Li Xukong did not believe that the Qianzhou garrison could resist the elite soldiers of Great Xia, and after several efforts, he successfully escaped from Qianyuan City and chatted with a veteran sent by Great Xia to deal with the rebellion in Qianzhou.

The two stood in the middle of a walled city on a hill, drinking under the snow, fighting for a long time in the blazing heat wave of the bonfire, looking at the border between Qianzhou and Daxia under the mountain.

The garrison could no longer remember how many times this was the harassment and attack of the Qianzhou garrison.

The attackers were clouded leopard cavalry who had driven back to Qianzhou from the surrounding prefectures and counties, as well as a caravan covered by clouded leopard cavalry.

Ning Yue casually gathered troops under their noses and continued the trade routes, which made Li Xukong's expression uncertain, and the spirit of Qianzhou's previous political achievements was completely gone.

The veteran beside him looked clumsy, and there were several elite guards standing behind him, all of whom exuded a hundred battle sharpness, but everyone looked at the Qianzhou border not far from the mountain, and their expressions were solemn.

After the Great Xia attacked several large countries in the north and east, their army was sent here.

As the Great Xia Forbidden Army, they have always fought one battle after the battle, and the offensive in the north and east used them as the main force, so although they only sent half of the army, only 50,000 cavalry, they also thought that in a region like Qianzhou, which also had a large plain, they were invincible in cavalry.

However, he didn't expect to meet Li Xukong, and after consulting with the old general who led the troops, he suspended his advance to Qianzhou, and he had to wait here for the follow-up army to come.

"So those clouded leopard riders still come to harass them every day?"

Li Xukong asked the veteran, and drank another glass of spirits.

He has been in Qianzhou for several years, watching Ning Yue change Qianzhou little by little, and carefully build a clouded leopard ride little by little, he was originally full of appreciation for a young man like Ning Yue, but he didn't expect the relationship between the two to develop like this.

"Yuzhou Mu, those annoying cavalry are indeed here, and the number of intrusions and investigations has intensified today. ”

One of the guards behind the veteran of the forbidden army returned loudly, and the deep dissatisfaction in his tone could be heard.

The ways of the clouded leopard cavalry intrusion are too diverse, and it is impossible to prevent it, not only against the 50,000 forbidden army iron cavalry stationed on the border, but also invade the territory of the Xia Kingdom from all directions, so that they have to send troops to intercept it, and the army has become scattered, unable to concentrate the army and go straight to the direction of Sichuan City.

Especially recently, the range of the clouded leopard cavalry has begun to cover their logistical supplies, and it has carried out more intense surprise attacks on ordinary border guards.

The army can only continue to extinguish the fire, but it is found that many places are already panicked, and the damage caused by the clouded leopard cavalry is not great, but it has begun to gradually affect the morale of the 50,000 forbidden troops in advance, and countless middle and lower-level generals have asked for orders to fight.

However, these were all suppressed by Li Xukong's resolute opposition, saying that he had to wait for the army to come before he had a chance to settle Qianzhou in one fell swoop.

Li Xukong took another double of the liquor from the hands of the guards and poured it into his bowels, but he didn't stop asking in his mouth: "Since the clouded leopard rider is here again, what is the loss on our side today?"

"They raided the supply brigade of the rear army, stole some grain and grass, and more than 100 people in the brigade were killed. ”

"How could so many people have died in battle? Doesn't the clouded leopard ride usually kill people at will if they don't rob the grain and grass?"

Li Xukong frowned and asked, he had been trying to maintain restraint and had been waiting for the reinforcements of the forbidden army to come, so he and Ning Yue's side only had battles in some small places, and there had not been such a big casualty before.

The guard replied in a low voice: "My lord, it was the brothers of the forbidden army below who said that they wanted to take revenge and take the opportunity to destroy their scattered cavalry, so they started to resist. ”

When Li Xukong heard this, he couldn't help but look at the wind and snow in front of him in a daze, and only after a while did he say to the veteran of the forbidden army: "General Duguyi ......"

The old general stretched out his hand to interrupt Li Xukong, and said: "I have already scolded that group of fools, they are impulsive in doing this, in fact, not only the logistics brigade he reported, but also the forward spy team burned their heads and retaliated in other people's places, and as a result, they fell into the trap they laid early, and lost two or three cavalry teams, also with five or six hundred people. ”

Li Xukong only felt a little dry mouth, handed the wine glass in his hand to the guards and signaled that he would not drink anymore, and then said to the veteran Duguyi: "What is the old general's real thoughts about this matter?"

Dugu Yi nodded and said: "I actually knew about this matter for a long time, but I also want them to try the combat power of the Qianzhou garrison, otherwise those people will not dare to do it without my secret authorization." ”

"What does the old general think of the combat strength of the Qianzhou garrison this time?" asked Li Xukong seriously.

Dugu Yi laughed loudly when he heard this, and said: "The clouded leopard rode from the first battalion of the Shence Army, and it can be regarded as one of the four strong armies of Great Xia, but now all my forbidden army is dispatched, and when the 100,000 army is assembled, it will be the time when their clouded leopard riding is removed." ”

Li Xukong laughed a few times when he heard this, Duguyi is an arrogant veteran, but he also has the ability to be arrogant.

The forbidden army, the Yulin army, the Shence army, and the imperial flag army are the four strong armies of Great Xia, among which the forbidden army is directly under the direct command of Yan Chongguang, the Yulin army and the Shence army are called by the Terracotta Temple, and the imperial flag army is special, and there are children of the royal family who build their own armies in their respective fiefdoms, and they all belong to the Yan clan, and their combat power is almost the same as that of the top three strong armies.

In particular, the Praetorian Guards do not seem to be out in the field for many years, but every soldier is selected from the other three armies to form an army, directly under the command of Yan Chongguang.

They are equipped with the best treatment of the four strong armies, and the martial arts they cultivate are even a modified version of the Fire Qilin Secret Method that only the Great Xia Emperor cultivates, ensuring that every sergeant can be completely loyal, if there is a different intention, the secret method will make people burst their hearts and death.

Therefore, as long as the forbidden army receives Yan Chongguang's order, it will definitely carry it out unconditionally, and the ferocity of sacrificing life and forgetting death makes the other three armies sigh to themselves.

Thinking of this, Li Xukong secretly relaxed a little in his heart.

In his opinion, although Ning Yue's clouded leopard cavalry developed strongly, it was ultimately unable to withstand the strength of the forbidden army. So some of the movements of the clouded leopard ride he saw at the border now were just a senseless struggle.

Li Xukong couldn't help but take the wine glass again and took a sip, it was normal for soldiers to die on the battlefield.

Qianzhou has just harassed one after another, and these days it has only caused less than 1,000 losses to the 50,000 forbidden army, and in the face of an imminent war, such data cannot have any impact on the stability of the army.

The only thing he was worried about before was that Dugu Yi would go his own way, and he couldn't stand the clouded leopard rider's Lian Fan provocation to send troops to attack, but if Dugu Yi should also see the other party's intentions, as long as he stood still before the follow-up army arrived, and was not provoked by the other party to fight the main forces of the two sides, then victory would belong to them sooner or later.