Chapter 258 That’s it, it’s time for her to let go

Although each major dynasty had its own internal problems to a greater or lesser extent, they all paid more or less attention to the situation in the Northern Kingdom.

Since the military parade in the North Kingdom ended, people have been wondering how much combat power the two hundred thousand troops in the North Kingdom have and whether they can withstand King Apocalypse's army.

King Tianqi is not the Heavenly Wolf King, nor the King of Northern Xian. King Tianqi is a real grand master, and he has many masters and many high-quality warriors.

Although King Apocalypse suffered a defeat in the Dayue Dynasty, this does not mean that King Apocalypse is weak.

The Northern Kingdom's heavy cavalry is indeed powerful, but facing the 400,000-strong army of King Apocalypse, it seems a bit inadequate.

For now, the only ones not paying attention to the Northern Kingdom are the Jiangnan rebels in Daxia. Recently, the Jiangnan rebels led by Lu Shuyun have been facing tremendous pressure. Their army is no match for the imperial army. They were all crushed by the imperial army.

The Jiangnan rebels have been retreating steadily, and some key cities they originally occupied have been lost. Now the Jiangnan rebels have been forced by the imperial army to continuously shrink their defense lines.

Even though they used the Cloud-piercing Bow, they didn't gain much advantage on the battlefield, which made Lu Shuyun very worried.

He finally understood why his father was not worried at all about him rebelling, and even forced him to come to the south to lead these Jiangnan aristocratic families to rebel together.

These Jiangnan aristocratic families do not want to give up their own interests at all. Even if they unite, it is still a loose alliance.

They fight on their own and engage in intrigues, and they can't be brought down at all.

Lu Shuyun suddenly regretted coming to the south to rebel. If he had not come to the south, he would at most be deposed as the crown prince.

Now that he was riding a tiger and unable to dismount, he had no chance of turning back when he fired his bow. He could only fight the imperial army with all his might.

Wang family.

Meeting hall.

Lu Shuyun was sitting in the position of the head of the Wang family, looking at the heads of the Jiangnan family below. At this time, he asked: "Still haven't found the Dongfang family?"

Upon hearing this question, no one in the meeting hall spoke.

The Dongfang Family disappeared so suddenly. They didn't even know when the Dongfang Family disappeared. Maybe others had run away long ago, but they never knew it.

At this time, the head of the Qin family said: "Your Highness, the Dongfang family has probably surrendered to the imperial court. The Dongfang family has been doing business for generations and is a commercial family. There is not much land in Jiangnan. For them, it is the same wherever they go. There is no need for them to take such a huge risk."

Hearing this, the head of the Wang family snorted coldly and said: "Is it possible that they thought that His Majesty would let them go if they surrendered to the imperial court? Your Majesty has long wanted to get rid of all the ancient families in Daxia. Although his Dongfang family is not as powerful as ours, There is a lot of land, but with their commercial layout in Daxia, it is easy to control prices. I don’t believe that His Majesty will let them go in the end!”

At this time, Chu Liang said: "The Dongfang family should have left by sea. The Dongfang family's merchant ship is so big, there is no problem at all if they want to transport all the Dongfang family's people away in a short time."

Speaking of merchant ships, Lu Shuyun suddenly had a bad feeling. If the Dongfang family could transport all their family members away in a short period of time, then the Dongfang family could also use their merchant ships to transport the imperial court without anyone noticing. soldiers to their rear.

If the Dongfang family had really betrayed them and surrendered to the imperial court, then the Dongfang family would definitely show their loyalty to their father and then help the imperial army attack them.

Thinking of this, Lu Shuyun's face instantly darkened and became very ugly.

At this moment, a soldier rushed in in a panic and said, "Your Highness, something bad has happened. The imperial army has appeared in the southeast."

Hearing this, Lu Shuyun's heart skipped a beat. He had really guessed it. He knew that once the Dongfang Family betrayed them, they would definitely help the imperial court transport soldiers to their rear.

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A few days later.

Ningbeicheng.

The vanguard cavalry of King Tianqi's army finally arrived at Ningbei City, but they were only opening the way. After arriving outside Ningbei City, they did not launch an attack, but simply surveyed the surrounding situation.

