"What did you say?" Zhang Wan looked at the rider who came to report the news, looking incredible. "Liu Yan went down the mountain and attacked Wulitun?"

"Yes, General Zhang and Liu Yan sneaked into Wulitun and had already attacked the gate. He was fighting fiercely with General Huang. Although we quickly went to support after we got the news, the enemy was fierce. According to the terrain and obstacles in the gate, our advantage could not be exerted at all. Even Yilizhi, the leader of the Kelu tribe, was dead." The Fanqi looked panicked: "General Zhang, the crossbow arrows of the mighty bandits in the mountains were so powerful."

"Irizhi is dead?" Zhang Wan was really surprised this time: "Who is commanding the cavalry now?"

"It's our patriarch Xiao Jing." Fanqi said, "But the Lu tribe and the others were unwilling to obey our patriarch's command. There was a lot of chaos. The patriarch had no choice but to contact General Huang in a mess, so he could only send me to General Zhang for help. The patriarch said that if General Zhang did not go, he would be afraid that he would be defeated today."

At this time, Zhang Wan had already understood.

It must have been Wulituntun that the enemy was careless, which made Liu Yan, who was in a mighty mountain, find a flaw and slipped down the mountain. However, there were 2,000 armed garrisons in Wulitun, and nearly 2,000 cavalry near each other. Although Liu Yan took the lead, he did not take it in one fell swoop, and the two sides temporarily fell into a stalemate.

However, Yilizhi's death obviously became the turning point of this war. Zhang Wan knew that among these tribes, Yilizhi's Kelu tribe was the strongest, and was the leader of the tribe designated by Huang Hai. His death would inevitably cause chaos in the tribe, and no one would submit to each other.

It was originally a group of mobs, and another person who could suppress them died, so it was naturally even more impossible to kill him. Xiao Jing could barely restrain his subordinates and not scattered, and his performance was already very good.

"General Zhang, please send reinforcements immediately!" The cavalry said repeatedly.

"I understand. I will give you a command arrow. After you go back, you will give it to your patriarch. He will lead all the foreign cavalry. Those who violate the order will be killed and the entire clan will be sent to slaves." Zhang Wan said sternly: "I will arrive later and tell Xiao Jing that no matter whether Huanghai lives or dies, he must entangle Liu Yan's troops for me, and do not be afraid of casualties. How many people die? How many people will be killed? I will replenish him after the battle. But Isn't the Lu tribe Yilizhi dead? The Lu tribe was incorporated into your tribe. The premise is to entangle Liu Yan for me."

"I understand!" The cavalry took the command arrow, smiled happily, lay on the ground, knocked a few heads, got up and jogged away happily.

"Send an order to assemble the central army and the right army, follow me to attack Wulitun, and the left army guard the county!" Personal soldiers were summoned, and Zhang Wan issued an order neatly.

Zhang Wan is an outstanding nephew in the Zhang clan, but because of this, he thinks much more than ordinary generals. If he is an ordinary general, what he can think of at this time is how to ensure that there is no problem with Liuhe County and Liuhe Grain Camp. It is not his turn to worry about other things.

But Zhang Wan is the son and nephew of Zhang. What he thought of was that Weihu Mountain has always been a heart-wrenching problem in the Liao Palace. He stood tall in the core area of ​​Liaodong with a flag against the Liao Dynasty, but it was like a copper pea that could not be smashed, cooked, or bitten. Over the years, he has been growing day by day.

At this moment, it is undoubtedly the weakest time in Liaodong. The elite army has already emerged. If Liu Yan breaks out and rushes to the land of Liaodong, it will be a big trouble.

Not to mention anything else, just this bandit wandered around from then on, doing nothing else, and specifically harassing and plundering the transportation logistics team of the army, which was a huge concern for the Liao army ahead.

The lack of food and supplies is the most terrible thing for the army.

So Zhang Wan wanted to seize this opportunity and annihilate Liu Yan in Wulitun in one fell swoop.

Even if they cannot be completely killed and forced back to Weihu Mountain, it would be good. The bandits who suffered a great loss would never have the power to launch a second attack.

This is a one-time solution.

Until this time, Zhang Wan never thought that the foreign cavalry would betray the Liao army.

So it has to be said that sometimes, an excellent general, a capable general, a general who dares to take responsibility will have bad things. A mediocre general who is timid and afraid of things and is unwilling to take on any other tasks can sometimes succeed.

A bad thing or success actually depends on the leader of the employer and where the person is placed.

Liuhe Camp is a transit station for the Liao army's food and grass, so it is naturally extremely important. In Zhang Zhongwu's view, he naturally needs to place a capable and loyal general who can reassure him to take charge. Zhang Wan is the only choice.

But this choice will make him pay a heavy price in the future.

