Among the nobles of Jinyang, Hu Luguang was considered a more proactive person. He did not become complacent and indulge in pleasure because of the shadow of his predecessors and past achievements.
Although leaving Heyang this time was not what he wanted, and the work handover with Ke Zhu Hunyuan was not very smooth, after Hu Luguang entered the country, he encountered the crisis of the rebellion in Northern Yuzhou and the impending invasion of the Wei army.
He did not complain, but actively prepared his troops for war.
After learning that the Wei army was about to invade eastward, Zhu Hunyuan no longer stayed in Heyang to continue the entanglement, but returned to the court in Yedu. This also allowed Hu Luguang to adjust the personnel of the Heyang armies and use his own
He replaced Zhu Hunyuan's generals with his cronies to strengthen his control over the Heyang army.
After the reorganization of the army was completed, the latest instructions from Yedu were issued. The Heyang army needed to go south first, and also supervised the troops between Heluo and Luo in order to intercept the forward divisions and brigades that attacked the Western Wei army.
After receiving this order, Hu Luguang immediately led his troops across the river, set up his camp in the south city of Heyang, and ordered Dugu Yongye, the governor of Luozhou in Jinyong City, to send scouts to the west to detect traces of the enemy.
They would report the movement at any time, while Hu Luguang led another group of troops to the east, hoping to capture the rebel city of Hulao City before the Wei army arrived in Heluo.
However, Hu Luguang's attack on Hulao City did not go smoothly. Hulao City is located near the river, backed by a plateau, and the terrain is steeper than Tongguan. Especially as this city is an important channel and material transfer center connecting Henan,
There was already a large amount of supplies gathered in the city. After Xiangcheng soldiers of the Western Wei Dynasty entered the city to garrison, the number of defenders in the city was nearly 10,000, and there were many soldiers and civilians to help defend the city.
The Hulao City defenders now have a considerable number of troops and are well supplied with supplies. All the city gate passages are blocked from the inside. After Hu Luguang led his troops to arrive at the city, they made several strong attacks but all had little effect.
For this reason, he even transferred the 20,000 Yedu forbidden troops who arrived later to participate in the siege. He also tried to cross the plateau and set up a trench to the east of Hulao City to intercept, creating an isolated city dilemma, but the defenders in the city still had fighting spirit.
Tenacious and never panicked or surrendered.
Because he was too focused on the attack on Hulao City, Dugu Yongye in the other direction was quite critical. It should be noted that the next biggest threat is from the enemies to the west, and at the moment, although the Western Wei army has not yet advanced into Luoxi
region, but it is also starting to move in all directions.
Especially the Xin'an area, which is closer to Luoyang, is located in the middle of Beiqiao Road. In the past year, because the Western Wei Dynasty betrayed the previous Luoshui Alliance, it sent troops to Huainan to help the Southern Dynasty. In order to retaliate against the Western Wei Dynasty, the Heluo army once attacked westward to capture the area.
Hanguan City was destroyed and the city was destroyed. Now Han Xiong, the general of the Western Wei Dynasty, sent his soldiers into the old place of Hanguan and set up barracks in an attempt to restore the city garrison.
Although Jinyong City has more than 20,000 defenders, they are distributed among the cities between Heluo and Heluo. With the enemy forces in Yiyang and Xin'an both ready to move, it is difficult for Dugu Yongye's own troops to be fully prepared.
Therefore, Dugu Yongye repeatedly appealed to Hu Luguang, who was still busy attacking Hulao City, hoping that he would not be so stubborn and should focus on the overall situation and strengthen the deployment of troops in the Luoxi area. Otherwise, when the Western Wei army makes a large-scale attack
I'm afraid it's difficult to stop and control the influx of people.
"Li Boshan is good at using surprises, and he always uses tricks where no one can think of anything. Hulao City seems to be in a deadlock now, and it is not a serious problem. If the two armies continue to fight for a long time, I am afraid that we will become a trap again in the blink of an eye.
A thorn in the heart!"
However, Hu Luguang did not think that Hulao City was of no importance in the subsequent battle and could be ignored. In other words, he did not believe that Li Boshan's response to Northern Yuzhou's defection was just to repeat the Battle of Mangshan.
Simple.
All the generals of the Northern Qi Dynasty who had fought with Li Boshan would more or less have left some shadows in their hearts. Not only was Hu Luguang himself defeated at the hands of others, but even his father was defeated by Li Boshan and committed suicide. He was also unable to do so.
Free from vulgarity.
It's just that unlike Zhu Hunyuan's attitude of being withdrawn and conservative, avoiding the enemy without fighting, Hu Luguang hopes to do his best to eliminate all hidden dangers before the two sides officially fight, and then focus on it.
to the battle with Li Boshan.
Under Hu Luguang's repeated attacks, although Hulao City was still holding on, the situation was already quite critical.
Several tunnels had been drilled through the thick earth plateau under the city, and the outer city wall collapsed as a result. Zheng Wei led his troops to fight hard, and finally stabilized the city defense, taking advantage of the enemy's temporary retreat.
On this occasion, they tried to repair the city defense with earth, stone and wooden fences.
"Mr. Xiangcheng, may I ask if Prime Minister Li's reinforcements will arrive in time? Hu Lu Mingyue is a talented general of the thief country. If we continue to besiege the city, I'm afraid it will be difficult to garrison it for a long time..."
Seeing that the city defense situation was becoming more and more unstable, Sima Xiaonan couldn't help but become anxious. Taking advantage of Zheng Wei's retreat to the inner city to recuperate, he came over and said, "The Qi army is attacking the city very fiercely now, probably because they hate me so much."
Surrender to Wei and cause chaos. If, if there is a chance, if you can secretly send me out of the city and go to Guanzhong first, maybe the enemy's offensive will not be so fierce."
