The transfer of Ye Ji Duodi by the Northern Yan to serve as the guard of Yanjing shows that the princes and ministers of the Northern Yan have the intention of abandoning the capital and fleeing westward, but at the same time, the veteran Nahe Wugu takes over the place of Ye Ji Duodi to supervise the soldiers and horses of the left flank, which shows that before the Northern Yan abandoned the capital, they still hoped to give it a go and be able to block the pace of the Huaidong Army from Jinhai to the west.

On both sides of the Wei River south of Yanjing, the soldiers and horses on the left flank of Northern Yan gathered the main forces that could defend Yanjing City at this time, including the 30,000 cavalry led by Ye Ji Duodi from Jinan to the north and the 30,000 miscellaneous cavalry that were cobbled together later, a total of 60,000 cavalry.

After entering the middle of May, Nahe Wugu transferred the main force of the left flank to the Anxu area east of the Weihe River, between Jinhai and Yanjing, intending to take advantage of the Huaidong Army approaching Yanjing in three ways, looking for various opportunities to break through......

In the face of the latest situation, the two wings of the Huaidong Army, which had already been deployed, were ordered to stop the pace of westward advance, shrink their defenses on both sides of the Wushui River and Chaobai River, and wait for the fighters.

And to the wings of the two wings of the soldiers and horses of Jinhai City, every day there are a large number of troop transports, grain ships to dock, thousands of men and horses, tens of millions of stone of rice grain, tens of thousands of boxes of ammunition, weapons, a steady stream of Jinhai City, constantly strengthen the middle of the army and horses that are about to attack Yanjing from between the Chaobai River and the Vortex River.

"On the battlefield, all those who carry the blade are either their own brothers or enemies. Before they drop their blades, lie on the ground and surrender with their heads in their hands, they must be resolutely eliminated, and they must not be soft! Those dogs, looking small and inconspicuous, but killing people are ruthless, brothers and town teachers are suffering from soft losses, resulting in unnecessary casualties, your heads, to be clear to me, in front of you, no matter men or women, old or young, as long as they pick up the blade, they are the enemy. Don't be afraid of what goes wrong, what goes wrong, I'......ll take care of it."

Chen Yan's loud voice, even if it was separated by a row of wooden houses, Lin Tie and Gao Zongting, Zhou Pu, Song Shixing and others who accompanied Lin Tie to the Denghai Town Division's station, could hear it clearly.

Lin Jian signaled that the soldiers did not need to be reported, and he walked in directly with Gao Zongting, Zhou Pu and others, and on the other side of the wooden barracks was a small school field, and Chen Yan was summoning the generals above the division post in Denghai Town to carry out pre-war mobilization.

More than 300 generals and officers sat on simple benches, crowding the small school yard. In front of the school field, a row of long tables was simply placed as the main platform, and the main generals of the town division such as Li Baidao and Liang Shou sat in the back.

The generals on the school field saw Lin Lian and others passing from behind the barracks, stood up and saluted, Lin Lian motioned for everyone to sit down, walked to the back of the general's platform, and said: "Our army has a good tradition of not attacking civilians and not indiscriminately killing women and children, and this must be resolutely maintained." Although the military department has sent a large number of military discipliners, I believe that all the officers and soldiers of our army have the tradition and habit of observing military discipline. However, in front of our army, in Weihejin and in Anxu, the weak and incompetent Hulu, in order to redeem the defeat, summoned all the young men of his clan to the battlefield, in a vain attempt to block the pace of our army's recovery of the Central Plains, this is a new situation, just as Chen Yan said, what stands in front of us, as long as it is holding the blade and does not let go of surrender, it is the enemy who will be resolutely destroyed. ”

Yandong Zhuhu and Yanxi, Xi and Northwest Yi Zhuhu constitute the upper stage of the Northern Yan Lingjia before the Han people in the north, and the Donghu people established the country with the Northern Yan Dynasty, adding up to only thirty or forty years, and the children of the Hu people still retain the tradition of establishing the clan with martial arts.

