My younger brother Lü Fengxian

Chapter 228: Fighter Opportunity Appears
His injuries were so severe that even the Xianbei people, who were the perpetrators of the violence, felt sorry for him. Many Xianbei nobles, who were used to witnessing life and death, could not bear to look at his mutilated body and turned their heads away silently.

"Guo Yu, you are just a small county governor of the Han Kingdom, but I will give you one last chance!"

Tan Shihuai sat high on the throne of the Xianbei Great Khan, looking down at the prisoners in front of him.

"If you are willing to submit to the Xianbei, I can make you the King of the Northland. Not only Yanmen County, but also the entire Bingzhou will be divided into yours to rule after you defeat the Han army in the future."

"As long as you bow your head to the Xianbei king first."

After saying this, Tan Shihuai waited quietly for the man's answer.

"Ha ha ha ha……"

Unexpectedly, upon hearing this, the man burst into laughter, regardless of the fact that he was just a prisoner whose life and death were in the hands of others.

It was as if I had heard the most ridiculous thing in the world.

"Han Gou, what are you laughing at!"

Budugen was furious when he heard this, and stepped forward and whipped the captive, Guo Wei, leaving a new wound on his face.

Guo Yu's body suddenly arched in pain, and it took him a long time to recover.

There was no trace of fear on Budugen's face.

"You Xianbei people were just hunting dogs tamed by my Han people in the past. Now that all the wild animals on the grassland have been caught, you dogs have no food and have turned your attention to your masters."

"And you..."

"You are just an old dog who claims to be the king among rats. Do you want the Han people, who are your masters, to bow down at your feet and wag their tails to beg for mercy?"

"Ha ha ha ha……"

"This is truly the most ridiculous thing I, Guo Yu, have ever heard in my life!"

Guo Yu turned his head and looked at Tan Shihuai, his face full of a fearless look.

"I am the governor of Yanmen County in the northern border of the Han Dynasty. How can I betray my master to an old barbarian like you?"

"Pity……"

There was a flash of admiration in Tan Shihuai's eyes, and then he waved his hands around with a hint of regret.

"Before any major war, there must be a blood sacrifice."

"Since this person is stubborn and unrepentant, he deserves to be sacrificed."

"Drag him away and behead him!"

"Yes, sir!" The guards on both sides of Guo Yu were about to take him out of the tent.

"slow!"

Guo Wei suddenly asked, causing the two men to stop in surprise.

"You bastard, are you backing down when death is imminent?"

Upon hearing this, Budugen walked forward and put his whip against Guo Yu's chin, and asked jokingly.

"Humph!"

However, Guo Yu did not even look at Budugen, but looked at Tan Shihuai with a serious expression.

"My lord is in the south, so I can die facing south!"

When Guo Yu said this, everyone in the tent was moved.

“You…” Budugen couldn’t help but take a half step back in shock when he heard that.

Seeing this, Tan Shihuai couldn't help but sit up straighter and nodded slowly.

……

"Go and bring up that traitor who has forgotten his ancestors!"

Outside Jiuyuan City, in front of all the soldiers of the special forces camp temporarily set up by Lu Zhi, Lu Yi shouted loudly.

Su Shuang, who had been under strict guard since being captured by Lu Yi, was personally brought up by Gao Shun and Cheng Lian.

"Su Shuang!"

"For your own selfish desires, you have abandoned the interests of the country and joined the Hu people, committing countless evil deeds in the past six months."

"What else do you have to say?"

Although Su Shuang was a prisoner, Lu Yi did not kill him immediately, but kept him alive instead.

Apart from using some means to extract information about the trade routes, traveling merchants, and former members of the smuggling gangs they knew, they were not overly abused in their lives.

As a result, Su Shuang is now not only in good health, but even looks a little plump. However, he looks extremely haggard and has lost his former spirit.

Now that the war is approaching, it is a good opportunity to recycle the waste and consume it again.

"I only regret that I looked down on you and let you become so big!"

"If I were given another chance, I would never let you go!"

Even though he was a prisoner, Su Shuang still kept shouting and venting his last bit of madness.

"Pity……"

Lu Yi was naturally not afraid of the insults from a dying man and sneered.

"You don't have this chance!"

"This person is a Han Chinese, but he is devoted to a barbarian dog. I hate this kind of person who betrays his country the most."

"Our special forces battalion is newly established. Although it is only a temporary battalion, it has not yet fought a battle..."

Lu Yi no longer looked at Su Shuang who was still cursing. He waved his hand, and Cheng Lian immediately understood and stepped forward to remove his chin, and the noise stopped immediately.

"The decisive battle the day after tomorrow, the first battle we are waiting for is the final battle!"

"Before the war, it is a good time to kill this official."

