Chapter 187: Take Xijing again, win four battles and four victories (Part 2)

Panlong Valley, with deep mountains and dense forests and misty fog.

Meng Hu, Qi Diaozi and Jia Wudao climbed up a lonely peak surrounded by senior generals such as Zhanying. Standing on the lonely peak, they saw that the surroundings were misty, as if they were in a vast sea of ​​clouds. In the distance was the steep Shuanglong Mountain. The 60,000 troops of the Tiger Legion were now hidden in the vast sea of ​​fog in Panlong Valley.

Looking out for a moment with his hands on the tent, Meng Hu suddenly turned around and asked, "War Eagle, have the traces left by the march in the valley been eliminated?"

Zhan Ying responded solemnly: "General, don't worry, the general, the humble official has carefully checked the grass and wood, and all the traces of the march have been redisguised, leaving no flaws."

Qi Diaozi next to him also said: "You don't have to worry about the general. Even if there are occasional traces, the scouts of the Youzhou Army will only be regarded as left by beasts in the valley, and will never think that they were left by our army."

As Qi Diaozi finished speaking, heavy footsteps suddenly sounded behind everyone. When they looked back quickly, Zhang Xingba had already taken a team of guards to the lonely peak and replied quickly: "General, just now, the Youzhou Legion of Gongsun Xiang has arrived at the official intersection outside Panlong Valley!"

"Oh?" Meng Hu said sternly, "Has Gongsun Xiang sent scouts deep into the valley to search?"

"Yes!" Zhang Xingba nodded, "But the scouts of the Youzhou Army did not go too deep into the valley."

"It was indeed not as expected by the general." Jia Wudao exclaimed, "Gongsun Xiang, a fool, really didn't expect our army to be hidden in Panlong Valley, haha."

Qi Diaozi shook his head and said in a narrow voice: "Old Jia, you are wrong. Gongsun Xiang is not a fool. The reason why he did not send scouts to search deep into the valley was because he thought there was no need for this! Because before that, looking at the entire Middle Earth world, no one could hide a legion's army without a trace!"

"yes."

Jia Wudao couldn't help but look back at Meng Hu and said eagerly, "Only the general has such courage. If someone else leads the army, it would be impossible to do it!"

"No."

Meng Hu waved his hand and said solemnly, "It's not that others can't lead, but that they can't think of it, or that they don't dare to do it! Because hiding the whereabouts of a legion is not an easy task. A slight negligence will leave flaws. Once the flaws are discovered by the enemy, the consequences will be unimaginable."

"yes."

Qi Diaozi nodded sternly and said deeply, "This is a big bet. If the bet is won, our army will jump out of the enemy's encirclement and blockade. If the bet is lost, Gongsun Xiang just needs to send troops to block the valley entrance, and our army will have nowhere to hide. Just wait for Qiu Yutang's main army to arrive, which will be the end of defeat and death."

"Hehe." Meng Hu said with a grim smile, "Wait."

At the mouth of Panlong Valley, on the wide official road.

The scout general rushed to Gongsun Xiang's chariot, clasped his fists and said, "Governor General, the scout went deep into the valley ten miles, and found no suspicious signs."

"knew."

Gongsun Xiang waved his hand and shouted loudly, "Tell me the order, the scouts will withdraw from Panlong Valley, there is no need to search in."

The scout general agreed to take the order. Gongsun Ao, the eldest son who rode his horse to follow Gongsun Xiangche, suddenly asked: "Father, Panlong Valley is twenty miles deep. Why did you not search in after only ten miles?"

“Because there is no need!”

Gongsun Xiang said this and patiently explained, "Panlong Valley is deep and dense, with few people coming. It takes too much time to conduct a thorough search. The most urgent task of our army is to rush to Hu Xiao Pass and block Meng Hu's Tiger Legion's main force in Hu Xiao Pass, so we can't afford to delay."

Gongsun Ao thought for a while and said, "Father, the army can continue to march, but it is always possible to leave a corps to search Panlong Valley carefully, right? The child was worried that if Meng Hu's tiger army hid in Panlong Valley and we just passed by like this, wouldn't they run away?"

