"Report! Sir, the Jiannu striker has arrived in Jinghai"

"Report! Sir, all Jiannu brigades have passed Cangzhou"

"Report! Sir, urgent military information, Jiannu began to besiege Jinghai County."

"Report! Lord Lu Xiangsheng led the Tianxiong Army's five thousand infantry and cavalry, Zhou Yuji/Huang Degong 5,000 cavalry,

Li Huajing's three thousand infantry cavalry have already left Cangzhou City and followed Jiannu Brigade slowly.”

"Oh? Can Jiannu fight back?"

"No, General Zhou Yuji used two thousand elite cavalry to launch a tentative attack on the Tatar slave cavalry that had been cut off from Jiannu and defeated him. The Tatar slaves left more than 300 corpses and ran away. General Zhou rescued more than 3,000 people!"

"Okay! Great!" Everything was as usual, everything was as he expected. Sun Chuanting walked around the governor's yamen excitedly. He suddenly saw Nikan beside him with a worried look on his face and couldn't help but smile: "Xiurong, it would be fine if Jiannu had only a military force, but I could only retreat. Now they are carrying so many Dingkou, cattle, sheep, vehicles, and how can they take care of them? This is a good opportunity for us to make achievements!"

Nikan nodded. He had not found any flaws in the enemy yet. Perhaps they were really blinded by unprecedented seizure?

"When will we set out to rescue Jinghai County?"

"This", Sun Chuanting stroked the long beard under his jaw, "From you to see it?"

"Now there are 15,000 people surrounding Jinghai County. With Jiannu's combat power, he should have conquered the city long ago. There are only 5,000 people from Wang Pu in the city."

"Haha," Sun Chuanting smiled, "No matter how strong Jiannu is, he is also a flesh and blood body. The military strategists say, "If you have more than twice, you will be able to attack him, and if you have more than ten, you will be able to surround him." Although Jinghai County is a small city, it is a city after all, and it is still a brick city. Jiannu has stronger combat power, so he doesn't have to surround him, but he must always do five times."

Nikan shook his head, "The last time the Great Chief Emperor Taiji went south, he also broke some small cities. They were at most two to one, most of them one to one. As far as I know, sometimes they even dared to attack the city of five thousand people with just three thousand people."

"Otherwise," Sun Chuanting interrupted him, "I also understand that it was caused by the fear of the city's guards and escape first. If Jiannu had a little loyalty and patriotism, if he wanted to attack the city with a hard bridge and a hard horse, he would never succeed easily!"

"What's more," Sun Chuanting was already immersed in the illusion of defeating Jiannu on the battlefield from more than 100 miles to Cangzhou. His face inevitably showed a bit of lust. "Wang Pu, Wang Zongzhen, was born in a general, and has been loyal to the emperor and patriotism for generations. He is not only hereditary, but also a martial artist, and is also brave and unstoppable."

"If he could defend for a few days, he would have to say nothing else, and he would have greatly defeated the spirit of the slaves. At that time, we would be angry under the strong city and our army would attack again. Even if we could not defeat them, we would be able to leave them behind and flee in a hurry."

"Then what you mean is to let more Jiannu gather under Jinghai County?"

"Well, wait a few more days"

...

Jinghai.

Wang Pu in the city also looked gloomy.

After he arrived in Jinghai, a large merchant in the city immediately offered one of his concubines. When Jiannu was besieging the city, he took three thousand cavalry out of the city and attacked them tentatively. As a result, Jiannu retreated. He captured dozens of heads and left.

"Jiannu? How come the Xuanda? The military generals in Liaodong beat them like gods? I think that's all that."

Thinking of Nikan, who was young and commander of the Dusi, had a confrontation in his heart.

Xingji County, about fifty miles north of Cangzhou, Lu Xiangsheng's army stopped after approaching this place, because Qing County in front was the camp of the Jiannu Guard Army. According to the detective cavalry, there were at least tens of thousands of elite cavalry there!

Lu Xiangsheng did not enter Xingji County to station, and more than 10,000 people could not station, but instead set up a camp in the north of Xingji County.

