The king behind the empress

Chapter 413 Camping in the Prairie
Kou Yi successfully obtained a transfer order of [-] troops from Mo Yuanji, and also donated another [-] as a gift, but it was just people, and Mo Yuanji didn't even send out a grain of food.

However, Kou Yi didn't mind about it. After all, he had been mentally prepared for this matter, and he had made a countermeasure, so as soon as the court's food and grass arrived, he immediately led an army of 2 out of Tianmen City. Food and grass are only for [-] people, and now the number has doubled, so he will naturally have to make a quick decision.

In the grassland, after Kou Yi slaughtered several tribes, he stopped marching and set up a camp on the spot, as if he was waiting for something.

"Kou Shuai, why don't you continue marching?"

In the camp of the Chinese army, the four generals brought by Kou Yi were among them, and it was Liu Yu, one of the two generals that Kou Yi had ordered earlier, who asked the question.

"There are only six tribes, which is not enough, why stop here? This is going to be surrounded, isn't it troublesome."

It was not only Liu Yu who camped here for Kou Yi, but the others were also somewhat puzzled. According to the usual rules, the barbarians slaughtered seven towns, and they had to slaughter at least seven tribes in retaliation.

But now after Kou Yi slaughtered six tribes, he suddenly stopped here and didn't leave, which made them a little puzzled.

After all, the grassland was the territory of the barbarians, and it was nothing to kill a few small tribes in a surprise attack, but it would be a bit troublesome to wait until the barbarians reacted and mobilized a large army.

At that time, it is hard to say that they will have a tough battle with the barbarians. Although they have already fought against the barbarians and won, the problem is that there are 10,000+ people in their Tianmen army. So even if the overall strength is not as good as the barbarians, under the leadership of Kou Yi, they dare to confront the barbarians head-on.

But how many of them are there now?It's only 4 people, and if [-] people are really going to be encircled and suppressed, it will be a big trouble. After all, the individual strength of the barbarians is astonishingly strong. If there is no advantage in numbers, this battle cannot be won at all.

"Why, are you afraid?"

Kou Yi looked at Liu Yu and smiled. At this time, he did not have the domineering in Bei'an Palace, but was unusually easy-going. If you ignore his muscles that are stronger than those of young people, he looks like a No different from an ordinary little old man.

He looked at Liu Yu, and joked, "I never thought that the boy who dared to cut off the retreat of the barbarians with five hundred cavalry back then would be afraid when he got older."

"Who is afraid!"

Liu Yu is almost 60 years old now. Although he has cultivation base, his hair is still more than half white. Hearing Kou Yi's teasing at this time, he couldn't help but blush, and then said with a straight neck: "It's just a group of Just uncivilized savages, I'd be afraid of them."

"I just think that we have a small number of people, and it's not worth fighting with them. It would be better to go back after finishing the fight, so as to save fighting with them."

Kou Yi watched Liu Yu's neck turn red with excitement, and there was a look of reminiscence on his face. When Liu Yu led 500 people to rob the barbarians, he seemed to have the same temper. It has been decades, and it is really a bit Nothing has changed.

Just hearing Liu Yu's last words, he put away the look of memory on his face, shook his head slightly, and said, "Go back? I'm afraid we won't be able to go back this time."

"Ok?"

Hearing this, Liu Yu and the others in the military tent were all taken aback for a moment. Didn't they just come out to fight against a few barbarian tribes? Although this happened rarely in recent years, it's not unheard of. Why can't they go back all of a sudden? What?

Liu Yu was the first to react, and he asked a little puzzled: "Kou Shuai, what do you mean you can't go back?"

Kou Yi shook his head, did not answer his question, but said, "Actually, I originally planned to bring only Liu Yu and Sun Qing this time."

"Just the two of us?"

Sun Qing glanced at Liu Yu, and then thought of what Kou Yi said just now. His heart moved slightly, and he couldn't help but ask, "Shuai Kou, why did you bring the two of us straight?"

"Ah."

Kou Yi smiled, glanced at Liu Yu and Sun Qing, and asked, "You guys still have contact with Situ Yao?"

Kou Yi's words instantly made Liu Yu and Sun Qing pale. They stayed in place for a long time, Liu Yu looked up at Kou Yi, his lips twitched, trying to explain something, but in the end he didn't say anything , directly knelt on the ground on one knee, "The last general, you are guilty!"

