Only a month after the battle between the Lanhe Empire and the Beiting Hu people began, the first vanguard army of Beihu was defeated by Xia Yingyang and Zhao Fu under the city of Valen, and it was a complete victory.

The play played by Hu Lude became a real play, and the originally low morale of the tribal alliance and the impact of the two teams of cavalry immediately collapsed. Hu Lude wanted to kill himself, but was stopped by his men, and was taken by Kiyura, and fled to the depths of the North Court with his cronies.

Among the tens of thousands of Hu people, there are also brave and strategic, even if they lose, they can gather people and organize resistance. It was not until it was discovered that all the high-ranking officers in the main general's camp had fled, and he completely gave up resistance.

In this battle, the number of dead soldiers of the Valen defenders was not even 1,000, while the Hu side killed nearly 20,000 people, nearly 20,000 became prisoners, and the rest also fled back to Beiting.

The battle report to the capital has already been prepared, although it is very thoughtful to prepare both victory and defeat, but it is still ordered to be revised, this is not an ordinary victory, this is a big victory, it is a complete victory!

Zhao Fu did not come to the front line in this battle, but Zheng Yuan made great achievements: after Xia Yingyang led 7,000 cavalry to defeat the enemy's flank, it was Zheng Yuan who led 7,000 pseudo-cavalry to break into the enemy formation to complete the response. It is not difficult to lead 7,000 elites to tear apart the flanks while they are unprepared, but Zheng Yuan stubbornly led the infantry who were cavalry for the first time to break through from the middle of the enemy, and successfully joined Xia Yingyang next to the enemy's handsome banner!

If Zheng Yuan's efforts were not for Zheng Yuan's efforts to break through, perhaps by the time the enemy reacted and reorganized his forces to counterattack, even Xia Yingyang might not have been able to tear a hole out of the encirclement of 50,000 people again, and even if he came out, the 7,000 cavalry behind him would definitely be damaged. Fortunately, there is Zheng Yuan, after Zheng Yuan entered the battlefield, he did not give the enemy command a chance to react at all, and without saying a word, he rushed straight to the opponent's general flag, and as soon as the flag fell, the soldiers' hearts were chaotic, and the soldiers' hearts were in chaos, and any instructions given by the command could not play its effect 100%.

The siege of Valen City was easily cracked, and the northwest and even the whole country were greatly shaken, and all kinds of rumors about Zhao Fu were self-defeating, and no one underestimated the youngest general in history. Of course, in the good news transmitted to the capital, all kinds of things about Xia Yingyang were still quietly erased, which was not only the need of the current situation, but also Xia Yingyang's personal request.

However, the defeat of the Hu people under the city of Valen does not mean that the Hu people on the entire northwest border that stretch out have been repulsed, and every day from the border towns, the news of the approaching Hu people in the fortress has never stopped.

The Valen City Lord's Mansion and the Temporary General's Mansion, the city lord who originally moved away has returned to the original mansion, but Zhao Fu and the others have not yet withdrawn, but only let go of the palace hall they originally occupied and moved to the side hall at the side gate to deal with military affairs.

"Your Majesty's reward has come out." It was Lin Hanyu who brought the news, which made Zhao Fu very puzzled.

"Didn't you train me in Lanting?" Zhao Fu asked, suspecting that this guy had slipped out to let the wind out.

"In wartime, the transmission of information is based on our night wolf intelligence system." Lin Hanyu explained, taking out a token and a piece of paper that had been folded into small squares.

Generally, the Lanhe Empire would send a father-in-law, a civilian staff of the embassy and a number of accompanying personnel to form a convoy to send a decree to various places, and then the imperial guards would personally send people to escort them, so as to show the emperor's authority. However, once it enters wartime, this façade method of conveying information will be immediately replaced by the underground intelligence agency of the Night Wolf Army, as long as the Night Wolf stationed in the capital obtains accurate information and transmits it to the nearest Night Wolf underground stronghold as quickly as possible through the underground intelligence.

It is said that this method was changed by Lin Fengyi himself, and the Marigold Dynasty that was destroyed by him was because the intelligence transmission rate was too slow, so he did not have time to adjust the optimal combat plan according to the best intelligence.

Lin Hanyu is naturally the highest-ranking commander of the Night Wolf Army in the northwest at present, and he also has a good relationship with Zhao Fu, so this news was directly conveyed by him.

"It's not that others are afraid that you won't believe it," Lin Hanyu took out the hideous wolf head token and shook it in front of Zhao Fu's eyes, "Remember, seeing this token during the war is equivalent to Your Majesty's visit." ”

"Got it...... Got it. Zhao Fu was dizzy and hurriedly turned his head over.

If it were someone else, they might bow their heads and shout, "Long live my emperor." ”。 It's a pity that Zhao Fu won't, and he doesn't need it, Lin Hanyu is probably afraid that other people will come to Zhao Fu, and this response is enough for Yushitai to make Zhao Fu a death row prisoner.

Although it uses the information transmitted by the night wolf, it seems to be no different from the holy decree sent by the father-in-law, which is nothing more than a routine that everyone is accustomed to when rewarding meritorious soldiers and mourning the warriors who sacrificed their lives for the country.

