When the winter sunset fell, there was no longer any temperature in this land, only the cold blood gradually coagulated, Ling Yan threw down the blood-stained knife, and under his feet were three hundred broken corpses, most of his physical strength was consumed, but his eyes were full of excitement, and he felt the real power in his body in the battle just now.
It seems that there are too many people dying today, even the heavens are shaken, and the drizzle begins to fall just after the sunset, is it to see off the dead or to rejoice for the living?
The crows in the sky above the corpse kept croaking, but they no longer dared to stay on top of Ling Yan's head, probably out of instinctive fear, after all, they were living creatures.
Ling Yan once again stood on the hill overlooking this battlefield, looking at the black smoke and miasma, these dead people will naturally have someone to bury them in the next time, but it depends on the victory or defeat of the war between the Nine Maps and Ji Chi, the corpses of the victors can be buried thickly, and the corpses of the losers may be dug and buried at will, but they can also have a home.
"The general is dead, the soldier is dead, if you don't die in a thousand battles, you can be handsome and king in white."
Ling Yan muttered to himself, and then he went straight north, leaving thousands of corpses behind him, this war between the two major tribes will not end in a short time, to be precise, even the rest of the tribes will be involved.
If it weren't for the existence of the common enemy of the Taisho Dynasty, the seven major tribes would have been fighting among themselves a long time ago.
Before it got dark, the Dazheng Dynasty border, the king of Zhenbei, Yao Qian, stared at the war deduction sand table in front of him, and the left and right were generals with military power in their hands, and the stout men in these military camps usually looked down on each other, but because it was an older Jiang like Yao Jian who was sitting in front of him, it would be strange if these unruly generals didn't fight.
And even now, these old generals have a resentment in their hearts.
This old general, who is not standing first next to Yao Qian's left hand, has gray hair and beard, but his temper is just as hot, and he has been complaining about Yao Qian.
"General, although my old Liu is old, he has no less strength in his hands, and if you have a fight, you will let those young people go up, and we are all about to rust."
This general named Liu Guang used to be a tiger general in the army of the Taizheng Dynasty, and later he was sent to the Zhenbei army and made a lot of great contributions.
Liu Guang said that the rest of the old generals were in line, as for the young generals in this house, there were not many generals, and most of them were sent out, Yao Jian smiled and said: "After all, the world has to rely on those young people to fight, and it is not good to disobey the old."
Some of these people have been with him Yao Jian all his life, and the rest of them also have lifelong friendships, seeing that they are all fifty or sixty years old, Yao Jian does not want these old brothers to go into battle to fight, in addition, the court does need fresh blood, and most of their generation can't move.
"Report!"
A scout came back from inquiring about information, everyone in the field listened to him, Cao Qing fled back to the Ji Chi tribe, a thousand wolf riders died so that only one hundred remained, three thousand infantry were less than eight hundred, and the number of casualties in the Jiutu tribe was several times that of Ji Chi.
Even the famous veteran generals of the Dazheng Dynasty on the field were quite surprised that Cao Qing successfully escaped from the pursuit of tens of thousands of people from the Jiutu tribe, and also killed more enemy soldiers, he was indeed a fierce general.
Yao Jian waved his hand to let the scout go down to rest, and then said to all the generals in front of him: "According to a piece of information obtained by our saucer, Cao Qing led a thousand wolf cavalry to attack the Jiutu tribe seems to have been bewitched by a young man."
A general who had fought with Cao Qing suddenly realized: "No wonder, otherwise with Cao Qing's character, it would be impossible to be so impulsive, but I was wondering what the reason given by that person was to make Cao Qing so reckless."
Yao Jian frowned, he has been speculating these days, but he has not been able to find clues.
"General, do you think that person will be one of ours?"
Someone asked, Yao Jian shook his head, he had never arranged this hand, and no one in the capital had notified him of such a plan.
Suddenly, Yao Jian suddenly had a bold guess in his heart, maybe that person was really from the Dazheng Dynasty, Ling Yan.
Earlier, Wang Lin and Han Xue had sent a message to Zhao Xuanyi and Lin Chongdu to Ji Chi's base camp, and according to the news they had gotten from Liyang City in every possible way, Ling Yan had been taken away by the southern meaning of the northern land in advance, and then disappeared.
After dealing with the north for so many years, Yao Jian naturally understood the status of the south in the north, and Ling Yan was saved by him, these are connected before and after, Yao Jian really has to start to wonder if the prince's capture by Ji Qi is the bureau set up by Ling Yan.
"General?"
Some generals interrupted Yao Jian in a daze, Yao Jian sighed, and did not say what he thought in his heart, this matter is too shocking, and if he is not careful, it may cause turmoil in the court.
He diverted the topic and said: "Although Cao Qing fled back to the Ji Chi tribe, the Jiutu tribe will definitely not give up, let's seize the opportunity this time to cripple the Jiutu tribe in one fell swoop."
As soon as these words came out, the eyes of these old generals opened brightly, just like when they saw their little daughter-in-law when they were young, they all shouted, "The last general is willing to take orders!"
” However, Yao Jian finally let Liu Guang take the order, and personally led the remaining ironclad heavy cavalry and 10,000 troops and the army of the two major towns of He'an Tifu to stand by at any time, as long as the Jiutu tribe gathered a large army to attack the Jiqi tribe, they would take advantage of the situation and eat Jiutu.
"General, it is enough to mobilize the He'an garrison, and then mobilize the Tifu army, what if other tribes attack us like Ji Chi."
Concerns have been raised.
The four border towns, Liyang Huangsha River Antifu outside the seven tribes, Ji Chi is the most powerful, but the other eight tribes such as Jiutu are not weak, the Dazheng Dynasty is arranged on the border of the north and the army of 100 miles to the inside is as high as 250,000, nearly one-third of the strength of the Taizheng army, but the border line of the north is too long, and it is very difficult to defend.
Now the two tribes of Ji Chi Jiutu have 50,000 people of the Zhenshi Army here, and 40,000 troops from the various cities and military camps are stationed in the other three important towns to prevent such incidents from happening again.
Hearing the worries of the people below, Yao Jian insisted and said: "Don't worry, the Tifu garrison only needs to stand by in place, if it is ready to attack, it will be closer from Tifu to the Jiutu base camp."
"But, General, the Jiutu tribe is not stupid, they will definitely guard against us, if they don't fight Ji Chi, we will prepare in vain."
"No, this battle will have to be fought if the Jiutu tribe doesn't fight.
Okay, you all go down and prepare, and send another order to Wang Lin Han Xue to prepare to withdraw the army, so that Zamuqi in Liyang can take a breath, and if there is a chance to ambush, try to see if it can be destroyed.
Yao Jian is confident, the situation has evolved into the current situation, and he really has to thank the person who persuaded Cao Qing to attack the Jiutu tribe, but it's a pity that Cao Qing didn't die, otherwise things would be more perfect.
When everyone dispersed, Yao Jian walked into the inner room, there was a person standing here waiting for a long time, he was a spy who specially contacted the three thousand Dazheng soldiers who went deep into Ji Chi, Yao Jian asked him to bring an order to let the three thousand people stir up movement in the Ji Chi tribe, the bigger the better, and in the name of the Jiutu tribe.
After dark, the gunsmoke between Ji Chi and the Jiutu tribe seemed to have decreased somewhat because of Cao Qing's return, but it was still there, and in the place of the mountain forest road, there was a ghostly figure interspersed with it, this was Ling Yan.