Wandering the Heavens

Another thing is that the personnel arrangements for this southern expedition were extremely poor. In the emperor's view, in this war to annihilate the country, he mobilized Dayu's most elite royal army and the largest number of garrison troops, and sent out all the famous generals at the same time. With such a luxurious lineup, the Liang army would be scared just by hearing these names, let alone fighting.

This was just his wishful thinking. Helian Wei had made great military achievements and had rich experience, but he had been despised by the generals in Yu after the battle of Qiuling Pass more than ten years ago, especially those rising stars. At his age, they believed that Helian Wei should not be alive.

Helian Wei was very excited when he first learned that he was leading an army of 200,000 to march south, because the opportunity to avenge his humiliation had come. However, after receiving the list of the troops to march south, he lost his initial enthusiasm.

Not to mention the two old guys Helian Yi and Nalan Xun who were at odds with him, even Nalan Wusha, who was two generations younger, was not convinced by him. Helian Wei had no choice but to separate the people and fight them separately, thinking that this would allow the war to proceed smoothly.

But now, the Liang army took the initiative to attack. No matter how many people there were on the other side, they had already lost.

"Shaojie, it's me who has implicated you." Helian Wei's voice was as thin as the flapping of mosquito wings.

"My lord, what did you say?"

Si Shaojie looked at Helian Wei and wanted to ask but found something wrong. He hurriedly walked forward and put his finger under Helian Wei's nostrils to test his breath.

"My Lord, why did you come to Qiuling Pass?"

Si Shaojie used up all his strength to say this. He suppressed his grief, laid Helian Wei's frail body flat, and then sat at the desk to write a memorial of apology.

Wang Biao, who was rushing to the front line, didn't know that his benefactor had quietly died on the expedition. He wanted to repel the enemy and then come back to discuss the next marching route.

A person's energy is always limited. There are very few people in this world who are both skilled in martial arts and can lead troops in battle, and Yu Xian, that guy with a cheat code, is not one of them.

Xuan Bu was standing on the big banner at this moment, watching his soldiers being charged and cut by the Liang cavalry, but he was powerless to do anything.

"General Xuan, please come down and talk!"

Xuan Bu looked down at Wang Biao who was in the command position and could only fly back to the position where a vanguard general should be.

"General Wang, the situation is not good. If the imperial army was not so powerful, we would have been defeated by now." Xuan Bu was very arrogant as a martial arts master, but when it came to battlefield command, he had to admire these generals who relied on their brains to make a living.

"I'm afraid that the Imperial Army can't hold out for much longer. Now it's just the cavalry charging, but the enemy's infantry is also beginning to touch the main army's positions." Wang Biao saw the decline of the Imperial Army as soon as he arrived at the command position.

"General Wang, what should we do?" Xuan Bu was also helpless.

"Continue to shrink the defense line. The enemy's strength is equal to that of the imperial army. As long as we hold on, they will not be able to continue to launch such a swift offensive. But they cannot retreat either. At this time, we immediately send a message to Xu Chuan and Ji Yang, asking them to march as quickly as possible to encircle them from Qiuling Pass. In this way, we can annihilate the enemy here with internal and external cooperation." There is a reason why Wang Biao entered Helian Wei's vision and was promoted.

"General Wang, will Prince Yong and Marquis Yongyi follow this deployment?" Xuan Bu is not just a martial arts expert.

His words are very valuable. On the surface, Helian Wei is the commander of the southern expedition army. Everyone can just look at his statement in front of the emperor. If you really believe it, you will be shocked. In fact, the 200,000-man army was led by three people, namely, King Helian Wei of Yue, King Helian Yi of Yong, and Nalan Xun, the Marquis of Yongyi.

Helian Yi and Nalan Xun heard that the main force of the Liang army was blocking the Yue King Helian Wei's troops. They probably thought that the Liang army was going out to fight, and Qiuling Pass must be empty. If they didn't take Qiuling Pass now, when would they take it? As for the Yue King, he himself was not doing well in the battle and hindered the southern expedition. They must report him severely!

"General Xuan, let's gather the defense line first! It will be too late if you're late." Wang Biao felt that this guy was talking about things that were irrelevant.