Looking at Liu Yu who knelt down to plead guilty, Sun Qing sighed. Liu Yu's pleading was a complete proof of his charges, but Kou Yi's character was not fully sure, so he would not say such words. It's no use even if they quibble.

So Sun Qing didn't say much, and knelt down with Liu Yu directly, "The last general is guilty."

"Okay, get up."

Kou Yi didn't ask them about their willingness to follow Situ Yao, nor did they mean to blame them. Instead, he spoke to persuade them: "After all, he is the military advisor of the Tianmen Army. It's normal that you are willing to follow him."

"What's more, now that the Tianmen Army has disbanded, what crime do you have?"

"Kou Shuai..."

Hearing this, Liu Yu and Sun Qing, who were kneeling, suddenly became excited, "No matter what the Tianmen Army is, we are all..."

"OK OK."

Before the two of them could finish speaking, Kou Yi interrupted him directly, "This man is too old to listen to sensational words, so you just keep these words in your heart, and you don't need to say them."

"The reason why I want you guys to come out with me, the old man, is actually because not only I know about this, but Mo Yuanji must have noticed it too."

"Now, he is sharpening his sword and trying to get back his lost throne. At that time, the two of you will not be under his control and will be suspected by him. At that time, you can only be used as cannon fodder by him to death."

"If you don't want to do this, then I'm afraid the only thing you can do is fight against your former comrades."

"However, even if Mo Yuanji controls nearly [-] former soldiers of the Tianmen Army, even if there is a fight, you have no chance of winning."

Speaking of this, Kou Yi sighed, and said with a little apology in his tone: "So I thought, instead of dying at the hands of your own people, you might as well come to the barbarians with my old man, so that even if you die, you can have someone Good reputation is not."

"What I didn't expect was that besides the two of you, Sun Xing and Hu Ran were also on his list, so I hesitated, old man, and brought you two along."

"It's not surprising."

There was no surprise on Hu Ran's face, he shook his head and said: "Sun Xing and I were from the same school as the late Emperor in the early years, so we walked closer."

"In addition, when Mo Yuanji was in power in the past few years, the two of us rejected several times of wooing, and the people he sent were all thrown to the edge by us, and we didn't give him a chance to intervene. This is even more so. It made him afraid, it would be strange if we were not on his list."

"Hu Ran is right, this is indeed normal."

When Sun Xing heard what Hu Ran said, he also laughed, but judging by his expression, he obviously didn't take this matter to heart. Compared with it, what he cared more about was the body that Kou Yi said If you can't go back, what does it mean to have a good reputation?

"Kou Shuai, can you tell me why you brought us to the barbarians this time?"

Before he came, he thought that Kou Yi was planning to slaughter a few barbarian tribes and leave after warning the barbarians, but judging from what he meant now, it was obviously not the plan.

Otherwise, the camp would not have been built at this location. It is close to the water source, easy to defend and difficult to attack, and after setting up the camp, Kou Yi asked the soldiers to build a lot of fortifications, obviously intending to stick to it here.

But the problem is, if there is no reinforcements, it is completely meaningless to hold on here except to allow more casualties when the barbarians attack the camp.

After all, this is the grassland and the territory of the barbarians. They have an endless stream of people here. Unless the barbarians can be wiped out, this place will be overwhelmed by the barbarian people sooner or later.

"At this point, there's nothing to say."

Kou Yi put away the kind smile on his face, looked at the four of them seriously, and asked, "Recently, have you paid attention to the barbarians?"

"I do know a little."

Sun Xing nodded when he heard the words, and said with a serious face: "There is a man named Wu Lianghe from the barbarians, and he is unifying the grassland."

"According to the information I have collected, this man claims to be the wolf king, and he has great ambitions. In this winter, relying on the strength of the barbarians, he is not afraid of the severe cold, and he leads his elites around the grassland. campaign."

Speaking of this, Sun Xing suddenly showed a mocking smile on his face, "Speaking of which, we still have to thank him, if he hadn't started a war on the grassland, with the weather this winter, if I can't survive, I would have robbed him It’s not just those ordinary small tribes.”

"Wu Lianghe, I had a deal with him once a few years ago."

Speaking of Wu Lianghe, Liu Yu, who had just stood up from the ground, interjected, but his words were obviously filled with fear, "A few years ago, the military adviser sent me a letter saying that a merchant's goods were sold in The grassland has been robbed, and the military adviser wants me to help him."

