"So what is your choice?" The Han family sat on the family seat and looked at the senior officials and said: "Now Xiliang King Li Xiang has surrounded us. Our cavalry is indeed on the way back, but can
I don’t know if we can’t break through the Xiliang army’s blockade.”
"I don't think King Li Xiang of Xiliang would let 70,000 cavalry just return to Anding City. Maybe 70,000 cavalry is nothing in his eyes, but the arrival of 70,000 cavalry will make the morale of the soldiers in the city high." Han Family Station
Get up: "Fighting requires courage. When the soldiers in the city see hope, they will fight bravely to kill the enemy. This makes it more difficult for the Xiliang army to attack our city."
"A man as smart as King Li Xiang of Xiliang would make such a mistake, so I am sure that King Li Xiang of Xiliang would lead the Xiliang cavalry to attack them on the way back to the 70,000 cavalry, and eliminate all threats.
Nipped in the bud.”
"Do you think my Han family's cavalry can fight against the Xiliang cavalry on the plains?"
The words of the Han family made all the senior officials present lower their heads. The Han family is the weakest among the three major families. If the grassland tribe did not rise, the Han family could compete with the other two families for hegemony.
However, since the rise of the grassland tribes, their winter vacation pastures on the grasslands have been gradually taken away by those grassland tribes. The disappearance of the pastures means that the economic income of the Han family has decreased.
The Han family relies on buying most of their food from outside, and the money to buy food comes from the pastures on the grassland.
Without the income from pasture, the Han family's economic income is getting lower year by year, which makes them unable to maintain too many troops and can only maintain the supply of elite troops.
This time of large-scale recruitment, it only gave the soldiers a bite of food. As for issues such as military pay, there was no need to think about it. To support so many troops, the Han family even used their capital.
Don't worry about military pay.
Those 70,000 cavalry are the last elite cavalry of the Han family. If these 70,000 elite cavalry are gone, their status on the grassland will be further reduced.
Because they can no longer drive away those grassland tribes. Although their Han family's infantry is not weak, can you use infantry to compete with cavalry on the grassland?
The opponent will not take the initiative to attack your military formation. They only need to watch from a distance and use long-range weapons to still suppress you.
And even if the grassland tribes were defeated on the battlefield, they would not suffer much loss.
Your infantry will never be able to catch up with the cavalry. Their defeat is just a small defeat, but once the Han family is defeated, it will be a major defeat.
The hunting ability of cavalry on the battlefield is infinitely more powerful than that of infantry. Once they fail, they lose the protection of the formation.
The infantry are like lambs waiting to be slaughtered by the prairie cavalry.
Those 70,000 cavalry are very important to the Han family.
A young man from the top management stood up and said, "Master, do you think you are planning to defect to Xiliang?"
The head of the Han family raised his eyes and looked at the young man: "Do you have any opinions?"
The young man said righteously: "We have joined forces with the other two major families. Now the armies of the two major families are confronting the Xiliang army on the Fufeng battlefield. Xiliang will at most go up and live in Zhangye County."
"We just need to hold on to Anding City and wait for the army to return for reinforcements. I think the Xiliang army will not be so stupid. They will retreat before our army comes back, because our army can directly cut off their retreat."
"We are worried about the 70,000 cavalry. We can send scouts to keep the cavalry from getting too close to the Xiliang army. Let them wait for the infantry army to come back and follow the infantry army."
"I don't believe it anymore. Could it be that the Xiliang army can still eat all the hundreds of thousands of Han family's troops?"
The young man's words made the senior executives present couldn't help but nod, as they did not want to give up their hard-earned position.
Once the Han family takes refuge in Xiliang, they will have to follow the new laws and regulations. They have become accustomed to all kinds of laxity. On the territory of the Han family, they are the heaven and the earth.
They can do whatever they want. If they go to Xiliang, they have to live according to the laws and regulations of Xiliang.
The laws and regulations in the southwest are very friendly to the common people at the bottom, but for aristocratic families like theirs, it puts a tight curse on them.
What the aristocratic family can and cannot do, if it is clearly stated in the laws and regulations, more than half of their privileges in Xiliang will disappear.
