"Fuck it, grandma, let's retreat to Liang County and Ruyang. I still don't believe these bastards can bite grandpa's eggs!"
Xu Huai heard someone cursing behind him and glanced sideways, but it was Yang Lin's personal guard battalion commander Liu Zonghou.
Liu Zonghou was a man of rough temperament and fierce in battle. He had a long, narrow and everted scar on his left cheek and right jaw - the shape of the scar was hideous, and the wounds were deep into the facial bones, even damaging them. But Liu Zonghou
His martial arts skills were extraordinary, or his fate was tough enough, and he was not fatal twice. There were also scars on his cheekbones from arrow wounds, so maybe his fate was tough enough.
At this time, Liu Zonghou's eyes as big as copper bells were red with anxiety, and he was pointing to the sky and cursing. He was obviously worried about the tragic casualties suffered by Zuo Xiaosheng's army in Guangchengyi battlefield in just two or three days.
Looking at the expressions of the other generals around Yang Lin, they were filled with sadness, anger, and shock. They were all more or less shaken by such a fierce offensive by the Heluo enemy forces.
Yang Lin ignored Liu Zonghou's words and stared at the enemy camp for a long time before looking at Xu Huai and asking:
"Hou Xu, can Guangcheng Station be guarded?"
Even though the front line has not completely broken away from the enemy, the battlefield is full of broken arrows and broken weapons, and bloody corpses are lying in the ditches and gullies. There are purple-black coagulated blood stains everywhere, and it looks like this.
It was shocking, but when Yang Lin asked this question, the generals were still surprised.
Yang Lin is the head coach of Ruzhou, and his military qualifications are far superior to Xu Huai's.
Ruzhou and Chushan are both under the control of the Privy Council and have no subordinate relationship. Whether Guangcheng Station fights or withdraws is Ruzhou's business. Even if Yang Lin can't make up his mind at the moment, he should first ask his generals about their intentions.
Yang Lin bypassed his generals and directly asked Xu Huai if Guangcheng Post could be defended. The fact was that he admitted that Zuo Xiaosheng's army was unable to defend Guangcheng Post alone. If he wanted to defend it, he could only ask Chushan to send elite soldiers and horses to assist in the defense.
After everyone was shocked and thought about it carefully, there was really no need to cover up or stick to the rules for the sake of face.
When the Heluo enemy troops went south along the Yishui River and entered the northern part of Song County, threatening Ruzhou from the west, it was certainly impossible for Zuo Xiaosheng's army to abandon the strategic location of Guangchengyi, which can be said to be the gateway to Ruzhou, and leave it to the enemy.
Come and go as you please.
Yang Lin also immediately followed Yang Qiye and led 6,000 troops to Guangcheng Station to set up camp to meet the enemy, hoping to disperse the Heluo enemy's eastward advance.
However, the Heluo enemy's intention to advance eastward from Guangchengyi was far more determined than everyone expected.
Yang Qiye defended Guangchengyi for two days and two nights, and suffered more than 3,000 casualties. It can be said to be extremely tragic. If such a tough battle continues for another three to five days, Zuo Xiao's army may be defeated.
However, the enemy had no intention of retreating. They even continued to gather troops, horses and supplies at the pass west of Guangchengyi, and forced thousands of civilians to build forts.
At this time, Zuo Xiaosheng's army alone was unable to rely on a simple defense line consisting of shallow trenches and wooden fences to fight against an elite enemy force that was several times his own.
In the final analysis, the disparity in power between the enemy and ourselves is too great.
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Everyone looked towards Xu Huai, wondering if Chushan would send reinforcements, or if there was any clever strategy that could help them defend Guangcheng Station.
Facing everyone's expectant eyes, Xu Huai sighed secretly and said, "I'm afraid it will be difficult to defend."
Any conspiracy is inseparable from the support of hard power.
In the Battle of Ruying, Dai Viet finally assembled more than 90,000 soldiers and horses, forming an absolutely superior force, and then defeated the enemy on the south bank of the Ying River and won a great victory.
If Emperor Jianji hadn't personally led the expedition, and if the left and right Xuanwu Army, Zuo Xiaosheng Army, and part of the Shenwu Army, a total of 50,000 elite soldiers, hadn't arrived at the Ruying battlefield in time to participate in the battle, it would have been only the military force mobilized by the Chushan Army to face it alone.
With the enemy having the upper hand, the best outcome would be for Xu Huai to lead his southern troops and horses to successfully withdraw to Zhaoling, rest in the Wuyang area, and force the enemy to retreat.
Although Ruying's great victory annihilated tens of thousands of enemy troops, it did not reverse the situation where the enemy was strong and we were weak.
Even in the entire middle battlefield such as Jingxiang and Huairu, because the new capital moved south, the Xuanwu Army on the left and the Xiaosheng Army on the right followed Emperor Jianji southward to Jianye to strengthen defense deployment along the river, the disparity between the enemy's strength and our weakness further widened.
In the Jingxiang and Huairu central theaters, Dai Viet deployed three elite combat forces.
Chushan Army, Zuo Xiaosheng Army, and Zheng Huaizhong's left and right Shenwu Army can go north from Luoshui to contain the enemies of Heluo, commanding more than 80,000 elite soldiers. If necessary, they can also expand local troops to participate in the defense of the city. The total number is more than ten
With 50,000 enemy troops in Jingxi and Heluo, the difference in strength does not seem too huge.
However, among the three armies in the middle, the Shenwu Army was still the largest in size. Its Luoshui Passage, which went north to contain the enemy forces in Heluo, was easily blocked by Cao Shixiong who stationed thousands of elites in Yongning and other city fortresses.
