At the beginning of September, there was already a slight chill in Luoyang City, the grass blades began to wither, and a gust of wind blew, and the yellow leaves blew off.

Tian Weiyexuan stood in the hall with his head high, his eyes were constricted, and he looked at the people in the hall calmly, without much consciousness of being a prisoner, and he also glanced at the battle map hanging on the west wall of the hall with interest.

Han Qian was wearing a vermilion python robe, sitting behind the imperial case of Lingyun Pavilion, and also looked at Tian Weiye, medium in stature, without too much bravery, if he hadn't deliberately retained his self-righteous dignity, in terms of appearance, it could be said to be quite ordinary.

However, such a person was inconspicuous when he was a military attache of the guard next to Shi Chengyuan, the king of Jin Lu, and then because his sister Tian was the concubine of the king of Jin Lu, he was appointed as Sima of Luzhou, the envoy of soldiers and horses, and the assassin of Luzhou, and even was despised by other Jin generals for a time.

King Lu rushed to Taiyuan Mansion to compete for the throne, and stayed in the field to guard Luzhou.

Tian Weiye's real fame was still under the siege of Zhu Yu and the elite of the 100,000 Liang army, and he held Luzhou City for more than a year, and never asked the Liang army to enter the city.

Because the food in the city was exhausted, Tian Weiye led his troops to surrender to the Mengwu people in Luzhou City.

Lu Wang Shi Chengyuan was furious because of this, and pushed the concubine Tian and Tian Weiye's wife, children, mothers, and nearly 300 Tian relatives who moved into Taiyuan at that time, to the Taiyuan city gate and beheaded their bodies.

This also eventually led Tian Weiye to lead his troops into Taiyuan City first, and finally drove King Lu Shi Chengyuan, his children, and concubines to the Jin Palace, and burned them all to death, completely burying the foundation established by the Jin Kingdom in just 20 years.

After that, Tian Weiye was even more willing to be the minions of the Mengwu people, all the way to capture Jin, Pu, Yan, Lin and other prefectures, and finally he led his troops to capture Yongzhou City, which can be said to have made great contributions to the southern invasion of the Mengwu people.

Victory and defeat on the battlefield are common people, and all the generals and ministers have refined an iron-blooded heart in such a world, and they also look at the cruelty, blood, and even thousands of deaths on the battlefield.

Even if Tian Weiye was willing to be used by the Mughu, the Liang generals who died under Tian Weiye were by no means a small number, but even Gu Qian, Jing Hao, Han Yuanqi and others did not advocate the death penalty of Tian Weiye, and even advocated the surrender of Tian Weiye.

This is to respect the strength he showed on the battlefield.

There is no shortage of famous ministers and generals in Daliang, even if Tian Weiye is recruited, Han Qian does not know that as a lonely person, he can really have some loyalty to Daliang in his heart, and it is impossible to use him to take charge of military affairs again.

However, Han Qian considered that even if Tian Weiye bloodily slaughtered Shi Chengyuan after the capture of Taiyuan Mansion, he could still gain ordinary sympathy and recognition in the Jin Kingdom, and Tian Weiye's surrender would still weaken the will of the Jin army and people to resist.

Since Liang Taizu Zhu Wen originated in Hehuai, the two armies of Liang and Jin have been fighting in the north and south of the Yu River for nearly 40 years, and the intensity of the war is more than that of Liang Chu and far more than Liang Shu.

The military and civilians of Liang and Jin can also be said to be feuds.

As a result, when Chen Yuanchen's troops and horses tried to infiltrate the densely populated mountains at the southern foot of Taihang Mountain, they were met with quite strong resistance, and the current effect was not ideal—this is no longer explained by the strong power of these mountainous villagers.

Tian Weiye and his prisoners mainly came from the eastern foothills of Taiyue Mountain, the northern slope of the southern foot of Taihang Mountain, the western foot of Taihang Mountain, and the Shangdang Basin.

