Chapter 581: Confrontation

Yuwen Ke has fought with the Yan army, and knows that fighting with the Yan people, not afraid of field battles, not afraid of frontal battles, just afraid of the Yan people cowering in a strong city, that is a meat grinder, even if it is taken down in the end, what is paid is not proportional to what is gained, the eastern army has not long entered the Hetao Plain, and now is the time when they are not stable in their foothold, if they want to defeat them, they have to take this opportunity, once the eastern army is allowed to gain a firm foothold, there is no need to guess, they will definitely be stationed in the city, once they build a city, then they want to drive them out again, but it's hard.

He is not Thorpe's descendant, although he sees the wind and makes the rudder fast, but Yuwen Ke does not believe that Thorpe trusts himself unreservedly, in the form of Donghu now, if he wants to keep his position and the interests of the Yuwen Ministry, he must have real military exploits.

Then, the Eastern Army is a good choice, they have an unstable foothold in the Hetao Plain, drive them out, and occupy the Hetao for Donghu, that is a huge military achievement.

Yuwen Ke brought 5,000 cavalry, but among the 5,000 cavalry, only 2,000 belonged to his Yuwen Department, and the remaining 3,000 cavalry were drawn from various departments, Yuwen Ke knew that as Thorpe's position became more and more stable, and the restructuring deepened step by step, there would be fewer and fewer tribal private soldiers, and in the end, they would all become the army of the Donghu Dynasty, that is, the soldiers of the Donghu King Thorpe, and they were originally the masters of these soldiers.

In the end, these originally powerful tribal lords will become the civil and military ministers of the Donghu Dynasty, and the civil and military ministers who have no strength will be in the hands of Thorpe.

But form is stronger than man, and he will either die in the future or die now. Among these two choices, Yu Wenke will naturally choose the second one without hesitation, stay in the green mountains, not afraid of no firewood, where are the bloody examples in front of him, what he has to do now. It is to constantly build meritorious deeds and keep climbing upwards. He may not be Thorpe's opponent in his life, but as the days go by, as long as the Yuwen Department has always existed, maybe one day, the Yuwen Department will be able to sit in a higher position.

Miranda is a generation of heroes, Thorpe is a generation of heroes, but will their family always produce talents?

It's impossible.

The head of the city changes the banner of the king, and the world has been fought hard by many wise lords. In the end, it is not all defeated in the hands of unscrupulous children and grandchildren. The change of dynasty in the Central Plains is proof of this.

The Yuwen family will always live in trembling, but this kind of trembling will also make the Yuwen family self-reliant and unfortunate, destroying a talent, and the Thorpe family, sitting in a high position for a long time, is naturally not as good as the generation.

This is Yu Wenke's plan. He is not planning for this life, but for the next few lifetimes.

But what was in front of him now was how to completely knead the remaining three thousand Donghu iron cavalry, which was after Thorpe integrated the Donghu tribe. For the first time, the use of foreign troops was no longer based on tribes as combat units, but the transfer of multiple tribes to form an army. Unified command and unified operation are also a test of the waters for Thorpe. Therefore, he cannot tolerate failure.

If he fails, isn't he saying that Thorpe's formation of a unified force belonging to the state is wrong? At that time, the scapegoat was himself.

As soon as he thought of this possibility, Yu Wenke felt chills all over his body.

He first had to twist the five thousand cavalry into a rope, and the same enemy was the best choice. He chose to swear in this scorched place, he deliberately used the blood of his comrades to provoke their fighting, and although the internal fighting between the various ethnic groups in Donghu has never stopped, when encountering external enemies, they can still be consistent with the outside world.

Tengger, which has become a scorched earth, the land stained with the blood of his comrades, and the densely bulging graves, Yuwen Ke used these to successfully arouse the anger of the Donghu people, looking at the soldiers who were screaming for revenge, Yuwen Ke smiled proudly in his heart.

But ten days later, Yu Wenke's smile turned into bitterness and fear, and the sentry brought back the exact news from the west bank, and it was not long before the Eastern Army came to Hetao, but on the west bank of the Liao River, ten miles away from the Liao River, a city was erected, the Pioneer City, but dozens of miles away from the Pioneer City, another city had begun to take shape.

This made Yu Wenke's original idea completely useless, attacking the city, which was something he had never thought of.

Listening to the appearance of the vanguard city depicted by the sentinels, they are afraid that their whole army will be damaged and it will not be possible to take it, not to mention, they have gathered as many as 20,000 troops.

Yu Wenke suddenly realized that the entire Donghu Dynasty had previously underestimated the determination of the lofty Zhengdongfu to take the Hetao Plain, and such a city was suddenly built on the opposite bank, which was obviously not something that could be completed in a short time, which showed that when the battle of Donghu had just ended, the Zhengdong Army had already begun to work on this matter, but it was ridiculous that the Donghu still thought that the Zhengdongfu between the Liaoxi River did not have the courage to take the initiative to attack Donghu, but would shrink the defense.

