Led Ji Yao and his entourage back to the big tent, and the guards were careful outside:

"General Wang......"

Before the protector spoke, Wang Yanfei angrily reprimanded:

"Get out! Whoever dares to say more, Ben will kill him! ”

Ji Yao motioned to the guards outside the tent to retreat, and said to himself:

"General Ji Yao of Qiguo Zhennan visited General Wang, I don't know if General Wang can allow Ji to say a few more words."

Wang Yanfei asked in a deep voice, full of contempt:

"What are you doing?"

Ji Yao bluntly said that he was scheming:

"Come for Gongzi Yan!"

Wang Yanfei settled down, and then asked again:

"Gongzi Yan is the son of your country, General Ji will not go to see Gongzi Yan, come to find Ben General to do something."

Ji Yao brewed in his heart, and said shamelessly:

"Gongzi Yan has been a disaster for the Jin Kingdom for a long time, and it is also a harm for my king, and Gongzi Yan will never be at peace when he is alive. In the coming days, it is a small matter to borrow troops to seize the position, and it is a big matter to defend the country and attack our country, and trap the people in fire and water. My king thought of Li Shu's safety, how could he bear to abandon it. ”

Wang Yanfei sneered and said tentatively:

"Hmph, who do you do the throne or not, what are you doing in my Jin Kingdom."

"General Wang's words are wrong, and now I am disagreeing with the country's wind and rain, and the people are all grateful for the benevolence and filial piety of King Qi, and the kindness of the Jin country. If Gongzi Yan is strong, the country will definitely rekindle the flames of war, and the lives of the people will be ruined. ”

Finding out Ji Yao's thoughts, Wang Yanfei put away his sword, stood up and went outside the tent:

"General Ji, please come inside."

"General Xie."

Wang Yanfei and Ji Yao's eyes staggered, and in an instant, ruthlessness and shamelessness became an ugly contract under the despicable initiator.

They each held their backs to the left and right, and the two sat opposite each other. Wang Yanfei's wording was still half-concealed, he knew very well that Bailiyan was a scourge, and he couldn't stay anymore, and he had to get rid of it.

"General Ji, Gongzi Yan is the son of your country, and now that your achievements are high, King Qi won't be confused."

"Hehe, my king knows what Ji wants. Bailiyan did not hesitate to change her face and endure it, what is the so-called? In order to one day borrow troops to seize the throne, he is a unicorn in the pool, and when he encounters the wind and clouds, he will draw a dragon and go, how can he stay in the Xian country for a long time. ”

"Ben will not see it! Bailiyan is now a relative of the Xian State, a dignified envoy, and a doctor, how can he travel thousands of miles to seek the throne for the map of the projectile of the country. Not to mention that the Xian country is close to the Central Plains, the products are rich and the trade canals are accessible, and the Baili Yan Wei Zhen Xian army can be said to be in the middle of the day, how can it be compared with a small country in the wrong land. ”

"General Wang's words are different, I think his son Yan is definitely not a person under the fence, sooner or later he will borrow troops to seize the throne, before that, he will inevitably have to sweep away the worries of the Xianguo, and the Xian Wang will agree to help him restore the country, and this worry, General Wang still has the general to make it clear!"

Wang Yanfei's face sank at first, and then suddenly smiled:

"Hahaha......"

Ji Yao knew that Wang Yanfei and Bailiyan had a grudge, Wang Yanfei laughed, and his heart was revealed, but in fact, he didn't say anything, but Ji Yao thought he was smart and thought he had a plan, so he struck while the iron was hot and said:

"Gongzi Yan's enmity is not shared, General Wang will not forget it."

"Does he still want to kill General Ben's head!" Wang Yanfei was dismissive.

"Not now, but I'm afraid it may not be in the future, it's better to take precautions and prevent problems before they happen."

"Then according to General Ji's intentions, how can you prepare for it."