In the face of the Huaidong Army's Northern Expedition, the Northern Yan could not draw reinforcements from the outer defense line in time, so they gathered nearly 20,000 Hu children in Yanjing City and incorporated them into the left flank, intending to block the Huaidong Army outside Yanjing City.

In the face of these young men of the Hu nationality who were still childish, but had fanatical morale on the battlefield and fought on horseback, the two soldiers and horses of Zhang Gou and Chu Zheng, who were the first to deploy on the left and right wings, had insufficient coping psychology and many unnecessary casualties.

On 9 May, a brigade-level front of Chu Zheng's division on the right flank suffered a breakthrough for the Hu boys' enemy cavalry, with more than 600 casualties.

After the mobilization meeting of the Denghai Town Division, Lin Jian left the generals above the brigade level of the Denghai Town Division for a meeting, and at the same time, there were also senior generals above the brigade level in Jinhai.

"Hu Lu will be less than sixteen years old, and there are even many young people who are only eleven or twelve years old who have been conscripted into the army and filled the battlefield between Jinhai and Yanjing, which means that Hu Lu's military potential has been squeezed to the extreme," Lin Jian looked at the senior generals sitting in the tent, and said in a deep voice, "I don't think I need to say anything, everyone can understand how important the meaning of the next battle is." As long as the 60,000 enemy soldiers east of the Wei River are eliminated on the battlefield of Anxu, Hulu's most core military potential will be exhausted at one time. As long as he wins the great victory on the battlefield of Jie'an Ruins, although Hu Lu still has nearly 300,000 soldiers and horses on the periphery, he will no longer be a problem, and it will be a matter of time before he is eliminated. It is precisely because the next battle is a decisive battle that I hope everyone will keep their eyes open and keep their heads clear......"

Jinhai City is almost in ruins, the most urgent thing to transport from Jianghuai at the moment are military supplies, the living conditions of all the armies are quite simple, in the meeting hall of the Denghai Town Division, there are only elm benches that are rushed to make, and everyone is huddled together.

However, in the face of the upcoming Battle of Anxu, everyone's interest was very high.

At the beginning, everyone was still scruples about the large number of young Hu soldiers on the battlefield, and they did not dare to kill on a large scale, but the result of conservative tactics led to a large number of unnecessary casualties on their side.

Lin Jian carried out the mobilization of the whole army this time, and regarded the 20,000-year-old Hu soldiers who appeared on the battlefield as the last military potential of the Northern Yan, and made clear the attitude of resolute annihilation, which actually cleared the last obstacle for the Battle of Anxu.

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The dispatch of soldiers and horses in Jinhai and Jianghuai was all by sea, which was not in Beiyan's field of vision.

Even if Beiyan's eyes in Jianghuai could find out the reality of the Huaidong Army's strength, there was not enough time to spread the news to Yanjing.

Although in Yihai, Liu Xilin led his troops from Yizhou to the north, passed through the Yimeng Mountains, and entered the Linqu area in central Shandong, but the other reserve troops and horses in the Yihai area were mainly newly formed brigades and military brigades; Han Caizhi's headquarters of the 4th Town Division of the Fengli Army, Hu Qiaoguan, the 3rd Town Division of the Haidong Xingying Army, and Zhou Pu's headquarters of the 1st Cavalry Division were all transferred to Jinhai by sea before mid-May.

It can be said with great certainty that Huaidong clearly and clearly knew that the main force of the captives blocking the periphery of Yanjing was the 60,000 cavalry east of the Weihe River, in addition, it had 20,000 defenders in Yanjing City, and there were more than 10,000 soldiers and horses in Sanhe and other areas in the mountainous area of eastern Hebei on the right flank, so as to delay the westward advance of the soldiers and horses on the right wing of Huaidong.

