Left country, a small country smaller than Shengyun country, with a size of more than 10,000 people in China, including the capital, with a total population of about 300,000, and a total land area of ​​only 20,000 square kilometers.

, which is equivalent to half of the province of the country where Jiang Yan was in his previous life.

Unfortunately, this small country happened to be sandwiched between Yan and Yuan countries, and its position was impartial. When the two countries fought, it became the only way for both sides to march.

On the border of the country, Chongyang City, and on the city wall, the city lord stood on the wall personally, heading towards the black-armored army gradually approaching the horizon in the distance, and could not stop the sweat on his face.

On the observation tower next to it, the soldier looked at the traits of the far viewing tools for a while and shouted in panic: "Confirm that it is the big banner of Yan State!"

"What do you say about the messenger sent?" The city lord looked even more ugly when he heard this, and asked the assistant officer beside him.

The auxiliary official shook his head and said bitterly: "The other party only replied that he would use our Chongyang City to take a break and then send the envoy back."

When the city lord heard this, his eyes turned cold. He was going to take a break for the time being? If he really wanted to let these people in, it would be almost the same as inviting a wolf into the house, and it would probably be difficult to send it away.

"How much military strength does the visitor have, and who is the leader?"

"The army is 50,000, and it depends on the momentum that they are all elite soldiers who have been on the battlefield. The leader is the third son of the King of Yan, Yan Yiming!"

"Fifty thousand..." The city lord looked at Chongyang City behind him, then sighed: "This cannot be defended at all!"

The total number of residents in Chongyang City is only 50,000, and there are only 3,000 permanent soldiers who can go to the battlefield to fight. If you mobilize civilians, you can barely get another seven or eight thousand militia, but you can fight with the best of the wind

If you can make do with it, if you have a tough battle, the militia's combat power is basically undesirable. It is not enough to plug the 50,000 troops on the opposite side!

"Have there been any reply from the royal family?"

The auxiliary official lowered his head: "The above means that you can find a way to delay for a day."

"Procrastinate for a day? Haha..." The city lord's face turned pale: "What should I use to drag it!"

Soon, the army of Yan State came to the walls of Chongyang City and formed a neat square formation. The dense heads of the soldiers on the wall made the soldiers beating their hearts and sweating on their cheeks.

The army vanguard separated, and a horse-shaped single-horned four-hoofed beast with black armor stepped out. On the horse's back was a young boy wearing bright silver rune armor. Looking at his face, he looked at his face.

Those who know each other can recognize that they are the third son of King Yan, Yan Yiming, the strongest genius of the younger generation of Yan.

"The one on the wall is the lord of Chongyang City? I wonder what you are thinking about our army's requirements?"

Yan Yiming opened his mouth and vomited lightly, and the deep true energy of the martial artist returning to the Yuan realm was transmitted, and his voice was clearly transmitted to everyone on the city wall from a distance of nearly a thousand meters.

"Sorry, Major General, you see that your army is so many. If you open the city and use it, it is too embarrassing. I'll wait. Please forgive me!" The Lord of Chongyang City pulled the corners of his mouth, then bowed his hand, and the same innate return was the same

The true energy activated by the Yuan Realm's cultivation level also spread his voice far away.

Yan Yiming sneered: "I also know the difficulties of the city lord, but we just want to borrow the city to repair it for a night. Afterwards, we will definitely give the people of Chongyang City a satisfactory reward. Can't the city lord think about it carefully? Or...

...Are you planning to turn to the Yuan Dynasty?"

"There is no such thing. I just don't want to get involved in your dispute!" The Lord of Chongyang gritted his teeth: "Please don't impose any embarrassment, Major General!"

"Okay, it seems that the city lord is unwilling to cooperate?" Yan Yiming looked cold and urged his mount to move forward. His voice suddenly increased: "This general is not unreasonable, so I will give it to the city lord.

