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Chapter 1150: Chapter 463 Dimensional Reduction Strike_2 Chapter 1150: Chapter 463 Dimensional Reduction Strike_2 Lu Yuan had ample confidence in the avatar he had strengthened several times over.

It was based on this confidence

that he formulated a battle plan for the fourth and final Northern Expedition in Yuzhou, which would decide the fate of Central State, focusing on top-tier warriors as the breakthrough force.

So far, the plan was progressing smoothly; Yu Bi City had fallen with ease.

This first battle of the Northern Expedition had gotten off to a good start.

…

On the 20th day of the second month in the 44th year of the Shenwu era, Chu forces attacked Yu Bi City and captured it in one day, annihilating all two hundred thousand Zheng defenders within the city in a single morning.

Three days later, the elite Chu forces surged into the heart of Zheng and besieged Gaoyang Prefecture’s city.

Because the arrival of the Chu army was so sudden, Gaoyang barely had time to react.

The city only had a little over ten thousand prefectural soldiers and one Inborn warrior, who was extremely weak.

In the end, under the joint attack of twenty Chu Inborn warriors, Gaoyang also fell within half a day; the defending commander was killed without being able to hold out for even a day.

With the fall of the prefecture city, there were no more significant fortresses in Gaoyang Prefecture to halt the advance of the Chu forces.

In just ten short days that followed, as the central military expedition’s forces continued to arrive, various cities throughout Gaoyang Prefecture were breached in succession, rapidly leading to the collapse of the situation.

After the Chu forces had seized most of Gaoyang Prefecture, the Tang forces that had been assisting in the defense on the western side were quickly surrounded before they could even react.

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A full two hundred and fifty thousand Tang soldiers were trapped within Gaoyang Prefecture, with no hope of escape.

And Lu Yuan did not give them a chance to flee.

After taking Gaoyang’s city, he immediately led the various Inborn Grandmasters of the central military expedition at a breakneck speed to reinforce the western part of Gaoyang Prefecture.

Just as the front-line forces had the Tang forces encircled there, Lu Yuan had already arrived with numerous Inborn warriors.

There’s not much to say after that.

It was simply a repeat of the battle at Yu Bi City, with the Inborn Grandmasters as the spearhead and the main forces as the wings—once they made their push, the local Tang forces were annihilated.

Under the terrifying wave of the Chu’s Inborn, these enemies couldn’t mount any resistance at all and collapsed outright.

This was the terrifying power of top-tier warriors in a world beyond the ordinary.

In the first three Northern Expeditions, Lu Yuan’s front had been stretched too wide, spanning tens of thousands of miles, facing too many enemies, having to deal with three or four hostile nations simultaneously.

Accordingly, during those expeditions, the strength of Chu’s forces was not concentrated but dispersed across various battlefronts, with each military expedition having only a few or a dozen Inborn warriors, unable to form a united front.

However, by now, with the northern lands of Central State cleared of powerful enemies one by one, Chu had unified most of Central State.

The only enemies left were the four kingdoms of Yuzhou.

At this time, Chu only had to face one enemy, and the battlefield was confined to a single location.

The strength that had been separated among avatars was now concentrated, capable of mobilizing hundreds of Inborns at once, and able to deploy dozens of them flexibly—the terrifying power of the Inborn after their consolidation became evident.

Before this force, without any Cultivators to intervene, indeed no one could stand as a match.

From the current state of the battle, the four kingdoms of Yuzhou were clearly no match for Chu’s forces.

Under the onslaught of the Inborn, the entire Gaoyang Prefecture, along with its five hundred thousand Zheng and Tang forces, only held out for half a month before they were completely conquered.

Having captured Gaoyang Prefecture, Lu Yuan did not stop his advance.

However, his direction of attack was not towards Pingchang Prefecture to the east of Gaoyang, which was the capital of Zheng, but that was not the main target of Chu’s forces.

Zheng had already been crippled.

Relying solely on Zheng’s power, they were no match for Chu, not even capable of defeating a single Chu military expedition.

To such an enemy, Lu Yuan did not even give a second thought.

Furthermore, now that Gaoyang Prefecture had been rapidly conquered and five hundred thousand soldiers vanished into thin air, the news would spread, and the entire Zheng would become terrified.

By then, instead of taking the initiative to attack and fight Chu’s army,

they would likely be scared out of their wits, scrambling to gather troops and horses, and desperately holding out in Zhuxu City without daring to venture a step beyond its walls.

And with Zheng’s strength in Pingchang Prefecture, amounting to only four or five hundred thousand soldiers, such forces are insufficient even for defense, let alone daring to actively engage Chu’s army.

Therefore, all things considered,

Zheng now lacked the power to confront Chu, the courage, and the opportunity as well.

Chu need not concern themselves with them, as Zheng would hardly dare provoke them in the face of Chu’s dread-inspiring might demonstrated by their destruction of a prefecture in half a month.

The five hundred thousand strong army of Zheng in Pingchang Prefecture and their eight or nine Inborn Grandmasters were essentially negligible.

Chu had no need to waste time eradicating them, and Zheng was not worth such effort from Chu.

This enemy had become insignificant and could be left until the end, after defeating the true formidable foes, to be dealt with then.

By that time, with the powerful enemies vanquished, Zheng alone might even come to surrender without needing Chu to attack.

Chu had to conserve their precious energy and time for more pressing matters, striking at more powerful enemies.

Like Tang Kingdom.

If amongst the four countries of Yuzhou, Zheng was considered the weakest link and hence the easiest to breach,

then after breaking through this weak point, the next most valuable target would undoubtedly be Tang Kingdom.

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Among the four kingdoms of Yuzhou, Zheng was the weakest, so it was the easiest to subdue, and Chu chose it as the point of breakthrough.

Jin Country was next in line, but Jin had concentrated all its forces within just two prefectures, about five hundred thousand troops per prefecture on average, quite formidable, with sufficient defensive forces.

Moreover, Jin lay right next to Xu State, especially its capital, Changping City, which was only about five hundred miles from Beigu City, where Xu’s one million reserve forces were stationed.

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