"You are afraid of losing troops and are unwilling to attack a fortified city, so you come to me, Chi Hu, to borrow troops. Have you ever thought that my Chi Hu generals are also made of flesh and blood, and that after years of fighting, they are even more exhausted than the generals of Dai Viet? Even so.
, King Khan still believed in his oath to uphold the alliance and gladly sent troops to help you attack Datong. We insisted that the winner plunder the city, but it was only for my red soldiers who fought bloody battles as a reward for their bravery in killing the enemy. Yesterday night, I
Hundreds of warriors from Chi Hu died in battle inside and outside Beicheng. Have we ever frowned? We have not. What we think is that since we have made a covenant, we will be skinned and bruised. Even if our bones are rotten and our intestines are pierced, we must swear to keep the covenant.
After all, even if we die in battle in front of the city, we can still take the enemy's blood and head, plunder his wife and children, so that the soul can safely return to the embrace of Changshengtian. But how could we not have thought that you people in the Southern Dynasties are so despicable?
, privately surrendered to the rebels, but openly tore up the alliance, marched into the city in large numbers, and robbed the rewards that my Chihu people deserved. Guo Zhongxiong, ask yourself, if it weren’t for my Chihu warriors fighting with blood, if it weren’t for my Chihu warriors fighting into the city with overwhelming force.
, Li Chulin will surrender to you, will you get this advantage? Why did you agree on the time for your respective siege in advance? Do you still need to explain now? If you come here now and want me to appease my anger, then you go outside the big tent.
, ask me, Chi Hu Jian'er, who is fighting with his head on his waist, if they are willing to calm down?"
Yan Muchi's voice was hoarse, like an old and cruel wolf, and he howled at Guo Zhongxiong,
"Guo Langjun, I respect you as a courageous man and will never make things difficult for you. I, the Red Husband, don't even bother to kill the envoy before the two armies fight. Please go back and ask Liu Shizhong to prepare for the war between the two armies, and wait for the order of King Khan.
When we come down, I will send someone to deliver the letter of war, so don’t blame me for fighting without declaring it!"
"..." Guo Zhongxiong saw many red generals in the commander's tent, all gnashing their teeth and staring at them. He felt that his eyes were turning black, his face was pale, and he was sweating profusely.
Before he arrived at Chihu Commander's tent, he thought that no matter how angry the Chihu people were about the Yan army's early entry into the city, there should be room for negotiation. At worst, they would order to withdraw all the troops and horses that had entered the city earlier.
But he never expected that the Chihu people would not give them any room to change and were preparing to go to war directly against the Yan army?!
"Come here, please get Guo Langjun out!" Yan Muchi gave the order, and several five big and three thick red armored warriors walked in, roughly grabbed Guo Zhongxiong's arm, dragged him out of the commander's tent, and threw him directly
Go outside into the snow.
"Guo Langjun, what's going on?" Zhu Xiaotong and others, as guards, were not qualified to enter the commander's tent to see Mu Chi and other red guard generals. At this time, they saw Guo Zhongxiong being pushed out rudely and hurriedly stepped forward to help him up.
, asked in panic.
"Chihu is going to declare war!" Guo Zhongxiong said in despair.
"How is that possible?" Zhu Xiaotong screamed in disbelief.
"Woooooooo..."
A cow horn was suddenly blown outside the commander's tent, and waves of calls rang out one after another from where the horn sounded.
At this time, Yan Muchi and others walked out of the commander's tent and said happily: "The King Zong is here!"
Guo Zhongxiong was pushed by the red armored soldiers and retreated to the left wing of the commander's tent. At this time, he saw more than a hundred armored knights galloping towards this side, surrounded by a middle-aged man. After the middle-aged man met with Yan Muchi, he did not enter directly.
The commander-in-chief glanced at Guo Zhongxiong for a few times and ignored them. Instead, he asked thousands of Red Hu generals and soldiers near the commander-in-chief to gather in front of him and spoke to them in a fierce tone in the Red Hu's language.