My dear, if you can win me by one, then the matter of borrowing the city will be abandoned. How about it?"

"This..." The Lord of Chongyang City was a little hesitant.

He is nearly forty years old this year and has only barely broken through to the realm of innate return to the Yuan Dynasty. Yan Yiming is young and twenty years younger than him, so his cultivation level is no worse than him.

If you go to a one-on-one fight, to be honest, the Lord of Chongyang City is not sure of winning.

"Oh? I'm going to talk about the winners by martial arts. I've asked for advice. I've given you an opportunity. I don't plan to give me this face?" Yan Yiming smiled sarcastically: "Or,

The city lord is already scared?"

A simple and provocative general without any technical content can actually be ignored. Losing a little personal prestige is nothing. The important thing is to be able to protect the city.

"Sir, don't be impulsive!" the auxiliary official advised nervously.

"I understand, I'm very calm! Unfortunately, the other party was pushing too hard." The Lord of Chongyang City smiled bitterly.

Yan Yiming said this. If they refused, they would be afraid that they would annoy the Yan army opposite and be forcibly attacked the city.

Therefore, the challenge this time, the Lord of Chongyang City had to respond.

The Lord of Chongyang City gradually became firmer and turned to look at the auxiliary official and said, "If I lose and can't come back, you can order the city to open for them. At least this will protect the people and soldiers in the city more or less.

.If the king blames him in the future, you will put all the blame on me."

"Sir, you..." The auxiliary official trembled.

"That's it."

The Lord of Chongyang waved his hand, then jumped and jumped directly from the city wall more than ten meters high. After raising his foot and borrowing force on the city wall, he stood steadily on the ground.

"Haha, okay! Then the city lord, please give me advice!" Yan Yiming laughed and urged the war horse to run over.

When the charge reached within 30 meters, he did not continue to maintain his mount's advantage. He jumped directly from the horse's back and flew towards the Lord of Chongyang City. His arm swung, and a sharp ray of energy.

The sword instantly condensed into shape, and sucked and spit out the sword energy that stabbed people towards the vital points of the Chongyang City Lord.

The face of the lord of Chongyang City was like ice, and a large amount of black air flowed up all over his body, wrapped around it and condensed into a set of armor of qi. He held a black tiger-headed sword that was also condensed from qi with both hands.

Looking at Yan Yiming's sword shadow, he met with a simple and unpretentious slash.

clang--!!

The wars intersected, and the harsh sound of gold and iron burst out, shaking the mud and dust under the two of them, shaking a circle of one foot high waves.

The face of the Lord of Chongyang City flashed with an unnatural flush, his eyes were shocked, his body was shocked and he couldn't help but retreat, his feet slid backwards on the ground for four or five steps, leaving two trajectories.

Clear gullies.

Looking at the tiger-headed sword that had a crack on his hand, the Lord of Chongyang City was beating wildly: "What a strong power! After I entered the Return to Yuan Realm, I have refined 107 acupoints in my body, and during this period

It took nearly ten years, but this child's cultivation is so deeper than mine!?'

Judging from the experience of the fight just now, the number of acupoints that the opponent refined may be more than 20% more than his.

As soon as his throat rolled, the Lord of Chongyang forced his mouth to suppress the blood in his mouth, his eyes full of bitterness: 'Such a big gap, is this the so-called...a real genius?'

"Hahaha, come again!"

After the fight started, Yan Yiming's emotions became more and more excited. The fighting spirit and murderous intent that stabbed people's mind continued to explode. He was in power and refused to forgive him. He laughed and pressed forward again, and the sword slashed continuously.

The Lord of Chongyang could no longer think about it and quickly resisted it.

After seven or eight rounds, I suddenly heard the sound of shattering. The tiger-headed sword in the hand of the Lord of Chongyang City, even if the master was willing to consume his true energy, he still couldn't bear it at this moment, and finally it was completely

Crashed.

