TO ACHIEVE IMMORTALITY, I CULTIVATE USING QI LUCK

Chapter 1131: Chapter 457 Leling Taken Down Chapter 1131: Chapter 457 Leling Taken Down The next day, just one day after Qingyangzi had arrived at Le Ling City, the two armies from the South and Southeast routes of the Le’an Camp also quickly rushed over.

“I’ve come to see the Commander-in-chief!”

The commander of the South Route army, Lu Ning, the seventh prince of Chu State, paid his respects to Qingyangzi upon arrival and then explained, “When the Xu People retreated, they left twenty thousand soldiers in their stronghold, Nanqing City, to cover their retreat.

To deal with these people, I had to make some effort, which made me a step late in coming here, please punish me, Commander-in-chief.”

The commander of the Southeast Route army nodded and said, “I, too, was delayed by the Xu Army rear guard forces, which slowed our march to the rendezvous.

Please punish me, Commander-in-chief.”

The withdrawal of the Xu Army from the South and Southeast Routes wasn’t without preparation.

Upon receiving the news of the fall of Sheqiu City, Le Ling City side had already started to prepare for the evacuation.

Therefore, during the ten days it took for Qingyangzi’s forces to travel to Le Ling City, the two Xu armies began to plan their retreat.

After several days of arrangements, both Xu armies set up a number of rear guard troops and ambushes along their respective front lines.

These troops and ambushes might not have been very effective.

However, every time an ambush appeared, if the Chu people wanted to pass the road with peace of mind, they would inevitably need to spend effort clearing the ambushers.

Even if the cleaning process was swift, it would still take some time.

As the ambushes became more frequent, happening five or six times, it could delay the Chu forces by half a day.

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Along the way, they stationed some troops at important strongholds and fortresses, commanding the valuable positions to block the Chu army’s pursuit.

Overcoming these blockades was another trouble.

This intermittent blocking and ambushing required only two or three thousand men to hold back the Chu pursuing army for one day, dragging it out until nightfall.

By nightfall, the Chu army, having fought in pursuit all day, was already incredibly weary, and of course, they would need to rest and couldn’t continue the pursuit.

This bought them a whole night’s worth of time to flee.

One day and one night were enough for the two armies to escape back to Le Ling City.

Initially, when the two armies of Le’an Camp arrived abruptly, almost descending from heaven, they broke into Le’an Prefecture.

At the peak of their advance, they even reached the outskirts of Le Ling City.

Le Ling City almost counterattacked desperately, pushing back the front line and reconstructing a new line of defense about two hundred li to the south and southeast to block the Chu army.

A distance of two hundred li, if traveled non-stop and overnight, could be covered in one day and one night, enough for the two Xu armies to make it back under the walls of Le Ling City.

It was the very short distance between the front line and the rear that gave the Xu People the audacity for this maneuver.

Otherwise, in the event of hundreds of thousands of troops retreating, even with the greatest courage, they wouldn’t dare to suddenly abandon their defensive line and flee desperately.

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Initially, the Zhao people were disastrously defeated in the east and had over a million soldiers left, but ultimately less than half were able to retreat back to Hebei.

This is the difficulty of withdrawal after a defeat.

The enemy wouldn’t simply let you escape.

The Xu People’s ability to pull off this miraculous evacuation was indeed a stroke of luck.

By any standard, moving back two hundred li to reach Le Ling City doesn’t count as leaving the battlefield; it’s merely moving the defensive line back.

And that is indeed the case.

The Xu armies of the South and Southeast just moved the defensive line from two hundred li away to just beyond two hundred li at Le Ling.

“It doesn’t matter, the Xu Army didn’t escape; they just moved from one cage to the one we have here now.”

Qingyangzi was an avatar of Lu Yuan, so how could he possibly blame his own son?

Moreover, strictly speaking, the other side hadn’t really made a mistake.

The Xu Army didn’t flee; they were still blocked outside Le Ling City, or rather, the opponent had actively retreated into Le Ling City, looking to replicate the previous evacuation plan.

They used two hundred thousand people to buy time for the several million Xu State civilians who were retreating.

Twenty thousand troops for several million people, even if they were elite, was considered a very worthwhile exchange.

Two hundred thousand troops cannot revive once consumed; the loss is permanent.

But several million civilians, given a decade to recover and propagate, could yield another fifty thousand troops.

Given twenty years, even a million could be recruited.

The wonder of population growth lies in this.

In the North, in Xuzhou, despite being ravaged by the cold wave, they could at least sustain it for another decade or so.

This time was sufficient for Xu State to complete another cycle of population replacement.

As long as the population continued to grow and there was territory in hand, Xu State could accumulate strength once more, waiting for changes in the heavens and seeking opportunities to move south again.

That’s why.

Xu State would rather give up two hundred thousand soldiers than the more than two million civilians who were retreating.

The value of the two was simply not on the same level.

“But with Le Ling City in the way, the people in the rear can retreat in peace, which means several million people.

If we really let them get back to Xuzhou, I fear they will become a serious threat to our Chu State in the future,” Lu Ning said, though not blamed, was still somewhat worried.

As a prince of the Chu State, his interests were naturally tied to that of the Chu State.

And because of Lu Yuan’s identity as a Cultivator, many princes also knew in their hearts that they would not outlive their father, so they no longer had the ambition to compete for the throne.

With the struggle for power gone and combined with the concepts brought over from Lu Yuan’s former life, under his careful guidance, the relationships between father and children, and among brothers and sisters, were still quite good.

Even if there were conflicts among some children, it was just due to differences in philosophy and personality, not rising to the level of wanting each other dead.

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