Chapter 998: Differences of Opinion
The northwest wilderness under the afternoon sun was quiet, because of the battle between Qian Song and Qianlan and the Northwest Army during this time, the few people of the Moon Kingdom near the border had already fled. ( .)
A moment later, the sound of horses' hooves broke the unspeakable tranquility, and the 20,000 Song army gradually galloped over from a distance.
Each of them had sweat or blood on their faces, and in addition to pain, there was only confusion and despair written on their faces.
They were killed from Pingcheng, and they were also the last remaining members of the Thousand Song Army. From the second half of the night until now, they have been on the run for four hours, and they are already sleepy. At this time, a few miles behind them, there were still 50,000 steppe cavalry in frenzied pursuit.
On this night, there were actually more than 50,000 thousand Song troops killed from Pingcheng, but most of them were killed by the grassland pursuers along the way. There were also a small number of Qiansong soldiers who unknowingly broke away from the army, after all, the situation at that time was too chaotic.
The current commander of this army is Bai Yuanhao's right-hand man Shen Peng, as for Bai Yuanhao himself, as well as Qiu Wendong and Wei Yangping, they have all been killed in battle.
Shen Peng didn't know if he would be able to return to Qiansong alive, and even if he returned to Qiansong with 20,000 people, it might only be a dead end.
The repeated battles exhausted him. The injuries on his body made him even more powerless to fight again. He knew that the same was true of the soldiers behind him, and at this time they were just holding on with one breath.
They just instinctively want to go back to their homeland. Even if you die, you have to die there.
I don't know how long it took, but they finally saw the stretching mountains, which was the junction of the Thousand Song Dynasty and the Moon Kingdom—Pinglou Mountain.
Everyone's pupils unconsciously dilated, and their faces showed a touch of madness.
Yes, after Pinglou Mountain, they will be able to get home.
There are no defenders on this border at all.
After all, both the Qianlan Army and the Grassland Cavalry have more important things to do, and this will no longer be the border between the Moon Kingdom and the Qiansong Dynasty in the future, they will all become Qianlan's territory.
The steppe cavalry in the rear was already only two miles away from them, if they turned back. They could even see the steppe men shouting with their scimitars.
It's closer, it's getting closer......
The next moment, they finally rushed into the road between the two mountains, and they almost burst into tears as they looked at the green in front of them.
Even if you die, there are no regrets. Now all they want is to kill as many steppe people as possible before they die. Wait until the other party catches up. Even if it is death, bite off the flesh of the enemy.
Immediately after that, however. There was a surprising sound of fighting from the rear.
Two miles behind them, a great battle had broken out.
On both sides of the mountain road, I don't know how many thousand Song soldiers appeared. Each of them held a bow and calmly shot an arrow at the mountain road ahead.
And their target was the steppe cavalry, which also rushed into the mountains.
On both sides of the two- or three-mile-long mountain road, an overwhelming rain of arrows fell, and the 50,000 grassland cavalry on this mountain road were all within the coverage of the arrow rain.
Yes, the combat power of the steppe cavalry can indeed be called the crown of the six southeastern countries. But. No army would be spared such an ambush.
Their bodies are only flesh and blood after all. And it is impossible for a cultivator under the Yuan Realm to carry such a short distance **** arrow.
What's more, in order to pursue mobility and flexibility, most of the steppe cavalry only wore cloth armor with the weakest protective ability.
On the front road, Li Hua and several middle-level generals of the Thousand Song Dynasty were killed, and on the back road, Bai Jinghuan and Zhao Xing and others were killed.
The steppe people are both forward and backward on the way. It's all blocked.
As for the middle, the rain of arrows doesn't seem to stop at all. Most of these Thousand Song soldiers from the Imperial Forest Army and the Forbidden Army gritted their teeth and frantically shot at any steppe man they saw, ignoring the bloody marks on their fingers from the bowstring.
Many of them didn't know why there were steppe people here, but the steppe people were the feud of the Thousand Song people.
The battle broke out extremely suddenly, and the course went extremely smoothly. It also ended very quickly.
After this 50,000-strong steppe cavalry pursued for thousands of miles, why wasn't it the same people who were sleepy and lacking horses?
In the face of this sudden ambush, they fell in pieces, howling and trying to fight into the forest, but most of them only rushed two steps before being shot to the ground again.
In the open plains, they have countless shelter spaces, and they can take full advantage of the characteristics of the future like the wind. But on this side are mountains and forests. There was only one blocked passage in between, and they were all fish on a chopping board.
Only a quarter of an hour later, the 50,000 steppe cavalry were wiped out. The Thousand Song Army only paid the price of more than 1,000 casualties in this battle.
The mountain road has turned into a bloody road, and many soldiers are happily cleaning up the battlefield.
And there are more soldiers, who involuntarily set their eyes on the woman who was guarded by dozens of people behind the mountain forest, the blue and white dress has been stained in the past few days, but it still can't hide her quiet and elegant temperament.
When they looked at her, there was already an unstoppable admiration and love.
The first time Ji Bingyun made a plan, hundreds of people were already watching on the spot, and Li Hua did not block the news afterwards. In the past two days, the news that Miss Bingyun was in command of this army has already spread among these 30,000 people.
They knew that this battle was her masterpiece again.
It was she who sent someone to find out about General Shen Peng's movements in advance, predicted the route of them and the grassland pursuers in advance, and ambushed here in advance.
And now, under her guidance, they have won again.
