Regarding Chushan's unusual movements, Yue Hailou's idea was to launch a direct attack based on the intelligence he had obtained, and forcibly expel the Chushan soldiers and horses from the north bank of the Shuishui-Rushui River to avoid delaying the situation and causing the Huangyang Lake incident to happen again.
However, Mo Lihu had just returned from Taiyuan. He didn't even take a breath in Wanqiu. He changed his robes and armor and pretended to be a Bianliang Chu army cavalry and rushed to Heishigou. For a while, he didn't have a clear idea about many things.
He was not in a hurry to respond to Yue Hailou and introduced an old Hufan who was accompanying him this time:
"Shuai Yue, this is Master Sivama! I specially invited Wanqiu from the Second Prince!"
"Master Sivama!" Yue Hailou saw that the old man in robes beside Molihu had deep eyes and a hawk-like nose. His curly hair and short beard were all gray, and his face had deep wrinkles. He heard that Molihu was a second-class man.
The guests beside the prince, of course, did not neglect it and bowed their hands to invite him to take his seat.
Siwama was not polite, lifted up the lapel of his robe, walked straight to the nearest Yuehai Tower, and sat down opposite Zhong Changqing. This was originally the seat left by Yuehai Tower for Mo Lihu.
He looked at Yue Hailou and asked in a somewhat bad voice: "Admiral Yue said that many of Chushan's arrangements on both sides of the river are very strange. Can anyone send someone to investigate in detail?"
Yue Hailou glanced at Mo Lihu hesitantly.
In his opinion, this person was a guest of the second prince, but he was actually a craftsman. If he did not avoid him when discussing military plans, he would be giving great face to the second prince and Mo Lihu. However, he opened his mouth to ask for more information.
Is the detailed military aircraft issue really appropriate?
"Master Siwama is a great cannibal. In his early years, he traveled to the Far West and various tribes in the Western Regions. He is knowledgeable and knowledgeable. He has profound knowledge in construction, mathematics, astronomy, water conservancy, and equipment. Wang Zhang built a city on the Erhun River in his early years.
Master Sivama was the one who supervised the construction. The second prince wanted to rebuild Taiyuan City, so he specially invited Master Sivama to the Central Plains. This time I went to Taiyuan to meet the second prince. It was also Master Sivama who heard about Chushan’s many works on Huaishang.
"I am very interested in the creation," Mo Lihu further introduced, "otherwise, I would not have the ability to invite Master Sivama to Wanqiu! Master Sivama comes to Wanqiu,"
In his early years, Yue Hailou followed Cai Qing and stationed in Bianzhou, and had the most contact with Dangxiang people. At that time, there were a large number of monks and merchants from the Western Regions and Dashi who appeared in Dangxiang.
In the forty years since the rise of the Chihu people, it can be said that they have entered their most prosperous golden period. The southern and northern wars not only focused on recruiting craftsmen from various places to serve in the war, but also appointed a large number of food, merchants and craftsmen from the Western Regions as collectors.
The status of tax collectors and industrial officials was actually higher than that of other subordinate generals.
Yue Hailou surrendered to the Chihu people and went to Erhun River City, where Chihu's royal tent was in his early years.
Erhun River City is not particularly majestic. After Chihu annexed the northern Tibetan tribes and the royal tent moved northward, it also lost its status as a royal court.
However, as the first city built by the Chihu people in the Mobei grassland after the rise of the Chihu people, Erhun River City also reflects the extremely high level of construction; it also reflects the various internal aspects of the Chihu people twenty years ago.
The organization of affairs has gone far beyond the traditional tribal alliance structure.
Of course, the trip to Mobei before Yuehai Tower was relatively hasty, and they were all focused on how to win the trust of the Chihu people. However, they did not have a detailed understanding of the builders of Erhun River City and the construction conditions.
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But he didn't expect that the builder of Erhun River City was such an unattractive old man. The second prince also entrusted this man with the reconstruction of Taiyuan City.
