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Everyone thought that the snow would bring complete peace to the wilderness.
At least before the new year, there would be peace.
Who would have thought that this tranquility would soon be broken again?
No one expected that the fifteenth city in the China region would be promoted before the new year.
The promoted city was a dark horse. Its lord was [Overturning Heaven and Earth], which was ranked eighth in Gaia's "year-end bonus".
[Overturning Heaven and Earth] was rewarded with 20,000 achievement points and promoted to a Rank 3 Marquis. After half a month of hard work, the promotion mission was finally completed and the territory was promoted to a Rank 1 city.
As a result, the fifth battle was successfully initiated.
On the 15th of January in the third year of Gaia, a system announcement resounded throughout the China region.
"System announcement: China region has successfully promoted 15 cities, triggering the battle system. The fifth battle — Battle of Mobei will officially begin in three days. Please look forward to it. Friendly reminder: The Battle of Mobei is a non-mandatory battle scenario mission. Only the top 50 territories are eligible to participate. "
The Battle of Mobei was finally here!
In the fourth year of Yuanshou, Emperor Wu of Han mobilized 140,000 cavalrymen, 140,000 warhorses, and 100,000 foot soldiers and porters under the command of Wei Qing and Huo Qubing. They set off towards the Mobei Desert from the east and west.
When the Xiongnu Chanyu heard the news, he moved his supplies and deployed his elite troops to the northern border of the desert to meet the Han army.
After Wei Qing left the fortress, he learned that the Chanyu did not head east. He led his elite troops and ordered Li Guang and Zhao Shiqi to take the eastern route to provide support. Wei Qing led his troops for over a thousand miles, passing through the desert and engaging the Chanyu's troops in battle. First, he used Wu Gang Chariots to form a camp and stabilized the troops before sending out 5,000 cavalry.
At dusk, a strong wind blew and sand and stones blew. Wei Qing took the opportunity to surround the Chanyu from both sides.
The Chanyu saw that the Han army was large and strong. Knowing that it would be difficult for him to win, he led a few hundred elite cavalry and escaped northwest. The Xiongnu army was routed.
Wei Qing sent light cavalry to pursue while he led his main force to follow. At Mountain Yan's Zhao Xin City, they killed 19,000 enemies and burned their grain to return home.
Li Guang and Zhao Shiqi lost their way and could not meet up with Wei Qing in Mobei. Wei Qing ordered the Chief Scribe to summon Li Guang to the Shogunate and interrogated him about his loss of Dao. Li Guang committed suicide out of humiliation.
After Huo Qubing led his troops out of the fortress, he brought along a small amount of supplies and rations. He commanded the captured Xiong Nu people to be the vanguard and open a path for the Han army. They crossed the desert, crossed the river, and captured the Chief Minister Zhang Qu alive. They killed the King of the North Chariots and turned around to attack the Left General Shuang and seized the enemy's flag and war drums. They also crossed Mount Nanhou, crossed the Gonglu River, and captured the Tung Tou Wang, the Prince of Han, and eighty-three other people, including the general, the prime minister, the danghu, and the commandant.
In this expedition, Huo Qubing's troops suffered a loss of 10,000 men, but they managed to kill a total of 70443 barbarians. At this point, the Left and Right Virtuous Princes of the Xiongnu had been completely cut off, leaving the Chanyu Chanyu alone in the north.
Huo Qubing sealed the Wolf Storey Mountain, gave Zen to Guyan, and returned to the Immensity Sea.
After this battle, the Xiong Nu fled far away, and there was no royal court in Mo Nan.
After this battle, the three famous generals would face different fates.
Great General Wei Qing's merits and demerits offset each other, so he was not rewarded.
Old General Li Guang committed suicide out of humiliation. When the people heard this, they wept, regardless of whether they knew or did not.
Cavalry General Huo Qubing was rewarded wantonly, and he was in the limelight for a while. Two years later, he suddenly died at the age of 24, and people could not help but sigh.
There was no doubt that these three famous generals, especially Wei Qing and Huo Qubing, would be the target of the Lord's Domain players' frenzied pursuit.
Even Ouyang Shuo was no exception. It must be known that Wei Qing and Huo Qubing were both part of the Ten Great Generals of China in ancient times. They were on the same level as Bai Qi, Han Xin, and the others.
Just as Ouyang Shuo was sorting out the information about the Battle of Mo Bei, he suddenly heard the sound of a system notification.
"System notification: Congratulations to player Not Saying That Has No Clothes, you have met the requirements to participate in the Battle of Mo Bei. In this battle, regardless of the rank, every feudal lord can only lead three thousand troops at most. Please be prepared in advance. "
Ouyang Shuo frowned when he heard this.
With his current rank of a Marquis, according to the rules of the battle, he could lead fifty thousand troops.
Three thousand was only the upper limit for a Marquis of the First Class.
Comparing the two, the difference was sixteen to seventeen times. It was like heaven and earth.
Gaia had always pursued the principle of fairness. They would not arbitrarily change the rules of the battle just because of Ouyang Shuo. It could only be said that this battle would be very different from the previous battles.
The rank of nobility had always been the most important and core indicator that Gaia gave to the feudal lords.
Ouyang Shuo did not believe that his rank of a First Class Marquis would receive the same treatment as a First Class Earl. If that was the case, what was the point of the feudal lords painstakingly earning merit points?
