Chapter 332: Mulberry Bear's Game
"Your Highness, there is one more thing that the general feels very strange!" Meng Li groaned and said.
"Tell me about it." Ji Qingchen said, he motioned for Meng Li to sit on the chair opposite. Meng Li bowed down to receive the order, strode to the chair and sat down, and then said, "According to Sang Xiong's marching speed, he should have reached Si County this afternoon, but now his army is still two hundred miles away from Si County, according to his current marching speed, even tomorrow afternoon will not be able to reach Si County, is this Sang Xiong deliberate?" β
"Also, news came from our secret guard in Lingnan that the Lingnan Eight Clans Conference has ended, and the result of the discussion is to prepare another 100,000 troops to Dayan." Meng Li said the news a little worriedly, and stared at Ji Qingchen tightly. Now Sang Xiong's strength is enough to make Dayan on the Jinzhou line hard, if there are another 100,000 troops, how should Dayan deal with it? However, he believes that Ji Qingchen has a way to solve this problem, and he wants to gain confidence from Ji Qingchen.
"The soldiers are not many but fine, and the soldiers will not be wide but brave!" Ji Qingchen smiled faintly and said, "To deal with the Lingnan infantry soldiers, our target is not Sang Xiong's 300,000 army, but 60,000 back soldiers and Sang Xiong, as long as we solve Sang Xiong and 60,000 back soldiers, even if there are millions of Lingnan troops, the king is not afraid." β
Seeing that Meng Li was a little puzzled, Ji Qingchen didn't explain, but continued to ask, "How many backscarfers are there in the 100,000 additional army they sent this time?" β
"One hundred thousand." Meng Li said a terrifying number.
Su Jian used Guo Lun to kill Yanzhong, which greatly reduced the morale of the Beiwei soldiers, and he killed the Beiwei soldiers by surprise, so he exchanged his 8,000 men and horses for 3,000 Beiwei soldiers. According to Ji Qingchen's judgment, under normal circumstances, it is equivalent to three Great Yan Iron Cavalry solving a back soldier. One can imagine how strong the combat effectiveness of the back soldiers is. But now the eight clans of Lingnan have sent 100,000 backslaught soldiers, and to deal with them, Dayan must dispatch 300,000 iron cavalry.
As soon as the number in Meng Li's mouth was spoken, even Ji Qingchen, who had always been silent, changed color a little.
With his current strength, it is already very difficult to solve Sang Xiong, if there are 100,000 more back soldiers, it is estimated that it will not be him who will solve Sang Xiong, but let Sang Xiong solve him.
"No wonder Mulberry Bear marched so slowly, it turned out that he was waiting for reinforcements!" Ji Qingchen suddenly realized.
Now Sang Xiong has 160,000 troops in his hands, including 20,000 back soldiers, if you add the 100,000 back soldiers sent to Dayan again, the number of the army in his hands will exceed 260,000, and Sanchez's 40,000 back soldiers, the total strength has reached an astonishing 300,000, which is not inferior to Ningzhou's iron cavalry.
Such an army can't be solved with only the 130,000 iron horsemen in his hands now!
All of a sudden, Ji Qingchen fell into deep thought.
And Meng Li also sat on the chair and didn't speak again, just quietly waiting for Ji Qingchen.
There was a dead silence in the tent.
Time passed minute by minute, and Ji Qingchen was still pondering, and Meng Li was still silently sitting on the chair and waiting.
After a long time, the pensive Ji Qingchen woke up and looked at Meng Li and asked, "Do you have any suggestions?" β
"Your Highness, do you want to change your plan?" Meng Li whispered. He also knew that Lu Daoji Qingchen's plan was to completely annihilate the 300,000 army of Sang Xiong, but now the situation has changed, the Lingnan Yi clan has increased its troops, and it is still 100,000 back soldiers, in this case, the feasibility of completely destroying the 300,000 army of Sang Xiong is already very small, and it is time to change the battle plan.
But all that answered him was Ji Qingchen shook his head slightly, "No, if you don't completely defeat Sang Xiong and completely annihilate his 300,000 army, this war will come to a stalemate, which is not good for us, don't forget that in Ningzhou, we still have bigger enemies." β
"But if we don't do this, with the little force in our hands, I'm afraidβif we don't send messengers to King's Landing, they won't train a new army, and then send another 300,000 troops south to assist us!" Meng left his mouth and said.
"What role can a group of farmers, who have never killed pigs, never been on the battlefield, but have only been temporarily trained for a month?" Ji Qingchen sighed, "We can't let them be cannon fodder, we have to think of our own solutions." β
Meng Li was silent, he was the person who knew Ji Qingchen best, and he knew that Ji Qingchen's decision was different, and now Ji Qingchen's decision was that he wanted to solve this problem personally.
Sure enough, Ji Qingchen, who was silent for a while, said, "Since the Lingnan Yi clan is so willing to let their backs be sent to death, what if we fulfill them and annihilate all his 100,000 backswordsmen?" β
Speaking of this, Ji Qingchen's face instantly glowed with confidence.
"Our plan to close the door and beat the dog continues!" Ji Qingchen said without questioning Meng Li, "Meng Li, you still lead 100,000 Beirong cavalry to lurk in the valley, and when the 100,000 soldiers of the Lingnan Yi clan step into Jinzhou, you will block the route of their retreat, and then this king will give you an order." β
"What about you, Your Highness?" Meng Li asked nervously.
