Hulao Pass is located on the west bank of the Sishui River, Gong County is located on the east of the Yiluo River. The area between the two cities is bordered by the Yellow River in the north, Songyue in the south, and Chuanling in the south, and it is only close to Hulao Pass. The west bank of the Sishui River is crisscrossing and rugged, and there is a little space for cavalry to rush to revive.

This area is extended by about 35 or 6 miles east-west, and is about 15 or 6 miles north-south, extending the northern slope of Songshan Mountain, with low ridges and streams and ditches intersecting vertically and horizontally, reaching the southern bank of the Yellow River.

The Yellow River rushes down with the mud and sand wrapped around Shanxi and Shaanxi, and the riverbed rises year by year, which also makes the gullies between Songshan Mountain and the Yellow River silt, otherwise the terrain will be bumpy and rugged.

The most wide-reaching position in this area is the mouth of the Yiluo River in the north of the county town.

This place is the intersection of Songshan Mountain and Mangshan Mountain. At first it was a broad gorge. The Yiluo River and the Yellow River converged at this time. After thousands of years of sediment, they formed a flat terrain of about 11 or 2 miles from east to west and about four or five miles from north to south.

This is also the main battlefield for the Chihu people to snipe the Western Army’s aid division to advance eastward.

Although the Western Army under Cai Ying's leadership, including the Western Army generals promoted by Cai Ying, had various flaws, Cai Ying's ability to sit firmly in the Western Army for so many years was also related to the Western Army under his leadership, which had not been at a disadvantage in recent years with the Dangxiang people, and even had some small gains.

Zheng Huaizhong was appointed as the Qin Fenglu Strategic Pacification Envoy, and his starting point was lower than that of Liu Shidao and Liu Shizhong. He was a veteran of the Western Army who stood out from the grassroots military officer and through JueLenji.

The Western Army was clumsy in cavalry, mainly in infantry armor, and was good at fighting with the Dangxiang people, who had been good at cavalry for many years, and also accumulated rich experience - these experiences were summarized in four words from strategic and tactical terms, namely "shallow attack and construction".

This was also the core tactics of defending against the bandits in Huaiyuan during the Tongbai Mountains.

Strategically speaking, shallow attacks and construction are to avoid fighting with superior enemy troops, to fight decisively, to avoid lightly entering the enemy's hinterland and interspersing battles, to build more cities and villages in border areas and defend border defenses, and to tactics, to take steps and take steady steps, to build more camps in front of the enemy, approach step by step, or to use a vehicle array to restrict the enemy's travel and galloping.

As the main general of the Western Army, Zheng Huaizhong's combat thinking can be said to be deeply rooted in his bones.

He led his troops and horses, the vanguard of the army, and also carried a large number of side-box and light chariots. It was no wonder that he delayed until mid-February before crossing the Yiluo River. After entering Gong County, he still set up camps outside the city. His tentative attacks often brought more than a thousand soldiers and horses to the enemy camp step by step.

Even though the enemy troops deployed elite troops near the camp, they could not easily nibble the tightly defended Western Army infantry formation.

Such a persistent general may not have any major mistakes when using such strategic thinking to defend the border, but at this moment, it is inappropriate.

In previous years, the grain from Jianghuai, Liangzhe, Jinghu and other prefectures should have been loaded. Just wait for the Bian River to connect the river and Huai River. Cai hydrolyzes and will be transported to the capital on a large scale; while the grain, firewood, charcoal and meat from Hehuai River and Huai River and other prefectures and counties such as Cai, Xu, Chen, Song and other Hehuai River and Huai River were transported to Bianliang for many years.

The Chihu cavalry surrendered tens of thousands of troops, and had been invading the Hehuai River for more than a month.

The Chihu cavalry not only stormed between the Hehuai River and Huai River without any enemy, but also drove countless refugees between the Hehuai River and Huai River into the city of Bianliang, where there were originally 1300,000 soldiers and civilians avoiding disaster.

No matter how abundant the grain storage in Bianliang is, the food will inevitably begin to be scarce at this time, and the food route is gone. However, every day that delays a day, Bianliang will be more fodder. If it delays for another month, even if Bianliang is not lost, there will be countless hunger in the city.

What's more, the Chihu cavalry will continue to loot and slaughter the prefectures, counties and villages between He and Huai, turning the most prosperous and prosperous place in Dayue into purgatory and Shura fields to shake the foundation of the imperial court.

The commander of the Chihu East Route Army did not order the troops in the west to retreat to Hulao Pass, but extended to the northern part of Gong County, driving tens of thousands of prisoners to urgently build layers of camps. In addition to the extremely thin Hulao Pass, it was not conducive to the coordinated combat of the cavalry. It was not that it was the idea of ​​using the inherent combat thinking of the Western Army generals and advancing step by step to delay the time of the Western Army's advance to the east to the greatest extent.

Thinking through the pros and cons of this, Xu Huai further concluded that this support should be offered by Yue Hailou and other surrendered generals of the Western Army.

The Chihu people invaded the south for the first time, and did not expect to severely damage the main force of the Western Army. Instead, they dismantled the military potential of Dayue from a strategic level and swayed the foundation of Dayue's rule, laying a solid foundation for the next second and third southern invasions to completely destroy Dayue.

Every summer and autumn when rain is lush, the Yellow River, Yiluo River, Mangshan, Songshan, and Wangwu Mountain on the north bank surge, and all the waters meet, and the estuary often floods.

