In the blink of an eye, four or five days passed.

The relocation of the two cities of Xigaima and Gaoxian has been completed, and Gongsun Du left Wei Yu to stabilize the people's hearts, and Liu Yi led 3,000 men and horses to suppress Xiangping, and then hurried to Houcheng with Yangyi and other personal soldiers.

The migration was completed, but it was a little different from the original plan.

Since the surrender of Hu Zi, there have been more than 80,000 households under the rule of Gongsun Du, with a total population of more than 300,000. Among them, there were about 100,000 former Goguryeo people. There should have been 30,000 scattered cities such as Goguryi, and the rest lived in Xiangping.

Tanshi Huai's Xianbei army suddenly rushed in, which disrupted Gongsun Du's plan. If you continue to move to Houcheng, not to mention whether you will encounter Xianbei cavalry, it is said that Houcheng is located in the westernmost part of Xuanwu County, and it is the city closest to the Xianbei grassland, and once the battle starts, it will inevitably be attacked first. With the strength of the Xianbei army, the probability of Houcheng defending is extremely low, and if it continues to migrate past, it is tantamount to pushing it into a fire pit.

Therefore, there is no one to fill the Houcheng except for the relocation of thousands of people.

In addition to the 30,000 people in Fangjin Houcheng, there are still 4,000 soldiers, and Xu Rong personally guards this place, but 2,000 of them are newly recruited, and the training is only a few days, so it is difficult to come in handy.

Liaoyang is similar, but the population is slightly larger, there are still nearly 50,000, 3,000 people, and half of them are newly recruited, the training days are short, and Tu Yi is in charge of the city.

Once Changli is taken, it is likely to enter Liaodong eastward, with a lot of soldiers, a total of 5,000, and only 2,000 of them are newly recruited, and Jiaolu sits in this city. It seems that the strength of this city is much lower than before, but there are still hundreds of naval troops, not to mention, there are more than 50,000 people, including many tuntian soldiers, and Pingsuri has training every ten years. Therefore, not only is the strength of the newly recruited soldiers stronger than the recruits in other cities, but once necessary, thousands or even tens of thousands of recruits with a foundation can be recruited.

This is not Gongsun Du's preference, first, the Liao team was originally Gongsun Du's lair, and naturally needed to be heavily guarded; Second, once he can't resist the edge of Xianbei, the navy of the Liao army may be his only way to retreat.

Why?

Xianbei Horse Battle is the first in the world at this time, and no one can beat its edge! Siege the city, look at Xu Rong, Liu Yi and others to understand, if they are not good at attacking the city, why are they here! Therefore, no matter how high his siege ability is, he can break through the city. But there is only one thing, there is no grassland, that is - the water army!

Therefore, once he can't stop Xianbei's edge, Gongsun Du will withdraw from the waterway with the people of the Liao army. This made him quite glad that he went south at the beginning of the year to find Jiang Yi and others, and after about half a year, a lot of ships were built. Although the number of ships is not enough to carry all the people of the Liao army, the number of ships has increased rapidly since Gongsun Du ordered to speed up shipbuilding a few days ago.

Ordinary ships are different from warships in that they are very simple to make. With enough time, there is no problem at all in building enough ships.

However, this is just just in case, in fact, as long as Gongsun Du's plan does not fail, the odds of victory are not low.

Xinchang was in the innermost perimeter, and there was no one before, so the population was the smallest, only more than 20,000 people, and the number of sergeants was also the least, only 2,000, of which 1,000 were recruits who had only been trained for a few days, and Chen Tian was temporarily guarded.

Chen Tian is the bandit leader Chen Tianzi who was subdued by Gongsun Du last year. It is said that this person does not have the ability to defend a city, but there are too few people available under Gongsun Du, and only Chen Tian can be used.

Because of Zhang Hong's departure, there was no one to defend the city of Goguryi, so Gongsun Du had to leave Hu Zi to build the urn city here, and command 5,000 elite soldiers and 5,000 recruits to guard the city. And because the city has a large population, there are 100,000 people, and Gongsun Du sent Mi Zhu to help.

There were so many sergeants in Goguryi, and they also had the duty to support Houcheng.

However, Gongsun Du received news from Xu Rong that Xianbei rangers appeared more than ten miles around Houcheng from time to time, fearing that Xianbei was about to attack the city. So Gongsun Du went to Houcheng, and on the way to Hu Ziyu reported, there was a Xianbei ranger near the left of Gaoguli City, in case of emergency, please send someone to guard.

Gongsun Du had no one available, so he finally had to send Yangyi over, and he led his own soldiers to Houcheng alone.

Before Yang Yi left, he salivated and cried: "Lord, this Xianbei wants to kill my Han family's son, and his subordinates can't eat his flesh and drink his blood!" I can't protect the lord today, so please take care! ”

However, Yangyi knew that his ability was not enough to lead the army, and he guarded Goguryeo, hoping to protect Gongsun Du. But Yang Yi also knew that Gongsun Du's subordinates had no one available, so he could only send him to Goguryi. Therefore, this is to inform his determination that even if his wit is insufficient, he will fight to the death with Xianbei and will not back down.

Gongsun Du and Houcheng, but Yangyi's words still echoed in his ears, making his hatred for Xianbei more and more high, deep!

