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Chapter 347: Shocking the Western Regions (asking for monthly tickets)

Before Li Guanyi entered the city, the people in the city were only inside the city. When they heard the shouts and screams outside, they immediately became quiet. They had already prepared themselves for death, but Li Guanyi's words made their mood fluctuate greatly.

I don’t know how many people were so emotional that they burst into tears and cried loudly.

Li Guanyi stood up, and the old man trembled and said, "General, seriously..."

Li Guanyi said: "The enemy general has been killed by me."

"There are also captives and food supplies that will be transported here. Old sir, please help me pacify the people first, and I will provide them with food later."

"As long as I am here, this city will be safe."

This last sentence was spoken lightly, yet it seemed to have the weight of a mountain.

The old man Niu Shishi was very excited. He looked up and saw many sword marks on the general's armor. The setting sun behind him was like blood, as if he was covered with a cloak. He couldn't help but say, "General, you are so powerful!"

The city gates were opened, and the Anxi Protectorate army entered the city with the wounded and prisoners.

Different from the army of Xiyi City.

They never occupied the homes of ordinary people, nor did they occupy the courtyards of officials.

They all just rest on the road.

They strictly enforced orders and did not harm civilians, which was in stark contrast to the troops in Xiyi City. The first thing they did after entering the city was to start cooking immediately. They set up a marching stove every fifty steps and used all kinds of dry food, grain, and horse meat that died on the battlefield.

Cook together into meat porridge.

These war horses have well-developed muscles and are difficult to chew. If not handled properly, the meat often has some foreign smells. However, the people in this city can only barely survive and are always hungry. They have not smelled meat for nearly a month.

Fan Qing was born into a poor family.

Know that at this time, you should not eat greasy food.

If you have been hungry for too long, eat greasy food, or eat a lot at one time, it is easy to cloud your heart, which may directly lead to many diseases and death.

But because I am too weak, I need to replenish my body.

He ordered the brave warriors in the army to use knives to chop the horse meat into minced meat, skim the horse oil aside and use it as kerosene on the battlefield, tan the horse hide into leather and make leather armor, and process the horse tendons for use in bows and arrows and mechanical devices.

The nature of the Qilin Army of Tiance Mansion.

Because of the Lord's reasons.

The spoils of war cannot be wasted in the slightest.

Fan Qing also took the thick dry food that was originally from the Western Regions and border areas and was hard enough to withstand arrows, and kneaded it into pieces, boiled them together, and finally sprinkled some salt on them to restore the people's physical strength and spirit.

The food was bubbling away, and the aroma was so rich and fragrant, it was so tempting.

Fan Qing repeatedly explained the current rules in the city.

Then let the people line up first and distribute meat porridge.

Then came the sergeants.

The people saw that the army was majestic and solemn, and that they did not harm themselves and drove out foreign enemies. The most special thing was that after their arrival, their lives almost visibly improved. The people were happy and awed, and secretly called them the Heavenly Army.

The fierce general of the Shatuo tribe, whose surname was Zhuye, held the earthenware bowl and looked at the broth and dry food inside. It was no different from that of the common people or even the Anxi Army. He frowned and took a sip. In this era, food with salt, grain and meat can restore mental and physical strength very well.

It's actually very noisy around here, and there's no quiet at all.

Perhaps realizing that Li Guanyi would not use their heads to build a Jingguan, these captives from the Western Regions relaxed to some extent. Once the fear dissipated, their pent-up anger suddenly rose high.

The more than 10,000 prisoners of war left behind by the Western Region Allied Forces were all extremely elite.

The elite soldiers, captains, and generals who still retained their combat effectiveness in this melee were all detained. It can be said that these people were absolutely fierce soldiers who had fought and competed on the battlefield with hundreds of thousands of people.

If these people formed an army, they would definitely pose a greater threat than the 100,000-strong coalition force.