But now it is clear that Gao Yuan has put his hand into the Hetao, and the most direct purpose of putting his hand into the Hetao is naturally to attack Donghu. Gao Yuan is not Zhang Shouyue, Zhang Shouyue is old, and in the end he doesn't want to forge ahead, he just wants to keep it, Gao Yuan is old, and he is more determined to forge ahead, and Gao Yuan's control over Liaoxi and Hejian is far beyond Donghu's estimate, originally thought that Gao Yuan still needed time to digest the land of these two counties, and before he completed the integration, he would not rush to war.

But now, the facts have slapped Donghu hard, those damn Yan people, the information provided is also wrong, and what the people in the Liaoxi River are floating is all false.

This is not his own problem, Yu Wenke knows that with only the five thousand cavalry in his hand, there is no possibility of victory at all. He immediately wrote a recital to Horin, asking for reinforcements.

Of course, in addition to asking for help from Helin, he also had to show his courage to Thorpe, and the five thousand Donghu iron cavalry advanced to a place only ten miles away from the Liao River, set up camp, and confronted the Pioneer City across the river.

Along the Liao River, there was a scene that was rare in the history of countless years of confrontation between Yan and Donghu, the two sentry horses did not fight together as soon as they met, because they were separated by a Liao River, since they could not fight, the two sides could only shout and insult each other's eighteenth generations of ancestors across the river plus countless obscene gestures, so that in the end, both sides invariably sent out loud sentry spies, so that their scolding could be clearly transmitted to each other's ears. Xu Yuan even set up a special group with great interest to study how to scold people, to target the privacy of the Donghu people, to be able to scold the Donghu people for being angry, and to be able to turn over the same every day, not repeating the same. In comparison, the Donghu people's ability to scold people is much worse, and they just say a few words over and over again, where can they scold a well-prepared opponent.

Such a defeat obviously made the Donghu people extremely angry, and the arrogant clan generals couldn't adapt to having a general who was not their patriarch to command them, and every day they were clamoring in Yuwenke's big tent to kill the Liao River, so that Yuwenke had a headache and killed the river? It's really a joke, I'm afraid that the Eastern Army on the other side is looking forward to crossing the river by itself?

But force is not the way, this will make him unite the various ethnic groups fall apart, ignore it, and will also make the soldiers demoralized, he is more worried that there will be generals who ignore his orders and send troops privately, and when the time comes, he will suffer a big loss, but the board will hit him.

After meditating hard for a day, Yu Wenke really came up with a solution, he asked the rear to send more than 100 Yan prisoners of war, and let them wear brand new Yan army uniforms, escort them to the river, and use all kinds of means to humiliate these prisoners of war, forcing these prisoners of war to make all kinds of disgusting actions.

As soon as this move came out, it was the turn of the Eastern Army, which couldn't bear it. One by one, the generals of the Eastern Army ran to Xu Yuan's place with righteous indignation and asked to fight.

Of course, Xu Yuan would not allow it, and the current strategy of the Eastern Army was to consolidate its advantages on the west bank first, and in the field, Xu Yuan did not think that he had an advantage. What Zhengdongfu is asking now is to occupy the west bank of the Liao River and turn this place into the granary of Zhengdongfu, so it should not be himself who is anxious, but the Donghu army on the other bank.

Unlike the Donghu people, the military discipline of the Eastern Army was strict, and Xu Yuan gave an order, although many generals were dissatisfied, but no one dared to disobey, Xu Yuan even pulled the troops to the Liao River one by one, ordering them to clearly see the humiliation suffered by the Yan prisoners of war on the other side.

Anger is condensing, hatred is deepening, after more than ten days, Yu Wenke finally stopped this trick, because he found that the generals on the other side are very calm, and their military discipline is not comparable to the current Donghu troops.

Hatred can sometimes make people lose their minds, but sometimes it can also make people burst into power. Yu Wenke did not want to be the driving force behind the latter.

Yu Wenke retracted his hand, he had successfully pacified his subordinate generals, and also let the generals of all ethnic groups under him recognize his ability, but on the other side, Xu Yuan successfully incorporated the Yan army prisoners of war into the system of the Eastern Army, and the more than 10,000 Yan army prisoners realized that if they wanted revenge, then now only the Eastern Army could rely on.

The two sides gained something, and they returned to the original state of confrontation.

Yu Wenke waited for reinforcements, and Xu Yuan strengthened the city walls, while constantly cultivating the wasteland.

And at this time, in Jishi City, which has become more and more big, after Gao Yuan received the report from the Hetao Plain, he also laughed, Xu Yuan, he is really a guy with ideas.

The war on the Hetao Plain is about to start, and in the Central Plains, this period of time is also extremely unpeaceful. A series of major events kept knocking on everyone's hearts, making everyone dizzy. (To be continued......)