Chapter 485 Estimating Strength

After Qin Yan and Qin Zhao led their troops to set off, it was completely dark.

Lu Desheng knew that they were destined to stay in the wild all night tonight.

This situation matched one of the three situations they had deduced before, so they were mentally prepared.

After the army led by Qin Yan and Qin Zhao set off with dry food, the Pingzhou soldiers who stayed in Pinggang were all under Qin Heng's orders and were charged by him.

Qin Heng ordered to go down, and all the soldiers began to divide the work in an orderly manner, guard against the enemy, set up camp, and bury pots to make rice.

The other two armies also began to follow the same example. The three parties restrained each other and were on guard against each other.

At this time, both the imperial court and Xianbei were silently assessing Pingzhou's strength at this time.

In addition to the more than 20,000 soldiers in front of him and the 15,000 soldiers and horses brought by Qin Yan and Qin Zhao, how many soldiers can Pingzhou draw?

General Sun said, "A conservative estimate is that the total number of soldiers in Pingzhou should be about one hundred thousand."

The real number should be around 60,000 to 70,000. But there are 678,000 soldiers and horses, so-called 100,000 troops. Is there any problem?

Prince Gong was shocked. Pingzhou could support an army of 100,000 people with just one state? Is Lu Desheng so capable?

Frankly speaking, the imperial court did not give much support to the local garrison. Take Youzhou as an example. One county has four to five thousand soldiers and horses, and the three counties combined have less than 20,000 soldiers and horses. It is normal for Youzhou to have such a military strength. Pingzhou is so different.

After hearing Sun Ming's assessment of Pingzhou's military strength, Prince Gong no longer had any thoughts of killing him in one battle. His current idea was to leave everything to the emperor to decide.

At this moment, the smell of rice was already wafting from the camp in Pingzhou.

After a while, Lu Desheng served the rice bowl and invited his subordinates to eat together.

Then the Pingzhou soldiers began to take turns to eat in an orderly manner.

Sun Ming shook his head in his heart. These soldiers were as big-hearted as their commander Lu Desheng. They looked like they should eat and drink and should not take their troubles to heart.

Sun Ming noticed that not long after, three hundred soldiers were detached from Pingzhou and loaded the boxes containing gold, silver and jewelry that they had just received from the Xianbei negotiation team onto the carriage one by one.

He thought to himself, is Lu Desheng going to send them back to their home base in Pingzhou?

He had just estimated in his mind that Pingzhou currently needed to leave enough troops to protect the counties in Pingzhou, and allocated 15,000 troops to take over Youzhou. The troops they could use now should be limited.

Now he was suddenly a little unsure. If Pingzhou's troops and horses were stretched thin at this time, it was not suitable to divide the troops at this time, but they did this...

To the north, Xianbei temporary military tent

"Aliannu, that archer in Pingzhou, who is stronger than you?" Tuoba asked their Xianbei archer.

Alinu was silent for a while, then replied, "The opponent is stronger." For archers like them, it is not difficult to kill the target, but the difficulty is accuracy.

The other party shot twice, and the arrows they shot were extremely accurate, especially the last arrow. The other party was just warning the prince of Dali, and did not want the other party's life, so the arrow passed by grazing his eyebrows, with a A strong smell of warning.

"Then can you estimate the location of the sharp archer in Pingzhou?"

Alianu shook his head, "The other party made two attacks in total, and the positions were different twice. I can only estimate a rough range, but the exact position is elusive." The most important thing is that neither of them dared to step into the other party. shooting range.

Tuoba Xun could only give up his original plan and said instead, "Uncle Emperor, I want to send a team of 500 people to rob and kill the Pingzhou Silver Transport Team."

He wanted everyone in Dali to know that things from their Xianbei royal court were not so easy to get.

He noticed that Lu Desheng only sent three hundred people to escort the gold, silver and jewelry back. They selected five hundred outstanding Xianbei soldiers, which was enough to deal with the opponent.

"The seventh prince is still in the hands of the other party." This was Tuo Ba Yu's worry. What if Lu Desheng found out that the gold and silver he had sent back to Liaoxi County had been robbed, and became angry and attacked Tuo Ba Lian?

"Don't worry, Uncle Emperor, no one will be left alive in this operation. Early tomorrow morning, the general sent by Lu Desheng to take over Youzhou will send someone back to inform him of the results, ensuring that he will not notice that the gold and silver have been robbed."

Tuoba Yu thought for a while and realized that this was feasible, so he agreed.

Tuoba Jin asked for help, "Brother, leave this matter to me!"

At this time, Tuoba Jin was furious. Because of him, their Xianbei royal court was blackmailed by Lu Desheng for one million stones of gold and silver. Although the gold and silver came from his seventh brother, he was still furious.

Tuoba Yu looked at his two nephews with relief. No matter how much they argued, it was good for the two brothers to work together when encountering big problems.

Tuoba Xun: "Okay, I'll leave it to you. The road from Pinggang to Wencheng County is not long. Remember, we must fight quickly."

Tuoba Jin agreed.

"Aliannu, you should follow."

"promise!"

"Pay attention to the direction of Wencheng County. Pingzhou may send someone out to meet them."

"Brother, don't worry."

Tuoba Xun was very cautious. He ordered his people to pay attention to the movements of the Pingzhou army diagonally opposite. If there was any movement from the other side, he would immediately send troops to support Tuoba Jin.

Tuoba Xun was already very cautious, but he never expected that there was a Pingzhou Army hiding nearby.

Qin Sheng was also leading people to eat dry food at this moment. The water can only be drunk raw, and for the sake of concealment, they cannot light a fire.

Chen Jinlong lowered his voice and urged everyone, "Everyone, eat quickly. It's time to work after eating." His excitement could not be concealed in his voice.

The others were nodding their heads and eating big mouthfuls of food, fearing that they would fall behind.

Damn it, they followed Mr. Liu out to work, thinking they were just doing ordinary work, but they didn’t expect Pingzhou to rebel so forcefully? !

They are bandit leaders and have no good impressions of the Dali court. Master Lu has rebelled and separatized Pingzhou. They will only feel excited, not afraid.

At this time, they were all so excited, as if they were pie in the sky.

"Have you eaten yet?" Qin Sheng asked.

"Eat!"

"After you've eaten, get ready to work." He stood up.

Chen Jinlong, Gao Lei, Ding Hansheng, Yan Tianqing and others also stood up.

Work, work, they love to work! If you work hard, you will gain military merit, and you may not be able to become a marquis or prime minister in the future!

Suddenly, Chen Jinlong, Gao Lei and others felt that the future was bright.

Ping Gang was on his way to Wencheng County. The sky was nice tonight, and a crescent moon hung in the sky.

Ma Jin led three hundred soldiers to escort the gold and silver at a normal speed, chatting with his deputy from time to time.

He thought to himself that if he went further, he would enter their ambush. It would be best if no one from Xianbei comes tonight. If someone comes to rob and kill them, their team will cooperate with Liu Ye to make sure that the other party has no chance of coming back!