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Chapter 1108: Chapter 449: Xu Country Battlefield_2 Chapter 1108: Chapter 449: Xu Country Battlefield_2 Therefore, when Xian’an City was besieged, the sole army stationed in Jiaoxi County that could shield the southern part of Xu State and use to restrain Chu State’s advance, led by Yan Yunqing, had to be relocated and rushed to the Capital for assistance.

His departure completely sold out Xu State.

The previously planned Liang army, which was supposed to shield the south of Xu State, now utterly became a plan on paper.

Throughout Jiaoxi County, not a single troop that could honor the agreement could be found amid the turmoil in the Liang country.

With the Liang military abandoning their responsibilities and Xu Army having no contingency plan originally, who could possibly fill in the southern defensive line in such a short notice?

The southern part of Xu State was thus completely breached, leaving it wide open for Chu State to enter.

To the south of Le’an Prefecture, other than the southwest direction, there was still Sheqiu City capable of putting up some resistance.

Other southern and southeastern directions, due to the fall of Jiaoxi County, became utterly vacant lands, completely unobstructed, with no military force left to stop Chu State any longer.

It was after Lu Yuan noticed this point,

that, finding Dongping County difficult to breakthrough, he made a snap decision to immediately establish a new military camp, aiming to create a new battlefield and break the current stalemate.

“Currently at the Le’an Camp, Qingyangzi is personally leading the three hundred thousand main force of Chu Army from Shanyang County, surrounding and restraining the two hundred thousand Xu Army at Sheqiu City.

The remaining seven hundred thousand troops from the camp, a mixture of Chu and Liang armies, are advancing from the due south and southeast directions,

emerging from Jiaoxi County, supporting each other and marching in unison towards the South Capital Le Ling of Xu State.

The people of Xu were greatly shaken and terrified by this.

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Now, the three hundred thousand Xu Army defending Le Ling City has been urgently divided into two groups, each led by an Innate General, rushing to the south and southeast to construct defensive lines, joining with the local Prefectures and Counties’ militia to mount resistance.”

This reserve force within the boundaries of Qingzhou of Xu State had thus been wasted.

Lu Yuan quickly contacted Qingyangzi and learned of the latest progress on the battlefield.

Sheqiu City was still under siege, its defenses strong and its garrison numerous.

Forcing an assault on the city would incur heavy losses, not to mention he might exhaust all his troops without success.

Thus, Qingyangzi adopted a strategy of encirclement without immediate attack,

planning to imitate Lu Yuan’s method of dividing his forces, waiting for the detached armies from other parts of Le’an Camp to make a breakthrough on other battlefields, and for the situation to change.

Then, by starting with a focused point and expanding to various fronts, they would trigger a chain reaction across the battlefields and completely breach Xu State’s defense in the southern territories.

This was the most worry-free, effective, and least costly method.

So far,

the strategy seems to be working quite well.

The two detachments from Le’an Camp have successfully conquered several defenseless Prefectures and Counties of Xu State, seizing large swathes of that territory.

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Especially the detachment moving from the due south had, after capturing the lands of the two prefectures, pointed their blades straight at the South Capital Le Ling located to the northeast.

Only one Prefecture stands as a buffer between them.

The Chu State’s vanguard cavalry could even infiltrate to the outskirts of Le Ling City, lurking and scrutinizing the opponent’s Imperial Capital.

It was precisely because the surroundings had become so dire in such a short time that Xu State’s monarchs, officials, and civilians within Le Ling City were also severely frightened.

They even thought that Chu State’s divine troops had descended from the sky and were coming to attack them.

Proposals for relocating the capital back to the motherland for refuge were being loudly debated in the court and among the public, and they were incessant.

If it were not for today’s Emperor Xu, who was still resolute in will and authority, forcibly quelled those voices that shook the spirit of the people,

Xu State might have fallen into chaos even before the Chu Army could attack.

In such a situation, it was feared the circumstances would only go from bad to worse.

Fortunately, Xu State’s rise in national power over the past two years had given its people quite a bit of confidence, preventing them from being completely panic-stricken, and they had managed to hold on.

The three hundred thousand troops in the capital had also been dispatched to the south and southeast to build defenses.

With these troops in place and relying on the home field advantage and strong fortifications, it was not much of a problem to temporarily fend off the two approaching Chu forces.

As for what came next…

Xu State had already started to mobilize within Le’an Prefecture, and with the population there, even though quite a few southern Prefectures and Counties had been occupied by Chu State, the remaining five or six prefectures were expected to draft another three hundred thousand troops.

Meanwhile, within Xu State’s own Xuzhou, a decree had been issued for another round of troop mobilization.

Just wait three or four months, and at least five hundred thousand troops from the north could be mobilized to support the south.

Then, in Le’an Prefecture, they could gather more than a million troops.

With them, resisting Chu Country’s northern advancement from Le’an Camp would be more than sufficient.

The above was Xu State’s strategy for resistance after the initial panic.

Le’an Camp, on the other hand, did not have a good solution to this.

After all, they only had a million troops and ten Innate Generals, half of which were made up of Liang troops with poor quality and morale.

With such strength, it was unrealistic to expect Le’an Camp alone to conquer Xu State’s South Capital.

Lu Yuan’s expectations for this camp were never about that.

He only needed Le’an Camp to tie down the Xu forces in the direction of Leling County, in order to share the pressure Xu State was facing in the direction of Dongping County.

Therefore, upon learning of Xu State’s response strategy, Qingyangzi wasn’t flustered at all.

He remained calm, continuing the siege around Sheqiu City while directing the other two detachments to capture as much territory in Le’an Prefecture as possible before Xu State could complete its mobilization and reinforcements arrived.

The more Chu Army secures now, the less control Xu State will retain.

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