The sky is white, and the sky has not yet brightened up. The sky is a dark ink blue, but the surrounding mountains have clear outlines like paper cuts.
The sky and the earth are completely clear, with only a very light mist flowing over the wilderness. It is estimated that it will disappear in a short time.
The war in the Yunzhou Han Army camp was coming to an end. The soldiers and horses responsible for blocking the Beiyuan Gate did not care about the encirclement and suppression at this time. Hundreds of broken soldiers escaped by climbing over the north wall, and more than 300 soldiers were sent to the north. The mountain rushes away.
Xu Huai dragged his exhausted body and sat down on the ridge of the room.
In addition to a few enemy troops still resisting stubbornly in the Han army camp in Yunzhou, a large number of surrendered prisoners need to be taken into custody, and tens of thousands of hard laborers who have been forcibly recruited from Lanxin, Yunshuo and other places need to be appeased to avoid unforeseen consequences. Necessary restlessness - there are still many camps and warehouses with big fires that need to be extinguished in time.
"The yard has been cleared. Go down and rest for a while!" Wang Ju and Xu Xin'an climbed up to the eaves and saw Xu Huai still looking at the direction of Qizi Mountain. , the casualties shouldn’t be too many! But it was the Taiyuan defenders who suffered some heavy casualties last night!”
The specific number of casualties has not yet been calculated, but looking around, the corpses in the narrow streets between the camps were temporarily abandoned without distinction between friend and foe. The real corpses were like mountains and blood was flowing like rivers. The brutality of the night battle was evident.
However, the tragic sacrifice did not scare the Taiyuan defenders, nor did it even make them feel too sad.
In the past year, they have been trapped in Taiyuan City. Eighty-nine thousand people have died in battle, injury, and hunger. They are so desperate that they are numb. The sorrow in their hearts has been squeezed out. At this time, their hearts are filled with the joy of victory and survival. They are everywhere. Cheered.
Perhaps the individual voice was weak and hoarse, but thousands of Taiyuan defenders cheered, and waves of sound broke through the clouds and spread throughout the fields.
Yes, the Taiyuan garrison initially had only 3,000 men and horses organized into a night battle sequence. According to the situation during the day yesterday, Taiyuan soldiers and civilians only had 3,000 to 4,000 men who could barely pick up swords, bows, shields and spears to participate in the battle.
However, when the night battle entered the most intense and cruel stage of the stalemate, Xu Wei and Wen Hengyue sent out almost all the soldiers in Beicheng who could wield swords and spears, and attached walls from the east and west of the Han army camp in Yunzhou. Rush in.
Many people could only barely climb up the wall, but then they lost their footing, fell down, and were injured and died.
However, it was this kind of ambition to do everything at all costs that prevented the Han army in Yunzhou from regaining its disadvantage in the night battle until it was completely annihilated.
The Taiyuan garrison has long hated the Han army in Yunzhou. They immediately killed the Yunzhou Han army with red eyes. They showed no mercy under the sword and did not leave a prisoner wherever the blade passed. Currently, only Chu Shanqi is responsible for the breakthrough. The middle road housed thousands of prisoners of war.
Although this resulted in fierce resistance from the enemy forces on the left and right, with no room for surrender, they fought to the bitter end. This caused the Taiyuan defenders to break out from the left and right and inflict extremely heavy casualties, but in the end it was they who won the final victory.
Even ordinary soldiers know how crucial this battle is, so after victory, the cheers will be so enthusiastic.
The enemy troops that had tried to attack from the northeast and northwest corners of the camp during the night had not only stopped fighting, but even showed signs of retreating south; they had been killed and their courage was broken.
Xu Huairu left Wang Ju and Xu Xin'an stood guard on the ridge of the house, continuing to stare at the battlefield that had not completely calmed down. He jumped off the eaves and returned to the courtyard.
This was originally the yamen compound of the Yunzhou Han Army's headquarters. It was originally the East Garden in the manor. However, after it was occupied by the Yunzhou Han Army, a row of wing rooms were temporarily built on the east and west sides of the garden to handle various affairs.
Public house.
The corpses in the yard have been cleared away, but there are still pools of blood on the place.