Ningbeicheng is a relatively isolated city because it is surrounded by grasslands and has no terrain support, not even a moat.

Once such an isolated city is surrounded, the soldiers inside are likely to be trapped and die.

After nearly investigating the situation in Ningbeicheng, the barbarian vanguard immediately passed the information about Ningbeicheng to King Apocalypse. King Apocalypse heard that the 200,000 troops from the North were basically stationed in Ningbeicheng, and he immediately felt extremely happy. .

It just so happens that the armies of the Northern Kingdom are all in one place. Their barbarian army will directly decide the outcome of the Northern Kingdom in a battle. After the Northern Kingdom's 200,000 troops are defeated, there will be no obstacles for them to enter the Northern Kingdom to plunder. This is a big problem for them. A very good thing.

In order to prevent the Northern Kingdom's 200,000 troops from dividing their troops at this time, King Apocalypse quickly asked their soldiers to speed up their march, fearing that when the Northern Kingdom divided their troops, they would need another city, one city at a time.

Lu Chen stood on the city tower, looking at the barbarian vanguard cavalry barracks in the distance, the corner of his mouth slightly raised. In a few days, the Northern Army's first firearms showdown would begin.

At this time, Xiao Pengtian came to Lu Chen and said, "My lord, how about you lead some people to destroy the vanguard of the barbarians?"

Xiao Pengtian longed for military success in his heart. After all, he was a barbarian. If he wanted Lu Chen to trust him, he had to be more proactive and work hard. Xiao Pengtian's barbarian cavalry also had the same idea as him.

Lu Chen said calmly: "There is no need to be so anxious. What if we wipe out the vanguard of the barbarians so quickly and scare away King Tianqi's army."

The firearms they used were too powerful. Once used, if all these cavalry were not wiped out, the fleeing barbarian soldiers would definitely tell King Apocalypse what happened here.

If King Apocalypse was frightened by the firearms and simply stopped coming, how could they fight this battle and test the combat effectiveness of their army.

Seeing that Lu Chen still wanted to wait, Xiao Pengtian had no choice but to say: "What the prince said is that my subordinate is too impatient."

Lu Chen said with a smile: "General Xiao, don't be too anxious. When you make great achievements, you are the light cavalry. If the barbarians are defeated, I will still need you and your cavalry to pursue them."

Hearing Lu Chen's words, Xiao Pengtian felt excited again.

The last time they resisted the North Xian King's army, their light cavalry did not play a big role, mainly because they lured the barbarian soldiers into Tianguang City. With a cannon blast, the barbarians were frightened into surrendering.

But this time is different. This time there are a total of 400,000 barbarian troops. It will not be so easy to use the trick of "inviting you into the urn" last time.

The grassland is so vast. After the barbarian army is defeated outside, the Northern King will definitely use light cavalry to pursue the enemy. In this way, Xiao Pengtian and his light cavalry can play their role.

At this time, Mu Changtian came to Lu Chencheng Tower, "My lord, everything is ready. Now we are waiting for King Tianqi's army to arrive."

Lu Chen looked at the barbarian military tents in the distance and said with a smile: "I hope our friends from afar will like the gifts we gave them."

Hearing this, Chen Wanrong looked at Lu Chen in confusion from a distance.

She didn't know why, but she always felt that Lu Chen seemed to be particularly looking forward to the barbarian army coming to attack the Northern Kingdom these days.

War kills people, and this time the Northern Kingdom only brought an army of 200,000 people to the north, while King Apocalypse's army had 400,000 soldiers. In terms of numbers, the Northern Kingdom had no advantage at all.

The most powerful part of the Northern Kingdom's army is the black cavalry, but no one can say for sure that King Apocalypse's army also contains heavy cavalry that is as powerful as the black cavalry.

The Apocalypse Kings were branched off from the main lineage of the Barbarian Royal Court, and their strength far exceeded that of the Heavenly Wolf King Tribe and the Beixian King Tribe.

The Northern Kingdom can defeat the tribes of King Tianlang and King Beixian, but it may not be able to defeat King Apocalypse. At this time, Lu Chen can still smile so happily.

