Please call me Your Majesty!

Chapter 264 The Real Main Force

"Your Highness is teaching me that I was too greedy for merit and too reckless, and almost made a big mistake." Zhao Wenguang said embarrassedly.

After all, it was his first time leading troops.

Although he has some talent, he still lacks experience.

After seeing the enemy retreat, they subconsciously wanted the defenders of Xueyuan Pass to rush forward and kill them.

As for whether they would be ambushed by the Northern Di cavalry.

Zhao Wenguang wasn't really worried.

The main general is dead, and it is impossible for the Beidi to have much desire to fight now.

Although they are said to be tens of thousands of people, in fact, they are no different from tens of thousands of pigs.

"Hurry up and replenish supplies and treat the wounded. The real war will soon begin." Chu Shizhao stared in the direction of the end of the earth, his tone even more solemn than when the war started before.

Just facing the Northern Di vanguard, this battle was extremely difficult.

It is easy to imagine what kind of difficulties they will face when the real main force arrives from behind.

Even so, Chu Shizhao had no intention of letting his own troops enter Xueyuan Pass for defense.

It’s not that he was reluctant to see his main force sacrificed.

When he used the [Emperor Development Plan] to simulate battles, he often sent his own troops into the battle.

But without exception, they couldn't hold on.

Take the Northern Di cavalry that just retreated for example.

Chu Shizhao seemed to be leading the Northern Di people by the nose.

The main general Murong Ze was played around by him.

In the end, he even died on the city wall of Xueyuan Pass.

It is no exaggeration to say that it was an extremely glorious battle.

But if we carefully count the war losses, we will know that the losses between the two sides are not too great.

It's about ten to fifteen.

But don't forget, this is a siege.

Under normal circumstances, the losses of the attacking side will be at least two or three times that of the defending side.

The ant-like siege phase, when losses were highest, should have been the most effective time to kill the enemy, but the Northern Di cavalry relied on their powerful strength to climb to the top of the city in a short period of time.

The defenders of Xueyuan Pass were forced into hand-to-hand combat.

The city wall is so small that even if the number of defenders doubles, the number who can actually participate in the battle will not be too many.

In fact, the best way to resolve the Xueyuan Pass crisis is to send an army to launch a surprise attack from behind or on the flanks of the Northern Di cavalry.

However, this method may work against other armies, but it is not effective against the Northern Di cavalry, which is composed entirely of cavalry.

For Chu Shizhao, the only good news was probably that Hengyi had finally relocated all the civilians inside and outside Xueyuan Pass.

Moreover, almost all of the most deeply hidden Dark Night Cult spies were dug out.

"You did a great job." Chu Shizhao praised: "After that, just send troops to escort these people to the rear."

"Your Highness, we are facing a powerful enemy now. Just send some people to escort those violent people, and the main force should stay to assist you in the battle." Hengyi suddenly became anxious.

Chu Shizhao had asked them to transport civilians before, and now he even wanted them to leave Xueyuan Pass.

When facing other people, Chu Shizhao could naturally force them to comply.

But Hengyi is his woman after all, and he can't hide everything from her.

Chu Shizhao quickly pulled her to a deserted place nearby and patiently explained: "The reason why I asked you to leave is not entirely to escort these people."

"You've also seen that Xueyuan Pass has been infiltrated by the Dark Night Cult like a sieve. The number of Dark Night Cult rebels lurking here is almost greater than the number of civilians in the city."

"Xueyuan Pass is like this, and Guyun Castle behind it may not be much better."

"Now, the news from Xueyuan Pass should be spreading soon."

"Those bastards from the Dark Night Cult are bound to stir up trouble in the rear."

Hengyi was so smart that he immediately understood Chu Shizhao's intention.

"Your Highness, what you mean is that we should lead our troops into Guyun Castle in the name of escorting the people, so as to guard against the Dark Night Cult spies there."

Chu Shizhao nodded seriously and said, "Hengyi, although I am confident that we can defend Xueyuan Pass, no one can guarantee success in a war."

"Once the war situation changes, Guyun Castle will be our most important retreat."

"If something unexpected happens there, we will most likely be blocked on the road by the Northern Di cavalry. At that time, there will be no way out except to fight to the death."

"So, I can only give this most important task to you."

The reason why Hengyi was asked to go was mainly because Hengyi was good at other aspects besides leading troops.

