Starting from the capital and heading south along the official road, within a few days, Chu Changning led his army to the border town of Xuzhou.

The army marched all the way without covering their tracks, and Xuzhou had already heard the news. When Chu Changning arrived at this small border town, the city gate was wide open, and a group of common people holding iron forks and wooden clubs were waiting at the gate.

When they saw Chu Changning leading his army, they were overjoyed and came forward to welcome him.

Chu Changning felt strange. When the leading people came closer, he asked, "What are you doing?"

"General! We are all common people in the city, and we specially opened the city to welcome the general!"

"...Where are the generals of the city's defenders?"

"So that the general knows that we defeated those sons of bitches!" A young man raised the iron fork in his hand and said very proudly.

Chu Changning was greatly surprised, and then a scholar explained to him everything that happened in the city.

It turns out that since Song Qian, the governor of the state, fled across the Yangtze River with his whole family, the whole of Xuzhou has been in chaos. The powerful people are fleeing, and some military generals have also begun to plunder the property in the city wantonly, causing the people of Xuzhou to suffer miserably.

It can be said that the people of Xuzhou have been waiting for the Bei'an Army to attack soon! Therefore, as soon as the Bei'an Army announced its march to Xuzhou, people from all over Xuzhou responded one after another.

This small border town is an example. The common people concentrated their resistance and defeated the general who was guarding the city and his soldiers. They opened the city gate and welcomed the Bei'an army into the city.

Chu Changning knew the whole story and was very satisfied.

If all the cities in Xuzhou were like this, then it would be much easier for him to capture the entire Xuzhou than imagined.

After leading his army into the city, Chu Changning took a short rest and then continued to march.

As he expected, almost all the cities in Xuzhou were reduced to nothing, and most of them had no soldiers to defend them. Even if they had soldiers, they had already fled in the face of Chu Changning's tens of thousands of troops, and Kaicheng surrendered.

In almost just one day, Chu Changning easily conquered four cities in a row. By the next day, he had already arrived at Kaiyang City.

Kaiyang City is the capital of Xuzhou. Song Qian, the governor of Xuzhou, has fled long ago. Now the city is also occupied by a former general.

How could He De, a small general, occupy a big city? He relied on Zhou Mu to escape. Senior generals also crossed the river one after another. The senior officers all ran away, and the junior officers naturally rose up.

However, not long after the general Zhou Mu was addicted, Chu Changning came to the city with his troops.

What also surprised Chu Changning was that the general refused to surrender and wanted to defend with less than 10,000 soldiers.

It happened that there had been no battle to fight along the way, and Chu Changning was feeling itchy, so he took this opportunity to prepare his troops.

He made full use of the advantages of martial arts masters, organized them into small teams in groups, and then directly began to attack the city.

The Rong army under his command is an elite division carefully selected from the Beirong and several other tribes. It can be said that each of them is a warrior who can compete with three. The martial arts masters are the first to climb the ladder, relying on the protection

The strength in his body resisted the arrows shot from the city wall.

When his internal strength was about to be exhausted, he decisively retreated and replaced him with another master. This way of taking the lead, the casualties of the siege soldiers were greatly reduced.

Chu Changning watched from behind, feeling emotional in his heart.

Jianghu masters are indeed very useful. Without them, it may not be difficult to scale the city wall, but at least hundreds of soldiers will be injured.

But now, he visually estimated that there were less than 200 casualties, and the leading troops had successfully scaled the city wall.

With his heart racing, Chu Changning simply went into battle himself.

He was at the third level of Xiantian, so he could deal with this kind of battle situation with ease. After scaling the city wall, he and the Rong soldiers fought forward to clear the way.

There were thousands of soldiers guarding the military area, but they had little fighting spirit. After the Bei'an army climbed onto the city wall, they retreated steadily, and soon they all threw away their weapons and surrendered.

The general was also beheaded by a Rongman with an axe.

"General!" The Rong soldier held the general's head and shouted excitedly to Chu Changning in unskilled Zhou dialect, "Mine! I'll kill him!"

"Okay!" Chu Changning praised, "I will mark your contribution!"

"Thank you General!"

The battle ended in less than half an hour. The army entered the city, but the people were not afraid and came out of the city to welcome them with joy and laughter.

They now really have a "happy to welcome the king's division" mentality towards the Bei'an Army.

Chu Changning also strictly abided by the military regulations of the Bei'an Army and did not allow any soldiers to harass the people. Several Rong soldiers violated the regulations and were immediately captured by the supervisory soldiers accompanying the army.

By controlling Kaiyang City, the entire Xuzhou is almost under control.