Even without an interpreter, Guo Zhongxiong could guess what Qihan Ulullie was talking about from the excited expressions and the angry eyes of the Red Guards soldiers staring at them.
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After the afternoon of the afternoon, the Chihu people made many unusual moves. Liu Shizhong sent people to negotiate many times, but they were all driven back. He and Cai Yuanyou could no longer sit in the Chinese army's tent, so they boarded the south city gate tower for a better view of the overall situation until noon.
They waited until Guo Zhongxiong returned from his mission to the Red Guards Commander's tent. They couldn't wait to take Guo Zhongxiong to the tower and asked:
"What kind of medicine did the Chihu people take wrongly? Why did their right army battalion soldiers and horses gather at Dongqipo? What do they want to do!"
Guo Zhongxiong entered the city through the North City Gate controlled by the Red Guards, and then passed through Datong City to the South City Gate to meet Liu Shizhong, Cai Yuanyou and the others. He did not yet know the situation of the Red Guards' troop mobilization.
After hearing what Liu Shizhong said, he looked toward the southeast of Datong City.
About eleven or twelve miles away in the southeast direction, there is a hillock about thirty to forty feet high and stretching for about two or three miles, lying quietly in the valley on the north bank of the Huihe River.
Compared with the tall mountains outside Datong City, this slope is really nothing, but in the valley terrain of more than 40 miles from Datong City to Huihe River, Dongqi Slope is the only uplifted terrain.
Dongqipo was now occupied by thousands of red cavalry, like a gloomy black cloud, covering the land - there is no doubt that if the Yan army tried to abandon Datong at this time and retreat to the south bank of Huihe River,
, this red cavalry will definitely launch an iron-blooded charge from the flank without mercy.
"What's going on, Guo Langjun, could you please say something?" Tian Zhizhen saw Guo Zhongxiong standing there with a pale face, pushed him on the shoulder, and asked anxiously.
"The Chihu people said that we broke our word and wanted to tear up the alliance and declare war on us!" Guo Zhongxiong looked at Liu Shizhong and Cai Yuanyou said.
"How is that possible?" Cai Yuanyou felt dizzy and asked tremblingly.
"Is it because the conditions proposed by the Chihu people were quite harsh, and Guo Langjun thought it was difficult to meet them, so he started arguing with them. Are they trying to scare us?" Liu Shizhong still held on to his last illusion and anxiously grabbed Guo Zhongxiong's shoulders.
asked.
"Liu Linggong, Shao Xiang, can't you see it at this moment? There are some people in Chihu who have occupied Linhuang, Dading, and Liaoyang, and plundered too much property, livestock, and slaves. They are satisfied and don't want to do anything to me anymore.
We started a war with the DPRK, but there were also many people in the Red Army who were not satisfied with this, so they needed an excuse to convince their Khan King that all the Red Army generals and soldiers would raise their arms and come towards us - Liu Linggong, the Shaoxiang did not
There is room for change, so order to prepare for the battle!" Guo Zhongxiong only regretted that he had woken up too late, and only hoped that it was too late to make amends.
"It's impossible. If we send people to see Yan Shuchi again, there will definitely be room for change!" Cai Yuanyou murmured.
Although Liu Shizhong was out of his wits at this moment, he asked someone to help him sit on the stone steps in front of the gate of the city tower. After taking a breath, he could barely calm down and said to Liu Yan, Chen Yuan and others: "Quickly call the right army.
The army should be prepared, and prepare more horses and deer on the right wing in case the red cavalry breaks the covenant and rushes over at any time..."
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The Chihu people initially gathered only a little more than 20,000 soldiers and horses at the eastern foot of Daqing Mountain (Yinshan). Liu Shizhong and Cai Yuanyou borrowed troops from the Chihu people to attack Datong City, and more than 20,000 soldiers and horses were stationed in the south of Chihu Town.
