Just when Liu Yuetian and the others were drinking, a horse ride surrounded by ten fast horses came from the direction of Chang'an, and after entering the city, they came directly to the Taishou Mansion.

Liu Yuan led everyone to kneel down in the Taishou Mansion to receive the order, and an edict was placed in his hand.

"Father-in-law Lu, you have worked hard all the way, come on, come on, my banquet has been prepared, please!"

Liu Yuan didn't dare to snub the comers, and personally picked up the wind for these people.

The eunuch who came was named Lu Chang, and he was also very powerful in the current court, and now the outer court of the Great Zhou Dynasty was Liang Ji in charge, and the eunuch in the inner court was in charge, among which the chief eunuch Zhang Rang had the greatest power, even Liang Ji had to give three points, of course, Liang Ji Zhang Rang was already colluding with the inside and outside to control the inner court and the outer court, and this Lu Chang was Zhang Rang's henchman.

"Lord Taishou, it's just a group of little bandits and horse bandits, but let me be this overseer, my old bones can't stand this toss!"

During the banquet, Lu Chang drank wine and complained bitterly.

"Yes, yes! It's really hard for Father-in-law Lu, this is a little hard-earned money that Liu Yuan prepared for my father-in-law and you, although it is not much, but it can be regarded as a little bit of my heart. ”

Liu Yuan waved his hand, and several entourages behind him came to the other party with a tray in their hands, and there was a stack of silver tickets on the tray, while Lu Chang had a thousand taels of silver tickets in front of him, and the other ten people were three hundred taels each.

"Haha, they all say that they are too generous, it seems that this is true, then we will laugh and accept!"

Lu Chang was not polite at all, picked up the silver ticket and put it in his arms.

After receiving the money, the faces of these people were much better, and they spoke casually.

"Father-in-law, this time the former general personally led the troops, and you are the supervisor of the army, the good days of this gang of horse bandits are over, and after your great victory, you will definitely be crowned, come and I wish you success in advance."

"Then I'll borrow the auspicious words of Taishou!"

Lu Chang raised his wine glass and drank it all.

"These 10,000 soldiers and horses, of which 3,000 cavalry, and the remaining 7,000 are infantry, are now coming to Tianshui, the cavalry is only a hundred miles away from Tianshui, and they can reach Tianshui in one day, and the infantry is still two hundred miles away, and it will take about three days."

"Three thousand cavalry?"

Liu Yuan was slightly stunned, didn't he say before that 10,000 soldiers and horses were all cavalry? How come there are only three thousand left now.

The combat effectiveness of cavalry and infantry is completely different, if a thousand cavalry is impacted, it is difficult to stop even ten thousand infantry, and that Fu Jian is extremely cunning, and now his strength has increased greatly, Liu Yuan has now been a little big by Fu Jian.

"Taishou, 3,000 cavalry is enough, just a group of horse bandits, the former general has said, there is no problem to deal with this group of people with 1,000 cavalry."

Lu Chang laughed and said, he didn't take this group of horse bandits in his eyes at all.

"Hmph, what a bunch of idiots, when the time comes, you'll be good-looking, it's better if you both lose!"

Liu Yuan scolded in his heart.

A hundred miles away, three thousand cavalry were coming towards Tianshui, these cavalry armor was bright and imposing, just the sound of horses' hooves stepping on the ground was heard far away, and everywhere they went was dusty.

In front of the army is a four-seater carriage, with a big flag waving in the wind, and a big "king" character written on it, which is the imperial palace of Wang Ping, the former general of the Great Zhou Dynasty.

Today, there are as many as 100 people with the title of general in the Great Zhou, among which the general Liang Ji commands all the armies, followed by the hussar general and the chariot general, and then there are the four generals before and after, the former general Wang Ping is actually the fourth person in the army, with the right to command 100,000 people.

