Myriad Realms Summoning System

Three days passed quickly, and as the news came from the Black Ice Platform, the Xianglong Kingdom and the Tianpeng Kingdom launched a war against the Great Zhou.

The Xianglong Kingdom occupied Duanren City, thus making the offensive posture against the Great Zhou more favorable.

The strategic location of Duanren City is like a sharp knife inserted into the heart of Da Zhou. The 200,000-strong army of Xianglong Kingdom can use this city as a base to attack any city in the western part of Da Zhou at any time, truly being able to attack when advancing and defend when retreating.

However, Zhang Liao's Tenglong Legion also showed considerable combat effectiveness.

Unlike the Huolin Corps, the Tenglong Corps is not entirely composed of the original imperial guards, but includes nearly 30,000 soldiers from Lianyun City.

These soldiers had taken a large amount of precious elixirs refined by Sun Simiao, which had led to a qualitative leap in their cultivation. Coupled with Zhang Liao's devilish training over the previous days, their strength had already surpassed that of the old-style elite imperial guards.

After the army was reorganized, the Tenglong Corps, which was composed of the Lianyun City defenders and the imperial guards, was much stronger than the imperial guards alone.

Therefore, facing the border troops of the Xianglong Kingdom whose strength was far inferior to that of the Imperial Guards, the brief confrontation between the two sides on the first day ended with the victory of the Great Zhou.

On this day, the area in front of Duanren City was littered with corpses. A rough glance showed that there were about ten thousand of them, including both those from the Great Zhou Dynasty and those from the Xianglong Kingdom Army.

However, the battle did not last long and ended after only one morning.

Mad Lion City is a small city under the Mad Lion Sect, and is not much different from the Lingjian Sect's Lingjian City that Xiao Chen had visited before.

This city is located on the western border of the Great Zhou Dynasty, facing Duanren City from east to west, and is dozens of miles away.

Today, the Crazy Lion City has become the garrison of the Tenglong Legion.

At this moment, the Tenglong Legion was in the headquarters of the Mad Lion Sect, and Zhang Liao was urgently discussing strategies against the enemy with Yue Yi.

Zhang Liao looked at the map on the table and said with a trace of worry: "General Le Yi, although our army has won a small victory in the first battle today, the situation is still not optimistic!"

Le Yi also looked serious: "The army of Xianglong Kingdom is twice as large as that of my Great Zhou army. They have occupied Broken Blade City and hold the initiative of the attack. Although we have relied on the powerful combat effectiveness of our army to slightly thwart the enemy's edge today, I am afraid that tomorrow's battle will be even more difficult and dangerous."

Zhang Liao nodded and said, "Yes, we must find a way to recapture Broken Blade City, otherwise we will be too passive in future wars, but..."

Looking at the map in front of him, Zhang Liao frowned deeply.

Broken Blade City is surrounded by three cities: to the east is Mad Lion City, to the north and south are Qingshan City and Baiyu City respectively, and to the west is the Xianglong Kingdom.

It seemed that the three cities surrounded Broken Blade City, but the fact was the opposite.

The soldiers in Qingshan City and Baiyu City are weak, and their walls are far inferior to those of Duanren City, which is easy to defend but difficult to attack. Otherwise, the Xianglong Kingdom would not have spent five times the price of the Great Zhou to capture Duanren City.

Today, the Xianglong Kingdom’s military strength in Duanren City is twice that of the Great Zhou Army, and they are the ones defending the city. It is almost impossible to recapture Duanren City.

In the Tianluo Continent, the casualty ratio in siege warfare is almost three to one, or even higher.

The Tenglong Legion is a cavalry corps, so it is wishful thinking for them to attack the city.

Although Qingshan City and Baiyu City have a certain number of defenders, it is difficult for these two cities to protect themselves, let alone help the Tenglong Legion attack Duanren City.