"First, use his blood to sacrifice to the flag!"

"Secondly, it is also a way to pay tribute and comfort to the innocent Han people who died because of the Xianbei people!"

The soldiers of the Special Forces Camp all listened to Lu Yi's words silently.

Most of them are from Hebei.

Therefore, they felt deeply the pain of the Xianbei people's rampages over the past six months.

After hearing about Su Shuang's deeds of being an accomplice to the evil, everyone present hated him to the core.

"All traitors should die!"

"kill him!"

"It's like collecting some interest for our dead compatriots!"

The three thousand elite soldiers from the north who had been trained for a whole month were all filled with indignation.

When Su Shuang saw that death was imminent, he couldn't help but become terrified.

But Lu Yi would not give him any chance to resist.

Gao Shuncheng and Lian immediately carried out the execution personally, beheading him in front of the camp as he screamed!

"it is good!"

"Good kill!"

Not only the soldiers cheered with joy.

Even some of the Jiuyuan people who were watching from afar kept cheering loudly.

Seeing that the military and the people were willing to help, Lu Yi felt very satisfied.

He has been integrating and training the 3,000-strong cavalry battalion for many days. Today, they will leave Jiuyuan and secretly look for a hiding place to hide, waiting for the big battle to strike the enemy by surprise.

Because of Su Shuang, Lu Yi strengthened the counter-espionage management in Jiuyuan and the army.

Their information was so secretive that the Xianbei people had no idea that a 3,000-man ace cavalry was lurking in the dark, eyeing them covetously.

……

Three days passed by in a flash.

It was said to be a decisive battle between Han and Xian.

However, the two sides have more than 300,000 soldiers in total, so it is impossible to throw them all in at once.

When two armies fight, it can be a decisive battle.

It was destined to start with a test. The land under the feet of the Han army was their homeland, so naturally they could not give in.

The Xianbei people, however, coveted the grasslands of Hebei and were also unwilling to withdraw from the Central Plains.

The retreat routes of both sides have been cut off.

Therefore, they all had a tacit understanding and took turns to send troops to the battlefield.

Select the generals from the front of the battle.

Send them out battalion by battalion.

The two sides fought from early morning till dusk.

The two sides fought back and forth, with each winning and losing, but the overall casualties were kept within a controllable range.

Once a battalion is defeated in battle, it will be promptly supported or withdrawn by the commander.

We will not allow the failure of one unit or one battalion to spread to the entire army.

Because whether it was Lu Zhi, Zhu Jun, Huangfu Song from the Han army or Tan Shihuai, Ke Bineng, Budugen and others from the Xianbei people, they all understood that once mass panic occurred, the speed of its spread would be faster than anyone could imagine.

The idiom "a defeat like a landslide" is more of a description than a metaphor.

"It seems that we can't defeat the Han army today!"

Inside the Xianbei king's tent, Budugen felt depressed as he watched the stalemate in the battle.

"Why so anxious?"

After Tan Shihuai coughed lightly, he began to scold in a reproachful manner.

But when he raised his fist that was covering his mouth, he suddenly found a bright red color on his palm. This made Tan Shihuai, who had looked indifferent at the death and injury of nearly ten thousand soldiers, become solemn.

"time……"

“Is it too late…?”

Kobe's face was even more livid.

Because most of the people sent by Tan Shihuai today were his subordinates.

His losses from today's melee alone are close to the total he suffered in the past six months since entering the country.

"Is the Khan draining my strength?"

Kobe glanced angrily at Budugen, whose subordinates were almost unharmed, and immediately keenly realized Tan Shihuai's intention.

"Logically speaking, even if the Khan wanted to support his descendants, he couldn't be so blatant. Isn't he afraid of forcing us Western Xianbei to rebel?"

"Now the Khan is so anxious to deal with it, could it be...?"

Thinking of this, Kobe secretly checked Tan Shihuai's expression, and sure enough, he saw an unusual blush on Tan Shihuai's solemn face.

This is definitely not a healthy complexion!
……

On the other side, inside the Han army tent, the atmosphere was also very solemn.

"Alas! What a pity!"

"It seems that we won't be able to compete with the Xianbei people in a short time!"

Inside the Han army camp, Zhu Jun was worried.

He and the other two generals were indebted to the emperor. If they lost this battle, not only would they fail to live up to the emperor's expectations, they would also be unable to explain to the people of Hebei and would become historical sinners.

"The two armies are now in a stalemate, but according to reports from spies, the Xianbei are running low on food and fodder and can't hold out for much longer."

"As long as we can hold out through July, if the Xianbei cannot win in early August, they will surely collapse due to lack of food!"

However, although Lu Zhi on the side also felt heavy in his heart, his expression was slightly better than the other two whose brows were almost frowned.

