(Add a chapter to celebrate the National Day)

Han Qian really considered the need for more cavalry to chase down and kill, in order to expand the results of this battle as much as possible.

The navy entered Fenshui, destroyed the Pujin Bridge over the Yu River, and blocked the passage for the enemy to flee north into Luliang Mountain and west to Guanzhong, but the enemy could also flee to the northeast to the southern foot of Taiyue Mountain, or along the east bank of Fenshui and the river valley at the western foot of Taiyue Mountain, and flee to the territory of Huo County in the north.

The upper and lower reaches of the Fenshui River valley are relatively open, but to the north into the territory of Huo County in the north of Jinju, the two mountain ranges of Luliang Mountain and Taiyue Mountain are forced to come from the left and right to Fenshui, and the terrain is narrow and steep.

The dangerous terrain in Huo County also divides the Taiyuan Basin in the upper reaches of Fenshui into two relatively independent and closed geographical units with the river valleys in the lower reaches, and only the Fenshui River with rapid flow and dangerous beaches is connected in the middle.

At present, the city in the north of Jinju and the river valley pass formed by the interlacing of the mountains of Mount Taeak, Mount Wangwu and the southwest section of Mount Taihang are currently under the control of the Mongol army.

It is very likely that the Mongol army will try to counterattack after collecting the routed troops according to these walls, especially the speed at which the Mongol army gathers and disperses the cavalry is very fast, which is a factor that Han Qian has to consider.

Due to the narrowness of the gorge north of Yuanqu, in the early stage, in order to ensure that the main force of soldiers and horses could be deployed on the northern slope of Wangwu Mountain in time, almost all the heavily armored infantry soldiers migrated into the predetermined departure combat position, and there were not many military horses inside and outside Yuanqu City.

The full set of heavy armor infantry soldiers is added together, weighing more than sixty or seventy pounds, and in a short period of time, they can rush twenty or thirty miles on foot for a surprise attack, and the strongest main infantry brigade generals can barely support it, but it is a little too difficult to pursue and defeat the enemy in the open river valley from the south of Jiangxian County to the territory of Huo County, which is more than two hundred miles deep.

This is mainly also the fact that the plan has not changed quickly.

When Han Qian and the Military Intelligence Staff Office first drew up the battle plan, they needed to take into account various factors in an all-round way, and it was impossible to think about the good side of the prediction of the battle situation, but it was necessary to weigh the existing military resources in a reasonable manner in the direction of the garrisons of all sides.

In the early stage, it was mainly hoped that the enemy army could be repelled in the Fenshui River Valley, and successfully occupy the cities of Jiangxian, Quwo, Wenxi and Anyi, and even if one of the cities was occupied and a foothold in the Fenshui River Valley, it would be able to gain a strategic advantage over the Mongolian army.

No one had the luxury of expecting such a beautiful annihilation battle this winter.

Considering that the battle of Yiguan was likely to be delayed until the end of the year, it was necessary to leave a cavalry in western Henan to prevent the Eastern Liang Army from gathering cavalry to advance westward after Yingshui was frozen.

Even so, in addition to the summer and autumn, the General Staff Office invested resources as much as possible to promote the cavalry of Shen Peng's troops, and after the autumn, it also asked Zhao Wuji to deploy Shen Peng and Li Xiu's troops and horses in Changge and other places on the northwestern line of Henan, so that they could be quickly mobilized if necessary.

It wasn't until noon the day before yesterday, when it was expected that the Mongolian army would be severely damaged by the foggy weather, that Han Qian temporarily flew the pigeon and gave the order, and Li Xiu and Shen Peng rushed to Yuanqu at the fastest speed to participate in the follow-up pursuit battle.

Of course, Han Qian thought that Li Xiu and the others would not be able to reach Yuanqu in two days at the earliest, and then they would be used to carry out the battlefield sweeping operations, as well as replace the main cavalry force that undertook the main roundabout combat tasks in the early stage, and be responsible for the follow-up vigilance.

