(a)

The first battle of the joint defense of the Han army was a complete victory. The results of the subsequent inventory of the battlefield showed that in this operation, the overall casualty rate of the Han army was reduced to a record low, while the enemy casualty rate was increased to a record high.

In the absence of the supreme commander, the Qingfengzhai garrison, with good military training and skillful tactical coordination, ended the battle at the earliest, achieved a 100 percent enemy annihilation rate and a perfect zero casualties on its own side, fully realized its combat intentions, and played a good record that the Han army on the northern front had never had for many years. The perfect victory in the first actual battle greatly boosted the morale of the whole army and greatly enhanced its self-confidence.

This counterattack campaign at Huangsangyukou has preliminarily verified that your new tactics and ideas are completely correct. The effect of the defenders of the northern front taking the initiative to join hands in joint defense was far better than the previous division of troops to fight separately. The importance of long-range gunpowder bows and cavalry responses was fully revealed. The refreshing victory record of the cavalry of the new Han army you trained represents a new hope for the future development of the Han army.

The actual combat achievements in many aspects have allowed you to establish unprecedented authority in the Han army in the three places. And Yu Wentao, who experienced the battle, admired and admired you so much, and at the same time felt infinite regret for your illness. Everyone thinks that if you yourself were in the Qingfeng Village camp at that time, the result of the battle should definitely be more than that, maybe the Hesse troops will be completely wiped out at the valley pass, and not a single soldier will escape back. However, Dingguogong's serious injury cast a shadow over the entire victory. Everyone was excited, but also heavy.

Yu Wentao decided to report to Wang Tingzuo about the situation of this operation, and he was ready to praise the important role played by your tactical thinking in this operation and the outstanding performance of the cavalry of the New Han Army. But Fu Tianliang disagreed.

Fu Tianliang is a steady person and thoughtful. He conveyed to Yu Wentao the idea that you don't want to expose the strength of the New Han Army too early. He believes that it is best not to mention in the war report that the Han army of Qingfeng Zhai took the initiative to assist in the defense and participated in the war, and only wrote that it was the credit of the defenders of Yukou and Cuijiaji, and that Dingguo Gong originally had the responsibility of coordinating the military affairs of the Lingnan Defense Zone, and the decision to participate in the war on the spot was reasonable and justified.

Fu Tianliang said that not to mention the new Han army can avoid causing you to participate in the war without authorization when you are seriously ill and recuperating, and it can also avoid the Beji people from speculating from the battle report that the Han army is testing new tactics and is beginning to show its edge in the first battle.

As a result, in the final battle report submitted to the royal court, the actions of the Han army in Qingfeng Village were all hidden, and nothing was mentioned.

Worried about your health, they have also decided not to report the situation of this battle to you for the time being, so that you can continue to recuperate in Kiyocheon with peace of mind.

With the same consideration, my father also decided not to tell you about the battle and his own injuries.

(b)

In the battle to invade the Han land, Hesse, the commander of Begi, who suffered such a heavy defeat for the first time, fell into unprecedented depression. He originally thought that this sudden attack on Chinese New Year's Eve could break through the Huangsang Yukou in one fell swoop, give the Cui family a river of blood, shock the entire Han region immersed in the atmosphere of welcoming the new year, become famous in one fell swoop, and make a head in tearing open the entrance of the large-scale southern invasion, but he did not expect that the loss of troops would not be able to achieve anything, and even the capital that could bring back hundreds of Han army leaders and show off their merits in similar surprise attacks in the past was not earned.

What particularly shocked him was that the Han army at Huangsang Yukou actually had a cavalry horse team to respond, and the combat power of this horse team was extraordinary. In the process of invading the Han land in the past, except for Sun Zhanming's horse combat ability in Yantang Pass, he had never encountered a cavalry unit worth mentioning, and the combat effectiveness of this horse team far exceeded the level of Sun's cavalry. He couldn't believe that the Han army could have such a super-powerful cavalry.

However, in the battle that night, he rushed to the front team first, completely ignorant of what happened in the rear team, and the corpses he saw everywhere when he retreated could not tell him what the situation of the rear team was at that time, and where this horse team that suddenly appeared was sacred.

In the post-war analysis and summary, most of the Hesse generals believed that this horse team should not belong to the combat unit of the Han army. In the case of the total annihilation of the Beji rear team, this cavalry did not bravely participate in the subsequent long-distance pursuit of Yu Wentao's department, indicating that the number of horse teams was small, and the willingness to participate in the battle was not resolute, and Yu Wentao's combat intentions were not completely unified. From this, they judged that this cavalry was very likely to be the temporary intervention of a certain Rongxian tribe or Tubo tribe who had a relatively friendly relationship with the Han people in Lingnan, and fell into the well to rob them.

The subsequent battle reports and rewards of the Han people also do not show the participation of combat troops other than the defenders of Yukou and Cuijiaji. The Hesse Ministry was even more convinced of its own inferences.

Feeling ashamed of being frustrated by the sneak attack, Hesse decided to redeem his honor. While reporting the defeat to his lord Zuoxian Wang Dasuo, he continued to lead his troops through the nearby grasslands, waiting for the next opportunity.

The defeat of the Hesse attack also humiliated his lord, King Zuoxian, the eldest son of King Begi Khan. This defeat and the rich results of the plundering of the Han land by many tribes some time ago strengthened Dasuo's determination to launch a large-scale southern invasion to relieve the pressure of grassland survival.

He personally led his generals to visit the Khan, and requested that after the spring thaw of the grasslands, he would decisively and quickly launch a full-scale southern invasion war against the Han land, raze the Huangsang Yukou, slaughter Cuijiaji, and wash away the shame. He asked the Khan to be the vanguard of the southern invasion.

For a while, the northern front of the Han land was covered with war clouds, and the wind and rain were coming.

And you, who are recuperating in the Taoist temple in the deep mountains of Qingchuan, know nothing about all this.