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When the Feng and Ning armies engaged in a decisive battle, the two Ning armies suddenly rushed over, and defeated both Ye Quan and Gao Yi and the two generals that Tang Yin had prepared beforehand. Not only did both of them die, the ten thousand Feng Army under their command was also destroyed by them, and under the situation where Tang Yin was forced to do nothing, he could only order his entire army to retreat.

During the process of retreat, the entire army's battle formation was not the least bit chaotic, and when they retreated, it was also orderly and orderly, with both rear and support. Not only did the Ning Army who were chasing them not get any advantage, they even suffered a head-on counterattack from the Feng Army. Ning Jun chased after him and retreated even faster. At first, he thought he could take advantage of the situation, but in the end, he actually suffered quite a bit.

This decisive battle between the main forces of the two armies ended with the withdrawal of the Feng Army.

Both sides had invested all of their forces into this battle. Although the battle had lasted only one morning, the number of casualties was not small, and Feng Army was the retreating side, but the losses of the Ning Army were much greater than that of the retreating side. In just six hours of the morning, the number of casualties in the Ning Army had already neared one hundred thousand, and the casualties in the Feng Army were over fifty thousand. He was a very shrewd person, and was extremely good at using troops. If Tang Yin did not take care of the two wings this time, and did not send out Ye Quan and Gao Yi, he was afraid that he would really fall for Wei Zheng's words, at the most crucial moment of the battle, if a hundred thousand enemy troops suddenly attacked from both sides of his army, the consequences of that would be unimaginable, and it might even lead to a complete defeat, putting the entire army at risk of destruction.

However, Le Tian, who was in charge of intelligence on Feng Army, and Ai Jia were also at fault. After Tang Yin returned to the Feng Army Camp, he wrote down great achievements for the Generals who was fighting bravely in front of him, and bestowed the title of loyal general to Ye Quan, who was killed in the battle. He bestowed the title of loyal general to Gao Yi, and in the end, he ordered for Le Tian and Ai Jia to be reduced by one rank, and to be punished by the Salary for half a year. Le Tian and Ai Jia were the only generals who were demoted, remembered, and punished in this battle.

After a decisive battle, although he did not lose, his Feng Army had still not ended, and the momentum from his consecutive victories had ended. On the other hand, the morale of the Ning Army had risen by a lot, and there were still reinforcements rushing towards the Hedong from all over the country.

Even under the situation where he wasn't prepared for battle on both sides, he was still able to gather an enormous army in an extremely short amount of time, and completely block the several hundred thousand aggressively approaching Feng Army in the center of the inner area of the Hedong, making it hard for him to take another step forward.

Feng Army, Central Army Tent.

Right now, the atmosphere in the tent was extremely oppressive. All of the generals of the entire camp had their heads lowered, silent.

Tang Yin stood in front of the sand table, and lightly tapped his finger on the side of the table. Zhan Hu, who was standing at the side, saw the bitter look on everyone's faces, he cleared his throat, took a step forward and cupped his hands: "Great King, our army has not been defeated, our Ning Army has not won either, tomorrow our army can go out to fight again, and we will not leave a single soldier alive!"

He only narrowed his eyes, but Tang Yin did not reply. Zi Ying shook his head and sighed, then said: "I'm afraid, Ning Jun will not easily come out to fight again."

"Why?"

"The reinforcements from afar came with Ning Country, so they did not have a complete understanding of our troops' combat power, so they dared to come out for a battle, but after the battle, our soldiers' characteristics, weapons, and combat power were all grasped by the Ning Army. With Wei Zheng being an expert in using troops, he would definitely avoid them, and stubbornly defend against the enemy, waiting for the reinforcements.

These words that Zi Ying had said, were precisely what Tang Yin, Xiao Muqing, Liang Qi and the others were hesitating about. It could be said that against reinforcements from Ning Country, Feng Army could only kill the enemy in one strike. At this time, Tang Yin held onto the table with both of his hands, his body leaned forward, looked at the sand table, and said faintly: "The Ning Army Camp is stable, how do I break into the army?"

Upon hearing his words, everyone fell silent. Zhan Hu rolled his eyes, laughed and said: "King, I have a plan, that allows the Ning Army to fight outside the camp!"

"Oh?" Tang Yin laughed, although he was not a courageous and unscrupulous person, he was not someone who learned from scheming. Now that he heard that he had a way to lure Wei Zheng out of the camp to fight again, Tang Yin became interested, and asked: "Zhan Hu, what clever plan do you have, tell me!"

Zhan Hu said with a stern expression: "The King can go attack the Southern Ocean and Jianxing two cities. These two cities' Ning Country s are at the last two cities of the Hedong, if you throw these two cities away again, the entire Hedong s will be occupied by our forces, so the reinforcements of Ning Country will definitely not ignore you, and we will definitely go out to reinforce you.

After Tang Yin finished listening, he shook his head and laughed, then said with a light sigh, "If our army were to attack the two cities, the Southern Ocean and Jianxing, that should be what Wei Zheng wants to see the most."

"Huh?" Zhan Hu was stunned, would Wei Zheng want his side to attack the Southern Ocean Sea and Jianxing? His goal was to preserve his Hedong, so how could he just watch his Hedong fall into the hands of his own forces?

