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In the afternoon, the dry and cold wind crossed the peaks and ridges of Luliang Mountain and Taiyue Mountain, and blew into the Fenshui River Valley, completely blowing away the fog and vapor that had become a little thin.

At this time, many simple camps in Jiangxian County and Quwo were almost broken, and there were corpses everywhere, and more generals fled to the periphery like headless flies.

Wusu Dashi knew that if they held on to Jiangxian County, not only would it be impossible to gather the scattered soldiers and horses, but once they were surrounded by the Liang army, they would definitely be unable to fly.

Of course, He Liufeng, Zhao Ci, and Tan Xiuqun led 13,400 elite infantry to ride into the city of Jianjiang County, and Wusu Dashi did not dare to take out the last 6,000 elite in his hand to fight, but just peeped into the gap, killed out of Jiangxian County, and broke through all the way to the north, and when they fled to Yicheng County in a hurry, the sky was already dark.

The frightened cavalry entered the city to rest, Xiao Yiqing sat in embarrassment, looking at the sky to the west, the clouds seemed to be shrouded in purple haze and purple haze, and faintly bloody light, as if it was an omen of this bloody disaster.

At present, there is news that the two cities of Quwo County and Jiangxian County have fallen, but almost 70,000 or 80,000 Liang troops have entered the river valley on the south bank of Fenshui, and after occupying the two cities of Quwo and Jiangxian County, they have cut off the battlefield on the south bank of Fenshui, but they are not satisfied.

Near dusk, the Liang army also divided two groups of soldiers and horses to cross the Fenshui River, and drove to the two cities of Jishan and Gaoliang, where there were no defenders on the northwest side.

In the middle of the night, Wusu Dashi gathered the soldiers and horses that had fled in the south of Yicheng County, plus the original defenders of Yicheng, there were finally more than 14,000 soldiers and horses available, but at this time, I don't know how many soldiers and horses fled to Anyi, Pujin, Linyi, Wanrong and other counties in the east.

Xiao Yiqing wanted to cry without tears, but he never thought that Liang Jun would predict the fog in advance, and make all preparations for launching this assault before the fog rose.

As he had guessed before, after the raid, more than 3,000 generals of the Luoyang Navy landed under the cover of fog and laid an ambush in advance on the post roads in the three directions of the cavalry camp to Quwo, Yicheng and Wenxi.

When Minshan, Zhehe and other generals learned that the Liang army took advantage of the fog to launch a surprise attack, they were also worried that the Liang army would directly kill the cavalry camp, and even before the order of Wusu Dashi came, they each led the cavalry to abandon the simple camp and evacuate to the two wings along the post road.

They wanted to avoid the surprise attack of the Liang army from the south, but they didn't want to run into the ambush laid by the generals of the Luoyang Navy who landed on the shore.

Under normal weather, the generals of the Luoyang Navy did not wear heavy armor, and there were not too many heavy land weapons, and the defense line deployed by the post road in a hurry could not be very strong, and perhaps the cavalry could be easily penetrated by gathering cavalry for one or two assaults.

However, in the dense fog of the early morning, the enemy cavalry was completely unaware of the reality of the ambush in front of them, and dozens of cavalry were knocked down by head-on arrows, and quite a number of cavalry companies and horses were tripped by tripping ropes, and their hooves were pierced by iron nails, and they were immediately deterred, and they did not dare to rush forward in the confusion.

The soldiers were panicked, panicked, hesitated and did not dare to advance, and saw that the Liang army in the rear was suddenly attacked, and after a short battle, they completely dispersed in the fog and fell into a melee in their own formations.

Of course, the Mengwu cavalry, brave and good at fighting, left the post road in the chaos and rammed through the surrounding fields and river beaches, and it was relatively easy to distance themselves from the Liang army.

The scattered Mengwu cavalry, some of them gathered in Jiangxian according to the vague impression, some of the more intelligent ones evacuated along the banks of the Fenshui River to the north or east, and a considerable part of the cavalry wandered around in the fog like irrelevant flies.

Fortunately, on such a large area of the battlefield, the fog was thick, and the Liang army had to take the sentinel as a unit in the early stage, gather together as much as possible, and advance and retreat along the streams and canals and other obvious markers, and could not be scattered at will.

This made the gap on the battlefield still larger, and a considerable number of Mughal cavalry were able to rely on their speed and mobility to successfully break through.

The vast majority of the routs collected by Yicheng at this time were the cavalry of the Mughal tribe.