After Zhang Wan issued the order to attack, his fate has actually been decided.

On the night when you can't see your fingers, in the autumn rain, less than ten miles away from Wulitun, the 4,000 tribes led by Zhang Wan were ambushed by the cavalry led by Liu Yan's troops and Xiao Jing.

These four thousand people can only be considered second-line troops, and only hundreds of personal soldiers of Zhang Wan were killed in the middle of the night. After a fierce battle, Zhang Wan's entire army was wiped out and he died in the chaos.

Liu Yan took advantage of the night to pretend to be Zhang Wan's troops and opened the city gate, and captured Liuhe County in one fell swoop. The Liao army's food and grass transfer camp in Liuhe County fell into Liu Yan's hands.

It was dawn, but Liuhe County was in a busy scene. The bandits of Fanqi and Weihu Mountain were holding knives and threatening the people in the county and the captured soldiers to load the food and grass into large trucks and transport them to Weihu Mountain. There were not enough trucks, so people carried the carrying capacity. Anyway, as much as they could, they would be as much as they could.

"General Liu, General Fan, there are too many food and supplies. If we want to move it, our staff will take at least ten days!" Xiao Jing's eyes shone with excitement. When a guy who had been poor for a lifetime suddenly saw such a huge amount of assets that he could not describe in his imagination, his night of fatigue had long disappeared. He only knew that he had become rich and his tribe would no longer have to be poor and trapped.

"Where did ten days come from?" Fan Jian sneered, "At most three days, the surrounding Liao army will come around like wolf smelling the fishy smell. We have lifted up their underwear, so why don't they be anxious with us?"

"What should I do?" Xiao Jing asked.

"In a day and night, you can move as much as you can. If you can't move away, you will burn all the fire!" Fan Jian waved his hand and said, "So, Chief Xiao, I suggest your subordinates choose useful things. Don't catch anything! Do you know what is most useful to us now?"

Xiao Jing was not stupid. He heard what Fan Jian said and said, "Combat supplies!"

"Yes!" Fan Jian said: "When we completely defeat the Liao army, what are you going to want? What are some money and property?"

"I see!"

"Captain Xiao, according to our previous agreement, after this battle, these tribes will be incorporated into your tribe. This is the reward from our Tang Dynasty to you. Next, we have to do a lot of important things!" Liu Yan said: "Go and tell your subordinates, and quickly equip yourself more powerfully. Our days will not be easy in the future."

Xiao Jing nodded vigorously and left.

"It's really hard to get on the table!" Liu Yan looked at his back and said with some disdain.

Fan Jian smiled and said, "Don't blame him, you have been rich, you can understand the mood of people who have been poor all their lives! If you can reach this point, Xiao Jing is worthy of our high attention!"

After attacking Liuhe and destroying a large number of food and grass from the Liao army, Xiao Jing and the people of several other tribes retreated into Weihu Mountain. Liu Yanliu sent 1,500 soldiers to guard the nest, commanded by his wife Yan Wu and Fan Tong, while he himself picked more than a thousand cavalry bandits and formed a cavalry with more than a thousand cavalry cavalry, which disappeared without a trace.

When the news reached the Liaowang City in Yingzhou, Zhang Zhongwen almost fainted.

The food and grass from Liuhe Transfer Camp need to be sent to the front line every day to support the consumption of the front line. The food and grass on the front line will last for at most ten days. Now the entire Liuhe Camp has been burned, and it will take more than ten days to re-summon food and grass. What annoyed Zhang Zhongwen even more was that after Liu Yan's troops disappeared, they were elusive, sometimes on the left and sometimes on the right, and have attacked several teams that transported grain to the front line in succession, which made the supply of food and grass on the front line even worse. If this team is not completely wiped out, the food and grass on the rear will not be sent to the front line smoothly.

Zhang Zhongwen issued the most severe mobilization order, and various places quickly organized troops and began to encircle and suppress the cavalry from all directions. In order to achieve this goal, Zhang Zhongwen even sent out the last cavalry guarding the Liao Wangcheng.

In Liaodong, if you want to defeat one cavalry, you can basically rely on another cavalry.

Liu Yan, Fan Jian and Xiao Jing's life became sad day by day.

The militias in various places are not strong in combat, but they are more powerful than in large numbers. Their role is actually to compress the activity space of Liu Yan and others step by step, limit them to a smaller range, and then the main cavalry sent by Zhang Zhongwen will annihilate them in one fell swoop.

"We are about to enter Pingzhou!" Xiao Jing looked at Liu Yan with some confusion and said, "This is getting closer and closer to the main force of the Liao army. If Zhang Zhongwu sends another army to encircle and suppress us, then we will have wolves in front and tigers in the back."
Chapter completed!