The people in Hetao know very well that attacking first will lead to gain, and attacking later will lead to disaster. What the Zhang family really relies on is actually the extraordinary force of the Holy Sect of Paradise. More than 200,000 troops have retreated to the vicinity of Shouzhou. The river network here is dense, and they can
The attack power of the Hetao cavalry has been reduced to the extreme. Therefore, the only infantry used in the Hetao attack is the infantry. Considering the situation that the Hetao is currently in Tiandu Shengjing and the total strength of the Zhang family, the number of troops used in the Hetao is about 350,000.
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After all, the Zhang family has ruled Huai River for many years. Shouzhou is easy to attack and difficult to defend, but after all, it occupies Renhe. The Hetao army marched south. The Zhang family tried their best to block the Hetao army here at least for a while. Then, the Holy Sect of Paradise had gathered.
The 250,000-strong army from Yangzhou Road, Meizhou and Jinzhou areas suddenly crossed the river and attacked the back of the Hetao. Caught off guard, the Hetao was bound to be severely defeated. And if this southbound army was defeated, the remaining troops in the Hetao could only maintain Tiandu.
The defenses in the Shengjing and Yuzhou Road areas will not be able to move southward for at least a while. Taking advantage of this moment, the Zhang family can contact the three Northeastern countries and launch a fierce attack on the base of the Hetao. In this way, even if the Hetao does not die, it will be severely damaged.
But it is a pity that the Hetao Zongheng has remained standing for many years, and it is definitely not due to luck. Xuanji quickly saw through Huaishui's intentions and made corresponding countermeasures. Huaishui did not regard the Holy Sect of Paradise as a surprise weapon.
Okay, well, let’s break the backbone of the Holy Sect of Paradise first and see what else Huai Shui can rely on. Therefore, Xuanji’s plan was actually aimed at the Holy Sect of Paradise from the beginning.
When Li Xiaomo's Destroyed Legion arrived at Hualin Ferry, there was already the sound of horses neighing. Li Xiaomo took a closer look, and a hint of surprise suddenly appeared on his face. In addition to the 50,000 cavalry of the Huben Legion, Falcon, and Qinglong
All four cavalry regiments, Long Xiang and Feng Wu, have arrived. Most of the cavalry have crossed the Huai River. Now only the Feng Wu regiment is left behind. The infantry regiment only has its own Destroyed Legion and those encountered on the road.
The deer-chasing legion, as for the other legion, was a blood-killing mixed legion of infantry and cavalry.
The total strength of the Holy Sect of Paradise is only about 250,000, and the actual combat effectiveness will not exceed 200,000. Even if you do not include the 150,000 soldiers of yourself and the Zhulu Legion, the current strength of Hetao is enough to defeat the Holy Sect of Paradise.
Of course, it is impossible to annihilate them all. Li Xiaomo thought in his heart.
Yangzhou Road is relatively long and narrow. Due to the existence of lonely hills in the central area, it is necessary to make a large circle from Guazhou and other places in the east to Jinzhou and Meizhou in the west. And now the troops of the Bliss Holy Sect have been concentrated in Meizhou.
In the Jinzhou area, Hetao's current attack direction is Meizhou. If the Holy Sect of Paradise thinks that it is invincible and retreats towards the south or central mountainous area, then Hetao will not be able to completely wipe out the opponent. Li Xiaomo carefully sketched in his mind
After looking at the map of Yangzhou Road, he didn't think that Hetao had gone to such great lengths just to inflict heavy damage on the Holy Sect of Paradise. Based on Hetao's hatred for Holy Sect of Paradise, he was most likely preparing to bloodbath Yangzhou Road. If this was the case, then Hetao would definitely
The Holy Bliss Army will not be tolerated to retreat calmly, but where are the soldiers from Hetao to stop the Holy Bliss Sect from moving south? Li Xiaomo is also a little confused.
"General Li, your army of destruction will cross the river immediately from these two pontoon bridges, and then obey the unified command of the blood commander." Xuanji walked to Li Xiaomo's side at some unknown time. This weak scholar who had no power to restrain a chicken actually participated.
After this battle, Li Xiaomo was somewhat surprised.
Xuanji probably had something to do, so after a quick chat, he walked towards Chu Lianfeng's deer-chasing army.
