With the end of the war at Juyongguan, there was no longer a large-scale Khitan army along the Great Wall and even in the sixteen states of Youyun, and the various armed forces of the crossing team were mobilized from the 22nd day of the fourth month of the lunar calendar in accordance with the new deployment of the committee and the military department.

Among them, Qian Yuanshan and Wang Feng's headquarters in Yuguan (Shanhaiguan), except for the first regiment and two battalions of the "Flying Dragon Army" led by Wang Feng, and the first regiment and one battalion of the "Security Army", with the cooperation of 2,000 people selected from the original guards of the pass, who still stayed in Guancheng, the rest of the troops will escort the prisoners of the battle of Yuguan (Shanhaiguan) and return to Youzhou City with Qian Yuanshan. However, unlike when he rushed to Yuguan (Shanhaiguan) to block the Khitan army, he bypassed the prefectures and counties along the way and did not enter, this time he returned to the division Qian Yuanshan and led his troops to stop in all the prefectures and counties in the name of the "Youzhou Righteous Army", and entered the city to meet with the local local officials and guards. The reason for this was that, on the one hand, it was to force the officials of the prefectures and counties along the way to express their stance and stand in line, showing their determination to break with the Khitan court. On the other hand, it is also to show the state and county officials, guards, gentry and common people the achievements and strength of the crossing team armament, so that those who have the two ends of the head and the left and right sides of the mind can recognize the form, and do not think that they can be a two-sided "wall grass".

The situation in Juyongguan is similar to that of Yuguan (Shanhaiguan), Xin Feiyu led the 7th Battalion of the 3rd Regiment of the "Flying Dragon Army" and the 11th Battalion of the 4th Regiment of the "Security Army", with the cooperation of 2,000 soldiers who originally guarded the Pass, to stay in Guancheng, and the rest of the infantry troops escorted the prisoners back to Youzhou City with Xu Shao'an, Tang Chao and others. However, unlike Qian Yuanshan's department returning to the west all the way, Xu Shao'an's department did not go directly to the southeast to Youzhou after leaving Juyong Pass, but first went northwest to meet the captives who went south from Gubeikou Pass, and then returned to Youzhou along the line of Danzhou (Miyun), Shunzhou (Shunyi), and Luxian (Tongzhou), which was also a must-enter in Fengzhou County along the way. The reason for such a turning point is, on the one hand, to escort the prisoners of Gubeikou Pass, and on the other hand, to show their strength to the states and counties through which they pass and to subdue the hearts of the officials and the people, just like Qian Yuanshan's subordinates.

Different from the arrangement of Qian and Xu's two groups of men and horses returning to Youzhou City, the cavalry of Mutel's department and part of Zeng Zhilin's troops (all of the "Flying Dragon Army" Second Regiment, all of the "Security Army" Second Regiment and Fifth Regiment, and the First Artillery Regiment) who guarded Juyong Pass to the Great Wall in Jingguan (all of the "Flying Dragon Army" Second Regiment and Fifth Regiment, and one Artillery Regiment) converged into one place, left Juyong Pass, and marched into the Shanhou Eight Prefectures of the Sixteen Prefectures of Youyun, striving to recover the Eight Prefectures of Shanhou in about a month and a half, and put the entire Sixteen Prefectures of Youyun under the control of the crossing team.

After several days of preparation, Zeng Zhilin, Wu Peng, and Yang Xin, who had been guarding the rear and had not yet participated in actual battles, led more than 9,000 infantry and artillery men - said to be infantry and artillery, but through the previous battles, the team armed captured a large number of war horses from the Khitans, so these 9,000 people basically all had horses, and it seems more appropriate to call them mounted infantry and mounted artillery - and nearly 20,000 people who carried logistics baggage for them arrived at Juyong Pass on the 29th day of the fourth lunar month in the ninth year of the Ying calendar (the sixth year of Xiande). Joining up with Tang Chao and the cavalry troops waiting there, they marched out of the pass and killed their first target, Ruzhou (Yanqing County, Beijing).

