"Where are the Rushing Cavalry, the Absolute Shadow Cavalry, and the Yugang Army currently located, and when will they arrive in Luzhou City?" Da Xiyi continued to ask.

"Returning to the general, the Benxiao cavalry is currently one hundred and seventy miles north of our army, and the Shadow Cavalry is two hundred and forty miles southwest of our army, both armies will arrive outside Luzhou City before noon tomorrow, and the Yugang army is one hundred and twenty miles behind our army, and it is expected to arrive in Luzhou City in four days. ”

The Yugang Army is a 30,000-strong hoplite corps, which is the closest force to Luzhou City that can carry out city attack and defense operations, and it is also the key to the siege of Yunqi City. Although the three cavalry teams, including the Cangji cavalry, are highly mobile, they mainly play the role of responding to and limiting the attack of the opponent's cavalry in the siege battle, and at the same time, they are also prepared to encircle and pursue the cavalry of Yunqi City in case the opponent fails to defend the city and is ready to abandon the city and flee.

"Order the whole army, speed up the advance, camp at a distance of one hundred and eighty miles from Luzhou City for the night, and arrive at Luzhou City before noon tomorrow, and join the other two cavalry! At the same time, send someone to urge the Yugang army, let them speed up, don't let us wait too long, the team pulls out, people eat horses and chews, every day of delay, it is more than 100,000 taels of silver!" Da Xiyi gave an order, and a herald went to give an order to the two 10,000-strong legions behind, and after a while, the entire Cangji rode like a giant beast awakened, disappearing into the billowing smoke and dust.

At night, the moon and stars are scarce.

The 20,000 well-trained horses faced outwards with their heads outwards and their tails rushed inward, one next to the other, forming a huge circle, and within the circle were marching tents like small hills, and the whole camp was so quiet that only the sound of horses breathing could be heard. Inside and outside the circle, there are sentinels patrolling in the hope that every soldier will have a good night's sleep before tomorrow arrives.

However, not everyone was able to sleep peacefully, or rather, at least half of the fighters tossed and turned in their tents, unable to sleep. Although the Cangji cavalry is the most elite cavalry of the Daxi family, in the thousand-year-old peace, they have not participated in a real battle for too long.

Not even among the commanders of the legion had ever fought in a formal battle, let alone ordinary cavalrymen who were less than thirty years old. Among the more than 20,000 people, less than one percent have actually seen blood, and although this time their own side has an absolute advantage, after all, war is different from training, and the sword has no eyes, and no one dares to say that they will be able to escape unharmed in this operation.

In addition to these tossing and turning cavalry, there are some people who have not slept tonight, they are the spies and scouts in charge of reconnaissance and liaison. In order to prevent the enemy's sneak attack, they set up three reconnaissance lines in front of the camp and 10 miles, 30 miles, and 50 miles on the side of the camp for vigilance and defense.

However, the defenders in Luzhou City were obviously aware of the arrival of the Cangji Cavalry, and although they did not know the specific location of the camp, they continued to send people to attack the outermost reconnaissance line of the Cangji Cavalry. The scouts of the Cangji Cavalry had no idea how the other party accurately found themselves in the dark night, and often before they heard the sound of horses' hooves, there were long arrows that tore through the night sky from nowhere, accurately hitting the throat or heart of the scouts.

However, when the vanguard battalion of Cangji Cavalry sent a small group of troops to reconnoitre, the other party disappeared without a trace, obviously, the outpost of Yunqi City was not large, and he could only bully the scouts who were alone, but he did not dare to confront the scout team of more than ten people. However, the other side was not stupid to attack in one direction, and when the vanguard battalion of the Cangji Cavalry began to organize a counterattack in the form of a squad, they had already run in the other direction and repeated the same trick. Before the first half of the night was over, the pioneer battalion of the Cangji Cavalry had lost more than 70 scouts, which was the largest casualty for the Cangji Cavalry in thousands of years.

In desperation and distress, the pioneer battalion removed the outermost reconnaissance line, concentrated its forces, and guarded the position thirty miles away from the camp in the form of a squad, and the effect was really much better, and the harassment and attacks from the cavalry of Yunqi City were almost completely extinct.

However, less than a quarter of an hour after the Cangji Cavalry Pioneer Battalion issued the order to shrink the reconnaissance line, the city gate of Luchuan County suddenly opened, and thousands of lion-headed antlers, covered in scales, like horses and not horses, carried the cavalry on their backs, and fished out of the deep doorway, all the way to the east, and disappeared into the vast night.

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More than 150 miles behind the Cangji Cavalry, there is also a huge camp, densely packed tents, like ripe and full corn kernels in autumn, tightly packed together one by one, this is the accommodation of the Yugang army. Compared with the Eight Cavalry of the Dark Snow with mounts, the sergeants of this hoplite are obviously much harder, except for more than 80 pack rhinos pulling heavy siege equipment, ordinary soldiers can only rely on their own strength to carry this set of dozens of catties of cast iron heavy armor on their bodies.

According to the speed of their march, it would take at least four or five days to reach Luzhou City, and at this time, the sergeants of the Yugang Army, after a day's trek, were enjoying the long-awaited sleep time.

In the center of the thousands of tents, there was a tent that was five or six times larger than the others, still leaking orange-red light through the cracks.

"Report to Wen Shuai, the Cangji cavalry in front has sent someone to urge, let us speed up tomorrow, and we will reach the city of Luzhou within three days. ”

"Don't worry about him! He is not my boss, why should I listen to his command? They are cavalry, running hundreds of miles a day is like playing, we are infantry, or heavy infantry, dozens of pounds of cast iron heavy armor are all supported by two legs, walking dozens of miles a day is already up to the sky, and arriving in Luzhou City in three days? He is a cavalryman, and he wants to exhaust my more than 30,000 brothers?" The one who spoke was the commander of the Yugang Army, Wen Zhanyang, the general of Pingyuan in the fourth grade, the Wen clan to which he belonged, who had been the left and right hand of the Daxi family for tens of thousands of years, and their children could be seen in the middle and high-level of many troops.

"That is, after arriving at Luzhou City, it is still us who is responsible for the siege of the city, and our people are exhausted, who will attack the city when I see it? Do they ride horses to the city wall? As soon as I talk about the city wall of Luzhou City, my anger will not hit one place, there is only one pedestal left in this city wall, who is the brains to show off and have to build another layer? When the cavalry of the Shi family came, the role of the fart fell into the hands of others, and now they are pitting themselves in turn, and they want us to take people's lives!" Wen Zhanyang's side, Cheng Lin, the deputy commander of the regiment with red hair, said indignantly.