Yu Xian, who was fighting, naturally felt the movements of the imperial army. He had been fighting with the cavalry for so long, and the infantry had not caught up yet. He had a preliminary understanding of the Liang army's combat capability. There was still a long way to go to unify the world!

He immediately turned his horse around and led his men to rush in one direction. Based on his understanding of the surrounding terrain and the Yu army's formation, the command post of the front army should be in that direction.

When Mu Nihuang saw Commander Yu Xian's cavalry suddenly change direction, she was a little panicked at first, but now she had no way to understand why this change happened.

"Send a message to the cavalry reserve to send 5,000 men to support the military advisor!" This was all Mu Nihuang could do.

Yu Xian, who was charging into the army formation, rushed into the battlefield deeper than expected like the tip of an arrow, which attracted the attention of Wang Biao and Xuan Bu.

"General Xuan, we have been discovered, let's evacuate quickly." Wang Biao hurriedly greeted Xuan Bu, who was in charge of shrinking the defense line.

"General Wang, there is no need to do this. It is impossible for the cavalry he leads to raid here. Besides, with Xuanbu's martial arts, he can't cope with the fighting on the battlefield, but can't he deal with these cavalry?" Xuanbu thought that Wang Biao was worrying too much.

As Xuan Bu expected, the cavalry suffered more casualties after entering the unexpected depth of the battlefield.

"Military Advisor, let's retreat!" The cavalry commander had already begun to think about retreating.

"We can't retreat. The enemy is already shrinking its defense line, but the infantry has not caught up. If we retreat, it will be impossible to annihilate the imperial army. Then we will have to retreat back to Qiuling Pass and will no longer have the strength to march north." Yu Xian has a clear view of the current situation.

"Alas, it's all because of those cowards, the infantry commander! We've been fighting for most of the time, but they are just leisurely walking on the road!" The cavalry commander vented his anger on the Yu soldiers who were blocking his way.

After sacrificing nearly half of his troops, Yu Xian finally led his cavalry to a position a hundred steps away from Wang Biao and Xuan Bu. The elite imperial army guards had already erected huge shields in advance to form a high wall.

Yu Xian reined in his horse, drew his bow and shot an arrow towards the center of the high wall. The arrow pierced through the huge shield, taking away several soldiers behind it before falling to the ground.

Before the guards could fill the vacant positions, a rain of arrows fell from the sky, and their armor was no match for this almost blind-angle shooting.

Seeing that the enemy's formation began to become chaotic, the cavalry commander wanted to order a charge but was stopped by Yu Xian.

While everyone was wondering, Yu Xian took out a cloth bag on his back, and his personal soldier quickly took out a fire starter and lit the fuse on the cloth bag.

Yu Xian counted the time and threw the smoking cloth bag towards the high wall built with huge shields. With a deafening explosion, a gap over ten feet wide appeared in the high wall. Yu Xian took the lead and rushed towards the gap with a saber in hand, followed by his personal soldiers, then the cavalry commander, and finally most of the cavalry.

Xuan Bu underestimated the equipment and tactics of this cavalry. By the time he reacted, the elite imperial guards had been chopped down by the cavalry like leeks.

"Come here, escort General Wang back to the central army immediately!" Xuan Bu said this and jumped onto his horse. He wanted to meet the man who could shoot through the giant shield and kill seven or eight soldiers.

"General Xuan, don't act on impulse. The front army cannot be saved. Let's return to the central army together!" Wang Biao shouted as he was carried away by his personal soldiers.

"General Wang, Xuanbu is rude!" Xuanbu smiled reluctantly.

Only at this moment did he understand why people like Meng Zhi and Yue Xiu Ze only served as military officers such as commanders of the imperial guards, but never went to the battlefield. It turned out that fighting on the battlefield and personal bravery were two different things.

While everyone was fighting, Yu Xian used his old trick again. He drew his bow and shot an arrow at the big banner.

However, the arrow that could have shot down a flagpole several inches thick was cut off by a sword in mid-air.

"I am Xuan Bu! Tell me your name!"

Yu Xian looked at the person in front of him and remembered that he was the number one in the world.

"Yu Xian, a staff member of Prince Mu's palace."

Yu Xian jumped off his horse and flew towards Xuan Bu, with his right palm facing forward, and the wind from his palm emitted a faint sound of a dragon's roar.