A large amount of smoke and dust rose from the sky. Looking from a distance, it seemed that thousands of troops and horses were rushing towards us.
The knights who were fighting and retreating outside the Tucheng looked greatly invigorated. They all rallied their courage and actually charged in the opposite direction.
The Khitan cavalry did not expect the enemy, who had been surrounded by them and had been teasing them for a long time, to dare to counterattack. They were caught off guard and allowed them to break through the encirclement and reach the Chinese army.
Curses rang out all of a sudden, and they were so angry that they had no time to turn back to pursue them, so they met the party warriors who were rushing towards them.
The bow strings sounded like thunderbolts, the horses' hooves shook the ground, and another bloody fight broke out.
Yelv Xieniechi snorted coldly, drew his bow and arrows, and shot down the two party warriors who were charging the fiercest. Then he slapped the horse's belly and went up to them with an iron bone in his hand, shouting and killing them.
Behind him, the knights rode their horses to follow, the momentum was endless and the tide surged.
Yelvshenechi had superb riding skills and amazing arm strength. His iron pole danced so tightly that those he touched were either killed or injured and fell off their horses one after another.
Xie Nie's red eyes were red, and he had lost his temper.
Party thieves, you can come to this place? Get back to the west!
The sergeants following him saw that their general was so brave, and their morale was soaring. In just a moment, they killed the Tuoba party knights who broke through the obstruction and fled in all directions.
They did not stop, but followed Xie Niechi and continued to charge forward. With their indomitable momentum, they also defeated the two hundred party knights who had just arrived for reinforcements.
The battle ended after a quarter of an hour. Tuoba Dangxiang's knights did not dare to face the enemy head-on. After harassing them with arrows from a distance, they saw the Khitan brigade outflanking them from both sides. They immediately dispersed, turned around, beat their horses and ran away.
Xie Nechi stopped the sergeants' request to pursue.
He rode up to a high hill and looked to the west.
There was no smoke and dust there anymore, which made him feel better.
The harassment was delayed, a typical prairie cavalry tactic. They must have been caught off guard, their troops were empty, and they were panicking.
There were some worries at first, but these party members showed their own flaws, so he can't be blamed.
"Lao Gu, you lead five hundred fine cavalry as the vanguard and charge straight to Ruyuan. I will lead my own army and follow up." Xie Niechi shook off the blood on his bones and ordered.
"Follow your orders." Yelu Laogu said nothing nonsense, directly ordered five hundred people, and rushed out first.
The location where they were located was called Ximiyun garrison (today's Dage Town, Fengning County), which was also an abandoned earth city. During the Later Wei Dynasty, Emperor Ming Yuan made an eastward patrol, and Changsun Daosheng led his army to pass through this garrison and destroy Beiyan.
Ruyuan or Yuyi Town is located ninety miles northwest of Ximi Yunshu, and can be reached in less than a day.
This is actually a place where Xia thieves graze, and the Khitan cavalry has found some migrating Xi herdsmen in the wild. They have nothing to say to these traitors, they will just kill them!
The eight tribes of the Khitan deeply hated King Xi Quzhu. His existence was the biggest provocation to the Khitan. Khan Dejin Khan had ordered the establishment of Shuli, the new king of Xi, but many Xi people did not admit that Quzhu still had a great influence.
force.
There is no other way, the grassland will recognize expensive species.
The bloodline of Quzhu's clan is nobler than that of Shuli, and this cannot be changed in a short time. If there is a chance, Xie Nechi plans to capture and kill Quzhu to solve this big hidden danger.
Cavalrymen came back one after another from the southeast, southwest, and west. Behind them were many carriages filled with women, children and goods. Looking at the model, they turned out to be black carriages made by Shiwei.
Alas, the barbarians in the southwest were really wiped out. Once upon a time, Shiwei, a black chariot tribe, was also a powerful tribe. During the Uighur chaos, they attacked the last khan. What a pity, what a pity!
I wouldn't know if I didn't come here, but I would be shocked when I come here. Abaoji has neglected this place too much.
Thinking of this, Yelvshenechi felt a sense of crisis, subconsciously clamped the horse's belly and rushed down the hill.
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Yang Yue outside Yunzhou City plans to withdraw his troops.
It wasn't because he received the news from Tuoba Jin. In fact, he had already planned to withdraw his troops before that.
Yunzhou City has high walls, thick walls, and a lot of regulations. It stores all kinds of materials that can be consumed for a year. The east and west cities are horns with each other, and the city walls don't collapse inexplicably. He can't defeat it.
The various tribes of the Tibetan people were not good at attacking cities, and there were many casualties during the forced attack.
The Feilong Army also tried to attack twice, and directly put down nearly a thousand corpses. Yunzhou remained unmoved. Yang Yue was so distressed that he gnashed his teeth and knew that he could not fight.
The information from Tuoba Jin only made him more determined to give up the siege of Yunzhou.
"Send the order, all ministries should gather together." Yang Yue looked at the map and said.
The army entering Yunwei is currently roughly divided into four groups.
The first group was led by Wang He of the Cangcai Wang family, with 17,800 people, all Tibetan soldiers. They were deployed in Shuozhou to monitor the Jin army in the direction of Yanmen Pass to prevent them from attacking the grain road. At the same time, he also sent a small group of troops.
He sneaked into Lanzhou and burned, killed and looted.
There were back and forth fights with the Jin people along the way. It couldn't be said to be an advantage, but it wasn't a loss either.
The second group was led by Qi Bizhang who had "retired" and consisted of more than 15,000 people, mainly Tibetan soldiers, plus a section of the Dingnan Army with 5,000 cavalry, operating in the Yuzhou area.
