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Chapter 1152: Chapter 464: The Fall of Changping Chapter 1152: Chapter 464: The Fall of Changping Fast, too fast.

The Chu army broke through the entire Western defense line of the Four Kingdoms Alliance with an unexpected speed and in a single spirited charge.

During this time, Zheng Kingdom had just begun to be shocked by the defense of Gaoyang Prefecture.

Over there, Chu had already penetrated Pingyang Prefecture, cutting off the main force of Tang Kingdom, and surrounded their army of seven hundred thousand in Xihe County.

The situation facing the Four Kingdoms Alliance deteriorated to an unsalvageably adverse extent.

By the time the news reached back, Tang, Zheng, Jin, and Xu were all simultaneously horrified and in an uproar.

No one knew how the Chu army managed to accomplish this.

Lu Yuan, leading the Inborn Grandmasters with a group of elite troops, advanced rapidly with surprise attacks.

They were too fast.

So fast that the deserters they had defeated hadn’t even managed to escape to the rear before the Chu forces got there first, occupying the enemy’s rear positions.

This meant the fugitive soldiers up front, who knew what was happening, couldn’t extricate themselves from danger in time.

They were intercepted and surrounded by the Chu army without being able to send even a fragment of information to the back lines.

The high-level officials of the Four Kingdoms were completely in the dark about the situation at the front lines, having received not even a scrap of intelligence.

All they knew was:

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Gaoyang had fallen, Pingyang had fallen, and Xihe County was besieged.

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In the blink of an eye, Chu had conquered three prefectures and annihilated the million-strong armies of Tang and Zheng, achieving an unimaginably brilliant victory.

And the Western part of their four nations was left utterly defenseless.

Vast territories were exposed before the Chu army, with the gate wide open.

For a time, the Xu Army at Beigu City in the rear, ready to reinforce the Three Nations at any moment, was frightened into trembling, experiencing three shocks in a day.

Upon receiving the news, the Emperor of Xu State immediately dispersed his army of one million five hundred thousand, building a new defense line around Beigu City to secure the Western and Southern territories of Xu State.

At the same time, he urgently conscripted more troops domestically, not caring whether there was enough food and fodder; now, any increase in military strength was a means of self-preservation.

The allies from Tang and Zheng were just too useless.

An army of two to three million couldn’t even hold a single Western defense line, allowing Chu to break through the entire Western front within a month.

This left their side so passive that the whole of Xu and Jin states lay exposed before the Chu forces.

Allies were unreliable; they could only rely on themselves.

The Emperor of Xu State, realizing the truth too late, was filled with regret and could only make amends hastily to save the situation.

Luckily, in his hands, he still had one million five hundred thousand troops already mustered, and with extra efforts in the country, another million could be conscripted within a month.

With two million soldiers, he was able to hastily set up a defense that was enough to protect the entire Western region of Xu State and incidentally safeguard the Western part of Jin State.

As long as the defense line was established, even if Zheng and Tang were defeated, his side would still have the capability to resist.

He wouldn’t be defenseless against Chu, like those two states, being beaten without the power to strike back.

Jin State was similarly frightened into a cold sweat.

But fortunately, Xu sent messengers in time to communicate with Jin, promising to ensure the safety of Jin’s Western and Northern borders.

With the old rival Xu State in place, Jin felt quite relieved.

He had fought with Xu for decades and was very clear about the strength of this formidable foe.

So, he had trust in Xu State’s promises and believed that they wouldn’t let him down.

As for Zheng, due to their disappointing performance, neither Jin nor Xu believed in them anymore, nor did they think Zheng could survive for long under Chu’s siege.

So, without even sending a messenger, they subconsciously forgot about Zheng altogether.

This also led to Zheng, lacking any support and receiving news of Chu’s unstoppable advance through the Western defense line, losing their nerve.

Just as Jin and Xu didn’t believe Zheng could hold on, Zheng itself didn’t believe it could withstand Chu’s onslaught.

For Zheng to survive, they desperately needed reinforcements.

After waiting in vain for messengers from the other states, Zheng urgently dispatched its own messengers to seek assistance from the three nations.

Then they spared no effort in conscripting strong men in Pingchang Prefecture to expand their military force as much as possible, strengthening the defenses of Zhuxu City, and resolutely defending it with all their might.

The monarch and ministers of Zheng had made up their minds that before allies arrived, they would not set foot outside Zhuxu City.

With the security of this strong city, they still had some confidence they could hold on.

If they left the city, it would truly mean they had not the slightest confidence.

Even the soldiers under their command would probably disperse halfway through the journey.

Fighting until now, especially after Chu broke through Gaoyang in ten days, the soldiers of Zheng, upon learning the details and with the reputation from past days, had already developed a fear of Chu’s military.

It was not their cowardice to blame.

The fall of the old capital and the loss of three prefectures in Southern Yuzhou was a huge defeat.

Now with the recent setback of Gaoyang’s ten-day collapse.

Anybody would develop a fear after suffering two major blows in a span of just two or three years, especially against an enemy that had swept across the world.

It wasn’t just Zheng’s forces that felt this way.

Which of the surviving states of the Nine Provinces could face the Chu army without a trace of fear?

This was the invincible reputation that Chu had forged over a full four years, using the corpses of Liang, Wei, Zhao, and other countries, step by step.

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