After thinking for a while, Ling Tianfang finally made up his mind. It seemed that he had to pay something for this battle. This kind of battle between the plain wilderness was originally a good match for Luo Beiren, but he had no choice now. If the number of troops in his hands was even more than Luo Beiren, his side was forced to take a defensive position. The enemy's powerful cavalry exceeded his side too much, and the position that his side needed to guard against was too many. This passive defense was originally the lowest-level defense method, but now he could not turn the baton, so he could only spend a lot of money to let them take the baton. As the saying goes, he couldn't bear to let the child get trapped, and he was willing to let him go, and he would not take such measures.

"Kinship of the country, we must be mentally prepared for this battle. We are afraid that the losses will exceed any time, but we have no choice. If we want Luo Beiren to follow us, we can only gain something. If we want to hold the enemy's footsteps, we can only fight back and fight hard." Ling Tianfang's voice was a little low, obviously thinking about the cruelty of his plan. He used the loss of the army to exchange for the safety of the people. This seemed very great, but no one could do it in the war. Who would like to see that his army would sacrifice for some ordinary people who were insignificant?

Kang Jianguo had already vaguely heard from the words of the Military Affairs Director who had not spoken much. Although he had not yet understood how to win this battle, at least one thing he knew was that Luo Bei's cavalry must not be allowed to rush into the northwest mainland. To do this, the other party seemed to intend to let the army as bait and seduce the Luo Bei's army to take the Western Front army as the main target. But is this effective? Kang Jianguo was a little suspicious, not to mention whether all the troops would be concentrated on the bait. Even if it was placed on the bait, how much time would it win? Now that the war on the eastern front is about to start, there is no extra force to draw west for a while, so this would have almost no effect except for letting Luo Bei people calmly eat the bait. They could still drive in after solving the bait. At that time, I am afraid that the situation would be worse.

"Mr. Ling, are you planning to use Ying Jianming's three divisions as bait?" This is a matter of course. Since you have joined the Western Army, you need to take a little attitude to win respect. Kang Jianguo does not think that anyone has privileges. Everyone is equal before the war. Whoever is more suitable for this position will go to the table. There is no condition to say.

"No, if you want to attract Luo Beiren, Ying Jianming's three divisions are not enough. Tu Dai has a very big appetite. It is difficult to attract him. I want your three divisions to take Ying Jianming's two divisions. In this way, almost all the main forces in the northwest are released. As long as he can eat this bait, the six northwest governments will almost let him hang out. Is such bait smelly enough?" Ling Tianfang's gloomy face finally had a rare smile. Obviously, he has a lot of confidence in his plan, but it sounds like a thunderbolt sounding in Kang Jianguo's ears.

"What?! Lord Ling, what did you say? Let my three divisions be bait? Sir, aren't you kidding anymore? How can you use our Derlock Legion as bait? This doesn't work, absolutely not!" Kang Jianguo was so anxious that his face turned red.

"No? Being presumptuous! I tell you, you have to be able to do it, and you have to be able to do it if you don't. This is a military order!" Ling Tianfang's face suddenly became dark and his tone became stern.

"Mr. Ling, I'm not afraid of losing my army, but if you do this, what force will we use to fight back? You will take time out all your troops in this way. What if Luo Beiren is not fooled and goes straight into the northwest mainland? How should we deal with it?" He lowered his head awkwardly, and Kang Jianguo also realized that he had a little disloyal and quickly explained.

"That's not something you need to care about. You just need to consider how to delay this battle as long as possible. All the consequences will naturally be borne by me." Ling Tianfang was no longer polite, and his tone became more and more cold.

In view of the increasingly tense situation in the northwest, Ling Tian announced an emergency decree on the first day of his stay in Qingyang. The entire northwest entered a wartime state and was ready to deal with the upcoming war. Now that the Luobei cavalry has stepped on the northwest border, he immediately issued combat orders. In addition to leaving Ying Jianming's 5th Division, Qingyang Guard Corps, and Northwest Military Academy cadets under him, the other five divisions in his hands were divided into two arrows to advance westward and set up defensive formations on the western border.

The strange appearance of the Western Army calmed down Luo Beiren, who was already impatient. The practice of leaving the city but not defending but coming to this wilderness to prepare for field battle with his own side is undoubtedly a replica of another war on this land many years ago. At that time, it was on this land that he led his army to defeat the army led by Situ Mingzhi of the Tanghe Empire and wiped out more than 100,000 enemies in one fell swoop. However, later, because of his carelessness, he took the opportunity to pick a peach to the ground. Now the Westerners once again put on such a strange posture. Did they forget their lesson or think they were fully capable of defeating their side in the field?

