Chapter Ninety-Seven: Sacrifice
If you want to eliminate Xiao Jingxuan's 120,000 army, then Yu Wenyue's hands should have at least 180,000 troops to be foolproof.
Around Hengzhou, there is no place for tens of thousands of troops to hide.
Then, there are only two options for Yu Wenyue, the first is to scatter and hide the army, and the number of each army varies from a few thousand.
In this way, tens of thousands of troops can hide very secretly around Hengzhou.
As soon as the time is ripe, Yu Wenyue will gather these armies and encircle Xiao Jingxuan.
The second is that the army is not near Hengzhou, but outside Hengzhou. Yu Wenyue calculated the timing of the decisive battle, or Yu Wenyue planned to lead herself over.
At this time, Xiao Jingxuan completely brought himself into the role of Yu Wenyue, and began to think of ways from Yu Wenyue's position.
Suddenly, Xiao Jingxuan's face changed drastically, he patted his head, and he walked into a misunderstanding.
Just thinking about where the army is hiding, why don't you think about it, where does the army come from?
Before the battle with Yu Wenyue, he lost almost 30,000 troops, and in the Yizhou War, Yuwen Tuo lost another 40,000, Jizhou 10,000, and Hengzhou 5,000.
This is almost 80,000 troops, and it can be said that the last war was definitely a relatively large consumption for the strength of Zhao State.
Although Bingzhou is prosperous, it can raise up to 100,000 soldiers, but as the royal capital of Zhao, Bingzhou will inevitably leave enough soldiers and horses to defend. Then the remaining soldiers and horses will inevitably be drawn from the periphery.
However, in the surrounding state capitals, except for the border states, there are not many soldiers in the rest of the places.
Among the several state capitals in this vicinity, only Fengzhou is considered to have sufficient troops, but in the Fengzhou army, most of them are their old departments, and according to Yu Wenyue's cautious character, they will definitely not be used.
Then it will inevitably be dispatched from Yanzhou, Yangzhou, Fenzhou and other places. As long as you figure out the composition of Yu Wenyue's soldiers and horses now, you can know the configuration of the ambush soldiers.
However, regardless of whether there is an ambush or not, this battle must be a battle to destroy Zhao.
But there is another problem in front of Xiao Jingxuan, Yuwen Valve has the existence of the peak realm of the gods.
He is only in the middle stage of the psychic now, in case the ancestor dog of the Yuwen valve jumps over the wall in a hurry and implements the decapitation operation, I am afraid that he will not be able to stop it.
How can this be?
Some people began to pop up in Xiao Jingxuan's mind, his master Cui Xiwen, Emperor Jia'an, the old Taoist priest of Sanyuanguan, the head of Xuanyin Palace, Yang Yi, Yang Yi's master.
But then it was vetoed by Xiao Jingxuan. Why?
First of all, although his master Cui Xiwen is a powerhouse in the Tongshen Realm, it is estimated that there is still a long way to go before the peak of Tongshen.
Emperor Jia'an, that's even worse, the relationship between himself and his biological father is more embarrassing, and Emperor Jia'an's plans are very big, so he shouldn't make a move.
The old Taoist priest of the Sanyuan Temple, I don't know if his longevity is exhausted, even if he doesn't die, he probably won't leave the Sanyuan Temple easily.
The head of the Xuanyin Palace, he has only heard of it, but he has never seen it, and with Zhao Wan'er's relationship alone, it is unlikely that he will make a move.
Yang Yi's martial arts are enough, not to mention the relationship, however, Xiao Jingxuan knows that Yang Yi is unwilling to interfere too much with Hongchen. Xiao Jingxuan didn't want to force him.
Not to mention Yang Yi's master, a Dao heart is clear, and he will not easily meddle in Hongchen.
These people can't do it, so how can you do it?
Xiao Jingxuan thought all night in the study, but did not find a solution.
In the end, I can only take one step at a time.
The number of cavalry in Youzhou is not much, only more than 10,000 people, plus the soldiers and horses brought by Xiao Jingxuan, the total number is only more than 30,000 people.
This time to reinforce Hengzhou, Xiao Jingxuan did not let Yang Xiong accompany him, but ordered him to stand by on the spot.
Now, there should be 30,000 troops in Hengzhou City, plus his own 30,000 iron cavalry, on the bright side, there is not much difference with Yu Wenyue's troops.
As for how to fight the next battle and what kind of battle it will be, Xiao Jingxuan still needs to adapt to the situation.
When passing through Yizhou, the scouts sent by Xiao Jingxuan before also began to return one after another.
The first thing that can be confirmed is that on the way to Hengzhou, there were no soldiers and horses of Zhao State in ambush.
Moreover, after the scouts arrived in Hengzhou, they also searched nearby and found no ambush by the Zhao army.
But farther away, the scouts hadn't returned.
In order to ensure the combat effectiveness of the army under his command, Xiao Jingxuan's speed of march was not fast.
Although he is a little too cautious, Xiao Jingxuan still attaches more importance to Yu Wenyue.
After a few days of marching, Xiao Jingxuan and his entourage finally came to Hengzhou safe and sound.
Yu Wenyue did not send troops to besiege the city, and the entire battalion was stationed in the west of the city, confronting Hengzhou.
After entering the city, Xiao Jingxuan came to the city tower located in the west of the city surrounded by the guards of Hengzhou.
In front of Yu Wenyue's camp, a flagpole was erected, and the corpse of Huangfu Song was hanging on the flagpole.
