The battle in Moganzhai had just ended, and in the early morning of the next day, Shang Cheng ordered that the army should be deployed along the Heishui River crossing, Mogan, and White Wolf Mountain, and build fortifications at critical points for key defense; Temporary troop accumulation points were set up in several important water sources along the road from Mogan to Baiwolf Mountain, and cavalry was deployed along the way, focusing on preventing the infiltration and harassment of small groups of Tuqi rangers, so as to ensure the safety of communication and logistics between the three places. Sun Zhongshan's cavalry brigade was stationed in Mogan with the command post of the army; Two cavalry battalions were temporarily transferred to reinforce Sun Zhongshan's cavalry brigade stationed in Mogan to ensure that the army had a rapid and mobile reserve at all times......

On the same day, Shang Cheng again sent four infantry battalions and two heavy armored battalions to White Wolf Mountain to replace the Shaochuan Zheng Seventh Division, which was the first to be put into the blockade. So far, the Zhao army has invested 14 battalions in the White Wolf Pass, and the actual strength is close to 6,000, which alone accounts for more than 60% of the total number of Zhao troops in the entire Mogan area.

Before this order was executed, it attracted strong opposition from Guo Biao. This is too much! Even if Shang Cheng made up his mind and desperately wanted to solve the problem in one fell swoop at the White Wolf Pass, he couldn't be so foolish! Guo Biao personally walked through that place two or three times, and he was more judgmental than Shang Cheng! On the west side of the White Wolf Mountain is a long and narrow river valley, dozens of hundred-year-old trees are dragged from the top of the mountain to the valley, the old forest is so dense that no one can walk, and the road is just a mountain road that people step on horses and step out, on this kind of terrain, the six thousand Zhao troops can't spread it anyway; In other words, the cavalry of the Turquoise was useless, so they could only dismount and fight, and fight forward step by step. Of course, the Turks fought from top to bottom, and the terrain was to take advantage of it slightly, but the Zhao army had already built several earth and stone fortresses in the river valley, and these fortresses were still being heightened and reinforced at any time, which not only neutralized the enemy's advantage, but also took a great advantage in turn. More crucially, if Shang Cheng wanted to strengthen the forces of the White Wolf Pass, it was bound to weaken the defense of the Zhao army in other places at the expense; This is likely to lead to the failure of the entire campaign!

Most of the generals agreed with Guo Biao, and they did not approve of Shang Cheng's order, so much so that at the military meeting the first night, almost no one, including Wen Mu and Sun Zhongshan, explicitly expressed their support for Shang Cheng.

But the fact that no one approves of it does not mean that the order can be overstated. Even if there was no one who agreed, as the fake commander of Yanshan and the commander of the Sima and the army of Yanshan, Shang Cheng still "arrogantly" ordered the execution of this order. That's his style. Unlike when dealing with local government affairs, he never paid attention to anything on military issues, and he did not listen to people repeatedly until everyone agreed in the end. In military affairs, it is of course best if opinions can be unified, and if they cannot be unified, then their opinions and decisions are "unified" opinions and decisions! And it is not allowed to be discounted when it is executed!

Seeing the four reinforced battalions, Shao Chuan and Zheng Qi, two seven-foot men, almost didn't shed tears on the spot. For the past three days, they have not been able to contact the army because of the order, and Mo Gan has no idea what is going on here! it! In four or five days, they saw with their own eyes three large Samu flags, and there were more than a dozen Samu flags; The fort at the front also said that he had seen two flags of the king of Tujici, the kind of flag with a string of wolf tails on the black flag embroidered on the white eagle flagpole...... They blocked the mountain road for four days, and not counting the injuries, there were four or five hundred of their brothers' corpses just by carrying them behind. Zheng Qi's two cavalry battalions knocked out one and a half alive, and three of the outposts didn't even come back a single living person. In the face of the desperate Turgites, if they don't come to reinforcements, they are both ready to die here! Well, now there's finally reinforcements! I can finally breathe a sigh of relief!

But they were only relieved.

Soon their hearts were in their throats again. With the sound of a trumpet, the people of Tu, who had just stopped having not eaten a meal, whined and screamed again, and the flood that burst the embankment swept over the first fort, and then swirled towards the second fort. In the blink of an eye, the first three fortresses were in a bitter battle......

As for the past three days, the battle had been around the three zigzag fortresses, but at sunset, they were still in Zhao's hands. The sunset sprinkled down the valley on the low, blood-soaked stone walls, dyeing everything golden. Feathered arrows were stuck in the cracks of the stones, and the corpses of all kinds of enemies were crawling and lying on the ground, and pools of black and red blood leached the ground into the pulp. Zhao Jun began to change the guard. Zhao Jun, who had persisted for three hours, had a numb and tired expression on his face, his tattered clothes and armor were left with the blood of others or his own, dragging the pestle or drooping with swords and spears, supporting the wounded, carrying the brothers who died in battle, and slowly walking down the mountain road under the silent gaze of the newly arrived Zhao Jun......

In the marching book, the battle that took place on this day at White Wolf Mountain is recorded as follows:

"On the first day of the fourth month, on the west side of White Wolf Mountain, eighty-four people were killed in battle, three hundred and four were wounded, and eleven people were missing......"

And that's just the first day of April.

This number is very staggering. This means that in just this day, one of Zhao Bing's infantry battalions has lost its combat effectiveness. It should be noted that the infantry battalion mentioned here refers to the kind of full-strength infantry battalion that maintains a high degree of vigilance in peacetime, not the infantry battalion that is currently fighting deep into the grassland. Since the Zhao army fought in the grassland for a month, a large number of personnel have been reduced due to fighting or injuries, and the current size of the infantry battalion is generally less than eighty percent of the full strength, and some battalions are only sixty percent; The situation of the cavalry battalions is even worse, generally less than 70 percent of the establishment, and there are even more than 100 people left in a very small number of cavalry battalions that have been dispatched continuously......

It is important to note that a large part of the attrition is due not to the brutal fighting, but to the more brutal natural environment. For the soldiers of Da Zhao, the most terrible enemy on the grassland was not the Tu Tu people, but the bad weather changes and various insect-borne diseases, many of them were accidentally bitten by some small insects they had never seen before, and soon began to vomit and diarrhea, and then the high fever did not go away, and finally had to join the containment team behind the army. The military doctors were also helpless against these unfamiliar diseases, so they could only boil some inappropriate decoction for the soldiers who were infected to drink, hoping to alleviate their suffering. Some of these patients were able to get better and recover inexplicably by luck, some had to return to Yanshan with their pack horses, and some of them could no longer see the green pines on Yanshan with their own eyes and could no longer drink the water of the Yan River......

The number of daily attrition of the army for non-combat reasons is staggering!

Shang Cheng also smashed the cup and smashed the table many times in this matter, and scolded the people who raised a group of rice buckets and managed logistics and military supplies in the Wei Mansion were all careless of human life!

But scolding his mother can't solve the problem, and it's not the time to hold him accountable in this regard, so he can only suppress his anger and continue to fight wits and courage with the king of Donglu Valley across the White Wolf Mountain.

the first day of April;

the second day of April;

the third day of April;

…… Until the sixth ...... of the first month