Erhun River City was built by King Khan after he unified all the tribes in Mobei and declared himself Khan. Yue Hailou couldn't help but think that Wama's status in front of King Khan must be very important.
It is no wonder that given the status of the second prince, he should be treated like a guest.
Yue Hailou immediately told Siwama one by one about the detailed deployment of Chushan in the north and south of Shuishui-Rushui River that they had discovered.
"Chushan is going to build high bridges on both sides of the river!" Swama took the papyrus and drew the foundations of the piers and abutments being built by Chushan on the north and south banks of Xiaoquegang. After asking in detail about the construction of the piers and abutments,
After making details, he wrote and drew for a while with symbols that Yue Hailou and others could not understand, and then he said with certainty.
"High bridge?" Yue Hailou asked doubtfully, "Chushan has already built a pontoon bridge here. What kind of high bridge should be built?"
"I don't know this, but with such a large foundation and four piers and abutments built on the north and south banks close to the river beach, there is no doubt that high bridges will be built!" Swama said.
Seeing the Yuehai Tower, Zhong Changqing was still confused on his face. Siwama drew the suspension rope and said: "The pier built at such a cost, with bamboo ropes or iron ropes tightened at both ends, is like a suspension rope above a high canyon.
Cable Suspension Bridge. I didn’t expect that the level of bridge construction in the Central Plains is indeed not inferior to that of Dashi. If I can see the completion of this bridge with my own eyes, this trip will be worthwhile!”
Swama was not interested in military aircraft. He went to Hehuai with Molihu on this trip. He had indeed heard about the construction of weirs and lakes in Chushan during the fierce war. He was deeply impressed by the extraordinary level of craftsmanship displayed in the Central Plains area and wanted to come here.
See what's going on. Otherwise, he would just send a few disciples to follow Mo Lihu to Wanqiu to supervise the war ordnance.
Seeing that Yuehai Tower did not have any more information about Chushan Gongzao, Siwama resigned and went to rest.
At this time, Molihu had the opportunity to tell Yue Hailou that in addition to Sivama himself, he also had several disciples accompanying him on this trip. However, Yue Hailou specifically asked Molihu to come to Blackstone in his letter.
Gou wants to disguise himself as a Han soldier, and several of Sivama's disciples are currently staying in Wanqiu. However, Sivama is eager to know the details of the piers built by Chushan in Huanshui-Rushui, so he insists on following Heishi.
ditch.
"If Master Siwama's judgment is correct, Chushan built a high-pier suspension bridge regardless of the cost based on the pontoon bridge already erected here. The purpose is probably twofold," Zhong Changqing frowned and said, "The first is to prevent
Our warships entered Ru River and destroyed its pontoons. The second thing is that the time they are expected to stay on the north bank or the actions they are going to take are indeed not small!"
In addition to Chushan's large piers on both sides of the Ru River and Ru River, which have just started to be built and have just emerged a few feet from the ground, the main reason is that Chushan has already built pontoons on both sides of the river. Zhong Changqing and the others have not even suspended the bridge on the high piers.
Go up and think.
Now that it is confirmed that Chushan Mountain is on both sides of the Shuishui-Rushui River, in addition to the pontoon bridges that have been erected, they must also build high-pier suspension bridges at any cost. This only proves that their previous intuition was correct: Chushan Mountain is to be on the north bank of the Shuishui-Rushui River.
The actions you take will definitely not be small.
Even though they still don't understand what Chushan wants to do on the north bank, it is always the safest to send troops to attack it and gradually move it away from the north bank before its foothold is stable.
"..." Mo Li suddenly frowned and said, "If the judgment is correct, Chushan's defenses north of the Nishui River must be tight, and the elites gathered in Heishigou should still be insufficient!"
The confrontation in Huangyangzhai lasted for more than a month. The Chushan army formation was as solid as a rock, but Yue Hailou and his troops were chewing it to death.
