Since Li Yufeng and Zhao Guangfu dared to attack the guild coalition forces, then they must have made sufficient preparations, they must have their own strategic purposes, so it will definitely not work for them to lure or something.

After the failure of the collusion, the guild coalition immediately stopped the offensive against the orcs in order to regain the initiative.

They dispatched several elite legions to launch a fierce attack on Li Yufeng and Zhao Guangfu, and the two sides fought fiercely in Nanyang and Susong.

On the battlefield of Nanyang, Li Yufeng relied on Nanyang City to successfully block the guild coalition army under the city for thirty days.

After the guild coalition was unable to attack for a long time, they immediately divided a part of their men to attack Xiangyang City, they wanted to give Li Yufeng a siege of Wei to save Zhao, force Li Yufeng to attack, or directly end his lair.

As a result, when the army marched to the vicinity of Xinye, an army suddenly killed and attacked the flank of the guild coalition army, and after a day and a night of fighting, the guild alliance army that wanted to attack Xiangyang was completely defeated.

It turned out that the army stationed in Nanyang City was not the elite under Li Yufeng, Li Yufeng only left 20,000 Modao soldiers in Nanyang City, and the other soldiers were all surrendered and strong men that he collected along the way.

The elite army under Li Yufeng was actually stationed in Xinye City.

His plan was to use Nanyang City to drag the guild coalition forces there, and then wait until the other party could not attack for a long time, and then he would send troops from Xinye to launch a surprise attack on the guild coalition forces from behind.

The Guild Alliance's plan to encircle Wei and rescue Zhao was in his hands, so after learning that the other party had taken the initiative to divide his troops, he immediately led his army to launch a surprise attack on the Guild Alliance from the flank.

After defeating this guild coalition army heading south, Li Yufeng led the army to Nanyang non-stop.

Outside Nanyang City, the enemy and us launched a fierce fight, and in the end, with the cooperation of the Modao Army that came out of the city, Li Yufeng completely annihilated this guild coalition army.

At this point, the Western Route Army sent by the guild coalition army was completely annihilated.

In the south, the 300,000-strong Guild Alliance launched a fierce attack on Susong City.

In order to be able to capture Susong City as soon as possible, they divided the 300,000 army into four echelons and launched an attack on Susong City day and night.

Unlike Li Yufeng, Zhao Guangfu did not hide the main force in other places, and the main army under his command was basically in Susong City.

Many people know that the Beiwei army is invincible in the field, and even the most elite legion of the Jin country is not their opponent.

However, people ignore their true ability to watch the house, in fact, their defense is more desperate for the enemy than it is for attack.

Because of the lack of war horses in the Southern Song Dynasty, their cavalry has always been difficult to compete with the Jin, so in order to make up for this shortcoming, they invented the Divine Arm Bow and Chariot Array.

In the face of the enemy's cavalry charge, the Southern Song army would use vehicles to surround a line of defense, relying on this line to fight the Jin soldiers.

In the chariot formation, except for the hand-to-hand combat units in the front row, the other soldiers were all armed with bows and crossbows.

These crossbowmen perform indiscriminate long-range strikes on oncoming enemies and horses, shooting as much of their living force as possible before they rush at them.

If in positional warfare, the enemy still has a high probability of defeating the Southern Song army, then in the defensive battle, it is not so easy to break through the city they defend.

In the history of the Southern Song Dynasty, the two most famous battles to defend the city were the Battle of Diaoyu City and the Battle of Xiangfan.

At that time, the Mongols could be said to have defeated the invincible opponents in the world, but under these two cities, they hit their heads and bled blood.

In the Battle of Diaoyu City, the Mongol army not only suffered heavy losses, but even their Great Khan Meng Ge was killed under the city, until the Southern Song Dynasty was completely destroyed, and the Mongols failed to capture this fortified city.

The Diaoyu City lasted for 36 years and never lost its hold, and finally after learning of the fall of the Southern Song Dynasty, the soldiers and civilians in the city opened the city and surrendered.

The battle of Xiangfan was even more tragic, the Southern Song Dynasty and the Mongols fought under the city of Xiangyang for six years, both sides suffered countless casualties, and finally if there was no food in the city, it would be difficult for the Mongols to capture the city of Xiangyang.

So, some people will ask, why are Diaoyu City and Xiangyang City so difficult to attack?

The answer is very simple, because there is a divine arm bow, a sharp weapon to defend the city.

Because the Southern Song Dynasty was weak and strong, in order to fight against the enemy's cavalry, they put more energy on the development of long-range weapons used by infantry, so the Divine Arm Bow was born.

Compared to ordinary crossbows, the Divine Arm Bow has a longer range, greater lethality, and can even shoot through some iron armor if it is too close.

The Divine Arm Bow can be said to be a nightmare for lightly armored soldiers, and most of the siege soldiers are lightly armored infantry, so using the Divine Arm Bow to defend the city can be described as twice the result with half the effort.

