The first thousand one hundred and eighty-eight chapters generals died in a hundred battles
There was an army of 100,000 in the middle, with cloth wrapped around their horses' hooves. The soldiers were holding branches in their mouths, and moved towards the tent of Jialisi's tribe with subtle movements.
No matter how close the army came, the situation of Jie Lisi's troops remained the same according to the scouts' reports, without any change.
The same situation was reported by the three separate armies. No trace of pedestrians was found around Fangyuan, and the silence was a bit strange.
"Report to the Commander-in-Chief, the brothers of the Sword and Shield Soldiers have already covered the artillery battalion and the brothers of the Catapult and Eight Bull Crossbows have moved up, and they can attack at any time!"
"Just fire, time waits for no one!"
"We must not wait for reinforcements from the Royal Court of Spieth, otherwise we will be very passive!"
"Got the order!"
Less than half a stick of incense had passed since the scouts left, and the sound of cannons spread to every corner of the grassland. The soldiers hidden several miles away could feel the clear sound of cannons and the abnormal breeze.
That was the air wave set off by the artillery explosion.
After the sound of cannons that lasted for a stick of incense ended, the trebuchets and eight-niu crossbows immediately stopped attacking. Then the sound of a killing came, and the 20,000 vanguard cavalry led by Wan Shoujiang charged towards the Jialisi tribe's camp.
Wan Shoujiang led 20,000 cavalrymen and charged back and forth in the Jielishi camp, looking at the burning straw man on the ground in amazement.
Except for the straw man, the entire camp was devoured by raging fire, making it a completely empty camp.
"Report, no ambush found."
"Bao, the figures are all mapped out by straw men."
"Report, there is no living thing in the camp, the Turks have escaped."
Wan Shoujiang pondered for a moment.
"Commander, please quickly report to the commander that the camp is empty. The Turks from the Jialisi tribe are most likely joining forces with the Turks from the Lurmu tribe!"
"The brightly lit camp is deliberately delaying our advance, waiting for reinforcements from the Royal Court of Spies!"
"Got the order!"
"General, beef jerky, mutton jerky, a lot of dried beef and mutton were found in the camp!"
A soldier was about to put the dried meat into his mouth as he spoke. The problem of food and grass these days has made many soldiers worried, so they naturally became greedy after seeing the dried meat.
Before the dried meat could be eaten, Wan Shoujiang opened it with a sword.
"Don't eat it. You can take these dried meats with you, but the Turks kept them. Be careful! They are poisonous!"
Many soldiers holding dried meat in their hands hurriedly threw the dried meat on the ground after hearing Wan Shoujiang's words, and the greed in their stomachs disappeared instantly.
Which is more important: hunger or life? No one is a fool.
A few quarters of an hour later, Wan Buhai and a group of generals stepped into the camp where the fire was burning. Wan Shoujiang got off his horse and saluted.
"Commander, as you said, these Turks have evacuated. We must annihilate them all before their reinforcements arrive!"
Wan Buhai glanced around the camp with a calm face, bent down to pick up the dried meat on the ground, put it under his nose and smelled it.
"These wolf cubs are so cunning. I even wonder if they know about our food and grass problems and are deliberately trying to detour us into a war of attrition!"
"Report to the commander-in-chief, the sharpshooter's scouts reported that the Turks have united together!"
"Looking at their intention, it seems they intend to move the tribe to the north!"
Wan Buhai's face darkened and he dropped the dried meat in his hand: "Without further delay, we order the three armies to march north immediately, and we must not let them join up with the reinforcements!"
"Tell brothers, don't be afraid of tiredness, don't be afraid of hardship, this is a battle of your death or my life!"
"Once Jie Lisi's two troops join the reinforcements, we will bury our bones in a foreign land and give up our homeland that we finally won with great difficulty."
"Be a hero who returns victoriously, and don't be a national sinner who loses his territory."
"I swear to my death that I will not bear the eternal infamy!"
"With this order, I swear to my death that I will not bear the eternal infamy!"
