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Chapter 48: "Wang Zhong Forced to Leave" "Looking North in Panic"

[In September of the second year of Zhenping, Wang Shouyi judged the situation and knew that the Great Zhou Dynasty was in a situation of internal and external troubles. Although Chu Shizhao was a member of the royal family and had the support of Queen Mother Wang Conghui, not all the nobles in Guanzhong supported Chu Shizhao's actions.]

[A war should not be won only by military force. Under the persuasion of his strategist Zhou Che, Wang Shouyi continued to spread news that was unfavorable to Chu Shizhao, revealing to Chang'an the possibility that Chu Shizhao had ulterior motives.]

[This caused Chang'an's attitude towards Chu Shizhao to decline.]

[In October of the second year of Zhenping, the court in Chang'an tried to win over the military governors who had surrendered to the court again under the intimidation of Chu Shizhao.]

[In the same month, after consultation, Xu Hao, the governor of Datong, and Lü Zhuo, the governor of Daning, decided to support the imperial court in Chang'an again.]

[Only Li Jin remained unmoved in the face of the court's solicitation in Chang'an, but he also did not show his support for Chu Shizhao.]

[In Li Jin's opinion, what the Chang'an court did was nothing more than a struggle for power, which was not good for the current situation. As a general, he could not get involved in such things. In the end, no matter who won, as long as he took sides, he would offend both sides.]

[Secondly, Jinyang has a large number of troops. Even if it chooses a neutral position and does not take sides with either side, it will eventually become the one that is won over.]

【Li Jin is well aware of his own value. 】

[What's more, the Chang'an court was corrupt and most people were short-sighted. Li Jin defected to the Chang'an court. As the governor with the most military power in the north, he was very likely to be sent out to lead the charge and be used by others.]

[So Li Jin's final attitude was - as a soldier, he decided to guard the frontier and stay away from the competition in the court.]

[Resisting the Xiongnu was his duty and responsibility as a general of the Great Zhou.]

[As a result, the Chang'an court and Chu Shizhao would both try their best to gain Li Jin's support for their own reasons.]

[In November of the second year of Zhenping, after creating chaos, Wang Shouyi launched an offensive against Luzhou.]

[After three months of preparation, Wang Shouyi had eleven generals of the rebel army participating in this battle. Since Chu Shizhao had to deal with possible emergencies in Datong Prefecture, Daning Prefecture, and even the Chang'an court, the entire Luzhou military force seemed very empty.]

【On the other hand, Wang Shouyi not only had a long-term response, a political breakthrough, and a defense line in the Jingyang area, but he was not afraid of the restlessness of Shu and Zhou at all. 】

[In Wang Shouyi's opinion, Chu Xuanhong, who proclaimed himself emperor in Bashu, did not have the courage to attack the Jingyang area.]

[In all aspects, the Song Dynasty had an absolute advantage in this battle.]

[Leading a hundred thousand troops to capture Luzhou directly is the best opportunity for him to conquer the world. ]

[In the same month, Chu Shizhao's 2,000 black armored cavalry finally arrived in Luzhou. The entire Luzhou had only 10,000 soldiers.]

【Wang Shouyi saw that his plan had worked and had brought him such a good situation. He naturally felt that the opportunity should not be missed, so he cherished it very much.】

[The vanguard troops were dispatched first to conduct preliminary tests, and Wang Shouyi believed that the enemy would hardly have any reinforcements, so he wanted to play it safe.]

[Chu Shizhao also did not choose to blindly go out of the city to fight. He took advantage of the defense and immediately stayed in the city to wear down Wang Shouyi's patience.]

[In December of the second year of Zhenping, Wang Shouyi's vanguard troops had difficulty in attacking, but Chu Shizhao had actually made preparations in advance to resist the rebels.]

[The reason why the city was short of troops was because Chu Shizhao had not expected Wang Shouyi to suddenly attack. However, several years ago, Chu Shizhao had continuously reinforced the city defenses of Luzhou.]

