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In May, Li Chongjiu led his army over the grassland of Bashang and arrived in Liaoxi County, where the mountains were high and the forests were dense. Liaoxi Ya had long been in the mountains in the direction of the Mulan grassland, secretly opened up a forest road that could accommodate three horsemen in parallel, so the 10,000 army quickly passed through the woodland and arrived at the station of Liaoxi Ya.

Here, Wu Gu Nai had already led 5,000 soldiers to wait for a long time, and the people of the Yan people had prepared the army's rations for 20 days. It is a combination of agriculture and animal husbandry, and the mountain people generally grow crops such as millet, wheat, and grain. In the spring, the people of the Yan people first set fire to the mountain, and after burning, they plucked and sowed the seeds, and let them grow naturally, this primitive slash-and-burn cultivation, extensive farming, and the harvest per mu was less than two buckets. However, the western part of Liaoning is vast and sparsely populated, and it can withstand such a toss, but most of the mountain people must be supplemented by fishing and hunting in order to live.

Therefore, the military rations for the past ten days can be regarded as all the savings of Liaoxi Yao, and they came from simple clothes and food. In other words, Li Chongjiu, with his own grain and straw, did not have to capture Liucheng within 20 days, otherwise he would run out of food.

When they first came to Liaodong Yinghefu, Wang Mahan and others looked at these fierce mountain people wearing pigskins and holding iron forks, all of them showed expressions of appreciation. Fighting in the mountains and forests, you will definitely be able to block ten with one.

Unlike the ignorance of the mountain people, the heads of the various tribes of the Yan Dynasty, the shamans, are quite polite. These chiefs and shamans all own private property and the offerings of the clansmen, so they have no worries about food and clothing. They have been in western Liaoning for a while, and the Sinicization Cheng dù is relatively high, and most of the head shamans can understand Chinese, and even the old Phuket shaman can understand a few Chinese characters. For example, Tu Di Ji led a group of people to serve in front of Emperor Yang of Sui and dealt with the Han people for a long time.

In contrast, the same is true of the Xi people, who have been trading with the Han for many years. The Xi people gradually possessed the title of having the most dexterous hands on the grassland, providing the most delicate blankets and sharp swords, and the head of the tribe was also Sinicized Cheng dù. And if Li Chongjiu encounters the Heishui Turtle, Murowei, Khitan, these uncivilized peoples, not to mention subdued, they are simply chickens and ducks, and they can't even communicate with each other.

Therefore, I don't know which great man said that it is easy to defeat a nation, but if you really subdue a nation, you must first conquer their culture. In this regard, Han culture is definitely full of yearning and attraction for the backward barbarians. With the food supply of Liaoxi Yao, Li Chongjiu's soldiers rested here and camped secretly, but there was not much time left for him.

After that, Li Chongjiu discussed the next step of attacking Luo Yi, judging from the topography of the entire western Liaodong Liaodong.

Luo Yi's influence in western Liaoning, the two counties of eastern Liaoning, is distributed along the valley of the Daling River. In the past, there were only two passages to the northeast, one was the Daling River Valley, and the other was the Liaoning West Corridor. Both routes are from Yuguan, Yuguan is today's Shanhaiguan, one goes to the valley of the Daling River, passes through Liucheng, arrives at Liaodong, the second takes the Liaoxi corridor, that is, after going out of Shanhaiguan, goes to Ningyuan, and finally passes through Jinzhou, arrives at Liaodong, the Ming Dynasty will call this the Ningjin defense line. However, now the western Liaoning corridor, north of Yuguan to Jinzhou, is not only sparsely populated, but also difficult to pass.

Therefore, from the Central Plains to Liaodong, unless from the grassland, detour for hundreds of miles, the only one is the Daling River Valley, when Cao Cao conquered Wuhuan, Sui San conquered Goguryeo, all of them took the Daling River Valley.

In terms of the distribution of the entire Daling River valley, Liucheng in Liaoxi County is the key point, while Huaiyuan Town and Tongding Town in Liaodong County are suspended near the Liaohe River. Among them, Tongding Town is the eighth year of the great cause, Emperor Yang of Sui pulled out Wuli City after the second expedition to Goguryeo, and set up a city here, as the seat of Liaodong County, and Goguryeo is only separated by a Liao River. Huaiyuan Town is located 60 miles west of Tongding Town, where it was used as a military station for the Sui army to conquer Goguryeo, and a place for the army to hoard grain. Therefore, in the battle against Luo Yi, Wen Yanbo and Li Chongjiu coincided, that is, to capture Liucheng and take the Daling River Valley into their pockets, thus completely cutting off the connection between Liaodong County and Beiping County, where Luo Yi is located.

According to Tudiji, now Liucheng is guarded by Deng Wei, Deng Wei is Luo Yiqi's brother, Luo Yi rebelled back then, it was Deng Wei who subdued Luo Yi in Liaoxi and Liaodong counties. Now he is named the governor of Yingzhou by Luo Yi.

In addition to Liucheng, where Deng Wei was stationed, there were five dock forts and eleven forts in Liaoxi County, all of which were distributed along the Daling River Valley. After the secret investigation of Tudiji, there were 100 Sui troops guarding each dock fort, and there were 30 Sui troops in the fort, while there were originally only 1,000 defenders in Liucheng, but after Luo Yi's recent unsuccessful expedition against Liaoxi, the strength was strengthened to 1,500 people, including ironclad cavalry, and equipped with strong bows and crossbows. Li Chongjiu, with his current strength, wants to storm Liucheng, and the casualties will definitely be huge. So something else had to be found.

