|||->-> a large figure appeared in the distance, and the light horsemen beside Kunbo cheered, it was the royal court's supplies that had been delivered, and someone was eager to urge the horses to meet them.

Guru Leha saw that Kun Bo was full of depression, and said in a deep voice: "Great Khan, Zheng people have a saying that 'victory and defeat are a common thing in soldiers', Zheng Jun bullied more and less, and the Great Khan fought bravely to take the lead, and the warriors all saw it in their eyes, and did not blame you, why should you blame yourself too much and lose your confidence." ”

Lan Qitao said: "I heard my father say that the Great Khan of Wushi went through hardships to become the Khan of the Grassland, and the Great Khan resisted the 400,000 army with a slight setback, although the defeat was still glorious. ”

Pointing to the desert rider beside him, Lan Qitao said loudly: "Warriors, do you think the Great Khan is a warrior?" ”

Countless snow-bright scimitars were raised, reflecting the dazzling light of the sun, and the cry of "Kunbo, Kunbo" resounded throughout the grassland.

More than 60 miles west of the Kunbo station, countless tents are scattered like mushrooms on the grassland, and the Liman Institute is stationed here. In successive battles with the Zheng army, the Liman division only lost more than 3,000 people, which was insignificant compared to the Kunbo division. In the sweat tent, Li Man was feasting the tribal leaders and the ten thousand cavalry commanders, and the smell of wine and meat wafted in laughter.

Qu Zhidao sat on the left side of Liman, originally those who looked down on the desert generals who surrendered to Zheng Nu raised their glasses to him, Qu Zhidao proposed "swimming uncertainly, avoiding the real and attacking the false, attacking continuously, promoting strengths and avoiding weaknesses" The tactics are very suitable for desert cavalry, usually the tribes fight separately, scattered to find fighters, attack and kill Zheng Jun's reconnaissance cavalry, small patrol troops, encounter Zheng Jun's brigade attack, first avoid its front, and then assemble into a group to take advantage of Zheng Jun's fatigue to attack, and achieved good results, especially compared to the injuries of the Kunbo Division, Everyone felt that fighting Zheng Jun should be like this.

Li Man talked and laughed, and his spirit was flying, and the defeat of the eldest brother reflected his heroism, not to mention that the balance of power had changed, and many tribes that had originally been interested in the eldest brother sent people to express their goodwill to themselves. The guards outside the tent came in and reported, "The messenger of the royal court has arrived." ”

"Please", Li Man stood up and was about to go out of the tent to greet him, but he saw a slender figure step in, and said with a smile: "Li Man Khan, don't come unharmed." ”

"Master Kalu, why are you here?" Li Man stepped forward in surprise and stroked his chest and saluted. The people on both sides stood up and saluted, and Kalu raised a single palm and saluted, "Immortal Heaven blesses everyone." ”

Set up a table on the right side, Kali sat cross-legged, Li Man picked up the wine bowl and said: "The master has worked hard from afar, Xiao Khan respects you with a bowl, and you should wash the dust." ”

Under the influence of Qu Reverse Road, Li Man likes the Central Plains culture, and brings out the elegance of the Central Plains scholars in his speech, Kalu has been doing business in Zheng all the year round, inquiring about news, and has a deep understanding of Zheng Guo's culture, compared to the desert Central Plains culture has a strong attraction, Kalu himself is a learned man, Li Man's words and deeds are very in line with his mind, so Kalu wants to make Li Man the king of Khan, and under his leadership, the useful culture of the Central Plains will be introduced into the grassland.

After taking a sip of mare's milk wine, Kalu said with a smile: "The king and the saint are very satisfied with the performance of Liman Khan, avoiding the real and fighting with the Zheng army is the way to win in the grassland, this time the saint sent people to transport supplies, Kunpo Khan is Benhu to lead the team, Liman Khan here I mainly ask for a trip." The supplies brought were less than those of Kumpo Khan, and Liman Khan was more considerate. ”

Li Man smiled: "Big brother is with Zheng this time."

