Tang Pan and General Yang Qiye quickly noticed the hesitation and lack of progress of the main force of the East Route rebels who had retreated to Qizhou, Zizhou and other places, and realized that it was possible to severely damage or even encircle and annihilate the main cavalry force of the Red Guards on the East Road.

In addition to gathering a small number of cavalry from the west and south of Beijing, they quickly sent them to the area east of Weizhou to join Su Mung and Xu Pang's troops. They also tried their best to fight on the move and have the ability to fight in the ice.

During the period, the main force of the captive cavalry was pursued and intercepted.

The horse and infantry troops gathered together and went to Puzhou, Weizhou, Yunzhou and other places.

The Sikong Mansion also carried out comprehensive mobilization at almost the same time, and even ordered the Heluo camp to temporarily suspend operations in Pinglu, Yuanqu, Tongguan and other places, and ordered the Xuzhou camp to rest and recuperate on the spot in Jiqiu, Tancheng and other places, suspending operations from

Yishan marched north in order to mobilize more cavalry and horse infantry to assemble on both sides of the middle reaches of the Yellow River.

Over the years, from the early military camps to the middle and later stages of the Zhisi and Sikong Mansion, Xu Huaidu insisted that middle- and high-level military officers gather together for training at regular intervals, which helped to eliminate the barriers between military factions.

To ensure the full assistance of all troops and horses. However, this battle was crucial, so Xu Huai decided to bring the main generals of the Military Intelligence Staff Department, headed by Chen Zixiao, to personally rush to the front line to supervise the battle and ensure the encirclement and annihilation of the main force of the East Route rebels.

The operation can be carried out smoothly.

In the past ten years since the Chihu people invaded the south, all the soldiers and horses have resisted and fought in these years. The total number of enemy troops annihilated was not one million but 800,000. However, the real heavy losses to the Chihu people's troops and horses were achieved with the victory of Yingzhou.

The most dazzling thing was that they left the bodies of 20,000 red soldiers in the north of Yingshui at one time.

Annihilating 20,000 elite members of the Red Husbands at once seems a bit insignificant against the background of the majestic war sweeping the world.

However, if one considers the size of the elite of the Red Hu clan, one would not think so.

In order to overcome the defects of thousands of years of bloody fighting, tribal changes, and lack of national awareness in the grassland, the Chihu people shattered the traditional tribal governance structure on the grasslands in the past when they unified the southern and northern deserts, enfeoffed 95,000 households, and re-established the system.

A new governing order for the grassland was established.

This also constitutes the most direct strength of the Chihu people.

After the Chihu people conquered Khitan, Dangxiang, Hedong, Guanshan and other places, they formed a force of millions of soldiers and horses sweeping the world. They were mainly composed of the elite lineage and various color-eyed cavalry to suppress the garrison. The scale of driving and supervision was even larger.

Surrender troops and horses.

However, what really formed the core of Chihu people's rule was the ninety-five thousand households established by Chihu when he founded the country.

After the new Khan of Chihu came to the throne, the princes were divided. As the second son of Zhennan Zong Wang Ulullie, he inherited 22,000 households, and on the basis of the elite soldiers recruited by the 22,000 households, he absorbed their early

The elites of the conquered tribes formed a garrison cavalry totaling as many as 60,000.

The great victory of Yingzhou, which may seem like the annihilation of 20,000 captives, was not too dazzling, but it was the first real blow to the core ruling power of the Chihu people.

The Prince of Pingyanzong inherited 24,000 households. After absorbing the elites of the conquered Zhusemu tribe, the size of the cavalry of its East Road Town garrison had returned to 70,000 before this winter.

However, in addition to the heavy casualties in the Yizhou battle in early November, nearly 90% of the cavalry of the Pingyanzong Palace are currently concentrated in Qizhou and Zizhou, south of the Yellow River and north of the Taiyi Mountains.

Once there is an opportunity to inflict a devastating blow on it, the significance will be greater than the annihilation of ten thousand surrendered Han troops, and it is even more significant than directly recovering Jingdong East Road and even Hebei Road.

At the beginning of planning the winter battle, Xu Huai did not even expect to severely damage the main force of the Red Husband cavalry this time. He mainly thought that the Zhuxingying would rely on the absolute advantage of the main force of infantry to advance step by step, forcing the Red Husbands to face huge military pressure.

They had to retreat step by step, and eventually had to be expelled from the Central Plains.

When Xu Huai was formulating many combat plans and arrangements, he mainly thought about "driving" rather than "destroying".

The Red Husband Cavalry is highly mobile, large in scale, firm in combat will, and rich in combat experience.

Even if Sikong Mansion could repel the Red Husband Cavalry time and time again, and even had a chance to defeat them, it would be too difficult to deal a devastating blow to the Red Husband Cavalry without enough cavalry to participate in the subsequent pursuit and defeat.

Now that he had the opportunity to encircle and annihilate the main force of the Donglu Cavalry, and to fundamentally damage the ruling power of the Chihu people, how could Xu Huai let it go so easily?
Chapter completed!