Seeing through Xu Huai's intentions does not mean that we can block or destroy Xu Huai's intentions.
Yue Hailou looked to the left and right, except for the seven or eight hundred people under Cao Shili who were killed in horror and in a chaotic formation. At the fastest time, there were only more than two hundred horses galloping over, and most of them were light armor and short bows. It is difficult to imagine that these two hundred
Yu Qi dismounted and formed a formation, which was able to shake the tight formation of hundreds of Tongbai Mountain armored soldiers at the north gate of Xu Huaiqing Quangou Village.
Don't say that more than two hundred Qingqi can't do this. At this time, hundreds of Qingqi who are rushing over from both wings quickly dismount and fight. In a short time, they can attack from the narrow slope connecting the official road in Qingquan Gouzhai and defeat the waiting troops.
Will the soldiers of Tongbai Mountain be defeated and the Beizhai Gate of Qingquangou Village be recaptured?
Qingquangou is relatively gentle for three or four miles from Guandao to the north until it reaches the bank of the Yellow River. However, from Guandao to the south, the ridges on both sides gradually rise, forming an obvious long valley.
Although silt and sand accumulate at the bottom of the valley, forming flat dams ranging from 200 to 300 steps, Qingquan Gou Village is built on the hillside of Changgang on the west side. From the valley bottom to the north and south gates of Qingquan Gou Village, there are only a few winding paths connecting it.
Not to mention the unfavorable cavalry charge, the infantry attacked from bottom to top in a hurry, and the casualties were bound to be heavy.
However, the soldiers of Tongbai Mountain were able to retreat along the treacherous path to the south, or even to the more treacherous hills.
In Yue Hailou's view, the best way, regardless of his morale, is to drive the light cavalry and a small group of elite infantry armor southwards along the long ditch to prevent the Western Army from reinforcing Qingquan Gouzhaigou, and at the same time, move the elite infantry armor from the mid-hill slope.
Approaching the north gate of Qingquangou Village.
However, now that the weather is getting warmer, the ice and snow have melted, and the people coming and going are trampled into mud. The cavalry can come quickly and easily, but the infantry reinforcements from both wings take a lot of time.
Therefore, it is difficult to counterattack quickly in a short period of time, and there is no way to prevent Xu Huai from setting fire to the north of Qingquangou Village on a large scale and driving the captured prisoners up the mountain from Nanzhai Gate.
When Yue Hailou expressed his opinion, Mo Li suddenly stared and asked, "What do you mean, we want to sit back and watch this guy succeed in his conspiracy?"
Chi Zha waved his hand and told Mo Lihu to shut up. After thinking for a while, Cao Shili gathered the armored soldiers who were still capable of fighting, covered the two wings with scouts and light cavalry, crossed the long ditch to the south, and at the same time mobilized several groups of men and horses to the west of Qingquan Gouzhai.
Crossing towards the northern slope of Songshan Mountain.
There is no movement in Gong County yet, but that doesn't mean something is not brewing.
No matter what Xu Huai's plot is, their most important thing at the moment is to prepare for the possibility of the Western Army reinforcing Qingquan Gou Village. If the Western Army ends up with thousands of soldiers and horses stuck in Qingquan Gou Village and refuses to leave, they will not be able to attack Qingquan Gou Village by force.
That would really make you dumbfounded!
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"The enemy still doesn't dare to attack hastily!"
Seeing the deployment of the soldiers, Deng Gui breathed a sigh of relief.
"We are only a small threat to the Chihu people. What they fear is that the Western Army will come to help and occupy the Qingquan Gou Village, making it difficult to take care of them."
Xu Huai actually breathed a sigh of relief, but he still had to pretend to be calm and calm, and said with a smile,
"It would be best for Zheng Huaizhong and Gao Chunnian to send troops from Gong County, but they did not move. Yue Hailou dared to assure the generals that Zheng Huaizhong, Gao Chunnian and others had no other plans? If they did not move, they would be suspicious. Everyone would
I don’t dare to guarantee it! And Yue Hailou is a very smart man. He has already achieved great success by capturing Hulao Pass for the Chihu people. He will not take the risk of persuading the Chihu people to attack us! This will not do him any good.
benefit."
"Yue Hailou was originally the head of the Cai Mansion and knew everything about the affairs of the government and the public. If we don't get rid of this beast, it will be a big problem!" Deng Gui said with a frown.
"In the future, there will be many weak people who surrender to the Red Army. In addition to Yue Hailou, Zhou Hailou, Gu Hailou, and Zhao Hailou will appear. We should do the things in front of us first, and leave the next things to later.
Don't worry anymore." Xu Huai sighed and cast his eyes towards the village.
After Cao's army's few elite troops escaped from the Qingquangou Stronghold, the remaining Lanzhou Han troops in the stronghold were basically disabled, and most of them were newly recruited soldiers who had been reduced to soldiers and captured.
On the one hand, these men and horses have no will to resist, but on the other hand, they are also extremely insensitive at this time, waiting for death.
These surrendered soldiers held knives on their necks. They may not even resist, but they were also insensitive and did not have a strong will to survive or resist. They were organized in a short period of time and marched deep into the north slope of Songshan Mountain in the south.
It is also extremely difficult to evacuate and evacuate everywhere.
Therefore, after Xu Huai confirmed that Cao Shili did not dare to organize a defense in the stronghold, he ordered to collect firewood and set fire to more points in the north of Qingquangou Stronghold.
At this time, the fire had spread rapidly around the Beizhai Gate. Hundreds of surrendered soldiers and prisoners were forced by the fire to escape from the Nanzhai Gate to the north slope of Songshan Mountain in the south.
