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Lin Haotian and his brother Lin Haonan led 50,000 Lin family troops, but when they withdrew into Mucheng after this battle, there were only 10,000 people, which can be said to have suffered heavy losses. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
Of course, the Nighthawk and Mu Rong led the Flying Eagle Army with one arrow, and the original 30,000 Flying Eagle Army also lost 8,000, leaving only more than 20,000 soldiers and horses. Of course, the fifteen Western Liang soldiers led by the marshal of the Western Liang State Tupapu also suffered very heavy losses, and when Tupapu led the Western Liang soldiers into Tucheng and joined the remnants of Tupahu, that is, there were only 90,000 troops. That is to say, the marshal of the Western Liang State, Tupapu, lost 60,000 Xiliang elite soldiers in this battle to reinforce the Chu State, and the benefit was only to occupy a local earthen city.
The marshal of the Western Liang Kingdom, Tupapu, was very depressed in his heart, so he urged Emperor Chu Xian to quickly draw troops from each other to organize a counterattack. Emperor Chu Xian also knew that if his Chu army did not work hard, of course it would not work to rely on the Xiliang army alone. So Emperor Chu Xian sent ministers with gold, silver and jewelry to comfort the marshal of the Western Liang State, Tupapu led the Western Liang army; On the one hand, the armies of the local cities were drawn.
After all, the state of Chu is a hundred-legged insect that dies but does not stiffen, although it is now defeated by the Liao army, even the capital of Chu is also occupied by the Liao army, but there are still more than 30 cities in the place, of which more than 20 cities are still under the orders of Emperor Chu Xian.
As a result, each of these more than 20 cities sent 10,000 local troops to reinforce the central army of Emperor Chu Xian. Although the central army of Emperor Xian of Chu was defeated and retreated from the capital of Chu to Shuicheng, there were still nearly 100,000 troops, plus the 780,000 central army that the imperial court used to send to the local area, so that there were 1780,000 central troops, and now there are more than 200,000 local troops, so there are more than 300,000 soldiers and horses.
Emperor Xian of Chu led the army of Chu with a total of 380,000 troops, and united with the 90,000 army of Tupapu, the marshal of Xiliang State, and began to attack the Chu capital. Prepare to recover Chudu in one fell swoop
Although Vice Marshal Mei Shuang, who was in Chudu, sent someone to invite Lei Jiuchun to detoxify the little emperor, but Lei Jiuchun was slow to detoxify the little emperor and the generals of the Liao army in order to act. After all, Lei Jiuchun didn't really want to detoxify the little emperor. Instead, while detoxifying, poisoning was at the same time, so the morale of the Liao army in Chudu was unstable, and it made Vice Marshal Meishuang even more worried that Aluge, who was guarding Fengting City, was ordered by the prince of Liang to lead 10,000 Liao troops to withdraw from Fengting City and retreat to Yanzhou.
In this way, Fengting City was occupied by the 100,000 troops of Xiliang Kingdom led by Tuan Kuan, the prince of Xiliang Kingdom, and the daughter who was in Fengting City was sent to Yanzhou City.
Because Fengting City had been occupied by the Xiliang army led by Tuan Xiankuan, the prince of the Western Liang Kingdom, General Mo Jian, the younger brother of Mo Ye, the prime minister who had originally reinforced Fengting City, led 30,000 Mo family troops to retreat to Yanzhou City. Admiral Mo Jian was also full of resentment towards his son Mo Shaohua being slaughtered by Princess Xiao Lin in Yanzhou, and now he saw that Liang Wang Ye had split with the little emperor, so he instinctively chose to take refuge in Liang Wang Ye.
Because Fengting City was occupied by the Western Liang Army, it meant that the Liao army in the Chu capital, their grain and grass logistics supply would be cut off by the Western Liang Army, and once the grain and grass were cut off, the Liao army that occupied the Chu capital would not be able to hold on, and might even be wiped out.
Liang Wangye ordered Aluge to withdraw from Fengting City, so that the Western Liang army could easily cut off the logistics of the Liao army in the south, which clearly disregarded the safety of the little emperor and Meishuang's hundreds of thousands of Liao troops in the Chu capital. That is, the contradictions within the Liao State were made public and obvious.
For Aluge, who was guarding Wind Pavilion City, with his only 10,000 troops, if there were no reinforcements, of course, he would not be able to hold Wind Pavilion City. In this way, instead of waiting for death in Fengting City, it is better to withdraw from Fengting City on the order of King Liang.
Vice Marshal Mei Shuang learned that Fengting City was lost, and General Mo Jian, who went to reinforce Fengting City, led 30,000 Mo family troops to retreat to Yanzhou, so that the little emperor and himself led hundreds of thousands of Liao troops were thrown in Chudu. If there is no supply of grain and grass, his hundreds of thousands of troops will be in chaos without a fight, and now Fengting City has fallen into the hands of the enemy, which is equivalent to cutting off the back road of the Liao army, so that the Liao army in Chudu has become a lone army.
