The so-called "one moves the whole body"; the Mongols' unstoppable iron cavalry stepped on Liao; Ye Qing, who was holding troops like a vassal king, took advantage of the situation to bully Xia; the Jin people who were active in the news were waiting for opportunities to make profits; Song Ting, who was keen on internal strife, was eager to draw all the boundaries with Ye Qing, fearing that after Ye Qing in the north now, he would bring Xia and Jin revenge for the Song Ting.

Heng Qiao acted on Ye Qing's order and ran away from Dasan Pass. Although it caught Song Ting off guard, Song Ting, led by Han Tuozhou, still reacted in the shortest time.

The commander of the Jiangyin Army of the Han Party, Zhao Fang and Ye Qing, had an unhappiness in Zhenjiang, so on the second day after Hengjiao's troops left Dasan Pass, he immediately led his army to Dasan Pass to guard. At the same time, the Anfeng Army on Huainan Road, at the suggestion of Qian Xiangzu, the Minister of War, led Sima Jian to guard Dasan Pass one after another.

Although Han Tuozhou knew that Qian Xiangzu's move was intended to help Ye Qing relieve the pressure from the court, because Qian Xiangzu had the support of the emperor behind him, he had to nod and agree. Sima Jian from Huainan Road led his troops to Dasan Pass to Dasan Pass to guard against the so-called Xia people's attack.

On June 10, the fourth year of Shaoxi, Lanzhou City was broken. After Li Dezhi died in battle, he had to lead the remaining defeated soldiers in the city out of the city to surrender. Yu Yunwen finally took the 60,000 troops of Mo Xiaobao, Li Zhongfang, and Heng Qiao together to capture Lanzhou City.

Mo Xiaobao and Li Zhongfang had only two short rests in Lanzhou City. Even the damage to the weapons, armor and war horses of the siege battle had to use the Xia people's supplies when replenishing supplies. The reason why they were so hasty and anxious was that they were delayed in Lanzhou City for too long and could no longer return to Pingliang Town for supplies. They had to deal with it on the spot, and then immediately went to help Zhong Can, Tian Lian and Li Heng.

The Jiangyin Army commander Zhao Fang and the Anfeng Army commander Sima Jian rushed to Dasanguan one after another. As soon as Yu Yunwen learned about it, he also received news that Yu Yunwen, who had begun to guard Lanzhou, breathed a sigh of relief: Sima Jian is his own person.

The six words written by Ye Qing's handwriting were crooked, but at this time, Yu Yunwen's eyes were like a work that was passed down from generation to generation. They would like to see them, like a magic pill, which made Yu Yunwen's original pressure, which suddenly became a little lighter, so that he would not be too worried that the court behind him would intimidate to deal with officials from the north.

Just as the city of Lanzhou was broken, Li Heng, who had already captured the Central Guard, received news from the scouts in front and Wu Lian from Xingqing Prefecture, he made a quick decision and sent out his field camp 3,000 people to take the initiative to go out to the Central Guard to fight the Xia people's Iron Harrier and the Proton Army. In the Zhongwei City, only 3,000 people were left.

Li Heng had to take the initiative to delay Li Zhongfang, who had been delayed for two days, in order to ensure that the central defender could be firmly in his hands to the greatest extent, rather than letting the fierce Xia people go south to Pingliang Town and Guanshan in one fell swoop, forming an active situation where they can attack Lanzhou and rush to Liangzhou.

The price that Ye Qing paid for a Lanzhou city was that his troops and generals were short of strength. Lanzhou city was two days later than originally planned before it was broken. The consequence was that Liu Ke's army was anxious in Pingliang Town like an ant on a hot pan, holding a large number of soldiers and food in his hand, but he could not supply the army that needed these materials. He could only stand outside Pingliang Town every day and put on a cool breeze. He looked forward to the sudden moment, and the smoke and dust appeared in the distance in his sight, and the army wrapped around Li Zhongfang suddenly appeared.

Li Zhongfang's delay in aid not only made Liu Ke's army restless in Pingliang Town, but also made Li Heng's field camp take the initiative to go out of the city to fight the Xia army, and then formed a stalemate with the Xia army. For a moment, in the canyon area only twenty miles away from the Central Guard, the two armies carried out countless offensive and defensive transformations in just one day, and both were killed and injured.

But in the end, it was the Xia people's hostile army and Iron Harrier who had the advantage in numbers, which forced Li Heng to make up his mind to fight back and mobilize half of the troops from the three thousand battalions to the front line to rush to the field camp with severely damaged forces.

Under such a stretched situation, the most uncomfortable thing was naturally mixed in the middle. Liu Keshi, who was originally just the responsibility of the food and grass camp, had almost one-third of the time worriedly looking towards Jingtai and Zhongwei, and one-third of the time hoping to look towards Jincheng, Huizhou and Lanzhou. The last third of the time was a little helpless and pitiful looking towards Guanshan behind him. Ye Qing, who had been in Guguan, could suddenly come like a god to solve the current predicament.