The terrain east of Jiangxian County is more open, and Xiao Yiqing believes that the number of cavalry who can escape to Anyi, Pujin and other places will be larger.

However, the Yanyun Han Army, the Bohai Affiliated Army, and the Affiliated Jin Army, which were mainly infantry soldiers, had weak ability to intersperse in a roundabout way, and they were also easy to be chased and surrounded by the Liang army, and it was really unknown how many of them could escape from the Liang army's encirclement in the end.

And this directly determines how hard the blow they will suffer.

The biggest problem now is that they don't have the ability to fight back in a short period of time.

In the melee, the Liang army must have suffered a lot of casualties, but it must have been much lower than them.

More importantly, the morale of the two sides and the will to fight of the generals are very different at this moment, not to mention that the war materials they have assembled in Jiangxian and Quwo have all fallen into the hands of the Liang army.

They did not have the ability to counterattack Jiangxian and Quwo, and if they could not withdraw the soldiers and horses that had fled to Pujin, Anyi, Linyi and other places as soon as possible, they would be doomed to become the turtles in the urn of the Liang army.

It's just that Pujin, Anyi, Linyi and other places are bordered by Fenshui in the north, Xiangshan in the south, and Yuhe in the west, while Jiangxian and Quwo in the east have been occupied by the Liang army, how can they withdraw?

"With Minshan and Xiao Siqing, tomorrow night we must break through to the northwest from Jiangxian and Quwo, and I will personally lead the cavalry to meet them......" Wusu Dashi Tie blushed, holding the saber on his waist in his hand, in order to ensure that his hands did not tremble, and he kept calm as much as possible and asked the secretary next to him to draft military orders.

At present, only Minshan and Xiao Siqing sent people from Linyi and Anyi to contact, but another cavalry general Zhehe in front of his tent has not heard from him, I don't know if he was separated from his own pro-army, and at this time he was still trapped in the encirclement of the Liang army, or that he had been killed or captured.

Now they don't know when the Yu River will be completely frozen, if at this time they order that the soldiers and horses west of Jiangxian County should be concentrated in Pujin (Puzhou City) on the bank of the Yu River, it is very likely that before the Yu River is frozen and let them break through to Guanzhong to meet Wang Yuankui, the Liang army has already surrounded Pujin City.

When the time comes, can they expect Wang Yuankui and Wang Xiaoxian to launch a desperate launch to relieve the siege of Pujin?

Realistically, while the Liang army has not yet been able to fully control the areas south and east of Fenshui, the Liang army at this time has not been able to block the valley on the southeast bank of Fenshui to the point that there is not even a gap, and the soldiers and horses west of Jiangxian County can break through to the northwest at night, not only can more cavalry escape to meet, but also bring a considerable number of foot soldiers out of the encirclement.

Of course, they

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You can't stay in Wing City for too long.

Yicheng County is located on the east bank of the upper reaches of the Fenshui River, the surrounding terrain is open, they have lost the ability to fight with the main force of the Liang army, even if they can gather forty or fifty thousand remnants of the army, thinking of defending Yicheng, it is a dead end.

First, it is difficult to transfer a strong enough reinforcement from Taiyuan, Zezhou, and Luzhou in a short period of time, and the reinforcements that rush over are weak, and they will only be eaten by the Liang army at ease.

The second is that Yicheng is located in the fringe area of this battle, the city is low, there is a shortage of materials, and it is not a place to defend for a long time.

They had to rush before the main force of the Liang army went north, and a part of the troops and horses withdrew to Huoxian County, one hundred and twenty miles to the north, and took advantage of the dangerous terrain there to defend the gateway north to Taiyuan along the Fen River Valley; It is necessary to divide another part of the troops and horses to withdraw to the Taiyue Mountain, eighty miles east of Yicheng, to guard the gateway to Zezhou along the Meihe Ancient Road.

Only by holding these two passes and blocking the passage of the Liang army to the north to Taiyuan and the west to Zelu can we not be defeated and confused, and only then can we have the opportunity and time to recruit more troops and horses from Taiyuan, Jinnan, Heshuo, Yanyun, and Bohai.

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Mengzhou and the southern Jinzhou and eastern Puzhou battlefields where the two sides were fighting fiercely at this time were separated by Wangwu Mountain, which stretched for 200 miles.

There are two main ways for Mengju to communicate with Jinju:

One is to take the narrow road on the south slope of Wangwu Mountain on the north bank of the Yu River, and go north through Yiguan.