This guy had defected to Wei because he was timid and afraid of death. Now that he saw the Qi army's fierce offensive and the defense of Hulao City was in danger, he naturally became worried and began to think about escaping to a safe place. He did not dare to continue to defend the city.
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But these words were just to coax a fool. Zheng Wei was inherently violent and violent. After days of fierce fighting in the city, all his troops suffered heavy losses.
When he heard that Sima Xiaonan wanted to abandon the city and flee, he couldn't control his emotions. He drew his sword and put it on Sima Xiaonan's neck and shouted angrily: "Today my soldiers are spilling their blood in this city, how can it be that
Isn’t it because I’m guarding you and others? I’m still waiting to fight to the death. How dare you escape! There are only heroes who have died in battle in this city, and no one has abandoned the city and fled!”
After seeing this, the members of Sima's disaster relief department all rushed forward, and the atmosphere suddenly became tense. There was a strong tendency to fight on the spot if they disagreed. It was after Pei Zao heard the news that he rushed over and apologized repeatedly before taking the sword from Zheng Weidao.
General Sima Xiao found it difficult to get it back.
After this incident, Sima Xiaonan was very angry. After returning to the house, he pointed at Pei Zao and cursed: "A dog thief, a mentally retarded dog thief, you lured me to defect to the Qiang people, but the Qiang people did not come to rescue you. You are in terrible trouble."
I!"
Pei Zao also expressed his sorrow for this, but he just bowed his head and silently accepted Sima Xiaonan's scolding.
Although the conflict did not break out, the harmonious atmosphere between them no longer existed. Sima Xiaonan summoned his troops into the inner city, while the outer city relied entirely on Zheng Wei and other Wei troops and the soldiers and civilians gathered in the city.
Defense.
Naturally, such a situation cannot last long. As the enemy's fierce offensive continues, the city defense situation becomes more severe, and the relationship between them will inevitably worsen. Internal strife is only a matter of time.
Therefore, in this kind of city-defending battle, in addition to terrain and supplies, people's hearts are also a key factor that affects the outcome. Even though the materials in the city are still very rich, with the changes in people's hearts, the situation has become precarious.
Hu Luguang supervised the battles and stormed the city for several days, and was keenly aware of the subtle changes in the city's defense. Although he did not know exactly what happened in the city, he also felt that the defenders' counterattack was not as firm as before, and he was in a good mood.
, so they planned to continue to strengthen their offensive, strive to capture Hulao City in one go, and completely resolve this hidden danger before the arrival of the main army of the Western Wei Dynasty.
However, at this time, a shocking news came from the west: the Western Wei army would not come to Heluo, because they crossed the river directly to the north and killed in the direction of Jinzhou!
After Hu Luguang, who was supervising the battle at Hulao City, learned about this, his whole body felt as if he had been struck by lightning. He no longer cared about supervising the battle. He left Hulao City and rode quickly to Jinyong City, waiting for him.
After seeing Dugu Yongye, he quickly asked: "Is the news true?"
Dugu Yongye nodded solemnly, and then said in a solemn voice: "First, the Xin'an thieves sent Han Mulan to announce that many ferries were salvaged along the river from Heyin and other places, and the scouts crossed Xiaoling several times.
Seeing an army of Qiang thieves..."
"Li Boshan, Li Boshan, you are really deceitful!"
When Hu Luguang heard this, his hands and feet suddenly felt cold. He had always felt that something was wrong in his heart before, but he couldn't tell what was wrong. He only said that the nail in Hulao City had not been removed.
Now after hearing the news, I finally woke up, but it's a bit late.
"Have you sent any news to Heyang? Does King Pingyuan have any instructions?"
After a moment of silence, Hu Luguang quickly asked again.
Dugu Yongye nodded first, and then said: "King Duan ordered the lower-ranking officials to guard the city first and not to relax. I also ask the king to return to Heyang quickly to discuss countermeasures."
After hearing this, Hu Luguang didn't say anything more, and immediately left Jinyong City and went straight to Heyang.
At this time, Heyang had many fences along the north and south of the river, as well as criss-crossing ravines to keep horses away. The walls of the three cities in Heyang were also reinforced and thickened, giving the appearance of a well-defended state. And this scene looks like it now.
It's especially ridiculous. They worked hard here for many days with hundreds of thousands of soldiers working day and night, but in the end, the line of defense they built was completely useless!
Duan Shao, who had just settled in Heyang Beicheng, was very anxious at the moment. When he saw Hu Luguang entering from outside, he quickly stood up and said: "The incident happened suddenly and the enemy's situation is not yet clear. I need to return to Yedu as soon as possible to report.
The imperial court will discuss countermeasures, and there will be another bright moon here in Heyang."
After hearing the words, Hu Luguang nodded, and then said in a deep voice: "If the situation in Fenjiang turns bad, can the Heyang people do it easily?"
After Duan Shao heard this, he asked again: "What do you want?"
"If Jinzhou can defend the stalemate and make it difficult for thieves to enter, then I want to lead the Heluo Division to break through Xiaohan and go straight to Tongguan to shock the west of Guanxi! If the situation is critical and rescue is urgently needed, then go west to Zhiguan and invade Hedong.
The hinterland to choke off the thieves' retreat."
Although the development of things was completely contrary to previous expectations, Hu Luguang was also thinking about countermeasures on the way from Jinyong City to Heyang, and considering different situations, he came up with two different rescue plans.
After hearing this, Duan Shao pondered for a moment, and after a while he spoke again: "The road into Koutong Pass is long and blocked. The current crisis is imminent, and I'm afraid it will be difficult to use troops after such setbacks. The road to Zhi Pass is dangerous, and Kang's division is vulnerable.
.If it is not a last resort, you can wait for the order from Yedu to be conveyed."