Zhili's 800,000-strong army is already too many, and the 100,000-strong southeastern rebel army must be added to it.

No matter whether it is at Tianlang Pass or at the Fenglei Fort defense line, the two places combined cannot accommodate so many troops.

So, Ji Li ordered an army of 900,000 troops to attack Tianshui City from three sides: Linhai City in the north, Fengleibao defense line in the west, and Tianlang Pass in the south!

The Duke of Turing Tuo led a Chinese army of 450,000 to attack the defense line of Fenglei Castle. The main components of this army were the Dragon Guard Army, the coalition forces of the princes, and the Shaojun Mansion Army.

Jian Ze, the commander-in-chief of the Southwest Army, led an army of 200,000 people on the right to attack Tianlang Pass. The main composition of this army was the Southwest Army, and there were also 100,000 Southeast rebel troops.

Chu Ye, the commander of the Northern Army, led an army of 250,000 on the left, setting off directly from Nujiang Province to attack Linhai City. Once Linhai City was captured, they would then go directly south from Linhai City and cross the Nujiang River to attack Tianshui City. This army

The main components are the Northern Army and the Ten Provinces Allied Forces.

The force composition in Sauron's hands is: Silver Wolf Legion plus Tianshui City Guards, which will expand to more than 50,000 people.

The Rouran City reinforcements led by Ashiliren numbered more than 20,000 people.

The captured Zhiwei army in the last extermination war returned to the coalition forces. After reorganization, the new army consisted of more than 80,000 people.

There is also a newly reorganized Rock Bandit Legion with more than 50,000 people.

Fifty thousand reinforcements from Hai Gang on Yingzhou Island.

The number of troops that Sauron could directly command reached 200,000. Sauron still could not trust Haigang's 50,000 reinforcements, so he transferred all of them from the navy to the army and went to Rock Island to guard the Rock Salt Fields.

Among the 200,000 troops, Sauron will also allocate 30,000 people to maintain order at sea. After all, he is the new overlord of the East China Sea.

Sauron was able to truly put into battle only 170,000 people, less than one-fifth of the Li army.

As for the defense of the main city of Tianshui, as well as its numerous workshops, warehouses, etc., it can only be maintained by the 30,000 to 40,000 second-line civilian troops.

In this decisive battle, the total number of troops invested by both sides reached 1.1 million, which was more than twice the number of people in the land of tens of thousands of square kilometers in Tianshui City.

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In the last war, the main reason why Zhiwei's Southeast Army was completely destroyed was that the retreat was cut off, all the bridges on the Tianshui River were destroyed, and the river guarding camp was completely annihilated.

This time, it is absolutely impossible for Zhili to make such a mistake.

He used tens of thousands of people to pave the Tianshui River alive.

You read that right, the river surface which is dozens of meters wide and four miles long has been paved directly!

How to pave it, connect countless wooden bridges in parallel, and cover the entire river!

Thousands of thick trees were used as bridge piles, which were nailed deeply into the river bed, and then trees dozens of meters long were used as bridges. Three-inch thick wooden boards were used as bridge decks!

This is no longer a pontoon bridge, it is completely impregnable. Not to mention war horses can pass smoothly, even large siege vehicles can pass smoothly!

In order to pave the four-mile-long river, it took tens of thousands of people away for more than ten days, and hundreds of people died.

Not only that, Lili also sent troops to build watchtowers on the tops of both sides. Each watchtower has more than a dozen top shooters!

If Sauron's griffons dare to fly in and attack the river bridge, they will definitely die one by one.

Li Li also spent astronomical sums of money to hire dozens of dragon archers from the Dragon Temple, Tianxing Temple and Hades Society, specifically to deal with the gryphon beasts that Sauron might come to attack.

Not only that, Li Li also prepared dozens of giant wooden towers, each with a super crossbow. This kind of crossbow can have a range of six to seven hundred meters, and the giant arrows it shoots will explode in the air, emitting a powerful

Toxic smoke.

Even after achieving such an extreme level, Zhi Li was still not at ease, so he borrowed five gryphon beasts from Yinzhou, Yaozhou, and Shenlong Temple.

Although the number is not large, only one-third of Sauron's, at least Sauron's griffons cannot come and go freely.

In short, Li Li used all means to protect the air superiority of the entire army.

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Last time, the reason why Zhiwei's Southeast Army was completely destroyed was largely due to the fire attack.

The Duke of Turingdor's tens of thousands of troops also died in Sauron's fire and oil battle.

As long as the army rushes to the city, astronomical amounts of fire oil will be poured on the city. In every battle, Sauron can use more than millions of kilograms of fire oil.

As for Sauron's fire oil tactics, Li Li was also prepared.

With a loan from Yinzhou, Lili purchased a huge amount of fireproof cloaks from Yaozhou!

Why is this fireproof cloak fireproof? No one knows, but it is indeed very magical. This cloak looks like no other fabric, but it will not burn even if it is placed on fire.

This is Yaozhou's exclusive technology, and of course it is extremely expensive.

A fireproof cloak costs three gold coins, which is equivalent to RMB 45,000.