The second is from Heqing County in the north of Mengzhou City, through the southern foot of Taihang Mountain, through Jincheng and Qinshui, and through the Qinshui River Valley through the Linggu at the intersection of Taiyue Mountain and Wangwu Mountain, then you can enter the territory of Yicheng County in the south of Jinzhou.

After Tian Weiye and his subordinates were annihilated in Yuanqu City, Lü Qingxia and Yao Xishui did not go north to stay in Puzhou and Jinzhou, but returned to Mengzhou.

In Wusu Dashi's plan, he predicted that the Liang army might not dare to launch a battle in this winter, and it was very likely to use the dangerous terrain of Wangwu Mountain and Lishan to build a fortress and confront the main force of the Mongolian army.

Wusu Dashi planned so, but Han Qian did not show weakness, and after September, he was extremely determined to recruit troops and horses from the prefectures and counties of Liang State.

Although half of the more than 100,000 Liang troops assembled in Yuanqu in early October were reserve brigades with weak combat effectiveness, Han Qian's determination to conduct the battle could not be ignored.

Although Han Qian's determination to launch a battle cast a shadow on the hearts of Zhao Mengji, Lü Qingxia and others, they also clearly realized that after so many troops were transferred, the defensive strength of the Liang army in western Henan and other places had become quite weak.

Perhaps the deeper the shadow in his heart, Zhao Mengji, Lu Qingxia, Yao Xishui, and Zhou Yuan are all more eager to look forward to this year's Yuhe River being frozen earlier.

In this way, they could unite Zhu Rang and Xu Mingzhen to send troops to Xingyang, western Henan, and Huainan as soon as possible, forcing Han Qian to withdraw his troops from Yuanqu.

Perhaps because of his anxiety, Yao Xishui felt more and more that Xiao Yiqing and Liang Shixiong's strategy of deciding to dig the river embankment and build a dam downstream of Wuzhi to cut off the river and force the Yu River to flow into Yingshui was too misguided.

Before noon, she asked Lu Qingxia to send someone to Taihang and go to Jinzhou to inquire about the progress of the war, but she didn't want the Wuzhi garrison on the south bank to send several horsemen to tell the Liang generals Li Xiu and Shen Peng to lead five or six thousand cavalry in the early morning, and in the early morning, they crossed the Shaying River and entered the territory of Weishi County, southwest of Bianliang.

Yao Xishui didn't particularly care about it at the time, and he didn't think that this had anything to do with the war north of Wangwu Mountain, but he just thought it was an attack launched by the Liang army in western Henan.

The Liang army specifically paved the ability of the floating stack to pass through the floodplain, even if it paved the floating stack dozens of miles long, it was extremely time-consuming and laborious, but it gave the Liang army the ability to attack and harass the east coast.

This kind of attack happened seven or eight times before the autumn of autumn, and Lu Qingxia didn't think there was anything to make a fuss about.

Even if they didn't think that the Mongol army would definitely win the final victory in this battle, but Wusu Dashi gathered 120,000 elite soldiers and horses, including more than 50,000 elite cavalry, in the valley on the south bank of the upper and lower reaches of Fenshui, and they absolutely did not believe that the main force of the Mongol army had been defeated at this time.

In the afternoon, I heard a report that Li Xiu and other cavalry were approaching the south bank of the Yu River, Yao Xishui and Lu Qingxia had not thought of sending people to Wuzhi and Bianliang on the south bank to observe the enemy's situation, but climbed the city tower very casually.

The letter was correct, they climbed the city tower, and saw a vote of people from a distance, densely stubbling appeared on the embankment on the south bank of the Yu River in the east of Wuzhi City.

Although the distance is far away and the banner is not clear, it can also be confirmed that it is the soldiers and horses led by Li Xiu who crossed the Shaying River and entered the territory of Bianliang in the early morning.

Yao Xishui remembered the situation when she got along back then, full of bitterness, but she knew in her heart that from the moment Li Changfeng died in Jinghaimen, they were the sworn enemies of the remnants of the Li family.

"What's the matter, did Li Xiu want to run over to provoke, or did they retreat to Changge and was blocked by the generals under Zhu Rang?" Zhou Yuan looked at the scene in front of him and asked suspiciously.

Yao Xishui looked at the southwest Tiger Prison Pass and Xingyang City, but he didn't expect that the Liang army's naval army stationed there showed signs of dispatch, and he was also full of confusion, the Liang army's naval division did not cross the river and approached the north bank to cooperate, Li Xiu led a cavalry to go around such a long road and enter the territory of Mengzhou, what was he going to do?

To say that Li Xiu's passage to withdraw to Changge was blocked, Yao Xishui didn't believe it.