The army is fighting hard, there is a lot of loss, it is reasonable to add more materials to him, Xiao Khan has no opinion, if the royal court is not enough materials, Xiao Khan can still squeeze some things for the eldest brother here. ”

Kalu nodded and said, "Liman Khan is well aware of righteousness, and the brothers will definitely be able to drive the Zheng people out of the grassland. I came this time on the orders of His Holiness and the Holy Maiden, and in addition to transporting supplies, I also brought 30,000 horses. Both the Dharma King and the Holy Maiden hoped that the two brothers, Reman Khan and Khumpo Khan, would sit together and work out a way to defeat Zheng's army. ”

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In June, the grassland is green into a river, flowing to the horizon and clouds, and all kinds of flowers are embroidered with colorful flowers on the green carpet, just like a fairyland.

The battle with the Moqi is happening every day, the battle situation is developing in the direction of the Zheng army, the Moqi has set up ambushes against the Zheng army many times, due to the existence of the sand table, the Zheng army has seen through, Wang Keming and others will plan to pit the Moren several times. The desert people finally understood that the advantage of being familiar with the grassland terrain was no longer there, and the only thing they could rely on was the speed of coming and going like the wind.

The fighting method of the desert people who hunted wolves gave Wang Keming a headache, and there was no way to hurt the roots of the desert people in a small-scale victory, and the Son of Heaven was driving in the north of the town, and the army did not dare to leave lightly, and at most they would turn back after chasing more than 200 miles, and the war became a stalemate.

After giving up a large area of grassland, the desert people had to go to the north to graze, and the number of cattle and sheep without forage was gradually decreasing. The hundreds of thousands of troops of the desert people gathered, and the daily consumption of supplies was not a few, and the Tizhu Holy Maiden looked at the gradually empty warehouse, and her brows never stretched. Zheng Jun's life is not easy, the grain and grass accumulated over the years are being consumed rapidly, and to replenish the grain and grass from the territory, it takes three to five catties to transport one pound of grain.

At the end of June, the crown prince Shi Chongwei transferred a piece of music from Yang Xiangliang, the governor of Anxi, mentioning that according to the secret agent report of the Western Regions, the countries of the Western Regions led by Rong Mi began to gather troops, and there was a tendency to form a coalition army to invade, and there were only 80,000 soldiers in Anxi to protect the palace.

Wave after wave of unsettled, Shi Fangzhen transferred too many soldiers and horses from the four major capitals to pacify the Northern Desert, and naturally felt stretched at this time. The four major capital protectorates, only Annan and Andong are left to draw some soldiers and horses, and now Miao Zhai has a close relationship with Zheng Guo, so it should be able to free up some manpower.

issued a holy decree to transfer 20,000 horses from the Annan Metropolitan Protectorate, and 20,000 people from the Andong Metropolitan Protectorate to assist the Anxi Metropolitan Protectorate, Shi Fangzhen issued an order to summon Wang Keming, Miao Tieshan and other front-line generals to return to Zhenbeicheng to discuss matters. After more than two months of tug-of-war, Shi Fangzhen realized that he was a little anxious to pacify the Northern Desert in one fell swoop, and he would stay until August at most before returning to Beijing, and he had to hurry up with the remaining two months, and it was best to annihilate two or three hundred thousand desert cavalry, so that the desert people would be difficult to pose a threat to Zheng Guo in twenty or thirty years.

Of course, Shi Fang really has a dream, that is, to enter the Desert Court as a victor, since the Northern Desert, more than 1,500 years, the Central Plains army has only once killed to the edge of the Desert Court, if he can lead the army to capture the Desert Court

words, Wenzhi martial arts will definitely be recorded in the history books.

