Qin Ran, the leader of the Chuzhou army, escaped too quickly. Han Qian led the guard battalion into the city and did not get a tough fight. He only ran into two groups of more than a hundred defenders outside the west city, and did not spend much effort.
Just kill them and defeat them.
Han Qian killed the two enemies with his own hands and was covered in blood. Yuan Guowei led his men to guard him tightly in the formation. The blade of the horse-killing sword was not broken, so it became a decoration.
Han Qian did not go to the county government, but directly gathered troops and horses at the west gate.
The buildings in Danyang City are mainly made of bricks and wood. Once a fire breaks out, it is difficult to extinguish it. Now that the war is in chaos, not many people can spare their hands to put out the fire. They can only wait for everything that can be burned to be burned, and the fire will naturally be extinguished slowly.
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Yuan Guowei stood beside Han Qian, looking at the faint flames in the city, but the turmoil in his heart could not calm down. He did not expect that this battle would end so smoothly after being disrupted so quickly.
However, in his excited and even excited heart, he also had uncontrollable worries. What should they do next?
They captured Danyang City. It can only be said that they gave the Chuzhou Army a hard blow. It did not seriously damage the strength of the Chuzhou Army, but it caused enough pain to the Chuzhou Army. It is not difficult to imagine that the Chuzhou Army
After reacting, he would be furious.
The alliance between Tanzhou and Chuzhou was completely torn to pieces at this moment, but Han Qian and An Ning Palace had a deep hatred. Yue Yang also spread the word to the world and angrily accused An Ning Palace and the prince of plotting to murder the late emperor and usurp the throne. The two sides were incompatible. They were in the mausoleum.
With just a few men and horses, isolated and helpless, and more than 40,000 women and children who are just a burden, they have to face two powerful enemies whose forces are ten or even dozens of times stronger than them. How can they survive to the end?
Yuan Guowei was worried and confused too much, but the generals under the city were enjoying revenge and killing powerful enemies at this moment. When they saw Han Qian and Yuan Guowei standing at the top of the city, they gathered around and shouted.
"Shi Ji, Xiao Dahu!" Han Qian called Shi Ji, who fought bravely but was not seriously injured. Xiao Dahu and Xiao Dahu called his name and came down to the city. They leaned over and ordered, "You should rush to Yanling as a team immediately and organize all the women and children.
, retreat to Maoshan! Abandon all the baggage and equipment first, and won’t take them for the time being. After we are reorganized here, we will rush directly to Maoshan to meet you!"
"Sir, are we going to waste our time to capture Danyang instead of defending Danyang?" Shi Ji stood at the foot of the city and asked loudly in confusion.
"Do not keep!"
Han Qian did not shy away from openly discussing his initial strategy. At present, the three thousand generals were exhausted. They must inspire the bravery and fearlessness of everyone, so that they can persist to the end. This must be done mentally.
Fully mobilized and said loudly,
"In addition to avenging our previous revenge, our battle is mainly to expose our fangs and claws. Whether it is King Xin or the Queen of An Ning Palace, we must tell them clearly who dares to hurt me.
Parents, wives and children, unless we all die, we will have to pay the price of blood that is too painful to live in. Therefore, some battles must be fought, and we must fight without fear of sacrifice. However, Danyang City is too small, so there will not be too many
The food reserves in the city are too close to Dantu and Baohua Mountain. Once we, old, weak, women and children are surrounded by Chuzhou soldiers and horses in the city, it will be difficult to have room to advance or retreat, and the food reserves in the city cannot be maintained for long. We withdraw to
Maoshan can use the mountain as a city. Anyone who dares to be our enemy and wants to destroy us will make every stone and every piece of black soil in Maoshan covered with their blood! Even if God destined Han Qian to die, Han Qian will die.
Qian also wants to die happily with all the generals!"
"Okay, okay, even if I die, I'll die happily!"
The generals on the inside of the city wall responded wildly.
