However, Li Siyuan (Miao Jilie)'s persistence in Xicheng (Fenyang City, Shanxi) did not have the opportunity to continue for long; Jiexiu - the news that the loss of the Lengquan Pass line was almost immediately followed by the main force of the Taiping Army who was dragging a long fleet along the water and advancing water and land.

This main force did not rush to attack the Taiyuan Basin where the northern capital was located. Instead, after roughly sweeping the southern part of the huge Jinzhong Plain, he began to march westward steadily (leading by Ge Congzhou); give priority to working together to solve the last established resistance force on the Jinzhong Plain;

At the same time, it is also the last obstacle before the merging with the partial divisions attacking the east route. Therefore, compared to the lack of heavy equipment and equipment from crossing mountains and ridges, the East Road Expedition Army led by Yang Shihou is much more at ease; the Hedong raid army directly advancing along large and small plains and basins.

Although the corresponding basic military sequence has not changed much in the Hedong Exploration Army headquarters, which has been directly transformed from the Hezhong Exploration Army, many soldiers under the quotation and military order have been replaced for at least several rounds in the replenishment and repair.

Moreover, they also equipped and carried the most abundant heavy firearms and other equipment among the Taiping Army's fronts; and used many small and medium-sized waterwheelers and ships to load materials, directly entering the Fen River from the Yellow River and then continuously traversing up;

Therefore, once the Shiquegu Beiguan and Jiexiu City, which are important nodes, changed hands one after another, they did not hesitate to use the disassembled vehicle and ship components to transport the relatively narrow and rocky valley sections, and reassembled them on the river surface outside Tongji Bridge.

Therefore, under such a relay "land boat" that costs no matter how much it is, at the cost of being exhausted and injured thousands of large livestock, just a few days later, the river branch from the upstream of the Fen River became the greatest convenience for the Taiping Army to accelerate its march and transport personnel and materials.

Therefore, when the rumbling test firing and calibrated cannon sounded one after another on the south and west sides of Xicheng, Li Siyuan (Miao Jilie) also led the last five thousand cavalry selected and rushed out of the north gate and broke through to Taiyuan Prefecture.

Because as an ordinary Zhongxian County, Xicheng City Defense is not even as strong and thick as Linfen City; its only advantage is that it just blocks Shizhou in the northwest and leads to the valley entrance of the Jinzhong Plain, which is a trade-off that is conducive to the twofold stability of persistence and retreat in a sense.

However, the two Taiping Tu (light) cavalry camps and two cavalry camps that followed this time suffered great trouble and trouble for Li Siyuan (Miao Jilie) to break through;

The magical version of the cavalry specially trained by Yang Shihou, who was born in the North Cavalry, is still unable to face the advantages and advantages of these Daibei Jianshe who grew up on horseback or Hedong cavalry who have experienced many battle formations in terms of horsepower;

However, on the other hand, they flexibly used the firearms on the horse's back, and in disguise, strengthened and filled the corresponding shortcomings and disadvantages. Therefore, these Taiping Raiders successively attacked and restrained the Jin army in the broad-minded fields north of Xicheng in a series of grenadiers and muskets.

Once the Jin army divided its troops and hedged it, at least they would deal with it. At most, they would scatter without hesitation, and then leave their opponents to the cavalry and infantry camp that was dismounted from horses and fired in a matrix nearby. Most of the Jin cavalry often didn't know how powerful they were. They rushed straight and rushed over and were discharged by several rounds of volleys, and then alternately dropped bombs and knocked them over.

Then, Taiping Cavalry waited for an opportunity to quickly turn around and fight back, take advantage of the situation to cover up and attack, and incline and attack the situation when it was defeated, so that its defeat could not be reorganized? In the chaos, it could not cooperate in one place? And few people retreated without being defeated.

If the headquarters of the Jin army divides troops to rescue and support again, the cavalry and infantry camp will change the formation on the spot based on the mount? It will become several hollow formations that echo each other and are more conducive to persistence; with the intention of giving up the rapid annihilation, it will cooperate with the roaming and fighting to further entangle more Jin army.

Then? When more people catch up to form a situation of encirclement and encirclement, these enemy cavalry that consumed a lot of horsepower and energy and lost room for acceleration and impact? Naturally, everything is inevitable.

Then, by the opportunities and delays created by the Tuqi Battalion, the soldiers of the Cavalry Battalion will flexibly and maneuver to the bridge and river estuary, which are the only way ahead, and carry out the next step of sniping and interception.

Therefore, although Li Siyuan tried his best to rush left and right forward with the courage to lead the way? He knocked down, knocked down and dispersed many Taiping cavalrymen? However, he still could not recover and change the fact that the team following him was shrinking.

Finally, when he was in Wenshui City (now Wenshui County, Shanxi) north of Xicheng? He finally met Li Siben's supporters sent from Qi County and launched a counterattack to temporarily retreat. Less than one-quarter of the cavalry were left by his side.

Despite this, they did not even dare to repair and stay too much in Wenshui City. Because, because of the fact that the Fen River has not yet begun to freeze? The Taiping Army carried several small ships of artillery positions, which had arrived with the troops marching on the land.

In the end, it was a sudden storm that interrupted the Taiping Army's alternate pursuit rhythm and completely saved the remaining army that fled. In the end, the Taiping Army's vanquished at Jiaocheng (now Jiaocheng, Shanxi) and lost its traces.

