Chapter 158 Rushing to Rescue
It is more than 420 miles from Datong to Xinzhou. There are dozens of miles of narrow and winding valleys and canyons in Yanmen Pass. It is windy and snowy and day and night. Moli suddenly led a thousand elite cavalry to Xinzhou, which is so tired that people are overwhelmed.
However, Molihu did not lead his troops into Xinzhou City, but rushed directly to Liulingou Village in the north of Qizi Mountain.
Mu Chiyan ordered him not to send troops south from Xinzhou without exploring the situation, but Liulingou Village is strictly within Xinzhou.
If something really happens, the speed of sending troops from Liulingou Village, which is only more than 30 miles away from Taiyuan City is very different from Xinzhou City, which is about 100 miles away from Taiyuan City.
"Thousands of households in the sea and mountains!"
The king appointed the surrendered general Yin Chao as the governor of Xinzhou, and the deputy marching officer of Wanhu, and sent a seal supervisor to Xinzhou. When Moli suddenly arrived at Liulingou Village, the seal supervisor Haishangang personally led the scouts to reconnaissance from the direction of Qizishan. The two sides dismounted outside the village to meet.
Molihu was rushing for two days and two nights, and he could receive some messages on the way, but the useful information was very limited. The first time he got off the horse was to find Haishan to learn more information:
"What is the situation now? How many enemy troops have emerged from the mouth of Tianmen Pass Gorge? Li Chulin and Yin Chao led the Han army in Yunzhou, and can the Han army in Xinzhou defend the camp?"
"We have died more than a dozen elite soldiers, so we have finally contacted the Han army in Yunzhou."
Haishan is a little older than Molihu. He has been in the army for fifteen or sixteen years since he was young, and his experience is richer than Molihu. However, he is also a direct military general of the Zhennanzong Prince's Mansion, but Haishan's status is slightly inferior to Molihu. Moreover, Molihu was at this time on behalf of the Zhennanzong Prince's Mansion's direct reinforcements.
He reached out to scratch his itchy beard and said to Morihu,
"The southern thieves were very ill from the Luliang Mountains. At first, they pretended to be bandits of Luliang and came out of the Tianshan Gate to rob dozens of trucks of food and fodder. Li Chulin was not alert and sent only hundreds of soldiers to drive them away. However, thousands of bandits were fired at night and were caught by the southern thieves on the south side of the Han army camp in Yunzhou without any defense, so that they could contact the southern thieves in Taiyuan City. Now the southern thieves transported a large number of cattle and horses to Taiyuan City to slaughter. It seemed that they wanted to meet the southern thieves in Taiyuan City breaking through. Li Chulin and Yin Chao were also worried that the southern thieves in Taiyuan City might take the opportunity to counterattack after they were supplied. They have voluntarily abandoned the few camps with limited defense and concentrated their troops into the Han army camp in Yunzhou and the two corners of the defense."
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Moli suddenly had a gloomy face and rode his horse with the sea and mountains up a hill southwest of Liulingou Village to look south.
When he received a letter from Datong that the raid was raided in Lanzhou, Cao Shixiong had already determined that Xu Huai's intention to lead the Chushan cavalry might have been to point the sword at Taiyuan. However, many people in the Sect Palace at that time speculated that the Chushan cavalry's intention of raiding Taiyuan was to attract the main force of the cavalry who rushed south to attack Bianliang to return to the rescue.
Mo Li suddenly felt that with his understanding of Chu Shanqi and Xu Huai, he did not think that Xu Huai would not be able to distinguish the weight gap between Taiyuan City and Bianliang City. Mu Chi did not advocate speculation on the intentions of the enemy without reason, but ignored the confirmed information.
At this time, Moli suddenly strangled his horse on the hill, looked at the eastern foot of the chess mountain, and watched the large group of soldiers in the Southern Dynasty digging trenches in the valley more than ten miles away, burying wood and repairing the walls, and suddenly slapped his thighs and shouted:
"Haishan, you are right. Xu Huai, the dog thief, came to pick up the soldiers and civilians in Taiyuan to break through! We can't sit and watch Xu Huai, the dog thief, succeed!"
"Mu Chiyan ordered us not to act rashly before reinforcements arrived!" Haishan said.
Na Yan Muchi sent Moli to the south to assist Xinzhou. More than a thousand cavalry were running in a team of relatively slow. He would inevitably send people to Xinzhou, Taiyuan and other places to contact and send orders first.
Yan Muchi knew how strong the combat effectiveness of the troops guarding Taiyuan and staying in Xinzhou and other cities were. He did not want the Qingshun army to be defeated in Lanzhou for two days and repeated the incident near Taiyuan City, so they fell into a complete passive state in the northeast of the river. He issued several military orders, requiring the defenders to strengthen the walls and clear the fields. When he mobilized new cavalry from the Huihe Valley and Cangtou River Valley to reinforce Lanzhou, Xinzhou would take a new solution.
