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Chapter 1076: Chapter 438: Talented, End of the War_3 Chapter 1076: Chapter 438: Talented, End of the War_3 …

The situation in the eastern part of Qingzhou was stabilizing, becoming clearer.

In the western part of Qingzhou, on the Dongjun battlefield, the western military expedition had also achieved significant victories.

In July, after receiving the 500,000 Wei soldiers who had surrendered and were newly allotted by Lu Yuan, and the 500,000-strong army from the Heyang military expedition, Huang Lin’s western military expedition grew significantly in strength, with a force reaching three million strong.

The State of Zhao also concentrated all its domestic military strength and crossed the river to go south, with an army of 3.7 million, to have a decisive battle with the State of Chu in Dongjun.

Between July and August, the two armies engaged in extremely brutal back-and-forth seesaw warfare on the front lines of Liang City, Baima, Wat County, and even Diqiu.

Nearly every day, on various fronts, major battles involving tens of thousands erupted.

And surrounding several key cities, the two armies fought so fiercely that it was dark as night, regardless of the time of day.

No one knew how many corpses had fallen on the path to siege the cities, as countless lost souls piled up, nearly filling the defensive moats.

Zhao fought desperately to keep Dongjun.

Similarly, Chu spared no expense to take Dongjun.

The two armies, each with a strong belief, waged the most cruel war around the same target.

But in the end, the Chu army was more elite, and there were more Inborn Grandmasters.

Even before the battle began, they had gained a greater advantage.

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So, after fighting for more than a month, relying on a higher quality of soldiers and the emergence of masters, Chu finally gained the upper hand over the Zhao army in mid-August.

By the beginning of September, after half a month of constant accumulation, the original advantage grew larger and larger.

Finally, on the seventh day of September, during a decisive battle in Liang City, Huang Lin led the army to crush the old general Chen Tai of Zhao, annihilating a million of Zhao’s troops in one fell swoop.

After this battle around Liang City, no more Zhao banners remained.

Within Dongjun, after the main force of Liang City was annihilated, the remaining Zhao troops numbered only 1.2 to 1.3 million, mostly old and weak, no longer able to contend with the Chu army.

So, upon receiving the news of the disastrous defeat at Liang City, the Zhao army that was still desperately resisting in the area of Diqiu City started withdrawing that very night.

Throughout Dongjun, the Zhao troops either surrendered or fled for their lives.

All the local prefectures and counties also surrendered immediately, no longer daring to resist.

Huang Lin was now busy receiving the cities of Dongjun and dispatching troops to pursue the Zhao army, getting wrapped up in the post-war cleanup.

The land of Dongjun was thus secured.

After this disastrous defeat, Zhao had lost over two million of its main force in one go.

Adding the previous losses, it had lost three million soldiers in this second northern expedition by Chu in Dongjun alone.

Although there were still over a million Zhao troops left, they were but old, weak, and sickly, and it was a problem how many could escape back to Hebei under the pursuit of the Chu army.

Zhao was essentially beaten to a pulp.

In the future, not to mention moving southwards, whether it could hold on to its own statehood in the face of invasions from the northern tribes of Hebei was already a problem.

In Ji Province, there were still five to six million southern migrating tribes that had not been eradicated by Zhao.

The conflicts between these two powers were numerous.

Now that Zhao was in decline, how could the tribes of Ji Province miss this excellent opportunity to kick them while they’re down?

For the foreseeable future, Zhao would have no energy to deal with anything else.

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Apart from Dongjun, Chu had another battlefield in the west.

That was the military expedition in Hanzhong within Guannei Province.

Compared to Henan and Nanyang, which had been dealt heavy blows by Chu and were stunned, unable to react promptly,

The main force of Wei Country was concentrated in Guannei and Shuofang, which, although they were the first areas to be attacked by Chu’s northern expedition, maintained a not insignificant initiative because Shuofang’s main force was still present.

From last year to this year, in the face of two northern expeditions, Wei’s forces on the Guannei battlefield went back and forth with the Hanzhong military expedition.

The troops of the Hanzhong military expedition amounted to about two million.

After several reinforcements, the Wei troops in Guannei Province reached 1.5 million and also held the advantage of defense.

Therefore, after several battles, Huang Xin’s Hanzhong military expedition was at an impasse with the Wei forces.

The two sides fought several times, and the Chu army, because of heavy losses, became incapable of launching further attacks.

The stalemate continued between both sides.

Fortunately, by July of this year, the situation finally took a turn for the better.

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The main force toured Central State and then looked around and at last noticed the Hanzhong military expedition, which had always been overlooked.

After the Heyang military expedition entered a phase of recuperation, a wave of the hand dispatched 500,000 troops to support.

After considering the reinforcements that had arrived, Huang Xin decided not to let them join the battlefield of Guannei Province directly.

Instead, he made a move to directly invade Wei’s only remaining rear territory, that is, Shuofang Province.

Compared to Guannei Province, which had become a battlefield for two years and was almost ruined,

Wei Country had made Shuofang its new capital and had begun to carefully manage it as a rear base.

Over the past two years, by continuously recruiting tribes from Yan State and gathering refugees from Guannei Province, Shuofang had gradually flourished, its population growing from the original two million to over three million.

It could be said that this place had become the core of Wei Country.

Those 500,000 reinforcements, invading Guannei Province, was merely a fuel-to-fire tactic, something that Wei paid no mind to.

But if it invaded Shuofang Province, then it was going straight for the enemy’s lifeblood.

Thus, upon seeing this large Chu army force enter Shuofang Province, Wei, having its vital spot squeezed, immediately lost its footing.

It directly abandoned many cities and strongholds in Guannei Province, urgently diverting a contingent of troops to block the advance in Shuofang Province.

Huang Xin then took this opportunity to smoothly take over those abandoned Wei cities, expanding his territory in Guannei Province.

Then, concentrate the forces to launch a strong attack on the remaining Wei cities.

Eventually, after more than a month of effort, by the end of September, just before the onset of winter, Chang’an City was captured, and the whole of Guannei Province was taken.

And the reinforcements that had invaded Shuofang Province, after wreaking havoc in the area, pillaged over 300,000 Wei citizens and returned to Guannei Province.

The battle with Wei Country had temporarily reached a conclusion.

And as this war ended, at the end of September, the first heavy snow of the coming winter fell, bringing a respite to the Nine Provinces, which had been mired in chaos for a year.

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