It Starts With A Mountain

Chapter 820

This clanging war completely shattered Li Xing's dream of stepping on the top of the mountain.

Li Xingzai used the means of thunder to defeat Li Xing's most elite first battalion with lightning speed. Cut the generals and break the army, killing more than 10,000 people. It showed Li Xingzai's decisive courage and the military strength that Li Xing has always despised.

If there is no victory in the war, there is no diplomatic confidence.

The princes who had promised to participate in this alliance had become ambiguous. The things that were promised to be good are also delayed.

Li Xing understood that they were doubting their own strength. If even the little Li Xingzai can't clean up, why should everyone believe that Li Xing has the qualifications to win the world.

Li Xing's mood changed from extremely happy to extremely angry. He ordered Qi soldiers and Ma Xing 100,000 soldiers and horses to attack Luofeng City.

In order to make his teacher famous, Li Xingzhao told the world, and charged Li Xingzai with fearing the enemy and secretly colluding with the Rong tribe. It was also rumored that Li Xingzai was not born of Emperor Ming's own blood, but was born of an illicit affair between the imperial concubine and the guards.

Li Xing was making a move here, and Li Xingzai was not idle either. On the one hand, they are rectifying their armaments and are ready to fight at any time; on the other hand, they also launch a propaganda war with Li Xing.

In a letter of war, he announced to the world that Li Xing's top ten crimes were counted. From when he was in Chang'an, he talked about how he bullied men and women, and did many evils.

The war has not yet officially started, and the war of words between the two sides has become inexorable. The two who made rumors and slandered each other did not realize that there would be no winner in this propaganda war, and they consumed the prestige of the Li family's royal family in the hearts of the world.

The war in Chang'an in the north is currently in a state of truce, and the winner has not yet been decided, while the war in the south of the Yangtze River is already on the line, and it may break out at any time.

This winter has not yet passed, and most of the empire's territory has been plunged into war.

The other princes were not idle either, recruiting troops to buy horses, sharpening their knives, staring at the whole world with vicious eyes, thinking about how to cut the fattest meat from the deer of the empire.

Li Xing surrounded Luofeng City with 100,000 Yangzhou soldiers, and Luofeng City was reduced to an isolated city. After the preparations and arrangements were made, Li Xing immediately began to attack.

He didn't gain the upper hand in the war of words, and now Li Xing couldn't hold back anymore, thinking about defeating Fengcheng and killing Li Xingzai, he let out a bad breath.

With a certain momentum, the army attacked Luofeng City. After several times, the loss of troops will be serious, but no effect is received.

Li Xing suddenly realized an embarrassing fact: Luofeng City was not easy to fight.

Luofeng City is in the middle of the three forces, surrounded by mountains on three sides and the sea on the other side, surrounded by pirates and bandits, and the land is barren and difficult to cultivate.

The key problem was that Luofeng City was too small, and being too small was naturally a disadvantage, which severely restricted Li Xingzai's development. However, in the case of heavy siege, this turned out to be an advantage.

30,000 soldiers and horses are enough to arrange properly, enough to defend a Luofeng City. Because of the complicated terrain outside the city, Li Xing's army could not be used.

Besides, Luofeng City was definitely not as weak as he believed. There are military advisors Chu Yunsheng, martial arts Qi Jiguang, and generals like Xu Wentian and Hua Mulan.

Now Li Xingzai's strength is not enough to take the initiative to attack the enemy, but it is more than enough to defend a small Luofeng City.

Li Xing wanted to kick the first kick, kicking off the prelude to his struggle to dominate the world. Unfortunately, he hit a stone with his first kick when he opened the door.

An army of 100,000 camped thirty miles outside Luofeng City. In Li Xing's handsome tent, he fiddled with the stove in front of him, his expression a little decadent.

Although it is in the south of the Yangtze River, the weather is still colder every day after the winter. In Li Xing's tent, there are special personnel to serve him, and there are stoves, blankets and other heating objects, which can keep the wind from blowing, and feel as warm as spring. But ordinary soldiers did not have such a blessing, and could only use their bodies to bear the cold.

It has not been attacked for a long time, and it is currently in the armistice stage. Li Xing was in the tent and could hear crying every night. Some are the mourning of wounded soldiers, and some are those who lost their loved ones in the war.

And if it continues like this day by day, it is a huge consumption of food and grass.

War is never a pleasant thing.

Li Xing stood by the stove and let out a long sigh. Li Xing may not be the strongest prince in the entire empire, but he must be the richest.

But even Li Xing, who was very rich and oily, would feel pained by such consumption. After all, the war is a process in which you stab yourself and I stab yourself to consume each other. Until one party can't afford it, is eliminated from the table, and the winner takes all the chips on the table.

Li Xing glanced at Hong Ge on the opposite side, and said, "Luofeng City has been unable to be taken down. Does the military advisor have any plan to take down Luofeng City?"

Hong Liao's expression was very calm, and he didn't appear decadent because of his unfavorable apprenticeship. At this time, Li Xing asked, and he said, "Reporting to Your Majesty, in my opinion, the current situation is not without benefits for us."

"Oh, what's wrong?"

Hong Liao said: "There has been no war in Jiangnan for a long time, and it is a recognized fact that Yangzhou's soldiers are not defeated by other princes with the same strength. Can they still fight? I think Your Majesty has the same doubt in his heart. It happened that Luofeng City was used to train troops, Let them be familiar with the battlefield and know what the dead are all about."

"You just said training..." Li Xing had a thoughtful look on his face.

Hong nodded: "It's just training. It's winter now, and the north is even more cold. We will lose the timing for Jiangnan soldiers to go to the north to fight. We can wait for the time being and wait until the spring of next year before marching to the north. At present, It happened that Luofeng City was used as a sharpening stone to create an indestructible sword for Your Majesty."

"Besides..." Hong paused: "Luofeng City may not be unbeatable, as long as Your Majesty does not count casualties and costs, Luofeng City will be defeated within three days."

"But that would be too much consumption." Li Xing sighed.

Hong changed his face and returned to his previous expressionless face. Lu has pointed out to Li Xing that it is his own business how to choose.

Li Xing fell into contemplation, there is no city in the world that cannot be conquered, and a city as powerful as Chang'an has been conquered by the enemy several times. As long as you don't care about the cost and consumption, you can build a city with corpses at any time.

However, this price is not what Li Xing is willing to bear.

After a long while, he opened his eyes, and he had already made a choice in his heart: "According to the strategy of the military division, I will use Luofeng City as a sharpening stone to train troops for me in Yangzhou."

Li Xing made up his mind and immediately started to execute the matter. Hundreds of thousands of troops took turns to attack the city, day and night battles, naturally heavy casualties, but the soldiers are also growing rapidly.

But after the 100,000-strong army had been honed again, Li Xing transferred troops from Yangzhou to change defenses, grinding again and again, eliminating the weak and leaving the strong.

This will also bring huge consumption, but it can make the team grow rapidly.