Chapter 185: Take Xijing again, win four battles and four victories (Part 1)

"What, there is a flood outside the pass?"

Meng Hu was shocked when he heard this and was anxious to go with Qi Diaozi. Jia Wudao left the gear and headed straight for the city. However, after he arrived at the city, he found that it was pitch black outside the city and could not see anything. So he got off the city and rode out of the city and walked a few hundred steps away before he found that the waves in front of him were shining. The originally flat plain had become a vast ocean.

The only thing that is thankful is that the water flow is not too fast and the water accumulation does not seem to be too deep. Many barbarians who were swept away by the flood just now have struggled to stand up from the water. They are leading the war horses toward this side. Although the water storage capacity of Dayue Lake is amazing, it has no power when it has flooded the Qingzhou Plain and flooded the Hu Xiao Pass.

If it weren't for the sudden blowtorm a while ago, the water level of Tongtian River had soared after the spring warms and snow turns, the flood may not have flooded Tiger Roar Pass. However, this is just a hypothesis. The fact is that there has been a marina outside Tiger Roar Pass. If the Tiger Legion does not want to marches, it will have to go to the Tianshan Mountains or go back to Zhongzhou.

"Oh, it's a mistake!"

Jia Wudao sighed and said, "It seems that the Mingyue Empire Army must have dug the Dayue Lake. If it were just digging the Tianhe River, the water would never have flooded outside the Huxia Pass! Qiu Yutang, a crazy woman, is really cruel. In order to block our army's way eastward, she actually flooded Qingzhou!"

"It's not just Qingzhou."

Qi Diaozi shook his head and said with a serious expression, "Zhuo in the lower reaches of Tongtian River, Ying and the two states are over. This flood will inevitably flood all the fertile land in the two states. Don't think of any harvest this year. When the hungry people have no food to eat, the treasury of the Mingyue Empire will not be able to provide food to provide disaster relief. Nearly tens of millions of people in these two states will have to wait to die."

Meng Hu frowned and said, "It seems that Qiu Yutang is really crazy. Is it necessary to intercept our army?"

Qi Diaozi shook his head and said in a deep voice: "General, Qiuyutang floods Qing, Zhuo, Yingsanzhou is probably not just to intercept our army. The bigger reason may be to deal with Mengyan's middle army. If the Beizhi was not wrong, after this flood, Mengyan's 300,000 army and Chongshan's northern legion have become fish and shrimps in the water."

"Hiss..." Meng Hu couldn't help but take a breath of air conditioning when he heard this, and said, "Old Qi, are you talking about it?"

"It should be like that." Qi Diaozi sighed faintly and said, "From now on, looking at the entire Mingyue Empire, our Tiger Legion will have no foreign aid. We will have to face the encirclement and blockade of five to six legions of the Mingyue Empire. What's worse, our way to go east has been cut off by this flood!"

Before Qi Diaozi could finish his words, Jia Wudao's eyes had a look of despair.

Meng Hu was also solemn. As Qi Diaozi said, the situation facing the Tiger Legion is really not ordinary dangerous. It would be no exaggeration to describe it as the word "in a desperate situation". If Meng Hu had not seen the dangerous formation, if he had changed to an ordinary general, he would have been mentally broken and began to yell hysterically!

The current situation is that the way eastward has been cut off by the flood. Although the water accumulation outside Hu Xiao Pass is not very deep, no one knows how deep the water accumulation in the Qingzhou Plain further forward. Meng Hu has no time to take risks and dare not take risks!

There is no way to go east, and to the south is the wide Tongtian River, without floating bridges and boats. It is simply a delusion to cross the river. What's more, the Tiger Legion dares not cross the river to the south bank of Tongtian River, because Zhuozhou on the south bank, Yingzhou is probably now a country of Ze. Wouldn't it be your own way to go to the south bank of Tongtian River?

It is not connected to the east or south, so what about going west?

Yan Shisan's Shuozhou Legion and Gongsun Xiang's Youzhou Legion were chasing Hu Xiao Pass day and night. If the Tiger Legion returns westward, wouldn't it be necessary to collide with these two legions? Although Meng Hu is arrogant, he is not so arrogant that he can defeat Youzhou and Shuozhou Legion with just 50,000 or 60,000 troops!