They had conquered Yuzhou City before and captured a large number of people and supplies. Then they tried to attack Xingtang and Feihu, but they stopped briefly and withdrew before they could capture them. Then they turned west and tried to attack Pingxing Pass (Pingxing Pass).
Unable to overcome it, I gave up again.
The unit suffered a defeat recently. Li Cunxiao, the commander of the Guidu Regiment of the Jin Army's Xinyi Army, led thousands of cavalry to avoid Qibizhang's main force. He used the complex mountainous terrain in the area to conduct roaming raids and specialize in small and medium-sized battles. He was even beaten by his company.
Killed four generals and won a complete victory.
Seeing that Li Cunxiao and his group of animals were too fierce, Qi Bizhang simply marched his troops straight into Xinzhou, entered his lair, and set up an ambush halfway, and then won a small victory. But this small victory also had some flaws, Qi Bizhang
Another nephew of Bi Zhang was captured alive by Li Cunxiao, but was later hanged with a bowstring and hung on a tree with a crooked neck.
Qi Banzhang has already ordered all the ministries to gather together and try to avoid a battle with less than 3,000 riders - but to be honest, it is difficult to do so. The terrain of Yuzhou makes it difficult to start a battle with more than 3,000 riders.
Unless others cooperate and take the initiative to fight decisively.
The third group was led by Liu Zijing, deputy envoy of the cavalry army. There were ten thousand people in total, half of whom were cavalry soldiers. They went deep into the Guizhou area, looking for openings everywhere to see if they could go straight down to Juyong Pass and break into Youzhou.
The remaining 50,000 people were captured by Yang Yue and they attacked Yunzhou with all their strength.
Judging from the distribution of troops, Lao Yang really looked down on the Jin people and bet that they would not dare to march north in a large scale.
"Liu Zijing has been active in Guizhou for so long. Apart from burning, killing and looting, I don't think he has achieved much. Send an order and the troops will immediately go north and head straight to Ruyuan."
"The entire Feilong Army moves eastward to Xinzhou and pushes back Li Cunxiao's troops. If the thieves dare to fight in the field, find an opportunity to annihilate them. If the thieves avoid fighting, leave them alone and go north to Ruyuan to surround and kill the Khitan people."
"The cavalry envoy Oritsugu will lead all the cavalrymen to take a detour to the north and meet Tuoba Jin at Tanshan Mountain. I expect that the Khitan thieves will also have a chance to have a look at the Xianyou Palace."
"If you send another order to Shengzhou, I don't care what method he uses. Immediately send me 30,000 husks of corn and wheat for a period of twenty days. If you miss the deadline, I will kill even the governor."
After issuing a series of orders, Lao Yang sat down.
Yunzhou City was still there, but he already found it boring.
He is not interested in Shi Shanyou, Li Siyuan, or Li Cunxiao. He now wants to do Yelv Xie Nie Chi and Ye Lu Yu Wen.
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The situation was urgent, so Qu Zhuye personally led the team out of the city.
The eldest son, Su Zhi, accompanied him with more than a thousand cavalry to prevent him from being unable to react in time when he suddenly encountered enemies.
There are piles of smoke pillars everywhere on the grassland, which are herdsmen burning hay.
If the hay prepared for winter is burned, the livestock will certainly not survive.
With tears in their eyes, they slaughtered cattle and sheep one after another, abandoned the household items they lived in, lit a fire, and quickly retreated.
What a catastrophe for people’s livelihood!
Ding Zhuang, the Xi people who rushed back to Yuyi Town, were all given weapons. They formed a battalion as a family unit and prepared to defend the city.
There were also some people who rode south to find the Khitans to make a final stop and buy time for Yuyi Town to gather the population and supplies. The knights of Tuoba Dangxiang had already come to help, and it would be unreasonable for them to stay behind any longer.
When they saw the shepherds going to Zhu, they all saluted.
Su Zhi looked left and right, sighing.
Many people failed to come back. I wonder if they escaped the vicious Khitan soldiers. I hope they found a hiding place.
"Grandpa, the Khitans are coming fiercely. The outside world is not safe. There may be wars at any time. Why not go back first? My son will take care of all matters outside." Su Zhi couldn't help but said.
"Su Zhi, did you have any idea just now, how many people have come back?" Qu Zhu seemed to have not heard anything, and then asked about another matter.
"About a thousand households have returned. There were more than a thousand households near Yuyi City, but now they have all withdrawn." Su Zhi replied.
"Only two thousand households..." Qu Zhu was so heartbroken that he almost fell off his horse.
It was all his capital. Now it is scattered in various places. I don’t know if it has escaped the clutches of the Khitans.
"The Supreme Khan is generous and benevolent, so he should provide relief to us." Quzhu groaned, and could no longer imagine how he would survive this winter without relief.
"I used to feel that as long as I settled down and developed slowly, there would always be opportunities." Qu Zhuyou sighed: "Now that I think about it, how ridiculous! I can't even resist the surprise attack of thousands of Khitan soldiers, and I'm still thinking all over the place.
What to do? It’s time to go to the Central Plains to raid the Central Plains. Follow the son of the Khan, he is the greatest hope of our clan. When your brother comes back to recruit soldiers in the future, don’t hide and tuck in, just help if you can. He can go up.
Only by leaving can we have hope."
Su Zhi nodded silently.
"Your sons, practice martial arts well. If the Khan chooses palace guards, send them there. Daughters should also be raised. If there is a chance, they must be sent to the palace. If this is not possible, you can also marry someone. This
We cannot succeed in the world on our own, we have to take advantage of others." Go to Zhu Youdao.
The thunderous sound of horse hooves sounded in the southeast.
After going to Zhu and Su Zhi, their expressions changed and they stayed for a while. When they saw the wounded knight running back in embarrassment, they no longer sighed and fled back to Yuyi Town.