[In January of the third year of Zhenping, Wang Shouyi saw that Chu Shizhao did not dare to go out of the city to fight, and immediately judged that the city was indeed short of troops and that there was no reinforcement for the time being.]

[Chu Shizhao came to Luzhou, most likely to boost the morale of the Luzhou soldiers, in order to delay time.]

[If Luzhou cannot be conquered within three months, real reinforcements will arrive.]

【Wang Shouyi did not dare to delay the opportunity any longer and immediately ordered his troops to launch a fierce attack.】

[After three or four days of siege, Wang Shouyi still failed to capture Luzhou.]

[Most of the wars of the uprising in the south did not encounter strong resistance. Many places surrendered directly by offering their cities. Now that they have encountered a member of the Zhou royal family like Chu Shizhao who dares to go directly to the front line, the morale of the Luzhou army has been greatly boosted. In addition, with Chu Shizhao's many years of management, their defensive capabilities are naturally not comparable to those of the official army with poor military discipline.]

【No victory in ten days.】

[Wang Shouyi's general Jiang Zhang made great military achievements and personally led his troops to the front of the death squad, trying to fight for his life.]

[On the morning of January 13, the third year of Zhenping, the sun had just risen, and Chu Shizhao, wearing armor and holding a halberd, was the first to ascend the mountain.]

[Behind him, the black-armored cavalry were lined up in full gear. ]

[“Brothers, today is the day for us to become famous.”]

[“I know that some of you experienced the Chang’an Rebellion, and I also know that some of you fled to Liangzhou. I also know that many of you have been hiding from place to place and have never achieved anything worth mentioning.”]

[“And now is the time for us, the Black Armor Cavalry, to go down in history books.”]

[“Our era, now, has just begun.”]

[“The ambitions and ambitions of the kings throughout the ages were all created by the times. Now, in front of Luzhou City, this is the opportunity we need!”]

[Tell your Black Armor Cavalry to charge out of the city. Killing one person will earn you 100 taels of silver. There is no upper limit for this battle!]

[With your presence on the battlefield, boosting morale, and your clear attitude of rewarding and punishing, the morale of the Black Armor Cavalry has reached its peak! ]

[The Black Armor Cavalry is the cavalry you carefully built. Both its military discipline and combat proficiency are the result of your long-term polishing.]

[Now is the best time to test it. ]

[Your attitude of continuously avoiding battle and defending is constantly wearing down the morale of Wang Shouyi's army. Now you have the best opportunity for a surprise attack. Moreover, the biggest problem of Wang Shouyi's army is the lack of elite cavalry.]

[Therefore, these two thousand black armored cavalrymen are the foundation of your turnaround. ]

[However, the opponent is a veteran after all, and you dare not blindly overestimate yourself, so you made the astonishing move of leading the Black Armor Cavalry in person.]

[Because only in this way, the morale of the Black Armor Cavalry will not collapse, and they will follow you and fight to the end. ]

[You triggered the effect of the entry - "The Legacy of Emperor Gaozu".]

[In small-scale battles, you will demonstrate outstanding military talent. At the same time, in critical moments, you will be decisive and resolute regardless of gains and losses.]

[After you leave the city, these two thousand black-armored cavalrymen will follow your steps and go straight into the enemy camp.]

[You are leading the way, and you are surrounded by more than a hundred elite cavalrymen. These people are brave soldiers who followed Huan Jie through life and death without retreating.]

[They will protect you tightly, and if anyone dares to come forward, they will be beaten like minced meat.]

[You directly chose to attack Wang Shouyi's camp.]

【I saw a man rushing out of the camp. 】

[“I am Han Yue, a general of the Song Dynasty. Who are you? Do you dare to tell me your name——”]

[“How can you, an unknown person, know about the royal family of the Great Zhou?”]

[You were wearing armor and holding a halberd, and you had a well-protected armor. You charged into the battle like this, with the determination to die. With just one blow, you stabbed Han Yue off his horse.]