What's even more terrible is that Qiu Yutang's main force of the Mingyue Empire is still hiding? If the Tiger Legion is fighting fiercely with Youzhou and Shuozhou, Qiu Yutang leads the main force of Mingyue suddenly to break out from behind, then it will be really over. At that time, Meng Hu will only have one rider to escape at most.

So now, the only way to the north in front of Meng Hu and the Tiger Legion seems to be left. Go out of Hu Xiao Pass and head north along the eastern foot of the Jitian Mountains. However, this road is not a good way out. The eastern foot of the Jitian Mountains is better and relatively easy to march. But what about after leaving the Jitian Mountains? Didn’t the Tiger Legion still have to face the bright moon division guarding the Tianlang Mountain Road?

Of course, Meng Hu can also choose to stay at Hu Xiao Pass and wait until the flood recedes before crossing the entire Qingzhou Plain to flee to Heyuan. However, Meng Hu will never make such a choice. His experience in countless battles on the battlefield told him that if he wants to survive the encirclement of the enemy's heavy troops, he must not stay in any place for more than three days!

"well."

Qi Diaozi sighed again and said in a faint voice, "General, we have no choice but to march north along the eastern foot of the Jitian Mountains, but we should wait until we arrive at Beidi County first. Maybe the bright moon division guarding Tianlang Mountain Road has been transferred away by orders."

"Report..."

As Qi Diaozi finished speaking, a thunderous sound suddenly sounded in front of him.

When Meng Hu and the other two looked back quickly when they heard the sound, they saw a fast horse rushing towards the water. The four tumbling hooves splashed water droplets in the sky, reflecting dazzling colors under the light of the fire. After a moment, the fast horse rushed to the front of the three people, and Xiong Batian's tower-like body turned over from the horse's back and knelt down in front of Meng Hu.

"General, the brigade of Mingyue Imperial Army was discovered in the northeast, and was advancing quickly towards Hu Xiao Pass!"

"ah?"

"What?"

Qi Diaozi and Jia Wudao's expression changed immediately when they heard this. They looked at each other and saw endless despair in each other's eyes.

Only Meng Hu's face was calm and he asked in a deep voice: "What did you say? A brigade of Mingyue Imperial Army was found in the northeast?"

"Yes!"

Xiong Batian focused his head and said in a low voice, "Because it was dark, it could not tell how many troops the enemy had, but at least there were more than 100,000 people. Because there were torches all over the mountains and fields on Wulong Ridge at that time, there were at least tens of thousands of branches, so I decided that the enemy's troops were more than 100,000!"

"Wulong Ridge?" Meng Hu said in a deep voice, "That is to say, this Mingyue Empire army is more than 200 miles away from Huxiao Pass?"

"Yes." Xiong Batian replied, "I escaped to Wulong Ridge to avoid this sudden flood. However, I didn't expect to find this enemy by chance. However, even if this enemy marched day and night, it would take at least four days before we could reach Huxiao Pass, because Wulong Ridge and Jitian Mountain are not easy to walk."

"Four days! Four days?" Meng Hu pondered for a moment, then turned around and asked Jia Wudao, "Old Jia, how far is the Shuozhou Legion of Yan Shisan and Gongsun Xiang's Youzhou Legion from Huxiao Pass?"

Jia Wudao calmed down and replied, "It's probably about 400 miles. Yan Shisan's Shuozhou Legion may arrive in three days, and Gongsun Xiang's Youzhou Legion will not arrive in four days at the earliest."

"Awesome, awesome!"

Meng Hu scratched his head and said, "Qiu Yutang is indeed powerful. He actually calculates the time so accurately. The three armies rushed to Hu Xiao Pass almost at the same time. Hehe, when something comes to attack us, our tiger army will become a turtle in the jar. She is going to swallow us in one bite at Hu Xiao Pass, hum!"

"What to do? What to do?" Jia Wudao was so anxious that he kept silly, "What to do now?"

"What should I do?" Meng Hu said with a grim voice, "It's easy to deal with. Qiu Yutang wants to swallow our Tiger Legion in one go. She still lacks the right teeth. The enemy's three armies are facing each other and stylistically surrounding our army. We will find a way to make a crack from these three enemy troops, kill her and shoot back, and we will go to Xijing again!"

“Huh?”

"ah?"

Qi Diaozi and Jia Wudao's expression changed at the same time when they heard this. The two of them never expected that Meng Hu would have a sudden idea and make a crazy decision to return to Xijing. However, after thinking about it carefully, although this idea seemed crazy, it was also a wonderful move. Qiqi was that the enemy would never have thought that the Tiger Legion would turn back to attack Xijing again!

