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It was only four days since the Chihu people broke up and declared war. Liu Yan and Chen Yuan first organized troops to guard the city, and then were intercepted and dispersed by Chihu cavalry on the way to break through. They fled west in a hurry like a dog with a broken family, and they had no time to breathe.

In one breath, they could not take care of it, or they were in a deep sense of how bad the situation was.

However, Liu Yan and Chen Yuan were away in the valley at this time, and could sit down and take a breath in such a safe place. With their position, even if they had no strategic vision, how bad the situation was at this time was, they still felt that they were still in their hearts.

Can you not count?

For a long time, Hedong and Hebei bordered the Khitan, the border was peaceful and the border was not fierce, the imperial guards in the two places were in disarray, and the soldiers in the Xiangjun Township were even more crowded with the elderly, weak, sick and disabled.

Therefore, the court went from Jingyuan to attack Yan, and the imperial court recruited Xiaosheng from Jingyuan. The Xuanwu army advanced eastward as the main force of the Yan army to attack Yan and entered Hedong to participate in the war.

Liu Yan and Chen Yuan didn't know how many generals and soldiers of the Xuanwu army would escape in the end, but the two armies were completely disbanded and defeated. In a short time, there was only one established army in the Tianxiong Army in Hedong.

Defending is a foregone conclusion.

Liu Yan, Chen Yuan and others had never thought that the Chihu people would break up and declare war. Naturally, they did not expect that Cao Shixiong and Shuozhou would surrender to the enemy. At that time, if Xu Huaibo spoke out, Liu Yan would

They will laugh out loud, but can they still laugh at this time?

Not to mention Cao Shixiong, Cao Shili and other surrendered troops in Shuozhou may surrender to the enemy at any time. Even if they are really loyal and brave, can they defend Hedong by relying solely on the Tianxiong Army?

During the first northern expedition to Yan, the main force of the Tianxiong Army was almost wiped out by Yu Datong. In the past year, it was reorganized on the basis of the Qingshun Army and the remaining soldiers, but there were still quite a few soldiers who did not even have any armor and weapons to repair them.

How much combat power can it be?

In addition to the Tianxiong Army, there were originally 50,000 or 60,000 soldiers and village soldiers in Xin and Dailan Prefectures, but most of them were old, weak, sick and disabled. The few Ding Zhuang were also used as auxiliary soldiers this time.

If you are transferred out of Yanmen Pass, you will be destined to suffer heavy losses.

Can they resist the torrent of cavalry of the Chihu people by relying solely on their own?

However, Yanmen, Dai Xin and Taiyuan were not guarded, Chihu people rushed straight into the city, passing through Lu, Ze and other states, but didn’t they just go directly to the north bank of the Yellow River and the city of Bianjing?

Liu Yan and Chen Yuan had a chance to breathe. Xu Huai said how bad the situation would be, as if they were pressed against their chest by a huge rock, and even their breathing became rapid.

"Why did we get confused in the past? I thought these mixed dogs were trustworthy!" Chen Yuan clenched his fists with hatred and slammed heavily on the snow, blocking his anger in his chest, and he couldn't even extricate it.

Liu Yan was even more in tears.

His Liu family has always been the backbone of the war faction who advocated the coalition of troops to attack Yan. The Chihu people broke up and declared war. Not only did the victorious army, but the Xuanwu army suffered a disaster of destruction, but the attack on the war faction in the court was also devastating.

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Like the Ge family to the Tianxiong Army, Liu family was a general in Jingzhou. During his uncle Liu Shidao and his father Liu Shizhong were in charge of the Xiaosheng Army, in addition to other disciples and old officials, he also promoted a group of Liu's children to the army.

He served as a military officer and general at all levels. This time, he was not sure if two or three out of ten people could escape to Jingzhou.

"Marquis Liu Jun, Marquis Chen Jun, I mentioned this at this time, and there is no ridicule. If the attack on Yan army is hit hard, I don't think that Marquis Liu Jun, Marquis Chen Jun, you should bear any responsibility for this, and the prince wants Shuozhou to be in such chaos.

The bureau rescues more Western soldiers and hopes to be beneficial to the more difficult crisis..."

Seeing Liu Yan and Chen Yuan's heavy expression, Xu Huai opened his mouth again.

Although Xu Huai could imagine that after the news of the Chihu people declaring war and the destruction of the Yan army was heard back to Bianjing, the government and the people would definitely be punished and punished the main war factions, the main force of the Chihu cavalry opened up the prefectures in Hedong and rushed to the north bank of the Yellow River.

It is likely that it will take less than half a year. How could Xu Huai fall into the quagmire of the party's common struggle against differences and fail to come out?

Although the Western Army had various disadvantages that could not be overcome, and in the open rivers and lands, it was impossible to stop the torrent of the Chihu cavalry, the more cruel fact is that the Dayue army is known as the 800,000-box army, and only the Western Army can fight.

The Western Army in a narrow sense refers to the five northwest main troops such as Fuyan and Jingyuan. However, the Xiang army, the rural soldiers and the foreign archers recruited from the foreign households in the border prefectures have been fighting with the Dangxiang people all year round, and the folk customs are also strong.

He is fierce and martial, and has strong individual combat power.

In a short period of time, I really hope that a soldier can participate in the defense of Bianjing and block the unstoppable offensive between the He and Huai River. I can only rely on the Western Army.

At this time, is it necessary to raise all the pro-war generals in the Western Army to liquidate and clean up, or to uncover the old chapters, and to plan for the upcoming king-salvation, do you still need to weigh the choice?

Most of the generals of the pro-war faction still wanted to recover the former county of Yanyun. They lacked strategic vision and were restricted by the ancestral law since the founding of the Great Yue Dynasty. They did not need to bear the blame for their repeated repetitions of the Chihu people.

