Chapter 189 - Internal Fighting in the Coalition Forces
Thousands of cavalrymen were galloping around, continuing to search for traces of the enemy!
Although they had only trained for half a year, their cavalry was already very elite! Yue Fei had initially chosen the most outstanding soldiers to enter the cavalry! Under the cooperation of thousands of men and horses, any wulin master would have to retreat!
"Seems like quite a few people managed to escape!" Kang An walked a circle around him and said.
"These people in the martial arts world, their individual strength is too strong. Furthermore, it was night time, the rain was too heavy, the Expeditionary soldiers might not be able to surround all of them! Furthermore, with two experts, Lin Lingsu and Clan Elder Wu Qing, it would be even harder to stop them! " Yue Fei said.
"How is His Majesty now?" Li Xianzhong asked with some concern.
"Luckily for him, his life is not in danger! However, this time, he was in a coma. The inner force in his body was in a very strange state. This inner force naturally circulated and was attacking all the acupoints in his body! Whether he could wake up or not, all he could do was rely on himself! I believe that he should be able to wake up. Although his will isn't the best in the world, but after experiencing so many calamities, he definitely can't be compared to an ordinary person! If he could wake up, then he would be extremely negative! He believed that the number of times he would encounter these calamities would be much lesser! People cannot always be unlucky. The extremes of things will always be reversed, and too much bad luck will turn into good luck! " Wang Chongyang said.
"I hope His Majesty will wake up soon!" Li Xianzhong said.
Li Xianzhong felt extremely guilty. This time, it was he who found out that Li Yanxian was going to gather the chieftain of the allied army. If he had not brought Zhao Chen along, all of these things would not have happened!
"General Li, you need to rely on His Majesty. From today onwards, we are colleagues! I have already sent someone to inform General Zhao Zhe and General Liu Qi of the Jingyuan Army that they will deliver the food and weapons to the Shaanxi in the future. Furthermore, they will cooperate with you in defeating Li Yanxian first, and then defeat the Jin Army, and take complete control of the Shaanxi! " Yue Fei said.
Yue Fei had to protect the Tongguan, it was unusually important there, and he definitely could not let the Jin Army take it away from him again! In fact, in this half year, Wanyan Loushi and Wanyan Zongwang had already attacked the Tongguan many times, but they were all blocked! This time, Yue Fei had come here temporarily to help Zhao Chen, so he had to return as soon as possible!
"Alright, I will wait for the arrival of the two generals, Zhao Zhe and Liu Qi!" Li Xianzhong said.
"In that case, I will take my leave first! Wang Zhenren, I shall leave his majesty in your hands, you must save his majesty! " Yue Fei looked at Wang Chongyang and said.
"Don't worry, His Majesty won't have any problems!" Wang Chongyang said.
Not long after, Yue Fei brought the cavalry and left, but there were still more than 1000 people escorting Wang Chongyang and Zhao Chen towards the southern direction of the Dazhang Pass! As for Li Xianzhong, he too began to return to his own camp!
In the blink of an eye, it was already July. A month had already passed since the last chieftain of the allied army gathering!
During this month, the Middle Han Area's food and weapons had already been delivered to Li Xianzhong!
As for Li Yanxian from the Yan'an Prefecture, he was still lacking in food and weapons! The Shaanxi was originally a barren land, and even in the modern era, it was extremely barren, let alone ancient times! The allied army mainly relied on robbing the Jin Army to obtain rations and weapons, sometimes even robbing ordinary citizens under such circumstances! However, ever since the war with the Guan Shan half a year ago, the Jin Army s knew that the situation was not good. Most of the time, they were hiding in the city, so it would be even more difficult for them to obtain food and weapons from the Jin Army s! This was one of the reasons why Li Yanxian, Li Xianzhong and the other chieftain of the allied army s were so eager to obtain a backer!
At this moment, in a mountain stronghold south of the Yan'an Prefecture, Li Yanxian was right here!
