Seeing Ye Bufan pursuing him, Chen Qingzhi surrounded him and launched an attack, intending to eliminate him completely.
"Damn! It's a trap, you bastard, I fell for it!" Ye Bufan hadn't expected this and began to break out.
Chen Qingzhi wouldn't let him break through so easily. However, Ye Bufan's strength was not to be underestimated. Although Chen Qingzhi kept blocking him, Ye Bufan managed to carve out an opening and escape.
"Kill!"
At this moment, shouts of killing also came from another direction where Zhuge Kaiming's men were attacking Chen Qingzhi. However, Chen Qingzhi was prepared and had dispatched others to counterattack.
Zhuge Kaiming's men were immediately intercepted and repelled, unable to offer any rescue.
Relying on the formidable strength of his army, Ye Bufan and Zhuge Kaiming were forced to retreat, eventually fleeing.
Chen Qingzhi pursued them relentlessly and finally cleared the mountain path, foiling their plan to annihilate him.
Both sides, realizing their failure, could only reluctantly withdraw from the forest and seek other solutions.
With the enemy at the gates, Chen Qingzhi first launched an assault on the Ming Kingdom, as it was the weakest. Who else but them?
Ye Bufan knew that if the Zhou Kingdom managed to conquer the Ming Kingdom, he would be next. Therefore, the Tang Kingdom also mobilized a large portion of its national army, amassing about one hundred thousand troops, preparing for a decisive battle against the Zhou Kingdom.
The Ming Kingdom had also concentrated all its forces, now capable of fielding only thirty thousand effective troops.
Combined, one hundred and thirty thousand against one hundred thousand, there was still an advantage.
Furthermore, Chen Qingzhi, as the aggressor, would inevitably suffer heavy losses.
The Ming Kingdom would defend strictly and would absolutely not sally forth from the city to fight.
Chen Qingzhi would have to resort to a frontal assault, but he would also face the attack from the Tang Kingdom, putting him in a difficult position.
To this end, Chen Qingzhi had pondered for a long time and devised several countermeasures.
He was certainly not going to retreat; the hard battle was inevitable, so it was better to fight it sooner.
Therefore, Chen Qingzhi made a swift decision and launched a surprise attack at night, taking advantage of the darkness to assault the Ming Kingdom's city.
The Ming Kingdom resisted fiercely, and both sides were locked in a stalemate.
On the other side, upon hearing the sounds of attack, the Tang Kingdom immediately led its troops in a surprise assault on the Zhou Kingdom's army. Ye Bufan, being shrewd, believed the chances of success in attacking the enemy camp were slim and instead targeted the rear of the battlefield, intending to cause trouble for the Zhou Kingdom's army.
"Charge!"
Ye Bufan led cavalry as well, numbering tens of thousands, mounted on their steeds, charging towards the rear of the Zhou Kingdom's army.
Upon their arrival, they were met with Chen Qingzhi's well-prepared defenses.
"What the hell! This guy is too smart, he was ready again." Ye Bufan was extremely exasperated. He had thought of countermeasures, but his opponent had still anticipated them. He had no choice but to change direction and shout, "Charge!"
"Swoosh swoosh swoosh!!!"
A dense hail of arrows greeted them. Ye Bufan found that his soldiers were unable to attack the enemy at all and had to lead his troops in a retreat. Big Wind Novel Network
Chen Qingzhi dispatched soldiers to pursue them. At this point, they had no intention of attacking the Ming Kingdom; their sole focus was on dealing with the Tang Kingdom. His feigned attack on the Ming Kingdom's city was precisely to lure Ye Bufan of the Tang Kingdom into attacking him.
Despite Ye Bufan's many considerations, he had still fallen into a trap and could only flee in disarray.
However, upon returning to his own camp, he discovered that the enemy had attacked his barracks. A fierce battle had already erupted, and his army was in danger of being wiped out.
"Damn it, I was supporting the enemy, and my own home was raided!" Ye Bufan was heartbroken. It seemed one wrong step led to another; he had been tricked again.
Ye Bufan immediately rallied the remaining soldiers and began to withdraw from this sorrowful land.
After Ye Bufan fled, he counted his remaining troops and was brought to tears. Out of one hundred thousand men, only forty thousand remained.
The loss of sixty thousand men was a heavy blow to Li Bufan.
"This army must belong to that scoundrel Zhou Yan. I'm not happy!" Li Bufan believed that within the entire competition, there were not many people who could make him feel this way.
Judging by the strength of the enemy army, they must be soldiers under Zhou Yan.
"Leaving like this feels rather unsatisfying," Li Bufan thought, and thus, he decided to launch a counterattack.
"Let's go back. I don't believe he can guess that I'll turn back and attack again!" Ye Bufan stopped fleeing and instead secretly advanced towards the battlefield again.
After Chen Qingzhi defeated Ye Bufan's hundred-thousand-strong army, he immediately ordered his entire army to attack the city. Under the overwhelming pressure of the approaching forces, Chen Qingzhi's army finally broke into the city.
However, at this moment, Ye Bufan returned with forty thousand men, which indeed surprised Chen Qingzhi greatly. He had never expected the other party to dare to return.
Ye Bufan's sudden return inflicted considerable damage on Chen Qingzhi's army, but Chen Qingzhi quickly organized a counterattack, driving Ye Bufan's army out once more and pursuing them for a considerable distance.
Ye Bufan looked at the remaining thirty thousand soldiers and no longer lingered. He had recovered some "interest" this time, but had lost another ten thousand men, which pained him deeply. He could only retreat.
After capturing the city, Chen Qingzhi calculated his losses. He had lost tens of thousands of men this time, but had eliminated a significant number of the enemy and successfully captured a city. It was an acceptable outcome.
Without the support of Ye Bufan's army, Zhuge Kaiming could not hold out for long. A few days later, he too was annihilated by Chen Qingzhi.
Chen Qingzhi had already begun to advance towards the Tang Kingdom, where Ye Bufan was located. Ye Bufan had made all necessary defensive preparations.
Meanwhile, on the other side, after eliminating one student from the Northern Emperor Academy, Zhou Yan summoned a large army. Once the weapons and equipment from the rear arrived, he immediately launched an attack on Qin Yao's Song Kingdom.
Seeing these Dragon Cavalry, Zhou Yan knew he was likely attacking Qin Yao's country.
He would not hold back, as few countries remained at this point.
Qin Yao's army was indeed formidable, but their numbers had been greatly depleted recently. Despite their tenacious resistance, they ultimately struggled to withstand the onslaught.
Qin Yao made a decisive move, withdrawing all her soldiers and concentrating them in the capital of the Song Kingdom, determined to hold out to the bitter end.
Zhou Yan advanced, capturing city after city, eventually encircling the capital of the Song Kingdom.
At this point, Feng Qingyang also launched an attack on Zhou Yan.
He too knew that Zhou Yan was too powerful and that an offensive was necessary.
Zhou Yan dispatched others to engage Feng Qingyang. Both sides had gathered considerable forces on the plains, and this time, both intended to engage in a full-scale confrontation.
The opposing side dispatched fifty thousand men, and Zhou Yan also sent fifty thousand. With equal numbers, the outcome of the battle remained highly anticipated.
"Charge!"
"Kill!"