Wu Kingdom, Wudu.
After the two interior ministers withdrew from the inner chamber, they quietly discussed recent state affairs in the rest hall.
"Among the princes, the eldest prince and Dugu Mo are the ones your majesty likes the most. Prince Xuan is still in the third place, so of course there is no need to mention it now."
Your Majesty, naturally refers to King Xuanwu. The two ministers of the interior have already learned that Dugu Mo is the prince, and they are trying to figure out which prince is most likely to inherit the throne.
The eldest prince of Wu Kingdom sits in Wudu, and he often takes the post of Fu Kingdom when King Xuanwu leaves. The character is the most stable, and the center is reassuring.
"The state of Jin is already deeply corrupted, and there is nothing wrong with it. If it weren't for the support of elders such as Bo Daochang, it would have been included in the territory of the king in one fell swoop. The state of Qi is really tricky. The king is well-organized, and it is not easy to find flaws."
"Indeed. Qi State not only has the supreme master of the Sword Sect Master, but also Xiao Ruoyao, the personal disciple who recently defeated Prince Xuan. She is a girl who is outstanding in the army. She can be called a young hero."
"So this time, Junshang sent more experts to rush to Jindu to help. It seems that Junshang thinks highly of Xiao Ruoyao."
"I'm afraid that Dugu Mo has an arrogant personality, and he likes to take the edge of his sword. If he succeeds, he will make great achievements, but if he fails, he will be lost forever. So..."
"So what?"
"He's afraid he won't be able to wait for His Majesty's new aid, so he has to do it himself!"
"Ah? Will he not guard Jindu?"
"Successfully occupying the capital of Jin is naturally a great achievement, but what's the point of just defending the capital after that? If you want to fight for the right to inherit, you will naturally need greater achievements."
"Will he take the initiative to attack Qi's reinforcements?"
"According to what the old man thinks, ** is inseparable from ten."
It is true that the Home Secretary is quite insightful.
Dugu Mo did have great ambitions, and he was not satisfied with the achievement of occupying Jindu.
After all, the rebellion of Master Youguo and Buddha arranged by King Xuanwu is the most important reliance for occupying Jindu. What you have achieved is discounted.
What he wants to do now. That is to occupy the capital of Jin, behead the king of Jin, destroy Qi Yuan, and capture Ruoyao. Also, it would be even better to get another beautiful woman.
beauty? That's right, it's Miyakoji.
Dugu Mo saw that Gong Xiaolu was someone beside Zong Zhilian. Naturally, he wanted to get her after World War I. Moreover, manpower was arranged to pay special attention not to hurt the beauty in the chaos.
These are all small problems. He is now commanding more than 20,000 armed forces to raid the Qi army's temporary camp, just to defeat this force in one fell swoop.
The armed forces raid arranged by Dugu Mo was really beyond the military's expectations. Even General Yang and others could hardly have imagined that the armed forces guarding Jindu would suddenly launch a sneak attack. In the eyes of many generals, this is a bold and reckless act that abandons innate and geographical factors.
But who is Dugu Mo? A lonely guy who was born in the martial arts world, did not follow the rules, and lacked even the traditional education of the royal family. How dare he do that! Like a stud, he slammed all his chips on the poker table.
If Tanma loses contact with the north in the direction of Jindu, the Qi army must be very sensitive. But Dugu Mo only unplugged the probe horses in the east and south directions an hour in advance, and the army detoured from Jindu in the north to the east. Going around in a circle to the south before launching an attack is definitely enough to paralyze people.
Not only that, but he also made a small effort to wrap the cavalry's hooves with cloth at any cost, which greatly reduced the vibration of the hooves against the ground. The sound of nearly ten thousand cavalry rushing to the ground has been reduced by at least one-third, which delays the time for the enemy to detect it.
If it were any other famous general commanding the army, even if King Qi personally sits in charge, he would probably be in trouble.
As long as Dugu Mo's sneak attack succeeds. Qi's reinforcements are bound to collapse. But huge benefits naturally also mean huge risks.
If I can't kill you, I'll give you a chance to kill me! This is representative.
Dugu Mo had very bad luck. He unexpectedly met Wu Zhe, the owner of the evolutionary body with extraordinary sensitivity.
The 8,000 cavalry of Wu State were divided into two groups and began to sprint about a mile away from Qi's camp.
The sound of the rumbling cavalry stepping on the ground was accompanied by the sprinting of various horses.
The ground has been dug with countless half-foot-deep, thigh-thick holes, like a vegetable field where nearly ten thousand radishes have been pulled out!
Kacha—the legs of countless running horses were suddenly caught. The leg of the horse broke under the huge inertia, and he lost his balance in an instant.
Puff, hula—the horses fell to the ground with a bang, and most of the cavalrymen on the horses were thrown away. He fell in the dark and even died on the spot.
Even if he wasn't thrown out, he was smashed to the ground by the huge inertia, and his death was even worse.
The horse fell to the ground with a great chain reaction, and the cavalry behind the horse also had a certain probability of being tripped.
The losses in the charge of the battalion were greater than expected, but after all, the number of the first wave of four thousand cavalry was quite large. Losses in forcible shocks are unavoidable.
Dugu Mo, who was sitting in the infantry formation of the headquarters, frowned at the impact of his own cavalry.
Of course he saw something wrong.
Raid failed? !
Why did the Qi army arrange it so quickly? Not only are there horse pits, but there are also arrangements for rejecting horses such as tripping ropes and rejecting antlers. The observation spies arranged in the early morning clearly reported that the Qi State camp was only temporary in nature, and there was no defense at all.