"Hahaha, Ao'er, you're still too young."

Gongsun Xiang laughed and said, "Do you really think Meng Hu would hide his Tiger Legion into Panlong Valley? Have you never studied the terrain of Panlong Valley?"

"Terrain?" Gongsun Ao was stunned for a moment, and then suddenly said, "Panlong Valley is Jue Valley!"

"By the way!" Gongsun Xiang said in a deep voice, "Panlong Valley is the Jue Valley. If Meng Hu dares to bring the Tiger Legion into the valley, wouldn't it be a dangerous situation? Our army only needs to block the entrance of the valley, and his 100,000 troops will be hard to fly. Meng Hu will never do such a brainless fool as long as he is not a fool! What's more, the Tiger Legion has a total of 100,000 troops, but not just three or five thousand people. If such a huge army wants to hide in the valley, they have to leave some flaws, right? The scouts searched for ten miles in the valley just now but gained nothing. What does this mean?"

Gongsun Ao said solemnly: "This only means that there are absolutely no large army hiding in the valley."

"That's right." Gongsun Xiang shouted, "So we don't have to waste time here!"

"Report..." As soon as Gongsun Xiang finished speaking, another scout general galloped over and rushed to Gongsun Xiang's chariot to report, "Governor General, Governor Yan condemns the fast horse and sends an urgent report. The Shuozhou Legion has encountered the Light Cavalry Division of the Guanghui Empire on Cross Slope, and the two armies are fighting fiercely!"

Gongsun Xiang asked anxiously: "Have you found the main infantry force of the Tiger Legion near the Cross Slope?"

"No!" the scout general responded, "Governor Yan said that the main infantry force of the Tiger Legion was not found within a radius of a hundred miles of the Cross Slope!"

"Listen!" Gongsun Ao turned around and said, "Ao'er, have you heard it? No main infantry force of the Tiger Legion was found within a radius of a hundred miles of the Cross Slope. What does this mean? This shows that Meng Hu's main infantry is still at Hu Yao Pass now! This tiger is probably still waiting for the flood in Guandong to recede before fleeing eastward, hahaha..."

After laughing, Gongsun Xiang waved his hand hard again and shouted loudly: "Send the order, the entire army will speed up the marching speed and reach Hu Yao Pass!"

Panlong Valley, dense forest.

It was already dusk outside the valley, and it was already dark in the valley. Because of concerns about leakage, Meng Hu ordered that the turrets were not allowed to be used or to raise the fire to keep warm. Fortunately, it was already late April. After more than a dozen consecutive sunny days, the weather had warmed up and the temperature had risen sharply. The soldiers of the army would not be frozen.

"Report..." Amid the shrill trombone, the captain of the scout rushed into the valley, came to Meng Hu and knelt down on his knees, and replied loudly, "General, the Youzhou Legion has passed!"

Meng Hu asked anxiously: "Have you left the army to station in Panlong Valley?"

"No." Captain Scout responded with great certainty, "All the troops have been driven, and now it is twenty miles away from the valley entrance."

As soon as the captain of the scout finished speaking, Qi Diaozi asked again: "Is there a scout behind the Youzhou Legion?"

"Yes." said the scout captain, "but not many, at most, there are only thirty or fifty horses, and they are scattered very wide."

This is also the military practice in the Middle Earth. Whenever the two countries fight, most of the range scouts sent by the army are distributed on the front and left and right wings of the army, and only a very small number are distributed behind the army. Now the Youzhou Legion is fighting in its own country, and the Tiger Legion is in the Tiger Fight Pass directly in front of it. Gongsun Xiang is very careful to be able to leave thirty or fifty cavalry and range scouts behind him.

"Okay!" Meng Hu turned around and shouted in a grim voice, "Xiong Batian!"

Amid the heavy footsteps, Xiong Batian's tower-like figure appeared in front of Meng Hu, clasping his fists and saying, "What are the instructions for the general?"

Meng Hu said in a deep voice: "Take your tribe with you and kill the Youzhou Army's cavalry scouts while it's dark. Be clean and never let anyone among them escape!"

Meng Hu was not worried that shooting and killing the scouts would reveal the Tiger Legion's journey.

