In August 393 AD, Murong Chui personally led a total of more than 70,000 foot cavalry to the expedition, which opened the prelude to the destruction of Western Yan. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Xiyan Murong Yong was unwilling to be restrained, and immediately carried out a general mobilization, gathering a total of nearly 100,000 troops to resist.

In the same month, the Houyan soldiers split up to carry out operations.

The northern route was led by Murong Zhan, the king of Danyang, and Zhang Chong, the general of Long Xiang, and the two of them led 20,000 partial divisions out of Jingcheng and attacked Jinyang to the west.

The feint attack on Jinyang was to mobilize the Western Yan to divide the troops to the north, and create an opportunity for the encirclement and annihilation of the Western Yan's mobile forces.

At the beginning, the division of the North Road fought a succession, which made Murong Chui, who was sitting in Yecheng, very happy, thinking that it would not take long to capture and kill Murong Yong.

Unexpectedly, the situation changed as it was said.

When Jinyang gradually entered a crisis, he suddenly came out of Hexi halfway.

With the Hexi Army's large-scale entry into Jin, the Northern Route Army, which was originally brave in attack, gradually fell into a dead place.

When Murong Chui realized that the situation was not good, and was ready to send troops to meet Murong Zhang and Zhang Chong, the situation was irreparable.

Soon came the bad news that the Northern Route Army was wiped out, and Murong Zhang and Zhang Chong died in battle.

The annihilation of the Northern Route Army not only caused Houyan to lose nearly 20,000 troops, but also made the strength more and more stretched.

It also means that all the previous plans failed, and Murong Chui had to reconsider the layout in order to lure the enemy into being fooled.

Since the northern front was temporarily deadlocked, Murong Chui focused on the southern front.

In late September, Murong Chui ordered Murong Hui, the Duke of Qinghe, to stay in Yecheng and be responsible for collecting grain and grass and transporting supplies.

The main force of the Later Yan army, commanded the north road with Murong Kai, the king of Taiyuan, passing through Fukou and threatening the eldest son from the north.

With Murong Nong, the king of Liaoxi, commanding the south road, he went out of Baicheng, crossed the Huguan Pass, and threatened the eldest son from the south.

Murong Chui himself was stationed in Shating in a high-profile manner, and coordinated the actions of the two armies.

Murong Yong, who had been sending people to monitor Yecheng, also learned about the movements of the Houyan army at the first time.

Murong Yong didn't dare to slack off, and he immediately took corresponding action.

He divided the army of 100,000 into two parts, and continued to garrison the platform wall with an elite main force to guard the gate of the eldest son.

The remaining more than 50,000 troops were all transferred to the front line by Murong Yong, guarding the dangerous places along the border of Fukou and Baicheng respectively, trying to block the Houyan army from entering the state from the two places.

At the same time, in order to facilitate the support of the front line, Murong Yong also accumulated all the food, baggage and other materials on the platform wall not far from these two places.

In this way, the wall of the platform is more and more important, not only the firstborn portal, but also the important land of grain and grass.

For Xiyan, Taibi is even more important than the position of Wuchao in Yuan Shao's army in the Battle of Guandu that year.

When all the deployments stopped, Murong Yong couldn't help but be proud.

He seemed to see that the Houyan people hit their heads and broke their blood in front of the impregnable defense of the copper wall.

The Houyan army is good at field battles and long-distance attacks, and with Murong Chui's peerless art of war, they are often invincible.

But in the narrow valley of Taihang Mountain, the army could not be deployed at all, and the advantages of Houyan could not be brought into play.

On the contrary, Xiyan has natural dangers, perfect existing positions, and superior forces, as long as Murong never makes a fool, no matter how strong the Houyan army is, it is impossible to break through easily.

It's a pity, Murong Yong obviously underestimated Murong Chui.

Although he can be regarded as experienced in a hundred battles, he is far inferior to Murong Chui's cunning and cunning.

When Murong Yong finished arranging his troops and waited for Murong Chui to send him to the door, he found that things were not what he thought at all.

One day passes, two days passes...... Seven days have passed, half a month has passed......

More than half a month has passed, but the valley mouths of Baicheng and Fukou have not been attacked by the Houyan army.

Such an abnormal situation shocked Murong Yong into a cold sweat.

The more he pondered, the more uneasy he became, and he couldn't figure out what Murong Chui wanted to do!

In order to find out Murong Chui's true purpose, Murong Yong sent countless scouts to the eastern side of Taihang Mountain.

And after these scouts returned, they all told him that the Houyan army was still gathering on the east side of Baicheng and Fukou, and it seemed that they would attack at any time.

At first, Murong Yong still believed in the scout's report, but after half a month, Yan didn't make a move, which made him suspicious.

