Ye Li Yuqi heard Li Yuanhao's instructions, agreed, and quickly exited the Chinese army tent.
After leaving the Chinese army's tent, I glanced in the direction of Shazhou City and saw a group of Song soldiers, led by a fierce general, fighting with the soldiers and horses besieging them.
Ye Li Yuqi looked back at the Chinese army tent behind him, sighed, and ordered someone to lead his horse, got on the horse's back, led a group of soldiers and horses, and fought out of the camp.
After Li Yuanhao was begged and left in Yeli, he also appeared outside the tent, ordered three thousand iron kites and six thousand auxiliary soldiers, and left the camp aggressively.
On the night Li Yuanhao left the camp.
In the camp where Kou Ji and his party were stationed.
Liu Heng hurried into Kou Ji's tent and reported in a deep voice, "Fourth brother, the spies sent out reported that Li Yuanhao left the camp at noon today with 3,000 iron kites and 6,000 auxiliary troops.
Judging from their posture, they should be coming towards us."
Kou Ji asked Liu Heng to sit down and muttered: "With three thousand iron kites and six thousand auxiliary soldiers, Li Yuanhao really thinks highly of me."
This time Li Yuanhao led a large army to attack the Ganzhou Uighurs and Shazhou Uighurs. Among them, the most powerful soldiers and horses were Tie Yaozi.
Now Li Yuanhao abandoned Shazhou City and came to look for Kou Ji with Tie Yaozi. In Kou Ji's view, Li Yuanhao was a bit aggressive.
Liu Heng heard Kou Ji's words, smiled bitterly, and echoed: "Who says it's not the case..."
Kou Ji stared at him and smiled: "It seems we have a tough battle to fight."
Liu Heng asked: "Who are you going to send to lead the army, fourth brother, and which troops are you going to send to meet the enemy?"
Kou Ji pondered: "Let Zhang Yuan lead the 30,000 horse thieves he gathered to try."
Liu Heng's pupils shrank, "The Japanese soldiers in our hands, as well as the iron cavalry in your hands, are not necessarily the opponents of the Iron Kites. If you let those horse thieves deal with the Iron Kites, aren't you asking them to die?
?
Do you intend to give them muskets and artillery?
But if the muskets and artillery fall into the hands of those horse thieves, they will definitely be leaked immediately."
Kou Ji slowly shook his head, "You can't give them muskets and artillery. There are not many highlands in Shazhou, so if you give them artillery, it will be difficult for them to exert the power of the artillery. It will only give Xixia an advantage."
We can't give them muskets either. The loyalty of those horse thieves needs to be verified.
Before confirming their absolute loyalty, giving them muskets is inviting trouble for ourselves."
Liu Heng stared at Kou Ji in astonishment and said: "So you plan to let those horse thieves die? Can Zhang Yuan agree?"
Kou Ji smiled and said: "I have no intention of letting those horse thieves die. I can't give them muskets and artillery, but I can give them some invincible mines and cannons.
The Iron Kites are certainly powerful, but if you use the invincible mine cannon to contain their charging momentum, you can cause them a lot of trouble.
If the horse thieves can make good use of this, even if they can't win, they won't lose too badly."
Liu Heng frowned and said: "Fourth brother plans to use those horse thieves to consume the iron kite's strength. When the iron kite's men and horses are exhausted, we will wait for an opportunity to attack?"
Kou Ji said quietly: "Who said we have to fight against Li Yuanhao?"
Liu Heng looked at Kou Ji in astonishment.
Kou Ji said calmly: "Our mission is to deliver food, not to fight against Li Yuanhao. Li Yuanhao intends to fight with us and wants to see our strength. Why should we follow his wishes?
I am a civil servant, and the team I lead is a team that escorts grain and fodder.
Fighting has never been our task.
There is no need for us to confront Li Yuanhao head-on."
"Then in Deshengchuan..."
"That was a last resort. Now there is no need. In Shazhou City, there are several generals from the Song Dynasty and tens of thousands of soldiers and horses from the Song Dynasty. On the border of Shazhou, there are dozens of generals from the Song Dynasty and hundreds of thousands of elite soldiers.
Soldiers and horses from both sides gathered at one place, with hundreds of thousands of elites.
Hundreds of thousands of elites were enough to force Li Yuanhao back in an upright manner.
Why should we take risks again?
Why do you want to go head-to-head with Li Yuanhao?"
After hearing what Kou Ji said, Liu Heng opened his mouth, not knowing what to say.
What Kou Ji said is correct.
But Liu Heng would always feel unhappy if he didn't have a fight with Li Yuanhao.
Kou Ji seemed to have read Liu Heng's thoughts, and laughed in a low voice: "Li Yuanhao won't die for a while, and the war between the three parties will not be over in a while.
We have the opportunity to bump into Li Yuanhao, and we also have the opportunity to learn from Li Yuanhao."
