ps: Thank you to the angry brother of the god for the large reward. Thank you very much! I am very ashamed. In addition, thank you to brother Long Tianxia, Xiao Tianyun, Mr. Fu and other brothers for their votes. I pay tribute to you.
Before the Lulong Army left Fukouxing, the Hedong Army was on the defensive in the Shangdang Basin, so it was only stationed at Shihoubao and did not launch any military operations southward. The Xuanwu Army also had to occupy the area due to the retreat of the army last year.
The Danzhu Ridge was given up, and the troops were concentrated in Gaoping in the rear.
Therefore, the Changping Passage in the middle has always been unguarded. If we want to use the military terminology of later generations to describe it, then Danzhuling is the military buffer zone between the Hedong Army and the Xuanwu Army. The two armies are separated by Danzhu Mountain.
Zhuling faces each other in the distance.
In the "Two Rivers War" strategy formulated by the Lulong Military Staff General Administration, the Shangdang camp must take limited offensive actions. On the one hand, it is to cooperate with the Hedong Army's counterattack in the direction of Jinzhou, and on the other hand, it must make a move southward.
, it is best to recapture Zezhou. Once Zezhou and Hedong are recaptured, the Lulong coalition can move down the Qin River and choose Taihangxing or Baixing to send troops outside the Taihang Mountains. From Taihangxing, they can directly threaten Luoyang, the eastern capital, and from Baixing
Then you can point obliquely at Bianzhou, the home base of the Xuanwu Army. No matter which way you go, you will take the strategic initiative.
Therefore, the Xuanwu Army could never give up Zezhou, which is why King Liang spent ten years and paid tens of thousands of soldiers to occupy Zezhou.
As the outpost of Shangdang's camp, Li Xiaoxi's Youzhou brigade received two military tasks: one is to take over Shihou Fort and prepare for the camp to move in. Now this aspect has almost been completed; the other is to be under the jurisdiction of Shangdang's camp.
He fought for three months and mainly participated in some low-intensity military operations.
But Li Xiaoxi, who had just been promoted to one of the generals of the Lulong Army, definitely didn't want to stop there. There was a gold horizontal bar under the star on the armband, which meant that he was a fifth-rank general. How could Li Xiaoxi not see this horizontal bar?
It is pleasing to the eye, and he hopes that through this battle, he can remove this golden horizontal bar and become a fifth-grade guerrilla general. Of course, Li Xiaoxi would be more happy if he could add another star, but at present, it is a bit unsatisfactory.
Too possible.
Since the strategy of the Lulong Army's Shangdang camp was to focus on offense, there was a merit they could strive for, which was to restore control of the Changping Passage and clear the way for the camp to move south to attack Gaoping.
After Li Xiaoxi regained his surname, the relatives and friends of his unit also bid farewell to the surname "Liu". His right-hand men Liu Shanqing and Liu Shanzhou also changed their names back to their own names and are now called Li Qing and Li Zhou. Youyan Security Army
Among the currently approved establishment of three brigades and nine battalions (officer establishment only), Li Xiaoxi leads the Youzhou Brigade and the lower three battalions. The commander of the front battalion is Li Qing, the commander of the rear battalion is Li Zhou, and Li Xiaoxi also serves as the commander of the middle battalion.
On the third day after occupying Shihou Fort, Li Qing led the front camp southward and first occupied Tumen Ridge. He built a simple camp on Tumen Ridge and left fifty men to garrison it.
On the fifth day, the front battalion continued south and stationed in the long-abandoned Changping Village. Changping Village is right at the throat of the Changping Passage. There is a beacon tower of the Xuanwu Army here, guarded by a group of Xuanwu soldiers. When the front battalion arrived, Xuanwu
The soldiers lit the beacon fire, then turned and fled. Li Qing ordered the scout cavalry to pursue them, beheading three levels, and the rest fled into the mountains of Danzhu Ridge. They could not catch up.