"Legion Commander, this fool is running around with only one guard. He is not afraid of someone giving him a knife in the dark." Li Zexing whispered beside him. Li Xiaomo lowered the Loop, which does not mean that
The soldiers under his command also surrendered to the Hetao. At least Li Zexing and others have always been very disrespectful to the senior officials of the Hetao. Even if they can call him "strategist" in person, they must have no good words behind their backs.
Li Xiaomo snorted coldly: "You think Xuanji is an idiot! The guard behind him is no less powerful than this general. Even a master like my father, if he wants to kill that guard, it will take at least
Beyond fifty moves. During this time, the Loop is fully capable of making corresponding countermeasures."
Li Xiaomo is different from Li Zexing. He is one of the top ten heroes in China. His martial arts skills are quite amazing, and his vision is extremely unique. He is sure that the guard behind Xuan Ji is at least a master of the same level as himself. Moreover, this
If a person can completely restrain his energy and spirit, his strength is probably still higher than his own. Ever since Haotian was assassinated, Hetao has attached great importance to the life safety of senior generals, not to mention a scholar like Xuanji who has no power to restrain a chicken. This is even more important.
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Thinking about it, Xuanji is the top executive in Hetao after all. How could he not have a master guard by his side? Chu Si, the disciple trained by Luo Xiang, is his personal bodyguard.
"Ze Xing, go and get ready. We are facing the Holy Sect of Ultimate Bliss in this battle. General, I don't care what you think in your heart, but the hatred between us and the Holy Sect of Ultimate Bliss is as deep as the sea. Everyone must move forward." Li
Xiao Mo snorted coldly.
Li Zexing performed a standard military salute and said in a deep voice: "Legion commander, please rest assured that our soldiers of the Destroyed Legion will never disgrace you. Huh, these bastards from the Holy Sect of Paradise, we have long wanted to crush them to death.
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Although they are not loyal to Hetao, Qinchuan soldiers still have the backbone and passion that the people of China should have. Regarding the Holy Sect of Paradise, Qinchuan soldiers are no less determined to destroy him than Hetao. However, due to various factors, Qinchuan soldiers
Before this, soldiers rarely had the opportunity to fight head-on with the Holy Bliss Cult.
Li Xiaomo crossed the Huaihe River and looked carefully for a while, but felt that something was wrong. The Hetao had gathered a total of 700,000 soldiers in the Raozhou area. In addition to the four cavalry regiments he saw and the mixed blood-killing regiment, Dugu's White Tiger Corps
, Jiang Chenzhou's Legion of Honor, Li Xiao's Red Snake Legion, and the Rock Legion's Zhu Xigao didn't show up. Whether they were preparing to teach the Zhang family a lesson under Raozhou City or they had other plans, Li Xiaomo was a little confused.
With the strength of Hetao, it is not impossible to deal with the Bliss Holy Sect and the Huaishui Zhang Family at the same time. The probability of victory is at least 70%. However, Hetao is quite rare for its soldiers. In every battle, they try their best to
to reduce the damage of their own soldiers. If they follow Hetao's usual battle pattern, they must have concentrated their superior forces to destroy one of them first, and then swept across Huai River and Yangzhou with a great victory. But now, unexpectedly, the troops have been divided. Very quickly
Obviously there must be something wrong here.
However, Li Xiaomo also had to admire the command of Hetao. The 150,000 soldiers of the Shattered and Zhulu Legions had recently surrendered. If they were to face the Huaishui Zhang Family, it was difficult to say whether they would do their best. Even in the
Under special circumstances, it is not impossible for the two legions to turn against each other on the battlefield. In that case, even if the Hetao army can escape by chance, it will definitely suffer heavy losses.
But the situation is different with the Holy Sect of Ultimate Bliss. Although our side had colluded with each other for a period of time before, the people in charge at that time were not Li Xiaomo and Chu Lianfeng. The middle and low-level officers in the army all hated the Holy Sect of Ultimate Bliss.
, there is no need to worry too much about the Hetao.
However, Hetao was still a little worried about his two legions, otherwise he would not have let the Blood Killing Legion come to suppress the formation.
Li Hao quietly approached Li Xiaomo's ear and whispered: "Legion Commander, does Hetao want us to be the vanguard and deliberately consume our strength?"
Li Xiaomo raised his eyebrows and shouted in a low voice: "Shut up! Don't you want to fight against the Holy Sect of Paradise?"
Li Hao said naa: "Legion Commander, this is not what I mean. However, Hetao is obviously consuming our strength and then further canceling our organization."
