Chapter 506 Planning the General Offensive (Part 1)

For ten consecutive days, the attacks from Jialing Pass, either openly or unexpectedly, made the Star Luo Empire miserable.

They also had to defend and respond to the battle. Although they camped outside, which saved a lot of time and effort in going back and forth, it also exposed the army directly to the sight of Jialing Pass.

This allowed Jialing Pass to attack and harass the Xingluo Empire's army camped outside even more brazenly.

Without a majestic city to rely on, the Star Luo Empire could only remain in a very passive situation.

During this period, the Star Luo Empire also tried various methods, such as rectifying the army and sending people directly to Jialing Pass to shout and provoke, in an attempt to get the Tiandou Empire's army to come out and fight them head-on.

For example, they set up an ambush when the Tiandou Empire came out of seclusion, intending to keep their army and annihilate them all.

However, these methods were useless. Those who went to Jialing Pass to yell and curse were directly shot into hedgehogs by the senior generals of the Agni Army.

Although the ambush set up killed part of the Tiandou Empire's army, Lu Yuan still led his troops to break out of the encirclement.

Only then did the Star Luo Empire discover a terrible thing. Their army, which they claimed to be more powerful than the Tiandou Empire, was actually useless.

And the Tiandou Empire also showed their only strength compared to the Star Luo Empire.

That is the crushing of top combat power.

The reason why the Star Luo Empire's military strength is much stronger than that of the Tiandou Empire, but it has always been able to compete with the Tiandou Empire, is not only due to the interference of Wuhun Palace over the years.

There is also an obvious gap in the number and combat effectiveness of soul masters.

For example, the Star Luo Empire has never heard of any powerful titled Douluo appearing in the past few decades.

There are countless titled Douluo in the Tiandou Empire, including Poison Douluo Dugu Bo, Thunder Douluo Yu Yuanzhen, Sword Douluo Chenxin, Bone Douluo Gu Rong, the former Haotian Sect leader and great elder, and Tang Hao.

They and the forces behind them were all born in the land of Tiandou Empire.

Although not all of them serve the Tiandou Empire and interfere in matters between the two empires.

For example, among the above three sects, only the Poison Douluo Qibao Glazed Sect shares weal and woe with the Tiandou Empire.

However, even if only Poison Douluo and Qibao Glazed Sect advance and retreat with the Tiandou Empire, that is still a much better situation than the Star Luo Empire without even a single titled Douluo.

In the past, the Seven Treasures Glazed Sect usually accompanied the Tiandou Empire's army to attack and defeated the Star Luo Empire's army.

In particular, the titled Douluo of the Seven Treasures Glazed Sect (including Sword Douluo's father's statement) left a deep impression on the Star Luo Empire's army.

Although Lu Yuan does not have the cultivation level of a Titled Douluo, his combat performance in this battle between the two empires makes people feel that he is no different from a Titled Douluo!

Even more powerful and lethal, it gave the Star Luo Empire's army the illusion that he was stronger than Titled Douluo!

On the one hand, it is Lu Yuan's berserk attitude that seems to be tireless and not afraid of siege, and on the other hand, it is his weird space teleportation and divine method of recasting Zhennan Pass.

This gave the Star Luo Empire army a headache and fear.

In addition, the frontal army had no choice but to defeat the Tiandou Empire army retreating behind Jialing Pass.

The Tiandou Empire and the Xingluo Empire are like two martial arts masters fighting in the ring this time, except that the Xingluo Empire is a Nanquan master with great boxing skills, fierce strength, and unparalleled frontal skills, while the Tiandou Empire has fast and agile kicks. The master of the North Leg who is clever and fast.

This situation is equivalent to the Tiandou Empire hiding under the defense tower. If the Star Luo Empire wants to attack the Tiandou Empire, it will have to take the risk of jumping over the tower.

It was easy for the Tiandou Empire to cooperate with the damage from the defense tower and kill them.

Therefore, the Star Luo Empire did not dare to cross the tower.

The Tiandou Empire took this opportunity to come out of the defense tower and beat up the Star Luo Empire from time to time.

When you're done, retreat under the tower.

Although the Star Luo Empire cannot be defeated with one blow, the Star Luo Empire will be injured as a result, and the injuries will become worse as they accumulate.

And the most uncomfortable thing is that the Tiandou Empire has the protection of defense towers, but the Star Luo Empire does not.

The Star Luo Empire was still unable to do anything about the Tiandou Empire, which highlighted one frustration.