The front battalion of the Youzhou Brigade did not stay much in Changping, because the beacon smoke had started and the warning message was spread. They seized the time to continue southward, and the remaining four troops arrived at Si Zhuang in the evening. Si Zhuang is far away from Shangdong Mountain controlled by Xuanwu
Facing each other was a forward position, and Li Qing did not dare to neglect it. On the one hand, he flew a horse to report to Shihou Fort, and on the other hand, he deployed the temple's defense.
The sudden move of the Youzhou Brigade southward obviously caught the Xuanwu Army by surprise. Apart from sending a few groups of scouts to investigate, the Xuanwu Army had no intention of counterattack. It was only when it got dark that Li Qing saw a long dragon composed of lamps, balls and torches entering.
The Xuanwu military camp on Dongshan must have rushed to reinforce them urgently.
Early the next morning, Li Qing led more than 20 cavalry from the front camp to Shangdong Mountain for inspection. Shangdong Mountain is a short mountain blocking the middle of the Dongping Passage. The highest point is only four or five feet. Facing the old Dongping Road, there is a gradual
Down the gentle slope, the Xuanwu Army built a wooden stronghold here. Li Qing roughly estimated that based on the size of the wooden stronghold, it could garrison five or six hundred people.
Along the gentle slope to the southwest of Dongshan Mountain, there is a mountain ridge that rises abruptly. There is also a military stronghold behind the mountain ridge, but because the mountain ridge blocks the view, Li Qing cannot clearly see the scale of this military stronghold.
The camp on Dongshan suddenly opened wide, and about two hundred Xuanwu troops poured out of the camp. Led by a cavalry general, they rushed towards Li Qing. Although Li Qing only had more than twenty cavalry around him, he was
The old soldier was so angry that he didn't panic at all. He rode his horse around and took a closer look. When the Xuanwu Army rushed more than 300 paces away from him, he turned his horse's head and circled the way he had come.
, leaving behind the Xuanwu soldiers who left the stronghold, they slowly returned to the temple.
As soon as I entered the temple, I bumped into Li Xiaoxi.
"Why is Dalang here?"
"I just arrived. I heard that you went to the frontier to investigate? How about it?" Li Xiaoxi asked.
"There are two enemy camps on Dongshan Mountain, one on the hillside in front, and another hidden under the ridge behind. The Xuanwu soldiers just chased them out, but they were thrown away by someone. Someone was a cavalry, and they actually used infantry to drive them away...
...It seems that Xuanwu is short of horses indeed..." Li Qing reported what he saw and heard.
As Li Xiaoxi and Li Qing talked, they returned to the Empress Temple in the temple - now the command post of the Youzhou Brigade Front Camp. In the Empress Temple, Li Qing saw several more officers from Hedong.
"These are the Hedong officers from Shihou Fort. They were borrowed from An Zhongjie. They are more familiar with the terrain than we are. It will be good for us to use our troops if we let them follow us to study the details." Li Xiaoxi introduced several Hedong officers to Li Qing.
After a few words of greetings, the Hedong officer was not polite and introduced to Li Xiaoxi and Li Qing straight to the point: "These villages were built by Xuanwu. The villages on the hillside in front of them had 800 people stationed at the most by the Xuanwu Army, but generally around 500 people were stationed there.
People go up and down; the stockade under the ridge in the back is relatively large and can accommodate more than a thousand people. The stockade in the front covers the stockade under the ridge in the back, and the stockade in the back is next to Shangdong Mountain, and can be connected to the military village on the mountain from the southeast trail of Shangdong Mountain
, send troops to support at any time. I fought with them several times, but failed to capture these two military strongholds."
The Hedong officer's introduction made both Li Xiaoxi and Li Qing frown. If Xuanwu really used this method to defend the stronghold, it would be difficult to fight. This would be equivalent to letting the enemies of Xuanwu's army compete with them for the loss of troops. In terms of military strength,
Come on, Hedong and Lulong together can't catch up with Xuanwu.
"Can we use cavalry to bypass Shangdongshan and cut off the communication between Shangdongshan and Gaoping?" Li Xiaoxi asked. His idea was to isolate Shangdongshan, use cavalry to block the passage between Gaoping and Shangdongshan, and cut off Xuanwu on Shangdongshan.