Leaked news? How did it leak
Naturally, he couldn't understand Wu Zhe's reason. It is a pity that although it has been seen that the opponent seems to be prepared, it is too late to withdraw the cavalry charge order.
Once the cavalry speeds up, there is no way to turn back.
"The second formation of cavalry slowly reined in and joined the formation to stand by." Dugu Mo issued an order.
Although he did not spare human life, but for the sake of the battle situation, he decisively pulled back the second wave of cavalry.
More than 8,000 cavalry were divided into two groups. So under this order, the more than 4,000 cavalry behind barely reined in their horses due to the large buffer area.
But the four thousand cavalry in front couldn't receive the order at all, and had already rushed towards the Qi army's camp.
Dugu Mo watched coldly the first cavalry rush towards the entire camp, but he gave another order: "Please prepare, female general, and prepare for the battle together!"
The subordinate immediately issued an order.
Now Dugu Mo's camp is roughly a character formation, each of which is a mixed camp of swords, guns and arrows.
There is also a powerful Xuanwu Corps in the center.
This corps is led by a fourth-level Xuanwu female general.
Level four means that out of 900 Xuanwu soldiers, 300 can fight at the same time, which can definitely wipe out an elite army of 5,000 soldiers.
Of course, this is Dugu Mo's trump card, and he is willing to use it only at critical moments.
The Pinzi camp originally had protruding arrows, and it was purely a shock formation of eight thousand cavalry.
Dugu Mo is really willing. The female general Qiu in the middle army was surprised. Seeing the situation where only 4,000 cavalry were brought back, she felt a chill in her heart.
Although nearly a thousand Xuanwu soldiers under him were ordered, they immediately began gearing up to prepare for the battle. But she knew in her heart that her commander had actually abandoned the cavalry in front, completely giving up their life and death.
This female general is a fourth-level Xuanwu female general, surnamed Qiu, and her natal spar is.
Although she regretted the loss of four thousand cavalry in her heart, she had no objection to the general's orders.
Compassion does not command soldiers. If the cavalry in the front line were forced to come back, it would easily cause chaos in the front line. Not to mention that the horses were not easy to hold back when charging, it would be more likely to attract the ranks of Qi to chase after them, and the harm would outweigh the benefits.
So Dugu Mo was quite decisive. It was difficult to recall the 4,000 cavalry, so he rushed over and just treated it as 4,000 corpses.
"Prepare for a frontal battle." Dugu Mo arranged for the various army formations to stabilize their footholds, and the cavalry returned to their own formations, and began to face the Qi army camp and wait.
The first wave of four thousand cavalry did not know that they had been abandoned. Non-stop, he has already rushed through the rotten vegetable field in the temporary small horse pit, and entered the part where the antlers reject the horse.
Seeing the barbed stakes and other antlers waiting here, they also rushed forward bravely. There is still a tripping rope waiting for them here. For a time, countless people turned their backs.
"It's a pity that the second wave of cavalry didn't charge." Wu Zhe shook his head.
General Yang said: "If the second wave also rushes over, all the arrangements in front of our camp will be destroyed, and they will definitely rush into the camp."
Zong Zhilian said: "Then why didn't the other party charge by force?"
"I guess I can't figure out why we have the right to resist horses in the south, for fear of further ambush?" General Yang frowned: "The other's commander is ruthless, he cut his wrists to save his strength, and he wants to fight us head-on. .”
General Yang deserves to be one who has experienced battles for a long time. People around nodded after thinking about it.
That's right, Dugu Mo's abandonment of the cavalry by severing his wrists and arms still retained sufficient capital for the armed forces to continue fighting. Although the loss was not small, the vitality was not hurt.
If he rushed to the Qi army's camp all at once, he was not sure if there were any traps.
"Then what should we do now?" Zong Zhilian looked at Wu Zhe.
"If there is meat delivered to your door, how can you not eat it? Get rid of these cavalry first. Let the arrows go!" Wu Zhe ordered the Crane Wing Formation to shoot arrows at the gate of the southern camp.
It seems that nothing good will happen to the cavalry of Wu Kingdom when they meet Wu Zhe.
After suffering four thousand elite riders from Wu Kingdom, they first got stuck in the horse pit, tripped the horse rope, and rejected the horse with antlers, and then encountered the random arrows on both sides of the crane wings that had been prepared for a long time.
A sporadic group of more than a hundred riders managed to rush into the gate of the camp, but ran into the spear formation that had been waiting for a long time.
The two generals Chen Lin and Xue Qi of the Qi army commanded their spearmen to take down the hundreds of horses at a cost of one to one.
After all, the cavalry has a great impact. Even if the pikemen are fully arrayed, they will be hit and killed by the cavalry coming at high speed. Horse corpses and corpses have great inertia, and after being penetrated by a spear, they will still kill the spearman.
With the help of geographical advantages, it consumed 4,000 cavalry, and the death rate of only a hundred pikemen was one to one, which was already a remarkable victory. After all, cavalry is more than ten times more expensive than pikemen, and they belong to high-level arms for low-level arms. Wu Guo is at a loss.
The impact of four thousand cavalry came to an abrupt end in less than a hundred breaths.
In the first half of the Qi army's barracks, the corpses of four thousand cavalrymen were scattered.
There was an eerie sense of stillness.
Some of the horses and soldiers who were not completely dead could faintly neigh, struggle and moan, making the battlefield even more terrifyingly quiet. (To be continued..)