Upon hearing this, everyone was so shocked that they were speechless for a long time.
"Say it again! Be more specific!" Lin said sternly.
"Your Highness, General Bai Qi is surrounded by 20,000 troops from Dos!"
"Holy crap!" Xu Chu cursed again. "Are you sure you're not mistaken? Twenty thousand troops? Did you count them carefully?"
"There are indeed a lot of troops who haven't been careful! They definitely number no less than 20,000!"
"Then what makes you say it's 20,000?" Xu Chu retorted angrily.
This soul-searching question left the horse archer speechless.
Qin Zhixing shook his head repeatedly. "This is terrible!" he said. "If General Bai and his men die heroically in battle, that will be fine. But if they are captured by the enemy... then the enemy will have all our intelligence."
Qin Zhixing's concerns were not unfounded. In his view, Bai Qi only brought three hundred archer cavalry, which was no match for the more than twenty thousand troops.
Once captured, they would most likely be subjected to severe torture to extract information about the Great Xia.
“Not everyone is as prone to surrendering as you are,” Xu Chu said. “I believe that Bai Qi and his three hundred warriors will die a glorious death, sacrificing themselves for our Great Xia!”
"You..." Qin Zhixing immediately became anxious.
"Quiet!" Lin Mo snapped. "Bai Qi isn't dead yet! We have to go save him!"
"Save them? What can we do to save them?" Qin Zhixing said in despair. "Twenty thousand against three hundred? Even if all the Dos people were just a few years old, Bai Qi still couldn't possibly win!"
"You're talking nonsense!" Xu Chu shouted. "It's 298, where did the 300 come from? Didn't we send two people back for help? 300 - 2 equals 298."
Qin Zhixing, “…”
Lin Mo: "..."
"Ah, something seems off!" Xu Chu said. "Bai Qi has been sending people back with messages every day, two at a time, for a total of five days. That makes ten people. Adding the two today, that makes twelve. Three hundred minus..."
Qin Zhixing almost laughed in anger, "At a time like this, you still have the mind to worry about how many people Bai Qi has around him?"
"Nonsense, of course we need to figure out the number of people first!"
"You..." Qin Zhixing was speechless.
Lin Mo was speechless. "Qin Zhixing, don't you have any idea what Xu Chu's situation is? Why do you have to compete with him?"
Upon hearing this, Xu Chu immediately laughed, "Yes, do you not know who I, Xu Chu, am? Do you really have to argue with me?"
Qin Zhixing's face darkened. "Yeah, I'm the idiot arguing with a moron about such a pointless question... I'm the moron!"
"Alright!" Lin Mo's face darkened, and he said sternly, "Bai Qi is not dead, we have to go save him."
As he spoke, he approached the mounted archer who had brought the news. "What exactly happened? Explain yourself!"
The princes and generals summoned by the father fell silent and listened to the archer recount what had happened.
Inside the spacious and well-ventilated tent, only the crackling of firewood in the stove could be heard.
"Is he deliberately not leaving?" Lin Mo asked in surprise after hearing the information.
"Yes, Your Highness!" the archer replied. "Moreover, according to my guess, General Bai... seems to be planning a night raid!"
"Huh?" Xu Chu was startled at first, then burst into laughter. "Hahaha, this guy is interesting. He actually dared to take the initiative to attack an army of 20,000 with only 300 cavalry. I, Xu Chu, admire him!"
Lin Mo fell into deep thought. Why would Bai Qi do this?
Suddenly, he stood up straight. "This guy is trying to stall the Doss!"
Like the Mongolian steppes on Earth, the Dos grasslands are vast and sparsely populated, making it difficult to locate the main force of the Dos people. Therefore, Bai Qi found one of the Dos tribes and deliberately "revealed his whereabouts," allowing the Dos people to "surround" him.
Thinking of this, Lin Mo shouted, "We must send troops immediately to support Bai Qi!"
No sooner had he finished speaking than Xu Chu raised his arms and shouted, "Support Bai Qi! Kill! Kill all the Dos dogs!"
With that, he picked up his two axes and walked out of the tent.
Lin Mo, “…”
However, as soon as he reached the door, he found that no one paid any attention to him, so he came back with his two axes.
"Let's continue!" Qin Zhixing shook his head and said, "Your Highness, do you have any plans? With our current troop strength, how should we deploy reinforcements?"
"Yes, Your Highness, I noticed the same problem when I got to the door."
"I have decided to send General Xu Chu with one elite soldier out of Shuyong Pass to surround the army of Dos and rescue Bai Qi!" Lin Mo said.
Xu Chu was immediately displeased upon hearing this. "Your Highness, are you joking with me?"
"Then why did you just walk out with an axe?" Lin Mo countered. "I thought you thought you could handle it all by yourself, so I made that arrangement."
"This..." Xu Chu chose to remain silent.
Lin Mo closed his eyes and pondered.
Qin Zhixing could lead two hundred Tang Xuanjia soldiers and all the archer cavalry to provide support, while he and Xu Chu would follow closely behind with infantry and supply troops.
Due to system enhancements, the current Tang Dynasty Xuanjia cavalry, although heavily armored, are not lacking in mobility.
At the same time, Lin Mo also considered that since the main force of the Dos army had already invaded Shu, only about 30-40% of the 20,000 men left on the grasslands were soldiers. The rest were definitely the elderly, women, and children, and only about 6,000 or 7,000 were truly capable of fighting.
With Bai Qi's special skills of "human butcher" and "war god", combined with two hundred Tang Dynasty Xuanjia soldiers and two thousand Hu-style archer cavalry, defeating more than seven thousand Si people would be a piece of cake, wouldn't it?
As the supreme commander, Lin Mo cannot only see what is in front of him; he must control the entire battlefield.
What happened after Bai Qi wiped out the Dos tribe?
Would the chieftain of the Dos people allow Bai Qi to slaughter the Dos people on the grasslands?
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