residents at every turn.

In Fangyun Palace, everyone is in danger.

The people in Yecheng were also panicked and helpless, crying and crying everywhere.

The Beiyong army killed countless people. How many people survived when the iron hoof passed by?
Rumors abounded in the city, and there were countless rumors about Pei Rumao drinking blood and Beiyong Junsheng eating human blood.

Fear broke through the last line of defense. The streets of Yecheng were sparsely populated. Every household stocked up on food and supplies, and then closed their doors, waiting for the day when the iron hooves of the Northern Yong Army broke through the city gate...

Fear, suffering.

This is especially true for Li Sangruo.

In the middle of the night, she convulsed from a nightmare. She got herself drunk and asked the chamberlain to bring Li Zongxun over. She lay at his feet with her clothes disheveled and tears streaming down her cheeks...

"Father..."

"Daddy..."

"Let's surrender."

She stretched out her hands and pulled the corners of Li Zongxun's robe hard. She was as drunk as a puddle of mud, murmuring and saying surrender repeatedly.

"I don't want to die, I don't want to die yet..."

"I haven't lived enough yet..."

Li Zongxun was furious. "It's not time for you to cry yet. Why are you crying? Look, what do you look like? You are the Queen Mother, do you look like the Queen Mother? It's embarrassing, why don't you get up!"

Li Sangruo raised his head: "Father, let's go."

"Leave?" Li Zongxun stared at her coldly, "How are you going to leave?"

Li Sangruo said: "How we left Xijing in the first place, how we can leave Yecheng... Father, let's leave quickly, let's leave quickly... We can't defeat Pei Madang..."

Every sentence she spoke was filled with tears and complaints.

Li Zongxun gritted his teeth and cursed "rice bucket", suppressed the anger in his heart, and said coldly:
"I have mobilized elite troops and strong generals to defend Yishui. Soon you will be able to see how the Yecheng army forced back the Northern Yong army and defeated Pei Ran."

Li Sangruo smiled.

His eyes were fixed directly on Li Zongxun.

"Father...has also learned to lie to himself?"

Li Zongxun looked at her coldly.

"So what if the army is defeated? At worst, we can continue to go north. As long as we have the blood of the Jin clan in our hands, we can make a comeback..."

Li Sangruo shook his head gently, as if he was dreaming.

"Clan bloodline? Clan bloodline? Could it be that my father has forgotten that my Kuang'er is dead? My Kuang'er has died long ago..."

Seeing that her expression was abnormal, Li Zongxun took a breath and spoke a rare kind word.

"Don't forget, Yuan Shangyi of Xijing is also dying soon, and Emperor Xifeng has no other heirs... You are the queen of Emperor Xifeng, and the son of the clan you adopted is the legitimate orthodoxy of the Tian family. Who can disapprove? "

"Hahahahahaha, my father believed it... I deceived myself and others, my father believed it... Do you think everyone in the world will believe it?"

Li Sangruo cried and laughed,
Li Zongxun looked at her drunk and talking like crazy, and his eyes almost burst out with fire.

"If it weren't for your stupidity and repeated bad deeds, how could we have ended up in this situation?"

He slowly squatted down and stared at Li Sangruo.

Suddenly, he tightened his grip on her collar, lifted her up, and forced her to look up at him.

Then he said coldly:

"Sometimes, I can't help but suspect that the biggest traitor in Yecheng is you——"

Li Sangruo had no strength, his body was limp, and he looked at him with a strange smile.

"I... the queen mother came to court... you say I am a traitor? I think you... are the traitor. The country of Jin Dynasty fell into your hands. Living in Yecheng, you don't want to live, knowing that you are outmatched, He also wanted to counterattack Xijing, and he deserved to be suppressed and beaten by Pei Man. It was all thanks to you that my Kuang'er... was also killed by you!"

Li Sangruo's words were confusing and illogical.

She only focused on venting her dissatisfaction, speaking more viciously than ever before, with a slight sneer on her face, her hair disheveled, and her clothes messy, like a female ghost who had just crawled out of the tomb...

"Incompetent rage!"

Li Zongxun sneered, and slowly tightened his fingers, then suddenly moved up and strangled Li Sangruo's neck tightly.

"I shouldn't have chosen you in the first place - this idiot."

Li Sangruo was in pain and was mostly awake from alcohol.

She saw murderous intent on Li Zongxun's face.

He was enraged.

There was no father-daughter love in those eyes.

"Someone is coming——"

Li Sangruo trembled.

She couldn't tell whether it was her imagination or something else. Her heart was choked by fear, and her voice was so sharp that it seemed to pierce the roof of Fangyun Palace.

"Someone come quickly - save uh -"

Li Zongxun increased his strength, the tiger's mouth was stuck on her neck, and he stared at her coldly.

"The Empress Dowager suddenly contracted a strange illness and passed away in Fangyun Palace. On her deathbed, she assumed the true position of regent to assist Your Majesty..."

"No..." Li Sangruo's breathing suddenly became rapid, and a thin layer of sweat broke out on his forehead.

She looked past Li Zongxun hopelessly.

The hanging tent moved without any wind.

No one showed up.

No one came to save her.

"Father...I am...daughter..."

Li Sangruo's eyes widened in panic, and his mind went blank. For a moment, it seemed as if countless past events were passing through his mind.

Regret, helplessness.

then……

She didn't know where the strength came from. She held Li Zongxun's hand tightly with both hands and stared at him hard, widening her eyes unwillingly. Her face gradually became distorted, and her lips trembled and turned purple.

"Prime Minister." A cold voice sounded like thunder.

In Li Sangruo's faint consciousness, he saw a corner of his robe walking around the screen towards her.

Getting closer.

As if a god had descended, he walked up to Li Zongxun and bowed with his hands in hand.

"Prime Minister, calm down..."