Hanging Li Guangrui to Niupiling, Xuan Chongwen discussed with Xue Chucun and Li Shiwen, and asked them to lead their troops to kill the scattered soldiers of the party army. Xuan Chongwen and Han Zhongming only took the commander to rest for a while, and continued to follow Li Guangrui from a distance, planning to go to the city of Wulan County to see the terrain.

The defeated troops under Li Guangrui's army still maintained a certain formation, and walked very slowly along the way, and when they reached the county seat, they marched into the city in turn, and it took a long time, until the city gate was suddenly closed, and the defense arrangements were stopped, and it was already dusk.

Wulan County, Wu Zhou Tianzhu two years of displacement, located at the turn of the Yellow River, is an irregular square, the wall is less than two zhang high, the circumference is about 16 miles, the city tower, the corner tower is dilapidated because of disrepair, the moat has long been abandoned and filled by the party members, the city gate as an important defensive part is still there, but it is also repaired, the appearance of the mix of new and old wood is obvious.

There was not a single soldier left outside the city, and even the horses were saved, so Xuan Chongwen dared to approach the east of the city for two or three miles to reconnoitre. In order to return to the station as soon as possible, Xuan Chongwen called his eldest disciple Song Lingguang to give instructions, he was the head of the capital, and asked him to lead a hundred horsemen to the south of the county to reconnoitre; Liang Zhiyi, the head of Erdu, was originally a native of Yanzhou Bajiao County, and was responsible for reconnoitring the area on the bank of the Yellow River in the north of the city.

When it got dark, the two men and horses came back one after another. Originally, there were only two gates in this Wulan county, the south was a wilderness, the west gate could not be seen, the north was a large area of gravel under the city wall, and the north near the bank of the Yellow River was full of mud, and there were puddles and withered yellow reeds everywhere, and it was impossible to inspect them one by one.

"If Li Guangrui is smart enough, he will retreat westward in the next two days, and we will come back the day after tomorrow!" Xuan Chongwen was very tired, but his spirit was very uplifted, and when he saw that it was getting late, he led his troops back.

The battlefield has not yet been cleaned, but the large camp has been set up, and the location is two miles outside the battlefield, and it is still a simple camp with antlers and thorns arranged outside the large wooden fence, plus horn towers, arrow towers, and watchtowers.

The war horses that ran everywhere, plus the scattered bundles of arrows, knives and guns and other unused weapons have been gathered, and the soldiers who have been killed or lightly injured have also been carried into the camp for rescue, and the corpses are hastily piled together, waiting to be buried in the pit overnight.

As for the corpses of the enemy, it will have to wait until tomorrow, so let's heal our own wounded first. This is a battlefield where more than 30,000 troops are fighting, and it is very trivial and troublesome to deal with the end of the hand.

That night, after the soldiers of the whole army had initially cleaned up the battlefield, they returned to the camp for a full meal, and most of the soldiers rested early, except for some combat units that took turns to be on duty at night. As a middle and senior officer, Xuan Chongwen's treatment is of course different, he first went back to the camp to take a hot bath, and then went to Zhang Yue's big tent, which was already overcrowded, and the commander made all the first-class officers arrive.

Zhang Yue and Feng Qianhou sat opposite each other a few times on the inside, pointing to the spread out map and talking in a whisper, and there were more than a dozen commanders sitting on both sides, all with tired faces, talking heads and ears in twos and threes.

"Brother Chongwen is back! Were there any unexpected findings? Zhang Yue raised his head and asked with a bright smile, he didn't have a chance to go into battle in person,

"There are two gates in the county, east and west, and I unexpectedly found that there is no ......" Xuan Chongwen sat down on the first shop group and couldn't help yawning.

"Ladies and gentlemen...... All cheer up, the results of this battle have been preliminarily counted! The third commander of our Ma Army suffered more than 400 casualties, which is a bit miserable! However, the casualties of the infantry were very few, mainly the arrows of the crossbowmen, and the total number was less than a hundred. In other words, our army still has 7 commanders and 3,500 combatable troops, and there is still room for play in subsequent battles. Zhang Yue laughed.

