Three days after the Han army mutinied, the Tuoba clan relatives and nobles, the party departments still quarreled over whether to withdraw the army, Cai Keyuan, Cai Kexian and others advocated that since the fortified city is difficult, the grain and grass are not enough, and the reinforcements of Anxi are already on the way, then they should immediately withdraw the troops, and it is difficult to retreat to the five states.

Cai Jiqian insisted on continuing to attack Lingzhou, the reason is that Lingzhou is the emperor's foundation, and the imperial court agreed that Cai's possession of this place is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, at present, there are more than 40,000 cavalry troops in various party departments, and Wu Yingying's reinforcements are only 30,000, the decisive battle is under the city, the victory or defeat is between five and five, once the main force of the Anxi Army led by Wu Yingying is defeated, the Lingzhou defenders will see that foreign aid is cut off, and the will to defend the city will be shaken. The problem of grain and grass can continue to ask the imperial court, and the annihilation of the Guanzhong Xiang army and the people's army can all be pushed to the Anxi army, anyway, the imperial court must be willing to believe the statement of the Dingyan army, because Cai Jiqian has been an envoy for many years, and the leaders of the eight party departments who came to help him have many support for him, Cai Jiqian told them that Lingzhou is the richest city in the northwest, and a large number of Han people have been relocated to live in the past dynasties, and the wool textile factory of the Anxi army is even more in the city, accumulating countless money, once Lingzhou is opened, the various departments can loot at will, and they can't just go back in vain。

Cai Jifeng was in a dilemma between the opinions of the two factions, and he wanted to withdraw from the army in his heart, but this time the army was sent to attack Lingzhou, which was the first time he led the army as the co-lord of the Tuoba clan after he inherited the position of the envoy of the Dingyan Festival. What's more, Cai Keyuan and Cai Kexian are intent on preserving their strength, and Cai Jiqian, who advocates a decisive battle with Wu Yingying, at least supports him in face.

When the nobles of the party were arguing, the Malay newspaper reported that Wu Yingying had arrived in Lingzhou with 30,000 Anxi troops. The Anxi army came so fast that the leaders of all party departments were shocked, but Cai Jiqian looked calm, played with the rhinoceros horn dagger in his hand, and sneered: "Since Wu Yingying is here, this decisive battle will be fought if it is not fought." You people have read too many books of the Han people, and you have become as timid as a mouse like the Han people, arguing in vain that you did not attack the city for three days, and you have simply lost the face of the ancestors of the Tuoba clan. After speaking, he ignored the others, and went out of the camp to organize his subordinates and prepare for battle.

Although the Tuoba clan and the party members accepted the official positions of the imperial court and learned many rules and etiquette from the Han people in the Central Plains, there were still customs in the tribe, such as Cai Jiqian, who ridiculed the officials and withdrew without permission during the military discussion, as long as he did not flee on the battlefield. At present, although Cai Jifeng and Cai Keyuan and others are secretly dissatisfied with him, the leaders of the tribes feel that Cai Jiqian is the most kind of nobleman among the Tuoba clan, and they have told Cai Jifeng to go out to rectify the subordinates and fight with the Anxi army. "Cai Keyuan and Cai Keshun can't, and at this time, retreating alone is bound to be despised by the party Xiang Qiang of all departments, so they have to return to the camp separately. The battle formation of the Dangxiang people was not as complicated as that of the Han Chinese, except for a small number of foot soldiers in the state army to transport and guard the baggage, each division was mainly cavalry, and when fighting, the cavalry of each tribe first harassed the enemy, and then used iron harriers to charge the battle to break the enemy.

In the camp of the Anxi Army outside Lingzhou City, Wu Yingying sat in the first commander's position, wearing a yellow robe embroidered with colorful white tigers outside his armor, and the generals sat at the bottom in turn. After listening to Xin Gu's introduction of the Han army mutiny the day before yesterday, more than 20,000 people were slaughtered by the party, and the generals were in an uproar. The tribes on the grassland fought each other, and they often beheaded all the men with high wheels on the other side, but because the Central Plains people and the grassland tribes did not have such a vendetta, it was rare for the barbarian army to treat the Han people in the Central Plains like this. Cai Ran, Lin Hong, Bai Sheng and other commanders of the Han army gritted their teeth with hatred. Cai Randang, the commander of the Tayan army, sent a guide from the Hussars to send a guide to the Tayan army, and he sent twenty hundred-man teams from the Tayan army to hunt around the camp of the Dangxiang people, on the one hand, to strangle the scouts of the Dangxiang army, and on the other hand, to avenge the unjust death of the Han people.

Wu Yingying's face turned cold, and he said in a deep voice: "The Tuoba clan and the party departments have done such a thing that has lost their conscience, and they must pay for their blood debts and blood, and cut them down to the roots, so as to set an example." Compared with the generals present, he knew better in his heart that such a tragic event in front of him, if not severely punished, could be magnified by a hundred times and a thousand times, and eventually lead to the loss of one in ten populations in the Central Plains, and the Chinese civilization was almost cut off. "Kill to kill, use the sharp blade of the Anxi army, let this worst crime end here. ”

The commander of the hussar army made Xin Gu to rescue the mutinous Han army, and his body was wounded seven times, and his injuries had not healed at the moment, and he could not wear armor, and he was wearing a purple robe sewn by Zhu Huilan for him, Bingdao: "The Guanzhong Xiang army who was taken in the urn city knew that the imperial court could not avenge them, as long as the lord was willing to seek justice from the party members for them, they would swear to follow the lord to the death." When the surrounding generals heard this, their faces all smiled. The commander of the Iron Bone Army made Director Zhu even more sneering: "A large number of heroes are crying and shouting to be promoted to sergeants, this group of people is just a box army, and they have to make conditions to follow the lord? The forbidden army originally looked down on the box army, not to mention that most of the sergeants of the Iron Bone Army were fierce pawns in the forbidden army, and even ordinary forbidden soldiers were not very eye-catching.

"Oh?" Wu Yingying didn't think it was, "Lingzhou already has two elite cavalry armies, Hussars and Duhan, and in the future, if you want to take advantage of both infantry and cavalry, it is necessary to set up an infantry army that dares to fight", and asked: "Are these Guanxi infantry soldiers useful?" Xin Guzheng was not angry with the other generals to ridicule, and when he heard this, he said in a deep voice: "From the 50,000 cavalry army, only 3,000 of the 20,000 people remain, although many of the skills are not as good as the ready-made sergeants, but the courage and physical strength are good, as long as a little training, they are all selected elite soldiers." Seeing that Xin Gu's face was serious, and he had always spoken truthfully, and all the generals also put away their contemptuous expressions, Wu Yingying nodded and said, "Then accept them and train them strictly by the Jiaorong army." If it can be used, Guanzhong is the hometown of Qin, and it is called the same enemy army for revenge. ”

The generals said yes one after another, and carefully discussed the arrangements for attacking the party army, and they all thought that it would not be difficult to defeat the party army, but the difficulty was that the party members were all cavalry troops, and the various departments were not subordinate to each other, and if they were defeated, they were scattered, and it was difficult to completely annihilate them. "Although it is difficult for the cavalry army to be completely annihilated, as long as a few Tuoba clan leaders are defeated, it is not difficult to use the accumulation of the White Feather Army in the five states of Dingnan in recent years to defeat it with a large army. Tomorrow, the four armies of Longya, Jiaorong, Jinfan, and Iron Bone will form a formation and slowly attack the party's battalion, and the three armies of Lian Rui, Tayan and Hussar will serve as reserves, waiting for the opportunity to break the enemy army in one fell swoop.