Yin Mountain?

Shi Xiong listened and looked at Zhang Wei with a puzzled expression.

Compared with the surrounding ones, Yinshan is a mountain range far away from Hengzhou, Shanxi people do not choose other mountains close to Hengzhou, but choose the distant Yinshan, which is not in harmony, "You said that the enemy of Shanxi will hide in Yinshan, why don't I believe it?" Tell me your reasoning. ”

Obviously, Shi Xiong did not believe that the enemy of Shanxi would hide in the Yin Mountain.

Zhang Wei said, "General Shi, didn't we say just now, the current Shanxi enemies seem crazy, but deep down in their hearts, they are actually unconfident and very scared. Now that we have analyzed their inner thoughts, we can understand a thing or two about their practices. ”

"There is some truth in what you said, but even if the people of Shanxi have no confidence in their hearts, why should they hide in the Yin Mountain?" No confidence is no confidence, it does not mean that you have to hide in the Yin Mountain.

Zhang Wei smiled when he heard this, "How much does General Shi know about Yinshan?" ”

Shi Xiong shook his head, "I don't know much. ”

He who does not know is not guilty.

Zhang Wei then said: "Yinshan is the dividing line between our Central Plains and the northern nomads, from here you can attack Hengzhou and Dingzhou in the south, and you can return to the grassland in the north. Before we arrived, the enemy could use Yinshan as a camp and go south to attack the people of Hengzhou and Dingzhou. Once our army pursues them, they can hide in the mountains and forests, deal with our army, and if they win, they can stay in the Central Plains, and if they fail, they can quickly flee north. What does the general think? ”

After listening to Zhang Wei's analysis, Shi Xiong nodded again and again, "What Zhang Duwei said is very reasonable, if I am an enemy, I will find a good way out for myself." ”

Zhang Wei continued: "General, if I guess correctly, the current Shanxi has begun to split internally, although it is crazy on the surface, many people have long wanted to go home. Therefore, the king of Shanxi, Kulimo, will definitely choose Yinshan as his hiding place, in case he can escape at any time. As for the Yanshan or Taihang Mountain that the general just mentioned, I think the enemy will definitely not choose there, because although Yanshan holds Youzhou and Hengzhou, it will also suffer from the two-line attack of Youzhou and Hengzhou. Once the Youzhou soldiers and horses attack from the east and the Hengzhou soldiers and horses attack from the west, then the Shanxi army will fall into the dilemma of being attacked on both sides. Therefore, Curimo would not choose Yanshan as his hiding place. ”

"Well--, what Zhang Duwei said makes a lot of sense. If our army attacks the enemy from both the east and the west, it will indeed be difficult for the enemy to escape. "I am very familiar with Yanshan Shixiong, after all, Youzhou City is at the foot of Yanshan, although this mountain is not big, but once the army is caught in it, it will not be able to get out in ten days and half a month.

The Shanxi army was not familiar with the situation in the Central Plains, so it was best to choose a hiding place where it was best to advance or retreat, and to come and go freely.

With such an analysis, the people of Shanxi will indeed not hide in Yanshan.

Since the enemy of Shanxi will not hide in Yanshan, it will not hide in Taihang Mountain, because Taihang Mountain is relatively southern, and it is already the hinterland of the Central Plains, with Shandong in the east, Shanxi in the west, and Henan in the south. In such a big mountain with a strong terroir in the Central Plains, can the Shanxi people still survive?

Don't say that the officers and soldiers came to chase and suppress, after a long time, the people's hearts were scattered, and the surrounding woodcutters would also pick up the woodcutters in their hands and chop to death a few Shanxi cavalry.

If the Shanxi people still want to live a few more days, it is best not to hide in the Taihang Mountains.

Since Taihang Mountain is not a good hiding place, then Luliang Mountain will not go, because crossing Luliang Mountain is a big river, and crossing the big river is Guanzhong, which is the foundation of the Tang Dynasty.

With Shanxi's troops, it's best not to provoke Datang. A small Youzhou Festival envoy can't deal with it, and he still provokes the Tang Dynasty, is it really impatient?

Ninety percent of the time, military analysis is much stronger than actual combat. Only when the analysis is in place can the army find the correct direction and have the correct operational plan and program.