The Northern Expeditionary Army collected the available crossbow stones and then marched northward again for a protracted campaign.
As for the lost shells, they may be recovered again after they explode.
Yingzhou Governor's Mansion, Liu Mingzhi's Study Room.
Liu Mingzhi listened in silence as Cheng Kai slowly told what happened to the Northern Expedition.
"Commander, it's been half a month since the general came back. I wonder if the old Duke has captured two pieces of Jialisi!"
"According to the trend of the various tribes in the Western Turks, as long as these two tribes are captured, the other small tribes will not be a concern. Even if all their tribes join forces, they will be nothing more than bigger ants."
"The general guesses that the war should be over before winter comes and the two Han lost lands of Heshuo and Hetao Grassland can be recovered."
"As long as we regain the lost ground and have a natural horse farm, the disadvantage of our horses will not be a problem."
"In just one or two years, I, the great dragon, can march north, leap on my horse and whip my whip, sweep across the Eastern Turks of the Jin Kingdom and dominate the world."
Liu Mingzhi did not answer Cheng Kai's question and began to study ink silently.
After a while, Liu Mingzhi lifted up the thick wolf hair with one hand and arranged the rice paper with the other. Upon seeing this, Cheng Kai immediately stepped forward to help, grabbing the two corners of the rice paper to make it easier for Liu Mingzhi to write.
"A general dies in a hundred battles, and a strong man returns in ten years."
A poem with ten big characters and two sentences appeared on the paper. Liu Mingzhi put down the wolf hair in his hand and sat silently on the chair.
Cheng Kai recited silently and looked at Liu Mingzhi in admiration: "What a sentence!"
"A general dies in a hundred battles, and a strong man returns in ten years!"
"The commander-in-chief is worthy of being called the Confucian Commander-in-Chief in white, and he is worthy of his reputation as a scholar of the Yuan Dynasty."
"The ones who are in charge are the wise men and talents who can stabilize the country by riding on the horse, and govern the country by dismounting the horse!"
Generals die in hundreds of battles, and heroes return in ten years. It comes from the Mulan poem during the Southern and Northern Dynasties. After the Wei and Jin Dynasties, when the dragon ruled the world, this poem naturally did not spread.
Liu Mingzhi sighed silently: "It's been two years since the war started. It's time to end. It's time to end."
"The old prince went to war with 300,000 men, but now there are still 220,000 left, and 80,000 men are buried in a foreign land."
"My commander-in-chief marched to the west with 400,000 soldiers, 320,000 soldiers returned, and nearly 80,000 soldiers were buried in a foreign land!"
"In the past few years, the Turks invaded the border and continued to fight, resulting in nearly 500,000 casualties."
"It's half a million! It can only be written in a few strokes on paper, and it can be summed up in just three words with one hand stretched out."
"But if half a million people gather together, they can build several cities out of corpses."
"The soldiers who returned from the Western Expedition with me did not die in the Western Region, but in the end they died in the Northern Xinjiang."
"With a wave of the long knife and a loosening of the bow string, a living life ends."
"More than 10,000 people left their bodies intact because they dared to die."
The sound of a sword roar was heard, and the study was filled with a cold air.
Liu Mingzhi held the Heavenly Sword tightly in his hand, held it flat in his hand and gently stroked the sharp edge of the Heavenly Sword with his sword fingers.
His finger was cut by the sword blade, and blood dripped down the blade. Liu Mingzhi didn't notice it at all. He turned his head and looked at the astonished Cheng Kai with deep eyes.
"How many more people have to die before the world can be unified?"
Cheng Kai sighed silently: "Commander, the Qin Dynasty has suffered disasters from the Huns, the Han Dynasty has also suffered disasters from the Huns, the Wei and Jin Dynasties have caused chaos in China, and my dragon has invaded the border with the Turkic Kingdom of Jin!"
"Perhaps this is the fate of our soldiers. We are destined to die on the battlefield defending our country one after another."
With a soft sound, the heavenly sword shot out and penetrated the corridor, and the pillars trembled slightly.