The Western Jin Dynasty now has hundreds of thousands of troops in name, and the old turtle Sima Yue directly controlled as many as 40,000 troops, but the elite troops were really pitifully few. With elite troops like the Liangzhou Army, there was only one in the Western Jin Dynasty. Even in Liangzhou, it would be extremely difficult to pull out such a unit. Such an army with a large number of troops but full of new recruits, facing the Hu people who were as powerful as a flood, it seemed that there was no other choice except to be defeated.

This is true. Every time the Hu people attacked the Western Jin Dynasty, the bad news of losing their troops and losing their territory was filled with the Western Jin Dynasty courts, but the news of victory was pitifully scarce. Sima Yan's decision to "nothing is going to happen in the world, and the county soldiers are abolished" really made the Western Jin Dynasty suffer!

After listening to Beigong Jing's explanation, Li Rui's mood became heavier and his voice became dull: "For troops like us, there are not many troops in the entire Jin Dynasty, right?"

Beigong Jing said: "Very rare."

Li Rui said: "However, they still don't know how to cherish it. They would rather send precious troops to fight for a city that is destined to be unable to hold on to than come and support us!"

Beigong Jing sighed softly and said, "Who told us that there is no one in the court? What's the solution?" He shook his head and said to Li Rui, "You go back and rest, and be full of energy. There is still a big battle to fight after dawn. It's not enough energy."

Li Rui said: "That Major General, you should also rest early."

Beigong Jing nodded: "Yes."

When Li Rui returned to the camp, the cowardly soldiers under his command had already lay down to rest, leaving only Yang Zhi, Yang Yong, Zhou Lan, Cao Hu and others not sleeping yet, and they were still gathered around the stove to keep warm.

Li Rui walked to the stove and found a seat to sit down, put his frozen hands on the stove and roasted them, and asked, "Why are you not sleeping yet?"

Cao Hu's voice was dull: "I can't sleep."

Li Rui asked: "Why can't you sleep? Are you worried?"

Cao Hu looked frustrated: "Why did the Major General leave the city to fight the enemy? The Hu people's troops are ten times that of ours. If you fight them outside the city, wouldn't that be a death!"

Li Rui said: "The Major General has explained it very clearly. There is not much food and grass in the city. There is only one way to die for continued trapping. It is better to take advantage of the fact that there is still some food and grass reserves to fight to the death with the enemy."

Zhou Lan muttered: "There is not much food and grass to break through to Luoyang! The new city is only thirty or forty miles away from Luoyang. We quietly left the city in the middle of the night and broke through the scattered areas. We can always escape back to Luoyang City!"

Li Rui smiled bitterly: "The new city is only thirty or forty miles away from Luoyang, but don't forget that the Hu people surrounding us have at least 20,000 or 30,000 cavalrymen. Do you really think you can escape from their pursuit?"

Zhou Lan said: "There is still a little hope of survival! When the decisive battle with the Hu people, there is no hope of survival!"

Li Rui took out an unleavened cake and broke it apart it to everyone. He took a big bite and said while chewing it: "On the contrary, uniting one's heart to fight the Hu people may have some hope of survival. If you escape and expose your back to the Hu people, you will be dead... Don't believe it? If you don't believe it, I'll give you an example. Have you ever captured a wild horse herd?"

Everyone was confused and shook their heads.

Li Rui said: "I have seen scenes of capturing wild horses. The wild horses were hundreds or thousands, and the vast group was so shaking that it was so shaking. Whoever dared to stand in front of them was only divided into meat paste. The Hu people never blocked the horses on three sides. They would surround the horses from behind, and then attacked from behind, constantly using horse poles to cover the horses that ran slowly and fell behind. The wild horses continued to speed under their drive, as if they felt that as long as they ran fast enough, they could escape the Hu people's capture. They didn't know that their companions were being trapped one by one by one, and finally it was the turn to run in the front..."

He swallowed the cake in his mouth hard, looked around everyone, and said, "Remember, the tactics of the Hu cavalry are basically explored during hunting. If you want to escape, they will not stop them from the front. They will only chase after you back until they cut you all over. Facing these guys who are more vicious than jackals, the faster they escape, the faster they die!"

Everyone recalled the experience of fighting with the Hu cavalry and found that it was really similar to what this guy said. Most people only had the word escape in their minds. Then they were chased by the Hu cavalry from behind during the escape and chopped over in batches. Many of them died and didn't see what the Hu cavalry looked like!

They were speechless.

Li Rui put the last small piece of cake in his hand into his mouth, chewed it a few times, then swallowed it, clapped his hands, and said, "Okay, you don't have to think so much, everyone will fight to the enemy tomorrow. I promise you all will survive and leave the battlefield with the enemy's corpse!"

In the past, when he said this, everyone was farting at most, but now, everyone believed it a little. On the night when the city was about to be broken and everyone's lives were hanging on the brink, Qu Hou, who was even lazy than them, stood up and used secret techniques to lower the thunder and fire, and repelled the Hu people's attack in one fell swoop. This matter has spread throughout the army. In the eyes of ordinary soldiers, Li Rui was the incarnation of the gods. If he could not believe his words, who else could believe it?