Otherwise, the enemy is in the west, but you chase all the way to the east with your head black, can you win?

For another example, the enemy has already spread a wide net and is ready to encircle, and you are still happily stabbing into the encirclement with your soldiers.

Now that it has been analyzed that the enemy will hide in the Yin Mountain, now the ** led by Shi Xiong has a direction to pursue.

Yinshan is an important east-west mountain range in northern China, and it is also an important geographical demarcation line in history.

To the north of Yinshan is the Mongolian Plateau, where the main people living are nomads, such as the Xiongnu and Uighurs. To the south of Yinshan is the Hetao Plain, where sometimes it is the Han people, and sometimes it is the northern ethnic group who migrated south, so it has become an important place for the Han people in the interior to communicate with the northern nomads.

For a long time, whoever took control of Yinshan gained the initiative on the battlefield.

At the beginning of the establishment of the Tang Dynasty, the national strength was strong and had absolute control over the land of Yinshan, so that the nomads in the north did not dare to covet the Hetao Plain. But as time passed, the national strength of the Tang Dynasty weakened, and the northern nomads began to migrate south step by step, bringing troops to harass the border of the Tang Dynasty from time to time.

Although the enemy repeatedly invaded the border, Datang also organized several powerful counterattacks, but none of them played a decisive role, so the enemy's arrogance became more and more arrogant, and finally occupied Yinshan and did not leave.

People are good at being bullied, and horses are good at being ridden.

As the saying goes, it's often the truth.

At this time, it was already the middle and late stages of the Tang Dynasty, and those who should be defended couldn't be defended, and others who shouldn't be defended still wanted to seize it.

Now the soldiers and horses of Shanxi, who are being chased by the soldiers of Youzhou in the Tang Dynasty, have no way to escape, and they have come here all the way to the west. The reason why he chose this place as his temporary hiding place was that the idea of King Kulimo of Shanxi was indeed the same as what Zhang Wei analyzed. Because he chose the place of Yinshan, he could advance or retreat, attack or defend, and if he really couldn't do it, he fled all the way north with his few soldiers and horses, and finally defected to the Uighurs.

Anyway, the Datang realm can't stay anymore, and all of its own people are dead, and the rest are strong men, and the Uighurs will definitely take them in. Anyway, you Curimo is already a person who has nothing, and the next time you fight, you will take your own men to give me the lead, you will have food and drink when you survive, and you will have nothing to worry about when you die, and you deserve it.

But even if he thought of dying, Curimo and his subordinates didn't want to die too early, at least before they died, they had to do a good job of harming Datang, who made himself homeless.

You left me homeless, and I made you unsafe.

At this time, Kulimo and his army of Shanxi have been staying here for some time, and they still haven't seen the ** team come over to exterminate themselves.

The ** team didn't kill them, but they had internal problems.

"King, my Shanxi army has been here for some time, and I have never seen the ** team coming, and after these days of slaughter, the people of Hengzhou have not dared to go out of the city, there is no one in the field, and we can't find a target if we want to take revenge! What should we do in the future? The leader of the O'Lost Department said.

"The leader of the Ao Lost Department is right, my army has been out of food for several days, and there are not a few women left to kill. If they can't think of a way, their soldiers will continue to escape. The head of the department and the department also said.

"Hey---" After listening to the words of the two leaders, the king of Shanxi, Kurimo, let out a long sigh.

Since Zhang Zhifang, the deputy envoy of Youzhou Jiedu, led his troops to burn the people of Shanxi in Qilaotu Mountain, more than 10,000 troops of Shanxi have embarked on the road of wandering since then.

When I first slaughtered the people of the Tang Dynasty all the way west from Youzhou, there was still a taste of revenge, and everyone's hearts were also very united, and the killing was also very energetic, but within a few days, there was a murmur in the army.

If there is no food, how can the war be fought?

Since ancient times, the most important thing in marching and fighting is the issue of grain and grass, as the so-called: before the soldiers and horses move, the grain and grass go first.

In order to raid Danzhou, Shanxi's army did not bring much food when it came out, and the old nest was destroyed, and the food source was completely cut off.

If the army runs out of food, it means that the car runs out of gas, can Kulimo, as the king, not be in a hurry?