However, the Huaidong Army, in addition to the two soldiers and horses of Zhang Gou and Chu Zheng who spread out from both wings, the horse infantry army gathered in Jinhai, including the three elite infantry brigade town divisions of Chen Yan, Han Caizhi, and Hu Qiaokou and the first elite cavalry division of Zhou Pu's department, there are also nine newly formed brigades and six brigades of the engineering battalion, which can be used as the main force to break through to Yanjing from the middle road in the future, with a total strength of up to 90,000 people, which is actually far more than the soldiers and horses intercepted by Northern Yan in the front.

In addition, Lin Jian also transferred men and horses and artillery from the naval division to go ashore, with Sun Zhun as the brigade general, and the artillery brigade under the direct jurisdiction of the new military department was under the jurisdiction of four artillery battalions, so that the number of artillery pieces in the middle road was nearly doubled, and the number of light and heavy artillery pieces reached 500.

From 12 May, in addition to Hu Qiaoguan's town division and six newly formed brigades remaining as reserves, the two infantry town divisions and one cavalry town division under Chen Yan, Han Caizhi, and Zhou Pu's headquarters were the mainstays, supplemented by three newly formed brigades and three workers' brigades.

The former enemy command composed of Gao Zongting, Yang Yihang, Yue Zhi, Song Shixing and others followed the movement of Chen Yan's headquarters and specifically commanded the battle to receive the enemy, while Lin Jian forcibly persuaded everyone to stay in Jinhai and dispatch in the center, and no longer had the opportunity to go to the front-line battlefield.

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In the past few days, with the advantage of cavalry across the plains, the Northern Yan has continuously won victories in battlefield contact battles on the left and right flanks, which has restored the morale of its generals.

Except for a few generals of Tong Huacheng and Fan Wenlan who still tried to persuade Nahe Wugu to give up the strategy of a decisive battle in the middle, the vast majority of Northern Yan's generals in Yanjing resolutely believed that they would resolutely block the Huaidong Army on the frontal battlefield between Yanjing and Jinhai, and only in this way could they save Beiyan's crumbling national fortunes.

Due to the trapping of the embankments dug by the Northern Yan in the upper reaches of the Vortex River and the Chaobai River, the water level has decreased, so that the 200-ton frigates cannot enter the Yan-Hebei deep area, and only small warships of less than 100 tons can move westward with the soldiers and horses on both wings.

Small warships had no gunwales, and only one or two light guns of the four- or eight-pound class were installed on the top deck of the forward and stern. In addition, the narrowing of the navigable river channel greatly weakened the intensity of artillery that could appear on the battle line, and the actual role in suppressing the enemy's cavalry conflict was even far inferior to the traditional and combat weapons such as bed crossbows and scorpion crossbows coordinated by battalion and sentry.

This created an illusion for the generals of the Northern Yan cavalry: the Huaidong Army's fire crossbow was far less powerful than that portrayed by Ye Ji Baishi, Ye Ji Duodi and others.

This kind of situation made the Northern Yan generals led by Nahe Wugu more eager to seek the opportunity for a decisive battle in the middle.

The Huaidong Army tore through the defense line of the sea and attacked the Jinhai Sea with an indestructible momentum, and the front of the troops was directed at Yanjing - the hinterland of Yanji was so mortally threatened that if the time dragged on for a moment, the danger of collapse would increase in the North Yan.

In fact, after the Huaidong Army conquered Jinhai City, even if it did not advance westward, as long as Jinhai City was firmly held, Northern Yan would not be able to maintain the vast area from Shandong and Henan in the south, Guanzhong in the west, and Liangliao and Yanxi in the north.

In fact, unless Northern Yan is determined to decisively abandon Shandong, Henan, Liangliao, and Yanji, and retreat to Jinzhong, Guanzhong, and Yanxi, a general battle outside Yanjing City is inevitable, and the longer it drags on, the more unfavorable the situation will be for Northern Yan.

Seeing the soldiers and horses of the Huaidong Army coming out of Jinhai, the Northern Yan generals led by Nahe Wugu thought that they had the opportunity to fight a decisive battle in the middle......