Xu Huai was about to ask where Xiao Yanhan had gone when he heard the sound of armor rustling in the front yard. After a while, he saw Qiao Jien, Gu Jian, Xu Wei, Wen Hengyue and others walking towards this side surrounded by many guards.
"The military prince came out, and the battle was indeed invincible. The soldiers and people of Taiyuan are all grateful to the military prince for his kindness in rebuilding!" Xu Wei grabbed Xu Huai with his skinny palm and said excitedly.
"It all depends on the generals' sacrifice of their lives. How dare Xu Huai take the credit?" Xu Huai helped Xu Wei and said, "The Taiyuan soldiers fought extremely bravely last night and suffered extremely heavy casualties. At first, I thought that the Taiyuan defenders would pass through Luliang Mountain first and enter.
We have intercepted and besieged the Japanese troops in Lanzhou. Now we can slightly adjust our plan and consider crossing the Luliang Mountains to Fuzhou..."
The main part of Yang Guang's old road is about 80 miles away. Elite soldiers and horses can pass through it with a forced march overnight. However, the Taiyuan soldiers and civilians are too numerous, too weak, and lack strict organization. The speed of passing through the narrow gorge is inconsistent with the training and preparation.
Orderly elite troops and horses are completely two concepts.
Xu Huai estimated that it would take three or four days for Taiyuan's army and civilians to move all into the Lingjinggou Canyon. After all, it was only sixteen or seventeen miles from Taiyuan City to the mouth of Tianmenguan Gorge. No matter how weak many people were, they could barely walk in one breath.
Go down.
Supplies can then be transported into Lingjingou Canyon by mules and horses.
However, including carrying a large amount of supplies, it may take eight or nine days or even longer for one hundred thousand soldiers and civilians to enter Lanzhou via Yang Guang's old route.
Such a long time was enough for Yan Muchi to gather a large number of cavalry from the Huihe River Valley and Cangtou River Valley to march into Lanzhou.
In Lanzhou, after Nayan Muchi joined the remnants of the Qingshun Army led by Cao Shixiong, he could directly cross Qipan Mountain from Ningwu and go south, and intercept the passage of Taiyuan soldiers and civilians' westward withdrawal from Fuzhou from the upper reaches of Fen River Valley, or he could also go around to
Langu County, from the western end of Zhufeng Gorge Road, intercepted their westward retreat through Taohua Chongzhai.
The Chushan Cavalry and Tianxiong Army prisoners suffered heavy casualties in the early battles. The Taiyuan garrison's battle yesterday was so brutal. At present, the potential that can be further exploited is very limited. At this time, I want to fully utilize these two directions.
Xu Huai didn't know how much he would pay to block the enemy's attack channel.
In addition, the mountains of Guanchuan Mountain are far less steep than Luliang Mountain.
Even if they can occupy Huanglongpo, Qipanshan, Caochengzhai and other key points, there is no way to prevent small groups of enemy cavalry from infiltrating; and the queue of 100,000 soldiers and civilians retreating westward will be unimaginably large and loose, and will be disturbed and attacked.
It's also easy to get confused.
After Xu Huai now tended to enter the Lingjingou Canyon, one hundred thousand soldiers and civilians went directly to the southwest to cross the Luliang Mountains, trying to cross the Yellow River from the south of Fuzhou and enter Yanzhou.
Of course, the entire Shanxi-Shaanxi region will enter a more severe winter season.
Even though a large amount of supplies were seized during the capture of the Han army camp in Yunzhou, ensuring that the 100,000 Taiyuan soldiers and civilians would not be short of food and grass for the next two months, the Taiyuan soldiers and civilians were so weak that they had to climb hundreds of miles of majestic mountains in the severe cold season.
, there may be quite a few people who can't hold on and die on the way.
I dare not say anything, Xu Huai and the others must make a choice now.
"The Huru are strong and Bianliang is in danger. It may fall at any time. We need to keep more soldiers and horses to resist the Huru!" Qiao Jien came on behalf of King Jing and said decisively.
Xu Wei and Wen Hengyue nodded. They would cross the Luliang Mountains together with the Taiyuan soldiers and civilians, so there was no talk of giving up. The sacrifices of the Taiyuan defenders had been tragic enough, and they also needed to save more precious seeds.
