Xu Xiao did not come back. He, his wife Wu Su, and their two daughters went to Dantongguan to see their son Xu Fengnian...
Beiliang didn't protest because Beiliang and Liyang's faces were not broken after all. However, it is impossible for Beiliang to continue fighting to the death like before. The 300,000 Xu family troops were stationed at the foot of the West Barrier City and stopped moving forward. In the front, Gu Jiantang stopped at the border of Dachu, and in the back, Xu Xiao was stationed at the foot of Xilebi City. Liyang wants to annex Da Chu and dominate the world, okay, go and fight it yourself!
Today's Xu Jiajun is said to have three hundred thousand, but in fact it has already been damaged:
In the Battle of Xiangfan, Wang Yangming, who was known as the best general in the world, defended Xiangfan to the death. When the city was destroyed, only 10,000 of the 200,000 Xiangfan soldiers and civilians remained. This was the first fierce battle that the Xu Jiajun had experienced. Basically, the infantry battalions in Xu Xiao's eighteen-year-old battalion were assigned to Xiangfan.
In the Battle of Jinghe, the Northern Liang cavalry faced off against 120,000 Euphorbia warriors. After the first battle, Xu Xiao lost his entire Manjia battalion.
In the deadly battle at Concubine's Tomb, Xu Xiao could no longer form an organized cavalry team except for his bodyguard, the Snow Dragon Cavalry.
In addition, in order to force Ye Baikui to fight a decisive battle, the Xu family army had 20 or 30 times of friction with the defenders of the West Barrier, large and small. Before the White Clothes Case in the Capital occurred, Tai'an City wanted to deprive the Xu Family Army of its supplies; after the White Clothes Case in the Capital City, it completely cut off the Xu Family Army's source of troops.
Although today's Xu Jiajun is said to have 300,000 soldiers, it actually has less than 150,000 combatable soldiers, and they are basically infantry. Beiliang's cavalry has no shortage of war horses. As long as Beiliang is given time, it is possible to pull out another one hundred thousand cavalry. Now, Beiliang Iron Cavalry has plenty of time. Since Xu Xiao left the camp, 300,000 Xu-character flags have been hoisted with war-free signs. Even Lu Bu, who had to check in at Xilibi City on time every day, was nowhere to be seen!
Emperor Zhao Li really felt that he no longer needed Xu Xiao or the Xu family army. He had the general Gu Jiantang and the clan general Zhao Bodang. Without Xu Xiao, wouldn't he be able to win a big Chu army that was crippled?
Da Chu's two golden lumps, one is 120,000 euphorbia soldiers, and the other is 60,000 heavy cavalry. The entire army of 120,000 Euphorbia warriors has been wiped out, and the 60,000 heavy cavalry have also been bitten by Beiliang, leaving only 20,000. Da Chu has been fighting for so long, especially when Xu Xiao hit the core hinterland in one go and lost more than half of its territory, Da Chu has already lost its strategic depth. As long as Liyang continues to put pressure on Da Chu in the frontal battlefield, Da Chu's destruction is just around the corner.
At this moment, the prince Zhao Yi stood up. The prince seemed to have smelled some unusual energy. In the past, when my father was at his peak, no one had any ideas. Now that the father intends to choose a successor, it is time to step forward. As the leader among the princes, Zhao Yi decisively asked his father for orders, and he wanted to personally lead an army to pacify Western Chu.
Zhao Yi came, and then the prince Zhao Yi and the clan general Zhao Bodang were beaten so hard by Ye Baikui that they didn't even recognize them anymore. This was still a situation where the main force of Xi Chu was basically confronting Lu Bu and Gu Jiantang. Prince Zhao Yi was defeated in two battles, and it was an unprecedented defeat. Liyang's hundreds of thousands of troops were eaten in one bite, and they were already severely injured. Because Gu Jiantang and Xu Xiao have not taken any action, and because of these two disastrous defeats, the remnants of the Spring and Autumn Kingdoms that were destroyed by Li Yang are showing signs of resurgence...
No one expected that the confrontation on the West Barrier would last for three years!
