Northern Dynasties

"The Western Bandits went to Jingling in Mangling and did not attack Jinyong City?"

But when Zhu Hunyuan heard the report from the defeated generals on the enemy's movements, even if he ignored the so-called junk message about Tianlei's assistance, he was quite surprised by the rest of the content.

Misjudgments about the enemy's movements were made one after another. This was definitely a very serious mistake.However, Zhu Hunyuan did not bother to do self-examination at the moment, but began to think about why Li Boshan took the risk of being sniped by the Middle Road and crossed the Heluo Plain towards Jingling?

"Mangling is close to Mengjin Ferry. Could it be that the main force of the Western Bandits in Kansai is coming from the east by water this time, so Li Boshan wants to seize Mengjin in advance for the landing of the army?"

Thinking of this possibility, Zhu Hunyuan couldn't help but feel secretly surprised and a little unsure.

The previous Western Wei Dynasty's several eastward marches were by land, and the Yellow River waterway was underused.Firstly, the Northerners are not good at water warfare. Secondly, if an army of tens of thousands marches through waterways, the number and scale of ships required will be very large. This is also a big burden on the national power of the Western Wei Dynasty, and it is by no means short-term. It can be prepared within time.

But this is not absolute. After all, the Western Wei Dynasty is no longer what it used to be, especially in the Jianghan area, which has made huge profits.

Starting last year, Li Boshan led his army to occupy large areas of territory in Handong and Huainan. He may have looted a large number of craftsmen and materials and transported them back to Guanzhong, and then built boats and prepared to sail to the east by surprise. This may also be true.

In addition, the terrain of Mangling has a certain suppressive effect on the river valleys and tidal flats where various rivers such as Zhangshui, Gushui and Luoshui meet. Especially when they have elite cavalry, what kind of personnel do these rivers want to carry out? The dispatch of supplies will be harassed by its iron-hoofed soldiers.

In this battle report, in addition to the more than 3000 light cavalry led by Li Boshan, the opponents the Qi army fought also had a small number of troops who had been ambushing in Mangling early in the morning.Judging from the situation reported by the generals, it seems that they were local bandit troops who moved from Guannan to Mangling.

There are thousands of these bandits, and they usually only move around in the mountains around Heluo. They can occasionally bring some harassment and trouble to the defenders, but most of the time they are not enough to cause trouble.Moreover, the cost of in-depth eradication is extremely high and the success rate is very low, so it has been retained.

Now these people are also involved with Li Boshan, which has undoubtedly added many unpredictable variables.

But Zhu Hunyuan imagined many possibilities. If it was the first situation and the main army of the Western Wei Dynasty came across the river by boat, this was beyond the scope of what he could handle.

Due to the more convenient transportation such as river bridges, and the fact that Jinyang soldiers did not like to travel by boat to both sides of the river, the Mengjin Ferry was not a key fortification area, and of course there were no boats parked.

If Li Boshan's goal is there, Zhu Hunyuan can only give up temporarily. Even if he divides his troops to garrison now, it will probably be in vain, and it will further dilute the strength at hand.Only by relying on the arrival of reinforcements from the rear of the country can the Kansai army be stopped here.

But if Li Boshan's intention was to cut off the connection between Heyang and Yiyang by relying on Mangling and Xianshui, then his idea was wrong.

Previously, the transfer station for material transfer between Yiyang Jiuqu City and Heyang was set up at Qianjinyan to the west of the old city of Luoyang. The last time Li Boshan entered Kouheluo, he captured it after a fierce battle with Xue Guyan. Cangcheng, this Cangcheng was greatly damaged as a result.

After regaining Heluo River, although they built many more forts, they abandoned Qianjincang City and instead built Baiting City in Baiting, a few dozen miles upstream of Luoshui River to replace this city. It played the role of Qianjin Cangcheng and became the material transportation and storage center between Yiyang and Heyang.

Although Baiting City does not have the convenience of being close to various rivers like Qianjincang City, it is located exactly between Jinyong City and Jiuqu City. The location selection for the transportation of materials to Yiyang should be more reasonable.

Now Li Boshan's men and horses are entrenched in Mangling Mountain, less than twenty miles away from Qianjincang City, and they are at a distance where they can send light cavalry to attack at any time.But that place is nearly fifty miles away from Baiting City, and there are several city garrisons in the middle, making it difficult to carry out light cavalry raids.

If Li Boshan's purpose was to harass Yiyang's logistics, then his rash entry into Mang Ridge would be a bit of a trap.The defenders of Jinyong City and Baiting City were like two pliers, relying on the Luoshui River to block them in the Mangling area, making it difficult to move.If we can gradually shrink the encirclement with our superior force, we might even be able to capture Li Boshan directly in the urn!
There are two possibilities, one is bad and the other is good, but Zhu Hunyuan certainly hopes in his heart that it will be the latter, but he has to guard against the former.So he sent people back to Hebei through Heqiao to report the enemy's situation and remind Jinyang to prepare for contingency. At the same time, he led an elite unit back to Jinyong City to personally command and strengthen the blockade of Xianjian.

