"Chapter 81: Taking the Initiative"
It is precisely because you have no love in your heart that you keep looking for love from the outside to fill yourself, and this lack of love is your loneliness, and when you see this truth, you will never try to fill it with external people or things.
- Krishnamurti (the greatest spiritual teacher of the twentieth century)
In the governor's palace of Langxiang County, Shuerhaqi, who was frowning, told the other two what he had just known, and then asked them: "Third brother, brother Urgudai, you all talk about it, what should we do?"
"Second brother, what else can we do?" Murhaqi, who has always been the only one who is the first to look at Shulhaqi, said bluntly, "Of course, I will quickly lead the army to attack and defeat those weak but incapable Tianlong troops in one fell swoop!"
"Murhazibel, I think that this time the Heavenly Dragon army took the initiative to enter our occupied area, I'm afraid it's not a good person!"
"Even if they have an army of 300,000, what can they do?" After glancing at Urgudai with a little dissatisfaction, Murhaqi said in a disdainful tone: "No matter how many sheep there are, they are just sheep after all, and our tiger and wolf army can easily defeat them!"
Hearing such arrogant remarks from Murkhazy, Urgudai, who secretly shook his head in his heart, directly gave up his plan to persuade the other party to pay attention to the enemy army; in his opinion, instead of persuading Murhaqi to play the piano, it was better to go back and contact the two white flags himself.
"Third child, if you are too underestimated, you will suffer sooner or later. After saying a word about Murhazy, Shulhaqi asked Urgudai, who was speechless, "Brother Urgudai, do you think we have a chance of defeating the Celestial Dragon Army?"
"This ......" Urgudai, who felt a little embarrassed, met the earnest eyes of his in-laws, and after thinking about it again and again, he couldn't help but say honestly: "Brother Shuerhaqi, it's not that I'm arrogant, it's really that the number of the Heavenly Dragon Army is too huge!"
"No matter how strong our cavalry is, it is impossible to fight endlessly, the other side has nearly 300,000 troops, and we have only 60,000 cavalry that can fight; ”
Urgudai, whose voice was heavy, said what he really thought in his heart; Murhaqi, who raised his brows when he heard this, just wanted to refute Urgudai, but Shulhaqi glared back, and he didn't even have a chance to speak.
"Alas, Brother Urgudai, why don't I understand what you said?" Shuerhaqi, who sighed for a long time, said to Urgudai with a wry smile: "But do you think that the Eight Banners, which we have just experienced less than half a month of the bloody night, can we still join forces to fight together?"
"I believe that with the wisdom of your elder brother, he will certainly not refuse to join forces with us to meet the enemy with the yellow flag and the red flag, but are the cavalrymen under your command willing to fight together with the cavalry with the yellow flag and the red flag? This is our problem!"
"Yes, a bloody night, we lost far more than 6,000 soldiers, but also mutual trust. Speaking of this, the Urgudai Huoran, who had a flash of inspiration, was shocked and said, "The bloody night, could it be the deliberate provocation of the Tianlong people?"
"How is this possible?!" Murhaqi, who was shocked by Urgudai's statement, retorted very naturally: "Our defense of Langxiang County is so tight, there is no possibility for the army of the Tianlong people to infiltrate Langxiang County City on a large scale. ”
"Even if they left some secret agents in the city of Langxiang County, how could they provoke the scuffle of our Eight Banners with only those weak secret agents, and the incident that night was caused by our own internal conflicts, don't be alarmist!"
"Have you forgotten, Murhazibel? When we entered the city the next day, we found many fallen soldiers, and their cotton armor had been stripped off! Do you think that our own warriors would have stripped off the cotton armor worn by the corpses?"
Urgudai, whose thinking suddenly became active, did not give Murhaqi a chance to continue to refute, and he reasoned to himself: "Perhaps, it is not the secret agents of the Tianlong people who sneaked into the county city of Langxiang, but an elite team composed of all Tianlong powerhouses. ”
"They first took advantage of the darkness of night to climb the city wall, assassinate a group of patrol soldiers of a certain banner on the city wall, and then put on the cotton armor of these soldiers to provoke the patrol soldiers of other flags in the city; ”
Urgudai's inference that it was identical to the facts was not accepted by Shulhazy and Murhazy, and while Urgudai's inference sounded plausible to the Shulhazy brothers, it seemed in fact too bizarre and unreasonable.
If the powerhouses of the Celestial Dragon Empire really had such a great ability to quietly climb the city wall and kill all the patrolling soldiers on the city wall, then why didn't they use this trick when they were defeated and lost ground a few months ago?
At that time, the province of Langxiang and the province of Mulhouse further north had just fallen, and the people of Tianlong had a strong sense of resistance, as long as the Tianlong Empire organized a few more night raids of this magnitude, they would even have the opportunity to take advantage of the chaos to recapture the possibility of recovering the occupied area.
Even when the situation in the Heavenly Dragon Empire was at its most critical, he had never used a similar method, and it was obviously unreasonable to use this trick now;
After the conclusion of the inference about the Scarlet Night, Shulhazy began to discuss with Urgudai about sending troops to test the reality of the Celestial Dragon army, according to Shulhaqi's idea, he planned to let his younger brother Murhaqi lead the cavalry of the Red Banner to attack and test.
However, there was an army that led to Ulgudai in Belfortshire or Pomeralydams, but he objected, and Urgudai, who took the initiative to ask for help, wanted to lead his own red flag to attack to test the reality of the Celestial Dragon army, and then turn around to join the white flag or the white flag.
Of course, in Urgudai's words, his purpose in leading his army to Belfort or Pomereledamus was to join up with the Solgobel or Subahaybel there, and persuade them to join forces in the aid of Longchamps against the Celestial Dragons, who had launched the Reconquista.
However, Shuerhaqi, who really needed reinforcements from two white flags, did not refuse Urgudai's offer of invitation, but only suggested that he temporarily leave the 5,000 infantry with red flags in Langxiang City.
Shulhazy's suggestion was not to weaken the strength of the Red Banner, or to keep Urgudai's army as a hostage or anything, but he was very careful to think about Urgudei, after all, the mobility of infantry was not comparable to that of cavalry.
Early the next morning, 19,000 cavalrymen with red flags, each carrying five days' worth of dry rations, quickly left the garrison camp outside Longxiang City under the personal command of their banner master, Ulgudaibel, and rushed towards the Tianlong army more than 100 miles away!
At this moment, the army of Baifeng, which was approaching the southern end of the Oldwell Gorge, had already been deployed near the canyon in six ways, waiting for the garrison of Longxiang County to launch an attack on them;