13. Galloping the Loop
From the Railing Mountain to Walang, Fenghua, Fengcheng, Zhenwu's three armies had more than ten miles of cavalry. The commander Li Xian, the lord sent by Gao Yue, galloped from Yuhe Fort, bowed to Du Huangshang's horse, and said to be under the order of Du Gong Ji, specially invited Du Menlang to draw the Jingqi, to enter the Heishui River on the north side of the city of Wancheng, and to support him.
Li Xian's words are very clever and he uses the word "invitation" to Du.
Du Huangshang was surprised at first. As the highest commander on the front line, Gao Yue actually led the cavalry to detour and double-team, which was really incredible. But soon he burst into laughter again. When Jushui stopped and captured the rebel Li Xilie, he knew that Gao Yue was a person who thought of it. The reason why he personally supervised the battle was that Hei Shui should be the key to seizing the entire Tongwan City.
So Du Huangshang quickly sent an order: He and Li Gongshang (Li Ziliang, the governor of Hedong Jiedu, served as the Minister of the Ministry of Works of the School) led the infantry, and the baggage, grain and fodder were advanced to the direction of the Yuhe Fort in Yinzhou. General Zhang Guangsheng led 3,000 Zhenwu cavalry along the way, with the target directed to the Camel Weir and cleared the rebel Qiang along the way; Hun Shizhong led Fenghua, and Fengcheng had a total of 4,000 cavalry, with the target directed to woyebo, preparing to join forces with Gao Jigong's army and horses.
Zhang Guangsheng, Hun Yu, one was in Daibei and Zhenwu for a long time, and the other was Shuofang army who had previously followed Guo Ziyi to fight all over the place. He was familiar with the local geographical environment and was even more skilled in long-distance cavalry raids. Soon, they led the vast cavalry, like two huge iron pliers, and began to quickly extend into the vast desert, grasslands and lakes east of Qiwu Mountain.
Just as the two generals Zhang Hehun were rushing from east to west, Gao Yue's cavalry were moving from south to north, on the east side of Tongwan City.
The cavalry of the Sixth Battalion flew with battle flags in front, and thousands of Qiang Yi rode horses behind. Among them, Gao Yue himself also rode the Nanzhao divine horse "Da Lixue" that traveled thousands of miles a day. Along with thousands of children, the city was galloping along the west bank of the Diyuan River.
Before the war, the emperor asked him with concern that Nanzhao and our Tang would then formally join the Diancang Mountain in Erhai Lake. Previously, Yi Mouxun's younger brother, Luo Dong, had entered the court to pay the token and gave me a great BMW. This time, you will mostly act in the North Daye River in Baiyu Mountain. You must ride your horse. Maybe I will give this BMW to you.
Gao Yue burst into tears and said that Your Majesty's wrong love, but Your Majesty's mount was carried by a saint, so how could he tolerate the body of a common man? How dare I transgress and accept Your Majesty's beautiful wishes?
The entire Diyuan River retreated rapidly between Gao Yue's moving clothes. In the howling wind, Gao Yue saw that this river was very strange. The two sides were extremely steep, like a cliff, and it was a trench that was isolated from the east and west.
And looking westward, the trench is full of wilderness.
No, the word "wild" is not particularly precise. To be precise, Shuofang or Hetao area is just a "quasi-desert". It also has mountains but not many, and there are seven relatively large lakes, five of which are salt lakes and two are fresh water lakes. There are extremely wide deserts in the belly, but also extremely abundant aquatic meadows. In addition, there are four corners between Hetao and Baiyu Mountains, which are all extremely rich farming areas, and they are absolutely "golden horns and silver edges": Lingwu in the southwest corner, Fengzhou Tiande Army in the northwest corner, Shengzhou in the northeast corner, and Mizhi to Fuyuan in the east corner are all known for their fertile land. In addition, this place is rich in good horses and blue and white salt, so the saying "The Yellow River is full of harm, but only one is rich" is not unreasonable.
