Great Warriors of Sui and Tang Dynasties

Chapter 857
In the second year of the Great Qin Kaiyuan, May [-]th.

Liu Heikai led 2 Hebei Xia troops out of Hejian into Shanggu, and joined the [-] people who joined Gao Kaidao, the King of Yan. Ma Jingyiding entered Puyin Xing, one of the Eight Xings of Taihang, crossed Zijing Pass, and then turned to Feihu Xing After crossing the Taihang Mountains, the soldiers entered Lingqiu City, Yanmen County, Hedong.

Huairong Gao Tancheng of Zhuo County led [-] troops from the north and south to join them, and Liu Wuzhou's general Gao Manzheng also led more than [-] troops to join them.

The four families joined forces at Lingqiu, and a mighty [-] soldiers crossed Mount Heng to Yunzhong County to besiege General Liu Hongji of Dingxiang.

Liu Hongji and Yu Chiliang took the troops who escaped from Mayi and retreated to Yunnei City, Yunzhong County, with less than [-] troops.

Listening to the information brought back by the scout Qingqi, Liu Hongji had a headache. This is simply a replica of the Battle of Mayi after the Siege of Yanmen last time.

It's just that the Turkic Shibi Khan withdrew his 20 troops from Yanmen last time, and he pursued it here under the leadership of General Siye, and finally stationed troops here, encircling the Turkic army with Luo Cheng who killed Huguan.

But now, Turkic Jieli Khan led 20 troops to encircle Dingxiang Luo Simo, and Luo Siye's army was stationed by the Zihe River, but Tang Jun Chai Shao led [-] troops to kill.

Now he is trapped and besieged by a hundred thousand coalition forces.

With more than 10 people less than [-], it is necessary to fight against [-] people from four families.

This is a typical offensive and counterattack.

Liu Hongji stood on the city wall of the south gate, climbed up and looked into the distance, and saw a group of enemy light cavalry vanguards galloping forward.Qingqi, the scouts of the Qin army, fought with them outside the city. Both sides galloped and galloped, bows and arrows exchanged, and some people fell off their horses from time to time.

Soon, all the scouts and Qingqi galloped to the bottom of the city, and were able to retreat into the city relying on the cover of the crossbow on the city.

But half a day later, more enemy troops came, and they camped in all directions, blocking the siege of Yunnei City. Because the enemy army was too powerful, Liu Hongji did not dare to divide his troops to guard, so he took the initiative to withdraw to the pier station outside the city. troops.

Only [-] soldiers were left at Heng'an Army Town, and another [-] troops were sent to guard Niupi Pass, the passage leading to the north of the Great Wall.

In the early morning of the next day, the enemy army launched a fierce attack on Heng'an Junzhen and Niupi Pass. Fortunately, these two passes were extremely strong and the pass was not large, so they were able to hold on.The enemy army was unable to attack for a while, but suffered heavy casualties.

At night, Liu Hongji personally drafted a letter again, urgently appealing to Luo Siye and Zhao Gui in Fan Yang, asking for help from the two places.

"Our army's fighting spirit is still strong, we have repeatedly defeated fierce fronts, and captured many people. However, our troops only have more than [-] people, and the enemy army has [-] people. The enemy is outnumbered and we are few. Help quickly!"

Riding the night, dozens of light cavalry each took a letter of plea for help and went out of the city by night.

Standing on the top of the city, you can hear the interception of the enemy's rangers. Amidst the shouts of killing, many messengers will definitely be stopped, but there will definitely be some who can rush out.

It's just that the reinforcements don't know when they will arrive.

Fan Yang.

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

And Feng Xiaoci took 5 troops to suppress bandits in Zhaojun and Xiangguo.

At this time, Dou Jiande, who had been silent for a long time, made a full-scale attack. On the one hand, he sent general Liu Heikai to enter Yanmen in Hedong through the valley, and on the other hand, he sent generals Wang Fubao and Cao Bao to Zhaojun to reinforce former enemies Song Jingang and Zhen Zhaier.