Although they also robbed a lot of things along the way, they also robbed a lot of Central Plains women, although these women were able to temporarily solve the physiological hunger and thirst of the Shanxi army, but at the same time, they also had to give them food and drink. As a result, the already scarce food has become even more stressful.

Curimo had no choice but to order his subordinates to slaughter the women they had stolen to satisfy their hunger, but what they had stolen was always limited, and if he didn't make blood, blood transfusions alone would be finished sooner or later.

Now, there are not many looted things and people left.

There are no pigs in the trough to attack pigs.

Pigs that don't have food will attack each other, let alone people?

In the case of dwindling food, many of the three soldiers and horses of Shanxi have begun to flee, one today to go, two tomorrow, the ants seem to have to flee, so that the original Shanxi army of more than 10,000 soldiers and horses is now less than 10,000 people.

If you can't think of a way, the few Shanxi soldiers and horses will run out sooner or later.

"Leader Mu Dun will tell me your opinion." The leaders of the two tribes began to pour bitter water on Kulimo, but only Mu Dun, the leader of the Yuan Qi Folding Tribe, who was the most injured, did not speak.

Strength is the basis for speaking, as the so-called weak country has no diplomacy, and people have little to say.

In the case of serious damage to the soldiers and horses, Mu Dun rarely spoke.

Since Curimo asked about himself, let's talk about it, "King, two leaders, what you said makes sense, at the moment our base camp in the northeast has been destroyed, all the people have been killed, and tens of thousands of troops have become homeless wanderers, if we don't think of a way to survive in the future as soon as possible, these soldiers and horses will escape sooner or later, I think we should find a place to survive as soon as possible." ”

A place to live?

All along, the bloodthirsty and belligerent Mu Dun has begun to worry about survival?

"That's right, that's what I'm talking about, if we don't find a place to live within three days, we dare say that half of our soldiers and horses will escape. Without soldiers and horses, what can you do against Datang? As soon as the leader of the Okusha tribe heard this, he immediately said.

"And this Yin Mountain land has already been occupied by the Uighurs, and if we don't find our place of life in time, we will be completely doomed when the Uighurs go south in winter." The head of the department and the department also said.

The Tang Dynasty is difficult to deal with, the Uighurs are even more difficult to deal with, and it is even more difficult to survive if they are caught between the two. The current Shanxi is a mouse sandwiched between the Tang Dynasty and the Uighurs, not to mention the anger at both ends, and there is also a fear for his life.

"Okay, I know everyone's thoughts, and I also know that this Yin Mountain Land is not a place to stay for a long time, you all tell me where we should go?" Curimo said.

Although it seemed okay to stay at the southern foot of Yinshan at the moment, Kulimo knew very well that it was because the Uighurs had gone north to graze their cattle at this time. In the winter, when the Uighurs moved south, there was no way for them to stay in this place.

But at present, although he still has soldiers and horses, he has no cattle, sheep and horses to graze. No horses, no cattle and sheep, no women and children, is this still a home?

Curimo sat in the tent, his otherwise determined eyes revealing a hint of uneasiness and decadence.

Where to go?

The leaders of the tribes of Shanxi, you look at me, I look at you, and they don't speak. They also know that the world is so big that there is indeed no place for them to live.

Since everyone did not speak, Curimo, as the king, could not help but say: "It is really not possible for us to cross the great river to the land of the loop, and we will live in the land of the loop from now on." ”

The land of the Loop?

The king actually wants to go to the Hetao to live?

When the leader of the Ao Lost Department heard this, he hurriedly said: "King, the land of Hetao has always been a place where soldiers must fight, and we will not go back to our homeland, why do we want to go to this place where everyone wants to fight for it?" ”

Culimo didn't speak, he was waiting for the others to react.

Mu Dun spoke, "Hmph, homeland? Do we Shanxi people still have a home? Let me tell you the truth, at this time, the place between Nurur Tiger Mountain and Qilaotu Mountain, except for the corpses, is the army of Datang who goes there every day to inspect it, and besides, at this time, the Duji Department has taken refuge in Datang and is monitoring us all the time, can we go back to that place? ”

After listening to Mu Dun's words, the leader of the Ao Lost Department stopped talking, and the others stopped talking.

According to the current situation, except for the land of the Hetao, Shanxi has nowhere to go.