When writing a letter to King Muliqing, King Jinanta was not just asking for help.
The war has developed to the current scale and can be regarded as a decisive battle between the two tribes, which is related to the life and death of the Western Barbarians.
How to fight the decisive battle? Such important decisions require the three major clans to make decisions together and make unified arrangements before starting a war with the Jin court.
As a result, with superior military strength, King Jinanta decided to stand still.
Of course, he also sent a small army to harass, and made the army ready to be dispatched at any time.
The transmission speed of the Western Barbarians was relatively slow. After a few days of harassment, the Jin army roughly figured out their intentions.
Of course, in the past few days, the troops and supplies in the large and small cities near the two mountain forts have been strengthened, and they seem to be preparing for a decisive battle.
At one time, more than 200,000 troops gathered within a fifty-mile radius of the two mountain forts.
It's December, and although it hasn't snowed heavily, the temperature has become extremely low.
Zhao Yanxun has stayed in Liangshan Fort for seven days, and Zhao Yanxun is currently reading the report.
There are reports from the Cabinet and the Privy Council about the court situation, as well as military reports from the Northwest Governor's Office.
More than a month after he left the capital, the overall situation across the country was stable.
In addition to talking about various domestic situations, officials also tried their best to persuade Zhao Yanxun to stay away from frontline command.
"These guys underestimate me too much!" Zhao Yanxun said with a smile.
Half an hour passed, and after reading all the memorials, Zhao Yanxun walked out of the house. There was heavy snow falling outside.
As December enters, the temperature has become colder and colder. Normally, this time is not suitable for fighting.
But there is no other way. Even if Zhao Yanxun does not take the initiative to provoke a war, the top leaders of the Western Barbarians will choose to start a war in December.
Their food supply cannot sustain them for long, and if they continue to do so, they will only drag themselves down.
Zhao Yanxun took the initiative to "attack". Although it disrupted the deployment of the Western Barbarians' senior leaders, it was not necessarily a bad thing for these people.
Being able to fight decisively as soon as possible is what they want, provided they can win.
Facing the snowflakes that hit his face, Zhao Yanxun walked on the fortress wall and glanced towards the northwest.
"How far are the reinforcements from the Western Barbarians from us?" Zhao Yanxun asked casually.
"Report to your Majesty, the vanguard of the 30,000-strong army is less than a hundred miles away from our army!" Xu Hong replied.
After the invitation from King Jinan Tower, the Muliqing people chose to increase their troops for a decisive battle. They have been busy deploying troops and generals these days.
Stopping, Zhao Yanxun said calmly: "It's time for Fang Sheng and the others to send back the news!"
There are 30,000 imperial troops stationed in the northwest. They were originally evenly distributed in the northwest of Tianshan County and were responsible for defending against raids by the Western Barbarians.
But now the situation has changed greatly, and the garrison troops stationed in various places have been mobilized. The imperial army as the backbone is naturally inevitable.
The left and right heroic guards and the left and right heroic cavalry guards are now within fifty miles of the two mountain forts. They have fought several battles with the Western Barbarian army in the past few days.
As for the troops and horses of Long Zhiwei, on the surface, the main force remained at the original station, but they sent partial divisions to sneak to the northwest.
Their purpose was to attack the Western Barbarians from the rear, especially to destroy their food routes.
These people's laborious expeditions inevitably stretched the food route, which was their weakest link.
Once a successful attack on the enemy's food road is successful, it will at least destabilize the morale of the army, and in severe cases, it can directly destroy the enemy's fighting spirit.
At this moment, Fang Sheng, who was mentioned by Zhao Yanxun, was lurking three hundred miles away from Liangshan Fort with his two thousand households.
Thanks to the Western Barbarian cavalry who lured away the zombies, Fang Sheng could lead his troops to sneak around in the northwest land at will, using high maneuverability and detours to avoid the detection of the Western Barbarian scouts.
During the past few days of sneaking into the northwest, Fang Sheng encountered several food transport teams, but Fang Sheng was not in a hurry to take action.
