Chapter 757 Take Back Guilin County

With Li Mu's withdrawal, the First Battle of Guiping Pass came to an end.

The Shanhai City Flying Squad amazed the wilderness for the first time, making countless people terrified.

When Han Xin led the First Army to station at Guiping Pass, what he got was an isolated city with only the walls left. All the buildings within the pass were engulfed in flames and turned into ruins.

Broken walls and ruins can be seen everywhere.

Occasionally, one could see charred corpses, which were coalition soldiers who had no time to evacuate. Fortunately, there are no civilians living in Guiping Pass, otherwise, it will be another scene of human tragedy.

After taking Guipingguan, Baotao's army is already in front of Pingchuan.

Military observers once again asserted that with the cooperation of the P1 artillery and the flying squad, no strong city in the entire wilderness could stop the attack of the Shanhai City army.

The wilderness was silent.

Unknowingly, the technological level of Shanhai City has surpassed other territories by a big step.

"If we don't catch up, we will never be able to hold our heads up again!" Di Chen said, trying his best to persuade the members of the [Yanhuang League] to set up a common scientific research fund, share technology, and communicate with each other.

At the same time, Di Chen and others set their sights overseas for the first time. If they want to break the technical bottleneck, without the foundation of Western technology, even how many top scientists they have under their command will not help.

The restriction of the technology tree is a curse.

Quietly, a scientific and technological competition is quietly staged in various territories in China. In this round of competition, the laggards will surely miss out on future wilderness supremacy.

The "butterfly effect" of Ouyang Shuo's rebirth is slowly amplifying, gradually brewing into a storm.

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The war ended, and the aftermath continued.

Li Mu led his troops to retreat to Guilin County, and after reuniting with the 30,000 garrison troops, he reported the battle situation at Guiping Pass in detail, waiting for the city-state's next instructions.

The two major city-states, which were already turbulent under the tide, became a mess when they learned that Guiping Pass had fallen. In addition, the two envoys sent by Honglu Temple took this opportunity to operate frequently, which was even more turbulent.

Lobbying, assassination, conspiracy, betrayal, estrangement and other dramas were staged in turn in the two provinces, which was very lively. Under the night, there were no fewer than seven or eight bloody fights between Shanhaiwei and [Chunxiao].

The lords of the two major city-states were all involved in this whirlpool of chaos and could not stand alone. Between "war" and "peace", between Shanhai City and Danyang City, they had to make a choice.

The first one who couldn't bear it was [Chuanbei City-State].

The fall of Guiping Pass, the loss of this dangerous pass, and the absence of a war barrier meant that Guilin County was like an unprotected girl who was ravaged by the army of Shanhai City and might be invaded at any time.

To make matters worse, the coalition forces stationed at Weiwu Pass may become the ghosts of the Shanhai City army at any time. They had already lost more than 26,000 troops in the battle of Xuanwuguan, and they could no longer bear such a loss.

On November 1, [Northern Sichuan City-State] without a note to [Shunan City-State], voluntarily withdrew the coalition forces stationed at Weiwu Pass to the Northern Sichuan Province.

The army didn't even stop in Guilin County, and directly retreated to the border of Northern Sichuan Province.

Zhang Han, who got the news, did not hesitate and led his troops to Weiwu Pass. So far, the four passes connecting Guilin County and Shanhai City have all fallen into the hands of Shanhai City.

The situation in Guilin County is becoming clearer.

The withdrawal of the coalition forces means that [Northern Sichuan City-state] has completely abandoned Guilin County. The fact is also true. When the army withdrew, the officials of Guilin County belonging to the [Northern Sichuan City-state] also evacuated.

Relevant personnel and materials were all withdrawn from Guilin County within a short period of time.

[Northern Sichuan city-state] did not do anything wrong, only took away important items when evacuating, did not burn the territory, and did not do anything that angered people.

This will help Shanhai City to take over Guilin County in the future.

[Chuanbei City-State] By doing so, the signal of reconciliation is too clear. They don't want to have a stalemate with Shanhai City, and they hope to use this as an opportunity to reach a relevant trade agreement.

As soon as the news came out, all parties were shocked.

[Northern Sichuan city-state]'s sudden "defection" is like a dose of strong medicine, which further aggravates the division of [Shonan city-state] that was originally vacillating and having constant internal friction.

The lords who supported Shanhai City had already uttered harsh words. If the city-state did not agree to evacuate Guilin County, then they would evacuate on their own.

The danger of the disintegration of the city-state is imminent.

At this time, Caiyun Zhinan, who had been silent all this time, had no choice but to stand up and personally meet the envoys from Shanhai City, expressing his agreement to withdraw from Guiping County and reach a settlement with Shanhai City.

Maintaining a complete city-state is Caiyunzhinan's bottom line.

Once the city-state is split, then in the future struggles, the southern Hunan province will no longer have the capital to resist. Either it will be captured by Shanhai City, or it will be completely reduced to a puppet of the [Yanhuang League].

With Caiyun Zhinan's statement, coupled with the fact that [Northern Sichuan City-state] has already evacuated, the pawn Chunshen Jun planted in [Shunan City-state] can no longer do anything.

