Chaos of the Three Kingdoms Summons

Chapter 2249: cavalrymen enter Liangzhou, Temujin temporarily retreats to Xianmei City

Wei Qing's reinforcements included 100,000 Jin troops and 50,000 surrendered troops from Xuzhou.

It will take some time to reorganize the 50,000 surrendered soldiers from Xuzhou. Not only do they have to be selected from the 80,000 surrendered soldiers, but it will also take a certain amount of time to reorganize them so that they can restore a certain level of combat effectiveness.

Even if they cannot be compared with their peak period, at least they cannot be easily defeated as soon as they enter the battlefield.

Therefore, Wei Qing directly promoted the surrendered generals of Xuzhou, including Chen Baxian, Wu Lin, Chen Daotan, Chen Xu, Li Gui (Zhao Gui) and others.

Out of consideration for the Central Plains battlefield, Li Xiang at that time transferred troops but not generals. However, Wei Qing did not ask Li Xiang for any additional generals from the original Jin army. Instead, he asked for these generals who surrendered from Xuzhou, in order to reorganize the 50,000 surrendered troops from Xuzhou as quickly as possible.

At the same time, out of consideration for the need for reinforcements as much as for putting out a fire, Wei Qing also asked Chen Baxian to lead 30,000 Jin cavalry to enter Liangzhou as quickly as possible.

Of course, these 30,000 cavalry were all genuine cavalry of the Jin Army, and certainly not something Chen Baxian could command. Therefore, his role was actually just that of a transport captain. After entering Liangzhou, the command of the 30,000 cavalry was directly handed over to Liangzhou general Dou Xian.

While sending Wei Qing as reinforcements, Li Xiang gave Wei Qing the title of Deputy Protector General of Saoyuan, and gave him the right to control all the generals around Heliang West except Yue Fei.

Wei Qing led the remaining 120,000 infantry main forces, and after reorganizing the 50,000 troops from Xuzhou, he hurried all the way to Liangzhou.

It was not easy for Wei Qing along the way, as he had to go through Yan, Si, Yong, Liang, and because of the speed of all the infantry, it took so long.

Before this, although Batu stopped the reinforcements from Hezhou, when the 20,000 troops from Bingzhou arrived under the command of Bingzhou general Ma Yuan, Batu was somewhat powerless.

Xue Rengui sent out all the cavalry of his Hezhou army. Similarly, Yue Fei, the Protector-General of the Yuan Dynasty, received the news later than Xue Rengui, but he also sent over all his 20,000 cavalry out of the 100,000-strong army of Bingzhou.

When going to war with a force like the Yuan and Mongolia, the most important thing is cavalry!

Of course, this is also because Yue Fei took the speed factor into consideration!

By the time Wei Qing's 30,000 vanguard cavalry arrived, Ba Du was completely unable to stop the Jin cavalry.

There are 20,000 cavalrymen from Hezhou and 20,000 cavalrymen from Bingzhou. It can be said that now, all the cavalrymen from the four states, except Xizhou which is also the main battlefield, all the cavalrymen from the three states have gathered here.

In addition to Wei Qing's 30,000 vanguard cavalry and 70,000 iron cavalry, and the leaders Wei Rui, Ma Yuan, and Dou Xian, all of whom were famous generals, Batu certainly would not dream of fighting a battle with the enemy with only 30,000 troops.

Therefore, Batu did the same thing as Wei Rui without thinking, trying every possible way to avoid fighting.

From then on, the siege of Xianmei was finally lifted.

With the support of these 70,000 cavalrymen, Meng Tian already had the strength to confront Temujin's 100,000 troops head-on.

However, Meng Tian's opponents were not only Temujin's 100,000 troops, but also Tolui's 100,000 troops. Although the 250,000 Mongolian troops that entered Liang had lost about 30,000 in the battles during this period, there were still 220,000 troops.

Meng Tian's opponents, in addition to Temujin's 100,000 troops, included Tolui's 120,000 troops.

At this time, Temujin once thought about transferring back some of Tolui's troops and trying to destroy the main cavalry force of the Jin army before Wei Qing's main infantry force arrived.

However, after careful consideration, Temujin finally gave up this plan!

Firstly, with Meng Tian showing off his troops and the 70,000 Jin cavalry gathered from all over the place, it would be impossible to achieve this unless all of Tolui's troops were mobilized back.

Moreover, even if all of them were mobilized back, Temujin was not completely sure that he could do this before Wei Qing's main infantry force arrived.

As he was good at cavalry combat, he naturally knew that defeating a main cavalry force was one thing, but wanting to completely annihilate a main cavalry force was another matter.

Secondly, if he mobilized all of Tolui's troops back, Meng Tian would go crazy at this time and fight a decisive battle with his main force.

At this time in the Liangxi battlefield, although the Yuan Mongolian troops suffered continuous losses in Guyan, after all, there were not many actual casualties.

Moreover, even though the Jin army in Dunhuang, Jiuquan and Zhangye counties was still defeated but not destroyed, it was only on its last breath. At this time, if all of Tolui's troops were called back, then all the efforts would be in vain.

Instead of this, Temujin felt that he might as well let Tolui grit his teeth and completely take over the Liangxi land and turn it into their Yuan Mongolian land.

Furthermore, Meng Tian did not lose Xianmei, so the connection between eastern Liangzhou and western Liangzhou had not been completely cut off.

The war situation in western Liangzhou has become so critical that Meng Tian must send troops to rescue!

Therefore, if Tolui was allowed to continue leading the attack, then they would not have to look for Meng Tian's main force, Meng Tian would take the initiative to find them. At this time, it would be a great opportunity for them to find a way to severely damage the main force of the Jin cavalry.

If the main cavalry force of the Jin army could be severely damaged, even if Wei Qing arrived with the main infantry force, they would be nothing more than lambs to be slaughtered when facing the Yuan Mongolian cavalry.

Therefore, even though the power in Meng Tian's hands is no less than theirs, Temujin still temporarily gave up the idea of ​​recalling Tolui's main force.

After the reinforcements from Bingzhou, Hezhou and Wei Qing, a total of 70,000 cavalry forces, joined forces, they not only forced Batu to retreat, but also made Temujin temporarily give up attacking Xianmei.

  The defenders’ military strength would soon be no match for their siege tactics, so Temujin would naturally not continue with his so-called siege!

Instead, he retreated fifty miles to the west and set up a large camp, preparing for Meng Tian to make the next move, while he was ready to strike back.

Once Meng Tian dared to send troops into the western part of Liangzhou, these troops would immediately be under siege by the 220,000-strong Mongolian army.

When the main force of 70,000 cavalry arrived, Meng Tian also held a warm welcome ceremony for them in Xianmei City.