The six besieged fortifications in the south of Yuanqu, the guards are only the military attachés at the level of the commander of the middle battalion or deputy general of the Mongolian army, and they originally joined the Mengwu people with Tian Weiye, but in addition to being interested in fame and fortune, how much loyalty can they talk about to the Mengwu people?

Seeing that more and more soldiers and horses of the Liang army poured into the valley in the southern section of Yiguan, the defenders of these six fortifications all chose to surrender one after another.

There is no mercy on the battlefield.

There are still 13,400 elite Jin army veterans in the city, and there are 5,000 or 6,000 strong men available, with enough food, grass, and weapons, and Tian Weiye is definitely a veteran who has to be taken seriously.

Wen Bo didn't want the Xingyang War to pay tens of thousands of elites and tens of thousands of auxiliary soldiers and civilians to die on the battlefield repeatedly, so he directly sent Ma Shou and other Qizhai soldiers totaling more than 4,500 people, and incorporated them into the Yuanqu first camp, intending to drive them to join the city to attack when the time was right, so as to consume the strength of the defenders.

The defenders who surrendered could be treated favorably, but it was only relative, but they were given the title of loose official and raised; For this kind of generals who choose to surrender after being trapped in the city, it is impossible for them to hold the power of the army - there is no shortage of generals in the Great Liang.

Of course, after the formation of the ten first battalions, Wen Bo did not immediately launch a fierce offensive against Yuanqu City, and in the early stage, he still mainly attacked the city with weapons, consuming the enemy's defending materials and equipment, and hitting the morale of the defenders.

In the early stage, Wen Bo focused on the reinforcements from Anyi and Jiangxian to the south.

From Yuanqu to the north, to Anyi, Jiangxian County, Yiguan mainly divides into two forks, but along the road is mostly narrow deep gorge valley.

Xiao Siqing urged the garrisons in Anyi, Jiangxian and other places, including a large number of elite Mongolian cavalry to the south, to go south along the deep gorge and narrow valley, and the cavalry could not give full play to the advantage of long-distance detours.

In such a terrain, the soldiers and horses of the Great Liang are armed with heavy weapons such as strong crossbows and powerful ballistas, but they can exert their combat effectiveness to the maximum, even to the point of terror.

The purpose of besieging Yuanqu City and attracting enemy reinforcements to fight in the deep gorge and valley north of Yuanqu in order to annihilate the soldiers and horses of the Mengwu clan to the greatest extent was the most important strategy of the entire war originally formulated by Han Qian.

In early April, Xiao Yiqing returned to Anyi from Yongzhou.

Although at this time, more troops and horses were continuously transferred from Taiyuan, Shangdang, Tongzhou, Linzhou and other places in the north of Guanzhong, so that the Mongolian army from Anyi and Jiangxian to the south was as many as 50,000 people, but there were already tens of thousands of elite corpses of the Mongolian army in the deep gorge valley between Yuanqu and Anyi and Jiangxian County.

The cumulative casualties of the soldiers and horses of the Great Liang are less than 1,000.

Seeing this scene, Xiao Yiqing had to directly stop his nephew Xiao Siqing, who was about to kill the red eye, and ordered him to change his tactics and build a barrier in the deep gorge valley in the north of Yuanqu, and no longer try to open up the passage to aid Yuanqu.

However, how could Wen Bo ask the enemy army to build overlapping walls in the deep gorge valley in the north of Yuanqu, making it more difficult for them to attack the hinterland of the Fenshui River Valley such as Anyi and Jiangxian in the future?

Wen Bo directly transferred the two reserve brigades on the follow-up reinforcements to the command of Su Lie and Huo Li, and counterattacked in the deep gorge and valley, attacking all the way to the north, and killing in mid-May to the edge of the peaks and ridges at the northern foot of Lishan and Wangwu Mountain.

However, Wen Bo strictly ordered Su Lie and Huo Li not to rashly enter the low mountains and low ridges in the south of Anyi and Jiangxian that were conducive to cavalry roundabouts.

Attacking and capturing cities such as Anyi or Jiangxian is a campaign goal that can only be fought for after the capture of Yuanqu and the gathering of the main force of troops and horses.

