In early spring, green buds of grass appeared on the banks of the Zabuhan River. The original peaceful place was suddenly broken by the sound of horse hooves.
Xue Pan was galloping south with two hundred cavalry. He had been entrusted by Jia Shiyi with the important task of leading people northward along the south bank of the Kongkui River to search for the specific location of the Wala Khan Court.
Unexpectedly, they received news from Jia Shiyi that the Wala Khan Court had been found and ordered them to quickly go south to join the main force.
Everyone immediately rushed south. If they were late, they might not even be able to drink the soup.
April on the grassland is the time when the spring flowers are blooming. These rough guys have no intention of admiring the scenery of the North. They wave the riding whip in their hands at high speed. Seeing that the time has passed noon quickly, they are still halfway on the road, and they feel angry in their hearts. ah……
The war horse was too tired to run, and the people on the horse were too tired. Xue Pan also knew that it was not advisable to continue running, so he ordered everyone to take a rest by a creek.
Everyone was not in a good mood. The dried meat in their mouths felt like it had lost its flavor. They chewed it mechanically and whispered about how happy the main army was at this time.
Xue Pan was lying on the grass, biting the grass and looking at the sky, when suddenly the scout in charge of the alert ran back excitedly.
"Sir Qianhu, hundreds of men and horses were found in the east valley, they seem to be high-ranking Tatar officials!"
Um?
Xue Pan immediately stood up, and everyone who heard the scout's report gathered around him with green eyes.
"Tell me clearly, are you sure he is a Tatar official?"
Just listen to the scout say: "Those cavalry are wearing exquisite armor. Although they are not carrying flags, except for the wolf cavalry guarding the Khan's court, no other Tatar army has such luxury. Moreover, this group of cavalry is guarding a carriage. Finally, I saw from a distance that a lady and two children got off the carriage..."
"Qianhu, what the scout said is right. They are most likely to be dignitaries from the Wala Khan Court. General Eleven and the others started their raid at noon. Calculating the time, if this group of people escaped from the Zhabuhan River, they would be almost there. I just happened to escape here."
"Maybe that woman and child happen to be the wife and children of Chief Qianhu. This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity!"
After the people under his command made this analysis, Xue Pan no longer hesitated. Knowing that the opponent only had four to five hundred men, who had just stopped to rest by the small lake in the valley, he immediately ordered to prepare for battle.
With their heads in their hands and horses wrapped around their hooves, everyone quietly reached the top of the valley slope. The team of four to five hundred people was obviously on high alert. Even if they were resting, they would protect a carriage in the center of the team.
Xue Pan first practiced martial arts with Jia Shiyi and other soldiers of the Rongguo Mansion. Later, he was taken under the account of Prince Liu Hong, who invited his master and veteran generals to teach him the art of culture and war. Now his horizons are completely different.
"It's the Wolf Cavalry, and it's the White Wolf Cavalry, King Khan's personal soldier. Brothers, we encountered a big fish!"
Everyone immediately beamed when they heard this, "Grandpa Tian, the great credit is right in front of you, and it will be paid off this time!"
Xue Pan whispered: "Don't be silly, prepare the crossbow, and listen to my orders..."
…
When the Han court was attacked by Han cavalry, Yi Lan thought of staying in the Zhabuhan River to organize a counterattack.
But Aluotai took away 100,000 main troops, and the remaining 50,000 troops of the Khan Court were divided into 20,000 to go to the north to quell the tribal rebellion, which left the Khan Court empty of troops.
Since the Han people dared to raid the Oala Khan Court from thousands of miles away, in Yi Lan's impression, tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of troops usually arrived, and fighting the Han people with only 30,000 horses would be a way to die.
Fortunately, he ran out and took Ke Dun, who was from the Cholos family, and a pair of children with him.
As long as Aluotai leads the main force back, he will be safe.
But Dunlan Qiduo handed over a piece of beef jerky and a pot of water, and comforted him in a warm voice: "Khan, please eat something first. The Han soldiers and horses will not be able to catch up for a while. When they reach the Alu River and the second brother If the army gathers together, we will be safe."