Han Qian didn't expect Li Xiu and Shen Peng to abandon the absolutely safe inner line and not go, but directly rode three horses - it was only in the past two years that they were extravagantly moved to such a high-standard configuration for the cavalry troops - from the territory controlled by the Eastern Liang Army and the Mengzhou Army, they rode their horses wildly, drove out three hundred miles in two nights and one day, and arrived in Yuanqu at this time.

A large number of abandoned military horses were directly abandoned on the side of the road, outside the east gate of Yuanqu, and the tired generals sat in the dry grass full of frost in the early morning.

There was no time to go into the city to rest, in order to save time, they didn't even set up a tent, and the generals sat directly on the ground, eating the broth prepared in advance here.

There were also many generals who were crooked, already snoring in the grass wrapped in felt and falling asleep, but even if they slept, they still held the reins of the war horses tightly in their hands.

"......" Han Qian asked people to lead the horse aside, signaling the left and right awake generals not to be disturbed, and there was no need to get up and salute, so as not to alarm the soldiers who were already asleep on the spot, and he and Zhao Ting'er, Xi Ying, Feng Yi, Gu Qian, Qin Wen and others cautiously walked into the city from the middle.

Yin Peng rushed back to Yuanqu City in advance, and Su Lie and others, who had suffered heavy casualties in the early battle, and were responsible for staying in Yuanqu City in the follow-up, were introducing the situation of yesterday's battle with Li Xiu, Shen Peng, and Li Yan and other generals who had grown up in the past few years.

Han Qian walked into the hall of the government office and motioned for Yin Peng and them to continue, and he sat with Zhao Ting'er, Feng Yi, Gu Qian, Qin Wen and others on the side, and did not interfere with their discussion of the military situation.

"......" Yin Peng continued to introduce to Li Xiu and Shen Peng, "Yesterday, taking advantage of the fog battle, a large number of rout troops fled eastward, but after night yesterday, the stars and moon were in the sky, and the rout troops gathered in Anyi and other places one after another. Cao Ba, Zhao Ci, Lu Ze, Zhu Zhen four cavalry, fought for a day and a night, the men were short of horses and sleepy, and then they fought with the enemy cavalry for half a day, and the casualties were also heavy, and they were now withdrawn to Quwo and Jiangxian two cities to rest. If the enemy decides to break through from Quwo and Jiangxian to the north tonight, considering that Wusu Dashi has also gathered more than 10,000 cavalry in Yicheng, we are very likely to lose a considerable part of the victory......"

In the battle of Yiguan, they can be said to have won the battle, but how much success they can get in the end, and whether they can really hit the living force of the Mongolian army, the key lies in the follow-up pursuit and defeat.

In fact, in history, even if the Central Plains Dynasty was able to defeat the invading Hulu repeatedly, it was difficult to successfully fight a war of annihilation because the cavalry did not have an advantage, and it was difficult to inflict heavy losses on the invading enemy.

Although at night, they have urgently sent thousands of military horses to Jiangxian and Quwo, so that some elite infantry soldiers have the ability to pursue long-distance pursuits, but simply chasing and defeating the enemy with horse infantry formation, when encountering a large number of enemy cavalry, they need to dismount and form a formation to have the combat effectiveness to resist the impact of the enemy cavalry, and they will appear quite passive.

In yesterday's battle, however, there were only 12,000 cavalry troops, which undertook the combat mission of covering the flanks and assaulting the enemy's camp in the afternoon, and in the afternoon they undertook the combat mission of cutting and intercepting the enemy's rout.

Even though the Mongol army had suffered heavy losses, and its cavalry troops had even suffered several times as many casualties as they were, as long as half of their cavalry had the ability to continue fighting, the absolute number of their cavalry would still far exceed theirs.

Under such circumstances, it was easy for the Mongol army to take advantage of its superiority in cavalry and delay their pursuing soldiers and horses in the open area north of Quwo and Jiangxian counties, so that more routed troops could find a gap and flee north.

Now for the generals of the Liang army, asking one more Mongolian soldier to escape is equivalent to losing a piece of fat to the mouth, which makes people feel so painful, but they must not only ensure that they eat more results, but also must maintain enough vigilance to not go wrong at the last critical moment, and also have a headache.