After successfully arriving at Xianjian in Mangling Mountains, Li Tai was not in a hurry to plan the next move. Instead, he set up camp in Xianjian for two days to rest. On the one hand, he was waiting for the arrival of Han Xiong and other rear troops, and on the other hand, he was waiting to leave Yi. Some of the personnel arrangements made before Que were fermented.

He is not worried about being surrounded by the enemy in this river. The Xianshui River Valley is like a trumpet-flowered opening facing the entire Heluo Plain. Now Li Tai is stationed in the trumpet-shaped middle section. The Qi army wants to advance in front. Raising a line of defense is impossible without tens of thousands of troops.

And even if there are tens of thousands of troops deployed in the wild, the effect may not be good. It is better to rely on key defenses on several rivers such as Luoshui and Gushui to more effectively cut off Li Tai's retreat.

The Qi army did exactly this. During the two days when the Jingzhou army rested here, many Qi army camps were added between Luoshui and Gushui in the section explored by the scouts. They responded to each other and seemed to want to completely defeat Li Tai. The posture of encirclement here.

Seeing that the enemy army was well prepared, Li Tai was no longer idle and began to plan the next move.Of course, the main reason is that with the arrival of the Guannan Rebel Army's back-up troops, the team's logistical pressure has increased sharply.

In order to quickly pass through the Heluo Plain and arrive here smoothly, Li Tai and his party did not carry too much supplies. Even the heavy armor and heavy equipment such as the sword that usually relied on for victory only carried more than ten Tools, most of the soldiers went into battle lightly, and they all brought food and grass with them, even though the amount was not much.

However, the situation of the Guannan Rebel Army is very miserable. In the past few years, they have been wandering around the mountains and fields, and each of them has a lot of food. After arriving, the first thing they do is not to discuss killing the enemy, but to eat porridge with open belly.The food and cakes brought by Li Tai and his party were originally expected to last for about 3000 days, but when the rebels arrived with more than [-] people, they ate more every day than Li Tai's more than [-] people.

Li Tai doesn't feel bad about this stutter. The key is that we have to wait for a while to post autumn fat. Judging from this posture, I'm afraid that they will have to kill horses to satisfy their hunger in less than ten days.Therefore, it was better to kill the opponent quickly and enter Xiongcheng. Even though Li Tai was quite bold, he still felt a little nervous when he stayed with these hungry guys with green eyes every day.

Because the front of Xianjian was not blocked, Li Tai left several hundred soldiers to guard the camp and continued to set up flags to show off his bluff. He himself led about [-] men and horses, supplemented by the Guannan Rebel Army, to leave Xianjian. Jian, stationed at the White Horse Temple to the west of the ancient city of Luoyang.

At this time, Zhu Hunyuan had already moved to Jinyong City not far away, and had been paying close attention to the enemy's movements in Xianjian, so the information about the enemy's garrison at Baima Temple was soon delivered to his desk.

"The thief has found his way, and God will destroy him!"

When Zhu Hunyuan heard the news, he was overjoyed and couldn't help but clap his hands and burst into laughter. His mood was even more joyful than when he successfully escaped from Longyou back to Jinyang last year.

Although they only advanced a dozen miles, this action directly revealed that Li Tai's men had no intention of advancing on Mengjin Ferry, which meant that the worst case scenario that Zhu Hunyuan expected did not happen.So what is happening now is naturally that Li Tai's cleverness was mistaken by his cleverness, and he fell into a trap and entered a dead end!
That is to say, Li Tai didn't have the unique skill of eavesdropping on his opponent. If he knew about Zhu Hunyuan's guess about his intentions, he would definitely be able to sneer at him: How can you think that my relationship with my boss is so good?I want to send the craftsmen's supplies obtained from the southeast to Guanzhong, but Black Otter wants to eat them!If I fuck you in the Eastern Wei and Northern Qi, it has nothing to do with whether I am loyal to Yu Wentai or not, right?
Of course, Zhu Hunyuan couldn't hear Li Tai's voice, so he repeatedly misjudged Li Tai's plot.But this time, he finally saw hope of victory.

Since Li Tai's intention is not Meng Jin, it means that the main force in Kansai is still marching in a conventional way. As long as Yiyang cannot break through, it will not be able to successfully enter the Heluo area.

In other words, Li Tai was alone all the way. Although many of his people were bluffing, Zhu Hunyuan had already estimated that he only had a few thousand men and horses, and the supplies he carried were very limited.

On the other hand, Zhu Hunyuan's place had 5 troops in the entire Heluo War Zone. Excluding the more than 3 troops deployed around Jiuqu City in Yiyang, there were still more than [-] troops.Although these [-] troops are scattered in various places, the most ferocious enemy has been blocked here, and Zhu Hunyuan can mobilize the troops in other places at will.

So Zhu Hunyuan mobilized a total of 2 troops and set up two blockades along Gushui and Luoshui. He was bound to capture Li Boshan alive or snipe him to death within the encirclement!