Late at night on August 27th, Ulan Grassland
Under the cover of the dark night and howling wind, tens of thousands of elite cavalry walked into a hidden mountain ridge...
Although these soldiers started marching in the morning and walked seventy or eighty miles a day, each of them was physically exhausted. However, under the orders of the leader, they were still well-trained, setting up camps, deploying sentries, and taking precautions in an orderly manner. All possible accidents!
And the reason why they can do this is because they are the most elite tiger divisions in the Kipchak Khanate!
At this time, in the center of the valley, Kipchak Great Khan Esdogan was sitting on a stone, feeling the warmth of the bonfire. His subordinates on the side also handed over the broth that had just been cooked.
After the failure of the last march south, Esdogan's prestige not only fell to the bottom, but also encountered a crisis of confidence within the Kipchak Khanate. Many people no longer supported him, and many people even asked him to give up the Khanate responsible for the defeat. Bit!
But fortunately, at the most critical moment, the Tiger Master still stood on his side, and Esdogan condescended to go to Asu, another elder of the Khanate. After spending a huge amount of money, he After a price, the reconciliation with Asu was finally able to temporarily stabilize the Kipchak Khanate!
Although he temporarily stabilized his position, Esdogan still did not relax at all. He knew that the losses in this defeat were too great. Half of the wealth accumulated by the Kipchak Khanate in more than ten years was lost. This time This defeat may take the Kipchak Khanate decades to recover...
And as the person primarily responsible for this defeat, if he hadn't been the Great Khan, and if he hadn't had the support of the Tiger Master, then he, Esdogan, would have had his head chopped off by the angry tribesmen!
But even so, as a great khan, it would be difficult for him to restore his pre-war reputation. As for the khanate established by the nomads, if the leader of the khanate does not have strong enough power and prestige, then the various tribes in the khanate will inevitably become alienated. Eventually it will lead to division!
And this is what Esdogan is worried about. He cannot watch helplessly as the Khanate founded by his father Huodu falls into decline in his hands!
Therefore, after stabilizing the position of Khan, Esdogan began to consider how to restore his prestige and let all forces within the Khanate tightly unite around him.
However, what makes Estogan helpless is that the impact of this battle is too great. Although he is still the Great Khan, some people within the Khanate have already distanced themselves from him, and some people are beginning to not take his words seriously. , I no longer had any respect for him in my heart, and what he told me was also violated!
If this happened before going south, Esdogan would not talk nonsense at all, and would directly order these people to be cut into pieces, and all their families to be demoted as slaves, so that everyone could see the price of offending him. ··························
However, today is different from the past. Although it has only been a few months, Esdogan is painfully aware that he is no longer the Kipchak Khan he once was!
If he still does what he did before, then the temporary peace within the Khanate will be broken, and the flames of civil war will be ignited on the Kipchak grassland!
So for the sake of the peace of the Khanate, Esdogan kept the matter in mind, swallowed the anger in his heart back into his stomach, and began to learn to swallow his anger and tolerate what ordinary people cannot tolerate!
Esdogan had never regretted his decision to go south before. He was just annoyed that he did not do well enough, but now at this moment he began to regret his decision to go south against all odds!
Thinking of this, Esdogan's heart was filled with bitterness. At that time, he was so high-spirited that he would "invite" Marshal Ye back to the Khanate during this trip south, so that Ye Mingsheng could hunt the grasslands in the north!
However, he never expected that not only did he not "invite" Ye Mingsheng to come over, he would instead be put in such a situation. If he had not made this choice and did not want to interfere with the situation in the Central Plains, then he might still be the leader of the Khanate today. The Khan who said it all and no one was offended!
Estogan can only sigh about this, there is no such thing in this world.
There are regret medicines that can be taken, but if he can really start over, he will most likely continue to choose this path, and then avoid the mistakes he made before, and try his best to complete his goal of making Ye Mingsheng the Northern Hunting Grassland... ·····················
Just when Esdogan wanted to lie dormant for a while and silently lick his wounds like a wild beast, Esdogan received a letter that surprised him seven days ago!