Because scouts are a special military branch, they often last for several days as soon as they are deployed, and they rarely contact the army. They will only immediately repay the central army when they find the whereabouts of the enemy or encounter a sudden change. Therefore, even if there is no news about these scouts of the Youzhou Army for three days, their scouts will not be suspicious, but will only think that everything is safe behind the army.

"Don't worry, General." Xiong Batian said with a grim voice, "As long as the person targeted by our Black Bear Tribe, he will be able tonight!"

After saying that, Xiong Batian turned around and left. In less than a moment, hundreds of barbarians had already led their mounts out of the dense forest of the valley with their own mounts, and then quietly emerged from Panlong Valley under the cover of the foggy night. Finally, they scattered silently like ghosts in the dark night.

This group of barbarians from the Great Wilderness have excellent archery skills. The harsh and harsh natural environment has created their keen sense of danger, as well as their hearing and vision beyond ordinary people. Now they have become the most sensitive nose of the Tiger Legion, the brightest igneous eyes, and the sharpest assassination blade under Meng Hu!

Since the Tiger Legion's Western Expedition, there have been countless Mingyue scouts who died under the arrows of barbarians. It is no exaggeration to say that as long as these barbarians are targeted, those poor Mingyue scouts will not want to live to see tomorrow's sun! These barbarians are simply the god of death in the dark night!

This has nothing to do with the training, discipline, soldiers' fighting spirit and morale.

In terms of training and discipline, these barbarians cannot catch up with the army of Middle-earth. In terms of fighting spirit and morale, the scouts of the Mingyue Empire Army will never be worse than these barbarians. However, the scouts' contest is not a formal army confrontation, but a small-scale single-soldier fighting. The advantage of the barbarians is precisely the single fight.

The Glorious Empire, the western province.

The second and third divisions of the Royal Guard Corps and Li Yu's eastern legion have advanced to Xiling. Yue Meng, who burned Hulu Valley to break the Galaxy Iron Cavalry on the northern border, has now been promoted to the chief of staff of the First Division of the Eastern Legion and is still the leader of the Semitic Regiment. Originally, Meng Ke planned to transfer Yue Meng into the Imperial Guard Corps, but Li Yu refused to do so. Yue Meng himself was more willing to stay in the Eastern Legion, so Meng Ke no longer forced him.

The Governor of the West, Zhao Qinghan, grandly received a group of senior generals from the Imperial Guard Corps and the Eastern Army at the Governor's Office. After Li Yu saw Zhao Qinghan, he was even more sad because he and Zhao Yue were both the four major dukes of the Empire, and their friendship was quite good. Zhao Qinghan can be said to be the one who grew up when Li Yu watched him grow up, and even regarded him as his own.

However, Li Yu's only son Li Ju hated Meng Hu to death. The reason is of course self-evident, because Li Ju has been in love with Zhao Qinghan for more than ten years. With the relationship between Zhao and Li families, if it weren't for the involvement of several princes, Li Ju believed that he and Zhao Qinghan would have been married a few years ago.

What made Li Ju even more indignant was that Zhao Qinghan was actually engaged to Meng Hu!

The only thing that made Li Ju feel a little bit of emotion was that because the war was in a tight situation, Meng Hu and Zhao Qinghan had not had time to get married, so he still had a little chance. So Li Ju was looking forward to the end of this Western Expedition in a crushing defeat, preferably Meng Hu's northern wing division was destroyed, and Meng Hu also died in the chaos. In this way, Li Ju had hope of getting Zhao Qinghan again.

However, at this time in the Glorious Empire, neither King Mengke of Yan, Li Yu of the Eastern Governor of the Eastern Governor of the Western Governor of the Western Governor of the Western Governor of the Western Governor of the Western Governor of the Western Governor of the People's Republic of the People's Republic of the People's Republic of the People's Republic of the People's Republic of the Western Governor of the People's Republic of the People's Republic of the People's Republic of the People's Republic of the People's Republic of the People's Republic of the People's Republic of the Western Governor of the People's Republic of the People's Republic of the People's Republic of the People's Republic of the People's Republic of the People's Republic of the People's Republic of the Western Governor of the Empire at this time, no one is sure of how the war is now.