At that time, the siege of Yuanqu had lasted for four months.

There is no moat on the periphery of Yuanqu City, in order to besiege the enemy, Wen Bo even dug a long trench more than a deep zhang around Yuanqu City, and cooperated with the ring village and hard fortress to surround Yuanqu City, restricting Tian Weiye from leading his troops out of the city to fight a counterattack or break through, and then unhurriedly set up a whirlwind cannon to smash Yuanqu City.

The city has been repaired several times and is extremely strong, but after four months of bombardment, most of the walls on the southeast, north and south sides have collapsed.

Even if Tian Weiye organized the army and civilians in the city, clamped the city with wooden fences, and then filled it with earth and stones, constantly filling the gaps, it was still dilapidated, and it was not what it used to be.

Under the supervision of Xiao Yiqing, Wang Yuankui, together with the reinforcements transferred from Yanlin and other prefectures in the north of Guanzhong, sent troops to attack Huazhou and Tongguan at the same time, but Huazhou and Tongguan each had an infantry brigade, and Han Qian also transferred three reserve brigades to Jing Zhen's unified control command to defend the western flank of Heluo after the year.

However, as Han Qian expected, Wang Yuankui was appointed as the envoy of the Weinan Festival, and his subordinates moved his family and relatives from Dingzhou, Hengzhou and other places to Yongzhou, and intended to use the Weihe River as a new foundation to operate, so he was reluctant to fight with the elite of the lineage.

Wang Yuankui did not take out the elite of Heshuo to attack the city, the Mengwu cavalry was not good at attacking the city, and the subordinate troops in Yanlin and other places were driven to the city of Huazhou, and the offensive was even more sparse.

Wang Yuankui had nothing to do, and in the end he could only drive the Minyong Ding Zhuang who was forcibly recruited from the countryside to attack the city, so as to resist Xiao Yiqing's questioning of his ineffective attack.

Relatively speaking, it was easier for Kong Xirong to guard Lantian Pass and Deng Tai to guard Luoyang.

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In mid to late June, Lishan, Wangwu Mountain and the southern foot of Taihang Mountain entered the rainy season one after another, and from time to time heavy rain poured, and the mountain torrents poured into the Yuanqu Basin.

However, at this time, all the soldiers and horses built strong fortresses in the valleys and gorges in the north and south of Yuanqu, and completely controlled the middle and southern sections of Yiguan, even if the defenders were released from Yuanqu City, they were not afraid that they would have the possibility of breaking out of the encirclement.

Yuanqu City has plenty of food, and it is only relatively.

The rainy season on the north bank of the Yu River is short and urgent, it ends in mid-July, and the temperature in the mountains is relatively cool, which is suitable for attacking the city, and at this time the food in the city of Yuanqu has also been in short supply, and the defenders will reduce the daily ration to half a catty, and ordinary civilians only give a spoonful of black beans to satisfy their hunger.

At this time, Wen Bo drove the first camp on a large scale, and attacked the city from three sides day and night, consuming the physical strength and will of the enemy army.

The spring-arm bed crossbow and spring-arm scorpion crossbow have much higher accuracy than the whirlwind cannon before they are pushed to the enemy city, and the individual crossbow on the nest car snipes at the head of the city, which can continue to kill and injure the enemy.

By the beginning of August, at the cost of 3,000 casualties, the Xiandeng battalion successfully captured the southern gate of Yuanqu and opened the passage for the elite of the Liang army to enter the city directly from the southern gate.

Tian Weiye excavated the inner ditch on the inner side of the walled city, built the inner side of the inner moat, and also strengthened the courtyard in the city.

To tell the truth, if you storm Yuanqu City in early February, I don't know how tragic the price and sacrifice will have to be paid to take down this city, but Wen Bo dragged it out until half a year later, in mid-August, before he officially entered the city to attack the street fighting.

For a long time, the reinforcements could not be seen moving south, and the morale of the defenders became increasingly low.

From June onwards, food began to run short of food in the city, and the defenders were in a state of semi-starvation for more than two months.

