Chapter 20: The Confrontation between the Two Armies
In just a few dozen miles, the army of the Elven Empire quickly walked through, and the scouts of the Ninth Legion continued to gather information to the Huangfu Le Holy Place.
But what these scouts didn't know was that Isaiah Darkleaf led an elite army of 40,000 men, carrying ten magic crystal cannons, and left in reverse, preparing to bypass this trade route.
Soon, the news that the elven army was camped five miles away spread to the Chinese army camp.
Zhao Ti and Huangfu Lesheng walked out of the big tent and drove their horses to the elven camp not far away.
A steady stream of troops came from afar, converging into the camp, and all kinds of military flags were lined up, full of eyes, like a sea of flags.
Zhao Ti looked at the camp in the distance with a miserable face, full of thousands of people and boundless, you can imagine what a terrifying picture of nearly 400,000 troops. In the past, when he was in his own army, he just thought it was spectacular, but now when he sees the enemy, this feeling is completely different.
"Your Highness, our army can't be defeated!" Huangfu Le Sheng also had a heavy face, he didn't pay attention to the number of the elven army, what he saw was that this enemy was very elite, hundreds of thousands of troops were orderly in their actions, advancing and retreating in an orderly manner, and at first glance it was the elite troops of the elven empire.
Not to mention that the difference in numbers between the two armies is so large, even if the number is equal, I'm afraid that my side will not be able to please it!
"Hmph, the war is not fought by many people! If the enemy has too many people and does not dare to fight to the death, then how can we talk about the art of war to win more with less, and the weak to defeat the strong!" Zhao Ti now has to send an arrow, and when he heard the words of Huangfu Lesheng, he said strongly.
"Hehe, Your Highness is right! Since our army has already been dispatched, it will naturally not be defeated without a fight! Why do you have to wrestle with Hicks Amber Light. Huangfu Le Shengqiang said with a smile, and then changed his words, "However, the enemy army is strong and well-trained, and it is really too risky for our army to fight here, it is better to retreat to the city of Manchuan Pass and then fight with them!
"Hmph, after all, you still want to retreat to Manchuan Pass and wait for the attack of the elven army! Manchuan Pass is defended by two divisions, what is there to worry about?! Besides, our army pinned the elven army here, how could they bypass our army and attack Manchuan Pass!?" Zhao Ti said disdainfully to Huangfu Lesheng.
Huangfu Lesheng wanted to say something, but Zhao Ti turned his horse's head and shouted in a low voice: "Go! Go back to the camp! Prepare for a decisive battle!"
Looking at Zhao Ti's distant back, Chief of Staff Le Cheng said behind Huangfu Le Sheng: "Dashuai, forget it! King Yue can't listen to Dashuai's opinion, we just need to prevent the Seventh Army from escaping on the battlefield!"
Huangfu Lesheng turned his head and looked at his cold-faced chief of staff in surprise, not knowing why he thought that the Seventh Legion would flee on the battlefield!
"Imperial military law, the two armies are at war, regardless of the friendly army, the enemy is rash, if the defeat is fully responsible, the commander will go to his post to ask for the guilt; if he wins, it will be useless!" Le Cheng said such a sentence coldly, what kind of urine is the Seventh Legion and Zhao Ti, he really knows too well!
They don't have the courage to fight hard against a strong enemy at all, but they are handy at pitting their own people, and Le Cheng thought hard for a long time before discovering a hint.
"Dashuai, Xia Guan has been thinking for a long time. His Royal Highness the King of Yue abandoned Nanyue City and fled without a fight, and now he is the biggest person responsible for the fall of Baiyue County.
Then there are only two possibilities for King Yue to escape responsibility:
The first is to achieve a great victory, so that it can cover up the ugly incident of fleeing without a fight, and the enemy army is powerful, and the Seventh Army lures the enemy into depth, encircles and annihilates it. And this is obviously impossible, we are not strong enough;
The second is to let the Huangfu Marshal defeat you, and then falsely accuse the marshal of your rash attack on the enemy, so that the commanders of the two major legions are guilty of a big crime, and it just so happens that these two legions are the only two field legions in the royal family. Those disciples of the Holy Academy of the Ministry of War, as long as they didn't want to tear their faces with the royal family, they had to endure this matter. ”
Le Cheng told the idea he guessed, basically + guessed Zhao Ti's sinister plan thoroughly. After saying this, he heard that Huangfu Lesheng's face changed violently, and his chest rose and fell for a while.
This Zhao Ti really deserves to die, in order to shirk his responsibility, he actually chose to trap friendly troops and kidnap the royal family, his heart can be punished! Huangfu Lesheng thought in his heart, forced himself to suppress his anger, and said lightly: "Whether your guess is true or not, you must watch the Seventh Legion these days." As long as the Seventh Legion can't escape, Ben Shuai wants to see how he falsely accuses Ben Shuai!
After speaking, Huangfu Le Sheng squeezed the horse's belly fiercely and rushed towards his own camp, and Le Cheng and the others hurriedly followed.
Hicks Amber Light seemed to ignore the Seventh and Ninth Army Corps of the Qinling Empire, and arranged for each army to camp in an orderly manner, and after sending out a mobile outpost, it was loose on the outside and tight on the inside to let the armies rest.
Huangfu Le Sheng originally thought about a hard battle with the elven army on the second day, but as a result, the elven camp hung a free battle card, and it seemed that he had not recovered from the long journey. Looking at the defensive facilities on the periphery of the camp and the longbowmen who were waiting for the battle, Huangfu Lesheng did not dare to act rashly and had no choice but to return to the camp.