And from now on, they will no longer own land, and the land they own may be taken away by the Xiliang government at any time.
Many of them took advantage of the Xiliang army to attack the three major families and bought all the land from the big families who were scared away to their own hands.
Most of the land in the Han family's territory has already gone into their pockets. Now if they are asked to take out this land, isn't this robbing them of their money?
"What if Xiliang can really eat this army?" The Han family said coldly: "According to the information we have received so far, this army led by Xiliang King Li Xiang has 30,000 Xiliang people.
It consists of the headquarters' cavalry, 80,000 headquarters infantry, and 50,000 troops of the Seventh Legion, totaling 160,000 horses."
"I don't need to say more about the combat effectiveness of Xiliang headquarters. Everyone should know it." The head of the Han family looked at everyone and said: "The Xiliang cavalry is led by Xiliang King Li Xiang himself. I don't know who among you has the confidence to dare to go."
Fight him? Another thing is that he is a grand master."
The high-ranking officials whose morale had been raised lowered their heads one after another. They didn't want to die yet. There was a battle between a great master and a master. Wasn't the old man seeking death by eating arsenic?
If the Xiliang cavalry problem cannot be solved on the grassland, this problem will threaten the Han family's infantry formation.
Everyone present is qualified to read the information on Xiliang. They all know how sophisticated the armor of the Xiliang army is. The armor of the cavalry is several times better than the armor of the infantry.
Especially the war horses of the Xiliang cavalry. The Xiliang war horses are several times more powerful than the Liangzhou horses. The Xiliang cavalry soldiers are wearing heavy armor, but the Xiliang war horses still lead them running wildly on the grassland.
No matter in terms of explosive power, endurance or physical strength, the Xiliang war horses had already shown the potential to crush them in their first battle with the three major families in Liangzhou.
The most powerful cavalry in Liangzhou at that time was the Liangzhou cavalry led by the young master of the Ma family. Unfortunately, the Liangzhou cavalry was destroyed by the Xiliang cavalry in the end, and the young master of the Ma family who had high hopes died in the battle.
On the battlefield.
At that time, the King of Xiliang was not a Grand Master, but he was already able to lead the Xiliang Iron Cavalry to crush the Liangzhou Iron Cavalry. Now, the King of Xiliang has become a powerful Grand Master.
The power he was able to show on the battlefield was definitely much stronger than before, and they didn't have the same level of strength, so they couldn't resist the cavalry led by this grand master.
On the battlefield, as long as they can create a gap in the opponent's formation, the cavalry can quickly tear the enemy's formation apart, allowing the troops behind to rush into the enemy's hinterland together.
This outcome was very cruel. Without the protection of the military formation, the infantry could not withstand the charge of the cavalry.
The Han family has 70,000 cavalry, but they don't think that those 70,000 cavalry can stop the Xiliang cavalry led by Xiliang King Li Xiang.
"Master, I think we need to fight a dozen to find out." A big man from the main war faction stood up and said, "If we surrender without fighting, wouldn't our Han family become a joke?"
"Is a joke more important than the children of the family?" Another old man stood up and said: "The war is very cruel. Do you think it is worth it for the descendants to die for the sake of fame?"
When a person gets old, he cannot see the difference between life and death, and the vitality in his body will also dissipate with age.
Now they, the old people, just want to live out the rest of their lives peacefully.
"For the honor of the family, everything is worth it!" The big man looked at the head of the family with piercing eyes and said: "Head of the family, I think we should fight with Xiliang. Even if we are defeated, it will not be in vain for what our ancestors fought.
piece of land.”
In the eyes of the main war faction, they can definitely fight against Xiliang. Xiliang's army is indeed very strong, but it is not invincible. They can fight the enemy while sitting in Anding City.
If the Xiliang army is dissatisfied, then please attack on the city wall. Their city wall was not built to open the city gate to let the enemy in, but to resist foreign enemies and prevent the enemy from entering the city.
"Master, let's fight him."
Other young adults said one after another that they were not afraid of war, the blood in their bodies was still there, and they could devote their young lives to the honor of the family.
