The people scattered in all directions, and the legs and feet were so fast that they had fled hundreds of meters away, and at this moment, the Iron Cavalry of the Celestial Empire also rushed to the front with the momentum of the horse, and then a burst of weapons rang out, and thousands of Rus soldiers were hidden in the sea of cavalry.

In less than half an hour, the battle was over.

Thousands of Rus' soldiers were killed, and none of them survived. Only then did the Celestial Empire Iron Cavalry begin to clean up the battlefield, collecting all the bows, arrows and weapons carried by those Rus' soldiers, and then each of them put a bag of fifty catties of grain on the horses, and then began to retreat.

The Celestial Empire Iron Rider came and went fast. They did not treat the Rus' people from beginning to end, and not only that, but they also left a lot of military rations on the road.

Those Rus' people, who had already run away and watched all this from afar, saw that the danger was gone, and after there were only countless military rations left on the ground, they didn't know who took the lead and quickly left with a bag of food. Then the rest of the people followed suit, and the rations were soon snatched up, and the whole land fell into silence again.

All this is just a microcosm of one place. In fact, such things happen in several, even dozens, dozens, every day.

Throughout the fields near the city of Sunriel Bay, this happened over and over again. At least one-tenth of the military rations were taken away, and at least more than half of the rations were taken back to their homes by civilians and hidden. In the end, the grain that really fell into the hands of the royal family was only two-three out of seven.

The fact that the rations could not be completely returned to the treasury was tantamount to fundamentally shaking the dominance of the royal family.

As I said before, the Rus' control of grain is even stricter than that of weapons. This is the shrewdness of Yaxiong Fuqiang, he controls the food, which is equivalent to controlling the national line, and those who want to eat and live can only obey him.

But now, most of the food has been taken away by the people, so that when the royal orders are issued, there is very little response, and their position becomes dangerous.

In the face of this situation, neither Anatoly nor Ivan could stand still, they had already obtained accurate information, and the Iron Cavalry of the Celestial Empire who was robbing the grain was led by General Huang Zhong, the commander of the Second Army of the Celestial Empire.

As for Huang Zhong, he disappeared after raiding the palace of Prince Ivan. Although during this time, both princes sent people to search. However, there are too many mountains and jungles in Rus's territory, and even if they have the ability, they can't check all the places. As a result, there has been no news of the Celestial Legion Commander.

Originally, I thought that it was just 80,000 iron horses, even if it was out, it would not hinder the overall situation. But it was only now that Huang Zhong's actions made the two princes understand the horror of this iron horse.

"Mobilize troops, encircle and suppress this cavalry, no matter what, such a powerful iron cavalry is not allowed to appear in our territory, absolutely not allowed." Prince Anatoly looked at the battle report below, in just half a month, most of the military rations were robbed, not to mention, even the soldiers were discounted by thirty or forty thousand, which made him angry and issued an order to transfer troops from Sanlilbe City to help.

Prince Ivan was also greatly disturbed by it, and he was not allowed to do so, but also gave an order, ordering General Yesenin, who was in Pahan City, to lead the army back to suppress it.

The mountains seem to be connected to the sky, and there is no end in sight. In today's terms, this is a primeval forest area, one high mountain after another, here, even if a million soldiers are ambushed, it is like a stone sinking into the sea, and there is no wave.

Huang Zhong hid here with 80,000 iron horsemen.

He said that it was 80,000, but his number was not even 70,000. In the past few months, in the process of hiding, some soldiers lost their lives because they could not adapt to the miasma in the forest and the bites of mosquitoes and snakes, and lost some in hundreds of battles with the Rus' army, directly reducing more than 10,000 people.

But despite having less than 70,000 horsemen, this is still a military force to be reckoned with. At least because of their existence, the two princes of the Rus' Kingdom had a headache and also held back their heavy troops.

In the Huang Zhong Road Army in the mountains, behind them were mountains of military rations, with these, it was completely enough for them to spend the winter, this was Huang Zhong's preparation.

Hiding in the mountains, he completely cut off the connection between him and the emperor Zhang Chao, which made all the decisions he made completely dependent on himself.

If Zhang Chao can't be contacted, he naturally can't contact the Tianyan Intelligence Organization, Huang Zhong is now completely blind, and he knows very little about the situation outside. All that can be learned is a limited amount of information from the scouts who have been dispatched.

For example, he knew that the Celestial Empire army was blocked from the cities of Pahan and Sanlil Bay in the Rus' Kingdom. But what happened to him, he didn't know.

It was precisely because he didn't know that Huang Zhong took it upon himself to send troops out of the mountains to grab food, and he needed to be prepared to fight a protracted war.