I don’t know if the person behind Lu Chen will show up this time.

Chen Wanrong has basically confirmed that Lu Chen is not an ordinary person. There must be an expert behind Lu Chen. If Beiguo loses this battlefield, the people behind Lu Chen will not just look at it like this.

Chen Wanrong wanted to see who was behind Lu Chen, who could make Lu Chen break through to the Grand Master level in such a short period of time, and who could also bring about earth-shaking changes in the Northern Kingdom.

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Time flies.

Finally, ten days later, the horns of the barbarian army sounded outside Ningbei City.

Hearing the horns of the barbarians, Lu Chen immediately came to the tower and looked at the darkness in the distance.

The soldiers of the Northern Kingdom are already excited. They have been preparing for this moment for so long.

Advanced firearms made them full of confidence, and they could no longer resist their inner impulse and wanted to rain down cannonballs on the barbarians.

After King Tianqi arrived outside Ningbei City, he took a look at the royal flag of the Northern Palace hanging on the tower of Ningbei City. Then he said with a smile: "These Daxia people are really brave. I still remember going south with my father to plunder when I was a child." At that time, those Daxia soldiers abandoned the people and ran away without even guarding the city."

"I didn't expect that these northerners not only led an army of 200,000 people to the north, but were still waiting for my king to arrive in Ningbeicheng."

"Very good, I would like to see what the Northern King of Daxia is capable of, capable of wiping out the tribe of the Heavenly Wolf King."

"Form up! Prepare to attack!"

After King Apocalypse finished speaking, the horns of the barbarians sounded again.

Seeing that the barbarians were ready to attack, Lu Chen said directly to the soldiers behind him: "Bang the drum! Load the cannonballs!"

The next moment, the sky above Ningbeicheng was echoing with deafening drums, and all the cannons on the city wall were ready to fire.

Seeing this scene, Chen Wanrong couldn't help but guess that those iron balls were most likely similar to the stones used to defend the city, but it might be difficult to use these iron balls to stop the barbarian attack.

In the first siege battle of the barbarians, the Northern Kingdom did not know how many soldiers would die.

Chen Wanrong had witnessed the cruelty and bloodshed of the battlefield when she was a child, and knew that once a war started, corpses would be everywhere.

At this time, Chen Wanrong found that the soldiers in the Northern Kingdom were very excited and seemed not to be afraid of death at all.

This is so strange.

When she was a child, she had seen the battle in which the Chen people defended the imperial city. At that time, the faces of the Chen soldiers had only fatigue, despair and fear. They were in a completely different state from the soldiers of the Northern Kingdom now.

Why were the Northern soldiers so excited?

Chen Wanrong was a little curious, how did Lu Chen train this army so that these soldiers were completely unafraid of death?

Just when Chen Wanrong was lost in thought, a grandmaster general under King Tianqi led a barbarian army and rushed forward.

Seeing the barbarian army getting closer and closer to the wall of Ningbei City, the soldiers of the Northern Kingdom did not fire their arrows.

When the barbarian army was almost rushing to the city, the drums sounded again. As the first drum sounded, huge roaring sounds appeared one after another.

Chen Wanrong immediately sealed her ears with Gang Qi. She looked at the iron balls flying out and was confused as to why these "metal catapults" could make such a loud noise when the iron balls exploded among the barbarian soldiers. .

When it exploded, it was a large area, and countless broken limbs and broken arms were flying all over the sky. Seeing this scene, Chen Wanrong was stunned.

Although Xuanyue Palace has more powerful artifacts, artifacts are artifacts after all. The number of artifacts is limited, and not everyone can make artifacts.

As for these metal catapults in the North, you can tell at a glance that they were made by the North. The number of exploding iron balls was so large that they were obviously manufactured in batches by the North.

There are so many terrifying weapons in the North! ! !

No wonder the soldiers in the North didn't show any fear on their faces, and were even very excited. With such terrifying weapons, what enemies did the North have to fear?

Chen Wanrong glanced at the Northern soldiers manipulating the cannons. Most of those Northern soldiers were first-level warriors, and some were even ordinary people who were not even warriors.

