Late at night.

A sharp knock on the door woke the emperor.

"Your Majesty, Dingxiang has an urgent military situation, Jieli successively broke through Dingxiang Tucheng and Dali City, Shunguo Gong Luo Simo was defeated and captured, nearly 20,000 soldiers under his command were lost, and Jieli also slaughtered more than 20,000 women and children in the two cities."

The emperor had not yet completely woken up from his sleep, but when he heard this, he couldn't help but stand up suddenly.

"What about the heirs?"

"General Siye is still stationed in Yinshan Baidao, and now he has been completely isolated from the outside world."

Luo Cheng paced on the ground barefoot, both angry and shocked.

I thought that Simo and Siye had been guarding for more than a month, and it would be okay to hold on to it a little longer, who could have known that there was good news coming from Hebei just now, but this Dingxiang had fallen again.

Jieli was really vicious, killing him 20,000 Dingxiang soldiers and slaughtering two cities.

"I swear to kill this captive!"

"Your Majesty, after Jieli slaughtered Dali, he took the wife of Shunguo Gong, Yang, canonized her as Turkic Kedun, and then led his troops to commit suicide Hu Guan crossed the Great Wall and went to the clouds."

Luo Cheng sighed again and again.

"Liu Hongji is in danger!"

Originally, Liu Heimin and other 100,000 people surrounded the clouds, and Liu Hongji was guarded by 8,000 people, which was quite critical, but it was only because the four coalition forces did not have a tacit understanding, and the weather was very hot, so they have survived until now.

But now that Jieli's nearly 200,000 troops are heading south, how can this Cloud City be defended.

Although the Qin army had already recovered Shanggu, it also captured Zhao County and Xiangguo County.

However, in the north of Taiyuan and in the west of Taihang, there are four counties, namely Loufu, Yanmen, Mayi, and Zhuojun, which are in the hands of the rebels, and Yunzhong County has been deeply besieged.

"General Liu Hongji sent a flying pigeon letter, saying that he swore to survive and die with Yunco, fight to the last soldier, and never surrender."

Luo Cheng still has a good impression of Liu Hongji, he is a general under the command of Heiye.

In today's situation, it is no longer time to fight hard.

"Jun Xian, you immediately find a way to contact Liu Hongji and Siye, let Liu Hongji break out of the Great Wall from Niupi Pass, go to join Heiye, don't fight with the Turks and rebels, let them withdraw to Huaihuang first, it is really impossible to retreat into the Xi realm, if there is no supply, you can use the Xi realm to return to Beijing."

"Your Majesty, do you want to give up Saibei?"

"Of course I won't give up, but it's just a temporary strategic detour." At this time, Luo Cheng was absolutely unwilling to waste their inheritance in vain.

The emperor stayed awake all night, and sat in front of the map and pondered all night.

Dawn.

The emperor summoned the generals who accompanied him in Taiyuan.

"Presumably, you should have heard the news that the army of Shunguo Gong Luo Simo was defeated, and the 20,000 horses under his command were all gone. Jieli even broke the earth city and the city of Dali, and slaughtered more than 20,000 people in the two cities, the crime is extremely evil, and now the arrogance is arrogant, and has crossed the Great Wall to kill Hukou to rush to the clouds. ”

"I have ordered Liu Hongji to break out of the fortress from the cowhide pass, go to join the heir and retreat to Xi Realm to wait."

"Your Majesty, the old minister thinks that now that the Turks and rebels are on the cutting edge, it is better to avoid their edge for the time being. You can hold on to Taiyuan and Shuntian, defend according to the big city of Xiongguan, defend against the attack, and use the city to thwart the enemy's attack. ”

It was the veteran Wei Wensheng who spoke.

At present, he is serving as Luo Cheng's military secretary, and his speech is still very insightful, the Turkic army is 200,000, and Liu Wuzhou and Chai Shao have 200,000, not to mention Gao Tansheng and Dou Jiande's soldiers and horses.

