Regarding Du She's judgment, Huang Qiong did not answer him immediately. Instead, he stood there, looking at Tongxin County in silence with his hands behind his back. Huang Qiong's current silence made Du She a little at a loss. Du She was very worried about whether the British king's decision in front of him would require the Left Route Army to continue moving north even though he knew that the main force of the rebels was hidden in Daluo Mountain.
In Du She's opinion, if he continued to move north before the rebels moved, he would directly send the left army to a dead end. It's just that the decision-making power on this matter is not in his hands. This British king is an ambassador or a prince overseeing the country, and his authority is far above him. Although he was actually in charge of the Left Army, he could not make this determination. He suffered too many losses when he was the deputy envoy of Longyou Jiedu.
Just when Du She was wondering, Huang Qiong suddenly turned around, glanced at Du She and said: "Okay, General Du, I will believe you this time. You make the decision this time, and I will give you everything." Be the backstage. If someone holds you accountable afterwards, I will make the decision for you. Fight as you think. Whatever you need us to do, we will do it without any scruples."
Du She was somewhat excited about Huang Qiong's trust. Although he is quite talented, he has been working in the local guard. As a military attaché, he has never had a chance to display his talents. After Li Jiedu took office, he was even more marginalized. Now that the young prince trusted him, Du She felt extremely moved. Although he didn't say anything, he secretly made up his mind.
Huang Qiong ignored the excitement on Du She's face, but looked at Tongxin County in front of him with his hands behind his back. It wasn't until Du She's subordinates came to report that the county seat had been carefully searched again and nothing unusual was found, that Huang Qiong got on his horse and entered Tongxin County. After entering the county seat, Du She immediately transferred a few veterans from his bloody battle in Qingyang Mansion and sent them in the direction of Daluoshan.
After Huang Qiong entered Tongxin County, he seemed to really let go of all Du She's arrangements. When Du She dispatched his troops, he didn't even say a word, let alone intervene. However, neither Huang Qiong nor Du She had ever thought that Tuoba Jiqian was indeed hiding in Daluo Mountain with an army of 80,000 people. His target was not the left army, but the main center army led by He Yuanfeng.
Opposite to the left route army, preparations for contingency were being made intensively. He Yuanfeng led the 20,000-strong middle route army and advanced steadily towards Lingzhou. However, before setting off, Huang Qiong asked him to be careful. Along the way, He Yuanfeng also had reconnaissance cavalry everywhere. As a veteran after all, He Yuanfeng also unanimously focused his investigation on the direction of Daluo Mountain.
Before passing through Daluo Mountain, He Yuanfeng had ordered to be prepared for contingency. He Yuanfeng was unexpectedly cautious, which made Tuoba Jiqian, who did not want to fight hard and let the party members shed too much blood, feel that the next thing was a bit tricky. Tuoba Jiqian, who was originally seriously injured but had to hold on during this battle and could only ride in a camel sedan, felt an indescribable anxiety in his heart.
But now that the matter has come to this, Tuoba Jiqian also knows that he has no room to retreat. This battle must be fought whether he wants to fight or not. Especially after receiving the reconnaissance report, the Zuo Route Army has not left the city since entering Tongxin County. Tuoba moved on, knowing that his whereabouts were most likely exposed. If he didn't attack again, he would most likely be trapped and die in Daluo Mountain.
Gritting his teeth, Tuoba Jiqian had been waiting in hiding for three days, and the food in his hand was almost exhausted. Knowing clearly that the fighter plane was not favorable, he finally gritted his teeth and issued the order. In addition to leaving 20,000 troops on the main road from Tongxin to his ambush location, he prepared to ambush possible reinforcements from the left army. Gather the remaining 60,000 troops and horses and launch an attack on the Central Army across the board.
In this battle, Tuoba Jiqian could be said to have invested a lot of money. He dispatched 60,000 troops and horses of the Central Army, 50,000 of which were party members, and 80% of the 50,000 party troops were cavalry. These 40,000 party cavalry gathered all the horses he had painstakingly collected. In order to ensure the combat effectiveness of these 40,000 cavalry, he did not hesitate to recruit all the horses that could only drive shafts and plow fields.
Although Tuoba Jiqian had a clear understanding of the strength of both sides, in his heart he did not want to have such a head-on confrontation with the army. He was even less willing to squander and waste his party man's blood like this. But he also knew that, just as his father-in-law who died in mysterious circumstances said, this battle had to be fought in every aspect, whether it was military morale, morale, or for the sake of the party members.
And if you decide to fight, you must beat the officers and soldiers painfully. Even if they are defeated, the officers and soldiers must not take any big advantage. In this way, party members can have a future. The purpose is to let the court know that the Dangxiang people are still very weak compared to the behemoth court. But he is a prickly hedgehog, and the court should not think about spending it at any cost.
He can easily deal with the party members, even a small tribe, and will fight them to the end. Let the court feel that being tough is simply not worth the gain. In this way, he will have a chance to take a breath in the near future. Only then did he have the opportunity to sit down and talk with the court. Even if you surrender, you must at least strive for a semi-independent status. In this way, he and the party members can have a future.
Tuoba Jiqian was a tycoon, so his father-in-law's words contained his meaning, so he naturally understood them. However, he did not follow his father-in-law's plan to use this opportunity to kill people with borrowed knives and wipe out the small tribes that were not very obedient. Because in his opinion, whether it is now or in the future, the real threat to him internally is not the small tribes that can only rely on the strong.