The guild coalition besieged Susong City for more than a month, and during this period, they successively transferred two legions from the front line, and they were bound to win Susong City.

But a month later, they withdrew their troops on their own initiative.

When the 500,000 army left, there were only more than 200,000 left, but Susong City showed no signs of being breached, and the defenders in the city rained down arrows every day, as if the arrows in their hands were as if they didn't want money, and they wasted them casually.

If they continue to fight like this, I am afraid that the remaining more than 200,000 people will all have to be explained here, so even if the guild coalition forces are unwilling, even if they know that the defenders in the city are about to reach the limit, they will not dare to gamble anymore.

In fact, if they could hold out for another month, the arrows in the city would be exhausted, but unfortunately they had already been killed, so Zhao Guangfu had the last laugh.

With the defeat of the two armies in the southwest, the situation of the guild alliance suddenly became passive.

Although the orc army has experienced several major defeats, they still have the strength to fight, and if they are not careful, the guild alliance may be overturned by them.

Although Li Yufeng and Zhao Guangfu did not take the opportunity to flank the guild alliance army with the orc army, they successfully cut off the retreat and supply lines of the guild alliance, once the guild alliance army ran out of food and grass, I am afraid that the army of tens of millions would immediately collapse.

Now there are two paths in front of the Guild Alliance.

One is to send people to guard the main road in the rear, and then attack the Ten Thousand Beast Empire with all their might, as long as they can completely destroy the Ten Thousand Beast Empire, then all the problems will be solved.

One is to return to the division immediately, concentrate superior forces to eliminate Li Yufeng and Zhao Guangfu, and then go to deal with the Ten Thousand Beast Empire.

No matter which of these two paths you choose, the risks are very high.

The first path looks pretty good, after all, the morale of the orcs is lodging, and they can take advantage of this opportunity to wipe out the other party completely.

But after this period of rest, the orcs have recovered a lot, and they really don't have much confidence in destroying each other.

And once they are defeated by the orcs, with the back road blocked, they are probably completely finished.

If the second path is chosen, then no matter how elite the Mo Dao soldiers, Xuanjia cavalry and Beiwei army are, they will definitely be defeated under the encirclement and suppression of tens of millions of troops.

It stands to reason that the second way is more secure, but in order to really implement it, it still needs the cooperation of the orcs.

The return of the army is equivalent to selling the back to the orcs, and if the orcs choose to pursue, they may be defeated faster under the enemy on their backs.

And if a part of the army is left to defend some checkpoints and the main force returns to the division, it will be difficult for them to resist the attack of the orcs when the strength is not superior.

So no matter which path you choose, you have to take risks.

Because of the stakes, the leaders of the major guilds did not dare to make a decision lightly, so they let the army be stationed in place and collect as much food as possible for emergencies, and they themselves had a heated discussion about it.

Some of the guild leaders thought that they should concentrate their efforts on dealing with the orcs while there was plenty of food and grass, and as for the two flies in the back, let them buzz for a while.

When the orcs are destroyed, the two flies will be the turtles in the urn.

Some people think that the foundation of the Empire of Ten Thousand Beasts is still there, and it will take a long time to completely destroy the Empire of Ten Thousand Beasts.

While discussing countermeasures, they sent someone to contact Li Yufeng and Zhao Guangfu again, hoping that they would change their minds.

It's a pity that these two people are determined to leave the main force of the guild alliance here, so they still don't talk speculatively and break up unhappily.

Faced with the arrogant attitude of the two, the higher-ups of the guild alliance were completely enraged, so after a show of hands by the majority of the people, they chose the second path, first swatting the annoying flies, and then dealing with the Ten Thousand Beast Empire.

In order to prevent the orc army from taking the opportunity to make trouble from behind, they left half of the army to defend, and the other armies all returned to the division to deal with Li Yufeng and Zhao Guangfu.

After learning the news of the division of the guild coalition army, Li Yufeng and Zhao Guangfu smiled in unison.

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Just when the guild alliance army had just entered Hubei, the orc army, which had been on the defensive before, suddenly launched a frantic counterattack.

Although the Guild Alliance had expected that the orc army would not be honest, they did not expect that this counterattack would be so fierce.

The orc army almost poured out this time, and in the face of the overwhelming orc army, the defenders of the Guild Alliance who remained in place put up a stubborn resistance.

They stubbornly defended and called for help from the rear, and after holding out for five days and five nights, they were finally routed by the orc army because reinforcements were delayed in arriving.

With the defeat of this defender, the Guild Alliance immediately fell into the predicament of being attacked from the back.

At this time, they were no longer in the mood to deal with Li Yufeng and Zhao Guangfu, and after learning that the orc army was chasing after them, they immediately stopped and began to build fortifications in their place.

After a big victory, the morale of the orc army was greatly boosted, and although there were still many player spies mixed in, the players were suddenly isolated after the orcs took the defeat order.

