The second year of Kaiyuan in the Great Qin Dynasty, May 19th.

Liu Heita led 30,000 Xia troops from Hebei to go out of Hejian and enter Shanggu. He gathered the 20,000 troops from King Yan Gaokaidao and entered Puyin Xing, one of the eight passes of Taihang, and passed Zijing Pass. Then he turned to Feihu Xing and climbed over Taihang Mountains, and the troops entered Lingqiu City, Yanmen County, Hedong.

Gao Tansheng, Huairong of Zhuo County, led 20,000 troops to join from north to south, and Liu Wu and Zhou general Gao Manzheng also led more than 30,000 troops to join.

The four families met in Lingqiu, and 100,000 troops were storming. They crossed Hengshan to Yunzhong County to besiege Dingxiang General Liu Hongji.

Liu Hongji and Yuchi Liang retreated to Yunnei City, Yunzhong County, with their troops who escaped from Mayi, and their troops were less than ten thousand.

Listening to the information brought back by the scout Qingqi, Liu Hongji was in a headache. This was simply a replica of the Battle of Mayi after the last siege of Yanmen.

However, the last time it was the Turkish Shibi Khan's army that 200,000 retreated from Yanmen, and he pursued here under the leadership of General Siye. Finally, he stationed his troops here and surrounded the Turkic army with Luo Cheng, who killed Hu Pass.

Now, the Turkic Khan led 200,000 troops to surround Luo Simo, Dingxiang, and Luo Siye and his army were stationed on the bank of Zihe River, but the Tang army Chai Shao led 100,000 troops to fight.

Now he is trapped again by a 100,000 coalition forces.

With more than 8,000 people less than 10,000, they will fight against four families with 100,000 people.

This is a typical battle against and counterattack.

Liu Hongji stood on the south gate wall, climbed up and looked into the distance, and saw the enemy light cavalry vanguards running towards him. The Qin army's scout Qing cavalry was fighting with them outside the city. Both sides ran and ran, with bows and arrows coming and going, and people were occasionally caught.

Soon, all the scouts were rushing to the city and relying on the cover of crossbows on the city to retreat into the city.

But half a day later, more enemy troops arrived and camped around them, causing the siege of Yunnei City to be broken. Because the enemy was too powerful, Liu Hongji did not dare to divide his troops to guard them, so he had to take the initiative to withdraw the troops from Dunbao Station outside the city.

Only 2,000 troops were stationed in Heng'an Army Town, and another 1,000 troops were sent to guard Niupi Pass, the passage leading to the north of the Great Wall.

Early the next morning, the enemy began to launch fierce attacks on Heng'an Military Town and Niupi Pass City. Fortunately, both of these pass cities were extremely strong and the pass city was not big, so they were able to defend. The enemy could not capture it for a while, but suffered heavy casualties.

At night, Liu Hongji personally drafted a letter again, urgently reporting to Luo Siye, Dingxiang and Zhao Gui from Fan Yang, and asked for help from both places.

"Our army is still strong in fighting spirit, and has defeated the fierce attacks and captured a lot. However, our army has only more than 8,000 people, and the enemy has a hundred thousand. The enemy is small and we are small. Quick support!"

Riding through the night, dozens of light cavalry each took a letter of help and left the city by night.

Standing on the top of the city, you can hear the interception of enemy rangers. Amid the sound of shouting and killing, there will definitely be many messengers being stopped, but there will definitely be someone who can rush out.

But reinforcements don’t know when they will arrive.

Fan Yang.

The prince stayed in the Beijing city of Shuntian Prefecture, and Zhao Gui led an army of imperial guards and vassal soldiers to guard Fan Yang.

Feng Xiaoci, with 50,000 troops, was still suppressing the bandits in Zhaojun and Xiangguo.

At this time, Dou Jiande, who had been silent for a long time, attacked in full swing. On the one hand, he sent general Liu Heita to go to Yanmen in Hedong through Shanggu, and on the other hand, he sent generals Wang Fubao and Cao Bao to Zhao County to reinforce his former enemies Song Jingang and Zhen Zhai'er.

