Chapter 458: The Battle Begins
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After more than a month, Tu, Rong, and other millions of sons and clansmen of the six lords of Jingjun finally withdrew from Wushengguan to Gyeonggi, and at the same time, millions of people who were frightened by the war left their homes and fled to escape the military disaster.
The extremely prosperous symbol of the power of the sect lords, the Shenling Mountain School Palace, the sacrificial wine, the teachings, and the disciples were all evacuated, and they completely fell under the control of the Su Guards, and the inner court had a tacit understanding at this time to secretly relax the control of Yanjing City.
The sons and daughters of the lords and guards who were trapped in Yanjing City before66 continued to have more than 100,000 people, and at this time, they could all escape from Yanjing City through redemption or covert - and the Su Guards also secretly looted a large amount of resources to strengthen their armaments.
Only the poor side disciples and the clansmen of the small and medium-sized sect lords couldn't come up with the money to change a special road guide, and they were still trapped in Yanjing City and couldn't move.
In the last few days of the 83rd year of Emperor Yitian, the Xiyuan Army began to shrink the defensive line on the periphery of Wusheng Pass. After the complete destruction of dozens of fortifications, more than a dozen garrisons were withdrawn to Wusheng Pass at the same time, so that it was announced that the Xiyuan Army had completely abandoned its control of the area south of Wusheng Pass and north of Jing.
In the Wushengguan meeting hall, Wei Wangguan sat in the middle with a python robe, watching Tu Que and them discuss the details of the final withdrawal from Wushengguan, and his heart was full of emotion.
At this time, the news that the Nine Domains Alliance Army was dispersed by the Longxiang Army without a bloody battle had also spread to Wusheng Pass, who would have thought that in the past three years, Chen Hai would actually build a road that could accommodate 100,000 elites to pass through quickly between the western foothills of Qintong Mountain?
The rout of the alliance of the nine feudal domains means that Chen Hai's passage to reinforce Gyeonggi through Liquan, Tongbeifu, Tongzhongfu, and Qintong Dongguan is completely opened, which means that up to 200,000 Longxiang troops and Guining army soldiers can reinforce Guining City at any time.
At this time, the soldiers of Tianshui County also raised the banner of crusading against the rebels and cutting off the strong domain, and stood with the Long Xiang army, and at the same time, Wu Cheng and Liao Yunya led the troops to approach the Qintong West Pass from both wings, which was bound to force Dong Chou, the son of the Dong family, to give up the Qintong West Pass and lead the troops to withdraw to Hexi.
This means that the Inner Court took advantage of Hexi's plan to suppress the Long Xiang army, and most of it went bankrupt.
At this time, King Wei suspected that the withdrawal of the Six Lords from Gyeonggi was still not the right choice, and he thought that after the inner court forces that controlled the Su Guard Army were completely defeated by the Long Xiang Army, would they still have a chance to return to Gyeonggi?
Although King Wei was used as an ornament by Tu Que and them, but Tu Que and they gathered in front of the palace to discuss the newly emerging rock-breaking chariots, level crossbows and Storm Flame Heavy Arrows and other heavenly weapons in the Tianji Academy, Wei Wang didn't understand, thinking that if the Su Guards couldn't win the field battle, they probably wouldn't be able to stop the soldiers of the Long Xiang Army with the Qianyuan Wuji Array and hold Yanjing City, right?
Thinking of this, King Wei couldn't help but feel excited, thinking that everything should be tossed by Tu Que them, so he wanted to retreat to the bedroom to rest, but when King Wei got up to leave the main hall, a guard hurriedly walked in with a scroll of dragon pattern silk books.
Tu Que took the silk book and opened it to look at it, his face darkened immediately, and he circulated it with everyone before handing it to King Wei.
King Wei took the bright yellow dragon pattern brocade book, and first met his eyes with a few words of the powerful silk book, and he let him fall into a stalemate, muttering to himself: "On behalf of the emperor, the prince returns to Ninghou to beg the eunuch to pass on the book of the world......"
This silk letter represents that Chen Hai finally declared war on Wei Ziya, Zhao Zhong, Yu Zonghu and others in the name of Guining Hou!
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The annexation of the Huang family means that Juquanling, Liquan and Tongbei Mansion are completely under the control of the Longxiang army, Chen Hai made Guo Hongju and Zhao Ruhui stay in Tongbei Mansion to coordinate in the middle of Tongbei Mansion, and he took the imperial concubine Yang Qiao'er and Guining Hou Yinglei to cross the towering mountains at the eastern foot of Qintong Mountain, and entered Gyeonggi again to preside over the final battle with the Su Guard Army when Liao Yunya led his troops from Tongzhong Mansion to Qintong Xiguan.
At this time, Le Yi and Han Jian had already led 100,000 elite Longxiang troops to enter Qintong Dongguan through Tongbei Mansion and control the western Jingxi region south of Yutingling, while the Guining army, under the leadership of Huang Peiyi, quickly filled the defense line of Qiuye River with an average of 5,000 people per day at an average of 5,000 people, and confronted the advance of the Tiger Roaring Battalion led by Yu Zonghu.
Chen Hai rushed to Yuting City, and sent him to the rebellion written by Ning Hou on his behalf, and asked the post guards to spread it to the counties as quickly as possible.