Although the latter has a large number of people, they are not united, orders cannot be delivered immediately, and they are too redundant, which is a disadvantage. These more than 10,000 people are extremely elite and powerful in martial arts. It would be difficult if they were led by a fierce general.

These warriors came from different tribes and were proud of their martial arts. After being captured, they were somewhat angry and cursed Helian Jieshan and other coalition generals in their own language.

What a fool selling hooks!

One general is incompetent and the three armies are exhausted!

You actually let your grandfather, me, get dragged down to this point by you, and have to eat horse meat. When will I, a man from the desert of the Western Regions, eat my own mount...

Ah, but this seems to be a horse from the Dayuan tribe.

The meat is as firm as chewing leather, and the cheeks are useless.

That's okay.

It's just a pity.

The horses of the Dayuan tribe are very good.

The warrior with the surname Zhu Xie sneered, lowered his head to eat the meat porridge, and felt a warm current flowing in his body. After all, he recovered a little, but suddenly he felt that the atmosphere around him suddenly became quiet.

He raised his head and subconsciously clenched the pottery bowl. His body was stiff. Seeing the warrior in mountain-patterned armor coming again, Li Guanyi sat on the stone with a bowl in his hand. The sword at his waist fell on the stone, and the collision of armor plates made a murderous sound.

The place where the prisoners were located was suddenly silent and quiet.

There was only the sound of eating meat porridge, even the sound of eating was very small.

He was afraid that the noise he made while slurping the soup would attract the attention of the person over there.

Li Guanyi raised his eyebrows: "Speak up, why are you not speaking?"

No one dared to speak.

The atmosphere became even more solemn.

Only Zhu Xie stood up and took a glance. Seeing that what Li Guan had in his bowl was no different from what he had eaten, he was extremely curious. Finally, he could no longer bear it and asked in a slightly broken Central Plains dialect, "Why don't you eat something better?"

"If we win big, we can enjoy better things."

"Roasted whole lamb, beautiful woman, and good wine."

Li Guan said succinctly, "Poor."

The brave general Zhu Xie couldn't catch his breath, and the breath was stuck in his throat.

Li Guan laughed: "It's just a joke. We still have money for food, but there is not much food now. The military and civilians should be treated equally. Besides..."

He held the meat porridge in his hand, was silent for a moment, then smiled with emotion:
"The things I want to eat are the ones I used to see and eat all the time."

"Not now."

"Not around."

Zhu Xie looked at him, not knowing what he meant.

Li Guanyi: "Come to think of it, what's your name?"

The warrior put the bowl aside, half-knelt on the ground, and answered:

"I am a noble of Shatuo State, a descendant of Zhuxie family, named Zhuxie Ke Di. Because of my bravery and unparalleled riding and archery skills, the army calls me 'Flying Tiger'. I am defeated by you this time, and I am convinced. You can kill me or chop me up, it's up to you."

"If you want to recruit me into your cavalry, as long as you don't attack my Zhuxie family, even if you want to attack the Shatuo tribe, I will not rebel against you."

The people of the Western Regions are tough and brave. Even within the same tribe, uncles, nephews, and fathers will lead their troops to fight each other for the position of Khan or Chanyu. The losers will either be killed or become mounted slaves.

Li Guanyi said: "Flying Tiger?"

He laughed: "I have been called a raccoon slave."

Zhu Xie Ke Di bowed his head and said respectfully: "You are the god who conquered Fei Hu."

Li Guanyi said: "There is a saying about the Eternal Heaven in the desert and grasslands of the Western Regions?"

Zhu Xiekedi nodded.

Li Guanyi said: "Then I will be your Changshengtian."

!!!

Zhu Xie Ke Di's face changed. There were more than ten thousand people around him, all of whom were skilled in martial arts, but they did not dare to say anything. They did not dare to refute Li Guanyi's words, which were extremely outrageous in the desert and grassland.

Li Guanyi stood up and said with a smile: "Whether you can be used by me or not, I will naturally consider it later. Don't worry, even if I don't let you go, I won't harm your lives."

