Jinling Prefecture was Jianye in the previous dynasty and was a famous water transport transit and political center in Jiangnan.

When Taizu recovered the tiger of Jiangdong, Sun Jian, as his general, and conferred Sun Jian as the hereditary Marquis of Donghai, and intended to confer the Tiger Army of the Sun family's 6th Army as the first-level imperial corps (that is, as the top ten corpses), but Sun Jian refused to accept it and only asked to command Jianye, and beg the Sun family to stay in Jiangdong forever.

At that time, the Dongdu Zhenhai had already started construction on the coast of the East China Sea. In order to ensure the safety of the largest commercial port in the empire, Taizu then asked the second-level legion of the Taishi family to station the Black Dragon Army in the East China Sea, while the Sun family's Tiger Legion and Jingtao Legion were deployed in Jianye and officially renamed Jianye to Jinling Prefecture.

At that time, everyone asked Taizu: Why is it called Jinling?

Taizu said: The sun rises eastward, shining my country. If this city is here, it will be like a mountain in the morning, and will always keep my country safe.

Since then, as a practice, it is also to ensure the convenience of trade between Zhenhai Prefecture, the Empire has never stationed a large army in Zhenhai. This has led to the fact that Zhenhai Prefecture, as a province's prefecture, was not as strong as Jinling Prefecture, and the Dongdu Zhenhai is increasingly approaching a commercial city. This is also the reason why the Western coalition forces quickly occupied Zhenhai after defeating the Empire's Hengbo Army and Heijiao Army.

Zhenhai has no danger to defend, but Jinling is equal to the most stable line of defense in Jiangnan Province after Zhenhai.

Jinling Prefecture is surrounded by mountains on three sides and facing the river. Zijin Mountain has the most solid arms. Starting from the east of Jinling Prefecture, it tightly surrounds it in your arms. The Yangtze River passes through Jinling Prefecture like a jade belt, and it is a place that is easy to defend and difficult to attack.

On that day, the Western coalition also relied on the naval battle in the East China Sea to annihilate the main force of the Empire's Jiangnan Fleet in one fell swoop. After the waters advanced together, they exhausted the living forces of the empires around Jinling Prefecture, and then siege Jinling and forcibly siege the city. It took 150,000 people two months to conquer Jinling Prefecture, which was guarded by 30,000 Han soldiers.

The Tiger Legion, a second-level imperial legion stationed in Jinling City, was stationed in Zhenhai Mansion as early as the early days when the coalition forces besieged Zhenhai Mansion, and the entire army was in Zhenhai Mansion.

In fact, if the empire did not defend Zhenhai on the same day, or if it were guarding against the rebellion of the Eastern Japanese, it would not have lost nearly 100,000 troops outside the Zhenhai Mansion, which was easy to attack and difficult to defend.

The Flying Eagle Army, the second-level imperial legion stationed in Jinling Prefecture, died all of them since the commander of the army. Before the war, the Jinling Prefecture, which had a population of more than 2 million, now has less than 300,000 people, and the rest have either died at the enemy or fled to the southern provinces.

Thousands of years later, Jinling Prefecture, as a barrier to Jiangnan, fell into the enemy of foreign races, and even the brutal army burned and killed them in the territory. If Taizu knew about it in the nine springs, he would not know what he thought?

Now, Lei Dongfeng led 20,000 troops to attack Jinling and do that even more shocking move.

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"The troops near Jinling Mansion have been mobilized so frequently in the past half day? And it seems that the army passing by is so neat and stern. If they are the elites of the Western Alliance, why did they come out?" Lei Dongfeng, Als, Jiang Zhuying, Li Ruoxi and others were lying in the grass, looking at the teams of Western Alliance troops running by the foot of the mountain, Lei Dongfeng Road.

"At noon, the beacon tower on Purple Gold Mountain was lit. According to time, it should be that Zhang Guangyuan had begun to attack Zhenhai Mansion. These troops should be supporting Zhenhai." Jiang Zhuying said.

"Well, all the mobilized soldiers are going from west to east, and they should go to support Zhenhai Mansion. After a while, we can attack." Als glanced at the coalition forces passing by like an ant colony. Als judged.

"Hissergeant Als, among the team of people who just passed by, wearing purple crowns, should be the commander of the coalition army?" Li Ruoxi pointed to a team of cavalry that had just passed by the foot of the mountain.

"Well, it's exactly, and it's the Gaul light cavalry of our Kingdom of Falls." Ars nodded.

"How could the elite Gaul light cavalry appear here?" Li Ruoxi was filled with emei.

"Huh? What do you mean?" Lei Dongfeng and Als suddenly woke up something, looked at each other, and asked Li Ruoxi.

"According to the information provided by the Shura Legion and the testimony of the Sisley centurion Gonzalez who just surrendered, there should be no Gaul light cavalry in the nearby Baili, and it is a large army of more than 10,000 people." Li Ruoxi said lightly.

"Mu Tong, do you mean that there are many coalition soldiers hidden nearby, and Jinling Mansion is a trap that leads us to attack?" Lei Dongfeng's expression trembled.

If so, then rushing to Jinling Mansion would become a complete joke. And the methods of the coalition commander Jose were indeed surprising.

"No, it's not Jinling Mansion, it's Zhenhai..." Li Ruoxi's white jade-like fingers gently stroked the grass leaves in front of her, and a trace of helplessness flashed in her eyes.

"..." Lei Dongfeng looked at Als again, and there was an unbelievable look in both of them.

