Thousands of brightly-armored light cavalry took brisk steps to the edge of the boundary, where they were stopped by a patrol team of twenty. The captain of the patrol team met the cavalry and shouted: "Stop! Ahead!"
This is the boundary of Dingxi Jiedushi. Who are you and why are you here?"
The leader of the cavalry said calmly: "You are so blind that you can't even recognize the flag of our Xu family? You dare to stop the soldiers and horses of the Xu family in the Western Region? Such people have not been born yet! Since your eyes are useless
, waste it for me!"
Two sharp arrows suddenly shot out, piercing the patrol leader's eyes and piercing his brain!
The captain fell to the sky, and the patrol members behind were shocked and angry. They immediately separated a few people and ran away to report the news. The rest stood in wait and slowly retreated. The knight leader tilted his mouth and said with a ferocious smile: "The bones are still strong, then all
Kill."
After a while, the cavalry continued to move forward, leaving behind twenty upright spears on the roadside, with a corpse on each spear. After more than ten miles into the boundary, they were finally stopped by a troop.
.
Although there were only two thousand people in the army in front of them, they were neatly dressed and wore very expensive breastplates. The weapons they held in their hands were of strange shape, perhaps the legendary muskets. The leader of the Xu family's cavalry frowned slightly and did not attack rashly.
He jumped off his horse and walked towards the opponent's military formation alone. One person from the boundary defense force also stepped out to greet him.
The leader of the Xu family's cavalry looked at his opponent who was just in the early stage of Daoji. He reached out and touched the opponent's chest and said, "Go back and tell your bullshit Jiedushi that our Xu family's army will be here soon! If you don't want to die, just let go."
Boundary Let us verify. Here are the specific requirements!
He directly slapped a piece of jade paper into the opponent's arms, and then led the team to leave. A moment later, the jade paper was placed in front of Wei Yuan and the Taichu Palace cultivators. Dozens of requirements were listed on the jade paper, including
:
1. The entire territory is open to inspection;
Second, all monks open their consciousness and accept inspection;
Third, all monks must plant restrictions, sign a blood contract, and promise not to do anything detrimental to the Xu family. Fourth, all Taichu Palace monks need to go to the Xu family to practice.
five,……
After reading the terms listed on the jade paper, Wei Yuan said slowly: "This is forcing me to start a war! Is the reconnaissance cavalry back?"
Cui Yu said: "A group of people have come back. It is currently known that the Xu family dispatched a total of 300,000 Western Jin official troops and their own private troops this time, and another 500,000 civilians to transport supplies, which is said to be one million. The specific composition of the troops needs to be further investigated.
reconnaissance."
Wei Yuan said: "The Xu family mobilized a total of 300,000 troops, but there was no will from King Jin. It seems that King Jin is not having a good life!"
Cui Yu said: "This is normal. Just like our Ji Zhao Cui family, we can send out a million troops at the limit. However, King Zhao's surname is Li, so we need to say hello to him, but in fact we don't need his will."
Only then did Wei Yuan understand the power of the family. Being able to mobilize hundreds of thousands of troops on his own was even worse than refusing to pay for food. The sphere of influence of the family was simply a country within a country.
At this time, a waiter suddenly came to report that Li Zhi, the envoy of the Zhenshan Festival of the State of Zhao, wanted to see him.
Wei Yuan was overjoyed and went to greet him. After a while, the two returned to the meeting hall. The cultivators in Taichu Palace were also familiar with Li Zhi. After greeting him, Li Zhi got straight to the point and said, "I heard that the Xu family was making a large-scale invasion, so I came here."
Help.”
Wei Yuan handed over the jade paper and said, "This is the request of the Xu family, please take a look."
Li Zhi took the jade paper and read it carefully, pondered for a moment, and said: "This is my plan to use the power of thunder to completely defeat you in one battle. It seems that what I expected is correct. The main target of the Xu family is not here, so I want to quickly
Decide the battle quickly, and then move your troops northward."
"Is there any other direction for the Xu family?"