Under Feng Xiaoci's repeated campaigns, the two thieves had been retreating steadily and had difficulty gaining a foothold. When they saw Jieli going south, they immediately sent people to proclaim themselves ministers to Jieli, and they were granted the title of vassal.So he turned aside and became an ally of Dou Jiande, who was also a Turkic vassal.

Dou Jiande quickly reached an alliance with the two thieves, and the three parties stopped fighting.

Xia Jun also entered the two counties to counterattack Feng Xiaoci together.

The two thieves, supported by the Xia army's new force and food and equipment, greatly increased their combat power.

Feng Xiaoci was careless, but suffered a big defeat and had to retreat.Xia Jun took the opportunity to fight out, Feng Xiaoci was defeated by Wang Fubao and Cao Bao one after another, losing thousands of soldiers, and lost all the land of the two counties recovered before, so he had no choice but to withdraw to Hengshan County Zhending and stick to it.

Zhao Gui of Fanyang was eager to personally lead his troops to rescue, but because of Gao Kaidao's rate of rebellion and capture of Shanggu County, Hengshan and Boling counties were separated, and no reinforcements were available for a while.

But Dou Jiande personally led troops to reinforce Shanggu.

For a while, Feng Xiaoci also fell into a heavy siege, although he would not lose temporarily, but he was also powerless to attack Liu Wuzhou, Gao Kaidao, Song Jingang, Zhen Zhaier and others.

As for Fan Yang's Zhao Gui, although he has [-] soldiers in his hands.

However, after leaving the military capital, the land of Zhuojun was seized by Gao Tancheng. If you want to go south from Puyinxing and Feihuxing and enter Hedong, Shanggu County will be occupied by Gao Kaidao.

Go south from Hengshan to Jingxing and enter Hedong, but the road is cut off by Shanggu.

Zhao Gui sat in the big tent of the Chinese army and closed his eyes slightly.

He was thinking about how to break through the current situation.

Fan Yang's [-] soldiers and horses are a new force, how to use them is the key.

Now outside the Guandu of his western army is the monk Gao Tancheng who claims to be the emperor of Mahayana Buddhism. This person secretly preached and developed the congregation with the Maitreya religion, and secretly accepted the support of the Turks, and obtained many horses and weapons to equip the congregation.On the grounds that the practice will surpass the souls of the dead who died in the battles in Zhuojun over the years, they united some officials in the Zhuojun government who were dissatisfied with the court, gathered countless monks and nuns in the city, as well as the common people, and then took the opportunity to cause chaos and seized Huairong in one fell swoop. After that, he quickly captured the entire Zhuo County and attracted Turkic soldiers.

And his south is the three prefectures of Dou Jiande, Ying, Mo, and Cang. There are three passes including Waqiao, and there are hundreds of miles of water defense lines.

In the southwest, Gao Kaidao, a bandit who once belonged to the imperial court, rebelled again, instigating many Shanggu bandits who had been recruited and many former Dugu usurpers.

The river in the south is not advisable. Dou Jiande has been operating the Waqiao Sanguan Pass for several years, not to mention blocking the river on purpose to prevent the Qin army from going south, turning the area where there are originally many water lakes into a road that is more than [-] years old. The huge lake area here has become a natural water Great Wall.

Now it is summer again, and it is the time when the water is abundant.

Zhuojun outside the military capital, or Shanggu, which one to choose?

Some generals persuaded him to send troops first to attack Gao Tancheng. The reason was that although he had the help of Turkic soldiers, he only had two thousand Turkic light cavalry. There were tens of thousands of people who fought, but they were just mobs who were coaxed and instigated by him using the Maitreya Religion.

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

But some people also said that Shanggu should be attacked first. After all, Shanggu was occupied, making Boling and Hengshan towns now under siege. Although Taiyuan can still be connected, Taiyuan must now focus on defending against Liu Wuzhou.

a long time.

Zhao Gui got up, and he walked into another big tent, which was the staff tent.

"Preparing a battle plan, attack Shanggu first."

(End of this chapter)