As for what the compensation was, he would probably only know after entering the battle map.
In addition to the number of troops, Gaia also set a strict limit on the number of feudal lords participating in the battle.
There were estimated to be around five hundred territories in the China region.
Apart from some remote and desolate areas, most of them were promoted to third-class counties.
If all of them participated in the battle, even if a feudal lord led three thousand troops, it would be as high as 1.5 million.
This time, Gaia eliminated more than ninety percent of the contestants in one go.
With the development of the territories, it was extremely difficult to level up a county city. The difference between the levels of the territories was no longer as obvious as it was in Gaia. However, this did not mean that there was no difference between the development of the various territories.
In the China region's territory ranking, when the territories were of the same level, the four territorial indexes that determined the territory's ranking were politics, economy, culture, and military.
The higher the overall value of the four indexes, the higher the ranking.
Before this, the feudal lords' competition for the territory ranking was only a fight for face.
The higher the ranking, the more face they had.
From now on, the competition for the territory ranking would involve real benefits. After all, whether or not one could participate in a battle would have a huge impact on the territory.
In the worst case scenario, it would be a missed opportunity to be promoted to a county city.
In the future, the feudal lords would have to put more effort into the territory's four indexes under the premise that they focused on raising the territory's level. After all, these four indexes basically covered all aspects of the territory.
There could not be any shortcomings in domestic and foreign affairs.
In order to temper the young feudal lords, Gaia had put in a lot of effort.
In this way, even if the top fifty territories in the China region all participated in the battle, the total number of the Mutant Army would not be more than 150,000.
The Mutant Army would not be able to have a decisive impact on the battle of Mobei.
Because the number of troops they brought was the same, the feudal lords were on the same starting line, which was rare.
The advantage that Shanhai City had always had in terms of military strength was gone.
"This battle is not going to be easy!"
Ouyang Shuo let out a long sigh.
More importantly, how would the feudal lords choose their side in this battle? Would there still be players who would choose the Hun Nu side that was destined to lose?
Even if they wanted to take a gamble and reverse the situation, they would not be able to overcome the obstacle of national sentiment.
Help the Hun Nu fight the Han army? Just the thought of it was a pain in the ass.
Needless to say, the Hun Nu side did not have any generals that were worth subduing. The Western Han side, on the other hand, had three famous generals, as well as a large number of deputy generals and field generals.
How to choose sides was a very simple problem.
In this way, would Gaia not be afraid that the difference in the Mutant Army between the two camps would be too great?
What kind of setting did Gaia have in mind?
Everything was unknown.
Even Ouyang Shuo, who had been reborn, did not know much about this.
In his previous life, the information about this battle was very limited on the forum.
Otherwise, Ouyang Shuo would have made preparations long ago. The only thing he could do was to order the Combat Readiness Division to make some targeted preparations based on the characteristics of the desert.
For example, he stepped up the production of a large number of military ration pills.
Marching in the desert was the most difficult thing to resupply.
Otherwise, Emperor Wu of Han would not have conscripted more than a hundred thousand infantry soldiers to be responsible for the supply of cavalry.
Now, Gaia had stipulated that each feudal lord could only bring a maximum of three thousand soldiers. In this way, many of Ouyang Shuo's arrangements had been wasted, and they were completely useless.
"It's really a bad start!"
Ouyang Shuo could only bring three thousand soldiers. He did not even need to think about it. He could just bring three thousand Divine Guards to battle.
Since he could not have an advantage in terms of the number of troops, Ouyang Shuo could only plan to have an advantage in terms of the individual combat strength of the soldiers.
This advantage was destined not to be too big.
Which of the territories that were still struggling to survive in the wilderness did not have three thousand elite cavalrymen? Although there was a gap between elite cavalry and the Divine Guards, the gap was not huge.
As for the generals that followed the army, Ouyang Shuo did not plan to recruit Bai Qi, Han Xin, and the other generals.
It was not that he could not make it in time.
After the system update, the feudal lord's troops no longer needed to go through specific teleportation formations to participate in the battle. As long as Ouyang Shuo submitted the list to the system, no matter where the troops were, they could be teleported to the battle map.
Gaia had set this up in consideration that with the expansion of the players' territory, it would be impossible for the feudal lord to gather all the troops to participate in the battle in just three days.
For example, if Ouyang Shuo could bring fifty thousand soldiers this time, he would definitely mobilize three major armies.
The time it took to march on the road was not enough.
In this regard, Gaia was very humane. It was flexible and did not rigidly adhere to the rules.
Ouyang Shuo did not recruit Bai Qi and the others because he really did not want to make a big fuss. A mere three thousand Divine Guardsmen was not enough for Bai Qi and the other Divine Generals.
Even if the alliance army of the Alliance of Mountains and Seas was included, the total was less than twenty thousand soldiers.
Sending Bai Qi and the others was a waste of their talents.
Instead of that, it was better to leave them in the wilderness and continue to reorganize the army.
The three thousand Divine Guards would be personally led by Ouyang Shuo.
By now, Ouyang Shuo could also be considered a fierce general.
In addition, Ouyang Shuo also planned to recruit a staff officer to accompany the army. The person he chose was Zhao Kuo, the deputy director of the General Administration of Military Affairs and the chief of the war department.
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