Qian Duoduo's soldiers and horses were originally prepared for Mang Duhao, but Ah Re was much more fanatical than Li Mao imagined, in order to pursue him, he actually pressed all the way, completely ignoring the Ziqing rear team, so he only used Zhu Xie Chixin's family, and he successfully completed the task of annihilation.

The Uighurs annihilated the country, the chaos on the grassland reached the extreme, the various tribes were scattered, each fled, it was the middle of winter, lost the baggage, Ah Ge did not dare to return to the grassland, went back only for fear of being starved to death, he followed the advice of his eldest son Dai Dai to go south to occupy Shengzhou, first spend the winter, and then make plans, this is a very normal choice for Ah Ge, but the eagle on the grassland does not know the feng shui of Middle-earth, he unknowingly fell into death.

Knowing that Ah Ge arrived in Shengzhou, Asmang also led his troops to come to rendezvous, Qian Duoduo set up an ambush at the foot of Daqing Mountain, defeated Asmang, beheaded 3,000 people, Asmang led the remnants to flee to the river, no boat to cross the river, the pursuit of the army was tight, then swam across the Yellow River, drowning many people. The soldiers and horses scattered everywhere came one after another, and the soldiers and horses in Shengzhou City jumped to more than 60,000. Due to the lack of food and grass, Ah Re plundered everywhere, but the surrounding area of Shengzhou was sparsely populated and did not gain much.

Li Mao ordered the three prefectures of Lin, Shuo, and Lan near Shengzhou to clear the wilderness, relocate the people, burn grain and grass, slaughter cattle and sheep, and prevent any merchants from receiving Shengzhou, and also transferred troops from Taiyuan, Xiazhou, and Yanbei to strictly defend the enemy in Shengzhou.

The winter of the first year of Huichang was extremely cold, and the grain and grass of Are, which was trapped in Shengzhou, were cut off, and the suffering was unspeakable, and several troops were sent to Lin, Shuo, and Lan to plunder, but there was no one for thousands of miles, and all the villages and towns were burned by the Tang people, without a grain of grain, without a single cow or sheep, and I hoped to be able to buy some grain from the merchants, but found that no merchants dared to come in the direction of Shengzhou.

Because Li Mao had given an order, the garrisons and people in various places could kill and loot at will whenever they saw the merchants going in the direction of Shengzhou, not only were they not guilty but had merit, and all the gains belonged to themselves.

Because of the lack of food, Age secretly ordered the execution of some vassals, which was executed by Asman, and the secret was leaked halfway, and Asmão was killed by the rebels, and Age used this as an excuse to kill 10,000 troops of various vassal tribes, which not only saved food, but also slaughtered their war horses to satisfy hunger, so as to survive this bitter winter.

After a long and cold winter, the hungry and cold Khan of the Hungaries could not wait to return to the steppe, but the way home was not smooth, he was first met with stubborn resistance from Qian Duoduo, unable to cross the Yellow River, and then suffered a series of blows on the way to the west. Ah Ge gritted his teeth, and brazenly ordered to abandon the wounded, sick, old and weak, and attack lightly, targeting Linzhou.

Li Mao stationed heavy troops in Fengzhou, and Linzhou was bound to be empty, so he would fight a city first and slowly talk about it.

This winter, Huang Jiasi discarded nearly 10,000 corpses in the Yellow River outside Shengzhou City, and this time he left nearly 10,000 old and weak wounded, Age streamlined his soldiers and horses and went into battle lightly, invincible all the way, and soon hit the city of Linzhou, the defenders still abandoned the city and left, but what made Age feel desperate was that there was nothing in the city of Linzhou.

Linzhou is lonely, there is no decent city within hundreds of miles around, whether to turn the whole into zero and return to the grassland, or to turn the whole into zero and be a bandit on the spot, after hesitating again and again, Ah Re announced that he would turn the whole into zero, find a way out, and return to the grassland to gather after slowing down.

Ah Ge promoted 12 prime ministers, each with 5,000 people, to occupy a key pass, raise grain and grass on the spot, and target the horse bandit cottage in the northwest of Beijing. The cottage is independent and self-sufficient, neither dealing with the government nor the outside world, it is a foreign people, Li Mao's policy of clearing the field does not apply to them, they are like voles in the field, although the individual is small and long, it is very fat, and killing one is enough to fry a plate. I raided their nests, and it was enough to eat for two days.

The prairie eagle is hungry for food, and its low and noble head is more energetic than that of voles, and although the voles are small, they are also meat.