Yao Izuyun was still a little skeptical about this at that time, and specially found Chen Hai to persuade him: "At present, there is no news of Emperor Yitian's death in Yanjing City, and we will spread it to the world now, I am afraid that one day we will fall into passivity." ā
Chen Hai went out with Yao at that time and explained:
"At this time, it is no longer the key whether the emperor is present or not, even if the inner court can make people pretend to be the emperor, we naturally have 10,000 ways to prove that the emperor is a fake. The six valves have a deep heritage, and they were also attached to the British king Yingshu in Jiyang County for several years, and after moving out of the Gyeonggi Plain, they can still maintain their foundation for the time being, but there are thousands of small and medium-sized clans and clans in the Gyeonggi Plain, how many choices can they have? Since the six valves began to move north, there have been small sect lords who have continuously sought refuge from us, but this is limited to the two wings of Yuting Mountain, and if we no longer raise the banner at this time and decisively start a war against the Su Guards, the small and medium-sized sect lords in Jingbei, Jingdong, and Jingnan will be cornered. and threatened by the soldiers of the Su Guard, it is difficult to guarantee that he will not throw himself into the inner court......"
Although Yao Izumo was still the lord of the Yao clan at this time, he also knew that in terms of decision-making and calculation, he still sent Chen Hai too much, and he had racked his brains before, and he didn't understand how Chen Hai could use less than three years to open up a thousand-mile passage in the depths of Qintong Mountain?
This also made Dong's Nine Domains Alliance completely reduced to a farce and joke.
Even if he felt that it was a bit risky, everything was carried out with Chen Hai's decision.
And after Yuting City raised the banner, the situation was just as Chen Hai expected, and hundreds of small and medium-sized sect lords would come to take refuge every day.
No matter how large or small Chen Hai's troops were, the children and people of the sect lords who took refuge in him were selected to be strong and strong, and they were first incorporated into the Guining army.
Chen Hai took Huang Peiyi as the lieutenant general of the Guining Army, and arranged Yao Zhi and Yao Chuqiu as deputy generals, set up the Guining Army Governor's Office in Guining City, and made Ji Yuanren and Ge Tong serve as Sima and Changshi of the Guining Army's Governor's Office, and continued to expand the scale of the Guining Army.
In the name of the Marquis of Guining, Chen Hai re-established a new era name, and after the lunar month, it was the first year of Guining with the new year name, and at this time, the Guining army quickly expanded to 200,000 soldiers and horses.
Although these soldiers and horses are only newly formed, and their combat effectiveness has not been tested by blood and fire, they are the strength of the small and medium-sized sect lords and the children of Yanzhou Hanshu, Chen Hai only hoped that they could hold Guining City in the early stage, and not let Yu Zonghu have the opportunity to lead his troops to break into the western part of the capital, and the Tiangang Thunder Prison Array and other imperial heavy weapons were also handed over to the Guining army to take over.
Chen Hai personally led the Third Town Division of the Longxiang Army, which was expanded from the Yao clan Wei, to cross the Qiuye River, enter the Jingbei region, and go to Wusheng Pass.
The retreat of the Xiyuan Army was imminent, and Wusheng Pass was the most important checkpoint in the northern part of the Gyeonggi Plain, and it was also the key point to control the Gyeongbei region - even on the surface, Chen Hai should not sit idly by and watch Wusheng Pass fall into the hands of the Su Guards.
The Xiyuan Army had not yet completely withdrawn, and Chen Hai led his troops to set up camp at the foot of Tiechengling, fifty miles south of Wusheng Pass, and waited for Wusheng Pass to become an empty city, and then he sent troops into it to control the most important gateway to the north of the Gyeonggi Plain.
The Iron Scale Eagle hovering in the air also presented every move in Wusheng Pass to Chen Hai's eyes.
Wusheng Pass is not a simple gate, but is composed of more than a dozen passes built by the Great Yan Empire in the Great Rift Valley at the middle foot of Yanshan Mountain, and the Xiyuan Army will not give up all the more than a dozen gates, in order to make the Longxiang Army and the Su Guard Army give up a fight, they will give up the three southernmost passes of Wusheng Pass.
These three passes, which form the south pass of Wusheng Pass, can close the passage of Jiyang County into Gyeonggi from the southern slope of Yanshan, of course, if the Suwei army or the Longxiang army cannot seize the Zhongguan and Beiguan in the north, nor can they enter Jiyang County, where the six valves are temporarily sheltered.
In the three walled cities of Nanguan in Wusheng Pass, there are only tens of thousands of soldiers left, and it seems that they are not willing to completely give up the only way to enter Gyeonggi from Jiyang County.
However, time is on Chen Hai's side.
At this time, the Longxiang army has already controlled Yandang Plain, Qintong Mountain and the western part of Beijing, and the supply of three or four hundred thousand troops is not a problem for the time being, and it has formed an alliance with the Huayang Sect of Tianshui County.
The six valves retreated northward, not only occupying Jiyang County first, but also entering the northern and central areas of Lichuan County eastward through Jiyang County, filling the space left after Yu Zonghu led his troops to leave Lichuan County; The bureaucracy in the Gyeongnam region has collapsed, and after several large warehouses are depleted, will they be able to collect more food and other supplies from the Gyeonggi area?
And in this situation, they can't let Chen Hai take away Wusheng Pass and completely control the Jingbei region.
Seeing that Chen Hai led his troops north to seize Wusheng Pass, Zhao Zhong immediately ordered 100,000 elites from Yanjing City, and joined with the 50,000 elites led by Yu Haode, the deputy general of the Tiger Roar Battalion, and waved his army to the north and came to Wusheng Pass.
Although Zhao Zhong and Yu Haode were convinced that the Xiyuan Army would prefer to hand over Wusheng Pass to them, Long Xiang's army moved faster and preemptively occupied Tiechengling, the only way to advance north to Wusheng Pass.
Zhao Zhong and Yu Haoran had nothing to do, so they decided to attack while the Longxiang army was not firmly established in Tiechengling, and they also believed that the third town division of the Longxiang army, which was hastily mixed by the Yao clan guards and 100,000 descendants, was also quite limited in combat effectiveness, and it was not enough to be afraid......