Yilan looked at Lan Qiduo and his children, and his irritable heart calmed down a little.
The second brother Lan Qiduo refers to is A Luotai's second son, the commander of the 20,000 black wolf cavalry.
Although he complained that the Choros family was using himself to control the power of Oara, he had to say that the Choros family was an important pillar of his great Khan of Oara.
He touched his children's heads, and when he was about to take the dried meat, he felt the ground shaking faintly again.
"It's the pursuers, the Han pursuers are coming again!"
"Hurry up and prepare to defend!"
"Protect Dahu..."
Phew~
The commander of Yilan's soldiers only shouted half a sentence before he was pierced by an arrow through his chest.
Xue Pan was jokingly called Fool Xue, but this fool was a natural martial arts prodigy. In less than two years, his horse arching skills were comparable to those of a veteran.
Pegasus rode and shot, and one arrow penetrated the breastplate of the commander of the Wala soldiers, and sent Yi Lan's trusted commander to meet their Immortal Heaven!
The two hundred Xia'erlangs were suddenly filled with fighting spirit. They broke through the Wala Tatars' defense like a gust of wind, and rushed towards the carriage in the center of the Tatar camp with lightning speed.
Lan Qiduo was still calm and quickly put his children on the horse. He pulled out the dagger from his waist and stood with Yi Lan.
escape?
How to escape?
Only by organizing a blockade can we have a chance of survival.
Although the Han pursuers caught him off guard, the opponent's number was obviously less than half of his own. As long as the warriors of Oala recovered, they would definitely win.
Yilan also knew this truth. He could let the White Wolf Cavalry drag the Han people, but without the protection of the White Wolf Cavalry, they would not be able to go north to join the Black Wolf Cavalry.
Boom boom boom!
The White Wolf Cavalry, which had just been barely organized, was in position. Xue Pan asked his men to throw in several small iron lumps, and then there was a loud explosion...
Two hundred people faced off against five hundred, and Xue Pan was not so stupid that he was not prepared at all.
"Throw the rest of the Sky-shaking Thunder in and let the Tartars have a taste of the power of the divine weapon bestowed by Great Summer!"
Boom boom boom...
To put it bluntly, Zhentianlei is a simplified grenade that requires igniting the fuse with fire. The production is simple, but the storage and transportation of this thing are not very safe.
If the war in Hexi had not been tense, the craftsmen from the Ministry of Industry would not have put out such semi-finished products to embarrass themselves.
Fortunately, he brought these semi-finished products, otherwise Xue Pan would not have the confidence to break open the turtle shell of Wala Bailangqi.
The huge explosion caused the White Wolf Cavalry's war horses to explode. On the other hand, the Daxia War Horse, whose ears had been plugged in advance, was obediently obeying its master's command, moving quickly around the White Wolf Cavalry's defensive circle with its hoofs. Feather arrows.
Throw thunder, projectile, and finally draw your sword and charge into battle.
Xue Pan perfectly demonstrated the tactics taught to him by his masters. It is true that White Wolf Cavalry is one of the strongest soldiers in Wala, but Daxia Erlang is not weak either.
Taking advantage of the opportunity when White Wolf Cavalry's horse was frightened by the thunder, Xue Pan used himself as the edge of his sword and directly penetrated White Lang Cavalry's defense.
The weapons in other people's hands were all military-standard long knives, but in Xue Pan's hand was a Fangtian painted halberd weighing twenty-four kilograms.
"Die to me!"
Bang!
At this time, Xue Pan was as if Marquis Wen was still alive, and his halberd hit the helmet of the Oala cavalry who rushed over.
There was just a bang, and red and white splashed everywhere, frightening the Tatars who rushed over with it.
The halberd in Xue Pan's hand flew around, and every wave of it would send someone away to meet their Immortal Heaven. On the contrary, the brothers behind him couldn't even touch anyone except shouting about the power of Qianhu and the bravery of the adults.
