We have fought to the Arctic Circle, and you want me to inherit the throne?

Time was running out, so the captain and Shi Yong acted separately.

The captain organized the soldiers to implement Shi Yong's plan.

Shi Yong went to persuade the miners.

As soon as I arrived at the construction site, I was met with terrified glances.

The miners heard the assembly call and saw the soldiers on high alert. Although they did not hear the military intelligence with their own ears, they all guessed that danger was coming.

Shi Yong met those gazes and his thoughts became more determined.

He said loudly: "Fellow villagers, listen to me..."

"Master Shi, you don't need to say anything." A miner said, "Is it the barbarians who are coming?"

Shi Yong is the best official to the people in the entire mine, and many people know him.

"Are the government troops going to withdraw?" the miner said with a wry smile. "Master Shi, you should run too. We know what to do. Let's scatter and run. Whether we survive or not is up to fate."

The miners are used to it. This is what they did when the barbarians came to extort money.

The defenders of Ninggu County were even worse before. In order to avoid getting themselves into trouble, they would prohibit the people from escaping and lock the gates of the inner city tightly.

Hearing this, Shi Yong felt very upset.

It turned out to be the case.

It turns out that the people of this world have always been abandoned.

After a moment of silence, his eyes grew firm. "No, no one of us will run away this time! This time, we'll fight them to the death!"

The miners suddenly fell silent, looking at the figure above them in disbelief.

"But, I need your help!"

. . . . . .

Mo Kunye galloped on his horse, followed closely by 2,500 wolf riders.

Someone beside him shouted, "Sir, the mine is just ahead. We only let one sentry escape. I'm afraid the Daqing garrison there is already prepared."

"No problem," Mo Kunye replied. "The mine is only guarded by a few hundred Daqing soldiers. Besides, the Qing people are weak and don't know how to ride. Even if they are prepared, what good will it do?"

"Sir, that mine only has some iron ore. What's the use of it?"

"What do you know?" Mo Kunye laughed. "The newly arrived Prince of Ninggu was rude to the Khan, and the Khan is already planning to raise an army."

"My Tuben tribe has conquered an iron mine in Daqing. The Khan will surely be delighted. Perhaps this year he will give us the most fertile pasture."

The Khitan tribes implemented the policy of "living in separate areas but living together as a clan". Each tribe formed an army and had a certain degree of autonomy.

The Mutant Tribe was one of the medium-sized tribes. Unlike the Mohe people, the Khitan supreme leader had greater control over the tribes and was called the Supreme Khan.

Other tribes believed in the Khan, believing that he was a god who had descended from heaven and led the Khitan people to invincibility.

In order to please the Khan, Mokunye had already sent several scouts to the vicinity of Chaoyang City and finally found the mine.

"Sir, look ahead!" The guard suddenly pointed forward.

Mokunye came to his senses and looked away.

But he saw a military flag flying in front of him, with a huge word "Feng" written in Xia language on it.

Beneath the military flags stood rows and rows of Daqing soldiers in iron armor, stretching as far as the eye could see, numbering in the thousands.

"How could there be so many people?!" Mo Kunye exclaimed in shock. "Didn't they say there was only a battalion of troops stationed here? What's Feng? Aren't the troops stationed here the Ninggu County Prince's army?"

He did not dare to act rashly and quickly ordered the wolf riders behind him to slow down so as not to rush into the army formation.

The other end.

The captain held his sword, looking solemnly at the wolf riders all over the mountains, his palms gripping the hilt covered in sweat.

In front of him were rows of Ninggu soldiers, and behind him were a group of miners covered in black dust, holding iron pickaxes and long sticks.

Although the miners were so nervous that they could hardly stand, they still tried their best to not fall down and maintain their formation.

"Political Commissar, will your plan work?" the captain asked softly.

Shi Yong held a large bow in his hand, his expression calm:

"Don't worry, this is a reverse slope with a lower slope. From the enemy's perspective, they can only see our fully armed soldiers in the front row, but not the miners in the back."

"In their eyes, we are just a few thousand elite soldiers in full armor. This is a deceptive plan!"

The captain swallowed his saliva. He had no idea what the reverse slope and concealing the truth were. But he inexplicably felt that it looked very powerful.

"Slow down, they're slowing down!" a team member suddenly shouted excitedly.

The captain quickly looked into the distance and saw that the wolf riders in the distance had indeed slowed down, and he immediately breathed a sigh of relief.

Then his expression changed and he scolded, "What are you yelling about? The political commissar's plan is flawless. What's the big deal?"

Before he could finish, he heard the captain exclaim again: "It's moving again, it's moving again!"

The captain was startled and looked up.

The Khitan wolf riders suddenly split into two teams, encircling the left and right wings of the battle formation respectively.

"As expected." Shi Yong remained calm. "We just need to follow the plan."

The Khitans were not fools. They were all cavalrymen who could fight and run. How could they be scared away by a few thousand infantrymen?

They will definitely come up to test us, and may even shoot arrows to harass us from a distance.

"Get the soldiers in the woods behind us moving!" the captain shouted.

In the woods behind, all the horses in the camp were gathered together.

There were more than fifty cavalrymen in total, with branches tied to their horses' tails, galloping back and forth in the woods, raising dust.

Suddenly, birds started to fly out of the forest in panic, and dust spread from the edge of the woods.

"stop!"

Mo Kunye had excellent eyesight. When he saw something unusual behind the Daqing army, he immediately became alert.

The wolf cavalry on the left wing, which he led personally, slowly stopped. When the cavalry on the right wing saw this, although they didn't know what was happening, they could only cooperate and slowly stop.

"Sir, what's wrong?" someone asked.

Mo Kunye's face was solemn. "The woods behind the Daqing army are dusty and startled birds. This is a sign of an ambush!"

Everyone looked over quickly and saw that it was just as Mo Kunye said.

"The people of Daqing are cunning and well versed in the art of war. We must be on guard against them."

As Mokunye spoke, he looked around.

This area is indeed a plain, but there is a depression on the left and a rocky beach on the right, neither of which is suitable for cavalry operations.

If there is a cavalry hiding in the woods, they don't need a large number, we just need to tie up our own wolf riders.

Those thousands of armored heavy infantry would rush forward and pull the Khitan warriors off their horses.

Thinking of this, Mokunye hesitated again.

On the other side, the captain felt relieved when he saw the Khitan cavalry stopped again.

"Fight but not fight, retreat but never retreat, but why?"

Shi Yong smiled faintly and replied, "The other side is struggling. They're afraid there's an ambush behind us."

The captain asked again, "Will they retreat because of this?"

"No." Shi Yong shook his head. "The Khitans are barbaric and arrogant. They have already dispatched so many cavalrymen, they will definitely not return empty-handed."

The captain said anxiously, "Doesn't that mean we'll have to fight another round? We only have these miners behind us. If they charge forward, our line will collapse."

"It doesn't matter. I didn't expect them to retreat by using the strategy of confusing the enemy with a false attack."

"Then you want it?"

Shi Yong grinned: "I am waiting for your Highness's reinforcements, but I don't know what the Khitans are waiting for."