The so-called defeat order means that once the battle is defeated, the entire army will be severely punished, and in serious cases, the whole army will be executed.

Under the harsh punishment, the orcs only believed that they knew the roots, and if they did not know them, even if they were of the same race, they would be excluded from them.

As a result, under the mutual identification of the orcs through tribes and clans, a large number of unknown orcs were quickly eliminated from their army, and almost most of these orcs were players.

After the player was eliminated, there was no more defection in the orc army, and as a result, the invincible army of all beasts returned.

The trenches and earthen walls dug by the player's coalition forces could not stop the orc army at all, and soon the two armies were directly killed together.

Although the combat effectiveness of the player's alliance is not as good as that of the orcs, they are superior in numbers, so although they fight extremely hard every day, they have never collapsed, and they are temporarily evenly matched with the orc army.

When the player's coalition and the orc army are in a stalemate, the army under Li Yufeng and Zhao Guangfu becomes the key force that can determine the victory.

Just when the player coalition was worried that these two armies would suddenly come from behind and cooperate with the orc army to flank them back and forth, Li Yufeng and Zhao Guangfu unexpectedly chose to watch from the sidelines.

While it's hard to figure out why the two men would stand still, this outcome is very beneficial to the player coalition, and it is exactly what they want to see.

Many players even think that these two people have figured it out, and they are afraid of completely offending the players in Huaxia, so they don't dare to do things too much.

They thought that the two of them were thin-faced and couldn't pull down this face to admit their mistakes, so they took the initiative to send someone to contact the two again, hoping to pull the two to their camp.

It's a pity that they failed again, Li Yufeng and Zhao Guangfu's attitude is still so resolute, they not only refuse to make peace with the guild coalition army, but even refuse to let the guild coalition reinforcements come over.

After being rejected again, the players finally understood what the two were trying to do.

The reason why they did not cooperate with the orc army to flank the guild coalition army before and after should be to preserve their strength.

They must want to sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight, and then suddenly intervene at the right time in order to make the most profits.

Obviously, this idea of the two is very short-sighted, but the guild alliance wants them to stay on the sidelines, so the players just watch them carefully, and then focus on the battle with the orcs.

When the guild alliance army was fighting against the orc army, Li Yufeng and the others obviously had many opportunities to severely damage the guild alliance, but they didn't seem to see it, and they didn't have any intention of attacking at all.

However, they also did not intend to let go of the guild alliance, and the major guilds organized several reinforcements, all of which were blocked by them.

In this way, the guild alliance and the orc army attacked each other every day, and neither of them would let the other go.

In this protracted war, the weakness of the guild coalition forces without logistical supplies gradually began to be magnified.

Although the orc army also suffered heavy losses, they were able to replenish their troops and food and grass from the rear in time.

Not only was the guild alliance unable to replenish its troops in time, but even the food and grass began to run out of use, and if it weren't for the large number of soldiers killed in the battle, they would have already encountered a food crisis.

After holding out for more than four months, the Guild Alliance finally began to lose its strengths.

As the forward positions continued to be lost, in the end they still did not escape the fate of defeat.

The guild alliance army on the west road was blocked by Li Yufeng because the back road, so they chose to die with the orc army when they had nowhere to retreat.

Except for a very few who escaped, most of the four million soldiers died honorably.

However, they did not die in vain, and their death-defying counterattack also brought great casualties to the orc army.

The guild coalition army on the South Road originally wanted to escape to the south bank of the Yangtze River by crossing the river, but just as they crossed the river, a large number of mermaid warriors suddenly appeared in the Yangtze River.

The merfolk warriors scuttled all their ships, and the Southern Route Army was finally wiped out by the orcs and merfolk.

Thus, the sixteen-month-long counteroffensive ended with the total annihilation of the Guild Alliance.

In this battle, the guild coalition army lost a total of 12 million elite troops, which can be said to have hurt the bone marrow, and many guilds have been directly slumped since then.

Although the Beast Empire won the final victory, they were also a miserable victory, and many elite orc legions simply canceled their numbers after this battle, and it will take at least thirty years for them to return to their heyday.

There were only two real winners in this battle, and that was Li Yufeng and Zhao Guangfu.

Taking advantage of the battle between the guild alliance and the orcs, they successfully occupied the entire territory of Hubei and occupied some strategic points leading from Sichuan to Hubei. As a member of the Beast Empire, they can be said to have made a lot of money.

After this battle, those big guilds in Huaxia not only suffered heavy losses in their armies, but their influence in Huaxia District plummeted.

After this defeat, they completely lost control of the Huaxia District, and they could no longer suppress those powerful princes and players, and the Huaxia District gradually entered the era of princes' melee.

After this battle, the great guild in Huaxia gradually stepped down from the altar, and the princes and players gradually ushered in their own spring, so people called this battle the dusk of the guild.

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