The battle was intense.
As time passed, the Great Tang began to show signs of being unable to continue.
Liu Xing understood that the Great Zhou Empire could slowly wear them out, but the Great Tang could not.
The people in the country were in panic and angry.
If this continued, the Great Tang would undoubtedly lose.
After some discussion, Liu Xing had no choice but to attack and defend. She would lead 200,000 Tang cavalry south to fight the Great Zhou army at the Shanghai River.
The battle of Hujiang was a decisive battle that would go down in history.
This battle would determine the final direction of the world.
The Great Tang was located in the north, and its war horses were famous throughout the world.
The Iron Futu Cavalry Regiment was even more famous.
This troop was well-equipped and was forged using the Mohist's mechanism technique. A full set of heavy metal armor was very expensive to forge. However, there were not many horses that could carry heavy metal armor, so this army could not be expanded.
The entire Iron Futu army only had about 2,000 people.
Ten riders in a group, charging forward in a chain. Looking at the entire battlefield, no one could match them.
Tie Futu had risen to fame in the Great Tang, and he had made great contributions to the Great Tang. He had experienced countless large-scale battles, and in each battle, his losses had never exceeded two digits.
The light cavalrymen were agile and came and went as they pleased. They made full use of attacks, sneak attacks, harassment, siege, and the work of covering the rear.
Together with Tie Futu, they would split up the Great Zhou Empire's army, pincer attack, and annihilate them…
Before this, no one from the other countries dared to face the Iron Pagoda. If they did…they could only use heavy infantry and heavy crossbows.
This was because the five countries had previously been unable to form a team that could compete with Tie Futu.
The Great Tang had never suffered great losses in any of its battles.
On the other hand, the other countries were unable to deal any heavy damage to the Iron Futu and suffered heavy losses.
This was because the mobility of the Iron Futu was too strong.
In the era of cold weapons, it could be said that wherever the Iron Pagoda passed, it would be flattened and no one could stop it.
In the past, the Wei Kingdom had tried to form an army made entirely of cultivators in an attempt to resist the Iron Futu. However, the cost of building an army made entirely of cultivators far exceeded that of the Iron Futu. The financial expenditure of raising a cultivator was enough to create two Iron Futu armies.
Furthermore, cultivators didn't have a plan for their search ability. They could fight alone, but once they encountered a large-scale battle, they wouldn't be able to play much of a role in a group fight.
The most important thing was those powerful skills. Although they were powerful in places, they would also cause irreparable damage to their own people.
I'll kill 1,000 enemies and 800 myself.
Thus, the army was disbanded a year after it was formed.
The plan was eventually abandoned.
In this era of cold weapons, Tie Futu and the light cavalry were simply a jack of all trades combination, an invincible existence.
The terrain of the Hujiang area was particularly ideal. In this area, the cooperation between the Iron Futu and the light cavalry could be said to be seamless, allowing them to exert their greatest advantage.
As for the Great Zhou Empire's army, they specialized in siege warfare and mainly used infantry.
Thus, the battle began just as everyone had expected.
Liu Xing led 198,000 light cavalrymen and 2,000 iron pagodas. They were invincible along the way.
The army left behind by Tang Jiu was no match for Tie Futu at all. This battle was completely overwhelming, and the Great Zhou army was defeated again and again.
In the end, he had no choice but to retreat.
Liu Xing led the army to pursue the enemy, and they marched all the way to Annan like a broken dam.
The twist of the story began here.
Just as everyone thought that the Great Tang was about to restrain the Great Zhou, a battle report came from the front.
In the Battle of Annan, the Great Tang had been defeated, and not a single soldier of its four hundred thousand soldiers had survived.
This was an outcome that no one could have imagined. Clearly, the frontline had received one victory after another, but in a short while…how could they have been defeated?
Even the Great Tang army could not understand how they had been foolishly defeated.
He only remembered that a group of elite infantrymen had appeared out of nowhere on the battlefield. Their long sabers were specially used to cut down the legs of horses that were not covered in armor.
The horses at the front would fall after being injured, and the horses at the back would fall like a landslide.
This was a method of fighting with their lives, because it was very difficult for the infantry to easily cut the legs of their horses. If they could not cut them, they would be killed by the cavalry or trampled to death.
Moreover, even if he managed to hit the target, the warhorse would still be crushed by the impact of the horse.
But the problem was that these infantrymen, who were responsible for sneaking into the battlefield and chopping off the legs of horses, seemed to be completely unafraid of life and death.
They had a clear goal, coordinated well, and were very disciplined.
Later, during the battle, the Great Zhou army had no choice but to spread out. They spread out the stars, followed the drums, and retreated when they heard the sound of gold.
Sometimes they would fight in small groups, and sometimes they would fight in large units.
Thus, when the Tang cavalry charged in, they were already surrounded.
Then, the long saber suddenly appeared and chopped at the horse's legs, killing the Tang cavalrymen one by one after they landed on the ground.
In the end, the cavalrymen lost their warhorses and could only choose to fight the Great Zhou army hand-to-hand.