Although it was the beginning of the year and the water was thin, after the weather warmed up, the ice and snow melted, and the people and horses were trampled on. The muddy terrain restricted horses and infantrymen. However, the horses had long hooves and strong foot strength, so they were less restricted. It was much more difficult to step on the muddy ground by stepping on the horses.

This made Zheng Huaizhong promote the battle in Gong County more cautious and slow, and he attacked tentatively for several consecutive days, and even the first simple camp of the surrendered army in the northern part of Gong County was not broken.

Chen time has passed, but the mist is everywhere in the woods with sparse branches and leaves.

Xu Huai stood on the stone hill, pressing the sword around his waist with his hand. Even though his vision was blocked by fog and vapor, he still couldn't help looking northwest.

The world was quiet. Two days ago, Zheng Huaizhong had already sent troops into the northern battlefield of Gong County at this time, but today it was obviously delayed due to heavy fog, so don't expect Zheng Huaizhong to launch a fierce attack on the simple camps of the enemy soldiers day and night.

"Zheng Huaizhong has not sent troops to attack the enemy camp yet?" Deng Gui walked over from behind and looked west with anxiety. He could not hear any movement and asked Xu Huai uncertainly.

"The grandsons of the Western Army either flew up and buried Xuanwu and tens of thousands of elite elites in Yunshuo for nothing, or they were as stable as old dogs. The next door to him, I owed a whip to whip these old dogs!" Xu Huai cursed.

Although he had known Xu Huai's identity as a Yasha Fox for a long time, Deng Gui was still used to listening to Xu Huai's dirty words, and he was really not used to Xu Huai's serious appearance in front of King Jing Zhao Tuan.

Deng Gui grinned and asked, "Zheng Huaizhong didn't do anything. What should we do? Retrieve it?"

"We touched it at night, leaving traces along the way, and pulled out several secret whistles from each other. We are now withdrawing. Seeing that the secret whistle has not returned, Cao Shili sent someone to come. When he sees the traces, he will definitely be alert..." Xu Huai shook his head and said.

In marching and fighting, observing the figures is the basic skill - more than a thousand of them sneaked here on the mountain trail, and so many traces left along the way could not be erased. The enemy soldiers noticed that so many soldiers were sneaking here, and they would never be able to sneak here quietly next time.

To put it bluntly, it was Chihu people and Cao Shili who thought that they would rest on the spot by joining King Jing to retreat to the south of Gong County and hand over the battlefield to the Western Army's aid division. They were not prepared for them, so they were given this opportunity.

No chance, just miss it.

"Cao Shili didn't lead the elite troops westward to join the war. The Qingquangou enemy camp had seven or eight thousand troops. Our staff was not enough to fill it!" Deng Gui said with a frown.

The Chihu people were on the western wing. Although they invested larger cavalry, they mainly drove the surrendered troops to resist the progress of the Western reinforcements in the east.

At present, Xiao Gan, a surrendered general in the Western Capital of Khitan, led the Datong foreign soldiers to mainly establish camps in the northern part of Gong County, and fought with the Western Army's vanguards. However, the Datong foreign soldiers were average in combat. Cao Shili would lead a cavalry and infantry to rush to the northern part of Gong County to protect the flanks.

They sneaked to the south side of Qingquangou last night, thinking that they would take advantage of the interest rate of Cao's elite troops to go out of the camp, and they caught the remaining troops garrison off guard.

The terrain of Qingquangou is that the terrain on both sides is raised, and a long ditch extends into the northern slope of Songshan; especially the closer it is to Songshan, the more dangerous the hills on both sides are.

When they launched an attack on the camp, they were not afraid of the enemy cavalry interspersing from the flanks to cut off their retreat. They could retreat calmly when reinforcements rushed from both wings.

However, they had made great plans, but they did not expect that there would be heavy fog in the morning, and they did not expect that Zheng Huaizhong would not have quit in the fog sky, so they did not transfer Cao Shili and his elite guards away.

The fog is not particularly heavy now, and they can barely see the scenery dozens of steps away. If they really want to get close to Qingquangou, it will be difficult to launch a surprise attack, but the result can only be a strong attack, a strong attack.

However, if we really want to attack the enemy camp of Qingquangou, will it be enough to put people in a crackdown on them?

"Why did I catch Cao Shili, the rabbit, and rub it hard? Because this grandson is now a soft seed!"

Xu Huai rubbed his hands and said,

"Cao Shili attacked Gong County, and lost his troops and generals. Nearly 2,000 soldiers in his army were killed in battle, with more disabled people. The morale was not very bad. It can be said to be a frightened bird. Qingquangou camp seemed to be stationed at seven or eight thousand people, but if you count carefully, those who were not damaged at all may be just over two thousand. In addition, there were about 2,500 injuries and diseases. The Chihu people saw that he was a little hardworking, and transferred the 3,000 prisoners who were surrendered to him from other places. Cao Shili only took over these men for three or four days, so how could it be easy to use them?"

"General Wang Ju, Guo Jun Envoy, what do you say, fight or not?" Deng Gui looked at Wang Ju, Guo Jun's verdict and asked.

"We have trained troops for the guarding Gong County, and we have not yet gained a tough battle!" Wang Kuang said, rubbing his hands.

Wang Ju was truly a fan of martial arts. In his early years, he was appointed as the commander of the Xiang Army in the Jingzhou because of his background as a general and he made many military achievements on the battlefield. However, he was not in charge of the matter very much, and he was imprisoned and framed by Liu Shidao, and he was not alert at first.

I have been forced to hide in recent years. In order to protect my family, I have to be cautious in my actions, but I am still an restless middle-aged man at heart.
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