Under the leadership of Yan Shuchi, they went south from the gap at the northeastern foot of Wuzhou Mountain and camped at the foot of Datong City.
Xu Huai and others initially thought that the Red Husbands would take advantage of Liu Shizhong and Cai Yuanyou's unpreparedness and use 20,000 elite soldiers and horses to launch a surprise attack on the main force of the Yan army entering the north bank of the Hui River. However, the reality was not exactly what they predicted.
After the Yan army accepted the surrender of Li Chulin, the commander of the capital of Xijing, and the two sides of troops entered the city from the south gate in advance, the Chihu people were furious. After several small-scale conflicts in the city, they withdrew all the attacking troops to the north city.
Near the Bingmen Gate, 10,000 cavalry were then gathered at Dongqipo on the southeast wing of Datong to peek at the flank where the main force of the Yan army was retreating south. Liu Shizhong, Cai Yuanyou and others did not dare to retreat south in a hurry, and they also hoped to fight with the Chihu people.
There is room for mediation.
Even though the newly enthroned King Qihan and Uluru Lie of the Southern Army of the Red Army had entered his camp in the north of Datong City at this time, they did not immediately launch an attack with 20,000 elite cavalry. Instead, they sent the Red Army soldiers and horses one after another.
From the area between Yinshan Mountain to the east and Dading Prefecture, gather towards Datong.
From Yinshan Mountain to the east of Dading Mansion is the fiefdom of King Qihan and Uluru Lie. In just four or five days, nearly 30,000 new cavalrymen gathered in Datong, which is enough to prove that Uluru Lie
We are fully prepared for the southern invasion.
However, Xu Huai was not sure whether Uluru Lie was trying to give other clan kings more time to mobilize, or because there was a dispute within the Chihu King's tent about the southern invasion. After Uluru Lie's 50,000 elite soldiers and horses were gathered near Datong,
, it can be said that they have firmly grasped the initiative on the battlefield, but they did not immediately launch an attack on the main force of the Yan army on the north bank of Huihe River.
This is not a situation that Xu Huai wants to see: on the one hand, Chihu is undergoing larger-scale mobilization internally, but Dai Viet is banking on peaceful mediation, and its defensive deployment is also extremely clumsy. It just sits back and watches the main force of the Yan army evacuate towards Shuozhou.
The passage across the Huihe River to retreat to Yingzhou was blocked by the Red Husband cavalry, and he did not dare to take any active actions. On the other hand, Xu Huai also knew deeply that on the battlefield of Datong, the more fully prepared the Red Husbands were, the more likely it would be to fight.
Once an outbreak breaks out, the Yan army will be completely annihilated.
He had previously hoped that Xuanwu and Xiaosheng's two armies would have a large number of deserters flee into the surrounding mountains after being defeated, but this was likely to be in vain.
Xu Huai also had no temper against the Chihu people despite the fact that they were brave and strong, but used their troops so cautiously and without any gaps. He was even forced to evacuate more troops to Xishan in advance, for fear that one night, thousands of soldiers would be killed.
The red cavalry will surround Shuozhou without even realizing it.
On the one hand, Liu Shizhong and Cai Yuanyou did not dare to take the initiative to initiate a military provocation and did not dare to decisively send troops to attack the North City Gate. On the other hand, they did not dare to lead their troops to retreat south decisively when their flanks were threatened.
Seeing that they had no way to mediate, they deployed the main force of the conquering Yan army in the inner city of Datong, the south city gate and the four camps outside the city for defense. They also ordered troops from Xinzhou, Taiyuan, Lanzhou and other places to be sent to Yanmen.
Gather in the direction of Yingzhou to prevent the worst situation from happening.
Not to mention that Cao Shixiong was holding back at this time. Wen Hengyue and Yin Chao, who had wanted to surrender to the Cai faction in the past, saw that the situation in the north was getting more and more tense, so they only dared to send a small number of troops to strengthen Yanmen's defense...