"Okay, okay, before we take this, we will take the order to Yanling and organize the women and children to evacuate to Maoshan!" Shi Ji, Xiao Dahu also responded loudly, ordered more than two hundred generals under their command, and brought in the newly captured war horses.
It was time to leave the city and rush to Yanling Port to organize the more than 40,000 old, weak, women and children who were left there to evacuate to Maoshan.
Most of the soldiers in Taowu had received preliminary cavalry training, but they were not good at it.
The newly captured war horses were all still stubborn. Shi Ji, Xiao Dahu and the others led the team and walked crookedly after leaving the city. Han Qian stood at the top of the city and even saw someone falling off the war horse from time to time, but everyone fell again and again.
My eyes were swollen, and no one said I should stop.
The time left for them is very limited. Dantu City, where the main force of the Chuzhou Army is located, is located more than 60 miles north of Danyang City and faces the river.
Although Yanling is only more than twenty miles away from the eastern foot of Maoshan Mountain, the actions of more than 40,000 old, weak, women and children are definitely much slower than the well-trained army.
Han Qian's presence in Danyang can temporarily attract the attention of the Chuzhou army, so that they dare not act rashly for the time being, but no matter how long it is delayed, it will not be delayed for long. Even if the remaining soldiers cannot detect the anomaly in Yanlingbu, such a big thing will happen.
Due to the unexpected incident, the Chuzhou Army must strengthen its reconnaissance on the Yanling front line to find out what happened.
At this time, the situation in the city further stabilized. After Kong Xirong recovered from his injuries, he still insisted on leading the team with Zhao Wuji to search and suppress the few remaining enemies in the city; Dou Rong, Wei Chang and others led the team to open up the deep courtyards of each house.
Seize grain and supplies, and gather the captured war horses towards the west gate.
After the Chuzhou army crossed the river, they sent troops and horses to nearby states and counties to collect grain. Basically, they assigned tasks with good words and good words. Politically, they still had to win the support of nearby officials and gentry families, and their goal was to ascend to the throne of God.
, but Han Qian and the others did not have this time, so they could only select large households to plunder the city. If they couldn't knock open the deep mansions and courtyards, they smashed them, so they climbed over the wall and entered.
Forty to fifty thousand people consume three to four hundred stones of grain a day, and there are not many villages in Maoshan, so the grain reserves are extremely limited. However, Li Pu, the Marquis of Xinchang, led his people to stop in Yanlingbu for nearly two months, almost consuming all the grain in Yanlingbu.
When the grain reserves were exhausted, they had to race against time to transport more grain into the mountains before the Chuzhou Army could react.
"Master Han said that he wanted to use the mountain as a city. What specific plan did he have?" At this time, Yuan Guowei saw that the situation in the city had almost stabilized, so he went deeper to explore Han Qian's next plan. They had already taken the first step.
Yes, the next step is to send someone to contact Yue Yang. As a veteran loyal to King Tan, Yuan Guowei also reported to Yue Yang separately in addition to Han Qian. At this time, he also hoped to know more things.
"...When it comes to using mountains as a city, Qiuhu Mountain uses mountains as a city, but it was just thrown away by Li Pu." Han Qian looked to the northwest. Qiuhu Mountain was in that direction, quite impressive.
He said regretfully, "If Li Pu had the guts to stay in Qiuhu Mountain, he wouldn't be afraid that An Ning Palace could be captured within at least a year. How could he be in such a mess now?"
Yuan Guowei thought about Qiubishan's defense system and thought so.
On the front of Qiuhu Mountain is a solid military fort that seals the valley entrance into the mountain. Strong outposts are also built in the gaps in the surrounding mountain ridges. The more important Qiuhu Mountain is backed by Baohua Mountain, which stretches for nearly a hundred miles.
After several years of mining coal and iron ore, the back mountain has been fully exploited, and there is also a plank road that leads directly to the Yangtze River at the northern foot of Baohua Mountain.
In this case, a large group of soldiers and horses cannot penetrate Qiuhu Mountain from the front, and even if a small group of soldiers and horses can penetrate through the mountain trails, they will be unable to defeat six to seven thousand elite soldiers. They can even pass through the mountain trails. Replenish food and grass, elite troops and horses from outside.
