This sonorous war completely shattered Li Xing's dream of reaching the top of the mountain.
Li Xingzai used thunderous means to defeat Li Xing's most elite first battalion with lightning speed. He cut off the generals and broke the army, killing more than 10,000 people. This showed Li Xingzai's decisive courage and the military strength that Li Xing had always despised.
Without victory in war, there is no confidence in diplomacy.
The attitude of the princes who originally agreed to participate in this alliance became ambiguous. Things that were originally promised were delayed one after another.
Li Xing understood that they had doubts about his own strength. If he couldn't deal with the little Li Xingzai, why should anyone believe that Li Xing was qualified to conquer the world?
Li Xing's mood changed from extremely happy to extremely angry. He mobilized 100,000 troops to attack Luofeng City.
In order to make his teacher famous, Li Xingzhao told the world and charged Li Xingzai with fear of the enemy and secretly colluding with the Rong people. He also spread rumors that Li Xingzai was not the biological flesh and blood of Emperor Ming, but the child of an affair between the imperial concubine and a guard.
Li Xing mobilized troops here, and Li Xingzai was not idle. On the one hand, he was arranging his military equipment and ready to fight at any time; on the other hand, he also launched a propaganda war with Li Xing.
He declared to the world with a letter of war, enumerating Li Xing's ten major crimes. Starting from his time in Chang'an, he told how he bullied men and domineering women and committed many evil deeds.
Before the war officially started, the two sides were already engaged in a war of words. They spread rumors and slandered each other. The two people who were fighting fiercely did not realize that there would be no winner in this propaganda war. What they were consuming was the Li family's royal family's power in the world.
prestige in people's hearts.
The war in Chang'an in the north is currently in a state of truce, and the outcome has not yet been decided, while the war in the south of the Yangtze River is imminent and may break out at any time.
This winter has not yet passed, and most of the empire has fallen into war.
The other princes were also busy, recruiting troops and horses, sharpening their swords, staring at the whole world with vicious eyes, thinking about how to cut the fattest meat from the empire's deer.
Li Xing surrounded Luofeng City with 100,000 Yangzhou soldiers, and Luofeng City was reduced to an isolated city. After proper preparations and arrangements, Li Xing immediately began to attack.
He failed to gain the upper hand in the war of words. Now Li Xing could no longer hold back. He thought about attacking Luofengcheng and killing Li Xingzai, and he let out a breath of evil in his chest.
With a sure-fire momentum, the army attacked Luofeng City. After several attacks, they suffered serious casualties but failed to achieve any results.
Li Xing suddenly realized an embarrassing fact: Luofeng City is not easy to fight.
Luofeng City is caught between three forces, surrounded by mountains on three sides and the sea on one side. Pirates and bandits are infested around it, and the land is barren and difficult to cultivate.
The key problem is that Luofeng City is too small. Being too small is naturally a disadvantage, which severely limits Li Xingzai's development. However, under the circumstances of heavy siege, this actually became an advantage.
Thirty thousand soldiers and horses are enough to arrange and deploy properly, enough to defend a Luofeng City. Because of the complex terrain outside the city, Li Xing's army cannot deploy.
Moreover, Luofeng City was definitely not as weak as he believed. Wen had the counselor Chu Yunsheng, the military had Qi Jiguang who was an expert in military training, and there were generals like Xu Wentian and Hua Mulan.
Li Xingzai's current strength is not enough to take the initiative to attack the enemy, but it is more than enough to defend a small Luofeng City.
Li Xing wanted to kick the first kick and kick off his quest for world domination. Unfortunately, he hit the stone with his first kick.
A hundred thousand troops camped thirty miles outside Luofeng City. In Li Xing's handsome tent, he was fiddling with the stove in front of him, his expression a little decadent.
Although it is Jiangnan, the weather is still getting colder day by day since the beginning of winter. Li Xing's commander's tent has dedicated personnel to serve him, and there are stoves, blankets and other heating items to keep the wind out and keep him as warm as spring. But ordinary soldiers do not have them.
With such a blessing, one can only use one's body to withstand the severe cold.
The attack has been unable to be taken for a long time, and it is currently in the truce stage. Li Xing is in the big tent, and he can hear crying every night. Some are the wails of wounded soldiers, and some are those who have lost relatives in the war.
And if this continues day by day, it will be a huge consumption of food and grass.
War is never a pleasant thing.
Li Xing stood by the stove and let out a long sigh. Li Xing may not be the strongest prince in the entire empire, but he must be the richest family.
But even Li Xing, who is extremely rich, feels pain at such consumption. All in all, war is a process of you stabbing yourself, and I stabbing myself, consuming each other. Until one party really can't bear it, and is
The gaming table is eliminated and the winner takes all the chips on the table.
Li Xing glanced at Hong Li who was opposite him and said: "Luofeng City has been unable to be defeated. Does the military advisor have any strategies to capture Luofeng City?"
Hong Liao's expression was very calm, and he did not look decadent because of the unfavorable start. At this time, Li Xing asked, and he said: "Your Majesty, in my opinion, the current situation is not without benefits for us."
"Oh, what's the explanation?"
Hong Liao said: "There has been no war in the south of the Yangtze River for a long time, and it is a recognized fact that Yangzhou soldiers are defeated by other princes with equal strength. Can they still fight? I think your Majesty has the same doubt in his heart. Luofeng City happens to be used to train troops.
Let them be familiar with the battlefield and know what the dead are like."
"You just said troop training..." A thoughtful look appeared on Li Xing's face.
Hong Lao nodded: "It's just for troop training. It's winter now, and the cold in the North is even worse. We've lost time by letting Jiangnan soldiers go to fight in the North. We can wait for the time being, and wait until next spring before marching to the North. At present,
It just so happens that Luofeng City is used as a whetstone to forge an indestructible sword for Your Majesty."
"Besides..." Hong paused and said, "Luofeng City may not be impossible to defeat. As long as your majesty does not count the casualties or the cost, Luofeng City will definitely be defeated within three days."
"But that would be too much consumption." Li Xing sighed.
His face turned red and returned to its expressionless expression. Lu had already pointed out to Li Xing that it was his own business how to choose.
Li Xing fell into deep thought. There is no city in the world that cannot be conquered. A city as powerful as Chang'an has been breached by the enemy several times. As long as the cost and consumption are not considered, a city can be built at any time with corpses.
However, this price is not something Li Xing is willing to bear.
After a while, he opened his eyes and made a decision in his mind: "I will follow the military advisor's advice and use Luofeng City as a whetstone to train my troops in Yangzhou."
Li Xing made up his mind and immediately started to implement this matter. One hundred thousand troops took turns to attack the city, fighting day and night. Naturally, there were heavy casualties, but the soldiers were also growing rapidly.
But after a hundred thousand troops went through the grinding process, Li Xing transferred troops from Yangzhou to change the defense, grinding again and again, eliminating the weak ones and leaving the strong ones.
This will also bring huge consumption, but it can make the team grow quickly.