Chapter Twenty-Seven—The Final Battle of the North (Part II)
After some persuasion from Bu Luan, Xu Zhan finally decided to send troops to aid Gongsun Yu and Princess Liuli Bu Yuehan, who had not yet returned to this camp, although Xu Zhan could find an excuse not to rescue Gongsun Yu, but he could not save Princess Liuli Bu Yuehan anyway, you must know that Bu Yuehan is the only daughter of the Holy Emperor, if Princess Liuli is lost in the Qi Kingdom, or if this is captured by the Qi people, then the current result is that he can't afford it.
So, Xu Zhan immediately dispatched 5,000 cavalry to patrol the sentry, and 5,000 cavalry responded. Maybe this is not the time to turn your face at will, if you want to seize military power, the best time is to defeat the Qi State. After all, the Qi State was their common enemy, and at this point, even he, a general who had always supported the royal family to regain power, understood the power of this. At the same time as sending these two cavalry, he immediately ordered the front army to advance one hundred and fifty miles, shortening the distance between them and the Qi State by more than two hundred miles. To make it clear, he is going to have a decisive battle with Qi State immediately.
The speed of this cavalry of 10,000 people is very fast, and the reason for this is also very simple, now Xu Zhan ordered them to dispatch, that is, he made it clear that he wanted to hand over this responsibility to them, if it was their credit to find it back, if they did not find General Gongsun Yu and Princess Liuli Bu Yuehan, they were afraid that their lives would not be easy in the future, and their lives would even be in danger.
After thinking about it for a while, they immediately made a quick detour to Beidui County, where the camp of the Qi State was located, they could only bet like this, betting that now these two most important people did not fall into the hands of the Qi people. Otherwise, even if they could find them, they would not dare to do it. can only retreat alone, so that the initiative in this battle is completely out of their hands. With the Qi State in charge of Gongsun Yu and Princess Liuli, they can lead the battle.
There are two passages outside this Beidu County, one is the official road closer to Beidu County, but although this official road is flat, it is very suitable for the deployment of troops, especially from Beidu County to Yinchen County, where the feudal country is now stationed, if you advance along this official road, you will inevitably encounter a plain fifty miles away from Yinchen County, this plain is not too open, far inferior to the Weiku Plain. But in fact, this is also a good place for Chen Bing, where the pursuers of the Qi State can be completely dispersed, then, the pursuit may end at any time.
Another passage is to pass through the Beidu Mountain Range behind Beidui County, although the road is long but much safer than the official road, and the passage in this mountain range is relatively narrow, it cannot accommodate the pursuit of a large group of soldiers at ordinary times, and it is easy to fail because the pursuing army battle line is too long. At this time, the cavalry of these 10,000 people did not dare to divide the troops into two ways, lest the Qi State really send a large army to pursue them, and in such a situation, it is very likely that the armies on both sides will encounter great risks. After weighing the pros and cons for a long time, their commander Zhang Yang finally decided to leave the 3,000 cavalry on that plain to wait for the news to be answered at any time, and he himself immediately dispatched the remaining 7,000 cavalry to enter the Beidu Mountain Range by the mountain road, and galloped through the passage in the mountain range to see if he could meet the retreating general Gongsun Yu and Princess Liuli Bu Yuehan.
The prestige of the general Gongsun Yu and Princess Liuli Bu Yuehan in this feudal army is quite high, and it is natural that once the news of these two people being captured spreads to the feudal camp, I am afraid it will directly affect the morale of the army.
Their cavalry was still halfway through, Zhang Yang suddenly heard the news from a rear cavalry, and less than a quarter of an hour after they left the camp, Xu Zhan immediately passed down the general's order, ordering the entire army of the Feng State to pull out the camp and advance, as if it was going to have a decisive battle with the Qi State. And at this moment, the army of Qi seems to have begun to move at this moment, and the 40,000 Qi army is rushing over, and the general who commands the army is none other than Li Fu, the current commander of the Qi army.
This news couldn't help but make Zhang Yang gasp, the situation in front of him was broken by fifteen thousand cavalry, and their current ten thousand troops could not rush back to help quickly, and there were originally five thousand troops stationed there in the Yinchen County camp. Now it can be said that the military superiority on which the feudal state originally relied is basically gone. Now, the two sides are evenly matched. However, whether it is in terms of the elite level and morale of the army, they are inferior to the Qi State.
