Chapter 426: Snowfield Night Attack
When night fell, the princess's guard of honor set up camp in the snowfield.
To go to the capital of the wasteland, according to the current speed of the convoy, it will take at least half a month.
Tuoba Qiu was not in a hurry, because a group of bandits came from the land of the wasteland - he naturally knew that it was not a bandit, but a special force of the Excalibur from Pingling Mountain.
He had already received information about this team, and in less than a month, this team had traveled nearly thousands of miles to attack six pastures in the wasteland and robbed nine market towns.
What do they want to do?
It was in Tuoba Qiu's tent that Tuoba Yuan asked this sentence.
Tuoba Qiu's face was serious, "Thinking about it, they are here to cause chaos in the wasteland. ”
Tuoba Yuan understood this, and in order to exterminate this army, the wasteland dispatched 60,000 cavalry to outflank it in three ways.
Unfortunately, they have not succeeded in intercepting them so far, and have lost at least 10,000 troops.
The 60,000 cavalry moved in this ice and snow, and the grain and grass consumed was very large, although there was no need to transport grain and grass from the rear, but the grain and grass stored in the border towns could not withstand such a toss.
With less than 4,000 troops, they held back 60,000 elite cavalry in the wasteland, and their horses were also robbed, and the grain and grass they needed were also robbed.
"That'...... What about the big one? ”
Tuoba Qiu was silent for a long time, "If you say it bigger, I'm afraid it's going to destroy the wasteland." ”
Tuoba Yuan was stunned, and 4,000 people destroyed the wasteland?
It's simply not possible!
Although the area of the wasteland is the smallest among the four countries, and the population is also the smallest, there are still tens of millions of people in the Eight Banners, and with the ...... of 4,000 people, my father is afraid that he has overthought it.
"Don't say you don't believe it, I'm afraid the king won't believe it either." Tuoba Qiu took a sip of wine and said slowly: "That's right, there are only 4,000 of them, but since these people entered the wasteland, they have killed 16,000 soldiers of our country, not counting the 20,000 elites who died in Pingling Mountain." ”
"They robbed at least 10,000 horses and destroyed six ranches. This may not seem like a serious loss, but don't forget, we haven't killed a single one of them yet! ”
"Raising war with war, this used to be our strategy for the desolate people to go south, but now it is used by this divine sword!"
Tuoba Qiu took a deep breath and said in an extremely heavy tone, "Although the ant is small, it can bite an elephant to death. If we still have no way to deal with them, let me ask you, in a year's time, do you think our country will still have war horses? But there are still elite soldiers? ”
Tuoba Qiu suddenly realized - this Excalibur Army is not trying to conquer the city, their goal is the war horses of the Wasteland, they only need to destroy all the pastures, destroy all the war horses, and under the chase of the Wasteland cavalry, the soldiers of the Wasteland will be eliminated one by one, so can the Wasteland still exist?
"We can't do anything about them?"
"When the firearms in their hands are exhausted, I am afraid we will have a chance to destroy them...... You have seen Fu Xiaoguan in the Wu Dynasty, what kind of person is this person? ”
Tuoba Qiu asked with a frown.
Tuoba Yuan thought for a while and replied: "The child has never felt the slightest military atmosphere in him, he has a strong scholarly taste, and his talent is indeed extremely high. If you want to talk about scheming, he calculated Yan Hanyu, the sixth prince of Yi Kingdom, which caused Yan Hanyu to lose an arm, and later Yan Hanyu actually wanted to invite him to Liuyuntai. ”
"This man is a lover of money and a lover of lust. When Emperor Wen issued a clear decree confirming him as the prince, he didn't even go to the Liuyuntai Wenhui to present the award, but went to the mansion of the great eunuch Gao Gonggong of the Wu Dynasty and robbed him of something worth hundreds of thousands of taels of silver. And in terms of his greed, the ministers of the Wu Dynasty had already planned a national draft when he entered the East Palace......"
"The Wu Dynasty national draft has not appeared in three dynasties, but for him, it almost started again."
"It's best if he dies, if this guy really ascends the throne and becomes the emperor of the Wu Dynasty, with his feelings of living in the Yu Dynasty for seventeen years, I'm afraid it will be extremely unfavorable for me to go south."
Tuoba Qiu stroked his beard and bowed slightly, but the worry between his eyebrows did not dissipate.
It has been less than a year since the establishment of this Excalibur Army, and both its combat methods and its weapons and equipment far surpass all armies in this world.
This training method was naturally concocted by Fu Xiaoguan, and Bai Yulian was the person in charge.
This means that even if Fu Xiaoguan dies, such an army will still be produced in a steady stream, and their weapons and equipment will also be produced in a steady stream.
The firearm had already been handed over to the craftsmen of Yiguo to study, and they didn't know when they would be able to make this great killing weapon.
This is the heaviest stone pressed on Tuoba Qiu's chest, if the Yu Dynasty has more than 10,000 such soldiers, with this kind of firearms and red-clothed cannons, how can the gate of this barren country be able to hold on!
At that time, it will be the biggest crisis of the wasteland.
Tuoba Yuan didn't know that Tuoba Qiuzhi's anxiety would be in the next year or two, he also took a sip of wine, and was about to speak, but suddenly stood up.
There was a fierce sound of horses' hooves in the vast snowfield!
The snow in the snowfield was already a foot thick, and the sound of horses' hooves could be heard so clearly that the cavalry was very close to the place.
"Could it be a divine sword?"
Tuoba Qiu also frowned and listened, and after five breaths, he smiled and said, "Two thousand horses, just in time." ”
At this moment, not far from this camp, a cavalry of more than 10,000 people also launched a charge, rushing towards the two thousand Excalibur cavalry who came from the snow in the night.
Tuoba Yuan was stunned, Tuoba Qiu smiled and said: "They came to kidnap Her Royal Highness the Third Princess and bring Her Royal Highness the Third Princess back to the Yu Dynasty, so I arranged 10,000 cavalry here, and there are also 10,000 cavalry at the next stop. ”
"My father is wise, but ...... They brought the third princess back to the Yu Dynasty, isn't it redundant? ”
"No, since the letter of state has been signed, it is necessary for the third princess to enter the wasteland. But if they robbed the third princess in the guise of bandits, not only would this not violate the agreement on the national letter, but also give Yu Chao an excuse. ”
Tuoba Qiu stood up and took two steps in the camp, "The defeat of the Yi Kingdom in the east has been decided, you have also seen Fu Xiaoguan's strategy of calming the people in Pingling a few days ago, if you give the Yu Dynasty another two years of cultivation and recuperation time, if the divine sword is raging in the Wasteland for two years, you can tell me, the Yu Dynasty army is going north, can I still stop the Wasteland?" ”
Tuoba Yuan was suddenly shocked, "This is the policy that Fu Xiaoguan has already decided?" ”
"Apart from him, who else can be so meticulous in this world?"