The Mongolian and Uighur cavalry crossed the vortex, mainly to cover the westward advance of the Xu Si army and the Weizhou cavalry. After that, the Mongolian and Wu cavalry quickly advanced northward. After the Xu Si army and the Weizhou cavalry joined together, more than 40,000 troops and horses marched from east to west to the camp on the north bank.

Xia Caicheng and Lijia Xinzhai were advancing.

Of course, the Tangyi army on the north bank could not completely retreat to the walled city, so Xu Si's army successfully built fortifications on the east wing and northern area of ​​Xia Cai, thus cutting off the connection between Xia Cai and Dan County.

With the city wall and the Huaihe River behind them, the main battle camp of Tangyi Army actively mobilized, blocking and intercepting the advancing direction of Xu Si Army and Weizhou Cavalry in the wilderness time and time again, pushing them back to the coast of Guoshui, causing them to

It was impossible to deploy troops in the northern part of Xia Cai to form an effective cutting defense line.

The Li family's Xinzhai was not directly attacked by the enemy, and Li Xiu led the Xinzhai Xiangyong, whose combat effectiveness could not be said to be very strong, to defend the stronghold in vain. Even though they could not bear the combat mission of the forward battalion, they were deployed many times as forward soldiers and horses.

Block the enemy's outflanking attack.

Although it is not clear whether the enemy is Wusu Dashi or Xiao Yiqing who is stationed in Guoyang, they will not slow down their offensive against the main force of the aiding Bian army entering the northern part of Dan County because of the hesitation of Xu Si's army on the southern front.

In mid-September, the Shouzhou Army voluntarily abandoned the remnant city of Dan County, which had been beaten to a pulp for more than a month. However, the remnant army did not retreat to Wuting and Xinji villages in the north, and even together with Wuting,

Xinji two villages

The defenders withdrew together to the east to the two cities of Luyi and Bozhou along the coast.

At this time, the enemy's intention was very clear. They wanted to open the channel to support the Bian Army going north, move the main troops, including the Shouzhou Army, southward through the Wushi River, and join the Mongolian cavalry to fill in the area south of Dan County.

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At this moment, the scouts who had infiltrated into the east bank of Uushui for reconnaissance roughly counted the main force of the Mongol cavalry going south. More than 40,000 elite cavalry, together with the main force of the Shouzhou Army, came from the east bank of Uushui like a tide.

Cross the river and insert into the southern part of Dan County.

From the remnant city of Dan County to the north bank of the Huaihe River in the south, about 1,560 miles from south to south, and about 120 miles from east to west, the Mongols united with the Weizhou rebels, the Shouzhou Army, and the Xu Si Army, with a total of more than 130,000 strong troops.

The purpose of the military strength is to cut off the connection between Zhang County and Xia Cai.

In fact, the main force of the Mongolian cavalry entered the west bank of Guoshui, which has already achieved this intention. No matter how strong the Tangyi army was, they could not cooperate with the infantry and cavalry. The enemy army, which was several times larger than the original, was fighting in the wilderness of northern Xiacai.

They could only watch as Xu Si's army used the east-west ditches and river valleys to establish an interception defense line in the north of Xiacai.

Although these ditches and river valleys cannot be said to be very wide or deep, floods pass through them in summer. When the floods recede, a large amount of mud accumulates in the low-lying areas on both sides of the banks, forming an obstacle to the movement of troops from north to south - of course Yingshui

The mud on both sides of the bank is wider and completely covered. Except for the thin channel of Chen-Bian Post Road, there is almost no possibility of transporting people and horses to the main channel of Yingshui across a depth of thirty to fifty miles -

Xu Si's army only needed to establish strong defenses at a few high terrain areas to effectively suppress Tangyi's army's offensive from south to north.

Although the soldiers and civilians of Bianjing took advantage of the emptiness of the enemy forces on the west flank and began to retreat southward under the cover of 20,000 defenders in mid-to-early September, the enemy troops gathered superior forces in the southern part of Dan County and killed those entrenched in the northern part of Dan County and Wuting.

In the area, the main force of the aiding army covering the east wing of Chen-Bianyi Road launched an extremely fierce offensive.

After mid-September, only excellent scouts and scouts could pass through the enemy's blockade and travel between Danxian and Xiacai, or use flying pigeons to deliver messages, or take the waterway from Yingshui to Chenbian Post Road.

Deliver messages on the south side.

After mid-September, it was confirmed that two thousand-man elite cavalry teams of the Mongols were inserted directly into the two flanks of the Chen-Bian Pass.

From Bianjing southward to the north bank of the Yingshui River in Wanqiu, the Chen-Bian Post Road is 190 miles long. It is impossible to completely cover the Chen-Bian Post Road with only the 20,000 horse infantry commanded by Han Yuanqi and Chen Kun.

The enemy cavalry that broke in could not fight head-on with the Bianjing defenders. Instead, they used the high mobility of the cavalry to divide into several groups and intersperse on both sides of the Chen-Bian passage. This actually interrupted hundreds of thousands of troops.

The unarmed women and children retreated southward and could only retreat to the large and small fortresses protected by city walls along the route to wait for the opportunity.

At this time, the aiding Bian army could only detach more than 10,000 elite horse infantry from Wuting and the northern part of Dan County, and spread the defense line to a wider area to the north, limiting the scope of activities of the enemy cavalry, so that the southward retreat of Bianjing soldiers and civilians could be interrupted intermittently.