"Xianguo is now suffering from the chaos of the army, and it is categorically unable to continue to draw troops. The Jin State was the overlord of the East China Sea, and it was only in these months that the army went south. And Iqi have reached an agreement with Yan, Zhao, and Chen to send troops together. Only the soldiers and horses of the Xianguo country are fighting less and less, and the swords and guns will have no eyes at that time. ”

"Hahaha......"

Wang Yanfei laughed again, but he didn't pick up the stubble, but just continued to laugh. Ji Yao felt wrong, he didn't think that Wang Yanfei wouldn't want to kill Bailiyan, but his attitude was ambiguous and unclear. So he asked:

"General Wang, what do you think?"

"Hehaha...... Okay, okay...... General Ben knows, General Ji will please go back today. ”

Wang Yanfei's tone was still not accurate, and Ji Yao was still not sure what he meant, so he asked again:

"Then General Wang agreed?"

Wang Yanfei played a trick and did not respond positively.

"Our army is weak at the moment, and when reinforcements arrive next year, we will make a long-term plan."

As soon as the words came out, Ji Yao decided that Wang Yanfei had agreed to the proposal, so he did not suspect it.

"Well, it's a deal!"

The matter seems to have been settled, but Wang Yanfei is not thinking about how to get rid of Bailiyan first.

Obviously, only Ji Yao, a fool, would think about how to kill Sai Qian's disciple under the nose of the royal guest, even if people don't know it, the fool also knows that it was him Wang Yanfei who got in the way, not to mention that there are many imperial guest strategists, where can he hide it.

Of course, what Wang Yanfei thinks may not be what Ji Yao thinks, under the conflict of interests between Yu and me, there are no real fools, only the only master, and the one who laughs last is the winner.

Not long after Ji Yao left the Jin army camp, Wang Yanfei wrote a secret letter and ordered someone to send it to the Jin State in a hurry. At the same time, the other vassal armies were doing the same thing, and Bailiyan's strong comeback obviously disrupted the existing national policies of the vassal states, and no one dared to despise the Xian State with only half of the country left.

The next day, the coalition forces marched westward, and at this time there were still nearly two days away from Xiaochi.

The allied army in Luyuanpo suffered great losses in the first battle, and the 200,000 allied cavalry under Cao Chizheng's command, including the Qi army and the Xian army, were killed and wounded by 110,000, totaling Peng Yi's civilian army, with nearly 14 casualties, half of whom were killed.

Compared with the mixed and rudimentary equipment of the coalition forces, Jin Xuedi's standard equipment and iron tools provided soldiers with more effective defense and self-defense, so that the death rate of their wounded was only three to four percent.

Even though the Xian Army has regained some face and boosted the morale of the coalition forces in terms of combat achievements, it is still unable to change the backwardness of technology and equipment, and the resulting gap in combat strength has different orders, each with its own evil intentions, and even aggravated the casualties of the coalition forces.

As the only main city in the south of the country, Xiaochi has been operating for hundreds of years, making Xiaochi impregnable, and it has been lost many times in history, and it has been lost and regained many times, which has always been a thorny problem on the way north for the barbarian army.

Yuke foresaw that the barbarian army was very likely to sneak attack the rear, and strengthened the defenses of the cities north of Tiannan Pass in the summer, but even so, he did not expect the barbarian army to rush to Xiaochi with 600,000 men.

Bai Liyan was lying on the flatbed cart pulled by the carriage with his back facing the sky, and the two wounds on his shoulder and leg were very unfortunate. The tendon in his left shoulder was severed, and his right leg was punctured, making him unable to move.

The coalition forces are advancing step by step, so that the Moon God King Brendo Norhan Nossard who attacked Xiaochi is in a dilemma, maybe as long as there are two or three more days, he can capture Xiaochi.

"Your Majesty, we should withdraw our troops, the northerners will appear in front of us this afternoon, and the situation will be very unfavorable for us."

The staff member Dornon admonished, but Brendo was not reconciled:

"We have wasted a month here, and we have lost the lives of 70,000 warriors under the city, can we only watch our achievements fall short!"

