Wei Ying always wanted to report, but Wu Sheng asked Xia Feng when they met. Long Chen was so angry that he had no time to ask about the intelligence gathering.
After arriving outside the canyon and setting foot on the old grassland, Wu Sheng remembered to ask Wei Ying for information.
Wei Ying replied: "We have found out that there are four enemy forces. The Long Family Army is led by Long Chen. This is the direct force raised by Long Chen and has the strongest combat effectiveness. The second force is the Empress's Great Zhou Army.
It is called the North Camp and is commanded by the empress; the third is the army of Nanliang, led by two surrendered generals of Nanliang; the fourth is the army of the barbarians, led by the barbarian Shanyu Tuzhi, with a total of 50,000 people in the four forces.
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"Yu Wenkai is also among the enemy troops. Yu Wenkai, Yang Hu, and Tan Wenyue are all there, and there are three thousand lackeys under his command."
This is the basic situation. Wu Sheng and Ghost Girl listened quietly.
Xia Feng sneered: "Fifty thousand people? So few? I thought he had hundreds of thousands of troops, but it is actually smaller than us."
The martial saint and the ghost girl have advanced cultivation, and the warriors and ghost soldiers under their command are strong and good at fighting. If Long Chen wants to win the war, he must have an advantage in numbers.
Unexpectedly, Long Chen only had so few troops, and Xia Feng felt contempt in his heart.
Guitei was listening behind him and saw that Wu Sheng was a little confused and didn't understand why Long Chen only had so few troops. He thought this was an opportunity to show off.
"Father, there are many soldiers and horses under Long Chen's command. The Long family's army is 200,000, the Eastern Zhou army is more than 100,000, the Nanliang army is more than 50,000, plus the barbarian army, there are almost 500,000 soldiers in Yanmen Pass."
"He didn't bring out all the troops because last time I and Gao Qinhu led 5,000 troops to attack Yanmen Pass. Long Chen suffered heavy casualties. The ordinary soldiers only stood firm and did not dare to come out."
Guite wanted to show that he knew the information and at the same time show off his victory.
Wu Sheng turned to look at Gui Fei and asked coldly: "Are there many casualties? How many were killed?"
Guitai replied: "We killed more than 100,000 enemies and more than a dozen enemy generals."
Guite falsely reported his record. Anyway, no one knows the truth and no one dares to tell the truth.
Wu Sheng said coldly: "The five thousand soldiers under Gao Qinhu's command were all elites. You used your elite troops to attack ordinary people, but you only killed one hundred thousand. Gao Qinhu The captured tiger was killed in battle, and the whole camp was wiped out. Do you think the fight was good?"
Being spoken to in public, Guitai lowered his head, feeling very unhappy.
Wu Sheng had very complicated feelings about ghost fetuses. When he woke up, he had a two-hundred-year-old son, which he couldn't accept.
Seeing that Gui Fei was embarrassed, the ghost girl said: "The little thief is treacherous. It's already good that Wang Er can lead an army to kill 100,000 enemy troops by himself."
Wu Sheng did not want to quarrel with the ghost girl and was too lazy to talk about his useless son.
"Lord, Long Chen knows that our army is powerful and is retreating, trying to retreat into Yanmen Pass."
Wei Ying continued to report the enquiry.
Xia Feng immediately said: "My lord, the little thief has been operating in Yanmen Pass for a long time and must be very strong. Instead of attacking the fortress, it is better to chase him immediately and kill him in one fell swoop before he enters the pass."
When it comes to using military force, attacking a city is the best strategy. It is best to fight outside.
Before Wu Sheng gave the order, Wei Ying continued: "General Xia, the little thief Long Chen is not planning to retreat to Yanmen Pass, but is planning to retreat all the way to Nanliang and take advantage of the scorching heat in the summer."
The ghost girl looked at Wu Sheng. She grew up in the ice field and hated the hot weather and the countless mosquitoes in Nanliang.
If the army were to march to Nanliang and fight Long Chen there, the ghost soldiers might not be able to support it.
When Long Yuan retreated to Nanliang, tens of thousands of ghost soldiers died of heatstroke.
"Is the information accurate?"
Wu Sheng looked at Wei Ying, who said: "My subordinates eavesdropped on Long Chen's plot at night, and the information is accurate."
The news was confirmed, and all the soldiers were waiting for the Martial Saint's decision.
"Xia Feng, I order you to lead five thousand troops, bite Long Chen, and not let them withdraw from Yanmen Pass."
