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The journey of the Mo Country of Tang Yin's group came and went very quickly, and even though the Mo Country had not even reached ten days, the impact on the Mo Country was hard to estimate.

Without saying a word on the way, Tang Yin and the others followed Zhao Ju's caravan out of the Mo Country border, entered the Ba Pass, and then returned to Provincial Capital Western Hundred by the way they came.

It had been roughly two months since Tang Yin left, and in these two months, quite a few things had happened. First was the counterattack of Ning Country.

The news of the loss of Tong Gate shook the entire Ning Country, and could be said to be an uproar in the entire nation. When King Ning heard of this, he did not delay at all, and immediately commanded the Chief General Kong Jie to command two hundred thousand soldiers to head towards the Tong Gate, and even issued a death order.

Kong Jie accepted the order and led the two hundred thousand soldiers of the Ning army out of the city's Liangzhou. They travelled in a hurry and arrived at the Tong Gate in half a month's time. After the army arrived at the city gates, the soldiers began to attack the city without any rest. The Western City's gate was strong to begin with, and with the thick walls of the city, it was easy to defend but hard to attack. Kong Jie also rushed over, the large siege equipment that the army brought was insufficient. The two hundred thousand strong Ning Army suffered a head-on attack from more than eighty thousand Sanshui Army, causing countless casualties. Outside of the city, the corpses could be said to be piled like a mountain, with blood flowing in rivers.

The two hundred thousand Ning soldiers had been attacking the city for three days. Not only did they not kill their way into the city, but they had also lost many men and women. The soldiers in the upper and lower ranks were in a miserable state.

After the fourth day of fighting, when Ning Jun was still in the midst of the attack, Liang Qi saw that Soldier Ning was feeling down and the people were exhausted. He ordered Shangguan Yuan to order all five thousand of the cavalry to charge out of the city and attack the Ning Army.

Shangguan Yuan had his five thousand cavalrymen lead out of the Tong Gate, as if they were knives, they pierced straight into the army that was attacking the city. They slaughtered to the point where the Ning Army Camp was in chaos, the frontlines were defeated, the soldiers trampled on each other, and countless of them were trampled to death.

The five thousand cavalrymen were being chased by the front soldiers of the Ning Army into the Ning Army Camp, they were unstoppable, the Ning Army was unable to defend, and ran away from the camp. The five thousand cavalrymen chased the enemy for ten miles before finally returning victorious under Liang Qi's orders.

After the battle, more than half of the two hundred thousand soldiers of the Ning army had died and were no longer able to attack the city. Kong Jie brought his defeated army and returned to the Liangzhou.

Knowing that Kong Jie had lost miserably, not only did Yan Chu remove his Chief General title, but he had also brought his official position and position all the way down to the end. Afterwards, he had another Chief General commander, Ming Xiaotian, with two hundred thousand Ning Country elites take over her Tong Gate.

Ming Xiaotian was an old general of the Ning Country, an extremely skilled soldier, deeply trusted by the King Ning. Although his Central Army command had rushed to the Tong Gate, he did not immediately give the order to attack the city. Instead, he ordered the entire army to set up camp and reorganize, while at the same time searching for information on the Tong Gate.

This time, Ming Xiaotian faced Tianyuan Army like he was facing a great enemy, he was very careful, and did not dare to be negligent in the slightest, because his son, Ming Xuan, had once been a prisoner of Tianyuan Army, so he could be said to have a deep impression of Tianyuan Army's craftiness. Due to the tight protection of the Sanshui Army that was guarding the Tong Gate, although Ming Xiaotian had sent out a large number of spies, he did not discover any valuable information.

He stayed outside of the Tong Gate for a full ten days, waiting for all the supplies to arrive before he made his first attempt. Ning Country's elites could not be compared to other Legions, and they also had the assistance of large scale siege equipment. Although it was only a probing attack, it was still very sharp.

The stone throwing machines in the city would shoot out huge rocks from time to time, which would smash into the walls of the city and cause a great deal of damage. In addition, the City-breaking Crossbow that the Sanshui Army had brought along with it, had also brought quite a bit of threat and trouble to the Ning Army, especially the City-breaking Crossbow s, which were originally used to break the city, but now that they were used to defend the city, the power that was shooting down from above was so powerful that it left people speechless, and could even go beyond the head of the city's stone throwing machine. The catapult was weak to begin with, so how could it withstand the impact of the wooden stakes? After being damaged by the City-breaking Crossbow, Ming Xiaotian immediately ordered his catapult to retreat, but once the catapult was gone, their range of attack could not touch the walls of the city, causing them to lose their effect.

After a round of probing attacks, Ming Xiaotian immediately realized that there were a lot of enemies in the Tong Gate and they were well-prepared. It was simply not something his side of two hundred thousand men could handle, and it was even more impossible to seize the Tong Gate in such a short period of time.

Following that, Ming Xiaotian ordered the entire army to retreat, and to guard outside the Western City area of the Tong Gate area. They did not attack, nor did they retreat, they did not make a move, and started a confrontation with the Sanshui Army area that was occupying the Tong Gate area. At the same time, Ming Xiaotian had also ordered his horse to rush back to Liangzhou to see Sovereign King Yan Chu. He had Yan Chu give the two brothers, Zhan Wushuang and Zhan Wudi, to let them lead the army and attack the Tong Gate from the inside, and with the two of them working together, they could launch a pincer attack, attacking the Tong Gate from both sides without worrying about not breaking the Tong Gate at all.

Receiving Ming Xiaotian's order, Yan Chu immediately accepted it, and then ordered both Zhan Wushuang and Zhan Wudi to retreat in order to assist Ming Xiaotian to attack Tong Gate.

