Hundreds of thousands of cavalry of the Khitan, Baitan, and Limo tribes have not retreated dozens of miles north of Qishankou, which made Liu Ji dare not be careless, in addition to letting the various cavalry battalions and infantry battalions here in Qishankou seize the time to train, Liu Ji also ordered the three newly built infantry battalions from the four counties of Yongjing County to be transferred to Qishankou to increase the strength of Qishankou. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Liu Ji and his generals believed that the hundreds of thousands of cavalry of the Khitan, Baitan and Limo tribes would not retreat, and it was very likely that after the retreat of the six tribes of Loufu, Wuheng, Rouran, Donghu, Ding Ling, and Shatuo, Yeluqi, the Khitan right-hand king who was the leader of the Hu Alliance, was unwilling to defeat and prepared to continue to attack the Ji'an army with the armies of the Khitan, Baitan and Limo tribes.

And now the reason why the hundreds of thousands of cavalry of the three tribes have not moved, it may be waiting for reinforcements sent by the Khitan tribe, after all, the Ju'an army has shown strong combat effectiveness in the previous bloody battle, and the ten tribes alliance army has such a huge force, but it has not captured Qishan Pass, and now there are only hundreds of thousands of cavalry of the three tribes left, if there is no follow-up reinforcements, it is a fool's dream to conquer Qishan Pass.

The conjecture of Liu Ji and the generals under his command is very close to the facts, but the real reason why Yeluqi, the Khitan right rite king, has not sent troops to continue the attack on Qishankou is that he has not yet received a reply from his father, the Khitan Great Khan Yelu Enemy Lie, and I don't know if Yelu Enemy Lie agrees, he led the cavalry of the Khitan, Baitan and Limo tribes to continue to attack Qishan Pass.

However, Liu Ji's plan to increase troops soon came to naught, and the three newly built infantry battalions in the four counties of Yongjing County had just received the order to rush to Qishankou, and a new order from Liu Ji was sent to the four counties of Yongjing County, and the three new infantry battalions immediately canceled their plans to go to Qishankou, and all of them gathered in Xizhucheng, which was closest to Xuju County in the Western Regions.

On the night of May 28, 427 of the Great Jin Dynasty, in the camp of the Qishankou Jue'an army, Liu Ji gathered many of his generals into his tent.

Liu Ji said to everyone in a deep voice: "Everyone may know that there is already a war in the Western Regions, but it is not the Gaochang army that has launched an attack on our Hawks' Army, but the westward expansion army of our Hawk'an Army, which has taken the initiative to attack the Barikun Province and Mazatag Province of Gaochang Kingdom!" ”

Originally, Lian Po, the commander of the Westward Expansion Army, concentrated the main force of the Westward Expansion Army in the Smosco Province of Gaochang State, which had been captured, and planned to rely on the eleven cities of Smosco Province to resist the counterattack of the Gaochang Army, and the Eastern Governor of Gaochang State, Haner Apdu, has also been gathering troops to prepare to recapture Smosco Province and several Gaochang vassal states captured by the Hawkan Army.

However, a sudden incident disrupted the original arrangement and rhythm of the two sides, making the eastern governor of Gaochang State, Haner Apdu, and even the entire Gaochang Kingdom have no time to take care of the Ju'an Army for the time being.

A nation named Dongfan in Gaochang has raised the banner of returning to the homeland of the East without warning, and the people have embarked on the road to return to the homeland of the East from the Aolun Province of Gaochang Province that has lived for hundreds of years.

The Dongfan people were hundreds of years ago, moved all the way west from the east, and finally came to an oasis in the Western Regions, and then the Dongfan people settled down here and multiplied, this oasis was later conquered by the Gaochang State, and became the Olun Province of the Gaochang State, and the appearance of the Dongfan people is not the same as most of the people in the Western Regions, but looks the same as the people of the Jin Kingdom.

There are more than 700,000 people in the whole Dongbo clan, and there are 43,000 Dongbo soldiers in the army under the command of King Mujshid of Gaochang before, and they belong to two legions under the command of King Mujshid, one of which is stationed in the Gaochang Legion of Olun Province with more than 20,000 Dongfan people, and the other more than 20,000 Dongfan people belong to the legion, which is stationed in the Gaoss Province where the capital Gaochang City is located.

This time, the Dongfan tribe returned to the east, and all the 43,000 Dongfan soldiers broke away from the Gaochang army, and together with all the young and strong people of the Dongfan tribe, they protected the old and weak women and children in the clan, and killed them all the way to the east.

If it weren't for the more than 20,000 Dongbo soldiers stationed in Gauss Province who were sent to Orun Province by Mujshid, the king of Gaochang, to prepare to gather the 80,000 recruits recruited from the Dongbo tribe and go to the jurisdiction of the Eastern Governor's Mansion to participate in the battle against the Ji'an army, it would be impossible for the Dongbo tribe to take the 43,000 clansmen who joined the Gaochang army on the road to the east.

