As the end of October, the weather had already cooled down, and the confrontation along Jianguan seemed to have become dull with the weather. After the fierce confrontation between the two sides in the first stage, both sides understood that with the current military strength of both sides, neither side could do anything to each other, but at present, neither side could draw more troops to join.

Large-scale battles are gone, but small-scale wars happen from time to time. Today you occupy a village, tomorrow I will take it back, today you cross a small river, tomorrow I will have to think of driving you away. In this kind of mobile combat, the Mongols took a lot of advantage, and the advantages of the cavalry were fully revealed, but the northern army was unable to guard against due to insufficient cavalry, which was too small.

After tasting the sweetness for the first time, the Mongols seemed to have a special liking for this style of fighting, and sent small-scale cavalry to harass the battle even more unscrupulously. However, after the Mongols and the Three-Eyed Tiger each led a cavalry of hundreds of people to join the battlefield, the Mongols' victory came to an abrupt end. These two experts were experts in playing this. After defeating and even destroying the Mongols' cavalry in several guerrillas, the Mongols finally became honest.

Both sides stopped tacitly and turned their eyes to another battlefield, fighting in full swing. At this time, Lin Ya had already broken through Huining. Thousands of soldiers from the North Army who had fallen in Huining County made Lin Ya break into Luning Mansion without any scruples. From the beginning of his entry into Luning to now, he has wiped out as many as 15,000 Huo Zhenting, and his own losses are only more than 5,000 cavalry. Theoretically, Huo Zhenting has lost his combat power.

But Lu Ning Mansion is a city with a high, dangerous and solid city. Huo Zhenting lost his ability to fight in the field, but it did not prevent him from fighting in the city. Therefore, in Lu Ning Mansion, Lin Ya was still preparing for a fierce battle. What made him happy was that Xiao Lixi and Xiao Licuo brothers strongly blocked Hu Zehua from Pingyang Mansion. With the victory of the Mongolian army in Lu Ning Mansion, Pingyang's Hu Zehua's offensive became more and more fierce day by day. But in front of Xiao Lixi brothers, he could never step beyond the line.

Victory is right in front of you!

Yardan was waiting. He was waiting for Lin Ya to take Lu Ning, turned back to the army, and then took Pingyang, and wiped out the two battalions of Yun Zhao, he would return to the army sword pass and join the attack on Yun Zhao.

Yun Zhao was waiting, he was waiting for Lin Ya to fall into the trap and the entire army was destroyed. Huo Zhenting led his troops to Pingyang and attacked Xiao Lixi and Xiao Licuo from front to back, completely defeating them. Then he turned to Yumen Pass and cleaned up the Sima family. If he did this, it can be said that the Northern Army would have won the victory.

Both sides have different minds, but the location they look for is the same.

The Imperial Lord Yaerdan stayed in Huocheng to boost morale, but at this time, Yun Zhao could not stay in Jianguan, and something happened to his nest.

An emergency document from Xingling shocked all the officials of the Northern Expedition Army at Jian Pass. A Mengqi crossed the Bayankala Valley and raided the Phoenix Mountain Post. After seizing the fortress, about five thousand Mengqi entered the western part of Yizhou from there.

The command of Jian Pass was handed over to Meng Yao, and Yun Zhao, Hong Niangzi, Sanyan Hu and others returned to Xingling immediately.

Outside the Xingling Governor's Office, senior officials from the Fifth Division were anxiously waiting for Yun Zhao's return.

"I'm back, I'm back!" As a black horse jumped out from the end of the long street, everyone breathed a long sigh. The governor came back and finally had a backbone.

"Governor!" Ma Yigong greeted him.

Yun Zhao threw his saddle and dismounted, strode towards the Governor's Office, "Let's talk about it when you go in! The sky cannot fall if only a few thousand cavalrymen."

Yun Zhao, who seemed calm, was actually extremely annoyed. He came from the Bayankala Valley and captured five western counties in one fell swoop, thus laying the foundation for the later capture of Yizhou. After laying Yizhou, he had already set up a fortress in Phoenix Mountain, just because he was worried that one day, Meng people would prevent him from attacking from here and caught him off guard. But he did everything he should have done, and what should not have happened still happened. It seems that the rapid advance of the Northern Expedition Army made many people confused, thinking that the victory was in control, and that the Meng people were already the grasshopper after autumn, and it took a few days to jump. It was this paralyzed thinking that gave the Meng people an opportunity to take advantage of the opportunity. Thousands of towns were stationed in the Phoenix Mountain Fortress. Under normal circumstances, not to mention thousands of Meng cavalry, even tens of thousands of Meng cavalry would not be able to defeat under that terrain. It can only be said that when the Mongolian army attacked, the Fenghuang Mountain Fortress had no defense at all.

"How did you lose the Phoenix Mountain Fortress?" After sitting in the big case, Yun Zhao's face was as heavy as water.

"Governor, general of the Phoenix Mountain Fortress, and guerrilla general Mao Rui, when the incident occurred, he was not in the fortress, but in Yulin County. After the Phoenix Mountain Fortress was lost, this person has been arrested and is now imprisoned in Xingling Prison!" Pan Renzhi, director of the Supervision Department, stood up and reported. "Wait for the Governor to come back and then interrogate in detail!"