Moli Hunai witnessed the immobile situation with his own eyes. Later, he ordered his elite cavalry to dismount and fight, but it still had no effect.
The terrain Chushan currently occupies on the north bank of the Shuishui-Rushui River is far from precipitous.
The messenger sent by Yue Hailou to Taiyuan has explained in detail that it is a low-lying terrain on the north side, separated from the Shuishui River by a river of about ten miles.
It has a gentle slope and is surrounded by some undulating shallow mountains. Chushan built several simple camps there.
Even so, Mo Lihu was still worried about the troops and horses under Yue Hailou. Even if the scale of the gathering was two to three times that of Chushan's troops on the north bank of Shuishui-Rushui River, forming an overwhelming situation, Chu could not easily be defeated.
Mountain soldiers and horses drove away from the north bank of Ru River and Ru River!
Yue Hailou just hoped that Mo Lihu would think this way, otherwise why would he be so anxious to find him back from Taiyuan?
Yue Hailou has always urged all tribes to eliminate the weak and retain the strong, practice diligently, and try his best to give more food to the soldiers and horses who have experienced hard battles and have a strong will to fight, and to supplement more war horses and sophisticated soldiers and armors.
Especially after several months of fierce fighting with Chushan, Yue Hailou saw more deeply that his troops were invincible against the weak-willed and poorly-drilled defenders of Vietnam. The generals were also quite brave, and they were not afraid of generous rewards
Death, there are many who dare to charge into battle. Compared with the Chushan soldiers who are well-equipped, more heroic in combat, and better at cooperating with formations, the gap is really huge.
However, even though Yue Hailou and his generals were aware of the gap, when he led 60,000 troops to occupy the three states of Xu, Chen and Ying, all they gained was residual land. South of the Ying River, ten houses and nine empty houses were occupied, and north of the Ying River,
There are only three to four tenths left. In just over a year, production has not recovered more than half, and the supply of 60,000 soldiers and horses is extremely difficult. How many resources can he devote to the elite and capable divisions?
At present, there are only about ten thousand people under Yue Hailou's command who can truly be said to be elite, but it is impossible for them all to gather in Heishigou.
Except for this, it is the tribe of Molihu.
The Red Hussars are invincible in field battles, but they are incompetent in attacking fortresses.
In the past, when galloping across the grasslands, they encountered a small number of strongholds that needed to be conquered, and they were all temporarily mobilized to fight. When the Khitan was annihilated, elite infantry were officially mobilized from the early nearby Tibetan forces, but the scale was still limited.
Going south from Yanji and Yunshuo, every time we attack a city and take out a stronghold, we mainly use the surrender troops and horses to do it. The Red Husband Cavalry is more responsible for cutting and intercepting the outside.
At this point, the Chihu people not only had to consider tearing apart the solid defense lines established by the Southern Dynasties in the Qinling Mountains and the dangerous mountains and rivers of the Huaihe River, but they also had to consider establishing formal rule in most of the areas they had occupied. They found that they still could not fully trust them.
Relying on the surrendered troops, mainly the Han army.
Therefore, after the spring of this year, the Zhennan Zong Palace and the Pingyan Zong Palace successively promoted the transformation of the cavalry of various tribes into infantry.
Mo Lihu initially led 5,000 cavalry to reinforce Yue Hailou. In the previous battle, he had lost more than 1,000 troops. However, after the war, he recruited strong troops from various tribes and expanded his troops to more than 6,000 troops. More than half of them were diligently practicing infantry.
A battle.
These men and horses are directly subordinate to the Zhennan Zong Palace. The required armor and weapons are drawn from Taiyuan and other places by the Zhennan Zong Palace. Their combat effectiveness cannot be matched by the elites under Yue Hailou.
Yue Hailou not only hoped that Mo Lihu could lead the cavalry to cover the flanks of the battlefield, but also hoped that he could mobilize the three thousand Tibetan infantry under his command to participate in this battle...
