Dispatching 400,000 troops out of the country, and taking the famous general Mu Feng as the generalissimo, the purpose is obvious, that is, to capture Ningzhou in Dayan, and capture this rich and vast land that is close to the capital of Dayan, so that they can be one step closer to unifying the world.

Therefore, when Empress Dowager Xiao proposed to let Mu Feng command the army, the departing emperor Li Changchuan did not compromise with Empress Dowager Xiao, but ordered Mu Feng to personally lead 200,000 troops from Xijing to the south. Because Mu Feng is the envoy of Xijing Town, he is very prestigious in the Xijing army, and he has many henchmen and henchmen, so that he can better control this army under the command of the Xijing army, and when the time comes to fight with Dayan, he can capture Ningzhou of Dayan in one fell swoop.

Mu Feng led an army of 200,000 to the south to Shangjing, and after accepting the practice of Emperor Yan and Empress Dowager Xiao outside the city, he led the army to Ningwu Pass as soon as possible.

Therefore, since he launched a war against Dayan, his criterion was to be a soldier and a speed.

With the support of the whole country, 400,000 troops were poured to attack the city of Ningzhou in Dayan, if Ningzhou could not be captured, what kind of face would it have to say that the country was a strong country in the world?

That's why he was in such a hurry to march.

And when he led 200,000 iron cavalry to Ningwu Pass, Ningwu Pass had already gathered the 200,000 troops that had been ordered to be assembled before, and these 200,000 troops had already been prepared and were waiting for Mu Feng, the generalissimo.

Therefore, as soon as Mu Feng arrived at Ningwu Pass, with this 200,000 army, plus his own 200,000 iron cavalry, his strength reached exactly 400,000 troops.

Under his order, the 400,000-strong army rushed out of Ningwu Pass and killed Ningzhou City.

In order to prevent the railway cavalry from leaving the country from going south, Liu Donglou deliberately deployed a ranger near Ningwu Pass, with a number of about 3,000.

However, as soon as Mu Feng's army came out of the pass, the Dayan rangers who were active in Ningwu Pass had not yet come to their senses, and they were killed by the scouts he sent out. By the time the news of the 400,000 troops leaving the customs reached Ningzhou City, Mu Feng's army was only three hundred miles away from Ningzhou City.

At this time, Liu Donglou received the news that Mu Feng's 400,000 troops had invaded Ningzhou, and he was surprised and frightened.

What was surprising was that Mu Feng's marching speed was too fast, and he sent a large number of scouts to kill his scout horse team after leaving the pass, and rushed to a place only three hundred miles away from Ningwu Pass, and the horror was Mu Feng's 400,000 troops, as well as 40,000 Tiefu Tu heavy cavalry, such a strong strength was not something that he could deal with with 100,000 Ningzhou iron cavalry and 60,000 foot soldiers.

However, Mu Feng's army had already reached a distance of three hundred miles from Ningzhou City, and it was too late for him to make a deployment now, so he could only defend Ningzhou City and wait for reinforcements from the imperial court.

Because as long as Mu Feng breaks Ningzhou City, it is equivalent to capturing Ningzhou.

Because as soon as Ningzhou City is lost, the entire Ningzhou will fall, and when the time comes, even if he Liu Donglou does not die in battle, the Dayan Privy Council will not let him go.

Besides, Ningzhou is the foundation of his Liu family, he gave up Ningzhou, and the Liu family has no foundation, how can he compete with the seven great families in the future, and how can he support his nephew Ji Hongchang?

Therefore, when the news reached Ningzhou City, Liu Donglou was stunned for a moment and then returned to his old look, and immediately summoned the generals of Ningzhou to discuss the military situation.

He had already heard of Mu Feng's name, and he had only made a decision in an instant about Mu Feng personally leading an army of 400,000 to attack Ningzhou, the city was in the people, and the city was dead.

Therefore, when he convened the generals of the Ningzhou army to discuss the military situation, he proposed to send 10,000 iron cavalry to test the strength of Mufeng's army. In fact, he wanted to see Mu Feng's talent in cavalry warfare, whether he was another Li Qingyi who left the country like the legend.

Because he has to face Mu Feng, he can only test Mu Feng's true strength and make targeted deployments.

The generals had no objection to Liu Donglou's suggestion, everyone agreed with his suggestion, knowing oneself and knowing one's opponent can win all battles! Therefore, just after the meeting, Liu Donglou sent a cavalry of 10,000 people out of the city to test the vanguard army of Mufeng.

The next day, Liu Donglou waited for a long time in Ningzhou City and did not see the scout who reported the news, he was anxious, so he climbed the Ningzhou City Tower, he waited on the city tower for a long time, only to see a horse appeared in the distant sky, this single man rode close to Ningzhou City when he found that he was a member of the Ningzhou Iron Horse.

And it was this soldier who was already dying on the horse and sent him a message that the 10,000 elite cavalry he sent met the 20,000 vanguard army sent by Mu Feng, and the two sides fought, and the 10,000 Ningzhou iron cavalry were all wiped out.

At this moment, Liu Donglou was silent.

10,000 cavalry met the opponent's 20,000 iron cavalry, which was a completely annihilated ending.

This made Liu Donglou not only not test the strength of Mufeng's cavalry, but instead lost 10,000 elite cavalry, which made him very distressed.

For Mu Feng's 400,000 army, a loss of 10,000 or 20,000 is nothing, but for him with only 100,000 cavalry, a loss of 10,000 is a bit heavy.

Therefore, at this moment, he decided to defend Ningzhou City.

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When Li Changzheng led an army of 100,000 to Xizhou in a hurry, the Xishu army did not leave the customs.

