Sure enough, the news that Dangpinri carried the captured Phoenix Guard's Banner, Cui Yi's head and the troops and horses led by the Yongli Dingsu of Qitai City to join forces in a large-scale southern expedition to Dusk Ling City reached the Xuanwu Guards who had only completed one-third of the journey out of the city and had only completed one-third of the journey to Dashan.

Guan Yuan was shocked by the news sent by the scouts, and urgently ordered the soldiers and horses to stop advancing, Ren Qiang, Xiao Hong, Liu Ding and other generals were stunned and did not react for a long time.

"The Phoenix Guard's fierce general Cui Yi was actually killed by the Funi people and cut off his head?"

"Cheng Boxian and their defeat was too miserable, and they didn't even snatch back the corpse of the general in the army."

……

The generals talked a lot, and they were shocked by the rise of the Funi people in just a few years.

At this time, all the generals and colonies, even Ren Qiang, who had been urging Guan Yuan to enter the army, had no intention of continuing to fight north.

At present, continuing to go north can only lead to the annihilation of the whole army.

At the strong request of the generals, and Guan Yuan was cowardly, he ordered the army to turn around without hesitation, and rushed back to Dusk City without looking back.

Hearing that the Fune army was approaching, Sekihara did not listen to Ren Qiang's persuasion, and with Dusk Ling City far away from the jurisdiction of the Meituo Lake Governor's Mansion, and there was no danger of mountains and rivers, and there were no extra soldiers and horses in the Governor's Mansion to reinforce, it was very easy to fall into the encirclement of the Funi people. Yi did not hesitate to wave his army and evacuate Dusk Ridge City without a fight, and rushed back to Huyin (Harmony) Pass, which was easy to defend and difficult to attack.

Guan Yuan himself ran directly back to Chaonan County, the place of governance, and hurriedly played to King Yan: "Cheng Boxian, the governor of Heishui Governor's Mansion, led the army to fight ineffectively, and frustrated the general Cui Yi in his army, so that our army was almost surrounded by the heavy troops of the Funi people in the Wanda Mountain. When the enemy is strong and we are weak, the ministers must not retreat south with a wave of troops. Seeing that Dusk Ridge City was lonely behind the enemy, it was easy to fall into the enemy's heavy encirclement, and had to withdraw to Huyin (Harmony) Pass to prevent the Funi people from going south to plunder. Please send good generals and send reinforcements as soon as possible to nip the rising calamity in the bud......"

Although there is no obvious abscuration of the responsibility for the defeat, the implication is that Guan Yuan himself did everything he could to fight, but Cheng Boxian was incompetent and defeated, causing him to go deep alone and have to withdraw his army.

Guan Yuan lightly overshadowed his stagnation, and the incompetence of Cheng Boxian led to the failure of this attack, endangering the survival of the two governors.

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Cheng Boxian, who led a defeated army of less than 2,000 and fled back to the westernmost city of the Heishui Governor's Mansion to conquer the city, also urgently played to Li Yu, saying that he was not fully prepared and rashly attacked the Funi people, resulting in an ambush by the Funi people, killing more than 600 soldiers, and losing the general Cui Yi in the army, asking for punishment.

Because Cheng Boxian didn't know that Guan Yuan's troops would not enter Dusk Ridge City for five or six days, he lost two ways to attack, and he failed to realize the plan of attacking all the way and containing all the way, he only had his self-blame in the song, and he didn't even expect that Guan Yuan, who seemed to be honest and responsible, had the cleverness to shirk responsibility.

Pinri did not spend a single soldier to recover Dusk Ridge City, sent people back to report the victory, and smiled at the soldiers and horses under his command: "Guan Yuan is the only one of the Tang Army generals and colonies that I have met so far. ”

Leaving 1,000 soldiers and horses to guard Duling City, Pinri waved his army to invade the south, testing the reality of the defenders of the cities of the Tang Meituo Lake Governor's Mansion, thinking that he would prepare for the southward in the future.

The soldiers of Pinri went to Huyin (Harmony) Pass and found that the Tang Army was well defended, and Huyin (Harmony) Pass was easy to defend and difficult to attack by the mountains and lakes, which was tantamount to a natural danger for the Funi army, which had never had experience in attacking the city.

Scouts and sentinels had to be sent to find other passages to the south of the Meituo Lake, depending on the strength of their defenses.

At present, it is spring ploughing, and Nuo Neng breaks into the vast plains of Meituo Hunan, which have been reclaimed by Tang immigrants, and burns, kills, and plunders, destroying its spring ploughing, which will definitely damage the foundation of the existence of the Tang and Meituohu Governor's Mansion.