Feng Qianhou frowned, and couldn't help but remind: "The situation is still not optimistic. There may be 3,000 left in the 5,000 infantry army of the Shuofang army, and the horse army, excluding those who stayed behind to guard the Yatoukan military village, actually reached 4,500 cavalry, and probably suffered more than 1,000 casualties. Seriously wounded should be carried, lightly injured can return to the team, rough estimates, our Northern Route Army still has a total strength of more than 10,000 points, and the Tuoba Bogu in Huining in the south is a strong enemy, so there are at least one or two major battles! ”

Everyone was discussing the next possible battle, and Feng Jiye sent tooth soldiers to inform him, inviting Zhang Yue and Xuan Chongwen to go to the Chinese army's big tent to celebrate with dinner, and of course, they had to exchange opinions on the next battle.

After all, the North Route Army is only a partial division, and it is necessary to respond to the main force of the South Road, and it is necessary to send good news to the South Road camp. Of course, Feng Jiye, as a marshal, can also report directly to Tokyo, but that will make Guo Rong unhappy, and he doesn't have to do this.

Speaking of the South Road camp, Zhang Yue thought of Guo Rong, Xiang Xun and others, but his thinking was a little uncontrollable, and then he thought of Fu Jinqiong, and he left Tokyo for almost two months. Because Bian Ji had sent Sha Weng to set up a branch office in Yeonju to be in charge of Kanbei commerce, personal letters could be brought back to Tokyo.

The next day, the whole army spent half a day cleaning up the battlefield, eradicating the bloodstains all over the ground after the battle, and resting in the afternoon, but the whole army did not relax its vigilance against Li Guangrui's headquarters in Wulan County, and frequently sent sentry cavalry to keep an eye on it, and left a secret sentry to monitor him, so as to control his intentions and movements at any time.

At noon, the secret sentry that stayed outside the city of Wulan County to monitor the horse reported: Li Guangrui led the troops of the Ye Ci clan in the city of Wulan County, as well as the soldiers and horses of the headquarters, out of the city from the west gate, and stopped on the bank of the Yellow River, with hundreds of large rafts tied to sheepskin airbags, intending to cross the Yellow River in batches and retreat.

The West City Gate of Wulan County is said to be two or three miles high on the bank of the Yellow River, and it is almost impossible to attack halfway, but you can also ride in a large group to join in the fun, so that Li Guangrui and the Yeci clan retreat quickly. The Yeqi clan has seventy or eighty thousand tribesmen, plus the army, of course, it can't be withdrawn in a day, and it will have to wait. But this wait is only four days, which is too slow.

In fact, some of the Noshi clan's troops in the city were transferred before the battle, and the remaining tens of thousands of people could cross the river in two days. The reason why Lee Guangrui dragged it out was because he had to wait for news from Tuoba Bogu in the south, and it was not until the envoy sent before the war returned the afternoon before yesterday that he finally confirmed that Tuoba Bogu did not have too many troops to support him in the north, so he completely gave up and had to speed up the progress.

Five days later, in the afternoon, the Shuofang army returned that Li Guangrui had crossed the river with the last 2,000 cavalry, the garrison had withdrawn, and Wulan County was an empty city. Feng Jiye immediately ordered the army to set off in formation, and entered the city smoothly in the evening of the same day, took over the city defense, and divided the troops to guard it.

At this point, the east of the Yellow River in the north of Huizhou was fully recovered. But there is still a large area of land to the west of the Yellow River, and the area of Kipkou and Baishanshu to the east of Liangzhou is also the territory occupied by the Yeci clan, but those places are mountainous, the land is also poor, and there is a lack of suitable pastures, and the Yeci clan cannot survive, so they can only return to Youzhou, so this blank place will also be received by troops.

Feng Jiye wanted to send his Shuofang army to fight this tailwind battle, he thought that Zhang Yue's department was a forbidden army, and sooner or later he would have to be transferred back to Tokyo, and he would save himself from having to change the guard later. Of course, Zhang Yue understood Feng Jiye's thoughts and resolutely disagreed.

If the Shuofang army is allowed to divide the troops again, then he will have to stay and plan to attack Tuoba Bogu with the main force on the southern road, and the south is mountainous, and his own troops are not many, which is not a good thing at all. Of course, there is another reason, Feng Jiye wanted to bring Jiangzhou under Shuo Fang's rule, and before the war, Zhang Yue reported this matter to Guo Rongcao, but there has been no reply so far. (To be continued.) )