Chapter 926: Leading the Way Party
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The iron hand Heli led 2,000 marshes to Xueye. Seeing that Huazhou was approaching, the general was dawn, the vanguard suddenly reported that Ye had arrived in Huazhou. He rode his horse to see him. He was about to meet him and was about to see the vanguard who was exploring the way back. The leader of the defeated soldiers was Shali, the leader of the Huazhou thousand-man general, and was the third son of Heli. At this time, he was in a panic, throwing his armor and escaping in the snow for a long time, trembling with cold.
"What happened?" Old Heli was shocked. He gave birth to eight sons, all of whom passed on his courage. He especially liked the third son, because he looked the most like him and the most brave. He was over forty years old, and he was already the commander of the cavalry of the Marine tribe, with a team of cavalry under his command. This time, Heli was in charge of the Bin Mansion, so he specially asked his third son Shali to guard Huazhou. It shows that he valued the trust of this son. But now Shali's embarrassing appearance makes Old Heli not surprised.
"Huazhou Nanguan and the city have been lost. It was the Tang people and the Qin army. They raided Huazhou Nanguan and quietly took down Qianguan. Then they pretended to be soldiers from Nanguan and tricked into Huazhou City. Most of my thousand-person team was killed, and I escaped by chance."
Old Heli shivered with the hand holding the horse whip, which was both frightened and angry, and he also had no dispute with his third son.
"You are all dead people? How could you be touched by the enemy? I don't know. Huazhou Nanguan is so dangerous. How could you be easily taken down by the enemy? I don't know. I even let others open Huazhou City easily. As soon as you arrived in Huazhou, you felt like you entered the flower world. The girls who only know how to play Bohai all day long, and you don't know anything else?"
While speaking, Old Heli couldn't help but raise his whip and whip his son hard. Shali didn't dare to hide at all. Old Heli's eldest grandson, his personal guard centurion, quickly stepped forward and grabbed his grandfather's hand, "Sir, it's not the time to pursue these things. The key now is to know how many Tang people have come, where they have arrived, and how we deal with it."
After hearing what his grandson said, Tie Shu finally calmed down a little and calmed down a little.
"How many Qin troops have come?"
"a lot of."
"How many are there?" Heri asked, rolling his eyes.
Shali was a little dodged and hesitated, "At least tens of thousands. They were all Qin troops, and they were fighting a Pegasus flag with wings."
Old Heli turned his head to look at his second grandson Jika. Jika has always been famous for his intelligence, and he is also the only Chinese-speaking person in the Heli family. Jika, who is twenty years old this year, is the eldest son of his second son. Two years ago, he followed the Qinfan merchants who went to the Central Plains Tang Empire. He has been to Bohai, Japan, Silla, Khitan, Qinfan, Dengzhou, Yanjing, Dalian, Liaoyang, Qingzhou and other big cities, and has also been to Luoyang and Chang'an. The three-year trip completely changed Jika and made him even more different.
Now, Jika is the staff officer of Old Heri, responsible for documents and planning work. Hearing his uncle's words, his face suddenly became ugly.
"Jika, what's wrong? Is there anything wrong?" Old Heri noticed that his grandson's face changed.
Jika's face was gloomy and gloomy. After a long time, he sighed and said to Heri: "Sir, I suggest we withdraw immediately."
"Retreat to Jianzhou?"
"No, the farther you retreat, the better. Finally, you will go back to the tribe." Jika said unexpectedly.
"Why?" Old Heri was also shocked. If he hadn't known that Jika was not a timid person, he would have thought that this grandson was scared.
"Because of that pegasus flag!" Jika sighed. Others may not know the meaning of the flag, but Jika knew it very well. When he went to the Central Plains, he had seen this flag in Yanjing City. It was at the military parade held in Yanjing City. At that time, he saw one elite Qin army armed with his own eyes. Especially the Qin cavalry, which impressed him deeply. Compared with them, the tribal soldiers of the Marine were like the savages of Huazi. The Qin army cavalry were riding tall war horses and wearing extremely shiny armor, like steel bodies. At that time, among the cavalry, there was a cavalry holding a pegasus flag. He still remembers that the flag was the elite Qin army cavalry and the flying cavalry.