"These tens of thousands of strong men are also good at tilling the fields."

"Killing him, what a pity."

Zhu Xie Ke Di opened his mouth.

But as soon as Li Guanyi stood up, he walked away.

The fierce soldiers and captains from the Western Regions around him bowed their heads to see him off, no one dared to look up. The glory of the battle had reached this point. Zhu Ye Ke Di knew that even if these people were released and returned to their hometown, they would regain their bravery.

They might still be able to continue wielding weapons, galloping across the desert and grassland, killing enemies, and still have the courage to fight, but even so, even if they were given horses, armor and spears, they would not dare to face this young general from the Central Plains.

The courage in my heart was crushed.

But it is corresponding.

If this group of people gathered under the command of this Central Plains general, their morale would probably always remain extremely high. Even in a desperate situation, as long as the general did not fall, they would not lose hope of survival and victory.

Even if there are only a dozen riders left, they will have the courage to charge towards the army of thousands.

There have been such generals throughout history.

This is the second one.

Zhu Ye Ke Di looked around and saw the looks in the eyes of those Western Region warriors who were unruly and domineering in the past. He thought of the various schools of military strategists his father once mentioned. Among them, the military situation is that both the enemy and us fear me as we fear God.

No one dares to disobey military orders!

Zhu Xie clenched his fist and couldn't help but utter those words from the Central Plains:

"A true man, this is what you should do!"

I used to think this sentence was very literary.

At this moment, I finally felt the heroism in these words.

………………

However, after the war, all the tribes were left behind except the Dayuan tribe. Their horses were fast, and despite repeated attacks, they were still able to gather their old troops and got more than 3,000 people. Relying on their fast horses and powerful bows, they rushed around wildly. The generals from the Central Plains tried their best to follow this group of people, but they were actually escaped.

The leading general of the Dayuan tribe, Mei Cai, was gasping for breath.

The Dayuan tribe all loved horses, so they gathered a herd of more than 3,000 people and led more than 10,000 horses forward. The horse under the crotch of the leading general was red as fire, and its mane was flying like a burning flame. After galloping for a while, the horse sweated like blood.

If you travel day and night, you can cover three thousand miles.

He is the dragon horse with the highest bloodline.

Mai Cai said: "Finally we managed to get out!"

He stroked his chest with his hand, still feeling scared. It seemed that they had targeted his Dayuan tribe several times and rushed at him so hard that he saw stars. There were more than 10,000 people, but in the end only 3,000 were left, and the morale of the army collapsed.

Dayuan is known for its fine horses, and the red-blooded tiger under his crotch is one of them.

Dayuan's cavalry archers were famous throughout the world, with fast and powerful horses and strong bows and arrows.

However, when the army was attacking the city, their ultra-high-speed battlefield mobility could not be fully utilized. They were charged by the Black Armored Army, strangled by the Lions of Anxi City, and then by the Golden Scimitar Cavalry.

Directly defeated. He had never seen such a rogue heavy cavalry.

When Mai Cai thought of those strange cavalry led by the solemn general like a lion, he almost hated them. The golden scimitar cavalry were cutting, the armored cavalry were charging, and then a strange type of soldiers that he had never seen before came pressing forward.

He was covered in heavy armor and held an arm shield in his right hand to protect his vital parts.

Theoretically, such a shield formation is impossible to attack.

It's not an infantry battle. In an infantry battle, the Central Plains heavy armored infantry formed a shield formation, and another group of brave soldiers would cooperate, using long spears to pierce through the gaps in the shield formation, one attacking and one defending, very fierce.

The shield formation is used to resist the enemy, and the killer move is to trap the opponent with a four-sided shield formation, and then thousands of spears stab wildly in the gaps. When the shields are withdrawn, only blood and a pool of rotten flesh are left on the ground.

