Li Yang is crazy, and so is the old emperor. This is what 300,000 Xu Ziqi thinks!
A theory in Liyang Tai'an City became more and more fierce. The reason why Xu Xiao stood still at the West Barrier was because this man secretly agreed to the Da Chu Emperor's proposal to draw a river to rule. As a general with an army of 300,000, Xu Xiao wants to proclaim himself king, and he has reached a secret agreement with Da Chu...
This rumor is undoubtedly absurd, but the rumors in the capital are overwhelming, and several extremely important espionage reports are sent to the emperor. The reports insist that the emperor of Dachu personally wrote a secret letter and stamped it with the national seal. Just put it on Xu Xiao's desk, saying that he and Xu Xiao would rule the world together.
Indeed, the two armies have been facing each other for too long at the Western Barrier, and it has already entered the rainy season from nine cold days. Xu Xiao recognized Ye Baikui's opponent the first time he saw him, and Ye Baikui did not disappoint Xu Xiao. He nailed 300,000 Xu Jiajun to the west wall for half a year, and fell into a situation that Xu Xiao least wanted to see. A war of attrition. The old emperor still believed in Xu Xiao to a certain extent, but Liyang could no longer support the loss of 300,000 troops. Since you, Xu Xiao, can devour 120,000 Euphorbia warriors in less than ten days, why can't you take down the West Barrier in half a year?
Liyang Chaotang is now completely out of control, and even Gu Jiantang, a meritorious general of the Qingzhuang Sect, has chosen to look on coldly at Xu Xiao. Gu Jiantang, who originally agreed to join forces with Xu Xiao to encircle Da Chu, now has his army still in the territory of East Vietnam, with no sign of entering Da Chu. As a result, no one in the civil and military circles of the dynasty was willing to speak for Xu Xiao. Instead, the most popular internal fighting in Chu began:
Xu Xiao contradicted the prince at home;
Xu Xiao killed innocent people in other countries;
Please ask the emperor to quickly recall the 300,000 troops stationed at the Western Barrier. Otherwise, if Xu Xiao becomes disloyal and colludes with Dachu, Liyang will be in danger!
So, what was supposed to happen happened anyway...
Liyang's most elite postmen rode on the old emperor's beloved sweat-blooded horse. The leader of the group carried an eight-hundred-mile expedited imperial edict. There were only four words on the golden silk: fight or retreat!
The old emperor had two choices for Xu Xiao, either fight to the death with Ye Baikui, even if all 300,000 troops were killed on the Western Barrier Wall, he didn't care. In this way, Xu Xiao could spend his remaining years in Tai'an City. The old emperor Xu Xiao can be arranged in any way; the other option is to retreat with 300,000 troops. The result is not much different from the first choice. After retreating this time, Xu Xiao will lose the opportunity to lead troops in his life. However, because he complied with the imperial edict, the old emperor would not be stingy with Xu Xiao, a minister of the Ministry of War.
Of course, Xu Xiao can continue to choose to confront Ye Baikui at the Western Barrier, but he will lose all the trust of Emperor Liyang.
There are many people who can see the essence of this matter, but there are only fourteen veterans who are really willing to say a word for Xu Xiao. The leader is named Feng Ling, who lives in the wild grass of Liaodong and is very old. The year before last, he became a third-rank official by relying on his solid military service; Zhu Changfu, the founder of Yugu Camp; Zhang Dujian, who has just retired from the position of leader of Lianzi Camp... .The old man who had survived hundreds of battles survived through bullets and bullets. On this day, fourteen people committed suicide outside the palace.
The old emperor's imperial edict and fourteen Northern Liang cavalry veterans committed suicide in Tai'an City. The two messages were delivered to Xu Xiao of the West Barrier together. Xu Xiao almost clutched the imperial edict in his hand to death on the spot, and this piece of rag killed fourteen of his brothers.
The old emperor Zhao Yin was a man who wanted both dignity and face. Since Xu Xiao's fourteen brothers vouched for Xu Xiao with their lives, the old emperor would tolerate Xu Xiao for another fourteen days. Fourteen days later, the old emperor will issue a gold medal and an imperial edict every day until Xu Xiao is forced to death.