Jiang Zhuying remained silent. She now had no good feelings for Zhang Guangyuan who framed Lei Dongfeng, and she wished he would be punished.

According to Li Ruoxi's analysis, the Han army attacked Zhenhai, obtained the power to control the sea, and cut off the connection between the Western coalition forces and the so-called "East Japanese rebels". Such a plan has actually been estimated by the General Staff of the coalition forces, and Jose is likely to have set up traps for these.

"Actually, if you really lose a guard army, it's nothing..." Li Ruoxi glanced at Lei Dongfeng and said lightly.

"That was a trap. The bait seemed to be Zhenhai Mansion, but in fact it was Zhang Guangyuan and more than 60,000 Han soldiers around him. The prey was the other Han soldiers who were going to rescue them from behind." Lei Dongfeng followed Li Ruoxi's words.

"Brother, you can't go!" Jiang Zhuying's face changed, and she disappeared with a relaxed look. She knew Lei Dongfeng too well. If it was for those innocent Han soldiers, Lei Dongfeng might destroy it even if he knew it was a trap.

"Brother Lei, are you going to be a prey?" Li Ruoxi actually wanted to ask Lei Dongfeng such a sentence, but what Jiang Zhuying could think of, Li Ruoxi was guessing that with Lei Dongfeng's personality, he could ignore Zhang Guangyuan's life and death, but he would never ignore tens of thousands of Han soldiers, or even hundreds of thousands of Han soldiers, in a desperate situation.

"I am the Emperor and the Han army!" Lei Dongfeng's expression was as usual, but his voice was a bit shrill, as if he had found a determination for himself.

"Lei, if you go, I will follow you." But Ars said seriously.

"If we pinch the enemy's seven inches and can last for more than ten days in Jinling Mansion, we can actually save the army." Li Ruoxi sighed helplessly in his heart and said lightly.

If Li Ruoxi's sincerity is true, there is no need to care about the lives and deaths of other Han soldiers. Even if Lei Dongfeng goes, it is impossible to make a hundred. If the Western Allied Forces set up this situation, they will inevitably have at least 200,000 troops near Zhenhai.

The imperial team in Jiangnan is now scattered everywhere. Even if they go to rescue one after another, they are afraid that they will go without returning.

Li Ruoxi felt that the better strategy was to immediately attack the southern Fujian province after capturing Jinling Prefecture and attack the rear of the coalition forces. In this way, even if the coalition forces swept away the Han soldiers in the Jiangnan province, Lei Dongfeng could still take his more than 20,000 men to deal with the coalition forces in the rear. If it really doesn't work, he could even retreat into the southwest province and even ask for support from the vanguard army.

But now, since Lei Dongfeng has made up his mind, all Li Ruoxi can do is help him become a nail in the eyes of the coalition forces in Jiangnan!

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In the early morning of November 4, 999, the foothills of Zijin Mountain in Jinling Prefecture, Jiangnan Province of the Empire.

In the darkness, there is a lying dragon lingering around Jinling Mansion, with only a gap exposed to the west. The gap is the water bank of the Yangtze River (the geography here does not completely match reality).

Looking down from the mountain top that is more than 400 meters, the lights in Jinling Mansion are as bright and blurry as fireflies.

It should be said that since the Western coalition entered Jinling Prefecture, it adopted the same policy of mercy as that entered Zhenhai Prefecture. In addition to sweeping away the Han soldiers in the territory, it did not kill civilians indiscriminately. In order to better rule this wealthy land in Jiangnan, he wanted to build Jiangnan into the base of the Western 6th empire. Pope Urban II even completely listened to the opinions of the coalition commander Jose, and harassed the merchants in the city. He even encouraged merchants to reopen and continue to do business.

Of course, in order to prevent the Emperor* team from taking the opportunity to invade, the inspection of the business travelers was much more severe.

Of course, there are still a few businesses who dare or are willing to serve the coalition forces, and most of the residents in Jinling Mansion fled to other places before or after the coalition forces arrived.

But there has never been a lack of people in this world who have no backbone to pursue fame and fortune, especially Jinling Mansion, where the land is full of gold and rich, the fences and restaurants on both sides of the Qinhuai River have become places for serving the coalition forces.

Some food, grass, weapons, and even mule and horse trading companies have made a fortune, which has caused a strange prosperity in Jinling Mansion.

However, the fire points in Jinling Mansion tonight were caused by the garrison that had just received from Zhenhai Mansion. According to the level of the wolf smoke, the garrison quickly determined that the Han soldiers had appeared in Zhenhai Mansion and were about to conquer the city.

The commander of the Western Allied Forces Jinling Mansion, who received the war report, was the commander of the Marquis of the Kingdom of Falls and the commander of the Wanhunter Amore, but was extremely anxious because there were only more than 30,000 troops in the Jinling Mansion, and many of them were controlled by the Archbishop Marso, who accompanied the army.

The Pope and Jose have also issued an order before: any military mobilization of more than 10,000 people in the city must be signed by Amoré and Masso to implement it.

After receiving the war report, Amore wanted to send troops to Zhenhai Mansion immediately, but was stopped by Masso, saying that everything was arranged by the Pope and Lord Jose.

So, under the gaze of Amore, several legions lurking around Jinling Mansion quickly left Zhenhai Mansion until midnight when Jinling Mansion returned to peace.

Amore was frightened and was even more resentful of such a huge plan but deceived him. However, what he could control was his own team of ten thousand people, and all were light infantrymen. He was at a disadvantage against the Shenwei army in Masso's hands and other coalition forces that were in conjunction with him.
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