Once the overall strategy is finalized, military deployment must be adjusted accordingly.
The combat objectives of the soldiers and horses in Huanglongpoyi, Qipanshan and Caochengzhai in Lanzhou need to immediately change from building defenses and interceptions to containing and harassing the enemy forces in Lanzhou; and Heiyan Station has become a place they must defend. It is necessary to gather more and more elite soldiers and horses to build defense.
Xu Huai discussed with Qiao Jien, Gu Jian, Wen Hengyue, and Xu Wei and decided that Pan Chenghu and Xu Wujiang would lead the Tianxiong army in Lanzhou to capture the soldiers, Qin Fengjun and Zheng Jinqing's troops would all withdraw to Heiyanyi, and Fuzhou would enter Lanzhou's troops and horses. They gathered at Caochengzhai and Huanglongpo Station to contain the enemy. Now they directly sent the Xinqi to pass the order.
As for Taiyuan, they first arranged for a thousand garrison generals who were still able to retreat westward on foot to retreat westward through Tianmen Pass and went to Heiyanyi to meet up with Pan Chenghu and Xuwujiang. Then they arranged for the first batch of grain and grass to be transported to Lingjingou Canyon in the afternoon. Arrange the first batch of soldiers and civilians to retreat after dark
They must strive to evacuate all soldiers, civilians, food, grass, and livestock into the Lingjinggou Canyon within three days, and the Chushan Cavalry will stay at the end before withdrawing into the Lingjinggou Canyon.
In the Han army camp in Yunzhou, in addition to dozens of warehouses full of grain, there were also a large number of mules, horses, and carts; tens of thousands of slave laborers were captured, and a considerable number of them were forcibly recruited by the Red Husbands to transport grain and grass.
These hard laborers are mainly Han people from Lanxin and other places. Even if the Taiyuan soldiers and civilians are jealous, they will not make it difficult for them, but at this time, it is impossible to let them go and fall under the control of the Chihu people.
It is most convenient to drive them to transport grain into Lingjinggou Canyon; otherwise, it would be a headache to transport hundreds of thousands of grains to Lingjinggou Canyon in such a short period of time.
It was almost noon before the casualties were tallied.
On the battlefield of the Han army camp in Yunzhou, more than 5,400 defenders were wiped out.
Because the Taiyuan defenders did not take prisoners, they directly killed more than 4,000 enemy soldiers and captured only 1,200 prisoners. About 600 to 700 defenders escaped over the wall.
There are mountains not far away from the east and west sides of the Han army camp in Yunzhou. The enemy soldiers have the opportunity to climb over the wall and escape into the mountains and woods. It is not particularly difficult.
And because the Taiyuan garrison did not take prisoners, and the garrison generals were too weak, more than 1,500 people were killed in the brutal night battle, and there were also a large number of injured soldiers. With such a weak body, they may be able to survive in the future. Can't go down.
In comparison, the Chushan Cavalry was responsible for the sudden advance from the center, and only about 180 people were killed or seriously disabled in the battle. This casualty was already considered quite large.
In the interception battlefield on both wings of Taiyuan City, casualties on both sides were limited. Although Yin Chao, the surrendered general, had many soldiers and horses, he did not dare to fight hard.
Another battlefield with fierce fighting and heavy casualties was the interception battlefield at the eastern foot of Chess Mountain.
Xu Wuqi, Chen Zixiao, and Yang Qiye led more than 1,900 soldiers and horses to guard there. It was only in the early morning that they finally repulsed the cavalry who repeatedly attacked. More than half of the defenders of Qizi Mountain were killed or injured. Shen suppressed the evil, and Wang Hua and his two generals Generals such as Xu Wuqi, Chen Zixiao and Yuan Lei were killed in battle and suffered many wounds on their bodies.
The chess piece intercepted the battlefield at the eastern foot of the mountain, killing and wounding about 500 captive soldiers.
Although the casualties of the troops guarding Qizi Mountain were heavier than those of the captives, the key was that Xu Wuqi, Chen Zixiao and others successfully completed the interception mission and ensured the final capture of the Han army camp in Yunzhou...