Liu Heng sighed and nodded slowly.
Kou Ji ordered: "Go down and divide your spies and scouts into two groups. One group will be temporarily loaned to Zhang Yuan. The other group will go outside Shazhou City to find out the true and false status of the Xixia troops outside Shazhou City.
.Find out the weak points.
When the horse thieves were fighting Li Yuanhao, it was the time when we broke through the blockade of Xixia soldiers and horses and sent food and grass to the soldiers in Shazhou City.
Their food and grass were exhausted a month ago, and most of the troops and horses they carried were probably killed.
If we don't send food and grass in, they will probably starve to death."
Liu Heng was stunned for a moment, then nodded solemnly, "I'll give the order right now."
Kou Ji nodded slowly, "After you go out, ask Zhang Yuan to come over."
Liu Heng agreed and exited the tent.
Not long after, Zhang Yuan entered Kou Ji's tent in a dusty state.
"Young Master, are you looking for a villain?"
Kou Ji glanced at Zhang Yuan, nodded slowly, asked Zhang Yuan to sit down, and said straight to the point: "The spies below reported that at noon, in the Xixia military camp, Li Yuanhao led three thousand iron kites and six thousand assistants.
Soldier, left the military camp."
Zhang Yuan was stunned, thought for a moment, and pondered: "Is Li Yuanhao coming for us? We won a great victory in the battle of Deshengchuan, but the results were too shocking, so he wanted to use his elite to test us.
Real strength?"
Kou Ji nodded slowly.
Zhang Yuan's brain reacts quickly.
Kou Ji only said one sentence, and Zhang Yuan immediately guessed Li Yuanhao's purpose.
"Young Master, how do you plan to respond?"
Zhang Yuan’s question.
Kou Ji said frankly: "I am going to send you to lead 30,000 horse thieves to meet the enemy."
Zhang Yuan was stunned and thought about Kou Ji's intention of doing this.
Kou Ji didn't give him much time to guess, and directly opened his mouth to help Zhang Yuan clear up his doubts, "The horse thieves in your hands are mixed, good and bad. Just take this opportunity to clean out the disobedient ones.
When you face Li Yuanhao, you don't have to think about winning.
Just delay as much time as possible.
I will give you enough invincible mine cannons so that you can use the power of firearms to deal with Li Yuanhao."
Zhang Yuan said blankly: "Young master, are you planning to build the plank road openly and secretly attack Chencang?"
Kou Ji smiled and said: "That's right... Our mission is to rescue the soldiers in Shazhou City. As long as we deliver the food to Shazhou City in time and allow more soldiers to survive, our mission will be completed.
If we abandon the soldiers inside Shazhou City and choose to fight Li Yuanhao outside Shazhou City.
No matter how hard you try to win against him, it won't have much effect.
The only way is to rescue the soldiers in Shazhou City and let the soldiers in Shazhou City and the soldiers led by Li Zhaoliang attack from inside and outside. The Xixia army will be defeated without attacking.
After the two armies and horses join together, we can do a lot of things with the help of a huge army.
Don't act out of emotion."
After listening to Kou Ji's words, Zhang Yuan nodded heavily and said: "What the young master said is that we cannot lose big for small."
When Kou Ji heard this, he was stunned for a moment and said with a bright smile: "I was afraid that you wouldn't be able to let go of those horse thieves..."
Zhang Yuan grinned and said: "What is there to be reluctant to part with the horse thieves? There are not many other things in the Western Region, but there are many horse thieves. The Ganzhou Uighurs have been destroyed, the Shazhou Uighurs are in danger, and the Huangtou Uighurs are also in danger of being destroyed."
Many tribes from the three major forces have become horse thieves in order to survive.
As long as we give them a chance to live, there will be many people who will sacrifice their lives for us.
Besides, I prefer the tribes of the three major forces who have become horse thieves than those real horse thieves.
They are easier to control than horse thieves."
Kou Ji nodded slowly, "Go down to Kou Cheng and get a batch of invincible mine cannons. Then go to Liu Heng and second some spies. We'll go out tonight."
Zhang Yuan was shocked: "So fast?"
Kou Ji smiled and said: "Soldiers are valuable and quick, and surprise may have unexpected effects."
Zhang Yuan hesitated for a moment and asked: "Invincible mine cannons, how many can a villain get?"
Kou Ji glanced at Zhang Yuan and said, "You can take whatever I have."
A bright smile instantly appeared on Zhang Yuan's face.
Kou Ji glared at him and whispered: "Greedy..."
Zhang Yuan chuckled and said: "With the help of the invincible mine cannon, maybe we can defeat Li Yuanhao."
Kou Ji said dumbfounded: "If Li Yuanhao is defeated so easily, then he won't be called Li Yuanhao."
Zhang Yuan didn't feel that his words were arrogant at all. He said with a bright smile: "How will you know if you don't try?"