Xu Huai did not expect Zheng Huaizhong, who was eager to regain his strength after retreating to Nanyang, to attack fiercely north along the Luoshui River this winter.
Now it is equivalent to having only Ruzhou and Chushan troops to shoulder the main offensive of the two main enemy forces from Jingxi and Heluo from the front.
The troops and horses of Ruzhou, including Zuo Xiaosheng's army and the soldiers of the state, are only 25,000. However, the troops led by Cao Shixiong this time and heading south along the Yishui River may be as high as 50,000. The overall combat strength is much higher than that of Ruzhou.
A cut.
Such a huge disadvantage cannot be easily overcome by the brave generals of Zuo Xiaosheng's victorious army. Most of the time, they can only be defended by fortified cities and dangerous areas.
On the western front of Huaishang, although Chushan has assembled 15,000 elites and 15,000 garrison troops (prefecture soldiers), the enemy army in Xiangcheng, north of Zhaoling, and west of Beijing has already assembled 40,000 troops in Xuchang.
They are even constantly gathering people, horses and supplies.
Chushan can send out elite soldiers and horses to reinforce Ruzhou, but it can only wait until next spring when the Yingru, Lisui and other rivers will once again stir up waves, making it difficult for the enemies west of Beijing to cross south.
If Xu Huai now dares to draw 10,000 elite troops from the western front, rush to Guangcheng Station, and join forces with Zuo Xiaosheng's army to resist the enemy's attack in Heluo, he will not be able to defend the Shuishui defense line, or the enemy in the west of Beijing will be frightened.
, you dare not attack Xiangcheng or Zhaoling this winter?
However, compared to the central theater, what is more worrying is the eastern Huainan direction.
The Chihu West Route Army did not seem to divide its forces.
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The main purpose of gathering in Xuzhou, Bozhou and other places was to hold back the soldiers and horses of Chushan and Ruzhou, and even to attract the military forces that could be squeezed by the Jingxiang North Road to Huaishang or Ruzhou, which was already the Chihu West Route Army (Zhennan Sect).
The Royal Palace) provided the greatest support to its troops on the east route.
The soldiers and horses under the Chihu East Route Army (Prince Ping Yanzong's Mansion) were enough to launch a full-scale invasion of Huainan.
When Prince Ping Yanzong occupied Yanji, he almost completely took over the last remaining military strength of the Khitan in Yanji. This part of the army alone was close to 100,000.
Unlike the Khitan's military strength in Yunzhou, it was first severely weakened by the two Northern Expeditions of Vietnam. Afterwards, about 10,000 elites of the 100,000 remnants who migrated westward fled with Xiao Linshi. Finally, Yunshuo followed Xiao Tong, Li Chulin and others.
The number of soldiers and horses surrendered by Chi Hu was less than 40,000.
These 40,000 troops also disappeared with the destruction of Li Chulin and Xiao Tong, as well as the other defeated generals that Xiao and Li had attracted after surrendering to the Red Husbands.
In addition to the surrender of more than 100,000 Khitan troops in Yanji, the Prince of Ping Yanzong swept across Hebei and Jingdong, recruiting more rebels along the way, and even organized part of the surrendered troops under the banner of the Prince of Zhennan.
During Xu Huai's sneak attack on Bianliang and the subsequent Battle of Ruying, the Red Hudong Route Army's participation in the battle was relatively limited. On the one hand, the Cai River and the Ying River coast were still the main attack direction of the Zhennan Palace. On the other hand, in addition to the Pingyan Palace,
To guard against the Huai Prince's Palace, there are also a large number of soldiers and horses attacking the unconquered cities on Jingdong East Road (Shandong), just like the Zhennan Zong Palace had a large number of elites stranded in Shaanxi at that time.
Another year has passed since the Battle of Ruying. Prince Ping Yanzong has basically controlled the entire territory of Hedong, Jingdong East Road, and Jingdong East Road. Except for a small number of garrison troops, all its main forces have been transferred to Xuzhou, Suzhou, Bozhou and other places.
, with a total strength of up to 200,000 troops; including a naval force of up to 20,000 people who have been training for two years.
Although the new capital was moved to Jianye, the main purpose was to prepare for this moment. In addition to the Huai Palace Army guarding Shouzhou, Chuzhou and other places south of the Huaihe River, the Xuanwu Army on the left and the Xiaosheng Army on the right also stationed in Luzhou, Yangzhou and other places.
Strengthening the garrison force between the Jianghuai River and the Huaihe River, we are also training a 20,000-strong naval force on the basis of Jianye, Yangzhou and other prefectural and state troops. However, Xu Huaizhen has no confidence in what the Huainan war will be like this winter.
none.
Perhaps it was Gao Junyang and Gu Jiqian who had a better time this winter by defending the dangerous terrain at the northern foot of the Qinling Mountains. However, their two armies had been retreating steadily before, and now they only had the energy to lick their shocking wounds.
In the final analysis, the bad situation in which the enemy is strong and we are weak is far from being reversed.
More importantly, King Chi Hu not only had the two armies of Zhen Nan Zong Palace and Prince Ping Yan Zong, but even Zhen Nan Zong Palace and Yan Ping Zong Palace were not the two strongest armies of Chi Hu.
The current relatively limited intelligence shows that the Chi Hu not only have a large army to guard the southwest foot of Yin Mountain and are eyeing the Dangxiang people, but also a large army marching westward into the vast desert and Gobi Desert. They have already swept through all the ethnic groups in the Western Region and are not about to stop.
sign.
Of course, the Red Husbands had no shortage of elite soldiers and horse guards in their royal tents...
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