Chapter 126: Shocking Intelligence
The cavalry lost the advantage of speed and immediately found themselves in a difficult situation in the face of the barbarian infantry, which was far outnumbered by them.
Soon, a large number of cavalry were cut off by the barbarians.
"Let the cavalry scatter back!" Bai Qi reluctantly ordered, having to admit that this attempt was very unsuccessful.
However, in the chaos of the battlefield, it is not easy to want to scatter back. Those who are in the back are okay to say, just turn the horse's head directly. Those cavalry that had already broken through into the barbarian camp basically lost the possibility of retreating.
Of the more than 30,000 cavalry, less than 20,000 were safely withdrawn. Although this charge also killed nearly 30,000 barbarians, the loss of more than 10,000 cavalry was already a great loss for Bai Qi. If it weren't for the current situation, Bai Qi would never have used cavalry to charge.
Of course, Bai Qi simply did not have time to feel sorry for the losses of the cavalry. Before the cavalry had completely withdrawn, he had ordered the infantry to go up.
After another fierce battle, after killing nearly 100,000 barbarians again, Bai Qi's men and horses finally broke the barbarians' second blocking line. Of course, this time it also cost nearly 50,000 people.
As a result, there are less than 250,000 men and horses left under Bai Qi's command.
If the barbarians still intercepted the centaurs in the future, Bai Qi began to doubt in his heart whether his centaurs could hold out to Chishui City. At present, the army is still nearly a hundred miles away from Chishui City, and it will take more than a day to arrive under normal circumstances.
However, judging from the information sent back by the scouts, the barbarians have more than 200,000 men and horses besieging Chishui City.
This barbarian is really endless, he has been killed six or seven hundred thousand before, and now he has been killed more than 200,000, plus he has been killed in pieces before, it can be said that this time the barbarian has lost nearly one million people.
However, there are still many barbarians. It's so hateful!
What exactly does the barbarian want to do this time?
Bai Qi, as a middle-aged cadre of the Qin State, naturally knows a lot about the history of the barbarian invasion. Historically, although there have been large-scale barbarian invasions every once in a while, the scale of each time has basically been around a million people. Moreover, the general thing is to plunder and leave, and will definitely not stay in one place for too long, let alone do the things of besieging the city.
In the past, barbarians would also attack the city, but once they couldn't break it, they would never dwell on it again, but would continue to plunder in another place with one shot. So, this time it's very different.
Although Bai Qi was puzzled, he couldn't help but lead the army to continue to rush towards Chishui City. This time, he changed the rear army, which had not been fighting, into the front army, and sped up and rushed towards Chishui City. Bai Qi's plan was to rush to Chishui City as soon as possible while the barbarians' new blocking front had not yet been built.
Although, Bai Qi now doesn't know how many people can last to Chishui City, but he can't help but go. Now, he has also received a letter sent back by Zhang Xuan, knowing the losses of Zhang Xuan's cavalry and the actions of Zhang Jiang and others outside Chishui City in the past two days.
Bai Qi didn't feel inappropriate about Zhang Yun's decision, he did what he could, and he couldn't say that he would be improvised. He also expressed his understanding that Zhang Xuan's cavalry did not rush into Chishui City. Although the pressure in the city must be great, the value of cavalry is indeed not in defending the city.
What Bai Qi didn't know was that after King Zuo Xian and Zhang Qin set the tone, the men and horses besieging Chishui City had quietly decreased a lot, and the intensity of the siege had also decreased a lot. Of course, this change is happening quietly.
The men and horses drawn out are one of the forces that intercept the Bai Qi army. So, those who were taken away had no doubts.
Just as the Bai Qi army continued to speed towards Chishui City, Ma Shuo's side unexpectedly grabbed an important person of the barbarian, and got an extremely shocking piece of news from this guy's mouth.
People, in fact, were caught by hidden guards.
The youngest son of King Zuoxian, Gur does not flower. This time, he was actually brought into the army by King Zuoxian. Gur Buhua was born to King Zuoxian's favorite little princess, and she was not very old, only seventeen or eighteen. Because he is the youngest son, and his mother is very favored by King Zuoxian, he has developed a gentlemanly character.
This time, King Zuo Xian brought this guy by his side, originally wanting to take this opportunity to sharpen him. As a result, if one didn't pay attention, this guy's stubborn temperament was committed again. This guy actually quietly left King Zuoxian's station with some personal guards, preparing to plunder the territory of the Qin people himself, because he heard that the women of the Qin people were very beautiful, and their skin was as tender as snow.
Gur Buhua is a gentleman, where does he have any experience, so after secretly leaving the garrison of King Zuoxian's army, he quickly got lost. As a result, this guy unfortunately encountered Ma Shuo's hidden guard.
Although the hidden guard didn't know the exact identity of this guy, he could still tell from the clothes on this guy that he was a barbarian nobleman. A lonely barbarian nobleman, this is a big fish.
As soon as the hidden guards attacked, the guards who were not spent by Gur Buhua could not resist at all, and after being killed by nearly half of them, the rest became prisoners. Because they wanted to get information from these people, the hidden guards didn't kill everyone else.
Gur Buhua is really a fool, in the hands of the hidden guard, before he has been punished, this guy told everything he knew, even how many female slaves he had harmed, including the fact that he peeked at his half-sister taking a bath.
This information, of course, will not be of interest to the hidden guards. However, I didn't expect this gentleman to really say a shocking piece of information.
Because he was always wandering around King Zuoxian's military tent, he actually knew some important things that King Zuo Xian and Zhang Qin were discussing more or less. The most important thing is that he actually heard that an important person sent by Daqin's side discussed with King Zuo Xian.
According to Gur Buhua's confession, the important person of Great Qin reached an agreement with King Zuoxian, or the barbarian high-level, that is, the barbarians would come forward to kill the eldest prince Fusu, and they would recognize the barbarians' ownership of Yumen County.
In other words, as long as the barbarians kill the eldest prince Fusu, Yumen County will be the territory of the barbarians in the future.
It is no exaggeration to say that this is already a very clear traitor!
It's just that who is that important person in the Qin State?