Li Yi frowned and said slowly: "Tell Suo Yi that the time has changed. All the dragon cavalry will be dispatched tonight. They must rush to Jiubian Xuanfu Town within two days."
"No!" Cao Qingyan also saw that something was wrong. His Majesty is rarely so serious. Something big must have happened.
That’s right!
Something really big happened.
Something terrible has happened.
This time, the troops of the Northern Liao Kingdom were divided into two groups. One group was led by King Yeluxiu of the Northern Liao Dynasty, who led 30,000 Northern Liao tiger cavalry and 50,000 tribal troops. They passed through the grassland tribes and penetrated behind Xuanfu Town, a nine-border town, cutting off Xuanfu. The town’s connection with the mainland.
The other main force, a total of 150,000 troops, led by Yelu Wan, the king of Nanyuan, passed through the northern official road of the Dafeng Dynasty and pressed directly towards Xuanfu Town.
Now these two armies have met in Xuanfu Town, completely surrounding Xuanfu Town into an "isolated island!"
The entire Xuanfu Town was surrounded like an iron barrel, and under the city was the camp of the Northern Liao Kingdom.
Climb high and look into the distance. As far as the eye can see, the densely packed tents are endless, and the black sea is boundless and terrifying.
Even though the head of the Zhao family is well-informed, he is extremely surprised at this moment, "What on earth is the Northern Liao Kingdom doing? Why are there so many people here? Could it be that the entire Northern Liao Kingdom army is here?"
The deputy general on the side said in surprise: "Master of the family, I visually estimate that there are no less than 300,000 men and horses coming from the Northern Liao Kingdom. This does not include the Bohai slaves. The total number is probably no less than 500,000 or 600,000 horses!"
The head of the Zhao family nodded, and his eyes immediately fell on the group of Northern Liao Eagle Cavalry outside the city. He couldn't help but worry: "The Northern Liao Kingdom is sending out all its elite this time. Tiger Cavalry, Eagle Cavalry, and Tielin are almost all dispatched." .”
The Northern Liao Kingdom and the grassland tribes all have the same moral character. They live by robbing. They are either robbing or on the road to robbing every day.
To put it bluntly, if the grassland tribes were sporadic robbers, the Northern Liao Kingdom was an organized and premeditated robbery gang.
The reason why this group of robbery gangs are so powerful is because of their constant robbery.
This is completely opposite to the Dafeng Dynasty. Every time the Dafeng Dynasty went to war, the whole country was wailing and everyone was in grief. However, the entire Northern Liao Kingdom was full of joy and high morale, all relying on this "robbery" to get benefits.
The two have not yet fought, and their morale will be judged immediately!
The huge Xuanfu Town is like a lonely boat in the surging river, which may capsize at any time.
The head of the Zhao family smiled bitterly and had no choice but to issue a military order to fight to the death and not retreat.
There is really no other way.
If only one of the Northern Liao kings comes, once the imperial reinforcements arrive and attack from both sides, they may be able to force the opponent back.
You see clearly, it is "forcing back," not repelling.
But now the king of the two houses is here, and he is the strongest king of the two houses in the Northern Liao Kingdom. No matter how courageous the Zhao family leader is, he does not dare to go out of the city to fight easily.
The situation is getting worse!
…
At this moment, the capital.
In the palace, when they learned that Li Yi was going north again to fight in person, all the beauties in the harem were worried and came to see him off.
Queen Ye Qingluan, Concubine Zhao Huaijin, Queen Mother Xiaoning Zheng Ruyi, Dan Yaju Wen Yuan, Ji Fupin, the most beautiful woman in the family, Shang Wanning, a tycoon of the Mohist family, and An Zhiyi, whom Li Yi longed for.
With so many beauties coming together, it was truly spectacular.
Li Yi didn't say much, just said take care, then got on his horse and left.
For some reason, even Li Yi vaguely felt something. It seemed that this trip to the north was extremely dangerous.
Just after Li Yi and the others left, Yiqi Juechen left the palace.
If Li Yi were present, he would be shocked, "Qingluan, who gave you the courage to leave the palace without permission?"
The official road from Jiubian to the capital was crowded with people fleeing the north, and the cries of women and children could be heard from time to time.
At this time, rumors spread around the capital that there were Northern Liao scouts nearby.
This made the already chaotic Northland even more panic-stricken, and even the capital fell into chaos.
In a wasteland on the right side of the official road, the dragoons sat neatly on the ground, each holding a bowl of hot soup in their hands.
Li Yizheng was discussing the military situation with Suo Yi and others, and there was a map of the Northland between them.
Nowadays, all the news from the entire Jiubian has been cut off. Regarding the situation around Beidi, Li Yi and the others have almost turned a blind eye. In fact, they have never seen the appearance of the Beiliao people.
As a last resort, their dragoons did not dare to be careless, so they had to slow down their marching speed and advance cautiously.
A large number of scouts were sent from all directions to check, for fear of being ambushed by the Beiliao people.
The closer they get to Jiubian, the more careful they have to be.
Especially in the past few days, they have been getting closer and closer to Jiubian, and more and more Northland people have fled.
