Chapter 440: Humadu Yin Mountain
North of Yunnei County, at the foot of the Great Wall.
The strikers of Dulan and Nili suddenly arrived, but there were only 300 guards on this important Great Wall pass at the northern end of Yunnei. The Turkic cavalry poured in like a tide, and the black clouds overwhelmed the city, and the defenders of the city hurriedly met the battle, but only struggled for a few more moments, and in less than an hour, the Great Wall pass had been lost.
After taking this important pass, Du Lan and Nili had already torn open the far north of the Great Sui, which had long been broken, and tore a gap.
Standing on the ruined Great Wall, Du Lan was in a good mood, and said to Nili Khan with a smile: "I think this was the Northern Wei Dynasty's Gyeonggi, this is the Gyeonggi of the Northern Wei Dynasty, and further north there are six towns guarding the northern line, how prosperous it was at the beginning, it is said that Pingcheng Gyeonggi once had a million people." ”
"The Tuoba clan is indeed good, but it's a pity that they were bewitched by the Han people, and finally moved the capital to Luoyang, and what kind of sinicization do they have to implement. A good grassland overlord is not appropriate, not a wolf but to go to the Central Plains as a sheep, as a result, only 30 years, there was a rebellion in six towns, only 35 years, there was a change in Heyin, Er Zhurong put the Empress Dowager Ling and the young emperor and more than 2,000 civil and military officials into the rolling Yellow River on the side of Heyin, moved the capital to Luoyang for 40 years, the Northern Wei Dynasty was finally Gao Huan, Yuwen Tai controlled zhì, split into the East and West Wei, it was dead. ”
"It seems that Dulan Khan is quite familiar with the Northern Wei Dynasty." Niri laughed.
Du Lan put away the emotion in his heart, and was familiar with the history of the Northern Wei Dynasty, because his father Sha Boluo had a special request for their brothers to let them learn literati culture and read Han history. But at the same time, their father especially used the history of the Northern Wei Dynasty to warn their brothers. Let them understand, although let them learn Han culture. But it's just to get to know the Han people, not to ask them to be Han Chinese. Wolves can only remain wild. If the wolf does not eat meat and goes to eat grass, then the wolf is no different from a sheep. The Tuoba clan of the Northern Wei Dynasty is so powerful, and it is also the only Hu tribe that has ever entered the Central Plains throughout the ages, even if they only ended the period of the Five Hu and Sixteen Kingdoms in the end, unified the north, and did not destroy the Southern Song Dynasty, but this alone is enough to be praised by future generations. But after the Tuoba clan entered the Central Plains, they lost themselves. forgot their origins, their identity, but became Han people who were not Han people, and eventually perished. Father Sha Boluo is always full of sighs every time he talks about the relocation of the capital of the Northern Wei Dynasty to Luoyang, the reform of sinicization and its demise. His father once said to him that if the Turks can enter the Central Plains like Tuoba, then they must no longer take the road of sinicization, and they must adhere to the traditions of the Turks, and then turn the northern part of the Central Plains into the pastures of the Turks. And to let the Han people cultivate grain in the hot and unsuitable grazing area south of the Yangtze River, let alone use Han people as officials, they must imprison Confucianism and Han culture, and reduce Han people to slaves. Hold them firmly under you, so that they will never be able to turn over. If necessary, you can slaughter and clean it several times. After all, there are too many Han Chinese, and they are always a threat to the Turks.
Pity. My father never had the opportunity to enter the Central Plains in his life, and twice attacked the Sui Dynasty. were defeated, and the ensuing struggle for the throne of the Khan made the Turks completely plunged into civil strife, and then became a loser and was forced to surrender to the Sui State. If it weren't for the depression in my heart, my father wouldn't have died so early.
Now, what my father failed to do back then, I will do it for him.
"I think we should divide our troops into two routes, all the way south and cross the Great Wall, and directly attack Yunnei County and Heng'an Town. All the way directly along the border road of the six towns of the Northern Wei Dynasty to the east, directly attacking Huaihuang. Nili spread out a sheepskin map, which depicted in great detail the area where Yinshan, Yanshan, and Taihang Mountain meet. He pointed to his current position and said, "This army in the south will surround Yunnei City and Heng'an Town before the Turkic reinforcements arrive, and if there is a chance, we will directly take these two cities." If there is no opportunity, then send some troops and horses to besiege but not attack, and divide the troops into two roads, all the way along the south of the Great Wall to the east to attack, and sweep the cities of Changqing, Tiancheng and Huai'an along the Nanyang River, and it is best to surround Daning Pass. Block the southern retreat route of Huaihuang, completely surround and isolate Huaihuang. The other part of the soldiers and horses marched all the way east along the Sanggan River valley, swept Zhuolu and Huailai in Yanzhou, and finally attacked the military capital pass. ”
"Will the forces be too scattered?" Du Lan saw Nili's plan and had to praise him for his boldness, but he was a little worried. After all, now that the Sui Dynasty army is all heading north, there are 250,000 on the front line of Yanmen in Taiyuan, and 100,000 on the front line of Youzhou.