Now we need to clean up the Dangxiang here, use Dangxiang to provide manpower for inland workshops, and also use garrison soldiers and immigrants to enrich the place and consolidate the defense line in northern China.
The actions of the entire cavalry can be described as rapid and efficient. Gao Yue asked the Sanya to print dozens of volumes of "The Four Barbarians and Seven Roads of Soldiers" written by Jia Dan in advance, and issued them to the generals of the commanders and commanders, and required memorization to memorize the records of the various important roads, mileages and passes in Shuofang. There is no possibility of getting lost.
Three days later, Gao Yue drank on the Hei Shui River. He looked west and saw the majestic Qiwu Mountain. Helian Bobo had traveled north to this place and sighed, "It's so beautiful that this is the vast land, with clear streams. I have many places to travel, but there is no such beauty." Only then did Helian Bobo make up his mind to build a majestic city on the south side of this mountain, which was later Tongwancheng. Therefore, the geographical situation of this city is "back the famous mountains (the Qiwu Mountain is the north side) and facing the torrent (the Wuding River is the south side), and the left and the right is blocked (the Wuding River also bypasses the east side of Tongwancheng, so there is such a saying, "Please look at the ancient map in reverse)."
Countless Tang cavalrymen were in a hurry. After jumping off their war horses, they took them to the edge of the black water to drink water. Some took out some green pieces of salt from the bag and let their close comrades stretch their tongues to lick them.
Soon, the Yining Army and the horse army were all informed, Fu Yuhuai, and Ming Huaiyi, Ye Shiliangbi shouted Dangxiang Tudi, whipped and rode through the resting army, shouting not to slack off, not to take off the armor, not to throw down weapons, the entire army lined up to seize the southern bank of the Black Water, and all the horse heads faced Baichengzi!
At this moment, Baichengzi, between the east and west cities, was also a scene of crowds. On the rafts protruding out of the huge and towering corner tower, the Xia garrison was holding torches, shaking rapidly, while the scouts surrounding the city kept raising their hands and shouting to the city wall:
"The Tang army is here!"
"The large number of cavalry in the Tang army, unknown to thousands, have arrived at the black water of Qiwu Mountain seventy miles north of the city!"
On the Zhenzhu Tower in the inner city, Yuanhui trembled with fear after hearing the news. He said, "Prince Nixiang and my two princes..."
Because at this moment, Prince Nixiang, Yuanlong and Yuansheng were leading 20,000 Xia cavalry out of Tongwancheng, preparing to cross west of Qiwu Mountain, to Shiziling, and then break it into pieces, waiting for an opportunity to guerrillas and support the immediate defense of Tongwancheng.
According to the prior information, Gao Yue’s main force (Gao Gu and Zhang Jingze) was following the Wuding River and heading to the east of Tongwan City.
As for the main force of Jia Dan and Gao Chongwen, they had just arrived at the Hongliu River southwest of Tongwan City (the upper reaches of Wuding River, there are many red willow trees on both sides, and it was also called Sheyanshui in ancient times).
But who would have thought that Gao Yue suddenly led a cavalry brigade and cut off the black water area north of Tongwan City.
There is no doubt that Prince Nixiang was preparing to go to the "guerrilla" team. As soon as he left the city, he had to meet Gao Yue's cavalry at the foot of Qiwu Mountain.
At the end of the day (between 1:00 and 3:00 pm), Takao moved the rat and climbed Mount Qiwu under the protection of Yohawa, Shiroebu and Siba Ono.
On the hillside stands Helian Bobo's temple. The cemetery of the Emperor of Daxia is also here. Because the city wall is also white, it is called "Baicheng" and "Qiwucheng". It was originally collapsed and destroyed. Later, Yuan Hui occupied Tongwancheng and became emperor. He thought he had an incense with Helian Bobo, so he repaired the place.
The Tang soldiers who came before Gao Yue caught several "slaves" (shaman wizards) who were unable to escape from Helian Temple, cut off their heads one by one, and threw their bodies into the mountain stream.
Chapter completed!