The news they got from them was not very accurate, but one thing everyone agreed on was that many cities in the North had fallen, leaving only Xuanfu Town struggling to hold on.
Li Yi frowned. Sure enough, the Northern Liao Kingdom was by no means an aristocratic family. Zhu Chongyuan and the likes of Xiaoliang Wang were very strong opponents.
"Your Majesty, the internal machine surveillance has just received information that the defenders of Xuanfu Town have fought against the Beiliao people." Cao Qingyan pointed to Xuanfu Town on the map.
"What's the result?" Li Yi asked.
Cao Qingyan shook his head and said: "Almost all the cavalry that left the city were wiped out by the Beiliao people, and no one could return to the city alive."
Li Yi was surprised, "Is the gap so big?"
"Reporting to your majesty, Bei Liao dominates the northern land and is surrendered on all sides. The people of Bei Liao are all brave and good at fighting. They are skilled in bow and horse. They are by no means easy to deal with."
When Cao Qingyan talked about the people from Beiliao, his eyes were full of worry.
Li Yi snorted angrily, "It's the same two shoulders carrying one head. I don't believe it. The Beiliao people still have three heads!"
"Where have the Bei Liao scouts arrived now?"
Suo Yi shook his head and said, "Your Majesty, I don't know about this. Our people have not encountered the Northern Liao scouts, but I heard from the fleeing people that someone in the north has seen the Northern Liao scouts and a group of cavalry, not far from us." It’s not far away, about ten miles away.”
Li Yi nodded, "It's better to believe that they have it than to believe that they don't have it. Let's eat the cavalry of the Bei Liao people first. I want to see how strong the Bei Liao people are."
"Your Majesty, there are only 10,000 dragon cavalry who will accompany your Majesty to the battle this time. We don't know how many troops the Bei Liao people have. If there are 10,000 people, what should our army do?"
Cao Qingyan couldn't help but worry: "Why don't we stay away from the enemy for now and wait until Cao Fengyang's army arrives, then surround and kill this Northern Liao man."
Li Yi shook his head, "I'm afraid it's too late. Since all the people in Beiliao are cavalry, the marching speed will not be very slow. Once the enemy discovers our traces first, I'm afraid our army will be overwhelmed before Cao Fengyang's army arrives. Let’s surround and kill them first.”
"When we meet on a narrow road, the brave will win. I will have a head-on battle with the Beiliao people in the wild to see who is stronger and who is weaker!"
Cao Qingyan wanted to admonish Li Yi, but Li Yi waved his hand, "That's enough. This matter is settled and no further discussion is allowed."
Then, he slowly raised his head and glanced at Cao Qingyan and Suo Yi, "Choose the most elite dragoons and cooperate with the internal surveillance experts to include the area within ten miles of our unit into the surveillance area. Once the Beiliao people are discovered, The scouts immediately attacked and tried their best to capture him alive."
"I don't want to stay in this situation any longer when the enemy's situation is unknown."
Cao Qingyan and Suo Yi looked at each other and hurriedly knelt down to plead guilty, "I will die!"
"Get up, I don't blame you for this. The Beiliao people suddenly went south. This happened suddenly, and I was completely unprepared."
Li Yi narrowed his eyes, "By the way, it's not a coincidence that the Northern Liao people suddenly sent troops this time while I was at war with the family members, right?"
Cao Qingyan nodded, "Your Majesty is wise. In the capital, the old slave also discovered the traces of the Bei Liao intelligence organization and the Full Moon Envoy. However, these people's whereabouts are secretive and extremely difficult to capture."
Li Yi glanced at him and said, "I will give you three months. After three months, I don't want to hear any more news about the Full Moon Messenger. Do you understand?"
"promise!"
"Old slave obeys the order!" Cao Qingyan responded in a deep voice.
At this moment, there was a sudden quarrel on the official road nearby.
Li Yi looked up and saw a few fleeing people who were quarreling for some unknown reason.
"Your Majesty, these fleeing people are short of food and clothing. It is inevitable that they will quarrel over trivial matters. There is nothing interesting to see." Cao Qingyan advised.
Li Yi smiled bitterly, "This is all my dereliction of duty. If it weren't for my incompetence, why would my people be blamed like this?"
At this moment, among the fleeing people, a middle-aged man wearing a dog-skin hat and a thick cloth on his face suddenly caught Li Yi's attention.
This man was leading a horse and was heading north against the flow of people.
It seemed that he deliberately avoided the quarreling crowd and walked on the left side of the official road.
If it weren't for the fleeing people who had just argued, Li Yi probably wouldn't have noticed him.
This kind of person is really common among the people who are fleeing.
Li Yi whispered to Cao Qingyan, "There is something wrong with that man, arrest him."
Cao Qingyan was stunned, glanced at the man, and then at Li Yi, feeling a little confused.
"Hurry up, don't let him run away!" Li Yi's voice turned cold.
"No!" Cao Qingyan also saw that something was wrong. As soon as he raised his hand, three or four masters of internal machine surveillance gathered around him.
"Catch that man alive."
Several masters of internal machine surveillance immediately understood what was going on. They took cover from the quarreling crowd and surrounded the man.
But I never expected that that person would be so alert...
