I really became a king.

Chapter 437 Meeting with Champion Hou

Strictly speaking, Langju Mountain is just a small hill, but due to its special geographical location, it naturally became a strategic location.

On the east side, the slope is gentle and long, spanning more than ten kilometers, extending all the way to Coco Lake.

The other three sides are steep slopes. Even the most powerful cavalry would find it extremely difficult to rush up in one go. This terrain makes Wolf Mountain dangerous.

Moreover, Langju Mountain is the only high ground within hundreds of kilometers. Standing on the top of the mountain, you can overlook the entire prairie around it.

In Jiang Yi's strategic layout, Langju Mountain will be the location of the camp of the Eight Banners of Khorhan. Keeping in mind the advantages of the terrain, the Eight Banners of Khorhan will shoulder the responsibility of monitoring the entire prairie.

Therefore, the cruising range of the Korhan cavalry would not be limited to Wolf Mountain, but would take Wolf Mountain as the starting point and hunt within a radius of thousands or even tens of thousands of kilometers.

This will also be the largest gathering place for the Khorhan people, with millions of them settling down here and roaming the prairie, providing the Yiwangfu with a steady supply of war horses, cattle, sheep and other logistical supplies.

The newly formed Heishui Eight Banners will set up their headquarters on the shores of Lake Cocoa to protect the largest grain-producing area on this prairie.

However, in the eyes of many people, the fact that the Korhan Camp and the Heishui Camp were built adjacent to each other may have the intention of mutual supervision. More people believed that Jiang Yi was using the Heishui Eight Banners to monitor the Korhan Eight Banners.

Jiang Yi had naturally heard about the rumors from the outside world, but he just laughed it off.

He made such a plan for only one purpose, which was to consolidate the results of the battle and completely block the large-scale counterattack of the Western Tibet Dynasty against Heishui Pass.

In his strategic layout, Langju Mountain is the forefront of the territory under the jurisdiction of Prince Yi's Palace, and it must not be lost.

However, the troops of Prince Yi's Mansion will not stop at Langju Mountain, but will start from the west of Langju Mountain and radiate westward for thousands of kilometers relying on the powerful mobile combat capabilities of the cavalry.

The prairie thousands of miles away will be the main battlefield between Prince Yi's Mansion and the Xifan Dynasty.

That is to say, in the short term, the troops of Prince Yi's Mansion will no longer advance westward, but will defend Langju Mountain to consolidate the current strategic achievements.

So when Jiang Yi received the invitation to a meeting from the Marquis of Guanjun of the Xifan Dynasty, he agreed without any hesitation.

This was also another important reason why he took time out to rush to Heishui Pass on the eve of the battle of Hanshan City, which was to form an alliance with the Xifan Dynasty at Langju Mountain.

After completing the preliminary reorganization of the Heishui Eight Banners, Jiang Yi set out for Langju Mountain, dozens of miles away.

In addition to tens of thousands of his personal troops, there were also tens of thousands of the Eight Banners of the Khorhan. The Eight Banners of the Heishui Banner did not accompany him because they had just been reorganized and had not yet been formally awarded the flag and established.

However, Jiang Yi selected two thousand Black Water Cavalrymen and recruited them into his personal camp. According to his plan, every time a new army was formed in the future, a part of the personnel would be transferred to his personal camp.

After a period of training, these people will return to their original units and become the grassroots backbone of the entire army.

Jiang Yi knew that what he did might make some people uncomfortable, but he ignored it because in his plan, the future Prince Yi's Palace would be a highly centralized ruling body.

When Jiang Yi led his army to the top of Langju Mountain, he suddenly felt relaxed and happy. Looking down from the high place, the entire prairie was in sight and the view reached the sky.

"Your Highness, the Marquis of Guanjun has arrived." Jiang Yuan stepped forward and whispered.

Jiang Yi nodded and looked towards a sunshade tent a few miles away from the western foot of Wolf Mountain. Inside the tent was a table and two chairs. A man named Shanmo was sitting on one of the chairs, drinking by himself.

If I am not mistaken, that person is Hou Wubantu, the bravest champion of the Western Tibet Dynasty.

There was no one within a few miles of the white sunshade tent. But a few miles to the west, battle flags stood in rows, and tens of thousands of Western Tibetan cavalrymen were quietly guarding there.

"You guys wait here."

Jiang Yi said this, then turned around and looked at Prince Guo Jiang Huan. Jiang Huan understood what he meant, shook his head and nodded with a smile.

Jiang Yi nodded, and under the watchful eyes of tens of thousands of soldiers under his command, he slowly rode his horse down the mountain.

Jiang Yuan, who was a personal soldier, opened his mouth, wanting to say something but stopped himself. He looked worried, thinking that his prince was taking too much risk. However, the surrounding generals, such as Su Qingfeng and Wang Daniu, all looked calm, including Fu Long, who had always been by Jiang Yi's side and had no intention of following him.

"Don't worry, the prince will be fine."

Seeing that Jiang Yuan was so anxious that he was about to scratch his head, Fulong said something with a smile.

Whether in the Middle-earth Dynasty or in frontier dynasties such as Xifan, it has always been a tradition for the commander-in-chief to appear alone before the battle between the two armies.

During a meeting, you can argue, or even curse at each other, but you cannot kill others. This is a rule that has been passed down since ancient times.

Of course, it is just a convention and some people do not follow it.

However, they did not have such worries for the Champion Marquis of Xifan.

Firstly, Jiang Yi’s cultivation level is extremely strong. Although he is one level lower than Hou Wubantu, the champion of the seventh level of martial arts, his martial arts foundation is extremely profound.

Moreover, he possesses many magical powers, and the Champion Marquis can do nothing to their prince.

In addition, Guan Junhou’s character is also one of the reasons why they feel so relieved.

This champion marquis Wubantu is young, but not only has profound martial arts skills, but is also well-known and is known as a man of great righteousness in the Xifan Dynasty.

Such people are free and proud in their hearts and will not openly trample on the established rules.

Of course, the most important reason is that Fulong and others are confident that they can rush to the rescue even if the enemy suddenly attacks. After all, the distance is only a few miles, and under the feet of such powerful people, it will only take a few breaths if they exert their full strength.

Just like that, under the silent gaze of hundreds of thousands of soldiers from both armies, Jiang Yi slowly rode his horse towards the white tent.

The hundreds of thousands of troops on both sides were silent, but the atmosphere became increasingly solemn. In the silence, an inexplicable murderous aura began to accumulate and rise.

Both the armies under Prince Yi's Mansion and the army under Marquis Wubantu, although on the surface they all stood quietly and showed no abnormality, the war horses under their crotches began to pedal back and forth restlessly, frequently shaking their heads and snorting.

In particular, the Khorhan cavalry under Prince Yi's palace were filled with murderous intent, and it seemed that they would launch a large-scale charge at the command of a single order.

In the final analysis, the hatred between the Khorhan people and the Xifan Dynasty is so deep that it cannot be resolved at all.

Especially the champion Marquis Ubantu on the opposite side, who has been in charge of Heishui Pass and ruling this grassland in the past few years, and has always implemented a high-pressure and iron-blooded policy against the Korhan people.

The Khorhan people had long hated him and called him the butcher of the prairie. As for the other party's reputation of "righteousness", it obviously did not include them, the Khorhan people.

(End of this chapter)