Anyone with a discerning eye can see that this situation is getting worse and worse for the Star Luo Empire.

The Star Luo Empire itself also knows it, so...

"Your Majesty, I'm afraid we can only retreat this time..." Wang Qianren sighed and said to Dai Qingxiao, who was sitting silently above.

Dai Qingxiao felt unwilling, "But if we retreat like this, wouldn't it mean that all this time has been in vain?"

"Yes..." Wang Qianren smiled bitterly, "But Your Majesty... the situation is stronger than the current situation. The morale of the army is low now. We have no natural danger to defend, and there is no possibility of storming Jialing Pass. We will not be able to defend the next day. To fight against the empire's offensive, not to mention..."

He paused, "Now the harassment from the Tiandou Empire is like cutting our flesh with a blunt knife. Without any method, the state of the army will only get worse and worse. In addition, the Tiandou Empire currently claims to have assembled two With an army of one million, even if this number is discounted, our numbers of troops are not superior.”

"Once the army is in a sluggish state and loses its last advantage, the Tiandou Empire takes this opportunity to launch a general attack. Not only will we have to retreat, but we will also have to pay hundreds of thousands of casualties before we can retreat back to the empire!"

Wang Qianren's face was serious. This was the worst possible outcome for the Star Luo Empire. Losing his wife and losing troops would not only vomit out the occupied territory of the four kingdoms, but also increase casualties.

Then it will really be a shame for Santi to touch the wires - it will be numb.

In fact, not only Wang Qianren understood this truth, but even Ren, who had always been more radical before, did not come out to express contrary opinions to Wang Qianren at this moment, but looked serious.

The current situation is that the frontal army of the Star Luo Empire cannot display its strength and cannot take advantage of it.

The Tiandou Empire relied on the natural danger of Jialing Pass and Lu Yuan's super battlefield lethality to defeat the Star Luo Empire without the ability to fight back.

Even Ren himself lost an arm, and Wang Qianren was seriously injured by Lu Yuan. Who in the Star Luo Empire could fight Lu Yuan at this time?

Dai Qingxiao frowned, his eyes wandering, still unwilling to give up the retreat after losing tens of millions of kilograms of food, baggage, and nearly 800,000 casualties.

"You... don't you have any other options?" He asked still unwillingly.

Wang Qianren and Renn both shook their heads. Not only them, but also the dozens of Star Luo Empire generals behind them were all silent.

Dai Qingxiao sighed, "In this case...then we have to..."

"Ready to retreat."

Zhu Lanxi beside him looked at him at this moment. Although Dai Qingxiao was now tall and tall, he still seemed to be the domineering emperor he once was, but at this moment his figure gave off an aura of loneliness and twilight.

Not only Dai Qingxiao, but also Wang Qianyan and Ren En, who were once high-spirited and known as the three most famous generals in the Star Luo Empire, looked particularly depressed at this moment, and no longer had the high-spirited and indomitable momentum they had before.

Because they met a young general who was more powerful and brave than them, they suddenly realized that they might be old.

In this world, talents have emerged from generation to generation, and each has been leading the way for hundreds of years...

Perhaps, they should also train the next generation of the empire.

In this way, the Star Luo Empire quietly issued an internal order to withdraw the army back to the Star Luo Empire, and everything was going on quietly.

…

However, in Jialing Pass at this time.

"I think it's time to launch a general attack." Lu Yuan said firmly while looking at the scaled-down map of Jialing Pass in front of him.

"Launch a general attack?" Marshal Horace of the Oka Kingdom Army suddenly shrank his head and said timidly, "It is too early to launch a general attack now. It has only been ten days."

He obviously still had some shadow of the time when he faced the Star Luo Empire's frontal army. At that time, he was one of the commanders of the four kingdoms' coalition forces.

After that, the combined forces of the four kingdoms were slaughtered like chickens by the Star Luo Empire's heavy armored army, and the sight of their direct defeat frightened him to the extreme.

Now it is really difficult for him to have the confidence to lead the army and launch a frontal offensive against the Star Luo Empire army.

Lu Yuan paid no attention to him, looked directly at Ge Long and said, "After these ten days of exhausting the troops, I know very well how much trouble it has caused to the Star Luo Empire in these ten days."

The side harassment was always the responsibility of the raiding team led by Lu Yuan, the Tiandou Royal Knights, and the Tianying Army.

In particular, Lu Yuan's ability to activate space teleportation made it possible to further propose a side attack plan after the exhaustion strategy was proposed.