Wen Bo assigned his soldiers to the Xiandeng camp and drove them to the city to fight to the death, out of tactical considerations, so as to effectively reduce the casualties of the elite of his headquarters.

Han Qian did not object to his decision, but wrote to Wen Bo privately, hoping that he could be lenient and strict with these soldiers, especially those who had experienced three charges, and should be treated as elite soldiers, and even those meritorious soldiers who had a strong desire to return to their hometowns should be entangled and let go.

Han Qian did this out of strategic considerations.

Only after effectively reducing the will of the military and people to resist in the southern and middle of the Jin Dynasty can infiltration and guerrilla warfare be used in the mountainous areas at the southern foot of the Taiyue Mountains and the Taihang Mountains, so as to make preliminary preparations for the subsequent weakening and expulsion of the rule of the Mughurs in this area.

The role of infiltration operations cannot be overlooked, except for the Northern Expedition from Yiguan and especially the delay of enemy reinforcements into Yuanqu in the early stage of the war, in addition to the heavy snowfall, the soldiers and horses that entered Lishan and Wangwushan in the early stage were indispensable.

Regarding Tian Weiye's surrender, Feng Yu and Gu Qian advocated that he be awarded the title of General of Germany from the Sanpin Wusan Official, given a mansion, and raised him in Luoyang City first, but in order to show his attention to the surrender of the Jin army, Han Qian specially summoned him in Lingyun Pavilion.

Just looking at him like this, Han Qian said a few words of comfort happily, and allowed him to retire.

"Tian Weiye didn't show much interest in this combat map." Watching Tian Weiye leave under the "escort" of the guards, Feng Yu turned his head and glanced back at the combat map beside him, and said with emotion.

What really gives Han Qian a headache at the moment is how to advance the second phase of the Northern Expedition.

He directly summoned Tian Weiye in Lingyun Pavilion this time, and also intended to reflect some of the follow-up combat plans of the General Staff Office on this combat map, so as to test Tian Weiye's reaction.

To say that at present, he has a very clear understanding of the soldiers and horses and the combat strength of both sides, Tian Weiye must definitely be counted among the people.

After seeing this combat map, the subtle reaction between Tian Weiye's expressions could intuitively reflect his prediction of the victory or defeat of the follow-up battle between the two armies.

However, Tian Weiye's performance was much calmer than everyone imagined, or Tian Weiye deliberately wanted to reflect his dignity as a general, but he was neither arrogant nor humble, so that everyone did not gain much.

Han Qian looked at the map of the west wall and fell into deep thought.

Usu dashi

More than 120,000 elite soldiers and horses were assembled in the Fenshui River Valley, including 50,000 elite cavalry of the Menggu tribe, and their combat effectiveness should not be underestimated.

In addition to the early years of Mengwu in Yanyun and Bohai to develop smelting engineering, these years the southern courtyard moved to Taiyuan Mansion, the scale and level of engineering have made great progress, even if there are no sprung arm crossbows and other sharp weapons, but the overall equipment level is not low.

In the Fenshui River Valley, where the terrain is relatively open and conducive to the coordinated operation of infantry and cavalry, if the scale of soldiers and horses is comparable, the Daliang soldiers and horses are equipped with the latest spring-arm weapons, but the advantages they can play are also quite limited.

What's more, the disparity in strength between the two sides is so great.

The Great Liang counted the soldiers and horses in Jiangxian, the southern part of Anyi and the territory of Yuanqu at this time, and there were only more than 65,000 soldiers at present.

However, Han Qian had no better choice than to go out of the northern slope of Wangwu Mountain to engage the enemy army in the valley on the southeast bank of the upper reaches of the Fenshui River.

First of all, he could not withdraw his troops from the northern slope of Wangwu Mountain.

In that case, if Wusu Dashi gathers such a large army, even if he is afraid of the disadvantage of the battle in the deep gorge and valley, he will not directly enter Yiguan from the north and recapture Yuanqu, and it is very likely that after winter, he will cross the Yu River and Weishui, and join Wang Yuankui's troops to attack Huazhou and Tongguan.