Xu Xiao can regard the old emperor's imperial edict as a piece of waste paper, but some people regard the imperial edict as their own parents!
Before the imperial edict arrived, Zhao Bodang, the general in charge of the northwest defense line of the Western Barrier, as one of the few royal generals, secretly flirted with Da Chu, so that Da Chu knew about the imperial edict before Xu Xiao. content. Not only that, as soon as the imperial edict of Liyang arrived, Zhao Bodang didn't care whether he would kill 300,000 Xu family troops. He gave up the strategic location of Concubine's Tomb to the great Chu Ye Baikui, and even withdrew 600 soldiers in one breath. Here, it seems that he is afraid that Xu Xiao will come to trouble him...
In other words, when Xu Xiao received the imperial edict, the 300,000 Xu family troops had become completely alone. Even if Xu Xiao wanted to send troops to regain the concubine's tomb, it would not work because Zhao Bodang had already completed the deal with Ye Baikui. Zhao Bo withdrew, and a few minutes later Da Chu occupied the concubine's tomb.
Now it is no longer a problem that the Western Barrier of Chu is crumbling, but that the 300,000 Xu family troops are likely to overturn in dozens of days!
Xu Xiao and Ye Baikui faced off against the West Barrier. Gu Jiantang was supposed to be on the northeast side of the West Barrier, but the general seemed to want to go one step further and would not send troops to Chu until Xu Xiao was defeated or dead. However, Gu Jiantang had hundreds of thousands of elites standing across the border between East Vietnam and Da Chu, which put considerable pressure on Da Chu. If Gu Jiantang was still useful, then Zhao Bo was useless from beginning to end and dragged the Beiliang cavalry back. After Xu Xiao suffered hundreds of thousands of casualties, he conquered dozens of large and small cities in Da Chu. In the Battle of Jinghe, he even killed 120,000 Euphorbia soldiers in one go. After that, he sent troops to the west without stopping. The barrier forced all the last essence of Da Chu into this fortress. But what did Zhao Bodang do? Not to mention evading the frontal battlefield in various ways at the beginning, when Xu Xiao trapped Ye Baikui's elite in the west barrier, Zhao Bodang "snatched" the northwest defense line from Xu Xiao's hands, taking away the key to the flank safety of the Beiliang cavalry. With the concubine's grave in hand, now the strategic location that should have belonged to the Beiliang Cavalry was handed over to Ye Baikui...
Because Gu Jiantang stood by and watched, and because Zhao Bo was so ignorant of the overall situation, the battle for the Dingding of the world had to be advanced. Whether Da Chu will become the overlord of the Spring and Autumn Period again, or Li Yang will dominate the world, will be decided in the next month.
Ye Baikui, the Saint of Soldiers, lived up to his title as a soldier. Twenty thousand light cavalry and forty thousand heavy cavalry were deployed in the Concubine's Tomb, gaining unprecedented strategic depth for Chu. If Xu Xiao did not divide his troops at Concubine's Tomb, then the Northern Liang cavalry's retreat would be cut off, just like how Xu Xiao cut off the 120,000 Euphorbia soldiers before; if Xu Xiao divided his troops at Concubine's Tomb, then Ye Baikui could take the lead in the west Attack on the battlefield in front of the barrier.
You know, although Xu Xiao claims to have 300,000 Xu family troops, Liyang has never replenished the Xu family army's troops. Not to mention the previous series of battles, the sporadic fights with Ye Baikui in the past six months also caused Xu Jiajun to suffer a lot. Looking back at Ye Baikui, Da Chu had already sent all the capable young men in the country into the battle formation.
Under this situation, Ye Baikui was able to calculate the combatable troops of Beiliang Iron Cavalry. Therefore, the soldier sage laid out his troops and horses in the concubine's grave, waiting for Xu Xiao to come. If there is less, just eat it in one bite. If there are too many, they will defeat the Beiliang cavalry in front of them in one go.
Yes, just defeat, not defeat. It is almost impossible to defeat Xu Xiao head-on. Therefore, Ye Baikui must be defeated. As long as the Beiliang Cavalry is significantly reduced in number, Xu Xiao will not be far from failure...