Li Xiaomo snorted coldly, but didn't say anything in the end. There were some things that he couldn't explain too clearly, and speaking out about these things would only alienate himself and his subordinates.
In the siege of Tiandu Shengjing, more than 15,000 soldiers were killed and more than 3,000 were seriously injured. However, Hetao did not allow Li Xiaomo to replenish soldiers from Qinchuan, nor from the Hetao area.
Instead of deploying reserve soldiers, they specially recruited nearly 20,000 young men from Yizhou Road to join the Destroyed Legion. Although Hetao did not replace the mid-level and senior generals of the Destroyed Legion, it weakened Li Xiaomo's control over the Destroyed Legion and took the opportunity.
The intention to reduce the purity of the Legion of Destruction is already obvious.
However, Li Xiaomo knew very well that Hetao was protecting himself because it was Ren Haotian who issued this order, not Luo Xiang or Xuanji.
In fact, Li Xiaomo himself knew very well that Qinchuan was not stable. Hetao did not station a single soldier in Qinchuan. Even the Llano Division of the Rock Army in Yinfeng Castle rarely left Yinfeng Castle. In the beginning,
At that time, Llano also deployed 20,000 soldiers to maintain order, but later, after the situation in Qinchuan stabilized slightly, Llano simply sent back the garrison. Now, although the prefect of Qinchuan Road is Shangguan Jun, he is not the prefect of the six states.
Four of them are old people from the Li family in Qinchuan. The only prefectures from Hetao are Han and Kangzhou in the north of Qinchuan.
In this way, Hetao was indeed very kind to the Li family in Qinchuan. At least, after pacifying the Song family in Yizhou, everyone in the Song family was killed by Xue Sha and others, and the core figure of the Li family was not only one
He is not dead, and there is still a complete legion and several local officials. Li Xiaomo is often scared to the point of breaking into a cold sweat when he thinks of the existence of the vicious Luo Xiang and the scheming Chu Xiangcheng.
Unlike other senior officials in Qinchuan, he knew very well that Qinchuan was finished now. The elders in the head of the family and the soldiers below were still brooding about Qinchuan's failure. They never forgot the glory of Qinchuan and wanted to restore it.
When Qinchuan was in glory, Li Xiaomo had already clearly seen Qinchuan's situation. Qinchuan had no hope unless he followed Hetao faithfully.
There is no garrison in the Hetao on Qinchuan Road, and there are even four magistrates who are old people from the Li family of Qinchuan. Except for the hundreds of thousands of people who were dragged by the Hetao to the Holy Capital of Tiandu to build the city at the beginning, the foundation of Qinchuan has not been shaken.
How much? They are not like the Song family in Yizhou. The core members of the family are still here, and they still have strong appeal.
In the eyes of some people in the family, as long as the Li family ascends to the top and shouts, millions of people will follow them like a shadow. Qinchuan can regain it in an instant, and even close the gap between Hetao headquarters and Tiandu Shengjing.
Contact is blocked. However, they have never faced this problem at all, that is, why is Hetao so confident about the Li family?
Hetao did not take Qinchuan seriously at all, or in other words, Qinchuan had lost the strength to become a serious opponent of Hetao. Qinchuan still had a regular army corps, but all the cavalry were cancelled, leaving only the infantry corps.
Can they compete with the Hetao cavalry on Qinchuan's territory?
The battle between Yinfeng Castle and Caiziba has shown that there is a big gap between the comprehensive combat capabilities of Qinchuan soldiers and that of Hetao. As for the generals, the current Qinchuan is no longer the Qinchuan of 620. The Li family at that time
There are many generals in the clouds. Although they cannot compare with Hetao, they are still more independent generals. But now, the only two capable generals in Qinchuan are himself and his second uncle Li Tiezhan. He is now being
Luo Xiang and others were tied to him. Qinchuan only had one Li Tiezhan, so why should he fight with Hetao?
It was precisely because he saw it so clearly that Li Xiaomo had to make the painful decision to completely surrender to the Hetao. Qinchuan did not have the capital to challenge the Hetao, and he did not want the millions of people in the territory to accompany his family's ambitions.
Buried. But why don't other generals in the family understand their painstaking efforts, or in other words, they simply don't dare to face it?
The sky was getting a little brighter. Li Xiaomo glanced around and saw that Chu Lianfeng's army of destruction had followed. As for the bloody mixed army, they were still following behind.