After he arrived at the Xizhou Governor's Mansion, he had 100,000 Northern Liao Iron Cavalry in his hands, plus the Xizhou Governor's Mansion originally had 50,000 defenders and the 50,000 troops who returned after receiving Ji Ping's order, and the number of troops in his hands reached 200,000 for a while.

This is a mixed army of infantry and cavalry mainly based on the iron cavalry of Northern Liao and the infantry of the Governor's Mansion of Xizhou.

As soon as this army appeared in the Xizhou Governor's Mansion, it shook Xishu.

Because Xishu dispatched a total of only 200,000 troops for this battle, it was still mainly foot soldiers, and there were only 80,000 cavalry. In terms of military strength, they are much inferior to Li Changzheng. Moreover, they also received news that Li Changzheng led the Northern Liao Iron Cavalry south to Xizhou, which made them a little overwhelmed at once. Because they dared to dispatch an army of 200,000 because they were not afraid of Ji Ping's scum army with less than fifty percent of his combat strength when he was in Xizhou, but against the Northern Liao Iron Cavalry whose general Beirong wiped out the country, the Xishu people had no self-confidence.

This is not a problem of lack of self-confidence, but the self-knowledge of the people of Xishu.

They knew very well what their strength was, that is, the infantry was very strong in combat, but the cavalry was very weak in battle. And the Northern Liao Iron Cavalry does not belong to the existence of the Iron Cavalry of the country, and there is a reason not to lose against such a cavalry.

Therefore, when Li Changzheng's army gathered at the Xizhou Governor's Mansion, Xishu delayed the dispatch of troops, and their army stopped when they arrived at Jianmen Pass, and did not continue to march outside the pass.

Because out of the Jianmen Pass is the land of Dayan, they are afraid that before they understand the strength of Li Changzheng's army, rashly sending troops will only increase their own casualties. For Liu Donglou, Mu Feng's 400,000-strong army attacked Ningzhou because he was away from the country and had a lot of money. But for the people of Xishu, Li Changzheng's 200,000 troops stubbornly defended Xizhou, which was also a manifestation of wealth.

Because of this, half a month has passed since Li Changzheng arrived in Xizhou, but there has been no movement in Xishu.

This situation lasted until Ji Qingchen defeated Li Muzhi and sent Li Fang to his side, and then Xishu made a move, and they crawled out of 20,000 Xishu elite soldiers as the vanguard army, and set foot on the land of Dayan.

When Li Changzheng received the news of the scout, he decisively sent Li Fang to lead an army of 20,000 to meet the enemy, 10,000 cavalry and 10,000 foot soldiers.

And Li Fang is also a general who follows Li Muzhi's side and is familiar with cavalry warfare. He abandoned the 10,000 slow-moving foot soldiers and defeated the 20,000 troops of Xishu with only 10,000 cavalry.

He also took advantage of the slow marching speed of the Xishu infantry to block the return route of the Xishu army with cavalry, so that the 10,000 infantry who arrived on the battlefield in time participated in the battle.

In this way, he used 10,000 cavalry and 10,000 foot soldiers to annihilate the 20,000 Xishu vanguard army, while his own side only lost 3,000 men and horses.

This battle made Li Fang famous in Xizhou, and Li Changzheng famous in Xishu, and this battle also made the Northern Liao Iron Cavalry even more famous in Western Shu, so that the Western Shu people have put the Northern Liao Iron Cavalry and the Liguo Iron Cavalry in the same terrifying existence.

And the Xishu people restrained their ambitions after suffering this big loss, and the troops did not dare to send troops at Jianmen Pass.

Therefore, on the battlefield in Xizhou, with Li Changzheng and 100,000 Northern Liao Iron Cavalry to defend it, Xishu did not take any large-scale conquest.

As for the battlefield of Yizhou, the situation is just the opposite of Xishu.

The Lingnan Yi tribe dispatched 200,000 troops in one go, and they were also the elite soldiers of the Lingnan Yi tribe, they broke through the gateway between Yizhou and the Lingnan Yi tribe in one fell swoop, and the army attacked the city of Yizhou, and the city of Yizhou was strong.

Moreover, the Lingnan Yi people are easy to kill, and after they occupied Yizhou, they wantonly killed the people of Dayan in Yizhou, and also plundered the property of the people of Yizhou.

This kind of action not only made the people of Dayan angry, but also made the ministers in the court of Dayan angry, if it were not for the fact that Dayan was experiencing infighting, it is estimated that the ministers would unanimously suggest that Dayan should start a war against the Lingnan Yi tribe and eliminate this inhumane tribe.

Therefore, for Dayan, the real enemy of the Three Kingdoms sending troops to attack Dayan is not Xishu, but the Lingnan Yi tribe in Yizhou and the Liguo Iron Cavalry in Ningzhou.

Just like the rumors among the people of Dayan, it is said that if the people of Dayan are to choose, they would rather their homeland be occupied by the Ningzhou Iron Cavalry than by the Lingnan Yi tribe. Because the people who have left the country for more than 300 years since the founding of the People's Republic of China, after hundreds of years of precipitation, they have long since gotten rid of killing and bloodthirstiness, and they have adopted the same policy as their own people in dealing with the land and people of Dayan who have occupied, and they do not want to be killed by non-our race like the Lingnan Yi people.

It can be seen how evil the Lingnan Yi people are in Dayan.

And this is the real reason why Ji Qingchen wants to fight a quick battle, wants to end the internal fighting immediately, and is ready to unite all the forces of Dayan to the outside world.

Because if it goes on like this, Dayan will lose the hearts of the people, and then Dayan will defeat the Lingnan Yi clan and lose to the Tieqi who leave the country.