Li Xiu and Shen Peng arrived so quickly with more than 5,000 cavalry, and they could enter the Fenshui River valley in the north to participate in the battle after resting for most of the day, which would actually greatly enhance their strength in pursuing and defeating the enemy.

Yin Peng, Su Lie, and even Feng Yi, Gu Qian, Qin Wen and others were quite excited, they didn't expect that Li Xiu and Shen Peng would dare to boldly borrow directly from the enemy realm to shorten the time to come for reinforcements.

"The enemy army will not dare to defend the Wing City, and it will abandon the Wing City, there are two passages to escape, all the way to the north to Huo County, all the way to the east through the Meihe Ancient Road, Qinshui River Valley, and escape into Zezhou, and these two places are also the places that the Mongolian army must defend,"

After Li Xiu received the order letter, he had his prediction of the development of the war in the Fenshui River Valley, and he also had his own considerations about how he and Shen Peng would participate in the war, and at this time he looked at Han Qian and said,

"Intercepting the enemy army in a night battle between Jiangxian and Quwo may not be able to guarantee the greatest result, please allow me and General Shen to lead our troops and horses to attack and seize Meihe and Qinshui, and plug the passage for the enemy to flee east!"

Han Qian looked at the map laid out on the long table.

Huo County is one hundred and fifty miles north of Yicheng, close to Taiyuan Mansion, the hinterland of the Mengwu Southern Courtyard, maybe the reinforcements drawn by Wusu Dashi from Taiyuan Mansion have already entered the territory of Huo County, and it is undoubtedly too risky to rashly send troops and horses to attack Huo County before the situation is discovered.

However, the Meihe River and Qinshui River valleys east of Huo County, located at the southern foot of Taiyue Mountain, are the key passes connecting Hejin and Zezhou, and the most famous battle of Qin and Zhao Changping in history, this area is the main passage of Qin soldiers.

And the soldiers and horses of Zezhou were almost transferred to Jinju and Puzhou to participate in the war by Wusu Dashi before the war.

At this time, it was difficult for Wusu Dashi to recruit many reinforcements from Zezhou to enter the Meihe and Qinshui areas to strengthen the defense of the pass.

And Meihe is only sixty or seventy miles away from Yicheng, and at the same time, they sent cavalry and horse infantry to directly kill the north slope of Wangwu Mountain, and it was only **ten miles.

Li Xiu and Shen Peng rushed over, in order to speed faster, even if they could not carry combat weapons, it was difficult to force the fortification, but as long as they successfully blocked the passage into the Meihe and Qinshui river valleys, and intercepted the routed troops and prevented them from advancing eastward, they could completely set the operational goal.

At this time, there may be no way to prevent some of the Mengwu cavalry from fleeing north along the Fenshui River valley to Huo County, but the enemy's foot soldiers who run with two feet cannot escape into Zezhou from Meihe and Qinshuidong, and they have to walk an extra seventy or eighty miles to escape into Huo County, which is quite their old life.

This arrangement meant that they could not only capture the key point of Zezhou from the east between Mount Taiyue and Wangwu Mountain, but also intercept as many enemy infantry as possible and capture or annihilate them.

The will to take the valley in the upper and lower reaches of Fenshui and annihilate 30,000 to 40,000 enemy troops is obviously different from that of 70,000 to 80,000 enemy troops in the upper and lower reaches of Fenshui.

"It's not too late for the general to rest in Yuanqu for another two or three hours, you go to Wen Bo and see if he agrees with this battle plan," Han Qian said, "I will now hand over the command of the forward troops and horses to him, and you must also be controlled by him." ”

"Your Majesty, Su Lie asked to go with General Li and General Shen to see Governor Wen." Su Lie said.

The wounded soldiers stayed in Yuanqu to recuperate, and he still had 3,000 soldiers to use, and rode directly on military horses from Yuanqu City to the southern foot of Taiyue Mountain, and formed a dangerous formation to intercept the rout of the enemy and snipe the enemy reinforcements from the east, which played a greater role than the cavalry; Su Lie didn't want to miss the final high tide part of the battle......

"Okay, you go to see Wen Bo together, and I'll take charge of Yuanqu for you!" Han Qian said with a smile.

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