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Hearing Li Cheng's words, Zhou Lan almost burst into laughter. He said arrogantly, "How can a hero be reduced to a bandit? How can dragons and phoenixes fall to tigers and leopards? "

Li Cheng raged and shouted, "Zhou Lan, you don't know what's good for you! We were supposed to gather firewood under the City Gate Tower. If you still do not surrender, you will be buried in the sea of flames! "

"Haha ? ?" Zhou Lan laughed heartily and said loudly, "When did you hear about generals surrendering to an enemy nation in Feng Country? I can tell you today, Feng Country also did not surrender to the enemy nation's civil officials! " As she spoke, Zhou Lan once again let out a long laugh towards the sky.

Li Cheng's teeth itched with hatred, he was just about to give the order to set the fire, but at this time, Zhou Lan suddenly stopped laughing, and said with a stern voice: "Chastity thief, listen, Feng Country will definitely become your burial ground!" With that said, he leapt out of the City Gate Tower and fell straight down into the city.

"Ah?!" Such a strong and unyielding official like this made the Chastity Army soldiers suck in a breath of cold air, including Li Cheng.

With Fang City down, Mayor Zhou Lan died after jumping off the city. Over three thousand soldiers guarded the city, but not a single one survived. But in this battle, the casualties of the Chastity Army were not small. Fortunately, the citizens of Fang City had retreated ahead of time, saving them from the slaughter of the Chastity Army.

Zhen Jun who had nowhere to vent his anger on, completely vented his anger on his Fang City. Just as he was about to leave, Zhen Jun set fire to the city. Feng Country was a large city in the south that had been burnt for an entire day and night.

In the Cong City, the Chastity Army massacred the citizens, plundered their property, and waited until the Fang City, then developed into a city on fire, becoming more and more brutal.

The Pingzhou County County Head, Zhang Ye, who owned the Fang City, urgently summoned the county soldiers and the county soldiers from each county. She joined her people in forming a army of sixty thousand people, and the Pingzhou County Commandant, Su Yuan, as the general, led a large army of sixty thousand people to meet the Chastity Army in an attempt to stop it from advancing.

The two sides began a large-scale battle in the plains near Jian City. The two armies had just made contact with each other, dividing immediately between the strong and the weak. The Feng Army that was formed at the last moment with over sixty thousand people piecing together to fight against the elite soldiers of the Chastity Army of over a hundred thousand people was undoubtedly a heavenly matter. The battle had not even proceeded for two hours, yet the two legions in front of the Feng Army had already been basically finished.

In the end, Gao Jun and Xun Xiao led a group of 3000 Chastity Army to their deaths, and penetrated in from the left and right sides of the Feng Army, causing a great mess in the formation of the Feng Army. Even Su Yuan, who was in command of the army, was struck to death by Xun Xiao's axe.

Feng Army was never a match for the Chastity Army. With the death of the commander-in-chief, the entire army was thrown into chaos as they collectively retreated backwards.

How could the battle-hardened Li Cheng let go of this opportunity? Leading an army, he charged forward and chased after Feng Army. The people who were killed numbered no less than thirty thousand. Adding in the original two legions of people who had just died, there were still less than sixty thousand people in Feng Army. In the end, not even ten thousand people had escaped back to Provincial Capital.

In this battle, the soldiers of the Pingzhou County could no longer resist the invasion of the Chastity Army.

While the Feng Army was utterly defeated, the battle with Zhen Jun was so easy, so easy that he had just lost sixty thousand Feng Army and attacked the Jian City without stopping. When its Mayor heard the news, they brought the citizens of the entire city and abandoned the city to flee. The Chastity Army did not use blood blades, they did not use knife and spear, and directly entered the Jian City.

All of the treasures and provisions that were not taken away in time from the Jian City were all in Zhen Jun's pockets.

After the Jian City, the one to the north would be the Feng City, and further up the Feng City would be the Wan City. The Wan City was the defensive city for the Yan City of Feng Country, so if Zhen Jun had hit the Wan City, then the Yan City would be just around the corner.

Just as the Zhen Jun Army was resting and resting at the Jian City camp, the Chifeng Army that was led by Peng Haochu finally arrived.

Both sides once again fought in the battlefield near Jian City. Chifeng Army's forces were also not many, only a hundred thousand people, but their combat power was far stronger than the local army's. This battle, was also the first hard battle that the Chastity Army had encountered since entering the Feng Country.

Chifeng Army were the Central Army of the Feng Country. It could not be said that they had been in the battlefield for a long time, but they had also acquired the essence of the Feng Army. As the Legion advanced, they kept firing off arrows, and the wave after wave of black arrows caused great casualties for the Chastity Army. Zhen Jun also launched a shot back, but the degree of concentration was much worse than the Feng Army Arrows Formation.

Although Zhen Jun's military strength was greater than Chifeng Army, before the two sides came into contact with each other, a hundred thousand Chifeng Army was equivalent to one hundred thousand archers. The entire army moved forward and released arrows as they moved, but in the over one hundred thousand elite soldiers, the number of archers was only around twenty to thirty thousand.

Li Cheng saw through their weaknesses and quickly gave the order. The entire army advanced quickly and fought in close combat with the Feng Army.

The two armies advanced on their backs. Not long after, the arrows stopped, and the most intense and bloody melee began.