And he did not withdraw his troops from the northern slope of Wangwu Mountain, but it was not a good strategy to confront the soldiers and horses led by Wusu Dashi at the northern foot of Wangwu Mountain and in Jiangxian County.

Dragged to the cold winter season, their defense on the eastern flank was empty, and it was easy for the Eastern Liang army to take advantage of it - they directly attacked the core area controlled by the Mughurs this time, showing such strong combat effectiveness and combat will, Zhu Rang and Xu Mingzhen should choose to fight hard.

And this year, the news that the soldiers and horses of Daliang went directly north from Yiguan and wanted to take the Fenshui River Valley directly should also be transmitted to Shuchu at this time - this battle is the embodiment of Daliang's strength and confidence, so far nearly 40,000 enemy troops have been annihilated, and almost all of the elite soldiers of Luzhou who once swept through Hedong by Tian Weiye are enough to completely reverse Chushu's views on the situation in Heluo.

When such news reaches Shuchu, it will inevitably cause extremely complex psychological changes such as Shen Yang, Yang En, Du Chongtao, Wang Yong, Cao Gan, Jing Qiongwen and other cadres.

If the confrontation at the northern foot of Wangwu Mountain drags on, the psychological changes of the people of Shu and Chu may gradually evolve into a substantial and subtle change in the relationship between Shu Chu and Daliang.

There is still a fight, but the key is how to fight?

"Where are the two cavalry of Zhao Ci and Lu Ze now?" Han Qian asked suddenly.

"New news just came at noon today, the front and rear feet of the two cavalry have arrived in Ruyang and Songyang, and they will be able to reach Luoyang in two days." Yin Peng said.

For the next battle, Han Qian transferred Zhao Ci and Lu Ze's cavalry from Chengzhou back to Luoyang, so that together with Zhu Zhen and Cao Ba, who had already gone north, they would have a total of more than 12,000 elite cavalry available on the northern slope of Wangwu Mountain.

In addition to Li Xiu also led a cavalry to garrison Chenzhou, the more than 12,000 elite cavalry is almost the result of the Liang Dynasty in the past few years to smash the pot and sell iron to build a cavalry force - in fact, there is no need to smash the pot and sell iron, every year from the Song Domain, Qishan to introduce thousands of excellent war horses, the number of war horses is sufficient, but the generals who are good at riding and shooting are still insufficient.

The combat area before the Great Liang also limited the play of the cavalry, and the expansion of the armament in the early stage was dominated by heavy infantry.

In the open Fenshui River Valley, the Liang army took the infantry brigade as the main force, and the dreadnought enemy cavalry attacked from the front, but when fighting in motion, it was still necessary to have elite cavalry to cover the flanks.

Of course, to overcome the lack of cavalry, more light chariots loaded with crossbows would be deployed on both flanks.

What is more critical at the moment is to mobilize and requisition more troops and horses to fight in the north.

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In October, the streams flowing in the Fenshui River Valley have been frozen, the leaves and grass are withered and yellow, and the mountains at the northern foot of Wangwu Mountain are full of sparse branches and leaves, and the sky and earth are shrouded in a dark yellow hue.

Thousands of soldiers and horses fought out from the walls and canyons at the northern foot of Wangwu Mountain, like a blue-black flood, flowing quietly on the open river valley plain.

Prior to this, more than 400 warships of the Luoyang Navy had turned north from the north side of Tongguan along the Dahewan of the Yu River.

At the northeast foot of Xiangshan, there is a bridge built in the former dynasty across the Yu River, connecting this Pujin ferry, which has been famous all over the world since the Qin and Han dynasties. This bridge is made of an arm-thick iron cable connecting the pontoon boat, and the two sides of the river are pulled by four iron oxen weighing 100,000 catties.

Although each bottle of iron oxen is cast in parts and sections one by one, and finally merged into one, it can also be called the most in the world; Each bottle of iron oxen is also staked with seven iron pillars.