Because in his heart, he still has expectations for an ace force.

Only a few people knew about the existence of Lu Yi's special forces camp. At the moment, there were other generals in the account. For the sake of confidentiality, Lu Zhi did not intend to make it public, so he encouraged everyone by saying that the Xianbei people were short of food.

"But today, the Xianbei's attack was extremely fierce, as if they were fighting for their lives. Several tribes have been crippled, and the casualties are probably no less than 10,000."

"Our Han army struggled to hold on, but suffered thousands of casualties."

"The Xianbei people now have at least 200,000 soldiers."

"But the number of our Han army is far less than that of the Xianbei people."

"If the next few days are filled with bloody battles like this, I'm afraid we won't be able to hold out until August, and our hundreds of thousands of assets will probably be gone!"

Huangfu Song also looked worried when he heard this.

Large-scale troop operations can affect the entire body if one move is made.

If the Xianbei people continued to launch such a fierce offensive, the morale of the Han army would be severely damaged.

They could not hold out until the day when the Xianbei people ran out of food.

"Do it all at once, second time tired, third time exhausted."

Lu Zhi immediately comforted her.

"Tan Shihuai is so disregarding the casualties of his men and insisting on a strong attack that he will not be able to hold out for long. Even if he is ruthless enough to consume his own wealth, the tribal leaders who regard the tribal soldiers as their own private property will not sit idly by and watch Tan Shihuai so brutally send his own soldiers to their deaths."

"That makes sense. Let's hold on for two more days and see how things turn out!"

Lu Zhi's analysis was very correct. Upon hearing this, Zhu Jun and Huangfu Song could only suppress their worries.

All three of them are famous generals of the time, and their command of today's battle is already of a very high standard.

However, Tan Shihuai on the opposite side is also a heroic leader who has unified the entire grassland through his life-long military service. His ability in commanding troops is no less than those three, making him an extremely tough opponent.

Both sides have almost maxed out their commanders, and overall, if divided by combat effectiveness, they are roughly equal.

Moreover, under the terrifying scale of a battle involving hundreds of thousands of people, some trivial tricks can hardly play any role.

Under absolute power, all conspiracies are just decorations.

Now that the two sides have reached a stalemate, they can only wait for the other side to make a mistake.

As long as there is the slightest mistake, it will be immediately captured by the opponent, and used as a breakthrough point, and pursued relentlessly until the flaw is turned into an advantage, and then the advantage is turned into a winning advantage.

On the first day, both sides fought for a whole day, resulting in heavy casualties on both sides.

Starting from the second day, the intensity decreased slightly, but it was still a fierce battle for a whole day.

Fortunately, both sides had strong financial resources, and each unit took turns to fight, so that even after a day of fighting, most of the troops still retained their combat effectiveness.

This continued on the third day, the fourth day, the fifth day, and all the way to the seventh day.

Over the past seven days, the Han army has suffered heavy casualties, with more than 10,000 casualties.

Lu Zhi, Zhu Jun and Huangfu Song, under tremendous pressure, struggled to resist the Xianbei people's attack, which seemed to disregard casualties.

The Han army suffered heavy casualties, while the Xianbei, who had been actively attacking, were more victorious.

The Xianbei people suffered as many as 30,000 casualties, most of whom were from the western Xianbei tribe under the command of Ke Bineng.

Such a deliberate order has reached the point where anyone with a discerning eye can see it.

Seeing his power shrinking rapidly day by day, Kobe felt like his heart was bleeding.

What’s more, the more crucial thing is that Tan Shihuai’s physical abnormalities are becoming more and more obvious.

As the war became more and more stalemated, Tan Shihuai's physical condition deteriorated.

Today, he actually vomited blood in public while discussing something with everyone in the king's tent.

Although Tan Shihuai used the excuse of an old stomach problem, how could a stomach problem cause so much bleeding?
The Xianbei high-ranking officials, who had been united at first, suddenly developed several deep rifts because of Tan Shihuai's ruthless and iron-blooded orders and his physical condition.

For a moment, the Xianbei people were in chaos!

Even Kobineng, who had always respected Tan Shihuai, began to have inappropriate thoughts.

To be honest, it is possible that he had no idea about Tan Shihuai's position as the Great Chanyu.

If Tan Shihuai were still alive, he would certainly be willing to submit to him.

But if Tan Shihuai is not there, and his successor is a mediocre person like Budugen.

Don't blame Kirby then.

The instability among the Xianbei people was immediately reflected in their combat effectiveness.

Tan Shihuai's vomiting of blood was immediately reported to Lu Zhi and the other two by the spies.

The three battle-hardened men immediately realized that the opportunity for battle that they had been waiting for for many days might have arrived!
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(End of this chapter)