[The cavalry had a huge advantage over the infantry, and Wang Shouyi's army itself lacked war horses, and most of the generals were qualified to ride horses. Now that Chu Shizhao was charging like this, and there were heavy cavalry like the Black Armor Cavalry, their fearless performance almost directly defeated the infantry guarding the front.]

【Wang Shouyi was shocked when he saw Chu Shizhao charging at him. The Song generals around him had never encountered such a situation before and didn't know what to do. Some of them reacted in time and rushed forward with their weapons, but some of them retreated when they saw the black armored cavalry's gray-black armor stained with blood.】

[The Song army was not prepared, and Chu Shizhao's sudden attack was also beyond Wang Shouyi's expectations. ]

[Because Chu Shizhao had never shown such a strong desire to fight on the front battlefield, Wang Shouyi always thought that the Luzhou front was a place to delay the battle and could be abandoned by Chu Shizhao at any time.]

[Chu Shizhao's stubborn defense was just because he didn't get a better opportunity to fight, not because the other side wanted to fight him, so Wang Shouyi was still discussing the logistics and food transportation with Zhou Che, constantly improving the strategic plan.]

[But who would have thought that the fighter plane chosen by Chu Shizhao was right here. ]

[What Wang Shouyi had never expected was that this black armored cavalry, which was a little famous in the north, could have such a terrifying impact.] [He had never seen such a fierce cavalry.]

[Wang Shouyi reacted in time and rode forward, killing the retreating defeated soldiers. Seeing this, most of the defeated soldiers who were originally retreating returned to their original lines and fought to the death.]

[But the Black Armor Cavalry had already been killing people, and most of these defeated soldiers were infantrymen. With the cavalry riding horses trampling the camp, they actually had no resistance.]

[However, Wang Shouyi was the commander-in-chief in the south after all. After encountering a strong impact in the early stage, he mobilized the army and surrounded the Black Armor Cavalry in a very short time.]

[The large-scale Song army surrounded Chu Shizhao's brave black armored cavalry in several layers. ]

[After all, they were outnumbered, and no matter how brave the Black Armor Cavalry were, it was difficult for them to destroy so many soldiers. Their purpose in this battle was more to undermine the enemy's morale.]

[However, the quality of the armor of the Black Armor Cavalry was too good, and the entire raiding cavalry was equipped with the best Liangzhou horses. These Liangzhou people who had fought in a sea of ​​blood not only did not feel tired, but instead felt more and more refreshed as they fought.]

【Kill one person, and you will be rewarded with 100 taels of silver.】

[These infantrymen had no ability to resist the cavalry, so after charging for a few rounds, the Black Armor Cavalry would reap rich rewards.]

[This makes the Black Armor Cavalry completely tireless. ]

[The battlefield was almost full of Black Armor Cavalry wreaking havoc everywhere. As long as there was no one left alone, the situation was completely one-sided.]

[This doesn't look like the Great Song army is surrounding the Black Armor Cavalry, it's more like the Great Song infantry is surrounded by the Black Armor Cavalry. ]

[Then Zhou Shu said: "Song, no one dared to fight. The battle lasted from dawn to noon, and the Song army was defeated. 》]

【Wang Zhong was forced to flee and retreated to Luzhou in defeat.】

[On January 14, the third year of Zhenping, after Wang Shouyi was defeated and retreated to Luzhou, Chu Shizhao shocked Lujiang County. After Chu Shizhao's black armored cavalry achieved victory, the entire Luzhou was firmly defended because the army's morale was stable. ]

【Faced with the defeat in this battle, Wang Shouyi looked north in panic, lamenting in vain.】

【The court in Chang'an was extremely frightened by Chu Shizhao's achievements and felt that there was no more title for Chu Shizhao. During the discussion, in order to stabilize the situation, they had no choice but to confer Chu Shizhao the title of General of the Heavenly Palace, ranking above the Three Dukes and One-Character Kings, and below the current emperor.】

Chu Shizhao was actually sweating profusely as he faced this performance which was almost a replica of Zhang Liao's performance in the Battle of Xiaoyaojin.

To a large extent, Chu Shizhao was forced to fight like this.