Now Liu Wuzhou has taken advantage of the dangers of these Xiongguan passes, and almost all of the north of Taiyuan have fallen, and for Daqin, the danger of the Great Wall Pass is now in the hands of the enemy, and if it is attacked out of Taiyuan, it will be unfavorable to the Qin army.

If you retreat and defend Taiyuan and Shuntian, you can rely on the two important towns of Taiyuan and Beijing to hold on, and take the three passes of Baoma Pass, Bauhinia Pass and Jundu Pass as the front block.

Attack and defense change the situation, with the help of the power of defense, change offense to defense, and put people behind.

No matter how powerful the Turkic cavalry corps was, there was little room for power in the face of these dangerous passes.

It's just that this old and steady opinion did not get the emperor's consent.

"Jieli took away my Dingxiang Dao, and even slaughtered more than 20,000 people in my two cities, and beheaded 20,000 of my soldiers, which is a great shame and humiliation that I have never had since the founding of the Great Qin. Jieli rode on my head to and pee, and I still have to turn my head to avoid him? No, what right does he have to provoke me? I don't want to wait any longer, I'm going to fight back now! ”

The Emperor presented his counterattack plan directly to the generals, which was the result of his hard work last night.

"Zhao Gui led an army of 50,000, one army from Han and one army from Fan, and sent the army to attack the two thieves of Zhuojun Gao Tansheng and Gao Kaidao, and recapture Zhuojun and Huai Huangland."

"Feng Xiaoci led an army of 50,000 horses from Han and Fan, one army from Shanggu out of Bauhinia Pass, one army from Boling County out of Ma Pass, attacked Lingqiu County of Yanmen, Hedong, and attacked Liu Wuzhou's rebels."

"I, personally led the 200,000 elites gathered in Taiyuan, and the troops left Taiyuan to attack Xinkou and enter Yanmen."

Wei Xuanwei Wensheng couldn't help but persuade.

"Your Majesty, although our army occupies the three inner passes, it is dangerous to cross the Taihang, the road is dangerous, and it is extremely difficult to supply and transport logistics grain and grass. What's more, there is still Dou Jiande in Hebei, and he has to be guarded against. ”

But the emperor had already made up his mind.

"Dou Jiande has handed him over to Wei Wang Cunxiao and Zhao Wang Shixin, Shandong and Liaoning, two soldiers and horses, will attack Hebei together, sea and land together, he will be dragged in Hebei."

"Your Majesty, even if you break through Xinkou, Yanmen is dangerous, easy to defend and difficult to attack. At that time, hundreds of thousands of horses of the Turkic Shibi Khan failed to break through Yanmen. Wei Wensheng continued to persuade.

"Old General Wei, if I give up outside the gate like this, I am afraid that the counties outside the gate will be completely gone, even if I take it back in the future, it is estimated that it will become a wasteland, that is hundreds of thousands of lives, all of them are my people, I can't ignore them."

Of course, as the emperor, Luo Cheng has another layer of consideration.

If Jieli is allowed to occupy the place outside the pass, there will be a very bad impact, that is, it will greatly increase Jieli's prestige, so that he can make a name for himself in this comeback.

Li Yuan, Dou Jiande, Liu Wuzhou, Gao Tansheng, Liang Shidu and others will be more colluded with the Turks.

In this way, Jieli can form a stable and powerful anti-Qin force by pulling these sons, from Guanzhong in the west to the sea in the east, such a powerful force united, even if it is Luo Cheng, it is unbearable.

Therefore, he must take advantage of the fact that this alliance is not yet stable, and immediately raise his sword to cut it off.

In particular, it is necessary to kill Liu Wuzhou and recapture Dingxiang Dao, so that Li Yuan and Dou Jiande can be separated and broken.

There are 36 miles of ditches in the military capital, there are 18 panlings in the Fallen Horse Pass, and the Bauhinia Pass is also in danger of the situation of mountains and rivers.

Tactically this is true, but strategically it will be infinitely passive.

It is necessary to strike in order to gain the strategic initiative.