And it was those powerful tribes that also took advantage of this rebellion to form a tribal army. As for those small tribes, in his opinion, they did not pose a threat to him. Therefore, he put the tribal armies of those powerful tribes into the first batch of attacks against the middle army. The one who rushed to the front was his original support, the Noribe tribe of his father-in-law.
Since his father-in-law's death was unclear, Tuoba Jiqian immediately felt that his two brothers-in-law's attitudes towards him had changed. Especially after the death of his father-in-law, his uncle Tuoba Rongqi, who took over as the new clan leader, had a completely different attitude towards him than when his father-in-law was around. As a brother-in-law, he was very aware of the hostility that his uncle and in-laws had towards him.
There are also those who are equally ambitious. As early as the day when they started the rebellion, they were always thinking about replacing them. Now Noribe, for him, has become more of a potential enemy than his ally. But fortunately, my uncle, although ambitious, is very rude. With a few words of his own, he was instigated and volunteered to be a pioneer.
He took the 6,000 tribal troops he brought to Daluo Mountain as the vanguard of the first wave to rush towards the official army. Although Nori Rongqi said he was deceived, he knew clearly in his heart that Noribu's loss was too great, which was also a loss to his own strength. Although Yeli Rongqi was dissatisfied with him, his brothers still obeyed his brother-in-law and there was far less hostility.
So even if you use the strategy of killing someone with a borrowed knife, you should focus on your former allies first. But in fact, Tuoba Jiqian felt uncomfortable in his heart. He could only sigh slightly, and personally took the remaining three thousand troops of his Pingxia tribe to supervise the battle and hold down the formation from behind. Since the dispatch of troops, he hoped that the sooner Nori Rongqi died in battle, the more advantageous it would be for him to recruit Noribu.
Compared with Tuoba Jiqian, who was having extremely complicated thoughts at this time, when his He Yuanfeng saw the party cavalry rushing out of Daluo Mountain, they were all over the mountains and plains. While he immediately formed the best formation for the infantry against the cavalry, he secretly breathed a sigh of relief. Judging from the party members' response to the troops they dispatched, it seems that they have spent all their money.
In this way, the left army, the weakest among the three armies, should be safe now. The left army is safe, and the King of England who follows the left army is also safe. The King of England's safety was guaranteed, so he no longer had to tie his hands and feet in marching and combat deployment, and had to keep an eye on the direction of the left army in fear. It's really time to let go and fight this battle.
Facing the party's cavalry, which was almost deployed in full force and getting closer and closer, He Yuanfeng showed a slight sarcastic smile on his lips. As his raised arm fell hard, the order soldiers beside him dropped their raised flags. The archers who had already drawn their bows suddenly loosened their grip, and the bowstring was tightly clasped in their hands. Arrows rained from the sky, hitting the Noribu cavalry who were charging in the first wave.
And in front of the archers, hidden behind the shield bearers. The double-bow bed crossbowmen, who are specially used in field battles, are constantly adjusting the direction of the bed crossbow, trying to find the most valuable target. The party cavalry, who had no armor and could only wear their own civilian clothes, charged like a swarm of swarms. Facing the rain of arrows, the first few rounds of charges made almost no progress.
Even if they can barely break through the arrow rain of the army, they will face a hedgehog-like formation composed of shields and spears, instead of people and horses being strung onto the spears. It was the steel knife in the hands of the shield hand that cut off the horse's legs. After it fell to the ground, it was hacked by several steel knives and chopped directly to the ground. After a morning's offensive, not only failed to break through the defense line of the army, but they themselves lost more than 2,000 people.
Looking at the battlefield, there were human and horse corpses everywhere. Ye Lirongqi, who wanted to make great achievements so that he could expand his position and become the new leader of the party members, couldn't help but burst into tears. These are all the children of his Noribu, and they are the elites handed over to him by his father. Now that they have just fought, they have gone to 30%. How could he have the face to meet his own people and his father?
But at this moment, he was somewhat reluctant to give up. When he looked back and saw the cold and fierce look in Tuoba Jiqian's eyes when he looked at him, he couldn't help but tremble in his heart. Recalling the oath he had made before the attack when he failed, he would raise his head to meet the enemy, he could only turn around and continue to attack. Although he had the intention of killing someone with a borrowed knife, Noribe was still valuable to him after all.
To kill someone with a borrowed knife, it was only Yeli Rongqi who was killed, not the Tuoba successor of the entire Yeli tribe, and he did not want the Yeli tribe to suffer too much loss in this battle. After Yelibu's charge was fruitless, he immediately mobilized the Mewei tribe and launched continuous attacks from the right wing of the official army to distract the official army. He also directed the team composed of various small and medium-sized tribes to slowly press forward.
Tuoba Jiqian wanted to take this approach to create a fighting opportunity for Yelibu. But what he didn't expect was that He Yuanfeng, who was good at using cavalry to make surprise attacks, immediately gave up his thoughts. He Yuanfeng used his infantry to entangle the Yeli tribe on the left and right flanks, and the Miewei tribe combined, which totaled nearly ten thousand troops. Secretly, he mobilized 5,000 cavalry, and directly gave him a black tiger to rip out his heart, and directly killed his central army.