"A bad news or a good news, which do you want to hear first?" Zhao Fu asked Zheng Yuan.

"Whatever."

"Your Majesty wants to make you a commander." Zhao Fuxian said a piece of news.

"Oh......"

"But I refused, and I still let you be a personal guard by my side." Zhao Fu said another piece of news.

Two pieces of news, in fact, can't tell the difference between good and bad. Although the commander was a military commander in command of 10,000 people in the Lanhe Empire, Zheng Yuan still preferred to be Zhao Fu's personal guard than to lead troops outside.

Zheng Yuan nodded, he was not dissatisfied with Zhao Fu's decision, anyway, staying by Zhao Fu's side could kill people, there was no difference.

"I'm so sorry!" Hulud knelt before Ahuyu, along with Kiyura and the generals who had been sent to Valen.

The defeat in the first battle of Valen City was a small matter, after all, victory and defeat are common things in soldiers, but after all, this was a foreign war initiated by Beiting itself, and the young Zhuang faction with high morale touched a gray face under Valen City for the first time. Not only was he defeated, but he also lost 40,000 troops in vain, and the most important thing is that this war was a great blow to Beiting's morale.

"It's not your fault...... Ahuyu muttered, "It's me, I'm so naïve that I want to eat Valen City with 50,000 people." ”

Ahu Yu is naturally not a fool, otherwise even with the secret support of the black-robed military advisor, it would be impossible to merge the left and right tents, become the Great Khan of Beiting, and become the master of Beiting. This time, the siege of Valun City pulled Ahuyu out of the dream of dominating the world - history has long proved that even if the Han people are timid, cunning, cowardly, and greedy, as long as there are no problems within the Han people, the Han people can easily block the horses' hooves in the south of the north court as long as they retreat within the city walls and rely on the solidity of the city.

Ahuyu recognized the gap in strength between the two sides, and finally stopped being ambitious. Ahuyu convened all the high-level officials of the Brother Yisha present to discuss future countermeasures.

Because Hu Lude had just experienced a big defeat, even if Ahuyu did not punish him, he became much lower than before, but Kiyula was still the same as before, talking about things and laughing about nothing.

"Valen is not easy to fight, let's fight other places!" Kiyura's mind is very straight, since Valen City is easy to defend and difficult to attack, let's start from another place.

Ahu Yu smiled bitterly, he didn't think about this problem, but the layout of the Lanhe Empire in the northwest was originally very exquisite, and only Lanting City and Valun City were established on the border of the four major towns in the northwest, if you wanted to bypass the defensive circle of Lanting and Valun defenders to attack Xijing City and Shangchuan City, which were weakly defended, it was basically impossible.

If you don't fight Valen, then all that's left is Lan Ting...... However, Lan Ting was more difficult to fight than Valen...... What's more, Lan Ting was built in the northwest corner, and even if it was defeated, it would not help him expand southward.

"So, what if we go and attack those small towns on the border?" At this time, a man stood up and asked a question.

"Our primary purpose is to gain a base from which to continue expanding southward, and those small towns are useless." Ahuyu shook his head.

"Great Khan, are we wrong?" The man didn't mean to sit down, "We shouldn't use our disadvantage to continue to fight the Han under their walls, but we should win a few battles first to bring back our morale!" ”

In the first year of the Hu-Han War, the generals of the Northwest faction led by Zhao Fu inflicted heavy losses on the enemy under the city of Valen, giving this war that lasted for several years a good start, but the following days were not so easy.

As Xia Yingyang expected, the Hu people would definitely not easily launch a siege war without sufficient supplies, but correspondingly, the Hu people took advantage of their numerical advantage and began to harass the northwestern border of the Lanhe Empire with their cavalry.

Both Zhao Fu and Xia Yingyang knew that the Hu people intended to place their breakthroughs in border towns with low walls and insufficient troops.

The Hu people's soldiers are endless, and all of them are cavalry, riding on horses and constantly intruding on the northwest border, this kind of mobility The Northwest Army can't keep up at all, often waiting for the Lan River to receive the news, and when the generals and soldiers arrive, they can only see the back of the Hu people raising dust and leaving. There were even several incidents of the generals leading the troops who were out of the city's shelter and eaten by the Hu people because of the urgency of the generals who led the troops.

The lack of troops is also the biggest weakness of the Lanhe Empire, and it is naturally enough to maintain a border army of 100,000 in peacetime, and there are even civilian officials who have nothing to do to ask for a reduction in troops. However, once the war period began, it was impossible to rely on 100,000 people to defend such a long border line, and they could only rely on the built city defenses for defensive operations.

Although Zhao Fu has already asked people to recruit troops in the entire northwest territory, and even let Lin Haoyan recruit troops across the country, it is not that the recruited soldiers can be directly sent to the battlefield, even the most basic auxiliary soldiers need to go through nearly a month of training, not to mention the cavalry that is vital in the northwest.

On the contrary, as long as the Hu people distributed their sabers to the adult men in the tribe, they could have a large amount of combat power, and tens of thousands of cavalry would come.

The huge gap in strength has become the biggest problem facing Zhao Fu at present.