But the Great Zhou army was massive, and its infantry was far stronger than the Great Tang.
The battle lasted from dawn to night, and then from night to dawn.
The Tang cavalrymen, who had suffered heavy losses, wanted to retreat, but they had already gone deep into the city alone. It was as if half of their bodies had fallen into a quagmire. How could they choose to retreat now?
Chen Xiaozhi, the commander of the Dragon Rise Army, easily led the army around the rear, completely cutting off the Tang cavalry's escape route.
After that, Tang Jiu launched a brutal siege on the Tang army. In the end, the famous Tang cavalry in Zhongzhou was defeated. Only Liu Xing and a few dozen people managed to escape.
After this battle, the Great Tang would no longer have the Iron Pagoda.
Even if the Great Tang wanted to rebuild the Iron Pagoda, it would take a very long time.
After the war, the Great Tang had completely lost the ability to contend against the Great Zhou Empire.
A year later, the Great Zhou Army entered the Great Tang territory and annexed all the territory except the capital.
Another half a year passed.
Tang Jiu led an army of 300,000 to besiege the capital city of the Tang Empire, and in the end, the Tang Emperor had no choice but to surrender.
At this moment, Tang Jiu looked up at the sky and seemed to see Song Changling's smiling face. Then, he smiled faintly.
From then on, the Great Zhou Empire would unify the world.
"For the first time in thousands of years, the Central Plains has been unified.”
On a mountain peak in the Great Tang, Liu Xing stood with her hands behind her back. She looked at the mighty Great Zhou army, then at the completely occupied capital, and let out a long sigh.
Behind her, the young man in white also had his hands behind his back. Tang Jiu looked at Liu Xing's charming back and said sarcastically," Why do I hear a hint of sarcasm in your words?"”
Liu Xing turned to look at him and pointed at the foot of the mountain." See? It's very high!”
"I really want to push you down from here.”
Tang Jiu smiled." I'm a cultivator. Even if you push me down, I won't die.”
Liu Xing was stunned." You're right!"
The next moment, her eyes lit up." Then I'll cripple your cultivation and push you down.”
Tang Jiu shook his head and said," Sigh, a woman's heart is indeed the most vicious!”
"Poison? I can't compare to you."
Liu Xing's voice carried some emotion.
"Now that the Great Tang is gone, what will you do next?”
Liu Xing's lips parted slightly." Me?"
At this moment, she was like a child who had lost her home. A trace of confusion appeared in her heart.
After a while, she slowly said," I'm preparing to return to the grotto-heaven to cultivate.”
"Now that the Great Tang's fate is gone, my cultivation has dropped a lot. Back then, I deliberately delayed my ascension to protect the Great Tang, but I didn't expect that…after the Great Tang was destroyed, my cultivation would return to the Mahayana Realm.”
"I reckon I'll have to cultivate for a few hundred years or even a few thousand years before I can ascend!”
Liu Xing looked at Tang Jiu." What about you?”
Tang Jiu spread his hands." I'll naturally go back to where I came from.”
"You mean…to return to the town?”
"Yes!"
Liu Xing stared at him in surprise." You said you did something unprecedented, and now you're going back to the town to live in seclusion?”
It was unbelievable.
However, he seemed to have thought of something." That's true. This is quite in line with your personality.”
Tang Jiu laughed along.
All was silent. Snowflakes fell from the night sky and swirled in the air.
"It's snowing again!" Liu Xing reached out her hand, and a snowflake fell on it.
She felt a cold sensation. She remembered…the first time she met Tang Jiu was during that snowy winter.
For a moment, the two of them looked at each other without saying a word.
It wasn't that he had nothing to say, but there were too many things he wanted to say, but none of them could compare to the beauty of the snowflakes dancing in the sky at this moment.
After some time, Liu Xing turned around and smiled at Tang Jiu. She was still as beautiful as ever." Tang Jiu, I'm leaving!"”
Tang Jiu opened his mouth, but in the end, he found that he couldn't say a word.
Every time they met, Liu Xing would leave first.
He did not know if this would be the last time they would meet.
The mountain was high and the road was far. After today, it would probably be difficult to meet again in the future.
After all, there was still the Tang Empire before, and she wouldn't go anywhere else.
It was still easy to find her.
But now that the Tang Empire was gone, and if Liu Xing left again, Tang Jiu really didn't know where she would go.
The world was so big that it was hard to imagine.
He had given her a snowflake on the mountaintop. Today, she was in front of him, but tomorrow, she would be far away.
Because people are in the wind and snow, gathering and dispersing are not up to you and me.
Tang Jiu sighed deeply as he watched the woman in red leave." Take care, my beloved! The road is long and the horse is urgent in the human world. As long as you are safe and happy, it is good.”
Liu Xing, who had been flying in the sky, suddenly paused. She seemed to have heard something. She stole a glance at Tang Jiu and found that he was watching her. She sighed helplessly.
At this moment, tears seemed to fall from the corner of her eyes." Take care, my beloved.”
With that, he sped up and disappeared into the horizon.
It was as if he had never been here.
There was no sound when he came, and no sound when he left.
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