In the tent, Li He carefully wiped the barrel in his hand, the white jade handle, the golden and dazzling body, carved with extremely beautiful patterns, just the rubies and sapphires decorated on it can be worth hundreds of dollars, this is still a gun that Li He got when he was a dart master in the New World, he has always loved it the most. He wiped the gun in his hand as he listened to his colleagues gossiping there.

This is a large tent of 12 meters before and after, 8 meters wide on the left and right, and nearly three meters high, which is enough for all the battalion commanders of the Western Expeditionary Army to come in to participate in this military meeting.

However, as the commander of the army, Shi Xiu's style is rather strange, so that his subordinates have no manners in front of him, and everyone is so crooked in the tent, discussing the military affairs of the Western Expeditionary Army.

"Is it really that cowardly Xue Jun on the other side? Legend has it that the first army in the world is invincible and invincible. ”

The Cowardly Xue Army, the legendary Mongolian Genghis Khan Temujin's pro-army, all have the army composed of meritorious sons and daughters of various nobles and generals, among which every ordinary Cowardly Xue Army soldier has the salary and rank of an ordinary general, and is invincible under the command of Temujin. Their first generation of commanders was the "Four Masters" of the early Yuan Dynasty: Mu Huali, Chi Lao Wen, Bolhu and Bolshu.

Of course, such an elite army had rapidly degenerated since the death of Temujin, and the Mongol civil war was followed by even more casualties.

However, the Ilkhanate Khan also has a cowardly army under his command, but it is completely different from the legendary cowardly army.

I don't know what the combat strength of such a cowardly Xue army is.

Now the opposite side of the Western Expeditionary Army is this cowardly Xue army.

In this Battle of Khorasan, the main forces of the princes' coalition army and Heerban added up to nearly 200,000 troops, distributed in a vast area of tens of miles, forming a cross-cutting front more than ten miles long, and now the Western Expeditionary Army is only a part of the army under Heban.

"Yes, it's the cowardly Xue army, the cowardly Xue army of Heerban. We are the main force, and of course we will only send the main force when the enemy is facing us. ”

"However, don't underestimate this cowardly army, although this army has nothing to do with the legendary Genghis Khan's army, but it is also an elite army built by generations of Ilkhanate kings with endless energy! The most elite knights under Heraclius, the king of the Byzantine Empire, died at their hands. In that battle, Heraclius' tens of thousands of troops were defeated by this elite force of only 3,000 men, and 30,000 people were wiped out in the first battle before Asia Minor was lost. ”

"Heerban sent his cowardly Xue army, this is the importance of us, and we should feel honored."

Shi Xiu smiled, a cold smile leaking from his face as he spoke. He is a famous fierce general in the Japanese army, and it should be a good experience for him to be able to defeat such an elite in the hands of Heerban and bury Heerban with his own hands.

The generals in the tent laughed.

It has been a period of time since the Western Expeditionary Army entered Khorasan, and there have been more than a dozen battles with the enemy, and they have seen the combat effectiveness of Xihu with their own eyes.

Indeed, when I heard that the private armies of the princes of the northwest were beaten casually, everyone was still very puzzled, after all, no matter what, the Hu people were also a strong enemy of Tianzhu for hundreds of years, and in the past two hundred years, Tianzhu and Xihu and Beihu have never been at war, and there have been wars of all sizes almost every year.

Everyone still admits the combat power of the Hu people.

But somehow, since the year before last or last year, or since the Li clan was equipped with new guns and new artillery into the Tianzhu army, the Tianzhu army suddenly increased its combat strength.

Hu Ren, who could still break his wrist with the Tianzhu Army, seemed to be unable to do it suddenly. Their cavalry was all targeted in front of the firecrackers, which more than doubled in their firepower.

The once fierce Ilkhanate is now unable to even defeat the private army of a few princes under Tianzhu, and it is simply surprising that several princes can be bullied like this when they are united.

You must know that those princes' private armies are only equipped with new firearms and artillery, and their training and tactics are very limited, and they are far from reaching the level of maximizing the strength of new firearms.

The cavalry of the Ilkhanate could not stop it, not to mention that now they were facing a real tactical system that had fully matured and advanced an era, and was able to exert these advanced weapons to be more powerful than the Japanese army.

Although the strength of the army was only 15 battalions and 7,500 people, it had defeated tens of thousands of cavalry several times along the way.

The Western Expeditionary Army completely looked down on the once formidable Xihu.

Even the legendary cowardly Xue Army, everyone didn't think that they could stop their own army's front.

This battle is sure to be won.

"However, Heerban sent the cowardly Xue army, but he himself did not follow, he led the army to the south of Jizhou Hou Zhangjia, that is to say, even if we defeated the cowardly Xue army, but did not capture Heerban, it cannot be regarded as a complete victory. This damn Heerban would rather give the credit to Zhang Fen than give it to us, and if Zhang Fen really captures Heerban, then he will not be able to achieve the first credit when he advances to Tabriz. ”

Zhuo Fangyuan got to the point, the imperial court sent such a western expeditionary army, of course, has its own intentions, that is, it is determined to strike a balance in the coalition army, get the leading power of the coalition army, and maintain the majesty of the imperial court.

From this point of view, even the defeat of Heban to destroy the Xihu State is even secondary, Jizhou Hou Zhang Fen is the most conspicuous in this coalition of princes, and also the most ambitious person, so the main task of the Western Expeditionary Army is to knock him out of the limelight in the coalition army, and never allow the Zhang family to get the first merit in the battle to destroy the Ilkhanate, and his prestige will be one step higher, and he has the potential to unify the northwest princes.

Tabriz is the seat of the royal tent of the Ilkhanate, which contains the wealth of this barbarian Xihu barbarian who has been looted for hundreds of years, and in the heyday of the Ilkhanate, it even destroyed the entire heavens in one fell swoop, and entered Europa, and the entire Central Asia and West Asia, most of the land was taken by the first generations of the Ilkhanate.

This shows how rich Tabriz's wealth was. This wealth was never allowed by the imperial court to be obtained by one of the princes of the coalition army, so Heerban must and could only fall into the hands of the Western Expeditionary Army.

Shi Xiu thought about it seriously, Zhuo Fangyuan was indeed reasonable, this time he was sent out as the coach, and winning the war is not the main thing, the most important thing is to contain Zhang Fen!

"But we are now more than ten miles away from the place where Heerban is, and there are several battlefields in between, how can we get him, if it is in case, I mean if that Zhang Fenzhen leads the army to defeat Heerban, we can't go over and rob him!"

"That's right," Zhuo Fangyuan smiled, "In that case, we'll need a friend's help." ”