Other than Li Yanxian, there were also more than a dozen chieftain of the allied army s here! Li Yanxian was discussing about food and weapons with the chieftain of the allied army!
The so-called "borrowing food" was stealing food from the common people. However, these green woodsmen had made up an elegant name for themselves, "borrowing food"!
"Big brother, we do not have food, but Li Shifu does have a lot! This Li Shifu had pledged allegiance to the Emperor Xuanwu, and the Emperor Xuanwu was bringing over the rations in a steady stream! Thinking about it, we are really unhappy, we have also pledged our allegiance to the Emperor Jianyan, but the Emperor Jianyan did not send the food over to us! " A chieftain of the allied army stood up and said.
This chieftain of the allied army was called Shao Yun, and he was one of the more powerful ones among the allied armies! He and Li Yanxian were sworn brothers, but at this moment, he was a little dissatisfied with Li Yanxian defecting to Zhao Gou's side!
"Emperor Jianyan is in Jiangnan, it's too difficult to transport the food here! Sigh, I had originally wanted to convince Li Shifu to join Emperor Jianyan with me! If Li Shifu also defends himself and defends himself with the Emperor Jianyan, then the thirty-six of us will be able to bring down the Chang'an City and the Tongguan together. When that time comes, the Emperor Jianyan's rations will be shipped over! Master Zong Ze is in Kaifeng Mansion, he can think of a way to transport the food over! Unfortunately, Li Shifu, this wolf-hearted trash, actually chose to rely on the Emperor Xuanwu, despite his brotherly feelings! He truly deserves to die. If I catch him, I will definitely tear his body into ten thousand pieces! " Li Yanxian said.
"Big brother, what should we do now? Without food, we won't be able to live on! " Another chieftain of the allied army said.
"I've asked you all to come here precisely to discuss this matter! Think about it, what good idea do you have? " Li Yanxian said.
"Big brother, I think we can do this! Didn't Li Shifu get a lot of food from the Emperor Xuanwu? No matter what, he was still a member of the Allied Army of the Thirty-six. Although we had a falling out, he was still our brother! Let's ask him for food. I don't believe he won't give us anything! " The one who had spoken earlier, Shaoyun, said.
"He's unscrupulous. I'm afraid he won't lend us the food!" Li Yanxian shook his head.
"We can give it a try!" Shaoyun said.
"He's not an idiot! Now, he belongs to Emperor Xuanwu, we belong to Emperor Jianyan! Emperor Xuanwu and Emperor Jianyan have always been at odds, so there would be a huge battle sooner or later! We are now enemies, why would he lend us food? " Li Yanxian said.
"If that's the case, then we can only snatch the food!" Shaoyun said.
"Grab food? Stealing food from the Jin Army? That is to invade the prefecture and we do not have the strength to do so! " Li Yanxian said.
At the end of the day, they were just "allied armies", they mainly fought guerrilla warfare. Unless they met a small group of Jin Army, they would still go up and actually attack the prefectures.
"Big brother, I'm saying that we will snatch the food from Li Shifu's hands! This Li Shifu doesn't care about brotherhood. In a situation where Big Brother has already pledged allegiance to Emperor Jianyan, he still wants to rely on that useless Emperor Xuanwu. Now that he has food, and we don't have food, he is actually unwilling to lend us food. Let's go steal his food, and snatch his food, then we will have food to eat, right? " Shaoyun said.
"This …" Li Yanxian lightly frowned as she began to ponder in her heart.
"Big Brother, out of the thirty-six Allied Army of the 36th army back then, twenty of them had already sided with us! He only has a little more than 10 routes in his hands, his strength is not as good as ours! There's no problem at all for us to snatch the food from them! " Shaoyun said.
