Five days passed in a blink of an eye, and the hazy sky covered the world like an iron-gray curtain. The cold wind blew, and ice picks like daggers hung upside down on the trees in the early morning.
"Chi Huren's furs are so warm!"
Niu Er emerged from the snow nest, tightly wrapped in a fur robe outside his armor. Although it was stained with stains and blood, so dirty that it was hard to see the background, but in the north where dripping water turned into ice, he felt warm in his clothes.
It's proud.
Xu Huai and Xiao Yanhan sat side by side on the cliff, overlooking the vast snowfield.
It snowed again yesterday, and everything on the messy battlefield at the eastern foot of Chess Mountain was buried under the heavy snow, as if the blood between heaven and earth had also been wiped away.
Among the cliffs and rocks, the snow particles on the treetops are blown back by the strong wind from time to time.
Xu Huairen was hit on the face by cold snow particles.
Dozens of red warriors on horseback wearing fur robes and carrying swords and bows stopped three or four miles away. They reined up their horses and stopped on the hill to look over here, but they had no intention of approaching further south.
A fat gray hare jumped out of the woods and ran into the open snow. It suddenly stopped and looked north and south. It seemed to be frightened by the murderous aura on both sides, and then suddenly walked back and forth into the woods.
It flew away as fast as an arrow leaving the string.
Yesterday, more than a thousand cavalry entered Xinzhou, but they were not enough to pose a threat to Qizi Mountain.
Several horses galloped from the south, galloping towards the hill from the slope. Shi Hu got off his horse and said:
"Yang Qiye's tribe has withdrawn into Lingjinggou, Xu Xin'an's tribe, Tang Pan's tribe, and Yin Peng's tribe have all abandoned the Han army camp in Yunzhou and returned north..."
Xu Huai stood up and shook off the snow particles on his cloak. He saw Wang Xian, Yuan Lei and other generals also coming over after hearing the news, and said to them: "Blow the horn to ask everyone to move and use their hands and feet.
Get ready to talk!"
The men and horses of Qizi Mountain were led by Wang Xian, Yuan Lei and others. Xu Huai and Xiao Yanhan, surrounded by Shi Hu, Wang Zhang, Wu Qihai, Niu Er and others, galloped towards Tianmen Pass first, like a dark gray wave.
Undercurrent flows in the snow.
In the past four days, not only 100,000 Taiyuan soldiers and civilians have withdrawn into the Lingjinggou Canyon to the west of Tianmen Mountain, but in addition to more than 4,000 mules and horses, a total of more than 100,000 stones and materials have been transported into the Lingjinggou Canyon.
Inside Tianmen Pass, the Lingjinggou Plank Road can be used for carriages and horses, but it can only barely accommodate one carriage at the same time.
This section of the plank road is particularly long, with a total length of thirty miles.
So much supplies, people and horses were evacuated into the Lingjingou Canyon in less than five days. Ordinary mules and horses were easily frightened. From time to time, weak soldiers and civilians would die on the side of the road, and the plank road would be blocked at every turn, making it difficult to move. It is conceivable that
How crowded and chaotic it is.
In order to ensure the scheduled evacuation, a large amount of supplies were transported to the west of Tianmen Pass and dumped directly into the deep ditch under the plank road. Some soldiers also walked down the deep ditch through rope ladders.
In the later stage, a defense will be organized at the gorge on the north side of Tianmen Mountain to ensure that Taiyuan soldiers and civilians can cross the Luliang Mountain without fear of the threat from the rear. However, it is not easy to cross the steep Luliang Mountain in the ice and snow.
Xu Huai rushed to Tianmen Mountain and climbed to the Guanyin Pavilion from Shixing on the west edge. Looking westward, he saw that the plank road was densely packed with people and mules.
Seeing this scene, Xu Huai also secretly rejoiced. Fortunately, he decisively decided to cross the Luliang Mountains and evacuate to Yanzhou. Otherwise, he would not know whether so many Taiyuan soldiers and civilians would be able to enter Lanzhou ten days later, let alone
Let's talk about resisting Luqi's attack from the flanks.
