Northern Dynasties

Although Li Tai did not experience any difficult battles in attacking Zuoguo City, when the news was spread in the Lishi area by Liu Aqi's troops, the response it caused was very enthusiastic, and many Jihu people flocked to it come.

At the same time, Han Guo's search for and recruiting the scattered Jihu people in the area was also very effective.And as more and more people gather, this effect also increases exponentially. When the two parties converge in Zuoguo City, the Jihu people gathered far exceed tens of thousands.

The number of people is over ten thousand and boundless. Li Tai did not have any civil servants to accompany him on this trip, and he was unable to reorganize his troops. Moreover, the clan relations within Jihu scattered in various places have been completely destroyed. How many people are there? It is also difficult to count.

With so many people gathered together, the destructive power is astonishing.Li Tai had no time to touch the dock walls he saw along the way when he came to attack Zuoguo City before, but when the Jihu tribe flooded in from all over the mountains and plains, those dock walls were immediately submerged by the crowd.

Zuoguo City has been abandoned for a long time, and apart from some spiritual appeal among the Jihu group, it has no other value.If most people gather here for a long time, eating immediately will become a big problem.

So the next step is to quickly choose a target for these masses to attack and plunder, which can not only allow them to vent their hatred and hostility that have been slaughtered and persecuted by the Eastern Dynasty for several years, but also obtain enough food to survive.

To meet these two points, the Lishi area is obviously not possible, and it is necessary to cross Luliang Mountain to the opposite side.

There are also two routes to choose from. The first is to continue northward along the Lishi River to the Chijiao (Hong) Ridge of Lishi Mountain in the north. After entering the Xiurong area, turn eastward and head towards Jinyang!
The second is to go southeast from Lishi, rush into the hinterland of Fenzhou through Huangjiling, break through a series of fortifications such as Liubi City, and then you can plunder the fertile Fen River Basin in the south of Jinyang.

Both routes had their pros and cons. After discussing with Han Guo, Li Tai still decided to choose the second southward route. Han Guo would lead the Lishi Hu people across the Huangzhu Ridge to attack the cities of Fenzhou.

First of all, this route is shorter, and there are almost no difficulties and obstacles on the way. Only when you reach the border between the mountains and the plains will you encounter a series of fortifications arranged by the Eastern Wei Dynasty.

But after rushing here, for the Lishi Hu people, there are rugged and difficult mountains behind, and it is not easy to retreat, but the rich Fenzhou River Valley is ahead, and they can eat big pieces just by rushing over, so their fighting spirit will undoubtedly be even stronger. firm.

The territory of Fenzhou is located on the main artery of the supply line of the Eastern Wei army that attacked Yubi City. Once it is invaded here, it must be something that needs to be taken seriously. Whether it is the Jinyang Bafu or the Gao Huan army on the front line of Yubi, it must not be taken lightly. , needs to be resolved as soon as possible.

In this way, the troops around Jinyang will be further withdrawn, further weakening its defensive capabilities.And Li Tai could wait for the opportunity, move along the North Road and rush out of the Luliang mountain area according to the time, causing a substantial collision with Jinyang.

He didn't expect to be able to really shake the defense of Jinyang City, but as long as he ran to the foot of Jinyang City and pissed, and wrote a visit here, it would be a great achievement, and when he returned to Guanzhong, he would be able to blind those Beizhen The dog eyes of veterans!

You have fought life and death for so many years, have you touched the walls of Jinyang City since entering Kansai?It's really exciting just thinking about it!
So after being encouraged by Han Guo and Liu Ahqi to rob food and money and take revenge, the Jihu crowd headed southeast in a mighty way.

People are really strange. There must be thousands of minds in the blink of an eye between two or three people. No one can fool anyone, but the more people there are, the easier it is to fool. If you instill anything, you will be passionate and full of heroes. Qi, killing gods and Buddhas is easy.

So to be a leader, one must have a conscience, and Li Tai couldn't say how many of these Hu people would be left after the turmoil.

Of course, even if Li Tai has a conscience, there are few people who can give it to Jihu. The only thing he can do is to seize the opportunity to create a lively spot around Jinyang, so that even if Gao Huan sends troops back to aid, the primary destination will be It must be the more important Jinyang rather than Liubi City and other anti-Hu strongholds.

While the Jihu troops were rolling southward, Li Tai was also constantly dispatching scouts to investigate north along the Lishi River. On the one hand, they were monitoring the dynamics of the Eastern Wei troops in the Xiurong area, and on the other hand, they naturally wanted to grasp the terrain.

Right now, he is going deep into the enemy's territory to fight against the guest army, and he has to split up with Han Guo, a human navigator. Naturally, he needs to master more geographical elements, so as to avoid as much as possible the low-level mistakes made due to the unfamiliar terrain.

What makes Li Tai feel strange is that it has been a long time since he captured Wutu City and then Zuoguo City. After calculation, Big Brother probably spent several days in Yubi City and Wei Xiaokuan. They have recruited, but there is still no obvious movement of troops from the Eastern Wei Dynasty in the north, and the number of scouts sent by them is not even as many as that sent by themselves.

This kind of situation is also a bit abnormal, either Gao Huan dispatched too many troops to the south, so that the surrounding area of ​​Jinyang was only enough to protect himself, and he was powerless to harass the outside world.