Qiuhu Mountain uses the entire Baohua Mountain as its city. Unless Anning Palace or Chuzhou can completely control Jinling and Runzhou, there is no need to worry about who will bite their hard bones.
It's a pity that Han Qian and Shen Yang invested so much resources and energy in Qiuhu Mountain from the beginning of the preparation of the Dragon Bird Army to build a defense system. Xinchanghou Li Pu, Zheng Chang, Han Daoming and the others did not dare to defend the defense system. After Anning Palace took control of Jinling, they fled eastward in a hurry, and even had tens of thousands of women, children, old and weak captured and beheaded by Anning Palace.
Thinking of this, Yuan Guowei was also heartbroken, but unfortunately, with the concubine, Zheng Chang and others here, they would never admit that giving up Qiuhu Mountain was a very wrong choice.
Maoshan Mountain is much smaller than Baohua Mountain. It only stretches for twenty miles from north to south and only seven or eight miles from east to west. The landscape of the mountains and rivers is much worse than that of Baohua Mountain. However, they only have 3,000 remnant soldiers in their hands, but they have to protect the surrounding area. Fifty thousand women and children.
However, using Maoshan as the city and retreating to Maoshan is much better than being trapped in Danyang City.
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The sky was clear and cloudless. Standing by the river and looking northeast, you could see the black smoke billowing over Danyang City. Li Pu, the Marquis of Xinchang, stood there for a long time without knowing what to say. His heart was turbulent but he could hardly calm down:
Han Qian, the grandson, actually led three thousand remnants to attack Danyang City where two thousand elite Chuzhou troops were stationed? And here in Yanlingbu, in addition to the women's camp that temporarily organized more than a thousand healthy women, this Sun Tzu didn't even leave a single soldier behind to defend him!
Isn't this grandson afraid that after their relationship breaks out, King Xin will send three to five hundred elites on horseback to slaughter all the 40,000 to 50,000 unarmed old, weak, women and children here?
The heart of Li Pu, the Marquis of Xinchang, was filled with huge waves.
Today was three days after Han Qian agreed to let them return to Yueyang on their own. Xinchang Hou Li Pu felt something was wrong in the early morning. He waited until fish belly white appeared on the horizon and sent people out of the yard where they were under house arrest to inspect the town. Only then did they discover the remaining soldiers in Yanlingbu. It suddenly disappeared and I don’t know where it went.
Li Pu thought that Han Qian's grandson was ruthless, abandoned his women and children, and deceived him away overnight with a few remaining soldiers. He was eager to do this in his heart, but soon he saw the faint light of fire on the other side of Danyang City.
Only then did he know that after nightfall yesterday, Han Qian took advantage of the Chuzhou Army's unpreparedness and led his troops to lurk near Danyang City in the dark. Then he took advantage of the darkness before dawn to rush into Danyang City without any warning. He scrupulously tore the covenant between Chuzhou and Tanzhou into pieces.
Han Qian's bold behavior and deviant approach deeply shocked Li Pu once again.
He didn't even know why Han Qian thought that he could capture Danyang City with only three thousand remaining soldiers. Even if he took advantage of the enemy's unpreparedness and captured Danyang City, how many people would he have left under his command? Why would he face the raging enemy? The 50,000 elite Chuzhou troops who crossed the river?
Doesn't this grandson know that King Xin Yang Yuanyan can crush the 40,000 to 50,000 old, weak, women and children here in Yanlingbu with just one little finger?
Doesn't this grandson know that the covenant between Chuzhou and Tanzhou cannot be easily torn into pieces even if there is only the last piece of fake skin left?
Yueyang has already spread the word to the world, blaming Anning Palace and the prince for plotting to murder the late emperor and usurp the throne. It is absolutely impossible for both parties to make peace or compromise. At this time, they are tearing up the alliance with Chuzhou. Is it possible that Yueyang wants to become enemies with Anning Palace and Chuzhou at the same time?