At this time, the Zhan brothers already knew that their Tong Gate had failed. After the original guard defeated Zhang Xiaoting and fled, he went to the Zhan Wushuang brothers, and requested that the two of them immediately lead the great army to save Tong Gate. Zhan Wushuang and Zhan Wudi both knew the importance of Tong Gate to their side and wanted to save them, but since Tianyuan Army had fully occupied Lehu County, they could attack from the south at any time.

After receiving Yan Chu's message, the Zhan Clan Brothers heaved a sigh of relief. They no longer hesitated and immediately sent their troops to the west to attack the Tong Gate.

The two brothers led the two hundred thousand strong Ning Army like the last trump card in Zhong Tian's hand. The two brothers led the two hundred thousand strong Ning Army to evacuate the Yan City and when they were about to return and attack the Tong Gate, Zhong Tian immediately panicked. He personally left the palace to meet the brothers and asked them to stay there to guard the Yan City.

Right now, Zhan Wushuang and Zhan Wudi were very annoyed when they saw Zhong Tian, and they did not have good expressions towards him either. Furthermore, the two of them had the life of the King Ning in their hands, so they did not care about Zhong Tian at all.

With Ning Jun Wu Yi gone, not to mention Zhong Tian, even the officials and generals were scared stiff. They did not know what to do. With the Ning Jun Army by the side to help guard the Yan City, they still had the confidence to defend against the Tianyuan Army. Now, only they were left to defend the city, so how could they withstand the Tianyuan Army of nearly five hundred thousand people?

The panicked emotions first spread out from the Imperial Court, and quickly spread to the entire army and even the entire city. The two hundred thousand Central Army s that Zhong Tian had painstakingly gathered were in a state of panic, they did not have any fighting spirit, and all the officers and soldiers felt a sense of impending doom.

As for Zhan Wushuang and Zhan Wudi, they led the two hundred thousand soldiers and rushed towards the Eastern City. They formed a pincer attack with Ming Xiaotian's group that was outside of the Western City. Right now, the Sanshui Army guarding the Tong Gate was facing four hundred thousand soldiers of the Ning Army, and one would even have to face enemies from the front and back.

However, Liang Qi was able to keep his cool. He split the eighty thousand soldiers under his command into fifty thousand, led by Shangguan Yuan, to guard the Eastern City to defend against the two hundred thousand army of the Zhan and brothers, while he himself only led thirty thousand people to guard the Western City to defend the two hundred thousand Central Army. He also defended the two hundred thousand Central Army to defend Ming Xiaotian's two hundred thousand.

Because the Tong Gate was stopping them, Ming Xiaotian, Zhan Wushuang and Zhan Wudi were unable to meet face to face, so they could only send messages using pigeons. Very quickly, the two of them agreed on a time to join hands and attack the city.

When the time was agreed upon, the four hundred thousand soldiers of the Ning Army attacked the Tong Gate from both sides. According to Ming Xiaotian's plans, the first battle would be a decisive one, fighting the Zhan Clan Brothers with all of their troops.

This fierce battle could no longer be described as bloody or cruel. The Tong Gate had simply turned into a giant meat grinder, continuously devouring the lives of the warriors on both sides.

The battle lasted from early morning until late at night. Under the desperate resistance of Sanshui Army, four hundred thousand soldiers of the Ning Army were stopped outside the city, not even half a step into Tong Gate.

Seeing that Ning Army was about to attack the city overnight, Shangguan Yuan who was fighting against Liang Qi for the first time was exceptionally excited, he did not have any discussions with Liang Qi and handed over the command to one of the Regiment Commanders. He did the same thing himself, leading his cavalry to suddenly rush out of the Tong Gate, taking advantage of the night time to charge into the Ning Army's camp.

When the four hundred thousand strong army was attacking the city together, the enemy troops did not defend the city but had instead fought their way out. This was indeed the expectation of the Ning army, Zhan Wushuang and Zhan Wudi's underlings were caught off guard by Shangguan Yuan's sudden attack, the soldiers in front were disarmed, and they were forced to retreat backwards, piece by piece.

Since the sky was too dark, the soldiers behind Ning Jun couldn't see the situation clearly, and continued to push forward. This retreat and the collision caused great chaos in the entire Ning Army, and the soldiers were all pushing and stamping on each other. They didn't need the enemy to attack them, and they had already caused a great deal of casualties.

Seeing that the Tong Gate had produced a squadron that was unstoppable, causing chaos in the attacking troops, Zhan Wudi immediately charged forward. The moment he arrived, he coincidentally bumped into Shangguan Yuan who was rushing to the front. The two of them could already be considered old acquaintances. After meeting each other, they immediately started fighting each other without even greeting each other.

Zhan Wudi was a valiant general who was capable of fighting, his cultivation was comparable to Ling Wu, who was ranked in the top three in Ning Country, but compared to the valiant and invincible Shangguan Yuan, he was still lacking a level. After the two of them had fought for over thirty rounds, Zhan Wudi gradually could only defend, not even having the strength to fight back.

Shangguan Yuan let him know that Zhan Wudi was one of the leaders of the two hundred thousand Ning Army, so how could he let him escape so easily.

The two of them ran and chased each other through the vast Ning Army Camp.

Although the duration that Zhan Wudi took place to stop Shangguan Yuan was not long, but Ning Jun still managed to take advantage of the time that he had spent training to calm down. When Shangguan Yuan asked to kill Zhan Wudi, the Ning Soldier had already prepared dozens of stumbling locks to welcome Shangguan Yuan.

After a short while, Shangguan Yuan's war horse was tripped by a lock and fell to the ground. The surrounding Ning Jun thought they could take advantage of this opportunity and rushed forward, but they climbed up quickly and fell even faster, following a few rays of cold light, the Ning Soldier that were charging over were all cut down by the Spirit Wave, their broken limbs scattered all over the ground.