Zhao Anling's logic belongs to going straight to the root through appearances, and the key to the dilemma in one sentence.

At the moment, it is not only Xianguo who is rushing for time, but Changsun Guo is also eager to go south. If Xianguo loses the battle, most of the IQ of the eldest grandson country will also have to suffer defeat, so the time will be handed over to the rebels.

But the Xian army could not hold out, and the Changsun Kingdom suffered a defeat, and its vitality was greatly damaged, and it could not be relieved for at least a few months or even half a year.

In short, exchange the mistakes of the eldest grandson for the time of the Xian army, and exchange time for space, and under the long of the other, the balance of time is tilted in favor of the Xian army.

Bai Liyan and Guan Longxiang's refusal surprised Shentong, and at the same time was extremely annoyed:

"It shouldn't be, Bailiyan has no reason to refuse. Isn't he afraid that after a long time, the eldest grandson army will attack Ganfu first? ”

At this time, Yin Qu guarded Song He said:

"Heavenly King, will Bailiyan have other plans, and then to Shao Ping, with a cavalry commander, go straight into the rear of our army to attack the city and seize the land, and transfer the main force of our army from the front."

"Not really." Shen Duchi denied: "Shao Ping is in the land of the Xianjun army, and it is still possible for him to open the city gate by fraud." Now it is really on the territory of our army, and it is deep into the hinterland of our army, how can we not know. Besides, in the first battle of Shaoping, the Xian army had no more than 30,000 soldiers, but 60,000 horses. One of them alternated with two horses, and traveled 200 to 250 miles a day, and our army could not catch up, and now it did not have 50,000 war horses, how could it get rid of our cavalry. ”

"But they have powerful crossbows, and their horses are better than our army, they run fast, they have strong endurance, and they release cold arrows while running, and our army may not be able to parry." Song He Dao.

"General Shen has obtained well, Bailiyan will not go deep alone." Shentong affirmed Shen Duchi's statement, and then continued: "In the battle of Shaoping, the Xian army harassed the rear of our army in order to cut off the supply of our army, and the attack on Shaoping was to plunder the population.

Now the cavalry of the Xian army only has one war horse, and our army only needs to follow behind it and not only fight, and Bailiyan has no choice but to do it, whether it is plundering or attacking the city, it will not succeed.

However, it is really incomprehensible that he refused the opportunity to fight a decisive battle with our army, but to say that Bailiyan has no tricks, this Heavenly King does not believe it. ”

"Heavenly King, do you want to make a feint to Lin Tai and test the reality of the Xianjun?" Shen Duchi suggested.

"No, you rate all the cavalry of the headquarters to the southeast of Lintai, the twenty-five Tianhuo of the Xian Army will arrive at Lintai in these two days, and the Bailiyan cavalry is shining in the city at this time, and most of them are about to return to Lintai, you quickly go to rob and kill the Tianzhenhuo, don't ask for capture, just blow it up."

"The last will obey."

The first batch of artillery transported from Yongxing City to Lintai should end the two-month stress relief in mid-February, carry out the final flaw detection and test work, load it at the end of February, and arrive at Lintai at the end of March and early April.

Shentong knew that the Xian army's artillery was powerful, and seeing that Baili Yan was not hit, he couldn't let the artillery fall into the hands of the Xian army smoothly.

After Shen Duchi left, Shentong said to Song He again:

"General Song."

"What does the King of Heaven command?"

"Has the morale of the army in the city fluctuated recently?"

"Respect the Heavenly King, since the Xian army sprinkled the notice into the city, all armies and battalions have been discussing, and the last general has severely punished dozens of people who spread rumors."

"This is not enough, you quickly go and move all the centurions and thousands of commanders in the city to Fengqing, Ganfu County, and those who do not obey will be punished for collaborating with the enemy."

"The last will obey."