Li Zhidao: "Why not? You Qingming has only been established for a few months, less than a year. Before that, the Xu family had been competing with the King of Jin and the Lu family for the three counties of Ganzhou, and they had been fighting openly and secretly for hundreds of years. Originally, the Xu family
The family had already succeeded, but then the Wu clan suddenly invaded and destroyed the four counties of Ningxi, which greatly damaged the Xu family's vitality. As a result, Ganzhou was lost again."
"Ganzhou? Is that where the world-famous silver mine is located?"
Li Zhi nodded: "That's right there. The two counties on the left and right are also rich in minerals. In these three counties alone, the annual income of immortal silver is fifteen million taels. In comparison, you, a poor Qing Ming, are nothing."
Li Zhi is a core disciple carefully cultivated by the Four Saints Academy, and he has followed the path of a human king, so he is more aware and familiar with the general trend of the world than the cultivators in the Taichu Palace.
"Brother Li, would it be inappropriate for you to directly fight the Xu family?" Wei Yuan asked.
Li Zhi nodded, and then said: "That's why I deliberately brought only five thousand elite light cavalry this time, preparing to use flexible methods, pretending to be horse bandits, and waiting for opportunities to harass the Xu family's rear grain road. As long as you, dear brother, can withstand it in the front
, the grain road in the rear is unstable, and the Xu family will retreat soon.
"This matter is not trivial. Can Brother Li be sure? If it falls into the hands of the Xu family, the consequences will be disastrous."
Li Zhi smiled and said: "I am leading all the elites of the Southern Qi this time. How can those miscellaneous soldiers of the Xu family be my opponent? As for Gao Xiu, I have the support of the elders of the academy and the protection of the men sent by my father. Unless the Xu family is a true king,
Take action, otherwise you won't be able to do anything to me."
Wei Yuan said sternly: "This time there should be a real king from the Xu family who takes action secretly."
Li Zhi chuckled and said, "I'm not afraid of that! You are more hated by others. Even if the True Lord takes action secretly, he will only greet you."
After the two sides agreed on the method of information exchange, Li Zhi led his army to leave. They had already changed their clothes and moved far behind the Xu family's army.
Ningzhou Qianqiu City.
In the Privy Council, dozens of vigorous figures sat around, all staring at the huge sand table in front of them. The sand table showed the terrain of the northern part of the Jin Kingdom, and the farthest north was the Liao Territory.
The leader said slowly: "The Lu family seemed to believe that the Immortal Ancestor was seriously injured and refused to return the three counties of Ganzhou. Instead, they frequently increased their troops. If the battle cannot be resolved quickly, changes may occur."
"The Lu family has suffered heavy losses in the north, but they are still so bold?"
"The old ghost of the Lu family is far from a rival to the Immortal Ancestor. He has occupied three counties for several years and is still not satisfied! There is a way to kill him!
The man at the head pressed down his hands, waited for silence, and said: "The Immortal Ancestor has a far-reaching layout, which he had expected. Now Xu Zhongnian is ordered to attack with all his strength, without scruples or holding back. If Wei Yuan knows this,
Just keep the Qingming Realm. If you don't know how to promote it, then break the boundary stone and bring it back. True Lord Qi Niu will go to the Western Region to take charge, while I will go to the north to supervise the battle. Hey, it's been a long time since I competed with the old opponents of the Lu family.
"
Someone said: "If you don't have any scruples, I'm afraid Taichu Palace will take action."
The leader said: "Don't worry. The northern mountain gate of Taichu Palace is in danger. All true kings must do their best to protect the northern mountain gate. Come and compete with us at this time. Do you really not want the northern mountain gate?"
Everyone was convinced, and some people laughed and said: "The Taichu Palace is used to being arrogant, and they will always fall into trouble! When they set up the Northern Mountain Gate, they went thousands of miles deep, and only wanted to block our way out. Have they ever thought that today would happen?"