Seeing his puzzled face, Tang Yin turned around and sat back on the chair, and said at the same time: "Zi Ying, explain it to Zhan Hu."

Zi Ying smiled bitterly at Zhan Hu, and said: "General Zhan Hu, the King means that Wei Zheng wishes to see our division of troops the most! It will be easy for our army to take over the Southern Ocean and Jianxing, but after we do that, we must split up and guard, and that way, we can give the enemy the opportunity to attack us one by one. At that time, our army will not be able to defend, and our main force will be empty, unable to contend with Wei Zheng's group! "

So that's how it was! Not to mention that Zhan Hu did not think about this point, many of the generals in the tent did not think that, after hearing Zhan Hu's idea, they felt that it was not bad. Now that they had finished listening to Zi Ying's explanation, they knew that Zhan Hu's idea was a loss.

As soon as Zhan Hu said it, Tang Yin already knew that his strategy was not feasible, and from this it could be seen that he was good at fighting strategy. All the generals revealed looks of admiration and looked towards Tang Yin. The latter pondered for a moment and said, "Send the wounded and dead back to their home country as soon as possible. We will fight again tomorrow!"

Zi Ying asked anxiously: "King, what if the Ning Army is unwilling to fight?" What he was most afraid of was Tang Yin ordering a forceful attack on his Ning Army Camp. The stronghold of the Ning Army was built too firmly. Five camps were connected to each other, one side was facing enemies while the other side was reinforcements. If they tried to force their way in, it would be difficult for them to win.

Tang Yin frowned as he looked at Zi Ying, and said: "Then let's keep scolding, until we scold Ning Jun out of the camp!"

Whoosh! Zi Ying heaved a sigh of relief, but after that he smiled. No matter what he did, as long as he did not attack.

Just as Tang Yin and his subordinates had expected, after an intense battle with the Feng Army, Ning Jun Wu Yi and his men didn't dare to go out of their camps to fight. Not only was it possible to attack from afar, it was even more so to be brave in close combat. Furthermore, the large Crossbow s in the Feng Army Camp had also left a deep impression on Wei Zheng, if not for the two Elite Armaments that he had arranged for them, his own side would probably have already lost yesterday's battle.

Hearing that the entire Feng Army had come out of the camp to issue a challenge, Wei Zheng immediately gave the order to the soldiers to guard the camp strictly. No one is allowed to leave the camp, whoever disobeys the order is executed.

Even if he did not say it, no one in the Ning Army was willing to go out of their camps to fight against the Feng Army head on. Now that they heard their commander's order, the soldiers below heaved a sigh of relief.

He only needed to defend the camp well. Presumably, before long, Zhangsun Yuanhong would rush over, and as long as Zhangsun Yuanhong arrived, they would not have to be afraid of those fierce generals and generals of the Feng Army.

Seeing that Ning Jun had closed his doors and not fought, according to Tang Yin's intentions, Feng Army would send out two thousand sick and aged soldiers to head towards the Ning Army Camp to curse, wanting to force Ning Jun out. Ning Jun could not defeat Feng Army on the battlefield, but when it came to verbal skills, he did not lose out at all. The Generals And Soldiers of Ning Army who were guarding the camp all gathered on the wall of the fortress and shouted back.1

The confrontation between the two sides had turned into a war of words between the soldiers.

In these three days, Wei Zheng had always avoided the battle. With regards to Feng Army, he had made several probing attacks towards the Ning Army Camp from different directions, but the counterattacks of the Ning Army were very strong.

With Wei Zheng's great hundred thousand strong Ning Country garrison at the Hedong Region, it was no doubt a thorn in the side to the Feng Army s. They were unable to carry out any other actions, and could only be dragged down here by the Ning Army.

However, not long after, the Sky Eye and Earth Web scouts hiding in the Ning Country brought back some information, saying that General Pingxi, Zhangsun Yuanhong, had led a group of three hundred thousand Ning Country s back to the capital's Liangzhou. Before he even reached the Liangzhou, Yan Chu had already issued an imperial edict conferring Zhangsun Yuanhong the title of Chief General, giving him the title of Grand Marshal of the East.

Regarding Ning Country of Marshal Zhangsun Yuanhong, who had suddenly appeared, and the Ning Country of three hundred thousand people, Tang Yin and the other generals were all caught unprepared. They didn't know how the Ning Country had managed to gather another three hundred thousand people.

What did not know was that although the three hundred thousand strong army under his command belonged to the local army, their combat power was far greater than their Central Army. In these past few years, Zhangsun Yuanhong had basically not done anything else except organize and train his army every day. The hundred thousand local army to the west of their Ning Country had already been expanded to two hundred thousand soldiers. Amongst the three hundred thousand army that followed Zhangsun Yuanhong back to the capital, two hundred thousand of them were Western Army, and the other one hundred thousand were from the Yue Clan.

When they heard that Zhangsun Yuanhong wanted to return and help his Ning Country to defend against the invasion of the Hedong, King Yue lent all of the most elite one hundred thousand cavalrymen in the entire country to Zhangsun Yuanhong, in hopes that they could give him a hand to level his Feng Army.

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