Chapter 426: Preparing for War

"Urgent!"

A soldier rode straight to the outpost on a war horse, and the journey was dusty, apparently without the slightest stop.

"Uncle Mi Lan, there must be news ahead. Mi Candle was shocked when he heard the sound and hurriedly jumped off the walled platform.

"Young master, slow down!" Seeing this, Mi Lan hurriedly followed, the young man was in a hurry, and he didn't look at how high the village was.

When Mi Lan came to Mi Candle with the guards, the herald had already finished reporting the news and turned to leave.

"Uncle Mi Lan, General Chen San asked us to lead three thousand soldiers to reinforcements, and there seems to be a big operation tonight. ”

When Mi Candle saw Mi Lan coming here, he immediately turned around and spoke.

"Lead 3,000 soldiers to reinforce? Isn't there only more than 2,000 soldiers left here to defend it? What if the Western Frontier Army comes to attack and defend it in a big way?"

Mi Lan was not as happy as he imagined, the situation here was much more serious than when they came.

Originally, they thought that their two thousand soldiers came here to help the lord open up the situation, but they never thought that their two thousand soldiers were of little use when they came here.

Just imagine, Chen San led nearly 5,000 soldiers to garrison the outpost here, so plus the soldiers from other places, how many should there be?

Moreover, what the lord wanted was not to resist the attack of the Western Army, but to counterattack the Western Army, wanting to swallow up the 200,000 people of the Western Army in one battle.

Although the Western Frontier Army may not be as many as 200,000 soldiers, it is estimated that it is not much worse, at least 1890,000 soldiers must still have it.

Vainly trying to solve nearly 200,000 soldiers in the western realm with only tens of thousands of people has to be said to be quite whimsical.

However, since the fortress had not been held for months, the skepticism was not as intense as it had been at first.

And the news that Mi Lan and the others got was also news a long time ago, although Chen San told them that the Western Frontier Army had suffered heavy losses, but because of the combat effectiveness of the Western Frontier Army, they naturally did not want to believe Chen San's statement.

I just thought that Chen San said that just to keep their morale from being low.

"The army of the Western Frontier is difficult to protect itself, how can it be possible to attack this outpost? Mi Zhu is the opposite of Mi Lan's idea, the strength of the Western Frontier Army is just a rumor to him, he has no real experience, and he doesn't think how strong the Western Frontier Army is at all.

I think that when they were led by Long Jiu to fight against the nearby sects, wasn't it the same?

Before the war, all the forces said how powerful the sect was, and that the power of a city would not defeat the sect.

But what was the result? The large and small sects near Longshan City were all defeated in the conquest of the army under Long Jiu, and they were all uprooted.

"Then it's up to the young master to arrange it. Mi Lan sighed, and also wondered if he had lost his spirit and had no enterprising heart.

Soon, Mi Zhu dispatched 3,000 soldiers and rushed towards Chen San's temporary station under the leadership of the scout.

At the same time, Liang Shuo and the others had already entered the residences of the various forces and contacted the forces that Ye Xing had asked them to arrange.

There are hundreds of forces left behind here, some large and small, the big ones are four or five thousand people, and the small ones are only one or two.

And there are always twenty-three forces that Ye Xing has connections with here, and the most is Wu Wei's forces, with about four thousand soldiers.

The other forces are a little weaker, more than a thousand, and less than three or four hundred, which together can be regarded as a big help.

In order to be able to keep the Western Frontier Army here as much as possible, Ye Xing was also ruthless, and would rather leave these soldiers outside than let them enter the fortress to defend the city.

One is that I don't really trust those soldiers, after all, they have no experience of fighting side by side, in case someone is afraid of retreating, then it will be a disaster for the Weishui army defending the city.

Therefore, Ye Xing only selected some of the soldiers to join the Weishui Army to become the new army, and most of the others stayed outside.

And this effect is much better than defending the city entirely, because when the Western Army is fiercely attacking the city, if a force is fighting from the back of the Western Army.

So such an attack will be a fatal blow to the Western Frontier Army, which has not been in a city for days, not only in terms of morale, but also in terms of physical strength.

After all, the Western Frontier Army has been fighting for months, and it is already a tired army, and with the enemy on its back, it will definitely be unable to resist.

And that is the inevitable rout of the Western Frontier Army, once defeated, those who are responsible for the rear can defend according to the terrain, and gradually force down and incorporate the Western Frontier Army.

This is the plan laid out by Ye Xing, which takes a long time, but for a battle, a few months of battle is not too long, and it can be regarded as passable.

Each of these links is interconnected, and if there is a stronghold that cannot be occupied, then the Western Frontier Army will have a hole to break through, so this is the most important thing.

The soldiers in charge of the circumference also need to stay away from the Western Army as much as possible, so a lot of detours are needed to avoid being discovered by the Western Army scouts.

So it takes a lot longer.

If the soldiers under Ye Xing's command had fought hard with the Western Frontier Army at the beginning, it was estimated that the entire army would have been wiped out in a few dozen days at most.

The strength of the individual's combat power is still difficult to turn the entire battle tide after all, unless that person's individual combat power has broken through the sky.

But obviously, Ye Xing currently does not have the kind of combat power that can break through the sky, control mountains and rivers with one punch, and shatter the earth with one kick.

Therefore, what can be relied on is to use various arrangements and the defensive convenience of the fortress to slowly consume the morale and strength of the Western Frontier Army.

Finally, at some point, a major counteroffensive will be launched to complete the final curtain of this campaign and draw an end to it.

As Ye Xing's order was conveyed, all the soldiers began to act one after another, and while the sky was not completely dark, they sent their soldiers to wait near the periphery of the Misty Land.

Chen San and the others were one of the guards behind the circle, and at this time they had already joined up with the other army behind the circle, and the total strength of the two sides had exceeded 6,000.

In a place like this, there are still many soldiers gathering, and if you look down from the sky, you can see that there are many dense forest slopes and lakes with a large number of soldiers gathering.

Among them, more or less, the large ones have exceeded 6,000, and the small ones have also numbered 7,800.

As night fell, Chen San and Mi Zhu Chen Yu Gambo Ganyou and the others gathered together, looking at the distant positions of various forces and the misty land beyond.

"Ladies and gentlemen, tonight's battle is very important, and you should all be in good spirits and do not slack off. ”

Chen San looked around at the soldiers around him, his eyes were extremely serious.

"General Chen! Don't worry! We will definitely fight. ”

One of the commanders responded, and all the soldiers nodded their heads.