"If you don't have the ability, you still want to be alone. You deserve it! Now they are blocking the front and are a thorn in the side of Cheng Fang Beiliao. We can act as we please. No matter what we do, they will have to suffer!"
"Haha, wouldn't it be extremely unfilial to lose the treasure land transformed from the ancestor's body?"
"When their northern mountain gate falls, I will also go and urinate to moisten the precious soil transformed from the bodies of the ancestors of Taichu Palace!"
The Qingming Realm has begun full preparations for war. Only the weapon forging workshop is operating at full capacity, and all other work has stopped, and all manpower has been turned to the war.
There is an acropolis called Xuanweisan on the route of the Xu family's army. Wei Yuan deployed 10,000 soldiers here, all hidden underground just like when dealing with the Wu clan.
But now the equipment of the army in the realm is completely different. Each soldier is equipped with a new reloadable musket with five rounds of ammunition. In addition, more than 20,000 old-fashioned and obsolete muskets are also placed here. Even if the Xu family comes this time
The criminal army was all at the level of the northern frontier army. It was impossible to capture Xuanweisan without the death of 60,700 to 70,000 people.
Watching the troops enter Xuanweisan, Wei Yuan suddenly thought that if he could have had the current firepower configuration, Yun Feifei would not have fallen.
Twenty miles behind Xuan Wei San is Wei Yuan's preset decisive battle position. The terrain here is flat. Although it is closer to Xuan Wei San, Wei Yuan believes that his opponent cannot refuse the temptation of convenient cavalry movements.
At this time, there were more than 100,000 people working day and night on the position. In one day and night, more than ten trenches were dug here, connected to each other and as dense as a spider web.
The Xu family's army did not move quickly, and finally arrived at the boundary three days later, and then set up camp here.
In the early morning of the second day, the former army's 10,000 heavy cavalry and 50,000 light cavalry took the lead in dispatching and entered the boundary city, officially kicking off the battle.
In the center of the cavalry, Xu Zhongxing, the guard of Hanyang Pass, looked at the surrounding troops and said, "I haven't personally led an army in a battle for several years."
One of the fierce generals around him also lamented: "When my eldest brother and I fought the Wu clan to death, I was hit by a blood curse and almost died. If my eldest brother hadn't carried me back, I, Old Fan, wouldn't have survived.
today."
Xu Zhongxing sighed faintly and said: "When I returned to my old place, the one I was fighting was not the Wu clan.
Fan Donghe said: "Brother, be careful what you say. The elders following the Chinese army seem to be trying to find fault with you."
Xu Zhongxing snorted and said, "It's just that he's attracted to the 100,000 elite soldiers I trained."
Fan Donghe made a sound and said: "We have trained elite soldiers, but they can also command them?! When we had a bloody battle with the Wu clan, why didn't we see them come to help? Seeing that they were being pinched, one by one Everyone jumped out! Especially the old and immortal Xu Qirui, who is so full of magic and has become so virtuous. He doesn’t know when the disaster will come, and there will be thirty pairs of boys and girls! This kind of person is immortal, it’s really God has no eyes! "
Xu Zhongxing sighed: "You should say less."
Fan Dong and Xing stopped talking angrily, and then said: "To be honest, I still admire Wei Yuan. I hope he won't be stupid this time and can keep Qing Ming intact. If Qing Ming is broken, it will really be What a shame."
"How can he be someone who is willing to compromise?"
"Why do we have to attack here first? Can't we go directly to Ganzhou?"
Xu Zhongxing sighed: "This is the obsession of the Immortal Ancestor. There is no way."
At this point, both of them were silent. At this time, there was a sudden commotion in the front army. The two of them rode forward and came to the front of the team. They saw an ancient tree on the roadside with more than a dozen people hanging on the tree. They were all envoys sent by Xu Zhongxing to persuade them to surrender.
Looking at the corpses floating in the wind, Xu Zhongxing said calmly: "It seems that this battle is inevitable. Let's go and try the methods of Taichu Palace. I hope that the disciples and grandsons of Fenhai Laodao will not let me down."
Chapter completed!