In fact, this situation was caused by Shi Miyuan, and Shi Miyuan deliberately blocked the news.

Shi Miyuan had no choice. Now the Western Expedition Army has suffered a crushing defeat, and the 300,000 elite army has almost been destroyed. How can we tell people about this? How can we open this?

Because he did not know the latest situation of the Western Expedition Army, neither Li Yu's Eastern Legion nor the Imperial Guard Legion dared to act rashly. After entering Sanjiang City, he stopped advancing. He just sent a group of fast horses to cross the Hexi Canyon and enter the hinterland of Qingzhou to spy on news, in order to contact Mengyan's Western Expedition Army as soon as possible.

Mingyue Empire, Xijingdong.

The sun sets westward, the empire emperor Qiu Fengjin, and the empire prime minister Xiao Chengliang was once again taken to the central army of the Tiger Legion. With the light of the torch, the two saw Meng Hu with a smile on their faces at the same time. Qiu Fengjin's brows frowned in an instant. The smile on Meng Hu's face made him feel scared, and he felt a chilling horror in his heart.

Xiao Chengliang groaned and turned his face disdainfully.

Meng Hu was not upset and bowed to the surrendered general Tuoba Ye who was standing beside him, squinted his mouth.

Tuoba Ye quickly bowed to Meng Hu and said yes, then turned his head to Qiu Fengjin and Xiao Chengliang, "Your Majesty the Emperor, Prime Minister, this... the matter is like this. General Meng Hu wants to enter the imperial capital again, but this matter is not easy to deal with, so I want to ask Your Majesty and Prime Minister to help..."

"Bah!"

Xiao Chengliang cursed angrily, "You beast who forgot your ancestors, you must let Tuoba Shou know about this. Even if you die, you will not be allowed to enter the Tuoba family's genealogy!"

Tuoba Ye's face changed slightly, and he stepped back to the side with awkward expression and stopped saying anything.

Meng Hu reached out and patted Tuoba Ye on the shoulder, and said to Xiao Chengliang and Qiu Fengjin: "Prime Minister, I know that you are loyal and honest, but today you can help me, and you have to help if you don't help!"

"Bah!" Xiao Chengliang said in a slut, "I will never be accused of a tiger even if I die!"

"Is that true?" Meng Hu smiled, "Then today I have to let the Prime Minister be a tiger friend!"

After saying that, Meng Hu turned around and said to Jia Wudao: "Old Jia, are all the things ready?"

"Everything is ready." Jia Wudao said as he took out two herbs from his arms and said with a slight smile, "General, this is the secret medicine of Beizhi's ancestors. People will not be able to make the correct notes within three days after taking them. In other words, once they take the secret medicine of Beizhi's ancestors, they must be a mute for three days!"

"Yes." Meng Hu nodded happily, turned around and said to Zhang Xingba, "Xingba, what are you doing?"

Zhang Xingba suddenly turned around, waved his hand, and shouted sternly: "You two, come here!"

Two soldiers walked out of the guards in response, and knelt down in front of Meng Hu, and said quickly: "See General!"

Meng Hu shouted: "What do you mean by me? Tell me this general!"

"Yes!" The soldier in front agreed and stood up and shouted, "The soldiers on the city tower heard it clearly. I am the emperor Qiu Fengjin, why don't you open the city gate quickly!"

"ah?"

"this……"

Qiu Fengjin and Xiao Chengliang's face changed suddenly because they found that the tone of the soldier was extremely similar to that of Qiu Fengjin. If the distance was a little far, I was afraid that even Queen Xiao Kexin could not tell the authenticity?

At this time, another soldier pinched his throat and shouted loudly: "Listen to the people on the city, and immediately ask your superiors to come out and answer. I am the Prime Minister of the Empire, Xiao Chengliang. Fortunately, General Tuobaye of the Qingzhou Army fought to save him to the death. This time, I and His Majesty were able to escape from danger. Now the enemy is approaching, so why don't you open the city gate and let my king and ministers enter the city!"
To be continued...