When the Xianglong Kingdom attacked Duanren City, these two cities managed to squeeze out 20,000 people to support Yan Taishu, but unfortunately the entire army was wiped out.

Zhang Liao believed that as long as the armies of these two cities went out to attack Duanren City, the army of Xianglong Kingdom stationed on the border would definitely take advantage of the situation and seize the two cities. At that time, they would be attacked from both sides and the defenders of the two cities would definitely be wiped out.

After a long while, Zhang Liao sighed and said, "This road on the west side of Broken Blade City is really too deadly."

Le Yi also said helplessly: "Yes, the troops on the border of Xianglong Kingdom can support Duanren City through this road at any time."

"If we can't cut it off, even if we defeat the enemy in the field, they will still have a steady stream of reinforcements. A long tug-of-war will be too disadvantageous to our Great Zhou!"

"We are fighting on two fronts. The Fire Scale Legion in the south should have also collided with the Tianpeng Kingdom. The situation there is more serious than here!"

Both Yue Yi and Zhang Liao wanted to win a quick victory and then send troops to support the south as soon as possible.

A ruthless look flashed across Zhang Liao's face as he said, "Why don't I go to Broken Blade City at night and kill all the enemy commanders and generals."

Le Yi hurriedly said, "General, please don't be so impulsive. According to the news from the Black Ice Platform, there are indeed several experts in the enemy's camp, and they are likely to be from the Human Emperor Palace."

Zhang Liao was just speaking out of anger. He certainly knew that there were experts hiding in Duanren City, and not just experts from the Human Emperor Palace.

The strength of the masters of the Human Emperor Palace is at least above the Martial Lord level, but today on the battlefield, he encountered two powerful Martial Marshals who were no weaker than himself, and they were obviously not from the Human Emperor Palace.

If it weren't for Le Yi's help, Zhang Liao would probably have suffered a small loss.

Therefore, the possibility of going to Broken Blade City to assassinate the enemy's senior generals is almost zero.

"General, don't worry. At least we still have the advantage in the field battle. We might as well fight the enemy in the field for the time being, constantly undermine their morale, and wait for the opportunity to come," Le Yi advised.

Compared to Zhang Liao's slightly hot temper, Le Yi seems to be calmer.

This famous general of the Warring States Period, who once led the coalition forces of Yan and other five countries to attack Qi and captured more than 70 cities, was even more capable than Zhang Liao.

However, because Zhang Liao had made greater contributions and his personal abilities were fully capable of being the commander of an army, Xiao Chen appointed him as the chief general of the Tenglong Legion, with Le Yi assisting him.

Zhang Liao eased his depression a little, and then said: "Le Yi, do you think we can send a surprise force to bypass Qingshan City and go to the west side of Duanren City? Then we can attack Duanren City from the front and force the border troops of Xianglong Kingdom to come to the rescue. Then let the surprise force ambush the enemy's reinforcements and destroy their manpower!"

Le Yi pondered for a moment and said, "General, our forces are too few. Even if we just fight the enemy from Broken Blade City head-on, it seems a bit difficult. If we divide our forces to set up an ambush, I'm afraid it will be difficult for us to defend against the frontal attack from the Xianglong Kingdom!"

Zhang Liao also knew that it was too difficult to do so. If the Tenglong Corps were to split up and infiltrate the enemy's front and back, it would probably backfire and cause a shortage of defenders in the Crazy Lion City.

At that time, the Xianglong Kingdom might seize the opportunity to capture the Crazy Lion City.

"Report! General, there is an enemy general named Dulang outside the city, and he is challenging us!" At this time, a scout came to the lobby to report.

Zhang Liao snorted coldly when he heard this: "Does this poisonous wolf really think that I can't kill him? I will kill him today!"

Poison Wolf is one of the several powerful military commanders that emerged from the Xianglong Kingdom.

Just as Zhang Liao was about to go into battle, Yue Yi stopped him and said to the scout who was reporting the military situation, "Hang up the banner of no fighting, cease fire!"