CHAPTER XLIII

It was also at a stalemate between the two sides that a cavalry corps appeared five miles east of Basr's cavalry formation. What is strange is that the banner of the unit turned out to be Feng Xiang, and the armor they were wearing was obviously not Feng Xiang's armor.

"What! Feng Xiang's cavalry!"

When he learned from the scout that a cavalry of Fengxiang had appeared on his eastern flank, Pika wondered if there was something wrong with his ears. But when the sound of horses' hooves sounded like thunder in the distance, Pika really believed that Fengxiang cavalry was coming.

And at this moment, the Fengxiang infantry legion, which had been on the defensive, began to move, like a mountain, firmly and slowly pressing towards the Basil cavalry battle array.

Each of the Basil horsemen had a look of horror on their faces, and even Pika began to fear that the battle would end in defeat.

After a little thought, Pika decided to leave a part of the army to continue to attack Feng Xiang's infantry corps, and he personally led 6,000 cavalry to meet Feng Xiang's cavalry troops.

Feng Xiang has never had a cavalry establishment, and now even if he has a certain number of cavalry, regardless of the combat quality and experience of the personnel, he must be weaker than his own side, and he will definitely not be the opponent of his own cavalry.

That's what Pickup really thinks at the moment.

But what he never expected was that the 7,000 cavalry he was about to face was not the "fish belly troops" of the Fengxiang Kingdom, but the Tianlong Cavalry, which had been famous on the mainland for more than 100 years, and the commander of this cavalry was Sun Qingyu, the deputy head of the Third Knights of Tianlong and the right-hand man of the emperor's brother Zhao Ling.

This duel between the cavalry was the first battle outside the territory of the Draco cavalry in more than a hundred years, except for the use of them against desert bandits.

The Celestial Dragoons completely routed the formation of Basel's cavalry forces at the first time when the two armies were in a single hedge. In the end, Basr's 6,000 cavalry were annihilated with near-perfect cavalry division tactics and the destructive power of attacks that made the devil tremble, while his own casualties were only about 500.

The pickup was at the back of the queue and was able to escape. And the other cavalry unit used to resist the Fengxiang infantry corps did not achieve much. Eventually, under attack from both sides, in order to prevent the formation of a siege, Pika led his 7,000 remnants to retreat to the east of Carroll.

Kefield, the capital city known as one of the strongest cities in the southern part of the continent, was first occupied by Basr and then fell into the hands of Feng Xiang in just a dozen days, and all of them ended the battle in one day, which cannot but be said to be an irony.

And after this battle, in just more than ten days, the Tianlong Cavalry, dressed as Fengxiang's army, was divided into more than 20 teams of 1,000 people. The struggle of the nobles of the entire southern Carroll was quickly quelled, and the entire territory of the southern Carroll, that is, south of Luoshui and west of the mountain, was obtained.

In this entire area, only the Fallen Leaf City in the east, with the support of Basil, with its steep terrain and strong walls, struggled to resist the waves of attacks of the Fengxiang infantry corps. But it finally restrained Feng Xiang's offensive footsteps, and contained his main force in the south of Carol, so that it had no time to look north.

And after losing the strategy of the Fengxiang infantry corps, the Third Knights of the Heavenly Dragon Empire, composed of 27,000 cavalry, did not dare to rush through Luoshui and march into the northern part of the kingdom - Luoping Plain, thus objectively providing valuable time for Li Yuxuan to defeat the Atterbury army and unify Luo Pingyuan.

On December 6, 173 in the imperial calendar, after learning the news of the crushing defeat of Basr's cavalry to Fengxiang under the city of Kefield, Li Yuxuan began to feel the danger of the shape and the tension of time.

Especially after learning about the heroic performance of the 7,000-strong cavalry team in the battle for Kefield, Li Yuxuan was even more sensitive to the problem he had been worried about finally came to the surface.

The Celestial Dragon Empire has really started to move, and its first target is undoubtedly the southern part of the continent. Moreover, the intelligence and various signs transmitted back from the past few days show that the Heavenly Dragon Empire and Feng Xiang seem to have reached some kind of agreement, so that even the Heavenly Dragon Cavalry has been thrown into Feng Xiang's foreign expansion war.

Li Yuxuan knew very well that once Fallen Leaf City was lost, the entire southern part of the kingdom would fall into Feng Xiang's hands. And what Feng Xiang has to do next is definitely to cross Luoshui, sweep the north-Luoping Plains, and achieve the strategic intention of occupying the entire Carol.

And Fengxiang's "ironclad infantry", which is known for attacking and defending cities in the southern part of the entire continent, will definitely not leave too much time for himself, and it should be a miracle that Fallen Leaf City can hold out until the end of December.

In this situation, Li Yuxuan had no choice but to take a dangerous fight in order to defeat the invading army of Atbury and occupy the entire Luoping Plains before the Fengxiang infantry corps captured Fallen Leaf City. At that time, he may be able to use the danger of Luoshui to prevent Fengxiang's army from crossing the river.

Late that night, Li Yuxuan, together with his generals Li Fang, Su Mi, Tang Xu, Li Yuyang, and Lang **, held a secret military meeting in Su Mansion.

The meeting started around dusk and lasted until late at night, and the six of them stayed on a small su and never went downstairs.

Layers of guards were also arranged around the small building, and Li Yuxuan issued a strict order that anyone who entered the small building within fifty steps would be killed!

In fact, for such a long time, Li Yuxuan and his generals were only discussing the feasibility of a plan proposed by Li Yuxuan at the beginning. The six of them gathered around the map, pointing and pointing from time to time, and the arguments and sighs in between.

In the end, in the midst of the noise, Li Yuxuan made the final decision, and everyone was silent.

Li Fang and the others came down from the small building one after another, and the expressions on everyone's faces were quite heavy, which was very different from the expressions they had after the meeting in the Sufu Hall the day before.

When Tang Xu was about to go downstairs, Li Yuxuan stopped him.

Li Yuyang, who was following Tang Xu, looked at the two of them, remained silent, raised his feet and crossed Tang Xu's side, and went downstairs with Lang Zhong.

After everyone went downstairs, Li Yuxuan motioned for Tang Xu to sit down, and he paced to the window and pushed open the sash, the cold winter wind outside immediately injected a trace of cold into the entire small building, making the originally warm small building suddenly become a little cool. However, Li Yuxuan and Tang Xu, who had just gone through a heated argument, felt a trace of cool comfort when the cold wind swept by.

"Tang Xu, I want to explain Su Bingbing's matter!"

"No, Boss!"

Tang Xu was obviously a little excited, and even interrupted Li Yuxuan's words for the first time, this kind of thing had never happened before, and after leaving Kefield, this was also the first time he called Li Yuxuan "boss".

"Don't say it, I can understand, that's the only option. As a friend, I don't blame you. As your subordinate, I don't blame you. After saying that, he was ready to get up and go downstairs.

But before he could stand up, Li Yuxuan, who had turned around, had already pressed his shoulders with both hands and pressed him back into his seat.

"The events of that day were forced by circumstances. In fact, before this, my father had already recognized Su Bingbing as his daughter, so she was also my sister. As for whether you can be my brother-in-law or not, it's up to you. ”

Li Yuxuan finished what he wanted to say in one breath, which made Tang Xu on the side stunned, and then overjoyed.

"By the way, my sister's mood has been bad these days, why haven't I seen you care about it?

"The boss ordered, I, as a brother, of course it is better to be respectful than to obey!"

After untying the knot that has been haunting his heart for these days, Tang Xu regained his "true nature".