Thanks to the old emperor Zhao Li's betrayal, Xu Xiao lived a peaceful life in Dantong Pass. It wasn't until the prince Zhao Yi suffered two major defeats that Zhao Li was forced to send an imperial edict to transfer Xu Xiao to the West Barrier Battlefield again. Xu Xiao's return to the West Barrier this time is tantamount to letting the tiger return to the mountain. Zhao Li knows this very well. But he could only hold his nose and admit it, because he needed a general like Xu Xiao to stabilize people's hearts.
Xu Xiao knows one thing very well. Only when he returns to the military camp can his wife, two daughters, and two sons be truly safe. This is what is called having soldiers in hand and no panic in mind.
After returning to the Xu family army this time, Xu Xiao was at odds with the emperor:
If you don't replenish my troops, it's okay to recruit troops on the spot. Not only that, Xu Xiao also asked for food, grass and baggage that matched his own troops and horses. In other words, no matter how many troops Xu Xiao conscripted, Liyang would need to supplement the food and wages for them. Of course, the two military advisers will grasp the scale of this kind of thing. The organizational structure will not exceed 300,000, and the number of Xu's army will fluctuate around 200,000;
If you want the Northern Liang Iron Cavalry to destroy Chu in one fell swoop, you can send Wu Su and his daughter and son back from Dantong Pass. When Wu Su returns to Xu Jiajun, when 300,000 Xu Jiajun will destroy Chu, Xu Xiao will do what he says!
This is the real reason why the 300,000 Xu Jiajun and the defenders of the Western Barrier have been in confrontation for three years. Xu Xiao was released in the first year of the confrontation. The reason why Beiliang has been reluctant to engage in a decisive battle with Da Chu is to let The emperor bowed his head. Xu Xiao wanted to let Zhao Li know what was wrong and what was right, what was fair and what was right and wrong. A case involving white clothes in the capital has become a thorn between the monarch and his ministers, a poisonous thorn that has grown in the flesh and cannot be picked out.
Zhao Li could not easily return Wu Su to Xu Xiao. Although Xu Xiao's character was well-known, the emperor never pinned his career on the character of his ministers. Before the Baiyi case happened, Zhao Li would not completely trust Xu Xiao. After the white-clothed case happened, it was even more impossible for Zhao Li to trust Xu Xiao.
Over time, Liyang's battle against Dachu dragged on, and it lasted for three years. The reason why things turned around in the third year was not because Liyang's logistics was overwhelmed. You must know that Liyang has now completely digested the four and a half Spring and Autumn Period countries. Gu Jiantang could clearly annex East Vietnam in one fell swoop, but he just held East Vietnam hostage. With one life, as long as Dongyue remains alive, Gu Jiantang's hundreds of thousands of Gu's elites will have every reason not to set foot on the Dachu battlefield. East Vietnam has not yet been completely destroyed, so in fact Liyang has only digested four and a half spring and autumn countries.
What really made the old emperor Zhao Li decide to release Wu Su was not because of logistics or trust in Xu Xiao's character, but because the boy who was regarded as a huge threat by the old emperor was a fool. Yes, the boy who was considered precious by Qin Tianjian, the second son of Xu Xiao who was massacred, turned out to be a fool who couldn't speak at the age of three.
I don't know if it was born like this, or if the white-clothed sword fairy had a fetal movement in Tai'an City when she was pregnant with Liujia, but she gave birth to a fool.
This matter was confirmed by both Qin Tianjian and Zhao Gou, the secret agency of the old emperor. This is a fool, and he will still be a fool even in ten years. The old emperor Zhao Li didn't know if he ever regretted it. Just because he was such a fool, he fell out with Xu Xiao, and the Zhao family fell out with the Xu family. The fact is that the old emperor regretted it more than once, and he backed down very much. He did not regret falling out with Xu Xiao, but regretting taking his own life. If it hadn't been for the White Clothes Case, the old emperor would have had at least thirty more years of hard work, but now everything has become a mirror image.
This time, the old emperor Zhao Li was very generous for once!
Wu Su was released, and Xu Xiao's two sons were released, the eldest son Xu Fengnian and the second son Xu Longxiang. As for the eldest daughter Xu Zhihu and the second daughter Xu Weixiong, as long as Xu Xiao takes Dachu, they can take them back at any time, and no one will stop them...