In a large tent, a middle-aged civil servant in his thirties was walking around inside. He was tall and thin, wearing a third-rank civil servant robe with a mountain armor on his outside, and his wide cuffs were also rolled up in the cowhide wrist guard. His thin hands did not look like those of a civil servant who carried a pen and wrote, but rather were from the hands of a military officer who had been practicing for many years.

A big sword stood at a corner of the tent, about one meter long, with a blade like an elephant trunk. This long sword was usually used in the Ming army for demonstration or as a ceremonial guard, but unexpectedly it was Lu Xiangsheng's weapon.

To dance such weapons, you must have amazing strength. The tall and thin civil servant in front of you doesn’t look like it no matter how you look at it.

This person is Lu Xiangsheng. After the defeat in Yanzhou, his position has been reduced. Now he can only condescend to attack Sun Chuanting, and Sun Chuanting's reputation has not been revealed at this time.

After a while, there was a noise outside the account, and Lu Xiangsheng quickly returned to the chair and sat down.

"See the Lord"

The first person to come in was Zhou Yuji, a tall and thin man with a figure similar to Lu Xiangsheng, but his face was wide and his eyes were sharp, not as gentle as Lu Xiangsheng.

Not long after, Huang Degong and Li Huajing, the last person who came in was Lei Shisheng, the deputy general of Tianxiong Army.

"Dongdongdongdong", but at this time the second drum had just been beaten, and Lei Shisheng did not violate the military order.

"Sir", Lei Shisheng took his seat and bowed to Lu Xiangsheng. "The vocational department just received news from the detective, so it's late."

"Oh? Tell me quickly"

"Sir, Qingxian has only about 10,000 slave cavalry. According to the investigation of spies from the Ministry of Service, these ten thousand cavalry are not Jiannu."

"oh?"

Upon hearing this, Lu Xiangsheng, who were present, became excited. It turned out that the news came that these ten thousand cavalry were all the Eight Banners soldiers of Jiannu, but unexpectedly there was another change.

"How can I see it?"

"Sir, the whistleblower dressed up as abducted refugee and scrambled inside. After careful investigation for three days, it finally came out of the news. Among the ten thousand cavalry, about a thousand are real Manchus, and half are Han military flags and half are Tartar slaves."

"Besides, the leader of the Han army flag was Zhang, who was mostly Zhang Cunren who surrendered to Jiannu in Daling River. If he was really that guy, the more than 4,000 cavalry under his command should be the former Guanning Iron Cavalry. Most of the Tartar slaves came from the Duoyan tribes outside the border. Finally, the whistle detective met some of the languages ​​there. The languages ​​of the Duoyan tribes were quite different from other tribes. This spy came to such a conclusion after indirect attacks."

"Also, there are about 50,000 young men who were abducted near Qingxian, more than 3,000 carts, dozens of large tents that pile up gold, silver, grain, and wealth, countless cattle, sheep, horses, and mules..."

Everyone's eyes were bright when they heard this, but Zhou Yuji still looked awe-inspiring.

"General Zhou, what do you mean?" Lu Xiangsheng naturally saw Zhou Yuji's expression.

"Sir", Zhou Yuji stood up and bowed to Lu Xiangsheng with his fists. "The combat power of Jiannu is not to be mentioned by the last general. We are waiting for the cavalry, but we may not be able to beat three people. Even the servants must be two-on-one, and the most elite servants can only be one-on-one."

"Although the cavalry of the Tartar slaves is not as good as that of Jiannu, it is still better than us. Our servants can naturally go against one of the Han military flags..., Lord, what General Lei said is true, it is indeed the cavalry under Zu Dashou's command. Its combat power is undoubtedly the first among the nine borders, and it should not be careless."

Lu Xiangsheng nodded, "When you fought with the Tartar slaves before, did they take a lot of effort?"

What he was talking about was Zhou Yuji's previous experience of fighting with Tartar slaves.

"Reported to the Lord, the Ministry of Justice carefully inspected the Tartar slaves' clothing, heads, weapons, etc. After a detailed investigation, I was a little happy, but now I can't say anything about the pain."

