Chapter 242: Nangong Ye's whereabouts
What Shang Zhengyu wanted to know most was the situation of Zheng Pingping, Marquis of Jingping, and when he asked, Nangong Fu also truthfully explained the situation of Langfu at this moment.
Due to the turmoil of the situation, the news is a little lagging. Nangong Fu only knew that the Nine Emperor Princes, Wei Jin, had arrived in Langfu three days ago. Wei Jin's 30,000 thousand troops were renamed the Zhenbei Army, and Zheng Pingping's 50,000 pro-army was the Fuyun Army, plus the troops of the three big cities of Canglu, Dingyuan, Dingwei and other cities that had been collected before, and now Langfu has a total of nearly 120,000 Great Wei troops, and they have built three lines of defense, it seems that they want to fight to the death with the Tiger King and the Wolf King near Langfu!
"Does it sound like it's not that bad?"
Nangong looked at Shang Zhengyu with a somewhat relieved look, and said with a wry smile: "The Great Wei army is mostly infantry and crossbowmen, I estimate that 30,000 cavalry out of these 120,000 people is considered good." And everyone can get on the horse to fight, and there is a flat river near Langfu. ”
Shang Zhengyu also immediately understood what Nangong Fu meant. The plains are the most suitable for cavalry combat, and the combined army of the Tiger King and the Wolf King claims to have 180,000 people, but that is 180,000 cavalry. In comparison, the Great Wei army only has 30,000 cavalry, and its combat effectiveness cannot be compared with that of the captives. Therefore, if you just stick to the city, it is better to say, as long as there is no city to rely on, the Great Wei army will definitely collapse under the iron hooves of the captives!
But if Zheng Pingphong and Wei Jin stick to Langfu, then the Tiger King and the Wolf King can completely adopt the strategy of encircling but not attacking, behind them is a thousand miles of plains, and there is absolutely no shortage of materials and war preparations, on the other hand, Zheng Pingphong and Wei Jin can only rely on the food and salary in the rear to support them, but if there is a joint problem, the battle situation will instantly fall to the side of the captive.
Several of Nangong Fu's partners also sighed, although the Nangong family has been trying their best to cultivate cavalry units over the years, but the results are not great, and the biggest problem is the source of horses.
After all, the Great Wei Dynasty is based on farming, and only a few nomads in the north who herd horses for a living, although the Nangong family has vigorously expanded horse breeding in Yunzhou for so many years, but it is only a family after all, how can it be compared to the people of the entire northern region.
Although Nangong Fu didn't say much, the Nangong family's own army did not exceed 30,000 in total, of which half were cavalry, which was due to the fact that he had gathered a lot of knights from the rivers and lakes, and the clansmen with the surname Nangong alone might not even have 5,000.
Shang Zhengyu saw that the atmosphere in the audience was a little gloomy, and immediately changed the topic and asked with a smile: "I met a little brother named Nangong Ye when I was in Wanzhou before, I don't know if you recognize each other?"
"Brother Ye, do you know my third brother?"
Before the others had time to react, Nangong Fu was a little different. Shang Zhengyu simply told him about taking a boat with Yu Rouwei and Nangong Ye to Wanzhou Ziye, and breaking the Luoyan Gorge water thief iron rope Hengjiang and Mo Feiying on the way, Nangong Fu immediately slapped his head: "I said that Brother Shang's name sounds familiar, it turned out that I heard it from my third brother!"
Later, after Nangong Fu talked about it carefully, Shang Zhengyu learned that this Nangong Fu was the fourth brother of Nangong Ye, and it was the third son and youngest son of Nangong Lie, the head of the Nangong family in this generation. They also have two elder brothers, the eldest brother is called Nangong Xun, and the second brother is called Nangong Wang, originally in Yunzhou, only the two of them were allowed by the family to follow their father to fight against the captivity, who knew that Nangong Ye took advantage of the family's lack of attention to secretly go north, and it was on the road that he bumped into Shang Zhengyu and them.
Nangong Fu had just broken through the situation a few months ago, and was only approved by his family to follow the follow-up troops north.
The Nangong family's exercises are very strange, and the progress of retreat cultivation is extremely slow, but as long as you go to the battlefield and fight the captives head-on, the cultivation will advance by leaps and bounds. After only a few battles, Nangong Ye successfully entered the situation half a year ago, and Nangong Fu also laid a solid foundation in the past few months, and it looks like he has been in the situation for many years.
"I wonder where Brother Ye is now?"
Shang Zhengyu suddenly became interested, he still remembered that the first jasper card in his hand was when Nangong Ye killed the iron rope Hengjiang, obtained it from him and gave it to himself, which triggered a series of follow-ups. Besides, this Heavenly Dao is grand, and it is best to report to the head of the Nangong family through Nangong Ye.