Mujshid, the king of Gaochang Kingdom, learned that the Dongbo people had made a farce about returning to their homeland, and they were immediately furious, which was simply a slap in the face of Gaochang State, so King Mujhid immediately mobilized his army to encircle and suppress the Dongfan people.

The patriarchs and elders of the Dongfan tribe knew very well that if the Dongfan tribe wanted to return to the east, the Gaochang State would definitely send troops to intercept it, so the Dongfan tribe organized all the men of the tribe and formed a 330,000 clan protection army with the 43,000 tribesmen who broke away from the Gaochang army as the backbone.

The men of the Dongfan tribe have always been known for their bravery in Gaochang Kingdom, and this time, the Dongfan tribe has been incorporated into the Dongfan tribe's protector army, from the 14 or 5-year-old boys to the elderly in their 60s.

The king of Gaochang Mujshid sent an army to encircle and suppress the Dongbo tribe, and was defeated by the Dongfan protector army one after another, which made the army under the command of King Mujshid suffer very heavy losses, and the whole Dongfan tribe was under the protection of the protector army, all the way rampant, rushed out of the direct jurisdiction of King Mujshid, and entered the jurisdiction of the Eastern Governorate.

Subsequently, the king Mujshid sent his army into the jurisdiction of the Eastern Governor to continue to pursue and suppress the Eastern Tibetan people, and on the other hand, he strictly ordered the Eastern Metropolitan Governor Haner Apudu to exterminate all the Eastern Tibetan people at all costs, and absolutely not let the Eastern Tibetan people return to the Jin Kingdom in the East, otherwise the entire Gaochang Kingdom will become the laughing stock of the Western Regions.

At this time, in order to launch a counteroffensive against the Hawks, the Eastern Governor Haner Apdu had gathered 1.4 million troops, of which about one million troops directly belonged to the Khail Apdu, and the other three Governors of the Gaochang Kingdom each sent 100,000 troops to support the Eastern Governor's Office to recapture the Smosco Province occupied by the Hawks' Army and several vassal states of the Gaochang State, in addition to the 100,000 troops of several vassal states within the jurisdiction of the Eastern Governorate.

After the frantic expansion of the army of the Eastern Governor's Mansion in recent times, the total strength has swelled to more than 2.3 million, including 10 regular regiments and 18 temporary regiments, and it is not difficult to draw out 1 million troops.

The Eastern Governor of the Mountains, Khail Apdu, was ready to wait for the arrival of the 100,000 troops sent by King Mujshid to launch a counterattack on the province of Smosco, where the Hawks were entrenched, but hundreds of thousands of Dongbo people suddenly invaded the territory of the Eastern Governor's Prefecture and immediately disrupted Khail Apdu's plans.

In order to maintain the honor of the entire Gaochang Kingdom, Haner Apudu had to mobilize heavy troops to encircle and intercept the Dongfu team of the Dongbo tribe, preparing to wipe out the troublesome Dongfan tribe, as for the counterattack on Smosco Province, he could only wait for the end of the Dongfan affair.

Lian Po, the commander of the westward expansion corps of the Ju'an army, sent a large number of scouts and secret agents from Heishuitai to enter the jurisdiction of the Eastern Governor's Mansion of Gaochang State to collect intelligence, and after the Dongfan tribe entered the jurisdiction of the Oriental Governor's Mansion and defeated a temporary legion of the Oriental Governor's Mansion, Lian Po quickly got this important information, and then Lian Po got the news that the Oriental Governor's Mansion had mobilized heavy troops to encircle and suppress the Dongfan tribe, and Lian Po immediately thought that this was a God-given opportunity, and immediately gave up the original strategy of sticking to the province of Smosco. Immediately launched an attack on the provinces of Barikun and Mazatag, west of the province of Smosko.

Balikun Province has two temporary legions of the Eastern Governor's Mansion of Gaochang State, with a strength of 80,000 and 90,000 respectively, almost half of the young and strong men in Balikun Province have been recruited into these two temporary legions, and there are also two temporary legions in Mazatag Province, with more than 60,000 troops, and the two temporary legions in Mazatag Province are even more ruthless, and almost all the young and strong men in the entire province have been recruited to the army.

There is no settling-in allowance for the conscription of Gaochang State, and there is a general situation in the army of Gaochang State where officers at all levels deduct military salaries, and the military salary that the low-level soldiers of Gaochang State can get every month is not even half a tael of silver, and the crazy expansion of the Eastern Governor's Mansion this time suddenly made the fourteen provinces currently controlled by the Oriental Governor's Mansion complain, and the combat effectiveness of the ten regular legions of the Eastern Governor's Mansion is better, but the combat effectiveness of the eighteen temporary legions expanded with a team of 10,000 people is not strong, or very weak, Those Gao Changguo who were forcibly conscripted into the army were young and strong, and the hearts of the people were fluctuating, and there were deserters every day.

After sending a support army to the four counties of Ju'an County and Yongjing County, the Westward Advance Army also had a huge strength of 13 cavalry battalions, 26 infantry battalions, and 600,000 auxiliaries.