Chu Changning wrote a letter and asked him to send it quickly to the capital to Su Yuan.

In the letter, he not only reported the results of the battle, but also continued to ask for war.

Xuzhou had previously sent troops to support the capital, leaving the city empty. It was not satisfying to defeat them so easily.

Chu Changning asked for a battle and asked Su Yuan to let him continue marching westward and capture the only remaining Qinzhou in the north of the Yangtze River!

As long as Qinzhou is captured again, Jiangbei will all belong to the Bei'an Army, and the Bei'an Army will officially own half of the mountains and rivers of the Great Zhou Dynasty.

Hurry up and send the letter to the capital.

Within the capital, Su Yuan held the military talisman and was making a new summons.

This time he didn't think much and just chose to summon.

As he expected, there were no pictures on the light curtain.

Li Yuanba and Qi Jiguang had just been summoned in succession before. If rare generals appeared again, Su Yuan would really doubt his luck.

But when the result of this summons came out, he was overjoyed.

[Summoning successful: Obtain 50,000 ship soldiers]

【Lou Chuan Pawn】

Main battle type: naval battle

Equipment: none

Quantity:50000

Note: "The wind roars and the waves stand, and the waves are like flying!"

…

Tower boat pawn!

fifty thousand!

"This is no worse than a rare general..."

Su Yuan couldn't hold back his excitement and whispered softly.

Fifty thousand summoned soldiers alone is a big number. Summoned soldiers are absolutely loyal and follow orders and prohibitions. One summoned soldier is easier to use than five real soldiers.

It should be noted that the 100,000 Xiliang Iron Cavalry he summoned for the first time are still in use, and the number has not decreased much.

Now there are 50,000 more soldiers, and their combat effectiveness is not inferior to that of 100,000 or 200,000 real soldiers.

And more importantly, these 50,000 are still soldiers of the ship!

What is a ship soldier? In short, it is a naval soldier.

Because naval battles often take place on ships, naval soldiers are also called ship pawns, and maritime generals are also called ship generals.

Su Yuan is not short of land soldiers now, but what he is short of is naval soldiers.

Army soldiers and navy soldiers are both soldiers, but they are very different.

One of the key points is that many land soldiers are not proficient in water at all, so how can they be competent in naval battles?

Like the 100,000 Xiliang cavalry he summoned, even the priests, archers, etc., could not swim. Most of the real soldiers in the north, such as the Qingzhou Corps and the Mozhou Corps, were also landlubbers.

It is true that Su Yuan can let them learn to swim, but the problem is that "being able to swim" and "being able to swim" are two different concepts.

Plopping back and forth in a pool is also called knowing how to swim, but if a person who knows how to swim is thrown into the sea, he will soon stop being able to swim.

Swimming can be learned suddenly, but water skills require long-term practice.

If a northern soldier who learns how to swim starts fighting in the water, and a southern soldier who grew up by the sea, the latter can probably fight three of them.

For this reason, the summons of the 50,000-story ship's soldiers can be said to have solved Su Yuan's urgent need. It can be called a perfect summons.

"With these 50,000 sailors, my plan to go south can be moved forward..."

Su Yuan thought in his mind that even with these 50,000 sailors, it would be perfectly fine for him to divert the troops and teach the Japanese a lesson.

Since the war with Dongwa, he has also asked people to investigate intelligence about Dongwa.

According to the compiled information, Eastern Japan is undoubtedly a small country, with a population of only two to three million, and its size is only slightly larger than Da Zhouzhou.

But such a small country has been harassing Dazhou frequently for many years, causing Dazhou a headache, but there is nothing that can be done about it.

The root cause of this is that the Eastern Japanese Kingdom knew that its national strength was not as good as that of the Zhou Dynasty, so it spent a lot of resources on the construction of naval battles.

As for the Zhou Dynasty, precisely because of its vast land, it could not only be self-sufficient by farming, but could also support a large number of corrupt officials. Once people are satisfied, they will easily lose their enterprising spirit, and the same is true for the country.

When those princes and nobles do not need to go to sea to plunder other countries to make their mouths full of food, then they will naturally not work hard on overseas construction. They only want to think about how to maintain stable rule at home and prevent domestic chaos.

But in this way, when your border is frequently harassed, you have no choice but to stare and curse.

In the past, the Eastern Japanese relied on this to plunder the coastal borders of Dazhou from time to time. After tasting the sweetness, they became more and more unscrupulous.

Now that Jiangbei is in Su Yuan's hands, he will not allow this to happen again.

Not only did he not allow it, he also wanted to beat Dongwa into a cripple.
To be continued...