"Commander, the statistics have come out, the food we have looted is enough for our soldiers to eat until April next year, and the military uniforms we have looted are enough for everyone to spend the winter." A logistics quartermaster came to Huang Zhong and reported the results that had just been counted.

"Very good, you have worked hard, let's go down first." Huang Zhong waved his hand. Although logistics and supplies were not a problem, there was no trace of joy on his face.

It's easy to say it's easy to say when you're alone, but it's really hard to do, and at this moment he misses the main force of the Celestial Empire very much. It's not like you're hiding in the mountains, not knowing what to do next.

"Report." A fast horse scout who had just returned to the mountain quickly ran in front of Huang Zhong, and then slammed his head on the ground and said: "Commander, on the periphery of the mountain, I found a lot of Rus troops, looking at their banners, it should not be the guards of the two princes of the Rus Kingdom. ”

"Oh? Who is that? "I heard that it was not the prince's guards who appeared, so it could only be the Rus' army that was transferred back from outside, but I don't know which army came, and I don't know if their reinforcements can relieve the pressure on Emperor Zhang Chao on the frontal battlefield.

"I don't know about this yet, my subordinates will go and investigate." The scout was a little speechless, he just saw that there was a large army nearby, so he hurried back to report, and really didn't want to investigate carefully.

"Okay, I'm investigating, we must find out who is coming and who the general is?" Huang Zhong waved his hand and let the scout retreat.

The scouts did not disappoint Huang Zhong, and a day later, the specific news came back, and it was the headquarters of General Ilyif under Prince Anatoly and General Yesenin under Prince Ivan who were surrounded by Cong Shan. They each took 500,000 people with them to search the nearby mountains.

Huang Zhong was not worried about the arrival of millions of enemies, the forest was so big, there were so many mountains, how difficult it was to find himself. As soon as they got close, he would choose a new place to hide, which was not a cause for concern. On the contrary, he was still a little excited, for his nearly 70,000 army, the Rus country actually sent a million strong soldiers, which is definitely good news. In this way, the positive pressure faced by the emperor will be greatly reduced, and perhaps the Shengming Emperor Zhang Chao will seize this opportunity, and it is not necessary to attack the city on a large scale.

Of course, the premise of all this is that these Rus' armies will not withdraw, but must be firmly watched here, as long as this is the case, it is equivalent to creating enough opportunities for the emperor to counterattack.

Thinking like this, Huang Zhong issued a military order, that is, sent some experienced cavalry out of the forest to confuse the enemy. In short, it is a purpose, that is, not to let the Rus army capture them, nor to fight with them, all the plan is to tell these Rus army that there is indeed the existence of the Celestial Empire Iron Cavalry here, and they just need to be firmly supported.

Huang Zhong just wanted to relieve some pressure on Emperor Zhang Chao, but he really didn't know how huge the impact of what he did had on the overall situation, and what he did gave the Celestial Empire the best chance to counterattack.

The million-dollar Rus army withdrew from the front line, and this news was naturally obtained by the Tianyan organization as soon as possible, and then passed into Zhang Chao's hands.

"Okay, great, General Hansheng has made a great contribution again." Looking at the military report that came from his hand for the first time, Zhang Chao said excitedly in the big tent, his face was flushed at the moment, and he could imagine the excitement in his heart at this moment.

Recently, Zhang Chao has been hesitating whether to retire from the army. After all, so many large armies are stagnant here, and the daily consumption is very amazing, seeing that the food he had taken before is almost used, it is impossible for him not to be in a hurry.

And just when he was hesitating whether to withdraw the army, the war suddenly changed, and the Rus country actually withdrew the million army defending the city, despite this, there were more than two million Rus troops to confront them, just in terms of strength, they were still at a disadvantage, but Zhang Chao personally thought that the time had come, and he only needed to make some preparations to attack the city on a large scale.

"Zhong Kang, the person in charge of the Heavenly Eye is here to see me." Zhang Chao's tone was firm, and the decadent appearance before completely disappeared.

Only half a month after the Rus' army retreated to the vicinity of the city of Great Rus', a rumor began to spread among the Rus' army.

"Did you hear that? The reason why our army retreated was because the military rations were robbed by the Iron Cavalry of the Celestial Empire. ”

"Yes, I also heard that there was a force of hundreds of thousands of Celestial Empire Iron Cavalry, and they suddenly appeared near the national capital and plundered the grain that had just been harvested, and I heard that our two princes were angry because of this."

"How is that possible? Where will there be so many Celestial Empire Iron Riders behind us? This can't be a rumor, right? The Ross soldier asked incredulously.