Chapter eight hundred and seventy-ninth first arrived in Chencang
It was already the fourth day after Li Xingchen arrived at Chencang. The heavy snow on the road had basically not melted away. If there had not been scouts exploring the road ahead, not to mention the delay in walking along the way, there might have been trouble.
Small casualties. After all, this mountain road is incomparable to the roads of later generations. In many places, there are no roads at all. Thanks to Li Xingchen's men, these are experienced soldiers. If the army goes directly through the mountains, I am afraid there will be some setbacks.
damage.
Even so, when they arrived at Chencang, almost everyone was exhausted. Changsun Sheng, who had been clenching his teeth and struggling to support Li Xingchen, was the first one to be unable to support himself and fell to the ground and almost fell asleep. Fortunately, a few days later,
A personal guard helped him in time.
Obviously, the hardships along the way have exceeded the imagination of this young man from an aristocratic family, but he was able to persevere step by step, which really impressed Li Xinchen. Perhaps the tenacity of Changsun Wuji and Empress Changsun was not traceable.
This small team of 800 people quickly went into rest, but Li Xinchen and Cheng Feng did not have time to rest. Secretary Hou was already waiting for Li Xinchen with several people, including those from the An Ding Niu family. Unrest in the Northwest
It was started by the northwest family headed by Anding Niu. Now that it has developed to this point, they are certainly more anxious than Li Xingchen.
If Li Xingchen didn't come, the Northern Zhou army would press on the border, which would probably lead to death.
"See you, general!" Seeing Li Xingchen approaching, Secretary Hou and others saluted with their hands in hand.
"We did a good job in attacking Chencang alone. We are worthy of the bravery of the Hou family!" Li Xingchen said with a smile. His legs were shaking after such a long forced march, and he could only stand here. "Now over there in Tianshui and Anding
What's going on?"
When Li Xingchen was exhausted both physically and mentally, he spoke in a low voice with a hint of murderous intent, which made the representatives of the aristocratic families look at each other. After all, they were the ones who started this war, and now it has become such a mess. Not only the people in the northwest
Not one city was captured, and even these aristocratic families would face disaster at any time. This made them helpless and could only obey Li Xingchen.
Secretary Hou also noticed Li Xinchen's abnormality and immediately made a gesture of invitation. Li Xinchen and Cheng Feng quickly followed. The meeting hall in Chencang City was very simple. Naturally, there was nothing like the sand table that Li Xinchen was familiar with, and there was only a simple map.
Secretary Hou stretched out his hand and tapped lightly on the map: "General, please see, now several fortresses outside Tianshui and Anding have fallen into our hands, and we have formed an encirclement of these two cities. At the same time, the two cities
The road to Xiaoguan has also been cut off by us. There is not much food in the city, which should be able to last for about ten days, not more. The number of soldiers and horses is about eight or nine hundred people. These cities are very important to the Zhou people.
It is a border city, and to the north is Hexi, which is the territory of the Turks, so the city's defense is adequate."
Li Yichen nodded slightly. There is no need to worry about the Turks now. Yuwen Yong's fifth northern expedition really shocked the Turks, so he should be able to be honest for a while. This also allows Li Yichen not to worry about the Turks at least for a short period of time.
, but it is conceivable that this will also be a difficult enemy that will have to be dealt with in the future. In history, Li Xingchen knew how much financial and material resources Tang Taizong spent on dealing with the Turks.
The Northern Zhou Dynasty was originally too busy to take care of itself. After all, there were enemies like the Northern Qi Dynasty, and the Turkic attacks were nothing. Therefore, the purpose of defense in the northwest became very obvious. The population, food, grass, equipment, etc. were all concentrated in the city.
The city is high and the pond is deep, so the Turks generally would not take the initiative to attack the city - historically, Li Shimin regarded the Weiqiao Alliance as a lifelong shame, and therefore spared no effort to deal with the Turks, but I am afraid he must admit that if
It's not that they don't have enough siege equipment and experience, the Turks will never retreat in a hurry after seeing the outline of Chang'an.
"The news that Yu Yi has settled in Xiaoguan has spread like wildfire in the northwest. Originally, the governors of these two cities had been shaken and even sent people to negotiate with us. However, there has been almost no movement since the news came.
"It's gone." Hou Mi was a little annoyed, "On the contrary, the city started to tighten its defenses again..."
Having said this, Secretary Hou felt very ashamed. At first, he naively thought that as soon as the northwest was disrupted by these local snakes, it would intuitively fall into Li Xingchen's hands. However, he did not expect that the situation would turn into such an embarrassing situation today.
Look.
And Li Xingchen said calmly: "It's not your fault. Being able to defend Chencang and transport grain and grass with such a small number of troops in our headquarters is already a great achievement."
When Li Xingchen said this, the representatives of the other northwest aristocratic families became even more worried. Since Mi Hou had no fault and actually had merit, it means that these aristocratic families really did not live up to expectations.
Li Xingchen's eyes immediately fell on those middle-aged people who felt a little uneasy for a while, including Niu Tong from the Anding Niu family, Liang Luan from the Tianshui Liang family, An Xiu from the Wuwei An family, and those following these three big families.
Representatives of three or four small aristocratic families. Some of these aristocratic families have a longer history and can be traced back to the Han Dynasty. Unlike the emerging aristocrats such as the Lantian Yu family in the Guanlong Group, these are all old families that have been settled for hundreds of years.
Because of this, they have always been close to the same established families as the Hongnong Yang family, which is why they have been moving closer to the Hongnong Yang family from the beginning.
It is natural for the emerging nobles to suppress the established nobles, but it does not mean that these established nobles will sit still and wait for death.
But their resistance now seems more like causing a big trouble.
"You don't need to panic," Li Xingchen smiled at them and pressed his hands, then looked at the map, which roughly marked the strength of each family. Because Wuwei County is close to the border and desolate land, and there are few people,
Therefore, the An family has already controlled the entire city, and the situation of Guangwu County next to it is similar to that of Wuwei County. It is already an empty city, but now the An family has not had time to reach out.
Yu Yidun attacked Xiaoguan and directed his troops towards the three northern cities. They were no longer allowed to reach out to Guangwu County. Now the soldiers and horses controlled by the generals of the An family and the children of the An family were spreading outside Anding City. Obviously they also knew
What is more important.
Tianshui is a little far away, so it is naturally the best choice to get Ding'an first.
As for the Liang clan of Tianshui and the Niu clan of Anding, one naturally surrounded Tianshui and the other surrounded Anding. Their previous attempts to attack were all repelled, so they did not dare to take action easily. After all, they only had a few soldiers and horses in their hands.
A temporary formation of domestic servants and border troops, not to mention not much morale and fighting spirit, but also lacking a lot of basic training, it is considered good to be able to follow orders and attack.
Therefore, Li Xingchen had little hope of winning these two cities with just the strength of a few aristocratic families. (To be continued)