Fengqing is located on the east bank of the Sishui River, is the county capital of Ganfu County, is a strong city since ancient times, easy to defend and difficult to attack. The terrain is like Xiangyang, surrounded by water on three sides, only the south gate close to the river beach has a path less than 100 steps wide, the path is submerged in the water every rainstorm, and a wooden bridge is required to pass in and out.

In order to prevent the generals from rebelling and defecting to the enemy, Shentong forcibly moved his family to Fengqing as a hostage.

Not long after Shen Duchi's departure, Bailiyan was still surveying the terrain in the city and had not returned.

The terrain of Zhaocheng is very special, the surrounding hills are dense, so the city walls of Zhaocheng are built on the hills, which are irregular heptagonal, and there are only three city gates, which is not conducive to the assembly and development of the siege army, but the local frequent hills and forests remind Bailiyan of Qiubigong.

Able to hold the Khubigon, the dam of the Northeast Trail played a decisive role, and it was several floods that blocked Temir's ferocious attack.

"General Ye, look." Baili Yan pointed to the valley and said: "This valley is only ten miles away from Zhaocheng, if the road leading to Zhaocheng within ten miles can be opened, the water of the southeast Qing River will be introduced into the valley to store water, and then the water will flood Zhaocheng, and Zhaocheng can be broken in a battle." ”

"But the last general surveyed the Qing River, the Qing River is much lower than this valley, even if it is flooded, there is no possibility of flooding into the valley, and this water flows to a low place, how can it go to a high place. When you want to build a city according to the city, you must know this principle, otherwise you can build the city on a high place. ”

"It's good for the water to flow low, but we can build a dam on the Qinghe River to raise the water level, and then build a southeast path into the valley, introduce it into the valley, and then build a dam at the outlet of the valley, so that the water source can be fixed in the valley."

"Our army has built a dam to store water in the upper reaches, and the lower reaches of the Qing River are bound to be cut off, what if the rebels in the city are detected?"

"Absolutely not." Bailiyan affirmed: "When the water is stored, the cofferdam is built layer by layer, and only a gap is needed in the middle, how high the cofferdam is, and the gap is lowered by half a zhang to stack up, so that the cofferdam is slowly built upward, the water continues to flow, and the cofferdam shines up."

And now the peach blossom flood has arrived, the river water has increased greatly, and the downstream will not notice anything unusual for a while, and when it is noticed, our army has already filled the mountains with great water, and what can the defenders of the city do. ”

"I see, that's ......" Ye Xin suddenly realized: "This method is really clever, then people will be immediately transferred to the mountains to build a dam and store water, and the water will flood the city." ”

"No, after our cavalry retreats, a group of men and horses from Lintai will come here to besiege Zhaocheng and secretly build a dam. Now that I am mobilizing troops, I suspect that I have a plan. ”

As the two spoke, the scout hurriedly reported:

"Deputy Marshal Qiqi, late yesterday afternoon, more than 30,000 enemy cavalry suddenly came out of the Yin Canal and rushed straight to the southeast."

Ye Xin was taken aback when he heard the news:

"Oh no, the black turban thieves must be running for our army's baggage and artillery. Deputy marshal, it's still too late for our army to chase after Xing at this time! ”

Bai Liyan shook her head and said:

"Now to chase, at least more than half a day's distance, until our army arrives, the horses are exhausted, which is not conducive to the development of our army's tactics. Under the battle to the death, the best result is also a defeat for both sides, and the divine power sees that our cavalry is still in the city, and it must have calculated the endurance of our army to sneak attack.

He was afraid that our army would have a new twenty-five artillery pieces, and this time it was determined to win. The best result is that our army will return to Lintai at once, repair and recuperate for a day and night, and when its cavalry can return, our army will attack again, and there is still a possibility of a battle. But in this way, most of the artillery and baggage will be destroyed by the enemy, and even if our army can win the cavalry battle, our army's losses will still be greater than that of the rebels.

Let's go and return to Lintai at full speed. ”

"No!"

