The 350,000 Western Liang Army led by Ling Zhiyuan fought a decisive battle south of Shangqiu with the 580,000 Yuan Jing Army.
In this battle, Yuan Jing's army not only had a numerical advantage, but also had a geographical advantage with the powerful city of Guang'an at its back.
The most important thing is that Yuan Jingjun also has a strong backup force.
That is fifty thousand Qi Qingzhou cavalry!
The Qingzhou cavalry of the Qi Dynasty are famous all over the world. They are said to be brave and good at fighting and have never been defeated. They have frequently harassed Dayan and Daliang for hundreds of years and killed countless soldiers of the two countries.
Emperor Yuan Jing also paid a huge price before reaching an agreement with Da Qi and borrowing this extremely elite cavalry.
The battle between the two sides first started on the vast plains.
The Xiliang Shenji Army unsurprisingly became the protagonist of this battle. From the beginning, they used hundreds of field cannons and 100,000 muskets to blast away the Yuan Jing Army's array.
In fact, the Yuanjing Army also had a large number of artillery, as well as a large number of imitation firecrackers, and even imitated the Xiliang Army and established its own Shenji Battalion.
However, when Li Gui met Li Kui, the result was that the well-equipped and well-trained Xiliang Shenji Army swept away his opponent with overwhelming force, and then directly attacked the central camp of Yuan Jing's army.
Yuan Jingjun had no choice but to dispatch his cavalry in advance and try to attack the Shenji Army from the flank.
As a result, the army was defeated under the bombardment of explosive shells and shotguns, and tens of thousands of horses were lost, but the goal was not achieved.
What is even more speechless is that when the Xiliang Army, which had the upper hand, launched an all-out attack on the demoralized Yuan Jing Army, the Qingzhou Iron Cavalry, which was supposed to join the battlefield, actually retreated back to Guang'an City.
Moreover, they sealed the city gate and blocked Yuan Jingjun's escape route!
This amazing operation of the Qingzhou Iron Cavalry undoubtedly greatly accelerated the defeat of Yuan Jing's army. The latter only lasted for less than half a day before completely collapsing. Countless soldiers did not die from cannons and cannons, but trampled each other to death.
Blood stained the earth red, and corpses covered the plains. In the following decades, the south of Shangqiu became a forbidden area for ordinary people, because legend has it that too many dead souls were unwilling to fall into reincarnation and have been wandering here.
And more people were wailing and throwing down their weapons, kneeling on the ground to surrender and pray for their lives.
Emperor Yuan Jing was not in the right position, and he had been engaged in military warfare in recent years. Although he formed a large army, the quality and morale of the soldiers were not high, which became one of the reasons for this tragic defeat.
In just one day, the Xiliang Army won the victory that determined the fate of the country.
Post-war statistics show that nearly 200,000 of the 580,000 Yuan Jing army died in battle, more than 300,000 surrendered and were captured, and only a few escaped from the battlefield by luck.
Immediately afterwards, the Xiliang Army surrounded Guang'an City, trapping 50,000 Qingzhou Cavalry and 30,000 Yuanjing Army in the city.
Because there were too many prisoners before, the Xiliang Army did not immediately attack this famous and powerful city in Da Qi.
On the contrary, the Qingzhou Army sent an envoy to offer Guang'an City in exchange for their safe departure.
The Qingzhou cavalry saw the power of Xiliang guns and artillery, and they were not fighting for Da Qi, so their fighting spirit was quite low.
Despite this, they still carry the pride of Daqi.
As a result, Ling Zhiyuan flatly refused, and mobilized siege artillery from the rear to begin bombarding the city day and night.
Although large and small artillery pieces were deployed on the city walls of Guang'an City, they were bombarded by the seventy-two Earthly Evil Cannons that Wang Chen personally refined, but they did not play any role and were killed by the fierce fire.
Then a huge gap was opened in the tall and solid city wall of Guang'an City, and the Qingzhou Army and Yuanjing Army defending the city suffered heavy casualties.
On that day, Ling Zhiyuan personally led the army into Guang'an City and killed the commander of the Qingzhou Iron Cavalry, the sixth-level martial master Gao Yuan. He completely wiped out his opponents and captured this important city.
At this point, the road to Daye, the capital of Liang, was completely opened.
This battle once again shocked the world.
Since the main force of Yuan Jing's army was wiped out, after resting for three days in Guang'an City, Ling Zhiyuan led his army to continue northward without any obstacles, and the county governments along the way looked at the wind.
The Xiliang Army marched northward and arrived at Daye smoothly!
At this time, Daye was completely plunged into chaos. Emperor Yuan Jing, who fell into despair, had lost his mind and massacred the court ministers and concubines, and even burned the entire city.
As a result, his rebellious behavior accelerated his own defeat. The aristocratic families in Daye jointly opened the city gates and introduced the Western Liang Army into the imperial capital.
That night, Emperor Yuan Jing lit gunpowder in the palace and blew himself and his children into the sky!
After Ling Zhiyuan captured Daye, he sent troops to take over the four counties.
In this way, except for the three northern counties previously ceded to Da Qi, the entire territory of Daliang came under the rule of Wu Fu.
【Luck +15000】
In the secret cultivation room of Hanhai Dao Palace, a huge amount of luck suddenly descended on Wang Chen.
He glanced at the eye-catching prompts that popped up in his vision, then closed his eyes again and fell into meditation.
Just for a moment, Wang Chen once again touched the source of the world, and went deeper than before!
In his perception, the source of the world in Cangqing Realm is still an endless chaos, and no real world consciousness has been condensed and born.
This is a normal situation, because if the Cang Qing Realm has its own consciousness, then Wang Chen's desire to come to this world with his Golden Pill cultivation is basically wishful thinking.
And even if he is lucky enough to succeed, he may be crushed to death by the Dao of Heaven - that is, the consciousness of the world - at any time!
In fact, only such a small world can be controlled by Wang Chen.
Even refining it into one's own Tao-based great cause!
However, even if the source of the world is still in a state of chaos, it is not within the reach of Wang Chen now. All he can do is to use the mountains and rivers formation as a carrier, at the expense of burning Qi movement, to project his thoughts into it bit by bit.
Let the source of the world be infected with his breath.
From a certain perspective, Wang Chen is like a virus-like existence!
But when Wang Chen was in seclusion in Hanhai Dao Palace, the outside world was once again turbulent, and the general trend of the world changed again and again.
First, Queen Wu Fu of the Western Liang Dynasty announced that she would move the capital to Da Ye and ascend the throne, and change the name of the Liang Kingdom to Da Zhou.
After the establishment of the Zhou dynasty, they did not send out troops to conquer the northern homeland as many people thought. Instead, they gathered heavy troops to garrison the passes and put up a defensive posture.
On the other hand, Ling Zhiyuan led an army of 100,000 divine machines and light cavalry to go south and launched a conquest against the barbarians in the south.
Compared to the previously large Yuan Jing army, the Southern Barbarians were more difficult to deal with.
It took Ling Zhiyuan more than half a year to sweep through many deep mountains and old forests in the south, destroy countless barbarian cities and caves, and pay a price of more than 50,000 casualties, before he could completely solve this scourge that had plagued Liang for hundreds of years.
And how many barbarians died in this war has become a permanent secret.
Anyway, the few surviving barbarians have become villagers who are good at singing, dancing and hospitable.
At this time, Wang Chen triggered the idea of returning in advance!——