It's not that he can't catch it, but that he wants to catch a bigger fish, and he finally caught it today.
A few minutes later, the sound of horse hooves approached quickly, which cheered up Fang Sheng.
"Lord Commander, their grain transport team has arrived, just twenty miles away...with only three thousand infantry escorts!"
Fang Sheng laughed, and saw him saying to his left and right: "Pass my general's orders, and all units can set off to annihilate the enemy!"
They have 2,000 troops. It is not difficult to overwhelm 3,000 infantry. What matters is how to avoid casualties.
Fortunately, Fang Sheng has already distributed the "grenades" shipped from the capital, and they will definitely have a big effect this time.
The army began to march, and scouts kept coming back and forth to report the situation.
Fang Sheng sent out a large number of scouts. As a team specialized in transporting grain, the Western Barbarians also sent out many scouts.
When Fang Sheng's troops approached seven or eight miles away, they were discovered by the Western Man scouts, who immediately returned to report the situation.
The Western Barbarians have a large number of cavalry, but the number of their infantry is even greater. The teams that can be selected to transport food are even more elite among their infantry.
When he learned that the Jin army had appeared, the commander of the grain transport team was a little panicked, but he immediately organized his troops for defense.
At this moment, it was too late to find a suitable village, so he could only organize defense on the spot.
The grain transport team was two miles long in front and back, so they shrank back and forth. After a few minutes, its length had been shortened to 300 meters.
They built a wall around the grain truck and temporarily cut down nearby trees to form a barrier. A simple but practical position was formed.
It's a distance of seven or eight miles, and the cavalry can arrive in twenty minutes.
When one mile away from the Ximan position, Fang Sheng ordered to stop. He found a high-lying place to observe the situation ahead.
"This is an easy arrangement. Let's just attack by force... Give them the order and give them a ring!"
"Sir, how much do you want to put in?"
"Thirty pills!" Fang Sheng said after careful calculation.
Although the production of grenades has increased now, they are still rare items, and Fang Sheng is reluctant to squander them.
Of course, he was even more looking forward to the artillery piece Zhang Junru was tinkering with. He heard that it could kill an enemy from hundreds of steps away.
As Zhang Junru's order was conveyed, thirty cavalrymen carrying grenades increased their speed and rushed toward the Western Barbarian army.
They increased their speed very quickly and soon entered the shooting range of Western Man bows and arrows, but the Western Man army did not fire arrows in large numbers.
Arrows are precious, but more than thirty people came to inquire about the situation. In the opinion of the Western Barbarian commander, just shooting a few arrows is enough.
Of course, even if the Western Barbarian army fired arrows in large numbers, these grenade-throwing soldiers were not afraid at all, because not only did they wear armor themselves, but their horses also had specially made iron armor.
Soon, thirty cavalrymen approached within 20 meters of the Western Barbarian army formation, which was already a very close distance.
The cavalrymen took out grenades and torches from their arms. When the wind blew, the torches ignited flames, but they were not in a hurry to light the fuses.
"ignition!"
As the leading officer shouted, the soldiers on the scene lit the fuse and then threw it towards the Western Barbarian army formation.
They had rehearsed the entire process of throwing mines countless times on weekdays, so now all the actions were done in one go.
The grenade fuse is 20 centimeters long and can burn for about ten seconds, ensuring the user's safety.
Seeing the black lumps flying from a distance and falling to the ground with sparks emitting, the Western soldiers were confused.
Although I don’t know what this thing is, since it was thrown by the enemy at the risk of death, it must be very dangerous.
So these soldiers slowly approached with shields in hand, and then... there was a loud "boom".
Earth-shattering explosions resounded in the Western Barbarian army formation, followed by countless corpses and broken arms...
Because the formation was too dense, more than two hundred people were killed on the spot, five to six hundred people were injured to varying degrees, and the screams were endless.
Of course, the violent explosion frightened all the Western Barbarian soldiers, and fear spread among the survivors.
At this time, seeing a big hole in the Western Barbarian army's formation, Fang Sheng issued the order to attack.
