When the news of the army of the Silk Country advancing south again reached Li Chenghui's ears, Li Chenghui had just sent the blessed king Cui Jianjiang to Kaesong to raise grain and grass, and he was glad that his good offices in the past few days had paid off.

Li Chenghui was not too surprised at first when he received this news, although Chang Miao's action was much earlier than he expected, but he had already prepared for the attack of the Silk Country, even if Chang Miao attacked with all his might, there would be no problem for a while.

After entering the palace to bid farewell to King Cui Wende, Li Chenghui took Lu Xuan on the road in a hurry to the front line, and new information kept coming along the way. At the beginning, everything was expected by Li Chenghui - the country of silk adopted a posture of advancing east and west, but this time it was not an attack on White Wolf Mountain, but a direct attack on Hamgyong Road.

One thing about this group is exactly the same as that of Lu Xuan, this is just a feint to distract the defense forces of Goryeo. Since the last war, the defense of Hamgyong Province has been greatly strengthened, and it will not be so easy for the army of the Silk Country to gnaw on Hamgyong Province. However, the attack in the direction of Uiju Fortress was more intense than expected. Originally, Li Chenghui expected Chang Miao to attack in both White Wolf Mountain and Yiju at the same time, but he would take White Wolf Mountain as the main direction of attack, after all, after the last war, Goryeo gathered heavy troops along Dingzhou and Anju and greatly strengthened the defense, if it was attacked, it would not be possible to take it for several months without tens of thousands of troops.

Since Chang Miao had taken a fierce offensive in Yizhou, Li Chenghui's first judgment was that Chang Miao was making a feint again, using the offensive of Yizhou City to cover up the real attack in the direction of White Wolf Mountain. The follow-up intelligence also confirmed his judgment, the direction of White Wolf Mountain was calm, and there was no sign of movement in the Silk Country at all.

Just when Li Cheng would consider whether to transfer some of the heavy troops deployed on the Western Front to support Li Meng, who was sitting in White Wolf Mountain. The report that came began to surprise Li Chenghui and Lu Xuan. It's only been three days, Shiokawa. Donglin, Xuanchuan. Guo Shan has all been lost, and the army of the Silk Country has approached the city of Dingzhou!

Receiving this news, Li Chenghui and Lu Xuan couldn't believe their ears. This line of defense has been carefully negotiated and carefully arranged by the two of them, even if they can't stop the army of the Silk Country, it will not be a problem to hold on for at least a month or two, how could it fall in only three days?

This is not the most surprising place for them, when they rushed to Anzhou City, there was even greater bad news - Dingzhou City was besieged!

Li Chenghui's scalp tingled when he heard this. This is simply an unbelievable thing, not to mention how difficult it is to conquer Dingzhou City after being reinforced, the camp set up around it alone is not something that can be captured in ten days and half a month, how can it be surrounded overnight? The two of them quickly entered the Shuai Mansion, and Li Yong immediately led the generals to greet them: "See Father Shuai!" ”

"Say it! What's going on? How could it be like this in two or three days! Li Chenghui asked as he took a few steps closer.

Seeing this, Li Yong hurriedly let Li Chenghui in front of the bookcase, and replied while drawing on the map: "Father, this time the matter is really strange, father, please see, Yanchuan." The defenses of Donglin, Xuanchuan, and Guoshan were not mistakenly equipped, and the commander did not make any rash moves. But out of nowhere, the army of the Tiger Guard Battalion came out, and from here, and here, these places were cut into pieces that could not support each other. Then the Liaodong army immediately covered up and conquered them one by one while our army was in chaos. I think this inexplicable Tiger Guard Battalion is the key. ”

Li Chenghui stared at the map for a long time. Suddenly asked: "Did all these troops come from the rear of our army?" ”

"Yes. But our army's defense line did not show any flaws at all, they"

"It's from the water!" Lu Xuan's eyes lit up. Immediately spoke out.

"That's right, it's from the water." Li Chenghui twisted his beard and muttered: "Chang Miao, this kid took advantage of their sea superiority and did not send troops to attack Pyongyang, but used these ships as a road so that their soldiers could go around the back of our army!" Our defense lines are spread out in an east-west direction, and there is a large gap between the various defense points, which they use to transport soldiers from the sea. ”

Lu Xuan added: "Our army is lost psychologically, the number of recruits is too large and inexperienced is easy to cause panic, and a considerable number of veterans are afraid of the Tiger Guard Battalion, and they were suddenly cut off from the back road, and they panicked before they fought, coupled with the large-scale attack of the Liaodong Army, the defense line that could have been held was overwhelmed by the collapse of the psychology." ”

Li Yong suddenly realized when he heard this: "So Dingzhou City was also surrounded by people because of the same tactics, so it was surrounded by people?" ”

"Exactly. According to my estimates, the Silkland Navy can transport tens of thousands of people at a time, but given the suddenness of their attack, it may not actually exceed 10,000. But even that's a pretty big number. The defeat in such a short period of time is far greater than the actual territorial loss, and I am worried that Dingzhou City will not be able to support it, so we must support Dingzhou as soon as possible. Li Chenghui looked at the map and said this, in fact, this is the only way to say it at present.

"My lord, I don't think it's appropriate to do this." Lu Xuan clasped his fists and saluted.

In fact, Li Chenghui already understood what Lu Xuan meant, but that kind of statement was really difficult to say in front of the generals. But since Lu Xuan picked it out first, it was better than Li Chenghui saying it himself. immediately motioned for Lu Xuan to continue.

Lu Xuan nodded and said, "Since the Silk Kingdom has such a huge transportation capacity, I think that they may not stubbornly besiege Dingzhou City, I am afraid they have a bigger goal." ”

"You mean here?" Li Chenghui pointed to the underground passage with his finger.

"Exactly! Please look at the actions of the Tiger Guard Battalion in the past three days, they first divided into several groups, cut off the connection of our army's outpost defense line, cooperated with the army to conquer these locations, and then concentrated their forces directly into Dingzhou City, completing the encirclement of Dingzhou City, and now the Liaodong Army is bound to begin to take over these areas, and the Tiger Guard Battalion can already free up their hands. If I were Chang Miao, I am afraid that I would take advantage of the time when our army rushed to aid Dingzhou City, raid Anzhou, or cut off the retreat of our army's reinforcements. ”

"It makes sense, so how should we deal with Chang Miao's tactics?"

Lu Xuan replied: "I thought that we should immediately strengthen the defense of the western coast of Anzhou City to prevent the enemy from repeating their old tricks and threatening the safety of Anzhou City." ”

Li Chenghui looked at Lu Xuan and said, "Do you abandon the defenders of Dingzhou?" And how can you guarantee that the enemy will not make a detour further south to cut off the rear of our army? ”

Lu Xuan smiled slightly and said, "My lord, Dingzhou City has to rely on themselves to gain time, if they can't bear to abandon the defenders of Dingzhou City, it will only make our army fall into a more passive situation." And I thought they wouldn't make a detour to land further south, because Chang Miao's target was Anzhou City! (To be continued......)