In the most luxurious magistrate's mansion in Zhuli County, Haotian yawned lazily. Winter has arrived, and the harsh north blew the flags outside the door. There was just a snowfall last night. Although it was not heavy, it was still snowy.
You can still see the vast white patch on the roof.
Alas, it must be snowing heavily in the Hetao now, right? I don’t know what happened to the three of them in God’s will. Haotian thought in his heart.
"Husband, why did you come out wearing a robe in such a cold weather? If you are frozen, I will be the one who refuses to eat the sisters." Xin Jiao saw Haotian admiring the snow at the door so elegantly,
He immediately walked up anxiously holding a fur coat. Haotian's body had basically recovered, but Xin Jiao was still a little worried.
Haotian put on his fur coat obediently, kissed Xin Jiao gently on the face, and said with a smile: "Just came back from outside? Is there something else?"
"It's nothing. I just heard that Mr. Luo and the military advisor drove out the envoy sent by the imperial court. The envoy was not convinced and yelled outside the door. I was afraid that they would disturb your sleep, so I went out to take a look. Who knew you were so
Get up soon." Xin Jiao said with a smile.
Haotian chuckled: "I'm just wondering why there are crows crows so early in the morning. It turns out they are messengers from the imperial court. What did they say that they were kicked out by Mr. and the military advisor?"
Xin Jiao said carefully: "Didn't the imperial court ask you, husband, to send troops to destroy the Northeastern Allied Forces of Cassimbas as soon as possible? Mr. Luo and the military advisor said that it is not impossible to send troops. As a court official, husband, you naturally have the responsibility to protect your family and the country.
Responsibility. However, we are weak and the troops of the Qinchuan Li family have withdrawn. We are surrounded by the 220,000 troops of the Three Northeastern Kingdoms and the nearly 300,000 troops of the Bliss Holy Sect. Therefore, we hope that the imperial court can provide
A little assistance. Either send troops from Tiandu Shengjing to Raozhou to contain the troops of the Holy Sect of Paradise, or let the Dragon Rider Legion come to help in the battle. Also, we are short of food and grass now, and I hope the imperial court can provide some."
Haotian said with a smile: "Yes, this is the situation we are in now. In terms of self-protection, there is no problem. But if we want to take the initiative, unless the court can contain the Holy Sect of Paradise, we may suffer huge casualties.
There is also this food and grass. The river has frozen, and it is no longer possible to transport our food and grass by water. However, transporting our food and grass by carriage not only takes too long, but also causes huge losses. Without food and grass, how can we fight the war? Well, fortunately there are still
Yue Wan is supporting me. But my old father-in-law is also having a hard time now. If Yue Wan is still making trouble all day long to transport grain and grass to us, then my old father-in-law can’t explain it. Since the imperial court wants us to fight, it will naturally
Plenty of food and fodder have been prepared for us."
Xin Jiao glanced at him doubtfully and asked, "Aren't you angry?"
Haotian sighed and said: "Do you think I can't be angry? Even at this time, His Majesty has not forgotten to use the sword to kill people to weaken our strength. If he is really serious, then he can send the Eastern Army and the Suzaku Army to contain the Suzakus.
Zhao Zhao and others' actions, so although it is more difficult for us here, it is not without opportunities. However, he did not send any troops, all huddled in the Tiandu Holy Capital, but kept asking us to fight against the Bliss Alliance. This is considered
What is it? But what is the use of being angry? It will only ruin your mood. But sir, they have gone too far. After all, they are all envoys of the imperial court."
Xin Jiao said disdainfully: "The envoys of the imperial court are just bluffing. You see their arrogant and proud expressions, as if we in Loop are just one of their running dogs, and they can do whatever they want. Fortunately, Mr.
and the military advisor, if it is the Blood Commander and others who receive them, then my husband, what you are hearing now is the news that the imperial envoys came to Zhu Li to express condolences, but unfortunately encountered the enemy and were wiped out."
Haotian smiled. He didn't expect that Xin Jiao could be so funny. However, to make a good-tempered person like Xin Jiao so angry, it was obvious that these messengers were indeed too arrogant. But Haotian didn't care, no.
Is he just an envoy? Tiandu Shengjing has offended many meritorious nobles, and this one is no different.
At that moment, Haotian asked casually: "That messenger, I don't bother to pay attention to them. Anyway, the imperial court is so virtuous to us in Loop. Even if he praises us lavishly when he comes back, His Majesty will not praise us. Well, there are also
Nothing else?"
"There was news from the military that a Northeastern cavalry force, numbering about 10,000, suddenly passed through Qiuzhou from the south of Ruzhou and headed for Qinchuan Road. However, the destination and strategic intentions of the other party are unknown," Xin Jiao continued.
