Chapter 120 Arriving at the Border Pass

There were no problems in the following journey.

After speeding up the march, they arrived at the Guanai City on the border the next morning.

Unlike ordinary cities, Guanai City is an extremely narrow and long city, like a canyon.

It is called a city, but it is actually a huge and enlarged wall.

It just lies between two tall mountain ranges.

Going through Guanai City and continuing forward is Beimang Mountain, and after Guanai City is the Northern Territory.

Originally, there was no such city, and Beimang Mountain was directly used as the border line.

However, the boundary of Beimang Mountain is too narrow and long, and there are often fierce beasts appearing and attacking, which cannot be well defended.

So this Guanai City was built in this place south of Beimang Mountain.

When Lu Fan led Luo Cheng and Geng Yan and 1,700 soldiers and horses to come here.

Li Cunxiao, who received the news, had already led 14 captains to wait in front of the city gate.

After Lu Fan got off the carriage, Li Cunxiao and the fourteen captains all knelt on one knee to salute respectfully.

"I pay my respects to the Lord (Your Highness)!"

"You have worked hard, get up, the war is imminent, and there is no need to perform these empty formalities for the time being."

"Thank you, Your Highness!"

"Let's go, let's talk inside."

After the voice fell, Lu Fan took the lead to walk to the city gate, followed by Li Cunxiao and others.

As for the 1,700 guards and patrol guards, they also followed into the pass city.

However, after entering the pass city, Li Cunxiao arranged for someone to lead them to a special camp to rest at Lu Fan's signal.

Originally, Li Cunxiao wanted Lu Fan to take a short rest in the city, but was rejected by Lu Fan.

So the group came directly to the huge city wall more than 100 meters high.

On the city wall, the general flag fluttered, and every meter there was a Zhenbei Army standing, holding a sharp arrow and staring at the front vigilantly.

Standing on the city wall and looking forward, I suddenly saw a large military camp two kilometers away.

Between the pass city wall and the large military camp, traces of war can be seen.

Li Cunxiao stood beside Lu Fan and introduced in a solemn voice:

"My lord, the scale of the invasion of Mobei this time is not small. In addition to the 80,000 people in the early stage, another 40,000 people arrived.

In addition, the spies sent out by this general sent news before their death that a large number of Mobei barbarians were found in Beimang Mountain, and they are coming in an endless stream."

Listening to Li Cunxiao's report, Lu Fan narrowed his eyes slightly: "It seems that they really opened a road in Beimang Mountain."

If a road is not opened, it is impossible to have soldiers and horses coming in an endless stream.

It is not possible to open a road in a short time.

And even if this road is opened, there must be a corps of monks to maintain it all the time.

After all, there are many fierce beasts in Beimang Mountain, and the fierce beasts are extremely hostile to human monks.

Li Cunxiao nodded and continued: "Last night, I arranged 5,000 soldiers to launch a surprise attack, but the other side had already prepared."

"The two sides fought for half an hour, killing more than 3,500 enemies, and we lost 2,000."

"Loss of 2,000?" Lu Fan was surprised.

You have to know that the 140,000 people brought by Li Cunxiao are all elite soldiers of the Zhenbei Army.

How could he not be surprised when the number of casualties of 5,000 elite soldiers of the Zhenbei Army was so high?

Luo Cheng and Geng Yan were also puzzled.

It stands to reason that the party that launched the surprise attack at night would have an advantage anyway, so how could the casualties be so high?

Facing the puzzled eyes of Lu Fan and the other two, Li Cunxiao said helplessly:

"The other side had already prepared, and there were many soldiers of the cultivator hidden among the ordinary soldiers, and some cultivators of the Condensation Realm."

As soon as these words came out, Lu Fan frowned.

When the two armies fought, they would not use the cultivator corps at the beginning, but use ordinary soldiers to consume.

Because the monks are the core of the team, it is not easy to train them, and losing one of them is a loss.

Although ordinary soldiers are also important, they are not as good as monks.

There is an unwritten rule in the cultivation world.

That is, cultivators are not allowed to attack ordinary people without reason, and those who violate the order will be hunted down by all cultivators.

There are no strict restrictions on the battle between the two armies, but they basically follow the rule of cultivators fighting against cultivators.

However, the Mobei barbarians sent out cultivators in the first battle, and there were also Condensation Realm monks hiding among ordinary soldiers.

This is a bit shameless.

After Li Cunxiao finished explaining, he said with guilt: "I underestimated the enemy too much, resulting in the loss of two thousand brothers on our side. Please punish me, lord!"

Although he killed 3,500 enemies, he lost 2,000 people on his side. Li Cunxiao couldn't be happy anyway.

Looking at Li Cunxiao, who looked guilty, Lu Fan shook his head: "It's not your fault!"

"The Mobei barbarians want to take this opportunity to intimidate us, so as to buy time for their reinforcements behind them."

Hearing Lu Fan's analysis, Li Cunxiao nodded: "I think so too, so I plan to lead 50,000 troops to launch an attack directly."

At present, the detailed situation in Beimang Mountain cannot be explored, and it will be very disadvantageous to continue to drag it on.

Lu Fan also understood this point. After a moment of silence, he said: "After dark, Gong Ran will lead 5,000 troops to make a feint attack, mainly to harass and test."

"Geng Yan will lead 5,000 troops as the second wave, and when Gong Ran leads his troops to retreat, he will directly attack them, mainly to kill the enemy."

Listening to Lu Fan's arrangement, Luo Cheng and Geng Yan were immediately excited.

"I obey your order!"

Luo Cheng and Geng Yan were extremely excited, but Li Cunxiao and the fourteen captains were anxious.

"My Lord (Your Highness), what about us?"

As military commanders, they naturally wanted to go to the battlefield to kill the enemy, rather than hiding in the back to watch the excitement.

Looking at the extremely anxious Li Cunxiao and the other fifteen people, Lu Fan chuckled and said:

"Why are you in a hurry? With a powerful enemy in front of us, we are afraid that there will be no battle."

After saying this with a smile, Lu Fan looked at Li Cunxiao: "Jingsi, you will be responsible for the overall arrangement in the rear, and you don't need to go to the battlefield in person."

Li Cunxiao was the commander, and going to the battlefield to kill the enemy in person could indeed inspire morale, but there was no one sitting in the rear.

Although he had the memory experience of his previous life, it was still a bit difficult to command a large-scale war.

At least he didn't have that strength now.

He knew this.

Although Li Cunxiao wanted to kill the enemy, he also knew that Lu Fan's arrangement was the most correct.

After making arrangements for Li Cunxiao, Lu Fan looked at the fourteen captains who were anxious and nervous.

Seeing Lu Fan's patrolling eyes, the fourteen captains of ten thousand men quickly straightened their chests, and their eyes showed their desire to fight without any concealment.

Seeing this, Lu Fan chuckled and said, "Jingsi, find a place to sit down. I don't know these fourteen generals yet."

He still had tasks to arrange, but he was not familiar with these fourteen captains of ten thousand men, so he naturally had to get familiar with them first.

After all, they would all be his own people in the future, so how could he not know their names and general information?

Hearing Lu Fan's words, Li Cunxiao hurriedly led everyone away from the city wall and came to the general's mansion in the city...