"Kill! What else do you want to ask?" Yun Zhao slapped the table, "So what if you ask clearly? What should I lose? What should I lose? How many people in Phoenix Mountain Fortress have escaped?"

"Return to the governor, there were 1,000 troops stationed in the Phoenix Mountain Fortress. After the incident, only more than 200 people escaped. They hid in the mountains and returned to Yulin only after Mengqi passed."

"These people, officers, were arrested, and the soldiers stripped their military uniforms and rushed back. As for those who died in the fortress," Yun Zhao took a deep breath, "Forget it, these people should be handled according to the method of fighting for the soldiers of the North Army!"

"Yes, the governor!" A chief officer of the Wugongsi responded.

"Guo Feng, tell me the current specific situation!" Yun Zhao turned to look at Guo Feng, the director of the position department.

"Governor, after learning that something happened in the Phoenix Mountain Fortress, our company immediately mobilized its men and rushed to the west. As of yesterday, the information sent back was that the commander of the thousands of Mongolian cavalry was Han Hai, who was the fourth adopted son of Han Zhong. This man broke through one of the Phoenix Mountain Fortresses and fled into the five western counties. He did not attack the fortresses such as the county towns, but instead attacked villages with weak defenses, burned crops, destroyed houses, and killed the people. The five western counties lost money.

It was a heavy blow. Gaoyang originally had our reserve force, which was being trained there. After hearing the news, the whole army attacked and wanted to intercept the Meng cavalry, but outside Gaoyang City, they were all defeated. With the destruction of this paramilitary force, there were no longer any established troops in the five counties in the west. Because the incident suddenly happened, the militia reserves could not gather, so they could only act independently and defend themselves. Many villages and villages were captured by Han Hai."

"Now the five western counties are working hard to assemble the reserves!" Guo Feng was about to continue saying that Yun Zhao was already shouting angrily, "Huankui, who gave the order to gather them? Han Hai must be staring at them in the dark. Whenever they leave the village, they will definitely go but never return. In the face of Mengqi's rapid attack, they will have the opportunity to rush to the county town to assemble!"

Guo Feng swallowed, looked at Ma Yigong, the Director of the Finance and Finance Department, without saying a word. At this glance, Yun Zhao had already understood that this order must have been made by Ma Yigong, and his hometown was in Yulin. He gave him a fierce look, "What is Park Demeng from Yizhou doing?"

"After returning to the governor, General Park had already assembled the Yizhou camp after learning the news and was rushing to the five western counties!"

Yun Zhao rubbed his temples and felt a pain in his head. The five western counties must have suffered a great disaster this time. There was no large army, no experienced general, and the only one, Park Demeng, was far away in Yizhou City. In a hurry, Yuanshui could save the near fire. What's more worrying is whether this cavalry would rush out of the five western counties and attack Guangchang. Guangchang is an important iron ore production site for the Northern Expedition Army and the most important military weapon production base. If it is attacked there, it will be a big loss this time.

"Immediately inform Park De-meng and send people to Guangchang first to guard against the enemy's sneak attack."

"Yes! I will send someone to do it right away!"

His eyes slowly swept across everyone, "Everyone, since things have reached this point, there is no need to blame or panic. Thousands of cavalry and Mongolian troops cannot make a big wave. Now we have to consider how to annihilate them. If they don't leave the five western counties, it will be much easier, but this is just our wishful thinking. If they enter the Yizhou Basin, the blow will be even more deadly for us. So, what we have to do now is to destroy them first."

"I'm going to send a cavalry team to the west immediately to help Park Demeng lock the gangsters in the west and then put them out."

"Governor, we have a training base here in Xingling, where more than two thousand people are training here. We only need to be equipped with weapons to go out to fight. But our generals are all on the front line. Who can go out to fight? "Ma Yigong stood up and asked.

Yun Zhao pondered for a moment and looked at the three-eyed tiger sitting on his left, "Thu Ye, in our Northern Army, in terms of our experience in commanding cavalry, no one can surpass you. I want to trouble Mr. Hu Ye to go for a trip himself."

Three-eyed tiger laughed and stood up, "Brother Yun, please don't worry, hand over these two thousand riders to me, and I will bring you the head of Han Jiang."

When the three-eyed tiger called Yun Zhao brothers, everyone in the hall was stunned. The eyes turned from the three-eyed tiger's face to the Hongmaster's face, and then turned back to look at the three-eyed tiger. Although Yun Zhao did not introduce them to them, how could they, who were well-informed, not know who these two were?

"The Mongolian army has more than 5,000 cavalry, and the Tiger Master cannot underestimate the enemy. In this battle, with the cooperation of Park Demeng's eight thousand Yizhou camp soldiers, they must not be allowed to enter the Yizhou Basin."

"Don't worry!" Three-eyed tiger said carelessly.

The Hongniang suddenly stood up, "I'll go! I'll command it. This matter is of great importance. The three-eyed tiger is a little dry, and I can't rest assured."
Chapter completed!