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Haotian thought for a while and really couldn't figure out what Cassimbas was planning to do. Ten thousand cavalry was more or less, but it didn't seem to be a threat to him. In that case, who cares?
.Now the task of the Hetao army is to continue to stay here. The river has frozen, and it is no longer difficult for the Northeastern Allied Forces to return to Youyun Sixteenth Prefecture. Therefore, they must stay firmly here. If Cassimbas really
If you have the intention to retreat, then you don't mind having a big battle with the other party.
The second half of 622 was an extremely chaotic half year for Qingfeng. First, the 200,000-strong army led by Emperor Yinglie was almost completely wiped out on Yuzhou Road. Emperor Yinglie himself, the three pillars and hundreds of meritorious nobles also died in the battle.
battlefield.
Later, the auxiliary king ascended the throne and proclaimed himself emperor. In order to show his strength, Emperor Zhongxing launched a counterattack. However, in the end, he failed in his success, not only losing troops and generals, but also causing Haotian and other three vassal kings to alienate.
At this time, Song Zhengfeng, the king of Dingxi in Yizhou, led an army to raid Qinchuan. Two wars broke out, and the court stood aside and watched. The Paradise Alliance and Jinhua Mitsukoshi cooperated secretly. The Zhang family itself could not protect itself, and Qinchuan was suddenly engulfed in war.
However, Cassimbas seemed to feel that Qingfeng was not chaotic enough now, so he poured a spoonful of oil on the Qingfeng Empire, which was already burning red all over the sky. At the end of 622, 10,000 Northeastern cavalry attacked the general Garuda in Beijing.
Under his leadership, he crossed Yuzhou Road and entered the Qinchuan Kangzhou area, openly clamoring to help his ally Yizhou Song family to eradicate the Li family and divide the world. At this time, Qingfeng's world was completely boiling.
After Garuda arrived at Qinchuan Road, he thoroughly implemented Cassimbas's plan. While he announced in a high-profile manner his support for his ally, King Song Zhengfeng of Dingxi, and his support for Song Zhengfeng to proclaim himself emperor, he also massacred the forces of the Li family in Qinchuan.
In order to annex Qinchuan Road, Song Zhengfeng mobilized 250,000 troops at once and stormed into Qinchuan Road with thunderous momentum. However, the Li family had been entrenched on Qinchuan Road for hundreds of years. Although the main army was still on Yuzhou Road at that time, under Li Tiehe and
Thanks to the efforts of Li Xiaoran, Li Xuancheng, Li Bicheng and other young generals, the Song family's army was actually blocked to the south of Xiangzhou and Ezhou. With the return of Qinchuan's 200,000 main army, the Song family's front line suddenly became tight.
Changzhou had to vomit it out after eating it, but Song Junlin still occupied Hezhou, and because it had a strategic advantage at the beginning, the Song family's army still had a slight upper hand. However, as Li Tieming came back to his senses, he continued to
Reserve soldiers were mobilized from various places to join the army, and they fought step by step with Li Tie. Unless the Song family's army continued to increase its troops or a miracle happened, it would only be a matter of time before it retreated from Qinchuan Road.
However, things took a turn for the better at this time. Because Li Tieming wanted to regain the lost territory as soon as possible, most of his troops were concentrated on the southern and western fronts. There were basically no regular troops stationed in Kangzhou and Hanzhou in the north, and Jia
It was at this time that Lou Luo's Beijing cavalry came in.
"As long as they are alive, let me kill them all! As long as they can be burned, let me burn them all! As long as they can be smashed, let me smash them all!" Garuda sat on the divine horse.
On top of his horse, he tore open his clothes, took a swig of liquor, and shouted loudly against the knife-like northwest wind.
"General, I don't care what you want to do now, but you must gather in two hours!" Garuda roared again, and the soldiers below suddenly burst into cheers. Before Garuda swallowed a sip of strong wine, there were people around him.
Not even a single soldier ran away.
Garuda cursed loudly: "These bastards..." However, if you want them to buy their own strength, even if you have the command of the commander in hand, you still need to use some special means. It seems that the commander said that
That's right, as long as these soldiers are allowed to rape, loot and kill wantonly, they will definitely become a tiger and wolf army that everyone fears.
After entering Qinchuan Road, Garuda strictly followed Cassimbas's plan. The army would never attack the state capital or county town, but only needed to continuously sweep the villages and towns. The cavalry was not used to attack fortresses, although the county town was indeed very crowded.