Murong Chui's use of troops is unpredictable, whether it was the deception of Huan Chong when he rescued Xiangyang, or the recent conquest of Zhai Wei, the world has seen the treachery of Murong Chui's use of troops.

As soon as he thought of Murong Chui's past battles, Murong Yong felt a lot of pressure.

Not only was he worried that he had fallen for Murong Chui, but he even began to suspect that the information that the front-line soldiers saw was all fake.

Thinking about it again, the art of war: "Fiction is real, reality is fiction", which made Murong Yong suspect that Murong Chui had deceived him.

In the palace of the eldest son, Murong Yong furrowed his brows and stared at the map for a long time.

Suddenly, he suddenly realized, as if he had figured out everything, and felt that he had insight into Murong Chui's treacherous plan.

He believed that the Houyan army camps in Yecheng and Shating must have been just a bluffing small number of troops, and their purpose was to tie the main force of Western Yan to the ravines of Fukou and Baicheng, and that Murong Chui's real target should be Yiguan and Taihang in the south.

Especially in Taihang, because the road is wider in the Eight Mountains, it is conducive to the deployment of the brigade of men and horses, and it is easy to give full play to the advantages of the Yan army.

Emperor Xiyan, who felt that he had seen through Murong Hang's tricks, immediately broke out in a cold sweat, and he followed this train of thought and continued to think about it.

In order to avoid being discovered by Xiyan, Murong Chui's army must have traveled day and night, so the marching speed would be very slow, and he might not have reached Yiguan and Taihang at this time.

Therefore, it is necessary to send troops to Yiguan and Taihang as soon as possible, so that it is possible to block the Houyan army from Taihang Mountain!

"No, you have to send troops quickly, otherwise you won't be in a hurry if it's too late!"

"Besides, the location of Taihang is not very good, a small number of defenders will not help, and a large army must be mobilized."

Thinking of this, Murong Yong felt that it was not too late to take corresponding action.

In addition to leaving more than 10,000 people to guard the grain and grass on the wall, Murong Yong transferred all the rest of the main forces and went south to Taihang and Yiguan, leaving only a small number of surveillance troops in Fukou and Baicheng.

Murong Yong thought that he had seen through Murong Trai's scheme, but in fact, he didn't know that what he did had already fallen into Murong Trai's calculations.

In fact, Murong Chui didn't go south at all, and the order he gave half a month ago was just to confuse Murong Yong.

He simply stayed in the Yecheng area and did nothing, just to let the Houyan army fully rest.

As soon as Murong Yong's army moved, Murong Chui had already learned the specific content through Neiying and scouts.

Murong Chui was cunning and cunning, even though he knew that Murong Yong had been fooled, he still did not act rashly.

After waiting for a few more days, it was not until the Western Yan army had arrived at Yiguan and Taihang, which were already the farthest away from Fukou, that he ordered the Houyan army to suddenly dispatch.

On September 20, the Houyan army led by Murong Chui suddenly attacked Fukou and easily defeated the obstruction of a small number of surveillance troops in Western Yan.

After successfully crossing the Taihang Mountain, the main force of the army went straight to Xiyan's grain baggage gathering place - Taibi.

This move hit Murong Yong's vital point at once-attacking it must be saved, forcing the main force of the Western Yan Army, which had just trekked hundreds of miles to Taihang and Yiguan, and had to go back hundreds of miles to rush back.

On the first day of October, the Later Yan Zhengdong General Pinggui defeated the Western Yan Commander Murong Yidou and led the Western Yan Striker to rescue the Taibi.

At about the same time, Murong Nong, the king of Liaoxi, defeated Murong Yidougui, the general who tried to break through from the Taibi and conquered the east of Xiyan (the two Murong Yidougui were not alone, it was Murong Yong's cousin who served as the captain, and General Zhendong was Murong Yong's nephew), and the right general of Western Yan, Le Maju, was killed, and the Zhendong general Wang Ciduo was captured by Hou Yansheng.

Murong Yong did not give up resistance after learning that he had been tricked, he urgently assembled the main forces deployed in Taihang and Yiguan, plus some reinforcements temporarily drawn from all over the country, and raised more than 50,000 people, preparing to rescue Taibi to the north.

However, Murong Yong's army had not yet arrived, and the remaining armies in Xiyan were in chaos, and the Shangshu Ling Diao Yun and the cavalry general Murong Zhong, who were stationed in Luchuan, were not only shocked by the unstoppable strength of the Houyan army, but also afraid of Murong Chui's prestige, so they did not dare to resist, and directly led their troops to surrender to Houyan.

These two people have always enjoyed a high status in Xiyan and belong to Murong Yong's henchmen.

Therefore, the rebellion of the two made Xiyan's hearts fluctuate immediately, showing a precursor to collapse.

Murong Yong was furious when he heard the news, and immediately ordered the execution of all the wives and children of the two, trying to make an example of them and maintain the crumbling hearts of the people.