He must confront Wang Shouyi head-on. If he doesn't, Chu Shizhao will be in a dilemma.

There was pressure from the Chang'an court behind and pressure from Wang Shouyi's army in front.

If they wanted to ease the situation, they could only do one thing, either the court in Chang'an or Wang Shouyi's army that was approaching the border.

To relieve the pressure on the Chang'an court was to allow Wang Shouyi to attack his own base.

Chu Shizhao’s main territories are all buffer points.

Even if Chu Shizhao destroyed the Chang'an court, he would have lost his base, so how could he protect himself?
Therefore, what Chu Shizhao could judge was that he had to withstand this wave of Wang Shouyi's attack.

Moreover, he also had to guard against possible backstabbing by the Chang'an court.

The troops in Youzhou, which is the area of ​​Fanyang, cannot be moved because they are used to defend against foreign invaders on the border.

The Liangzhou area must control the backstabs of the Chang'an court.

It was impossible for Huan Sheng to transport troops from such a long distance.

In fact, Chu Shizhao was unable to dispatch troops to several major places, and their mobility was very slow. Only the Black Armor Cavalry could arrive at the battlefield immediately.

Keywords——Luzhou, cavalry, few people against many.

The place where Luzhou is located is also known as Hefei.

What Chu Shizhao could use was a well-trained cavalry.

The few are fighting against the many, and the other side just happened to have an army of 100,000.

Do it or not.

Chu Shizhao did it.

Even if he loses, by loading the memory of the simulation, the process of this battle, even the command process and various deployment processes, can bring improvement to Chu Shizhao.

Why is it difficult to be an emperor?

Because these emperors were emperors for the first time and didn’t know how to be good emperors.

Chu Shizhao is different. As long as he has the simulated memory provided by the [Emperor Growth Plan], it will not be his first time to be emperor.

Even if I lose, Chu Shizhao can still get simulated memory, so what is there to be afraid of? I can just fight him directly.

However, Chu Shizhao could not make a decision casually, because this was different from Zhang Liao's fight against Sun Quan.

He chose to defend and counterattack, first using a defensive attitude to deceive the enemy, then wearing down the enemy's morale, and then using the strength of the Black Armor Cavalry and a bunch of morale boosts to fight the enemy head-on.

This is the advantage of cavalry over infantry.

It's like fighting in all aspects, trying to improve yourself as much as possible to gain a positive advantage.

After increasing all the positive advantages that could be improved, Chu Shizhao delivered a savage punch.

Wang Shouyi was knocked unconscious by a punch.

Looking at a series of BUFFs stacked up like [The Emperor leads the army in person], [Emperor Gaozu's legacy], [Ten times the military pay], [Well-trained], etc., the morale of the Black Armored Cavalry is close to 90 points.

Chu Shizhao was a little skeptical whether the cavalry he trained was too advanced for the Great Zhou Dynasty.

It turns out that this is more than just a supermodel.

It almost made me dizzy.

Beat - "Wang Zhong was forced to flee" and "Looking back to the north in panic".

When Zhang Liao attacked Sun Quan, he had to break out anyway, just to kill Sun Quan's fighting spirit and make him retreat, instead of continuing to attack Hefei.

Chu Shizhao was like a madman. He built up the morale of the Black Armor Cavalry like crazy and even used military pay to reward the troops. He gave a hundred taels of silver for each person they killed, which directly boosted the morale of the Black Armor Cavalry.

Two thousand against one hundred thousand, and almost launched a counter-encirclement and suppression.

Your achievements would sound sci-fi even if they were in the Book of Jin.

But if you look closely, all the elements are there and it seems acceptable.

However, Chu Shizhao felt that he could accept it and it was not very surprising, after all, Zhang Liao had done it.

Huan Yi was completely stunned.

Li Fengning was also stunned.

Yin Meiyu, who worked as a female official in the palace and was constantly giving advice to Queen Mother Wang Conghui, was also stunned.

Who has ever seen this scene?

Can two thousand really beat one hundred thousand?
Is this world too crazy?

(End of this chapter)