Rich, but the risk is greater. As for those ordinary villages, if you want to stop Baijing's 10,000 elite cavalry in these places, you need at least the same number of cavalry or twice the infantry. As for encircling and annihilating yourself, there are not 50,000
With military strength, that is simply impossible.
After a hundred years of accumulation by the Li family, Qinchuan Road is no less wealthy than Dahu Road. Even a small town has enough wealth to drive soldiers to the capital. And these villages do not offer much resistance.
Strength, so it was easily reduced to fly ash under the kneading of the Beijing cavalry. The Li family currently does not have a garrison of 10,000 troops in a county in the north, let alone these rural areas? It takes less than five days.
At that time, Garuda relied on the flexibility and high speed of his cavalry to turn the two states of Han and Kang in the north of Qinchuan into chaos.
Li Xiaomo has also returned to Qinchuan, and is now in the Jingxi Palace in Ezhou, the capital. Looking at the map on the table, Li Xiaomo's heart fluctuates like turbulent waves.
Qinchuan originally had an army of 400,000 people. At the beginning, under the sneak attack of the Song family's army, Li Fangcheng's 30,000 soldiers were completely wiped out. Not even the basic organizational structure was left, and it has not been reorganized yet. And these days of fighting,
At least 80,000 more soldiers of the Li family died in the battle. Of course, they immediately replenished the establishment with new soldiers. In addition to the 30,000 naval troops still near Tiandu Shengjing, Qinchuan now has 370,000 soldiers.
Now in the south of Xiangzhou is the 100,000-strong Red Eyebrow Army led by his uncle Li Tiezhan, and in the Changzhou area are the 100,000 elite soldiers who have just returned, led by their father. Their uncle Li Tiehe and his younger brother Li Xiaoran lead 60,000 soldiers as a general reserve force and are stationed in
In central Xiangzhou, Li Bicheng led 50,000 soldiers to confront the 60,000 troops led by Song Gaoshan of the Song family in the west of Xiangzhou. As for Li Xuancheng, he led 40,000 soldiers to garrison Yinfeng Castle, and the remaining 20,000 soldiers were garrisoned in Kangzhou and
Hanzhou.
Qinchuan has been robbed by the Song family. Although Li Xiaomo thinks that Haotian would not do anything to add insult to injury, Yinfeng Castle is the only pass between Qinchuan Road and Hetao after all. If Yinfeng Castle is lost, then the Qinchuan army will
In the future, heavy troops had to be stationed in the Hanzhou area to prevent the Hetao from moving south at any time. You can have the intention of harming others, but you must also have the intention of protecting others. Therefore, when his father proposed that Li Xuancheng be stationed at Yinfeng Castle, Li Xiaomo did not object.
However, no one expected that Cassimbas would actually take such a hand. In the final analysis, the fight between the Song and Li families was a war within the people of China. It was like the Song family occupied the Changzhou and Hezhou areas, although all the
All grain, grass, supplies, gold, silver and jewelry were transported back to Yizhou Road, but the Song family did not kill ordinary people. They only asked merchants and wealthy households to donate part of their property. After all, although the Song family had made
After all, they are still the people of the Celestial Dynasty, and they don't dare to do anything too outrageous about this kind of thing. But the Garuda are different. They are originally a foreign race outside the Great Wall. They were able to kill tens of millions of people when they broke through the Great Wall defense line. Now they still pity Qinchuanlu?
In just seven days, more than 100,000 people have died under the butchering knives of these 10,000 cavalry. One hundred thousand people is no longer a small number, and more importantly, the atmosphere of terror he created has completely enveloped the northern part of Qinchuan
.
"This is shaking the foundation of our Qinchuan. It's a good way to drain the firepower!" Li Xiaomo thought through gritted teeth. Cassimbas is worthy of being the number one general outside the Great Wall. He is indeed extremely vicious. Although there are only 10,000 cavalry, the people are frightened.
Under this situation, the people were naturally panic-stricken, and they fled into the county as much as possible to avoid the disaster. Businessmen did not dare to go out, farmers did not dare to farm, and the army could not be mobilized. If this continues, the people in northern Qinchuan and the Li family's century-old
The unswerving confidence that he has cultivated in the past will definitely be shaken by this. Thinking of this, the ink pen in Li Xiaomo's hand couldn't help but draw a circle in the Kangzhou area. No matter what, no matter what the price, even if it is to mobilize the southern army to go north
, this Beijing-based army must also be eliminated here.
"Father, when did you come in?" Li Xiaomo looked up inadvertently, only to find that Li Tieming was already standing in front of him, and quickly stood up and said.
Li Tieming said: "I've been here for a while, but seeing how seriously you were thinking, I didn't bother you. Why, are you thinking about how to destroy this cavalry?"