The most important thing is that with Hengyi's identity, he is able to suppress the officials of Guyun Castle.

No matter what those people think or who they belong to.

As long as he doesn't completely surrender to the Dark Night Cult, he will never dare to trip up Heng Yi.

After Hengyi left, Chu Shizhao took Huo Qinghuang and went to the Blood Feeding Machine without stopping.

Also at the same time.

It is about fifty miles away from Xueyuan Pass.

A knight holding a token rushed towards the camp of the Northern Di army at high speed.

Upon seeing this, the camp guard immediately raised his spear and shouted angrily: "Listen, people in front, this is the Northern Di camp, people coming, dismount immediately."

Upon seeing this, the knight took out a black token and shouted angrily: "I have urgent military information to report to the commander. Anyone who dares to defy me will die."

Seeing the dark token, the guard was immediately shocked: "Night Soul Token."

The guards blocking the camp gate immediately made way and quickly moved the barricades in front of the gate to the side.

The knight holding the Night Soul Order had no intention of slowing down and galloped into the camp.

Murong Daya, who was looking at a map in the camp, soon saw the man holding the Night Soul Order.

The knight dismounted in front of the central army tent, and without even taking a sip of water, he hurried into the central army tent.

He knelt on one knee and said breathlessly, "Reporting to the commander, our vanguard commander Murong Ze led his personal guards to attack the city because the siege was blocked. He died at the hands of Zhu Mingyuan, the defender of Xueyuan Pass, and Li Batian."

"The 30,000 cavalrymen of the vanguard are leaderless and have been defeated by the enemy. They are retreating in the direction of the main army."

"What did you say?" Murong Dayu stood up in disbelief.

It's not that he doesn't believe what the other person says.

Mainly, the news was too shocking to him.

Murong Ze has a total of 30,000 Northern Di cavalry under his command.

These are not ordinary Beidi cavalry.

They were all personally trained by the Dark Night Cult, taking the drugs they made for a long time and undergoing training by them.

They knew very well how powerful the Northern Di cavalry was now.

Although Murong Ze wasted a whole day at Xueyuan Pass, Murong Dayu was very dissatisfied with him.

After this battle, this guy will definitely not be treated lightly.

But he never thought that the Northern Di cavalry would suffer a major defeat at Xueyuan Pass.

Not only that, not only did they lose, but they also lost their main general.

Not to mention that they have the Dark Night Cult as their internal support, for them, capturing Xueyuan Pass is as easy as conquering other cities in the Great Zhou.

Even without the support of the Dark Night Cult, it shouldn't be too difficult to take it down. What was the result?
The army was defeated and the commander was killed?
Could it be that all the defenders of Xueyuan Pass are heavenly soldiers and generals?

After all, he is the commander of the army.

After the initial shock, Murong Dayu quickly calmed down and asked in a deep voice: "Tell me everything that happened from the time the vanguard arrived at Xueyuan Pass until the defeat. Tell me everything without missing a word."

"Someone, bring him a glass of water."

"Reporting to the commander, when we arrived at Xueyuan Pass yesterday, we found that the gate of Xueyuan Pass was closed..."

The messenger took the water handed to him by someone and drank it all up in gulps. He then breathed a sigh of relief and hurriedly told Murong Dayu what had happened.

The more Murong Dayu listened, the uglier his expression became, and his brows were almost twisted together.

"This smart-aleck fool." After hearing what the scout said, Murong Dayu couldn't help but curse.

In his opinion, none of the choices Murong Ze made since arriving at Xueyuan Pass was right.

They believed Zhu Mingyuan's lies and let the army wait at Xueyuan Pass for them to open the gate and surrender, which was a waste of time.

After being cheated for the first time, this guy refused to repent and was influenced by the other party's lies again and again.

This caused the Northern Di cavalry to lose the best opportunity to attack.

Even an idiot would know that the people at Xueyuan Pass must be taking this opportunity to prepare supplies for defending the city.

If he had attacked the city directly at the beginning, even if there would be some losses, they would definitely not be as great as they are now.

The most crucial thing is that this failure also had a bad impact on the morale of their Northern Di cavalry.

Originally, the Northern Di cavalry was invincible.

From the time the troops were dispatched until yesterday, no city in the Great Zhou had been able to withstand the iron cavalry of the Northern Di.

Now, this momentum has been completely dissipated by Murong Ze.

If Murong Ze had not died in the battle at Xueyuan Pass.