The Flying Cavalry Army, one of the nine cavalry troops of the Qin army, was Yang Shihou, one of the thirteen Taibao disciples of King Li Jing of Qin.
Jika joined the southern expedition with his grandfather, father, uncle and brothers, and confronted the Qin army in the Bohai Sea for several years. He knew very well that there were no flying cavalry in the sequence of Qin army in the Bohai Sea. Now, this flying cavalry suddenly appeared in the Bohai Sea, and even appeared behind the flanks of the Zhongjing Front. After contacting the incredible information I had received before, a fact finally emerged: the Qin army is coming, not the Qin army from Tokyo, but the Qin army new from the Tang Empire. It is said that there are countless huge ships on the port and the sea, and that the peninsula has been completely filled with countless Tang people, which are all true, not exaggerated or rumor.
The iron-handed old Heli remained silent, and the other generals were also silent.
They were all shocked by what Jika said. If it was really as Jika said, then things would be in a big trouble.
"This is unlikely. Why did the Qin army suddenly come to the rear of this flank? There was no news in front of him! If the Qin people sent troops from the Central Plains in large quantities, it would be impossible for Zhongjing to know any movement, right?" Shali said.
Lao Tie shook his head, "If you want to lead a large army quietly here, they can only come from the sea. From the sea, they can come the fastest and most unexpectedly. I heard that King Li Jing of Qin was gathering a large army in his vassal state, and the whole nation mobilized to destroy a vassal state in the south. Later, I heard that Li Jing successfully forced the vassal state to surrender, and the attack was gone. Now it seems that Li Jing was very likely to be just a fake move. It was fake to attack the vassal state, and it was true that he mobilized troops to attack our coalition. Jika was right. The Qin army was very likely to have really mobilized troops, and it was very likely that a large army would come."
Thinking of this, Lao Tiezhe also began to frown. If the Qin army really arrived, they would not go to the main battlefield of Zhongjing, but ran here. What were they going to do? It was obvious that the goal was even bigger. Lao Heli began to ponder, and soon he thought of a possibility with rich experience. Li Jing planned to surround the coalition forces in Shangjing, and they wanted to surround the right coalition forces in Shangjing.
The weather has begun to warm up now. In a month, the glaciers will begin to thaw. At that time, now a flat and solid land will become a mud and deep swamp everywhere. Even the Marine Cavalry, who is most familiar with the mountains and swamps, will be extremely afraid of such a season and will be difficult to act. If the Qin army seizes their retreat before this season, they will not even have the chance to counterattack and will be trapped to death.
Old Heli returned to Jianzhou with his men that day. At the same time, he also sent more than a dozen horses to explore the Qin army on the peninsula.
Three days later, the horses and horses all passed back one after another. One message after another confirmed Jika's speculation. The Qin army flags they saw were not only flying cavalry, but even dragon cavalry, and what shocked them the most was that almost all of them were hunted. But the last seriously injured escaped miraculously. He brought back a more important news. They went deep into the peninsula and even approached the port.
It was discovered that the peninsula was full of Qin army soldiers and rolling camps, and the port, countless ships, and that small port have now completely changed its appearance, becoming a huge military port, and countless warehouse groups near the port, and even nearby islands such as Xiong Island have become the warehouses of the Qin army. But this is not the most important news. The most important news is that King Li Jing of Qin, the most famous man in the entire Central Plains and even the entire Northeast over the years, has also come.
The black flying eagle flag, the huge Li-character python dragon flag, the purple marshal's flag, and the military flag of the Six Guards all confirm the news that Li Jing is here.
"The Qin army has at least 400,000!" The seriously injured sentry spoke up before his death.
Everyone was shocked. They had just guessed that this was an elite army from the Tang Dynasty and that the number of soldiers might be quite large. But what they had guessed in their hearts was that the Qin army would not exceed 50,000. After all, the Qin army in Beijing had only been 50,000. 400,000? This was a number they dared not think about.
"This is impossible!" Shaley widened his eyes.
"This is very likely!" Jika and Old Heri said almost at the same time.
"What should I do? Let's withdraw!"
Several generals said that their troops were almost all over fifty and under eighteen years old, and they were almost all composed of several small tribes near the Old Heli family. In fact, they were even a big family. It was said to be an army, but it was actually a tribe.