Army supplies.
The Hedong officer said with a helpless smile: "In the third year of Guanghua, we in Hedong fought like this once. At that time, General Zhou led 3,000 cavalry to bypass Shangdong Mountain and intimidate the passage between Shangdong Mountain and Gaoping. However, Xuanwu Army Ge
Fifty thousand people marched directly from Gaoping City from Zhou Dynasty to protect this passage tightly... Fifty thousand people... The overwhelming place was Xuanwu's military formation... If General Zhou hadn't seen the opportunity quickly, the three thousand cavalry
I was almost trapped by Ge Cong."
Another Hedong officer added: "The Xuanwu Army relies on large numbers of people to fight. Their fighting method is to move forward step by step, hold on to a place for a few days, and then continue to move forward. They will never use surprise troops. At that time, Zezhou
Just lost it bit by bit..."
Another Hedong officer retorted: "You are talking about Ge Congzhou. Zhu Youning does not fight like this. Zhu Youning likes to divide his troops to attack. We suffered a disastrous defeat outside Xi County that year because Zhu Youning divided his troops..."
The retorted officer from Hedong argued: "That's because Zhu Youning led more troops than Ge Congzhou. When he was in Xi County in the second year of Tianfu, he besieged the city with 70,000 people. He pretended to attack our Liangtai.
There are 60,000 and 80,000 under Jinzhou City, which is more than our entire Hedong army. Who wouldn’t divide our troops like this?”
Li Xiaoxi and Li Qing felt their scalps go numb after hearing this, and immediately interrupted the Hedong officer's argument and said: "No matter what happened in the past, let's look at the present. Zhu Youning and Ge Congzhou are not here now. They are in Qingqing, and He Delun is here.
and Hou Yan."
A Hedong officer whispered: "He Delun and Hou Yan were also generals under Ge Congzhou's control back then..."
Li Xiaoxi sighed and asked: "Needless to say, in short, if you don't fight in Hedong, we in Lulong will fight too. I wonder how many Xuanwu troops there are in Gaoping?"
The officer from Hedong said: "I still don't know whether it is He Delun or Hou Yan who transferred the Xuanwu Army to guard Gaoping. If it is He Delun, he has 10,000 troops. If it is Hou Yan, his troops are around 7,000. But the Xuanwu Army is auxiliary
There are relatively many soldiers, and these auxiliary soldiers can also be used as regular soldiers when lined up. Xuanwu's regular soldiers and auxiliary soldiers are about one to two. Therefore, some estimates estimate that the Xuanwu Army in Zezhou is between 50,000 and 60,000. Gao Ping
It is the first charge in the north of Zezhou, and the number of troops will not be less than 30,000. General Li just said that using cavalry to bypass Shangdong Mountain and cut off the passage between Gaoping and Shangdong Mountain is not feasible."
"Why?"
"I heard that General Li's cavalry only had about 200 people. I wonder how many cavalry the Lu Long Army came later? I heard that the Shangdang camp that came later only had more than 2,000 people. The cavalry could not exceed 1,000, right?
"
Li Xiaoxi was a little surprised: "Well, the total is less than a thousand."
"That's it. With less than a thousand cavalry, the Xuanwu Army only needs 10,000 troops to block the passage to Shangdong Mountain."
"What if we join forces with your manager Li?"
"The Fanhan army only has one thousand cavalry. Even if they are all transferred, we only have two thousand cavalry. The Xuanwu army can handle it with ten thousand more cavalry... No matter He Delun or Hou Yan, they all followed Ge Congzhou back then.
Fighting together, they will definitely use troops according to Ge Congzhou's method... Besides, it is impossible for General Manager Li to mobilize all the cavalry, and the passage on the east side of Danzhu Ridge also needs troops to guard."
"According to what you say, there's nothing we can do about it?" Li Xiaoxi said angrily.
"There are... more troops! With another 20,000 people, we can take Shangdong Mountain."
Li Xiaoxi was immediately discouraged...(To be continued...)