Xu Huai said at this time that the actions of the soldiers and horses in Shuozhou were Wang Bing's instructions, and the most critical reason was that he also wanted to minimize the impact of Cao Shixiong's surrender to the enemy as much as possible.

Wang Fan was always on guard against him, completely concealed Shuozhou's recommendation to Cao Shixiong to take charge of the military and political affairs of Lanzhou in the west wing, and even publicly split his ways with Shuozhou in front of Lanzhou. Xu Huai could not have no resentment, but he had to do everything.

Means to reduce the impact of Cao Shixiong's surrender to the enemy on Wang Bing.

Cao Shixiong was the military and political party in Lanzhou in the west wing, which was recommended by Wang Fan. Of course, no one in Hedong and Bianjing at that time would have expected the situation to be so violent, which made people suddenly unpredictable, but Cao Shixiong was really going to surrender to the enemy and was also in Lanzhou at that time.

It is difficult for Wang Bing to escape impeachment.

Although Wang Bing has his limitations, Wang Bing can be said to be an alien with so many ruling ministers in the court.

If Wang Bing could not escape the impeachment and was demoted again, no minister in the court who truly knew the general situation was in charge of the affairs of serving the king. If Bian Jing really fell before the middle of next year according to the established historical trajectory, the Huaihe area would have been completely defeated.

There is no time to establish an effective defense line.

As Wang Bing could not escape the fate of impeachment, and was demoted again, no one in the court would have thought that the soldiers of Tongbai Mountain were guarding Shuozhou. After they completely fell in Hedong, even if they retreated to the southwest to Fuzhou and other places, they would probably have been there.

If you are ordered to accept reorganization on the spot, you will not be able to go south with a legitimate name.

Xu Huai has to expose the old things both public and private.

Xu Huai has very little qualifications. Even though he has a kind of help to Liu Yan and Chen Yuan, Liu Yan and Chen Yuan would think of him in private, but when it comes to the matter of serving the king, who is he considered a scallion?

Even if Liu Yan and Chen Yuan personally agree with him, in the eyes of other Western Army soldiers and more Western Army generals who stayed in Fuyan, Jingyuan and other places, who was considered a scallion?

At this time, only Wang Bing could be widely recognized by the generals of the Western Army.

For public and private purposes, not only should we remove the old things, but Xu Huai also had to rescue the remnants of the Western Army in the name of Wang Bing to flee to the west, convince Liu Yan that Chen Yuan could stand up and support Wang Bing in the future to preside over the overall situation of serving the king.

He even hoped that after Liu Yan and Chen Yuan returned to Jingyuan, he could convince more Western generals to abandon prejudice and support Wang Bing to preside over the overall situation of serving the king.

Even if you can expect all kinds of twists and turns and all kinds of unsatisfactory, even Wang Fan may not be able to think of their goodness, but only in this way can you gain more time, gather more strength, and organize effective on the Huaihe River line.

Line of defense.

This is also the reason why Xu Huai led 300 cavalry to hide in Jingongshan guerrillas and let Lu Xiong and Zhu Zhi accompany him.

In small-scale wars, Zhu Zhi can basically be said to be a burden, but here he and Lu Xiong can convince these things more that Wang Bing was instructed.

"It's true that after seeing through the Chihu people's ill-intention, Cai Ying, Cai Yuanyou and Liu Linggong could not be alert enough. Shuozhou spent a lot of effort to eliminate the Western Shan soldiers, and now it passes through Xishan from Shuozhou through Xishan

The road to Fuzhou is smooth,"

Although a lot of news has been spread by Zhu Zhi, Shi Zhen and others in the Xiaosheng Army and Xuanwu Army in the past ten days, Xu Huai believed that Liu Yan, Chen Yuan and others had not cared about it before, and then Shuozhou was put on

Some of the situations were introduced to them in a general way, and said,

"I said before that I wanted to attract more Red Hu cavalry here, but it was not arrogant. This is indeed the case that more Western soldiers had the opportunity to escape to Shuozhou, Xishan - the weather was sunny, the mountains were covered with snow, at night

The vision will be quite good. We must be prepared to go out to the mountain and fight at night. I will also let people enter the mountain to ignite the forest fire and ask more Western generals to know that at this time, there are still people who are fighting and not being the Chihu people.

Defeat!”

If the road from Shuozhou to Fuzhou through Xishan was already open, they attracted more Chihu cavalry from the battlefield in the west wing, which would of course be of great help to more Western army remnants escape.

Liu Yan and Chen Yuan could not see the future evolution of the war situation, but they also knew in their hearts that they each brought three or five hundred remaining soldiers to flee back to Jingyuan, and each brought three or five thousand remaining soldiers to flee back to Jingyuan, and to them personally

The meaning is completely different.

No matter how bad the situation will be in the future, their hearts are already open to what they will do next.

"Okay, we know how to do it!" Liu Yan and Chen Yuan stood up and said.

It is still very meaningful that Liu Yan and Chen Yuan can cheer up.

Even though both Xuanwu and Xiaosheng were disbanded, the remnants of the Western Army who fled west in a hurry were not subordinate to each other, Liu Yan and Chen Yuan were also famous in the Western Army. The shadow of the tree was because they were in the Western Army.

It is definitely much easier for the generals to gather the remaining soldiers to come forward and gather the prestige in the minds of the soldiers than Shuozhou.

Especially the road to Fuzhou through the Xishan Mountain has been opened. Shuozhou cannot greet the remaining soldiers of the Western Army who have fled to the west of Shuozhou City, let alone call on the remaining soldiers of the Western Army to gather together...
Chapter completed!