"However, you are not allowed to engage in a full-scale battle with Long Chen until the army arrives."
Wu Sheng was worried that Long Chen would withdraw from Yanmen Pass and the main force would
The team withdrew to Nanliang, so Xia Feng was allowed to pursue them first.
At the same time, he was also wary of Long Chen, fearing that Xia Feng would fall into the trap and suffer a loss, so he did not allow Xia Feng to start a full-scale war.
Xia Feng bowed and said, "The general will take orders to bite the little thief and not let him go."
Wu Sheng nodded, immediately divided his troops into five thousand troops, and ordered Xia Feng to lead him to Yanmen Pass first.
The more than 5,000 warriors brought back by Xia Feng all had war horses. These war horses were captured from the barbarians.
As for the warriors under Wu Sheng and the ghost soldiers led by the ghost girl, they all came out on foot.
Xia Feng was chasing Long Chen and it was impossible to advance by running, so he had to ride a horse.
There were only more than 5,000 war horses, so Wu Sheng only gave Xia Feng 5,000 soldiers and horses.
Xia Feng immediately ordered five thousand elites and assigned war horses to these five thousand warriors.
After the reorganization was completed, Xia Feng led 5,000 elite troops to immediately pursue and kill them.
After the people left, 90,000 warriors on foot, ghost soldiers, remained.
The journey from Storm Canyon to Yanmen Pass was long. If they had only two legs, they would have to walk for at least more than a month.
"Can't you find the barbarians in the grassland?"
Wu Sheng asked Wei Ying, and Wei Ying replied: "Since last year, Long Chen has ordered the barbarians to retreat to the south of Yanmen Pass. After the Holy Son attacked Yanmen Pass, the remaining barbarians in the grasslands also migrated south. They are almost nowhere to be found in the grasslands now.
Barbarian."
The barbarians on the grassland raised horses. In the past, as long as they came out of the Hera Pass, they could find enough war horses and enough food.
When we come out now, there is no hair except ice and snow.
"What should we do? We can't walk there on foot, right?"
Qin Hao, the general who broke the formation, looked at Wei Ying in embarrassment.
The ghost girl doesn't have the ability to spread the beans into an army, and the war horse just doesn't exist.
Guitai stood behind and remained silent, smiling secretly in his heart: Look down on me, let's see what you do now.
Wu Sheng said coldly: "When soldiers fight, they open roads over mountains and build bridges over water. Can't we fight without horses?"< br>
The generals were silent. I had never heard of anyone who could march thousands of miles in a war by walking.
"Set off!"
Wu Sheng walked in front, followed by Qin Hao and other generals.
The priest demon couldn't bear to let the ghost girl walk, so he immediately sent people back to the ice field to transform the sleigh into a sedan.
The Martial Saint has already set off, and the demon spirit first makes a simple sedan chair for the ghost girl to sit on and move forward.
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South of the grassland.
Li Chengdao rode a horse and walked on the lush grass. Green trees and small flowers could be seen on the mountains in the distance.
This place is located near Yuncheng in the north of Xixia. When the spring breeze blows here, the melted ice and snow penetrate deep into the arid land, and flowers, plants and trees bloom with vitality.
On the lush pasture, tens of thousands of war horses spread out, lowering their heads to nibble on the tender green and juicy grass.
Li Chengdao rode his horse slowly towards the group of horses. When the man herding the horse saw Li Chengdao, he thought he was passing by and didn't pay attention.
After passing through the horses, Li Chengdao continued walking south and saw a village in the distance.
This village is very large, surrounded by fields and pastures, and the tenant farmers are plowing in the spring.
This place is located at the junction of grassland and Xixia. The war that Long Chen destroyed Xixia did not spread to the end. In addition, the owner of Zhuangzi is capable, so Zhuangzi is well preserved.
Arriving in front of Zhuangzi, Li Chengdao stopped at the door. Several strong men came over, stopped Li Chengdao, and asked, "Who are you?"
Li Chengdao looked up and glanced at the plaque on the door, which read: Mazhuang.
"Is the owner of the horse farm here?"
Li Chengdao asked coldly.
Although Li Chengdao was the king of a subjugated country, he still had an imperial temperament, coupled with his advanced cultivation, giving people an inexplicable sense of oppression.
The strong man saw that Li Chengdao was extraordinary and did not dare to be rude to him.
"May I ask who this friend is? What business can I have with the owner of my village?"
A lean man walked out of the door and saluted Li Chengdao.