Ni Li said confidently, "The soldiers are fast, we have to take advantage of the fact that Gao Gong in Taiyuan has not understood our latest plan, act quickly, as long as we can take the two cities of Yunnei and Heng'an, then the Sui army's Shuozhou is already in no danger to defend, unless they want to fight with us in the wild, otherwise they have to retreat to Yanmen and Loufu Erguan." And if we can attack more quickly and aggressively, we will have a great chance to capture Daning Pass before the Sui army in Youzhou reacts, and surround and isolate Huaihuang. If it is blessed by the Immortal Heaven, we may be able to directly capture the military capital pass and enter Youzhou. ”
"The danger of the military capital is no less than that of Yanmen, but I am afraid that it will be difficult to take it in a short period of time." Du Lan had attacked the border of the Sui Dynasty before, and knew that although the outer Great Wall of the Sui army was weak, the guards of the second Great Wall were very strong. As the northwest gateway of Youzhou, Junduguan is the most important, it is very important, heavy troops are stationed all year round, and it is very close to Youzhou, and the reinforcements can be reinforced at any time.
Ni Li smiled indifferently, "It doesn't matter if you can't take the military capital pass, as long as we can quickly kill the military capital pass, then we can also block the Sui army in the military capital pass and prevent them from getting out." Ni Li's big hand drew a circle on the map, "Shuo, Fu, and Wu Prefectures, such a large piece of land, if you follow it, it is enough to swallow these." If we go any further, we can take Ulzhou, and even rob Xinzhou. Brother, are you still not satisfied with being able to loot so many states at once? ”
"Satisfied!" Du Lan looked at the circle drawn by the mud, and his eyes were shining, this is the land of several states. That Huai Huang alone is enough to eat, but he has heard many legends about Huai Huang, which is simply a mountain of gold and countless wealth. It is said that there are no less than half a million people here. 500,000 people, even if he divides it equally with Nili, then he can divide it into 250,000. With such a large population, his power will soon increase greatly.
When Nili made this plan, the core intention was actually to be nostalgic.
Attacking Yunnei and Heng'an is because as long as they occupy these two towns, then they will control the strategic points in the north of Shuozhou, and the Sui army will be in a very embarrassing situation, if they leave Shuozhou City and go north, then they will have no strong city to rely on in the north, and then they will have to face either a field battle with the Turkic army, or they will have to attack the Turkic army that occupies a favorable position in the two cities of Hengan and Yunnei. By occupying these two places, the Turkic army was equivalent to holding the passage in and out of the east of the river, which could be attacked and defended when retreating. At the same time, it also protected the Turkic soldiers and horses who went to sweep the two prefectures of Fuwu, blocked the rescue of the Sui army in Hedong to Huaihuang, and ensured the encirclement of Huaihuang by the Turkic army.
Nili didn't really think about occupying the four states of Shuo, Wei, Fu and Wu outside Yanmen Pass, and he didn't think about it at all. What he thinks is to sweep the land of these four states, rob everything that can be snatched, and rob all the money, women, cattle and sheep, it is enough.
For this plan, Dulan also roughly agreed. He didn't think about the arrogant idea of attacking Taiyuan, Youzhou, or even Luoyang, I believe that it was Datou Khan, and he probably didn't think about attacking Chang'an. What they want is nothing more than to rob the frontier area of the Sui Dynasty, burn and loot fiercely, not only to rob the Turkic shortage of copper, iron, salt, cloth, cloth and silk population, etc., but also to declare their strength to the Sui Dynasty, the most anticipated outcome is naturally the Sui Dynasty is like Zhou Qi back then, to the Turks to pay tribute and relatives, and send the princess to send gold, silver, money, and silk. Of course, when the Turkic power became stronger, they didn't mind snatching the old man of the Sui Dynasty again, or simply going south to dominate the Central Plains like the Tuoba clan, ruling the Central Plains for thousands of miles, and enslaving tens of millions of Han people.
Now, it's not that time, and at the same time, it is enough to show the Sui people their bravery and strength while grabbing a handful to get the benefits.
The wealth of Huaihuang has long been heard of even the mud profits, and this Huaihuang is also prominent on the plug, outside the Great Wall, although I heard that Huaihuang has built a lot of towns and forts, with a lot of soldiers and horses. However, Niri never thought that the lively border city of Huaihuang had much military power. In his mind, the most important thing is to be prepared first, first cut off the retreat of Huaihuang, copy the two breads, and not let the money and grain population of Huaihuang withdraw into Youzhou is the most important. As for the Huaihuang army, which he couldn't fight, he hadn't thought about it at all, because they had 200,000 troops, and 100,000 Tiele troops were heading south, could it be said that their 300,000 troops couldn't beat a small Huaihuang? Joke.
The important thing is to ensure that the big fish of Huaihuang is not discovered in advance and slips away.
"There are a few hard bones that must be gnawed off first." Nili said to Du Lan, "Yunnei and Heng'an, we must find a way to take it, and at least we can't let the Sui army reinforce these two cities." This is the top priority, if we can't take these two cities, then the soldiers and horses we sent to Daning and the military capital Erguan will have to worry about the future. In addition, Jundu Pass can be besieged but not attacked, but Daning Pass must be taken. ”
Listening to Nili's words, Du Lan was also making a small calculation in his heart, dividing his troops into two roads, and the south road was obviously heavier and more stressful. It is necessary to besiege the two towns of Yunnei and Heng'an, and to sweep along the Yanghe River and Sanggan River, and finally to take the important Daning Pass, the important pass of the Great Wall, and the Jundu Pass, the northwest gateway of Youzhou. The soldiers and horses of the South Road also divided the troops into three routes, not to mention the other towns, the most important ones that must be won are Yunnei, Hengan, and Daning. Not to mention, the troops and horses that entered the Great Wall to fight had to face the Hedong Army, which could rush to Yunnei for reinforcements at any time from the direction of Yanmen and Shuozhou, and the Hebei Army that came out of the Youzhou Army.
Too much pressure! (To be continued......) R1292