However, this kind of calm and murderous battle formation will only appear in infantry combat. When it comes to cavalry, without the cooperation of attackers, the shield formation is just a lump of stone.

Just when Mei Cai was thinking this.

The thousand heavy shield cavalrymen took out some strange mechanism from their waists.

It was a strange-looking crossbow.

Can fire the crossbow continuously.

When it came to the battle, this group of shield cavalrymen covered their bodies with shields and held out their crossbows. They pressed forward with the momentum of a landslide. They blocked the arrows from the Dayuan tribe with their heavy shields and charged forward without caring about anything else.

In addition, the crossbow can shoot continuously with such force that it can penetrate rocks.

The Dayuan light cavalry, characterized by high mobility and horse archery, was severely suppressed.

The crossbows were powerful, but they couldn't penetrate the battle formation. However, the Golden Scimitar Cavalry were best at cutting through the battle formation. With the cooperation of the two, they were almost defeated.

No, I'm already in a state of panic.

Mei Cai looked at his mount, the dragon horse, which was having diarrhea as it walked. He didn't know who had drugged it. It could hold back just before the battle, but now that it had run out of the battle formation and was no longer threatened with life and death, the horses became relaxed, as if they had been fed a super strong laxative. It had diarrhea as it walked, and its legs and feet were weak and trembling.

Mai Cai felt extremely distressed, stroked the scales on the horse's back, and said angrily:

"Who did this?"

"Who drugged me?!"

"If I knew, I would definitely tie you up!"

"I'll burn you to ashes with fire!!!"

The deputy general Chan Feng asked, "Sir, where should we go? Should we take the main road?"

Mai Cai calmed down and shouted, "Are you crazy? We are now defeated and our soldiers are exhausted. We have fought several battles in a row and our arrows are almost gone. Our muscles and bones are weak. We don't have much strength to fight again. And yet you brought so many high-quality war horses with you."

"Everyone knows that my Dayuan tribe is home to the best dragon horses. The celestial horses under our crotches are enough to mate with ordinary wild horses and raise a large number of good horses. Add to that the tens of thousands of excellent war horses that we brought with us, and we will definitely be watched by others."

“When traveling in the Western Regions, horses are as important as swords.”

"There is an old saying among the people of the Central Plains: It is like a three-year-old child carrying a thousand gold coins walking in a busy city. He listens to my orders and avoids the roads he came from, the wide roads, and only takes the difficult paths. He cannot gather the horses, so as not to be robbed."

Mai Cai is an experienced veteran of the Dayuan Tribe.

He has the ability to command more than 10,000 people and is skilled in archery and horse riding, with unparalleled archery skills. Although he suffered a great loss this time and was defeated, he still had the ability to make judgments.

No one disobeyed his orders.

More than 3,000 men retreated with tens of thousands of fine war horses.

He is already a good general.

Although the coalition forces were ultimately defeated this time, to be able to step onto a battlefield in the Western Regions with an intensity of over 100,000 soldiers and command troops, one must be a genius among the tribes since childhood. Having been an invincible commander in battles of all sizes within his own tribe and in the surrounding areas, he is not qualified to step onto the battlefield of this world.

But once you step onto this battlefield, there will be winners and losers.

Heroes always meet bigger heroes.

A good general will meet famous generals in the world, or even divine generals whose names will go down in history.

No one can be blamed.

Mei Cai's mood fluctuated greatly. At the beginning, when he was attacked and broken through by hundreds of people, this forty-year-old general even doubted whether he really did not understand the army and could not stop such a small number of people.

Finally, we saw the extremely ferocious General Tianwei breaking into the battle formation alone, and he seemed to be still in the battle formation, and directly killed Helian Jieshan, who was ranked 73rd on the list of famous generals.

Mai Cai's mood took a sharp turn for the worse.

It’s not that I don’t know how to fight, it’s that guy is too weird.

Being able to fight against the fierce generals who killed the marshal in battle without being defeated, we can be considered as famous generals and strong soldiers.

