Nalanke, lying on the bed, still smelled of alcohol.
Just as he was about to fall asleep, he suddenly heard someone coming to report from outside the tent.
"Report! The enemy has gathered their entire army and sent envoys to see His Highness!"
After hearing this, Nalanke woke up more than half of the time, sat up, put on his armor, took his sword and walked out of the tent.
"Give the order, everyone gather."
"yes!"
Half an hour later, Nalanke was riding on a war horse, followed by a dense crowd of soldiers.
When we arrived at the mouth of the valley, we saw torches not far away, illuminating the entire surrounding area.
He stared at the man and horse in front of the enemy not far away, frowning slightly, as if he wanted to see the opponent's face clearly, but unfortunately it was too far away to see clearly.
I saw the man and horse walking slowly towards this side. Upon seeing this, someone proposed to shoot him.
Nalanke raised his hand to stop him, thought for a moment and said, "I'll go meet him!"
"Your Highness! No! It would be difficult to deal with it if it was the enemy's conspiracy."
Nalank sneered and said: "What are you afraid of? In terms of martial arts, I have never been afraid of anyone. If the other party cheats, they can't shoot me from such a long distance!"
Saying this, Nalanke did not listen to the dissuasion, pulled the horse's rope, and walked forward slowly.
When the two horses met in front of the two armies, both of them saw clearly the appearance of the other party.
"What do you call your Excellency?" Nalanke asked, looking at the man in front of him who was not much older than himself.
The other party said slowly: "Li Qi."
"Narank." Narank asked after announcing his name, "I wonder what you want to discuss with me?"
"You have besieged us for so long and caused us heavy casualties... I don't want to continue to waste any more time. Do you dare to fight me to the death tonight?"
When Nalanke heard this, he rolled his eyes and laughed: "It seems that you want to fight with your last resort?"
"That's right, let me ask you whether you dare or not?!"
Nalanke sneered: "Why don't you dare!"
"Okay, tonight there will be no fight or breakup!"
After saying that, the two of them rode back towards their respective campsites.
Li Qi looked at Tian Hangnan who came back and breathed a sigh of relief.
He asked Tian Hangnan to pretend to be him and go over to have a fight with him, but he was actually panicking.
After all, Tian Hangnan was loyal to him no matter what. If he was killed by the other party who did not respect martial ethics, then he would probably feel very guilty.
"Captain Tian, thank you for your hard work." Li Qi hugged Tian Hangnan who jumped off the horse.
Tian Hangnan felt goosebumps all over his body when he was hugged like this, and suddenly something tightened: "Um... Sir, I'm fine, I'm fine."
Li Qi let go of him and said: "This time I count your credit, I will take the credit for you when you get back!"
"Thank you, sir."
Li Qi said: "Go ahead and let everyone prepare. The whole army will break through in no time."
"yes!"
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As soon as the hour came, Nalanke was fully armed and led his army to the entrance of the valley.
"How many troops do we have now?" Nalanke asked.
"Your Highness, our army now totals 40,000 people!"
"How many people are there guarding the back of the valley?"
"There are still more than five thousand people."
"Well, pass on the order and tell them not to act rashly."
"yes!"
When Nalank jumped on his horse, he saw bright lights in the summer camp not far away. The number of people seemed to be more than it had been for several hours, because Nalank saw that the light of the torches extended far away.
When the war drums sounded, Nalanke gave an order, and the soldiers of the Snow Country charged quickly with shouts.
The cavalry at the front would come to the enemy from time to time. Just when they were about to take action, the enemy actually turned around and ran away.
At this moment, all the cavalry were stunned, but when they thought of the order from the top, they continued to pursue regardless.
The people following the large army did not know the situation in front, so they could only follow the charge.
When the cavalry rushed into the Daxia military camp, they found that the camp was empty. Even the people who had escaped just now didn't know where they were.
Looking around, I saw torches everywhere in the camp.
The leading cavalryman noticed something was wrong, but when he wanted to turn around, he found that the people behind him had rushed in.
When I thought that there were more than 40,000 people on my side, while the enemy army only had less than 20,000 people, I became bolder. I ran around in the military camp, and I was bound to dig deep to find anyone.
On the other side of the valley, Tian Hangnan had led all his troops to break out.
Looking at the bloody path, Tian Hangnan took a deep breath and asked everyone to leave the valley at one go, but he looked towards the camp with some worry in his eyes.
He knew that if it weren't for Li Qi's plan this time, they might not be able to break out at all.
Long before launching his first breakout, Li Qi had formulated a plan. In his own words: "My move is to lure the tiger away from the mountain and attack in the east and west to break out!"
At the beginning, he kept testing the enemy, and each time he deliberately lost to the enemy.
Ultimately, casualties are used to buy time to paralyze the enemy.
Small-scale breakouts failed again and again, causing the enemy to underestimate the enemy more and more.
In the end, he sent Tian Hangnan to pretend to be himself and negotiate with the other party, saying that he would fight to the death. In fact, he was just making the other party feel that his side was weak.
During the decisive battle, the army organized themselves, packed their bags, and rushed to the rear of the valley to break through.
Because Li Qi knew that the other side must know the casualties on his side. Even if there were no precise statistics, with so many casualties every day, the other side would think that there were not many troops left on his side.
But who would have thought that all the casualties were accounted for by Li Qi's precise calculations.
In total, less than 2,000 people died and more than 8,000 were injured in the past few days.
Among the eight thousand people, there were more than five thousand who were able to fight.
These more than 5,000 people were responsible for transporting grain and grass, while the remaining more than 20,000 combat-effective people served as vanguards and broke out from the rear of the valley.
Li Qi calculated that even if the other party did not take it lightly, the number of people deployed behind the valley would not exceed 20,000.
So he felt that 20,000 vs. 20,000 had a great chance of winning. In addition, all of his troops were Imperial Guards, with refined equipment and experience in hundreds of battles, so he could definitely defeat the opponent.
It's a pity that he overestimated the opponent. The opponent was completely controlled by Li Qi, leaving only 5,000 people to guard the back of the valley.
Therefore, Tian Hangnan didn't have any trouble at all when he came out.
As for where Li Qi went?
Before the army set off, Li Qi held Tian Hangnan's hand and said, "Just leave a thousand people behind for me. I'll take the lead and you go first."
Upon hearing this, Tian Hangnan was stunned on the spot: "Sir, no!"
Li Qi insisted: "As your commander, I have the final say. I will go after you! I have caused so many brothers to suffer serious injuries, I must do something! You have always protected me, and now
Let me cover you!"
As soon as these words came out, not to mention Tian Hangnan, some of the captains and captains present could not help but be moved!
In the end, everyone present knelt on one knee in front of Li Qi, with their left hand on their chest, showing the highest courtesy in the military...