The person who wrote him this letter was his mortal enemy, and in the letter, this person provided him with a crazy plan!
Estogan was shocked by this plan. He knew what it meant, so despite the high risk, Estogan's gambling instinct was still stimulated by this plan. He felt the opportunity and victory from this plan. !
Once he completes this plan, he who wins will definitely win respect within the Khanate again, and what he loses on the battlefield will definitely be won back on the battlefield!
And if you want to succeed, how can you not take some risks?
So after Estogan thought carefully, he came and brought the last elite tiger division of the Kipchak Khanate. There were three tiger divisions in the Kipchak Khanate. Last time Estogan went south, he took away one of them. Two of them, and the remaining Tiger Division stayed in the capital city of Laisa.
When the Luobei soldiers invaded the Western Elonqen Grassland, due to the insufficient strength of the Qincha Khanate, the Tiger Division who stayed in the capital Laisa also dispatched part of it to the Western Elonqen Grassland to resist the Luobei people.
However, compared to the two Tiger Divisions that were crippled by the Fengwu Army during the war going south, the main force of the Tiger Division that stayed behind was relatively intact... ·············
Therefore, this Tiger Division became Estogan's choice for this adventure. Because of the failure of the previous raid on the Fengwu Army, Estogan realized that there was a secret operation of the Fengwu Army lurking in Kipchak. Inside the Khanate, and it is likely that there are more than one detailed work of these Fengwu troops!
Originally, Esdogan planned to start clearing out these details immediately after returning to the Khanate. However, because this defeat had a great impact on the internal situation of the Kipchak Khanate, Esdogan could only clear out the details. Put the matter aside first, try to stabilize the internal situation of the Khanate and protect your own position!
And after Esdo stabilized his position, when he wanted to advance the detailed work of eliminating the internal female cadres, the progress was not smooth. He only dug up some insignificant small fish and not a single big fish!
The emergence of the current opportunity also forced Esdogan to postpone his plan to eliminate internal female agents. In order to avoid attracting attention and prevent the news from leaking, Esdogan began to mobilize troops in batches in the name of hunting.
Esdogan is very aware of the consequences of failure this time, and he is not willing to endure the humiliation and live in eternity!
Therefore, Esdogan is already prepared to succeed or die in this operation. If he is defeated, he will not live in an ignoble way. He will die on the battlefield like a Kipchak warrior... ···············
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Jingchu, Tanzhou
The huge city gate slowly opened, and tens of thousands of Zhennan troops slowly walked out of the city gate with confusion about their future. Surrounded by everyone, Xu Zhaojie looked at the city gate with a complicated expression.
It was expected that more than a month ago he annihilated the Fifth Army and achieved a great victory. He was so brilliant when he captured Tanzhou, but in less than a month he was in this situation!
After reluctantly watching Tanzhou for the last time, Xu Zhaojie decisively turned around and led his troops southward in the next second. Xu Zhaojie hoped that this would not be the last time he appeared in Tanzhou, but unfortunately Xu Zhaojie did not even know whether he would be there in a few days. Still alive.
The situation of Zhennan Army leaving the city was immediately noticed by Song Xiang, the scout commander of the First Division who was observing with a telescope outside Tanzhou City. Song Xiang immediately ordered to his men:
"You go back and tell the general that the Zhennan army has marched south in full force, carrying a lot of luggage and
With all the baggage, it is estimated that the journey will not exceed sixty miles in one day! "
"yes!"
As people were sent out to report the news, Song Xiang and the others continued to follow the Zhennan Army, carefully observing the movements of Xu Zhaojie's troops.
Five hours later, General Ma Zhongjun of the First Division, who was already on the front line, also received a report from the scouts.
Ma Zhongjun also showed excitement after receiving the news. This was the opportunity he had been waiting for. If Xu Zhaojie and more than 30,000 people were guarding the city, he might not have the opportunity to annihilate them, but if they were fighting outside the city, even though they were absolutely outnumbered, At a disadvantage, Ma Zhongjun is 100% confident in victory...