Originally, the Liao army had the upper hand against the Chu army, but now the Chu army not only has more reinforcements from the Western Liang Army, but there is also a serious split within the Liao army. Besides, the supreme commander of the Liao army, the little emperor, and a group of generals were seriously ill and could not command the battle at all.
Vice Marshal Mei Shuang knew that if he did not decisively make up his mind to abandon Chu Capital, then he would lead these Liao troops to be wiped out, so Vice Marshal Mei Shuang first ordered Night Eagle and Mu Rong in Jincheng and Mucheng to lead the Flying Eagle Army back to the north with an arrow, preparing to capture Fengting City.
As for the Jincheng and Mucheng guards, they were handed over to Xiang Shuifeng, Du Muyi, Lin Haotian and Lin Haonan brothers respectively, of course, Vice Marshal Mei Shuang also knew that once Nighthawk and Mu Rong led the Flying Eagle Army to withdraw from these two cities, they would not be able to hold these two cities with the remnants of Xiang Shuifeng and Lin Haotian.
However, if the hundreds of thousands of troops of the Liao State want to withdraw from the Chu capital, after all, it will take a lot of time, especially when the retreat Fengting City is occupied by the Xiliang soldiers, the Night Eagle and Mu Rong must lead the Flying Eagle Army to conquer Fengting City again and open up the road for the Liao army to retreat back to the country. Otherwise, these Liao troops will die without a place to be buried.
Now Meishuang ordered Lin Haotian and Lin Haonan's brothers to lead 10,000 Lin family troops plus 5,000 remnants of the Liao army to defend Jincheng. Because he didn't listen to Meishuang's order, his Lin family's army was surrounded by the Xiliang army on the way to retreat in Shuicheng, and the result was almost annihilated, so now Lin Haotian didn't dare to violate Meishuang's order anymore and led the remnants of the defeated army to defend Jincheng.
The guard of Mucheng was led by Xiang Shuifeng and 20,000 Liao soldiers, after all, the location of Mucheng is very important now, and it belongs to the southern gate of Chudu. Emperor Xian of Chu led the troops of Chu State, with more than 300,000 troops, and the first thing to attack was Mucheng, and then Jincheng.
Only after the Chu army conquered Jincheng and Mucheng could it fully encircle the Chu capital and launch a comprehensive battle to recover the Chu capital. Of course, Vice Marshal Mei Shuang also understands that guarding Jincheng, Mucheng's troops are too small to be able to defend it, and the reason why he wants to defend this Jincheng and Mucheng now is mainly for the Liao army to retreat from Chudu to win precious time.
After all, Chu is the ancient capital of Chu for hundreds of years, not only there are many gold, silver and jewelry in the emperor of Chu, but there are also many rich people in the people, so the Liao army robbed countless gold, silver, jewelry, and all kinds of property after occupying the Chu capital. Now that the Liao army wants to withdraw from Chudu, of course it wants to transport these gold, silver, jewelry, and various belongings back to Liao.
The marshal of the Western Liang State, Tupapu, gathered 90,000 Xiliang troops in Tucheng, and it was reasonable that he could directly set off from Tucheng to attack the Chu capital. However, at the beginning of the fierce battle against the Liao army, Tupapu's Xiliang soldiers suffered heavy losses, and now he wants to rest the Xiliang soldiers, and he wants to let the Xiliang soldiers reduce their losses. So he concentrated the 90,000 Xiliang army in Tucheng to rest, and waited for Emperor Chu Xian to lead the Chu army to conquer Jincheng and Mucheng, and then return to the division together to besiege Chudu.
Emperor Xian of Chu led the army of Chu to 370,000, of which he personally led 100,000 central troops of Chu and 100,000 local troops to attack Mucheng.
His father-in-law, the envoy of Hongcheng City, led 70,000 central troops and 100,000 local troops to attack Jincheng. Lin Haotian, who was guarding Jincheng, and his brother Lin Haonan, seeing that the Chu army was powerful, were afraid that a slight hesitation would cause the only 10,000 Lin family troops left in their hands to be wiped out.
So Lin Haotian and Lin Haonan led the defenders of Jincheng to flee without a fight, of course, Lin Haotian and Lin Haonan were afraid of being scolded and blamed by the little emperor and Meishuang, so they didn't dare to go to Chudu and chose to flee to Yanzhou directly.
Vice Marshal Mei Shuang didn't expect that Jincheng would be recovered by the Chu army so quickly, and she didn't have time to mobilize troops to reinforce it, nor did she have time to stop the Liao army from blocking it, so the Liao army was defeated like a mountain and was about to break out. (To be continued.) )