Wangshan Station in Liaoxi County is one of the eleven forts outside Liucheng.

This fort is built between the high mountains and mountains, overlooking the Liaodong Avenue, it was originally the post station of Liaoxi County, and the Khitan entered the Kou during the great cause period, so the post station was strengthened into the fort. The fort is as high as five zhang five, rebuilt with yellow rammed earth, divided into three layers, the bottom layer lives the horse, the middle layer sleeps people, the upper layer can look at the archery, and there is the beacon fire and wolf smoke on the top.

On this day, the noise under the fort woke up the warlord who was sleeping with a bare-ass woman in his arms. The warlord sat up, pulled the plank from the lookout cave, and stuck his head out.

I saw that under the trench suspension bridge, dozens of people wearing tattered leather clothes, carrying a large wild boar, crowded on the edge of the trench and compared with their soldiers, hand in hand. The lord couldn't help but shout unhappily: "Sun Er, what are you arguing about? ”

"Tell the lord of war, these Ding Ling people have hunted wild boars and game, and said they want to sell it to us!"

"Ding Lingren?" The lord touched his head, in Liaoxi County, Ding Lingren has always been docile, in the past, when the Khitan made trouble, they didn't make trouble, when Goguryeo made trouble, they didn't make trouble, and now when the people of the Yan people make trouble, it is even more impossible to make trouble.

In other words, he was a Tatam man, and the lord of the war also added three thoughts, but now he was thinking about the woman on the bed, although this local woman in western Liaoning was vulgar, far inferior to his daughter-in-law in Liucheng, but she was finally greedy for freshness. So he waved his hand and said, "Just take some coarse salt and change it." ”

So he closed the window, went back to the bed, and turned it upside down to the woman. The officers and soldiers under the fort received the signal of the lord of the fort, and immediately ordered Ding Lingren to throw bows, arrows, wooden forks and other weapons outside the trench, and the drawbridge outside the fort was slowly lowered.

Dozens of Ding Ling people carried the wild boar through the fort, and the first gang leader kicked the wild boar, and said with a smile: "Are there still so many catties?" Tonight the brethren have a good feast. ”

The dozen or so Ding Ling people laughed together, and at this time, a Ding Ling person quietly took out a dagger from the boar's belly, and his companion unknowingly surrounded the three Sui troops in the core, and there were hundreds of Ding Ling people in ambush in the woods outside...... The sudden smoke in the distance made Deng Wei in Liucheng puzzled for a while. Then he received several reports that the fort had been attacked by the Ding Ling people, and even the Ding Ling people had their ideas on the dock fort. More than 2,000 Ding Lingren, armed with short bows and sticks, attacked the dock fort for a day. The other four forts were attacked by hundreds of Ding Ling people, and even one fort was breached by Ding Ling people and looted.

These damn Ding Ling people have not always been docile, how could they suddenly be different, there must be some conspiracy in this. Deng Wei immediately grabbed the protons of several Ding Ling clan leaders in the city to inquire about the situation, and was inquiring. The dock fort that was besieged by Ding Ling actually sent out an urgent beacon smoke, indicating that it had reached a precarious point.

Deng Wei was worried that this was a ploy, so he did not immediately send troops, but the smoke burned urgently. Deng Wei thought that it was impossible for the Khitans to go south at this time, so he ordered a general to lead 300 cavalry to support, asking for caution along the way. At dawn the next day, the general came with the news that the siege was finally lifted, which made Deng Wei's nervous heart all night a little relaxed.

But just a moment later, news came that a fort had been besieged by thousands of men. Deng Wei could only send another 200 infantry troops to relieve the siege.

Within three days, Deng Wei was infinitely tired, and the fort and the fort were constantly attacked by Ding Lingren, and the other party was also strange as soon as he saw the Sui reinforcements and immediately retreated. And the news came from the Ding Ling hostage, it turned out that several tribes had a famine at this time of starvation, so they attacked the Sui army in order to get food. Deng Wei finally figured out the reason, now that Liucheng City is tall and strong, Ding Lingren will definitely not dare to attack, as for Wubao, in the fort, it has become the target of Ding Lingren's attack.

There is no grain and grass in the fort, but the fort is different, the fort is the node of the defense of the Daling River valley, the soldiers cultivate their own crops on weekdays, and they also have to provide food to the fort regularly, so they hoard a lot of grain.

Deng Wei, who felt that he had found the problem, asked these protons to contact their father's headmen and ask them to attack the rebellious Ding Lingren, and at the same time he sent troops from Liucheng to strengthen the defenses in the dock fort. The garrison of each dock fort was raised from 100 to 200 men. After Deng Wei divided his troops, Ding Ling's number of people failed to attack the Dock Fort, and the attack on the Fort's fort was flanked by the defenders of the Dock Fort, so Ding Zero stopped at this time.

Unbeknownst to him, it had only been a few days since the dock fort, which was the farthest away from Liucheng, was suddenly attacked by thousands of Ding Ling people. After Deng Wei heard about it, he was furious and sent another general to send 300 cavalry to reinforce, but after a day and a night, the smoke of Wubao was still not stopping, but there was no news of the 300 cavalry he sent. Deng Wei had no sleep all night, and when it was almost dawn, he arrested several Ding Lingbu protons, tortured and tortured, and finally one of them couldn't stand it, only to know that the attack was instructed by Tu Di Ji.

After dawn, the earth outside Liucheng trembled, and Li Chongjiu personally led an army of 15,000 Xi and Yan to arrive at the foot of Liucheng and surround Liucheng. And now there were less than 700 of the original 1,500 garrisons in Liucheng.