Thinking about the news reported by the scouts in his mind, Ma Zhongjun's eyes quickly locked on the coordinates of a place called Wuyangling on the sand table, and his eyes became profound!
After learning that the Zhennan Army was defeated in Anqing, Ma Zhongjun had already concluded that Xu Zhaojie would withdraw his troops, so he led his troops to leave Hanyang in advance, thinking that as long as Xu Zhaojie led his troops to leave Tanzhou, he would immediately lead his troops to catch up. Have a blast!
And this Wuyangling is the place where Ma Zhongjun expected the two sides to fight. This is where he will lead his troops to catch up with Xu Zhaojie's troops. Most of everything currently is going according to Ma Zhongjun's expectations!
Only the fact that Xu Zhaojie carried a lot of luggage and luggage was beyond Ma Zhongjun's expectation, and Ma Zhongjun was a little confused as to why Xu Zhaojie did this.
Logically speaking, Xu Zhaojie, who knew that his hometown was about to be destroyed after the Battle of Anqing, was an ant on the hot pot and wished he could fly back to Shouchun with wings, so in order to return as soon as possible, he should give up his baggage and supplies. Only in this way could he It is possible to travel more than eighty miles a day and get back to Shouchun in seven days!
But now he was on his way with his luggage and supplies. Was he very confident in Shouchun's defense, or was he playing some trick?
Thinking of this, Ma Zhongjun couldn't help but think of how cautious and fearful Ye Pengchao was towards Xu Zhaojie during his argument with Ye Pengchao a few days ago... ·
Although Ma Zhongjun was very disapproving at the time, saying that Ye Pengchao was trying to make others ambitious and destroy his own prestige, Ma Zhongjun did not dare to look down on Xu Zhaojie in his heart!
Just when Ma Zhongjun was thinking about whether there was any fraud, his deputy general Guan Fei said loudly:
"General, brothers are ready to go. Xu Zhaojie is running very fast. If we delay him, we may let Xu Zhaojie escape!"
Guan Fei's words also disrupted Ma Zhongjun's thoughts. He raised his head and looked around at his subordinates in the camp. He saw that everyone in the camp was looking at him expectantly.
Obviously everyone at this time is gearing up and can't wait for Ma Zhongjun's order!
Ma Zhongjun is also very clear about the wishes of the soldiers. Their first division is known as the main force of the Fengwu Army and the ace among aces. It enters the pass to defeat Youyan, attacks Hebei, Henan, Qilu, and even the following battle of Huainan. Their first division is all the vanguard of the Fengwu Army charging at the front!
However, their first division has seemed a bit quiet recently. Stationed in Kangyin, they have not achieved much results for a long time!
The Second Division and the Third Division, both of which were the ace units of the Fengwu Army, had made countless meritorious deeds in the Western Expedition. For a time, the limelight actually overshadowed their First Division. If it had been other times, it would have been fine. And now there is a rumor in the Fengwu Army that the commander-in-chief will soon start to be knighted...
These days, although everyone talks about saving the common people, saving the people from fire and water, and the Qing emperor supporting the court, in fact everyone is thinking about business, tying their heads to their belts, and wallowing in mountains of corpses and seas of blood. After all, isn't it still the words "prosperity and wealth"?
As the soldiers of the First Division who claim to be the best in the Fengwu Army, they are naturally not willing to fall behind others, so they all want to kill Xu Zhaojie, the old enemy of the Fengwu Army, and accumulate enough merits for themselves so that they can be better. The better you climb up, the more rewards you will receive!
Thinking of this, Ma Zhongjun didn't think too much and just waved his hand and said:
"Action! This time our First Division will cut off Xu Zhaojie's head and present it to the commander-in-chief, so that our colleagues in the army know that the swords of our First Division are not rusty yet!"
Seeing that Ma Zhongjun finally issued the order, the generals of the first division in the camp became excited and started shouting.
"Don't worry, General. I won't let Xu Zhaojie escape. The wooden box containing his head has been prepared!"
"The defeated remnants of the Zhennan Army are the merits of our First Division. Bastards like the Second and Third Divisions, don't even think about keeping pace with our First Division in this life..." ········》