Whether Zheng Huaizhong and Gao Chunnian cooperated or did not cooperate, Xu Huai knew that the gains from their trip had indeed been achieved.
No matter how insensitive these captured soldiers were, after escaping into Songshan Mountain, they would never be able to take the initiative to surrender to the Red Husbands. They had nowhere to go and had to be recruited by them in the end.
"Envoy Deng, you go to Nanzhai Gate first. Yang Qiye, Ling Jian and other troops will withdraw from Nanzhai Gate at this time. From there, try to contain small groups of Japanese soldiers from crossing southward." Xu Huai and Deng Gui went to Nanzhai Gate to assist first.
Yang Qiye, Ling Jian and other troops withdrew from the Nanzhai Gate and took up positions in Pogou outside the Nanzhai Gate to suppress the Japanese troops advancing southward. He continued to lead the soldiers from Tongbai Mountain to hold firm at the Beizhai Gate.
Even if the fire spread further in the village, it would be impossible for them to pass through the fire scene and evacuate south from the south gate of the village. However, there is a dry channel on the outside of the earth wall of the north wall leading to the top of the hill on the west side.
They can withdraw along the outside of the north wall's earthen wall.
After Si hour, the Chihu people gathered 2,000 troops near Chidao in the north, but by this time Qingquangou Village was completely engulfed in fire.
Xu Huai led his troops to retreat along the north wall of the earth wall to the top of the slope despite the burning breath.
Although the Goupo Woodland is rugged, it is not a cliff that is difficult for apes or birds to cross.
Most of the soldiers of Tongbai Mountain grew up in the mountains. They were divided into small groups and could climb slopes, cross ditches, and cross mountains and forests. However, they were much better than the Chihu people. They were not afraid of Cao Shili, the rebels under Yue Hailou.
Dare to chase after you at this time.
Xu Huai did not immediately withdraw all the troops, but ordered Yang Qiye, Ling Jian, Zhou Shu and others to continue leading small groups of troops into the northern slope of Songshan Mountain to find dangerous valleys, passes or villages to garrison.
In doing so, on the one hand, in order to defend against the captured soldiers, they directly went into the mountains to search or hunt down those captured soldiers and surrender them.
Xu Huai asked Yang Qiye, Ling Jian and others to lead his troops on the northern slope to collect as many prisoners as possible who had fled into the mountains on the northern slope of Songshan Mountain, and then sent them back to the camp at the northwest foot of Yehuang Ridge.
On the other hand, Xu Huai also wanted Yang Qiye, Ling Jian and others to lead his troops to persist in guerrilla operations on the northern slope of Songshan Mountain, to contain and harass the enemy from the flanks.
No matter how cowardly Zheng Huaizhong, Gao Chunnian and others are, they still have to contain and attack the enemy as much as possible. Whether the tomb guarding army can grow up quickly, it is difficult to achieve miraculous results if they are locked up in the camp for training. Now we have to
Scatter groups of people into the northern slope of Songshan Mountain to contain and harass the enemy from the flanks.
Soldiers must dare to fight and not be afraid of sacrifice. Generals such as Yang Qiye and Ling Jian also need to accumulate experience and sharpen their will from leading troops in actual combat.
Xu Huaize, together with Deng Gui, Wang Ju, Guo Junpan and others, led the Tongbai Mountain soldiers who had suffered a lot of casualties in the storming battle before dark, and retreated to the northwest base camp to rest.
King Jing Zhao Tuan led Qian Shangduan, Zhang Xin, Xu Wujiang, Lu Xiong, Hu Yu, Zhu Tong and others to welcome Xu Huai and his troops back in front of the camp. They were excited and said with deep pity: "You took the risk of crossing into
Behind enemy lines, it was originally a good opportunity for the Western Army to storm the enemy camp at the mouth of the river, but Zheng Huaizhong, Gao Chunnian and others were too cautious, and I could not persuade them to send troops, so they missed a great opportunity!"
Xu Huai saluted King Jing and others and asked the generals to go to the camp to rest. He accompanied King Jing and stood on a high point on the east side of the camp, looking at the Gongxian city in the dusk and the Western Army camp to the west of Gongxian city.
A large number of bonfires were lit for illumination. The Western Army barracks, including Gong County, stretched for several miles, which looked very spectacular.
It can be said that they gained a lot from this attack, but the impact on the entire war situation can be said to be minimal, let alone shake the established historical trajectory.
At this time, Xu Huai told King Jing about the follow-up arrangements for the flank war:
"I didn't call Yang Qiye. When Ling Jian and the others came back, I wanted to have them nailed like nails between the ravines on the northern slope of Songshan Mountain. When I had the chance, I would go out and set fire to them, kill a few scout posts, and in short, I would try my best.
The soldiers and dogs were restless - the men and horses of the mausoleum guarding army also took turns to join the battle, which was regarded as military training. Envoy Deng had served as an inspection envoy for several times, dealing with stubborn bandits in the deep mountains and forests, and was also familiar with this kind of guerrilla tactics.
, may be able to assist Zhang Jun in dispatching the generals."
"Okay," King Jing looked at Zhang Xin and said, "Zhang Xin, when it comes to mobilizing troops, you need to ask Deng Gui for advice!"
Xu Huaitai was about to accompany King Jing and others into the camp. At this time, a fast horse galloped out of Gong County City and came to report: "An envoy from Beijing has just arrived in the city with an edict. The envoy has invited His Highness to go to the city to discuss matters."