Meng Hu smiled grimly and said, "This is called surprising and unpredictable!"

Qi Diaozi pondered, "But the question is how to get through the two major legions of Shuozhou and Youzhou? Especially Yan Shisan's Shuozhou Legion, this is a light cavalry. Not only does it move quickly, come and go like the wind, but it also has a large range of activities. If our army wants to touch it without knowing it, it is almost impossible for us to completely hide its whereabouts. If we cannot completely conceal its whereabouts, then this return to the army will lose its strategic suddenness. At that time, Yan Shisan's Shuozhou cavalry will definitely catch up like a mad dog. In this way, let alone a surprise attack on Xijing, I am afraid that it will be difficult to escape."

"Then find a way to pull Yan Shisan's Shuozhou Legion away!" Meng Hu thrust hard and said with a grim voice, "Yan Shisan has light cavalry, and our Tiger Legion is not without light cavalry. Since he was incorporated into the North Wing partial division, Ma Sifeng's cavalry division has not been used in great use. It's his turn this time!"

Qi Diaozi said in a voice, "The general is planning to use Ma Sifeng's cavalry division to lead Yan Shisan's Shuozhou light cavalry? But is the difference between the two armies too different? After all, Shuozhou cavalry has 70,000 to 80,000 cavalry, and its strength is almost four times that of Ma Sifeng's cavalry division! And what if Yan Shisan is not deceived? If he only sends some cavalry to entangle with Ma Sifeng's cavalry division, the rest of the troops are still wandering on the road that must be passed to Hu Xiao Pass to the imperial capital, what should we do?"

"Impossible!" Meng Hu said decisively, "This general predicts that Yan Shisan and Gongsun Xiang will never dare to divide the troops!"

Jia Wudao, who was on the side, asked in confusion: "Why? Why didn't Yan Shisan and Gongsun Xiang dare to divide the troops?"

"The reason is very simple!" Meng Husenran said, "because they are afraid, afraid they will be defeated by our Tiger Legion!"

Qi Diaozi said again: "But even if Yan Shisan's Shuozhou Legion is led away, isn't there still Gongsun Xiang's Youzhou Legion?"

Meng Hu walked back and forth for a few steps, suddenly stopped and turned around and said to Qi Diaozi and Jia Wudao: "Lao Qi, Lao Jia, do you still remember the valley where we buried our treasures on the way?"

"Of course I remember." Jia Wudao responded without thinking, "The place where the treasure is buried is Shuanglong Mountain, Panlong Valley!"

Qi Diaozi couldn't help but float a steep mountain and a deep canyon, as well as Meng Hu's sigh when he faced the dense forests in the canyon: This is really a deep canyon. Even if he hides a hundred thousand troops in the valley, it is probably difficult to be discovered, right?

In an instant, Qi Diaozi understood Meng Hu's intentions.

Qi Diaozi's guess was right. Meng Hu did plan to hide the main army of the Tiger Legion in Panlong Valley, waiting for Ma Sifeng's cavalry division to lead Yan Shisan's Shuozhou cavalry, and then deceive Gongsun Xiang's Youzhou army by hiding the world. He just waited for the Youzhou army to pass Panlong Valley, and the Tiger Legion suddenly broke out from Panlong Valley and returned to Xijing!

The plan was decided, Meng Hu and Qi Diaozi and others returned to the Hu Xiao Pass, and then asked someone to hit Ma Sifeng.

Amid the heavy footsteps, Ma Sifeng's growing strong figure had already entered the pedestal, and he clasped his fists to Meng Hu and said, "I'm not here to see the general!"

Meng Hu waved his hand and said solemnly: "General Sifeng, how do I treat you northern soldiers?"

"I didn't say anything." Ma Sifeng responded with a loud voice, "General treats our northern soldiers as soldiers from the west. Even if those rare treasures were stolen by colleagues from the Western Legion, the general has distributed many of them to our northern soldiers. Unfortunately, the situation is unfavorable, and these treasures cannot be transported back to the empire, hey."

Meng Hu said solemnly: "I can't guarantee anything else, but as long as you and the soldiers from the north are still under the command of this general, I will definitely treat you as soldiers from the west and will never treat you differently! But now, our army is facing unprecedented difficulties, and if you are not careful, it will be a disaster!"