Li Li immediately bought 130,000 pieces of fireproof cloaks.

Of course, this quantity is still not enough to equip the main army. Therefore, Li Li also purchased a large number of heat shields and an astronomical amount of fire extinguishing powder.

Although this still cannot completely resist Sauron's sea of ​​fire tactics, there must be no problem in capturing Tianshui City, but the casualties will be greater.

Of course, Li Li knew that Sauron also had a secret weapon, which was thunder, or gunpowder.

This weapon is currently unsolvable!

However, according to past combat examples, the firing frequency of Sauron's trebuchets is very low. Although the thunderbolts explode with amazing power, their lethality is far inferior to that of kerosene.

Judging from the battlefield at Gui Xing Fu on Rock Island and the battlefield at Fenglei Castle's defense line, the casualties caused by Bang Tian Lei were only about one-fifth to one-tenth that of Kerosene.

Therefore, regarding Sauron's sky-shattering thunder, one can only put aside the fear in his heart and just rush towards it.

For this war, Li Li has spent everything he has!

It was signed by the cabinet and paid by the treasury. Wangcheng Jinhao advanced 900,000 gold coins for military expenses, and the Yinyuanhui borrowed 350,000 gold coins.

Moreover, the Turing family, nineteen princes, and many nobles all contributed money.

The Tully family of Luanyang City spent all their money and spent hundreds of thousands of gold coins.

The previous generation of kings expanded thousands of miles of territory, and their annual military expenditure was only more than one million gold coins.

In order to destroy Sauron, Li Li launched three wars. This decisive battle cost 1.8 million gold coins.

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In the separated Chinese army camp!

In this national expedition, Ji Li brought almost all the senior generals, all the nobles above the viscount level, all the princes and heirs.

He wants to defeat Sauron and chop off Sauron's head in front of all the ruling classes in the world! He wants to show his domineering power and glory as a king in front of everyone!

At this time, Jieli entertained hundreds of nobles, generals, and princes as usual.

"Report, left-wing military information, urgent!"

Suddenly, a scout rushed in quickly, knelt down and said: "Your Highness, the commander of the left wing army, Earl Chu Ye, has conquered the entire Linhai City territory. He is invincible and has killed countless people!"

As soon as these words came out, the whole place fell into silence!

Li Li stood up and said: "Sure enough? I remember that Earl Chu Ye entered Linhai City from Nujiang Province. It only took four days, right, and he already won a complete victory?"

The scout said: "A great victory. The main city of Linhai and all the high-level warrior territories were captured by our army. The port of Linhai City was also captured. In this battle, our army wiped out tens of thousands of enemies!"

"Okay!" Ji Li said with great joy: "Sauron's army is very strong, but it is so vulnerable at this time. It can be seen that the wall fell and everyone pushed back, how low their morale is?"

The nobles and princes present all bowed and saluted, saying: "Your Highness is so mighty that all Sauron's thieves fled when they saw it!"

"Congratulations to Your Highness for taking back the main city of Linhai!"

"Congratulations to Your Highness for regaining the lost ground!"

All of a sudden, all the civil servants, military officers, princes and nobles were flattering each other.

Li Li is indeed very proud!

Before his army arrived, the entire Southeast Province had already changed its banner and driven away Sauron's army. (That's what the shameless civil servants in the Southeast Province said. Sauron didn't give up the Southeast Province on his own initiative, but was forced to leave the Southeast Province.

They gathered an army and were defeated and drove away.)

Zhili knew it well, but who wouldn't want to hear good words?

Now, the entire Linhai City has been completely recovered.

He had already won most of this battle before it really started.

And Sauron vomited out all the chips he had won with blood, and lost the Southeast Province, and now even Linhai City!

"Hahahaha..." Li Li laughed and said, "Now I really want to know what Gui Xinghui is thinking in his heart. It's a pity that Gui Qinshao was conferred by me as the Lord of Linhai City just a few days after being canonized by Sauron.

Taken away."

"Yes..." Fu Qi said: "The throne of Linhai City Lord, Gui Qinshao, this sexy and charming big butt was taken away by His Highness just a few days after she was done. She must have regretted following Sauron.

Now her sexy ass is empty, won’t Your Highness please satisfy it?”

This is an obscene thing to say, but as long as you attack Sauron now, no matter how obscene it is, it is politically correct.

Sure enough, when Zhi Li heard it, he burst into laughter.

Then, Ji Li said with a solemn expression: "Order Earl Chu Ye to immediately go south from Linhai City, cross the Nu River, and attack Tianshui City!"

"Yes!" Immediately, a captain-level scout leader rode a griffin beast and headed for Linhai City.

Li Li then ordered: "Now, the Tianshui River has been completely paved by me, as if walking on flat ground. The army marches forward and approaches the defense line of Fenglei Fort!"

"According to the order!" the generals headed by the Duke of Turingto shouted in unison.

Two hours later!

The 450,000-strong Zhili Chinese Army was so vast that it covered the sky and the sun and crossed Tianshui City as if they were walking on flat ground.
To be continued...