1207 TWO Chapter 1207-Savior or fiend? (1/2)
Chapter 1207 – Savior or Fiend
Handan City, imperial city south city wall.
Looking at the King legion corps that was slowly disappearing into the teleportation formation, Di Chen let out an indiscernible smile, ”If the King legion corps go down south, they might face the strong attacks of the Great Xia Army and might not be able to hold on.”
”Once Xiong Ba requests for help from the Imperial Court, the Imperial Court will totally take control of Jiangnan Province.”
Di Chen's plot was really deep.
The reason why Di Chen made the King legion corps return late was not only to take advantage of the Ming Dynasty troops. In fact, it was also to use the chance give the King legion corps a blow to achieve a goal that he could not tell others.
Crushing Xiong Ba was something only Di Chen could do in the entire Great Zhou.
”Xiong Ba ah, Xiong Ba, you lost to me in the end.” Di Chen's heart was filled with delight.
Since Great Zhou Dynasty's establishment and when Di Chen was supported to become the king, he had held absolute supremacy in his battle against Xiong Ba and the others; this was supported by reason.
On this day, Di Chen would turn this supremacy into actual power.
”I have waited for the taste of victory for a long time.”
At this moment, Di Chen was drunk in his victory. Ever since Ouyang Shuo had appeared, Di Chen rarely felt the sense of achievement from beating his enemies one by one.
Apart from the King legion corps, the Pill Sun and Blood Red legion corps left Handan City after a huge piece of their flesh was cleaved off.
The Pill Sun legion corps directly went down south and entered Ludong Province, replenishing their shortfall of soldiers as fast as they could. The Blood Red legion corps directly teleported to Blood Red City and proceeded to move toward Wannan Province to reduce their journey length.
As for the handover of Donghai Province, they had to wait for the Blood Red legion corps to leave.
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9th month, 1st day, morning, King legion corps returned to King City.
The 300 thousand troops did not remain in the city. Instead, under the instructions of Wuqi, they set up camp outside of the city. Looking at the situation, they were prepared to replace the Ming army to take over the defenses of the Jiangnan border.
In the afternoon, Wu Marquis and Jiangnan Provincial Governor Xiong Ba especially invited Xu Da, Chang Yuchun, and the others for a meeting in the city. They were going to discuss how to have an orderly and complete takeover under the aggressive attacks of the Great Xia Army.
Xu Da and the other generals naturally accepted the matter graciously.
In the recent week, the Great Xia's offensive was like fire, using their familiarity with the border defenses to take down cities. Recently, the two wings had started to siege the border cities and reduce their defensive space.
Four out of the 15 cities had already fallen.
If this continued, Xu Da's goal of training his troops would be met, but they would have to suffer heavy casualties.
They had waited for the King legion corps to return with much difficulty, so Xu Da was naturally delighted. As for how the King legion corps would defend against Great Xia's attacks after they took over, that was outside of his concern.
At 3 PM, Xu Da and Chang Yuchun entered the city.
Along with the return of the King legion corps, the originally down and dead King City instantly became bustling with excitement. The civilians had great confidence in the King legion corps and its God General Wuqi.
That was not surprising.
During these few years, under the leadership of Wuqi, Jiangnan Province had always remained solid and had not faced any invasions from the Great Xia Tiger Legion Corps. Hence, even when Great Xia initiated the attack, the Jiangnan people still believed their army.
Xu Da, who was walking on the streets, was deep in thought.
At the gate of the Provincial Governor office, Xiong Ba was warmly received. He discussed the details with Wuqi. As the border line was really long and there were special circumstances, this meeting lasted for three hours.
In the end, Xiong Ba smiled and said, ”The Ming Dynasty army is righteous, defending the Jiangnan border for so long. I thank you on behalf of the Jiangnan people. The night is late, and we have prepared some wine. I hope you can all show me some face.”
”Thank you, marquis!”
Xu Da nodded since he had no reason to reject the invitation.
Following the plan discussed in the afternoon, the two armies would swap over city by city starting from tomorrow. Thinking about being able to return to Jianye soon, Xu Da's heart that had been hanging in his mouth was slightly placed down.
Who knew that an abrupt change was about to occur?
The scheme was really old and was not worth mentioning, but it was exceedingly practical.
Just as both parties were happily drinking, Xiong Ba smashed his glass as a signal, and a group of armored men rushed in and swiftly took down Xu Da and Chang Yuchun.
Logically speaking, Chang Yuchun was a great general. Helplessly, he was already half drunk and did not have any weapons on him. Being surrounded by elite armored soldiers, his fists were not enough, and he was captured.
Seeing the situation change, Chang Yuchun naturally did not scold out. On the contrary, he remained really calm. Looking at Xiong Ba, he said in a low tone, ”Is the marquis representing Great Zhou to declare war on Great Ming?”
”Great Zhou?'
Xiong Ba gave out a relishing smile, ”To say the truth, Jiangnan Province has decided to join Great Xia.”