The situation of war has always been like this. The strategic initiative at the beginning cannot mean that you can always maintain your advantage in the ever-changing large-scale situation and the battle situation of many places.

The gains and losses of a city and a place are constrained and controlled the entire battle situation, but this so-called victory result will always be a double-edged sword.

No matter how many ideas you made before the war or how many so-called complete strategies you planned, as long as you don’t really occupy a city and a land, you will never know whether the consequences of attacking a city and a land will be more beneficial than disadvantages or more harmful than advantages.

Water has no constant shape and military forces have no constant power. There are too many famous generals in the history of the Chinese nation. Some are famous for siege cities and territories, and some are highly respected by future generations for annihilation of the enemy.

Of course, among the many famous generals, those who are often not remembered by history and end up with failure, in Ye Qing's view, the current situation seems to be repeating the path of those losers, as if it is because of his overly obsessed with the importance of Lanzhou City, which makes him fall into difficulties overnight.

The situation on the battlefield has changed a lot, and the chances of victory and defeat are fleeting. So rather than saying that Lanzhou City consumed the strategic initiative of Ye Qing and others, Ye Qing valued Lanzhou City, which has led to the war situation always tilting towards an uncontrollable development direction.

"Sir..." Jia She appeared behind Ye Qing with a solemn expression, sweating all over his head.

"Report." Ye Qing said gloomy without looking back.

"Before the sun set, Li Zhongfang could only arrive at Huizhou and could not support the Central Guard in time." Jia She tried not to let his tone express his nervousness, "In this way... Even if Li Zhongfang marched overnight, he would have to arrive at Pingliang Town tomorrow at noon. Moreover, in Pingliang, even if the soldiers did not take off their armor and the light cavalry would be speeding, it would take at least two days..."

"Go to Pingliang immediately and order Liu Ke's army to lead 20,000 troops to help the central defender day and night. You will immediately lead the troops to replace Liu Ke's army in Pingliang." Ye Qing turned around, smashed the table with a punch, and said with a firm look on his face.

"Sir..." Jia She looked at Ye Qing in shock and murmured: "Sir, what should we do behind us if this happens? If the Jin people suddenly attack Hetao Sanlu..."

"Give Gu Pass to guard Pingliang. As long as Pingliang is not thrown away, Gu Pass will not be in danger." Ye Qing sighed, lowered his head and looked at the map and said.

"Sir, do you want to go back to Hetao in person?" Jia She couldn't help but take a breath. Ye Qing was simply taking a desperate bet, which was equivalent to setting up a formation with the Xia people to decide the outcome.

Pingliang Town has no danger at all. The reason why it can become Ye Qing’s food camp leisurely and freely is entirely because it has Guguan support and courage behind it. If Guguan is empty, Pingliang Town will be hanging alone, like a lonely boat in the sea, and a wave may swallow it and knock it over.

"It depends on you in the Xia realm. As long as the central defender is not lost and Liangzhou is broken, the situation will still be under our control. The current situation is just the last dark moment before victory." Ye Qing said this, but he didn't have much confidence in his heart. After all, the current historical direction has long deviated from the original trajectory, and the balance of victory is no longer the only one who favors him.

"Don't worry, the last general of Pingliang Town will definitely hold on to the end! Unless it is the last general..." Jia She gritted her teeth and said firmly.

"Even if you die, you must defend Pingliang. Once Liu Keshi comes out of Pingliang, it is almost impossible to adjust defense with you. He originally planned to treat you as his last killer move, but now it seems that the time spent in Lanzhou City has suddenly fallen into a passive state. It is impossible to climb out of this swamp, so he can only bite the bullet and bear it." Ye Qing said with a sigh.

"Yes, I will be determined to be unfair." Jia She looked at Ye Qing and waved her hand. He knew that time was urgent and after delivering the salute without any delay, he immediately summoned the army to Pingliang Town.

Guguan is very close to Pingliang, and when you get down the mountain, you enter the area of ​​Pingliang Town. It is precisely because the two are very close that Ye Qing dares to move the grain camp directly from Guguan to Pingliang.

The 20,000 troops led by Jia She were not too late to leave Gu Pass. Liu Keshi, who was eager to see him, finally waited for the order from Gu Pass. He just opened it and immediately stayed there.

"Sir, I actually asked me to lead my troops to help the Central Guard? How could this happen? I have never led an army to fight a war." Liu Keshi, who had widened his eyes, looked at the familiar handwriting. It was obviously not something that others pretended to be. It must be Ye Qing's handwriting. Moreover, he was already familiar with the sender and could not be familiar with it anymore, and he would definitely not be fake.

But he really couldn't understand why Ye Qing suddenly entrusted such an important task to make himself a civil servant who had no power to lead troops to help Li Heng. Isn't this exactly the same as the court's strategy of checking and balancing measures, and the strategy of keeping civil servants restraining military generals in the army!

But when he saw Ye Qing's crooked order-breaker engaged in the four words of military law, Liu Keshi knew that the current situation could not be delayed, and he could not reply to confirm. So he had to bite the bullet and start gathering troops from Pingliang Town, leaving an empty town to rush to assist Li Heng.
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