"General Li, twenty miles ahead is where the Holy Sect's army is. General, please prepare for battle immediately!" Luo Xiang came behind Li Xiaomo at some unknown time and said gloomily.
Li Xiaomo only felt a chill on his neck. This place is close to the Lonely Hills, and it is the place closest to the underworld in China. Although Li Xiaomo does not believe this, he is still a little afraid of the Lonely Hills.
At this moment, Luo Xiang really looked a bit like the legendary seducer, which made Li Xiaomo feel numb.
However, out of a general's instinct, Li Xiaomo still opened his mouth and asked: "Sir, the distance between the two armies is only twenty miles, and we have been walking on the territory of the Holy Sect of Paradise. Zhu Zhao has always been cautious. Is it possible?
The other party hasn’t discovered our traces yet?”
Luo Xiang chuckled: "The cavalry scouts of the Holy Sect of Paradise were basically wiped out. What they can really rely on is the reports from the local people. But if the people are gone, who can give them reports? Is it possible?
Are they those mountain spirits and ghosts in the lonely hills?"
Li Xiaomo was startled and looked at Luo Xiang blankly. Luo Xiang didn't take it seriously and just said with a smile: "General, do you think our cavalry is just holding the line from behind? After we crossed the Hualin Ferry,
The two cavalry regiments of Long Xiang and Feng Wu have already set off. There should not be a single citizen of the Holy Sect of Paradise on this journey."
Li Xiaomo's mouth felt a little dry, and he said that he always vaguely smelled the smell of blood. At first, he thought it was the impending war, and his blood was boiling. It turned out to be because of this.
However, Li Xiaomo was still a little surprised by the Fengwu Legion's participation in the battle, but Luo Xiang smiled and said: "The general doesn't know something. Since we are soldiers in Hetao, we should have the consciousness of soldiers. The stage for soldiers can only be
On the battlefield, putting on military uniforms and picking up weapons is just to go to the battlefield. Since the Fengwu Army is our regular army in Hetao, they naturally have this awareness."
After a pause, Luo Xiang said in a deep voice: "Besides, this is what they themselves requested."
Li Xiaomo was puzzled for a moment, and suddenly realized that the female soldiers of the Fengwu Army at the beginning were mainly the poor women rescued from the Yangzhou Road area and the women who dispersed to Hetao from Youyun Sixteen Prefectures. Although the Fengwu Army was
The entire army was wiped out in the Dingzhou defense battle, but among the soldiers who came later, half of the soldiers who went north on the Yangzhou Road also accounted for half. These people had been tortured by the Holy Sect of Paradise and wanted revenge, so it was reasonable to take the initiative to volunteer.
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When he thought of the genocide order that Hetao had issued a few years ago, Li Xiaomo became very frightened. The Sin of the Holy Sect deserved death, but not all the people on Yangzhou Road were guilty of death. Wait until Hetao is taken.
Yangzhou Road, if nothing happens, there will probably be no survivors in the entire Yangzhou Road area.
Li Xiaomo didn't want to continue on this heavy topic, because he understood that he himself had no ability to change at all, so he changed the topic and said: "Sir, although we have the advantage of cavalry, the Holy Sect of Paradise has the right location and people.
And, if we take the initiative to attack, they will definitely retreat to the south, or rely on the hills and mountains on the edge of the lonely hills to block our attack. I'm afraid it will be difficult to complete the victory in one battle."
Luo Xiang also admired Li Xiaomo very much and did not hide it at the moment. He said with a smile: "The general is really a noble man who forgets things. Is this the only number of cavalry we can use in Hetao?"
"Huh?" Li Xiaomo was stunned, his head spinning rapidly, and the troop deployment map of Hetao immediately appeared in his mind. The 650,000 troops heading south, except for the Huben Corps stationed in Tiandu Shengjing, the rest
Everyone has arrived here. Although there are still 10,000 cavalry in the Red Snake Legion, they are still a bit too thin for the Holy Bliss Cult.
The Huben Legion cannot be used, and the four legions including Qinglong all have missions. So, Hetao can only mobilize cavalry from other areas.
The Snow Lion Legion is currently on the Bloody Plateau. The three border guard legions of Golden Eagle, Gray Wolf, and Honor do not have many cavalry, and it is impossible to come all the way to help. And the pure cavalry legion in Hetao only has Falcon and Qinglong. Doesn't it make sense?
Wait! Li Xiaomo was wondering when an idea flashed in his mind and he suddenly had a direction.