After more than 10 years of development and rectification, the bronze weapons and light leather armor eliminated by the front-line garrisons were fully reequipped with civilian soldiers, and the militias were armed and escorted by themselves, and the 10,000 infantry troops and 20,000 armed civilians were responsible for escorting 25 artillery pieces and baggage, and they had a strong ability to resist cavalry attacks and harassment by relying on heavy vehicles and horses.

However, this was before the advent of gunpowder, and after the advent of gunpowder, the princes, including the rebels, equipped the cavalry with explosive and incendiary throwing weapons, and the tactics of the Xian army in the south were increasingly popularized by the princes and rebels in the Central Plains.

When everyone learns to use cavalry to intersperse and disturb the baggage and grain routes, this nature will change from I have you and you don't have it, to the result that everyone can do it, and it will not work if you fight all over the world.

Zhaocheng is more than 180 miles away from Lintai, Ye Xin's cavalry is equipped with the best Central Plains war horses, the fastest 150 miles a day, no matter how fast, the horses will lose weight and be seriously injured, and the heavy ones will be injured and run away from the war horses.

In view of this, Bai Liyan led the escort to rush back to the Lintai camp that night. Seeing Jiang Jie and others outside the governance office, Bai Liyan turned over and dismounted and stepped forward:

"Mr. Zhao and Mr. Guan Long can be in the office?"

"The two gentlemen are waiting for Master Hou in the office." Jiang Jie said quickly.

Bai Liyan pulled the armor and let out some heat, and handed Fei Yu to Jiang Jie:

"Feed all the healthy BMWs polished rice tonight and some salt."

"No!"

After instructing Jiang Jie, Baili Yan kept going to see Zhao Anling and Guan Longxiang. Seeing Baili Yan returning to his place, Guan Longxiang hurriedly said:

"Deputy marshal, you are finally back, the rebel cavalry has arrived in Zhongtan, I have ordered Xiao Qu to lead 50,000 troops to chase, I am afraid that the day after tomorrow will be able to catch up."

"Where is the baggage now?" Bailiyan asked, coming to the topographic map of the mountains and rivers to find the location of Zhongtan.

At this time, Zhao Anling said:

"The news came five days ago, the baggage has just crossed the Sanshui River, if it is slow, it should be in Pingchang County today, faster, and it will not be more than 30 miles away from Zhongtan. If it's in Pyeongchang County, it's only fifty or sixty miles."

Find Zhongtan and Pyeongchang on the map, Zhongtan is the landform of the hilly forest plain, and no one lives here, it is very conducive to ambush and cavalry combat, Lintai is one hundred and thirty miles away from Zhongtan, one hundred and eighty and ninety miles away from Pyeongchang. Most of the rebel horses were middle- and low-class war horses, and the two armies walked in the opposite direction, and it did not take half a day.

"Mr. Guan Long, have you sent a herald to send a police message?"

"After discovering the enemy situation yesterday night, the armed battalion sent two horses to report the news, and they should be able to arrive yesterday."

"Then there is no problem, after the heavy man gets the letter, he will immediately retract to Pingchang County to standby, and he will not rush out of the city, I am afraid that the supernatural power will suffer a loss this time. However, for the sake of safety, the Japanese marshal personally led people to Pyeongchang, and Mr. Guan Long ordered General Ye's cavalry to assemble near Langqiu to block the rebels' retreating cavalry. ”

The important news communication of the Xianjun army has basically realized the speed of one horse traveling 300 miles a day and four horses traveling thousands of miles a day, so that the horse is not tired and can be used for a long time.

The armed battalion was equipped with more than 200 horses, and the Xian army did not know the details when they first arrived in Lintai, and rashly attacked the baggage team, which did not take into account the variables of the armed battalion.

However, the heralds of the Xianjun army are all trained in the armed battalions, and as long as the manpower is sufficient, they usually convey a message in groups of two, with an interval of 100 steps before and after, even if one is stopped, the other is mostly unstoppable, and the riding is a thousand miles away, and it is impossible to catch up.

(End of chapter)