After only one charge, Xue Pan was like a god of death, frightening the Tatars so much that they did not dare to get close. Some people even ran away in panic, accidentally trampling one of their own to death.
After a fight, the White Wolf Cavalry, which had been invincible against slaves in the past, was left with only a hundred people still resisting.
Yi Lan no longer had the confidence he had at the beginning. He sadly discovered that the White Wolf personal guard he had formed was actually a toy coaxed by the Choros family to play with, and it did not have much combat power at all.
The remaining members of the White Wolf Cavalry looked at the Han elites in front of them in horror, especially the killing god holding Fang Tian's painted halberd. If it hadn't been for the urging from the leaders around him, there might not have been anyone blocking Yilan's path.
Xue Pan had already led his men to the front of the carriage. Through the obstruction of a hundred people, he saw clearly the Tatar guard Yi Lan behind him, and suddenly grinned.
"Who am I supposed to be? It turns out to be the Great Prince of Wala... No, it's Khan of Wala now. Yilan, back then you led five hundred white wolf riders and lost in a duel with my Daxia warriors. This time, you Lost!"
Yi Lan forced herself to ask in a cold voice: "Who are you? Have you seen Ben Khan?"
Xue Pan clapped his armor on his chest and said loudly: "I will lead the Daxia Crown Prince Zuo Wei and Zuo Fu, and the Qianhu officer of the Pingxi Governor's Mansion Xue Pan! Yilan, surrender, I will spare your life."
"Surrender? The descendants of the Golden Family never surrender!"
Yi Lan knew that he had no way to escape today, and the scimitar in his hand became extremely heavy.
But he didn't want to be humiliated, so he suddenly raised his machete and was about to kill himself. But Lan Qiduo, who was beside him, directly grasped the blade of the scimitar with his hand, and blood immediately dripped from the tip of the knife onto the grass.
"Aduo'er!"
"Great Khan, if you die, what will happen to me and our children?"
A pair of children in the carriage secretly looked out of the car through the gap in the curtain. Their frightened eyes happened to fall into Yi Lan's eyes, and he fell silent.
Lan Qiduo felt the scimitar become heavier and knew that Yi Lan's heart was wavering. She endured the severe pain in her palm, snatched the scimitar, and threw it to the ground.
"I want Dahan to be alive, our children also want Dahan to be alive, and the parents of Bailangqi also want their children to be alive."
Lan Qiduo whispered in Yi Lan's ear: "There is still a chance to live. My father will always find a way to save us when he comes back, otherwise he will not be able to explain to these families."
The remaining one hundred or so people are only seventeen or eighteen years old, and the oldest is only in his twenties. These people were all selected by the Cholos family from the noble families of Wala, and many of them were relatives of Lan Qiduo.
The families of these people included almost most of the relatives and nobles of Wala. Even Aluotai did not dare to offend these families easily, otherwise his position as Grand Master would be unstable.
Yilan saw the light of hope in Lan Qiduo's eyes and no longer hesitated.
He regained the posture of Wala Khan and nodded towards the White Wolf Cavalry who was looking at him.
Then he said to Xue Pan: "I will go south with you, but you are not allowed to kill my people. Otherwise, even if I die, I will fight with you to the last drop of my blood!"
"As I said just now, you can avoid death by abandoning your weapons and surrendering. The great Xia brothers are all good men, not like you and other Tartars, and they will not do anything treacherous!"
Xue Pan looked at Yi Lan with disdain. It was this group of people. Zhao Wunian was beaten by the sage to the point where he knelt down and shouted "Father". Yuan Youchu took advantage of the turmoil in the center to move the cavalry south.
Yi Lan was ridiculed by Xue Pan and sneered: "While the main force of this Khan is not around, you send a large army to sneak attack on the Khan's court. How can you say that you are a good man? If you have the ability to use swords and guns to start a formal fight, what kind of hero can you do to make a sneak attack?" .”
Xue Pan laughed loudly when he heard this, and the men beside him also laughed.
