Although Linqu County was not worried, Fusan Anzhen also expected that if Li Quan's initial battle was unfavorable, he would inevitably retreat to the dangerous Muling Pass. Attacking Muling Pass from the front, Fusan Anzhen also felt difficult.

Therefore, Fusan Anzhen repeated his old tricks, preparing to copy Li Quan's retreat and attack Muling Pass from behind.

There is no problem with planning, but there is Meng Jiucheng, and there is the variable of the Red Turban Army, which is not expected by Fusan Anzhen.

Then, if we calculate the total strength of the Jin army, we can have a thorough understanding of the enemy and enemy forces in the entire battle situation.

Although there is no detailed data on this in history, it can be roughly estimated by a few battles.

For example, the rebel army Jian Qi led 40,000 troops to line up at the Xin River to resist the army of Fusan Anzhen to suppress Yang An'er.

According to the comparison of the combat effectiveness of the Jin army and the righteous army, even if the role of the natural barrier of the Xin River is added, the strength of the Jin army cannot exceed that of the righteous army.

Otherwise, the rebels should not have faced the enemy with weak forces.

Looking at the composition of the Jin army, it was formed by drawing troops from all over Shandong after the Mongolian army retreated and got a chance to breathe.

Among them, there are more troops in Yizhou, the defense envoy of Yizhou, the servant scattered to stay at home, and the Anhua army to make the end of the Yan, as well as the elite cavalry of three or four thousand people brought by the servant Anzhen from the land of Yanzhao "Flower Hat Army".

After comprehensive analysis, we can probably come to an approximate number, the Jin army's strength in the conquest of Yang An's childhood is no more than 30,000, and may even only be about 20,000.

With 30,000 well-equipped and well-trained regular troops, and nearly one-third of the cavalry, they defeated more than 300,000 poorly equipped and poorly trained rebels in succession, which was not an incredible record.

After defeating Yang An'er, in addition to the battle losses, the Jin army also had to leave troops to garrison in the recovered states of Lai, Deng, Ninghai, and Wei. Even if you have surrendered a lot of rebels, you must always leave some elite troops to suppress the newly surrendered troops!

Therefore, the most people and horses that can be mobilized to attack Li Quan are only 20,000 now.

As the commander, he attacked Li Quan's more than 40,000 horses from the front, and the troops led by Fusan Anzhen were more than 13,000 people (including the Flower Hat Army).

In this way, the Jin army that attacked Anqiu was less than 7,000, more than 2,000 light cavalry who stayed at home, and more than 4,000 foot cavalry.

Of course, if it is a frontal battle, even if it is several times the size of its own rebel army, the Jin army will not be left behind.

And Anqiu's national security, there are less than 10,000 horses, and the servants are scattered and left at home and completely able to win the battle.

As for Li Quan, the troops led by Fusan Anzhen were also enough to deal with it.

The development of the battle situation seems to be as Susan Yasan expected. The main force led by him was in Liushan Town and Longgang Town in Linqu. He successively defeated Li Quan's generals Liu Qingfu and Zheng Yande, forcing Li Quan to abandon Linqu County and lead his troops to move to Muling Pass.

And the two Jin armies that attacked Anqiu did not encounter major trouble. Guo'anyong, which was deployed on the Wen River in the north of Anqiu City, was attacked by the light cavalry led by the Fusan Liujia who crossed the river from the upper reaches, suffered heavy losses, and was defeated in Anqiu City.

Without waiting for the servants to disperse and stay at home and complete the siege deployment, Guoan led his troops to break through at night. The weather was cold and windy, and the Jin army could not besiege and kill, so Guoan was able to keep more than 3,000 people, turned west, and defected to Li Quan.

After occupying Anqiu, the Jin army rested for a day, left 1,000 men and horses to guard Anqiu, and led 3,000 men and horses to the west to press towards Muling Pass; The servant scattered and stayed at home and rode into Yishui, preparing to copy the back of Muling Pass.

Another seven or eight days passed, and the situation was as Meng Jiucheng expected.

The Jin army had defeated Guoanyong, occupied Anqiu, broke the strategic deployment of Li Quan's troops with Linqu and Anqiu as horns, and squeezed Li Quan's tens of thousands of troops in the small land of Mulingguan.

Although Li Quan's main force still exists, the righteous army is the righteous army. As soon as they heard that the rear road was cut off and the enemy formed an encirclement from three sides, the army would certainly be in great confusion.

Even Yang Miaozhen, after getting the information detected, thought that the defeat of Li Quan's department was decided. She had seen the rout of the rebel army and could not contain it, and was chased and slaughtered by the cavalry of the Jin army.

"Before, I didn't dare to accept Meng Shuai's kindness, but now I sent someone to ask for support?" Yang Miaozhen threw the letter written by Li Quan on the table and sneered with some disdain.

Hey, this is your husband in history!

Meng Jiucheng looked at Yang Miaozhen with a wink, feeling that marrying him was really Yang Miaozhen's luck, and she didn't have to be as unfortunate as in history. Of course, marrying Yang Miaozhen is also his luck.

"What are you staring at?" Yang Miaozhen didn't know why, and said angrily: "You have an idea!" ”

Since holding hands on the mountain, Yang Miaozhen has not refused Meng Jiucheng's affectionate gestures in private, although it is only limited to touching his hands and hugging his waist.

But Meng Jiucheng already felt very good, he secretly promised and was loyal, he believed that Yang Miaozhen was such a woman.

Hehe, Meng Jiucheng laughed twice, stretched out his hand to beckon, and motioned for her to sit at the table.

Pointing to the map, Meng Jiucheng explained to Yang Miaozhen: "Although our army wants to support Li Quan, it will definitely not go to Muling Pass. According to the report, the Jin army was divided into two ways to besiege Muling Pass, and there were not many people on each road, and our army had the possibility of breaking through. ”

Yang Miaozhen knew the plan formulated by Meng Jiucheng and the staff officers, but it was not easy to judge the route of the Jin army.

The main reason is also that all the cavalry led by the servants who stayed at home were fast, and they would return when the horses were clear, and Meng Jiucheng sent troops to intercept or ambush them, which was a little too late.

If he had to wait for the rabbit in many places, Meng Jiucheng was worried that the division of troops was weak and he would not be able to deal a heavy blow to the cavalry of the two thousand Jin Army.

Of course, there were not many places for the Jin army to cut off Li Quan's retreat, and Meng Jiucheng thought that he could choose between Gaoqiao Town and Daotuo Town, south of Muling Pass. And these two towns are more than ten miles and nearly twenty miles away from Mulingguan respectively.

"Hit the Jin Army's light cavalry first, and then finish Yan Yan's argument." Yang Miaozhen's finger swiped from south to north on the map, frowned slightly and said, "It's just how to choose the location?" ”

Meng Jiucheng nodded hard at Gaoqiao Town on the map and said, "I am ready to gather troops here and annihilate the enemy in one fell swoop." ”

"How?" Yang Miaozhen had some doubts, but also some expectations.

Meng Jiucheng smiled and said, "It's very simple. Conceal the men and horses around the town, and when the enemy enters the town, block the outward passage and slowly advance inward-" As he spoke, Meng Jiucheng stretched out his hands and made a gesture of closing on the map, "Annihilate them in one fell swoop." ”

"Around town?" Yang Miaozhen thought for a while and said, "I'm afraid you can't get too close, and the enemy's scouts are not blind." ”

"There is a siege tactic called dog siege." Meng Jiucheng smiled incomprehensibly and said, "Miaozhen, listen to me slowly." ”

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