On the northern frontier of the Great Zhou Empire, a neat and tidy hoplite cavalry is slowly marching.

This army numbered about three thousand men, each dressed in heavy armor and armed with sharp spears and scimitars.

Wherever they passed, countless pedestrians retreated one after another, because the murderous aura on their bodies was too heavy.

"General, fifty miles ahead, you will find the location of the sect of the Ice Valley, and after two days of walking through the Ice Valley, you can reach the border army station," a scout said to Huo Quai, who was at the front of the army.

This heavy cavalry was the Tiger Legion, and a few days after they set out from the Imperial City, they were about to reach the border garrison in the northern part of the Great Zhou.

When Huo Qubing heard this, he said to the soldiers around him: "Order the troops, don't disturb the people of Bing Valley." ”

Most of the disciples in the Ice Valley have gone to the Imperial City, but there are still a small number of disciples who choose to stay in the sect.

Since they have been loyal to the empire, of course Huo Qubing can't let the soldiers bother them,

The people in Binggu are all beautiful women, and although the Tiger Ben Legion has strict military discipline, it is still necessary for Huo Qubing to give advice to avoid mistakes.

After the scout left, Huo Qubing said to Luo Cheng beside him: "General Luo Cheng, we are about to go to the barracks of the northern border army, what do you think?"

Luo Cheng thought for a while and said, "The last general is stupid, and he hasn't figured out how to deal with these 300,000 border troops. ”

Although Luo Cheng is older than Huo Quai, Huo Qubing is the coach of the Tiger Ben Army, so he maintains enough respect for the other party.

And through this conversation, Luo Cheng also admired Huo Quzhi's military talent very much, so he became more and more respectful.

Huo Quzhi didn't ask Luo Cheng again, but looked into the distance and said meaningfully: "Luo Cheng, in fact, my idea is not to go to the border army for the time being, let's take a detour to the grassland to meet the fierce barbarians, how about it?"

Huo Quai's words made Luo Cheng hesitate a little: "General, Your Majesty asked us to go to the north in order to subdue the military power of the border army, if we take a detour into the grassland halfway, I am afraid that we will be charged with disobeying the emperor's order." ”

Huo Quzhi shook his head and said with a smile: "Your Majesty is asking us to take back the military power of the Northern Border Army, but we have never said how to take it back, so no matter what we do, as long as we achieve our goal, it will not be considered disobedience." ”

Luo Cheng thought about it for a while, and found that Huo Quai's words were indeed reasonable, so he asked, "Then I don't know what the general thinks?"

Huo Quzhi didn't answer and asked: "How likely do you think it is that we will go to the border army now and take back military power?"

Luo Cheng didn't know what to do, so he could only reply: "It's very small, the northern border army is different from the other armies of the Great Zhou Empire, they fight against the grassland tribes all year round, so their personality is also extremely wild and uninhibited. ”

"Although you and I are very strong and can easily capture and kill their main generals, these border troops will never surrender to us because of this, and may even launch a retaliatory attack on us, and then we will be in trouble. ”

As a leading general, he still understands this very clearly, not to mention that they have a disparity of 100 to 1 between them and the border army, just the northern border army's fearless nature is not easy to subdue.

Although this kind of army is very effective in combat and is also admired by those who are generals, in today's situation, this style has become an obstacle for them.

Huo Quzhi smiled and said: "Since we went to the barracks and couldn't subdue them, then why should we do this in vain?"

Luo Cheng pondered for a moment, and then said, "The last general still doesn't understand, and I ask the general to make it clear." ”

Huo Quzhi finally stopped playing dumb: "You have just said that the north is wild and uninhibited, and their personalities are explosive, but they also admire the strong very much, if they can't prove our ability, they will never give in, so I thought of a way to prove our strength to them." ”

Huo Quai's words have come to this, Luo Cheng also understood a little, he said with some concern: "General, you should know the strength of the vulture tribe, it is equivalent to a dynasty-level super force, is it really appropriate for our mere army of three thousand to enter the grassland?"

Luo Cheng is not afraid of death, as Huo Quai's deputy general, he has the obligation to persuade Huo Qubing to stay calm.

Huo Quzhi explained: "The strength of the vulture tribe is indeed not inferior to that of the dynasty, but this does not mean that the barbarians near the border of my Great Zhou are very strong. ”

"As far as I know, most of the truly powerful sub-tribes of the Vulture Tribe are located around their royal court, which is equivalent to the capital, and the royal court is millions of miles away from my Great Zhou, and these powerful sub-tribes are not interested in managing the affairs of the Great Zhou at all. ”

"And these small tribes close to the Great Zhou, although there are many people, but the real strength is only one line stronger than my Great Zhou, plus the vast terrain of the grassland is very suitable for cavalry mobile combat, when we adopt the method of raiding and harassing the battle, the numerical advantage of those barbarians will be gone. ”

Huo Qubing of this world has the memory of living on the northern border for more than ten years, and can be said to be very familiar with the grasslands and barbarians.

This guerrilla warfare method of his was also borrowed from the previous habit of the barbarians to plunder the people in the surrounding areas, and it can be said that he used his own way to govern others.

However, Luo Cheng still didn't feel at ease and said: "Although the vulture tribe doesn't care about this grassland, but if we really do this, will it cause the vulture tribe to have a strong bullet......?

Huo Quzhi shook his head and said: "There is no need to worry about this, even if the massacre we launched against the grassland barbarians will really attract the attention of the vulture tribe and its subordinate small tribes, at most they will launch some small tribes to start a war against the Great Zhou, rather than launching a war to destroy the country head-on." ”

"Judging from the bad relationship between the human race and the barbarians, if the forces around the royal court of the vulture tribe dare to personally intervene in this small-scale friction, then this war will evolve into a dynasty-level war. ”

"This is not what the Iron and Blood Dynasty wants to see, nor is it what the Vulture Tribe wants to see, so the worry of the big forces of the Vulture Tribe interfering is completely unnecessary. ”

Luo Cheng thought about it for a while, and felt that what Huo Quzhi said was indeed true, and he couldn't help asking: "Then do we continue to go to the northern garrison now, or do we go to ...... instead?"

Huo Quzhi said in a deep voice: "Order the troops, after passing through the ice valley, bypass the garrison of the northern border army, and we will go directly to the grassland!"

The original plan was overturned by Huo Quai, and he began a crazy and daring plan.

Two days later, the 3,000 Tiger Legion plus Luo Cheng's Yanyun Eighteen Cavalry bypassed the garrison of the northern border army of Great Zhou and came to the vast grassland.

At the same time, in the tent of the commander of the Northern Army stationed in the cold city, a scout was reporting the latest military situation to the senior generals of the Northern Army.

"Marshal Qiqi, according to the news from the secret posts on the front line, this morning there was a heavy cavalry of about 3,000 people, bypassing our army's defense area and heading straight for the grassland. ”

(End of chapter)