When Xu Rong saw Gongsun Du, he found that his eyes were full of blood red, and he was very strange!

"Adult ......"

Gongsun Du stopped: "I know what you want to say, but I don't have anything to do, I just hate to kill all the Xianbei dog thieves in my heart!" ”

What a hate!

Xu Rong couldn't help but think in his heart. But then a strong hatred rose in his heart, and it was instantly drowned.

"You know!"

Gongsun Du looked up at the northwest, and his voice was hoarse: "This time, Tanshi Huai sent more than 100,000 troops to the south, in order to seize the city of my Dahan border county, intimidate the imperial court, and establish an empire. ”

"What?"

Rao couldn't help but exclaim with Xu Rong's calmness. This news is too unexpected, too surprising and inexplicable!

It's not the first time he's dealing with Xianbei, he has also struggled under Xianbei's soldiers, and finally Chengpo had to flee!

But at that time, Xianbei was only a few thousand people, and now more than 100,000 troops are invading the border, so ......

Xu Rong couldn't help but sweat like rain, and he was inexplicably frightened.

Syllable~

Xu Rong was sure, but it was Gongsun Du who stroked his left shoulder.

"Why is the husband afraid of death?"

"Besides, there are millions of people in my Dahanbian County, and there are only more than 100,000 people in Xianbei who have been killed, so why be afraid?"

"Even if his Xianbei cavalry is strong, can't more than ten people fight one? Even if we can't do it, we have to gnaw a few mouthfuls of his flesh and drink a few mouthfuls of his blood! You can always kill him one or two! ”

Xu Rong's heart swayed when he heard this, and a pride rose in his chest, as well as a touch of ruthlessness!

"My subordinates are willing to obey the orders of adults, even if they die, they will be killed!"

"Hahaha, it's good to enter the city!"

Gongsun Du smiled loudly, patted Xu Rong's shoulder again and said.

"Yes, sir."

Gongsun Du entered the city in front of his head, but he didn't know that because of the conversation just now, Xu Rong, who was following behind, made a decision in his heart: If you don't die this time, why not worship you as the master!

After entering the city, Gongsun Du did not go to the county mansion, but went directly to the military camp, intending to live in the military camp.

"My lord, this ......"

"It's okay, it's more convenient to live here." Gongsun Du waved his hand and said, "By the way, tell me what the situation is now?" ”

Xu Rong didn't persuade again, and replied: "My lord, since my subordinates arrived here a few days ago, they have been called Scouts and Cavalry to supervise a radius of 100 miles. But on the first day, there were heavy losses on the exploration and cavalry, and then there were about more than 100 Xianbei rangers around every day and before and after, as if they were probing the reality of our Houcheng. ”

Gongsun Du frowned and said, "It seems that they should only be outposts, and the army has not yet arrived." ”

After a pause, he said, "But there are one or two people who have been captured, and when will the Xianbei army arrive?" ”

Xu Rong said with a regretful face: "My subordinates also personally went out of the city to hunt down the Xianbei rangers, but these people were very slippery, and every time they didn't get close, they turned around and ran." ”

"Huh?" Gongsun Du frowned and said, "Every time? ”

"Yes, every time."

Can these people not know whether the prophet will be able to do so?

Gongsun Du didn't believe it, but why did he escape first every time? If it's luck, no one believes it, once or twice is a coincidence, or luck, but every time it's like this, it's definitely a problem.

Before Gongsun Du could come up with a reason, someone suddenly came to report it outside the door.

"Report!"

"Xianbei is coming!"

Gongsun Duhuo got up and said to Xu Rong: "Hurry up and go to the city gate." ”

"Yes, sir."

The military camp was not far from the West City Gate, and Gongsun Du and Xu Rong soon came to the city gate tower. I saw that not far away, a large army with billowing smoke and dust was rapidly approaching.

Without Gongsun Du's orders, Xu Rong had already commanded a group of soldiers to prepare to defend the city, and the rolling stones and sassalwood were moved out one after another.

Looking at the Xianbei army that was quickly killed, Gongsun Du felt very heavy. Suddenly, I saw that the Xianbei army was a hundred zhang high above the head, and several black spots were also approaching, as if they were escorting the Xianbei army.

"Eagle?"

Gongsun Du somewhat understood why Xu Rong couldn't catch someone and interrogated the news. Boiling eagles, earlier from the Xiongnu, used to reconnoiter the enemy, and later the Xiongnu declined, and Xianbei, who occupied the grassland, carried forward this craft again, using it as tracking, reconnaissance, and simple communication.

The reason why it is a simple communication is that most people do not understand words, write letters or anything, and do not exist, so they can only communicate through some calls and movements of the eagle, and the eagle itself cannot speak human words, nor can it understand too many things, so it can only be a simple communication.

After a short time, the Xianbei cavalry stopped three miles away from the city. Gongsun Du estimated the number of people and secretly breathed a sigh of relief: Fortunately, there are only three thousand people, and there is still the strength to fight.

Xu Rong suddenly came to his side and said, "My lord, I'm afraid this is just the Xianbei vanguard army, otherwise, it must be the rest of the army that bypassed Houcheng and went straight to Gaoguli." ”

Gongsun Du's face couldn't help but change greatly when he heard this.