Carry on.

By the end of September, Li Xiu knew for sure that there were only over 50,000 women and children who had evacuated from the Chen-Bian Post Road to the south and then crossed the Ying River to the west bank. At this time, the enemy saw the Tangyi Army on the northern front (the aiding Bian Army).

The fighting will of the Bianjing defenders was almost worn away, and they assembled 30,000 infantry and cavalry to cross to the north of Wanqiu and directly cut off the Chen-Bian passage.

The troops aiding Bian could only abandon all their weapons and supplies in Danxian and Wuting's two fortresses. Two generals, Wenbo and Tan Xiuqun, each led 8,000 elite soldiers and horses to guard them, as if they were in the wild waves.

The two reefs were as slow as possible to delay the movement of the main enemy force on the southern front. The 20,000 elite main force quickly left the southern battlefield and headed north, intending to join the Bianjing defenders, the advance army led by Kong Xirong and a group of troops who had moved north in advance.

Thousands of soldiers and horses, concentrated a superior force of 60,000, and used all their strength to annihilate the enemy troops crossing the southern line of the Chen-Bian Passage in the shortest possible time.

However, the two cities of Dan County and Wuting only have a total of 16,000 troops. It may not be a problem to defend the city in a short period of time, but how can it be possible to hold back as many as 100,000 enemy troops in the south and east of Dan County?

Do it?

On October 3rd, it was the frost season. Li Xiu felt that the weather was obviously turning from cool to cold in Xiacai. Under the howling north wind, all the soldiers put on cold clothes.

Reports sent back from the northern front for several days in a row reported that thousands of enemy cavalry had bypassed Wuting and the remaining city of Danxian County had entered the northern area of ​​Wanqiu, which increased the number of enemy infantry and cavalry cutting off the Chen-Bian channel to more than 50,000.

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Even though Kong Xirong's troops had six thousand elite soldiers to the south of the enemy army at this moment - no more troops could be arranged in this direction. It was higher than the left and right flood plains, and the Chenbian Post Road in the mud was only more than two feet wide.

No amount of troops could be deployed to the north to attack the enemy - Tiancheng. Lin Haizheng led the main force of the reinforcement army to join Han Yuanqi and Chen Kun, and assembled more than 50,000 horse infantry in the central area of ​​the Chen-Bian passage to the north of the enemy.

, but in such a hurry, Li Xiu doubted whether they could have a 30% chance of winning in the decisive battle in the Pingchuan area, which was more conducive to large-scale cavalry operations by the Mongols.

In the afternoon, Li Xiu left Cao Ba to guard Xinzhai. He took Li Chi to the already built Xiacaicheng City to find Feng Xuan to take over the new combat mission. He walked into the front courtyard and saw the guards standing there. He looked over and saw Han Qian and Feng Liao.

, the figures of Guo Rong, Wen Muqiao and others, I wonder what they are doing when they are not at the north bank camp and why they came to Xia Cai, who is more advanced.

Li Xiu didn't want to cause misunderstanding, so she and Li Chi stood outside the government office waiting for the summons.

"Oh, you are here." Han Qian saw Li Xiu peeking his head outside the courtyard and directly asked them to come into the office hall to talk. "In the next two days, all the soldiers and civilians of Bianjing can evacuate to Yanling and Xihua, and then cross Ying

When the water is withdrawn to the west bank, Han Yuanqi's troops and the main force of the aid army will also withdraw simultaneously. The difficulty of the follow-up battle is to respond to the soldiers and horses trapped in the siege and hold on to the two cities of Danxian and Wuting. The main force of the aid army

It will take time to withdraw, and the next defensive situation in Xiacai will not be severe. The main battle camp cannot be deployed for the time being. I plan to form a capital from Xinzhai Township and accompany the navy first to enter the mouth of Danxi River in the northwest of Dan County.

Waiting for an opportunity to support Dan County, Wu Ting held on to Wen Bo and Tan Xiu Qun..."

"The Chen-Bian passage was cut off. There are still 120,000 to 30,000 soldiers and civilians from Bianjing and more than 50,000 troops from both armies in the north, retreating to Yanling. How can Xihua withdraw from the waterway?" Chen Xiu asked in shock, "Could it be that Tang

In addition to the Chen-bian Post Road, the city also built a channel that passes through the floodplain and reaches the main river of Yingshui?"

To the west and north of Chen-Bianyi Road, in the northwest of Chenzhou, Yanling in the west of Xuzhou, and within the two counties of Xihua, the floodplain area is as wide as thirty to fifty miles in depth and as narrow as fifteen or sixteen miles in depth.

In ordinary plain areas, it is very easy to build a wide galloping road by recruiting 10,000 to 20,000 strong laborers. However, in floodplain areas, both sides are muddy fields or swamps, and there is no place for strong people to gain a foothold.

To be able to excavate earth and rocks from a distance of 17 to 18 miles and fill the flooded muddy ground little by little, and to hide it from the surveillance of the Mongolian scouts and avoid the harassment of the Mongolian cavalry, how many years will it take to build this road?

Maybe it can be fixed?

No matter how powerful Han Qian is, he can't turn the pulpy mud into hard earth and stone with just a finger!

Generally speaking, shouldn't we wait for another month? After the weather is completely cold and the mud and river water on both sides of the Yingshui River are completely frozen, it is possible to evacuate westward without taking the Chenbian Road. Aren't the two sides fighting for this last month?
Chapter completed!