It should be noted that considering that the Khitan army has now withdrawn from the sixteen states of Youyun, this time it will only face the local town and garrison troops of each state and county after going out of Juyongguan to recover the eight states after recovering the mountain. These local armies are basically Han armies, and they cannot be compared with the previous Khitan army in terms of combat effectiveness and military morale. Therefore, the cavalry troops that accompanied Zeng Zhilin, Yang Xin, and Tang Chao this time were only all the cavalry regiments after the Third Cavalry Battalion had been returned from Youzhou. The "Ranger Battalion", which was used as a weapon to arm against the Khitan cavalry and carry out long-range assault attacks, did not participate in it. This cavalry special force, together with the reassembled infantry special forces "Wolf Tooth Battalion", under the leadership of Muter, was sent by the committee and the military department outside the Great Wall to patrol back and forth along the line from Juyong Pass to Yuguan (Shanhaiguan), while protecting the security of the northern part of the eight prefectures in front of the mountain, making full use of its own characteristics of strong mobility and attack power, seizing every available opportunity to harass and sneak attack the prefectures and counties north of the Great Wall that are still under the control of the Khitans, making the Khitans tired of coping. It is unable to interfere with the armed forces of the crossing team that recovered the eight states behind the mountains, so as to effectively ensure the safety of the flanks and rear of Zeng Zhilin, Yang Xin, and Tang Chao. …,

It is worth mentioning that because Muttel led the army out of the fortress for a long time, and his combat methods were mainly sneak attacks and harassment, the committee and the military department did not equip him with a corresponding logistics baggage team. The food and grass supply of the two special forces will be completely dependent on them to raise them on the spot, except for the part they carry with them. In other words, Mutel and his special forces had to fight to obtain supplies by destroying the enemy, which was the first time for these two special forces - although there was no logistical support for Mutel to lead the army to help Gubeikou Pass, it was only a little more than a day before and after, and it was completely able to cope with the supplies carried by the soldiers themselves. However, despite some risks, Muttel still gladly accepted the order and happily rushed to Yuguan (Shanhaiguan) with these two special forces, and from there crossed the Great Wall to carry out a combat that had never been experienced by the team's armed forces -- because in Muter's view, the so-called special forces should be able to carry out some tasks that ordinary troops and ordinary soldiers cannot complete and dare not complete, and they should be tested by various environments and tactics, so as to be worthy of the word "special forces."

Because this kind of sneak attack and harassment tactics require a high degree of mobility, in order to ensure that the "Wolf Tooth Battalion," which is an infantryman, can keep up with the speed of the "Ranger Battalion," the Committee and the Military Department have specially equipped each soldier of the "Wolf Tooth Battalion" with two war horses -- because the "Ranger Battalion" is equipped with heavy armor that the "Wolf Tooth Battalion" does not have, its officers and men are one man and three horses. This luxurious configuration, combined with the horses used by the artillery battalions and the machine-gun chariots of the "Ranger Battalion", made the two battalions, with a total number of only about 1,500 men, equipped with more than 4,500 war horses and pack horses. Equipping two battalions with so many horses would never have been done for the crossing team before the start of the Battle of the Clouds. But now, for the crossing team that has captured tens of thousands of war horses from the Khitans after several major battles, thousands of horses are not a problem at all, and it is only a matter of minutes to achieve it - this is also the reason why the crossing team can match horses for all the infantry who go to the eight states behind the mountains.

Since the orders given to Muttel by the Council and the Military Department before departure were to act cheaply while completing the mission, there was still a great deal of freedom of movement outside the Wall. Perhaps it was because his butt was recalled to Yuguan (Shanhaiguan) by the committee before he was hot after "taking Haiyang", which made Muttel always haunted, so his first target after leaving the city was Haiyang City

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