"Oh?" Everyone was a little surprised when they heard it. Could it be that it was not a real Tartar slave, but a fake one?

"These people are real Tartar slaves, but they are probably over forty years old, and their clothes are poor and their weapons are poor. They are mostly the lowest-ranking herd slaves among Tartar slaves."

Everyone was still a little envious of him after hearing this. There were hundreds of real Tartar slaves. As long as they were true, no matter what his identity was, no matter how old he was?

"Even so, my cavalry fought against them without a chance of winning and losing, and the vocational department also lost more than 300 cavalry."

When Lu Xiangsheng heard this, his expression became serious immediately. He thought to himself that even if his Tianxiong Army was not as good as the Guanning Iron Cavalry under Yuan Chonghuan before, it seemed to be different. He was probably even stronger than Zhou Yuji and Huang Degong's cavalry, but it was limited.

Last time at the city of Yanzhou, his elite troops fought against the Tartars, but they were mainly fighting with the Tartar slaves and the Han army. They were evenly matched at the beginning, but when Jiannu 1,500 elite cavalry entered, the situation was reversed instantly, and he had no chance to see the power of the real large-scale Manchu cavalry.

If this is the case, the enemy's main force will still be hidden in the dark, and it is not certain that it will suddenly arrive.

I also thought that according to Lei Shisheng's information, Jiannu had at least 40,000 to 50,000 elite cavalry. Even if they used 20,000 elite cavalry to seize them, 30,000 were used for combat, of which 20,000 were used for field battles. These 20,000 people could defeat them in one fell swoop, whether they were facing Lord Sun's army in the north or his own army in the south.

But why do they arrange it like this?

Is it a huge conspiracy brewing?

But with Jiannu's arrogant man, there was no need to be like this at all. Suddenly, when he was in Yanzhou, the enemy had never dispatched more than 10,000 troops from beginning to end, and at least 30,000 enemy troops attacking Yanzhou!

Did you deliberately let me go?

If this is the case, what is their intention?

"Report!"

While he was pondering, another shout came from outside the door.

"pass!"

"Sir, the last general will bring Shangfang's sword, the left censor of the inspector's office, the left assistant minister of the Ministry of War, the governor of Tianjin, Hejian, Wuqing, Xianghe, and Baodi Sun ordered him to submit emergency documents."

"Submitted"

When Lu Xiangsheng took the document, he opened it and frowned.

"You arrived in Jinghai County within three days after receiving the document, and attacked the enemy troops besieged with us!"

Lu Xiangsheng rolled the documents and placed them on the high table. "This flag is still more than 10,000 slave enemies in Qingxian. Did Lord Sun explain whether we are going north after defeating the enemy in Qingxian, or going north?"

The squad held his fists, "Mr. Lu, I really don't know about this matter, but I took a detour from the beach. Nuko's scouts have not been deployed there on a large scale. Now Nuko's elite troops have reached 30,000 in Jinghai County. They still need to seize the guards. It is said that there are no more troops to guard you to go north."

This is to let them take a detour, but Lu Xiangsheng still felt that it was a bit inappropriate.

"This general, there is no problem for us to detour north, but once the war occurs, the Nuko in Qingxian will slam the rear of our troops. What should we do?"

"Don't worry, sir, I heard that Baoding deputy general Hu Dawei has led 5,000 infantry and cavalry to Jinghe Town, Hejian Prefecture."

Lu Xiangsheng breathed a sigh of relief as soon as he heard this.

Hu Dawei followed him to Nanzhili to clear out the bandits. This man was originally a general who was promoted to deputy general because of the bandits. He was transferred back to the north with Lu Xiangsheng. The difference is that Lu Xiangsheng is still on the front line of fighting against Jiannu, while Hu Dawei went to Baoding to "protect the safety of the capital."

The tiger is powerful and powerful, and is very good at riding and shooting. When he chases and suppresses bandits with Lu Xiangsheng, he called it "the wind of Tan Daoji". He covered the flanks of the Grand Canal, but he could detour north.

"Sun Baigu is still better than me, and he can actually mobilize the emperor to mobilize Baoding's troops to help."
Chapter completed!