More importantly, Yang Guang's old road is still too narrow, and the open valleys where large groups of troops can move are extremely limited. Their main troops will be cut off by the long crowds on the east and west sides. No matter which direction they encounter a strong enemy attack,
Both the beginning and the end can only fight independently, and it is difficult to take care of both.
Now it is decided that 100,000 Taiyuan soldiers and civilians will cross over from the southwest ridge of Luliang Mountain. The Heiyan Station and Tianmen Pass at both ends are narrow areas that are easy to defend and difficult to attack. At the narrowest point, only two or three carriages can pass side by side. It can be said that it is a real one-man
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As long as they send elite troops to guard both ends, they will not dare to attack the two passes at this time.
At this point, the attack on Taiyuan can be said to have officially come to an end. The next step is to see how we can successfully cross the mountains of Luliang Mountain in this ice and snow.
"Senior Officer Qiao has already accompanied Mr. Xu Fu. General Wen will go to Shiyan Valley first."
Gu Jian and Xu Wuqi, whose right arm was wounded, were responsible for coordinating the passage of people and horses through Tianmen Pass. However, the plank road was so tightly blocked, and there was no way to send people to the front quickly to organize the evacuation. What they could do was limited and they could only rely on the journey along the way.
The actions of the military officers arranged can be more crisp and clear.
They saw Xu Huai and Xiao Yanhan coming to Guanyin Pavilion to introduce the situation inside Lingjinggou.
"It will take at least three days to completely pass the plank road and go to Shiyan Valley to rest!"
"Then let's walk slowly. There's no need to rush now," Xu Huai said. "Can the soldiers and civilians support this intensity of march? When marching on the plank road, you can't have a good rest. You can only rest on the ground. Most people
We can only eat cold food, I’m afraid it will be even worse!”
Walking eight or nine miles a day is as slow as a crawl for a regular soldier.
However, in addition to mules and horses being frightened and falling into the abyss from time to time on the plank road, there were also a large number of soldiers and civilians who were weak and sick. From time to time, some people fainted or fell directly to the side of the road, which would interrupt the progress and make the progress so slow.
Xu Wuqi shook his head and said that the situation of crossing Luliang Mountain might not be optimistic. He said: "We can reach Yanzhou, but ten or twenty thousand people will die on the way."
"Then rest in Shiyan Valley for a few more days and send more people into the mountains to explore the road. We have this time!" Xu Huai said.
Xu Wuqi nodded. They are not short of supplies now. They are in the deep gorge, and the temperature is not as cold as outside the mountains. They have also seized a large amount of skins and leather materials from the Han army camp in Yunzhou. There is still enough to relieve the cold.
However, it can appropriately slow down the speed of crossing the Luliang Mountains, and it can still effectively reduce unnecessary attrition.
Gu Ji'an knew that the raid on Dayuan could be said to be a complete victory at this point. No matter how anxious the rest was, it was useless. However, he still couldn't help but look south and sighed: "The Yellow River is frozen at this time."
I don’t know what happened to the Hehuai War..."
The ice-up period of the Yellow River is about half a month later than that of Lanxin and other places. As long as there are no abnormalities in the Hehuai River this winter, the Yellow River should have just entered the ice-up period at this time.
After Xu Huai and others marched eastward from Fuzhou, the latest news about Hehuai was brought by Qiao Jien from Puban. At that time, Zheng Huaizhong also led the Qin Feng Army to withdraw from Zezhou to Puzhou to join King Jing, and the Red Army West Route Army controlled Zezhou.
In addition to the forward troops and horses that have passed through Taihangxing and re-entered Huaizhou and Mengzhou on the north bank of the middle reaches of the Yellow River, they also divided their troops through Taiyue Mountain and entered Jiangzhou on the east bank of the lower reaches of Fen River. The troops were directed at the retreating troops in Puzhou.