Although Molihu led his troops to Xinzhou and automatically obtained the control of the troops and command of the battlefield in Xinzhou, Haishan still had to follow the military orders clearly issued by Yan Muchi.
"Xu Huai, a dog thief, is the best at attacking quickly, and he cannot use common sense to treat it with common sense."
Mori suddenly said in a deep voice,
"He led his troops into Lanzhou, Haishan, did you expect? He led his troops through Luliang Mountain and rushed to Taiyuan so quickly? Did you expect Haishan? He led his troops into the northern part of Taiyuan, and raised fire to attack the south that night, tearing apart the blockade and siege of Taiyuan City. Did you expect Haishan? He didn't expect that, can't you summarize the characteristics of Xu Huai, a dog thief? We really have to delay the subsequent reinforcements, Xu Huai, the dog thief, may have brought tens of thousands of Taiyuan soldiers and civilians into Luliang Mountain! How do you pursue it at that time?"
"The southern thieves are all light-fitted, with only four or five thousand horses. Even if they are slaughtered to replenish food, it is only enough for tens of thousands of Taiyuan soldiers and civilians to support them for ten days and half a month," said Haishan. "However, these tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians will definitely be slow. As long as General Mu Chi leads reinforcements to enter Lanzhou to intercept them in time, you are not afraid that they can escape from the sky! Could this little meat be able to support them to cross Luliang Mountain and escape into Guanzhong?"
"What if they capture the Han army camp in Yunzhou? How much food and grass is stored in the Han army camp in Yunzhou at this time?" Moli asked suddenly.
"" Haishan was slightly stunned and said guiltily, "There are more than 6,000 defenders in the Han army camp in Yunzhou. The southern thieves may not dare to bite this hard bone in a hurry, right?"
The Han army camp in Yunzhou not only had to support the consumption of Li Chulin's troops siege Taiyuan City, but also had to transfer the food and fodder needed by Yinchao's troops and some of the food and fodder needed by the main force to move south.
As the seal supervisor in Xinzhou, Haishan was previously responsible for organizing hard labor, chariots and horses, transporting grain and fodder from the north to the south, and knew in his heart that the current reserve of grain in the Han army camp in Yunzhou was more than 100,000 stones.
Haishan is a bit unimaginable. If the Han army camp in Yunzhou falls into the hands of the southern thieves, what will the situation they face will be bad.
"We can think of this dog thief Xu Huai, which must be what we think of. But we think this dog thief Xu Huai, which is impossible, but we repeatedly mistakenly said, "In your opinion, can't the Han army camp in Yunzhou really be able to attack?"
Haishan's expression also became solemn.
He had never thought that the Southern thieves would attack the Han army camp in Yunzhou before, and he had not thought about many things carefully, but when he thought about them carefully, would he really not be able to capture them?
The Han army camp in Yunzhou seems to have 6,000 soldiers and tens of thousands of hard labor, but the source is too complicated.
More importantly, when will the Han army in Yunzhou give people enough confidence?
"Li Chulin took the initiative to give up the camps in the north of Taiyuan City, and made a big mistake!" Mo Li said, "If the three camps in the north of the city do not give up, even if Yin Chao does not send troops to reinforce from the south, it will take time to attack the southern bandits, and it will lose troops and generals. At the same time, the southern bandits do not have enough space to launch an offensive against the Han army camp in the north of Yunzhou. Now, Li Chulin, the idiot, took the initiative to help the southern bandits clear out the battlefield in the north of Taiyuan City - we cannot do nothing, Haishan, how many people have you gathered here?"
"" Haishan was full of bitterness. In addition to the necessary defenders in Xinzhou, he concentrated all the troops that could be gathered in Xinzhou to Liulingou Village, but there were only two hundred cavalrymen and six hundred surrendered to the Han army.
On their front, in the valley on the eastern foot of Qizi Mountain, the southern bandits first gathered more than a thousand troops to deploy defenses. However, today, several bandits of Luliang ran out of the mountains and gathered in the enemy camp of Qizi Mountain, causing more than 1,500 enemies in Qizi Mountain.
And more importantly, they don’t know how many southern bandits were hiding in the canyon west of Tianmen Pass.
Lingjinggou Canyon fell under the control of the southern thieves. If they wanted to understand the situation in Lanzhou, it would take four or five hundred miles to detect the cavalry, which made them still not know how many southern soldiers would come to Taiyuan through Lanzhou.
"" Mo Li said resolutely, "It doesn't matter whether Xinzhou City is defending or not, but if Taiyuan soldiers and civilians are asked to retreat through Luliang Mountain, the power of the southern thieves in Guanshan will greatly increase - you will immediately transfer the troops from Xinzhou City to come over overnight, we will rest for a night, and attack the enemy troops on the east side of the chess piece in the morning tomorrow."
Molik led his troops to the south from Datong, and drove 450 miles in the wind and snow for two days and two nights. The soldiers were extremely tired. In comparison, the Southern Army waited for work on the eastern foot of the Chess Mountain, repaired the camp and dug out a trench.
Chapter completed!