Murong Dayu now wished he could just have someone drag him out and behead him.

"You go down." Murong Dayu waved his hand and asked the messenger to retreat and rest.

Frowning in thought for a moment.

Murong Dayu ordered the entire army to break camp and head straight for Xueyuan Pass.

In any case, the first priority of the Northern Di cavalry now is to break through the Xueyuan Pass, a fortress in the north of the Great Zhou.

The desolate sound of the horn spread throughout the military camp, and the originally quiet Northern Di army soon became lively.

Although everyone was doing what they were supposed to do, few people spoke in the Northern Di Iron Cavalry camp. Just like the 30,000-strong vanguard, it was so quiet that it made people's scalps numb.

Shortly after the army set out.

They encountered the Northern Di cavalry who were retreating from the direction of Xueyuan Pass.

Murong Dayu immediately ordered people to take in these defeated soldiers and reorganize the army to set out with the main force.

The distance of fifty miles would take an ordinary army a whole day to reach Lucheng.

However, it took the Northern Di cavalry only two hours to reach Xueyuan Pass.

Under the city wall, densely packed corpses were still piled there.

After all, there was not enough time to prepare the city walls and transport various combat supplies.

Of course, there is no time to care about the corpses under the city wall.

At this time, all the Xueyuan Pass defenders who were working on the Xueyuan Pass city wall stopped and stared in the direction of the Beidi cavalry in amazement.

When the Northern Di's vanguard troops appeared before, they were shocked by the momentum of the Northern Di cavalry.

The cavalry, like a steel wave, can probably only be seen in nightmares.

But now they realize that compared with the real main force of Beidi.

The previous vanguard troops were basically just child's play.

The densely packed Northern Di cavalry almost occupied the entire land.

All I saw was darkness as far as the eye could see.

Apart from the Northern Di cavalry and the sky behind them, almost nothing could be seen.

Wei Bing swallowed hard.

"Can we really win?"

Fang Tang gritted his teeth and said, "There's nothing to be afraid of. It's just that there are more people."

"Yes... weren't they just chased away by us this morning?" He Yundong echoed.

Shen Dao clenched his sword tightly, with no expression on the surface, but in fact his hands were shaking slightly.

In fact, the others are not much better than them.

Only a heartless guy like Li Batian, not only did he not take the endless Beidi cavalry seriously, but laughed and said: "Great, now we don't have to worry about not having enough enemies to kill."

Zhao Wenguang rolled his eyes when he heard this.

Good guy, you still want to kill the enemy?

With so many Northern Di cavalrymen, even if one of them spitted, it would be enough to drown this guy a hundred times.

Different from Murongze.

Murong Dayu just glanced at the city wall indifferently and directly ordered an attack.

There was no hesitation, and no steps to persuade them to surrender.

The wall area of ​​Xueyuan Pass is not very large.

It is naturally impossible to fully deploy 100,000 people.

In addition to the siege troops, other Northern Di cavalry have begun to expand their camp based on the previous camp.

Obviously they are prepared for a long-term battle.

The 100,000 Northern Di cavalry suddenly became terrifying.

But when they really started the attack, the defenders of Xueyuan Pass suddenly discovered.

seem……

The enemy doesn't seem that powerful.

Before, Murong Ze had to urge his subordinates to attack because Murong Dayu gave him a deadline.

But now, the Northern Di people are officially attacking the city head-on.

The intensity is actually not as high as before.

After withstanding that kind of high-intensity battle, this kind of attack is not so difficult for the defenders to deal with.

Under such circumstances, Zhao Wenguang fully demonstrated his advantages.

He calmly arranged and commanded the troops, and relied on the originally designed defensive offensive step by step to repel the attacks of the Northern Di cavalry time and time again.

"Is this person among the guards of Xueyuan Pass?"

Murong Dayu, who saw all this from behind, asked doubtfully a man next to him who had his head covered with a cloak and seemed to be completely shrouded in darkness.

"He was just a small vanguard officer before, so it's reasonable that the commander didn't notice him."

"I guess it's because we killed almost all the guards of Xueyuan Pass, so we got promoted?"

"However, I am also very surprised that a vanguard officer who no one pays attention to can have such ability."

Murong Dayu snorted coldly: "You can even ignore such a talent. It seems that the intelligence of your Dark Night Cult is not as good as you boast."

(End of this chapter)