The old people looked at the young people, and they seemed to see them fighting with the other two families back then. At this time, they were just like these young people, not afraid of anything, and they had a youthful spirit.
Unfortunately, due to family changes, the blood in their hearts gradually disappeared. I don't know when they began to fear war.
I just want to live a stable life.
Maybe we should be like these young people and fight again for the honor of our family.
The old people were not talking.
The Han family looked at the senior officials who shared the same hatred and said with a smile: "Let us come and fight with the southwestern army that stretches across the northwest."
"Since we have chosen war, we must have the belief that success or failure will be a success. For us, there is no retreat at all!"
"Fight to the death for the Han family!"
...
The top leaders of the Han family have unified their opinions, and the entire city has begun to enter a state of war. Before, they could only take some defensive measures, but now they are starting a real war.
They recruited all the young adults in the city. Since they have chosen to fight, they must try their best and go all out.
The entire city began to fall into the smoke of war. The Han family had been operating in this city for so many years and stored a large amount of food and various weapons and equipment.
Take out the food and weapons and equipment, and start arming the young and middle-aged men who have been recruited. The entire city will be turned into a fortress.
Arrow towers began to be built on the city wall, and some things began to be raised in some places. In order to resist various long-range attacks, they made baffles.
Naturally, the actions of the Han family in the city could not be hidden from Li Xiang, who was surrounding the city. Now that Li Xiang saw the actions on the city wall, he already understood the Han family's choice.
They chose war.
"Since you have chosen war, then I will give you war." Li Xiangben was still thinking of taking Anding County in a peaceful way.
Now that I think about it, I am indeed a bit naive. How could these centuries-old families let him win so easily?
"Where are the 70,000 Han family's cavalry now?" Li asked the scout commander next to him.
The scout leader replied: "Back to my lord, we have already rushed back to the plains of Anding County. We are still ten days away from here."
"Where are their infantry armies?"
"The infantry army is still more than a month away from Anding County."
Li Xiang pulled out his long black sword: "Go ahead, Bu Yi, take a photo of it for me."
"yes!"
Soon Bu Yi, who was wearing heavy armor, walked up to Prime Minister Li and said, "Lord, I'm coming!"
"I'm going to take the cavalry out. You are responsible for continuing to besiege the city. When the siege weapons come, attack the city from a distance without sending soldiers there."
"yes!"
"Everything here is left to you. By the way, try not to let the scouts break through." Li Xiang patted Buyi on the shoulder, rode on Xingliao, and looked back at the tall city. Since you are not willing to use peaceful means,
If you try to solve the problem, I will extinguish all your hopes.
Li Xiang sneered and rode away.
Rumble...
Also leaving with Li Xiang were the Xiliang cavalry. He was going to kill those 70,000 cavalry.
With 30,000 Xiliang cavalry and 5,000 Fei Xiong troops in hand, even if the enemy is twice as many as himself, the Han family's cavalry, Li Xiang is sure to kill the opponent.
Li Xiang set off with the Xiliang Iron Cavalry. The huge commotion could not be concealed from the upper management of the Han family who lived in the city, nor could it be hidden from the spies of other forces who were hiding in the surrounding areas to inquire about the news.
Li Xiang didn't even think about hiding it from other people. He just wanted to snipe the Han family's cavalry who came back from the south openly.
By the way, let's take a look and see who is standing behind these three major families to oppose him.
If the three major families didn't have great masters sitting in charge, they wouldn't be able to fight with such confidence.
Perhaps there will be strong masters at the Grand Master level who will die in this war, and there will be more than one Grand Master master on his side.
As time goes by, the weather gradually becomes warmer, but in the land of Liangzhou, there are no various land reclamations in previous years, and there are not many people grazing on those lush pastures.
The hand-to-hand fighting on the Fufeng battlefield has ended. The armies of both sides fought once and then each retreated to their own camps. They all knew that the decisive battle was not yet over.
At most, there are some small battles between the two, in order to compete for some small towns or important water sources.
Reinforcements from Xiliang are still rushing towards Liangzhou.
Everyone is looking for opportunities and waiting for the opportunity.