Who knew that hearing this, Nangong Fu was a little embarrassed.
"Why, if it's inconvenient, forget it. Shang Zhengyu didn't force it when he saw this, but he noticed something from everyone's instantly dim expressions, and wondered, "Is something wrong with Brother Ye?"
Nangong Fu nodded, his expression gloomy.
It turned out that Nangong Ye was ordered to cover the withdrawal of Jingping Hou from Dingwei City on the flank a while ago, but who knew that he was attacked by the captives and escaped with nine deaths, but he was slapped by a master with a fanged ghost mask in the captive army, and he passed out on the spot.
Waiting for everyone to escort him back to the Nangong military camp on the front line, he found that there was a scorching internal energy attached to his viscera, constantly burning the meridians, no matter how the masters of the Nangong family treated, they could not force out this internal strength, and now Nangong Ye's whole person has gradually withered, and the only hope is to wait for Nangong Lie, the head of the Nangong family, who is fighting on the front line, to come back and take action personally.
"My father is the most advanced person in my Nangong family, much more advanced than several grandfathers, there should be a way. ”
Even so, there is still an indelible worry on Nangong Fu's face, several uncles and uncles who have cultivated their artistic conception are powerless, although his father is a little more advanced than them, but ......
This kind of exercise is extremely weird, and even the masters of the artistic conception can't forcibly expel it. Shang Zhengyu also showed a solemn expression, frowning slightly, and the atmosphere in the big tent was unprecedentedly depressed for a while.
He thought left and right, and suddenly heard the breathing of someone in the tent moving slightly, and immediately smiled at Nangong Fu: "You wait a minute. ”
Shang Zhengyu ran to the big tent in two or three steps, looked at the beautiful woman lying on his side in front of him, sleeping on a woolen mattress, and said with a smile: "Wanyan Jing, get up and help when you hear it." ”
"Yes, yes, but I don't have the skills to help. Wan Yanjing's beautiful eyes opened, and a pair of big eyes were as bright as a pair of deep gems under the reflection of the candle flame.
After hearing Yan Jing's words, Nangong Fu was overjoyed, he and a few friends immediately gathered around Wan Yan Jing, looked at her with a look of hope, patted her chest and said: "Sister Wan Yan doesn't need to do it herself, just tell us the treatment method, that is to help us a lot!"
Although Wan Yan Jing was trained by the Wolf King to carry out that kind of assassination mission since she was a child, and did not directly fight against the Su Army, Wan Yan Jing was by no means used to Nangong Fu's expression when they looked at her at the moment, and she always felt very uncomfortable.
Shang Zhengyu was naturally thoughtful, asked the others to step back and left Nangong Fu alone, and said to Wan Yan Jing sincerely: "Nangong Ye is my friend, I hope you can do me a favor for the sake of Ziqi and me." ”
At this time, Ziqi also woke up. He was still wearing a metal mask as always, but there was a hint of strange look in his eyes.
Since you begged me, then I will help once.
"I'm just guessing, you'll have to judge for yourselves. Wan Yan Jing squinted her eyes and secretly glanced at Zi Qi, her cherry lips furrowed, and she turned her head to Nangong Fu and asked, "Does this person have two huge fangs on his mask, and then there is a single horn on the top of his head?"
Nangong Fu nodded, and the hope in his eyes was much stronger.
"If it's a unicorn charm, that's fine. After Yan Jing breathed a long sigh of relief, she asked Nangong Fu to prepare pen and ink, and wrote down a recipe carefully. "You go and prepare these things, it may be useful, and you will not know until you see me. ”
Nangong Fuxing was elated and let people get ready to go, Shang Zhengyu pondered for a moment, a little hesitant.
"If you want to save someone, don't hesitate. At this time, Yifei, Ling Feixian and Bai Fuhui also woke up, Duan Yifei took out the map from his arms and opened it, pointed to the front line and said: "If you want to go here and go back and forth, it will take at least three days, in this case, we might as well divide the troops into two ways." ”
Shang Zhengyu smiled, his third brother was arrogant and arrogant on weekdays, and he never pretended to be kind to people, but after meeting Ling Feixian, he suddenly changed a lot, including Ling Feixian himself. The two are separated by two 10,000-year-old glaciers, and idlers can't get close, but together they have a hint of the feeling of spring blossoming in the harsh winter, which is really peculiar.
That being the case, the six of them simply divided into two routes, Duan Yifei, Ling Feixian and Bai Furui went to Langfu to protect Zheng Pingfei, and themselves, Ziqi and Wan Yanjing went to the front line to treat Nangong Ye.
Nangong reordered two hundred light horsemen of the Nangong family, and set off with Shang Zhengyu and the three of them overnight to march to the front line!