"Although I don't like to get involved in these things, after all, it was the military division who asked, and I couldn't refuse, so I led the troops out of the customs and wanted to go to that tribe to bring the goods back."

"So, it was Wulianghe's tribe who robbed the goods?"

Hearing this, Sun Xing became a little interested, asked Liu Yu curiously, and said, "Have you played against him? How is his strength?"

"it's not true."

Liu Yu took a breath and said, "At that time, when I led my troops to the tribe that looted the goods, that tribe had already been slaughtered by Wu Lianghe."

"I thought it was just a coincidence that a battle between barbarian tribes happened. I didn't expect that after seeing my army, Wu Lianghe would send someone over to negotiate. When he learned that my purpose was also those goods, he directly said Now, these goods were originally sold to him, so he wanted to take them back to his tribe, but he asked me to give the merchant a message."

"What he said was that it was his fault that the goods were robbed in the grassland this time, so in order to compensate the merchant, if the merchant is willing to sell these goods to him, he is willing to sell them at double the price. Buy it."

"If the businessman thinks he can't be trusted, it's okay. He just needs to send someone a letter. He will not move the goods at all. They will all be sent outside the Tianmen Pass and let the businessman take them away."

"Qianjinshi Magu, this person still has a bit of courage, so the businessman of the military division is trading with him?"

Sun Xing was not surprised that Situ Yao would do business with the barbarians. After all, these frontier soldiers would occasionally do business. Basically, except for some things that are prohibited from being sold to the barbarians, it would not be a big problem to sell other things. I also know, and it can be regarded as a semi-acquiescent state.

As long as they don't go too far, the imperial court will not intervene. After all, the Tianmen army is elite, and the Tianmen army would have been starved to death with the imperial court's salary alone. sexual welfare.

"However, if he didn't give those goods, you didn't take them back yourself?"

When Sun Xing said this, he suddenly looked at Liu Yu suspiciously. As far as he knew, Liu Yu's firecrackers were not in this temper, "Dare to take away the goods you want in front of you, but you didn't kill him?" , isn't this like you?"

"It can't be destroyed, I have too few people with me."

Liu Yu smiled wryly, shook his head and said, "I didn't think it was a big deal at the time, so I took three thousand riders there, and I was no match for him at all."

"Three thousand rides is a lot."

At this point, not only Sun Xing, but even Kou Yi cast a surprised look at Liu Yu. You must know that the cavalry of the Tianmen Army are all elite soldiers, otherwise Liu Yu would not have just brought five hundred Riding to cut off the retreat of the barbarians.

But now, Liu Yu actually said that [-] riders are a bit small, which made several people a little puzzled, and Sun Xing asked directly: "As far as I know, the Taichiwu tribe was not a particularly large tribe in the past. Ah, how many people can there be at Wulianghe?"

Generally speaking, small barbarian tribes on the grasslands range from hundreds to thousands of people, medium-sized tribes have tens of thousands of people, and large tribes have tens of thousands of people. Only very large tribes have more than 10,000+ people. There are very few tribes.

Moreover, these numbers are all old, young, women and children. If Wu Lianghe is just an ordinary large tribe, if he goes to the old, young, women and children, he can have at most 2 young and strong. It is impossible for them all to form an army, so in Sun Xing's view, it would be good for Wu Lianghe to have an army of several thousand people.

And thousands against thousands, Liu Yu would actually say that he is not an opponent, which is obviously wrong.

Liu Yu knew what Sun Xing was thinking. He shook his head and said, "Wu Lianghe's army is really not many, only 5000 people, but these 5000 people are obviously different."

"His formation of 5000 people, although it looks relatively loose, gives me the feeling that it is like a pack of wolves, and can basically enforce orders and prohibit them."

"Although their weapons and equipment are weaker than our Tianmen army's iron cavalry, you also know the individual strength of the barbarians. Each of them is much stronger than our soldiers, so after summing it up, the difference in strength between the two sides is not too much. So I'm really not sure about taking them down."

"Plus, this time it's just for a merchant to get his goods back. Even if I can win, I can't let my brothers die for this reason. It's not worth it at all."

　I... haven't finished writing today, so I will make up the chapter I owe today.

　　I was wrong, lightly slapped my face...

　　
　
(End of this chapter)