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Chapter 1051: Chapter 430 Yuzhou Warfare_2 Chapter 1051: Chapter 430 Yuzhou Warfare_2 The sudden arrival of Chu State gave Xinzheng City hardly any time to prepare.

Especially the naval forces of Chu, after annihilating the Zheng Kingdom’s waterborne strength, sailed directly into the inland of Zheng along the nearby Wei River, sealing all of Zheng’s water and land thoroughfares.

In just a few short days, not only was Xinzheng City cut off from the outside world, but even Changguang County, and all the other counties within Zheng, were isolated from each other.

The counties of Zheng’s hinterland, though their territories were still contiguous, had in fact lost all contact with each other.

As a result, Zheng Kingdom fragmented into several pieces.

Under such circumstances, even if the monarch and ministers of Xinzheng wanted to dispatch high officials as messengers to convey decrees, asking local county governors to come to their aid, it became extremely difficult.

In this world where innate experts exist, martial artists with great strength can run on walls and fly over rooftops; it is truly challenging, perhaps even impossible, to completely trap them with a large army.

Similarly.

Even if these messengers capable of delivering messages set out, given the current situation of Zheng having been split into countless fragments and Chu’s naval forces raging in Zheng’s major water systems,

even if they could contact the local county governors and get officials to rally the Loyalist Army, that would only be a regional Loyalist Army at best.

When all communications are cut off, it would be extremely difficult to merge other regions’ Loyalist Armies even though they might be raised.

And if they could not converge at one place to gather their forces, what would be the use of raising the Loyalist Army when facing the Chu Army, which had the advantage of water routes and could quickly assemble its troops?

Of course.

To completely fragment Zheng which occupied half of Yuzhou, relying solely on Chu State’s two hundred thousand naval forces, is not realistic.

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There will always be places beyond the reach of the naval forces, where Zheng’s army could cross rivers to gather, or some areas without any rivers, allowing unimpeded passage.

But such places are generally sparse and remote.

Traveling along such routes, Zheng’s army would take an unknown amount of time to assemble.

By the time they rushed to aid the king, the situation would have already been stale.

The aim of Chu naval forces to block reinforcements had naturally been achieved.

Thus, after a series of moves by the Chu naval forces, Zheng found itself in a situation where its troops were useless, or at least very difficult to utilize.

But without outside aid, how could just a hundred thousand defenders within Xinzheng possibly withstand an attack from five hundred thousand Chu troops?

Especially since Xinzheng is located by the sea, once Chu breached its water defenses, they could land directly under the city’s walls, leaving no time for a response.

Even if Xinzheng wanted to gather some civilian workers from nearby to help defend the city after being besieged by Chu, it was impossible.

Furthermore, there were only a total of four hundred thousand residents within Xinzheng, and no matter how hard they tried to conscript soldiers, they could barely muster eighty or ninety thousand people.

Together with the defenders, their numbers were still less than two hundred thousand, still far inferior to the Chu Army.

Additionally, lacking an Inborn Grandmaster within the city, the situation in Xinzheng became even more dire.

After the siege began, the Chu Army tested their attacks, and in just over a month, Xinzheng was teetering on the brink of collapse.

If not for the onset of winter and heavy snowfall that made it difficult to campaign, Xinzheng would likely have fallen last year.

But the harsh winter would eventually pass.

Protected by a temporary heavy snowfall, Xinzheng managed to survive another year.

But by the spring of this year, with nearly half a year’s time, it became much harder to endure.

When the early spring of March arrived, and Lu Yuan launched his second Northern Expedition, Xinzheng too began its second siege as scheduled.

Moreover, this time was different, for not long after the siege commenced, following Lu Yuan’s orders using captured soldiers, the two hundred thousand Zheng soldiers taken prisoner were also delivered.

Then, as usual, these men were driven by the Chu Army into the brutal siege warfare.

During the previous attacks on Xinzheng, the Chu forces still showed some restraint due to the compatriots involved, slightly holding back.

But now, with Zheng’s surrendered soldiers, there were no such concerns.

They were used ruthlessly, desperately.

The two hundred thousand surrendered soldiers, along with a portion of Chu’s elite troops, launched relentless attacks on Xinzheng within just ten short days.

The people of Zheng inside the city had never seen such a spectacle before?

Moreover, after being besieged for half a year, they had also suffered significant losses in men and horses, and morale within the city was gradually declining.

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Hence, after many of these surrendered soldiers perished, the defenders of Xinzheng could no longer hold on.

Many Zheng soldiers began to disperse.

Without these ordinary soldiers to act as a barrier and expend the Chu forces’ True pneuma and strength,

the Zheng innates within the city found it increasingly difficult to contend with the Chu innates.

Following Lu Yuan’s two avatars taking the lead by storming the city walls, personally slaying two of Zheng’s innates inside,

With a gap in Zheng’s top-level combat power and the lower-level soldiers beginning to flee, breaches appeared everywhere, and Xinzheng could no longer be defended.

Ultimately, on the twenty-third day of the fifth month in the forty-second year of Shenwu, Xinzheng City was breached by the Chu forces.

Apart from a few monarchs and ministers from Zheng Kingdom who managed to break out under the protection of an Inborn Grandmaster,

other Zheng clan members, nobles, and officials, large and small, who remained in the city, became prisoners of Chu.

The ruling core of Zheng Kingdom was substantially dismantled in one fell swoop.

Xinzheng City thus became the first imperial capital of a hegemonic state to fall since the start of Chu’s Northern Expedition.