The westward legion launched a full-scale attack on Balikun Province and Mazatag Province from May 18, 427 year of the Great Jin Dynasty, and only eight days later, a total of 14 cities in Balikun Province and Mazatag Province all fell into the hands of the Westward Legion, and the army of nearly 300,000 troops of the four temporary legions of the Eastern Governor's Mansion was annihilated except for a very small number of people who fled, and the death toll was only more than 40,000, and more than 250,000 people became prisoners of the Westward Legion.

The capture of the fourteen cities in the province of Balikun and the province of Mazatag, the westward army only paid less than 60,000 casualties, you must know that in the process of capturing the fourteen cities, but there were siege battles, and at such a small cost, such a big result was achieved, on the one hand, because the four temporary legions of the two provinces were very weak, on the other hand, because the governor of the eastern capital, Haner Apdu, was mobilizing a million troops to encircle and suppress the Eastern Tibetan people, Balikun Province and Mazatag Province, and Haner Apdu had no time to take care of it for the time being.

In the tent, Liu Ji then said to the many generals under his command: "The Westward Advance Corps sent someone to deliver good news this afternoon, just two days ago, the Westward Advance Corps had taken all fourteen cities in the Gaochang Kingdom's Balikun Province and Mazatag Province. ”

Le Yi asked at this time: "My lord, then does the main force of the Eastern Governor's Mansion of Gaochang Kingdom have any moves?" ”

Liu Ji shook his head and said: "Lian Po's letter said that the Dongfan tribe who wants to return to the east is very strong, and now they have defeated hundreds of thousands of Gaochang troops, and the main force of the Eastern Governor of Gaochang State is encircling and suppressing the Dongfan tribe under the leadership of the Grand Governor Haner Apdu, and there is no sign of launching a counterattack against the westward army. ”

After a pause, Liu Ji said: "In addition, Lian Po also mentioned in the letter that the westward advance army is ready to take advantage of the victory to pursue, and take advantage of the opportunity that the main force of the Eastern Governor of Gaochang Kingdom has no time to look eastward, and continue to attack the three provinces within the jurisdiction of the Eastern Governor of Gaochang Kingdom in the west, and strive to capture Rude Inner Province, Costa Province and Naikarek Province. ”

Le Yi frowned and said: "My subordinates are not in the Western Regions, and I don't have a thorough understanding of the entire battle situation in the Western Regions, but can the main force of the Eastern Governor's Mansion of Gaochang Kingdom really be dragged down by a Dongfan clan?" ”

Lian Po believes that although the eastern governor of Gaochang State, Haner Apudu, has mobilized more than one million troops to encircle and suppress the Dongfan tribe, it is not easy to completely wipe out the Dongfan tribe with strong combat power, and in the hearts of Gaochang people, the matter of the Dongfan tribe is definitely more important than temporarily losing the territory of several provinces."

Le Yi nodded, "My subordinates believe that Lian Po is not without a target, since he thinks that at this time, he can still take advantage of the victory to pursue and launch an attack on the other three provinces within the jurisdiction of the Eastern Governor's Mansion of Gaochang Kingdom, then there must be a reason for him, but our entire Jue'an Army is likely to face the situation of fighting on two fronts at the same time." ”

Hundreds of thousands of cavalry of the Khitan, Baitan, and Limo tribes dozens of miles north of Qishankou have now been hanging up their war-free cards for more than ten days, and once the Khitans decide to continue this big battle, then it is likely that while the westward marching army will attack the Rudnei Province, Costa Province, and Naikarek Province, the fire of war on the Qishankou side will also be rekindled.

Liu Ji turned his head to Su Lie at this time and asked, "Is there any news of Khitan reinforcements?" ”

Su Lie shook his head and said: "Not yet, because the forces of Heishuitai have not yet been planted in the territory of the Khitans, so we can only send a large number of scout cavalry to go deep into the grassland to find traces of Khitan reinforcements, and we don't even know if the Khitans will send reinforcements to Qishankou again." ”

Liu Ji pondered for a while and said: "Regardless of whether the Khitans still fight or not, we must be ready to continue to fight hard, and we were originally going to transfer the three newly built infantry battalions of Yongjing County to Qishankou, but the war has started in the Western Regions, and the three newly built infantry battalions in Yongjing County cannot be easily used, they will temporarily serve as the second reserve of the Westward Expansion Army, and the four infantry battalions of Zhuqiguo and Xuju County are the first reserves of the Westward Expansion Army, and if Qishankou needs reinforcements here, it can only be drawn from the eight infantry battalions in Ju'an County. ”

Le Yi immediately said: "My lord, we have nineteen infantry battalions here in Qishankou, plus the soldiers who have returned from injury, and there are 150,000 people, of which seven old battalions are still fully staffed, plus the 160,000 cavalry of the ten cavalry battalions of the grassland legion, there will be no problem here in Qishankou in a short time, even if the Khitans send hundreds of thousands of cavalry, we are still confident to hold Qishankou." ”