"On the National Day of the next grandson, meet the herald envoy." Sun Guoqing bowed to the herald envoy.

Although the herald envoy was only a gang leader, his position was not high; But they are the people next to King Yong Guo Qi, and this time they are also representing King Yong Guo Qi, if Sun Guoqing neglects the envoy, it is equivalent to neglecting Guo Qi.

The envoy didn't dare to hold it up, and bowed to Sun Guoqing and said, "See General Sun, general, this is a secret letter from the lord to you; The lord has an order that after the general reads the secret letter, he must act immediately without delay. ”

"The last general commands." Sun Guoqing took over the secret message from the herald's envoy.

"Ha, ha, ha...... The Lord is really a clever plan. Sun Guoqing laughed after reading the secret letter: "This is really a great credit to my old grandson; After the envoy returned, he thanked the lord for Ben. ”

"General Sun, the lord said that as long as the general can fight this battle, it is the best thank you to the lord." The Herald's envoy spoke.

"Please rest assured, if my grandson can't fight this battle, he will have no face to live." Sun Guoqing said: "Someone came to take the envoy down to rest." ”

After the envoy was asked out, Sun Guoqing issued three military orders in one breath: "Order, order all the cavalry of our army to immediately assemble outside the camp gate and wait for the general's next military order;

All the infantry troops immediately assembled in the school field, and all of them were temporarily led by Wu Dayong, the captain of Chen Cang;

In addition, the Geer banner was invited to the general's Chinese army tent. ”

"No! Obey the general's orders. The lieutenants gave the order together.

After the lieutenants left, Sun Guoqing walked to the map with the secret letter Guo Qi gave him, and kept thinking, what is the probability of the success of the plan that Guo Qi gave him?

Just when Sun Guoqing was thinking about it seriously, a sergeant came in and reported: "General Yu, bring the banner to you." ”

"Let him in!"

"Please."

After Ge Qi came in, he put his right hand into a fist on his chest and saluted Sun Guoqing: "Ge Qi greets General Sun." ”

"General Geer Qi is exempt, please take a seat."

"Thank you, General."

After the two of them sat down, Sun Guoqing first said: "The general invited the general to come this time, because he asked the general for help. ”

"General Sun has anything to order, as long as he does not touch the surrender conditions we discussed before, he will definitely do his best." Ge Qi said very humbly.

When Geer Qi voluntarily surrendered to Sun Guoqing, many conditions were proposed, of course, most of the conditions were vetoed by Sun Guoqing, but one of them was retained at the insistence of Ge Qi; This condition is that all the Xirong soldiers who followed the Geer banner and surrendered to Sun Guoqing will not participate in the Yongjun army's attack on the Xirong Khanate under any conditions; To put it bluntly, 'I am treasonous, but I do not fire at my home country.'" ’

"Heh, heh......" Sun Guoqing laughed awkwardly: "The matter of the general asking the general is not beyond the conditions we have agreed. ”

Hearing Sun Guoqing say this, Ge Qi understood in his heart, although Sun Guoqing said that it was not exceeded, but in fact it should have been exceeded, but at this time, Ge Qi did not have any capital to refuse, after all, his own life and the life of his own men were in the hands of Sun Guoqing!

"Please show me the general."

"Actually, the matter is very simple, I have a military order here, please send your Excellency to Shangqi City with this general." Sun Guoqing said with a smile.

"Shang? The general is going to attack Shangtai? Geer Qi exclaimed.

Shangtai is located in the river valley of the upper reaches of Weishui, and Weishui and its tributaries run through it, forming basins and valley terraces between wide valleys and canyons, and the soil is silt soil and meadow soil formed by impact and flood deposits in the river and valley areas, and the cultivated soil is mainly loess soil and black soil formed by reclamation and cultivation and maturation. The soil here is fertile, suitable for farming, and it is the most developed area in Qinzhou, rich in grain, fruits and vegetables, and has a developed economy.

In the past, Shangtai was the seat of Qinzhou, due to the destruction of the war many years ago, Xirong moved the seat to Chengji City, but after so many years of recuperation, although Shangtai has not recovered to its peak, but has surpassed Chengji, become the largest city in Qinzhou, and recently the Xirong Khanate also intends to move the Qinzhou seat back to Shangtai.

"Not bad." Sun Guoqing admitted directly: "I hope Your Excellency can help this general, of course I won't let you do it, you just need to show up when the time comes." ”

"The general said that he laughed, my Ge Banner doesn't have that much ability, so let the Shangqi guard open the city and surrender." Geer Qi shook his head.

"It's not for you to open your mouth to persuade you to surrender, and you don't need to say anything when the time comes, just show your face."

Ge Qi frowned and said, "Okay! As long as the general doesn't let me go to war, I'll go with the general. ”

"Okay, then ask General Geer Qi to go back and prepare, and we'll set off immediately." Sun Guoqing said with great satisfaction.

After Geer Qi left, Sun Guoqing said to a sergeant: "Follow him closely and don't let him come into contact with anyone." ”

"The little one understands." Sergeant Road.

Sun Guoqing put on his armor with the help of two personal guards, walked outside the tent and turned over his horse and went to the outside of the camp, at this time more than 1,800 cavalry under Sun Guoqing outside the camp were all waiting for him, these cavalry were all treasures in Sun Guoqing's hands, only a small half were veterans, and the rest were selected from the infantry army, and they only knew how to ride horses.

And this cavalry horse is not much, only 3,000 horses, not as good as two people and one horse, this cavalry can only be said to be a mixed force of cavalry and horse infantry at most, but even so this is the only fast mobile force that Sun Guoqing can take in his hands.

Sun Guoqing looked at the soldiers who had changed into the uniforms of the Xirong cavalry, and said impassionedly: "Brothers, today the general will take you to create a miracle, we will use the blood and heads of the enemy to achieve the prestige of the Yongjun soldiers, brothers go on the expedition." ”

"Expedition, Expedition, Expedition......"

"Rumble, Rumble, Boom......"

The sound of horses' hooves resounding from east to west came from east to west, and the cavalry led by Sun Guoqing marched along the north bank of Weishui, first crossing the Tongtian River, fortunately, the ice of the Tongtian River was thick enough, otherwise it would be difficult to cross the river; Sun Guoqing marched all the way in the long and narrow Weishui River Valley, and after two days of rapid marching for more than 180 miles, he finally entered the Shangqi Valley from the east.

Shangtai Valley is a relatively large, relatively flat valley about 60 miles long from east to west, four or five miles wide from north to south, and Shangtai City is located in the westernmost part of Shangtai Valley, but there are more villages and towns in the entire Shangtai Valley, when Sun Guoqing led nearly 2,000 cavalry to appear, this news was sent to Shangtai City for the first time.

"General, there's a town ahead? What should we do, should we take it or not? A lieutenant asked Sun Guoqing for instructions.

"No, we're the Sijon cavalry now." Sun Guoqing smiled strangely: "The herald ordered the army not to attack any towns and villages, and the whole army made a detour and went straight to Shangqi City." ”