"Your Majesty, I beg your pardon. Our chance to attack the Celestial Pool has been missed, but the tide of battle is still in our favor. The defenders and population of the Celestial Pool have been wiped out to the fullest extent possible, and this place will soon become a burden to them.

At the same time, our military pressure will force them to mobilize more troops from the north to the south, while the northerners will have to face an intensifying civil war from within them. According to the information of the captives we have captured, the Central Plains they say is even more chaotic than it was two years ago, and if the northerners transfer troops to the south, they will have to face the situation of ignoring both ends of the head and tail.

What our army has to do now is to increase their burden on the front line and drag down their strength in the north, especially their logistical transport is extremely difficult, as long as they destroy their local population and destroy their logistical transportation, no matter how many troops they have, they will die of starvation in this vast steppe.

In a year or two, their millions of troops will quickly eat up the food and even their horses that they have hoarded for more than a decade. ”

"What about Hochko, how can I explain to my precious daughter, I can't just give up!" Blendor looked at the priest with an extremely stern gaze, and he was always concerned about the death of his son-in-law.

"I'm very sorry Your Majesty, at least for now, it will be difficult to avenge your son-in-law, but I already know from the captives of the northerners that they have always come from the northernmost vassal state called 'Xian', with only 30,000 men, not 100,000 as Jabanis claimed."

"Only thirty thousand! 30,000 defeated tens of thousands of us! Blundor was shocked.

"In fact... Your Majesty, when Jabanis encountered this army, they had less than ten thousand men, and when Kiros encountered them, there were less than seven thousand men left in this army to fight. ”

"Hell! They must be well-armed, am I right! ”

"Your Majesty, you're only half right. They do have a special type of armor made of iron chains, and can wear armor made of leather, iron, etc., over the chain mail to enhance their defenses, and are extremely effective against our swords and even their own strong crossbows.

They are also armed with a hand crossbow that has never been seen before, which is extremely lethal and can fire arrows in succession, specifically to kill our horses, and then use them to ram our warriors.

Thus sixty percent of our warriors died not directly from their weapons, but from the stumbling of their horses and from the collision of their horses, and also from the traps, which they carried with them a very small shovel and digging tool, which could be used both as armor and shields, and as well as for digging earth pits.

We had not encountered such an army in hundreds of years before this, so it was understandable that we lost the first battle. ”

"That's not supposed to be like a rabbit and they're messing around, is it?"

"Yes, my majesty, that's the second thing I'm going to say. The most different thing about them is that they do not skimp on expensive horses in order to avoid their own casualties, and the infantry of Kilos have twice been rampaged by the horses they drive, and the resulting casualties account for sixty percent.

For this reason, this northerner army lost more than 10,000 war horses that they considered extremely good. Before that, the northerners had never done this, and various reasons led to repeated defeats of our army. ”

"Are they stupid, one or two thousand of our war horses can be worth tens of millions of silver in their land, and they can equip more elite warriors."

"I am afraid that it is not known, but for now, it is in our best interest to retreat. Judging from the news coming from other fronts, their army on the front line is not the main force, and a considerable number of peasant troops have been invested, so this winter, we can continue to consume the number of their local peasants in order to strangle their logistical supplies.

In the spring and summer of next year, we can launch another decisive battle to speed up the consumption of their supplies, so as to drag down their local material reserves, when there will be neither transportation capacity nor timely replenishment from the rear, and their large army transferred from the north will be in trouble because of food. ”

Blundor paced back and forth for a long time, before finally reluctantly agreeing to Duonon's suggestion.

"Okay, but in order to ensure the use of troops next year, before the end of February next year, all the wounded soldiers of each legion will be sent back to my base camp in a centralized manner, and at the same time, reserve troops will be called up to the north, and the call order can be issued now, so as not to be caught off guard when the time comes."

"Yes, my majesty."

"As for the death of my son-in-law, don't tell my daughter for the time being, if anyone misses half a word, I will let the high priest send him to hell."

"I'll do what you want."

Half an hour after the conversation, the barbarian army besieging Xiaochi quickly retreated to the base camp located five miles south of the city.