After returning, I have figured out how to explain to the king the reason for this defeat. I just say that the general was terrible, and Helian Jieshan was also defeated. It was extremely difficult for us to gather the remnants. Moreover, we still have so many war horses, and the king will be satisfied.

But when Mei Cai was thinking about it, he suddenly heard a rumbling sound in front of him. After a while, an army appeared on the road. Mei Cai's face changed drastically. He tightened the reins, but saw a crossbow in front of him was drawn, and a general appeared. He was over 30 years old, handsome and cunning. He bowed and said:
"Anxi Protectorate, under Tianger's command."

"I am Changsun Wuchou, following the orders of the city lord and the master, and have been waiting for you all for a long time!"

As the voice fell, the sound of the bowstring being tightened continued.

Suddenly, the color of the cicada cover changed drastically.

After hearing the name, they lost their will to fight. The fear and fatigue that had accumulated before burst out all at once. It didn't take Changsun Wuchou much effort to accept this group of people. The people he brought with him were even just the troops who were escorting food and armor from Xiyi City.

Changsun Wuchou controlled these thousands of people and looked at the brocade bag that Fan Qing threw to him. It said that he and others should wait on the side road - [The horses of Dayuan are fast. The coalition forces cannot be united. Some of them will surely escape. Changsun, you have worked hard. Please keep these Dayuan cavalrymen.]

[The improvement of our war horses is due to this]

[If successful, I will report this to my lord and record your achievement]!
Changsun Wuchou tied up this group of people, and did not return to Xiyi City with the thousands of people he had brought out from Xiyi City. Instead, he first took a group of people to deliver food and other supplies to Li Guanyi, and then personally led this group of people and escorted the horses back to Anxi City.

The news of this great battle had not yet been fully spread, but before the battle, the news that reinforcements were sent from the two cities of Xiyi and Anxi, with flags stretching for dozens of miles and the sound of drums and gongs being heard day and night, had already spread.

Li Guanyi and his companions had been in the Western Regions for several months and had established a vast base. The entire territory of their homeland, Agni, was under his control, and the surrounding city-states, large and small, had been beaten more than once by Fan Qing and his men.

However, these city-state nobles were still dissatisfied. Knowing that Li Guanyi had left with his troops, they thought their chance had come, so they gathered together an allied force of tens of thousands, including auxiliary troops, logistics, and even ordinary people from the Western Regions who were skilled in horse riding and archery.

It was a huge army, claiming to have 50,000 troops.

Coming towards the "empty city" of Anxi City.

When they arrived in front of the city, they saw a scholar sitting on the wall, playing the piano calmly and leisurely. The music was melodious. On the left, a girl from the Western Regions was holding a whisk, and on the right, a young man from the Central Plains was holding an incense burner.

The sound of the piano is melodious and truly magnificent.

However, the rulers of many city-states in the Western Regions did not know the beauty of Po Jun's calmness and only shouted: "You man, what are you doing playing the piano here? Are you welcoming your father?!"

"Hahahaha, great piano music!"

Veins bulged on Pojun's forehead.

"The barbarians don't understand my Central Plains manners!"

Saatanti held the whisk and said quickly, "Sir, didn't you say you wanted to attract attention? You can't be angry, sir."

The young man next to him was captured to make up the numbers. He was a martial arts expert from Changfeng Tower who had disguised himself as him. He grinned, held the dagger, and was ready to protect Mr. Pojun who insisted on pretending.

Mr. Pojun sneered and said, "I'll teach you a lesson."

"I play the piano in the midst of thousands of troops. This is called being calm and unhurried. It can attract attention, but there is another way..."

The handsome scholar stood up and picked up the xylophone.

He grinned and threw the zither away, raised his middle finger, and cursed loudly with great momentum:
"Your father is here!!!"

After saying that, he quickly took out the Yu Shui sword given to him by Li Guanyi from under the table and was about to jump down from the city wall to chop people.