Seeing that the two armies could not fight a decisive battle for a long time, Zhao Ti was also anxious, if it weren't for the fact that there was still a trace of reason, he was afraid that Huangfu Lesheng would see the clues, and he would have the heart to force the army to attack the enemy's camp.
However, he still underestimated Huangfu Lesheng too much, although Huangfu Lesheng didn't notice his careful thinking at first, but after being reminded by Le Chengyi, now Huangfu Lesheng is watching his every move confirm the truth of Le Cheng's guess.
Huangfu Lesheng scattered ten innate masters and hundreds of martial artists of the eighth and ninth layers of the Seventh Legion under his own guard battalion to the Seventh Legion to secretly monitor every move of the Seventh Legion. Zhao Ti also had two congenital masters close to him, so in order to prevent the grass from startling the snake, Huangfu Lesheng did not monitor Zhao Ti. However, as long as Zhao Ti made any moves, if the officers of the Seventh Legion wanted to escape, these masters in charge of monitoring would immediately kill them, and the samurai battalion of the Ninth Legion would also press up from behind as a supervising team to suppress the sergeants.
In this way, the Seventh Legion could not escape, Zhao Ti's conspiracy was naturally broken, and his reasons were very sufficient, and Zhao Ti had nothing to say.
Imperial military law, those who escape, regardless of their position, can be punished on the spot!
After thinking silently for a while, and making sure that Zhao Ti had no way to trick people, Huangfu Le Sheng leisurely returned to his sleeping tent to rest. Hicks Amberlight wasn't ready to fight today, and he was happy to stall for time. It's just that there is always a trace of uneasiness in Huangfu Lesheng's heart, which makes him a little uncomfortable.
At dusk on the second day, it was approaching the depths of winter, and even in the southern Manchuan Pass, it was dark and early.
Hua Hui carefully checked the situation in the distance at the gate of the pass, made sure that there was no abnormality, and instructed the city gate guards to say a few words before going down the city. According to speculation, now the marshal should have fought with the elven army, and he doesn't know what the battle situation is, this Zhao Ti is really ......
Just as he was thinking about something, he saw Wei Hongfang staggering over with several commanders of the 74th Division. Hua Hui pinched his nose, and he could smell the smell of alcohol on them from afar.
Hua Hui, who already didn't have a good impression of the Seventh Legion, was even more disgusted when he saw this scene, but his always calm temper made him not go up to reprimand, after all, they belonged to two legions and had the same position.
"Commander of the Chinese Division, go... Walk... Walk... , I'll go drink together!" Wei Hongfang walked over drunk, and was about to take Hua Hui's shoulder.
Hua Hui frowned, quietly let him stretch out his hand, and said in his mouth: "Commander Wei, no need, I will be tired and go to rest first, you can enjoy yourself!" After speaking, he walked towards the regimental headquarters of the ninety-second division without looking back.
Wei Hongfang and the others were drunk, and their heads couldn't react for a while, so they stood there stunned and watched Hua Hui's back gradually disappear.
"Tut-tut...... , return the general, haha, division commander, that old man doesn't buy your account Wow! Wait for me to go up and teach him a lesson!" The one who spoke was a flag commander of the 74th Division, and he was so drunk and bold that he rolled up his sleeves and was ready to chase after Hua Hui.
"Hmm?......" Wei Hongfang was blown by the cold wind of the night, and he couldn't help but shiver, he pulled up the flag commander, and said angrily in his mouth: "Hmph, these horsemen of the Ninth Legion look down on us, we still look down on them! Lao Tzu even has good wine, and he doesn't give these bastards to drink!"
"Hehe, it's still the division commander who said it's reasonable, why should we be like the bitter haha of the Ninth Legion!The division commander, it's a little cold at night, how about we go to the city to light a bonfire and drink?"
"Ha, you old boy understand... If you know more, go there... There, we can also say that Hua Hui ran to... Go to sleep, let's go night... Kiss... Personally guarding the city gates! Let's go..."Wei Hongfang was already drunk, and when he was blown by the cold wind, his words were a little unrounded.
Hearing this subordinate Jianyi, he directly took the lead and headed in the direction of the city gate, and naturally there were soldiers behind him to Zhang Luo's wine, food and firewood.
The group staggered and walked towards the city gate tower. An officer on duty saw a group of drunks coming, and hurriedly ran over to check the situation.
"Who's it?" the officer on duty in the distance didn't see who it was, and shouted loudly.
"Howl howl! I didn't see it... See it's General Wei!" The flag commander who rolled up his sleeves and was about to chase Hua Hui went up with a big-eared scraper and knocked the officer on duty to the ground. I just held back the fire in my belly, and now when I see that this officer on duty is from the Ninth Legion, I can't help it anymore. After knocking the officer on duty to the ground, he kicked it several times, and cursed in his mouth.
"Alright, get him out... Drive me away, lest you spoil me... I'm waiting for you!" Wei Hongfang stopped his subordinates, so as not to have a quarrel with Hua Hui when he got there.
The soldiers guarding around saw the officer on duty being beaten, and then looked at this group of senior officers, they didn't dare to say anything, but they just picked up the officer on duty and quickly retreated down the city tower, giving up the place to the personal guard squadron of the 74th Division.
"Damn, I lost Nanyue City without firing a single arrow, and I ran to show off my strength in front of our Ninth Army, what a bunch of bastards!" The soldiers of the 92nd Division who retreated to the city gate began to greet the soft eggs of the 74th Division.
"My lord, do you want to report to the commander of the division and commander quickly!" a soldier asked the officer on duty.
"No need, these regiments of the 74th Division are drunk, and it will be difficult for the division commander to come over!" The officer on duty was ready to swallow this bad breath, lest General Hua be embarrassed.