Xiao Jingxuan looked at Xiao Ran on the side and said.
"Xiao Ran, make a hard trip, go to the Zhao army camp, tell Yu Wenyue, just say that the king has arrived, and then bring back the body of General Huangfu. If he doesn't give it, tell him that if he doesn't, I'll be alone tonight to get it. ”
"Yes, the last will obey."
After Xiao Ran received the order, he directly opened the West Gate and galloped to the enemy camp from the West Gate alone.
About half an hour later, I saw that on the flagpole, Huangfu Song's body was put down, and then put into a carriage.
Xiao Ran personally drove back from the Zhao army camp safely.
When the body arrived, Xiao Jingxuan personally walked down the city tower to greet him. When he saw Huangfu Song's body, Xiao Jingxuan's eyes turned red.
Huangfu Song's body was almost unrecognizable, and from the air-dried corpse, dense arrow holes could be seen.
This is pierced by ten thousand arrows, Xiao Jingxuan took off his cloak, covered Huangfu Song's body, and said to the surroundings.
"Pass the order, the whole city will be silent, and the curfew will be for three days, to see off the loyal and brave public."
With the issuance of Xiao Jingxuan's will, all the soldiers and people began to act, and the entire Hengzhou instantly turned into a huge mourning hall.
In the city guard mansion, Xiao Jingxuan set up a simple mourning hall for Huangfu Song for the soldiers to worship.
By the time the sacrifice was over, it would be three days later.
On this day, Xiao Jingxuan ordered the whole army to attack and fight to the death with the Zhao army.
With the issuance of Xiao Jingxuan's military order, all the soldiers began to go out of the city one after another from the city gates, and lined up in an orderly manner in the west city.
As the movement of Hengzhou City spread to the Zhao army camp, Yu Wenyue's face was incredible.
You must know that Yu Wenyue at this time has some 80,000 troops on the surface, but Xiao Jingxuan only has more than 60,000 people in his hands.
According to Xiao Jingxuan's character, how could he fight a tough battle. Hins Hsiao's fighting style is mostly odd and victorious.
Yu Wenyue was in a dilemma for a while, if he retreated, the infantry in his battalion would inevitably become the target of the Yan army's slaughter.
But if he doesn't retreat, then he will inevitably have a bloody fight with Xiao Jingxuan, and the ambush soldiers he prepared don't know if he can rush to the battlefield.
Once the losses on their side are too large, then the consequences will be very serious, and then Qin, Liang, Wei, Man, and Yan will all attack it in groups.
In Yu Wenyue's imagination, Xiao Jingxuan would inevitably gather the armies from all over the thistle before launching an attack.
Even, Yu Wenyue has already thought of ways to deal with it, what kind of encirclement to send reinforcements, lure the enemy deep, ambush on all sides, and so on.
But I didn't expect that Xiao Jingxuan didn't follow the routine, and directly came to a big battle.
The current situation does not allow Yu Wenyue to think about it, and a decision must be made as soon as possible.
Yu Wenyue slapped Shuai An, and ordered the whole army to line up and fight to the death with the Yan army.
In fact, in this case, Xiao Jingxuan is also forced to do so, there is no way, the powerhouse at the peak of the Tongshen Realm can't bear it. It's better to accept it when you see it.
As long as the Zhao army in front of him is severely damaged, then Yu Wenyue will definitely not dare to continue the fight, and the follow-up moves will not be able to be used.
At that time, you can continue to recuperate, or go south to attack Wei, or go north to pacify the barbarians.
When the time comes, with the help of luck, he will inevitably break through to the peak of the gods soon, and when the time comes, he will turn back and destroy the Zhao State.
The two sides had a tacit understanding not to attack each other when they were arrayed.
After the formation of the two sides was lined up, Xiao Jingxuan rode alone and began to drive towards the middle of the two sides.
Seeing Xiao Jingxuan's appearance, Yu Wenyue was not to be outdone, and began to drive forward.
After the two sides met, Xiao Jingxuan looked at Yu Wenyue in front of him. smiled and said, "General Yuwen, make a deal." ”
"Oh, His Royal Highness King Yan, please speak?"
"Tell me, who is Nei Ying? How did you ambush Huangfu Song According to the truth, when I am on the battlefield for a while, I will show mercy to my subordinates, and after the war, release all the prisoners and return to China, how about it? ”
"Hah...... Ha, I really don't know why King Yan is so confident? Now I have more than 80,000 soldiers under my command, and you only have 60,000 in your hands, the morale of our army is high, and your morale is low. ”
Seeing Yu Wenyue laughing, Xiao Jingxuan also laughed.
"General Yuwen, your ambush soldiers shouldn't have arrived at the battlefield so quickly, this king's reinforcements are less than half an hour away, tell me, who has the upper hand?"
"Impossible? Where did you get reinforcements? ”
Xiao Jingxuan looked at Yu Wenyue's fierce voice and didn't explain much.
"General Yuwen, I don't know if you will do this deal or not?"
Yu Wenyue was finally silent now, and did not refute Xiao Jingxuan.
Xiao Jingxuan continued: "General Yuwen, if your 80,000 army is buried here, then the destruction of the Zhao State will be in the mund. Think twice. Don't bury the lives of the entire Yuwen clan because of a momentary impulse. ”
After being silent for a long time, Yu Wenyue said, "Ding Weiran." ”
After saying the name, Yu Wenyue turned the horse's head and returned to the camp.
Xiao Jingxuan's face was also gloomy, and he began to return to the family's formation.