Prince of Song Dynasty

Chapter 972 Ye Chen's Worries

As time went by, there were fewer and fewer Tubo cavalry running between several phalanxes, and soon some people began to turn around and withdraw from the battlefield.The rest of the war horses also slowed down. After running back and forth on the mountain for a long time, these war horses were also very tired.The drums in the first Xiangfu Kingdom army phalanx suddenly rang a few times, and shortly after the sound of the drums, a few drumbeats came from the two phalanxes behind.

After the drum beat.The firing of the crossbow on the battlefield stopped suddenly, and after a moment of silence, the Xiangfu army was full of drums. The pike infantry was shocked when they heard the sound, and gradually walked out of the formation under the command of the officer, standing upright. The guns pressed towards the Tubo cavalry, who were less than half left.

Now there are only 2000 Tubo cavalry left on the battlefield, and their horse speed has also slowed down.The infantry of the Xiangfu army marched in a tight horizontal formation like a wall, and soon surrounded the Tubo army remaining on the battlefield in some circles.These circles may be large or small, and the largest one contains hundreds of Tubo cavalry.Others have only ten people.

The Tubo cavalry in the small circle were quickly killed by the Xiangfu army who gathered from all around.The Tubo cavalry in the largest circle were still resisting, and their mounts were forced to retreat in small steps by the approaching wall of steel guns and blades.In the end, these hundreds of cavalry were driven into a group by two thousand spearmen from the Xiangfu Kingdom. Their horses were tightly packed together, and all of them were trying to ram backwards desperately, trying to avoid the spear points that stretched out in front of their eyes. .

During this process, every outer Tubo cavalry had to face at least eight or nine spears. No matter how hard they swung their sabers and spears, they would be easily parried by three or four spears, followed by four or five spears. The spear pierced the horse's belly.After being overturned to the ground by their dying mounts, most of these Tubo soldiers would not even have the chance to stand up and resist again.

What was even more deadly to the Tubo cavalry was that, behind the spearmen of the Xiangfu Army, there were still many fast crossbowmen shooting upwards, shooting the tall Tubo cavalry directly into hedgehogs through the crowd.

At the same time, the front line of the Xiangfu army slowly pushed down the mountain. When the spearmen of the Xiangfu army advanced to the intersection, the half-hearted Tubo cavalry who had hesitated to escape before found themselves in a trap up.These stragglers could not resist the spearmen of the Xiangfu Kingdom army coming in groups. After they were forced to the edge of the forest, they finally completely lost their fighting spirit. They threw down their horses and fled into the dense forest on foot.

After repelling this charge, the engineers of the Xiangfu Army began to further build simple fortifications. They felled some trees and sawed them into segments. Yang Yanqing planned to let the engineer battalion collect stones and wood to build a low parapet , in order to fight against the elite Tubo army that may appear at any time.

When Ma Lijun and Yang Yanqing were discussing the idea of ​​closing this field fortification, the army of Xiangfu Kingdom had already completed the post-war clean-up work, and all the wounded were sent to the medical camp behind for treatment.

A military judge came over to salute Yang Yanqing and reported: "To the deputy commander of the army, 81 people of our army were killed and 420 were injured in this battle. The initial estimate is to kill [-] five enemy troops."

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Xia Jing.

Under Ye Chen's abnormal system recovery, most of the injuries that would kill ordinary warriors and even first-class masters have now healed, and he has started to deal with government affairs again.This made Han Xizai, Ma Wentao, Li Junhao, Zhang Bo, Jia Xian, Xu Xuan and other ministers of the DPRK and China finally relieved of their worries for a month.

Now the Hexi Corridor has been taken except for Shazhou, and it has been firmly controlled under the governance of civil and military officials sent by the imperial court led by Duanmu Zhongren and Huang Dongqiu. It's not going very smoothly, but it's progressing steadily.

After Yang Jiye led [-] cavalry back to aid the Liao and Song defense lines, Song and Liao did not dare to make any changes.Now the only battlefield in Lanzhou, the battle with the Tubo people is also victorious. In particular, Shangguan Bingyun and Han Tao controlled the Hehuang Tubo Kingdom Zansila Zanpu, and publicized the Xiangfu Emperor Ye Chen among the Tubo people. As the Buddha's seated Dharma King, he successively wiped out the tribal troops loyal to Yingcheng Lin Buchi, and recruited and established [-] cavalry loyal to Zanpu Zanpu.It can be regarded as having preliminarily controlled the entire Hehuang Tubo Kingdom.

Now all that remains is to capture the [-] to [-] elite troops led by Yingcheng Lin Buchi, and then they can take advantage of the situation to annex the entire Hehuang Tubo Kingdom, allowing Xiangfu Kingdom to expand its territory on a large scale after Hexi.

These days, there are two things that really worry Ye Chen. One is that since June, the three-month battlefield has made Xiangfu Kingdom's hoarded grain and grass almost exhausted. With rapid growth, the court will also have a financial crisis.Therefore, the war with Yingcheng Linbuchi in Lanzhou cannot be dragged on any longer. According to Jia Xian's latest calculation results, food and grass can be supplied for at most half a month. Forcibly collecting food and grass in their hands, this is a scene that neither Ye Chen nor the court officials want to see.