"Yilan, who told you that the army was marching north? More than 6,000 people beat 30,000 of you, and they set up a battle array to fight you with open swords and guns? Do you think we are fools?"
…
The war in Hexi is raging, and the Xining Mansion has been preparing for decades, so its strength is naturally extraordinary.
On the other hand, at least half of Lanzhou's troops were hastily transferred to Hexi. There was a gap in numbers and their combat power was weaker than the opponent. Naturally, Wang Ziteng did not dare to slack off. He always remained cautious and advanced steadily step by step. He blocked Xining's army by the Yellow River, but he never rushed to fight.
Liu Hong also saw that Wang Ziteng's strategy was very suitable for the current situation and never urged Wang Ziteng to attack.
The Xining Army uses one region to fight against one country. As long as Lanzhou is not in a hurry, Xining Prefecture will be anxious.
Moreover, the capital has ordered the mobilization of strong troops from various places to rush for reinforcements. As long as it lasts for a month, not to mention Xining Prefecture's 150,000 troops, even counting the tens of thousands of soldiers and horses in Wala, they can push through.
It's just that the isolated cities such as Liangzhou and Ganzhou are suffering. Without the supplies and support from the imperial court, it will be difficult.
I just hope that Brother Cong can find a way to get in touch with Lanzhou. It would be great if a passage to the west can be opened, so that some food and grass can be sent there.
Liu Hong could imagine Jia Cong suffering while chewing grass roots, and he couldn't help but secretly hate himself for losing his mind and sending him to Liangzhou.
Jia Cong forcefully delayed the Wala army in Lanzhou for a month, allowing the imperial army to calmly deploy.
Wang Ziteng sent people to the west several times to find the passage to Liangzhou, but they were blocked by the Xining army. Liu Hong had even anticipated that Jia Cong would be trapped in Liangzhou.
"Hey, what can we do? If this continues, brother Cong will starve to death in Liangzhou? Wang Qing, why don't you send someone to try again?"
The corners of Wang Ziteng's mouth were blistered, his brows were furrowed and his voice was hoarse.
"After the Xining Army captured Zhuang Langwei, they deployed an army of 50,000 in order to cut off the passage to the west from Lanzhou. If I want to open up this only passage, I need to mobilize at least 70,000 to 80,000 troops. Then the Yellow River will The defense line is in danger.”
well!
Several people in the main hall sighed, and no one refuted Wang Ziteng's statement.
The trade-off is tough, but it’s true. It wasn't that Wang Ziteng didn't want to save him, but that he didn't dare to send anyone to save him.
He was waiting for the court's follow-up reinforcements to arrive, waiting for an opportunity to defeat Qi Wenliang's men head-on.
The attack and defense of hundreds of thousands of people cannot be accomplished by some cunning strategy. Only head-on confrontation and a sword-for-sword fight can win the war.
The emperor sent him to lead the counter-insurgency battle, not only because he was familiar with the situation in Xining Mansion, but also because what he was best at was not narrow victory with unexpected troops, but being stable enough!
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At this time, Jia Cong, who was chewing grass roots and suffering in the prince's mind, was chewing a leg of mutton and chatting all over the place with the soldiers in the city.
He asked the captain next to him who was asking about the war in Lanzhou: "Why did the emperor send Prince Teng to lead the war in Pingxi? That's because Uncle Wang is a man of righteousness. With him, although he can't win quickly, he can win quickly. It will definitely not be a big defeat.”
"Uncle, what is a righteous person?"
"A person who is strict in moral principles seeks stability. Whether in officialdom or on the battlefield, our uncle Wang always has the last laugh. This is because he is stable enough."
Despite his contempt, Jia Cong had to say that the emperor was really taught by the Supreme Emperor that he would use Wang Ziteng to deal with the rebellion in Xining Mansion.
It is estimated that Qi Wenliang was also tempted by Wang Ziteng's Gou Dao and Zhan Dharma energy. If he continues to be dragged on, the little information he has in Xining Mansion will be completely exhausted by Wang Ziteng.
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