On the vast sea in the dusk, a long row of sail shadows floated and faintly on the skyline. It was the Weiwen fleet full of Cao's army heading south. Depth of the coast more than 30 miles away from them, there was also a winding Liang army infantry riding on the plain road.

Zhang Liao personally led his army and Xu Rong's army, with a total of more than 5,000 troops heading towards his destination Bumi City. As long as he met the city-state of Mahan along the way, he would persuade him to surrender to Daliang first. If he refused, he would order an attack.

The civilization level of the fifty-four city-states of Mahan is still at a very low level. Most of its cities are surrounded by three or four high city walls made of sand and soil. The good ones have dug two or three wide moats outside the city. Most of the cities have no urns. In addition to the generals wearing iron armor, the rest are mostly armor made of animal skin hardwood, and the weapons they hold are also very simple. Each of them has a spear gun that is five or six feet long. Even if 30% of the spear heads are not made of cooked iron, but made of bronze, and it looks very crisp. When fighting with Liang Jun’s steel knives, they are easily cut or smashed.

In this way, the Liang army naturally seemed to be like a stunning force on the way. Often, with crossbows and guns and shield soldiers, ladders, climbed up under the cover of longbow soldiers and fire bombs, and finally opened the city gate. A city could be captured in less than an hour.

But just after Zhang Liao conquered seven cities in a row to destroy the seven kingdoms of Mahan, there was a change that Zhang Liao did not expect. On this day, Zhang Liao, who was following the army to march forward, received a report from a scout, and the country of Mahan's Juwugutan was ahead of him.

When Zhang Liao came to the city of Juwugutan Kingdom, he found that there were no one on the top of the city except for a few large flags that were floating in the wind. He thought that the Mahan soldiers were hiding behind the battlements, so he waved and signaled the soldiers to shout. Soon, several newly recruited soldiers, who were quite Korean, stood under the city and shouted loudly. But after a long time, there was still no movement at the top of the city.

Zhang Liao's heart moved and said, "Is it possible that Han Yi came to sing an empty city plan for someone?" The empty city plan is one of the thirty-six strategies, and "Thirty-six strategies" is a military book compiled by Feng Yu himself. It is a basic tactical military book that low-level generals in the Liang army, including the team leader, must read through. Of course, many of the stories were changed by Feng Yu.

However, there are two cases in the empty city plan written by Feng Yu. One is the empty city lure the enemy to ambush and annihilate the enemy, and the other is Zhuge Liang's original empty city suspicious soldiers threaten the enemy. He also wrote in the conclusion that why can the same behavior cause two results? How should the plan predict what the result should be obtained and how to counter the empty city plan. If Xu Rong had not defended the Nanxin East Gate with all his strength in the battle of Nanxin in the Nanxin Battle, he would have been afraid that the losses would be even greater.

At this moment, when Zhang Liao saw this suspected empty city, he immediately ordered the team of scouts to enter the city to check. This time they didn't even need to climb over the city wall, because even the city gate was covered in a void. The scouts pushed open the city gate in a big way and rode into the horse. After a while, news of the scout came, there was indeed no one in the city. Zhang Liao also dispatched elite boys to guard the city gates on all sides, and then entered the city-state of the Yuwugutan Kingdom from several city gates at the same time. After entering the city, the Liang army quickly dispersed and searched for the Mahan people everywhere. As a result, not only did they not even see a figure of the individual, but they did not even see a living creature such as chickens and dogs. The granary was empty, and even the furniture was moved away as much as possible, and those who could not be moved were deliberately destroyed.

Only then did Zhang Liao believe that the Mahan army had really retreated. He immediately passed the order: "Transfer a certain military order to let the soldiers bury pots and cook in the city, and after a little rest, continue to advance south. Leave a battalion of troops to guard the city, and wait for the Haidong Army in the rear to change defenses, and then come to chase the team and meet up."

He paused and reminded: "As usual, a group of scouts and orders are left in the city, equipped with a letter to the Harrier Falcon. When encountering an emergency, please contact our main force at any time!"

After noon, Zhang Liao's army, who had enough food and drink, left the city and continued to move south. What made Zhang Liao strange was that the Mahan city-state that he encountered along the way was empty like the yuwugutan country. A sense of ominousness arose in Zhang Liao's heart. He could have predicted that these Mahan people must have agreed to unite to deal with him, otherwise they would not have taken such a unified action.

Zhang Liao's guess was right, just when he marched towards Bumi City with unstoppable momentum. Wu Xiexing, the leader of the 54 states of Mahan and the king of the Dog Evil Kingdom, hurriedly summoned all states to gather in the Dog Evil Kingdom to discuss the fight against the Liang army.

At the meeting, the Korean leader talked a lot. Some said that the Liang army was so powerful that even Baekje, who was rampant, was destroyed by the Liang army in just ten days. If he resisted it, it would be like hitting a stone with an egg. It would be better to negotiate peace with the Liang army. As long as Daliang can make a little concession to ensure the aristocratic status of these kings, even if he is a town marquis under the county of Daliang, he would be a marquis in the township marquis.

Someone immediately raised this reason, that if he surrendered to Daliang like this, it would be like becoming a fish under the rule of the Central Plains Emperor. He also took out the Three Bonds and Five Constant Constitutions of Dong Zhongshu, the great Confucian scholar of the Western Han Dynasty, the king, minister, minister, father and son, and asked: "If he surrendered to Liang, you will be the son of the Central Plains Emperor. How dare you ask who would like to recognize others as your father? Moreover, the Han people in the Central Plains also believed that I could kill my son at will, and that the king would die, and the ministers would have to die. When we really live under others like this, the emperor suddenly felt that we were worried one day and wanted us to be killed in one sentence. I would not be able to wait for the killing of this person without land, people, and soldiers."

After hearing this, everyone was sighing. No one mentioned that they would fully agree to the Liang army's conditions and unconditionally surrender to Daliang. Then someone mentioned that the fifty-four states would unite and attack the Liang army, completely drive the Liang army out of Mahan's territory, and even drive them out of Dafang County.

Some people immediately said that this was unrealistic, because even if the current Liang army was defeated, with Daliang's strength, it is likely that another army of ten times more than this would be sent, or the legendary Northern Prefecture Army that traverses the northern grasslands and black forests would go south. At that time, there were only 54 city-states and more than 100,000 people. How should Mahan in a small place resist? At that time, even if he joined forces with Qin Han and Gaya, he would not be able to resist.
Chapter completed!