Puzhou City, which is 20 miles east of Pujindu, is the side gate of Guanzhong, and has the first lock of Yin in the customs of Hedong and Heshuo land road, and is called Guanzhong Yaojin with Tongguan on the south side.

Luoyang|The navy naturally did not have the ability to attack Puzhou City at this time, even if it went against the current, when it was close to the Pujin Bridge, it was also against the arrows and stones of the Mongolian army guarding the bridge, risking to hover the warship in the turbulence, and then using the general to cut off the iron cable little by little with a giant axe, destroying the bridge, opening it and continuing to go upstream, until it entered the Fenshui River.

Xiao Yiqing accompanied Wusu Dashi to stand on the top of the Purple Mountain on the north side of the county, frowning and looking at the Fenshui River bay twenty miles away.

"Did Han Qian really think that victory was already in his pocket?" Usu Dashi's deep voice carried a hint of irrepressible anger.

The streams and rivers in the Hehuai territory will not be frozen one after another until mid to late November, but the east of the Yu River, Heshuo and other places will be earlier, and even the cold current in the north will come suddenly, and the Fenshui will be frozen at the end of October, which is also an extremely common thing in the past fifty or sixty years.

At this time, the navy detoured hundreds of miles of waterway and entered the mouth of Fenshui Dawan on the west side of Quwo County, which means that this winter Liang army

If the main force cannot open the passage from Jiangxian, Quwo, and Wenxi to the southeast bank of Fenshui, the Luoyang Navy will most likely annihilate the entire army in Fenshui.

All this in front of him also reflects the determination and confidence of the Liang army to fight and win the final victory.

Xiao Yiqing didn't know if Han Qian had swelled to the point of arrogance, but he could clearly feel that the faces of the generals beside him were gloomy, or there was more or less a bit of melancholy in the pupils of his eyes.

This is not a good phenomenon when the battle is about to begin.

Xiao Yiqing couldn't say anything about it, the loss of Yuanqu and the capture of Tian Weiye and the annihilation of his subordinates were already shadows that were difficult to remove in everyone's hearts.

However, none of this was something he had not anticipated and worried about.

He even suggested early on that the soldiers and horses of Puzhou and Hejin should be replaced by foot soldiers who were better at defending the walled city, and more walls should be built in the deep gorges and valleys south of Jiangxian and Anyi to defend them.

However, whether it was the Yanyun Han army or the annexed army of the Bohai Kingdom, they could not be trusted by the Northern Courtyard, and the rumors that Wang Yuankui, Wang Xiaoxian, Tian Weiye and others bribed the Northern Escape Shi clan to seek Guanzhong and Hedong were also spread wantonly among the nobles of the Northern Courtyard.

Even if Wusu Dashi finally insisted on conferring Wang Yuankui and Wang Xiaoxian as envoys to Weinan and Fengxiang, he hoped to recruit more soldiers from the Jin Dynasty and transfer the Yanyun Han army into Hejin to be under the command of Tian Weiye to strengthen the defense of Yiguan, but he was finally stopped by the Northern Yuan.

The North Court insisted that half of the garrisons in Hejin and Puzhou must be elite cavalry of the Mughal tribe.

This made the Liang army cross the Hebei to attack Yuanqu at the end of last year, first Xiao Siqing and others were worried that the cavalry would not be able to enter the mountains to fight, and failed to resolutely resist the attack of the Liang army's small force of soldiers and horses, and sent reinforcements into Yuanqu to meet Tian Weiye, and finally the pass north of Yuanqu was blocked, and they could only watch Yuanqu City was besieged for seven months and finally fell.

Yuanqu was destroyed more than 20,000 soldiers and horses, is the most elite of the Jin land, under the leadership of Tian Weiye, first defended Luzhou City, so that Liang Emperor Zhu Yu turned his troops and lost, and then fell into Taiyuan City, buried the last foundation of the Jin State, and then Keyan Lin Yongtong Prefecture.