After Liang Shixiong and more than 20,000 Wei Bo elite soldiers were annihilated in Xingyang and Mi County, Zhu Rang seemed to have 60,000 or 70,000 soldiers and horses in Bianliang and Wuzhi, but there were not many field elites, and they might not even be as good as Xu Mingzhen, who was guarding Zhuzhou County on the east bank of the whirlpool.

It was hard for her to imagine that without the cooperation of the Mengzhou Army and the Shouzhou Army on both wings, Zhu Rang was determined to mobilize all the garrisons near Bianliang to encircle and annihilate the five or six thousand Liang cavalry.

In the seventh year of Yanyou, Xiao Yiqing recruited tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians, between the north side of Wuzhi City and the east of Mengzhou, transported earth to build a dam to cut off the Yuhe River waterway, so that the Yushui riverbed east of the dam has dried up for several years, which made Li Xiu lead his troops to appear near the embankment on the south bank of the Yuhe River, and can pass through the dry riverbed at any time and directly enter the territory of Mengzhou on the north bank.

At this time, the horn sounded above the gate tower of Mengzhou City, and several teams rode to Qinyang in the northeast and Heqing in the north to warn.

Before this, no one thought that Li Xiu would lead such a Liang cavalry to break into Mengzhou.

At this time, Mengzhou City seemed to be a little scrambling.

Zhao Mengji hurriedly climbed the city tower, his face was gloomy, and he looked at his eyes

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hesitated, Yao Xishui guessed that he was probably hesitant to send troops out of the city, cooperate with the Eastern Liang army on the south bank, and encircle and annihilate Li Xiu's troops in the Yushui riverbed, right?

Without waiting for Zhao Mengji to make a decision, he saw that the cavalry on the south bank had already broken down the dry riverbed in groups, and saw hundreds of thousands of war horses roaring, and soon entered the barren land on the north bank.

Liang Cai first occupied a low-lying area west of the Nanguan River, like a torrent, more and more people and horses gathered.

"Those idiots in Wu Zhi, what kind of bullshit information did they send someone to pass on?" When more cavalry entered the north bank, Zhao Mengji shouted anxiously.

Yao Xishui also understood why Zhao Mengji was so anxious at this time.

The Liang cavalry who entered the north shore first were all one person and one horse, and they looked like standard harassment cavalry, but when they saw the teams of war horses and military horses entering the north shore behind, many people realized that something was wrong.

According to a rough estimate, the Liang cavalry that entered the north shore under the leadership of Li Xiu was almost a three-horse ride.

This is standard for ranged runs.

The intelligence sent by the generals of the Eastern Liang Army guarding Wuzhi City before noon ignored this crucial detail, so that they always thought that the Liang army that had entered the east bank of the Shaying River would at most attack and harass in Weishi County, and they did not think that it might enter Mengzhou at all.

At this time, the Liang army sent five or six thousand cavalry, bringing so many replaceable military horses and war horses into the territory of Mengzhou, what did they want to do?

Yao Xishui and Lu Qingxia looked at each other.

In addition to being equipped with double war horses or military horses, the five or six thousand cavalry obviously did not carry any weapons, and the sailors of the Liang army in Xingyang and Hujiao Pass showed no signs of going out, so it did not look like they were going to raid the cities of Mengzhou, Heqing, and Qinyang.

However, even if the Eastern Liang army did not come to the north bank to reinforce, even if Zhao Mengji was weak, he could gather 40,000 soldiers and horses in Mengzhou, how could the cavalry of the Liang army, which called 5 or 6,000 people, enter a no-man's land in Mengzhou?

In a hurry, Zhao Mengji was unable to organize strong enough soldiers and horses to go out of the city to fight in formation, and then the general led a horse infantry out of the north city and rushed to reinforce the Shuiying Dazhai in the northeast to strengthen the defense.

He was still worried that Li Xiu led this Liang enemy over, and it was the naval army that Benmengzhou was disabled after the Battle of Xingyang.

However, Li Xiu led the cavalry into the north bank, not to the north, but along the north bank of the Yu River westward, with lightning speed, sent troops to seize the Nanguan River pontoon bridge in the southeast of Mengzhou City, in addition to a group of cavalry galloping to the south gate of Mengzhou, the main cavalry is from the south of Mengzhou City westward, to the south of Wangwu Mountain......

"Han Qian transferred Li Xiu's soldiers and horses to reinforce Yuanqu?" Yao Xishui looked at Lu Qingxia and Zhou Yuan in amazement and asked.