After those iron balls explode, they can directly blow up the ninth-level masters in the barbarian army to pieces, and ordinary soldiers can easily kill high-level warriors. I am afraid that the entire martial arts world will be overturned in the future.

Seeing this scene in front of them, Mu Changtian and other generals sighed again just like they did last time in Tianguang City.

Although Lu Chen told the army when they were installing firearms that martial arts was still important, seeing the barbarian masters being blown up all over the sky, it was hard for them to believe that the world of martial arts would prosper in the future.

At this time, the barbarian master who led the barbarian army to attack the city was stunned after seeing the broken limbs flying all over the sky.

Of course, it was not only him who was confused, but also all the barbarian soldiers.

Oh my God! ! ! What kind of weapon is this? ? ?

How could the power be so terrifying! ! !

Is this really a weapon that can exist in the human world? ? ?

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Finally, some barbarian soldiers in the crowd were so frightened that they turned and fled.

In an instant, the sound of cannons and the cries of barbarian soldiers were heard.

At this moment, King Tianqi in the distance was also dumbfounded.

He looked at the defeated barbarian army and couldn't believe what was happening in front of him.

This is the first time in his life that he has seen such a terrifying weapon!

After the iron ball exploded, it had almost caught up with the Grand Master's attack.

Countless iron balls exploded, which was equivalent to countless great masters attacking them.

King Tianqi murmured: "How could this happen..."

He originally thought that it would only take a few days to defeat the 200,000-strong army of the Northern Kingdom, but they suffered such a blow on the first day of siege.

How could Daxia have such a terrifying weapon!

Is this already an artifact?

Can a dynasty have so many artifacts?

The defeat of the barbarians was very fast, but King Apocalypse quickly came to his senses. Since it was an artifact, the number of times it could be used could not be infinite. In other words, using an artifact once required a high price. He did not believe that Daxia could Keep using those artifacts.

Thinking of this, King Apocalypse immediately led the barbarian army to retreat, but he did not really retreat. He planned to let the barbarian soldiers' emotions stabilize first and wait for a while to rest before continuing to attack the city.

Today's scene has frightened the barbarian soldiers. If they are asked to attack the city now, they will definitely not dare to rush up, so they can only retreat temporarily.

Seeing that the barbarian soldiers had retreated, Xiao Pengtian asked from the side: "My lord, do you want to pursue me?"

Lu Chen glanced at the slowly retreating barbarian army in the distance, and said with a smile: "No need for the time being, King Apocalypse should not give up yet, they will attack again."

Northland artillery was not that easy to transport, especially on the steppes.

The main body of the barbarian army is still there. If they pursue at this time, they can only let the cavalry pursue them. The cavalry will catch up and fight with the barbarians, which is a bit of a loss.

In this way, the first siege battle of King Tianqi's army ended in less than half an hour.

At this time, Lu Chen came to Chen Wanrong and asked, "Palace Master Chen, what do you think of our weapons in the North?"

Chen Wanrong asked: "Are these weapons made by your northern country?"

Lu Chen replied: "Yes."

Chen Wanrong said coldly at this time: "You are too ambitious and will bring disaster to the world."

Lu Chen laughed and said, "Palace Master Chen, how did you see that I am very ambitious?"

Chen Wanrong said calmly: "You have a sharp weapon and a murderous intention. I hope you will not become an enemy of Xuanyue Palace one day."

As soon as she finished speaking, Chen Wanrong turned and left.

At this time, Chen Wanrong realized that there was no hope for her to return to the country. First of all, her body and mind could not be separated from Lu Chen. Even if she left Lu Chen, Lu Chen would not necessarily allow her to return to the country.

The North Kingdom possesses such terrifying weapons and can manufacture them in batches. Lu Chen must have extremely strong ambitions.

Perhaps it is this man's ambition to unify the entire world. If this is really the case, then under this man's ambition, she will not be allowed to return to the country.

The whole world is unified, how can there still be Chen State?

At this time, Chen Wanrong suffered a heavy blow in her heart.

After working hard and preparing for more than ten years, I only got one man, and there was no hope of restoring the country.

Perhaps her master was right, everything in this world is nothing but illusion. The more you pursue something, the less you can get it.

That's all, it's time for her to let go.