Ma Sifeng said solemnly: "Please explain it clearly!"

Before Meng Hu could speak, Qi Diaozi told Ma Sifeng the troubled situation faced by the Tiger Legion to Ma Sifeng. Ma Sifeng couldn't help but breathe a breath of air and said in a terrifying manner: "So the situation facing our army is really bad. General, just say it straight, what do we want our soldiers from the north to do?"

Meng Hu said solemnly: "General Sifeng, if it is just an ordinary military operation, I will directly order it, but this time the situation is special. In order to ensure the smooth breakthrough of the army, your light cavalry division must be responsible for guiding the entire Shuozhou legion. This will be a cavalry contest with huge gaps in force. If you are not careful, your entire cavalry division will be destroyed. Therefore, I must first seek your opinions. If you don't want to, I will never force you!"

Of course, if Ma Sifeng is unwilling, Meng Hu can't force it even if he wants to.

But Ma Sifeng was a professional soldier after all, and his life's creed was that soldiers took obedience to military orders as their duty. Since Chongshan ordered his Fourth Cavalry Division to cooperate with the Western Legion to operate, then Ma Sifeng had to obey Meng Hu's condemnation. Before Chongshan lifted the military order, he absolutely obeyed Meng Hu's military orders.

Ma Sifeng said excitedly: "What are the words of the general? As an imperial soldier, the soldiers of the Western Legion are not afraid of death. Are the sons of our Northern Legion afraid of death? Besides, since Governor Chongshan has ordered our Fourth Cavalry Division to cooperate with the Western Legion to operate, our Fourth Cavalry Division will completely obey the general's condemnation until Governor Chongshan lifts the military order!"

"Okay, I, Meng Hu, look at you right now. You, Ma Sifeng, is a loud and good man!"

Meng Hu stepped forward and patted Ma Sifeng on the shoulder, and said solemnly, "I won't say anything beautiful and meaningless promises. I will only say to you. Once the army successfully breaks through the encirclement, I will personally lead the barbarian cavalry to come and respond. Even if it dies, I will die with your northern soldiers!"

"Thank you for your kindness, General!" Ma Sifeng said, "Now please give the order!"

Four hundred miles west of Hu Xiao Pass, the Shuozhou Legion of Yan Shisan and the Youzhou Legion of Gongsun Xiang were stationed in the wilderness beside the official road.

It was late at night and Yan Shisan, who was about to take off his armor and sleep, was suddenly alarmed by a burst of footsteps outside the tent. When he was anxiously getting up to greet him, he saw that the governor of Youzhou Gongsun Xiang had already stepped into the Central Army's Dazhai of Shuozhou Army surrounded by several Youzhou generals. Seeing that it was the governor of Youzhou Gongsun Xiang, the Shuozhou Army guarding the Central Army's Dazhai did not stop him.

Yan Shisan took two steps, clasped his fists and said, "Brother Gongsun came late at night. Has something happened?"

Gongsun Xiang did not answer, but just handed Yan Shisan a letter of urgentness with a serious expression.

Yan Shisan took the letter and read it in a hurry. His face changed drastically and said in a lost voice: "Ah? The Moon King actually ordered the digging of the Dayue Lake? How could this happen..."

Gongsun Xiang felt bitter in his heart. It would be absolutely fake to say that there was no resentment in his heart. The water of Dayue Lake washed down and flooded not only Qingzhou, but also Zhuozhou and Youzhou. However, Gongsun Xiang also understood Qiu Yutang's difficulties. If she did not order to dig Dayue Lake, it would be impossible to solve the invasion of the main force of the Guanghui Empire Army, not to mention that even Meng Hu's Tiger Legion would not be trapped!

If the invading Guanghui Empire Army really wants to occupy Qingzhou and let Meng Hu run back with the imperial emperor, not only will the Mingyue Empire be ruined, but the Mingyue Empire will also be at a disadvantage compared to the Guanghui Empire in terms of national power. As long as it takes less than a few years, the Mingyue Empire will really destroy its country.

Liang Wai, Yan Shisan sighed and advised helplessly: "Brother Gongsun, King Yue ordered the digging of the Great Yue Lake. She was afraid that she felt more uncomfortable than anyone else, but we local governors must understand her painstaking efforts. This is also for the extension of the empire's national destiny. For the empire, no matter how much sacrifice it is, it is worth it."

"yes."
Chapter completed!