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When Qiao Jien went north from Puban, he heard news that King Lu was also leading Weizhou soldiers and horses to evacuate to Qizhou and Qingzhou on the south bank of the Yellow River.
Twenty days have passed since Qiao Jien went north from Puban. During this period, Xu Huai did not receive the latest news from Hehuai. However, due to normal changes in the situation, the Chihu people had already sent a large number of elite forwards to Hehuai.
, went around to the southern part of Gyeonggi Province to carry out guerrilla attacks, and their main force would inevitably gather in Weizhou, Huaizhou, Mengzhou and other important towns on the north bank of the Yellow River. When the Yellow River was frozen, they would cross the river and swarm towards Bianliang City.
Before Qiao Jien went north, Bianliang also issued an edict to King Qin again. However, compared with the first edict to King Qin, the response from various parties was quite timely, but this time the response was very few.
Xu Huai glanced at the distant mountains to the south. It was already difficult for them to understand the latest situation in Hehuai.
At this time, the Lingjinggou plank road and the canyon were filled with Taiyuan soldiers and civilians. It might take three or five days for them to understand the situation in the direction of Heiyanyi. They wanted to contact Fuzhou. Those with strong legs could cross the mountains in such a cold season.
A round trip would take at least ten days. Even if there was any news coming from Hehuai at this time, it would have been at least half a month ago.
Xu Huai withdrew his vision and said to Gu Jian: "Regardless of the situation in the Hehuai River, the Gu family still needs to be prepared to abandon Fuzhou and withdraw to the west early; in addition to the possibility that the situation in the Hehuai River will completely deteriorate, Guanzhong and Luoyang may also be lost.
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Although the battle at Qizi Mountain cannot be regarded as a head-on confrontation between the elites of Chushan and the elite cavalry of Chihu, it can still tell many things.
More than a thousand red cavalrymen traveled more than 400 miles in two days and two nights to reach Liulin Gou Village. They only rested briefly for two hours in Liulin Gou Village. It can be said that they were definitely a tired division.
However, the soldiers and horses deployed at Qizi Mountain to intercept them fought so bravely and resolutely, but suffered such tragic casualties, and were able to barely intercept the captives.
It can be seen how elite the soldiers are in field battles, how terrifying they are.
And the Chihu people have such elite soldiers and horses, not thousands, nor only tens of thousands.
King Chi Hu Zhang currently commands five armies. In the two southern invasions, only his two armies, Zhendong Zongwangfu and Zhennan Zongwangfu, were used. This made Dai Viet unable to withstand it.
More importantly, after the Chihu people annexed the Khitan, they not only annexed the Khitan's territory of thousands of miles around, but also subjugated the Khitan's nearly ten million people.
The Chihu King's tent could only mobilize and drive subordinate troops from the lands occupied by the Khitan, including the Tibetan tribes that had relied on the Khitan in the past, as well as the Han people of Bohai (Liaodong), Yanji, and Yunshuo, which may be as high as one million people.
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The Chihu people are accelerating the move of these surrender forces southward, consolidating their rule in Hedong and Hebei first.
Even though Guan Shaanxi, Sichuan Shu, Jinghu, Jianghuai, Liangzhejiang, Jiangnan and other places were already alert enough to the Chihu people at this time, the internal mobilization time was too short and they were still entangled in complicated conflicts. Xu Huai could not see it yet.
After the fall of Bianliang, which army in Vietnam had the ability to stop the Japanese cavalry from crossing the Yellow River and attacking Luoyang and Guanzhong at Puban and Pinglu.
Luoyang and Guanzhong were lost, and Yanlin and other places to the north of the Guanzhong Plain would also be reduced to isolated lands.
When Xu Huai told Gu Jian, he suggested that the Gu family should abandon Fuzhou this time and not simply withdraw to the west bank of the Yellow River. In his opinion, the Gu family and the people of Fuzhou should at least withdraw to the Qinling area for resettlement...