Defeating the Qianlan Army with fewer victories and defeating the steppe cavalry was extremely rare even in the past. And now it is at the time of the turmoil of the Thousand Song Dynasty, which is even more commendable.
Even though she was a woman, they still did not have the slightest resistance, and they were willing to be ruled by her.
Maybe it's because of these two victories, maybe it's because she was originally from the Prime Minister's Mansion and is also the future daughter-in-law of the late General Xie, or maybe it's because they can only rely on her now......
And Lin Yong and the others, who were guarding him, were extremely cautious at this time, for fear that she would suddenly shatter like a precious and fragile piece of porcelain.
They knew that for the current Thousand Song Kingdom, this Miss Ji was already the person who could not be lost. She has no ability to cultivate, and she is a thousand times more important than anyone else here. His Royal Highness the eldest prince is really like a torch!
For Shen Peng, this sudden battle took him by extreme surprise.
He never dreamed that the 50,000 seemingly invincible steppe cavalry would be wiped out, and it would be wiped out by the Thousand Song people.
Of course, he knew Li Hua, and he also recognized young people such as Bai Jinghuan and Zhao Xing, but the doubts in his heart also became bigger.
Shouldn't they have been hunted down by the Qianlan army, and they themselves could not be spared? How could it be......
What's more, they were able to fight such an unbelievable victory. Could it be that everyone had mistaken the talents of Li Hua and Bai Jinghuan before?
The two Thousand Song armies soon converged, and Shen Peng quickly learned the reason behind this victory. I finally understood why the eldest prince made such a strange will in the end.
And Li Hua and the others finally got the bad news that the eldest prince and the generals were killed in battle, and the 20,000 remnants in front of them were already the only remaining men and horses among the 400,000 troops under the command of the eldest prince.
For a while, the joy of victory was diluted, and everyone in the stadium could no longer be happy. I don't know how many soldiers burst into tears, and I don't know how many generals gritted their teeth and cursed at the grassland people and the Qianlan people.
However, now is obviously not the time to stop and repair, and perhaps there will be other grassland pursuers and dry blue pursuers coming next. Although they now have two groups together, they can't stand up to such a formidable enemy.
This Pinglou Mountain is not a safe place.
Regardless of Li Hua. It was still Bai Jinghuan, Xi Feiyuan and the others who unconsciously set their eyes on Ji Bingyun, what to do next, they needed her guidance.
Shen Peng naturally noticed this scene.
A wisp of unhappiness suddenly surged in his heart, he and Ji Bingyun naturally had no grudges, but now in this army. The person with the highest rank is already him.
Li Hua should have listened to him, but now the other party's eyes fell on the woman. That one...... A woman who was appointed by His Royal Highness the Great Prince before his death.
She didn't have any experience in the military, she didn't have any qualifications or roots. She won both battles, but it was ridiculous that she jumped above herself by virtue of two clever victories.
Especially. In the ambush just now, even she was in her 'calculation'. Although she and Li Hua saved themselves, she didn't even send anyone to inform her in advance.
She was using herself as bait to catch the 50,000 steppe cavalry, right?
The general beside him, Geng Yuan, was killed from behind the eldest prince with him, and he also heard the order at that time.
At first, he was equally unimpressed by the order, thinking only that it might be the eldest prince's deathbed nonsense. After all. Even if the eldest prince appoints Bai Jinghuan, Zhao Xing, and even Xie Shaoying, who doesn't know where he is now, it is much more understandable than assigning Ji Bingyun.
But now after listening to Ji Bingyun's 'achievements', he seems to understand something.
He wondered, why didn't General Shen Peng announce that order yet?
Since Miss Bingyun has unparalleled command talents, she can't even have a formal military position, and if she keeps going like that, sooner or later there will be chaos.
After all, the absence of a military position means that there is no final decision.
The eldest prince appointed her as the general of the Thousand Song Dynasty, perhaps out of similar considerations.
"Next, it's time for us to go back to Qiansong. Gather the scattered remnants of the army, mobilize the people, and we still have a chance to rise!" he quickly heard General Shen Peng's opinion.
His words made many people's eyes burn. Yes, recovering Dingchuan City, recovering Qiansong, and taking revenge on the Qianlan people and the grassland people are what they want to do most now.
The next moment, however, his opinion was denied.
"I suggest that the next step is to go to the grassland, whether it is back to Qiansong or to the Southern Qi of the Moon Kingdom. The city and villages are also densely populated, and it will be easy for the other party to know our movements. We have only 50,000 troops, and even if we can win a small battle in a short time, we will not be able to stop the continuous attacks of Qianlan and the Grassland Country.
With our current strength, occupying the city and fighting positional warfare, it is easy for the opponent to catch the target and eventually be consumed. The grassland country is vast and sparsely populated, and there is plenty of room for transfer, so we can completely adopt the tactics used by the grassland people......"
The audience was silent, and everyone was looking at the daughter of the Ji Mansion opposite Shen Peng.
The 30,000 people under Li Hua's command nodded again and again, while the 20,000 people brought by Shen Peng were stunned, not understanding how it was her turn to speak on this occasion, and she still questioned General Shen Peng's order.
I'm even more curious about how she can say such seemingly coherent words. This kind of thing doesn't seem to be something that a boudoir lady can say.
"Hahahaha!" Shen Peng interrupted her with an exaggerated laugh.
"What are we going to eat when we go there? Fighting the grassland cavalry on the grassland? It's just killing yourself! Do you know the tribal distribution of the grassland country? Miss Bingyun, this is military, not the imagination of the daughter's family!"
(To be continued.) )
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