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From the moment Wen Bo led his troops to abandon Dan County, cross the Ying River, and enter Heluo via the Songnan Plank Road, Xiao Yiqing realized that he had previously advocated that the remnants of Liang Shixiong abandon Luoyang, Yanshi and other cities and withdraw eastward to Xingyang and Bianjing.

Rest and recuperation was probably the biggest mistake he made since the Mongol army invaded the south.

He advocated that the remaining troops of Liang Shixiong withdraw from Heluo. Of course, he did not sympathize with the difficulties and heavy casualties faced by the Dongliang Army in defending the remaining city.

The reason why he and Wu Su Dashi wanted to ask Liang Shixiong to lead the remnant troops to withdraw first was because they actually thought that after the death of Emperor Liang Zhu Yu, the direct troops of the Mongol people would seize Luoyang and other cities, so that they could justifiably capture Luoyang and other cities.

A very critical area like Heluo was incorporated into the territory directly under the jurisdiction of the Mongol Empire.

No one in this world is willing to be a complete puppet. Zhu Rang surrendered to Mengwu at this time, but after the Dongliang Army captured Heluo, its strength became stronger. Will he continue to be willing to be controlled by them? No

An ambition to escape their control?

This was an issue that both Xiao Yiqing and Wu Su Dashi had to consider, so they finally decided to ask Liang Shixiong to withdraw first in November last year, instead of continuing to send more troops to defend Luoyang, Yanshi and other remaining cities.

They even considered the possibility of Canliang joining forces with the Tangyi army, and considering the possibility of handing over Heluo affairs to Han Qiantong after Zhu Yu's death. Therefore, Wusu Dashi secretly ordered Tian Weiye to attack Yongzhou City.

At this time, they left a way to survive for Liang Luo King Zhu Zhen, otherwise they would not be able to capture Lantian Pass on the southern wing of Yongzhou.

But they never thought that when his eldest son Zhu Zhen was still commanding troops in Shangluo, Liang Emperor Zhu Yu would resolutely ask his generals to directly welcome Han Qian as the new master?

Because Zhu Zhen stayed in Shangluo and did not return to Luoyang, they even mistakenly believed that Zhu Yu's body would not collapse so quickly, so they regrouped troops on both sides of Heluo and were a little slow.

They could have united with the Dongliang Army to defend Luoyang, Yanshi, Gongcheng, Hulao Pass, Mengjin and other places at a lower cost, but the mistake in this key decision forced them to pay several times more casualties this time.

, it is possible to retake these cities.

Xiao Yiqing and Wu Su Dashi stood side by side on the Mengzhou City Tower with solemn expressions, looking at the flags fluttering between the Mang Mountains on the south bank. They could clearly tell from the shape and color of their clothes that there were a large number of Tangyi army elites stationed there.

, and Hulao Pass in the southeast has been completely replaced with elite soldiers stationed in Tangyi.

The fighting in front of Hulao Pass had begun in full swing three days ago.

Hulao Pass is a pass sandwiched between the Yu River in the Songshan Mountains. It is only ten miles away from the mouth of the Yiluo River in the west, and only fourteen or five miles away from the Xixuan Temple in the west. Its geographical location is extremely important, but it has long been located in the hinterland of the Liang Kingdom.

After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Guancheng was only repaired on a normal scale. In the past two years, it has experienced many battles to capture and capture the city, and Guancheng is quite dilapidated.

Feng Xuan guarded Hulao Pass, knowing full well that he could not ask the Dongliang Army to lay out the cyclone cannons and other heavy siege weapons. Therefore, the enemy troops were approaching from the east. He did not simply defend the city, but sent troops and horses to rely on the pass city.

Fight and resolutely prevent the enemy from approaching Guancheng and setting up camp within a thousand steps.

Limited by the narrowness of the Songnan plank road, in order to ensure the rapid passage of troops and horses, Feng Xuan led his troops into Heluo and temporarily left almost all the heavy war equipment in Xiacai and other places. The soldiers only carried their armor and rode on horseback.