Kou Ji pointed at Zhang Yuan and said angrily: "It's up to you..."
Zhang Yuan stood up, cupped his hands, and left Kou Ji's tent.
Not long after, Kou Ji heard the sound of a large number of horse hooves outside the tent, and put on a big cloak and appeared outside the tent.
Outside the account.
Under the urging of Zhang Yuan and others, the horse thieves got on their horses, waved their scimitars one by one, and left the camp shouting.
Zhang Yuan specially ran to several carriages guarded by the men of the patrol horse guards, begged for the scimitars that had been captured by the yellow-headed Uighur cavalry, and distributed them to the horse thieves who had no weapons.
Groups of horse thieves left the camp.
When the moon was at its peak, the last group of horse thieves, led by Zhang Yuan, escorted several carriages equipped with invincible mine cannons and left the camp.
After Zhang Yuan left, Kou Ji ordered the men of the patrolling horse guard, led the soldiers of the patrolling horse guard to prepare their armor, and all the tigers ran together.
He also ordered Gao Yi to lead the Japanese soldiers and put on the heavy armor that truly belonged to them.
After everything is ready.
Kou Ji ordered the peasants to pack up the camp with the prisoners and prepare to travel overnight.
Three thousand iron cavalry, more than a thousand horse guards sitting on carriages controlling hundreds of tigers galloping together, more than 2,800 Japanese soldiers wearing heavy armor, escorting a huge grain transport team.
Braving the darkness, we rushed to Shazhou City.
Careful people discovered after walking for an hour that the path they took was not the same as the path taken by the horse thieves who left before.
But no one dared to question this.
Kou Ji and his party moved forward silently.
Zhang Yuan and his party were charging with great fanfare.
Horse thieves are like a gust of wind on the grassland.
He always likes to rush towards his goal.
It means to intimidate others.
It's more of a nature.
They just like to do things arrogantly.
After crossing the short desert in Shazhou, you will enter a withered and yellow grassland.
Thirty thousand horse thieves were running on the grass.
The momentum is very fierce.
Rolling like thunder.
Unstoppable.
The moment the horse thieves appeared, Li Yuanhao heard their movements by spying on the horses.
It is different from what Ye Li Yuqi described before.
The Tanma sent by Li Yuanhao to find out the news was not pursued by elite cavalry armed with firearms, nor was it attacked by firearms buried underground.
Li Yuanhao just sent out a scouting horse to patrol around, and easily obtained the eastern territory of the horse thieves.
Under a low hill.
Li Yuanhao sat by the campfire, and the iron kites sat beside him and wiped their armor.
The scout stood in front of him respectfully and reported the news of the horse thief.
After listening to the scout's report, Li Yuanhao frowned and said: "Thirty thousand cavalry, without any cover-up, just rushed towards us like this?
What the hell is Kou Ji doing?"
After hearing Li Yuanhao's questions, the iron kites surrounding him didn't make any noise.
They know Li Yuanhao's nature well and know that Li Yuanhao prefers to ask and answer questions for himself.
If you open your mouth to answer Li Yuanhao's question, you will be scolded by Li Yuanhao.
Li Yuanhao sat by the campfire, thought for a long time, and then ordered the scout: "Take the people and continue to investigate. You must find out the true and false status of the other party."
The scout agreed and left the stronghold with the other scouts.
Just when the scouts left, Zhang Yuan had already led the horse thieves and rushed fifteen miles away from Li Yuanhao and his party.
The scouts went out for an hour and a half and appeared in front of Li Yuanhao again.
This time, the news they brought back was very detailed.
"Your Highness, the enemy troops have arrived ten miles away from our stronghold. They stopped ten miles away. My subordinates led people to conduct a detailed investigation and found that although the enemy troops were large in number, they were not as strong as Song Dynasty.
military.
Instead, it looks like a large group of horse thieves gathered together, a rabble."
Li Yuanhao frowned when he heard the scout's report.
"Kou Ji sent a mob of 30,000 people to deal with me? Does he look down on me, or does he have other plans?"
Li Yuanhao muttered to himself and asked with his eyes widened: "Can you find out the movements of the elite cavalry under Kou Ji's command? And the grain carts filled with grain?"
The scout slowly shook his head.
Li Yuanhao frowned even more tightly.
"There are no elite cavalry, no food, just a group of horse thieves. Does he want to use this group of horse thieves to consume our physical strength, and then wait for an opportunity to attack?"
"Or is he planning to use these horse thieves to deceive others? He wants to build the plank road openly and secretly infiltrate the warehouse?"
"..."
Li Yuanhao lowered his head and pondered. After thinking for a long time, he sneered, "No matter what plan you have, you can't escape my grasp. A bunch of rabble cannot pose a threat to me."
Since you came to your door for me to kill, if I don’t kill you, I won’t give you face.
You have a fine cavalry in your hand, but the iron kite in my hand is stronger."