Saatanti hastily grabbed Mr. Pojun, a man of calm and dignified bearing, who was well-versed in astronomy, geography, mythology, music, weapons and archery.

I just don't know why, but I have a passion for hand-to-hand combat that is incomprehensible to ordinary people.

The zither fell down and didn't even reach the foreign general.

Everyone in the Western Regions laughed out loud, and Pojun, who was held by Saatanti, curled his lips slightly.

The xylophone smashed to the ground, creating a cloud of mist. The mechanism had been prepared in advance, and the powder flew up and was blown by the wind. He squinted his eyes and suddenly heard the sound of bowstrings. Behind the newly built arrow rafts on the city wall, tens of thousands of dismounted archers drew their bows.

Wang Shunchen personally led the volley.

Just a rain of arrows made the Western Regions Army, which had lost their vigilance due to the destruction of the army, scream in pain.

Po Jun, who seemed to be extremely angry, became lazy and stopped struggling. The girl grabbed his arm and just said, "General Wang Shunchen, I leave it to you. Ah, these people are so stupid. If they were famous generals in the Central Plains, they would have known there was an ambush long ago."

Wang Shunchen nodded, took out three arrows, pointed to the seven lieutenants and generals in front of him, and said loudly: "Today, I will let the three people in front of me who made fun of you smile."

Three arrows were shot first, and the three captains and generals were pierced through the face by the arrows and fell to the ground. The Western Region Army retreated, and the four captains and generals slapped their horses and turned around, but they were shot in the back at the same time, piercing through the chest, and fell to the ground.

Wang Shunchen relied on the city’s defense to display his divine power.

With tens of thousands of archers and cavalry, plus top generals, and the cities repaired by the Mohist and Gongsun families, Anxi City, which was built with Li Guanyi's fortune, is now the number one fortress within a thousand miles.

Arrows rained down and crossbow bolts flew.

Li Guanyi has obtained 500,000 wolf-fang hook arrows and they are on the way.

So Wang Shunchen stopped using arrows sparingly.

He could shoot thousands of arrows by himself.

It was really refreshing.

It is a great victory!

The troops in the Western Regions suffered a great loss and retreated to rest.

Just when Pojun was about to carry out many ingenious strategies, the Western Regions troops who had come here when Li Guanyi was away got some unknown news. On that day, screams and wails were heard in the camp. In the candlelight and above the tents, the reflections of swords and axes were reflected.

On the third day, Po Jun saw that the so-called tens of thousands of troops had retreated thirty miles away, and was still confused.

Dozens of riders personally rushed forward, throwing away their weapons from a distance and spreading their arms to show that they were not here to fight. They walked forward dozens of steps and put several unwilling heads on the ground.

He bowed respectfully to the ground and kowtowed:
"We didn't know it was General Tianwei's city. We were bewitched by these people and actually offended you. We have killed the culprit and gave gold, arrows, and heads as gifts to make amends."

"Please don't blame us."

Pojun, who had prepared a series of clever plans, and Wang Shunchen, who was planning to show his power, were both holding back their anger.

No, my plan hasn’t been used yet?

Why did you surrender?

This is wrong!

I was puzzled like this until these people from the Western Regions retreated and the news could be passed in.

Po Jun had a guess, and said to Wang Shunchen with a smile: "It seems that the results achieved by the lord on the battlefield are even greater than I expected, and it actually made these people in the Western Regions so afraid."

Pojun opened the intelligence and casually saw the records on it.

[A coalition of 100,000 troops from seven Western Regions besieged Yemen Pass]

[Tianger of Anxi City personally charged into the battle array, beheaded the commander in the midst of an army of 100,000]

【The difficulty is solved】

The expression of being always calm and confident, as if holding everything in his hands, was frozen on Pojun's face.

"????"

Kill the commander in a battle among an army of 100,000?
Who?
(End of this chapter)