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Chapter 116 The Northern King is About to Turn the World Upside Down!

Upon seeing the black figure in the distance, Li Feng frowned and shouted again, "All troops, prepare for battle!"

Those were the Northern King's cavalry just now; surely they're not the Northern King's cavalry anymore!

Therefore, Lin Xiuming believed that it was highly likely that the barbarian army had come to seek revenge.

However, just as the soldiers were on high alert and ready for battle, Li Feng spoke up, "General Lin, don't be nervous, these are also the prince's cavalry!"

Upon hearing this, Lin Xiuming and Zhou Yu were taken aback.

How is that possible?

It's already unbelievable that such a poor place as Beijun could support five thousand heavy cavalry. Now Li Feng is telling them that the King of Bei has another cavalry force!

Just as Lin Xiuming felt his worldview was about to be overturned, Wenren Lie's cavalry arrived in front of them.

This time, the cavalry formation led by Wenren Lie was even more impressive, because this time there were more than five thousand cavalrymen.

Upon seeing such a massive heavy cavalry force, Lin Xiuming, Zhou Yu, and the imperial army's 70,000 soldiers all froze in place.

As the heavily armored cavalry force of tens of thousands approached, the imperial soldiers instinctively gripped their weapons tighter.

How intimidating are heavily armored cavalry?

To put it another way, in the history of the Great Xia Dynasty, there was a record of three thousand heavily armored cavalry defeating one hundred thousand peasant soldiers, and they were even chasing and hacking away at them.

The soldiers' fear of heavy cavalry was ingrained in their very bones, especially on flat ground like this.

When defending a city, even the most powerful heavy cavalry is hard to use effectively, but it's a different story when the two armies are facing off.

Heavy cavalry charges can quickly break through infantry formations, and once the infantry formations are disrupted, their morale will plummet.

In battles between two armies, morale is extremely important, especially in hand-to-hand combat, where the brave prevail when forces meet on a narrow path.

Lin Xiuming stared in disbelief at the 10,000 heavily armored cavalrymen before him. As a general, he could roughly estimate the number of soldiers in a square formation.

Even though Li Feng didn't tell him how many heavy cavalrymen there were, Lin Xiuming could roughly estimate that there were at least 20,000 of them.

If we include the heavy cavalry that just left, the Northern Commandery now has nearly 30,000 heavy cavalry!

This……

How did Beijun support its 30,000 heavily armored cavalry?

How much silver would that require?

Lin Xiuming knew that the Northern Prince's Mansion was selling soaps and perfumes, and he knew that these businesses were profitable, but no matter how profitable they were, it was impossible to build such a large heavy cavalry force so quickly, right?

The entire Great Xia Dynasty only had 20,000 heavy armored cavalry!

As a result, Beijun alone had nearly 30,000 heavy cavalry!

If you say that the Northern King has no ulterior motives, who would believe that?

It is likely that as soon as news of the events in Beijun reached the imperial court, the court would immediately station troops in the fiefdom of Prince Qi to prevent the Northern King from advancing south, or it would immediately bring the Northern King's wives, concubines, and children from Anping City to the capital to be kept as hostages and monitored.

The Northern King's heavy cavalry was far more intimidating than the barbarian army of 300,000.

The 300,000 barbarians marched south, and it seems that at most they will only occupy the Northern Commandery. Perhaps they have reached some kind of agreement with certain noble families or princes in private, and they will not directly attack the core territory of the Great Xia.

But if the Northern King's tens of thousands of heavily armored cavalry were to march south, his target would probably not be just one prefecture, but the entire Great Xia!

As the eighth prince, Zhou Yu felt a cold sweat break out on his brow. He felt like he had entered a den of dragons and tigers.

He discovered the Northern King's secret today; could he be unable to leave the Northern Prefecture?

At this moment, a soldier standing next to Lin Xiuming suddenly stammered, "General...General, you...you look over there! So many...so many barbarian soldiers!"

Lin Xiuming quickly looked up into the distance.

At this moment, they saw barbarian soldiers with their hands bound being escorted towards them in groups by soldiers from the North County.

Looking out, it seems to stretch on and on.

At this moment, people remembered the battle results they had heard from the messenger in Yancheng.

Two hundred thousand barbarians were slaughtered...

100,000 barbarian soldiers captured...

This……

Could it be...?

it is true?

Good heavens!

What a victory!

North County is about to turn upside down!

No, it should be said that the Northern King is about to turn the world upside down!

Since the founding of the Great Xia Dynasty, there has never been such a victory in foreign wars. In the largest battle they fought against the Chen Kingdom, the Chen Kingdom only had 200,000 soldiers!

Moreover, the barbarians were not soldiers of the Chen Kingdom!

The barbarians are even more ferocious in battle!

In the wars between the Great Xia and the barbarians, the barbarians were basically the attackers, while the Great Xia was only the defender, and the Great Xia suffered heavy losses every time.

The heavy losses were bad enough, but every time a war ended and it looked like the Great Xia was about to launch a counterattack, the barbarians would just pack up their troops and leave, leaving the Great Xia army with no chance to fight back.

Now, North County has not only defeated the barbarian army of 300,000, but has even captured 100,000 barbarian soldiers!

Once this news reaches the imperial court, the capital will likely undergo a dramatic change!

At this moment, the 70,000 soldiers of the imperial court dared not breathe, all staring at the barbarian prisoners being escorted.

The 100,000 barbarian prisoners took a full half hour to walk past them. Of course, this was mainly because the soldiers of the Northern Commandery separated them during the escort to prevent them from causing trouble, which wasted some time.

Watching the soldiers walk for half an hour before finally passing them, Lin Xiuming and the imperial army's 70,000 soldiers realized that the battle results they had heard about in the city were true!

As people of Great Xia, they should have felt joy.

After all, this was the greatest victory ever achieved in the war against the barbarians.

But from the general to the captain, and down to the soldiers, no one smiled.

Just as Lin Xiuming and the imperial soldiers were still in a daze, the sound of rapid hoofbeats came again from afar.

Then I saw another row of dark figures approaching.

Lin Xiuming was completely numb.

Tens of thousands of heavily armored cavalry again!!!

Where did North County get so many heavy cavalry?

What is the Northern King trying to do?!

Rebellion?

According to Lin Xiuming's rough estimate, Beijun has at least 50,000 heavy cavalry. With these 50,000 heavy cavalry, plus the 100,000 slave soldiers captured by Beijun, and then Beijun recruiting some ordinary soldiers, Beijun will have the strength to attack any dynasty.

Currently, any dynasty can mobilize at most around one million soldiers, but this figure is largely inflated.

The number of soldiers available for combat is definitely less than a million, and the soldiers in North County are all real soldiers, especially these barbarian slave soldiers, who are perfect cannon fodder.

At this moment, only three words came to Lin Xiuming's mind—write memorials!

I have to write the report tonight!

The power in Beijun is too great and there is a risk of it getting out of control. The imperial court must be informed of what is happening in Beijun as soon as possible.

Of course, the imperial court also needed to know about the results of the battle in Beijun.

Therefore, Lin Xiuming would take advantage of the opportunity to deliver the battle results and use the Red Silk Messenger to report the events that occurred in Beijun to the imperial court.

As for whether the Northern King will release their Red Silk Messenger back to the court, that's hard to say.

The Northern King had always pretended to be useless, but suddenly he made a name for himself and stopped pretending.

What does this tell us?

This shows that others have become powerful enough that they no longer need to pretend; intercepting the imperial messengers is a piece of cake for them.

Lin Xiuming even suspected that the Northern King might take this opportunity to cooperate with the Chu family and then directly seize power.

(End of this chapter)