In the second year of Huichang, in early spring and February, Qian Duoduo led the army to cross the river and besieged Shengzhou, a few days later, the city of Shengzhou turned into a sea of fire, and 10,000 defenders of the city were buried in the raging fire, while the ice and snow had not yet melted, Qian Duoduo urgently disposed of thousands of corpses abandoned outside the city, but more corpses had been discarded into the Yellow River by Aje, becoming the source of the epidemic.

In this year, the governors of the prefectures and counties along the Yellow River received orders from Chang'an and Luoyang at the same time, strictly ordering them to salvage the bodies in the Yellow River and cremate them on the spot to prevent the occurrence of diseases.

Li Mao also urgently asked Jiminsheng Hospital to provide medical support to Hedong, Hezhong, Jingxi and other places to prevent the epidemic from spreading. But it was too late, and after the beginning of spring, there were already small-scale plagues in some places in Hedong and Jingzhao Prefecture, and the source was the corpses floating on the river.

"Ah Ge threw the sick corpse into the Yellow River with the purpose of polluting the river water and causing a plague. He is now in the northwest of Beijing, and it is elusive for us. What do you do in total? ”

Li Mao continued to receive reports of the outbreak of the plague from various places, and he was worried, and his disgust with Ah Ge became worse day by day.

Changmu Cangxian's strategy was to encircle the iron wall: take Fengzhou and the three surrendered cities of the east, middle and west as the northern line, gather heavy troops to garrison, on the one hand, clear the remnants of the grassland enemy, and on the other hand, prevent Are's escape back to the grassland; With Youzhou as the western stronghold, Xia, Sui, and Yinzhou as the southern strongholds, and the Yellow River as the eastern defense line, the garrison of heavy troops trapped Age in a narrow strip of hundreds of miles centered on Linzhou, and slowly dragged him to death.

Chang Mucang's plan is steady and steady, and it is very safe, but it undoubtedly consumes great manpower and material resources, and the effect is very slow. Shi Xiong offered a plan, took Linzhou directly with superior forces, burned the city, went to its stronghold, and then ordered all the troops to take the initiative to attack, piecemeal, and slowly encroach.

Shi Xiong was bold, so he advocated using troops to smash Linzhou and end up Ah Ge's nest, but the battle of Daqingchuan also made him see the terrifying combat power of the new king of the grassland, so he advocated choosing the opportunity to attack, fighting piecemeal, and slowly depleting, but he didn't dare to mention that he was done in a battle and other heroic words.

Qian Duoduo gave a bolder strategy: select the elite, break it into parts, take Feng, Sheng, Xia, Sui, Yin, and You as strongholds, send out to attack, fight chaos against chaos, and destroy the enemy's living forces in the melee.

Zhu Xie's idea was not much different from Qian Duoduo's, but he added one more item: he encouraged the horse bandits who were active in western Beijing to kill Ah Ge.

Qian Duoduo and Zhu Xie Chixin have never confronted Ah Ge head-on, and they have completely annihilated Ah Ge's rear team baggage, maintaining an undefeated record, and having a psychological advantage over Huang Jiasi, so they are bold in their tactics and not afraid of the tail.

Everyone talked endlessly, Li Mao listened carefully, and laughed: "In the battle of Daqingchuan, we suffered a big loss, but we also touched the reality of Ah Ge. Ah Ge claims to have 8 million soldiers, which is to blow all the cowhides. He had no more than 1120,000 under his command, 100,000 of whom were the people of the Tunis, and the rest were vassal tribes. What really made us suffer a big loss and lose face was the elite of the 30,000 Wang Army, which was the real pride of the sky. As for the rest, it is very combative, but not invincible.

"In the sports war on the grassland, we have lost the upper hand, so we have to use tactics to destroy its grain and grass and cut off his back road, which is a last resort. In Shengzhou, God helped us destroy 20,000 of his troops, but with his murderous nature, his own Wang army must still be there, that is to say, the horse bandits south of Fengzhou, north of Xiazhou, east of Youzhou, and west of the Yellow River are the main force of the Wang army that fought in Daqingchuan and fled from the desert. Piecemeal, it is clear that it cannot be left to death. Take the initiative to attack, and if you don't make it, you will repeat the mistakes of Daqingchuan. I'm going to harden the wall and clear the wilderness, and use stupid kung fu to slowly wear him down.

"Elder Chang Cheng is serious, and the strategy he uses doesn't look very long, but it is a ruthless move that must be killed, as long as we persist for a year, a year, and another year, God will help us take off another layer of his skin, people say that the rabbit is anxious to bite people, and the vole is anxious not to bite the eagle, wait until his Wang Jun elite is no longer sharp, and then start to get rid of it."