However, the scouts explored and found that except for crossing the north shore of the Meituo Lake and entering Meidong County from the northeast of the lake, except for a county town in Meidong, the Tang army had no dangerous location to rely on. In the west, several valleys that broke into the south of the Meituo Lake from the middle valley of the Taibai Mountains were all blocked by the Tang army by the dangerous construction of the mountain.

"Then attack Mae Dong County from the northeast shore of the lake."

Pinri ordered.

"Meng'an, more than 400 miles north of Meidong County, there are nearly 2,000 Phoenix Guards who have fled back from the north. Our army promised to conquer Meidong County, and the Phoenix Guard went south to cut off the retreat of our army. ”

Yongli is worried.

Pinri feels reasonable, Meidong County is located on the southeast shore of Meituo Lake, from the north shore to the south to travel more than 120 miles, the lake shore to the east of the mountains only more than 60 miles along the lake plain, once the back road is blocked, it is really difficult to fly.

"Our army only needs to carry out a feint attack on Meidong County to test the reality of the defenders, and the brigade of men and horses will plunder and destroy the spring ploughing of the Tang people for 60 miles around Meidong County, and the whole army will immediately return north after two days, regardless of the situation."

Two days was only enough to get the news, and the Phoenix Guard, who had set off from Zhengjing City, had walked half the distance and could not intercept him.

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On the ninth day of the fourth month of the second year of the Shangyuan Dynasty, the general of the Funebu Department led the army to plunder Meidong County, the capital of Meituo Lake, killing and plundering hundreds of soldiers and civilians, destroying thousands of hectares of cultivated land, and withdrawing from the siege of Meidong County for two days.

On April 20 of the second year of the last century, the leader of the Funi tribe, who claimed to be the leader of the Heishui Ya tribes, was founded in the city of Funi on the bank of the river, and the country was named Funi. Invite the leaders of the Baishan and Heishui tribes, the white mountain tribes, the Su Mo Ya tribe, the Anche bone department, and the Bolu tribe, and the neighboring leaders of the Huang Tou of Murowei, the Damo Lou Division, the Western Lingxi, the Mengwu Division, and the Luotan Division, and want to form an alliance with the various tribes, and elect them as the alliance leader to discuss the Tang Andong Protectorate whose forces continue to go north.

In addition to the Meituohu Governor's Mansion and the Heishui Governor's Mansion separated by the Andong Metropolitan Protectorate, the Yulou Department and the Motuo Prefecture on the coast of Shaohai and the Cave Speaking Department on Sakhalin Island, the Sizhao Department of the Tang Dynasty, and the Junli Department that was exterminated by the Tang Army, the remnants of the three major ministries of Heishui, Tieli, and Yuexi and their subordinate subdivisions were all annexed by the Funi Ministry.

Among the three major tribes that still maintain independence in Heishui, the Yu Lou Department and the Mo Yu Division, the Tang army has not yet invaded their sphere of influence, and their interests have not been damaged, and they are not willing to respond to the alliance to resist the Tang Dynasty.

In the past two years, the Tang army vigorously invaded Sakhalin Island, built a city on the island and set up a Xuanfu Governor's Mansion to govern the island.

Therefore, the Ministry of Cave Legends strongly agreed with the alliance of the various tribes proposed by Nuo Gejiao, but after the Cave Saying Department Meng'an proposed the alliance, he hoped that Nuo Jiao could send troops to Sakhalin Island to support them in driving out the Tang people, which made Nuo Jiao directly cold-faced.

It is a fool to venture through the Tang Army-controlled area to pass through the risk, and to cross hundreds of miles of mountains, and then cross the sea to Sakhalin Island to support the Cave Department.

The purpose of Nuo Gejiao to convene this alliance is to promote him to become the leader of the alliance after the alliance, gradually annex the tribes, and increase the national strength of the Funi country, but he does not really consume his own strength to support the tribes of the alliance.

The Murowei tribes have always been far away from the jurisdiction of the Tang Andong Protectorate, and there is no major conflict with each other, and the demand for the alliance is not high, so they directly rejected the kindness of Nuo Gejiao.

On the contrary, the Baishan Division, the Sumo Division, the Anchegu Division, and the Bo Du Bo on the border with the Andong Prefecture responded to the call of Nuo Gejiao, and each sent 500 warriors from their clans to join the alliance proposed by Nuo Gejiao according to the agreement made by the upper room, and each department contributed a certain amount of strength according to its own strength to form a coalition army under the command of the alliance leader.

The two thousand elite warriors of the Su Mo Ya warrior were happy in their hearts.