What's even more fatal is that now one of their two cavalry is losing one and the other is set to rescue the general Gongsun Yu and Princess Liuli Bu Yuehan. In some ways, this decision directly led to the fact that there are not many cavalry among the more than 40,000 feudal army now. And it is rumored that Qi Guo has always had a trump card that has not been played, and no one knows what this is. According to the sentry, it was most likely a heavily armored cavalry.
Zhang Yang didn't know much about the concept of heavy cavalry, he only knew that the armor of ordinary cavalry should be made more exquisite, and it was also necessary to bring heavy armor to the war horses, so that the mobility of such an army should not be very strong. Although Zhang Yang has always wanted to train a heavy armored cavalry by himself, after all, the current situation has been turbulent, and the cost of cultivating a heavy armored cavalry is really high, which will be a big expense for the national treasury. Although the Holy Emperor is also working on this aspect. But after all, it is not mature now, and it is impossible to train an elite army of heavy armored cavalry in a while. Moreover, they can't understand now that even if there is a heavy armored cavalry, they have not appeared on the battlefield after all, and the specific combat effectiveness and performance are really unpredictable, so he simply doesn't think about these things and advances as soon as possible, even if he can't find the general Gongsun Yu and Princess Liuli Bu Yuehan, he can lead this army directly to the rear of the Qi army and catch them off guard.
At the front of the Qi army marching in the wilderness, Li Fu, the general of the Qi State, was wearing a white helmet and riding a brown war horse at the front of the team, while the three people walked side by side beside him. It is his most trusted strategist, Qian Rong, who is now wearing a very simple gray cloth robe, Qian Rong is shaking a feather fan in his hand, talking and laughing and pointing something to Li Fu beside him.
On the other hand, Xia Liuli and Lu Deng, who have been following Li Fu since Weicheng came back, have not had anything to do since they came back. Fortunately, now that the battle is about to begin, they also have a chance to show their talents.
Now, after defeating the cavalry of the feudal state in the west of Beidui County in a desperate gamble, Li Fu and Qian Rong both felt that the time for a decisive battle with the main force of the feudal state had basically arrived. Although the number of the feudal army is not large, it is not quiet at this moment, and there is still a cavalry of theirs hidden in this army. It can be said that now the time, place, and people are in their hands, so Li Fu immediately dispatched the whole army, leaving only 3,000 people to garrison the large camp in Beijie County.
After receiving the news that the feudal army was also dispatched, Li Fu and Qian Rong already felt that the current situation was already in the best situation for them. If you don't go out to attack the feudal country at this moment, you really can't say it.
Along the way, the most thing Li Fuzai discussed with Qian Rong now was which of the best times they should seize to launch an attack at this moment. Li Fu felt that although the advantage was on their side now, they should still work steadily and step by step. If they attack rashly, there is a good chance that they will attract some considerable risks.
But this time, Qian Rong, a strategist who has always been habitually stable and steady step by step, took the initiative to persuade Li Fu to immediately dispatch the army to fight a decisive battle with the feudal army, and his reason was also very clear, that is, everything he did before was to pave the way for this crucial battle now. Obviously, for their current army, the situation in front of them has made it impossible for them to wait so long. And now, they have an extremely elite army in their hands, and there is no heavy cavalry dispatched, this heavy cavalry can invisibly take the initiative to control the situation in front of them, this heavy cavalry can at least match nearly 5,000 troops. It's not like an ordinary army can match each other.
After thinking about it for a while, Li Fu finally did this according to Qian Rong's idea, after all, the things made at this time in front of him were not peaceful within the feudal country, and in many cases, there would even be wars within the feudal country. In that case, why didn't they seize this opportunity?
Now that his heart had stabilized, Li Fu immediately ordered the whole army not to slow down but to speed up and continue to advance, and ordered the whole army to speed up and advance. Not long after, when the light fell in this valley in the middle of the night, the sentry had already passed the news to the ears of Li Fu, who was commanding the soldiers of Qi to camp one after another, and now the army of the feudal country had also approached the valley in front of him, and what was about to start was a battle that could break out at any time had made the situation in front of him more serious. For a moment, the aura in this feudal valley became more and more tense. After Li Fu pondered for a while, he finally decided to immediately strengthen the sentry, and sent someone to invite Qian Rong, Xia Liuli and Lu Deng to discuss the most critical matter, maybe the most thrilling battle could break out here at any time, and this battle could start this time like a battle in an instant.