From the narrow ramp on the north bank of the Yu River on the south slope of Wangwu Mountain to the west, it is the direction of Yiguan to Yuanqu, and the main force of Liang Cavalry goes to this direction, and the destination is naturally Yuanqu.

A cavalry of about six or seven hundred people was separated from the main force of the Liang cavalry, and at this time they came directly to the south gate of Mengzhou, and Li Xiu obviously used this cavalry to prevent them from sending troops from Mengzhou City to attack their flank.

Zhao Mengji's face was also full of doubts, and after he did not order troops to attack his flank, he soon saw that the cavalry behind the palace stopped six or seven hundred steps away from the south gate of Mengzhou.

The Liang cavalry, led by the cavalry, approached, pulled the horse lance in front of him, and then took off his helmet, revealing a young, thin face.

Seeing this person's face clearly through the bronze telescope, Yao Xishui's eyelids couldn't help but tremble twice.

Li Changfeng's second son, Li Yan.

Yao Xishui still remembered that when the palace changed, Li Yan should have been only sixteen years old, but he didn't expect that he would now become the cavalry general of the Liang army.

At this moment, Yao Xishui also understood that Li Yan deliberately took off the helmet in front of them, as if he could feel the suppressed and gloomy hatred in Li Yan's eyes, and his mind was suddenly stunned for a while, and he directly led his troops to the west before he came back to his senses.

Although Mengzhou is at the southeast foot of Wangwu Mountain, it also built several barriers to station elites according to the dangerous terrain to control the narrow river channel on the southern slope of Wangwu Mountain.

However, these fortifications are mainly to prevent the Liang army from the west, and all the whirlwind cannons, bed crossbows and other weapons are deployed in the southwest direction, where would you expect that there will be an elite cavalry, interspersed from east to west?

After a long time, the guards over there sent men to ask what was going on, and they even wondered if the soldiers and horses passing in front of the wall were the enemy.

Zhao Mengji didn't realize at first that Li Xiu led his troops into Mengzhou, and only took the route to Yuanqu, and did not send people to report the news to the Fangzhai over there.

When Li Xiu led a large force into the north bank, he sent scouts in advance to block the channels in the south and southwest of Mengzhou City, and Zhao Mengji had not yet realized this, and the vigilance of the western villages was even lower, and he only woke up when the cavalry of the Liang army approached.

However, the defenders of the western villages did not dare to go out of the village to fight in a hurry, and it was too late to adjust their weapons, so they watched in horror as a large group of cavalry swarmed through the gentle slope in front of the village, which was only three or five hundred paces wide.

Yao Xishui was still a little confused at this time.

Even if it was confirmed that Han Qian was transferring Li Xiu to reinforce Yuanqu, he couldn't figure out why Li Xiu risked passing through the western part of Bianliang and the southern part of Mengzhou?

If you go this way, it can be much faster, after all, from Changge to Xingyang and Xingyang through the post road of the Tiger Pass, there are many sections of the road through the floodplain, and the horses cannot be galloped.

Honestly walking along the post road, from time to time there will be chariots and horses coming from the opposite direction, and a large-scale cavalry force can travel hundreds of miles a day to reach the sky.

What's more, if you don't want to waste time from the mouth of the Yiluo River to ferry against the water, you have to go around the post road at the southern foot of the mountain to the bridge in the territory of Michi, and you have to detour nearly 100 miles.

In contrast, Li Xiu led his troops to be extremely bold to move through the territory controlled by the Eastern Liang Army and the Mengzhou Army, and he could ride three horses to replace him, and perhaps he could reach Yuanqu early tomorrow morning, which would save two days of time than taking the southern route.

The problem is that Han Qian has more than 100,000 soldiers and horses available in Yuanqu, even if he is defeated and urgently transferred to Li Xiu's subordinates, it will not be of any use?

Yao Xishui was about to ask something, and saw Zhao Mengji going downstairs from Dengcheng Road with a gloomy face......

......Seeing this scene, Yao Xi woke up in shock for a moment, the Mongolian army had been defeated, and Han Qian needed to urgently mobilize more cavalry in order to chase and kill in the Fenshui River Valley?

How can it be?

The Mongolian army in Jiangxian and nearby, can gather 120,000 elite soldiers and horses, Wusu Dashi is personally in Jiangxian County, the battle has only started a few days, and even both sides have not put the main force into the battlefield, the Mongolian army was defeated?

And if this is not the case, it can't explain why Li Xiu led a cavalry of five or six thousand people to risk passing through the territory of Mengzhou!

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