"Please give the order, Your Excellency!"
After Xue Rengui's firm and resolute request, all the officers present looked on with anticipation.
His eyes were filled with eagerness.
Their voices were resolute, their fighting spirit intense.
For the past five days, all eight thousand light cavalry and two thousand heavy cavalry have remained stationary in Cloud City.
Looking out at the Xianbei camp outside the city, cavalrymen were running back and forth.
Their hand axes and ring-pommel swords were sharpened again and again.
However, the Marquis hesitated to give them the order to attack, and they kept their anger to themselves.
Now it's finally time to let loose!
Under the intense gazes of Xue Rengui and the others, Liu Wei slowly stood up!
A towering physique, a handsome face, and deep-set eyes.
"Bring the wine! Fill the cups!"
Liu Wei shouted loudly.
Immediately, a dozen or so guards carried a stack of earthenware jars and bowls, distributing them to everyone present, and then filled each person's bowl with their own!
The council chamber was quiet except for the sound of wine being poured.
Soon, the air was thick with the smell of alcohol.
Liu Wei picked up a bowl with both hands, held it to his chest, and scanned the entire room with a burning gaze.
His gaze swept across everyone's face.
"Everyone!"
Everyone immediately straightened up and followed Liu Wei's example, holding their glasses.
"The Xianbei people are determined to destroy us! They have gathered five armies, totaling more than 60,000 men, led by the Khan of the Tuoba Xianbei tribe, and they want to seize Yunzhong, which we just painstakingly recovered from the Xiongnu!"
"I want to ask you, do you agree or not?" Liu Wei said firmly.
"No way!"
"If you won't agree, if I won't agree, then the more than 200,000 people of Yunzhong won't agree either!"
Liu Wei continued loudly, "Now, we have waited for five whole days, and finally all the Xianbei people from the north have gathered here!"
"Now is the time for us to launch a full-scale attack!"
"In a moment, you will mount your sturdy warhorses, don your strong armor, and take up your sharp weapons! Charge fearlessly towards the Xianbei!"
"The Xianbei people's time to die has come! The heroic spirits of the Han martyrs who shed their blood for generations to expand the territory will protect you and ensure that the Xianbei people do not see the sunrise tomorrow!"
"Drink this toast with me to bid farewell, and I will await your triumphant return!"
"Dry!"
After saying that, Liu Wei drank it all in one gulp, raised the large bowl high above his head, and left not a drop!
Xue Rengui, Liu Du, and more than twenty others in the council hall drank the wine that was being guarded down in large gulps.
"General Xue, launch the attack!"
Liu Wei then uttered a concise and simple sentence, and then smashed the wine bowl in his hand to the ground!
Snap snap snap--Snap snap snap!
Then, more than twenty porcelain bowls also fell to the ground and shattered into pieces.
Unexpectedly, their lord had such a heroic and passionate act, and Xue Rengui, Liu Du, and the other officers were immediately filled with patriotic fervor.
One sip of wine, one flick of the bowl!
Fueled by alcohol and grand pronouncements, the officers' passion was ignited.
Everyone was itching to mount their warhorses, brandish their weapons, and charge fiercely at the enemy.
Xue Rengui stepped forward, knelt on one knee, bowed respectfully, and shouted loudly, "My lord, we swear we will not return until we have defeated the Xianbei!"
"We will not return until the Xianbei are defeated!"
More than twenty people shouted at the top of their lungs, the sound almost lifting the roof off.
Liu Du also shouted, seemingly forgetting that he was also a Xianbei.
"Fellow soldiers!"
"Three thousand cavalrymen will form the vanguard, another three thousand will form the left flank, the Doyan Three Guards will form the right flank, and the Xuanjia Cavalry will be in the center!"
"Everyone out of the city now, launch the attack!"
"Let our iron cavalry tear apart the Xianbei's formation."
"Let their souls tremble under our blades!"
......
Ugh!
The long, melodious sound of a bull horn echoed over the grasslands outside Cloud City.
Countless Bucks banners appeared.
To the north of Cloud City, countless cavalrymen emerged one after another.
Densely packed, covering the sky and earth, as numerous as ants.
Like a rising tide, a human wall about ten feet high and three or four miles wide appeared on the horizon at the foot of the Daqingshan Mountain to the north.
They formed a long, horizontal snake formation, their jaws wide open, ready to devour Cloud City like a greedy snake.
Tuoba Gao, the Khan of the Xianbei, led 30,000 troops in the center, Yuwen Lie led 10,000 cavalry on the left, Qu Bei led 10,000 Xiongnu troops on the right, and Murong Hu led his own 5,000 cavalry to the rear.
He Baxian's 10,000 troops split into two groups to attack Yuanyang and Chengle!
Tuoba Gao took over his precious 3,000 Tiger-Striped Cavalry and personally led them in battle.
Since the Han army in Yunzhong City refuses to come out, let them besiege the city on their own initiative.
"Sun Tzu's Art of War states: 'The art of war is this: if you have ten times the enemy's strength, surround them; if you have five times their strength, attack them; if you have twice their strength, divide them; if you have an equal strength, fight them; if you have fewer troops, flee from them; if you are weaker, avoid them.'"
Looking at the vast Xianbei army, Tuoba Gao was filled with excitement and high spirits. He recited Sun Tzu's Art of War to the officials accompanying him.
He enjoys reading Sun Tzu's Art of War and has studied its contents extensively.
"Khan, what...what does this mean?"
The officials around him were completely bewildered and didn't understand what he was saying.
However, it seemed very high-class, and they asked each other with reverence.
"It seems that only Yuwen Liefang and I have something in common to talk about, but it's a pity he's not around right now. Talking to you guys is like casting pearls before swine!"
Tuoba Gao was too lazy to explain, "Order the left and right flanks to quickly outflank and surround Yunzhong City!"
The attendant was about to go and relay the order.
Just then, the north gate of Cloud City opened wide.
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