During this period, Wen Bo organized an attack on the city by whirlwind cannons and other equipment outside the city, and never stopped; The first battalion, which was composed of descendants, also had to feint several times a day, just to prevent the defenders from resting.

When the elite of the Great Liang entered the city, they saw that the elite soldiers of Luzhou in the past were almost all skinny and weak, wearing armor weighing fifty or sixty pounds, holding spears and halberds, and their feet were a little floating.

On August 18, Li Zhen personally led the elite to outflank from two roads, raided and killed the Yuanqu County Ya, defeated the elite of the Ya Army guarding the county Ya compound, and captured Tian Weiye, the commander and the defenders in the Zheng Ya Yuan, who made the final resistance.

At this time, there were still more than 6,000 remnants left in Yuanqu City, and at this moment, the will to resist completely collapsed, and they surrendered one after another, ending the eight-month Yuanqu offensive and defensive battle.

With the capture of Tian Weiye, who can be called the first attached general of the Mongolian army, the first phase of the war in Yiguan can be regarded as a temporary end, but the war has not been suspended because of this.

The iron cable pontoon bridge connecting the north and south banks of the tomb has been built, the heavy carriage starting from the north of Luoyang City, all the way can directly transport grain, ordnance and other materials into the city of Yuanqu - Yuanqu to the south to the Mashou Village, as the southern section of Yiguan Cheng, since the Spring and Autumn Period, all dynasties have repaired the post road in the meantime, and even more open than the newly built post road between the tomb and the pond.

After more than two years of rest, the soldiers and horses of the troops, the role of ordnance in the battle is getting bigger and bigger, and the soldiers have been given preferential benefits, and the biggest casualties in this attack on Yuanqu City are mainly borne by the first battalion composed of descended soldiers, and the main force of soldiers and horses finally attacked the city to fight street battles, only to fight fiercely, the casualties are not large, the physical consumption is also limited, and they have not lost the ability to continue fighting.

In addition to making Su Lie and Huo Li, who had undertaken the interception combat mission in the early stage and suffered heavy casualties, withdraw to Yuanqu and Yiguan Zhuzhai to rest and defend, Wen Bo also asked Lin Sheng to lead his troops to guard the pass on the south side of Anyi and contain the enemy army in Anyi.

In late August, Wen Bo led the four infantry brigades of Li Mo, Han Bao, He Liufeng, and Wen Yuan, as well as the cavalry brigades Cao Ba and Zhu Zhen, which were transferred to Luoyang in late the middle of the month, together with two reserve brigades, two baggage brigades, and a pioneer battalion organized by 5,000 soldiers in Yuanqu, to be controlled and commanded by Wen Bo to go north.

At the beginning of September, the Liang army, with a total of more than 55,000 men and horses, crossed the Shuanggou Ridge, entered Tazigou, and arrived in the hills in the south of Jiangxian County.

In the Spring and Autumn Period, the Jin Kingdom built Jiangcheng in the southeast of the Fenshui River Valley and the northern slope of Wangwu Mountain, which was regarded as the national capital; After Qin destroyed the Six Kingdoms, Zhijiang County belonged to Hedong County, and it has been more than 1,100 years.

Jiangxian County is Yicheng County in the northeast, Wenxi County in the southwest, and Quwo County in the north.

Conquer Jiangxian County, climb the main peak of the Purple Mountain on the north side of Jiangxian County, and the Fenshui River, which winds from the north, turns a big bend and turns westward in front of you, until it joins the Yu River from the north side of Puban County.

The valley on the southeast bank of the upper reaches of Fenshui, which is composed of the cities of Wenxi, Quwo and Yicheng in Jiangxian County and the nearby cities, is actually a strategic point that can peek into Pujindu in the west, Taiyuan Mansion in the north, and Fenshui in the east.

In order to ensure that this strategic point was not lost, in mid-August, Wusu Dashi personally arrived in Jiangxian to supervise the battle, and gathered 50,000 infantry and 40,000 cavalry from all directions to concentrate in Jiangxian, and counting the soldiers and horses on both wings, the total number of elite soldiers and horses concentrated by the Mongolian army in the middle and lower reaches of Fenshui in mid-to-late August exceeded 120,000......