Cao Hu was silent for a while before saying, "I hope I can still survive this battle!"

Li Rui said: "You will definitely survive. You have such ability."

Cao Hu smiled bitterly: "I hope..."

Yang Zhi gritted his teeth and said viciously: "If I am still alive after this battle, I will go to Luoyang to see whatever I say!"

Li Rui asked: "Why have to go to Luoyang?"

Yang Yong also gritted his teeth and said, "We were determined to defend Luojing and set off with our fellow soldiers and traveled thousands of miles to Luoyang. As a result, the war was fought one after another, and the fellow soldiers brought by us had already died, but we didn't even know what Luoyang looked like, so we were unwilling to accept it!"

Zhou Lan said: "I'm not willing to give up! I also want to take a look at what Luoyang City looks like!"

Li Rui said: "Then we will fight to the enemy tomorrow. After the battle is over, we will go to the city to take a look."

Everyone chatted for a while before they went back to rest.

After sleeping until the third day, the sergeants on duty woke up the sleeping sergeants one by one, without even getting up from the bed. The team brought baskets of unleavened cakes and buckets of hot soup. Each of them received three cakes and a bowl of hot soup, and they lay on the bed and swallowed them voraciously.

As a part-time strategist, Li Rui naturally could not lie on the bed with the big-headed soldiers and eat and drink. After he swallowed all the cakes and soup, he got up, put on his clothes and armor, and took his weapons to find Beigong Jing.

Beigong Jing was on the archway at the west gate. At his feet, Zhang Xiong was leading 800 cavalrymen to quietly emerge from the wide open city gate. In order to avoid the sound of war horses being heard by the enemy's scouts, the hooves of each war horse were wrapped in thick linen to prevent the sound of hooves when walking, each horse was wearing a horse's mouth cage to prevent them from screaming. When Li Rui arrived, the cavalry had all left the city and walked towards the enemy's Xidaying in a faint moonlight. Zhang Xiong was walking at the end of the team. After walking out of an arrow, he suddenly turned around and bowed his fists to Beigong Jing solemnly. He turned around until he saw Beigong Jing return the salute, rode his horse and walked quickly to the front of the team.

Li Rui asked: "What's the situation?"

Beigong Jing said: "The moonlight was too big just now, and it took some time to go. I hope it won't have any impact on the plan."

Li Rui looked up at the sky and saw the moon passing through the clouds. The moonlight was blocked by the clouds and became dim. This brightness was the most comfortable for Lao Liu, who liked to do sneak attacks. If their armor and weapons would reflect the moonlight, and then they would expose their targets when they hit far away, which would be bad.

He said: "It shouldn't have any impact."

Beigong Jing said, "I hope." Turning his head and saying, "Order Pei Le to lead his troops out of the city immediately!"

The order was conveyed quickly. The powerful general Pei Le led his troops to push the heavy chariot and quietly out of the city. He stopped about half an arrow from the city wall and quickly unfolded. Then the second, third, and fourth... The Hou of Qu led his troops out of the city. With their efforts, a huge crescent moon quietly took shape, like a full moon scimitar, aiming at the Hu people's camp.

Zhang Xiong led 700 cavalrymen to walk in small steps and quickly approached the Hu people's Xitai.

At this time, the camp was filled with bonfires, as if the sky was covered with stars. The patrol team patrolled back and forth according to the pre-demarcated patrol route. From time to time, the sound of golden slaughter sounded in the camp, and the breath of golden swords and iron horses enveloped the earth.

A wooden fence blocked Zhang Xiong.

After Beigong Chun attacked and killed a large number of senior generals at night, the Hu people learned their lessons and knew that this big plain was their own world. They would build fences to protect themselves when they were camping.

Zhang Xiong was ready, so he stopped about a hundred meters away from the entrance of the camp. He first dismounted and removed the linen wrapped around the horse's hooves, and then whispered: "Prepare the stone crossbow!"

Two crossbows were pushed up, and the sergeant responsible for operating the crossbows skillfully fixed the crossbows, then turned the winch and turned the strings...

When the string was pulled full, someone put a five-pound stone bullet into the chute. The archer turned the launch device and aimed at the door with the moonlight...

Two loud noises like thunderbolts, two stone bombs shot out like lightning, and they were just in the camp gate. There were only a bang, two loud noises, and wood chips splashed. The camp gate made of hardwood nails was broken into pieces, and the camp gate opened for it!

The sound of the horn immediately resounded throughout the camp.

Completely ignoring the sharp arrows that were whizzing down from the village wall, Zhang Xiong raised the horse spear in his hand and pointed at the open gate: "Roar!" He rushed forward with one horse, and seven hundred cavalry followed closely behind, whistling through the gate like a storm, and rushed straight into the gate, rushing straight at the Hu people sleeping in the tent!
Chapter completed!