Liu Xianzhi's judgment was completely hit, but it was a step too late. www.biquge.info God seems to be deliberately unable to get along with him, the first snow of the year was earlier than in previous years, and this snow fell for ten days. As the temperature dropped sharply, almost all of the northern part of the Silk Country entered the icy winter early, which led to an important result, that is, the Yellow River entered an early ice period.

The reason why Abicheril waited until after autumn to launch a full-scale attack was not only to gather troops or wait for the time of autumn to fatten, but more importantly, to wait for the arrival of winter.

At the beginning, Timon proposed to Abicheril, and the key point was to wait for the Yellow River to freeze. By chance, Timon learns of an important piece of information, which is that there is a hole in the defense zone of the Silk Country. In the northwest of Xinzhou in Taiyuan Jingluofu, there is a small road in the south of Lan Fengji, where Tuqi had a great battle with the country of Juan, and this path does not lead to the south, but winds to the Yellow River in the west, and on the west bank of the Yellow River is the middle of Linzhou City and Yanzhou City. In the huge defensive area composed of Fengzhou, Linzhou, Yanzhou and Lingzhou, Yanzhou is the weakest link, because it has the protection of the powerful Linzhou City, and it is difficult to break through the defense zone of Linzhou even if Tuqi attacks, and it has Taiyuan Jingluofu and the Yellow River in the east, and Yanzhou City, a strategic town in the west, and its strategic value is not very high, so Yanzhou has never been the key area of the defense of the Silk Country. In contrast, its main value was to provide grain and grass to the city of Linzhou through the water transportation of the Yellow River, so Yanzhou City can be said to be a relatively easy area to capture, and it is possible to store a considerable amount of grain and grass, which is really a good target for Tuqi.

Although Yanzhou City is a weak link, it is extremely difficult to attack it, because it is impossible to cross Linzhou to attack it, and the only possibility is to take advantage of the fact that the Yellow River freezes in winter and smuggle the Yellow River from the east to launch a surprise attack. However, the Taiyuan Jinglufu in the east was also heavily defended, and it had to pass through a winding path that was difficult to deploy troops, and it was difficult to achieve the goal by running long distances, so it had been neglected by people in the past years. However, Timon was keenly aware of the feasibility, so he proposed to Abicil to attack Youzhou with 100,000 troops as bait, in order to attract the attention of the country of silk to the eastern front, if he could lure the country of silk to send reinforcements to the eastern front, and then pretend to attack the Taiyuan Jingluo Mansion, so that the Silk country felt that Tuqi planned to attack the east and the west from the beginning, so that the reserve forces were invested in the Taiyuan Jingluo Mansion. The combat action of breaking through Shuozhou was to wait for the arrival of winter, and the attack on Xinzhou was even more a trick, but in fact it quietly mobilized elite troops to attack the east bank of the Yellow River along the trail, waiting for the moment when the Yellow River froze. And Timeng's goal is naturally not just a small Yanzhou City, but to mobilize the reserve forces of the Silk Country to the Eastern Front, and he will go all the way south after the capture of Yanzhou, and rush to Chang'an, the capital of the Silk Country, which is in a state of emptiness.

This plan of action of Teemon can be said to be a military gamble, because the long-distance Tuqi army does not have enough food and grass supply, let alone a large scale, everything depends on the grain stock of Yanzhou City, and there is no military resistance from the Silk Country south of Yanzhou, otherwise the Tuqi army will fall into a desperate situation of being attacked on all sides. However, once this sneak attack is successful, it will inevitably cause a huge shock to the military morale of the Silk Country, especially if Chang'an, which is empty of troops, is attacked, even if it will not be captured, it can also deal a severe blow to Liu Yan's arrogance. At the same time, the news of the attack on the Beijing Division will inevitably make the military commanders from all over the country busy entering the capital to rescue the driver, so that the entire northern defense area of the Silk Country will fall into chaos, and Tuqi can take the opportunity to sit back and enjoy the success and wantonly attack. The plan was almost unconstrained and insane, but Abicialir accepted it. This rivalry with the Grim Reaper fueled the blood rolling in Abiciel's body, especially when he felt that he might not be able to see the Turch and the Silk Country close the gap in power in his lifetime, and it became the only means to fulfill his long-cherished wish.

Then again, if there is only a plan for Timon and no execution ability of Abichelil, it will always be a fantasy that stays in the brain. Only Abiciel's commanding abilities could turn Timon's plan into reality. From the beginning of the attack on Youzhou, things were under the control of Abiciel, and they were developing towards the set goal bit by bit, even wise generals like Liu Xianzhi did not understand the true purpose of the Tuqi army in time.

In order to achieve the suddenness of the attack, Abicheril took his most elite 2,000 cavalry and began to cross the Yellow River just as it froze. The thin layer of ice seemed to shatter at any moment, swallowing the Turks along with their men and horses. Abicil led the way, leading his neighing horse at the head of the procession. In order to reduce the pressure of their body weight on the ice, the Turks wrapped thick felt around the feet of both men and horses, and braved the wind and snow to explore step by step. As the wind and snow continued, the ice of the Yellow River gradually thickened, but even so, it took 2,000 people a full night to cross the Yellow River.

Once on the west bank of the Yellow River, Abicheril immediately led the two thousand cavalry to pounce on the city of Yanzhou. The defenders of Yanzhou City were only about 1,000 people and were defenseless, and the soldiers patrolling the city were shivering from the wind and snow, completely unaware that the Tuqi cavalry had taken advantage of the wind and snow to approach the city wall, and even when the Tuqi cavalry arrived at the city, the gate of Yanzhou City did not have time to close.

Once they entered the city gate, the Turks mercilessly waved the scimitars in their hands, regardless of men, women and children, all of them were mercilessly killed, and it took only half an hour to completely capture the city of Yanzhou, and only about 20 people successfully escaped into the wind and snow to get rid of the pursuit of the Turks.

After capturing Yanzhou City, Abicheril couldn't help but be overjoyed, because Yanzhou City had just received a batch of grain and grass to be transferred to the front line of Linzhou, because the sudden arrival of the wind and snow delayed the transfer time, and the Turkic army increased enough military rations for tens of thousands of soldiers to eat for two months.

At the moment, Abicheril asked the scouts to tell the follow-up troops to follow quickly, and continued to attack southward without stopping. By the time the wind and snow had stopped, Abichlir had already driven hundreds of miles south to the north shore of Luoshui. At this time, the news of the sudden attack had just reached the ears of the nearby guards.

It wasn't until the attack was here that Abicil really encountered the armed forces of the Silk Country for the first time, that is, the army stationed on the south bank of Luoshui suggested by Wu Sicheng. (To be continued.) )