The closest combat on the Chifeng Army was considered very strong, but compared to the Zhen Jun, it did not have any advantages. The most disadvantageous thing about the Chifeng Army was that there were no major generals in the army, but as for the Zhen Jun Wu Jie, Gao Jun and the two generals, they were fighting their way in and out of the Feng Army Camp, and no one could stop them, nor were they able to match up to them.

The effect of these two troops in battle was even greater than that of the two legions. Peng Haochu secretly shook his head as the number of deaths continued to increase. He couldn't go on like this, the Chastity Army's battles were fierce and their strength was terrifying, their troops were even more powerful than his own, it would be difficult to gain an advantage if this continued.

After seeing Zhen Jun's true strength, Peng Haochu predicted that he would not win, and had the intention to retreat. He would pass down the order, and the entire army would retreat, no longer using any strength from the enemy.

Chifeng Army's retreat was not like a swarm of bees losing their retreat, but rather a orderly, step-by-step retreat. There was a break, and there was support.

Seeing that the enemy troops were retreating, but their formation was not chaotic, the soldiers were not panicking, walking in an orderly manner, Li Cheng knew that they were an army with fast training speed, their commander must also be an experienced and good general who was good at commanding, it was not good to chase them down, and most importantly, he did not wish to fight with them in a war of attrition.

He only had this many soldiers under his command, without any backup, one less would die, but their Feng Army s were different. In addition, they would fight in their own lands with countless soldiers, so if there were any casualties, they could immediately make up for it. Seeing that the enemy had retreated, he ordered the entire army to stop their pursuit and return to the Jian City to rest.

This battle, was a direct clash between the two countries' Central Army, and finally ended with Chifeng Army taking the initiative to retreat.

On the battlefield, the two sides did not have any obvious advantage, but in the end, Chifeng Army was the one who retreated first, which already showed that Feng Army had lost a level. Out of the hundred thousand soldiers that died, there were only around a hundred thousand or so people left. The number of casualties in Chifeng Army were a little bit higher, and amongst the hundred thousand that died, there were fifty thousand people, of whom nearly twenty thousand were killed.2

After the battle, Peng Haochu had reevaluated the fighting strength of the Chastity Army. According to him, Chifeng Army could no longer take the initiative to attack the Chastity Army, or at least, engage in a direct confrontation with them.

He thought that they had to fight again. Even if all the soldiers in the army were to die, they would still have to fight until the end.

After Jian City, there would be Feng City. If he allowed the Chastity Army to continue forward, with their speed, they would be able to reach the Yan City in less than a few days. But now, the capital was empty, there was no longer any army to fight, so when the Chastity Army reached the Yan City, what would the imperial government do? If the capital city were to fall, the Feng Country would also collapse, so the Chifeng Army had to delay Zhen Jun.

Although Li Wei was the deputy general, he had too high of a reputation in the Chifeng Army. The first commander in chief of the Chifeng Army was Li Wei, and the Generals in the army were basically all brought by him, it was just that at that time when Li Wei was fighting with Zi Ying, he committed a huge mistake and caused his Chifeng Army to lose, so Tang Yin downgraded Li Wei to the deputy general, and made Peng Haochu the deputy general the commander.

With Li Wei as the leader, they pressured Peng Haochu. In the end, Peng Haochu was forced to the point where he had no other choice but to bite the bullet and fight again.

Peng Haochu's command was strong, and he had many strategies in his sleeves, but he was just not strong enough, and did not have the spirit of a commander like Xiao Muqing, Liang Qi, and Zi Ying. Tang Yin had left his Chifeng Army within the borders of the Feng Country, so he could serve as the army of the Empire.

Chifeng Army requested for battle yet again, but Zhen Jun did not accept it this time, and hid inside Jian City, closing his doors and not coming out.

Zhen Jun and the others were not willing to go out of the city to fight, which made Li Wei and the other generals extremely proud, thinking that the other party was afraid of them. But no matter how much the Feng Army scolded them outside the city, the Zhen Jun Army was not willing to leave the city. Li Wei was very proud of this fact, with his own army guarding outside the city, the Zhen Jun who did not dare to leave the city even half a step.

However, Peng Haochu was not as optimistic as the other generals. In his opinion, in a direct battle, Zhen Jun Wu Jie's side wouldn't lose to his side, and had repeatedly refused to fight. Li Wei and the others who had been stunned by his excitement did not listen to him and continued to fight. From their postures, it seemed that they would not give up until they had scolded Zhen Jun and the others for leaving the city.

In the end, the Chastity Army left the city, not by day, but by night.

The Chastity Army stayed in the Jian City for a full three days. Three days later, at night, they quietly left the city, not towards the South City, but towards the North City at the north.

The Sky Eye, Earth Web and the spies within the Chifeng Army had long ago gathered around the Jian City with the eyes and ears of many. The moment Zhen Jun made a move, news would immediately spread to the Chifeng Army Camp.

When they heard that the other party was going to abandon them in terms of North of City, Li Wei and the other generals were overjoyed. Without even asking Peng Haochu, Li Wei secretly ordered his entire army to attack, pass through the Jian City, and chase down the Zhen Jun.

Before his Chifeng Army had even left the camp, Peng Haochu, who had received the news, rushed over in a hurry. He pulled Li Wei and said anxiously: "General Li, you are not allowed to enter the Jian City.

"What trick is there? The Chastity Army abandoned the city and ran away, what other tricks could they possibly have? " Li Wei asked casually.

In fact, Peng Haochu did not have any evidence to prove that there was a trick in Jian City City, but as a general, his intuition told him that the Chastity Army's abandonment of the city was definitely not simple.

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