As soon as the military meeting was held, it lasted for three days, and Jiang Anyi, as a member of the military council, was qualified to attend as observers, and another errand was to sit in the corner and take notes with a group of counselors, and organize these records into a book at night. The faction led by the marshal Wang Keming and Zhou Shanhou slowly advanced, insisted on fighting for three or five years, exhausted the vitality of the indifferent people, and then sent troops to sweep the grassland; And Qi Xinwen, Zhu Jinfeng, the generals of the Sixteen Guards in Beijing, and the generals from the family all thought that they should take the Moren Royal Court in one go and achieve eternal achievements.

There is no doubt that the latter has the upper hand, and Jiang Anyi also supports a drum to calm the desert people, otherwise the people in the country will be miserable every year, maybe the northern desert is not the first enemy in the country, the long pain is better than the short pain, but the 200,000 casualties will also drive the desert people thousands of miles away.

Shi Fangzhen, the Son of Heaven, finally aimed to fight a decisive battle with the desert people before the end of August, and smashed the desert people's royal court, and in view of the fact that he was inconvenient to stay away from the army in Zhenbei City to protect his safety, Shi Fangzhen decided to go with the Chinese army. Shi Chongren was very happy, his father wanted to go on an expedition, he naturally had to be by his side, and Jiang Anyi also had the opportunity to go on the battlefield.

Zhenbei City left 180,000 defenders, and the army of 800,000 was divided into six groups, forming a plum blossom pattern to guard the Chinese army where the Son of Heaven was located in the middle. The route of the march was very clear, going straight to the Moren Royal Court, along the way for the Moqi to lure the enemy, attack and harass nothing, the 800,000 army was like five fingers gathered into an iron fist, towards the royal court.

In addition to the 800,000 troops, there were as many as 600,000 husbands and servants accompanying the army, driving horses and carts to transport grain and grass materials to travel with the army to ensure the supply of the army. The army marched forty miles a day, not greedy, not impatient, Kunbo and Liman two methods of looting grain, night raids, and charging into battle exhausted, but in the face of the hedgehog-like well-guarded Zheng army, there was nothing to do, according to this speed after a month and a half Zheng army will reach the royal court.

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In the royal court of Mobei, there was a panic, in the golden horde, the Holy Maiden of Tizhu and the King of the Dharma gathered everyone to discuss countermeasures, and Kunbo and Liman brought their generals to discuss the matter.

"Zheng Jun is only eight hundred miles away from the royal court, and according to the calculation of the footsteps, it will take about twenty days to reach the royal court." Zuo Da Fuqu Xu Bu Naying pointed to the position of Zheng Jun on the cowhide map, and continued: "At the beginning, it was decided to fight with Zheng Jun, but Zheng Jun relied on the large number of people and excellent armament, ignored the attack of our army, and firmly attacked the royal court, which is the holy land of the grassland tribe and cannot be violated, and our army must fight a decisive battle with Zheng Jun before it reaches the royal court. ”

Li Man said coldly: "The Zheng army has formed a five-petal plum blossom formation, no matter which side you charge from, you will encounter a flank attack from the left and right, even if you can rush into the Zheng army's camp, it will be difficult to kill." If the warriors are allowed to attack hard, I am afraid that the warriors will not be able to stop the Zheng army's progress even if they die. ”

"Then according to your meaning, you will watch the Zheng people fight to the royal court, and even if the warriors die in battle, they will not let the Zheng army step into the royal court." Kunbo couldn't help but sneer when he saw Li Man.

Enhan, the leader of the Golden Wolf Army, pointed to the plain four hundred miles away from the royal court and said, "This place is open and flat, so I will fight to the death with the Zheng army here." Our army has more than 600,000, and the Zheng army is only about 800,000, and they have come from afar, marching for nearly a month, and they are exhausted, so we will attack from five sides according to the five-petal plum blossom array of the Zheng people, so that they can take care of themselves, like wolves tearing their prey, tearing the Zheng army into pieces. ”