There are 400,000 people, just thinking about this number can make the brave old men of Mary so scared that they can't breathe. And they are about to thaw. If they don't leave at this time, they will not be able to leave in the future.
Jika said pessimisticly: "I have seen the prosperity and strength of the Qin army. In the past two years, they have only used 100,000 people to enter the Bohai Sea, which has completely stopped our 200,000 coalition forces from the ranks. Previously, Li Jing has always focused on the Central Plains. Now, Li Jing has finally freed up his hands from the Central Plains and personally led the main force to conquer. We are not opponents at all."
"Yes, the Khitan led the tribes under Yinshan to the south to fight. As a result, only one Khitan baby and thousands of wounded soldiers ran out. Goguryeo was directly destroyed. The Bohai fought against the Qin army, and 80,000 people were defeated. The Khitan was defeated several times. Although we are quite powerful now, everyone should know that the so-called 600,000 soldiers are actually gone. Many of them are just old and weak, and even women and children are counted. Now it is all up to half of the Bohai Sea that has been conquering the Qin army for so long. But no matter how big the Bohai Sea is, there are still food and food. If we want to fight with the Qin people, we will be unable to bear the first thing we can't stand. I think we will lose this time." Old Heli is also full of pessimism.
Two years, the richest two years. During these two years, especially in the first year, the Qin army fought on both sides and was unable to send too many troops into the Bohai Sea. However, they failed to seize the opportunity to break through the two lines of defense in the Bohai Sea. They were blocked there by the Qin army and were fighting for consumption.
Now, the situation is completely different. After two years, the Qin army has recovered greatly. They have accumulated strong strength. Now they are coming in one fell swoop. How can the coalition forces stop it? It depends on the mobs gathered by the tribes?
Jika looked at everyone and whispered: "When I was in the Central Plains, I saw many tribes who surrendered to Qin. They did not live as miserable in the Qin vassal as the rumors we heard. On the contrary, the leaders of the tribes all obtained land manors and even titles, and lived very leisurely and comfortable. Although those tribes were scattered and placed in various places, they also had their own land and even ranches. They lived in the Qin vassal like the Qin people, and they could go to school, study, do business, farm, and even join the army as officials. In fact, in the Qin vassal, the Qin people originally included many tribes, including the Thais, Romans, Persians, cannibals, Greeks, etc. They lived, studied, paid taxes, and then enjoyed the wealth, freedom and stability of the Qin vassal..."
Old Heli turned his head and stared at his second grandson like lightning. Gershley shouted: "Why do you say these things? The Qin people are doing well and have nothing to do with us."
Jika looked at his cousin and said, "No, it can actually have a lot to do."
While speaking, he looked at his grandfather.
Old Heli collided with his grandson's eyes and knew his grandson's thoughts clearly.
"Do you really think the Qin army can win the final victory?" he asked with his iron hand.
"The final victory will only belong to the Qin people, and it will be very soon."
"Can't we connect to the tribe now?" The iron hand was whistled by him, and the sharp hook seemed to be hooked into someone's body at any time.
"Sir, you know that this is impossible. This battle not only determines the outcome of the war, but also determines the ownership of the entire Northeast in the future. After the defeat of the coalition forces, the entire Northeast will have to crawl under the iron hoof of the Qin people. No tribe can be exceptional. Even if we live on the distant black water, the iron hoof of the Qin army will eventually step there. Instead of surrendering helplessly at that time, it is better to make plans now. Sir, you should know the difference between early and late." Jika advised his grandfather.
"Let me think about it again!" Tiexander was a little hesitant.
"There is not much time left, so please make a decision early. The Han people have a saying that if we stop breaking, we will suffer from chaos. We don't have much time."
Before he could finish his speech, a provocateur came outside to report quickly. The Qin army vanguard who was wearing the Pegasus flag had already arrived twenty miles away in Jianzhou.
"Grandfather, there is no time left, please make a decision quickly!" Jika knelt down and asked.
Old Heli walked in the circle anxiously. After a long time, he finally had no choice but to stomp his feet and ordered the opening of Jianzhou city gate. His troops left the city and surrendered to the Qin army.
Chapter completed!