Leave the 100,000 army to yourself, won't there only be 30,000 Qingfeng riding by His Highness's side? Such a small amount of guard strength is very dangerous in Jinzhou, where the Lingnan army is currently raging, once the enemy knows that there are only 30,000 elites around the Liao King of Northern Dayan, it is estimated that Sang Xiong will immediately give up the opportunity to attack the city and deal with Ji Qingchen specifically.
"This king is going to meet the bear!" Ji Qingchen said very calmly, he was not timid because Sang Xiong had an army of 160,000, and he did not lose his calm because of blind self-confidence.
"Your Highnessββ!" Meng Li was just about to speak, but was stopped by Ji Qingchen, "Meng Li, if we want to solve the current crisis, we must solve Sang Xiong before the 100,000 back soldiers in Lingnan will make peace with Sang Xiong, only in this way can we completely annihilate the Lingnan army in Jinzhou." And how to solve the mulberry bear, can only be done by this king. If we stay here and wait for the best time according to our previous plan. It is estimated that the result that awaits us is to be annihilated by the mulberry bear. β
"But there are too few guards around His Highness, do you want to bring tens of thousands of more horses?" Meng Li did not insist, but pleaded.
"If you want to block the retreat of the Lingnan army from Jinju, I'm afraid that 100,000 troops will not be enough, but this king can only give you so many men and horses, if you take some more men and horses from you, our plan will be shattered." Ji Qingchen said undoubtedly, "This matter is so decided!" β
When Meng Li saw Ji Qingchen say this, he could only remain silent.
"You go down and tell Qingfeng to prepare for the march, and this king will go out of the valley tonight!" Ji Qingchen ordered.
"No!" He was ordered to leave the tent in great stride.
In an instant, the neighing of war horses and the heavy footsteps of soldiers could be heard in the valley. After a while, a cavalry was seen quietly out of the valley in the night, disappearing into the vast land on the border between Jinju and Yiju.
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When he was still 200 miles away from Si County, Sang Xiong ordered the march to be stopped, and he was to set up camp here. He is not in a hurry to attack Jinju City, Jinju City is just meat on the board for him that can't fly. His current goal is to annihilate the Dayan army in Jinju and completely control Jinju in his hands.
So he needs more troops, more men.
And before that, he had already received the news that the alliance meeting of the Lingnan Yi clan had decided to send another 100,000 back soldiers to Dayan. At the same time, the 100,000 will continue to be handed over to him to command. In this way, he has an army of 300,000 in his hands, and as long as he has these 300,000 people, Sang Xiong believes that he can lead the army to kill the city of King's Landing one step away from the National Railway.
That's why he marched slowly, the first was to wait for reinforcements, to use Sanchez to test Dayan's defense outside Jinju City, and second, to play a game with Ji Qingchen, and to crack Ji Qingchen's plan to annihilate his 300,000 army.
"Teacher, are we really not going to attack Jinju City?" A young man in Mulberry Bear's tent asked.
This young man is only eighteen years old, but the heroic air on his face and the expensive outfit on his face are enough to show that his identity is not simple.
"Little Prince, who do you think our real enemy is in Jinju City?" Mulberry Bear asked.
The young and heroic young general in front of him is none other than the youngest son of the patriarch of the Baiyan clan in Lingnan, and the younger brother of Bai Meng'er, the princess of dreams, called Bai Bairen, and the relationship between Sang Xiong and Bai Ren is not only the relationship between the general and the prince, Sang Xiong is Bai Ren's teacher. Because of this relationship, Sang Xiong took Bai Bairen with him when he sent troops to Dayan, and he wanted to teach his proud disciples by word and deed.
Bai Bairen obviously didn't expect the teacher to suddenly ask such a question, and pondered for a moment before answering, "Dayan Tieqi and Northern Liao Wang Ji Qingchen. β
"To be exact, Beirong and Northern Liao Iron Cavalry and Northern Liao King Ji Qingchen!" Sang Xiong said in a firm tone.
"The teacher means to ......," Bai Bairen stared at Sang Xiong in disbelief.
"Yes. You guessed right, it was to kill Ji Qingchen, and then destroy the 130,000 iron horsemen in his hands. Today, after being able to stop our Lingnan Yi clan from going north, Ji Qingchen, the king of Northern Liao, and his iron cavalry, as long as they kill Ji Qingchen and destroy the Beirong and Northern Liao iron cavalry in Jinzhou, who can still block our road north to King's Landing? Sang Xiong said confidently. This is his plan, he entered Jinju not to attack Jinju City, but to go south for Ji Qingchen. Similarly, the Lingnan Eight Clans Conference discussed sending troops, not because Jinzhou was short of troops, but because they heard that Ji Qingchen was going south to Jinzhou to deal with Sang Xiong, and they also wanted to kill Ji Qingchen, the Optimus Prime of Dayan, so they decided to increase the number of troops by another 100,000. Otherwise, with the preciousness of the backswains, the 100,000 backscarers are already the family of the eight clans in Lingnan, and how can they be easily taken out and sent to the battlefield.
"The teacher's plan is really incredible!" The little prince Bai Bairen sighed, "It's just that until now, we are not sure where Ji Qingchen and his 130,000 army are, and how should we deal with him?" β
Sang Xiong's face showed an unfathomable look, and he said with a little pride in his words, "Don't worry! After tonight, we will be able to get news from Ji Qingchen! β
Seeing that the teacher was so confident, the little prince Bai Ren nodded slightly and said nothing. Because he believes in his teacher, he believes that he can do what he says, just as the promise he made to him is fulfilled today.