Withdrawing from Guilin County is already the general trend of the two major city-states.

If they resisted to the end and resolutely declared war, they would be fighting against the general trend, and it would be tantamount to hitting a stone with a pebble. Without the support of other allies, I can no longer jump up.

Under the emergency linkage of Honglu Temple, Black Snake Guard, and Shanhai Guard, various methods were used in turn, and the chess pieces buried so hard by [Chun Xiao] were dismembered one by one and instigated rebellion.

In the end, there were only three or four diehards, but they couldn't make any waves.

The only thing they could do was to make trouble, kill people, set fire to Shanhai City when they were evacuating Guilin County under Chun Shenjun's instructions, and create a little extra trouble for Shanhai City.

Such tricks are really not on the table.

Chun Shenjun's actions fully exposed his narrow mind. He played such a trick even after losing, which made people laugh for no reason, and became a laughing stock in the wilderness.

In this way, Jun Shen was even more angry.

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Danyang City, the City Lord's Mansion.

Chun Shenjun pointed to Xiao's nose and asked, "Damn it, tell me, who leaked the news?" For no reason, he became the laughing stock of the wilderness, which made the face-conscious Chun Shenjun furious.

"Subordinates are investigating." Xiao was calm, and Jun Shen lost his temper like this not once or twice.

Get used to it.

"Check, check, did you find anything?" Jun Shen's anger still persisted.

Xiao said: "There are indications that it should be Shanhai City's intelligence agency fabricating rumors and trying to discredit us. Unexpectedly, unexpectedly, it was wrong."

"..."

Jun Shen was taken aback for a moment, the accumulated anger was stuck in the air, it was extremely strange, his face flushed.

"What's this called? Lifting a rock and shooting yourself in the foot."

Chunshenjun wants to cry but has no tears, it is really his own fault. If I had known this before, I shouldn't have made such a fuss.

"Okay, okay, you go down!"

Looking at Xiao, Chunshen Jun felt uncomfortable for a while, and it would be better not to check.

"Subordinates leave!"

"Whoosh!" Akatsuki disappeared, hiding in the shadows.

Chun Shenjun was the only one left in Nuo Da's study room, with an uncertain expression on his face. After a while, Chun Shenjun muttered to himself: "Hmph, even if we reconcile, I won't let you have a better life."

"Didn't you generously allow [Shunan City-state] to use the channel to start ocean trade? Well, I will use [Shonan City-state]'s shell to secretly carry out ocean trade and see who wins and who loses."

When it comes to doing business, Mr. Chunshen is really an expert. He was worried that the goods in his territory could not find a market. With the convenience of ocean trade, he could naturally make a lot of money.

Thinking of this, Chun Shenjun suddenly felt refreshed, and the depression just now was swept away.

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November 5th, Guilin County.

On this day, the two major city-states completely withdrew from Guilin County, and handed over the "strategic buffer zone" that they had worked so hard to occupy to Shanhai City, accepting the olive branch extended by Shanhai City.

The matter of Guilin County has been completely resolved.

A year ago, no one would have expected such a situation to happen. Shanhai City's settlement of Guilin County's incident has become a classic case of fighting for hegemony in the wilderness, which is talked about by experts from all walks of life.

Some people jokingly said that Shanhai City used various means such as military and diplomacy, and relying on the crushing of technology, it took back a county with almost no battle damage, and greatly eased the security situation in the northern border. It is really clever.

These methods are enough for the lords to study hard.

The insiders actually understand that everything else is bullshit. Shanhai City's takeover of Guilin County, whether it is military operations or sending envoys, is just a means and an appearance.

The real internal cause is the strong strength of Shanhai City supporting all of this. It was Shanhai City who had the confidence to solve the Guilin County incident through military means that gave Honglu Temple room to play.

"Leave other lords to try and see if someone takes care of you?!"

How else to put it: a weak country has no diplomacy.

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The two major city-states withdrew from Guilin County. Under Ouyang Shuo's instruction, Guilin County was temporarily under military control by the Baotao Army until the officials sent by the Southern Border Protectorate arrived.

Another meaning is that they hope to use the hands of Bao Tao's army to clean up Guilin County. After all, the two major city-states have been operating in Guilin County for a year. Who knows how many hidden clues and foreshadowings have been planted.

It is really stupid to say that they are all withdrawn, but if you really believe what they say.

Apart from the remnants of the two major city-states, Ouyang Shuo did not forget that Guilin County was still the back route prepared by the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and there were countless remnants of the Taiping Sect hidden in it.

If you don't clear them up, how can you feel at ease.

In addition to military operations, what is more important is the dark night operations secretly. The Military Intelligence Department, Shanhaiwei and Black Snake Guard will join hands again to conduct a thorough investigation targeting different groups of people.

For a year, the three major intelligence agencies have not been idle, and their infiltration and surveillance of Guilin County have never stopped. People or forces on the blacklist of the three major institutions have become the focus of this operation.

Naturally, this kind of offending work had to be dealt with before Ouyang Shuo arrived in Guilin County. When Ouyang Shuo arrived in Guilin County, it was time to buy people's hearts.