Book 18 - Chapter 12 – Bearing The Price to Pay (1/2)

Book 18 Chapter 12 – Bearing The Price to Pay

When everybody heard Kou Zhong’s cry of alar at the sky

They saw Shen Luoyan’s scouting bird continuously circling in the air, following a strange flight path

I, Zhai Jiao, and the others’, who knehat’s going on, countenance changed This bird’s strange flight path was telling its master that there were hidden troops inside the forest

In order to hide from the eyes and ears of enemy spies, they have spent a lot of effort to lay the ambush

First, there was another tea the eneainst Shan Xiongxin’s troops fro the river

And then there were lookout posts on higher elevation to watch for any activity before the cavalry left in the dark of the night by leading their horses along through the woods, before lying in wait at the present location Naturally they wrapped their horses’ hooves with cloth and silk to avoid creating unnecessary noise

But after a thousand planning ten thousand calculating, they still did not expect this psychic strange bird to make its appearance

‘Quack! Quack! Quack!’

The strange bird flew in the northeast direction, which was the direction fro Thisand their hooves

“Left and Right Wings le horn was sounded

The auard, each one three thousand riders strong, rushed out of the jungle first, along a curvaceous path, toward the enemy’s flank

And then the center ar in neat foralloping out of the sparse forest area ahead

Horseent down, the warhorses let out long neigh, briency and desperate circumstances

Warriors on fine steeds like a tide of violent waves drowned the prairie Morning light reflected by the battle helmets, body ar flickers of light

Mother earth quickly fell back

In just a few tens of xi the center arht thousand cavalry already entered the sparse forest region, forcing them to reduce their speed as they meet the eneht thousand, they did not have any e of their superior nued at the opponent

Now their only hope was to fight speed with speed; it would be best if the enemy did not have any time to retreat, or perhaps consolidate their battle array, so that they would be able to cut the enemy’s tail and kill Li Mi until he was utterly defeated

Kou Zhong, Linglong Jiao, Zhai Jiao, Xu Ziling, and the others were the first to gallop up a hill They saw on the forest about half a li ahead dust was rolling up to the sky, along with rapid hoof beats, but the hoof beats were fading away

Zhai Jiao shouted, “Chase after the shouted even louder, “Don’t chase!”

Zhai Jiao was furious, “Why not? Li Mi is running away!”

This

Kou Zhong asked Linglong Jiao, “Can that rolling dust be considered rising in colu Jiao reined her horse that it snorted a blast of air fro ene rando nodded and said, “Just as I suspected Shen Luoyan already guessed the ae bird to tell us to run after it I dare say that they are setting up an ambush in the forest ahead When we enter the trap, Li Mi would turn his troops around and attack”

“Good point!” Yang Gongqing shouted Ile horn to be sounded to halt the advance, instructing the tings’ vanguard team to stop where they were

Finally Zhai Jiao saw the light and clear-headed, but herup and down, her eyes were full of resent; he saw his eyes were as calence and callousness

It was the first ti’s eyes, and could not help shi+vering inwardly, recalling what Kou Zhong said on the wall of Jingling city, when they were standing face to face against Du Fuwei’sthe city

He was disregarding the life and death, and siarded the entire battlefield as a chessboard, while both sides were the chess pieces striving for victory on the chessboard

After undergoing this battlefield experience, Kou Zhong has grown fro strategist, a commander as able to anticipate the ene open-uidance, “What do we do now?”

Kou Zhong resolutely said, “We only have to leave several thousand men to lay out a defense in here, so that Li Mi cannot onsthe river Furtherht to Luokou; attack the city so that he won’t have ti said, “If Li Mi turns his force around to defend Luokou, do we still want to attack?”

Kou Zhong said, “Li Mi would not withdraillingly; he still has hope in Shan Xiongxin When Shan Xiongxin take the opportunity to withdrae are advancing to Luokou, even when he realizes his mistake, it would be difficult for hi toward Hulao”

In the forest ahead, the dust subsided; obviously Li Mi also halted his troops, realizing that his sche’s persuasive power and his reputation a lotwent on, “Rapid cavalry effectiveness is that they will be able to reach Luokou one step ahead, to guard against Li Mi crossing the river and returning to the city As a result Luokou’s Bing Yuanzhen will only have two choices: either abandon the city or surrender”

Yang Gongqing let out a long laugh and said, “Let’s do it!”

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After seven days, Li Mi’s, an ae, fate was decided

Bing Yuanzhen, as defending Luokou, surrendered to Yang Gongqing’s soldiers at the city wall During this critical xinpersuaded hi momentum has passed; he had no choice but to lead his

Kou Zhong and Yang Gongqing consolidated their men and horses, ready to follow up the victory and press home the attack, and then captured Hulao

Who would have thought that Li Mi fled at hearing the news, and escaped to Heyang to join forces ang Bodang?

He originally wanted use the Yellow River as a barrier, while defending Taihang in the north, linking with Liyang on the east, in an atte the battle

However, after the major defeat, the morale of his troops slackened

Further Ar’s early deenerals refused to follow order, so that although Li Mi had the power, he could not exercise it, he had the military force but no territory