Tian Weiye was captured, the main force of his troops was annihilated, and there were more than 10,000 remnants left to defend Anyi and other cities, how could the morale of the generals not be heavy?

Any army with more than 10,000 troops will give people a sense of boundlessness, not to mention that the total number of troops invested by both sides in the river valley southeast of Fenshui will exceed 200,000.

Even if the Luoyang Navy did not break through the blockade and enter the Fenshui River Valley, as long as Han Qian was determined to launch a battle, it was destined to be a never-ending duel.

After all, the pass valley in the south of Jiangxian County is only two or three hundred steps.

Such a wide opening is enough for an army of more than 10,000 people to enter and exit, but for the Liang army, which has at least 80,000 or 90,000 people entering the Fenshui River Valley to fight, once the battle is lost, so many men and horses want to retreat from such a narrow opening into the peaks and ridges at the northern foot of Wangwu Mountain in a short time, it is very easy to form fatal chaos.

Xiao Yiqing originally thought that Han Qian would take this factor into account, considering that they were gathering superior forces in the north, and would not dare to fight in a hurry, and would choose to confront them.

Now it seems that he still underestimated Han Qian and Liang Jun's determination and confidence......

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"I'm just in charge of sending you reinforcements over, and by the way, I'll help boost your morale, but how to fight this battle is still ...... you and the generals in the forwards."

Han Qian was dressed in a scarlet coat, and when he arrived in early October, he gave people the feeling of cutting his face, and stopped at a mountain, looking at the vast scenery in the Fenshui River Valley, and said to Wen Bo.

In addition to Feng Zhang, He Liufeng, Dou Rong, and Dong Tai's four integrated infantry brigades, the other 40,000 reinforcements were recruited and mobilized from the refugees in eastern Henan who had fled to western Henan and Nanyang in the past two years, and rushed over after being incorporated into eight reserve brigades.

These 40,000 reinforcements have barely received a four-month training, and their combat effectiveness is naturally far inferior to that of the main infantry brigade, but this is already the limit of the current situation to send reinforcements to the Yuanqu front.

After all, Shu and Chu abided by the peace agreement, and there was nothing abnormal this winter, but the east and west flanks still had enough soldiers and horses left to resist the offensive of the Mongolian army in Guanzhong and the Eastern Liang army.

Of course, he ordered the Luoyang Navy to break through the blockade of the Mongol army and enter the river bay in the north of Quwo and Wenxi counties in Fenshui in advance, seemingly preparing to block the retreat of the defeated enemy, and strive for the most fruitful and charming results in this battle as much as possible.

But in fact, Han Qian made this deployment when the battle was unfavorable.

Once the battle is lost, it is difficult for the soldiers and horses to enter the hinterland of the Fenshui River Valley to retreat south from the narrow valley mouth, and then they can still kill all the way to the south bank of the Fenshui River, and after meeting with the naval army, they can retreat from the western foot of Xiangshan to the north side of Tongguan, so that the battle will not be lost, and the main force will be surrounded and annihilated in the Fenshui River Valley.

Therefore, this battle must be decided before Fenshui freezes.

Han Qian personally came to the front to supervise the battle, but still handed over the command of the battlefield to Wen Bo and Guo Ke and other generals.

In fact, more than 200,000 soldiers and horses entered the battlefield on both sides, covering nearly 100 miles.

No matter who it is, whether he, Wen Bo, or the general of the enemy army, it is difficult for him to control the course of the war in general.

In the early stage, it was quite impossible to smoothly put all the troops and horses into the predetermined place of battle according to the plan, and when the battle was at its most intense, it was more dependent on and testing the command ability of the commanders and military attaches at all levels.

If this battle can be won, Daliang will lay the foundation for expelling Hu Lu and Dingding Central Plains, and if it fails, the business of the past three years will be ruined, and the situation may even be worse.

No matter how good Han Qian's heart is, there is no way to stay in Luoyang and wait quietly for the final outcome of this battle......