Well, even the section from Ruzhou to Yichuan is mainly still walking.

However, the enemy army could not set up camp in front of Hulao Pass, nor could they push heavy war equipment into the battlefield. As one of the most elite heavy armored infantry combat brigades in Tangyi, it took only three days to kill the Dongliang Army.

Father calls mother.

The offensive and defensive situation was reversed, which had a great impact on the generals of both sides.

The defenders of Xingyang have also been fighting hard for many years. Not only their soldiers and armor are in dilapidated condition, but the proportion of injured and injured among the troops is extremely high. The situation is not much better than that of the Western Liang Army. Especially this part of the Liang Army withdrew from Hulao Pass and returned to Xingyang for less than two days to rest.

Within a few months, they would attack Hulao Pass again, and their morale was even more bleak.

Xiao Yiqing did not expect the Xingyang garrison to achieve a decisive victory from the beginning, but he did not expect that the fighting strength would be so weak.

Due to the rugged terrain at the northern foot of Songshan Mountain, there was no room for large-scale detours for cavalry to attack Hulao Pass from the east wing. Xiao Yiqing could only hope that Liang Shixiong would advance steadily.

In the end, they had to attack from the fourteen to five mile wide gap between Hulao Pass and Xixuan Temple along both banks of the Yiluo River.

After Mengwu captured Yanyun, he operated for more than ten years. Although he had not invaded the south on a large scale before, he also formed a large number of infantry in addition to the cavalry. His combat effectiveness was tempered during the attack on the Bohai Kingdom, and after absorbing the Bohai soldiers,

Before this southern invasion, it expanded to 100,000 troops.

This is also the elite of Mengwu's direct lineage besides the cavalry.

Although time was short, by this time they had also assembled 20,000 cavalry and 20,000 Yanyun infantry in Mengzhou, and recruited 40,000 strong and brave people from Taiyuan, Shangdang, and Heshuo.

Soldiers are valuable and quick, especially the surrender made the soldiers of Heluo and Jiuliang anxious. Neither Xiao Yiqing nor Wusu Dashi would delay Yu and Luo until the ice in the river completely melted before launching an offensive.

In that case, Han Qian will be given at least a month to breathe.

More than 10,000 soldiers and cavalry had already dispatched troops from the walled city on the south side of Mengzhou City. Soon, under the command of the forward generals, they assembled into three groups and crossed the ice of the Yu River to the south bank of the Yu River and the east bank of the Yiluo River.

The plains west of Hulao Pass advanced, but the Liang army on the south bank did not move except for the defenders in Hulao Pass. The soldiers and horses of the villages along the northwest foot of Songshan Mountain in the southwest of Hulao Pass and the soldiers and horses of the villages on the east bank of the Yiluo River

, also dispatched amidst the thunderous sound of war drums, divided into several groups, and advanced near the embankment on the south bank of the Yu River.

The Tangyi Army and the Old Liang Army have not yet integrated, and the armor and banners of the generals of the two armies have not been unified. Even though Xiao Yiqing and Wu Su Dashi were standing on the Mengzhou City Tower nearly twenty miles away,

Looking through a lookout, one can clearly distinguish that the Tangyi Army mainly sent troops from the direction of Xixuan Temple on the west wing, while the Old Liang Army and the Han Yuan Qi Division mainly sent troops from the villages at the northwest foot of Songshan Mountain on the east wing.

The total number of soldiers and horses dispatched by Liang Jun this time was even lower than theirs, about 16,000. It was obvious that Han Qian also intended to retain enough reserve troops and horses at this time to observe changes in the battlefield.

Liang Jun's cavalry was small in size and did not advance directly and quickly to the area along the Yu River. Instead, it spread out along the hills on both wings to prevent their cavalry forward troops from occupying the hilly terrain on both wings. Both sides would hand over the core combat tasks of the battle to

Infantry entering the plains on the west bank of the Yiluo River.
Chapter completed!