Originally, there were only fifteen armies that pledged their allegiance to Li Yanxian, but in this one month, Li Yanxian had sent people to contact the remaining chieftain of the allied army s. Now, five of them had pledged their allegiance to him, causing Li Yanxian's strength to increase greatly! As for Li Xianzhong, he still only had the Twelve Alliances! Moreover, these twelve troops were initially scattered everywhere, but now that Li Xianzhong had gathered these twelve soldiers, she was preparing to train them uniformly. In the future, she would turn them into regular soldiers!
"Good!" It's done! Immediately send people to inform the various chieftain of the allied army and gather all twenty troops. This time, we will not borrow their food, but destroy Li Shifu, this wolf-hearted thing! " Li Yanxian said coldly.
At this moment, hundreds of miles west of Yan'an Prefecture, in the Security Region, there was a wave of yellow sand rolling down!
The environment of the loess plateau was abnormally harsh. Dust storms from the west frequently assaulted this place! There were high and low ravines everywhere, and it was located a hundred miles west of the Security State City, where Li Xianzhong's territory was located.
He had already gathered the 12 allied armies here, the chieftain of the allied army was training the small fry every day! However, these allied soldiers were not so much an army, but rather an existence between an army and a bandit! They were all ordinary farmers in the past, and only rose up when the Jin Army invaded. They did not train normally, but occasionally, only some strong martial art cultivators accepted their disciples to impart their skills. If they were allowed to train every day, those normal minions wouldn't be able to take it at all. Many of them would need to lie down to rest for an hour, and the chieftain of the allied army didn't restrain them, letting them play around as they pleased. Anyway, the rebel army had always been like this. They had already gotten used to it!
"The allied army is after all a united army, and it cannot be compared to a proper army! My one hundred and twenty thousand men and horses might not even be able to defeat the several thousand cavalrymen that were under Yue Fei's command back then! The reason why His Majesty recruited us, was mainly because he was afraid that we would cause trouble for them in the Shaanxi. In these two years, we have never fought against the Jin Army head on, we are simply not his match! However, I, Li Xianzhong, am not willing to just become a chieftain of the allied army. I need to train my army into an elite army, and at that time, I will not belong to any of the regular armies under His Majesty! I must thoroughly study this infantry exercise code, wait until I defeat Li Yanxian, then I will properly train the army! The training methods here are too harsh, if I use this method to train the army right now, the other rebel soldiers will be dissatisfied, which is not good for the fight between Li Yanxian and I! "
"The allied army lacks food. I can obtain it from His Majesty, but Li Yanxian has no other choice! I think that Li Yanxian will not be able to endure it any longer in at most one to two months. He will either find someone to get food from me, or directly attack me here! Hmph, Li Yanxian, the reason I respected you as my leader in the past is because you are old, have started the army early, and have high prestige. If you come, you will die! Right now, it's not only me, Li Xianzhong, who is in this security region. There are also people from the Jingyuan Army and the Tsinghua Army.
"His Majesty was heavily injured that day. It has already been a month, I wonder how the news is!"
"Lin Lingsu, Wu Qing, along with the other Jiangnan Martial Lam s and monks, should have already left the Shaanxi! These people are unscrupulous, we must find them to settle our debts in the future! "
He stood there thinking. At that moment, someone pushed open the door and came in!
"Big brother, something bad happened!" A youth of about fourteen to fifteen years old walked in. However, his face was full of dust, as if he was rushing over from a long distance away!
This person was actually Li Xianzhong's younger cousin, Li Shihong. Back then in the Li Family, they were the only two who escaped!
"What happened? Had Li Yanxian made her move? Are those rebel soldiers under his command going to attack us? " Li Xianzhong said indifferently.
"How did you know?" Li Shihong said in disbelief.
"Hmph, you can guess it just by guessing!" I have the confidence to defeat their two hundred thousand troops with one hundred and twenty thousand! But it's still better for me to take care of it. You send someone to the Gold Tripod Mountain and Zenith Mountains to inform Liu Qi and General Zhao Zhe there! " Li Xianzhong said.