Yan Yiming naturally would not miss this opportunity. The sword in his hand slashed the head of the Lord Chongyang City ruthlessly.

The Lord of Chongyang City glared in his eyes and tried his best to dodge, but in the end he could not dodge a few times and was slashed on his shoulder with a fierce sword.

Although the Xuanhei Gang Armor on the surface of his body slightly blocked the sword edge, it was only avoided the fate of the master being killed directly. Yan Yiming's Gang Sword was condensed with a large amount of sword energy, which was incredibly sharp.

Without much effort, he cut open the armor of the Lord of Chongyang City and then cut one of his arms shoulder-to-shoulder.

"Ah!" The Lord of Chongyang could not help but screamed with convulsions, and was kicked heavily in the chest by Yan Yiming's chest with a large amount of true energy that was visible to the naked eye. He flew out more than four feet long

It fell to the ground and then hit a shallow pit more than five meters wide with a bang, splashing a large bunch of dust.

Yan Yiming took three steps forward, raised his hand and patted his palm to sweep away the dust. He saw the Lord of Chongyang lying on his back in the pit, bleeding from the corners of his mouth, and a small layer of his chest was slightly concave, and his facial features were wrinkled as if he wanted to

I had to get up, but I tried it several times but failed. Instead, I opened my mouth and sprayed out scarlet blood.

Obviously, the winner has been decided.

Yan Yiming raised the sword and allowed the sword to extend the sword's edge to more than three feet long, reaching the forehead of the Lord of Chongyang City. Then he turned around and looked towards the direction of the gate of Chongyang City with a smile.

"Open the city! Open the city gate, save the city lord!" On the Chongyang city wall, the auxiliary officer looked at this scene, his fists pinched his knuckles so white that he relaxed a few seconds later, and then suddenly felt sad and loud.

Shout.

At this point, the 50,000 troops of Yan State officially entered the territory of the two major countries, which were located in the buffer zone of the two major countries.

The thing that the Lord of Chongyang was most worried about before actually happened. After the Yan army entered the city, they quickly controlled all important places in the city including major city gates, main roads in the city, arrow towers in the city walls, city lord's mansion, city guard camps, etc.

The original official personnel were removed by force and replaced by people from Yan State.

In addition, the Yan army directly incorporated and dispersed the two thousand soldiers from the original city, and forcibly filled them into their own army.

The only thing that is fortunate is that Yan Yiming has restrained his soldiers at least. After controlling the city, he did not let his soldiers violate military discipline and do anything bad to disturb the people. Instead, he sent some soldiers and generals.

When the Yan army entered the city, the ruffian thugs who took advantage of the chaos to make trouble and gain benefits were severely suppressed.

After roughly appeased the people of Chongyang City, and after a little gathering of people's hearts, the Yan army left behind a thousand soldiers to continue to manage the city. After resting for one night, the rest continued to head towards the next city in the country.

It's.

Seeing this, Yan Yiming did not intend to return Chongyang City for the time being. Although the king of Liguo who received the news was extremely angry and protested repeatedly, it was limited to this.

This kind of "borrowing the city" incident has actually happened in previous history.

In the past, when war broke out between the two major powers of Yan and Yuan, small countries as buffer zones often encountered this kind of thing.

Yan State always "uses the city to open the way", while Yuan State also participated in the name of aid. Anyway, both sides tried their best to set the battlefield in these buffer zones. Usually, the small countries in the buffer zone were beaten to make people suffer.

The two major countries decide whether to win or simply stop the negotiations and compromise with each other, withdraw their troops afterwards, and then throw a mess to the small countries in the buffer zone to clean up themselves, and at most give some material compensation.

However, this time, after the official launch of the campaign to fight for hegemony in the mainland, Yan State's plans were different from usual. The "borrowed" cities were planned to completely not return them this time, and these small countries acted as buffers,

This time, Yan State had no need to continue to keep it.
To be continued...