The bizarre behavior of the Western Xinjiang Army made Luo Beiren hesitate. Even Tu Da himself was a little unsure of what the intention of the Western Xinjiang people were to take such a posture. Moreover, seeing their appearance was about to rush up to the Tuqi Plain to dig a trenches and set up a camp, Tu Da was even more concerned. Could it be that Li Wufeng's reinforcements had arrived in the northwest?

"What did you say?" Tu Da was shocked and slapped the table and stood up sternly.

"Well, Grandmaster, this is the information that our intelligence personnel only obtained from the enemy. The four cavalry regiments of the Tanghe people have been active in Qingyang, but their whereabouts are very mysterious and specific whereabouts that we cannot grasp. And their First Legion is rushing towards Qingyang overnight. It is estimated that they can reach Qingyang within a week." The intelligence officer was so nervous that his lips were a little white. The situation in the enemy suddenly changed so much that he, the intelligence supervisor, had just grasped it now, and he was indeed a bit suspicious of dereliction of duty.

"Where are these four cavalry regiments coming from?" Try to calm down, Tu Da asked carefully about the details, "Didn't Li Wufeng's first and third cavalry regiments have sneaked into the Western Regions? In addition, the other two cavalry regiments you mentioned have returned to the northwest. Which two cavalry regiments are there?"

"Returning to the Grand Marshal, it should be the Fourth Fifth Cavalry Regiment. They returned from the Central Plains. Our intelligence personnel on the front line of Queqiao Pass saw it with their own eyes." The intelligence officials were quite sure of this.

Tu Da was in deep thought. He naturally could not imagine the real reason why Ling Tianfang had a passive beating situation. The military made sacrifices for the interests of the people. This was a question that the soldiers could not think about in their minds. This was even more so in Luo Beiren's mind. In their opinion, the people should give everything to the army to win the battle. Tu Da was no exception. He could only infer from whether Ling Tianfang had other tricks. After all, Ling Tianfang was also a former opponent of Luo Beiren, and the Tanghe people had been defeated on this land. He would not be so careless and presumptuous.

The only possibility is that the Tang He people were thinking of taking this decisive posture on the Tuqi Plain, pretending to be empty in the mainland, seducing their army into the mainland, and then using his four cavalry regiments to eliminate their vital forces. Although Tu Da had not thought about how the Tang He people set up an ambush in the mainland of Qingyang for a while, he believed that Ling Tianfang would definitely be sure to do this. Ling Tianfang was not a bold and arrogant person, and never was. This was Tu Da's conclusion that Ling Tian had come to after carefully analyzing Ling Tian's performance under Li Wufeng's command over the years. It was plain and unpretentious, and he won calmness. This was Ling Tianfang's style of becoming famous.

Tu Da smiled slightly. Ling Tianfang was smart but was mistaken for intelligence. He burried the four Rangers behind him in the back and waited for him to take the bait, but he did not expect that he had time and could have a war of attrition with his main army in this Tuqi Plain. The Tuqi Plain has always been his own blessed land, and perhaps history will repeat itself here. The Tuqi Plain has no danger to defend, and he happened to test the power of his iron armored cavalry. Over the years, he slept on firewood and tasted gall to let the infantry phalanx that the people of Tanghe were proud of to see the power of Luobei Iron Cavalry.

Tu Dazhi has such great confidence. Since many wars, especially the Tanghe people, Luo Bei's light cavalry was at a loss in front of the Tanghe people's infantry formation, especially the heavy infantry formation. The simple iron armored cavalry also achieved little success in the heavy infantry armed by Li Wufeng and Gao Yue people. Tu Da, who was already the leader of the western expedition, began to improve his iron armored cavalry under his command, and Luo Bei was convinced.

The continued improvement of the financial situation also provided considerable support for his improvement. With the encouragement of the chief, Tuda's reform in the iron armored cavalry has been quite successful. It turned out that the simple mail was replaced by the authentic iron leaf armor, and the war horses were also covered with heavy horse armor. The traditional ordinary spear was also replaced by the regular iron armored cavalry spear. In addition, the strict military discipline training of the cavalry instructors hired from the Western Continent, this iron armored cavalry has already faintly felt like a hero.

The army that does not go into battle is never a real army. Tu Da had long been hoping for a solid war to test the iron-armored cavalry he had spent a lot of money to build. Now the formation that Ling Tianfang set up obviously despises himself from being unable to break through his infantry defense line. Maybe it was time to teach him a good lesson.
Chapter completed!