Therefore, this plan was proposed, responsible, and executed by Lu Yuan, making him more aware of how effective the exhaustion plan was.

After last night's attack, he felt that the time had come to launch a general attack.

That's why Lu Yuan proposed a general offensive plan at today's meeting.

"The Star Luo Empire is now demoralized and its morale has reached an extreme low. They will not have much power to fight back from the front." Lu Yuan said firmly, "Believe me, in the past ten days, they have not been able to sleep a single person. How much energy and strength do they have to fight under such circumstances if they can’t sleep well and have a peaceful meal?”

Ge Long and the five military princes next to him were all thoughtful, but the marshal of the four kingdoms' coalition forces was no longer as aggressive as before and always thinking about getting back the territory of his kingdom. Instead, he shook his head.

Xin Yaocheng, the marshal of Tianmai Kingdom, pursed his lips, with hesitation in his eyes, and said, "But this time is too short. I think it is better to continue like this for a while before launching a general attack..."

"Yes, yes, why rush?" The marshals of the four kingdoms all nodded in agreement.

Only the marshal of the Barak Kingdom had his eyes twinkling and did not echo the words of the marshals of the other three kingdoms.

"If we don't hurry, the people from the Star Luo Empire will run away." Lu Yuan shook his head and said.

"Wouldn't it be better if we ran away?" Marshal Emerson of the Sidney Kingdom was immediately overjoyed and said, "When the Star Luo Empire army escapes, we will be able to win without a fight and get back our territory."

"Yes, yes!" Horace's eyes lit up and he said, "When the time comes, you have repelled the Star Luo Empire army, and we have taken back our own territory without any casualties. This is great for the country and the people. It’s a great thing.”

Lu Yuan shook his head and said with a sneer in the eyes of everyone, "Do you think there will be no hidden dangers if the Star Luo Empire retreats like this?"

"What if they want to ambush somewhere within the four kingdoms, kill you before retreating, and then withdraw from the border?"

Suddenly, cold sweat broke out from the backs of the marshals of the four kingdoms.

Lu Yuan looked at their frightened expressions and said with a sneer, "After all, they returned empty-handed this time. If it were me, even if I wanted to retreat, I would have to annihilate a large enemy army before retreating." The hatred in my heart.”

"This is not a loss, right?"

"Once you allow them to take the initiative to retreat instead of being beaten back by us, this is very likely to happen?" Lu Yuan looked at the marshals of the four kingdoms and said with a chuckle.

"The wolf that has not been maimed must be prepared for its attack before it recedes in the night. If you want to live a comfortable night, you must maim and kill the wolf, otherwise be prepared for possible attacks by the wolf. "He said calmly.

The marshals of the four kingdoms suddenly did not dare to say anything, and Horis suddenly swallowed his saliva, "Then... we agree?"

Lu Yuan ignored them and looked at Ge Long, "Marshal, what do you think?"

At this moment, Liehuo Hou Yanxian suddenly stood up, raised his hands to Ge Long and said, "Marshal, I think Duke Tianying's words are reasonable. It is time for us to launch a general offensive to counterattack the Star Luo Empire."

"We can't let them withdraw so easily."

If Dai Qingxiao heard what Yan Xian said here, he would definitely be so angry that he would blow his beard and stare.

What does "easy withdrawal" mean?

His Star Luo Empire had killed and injured millions of troops this time, not to mention the consumption of manpower and material resources for long-distance transportation of grain, grass, and baggage.

If we just withdraw like this, the Star Luo Empire will bleed heavily.

Yan Xian was actually expressing his stance to Lu Yuan. Last time, Xuanwu Marquis Shishan took the lead to ask for credit from Lu Yuan, but Yan Xian felt that he was one step behind.

After all, it was the Yan family who came first, who funded Lu Yuan first, helped Lu Yuan and Lu Yuan's clan, and were even the first to declare their allegiance to Lu Yuan.

It was fine that the Qibao Glazed Sect had attracted Lu Yuan, but Shishan also took the first step to ask for Lu Yuan's merit in front of Emperor Xue Ye at the last merit-seeking meeting.

This made Yanxian feel uncomfortable.

So this time, he decided to take the lead in supporting Lu Yuan no matter what.

The main thing is a clear attitude.

At this moment, Shishan seemed not to be outdone, and stood up and said to Ge Long, "The general also feels that this is the time to launch a general attack."

Marquis Senluo looked at them and cursed secretly.

Then he stood up and said, "The general also feels..."

This volume is coming soon, the next volume is about plotting to usurp the throne.