Due to the early preparations of the Silk Country, when Abicheril began to attack Shuozhou, which was under the jurisdiction of Taiyuan Jingluofu, the battle was extremely hard. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info

Originally, under the management of Liu Xianzhi, the defense system of Taiyuan Jinglufu was very solid, coupled with the prediction of Abicheril's attack, Liu Xianzhi had already mobilized the army of Taiyuan Jinglufu and formed a huge net, and the Tuqi army was as difficult to exert its fists as if it had crashed into the net.

In the face of Shuozhou's tight defense, Abicheril was not in a hurry, step by step, tearing through the opponent's defense network bit by bit, of course, this would consume a lot of time, and the mobility of the Tuqi cavalry was almost useless here. After a month of fierce fighting, the Tuqi army finally cleared the defense system around Shuozhou City and surrounded Shuozhou. However, instead of attacking the fortified city of Shuozhou, Abicheril began to march southward, aiming at Xinzhou, the gateway to Taiyuan.

Abicheril's move made Liu Xianzhi fall into deep thought. The behavior of the Tuqi army is unreasonable, although Xinzhou is important, but Shuozhou guards the main road of transportation, if Shuozhou is not defeated and rashly attacks Xinzhou, it is very likely to be a protracted war, too long is obviously unfavorable to the Tuqi side, once it is surrounded by the Silk Country, and Shuozhou is in the hands of the Silk Country, the Tuqi Army will fall into an embattled dilemma. It is impossible for Abichilil, as a battle-hardened Tuqi Great Khan, not to understand this truth, does he want to bypass even Xinzhou and directly attack Taiyuan Mansion?

This is simply not a military operation, but a purely military adventure. The battle line of the Tukchi army is so long, which means that the actual attack on Taiyuan Mansion will not be very large, in which case it is almost impossible to capture Taiyuan Mansion, but it will make the Tukchi army become an object that can be broken individually. Abicill would not do such a stupid thing, and Liu Xianzhi quickly denied this inference.

Liu Xianzhi pondered repeatedly in front of the battle map, if he planned to go all the way south, it would be impossible to smoothly attack other strategic towns without taking Taiyuan Mansion. Or maybe he plans to turn his troops and go east to Daizhou? This is also impossible, Daizhou has been prepared for a long time, and if you want to attack Daizhou, it is the best policy to immediately move your army eastward while encircling Shuozhou, and now it has already lost the opportunity. Liu Xianzhi couldn't figure it out, but his intuition told him that Abicheril must have other intentions in doing this, but he couldn't understand it for a while.

In order to ensure that nothing was lost, he ordered Hao Mancai to lead 5,000 crossbowmen to aid Xinzhou and strengthen the defense there; He also ordered Han Jianlong and Situ Botong to lead 3,000 men and horses to the east and west flanks of Xinzhou, and set up lookout posts along the way to prevent Abicilir from sneaking up on the flanks of Xinzhou; In addition, Ge Boling led the cavalry unit to be on standby at any time, and in the event of an emergency, he immediately rushed to the aid of the department to strive for the opportunity to deploy his troops. After making these arrangements, Liu Xianzhi was still not at ease, and ordered all the grain stations to strengthen their vigilance to strictly prevent the attack and destruction of the Tuqi guerrilla cavalry.

After making these arrangements, Liu Xianzhi focused his attention on the besieged Shuozhou City in the north. According to the intelligence, the number of troops in this large-scale attack reached nearly 300,000, of which about 100,000 should be contained in the direction of Youzhou, and the rest of the troops were all invested in their own defense areas. However, the solidity of Shuozhou City is almost impossible to capture with the meager siege equipment of the Tuqi army, even if it can be successful, it can only fall due to hunger after a long siege, but the food of Shuozhou City can support at least eight months, as long as the defenders do not make a fatal mistake to destroy the food, before Shuozhou runs out of food, the reinforcements of the imperial court will definitely arrive, and then they can launch a counterattack to drive the Tuqi army out of their defense area.

"I really don't know what Abicheril is thinking? This kind of attack is simply not going to succeed, and the longer it drags on, the less likely it is for him to win, is it just that he wants to wreak havoc and loot some property? So why bother to create an army of 300,000 to do such a stupid thing? Liu Xianzhi couldn't help but mutter.

The night breeze in late autumn made Liu Xianzhi shiver, and he noticed that the window had been blown open by the wind at some point. Liu Xianzhi took a step to the window, gently closed the window again, but continued to murmur: "With the strength of the whole country to invade, the target is actually the area with the strongest enemy defense. It's a pity, I'm the first to bear the brunt, otherwise, I would have been able to achieve the great achievement of capturing the capital of the Turkic Treaty. ”

Liu Xianzhi couldn't help but smile bitterly when he said this, he was thinking about something impossible. At present, the only one who has spare strength to do this is Wang Hanxin, who is stunned, but his preparations for the attack are not sufficient, at least until the beginning of next year. If you send troops now, I am afraid that there will be food to go to and no food to come back. That would be tantamount to self-defeating, for Tukhe had already brought out his food reserves along with the army, and now only the old and weak women and children and a little food were left in Tukchi's old nest.

At this time, a thought suddenly flashed in Liu Xianzhi's mind, Liu Xianzhi was full of excitement, and immediately stopped in place, holding his head in his hands, struggling to search for the flash of inspiration.

"Tuqi, attack, grain reserves, and the difference between my country," Liu Xianzhi suddenly understood what the thought was just now, and blurted out: "Tuqi brought out the country's food and soldiers, because it is fundamentally different from our country, and my country's grain cannot be carried with me." So they could get food supplies wherever they conquered, and the raids along the way allowed them to sustain themselves for a long time. If they go desperately into the hinterland of our country, there are not many troops to resist them, but there is a lot of food and goods to plunder! ”

Liu Xianzhi himself was frightened by this thought of his own, this is simply crazy, the goal of the Tuqi people is not to break through the defense line of the Silk Country, but to bypass the defense line to seize and destroy the rear of the Silk Country! If this trick works, it may take several years for the Silk Country to regain the ability to attack Tukchi, but if it fails, Tukchi's losses will be devastating.

But there is another point that Liu Xianzhi can't explain, that is, how should Tuqi bypass his tight defense network and raid the rear? Liu Xianzhi couldn't help but pacing around the room, although his speculation was too bold and there was no evidence to prove it, but it was the best explanation for Abiciel's strange behavior now, and now there is only one link left unsolved, that is, his real offensive line.

After thinking about it for a long time, Liu Xianzhi still couldn't figure it out. At this time, the maid brought him supper, and Liu Xianyi caught a glimpse of how many snowflakes had not yet melted on the food box, and couldn't help asking, "Is it snowing?" ”

"yes, this year's snow came much earlier than last year." The maid replied as she opened the food box.

Liu Xian's heart moved, and he suddenly ran to the side of the battle map, copied the candlestick and looked carefully on it, and suddenly shouted: "Yes, yes!" It must be here! (To be continued.) )