The former general Wang Ping is over 60 years old this year, and he was also experienced in a hundred battles when he was young, but now his spirit has disappeared and he is willing to be driven by Liang Ji.

"General, we are only eighty miles away from Tianshui now, and we can reach it in one day, Grandpa Lu has just sent back the flying pigeon, and he has already arrived in Tianshui."

A herald came up on horseback and said.

Wang Ping lifted the curtain, revealing his fat body of nearly 300 catties, and then walked down with the support of two people.

"I'm still suffering like this at my age, this Liu Yuan is really annoying!"

Wang Ping said hatefully.

It stands to reason that there is no need for him as a former general to command 10,000 soldiers and horses, but now that the displaced people in the Great Zhou are everywhere, those young and strong generals have been sent out to exterminate the displaced people, and there are only these old guys in Chang'an, Liang Ji naturally will not come in person, the hussar general and the chariot cavalry general are Liang Ji's henchmen, and this kind of drudgery is not willing to come, and in the end, only he, the former general, is not Liang Ji's real confidant, so he was sent over.

"Alas, Liu Yuan became famous at a young age, and the Liu family has been entrenched in Tianshui for more than ten generations, and Tianshui City has been built like an iron wall, how easy is it to take away his military power? I don't ask for merit, but I want to be innocent, pass on my order, and the army will camp here and wait for the arrival of the rear army. ”

Wang Liangji asked him to find an opportunity to deal with Liu Yuan, but Wang Ping was a veteran after all, and the use of troops was much stronger than Liang Ji.

The comparison between the two armies against the enemy is whose strength is more, then Liu Yuan has 30,000 elite soldiers under him, where is his opponent with 10,000? Moreover, Liu Yuan's ability to command troops is extraordinary, even if the two sides lead the same troops, he Wang Ping may not be the opponent of the other party.

Wang Ping hoped that the imperial court would send at least 50,000 troops to have any hope of letting Liu Yuan surrender, but the 50,000 army Da Zhou really couldn't get it, and even more than half of the 10,000 soldiers and horses were just overrecruited recruits, and it was not that there were no other soldiers in the court, but those elites had become Liang Ji's Praetorian Guard, and the more troops were sent, the more it would cost, and Liang Ji didn't want to spend too much money.

With Wang Ping's order, 3,000 soldiers immediately jumped off their horses, setting up tents and burying pots for cooking.

On a high mountain not far from here, Fu Jian sat on a horse and led more than a dozen people to condescendingly watch this scene vividly.

"Big brother, it seems that what Liu Yuetian said is true, these people are here to deal with us! We now have less than 400 cavalry, which seems to be a bit of a big difference! ”

The march of 3,000 cavalry in a line also stretched for several miles, and Fu Jian's men turned out to be a gang of horse bandits, where had they seen such a scene? One by one, they were a little frightened.

"Hmph, it's useless, before we could destroy each other with a hundred people, but now we are stronger, what about three thousand cavalry?"

Fu Jian reprimanded.

"That's what I said, but the Qin Palace was a waste before, and this time it's .........."

"Eighth child, I see that your courage is broken, you are verbose before you fight, and if you talk nonsense, get out of me!"

Fu Jian shouted loudly, and the other party immediately lost his voice.

"There are almost more than 3,000 cavalry, they are led by the former general Wang Ping, this guy was also a fierce general when he was young, but now, they have all become old antiques, how can they fight?"

Fu Jian has not been idle these days, and has already sent many people to constantly inquire about the news on the official road from Tianshui to Chang'an, and learned the news of this cavalry two days ago.

"Also, didn't Liu Yuetian say that the imperial court sent 10,000 soldiers and horses? How is it so much? Old Five, you will immediately send someone to spy on me to see if there is anyone behind? ”

The army must have enough grain and grass to dispatch, Fu Jian found that the three thousand cavalry were only light horses, and there were no grain carts in the army, which was definitely not the proper deployment of an army, so he immediately ordered to continue the investigation.