However, this is obviously impossible. Although Gao Huan's move to conquer Yubi is not as strong as it should be, it is not enough to abandon Jinyang's old nest. Does it really want to change homes with Yu Wentai?

There should be quite a lot of left-behind people around Jinyang, so Li Tai can't understand what kind of routine this is.Even if ordinary people feel itchy, they have to take off their clothes to catch lice, but now they are a little indifferent to him. Could it be that I am not as powerful as lice?

Or Jinyang wants to focus on defense and stability in the north, but it starts from below to attack the Lishi area.If this is the case, it will be in Li Tai's arms, and he will run into Li Shihu who is going south.Even if Li Shihu was defeated, he could still smear their faces with blood.

This also shows that in the eyes of the left behind in Jinyang, these intruders dare not leave Lishishan to invade Jinyang, so Li Tai really has to raise the bar and can't lose!

So after a few more days when we headed south from Huzhong in Lishi, and reckoning that the front part should have crossed the Huangzhu Ridge, Li Tai led two thousand cavalry and marched along the Lishi River. Occupy the fortress of Xia Chiqiao Ridge and take the initiative to advance and retreat.

When Li Tai's troops were marching northward, more than [-] Hu merchant armed forces who had completed the integration in Maling Garrison also marched southward to Xiurong City, took a rest outside the city, and then were captured Here, the town general Yanzi offered to drive south to Chiqiaoling and attack the bandits.

Six thousand Hu merchants were armed in the front, while Yan Zixian personally led three thousand elite Jinyang soldiers behind. Nearly ten thousand people marched along the mountain road. People have a severe sense of visual oppression.

Chiqiao Ridge is located in the open valley and deep ditch between the two mountains. The soil is reddish red under the sunlight, hence the name.There are solid walls on both sides of this valley, and only the bottom of the valley can go north and south. There is a garrison above the narrow pass in the north. The terrain is easy to defend and difficult to attack. If you master it, you have mastered this pass.

People from both sides came straight to this pass, and they both discovered each other's movements at the same time.

Not to mention how those Hu merchants' armed forces felt, when Li Tai learned that the nearly ten thousand troops were coming here, he immediately cursed inwardly, what the hell are you playing me?Even though there are so many men and horses, but he still refuses to send troops to attack, and waits until he leads the army to the north, and then they come head-on and block his way. What kind of evil is this?
He felt a little annoyed and unwilling, although he didn't know how the troops left behind in the Eastern Wei Dynasty would be rationed, but it was definitely not easy to gather nearly [-] troops.

It is important to know that once the war starts, it is an incinerator. Jinyang, the base camp, can meet the consumption of supplies of the frontline army, and at the same time, it is absolutely difficult to support the defenders of the brigade in the city, unless he Gao Huan planed the inexhaustible grain cellar of Emperor Sui Yang. Otherwise, the Jinyang garrison must have a choice of places to send food, so as to reduce the pressure on logistics operations.

Therefore, the nearly ten thousand horses should be a result of the recent mobilization of the Jinyang Overlord Mansion. It may not be easy to gather so many in the short term.

Therefore, Li Tai only needs to wait patiently for a few days, and when this group of people is attracted to the south by the news of the bandits in Fenzhou, then he will not be hindered from advancing northward.He wanted to make a time difference that he couldn't take into account between the north and the south, but he didn't expect that he would be hit by the other party.After defeating the two thousand men under his command, these tens of thousands of horsemen headed south to attack Li Shihu with their backs, and they could catch up with them!
Sure enough, the heroes of the world should not be underestimated, Li Tai sighed in his heart, there are talented people left behind in Jinyang, and the choice of just a fighter includes the consideration of dealing with various variables.

If the other party came earlier, he could rely on the tens of thousands of horses to stop them, and if he came later, he could rush out of Chijiao Ridge and go to the surrounding area of ​​Jinyang, so that he would not dare to move lightly.

But now that I have encountered it, it is superfluous to think about other things.Although it is said that the brave wins when they meet on a narrow road, the space in the open valley is enough to line up troops. He has seen the combat effectiveness of Jinyang's elite soldiers, and he doesn't think that his [-]-strong army can defeat the opponent's elite several times his own. It is the right plan to withdraw slowly before formal contact with the battle. It seems that this piss still has to be brought back to Suizhou.

Although he had made a rational decision in his heart, Li Tai was still somewhat unwilling. The pro-communist scouts stepped forward to see who was forcing him to retreat. The next time he came back, he might have to go to the big brother's grave.

However, when he walked into the middle of the Chijialing Valley and the people on the opposite side poured into his field of vision, he was stunned for a moment. How could the scattered formation and the wild dog-tooth formation have the elite state of Jinyang soldiers?
Li Tai even suspected that he was wrong, so he continued to gallop forward for a certain distance, and pinched his thigh by the way, but the opponent's formation still did not change as far as he could see. This is definitely not some elite Jinyang soldiers, just a group of unknown Where did the mob come from.

What the hell is a master of shit, look down on me!Li Tai rode his horse back, and after returning to the main formation, he ordered the soldiers to dress up and prepare to collect vegetables.