Another thing that worries Ye Chen is the disappearance of Shui'er.Ye Chen knew that Shui'er's disappearance must be because someone told Shui'er the truth about the tragic death of Shui'er's father Liu Nan. The most important thing about the grace of passing on art is that Yu Daoxiang is the queen of Xiangfu Kingdom and Ye Chen's wife. Shui'er has always regarded Ye Chen as his brother and father.This matter must have caused Shui'er to be extremely conflicted, so he didn't want to go back to Xia Jing to face Ye Chen, and he didn't want to see Yu Daoxiang.

It's just that Ye Chen didn't expect that the secret report from Hu Sanguang said that Shui'er was first controlled by Lou Yanming and became the saint of Huanxi Cult, and now she was taken away by Cui Xi.Regardless of Song State Zhao Pu, Cao Bin, and Liao State Empress Dowager Xiao, there are four most feared figures in the world today: Lou Yanming, Cui Xi, Yu Feng, and Zhang Wumeng.Among the four, Lou Yanming and Zhang Wumeng are half-step innate powerhouses, not only their personal martial arts supernatural powers have faintly surpassed the scope of ordinary warriors, but the power and personal means in their hands will definitely become Ye Chen's confidantes.Although Yufeng and Cui Xi are only first-rate masters, their degree of difficulty and strength in their hands are faintly higher than that of Lou Yanming and Zhang Wumeng.This can be seen from the fact that Cui Xi hid in the court this time, murdered Yu Daoxiang with strange means of magic, and then used this to severely injure Ye Chen.

In addition, Ye Chen felt guilty for not telling Shui'er the truth about his father's death. Now that Shui'er was in crisis, Ye Chen couldn't sit still.

In the Palace of Government Affairs, Ye Chen tried his best to disregard the dissuasion of Han Xizai, Li Junhao and others, and prepared to go to Lanzhou in person. Huishuier, and by the way, try to kill Cui Xi and Lou Yanming who may still be near Lanzhou, so as to avoid future troubles.

Therefore, in the second year of Tianding, on August 25th, Ye Chen, under the protection of five thousand heavenly guards and one thousand dark guards, left Xiajing and marched to Lanzhou himself.

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On the plain to the east of Gaizhu City, the brilliance of the sun has dimmed. In the distant sky to the east, the orange and dark purple clouds seem to be within reach from the ground. Also stained a layer of dark red.

Deng Chongxuan stretched out his hand to caress the nearly exhausted war horse beside him, while looking at the Tubo army camp under Gaizhu City, his face was a bit unwilling.Since the last battle with Gwang Dorje's cavalry on the banks of the Yellow River, it has been cloudy and rainy for nearly ten days. Apart from small-scale conflicts and killings, the two sides have not engaged in large-scale battles.And the Tubo people tried to attack Gaizhu City in the rain under the restraint of the Suzaku Legion, and after they failed to attack Gaizhu City, they also stood still. A large number of fortifications such as vertical and horizontal ravines, horse rejection, and pits made the Tubo camp indestructible for a while, making it difficult for Deng Chongxuan and Ding Jiagang in Gaizhu City to steal the camp.Of course, it would not be impossible to force a strong attack with the power of gunpowder, but it would inevitably cause great damage to itself. Even if the infantry brigade of the Suzaku Army returned to Deng Chongxuan's command a few days ago, and its strength had increased to a certain extent, Deng Chongxuan still did not Dare to act rashly, after all, their military strength is only half of Gwang Dorje's.

These days, while Deng Chongxuan sent people to get in touch with Zhang Dawei of the Azure Dragon Army and Gao Wuyang of the special brigade, he was thinking of ways to deal with the Tibetans.It's a pity that the Qinglong Army and the special brigade have already sneaked to Wu Shengjun five hundred miles away.When Deng Chongxuan got the plans of the Azure Dragon Corps and the Special Forces from the Ministry of Security, although he was annoyed that Zhang Dawei didn't tell him in advance, he had to admit that what Zhang Dawei and Gao Wuyang did was indeed a bold and wonderful move.Because if this plan goes well, it is possible to keep all the [-] Tubo troops who will commit crimes in the future.

In the past few days, following the news sent by the Ministry of Security, it was learned that Zhang Dawei and Gao Wuyang had successfully captured Wu Shengjun, wiped out the Anduo tribe, and blocked the retreat of the Tubo people.Deng Chongxuan's heart was rather complicated. On the one hand, he was naturally overjoyed, but at the same time, he was also jealous and even impatient.

Because judging from the current situation, the Qinglong Army and the special brigade have surpassed their Suzaku Army in supporting Lanzhou against the Tibetans.And although their Suzaku Legion had a great victory with the Yellow River Beach Cavalry and killed more than 3000 enemies, they still lost 3000 people.But the Azure Dragon Legion and the special brigade did not kill less than them, and their own losses were much less than theirs, and the overall strategic significance was much more important than the battles fought by their Suzaku Legion.

(End of this chapter)