Under Feng Xiaoci's successive attacks, the two thieves had already retreated step by step and could not gain a foothold. When they saw Jie Li going south, they immediately sent people to submit to Jie Li and were given the title. So they turned aside and became an ally of Dou Jiande, who also surrendered to the Turks.

Dou Jiande soon reached an alliance with the two thieves, and the three parties no longer fought.

The Xia army also entered the two counties to counterattack Feng Xiaoci.

The two thieves who were supported by the new Xia army and food and equipment, their combat power increased greatly.

Feng Xiaoci was careless and suffered a great defeat and had to retreat. The Xia army took the opportunity to fight out. Feng Xiaoci was defeated by Wang Fubao and Cao Bao one after another, and lost thousands of soldiers and generals. All the two counties that had been recovered were lost. He had no choice but to withdraw the Zhending guard of Hengshan County.

Zhao Gui of Fanyang was eager to lead troops to rescue him, but because Gao Kaidao led the thieves to rebel and seize Shanggu County, the two counties of Hengshan and Boling were separated and could not be reinforced for a while.

But he wanted to level the Shanggu high first to open the road, but Dou Jiande personally led his troops to reinforce Shanggu.

For a time, Feng Xiaoci was also trapped in a siege. Although he would not make any mistakes for the time being, he was unable to attack Liu Wuzhou, Gao Kaidao, Song Jingang, Zhen Zhaier and others.

As for Zhao Gui of Fan Yang, he had 50,000 troops in his hands.

However, after leaving the army, Zhuo County was seized by Gao Tansheng. If he was about to leave Puyin Xing and Feihu Xing entered the east of Hebei, Shanggu County would be occupied by Gaokaidao.

Go south from Hengshan to Jingxing and into Hedong, but the road is blocked by Shanggu.

Zhao Gui sat in the central army's tent and closed his eyes slightly.

He was thinking about how to break the situation in the face of the current situation.

These 50,000 soldiers and horses in Fanyang are a new force, and how to use them is the key.

Now outside the Western Army, there is a monk Gao Tansheng, who claims to be the emperor of the Mahayana Buddhism. He secretly preached and developed the congregation on the secret mission of the Maitreya religion and secretly accepted the support of the Turks, and obtained many horses and weapons to provide congregations. On the grounds that the practice meeting saved the dead of those who died in Zhuo County over the years, he joined forces with some officials in the Zhuo County government who were dissatisfied with the court. He gathered countless monks and nuns congregations, as well as the people in the city. Then he took the opportunity to make trouble and seized Huairong in one fell swoop. After that, he quickly occupied the entire Zhuo County and led the Turkic soldiers to come.

And in the south of him are Dou Jiande's Ying, Mo and Cang, three passes including Waqiao, and hundreds of miles of water park defense lines.

In the southwest, Gao Kaidao, a bandit who once surrendered to the court, has rebelled again, and has inspired many of the Shanggu thieves who were once surrendered and many of the former Dugu Hun’s old subordinates.

The rivers on the south side are not advisable. Dou Jiande has operated the three passes of Waqiao for several years, not to mention that in order to defend the Qin army from going south, he deliberately blocked the river channel, turning the area, which had already been many water-drilled, into a huge lake area of ​​more than 300 miles long, and becoming a natural water wall.

It’s summer now, and it’s the time for water to be abundant.

Zhuo County outside the military gate or Shanggu, choose one of them?

A general persuaded him to go out to attack Gao Tansheng first, because although he received help from Turkic soldiers, he only had two thousand Turkic light cavalry. Although Gao Tansheng claimed to be the emperor, he was just a monk before, and he had no one to fight under his command. Tens of thousands of people were just a mob, and he was deceived and incited by him using the Maitreya Cult.

Attack him first, you can defeat him in one battle and then rescue Liu Hongji in Yunnei.

But some people say that they should attack Shanggu first. After all, Shanggu was occupied, which made Boling and Hengshan towns now be besieged. Although they can still connect Taiyuan, Taiyuan has to guard against Liu Wuzhou now.

a long time.

Zhao Gui stood up and walked into another big tent, which was the military tent of the staff.

"Plan to fight the battle plan and attack Shanggu first."
Chapter completed!