The world of counterfeit magistrates competes in the world

Chapter 599 Reaction of the Parties
Then, the catapult continued to be debugged, and the second wave of bombing was launched again.This time, a large amount of explosives were thrown on the top of the city. After the explosion, the top of the city was in a mess, and Donghu people suffered heavy casualties.

Datta patted his dizzy brain and crawled out from the ruins.Looking at the catapults on the opposite side with a gloomy face, he immediately ordered the undestroyed equipment to launch a counterattack immediately, and how many could be destroyed.

As a result, more than 20 catapults and bed crossbows that had just stood at the top of the city immediately launched an attack on the catapults of the Hengshan Army.In one blow, only two catapults were destroyed.But what followed was the concentrated firepower of the artillery and continuous bombing.After only launching a wave of offensive, they were completely destroyed by artillery.

Datta knew that this was not going to work, so he had to order the whole army to avoid the opponent's attack as much as possible, and just hold on to the city wall without losing it.Wait until the Hengshan Army officially launched the siege, and then resisted.Now, he has pinned his hopes on the reinforcements from Sirius City. As long as Xijing City is well guarded, they will be able to attack and severely injure the Hengshan Army.

Over the past few days, the Hengshan army only used artillery and catapults to bombard the city every day, and did not launch a full-scale attack at all.

On the one hand, Datta was secretly happy, but on the other hand he was a little worried. He couldn't figure out what plots and tricks the Hengshan Army had.

During the siege, the military envoy sent by Datta finally arrived at Sirius City.

When Kuerle received this urgent military report, his face suddenly darkened. He really couldn't figure out why Hengshan would launch a war at this time.As far as he knew, after Hengshan merged Mingzhou, he hadn't digested it yet.The Cao family in the south is also accumulating strength, eyeing Mingzhou covetously.At this time, shouldn't Hengshan go all out to deal with the Central Plains and compete with the Cao family for the ownership of the world?
Not daring to delay, Huerle immediately summoned Fan Qi to inquire.

After Fan Qi learned of this, his face turned pale with shock.After thinking about it carefully, he analyzed: "Your Majesty, Hengshan's actions are in line with their past style. Regarding the matter of aspiring to the Central Plains, they have always followed the strategy of making peace with the outside. In the past ten years, they have cut off one by one. The Golden Werewolf, the Eternal Man, and even the foreign enemies in the Western Regions. As for the Central Plains, they only occupy a few states. If the minister is right, this time Hengshan invaded Tianmeng, and he wanted to destroy Tianmeng in one fell swoop. , and then go south with all your strength, and rule the world.”

Huerle couldn't help but exclaimed in horror, "This, Hengshan now has this strength?"

Fan Qi nodded slightly, and said in a deep voice: "Your Majesty, as far as I know, Hengshan's war in the Western Regions has subsided, and now is the time for Hengshan to shift its focus to the east. As Hengshan wants to compete with the Cao family, my Tianmeng will is its greatest hindrance.”

"Do they think that I, Tianmeng, can be defeated so easily?" Huerle asked angrily, his face darkening.

"This is the cunning of Hengshan. Everyone in the world thought that Hengshan was bound to fight to the death with the Cao family. But they never thought that they would attack Tianmeng first." Fan Qi said gloomyly, "Even we are not at this time Make sufficient preparations. Once the Xijing City is captured by him, the Heavenly Wolf City will be in danger. Your Majesty, I believe that at this time, we should quickly call up troops from all over the country to compete with Hengshan."

Huerle nodded solemnly, "What Aiqing said is right, I must deal with Hengshan with all my strength. However, if we rely on ourselves alone, it may be difficult to defeat Hengshan, and we must drag the Cao family into trouble."

Fan Qi smiled slightly, "Don't worry, Your Majesty. When the news of Hengshan committing crimes spreads, the Cao family will definitely not sit idly by. The most important thing now is to drag the Hengshan army to the grassland to lure the Cao family to attack them. The rear. When the time comes, Hengshan will be too busy to take care of himself, and he will definitely retreat, no matter how he is in a stalemate with our army."

"When he retreats, will our army be able to take advantage of the situation and take Xiazhou?" Huerle suddenly became exhausted, feeling very excited.

Hearing this, Fan Qi couldn't help but smile wryly, "Has Your Majesty forgotten the lesson of Unusutu? Xiazhou is the foundation of Hengshan, and our army may not be able to take Xiazhou smoothly. However, it is Mingzhou, which has not been attached to Hengshan yet. For a long time, its foundation is unstable, and our army may take the opportunity to seize it."

"Mingzhou? That's fine, as long as I can win Mingzhou, I, Tianmeng, have stepped into the Central Plains with one foot." Huerle's face flushed suddenly, and he growled excitedly.

After the discussion between the monarch and his ministers, Huerle immediately issued an edict to call up troops from all over the country to gather in Sirius City.

And at this time, within Hengshan, a call for the Northern Expedition was also issued.He denounced the barbaric acts of the Donghu people who invaded the Central Plains last year. In order to avenge the people of Yanzhou, he launched a northern expedition to attack the Donghu people and rescue the captured survivors.

As soon as this proclamation came out, the world was shocked.Many people couldn't figure out why Hengshan would go to war against the north at this time.Now that the two powerhouses in the Central Plains stand side by side, isn't it necessary to recharge your batteries and compete in the Central Plains?How could he run to attack Tianmeng?

But some insightful people quickly saw Hengshan's intentions, and judged from it that when Hengshan cut off the strong enemy in the north, it was time to start competing in the Central Plains.

Cao Ziyan was also worried about this.He understands the gap between himself and Hengshan, even though he is stronger than Hengshan in overall strength now, but in terms of military strength, he is not even a star behind Hengshan.Once Hengshan is allowed to destroy Donghu, there will be no unstoppable enemies on the three sides.Now, because of the act of killing the king for himself, a series of turmoil has broken out, and it is impossible to recover its strength in a short period of time.It is definitely not a good time to fight Hengshan at this time.

But now Hengshan is conquering Tianmeng under the banner of avenging the people of Yanzhou and occupying the name of righteousness.If he attacked Hengshan at this time, he would lose the hearts of the world.More importantly, turmoil will break out again in Yanzhou, which has finally stabilized.

For this reason, Shen Li immediately suggested that since attacking Hengshan at this time would disappoint the people, he would mobilize heavy troops to threaten the rear of Hengshan so that they could not deal with Donghu with all their strength.Then Cao Jun can do his best to recover Leizhou as soon as possible while Hengshan has no time to look south.In this way, even if Hengshan destroys Donghu, our internal strife has been quelled and we can deal with Hengshan with all our strength.

Cao Ziyan thought for a long time before finally nodding his head slowly, "What Aiqing said is reasonable, but we shouldn't let Hengshan get too complacent. Maybe we can secretly sell Donghu Bingjia gunpowder to help him resist Hengshan. I don't know what Aiqing thinks?"

Shen Li frowned slightly, thought carefully for a moment, and then said in a deep voice: "Your Majesty, you must be very careful about this matter, and it must not be noticed by others, otherwise, we will be pointed out by everyone."

Cao Ziyan hesitated for a moment, and then said solemnly: "This king will pay attention."

Soon, Cao Jun began to deploy, and the troops stationed in Zhongzhou and Yanzhou began to be frequently mobilized, and the soldiers were directed at the land of Huaming and Mingzhou.In the south, 30 soldiers and horses were mobilized to formally launch a full-scale attack on Leizhou.

(End of this chapter)