At the same time, under the city of Qi County, with the vehicles and ships coming from Taigu Water, another Taiping Army (Meng Kai's army) at the city was approaching the city, began to carry out routine siege operations in the wind and snow; undercurrents began to surge in Qi County again.

——I am the dividing line—

In the Guan, the Xianyang territory of Gyeonggi Province belongs to the intersection of the north-south Jingshui and the east-west Weishui, the historical allusion that has been "clearly divided by Jingwei" since ancient times is also the birthplace of sparse snowflakes falling down.

Zhou Huaian is also inspecting the Xianyang Iron Factory that has just been established and put into production; it is also an important part of the future industrial layout of Guanzhong. To be honest, the Guanzhong Plain and even the Gyeonggi Province do not produce much iron, or there are only some small-scale poor iron ore.

However, Yan and Suige Prefectures (Shenmu, Yulin), located in the north of Guanbei, and even Yanzhou (Ordos), even further north, have shallow or open-pit coal mines with good quality and abundant reserves.

In the south, Xingyuan Prefecture (now Hanzhong, Shaanxi) and Shangzhou (now Shangluo, Shaanxi) also have a history of iron ore mining; therefore, as the final intersection of water and land transfers between the north and south directions, Xianyang has become the most preferred cost accounting and geographical location radiation.

At present, the thick cast steel and cooked iron that can be produced by this Xianyang Iron Factory, which is further than traditional forging and casting technology and is sufficient for large pipes, is mainly for the demand of the civil market and for the cushion materials required for the ongoing ring track laying within the pass. That's right, the ring track.

Compared with the southern region where water resources are rich and rivers are spread all over the southern region, although there are many on the northern plains, they are greatly affected by the dry and rising cycle, and there are also problems of silt and sediment silt and water competition in agricultural irrigation. Therefore, it is not friendly to the water transportation navigation environment.

Therefore, in the future, it is imperative to plan ahead within the areas where the large population may naturally be enriched. However, before the steam machinery used for vehicles and ships is fully mature and begins to be miniaturized and transferred to land transportation, currently, animal drag can only be used as a transition.

However, amid the clanging mechanical roar, Zhou Huaian was secretly thinking about another thing related to the Hedong Battle. At present, the Taiping Army has entered the hinterland of Hedong Town, occupying the southern part of Taiyuan Prefecture, except for a few isolated strongholds. The nearest one is only twenty or thirty miles away from the Beidu.

According to the current situation, there are three cities in Taiyuan, with the Prefecture and Jinyang County in Xicheng, Taiyuan County in Dongcheng, and the Fen River flows through the south of the middle city. The "Yuanhe County Tuzhi" refers to the three outer capitals; among them, the prefecture is the largest and oldest, so the oldest was built by Liu Kun, the governor of Bingzhou, Jin. Now the city is four meters high and the circumference is twenty-seven miles.

There are three more cities in the palace city, one of which is located in the northwest corner of the city, which is called Daming City, which is the Yangcheng of Kuching. Zuo Zhuan said that Dong An built it, and the Empress of Gaoqi set up the Daming Palace here, so it is called Daming City. The city is four feet high and four miles away...

Another city is located in the middle, with the south of the city, the west of the city, and the north of the city, Emperor Xiaojing of the east Wei established the Jinyang Palace here, Emperor Wen of Sui renamed Xincheng, and Emperor Yang established the Jinyang Palace. The city is four feet high and returns to seven miles in the circumference.

Another city to the west, connected to the new city to the east, and to the north, Yinzhou City to the north, was built in the 16th year of Kaihuang. It is now known as Cangcheng, which is four feet high and eight miles in the circumference. It is also known as the Inner Three City. Then, as the former Hedong Jiedushi and the Grand Governor of Bingzhou, the garrison of the North Xingying, each of which is the location of Tongya City, and is called the Small Three City.

Therefore, Zhou Huaian can fully understand that at the end of the Five Dynasties on another time and space line, Zhou Taizu Chai Rong, who had already had a huge advantage, and Song Taizu Zhao Kuangyin's many northern expeditions, facing such a strong city in Hedong, he was so desperate and helpless that he could only lead his troops to retreat.

The Emperor Taizong of Song, Zhao Guangyi, who took over the last time, relied on a 200,000 army to siege, and defeated the Liao reinforcements in Shiling Pass, and forced the soldiers and civilians of the small Northern Han court who had no fighting spirit to surrender; then, it is understandable that the Taiyuan city wall was demolished at any cost and set up a new city.

Because, such a giant city that is as big as Chang'an City but has the dangers of mountains and rivers; even after the city wall is broken, there are still a chain of city defense systems that can delay more time for the support and continue to fight.

Once it is not possible to take it down in time in spring and autumn, where the climate is most suitable, then after the winter is truly in progress, the cold current that crosses the mountains of Daibei from the Outer Mongolia Plateau will be enough to cause considerable reductions and weakening of the besieged troops deployed in the wilderness.

This is also the main situation that the Taiping Army, which has now attacked the hinterland of Hedong, is about to face. Therefore, on the Fen River, which can use large-scale water transportation, has rushed to deliver various winter supplies and equipment during the window period when everything is blowing.
Chapter completed!