Attacking Xiangping from the Horqin steppe at the eastern end of the Mongolian Plateau and attacking Liaodong from the Western Liaoning Corridor in the Central Plains were obviously two completely different routes.

The latter first needed to cross the Xiaoling River, and then capture Yangle County, the former seat of the Liaoxi Prefecture, in order to obtain the front-line base needed to attack the Liaodong region, of course, Tuhe and Bintu in the south could also be considered, but no one would want to put Yangle, the largest city in the eastern part of Liaoxi, behind them - when it belonged to the enemy.

After that, you need to cross the Chongqing River, which is roughly the scope of today's Daling River, and then you need to cross the wetlands that have been eroded by the sea in the territory of Liaodong subject countries, if you need to face the largest river in the west of Liaodong County - Da Liao Shui, along the Da Liao Water in Liaodong County all the way to the south, there are a total of three county seats, from north to south are Wangping, Liaoyang (not today's Liaoyang) and Liaosui, Wangping is far away from Xiangping, Liaoyang and Liaosui are roughly the same distance from Xiangping, The three can basically be said to form a system that approximates an equilateral triangle.

It's just that for the army coming from the western Liaoxi corridor, Liaosui is obviously more important than Liaoyang, because this is the intersection of the Great Liaoshui and its most important tributary, the Xiaoliaoshui, and capturing it means that it can cross two important rivers to defend Xiangping at the same time, and it also means that Xiangping City can be said to be close at hand, and there is no way to stop it.

As for Liaoyang, not only do you need to cross the big and small Liaoshui, but you also need to cross Daliang Shui, a large tributary that flows into the small Liaoshui, in fact, Xiangping City was built on the plain near the intersection of the Daliang Water and the Daliang Shui's tributary chamber, which is the location of Liaoyang City today, so for the army that came here through the Liaoxi Corridor, the land of Liaosui can be said to be a must for soldiers.

On the other hand, from the Horqin steppe of Mongolia to the south, although it is also necessary to cross the Great Liao River, it is obviously difficult to completely defend the river for hundreds of miles. Even the Xianbei people can completely give up the direct attack on Xiangping, and instead take the Xuansu, the vast Liaohe Plain can be allowed by the Xianbei cavalry to gallop, even if there is a river moat, but under the mobilization of the Xianbei cavalry, the Liaodong army can neither be deployed along the river. It was also impossible to concentrate defense, which made the defense difficulty of the Liaodong Army increase countless times out of thin air.

The only thing that can be counted on may be the containment of the Buyeo people on the flank, but under the blows of the Xianbei cavalry that come and go like the wind, no one dares to give a positive answer.

What's more, there are also Xianbei infantry in the Xianbei army who are walking on the ground in the mountains and have unpredictable strength, and the current mountains may not be called the "friends" of the Buyeo people, but a fair place for both sides. Even if the Buyeo people still have a certain advantage as an indigenous, compared to before, such an advantage has been infinitely leveled.

That's enough for the Xianbei people.

"In this battle, we must achieve enough results, and it is best to be able to rub the enemy's spirit, otherwise it will be too difficult for our army to survive this time."

"To put it lightly, the enemy forces come and go like the wind, and we can't catch them at all. If we don't force them to fight on the battlefield we pre-set, we'll be completely overwhelmed by their protracted and completely unpredictable battles. ”

"So the key to a qiē is how to mobilize the other side and let them fight our army on the battlefield we need?"

"So how can we lure the other side into the battlefield that our army has predetermined? This time the Xianbei people's table xiàn is very strange. It doesn't look like it's trying to loot goods or people, and the people we come into contact with in private are gone. ”

"Perhaps it is because Qianman commands the armies, and those who have been hostile to him like Sully must be cautious, lest they be seized and punished, but now that Sully is leading the army alone, we will tempt him to take advantage of it. Maybe it might work. ”

Although Liu Yi, the most trusted assassin of Yingzhou in Qingzhou, is really not good, but once Liaodong and Qingzhou face each other across the sea, it is very difficult to exchange information, transport materials and send soldiers, so the defeat of Yingzhou cannot be said to be entirely Liu Yi's responsibility. Moreover, in the bitter cold land of Liaodong, if it were not for the civil strife in the Central Plains, a large number of displaced people entered Liaodong by sea. It has greatly enriched the power of Liaodong, and perhaps Gongsun Du does not have the power to divide one side under the protection of the surrounding foreign races. This also caused Gongsun Du's available talents to be very scarce, whether it was a civil servant or a general, and the vast majority of those scholars who came to Liaodong did not buy Gongsun's account, even if there were occasional people who were willing to go out of Gongsun's family, they still needed to be investigated, and they could not be entrusted with confidants for the time being, or that there was no refuge in the talent that made Gongsun Du ignore his thoughts and employ people. Therefore, Liu Yi, the tallest "wise man" in the middle, is still the right-hand man that Gongsun Du has to rely on.

In addition to Liu Yi, Yang Yi is only good at dealing with civil affairs, and Gongsun Mo has a little ability in battlefield scheduling

, the rest such as Han Zhong and Zhang Chang are just generals who can be used. Maybe the Youju and Ran people also have some strategies, but if they pin their hopes on the hands of those Goguryeo people, Gongsun Du might as well surrender directly to Qianman, and maybe get a reward from a Xianbei lord.

Even though he still feels a little uneasy, compared to others, Liu Yi, who can propose the construction of yì, is already a rare and valuable deposit, even if the proposed idea even Gongsun Du himself feels that there are some loopholes, but when there is no better opinion, he can only try to make this idea as perfect as possible.

Otherwise, what else can you do, is it possible to stand in the city and wait for the other party to completely destroy the land in Liaodong, and starve to death together next year without a harvest? Or was it that the opponent used strategic kite flying skills to completely kill his troops in the field?

Since there is no way to delay the movement advantage of the enemy's cavalry, the only way to lure the enemy deeper is to adopt the strategy.

Although the unpredictability of this method is too strong, after all, this is completely based on previous experience, but everyone knows that this Xianbei people are completely different from the past, so can this strategy really work?

It can only be said that it is up to people to plan things, and it is up to heaven to make things happen.

I just hope that the other party will step into the trap set because of being too greedy.

To everyone's surprise, the man sent by Gongsun Du to liaise with Su Li achieved unexpected results, and the Hu monk named Hu An Biao actually moved Su Li, convincing Su Li that attacking Goguryeo City, the seat of Xuansu, would be rewarded more than attacking Xiangping directly, and would not have to pay so many lives - at least to ensure that his position in Xianbei would not plummet because of a war. Especially in the case that Xianbei is undergoing a major reshuffle within Xianbei.

Of course, even so, the eloquence of this Hu monk named Juan Debate is still eye-catching.

Speaking of the "surname" Hu in the Han Dynasty is a very interesting deposit, among the Han people there is Hu Guang, a famous minister from the Eastern Han Dynasty from Nanyang, not only did Situ, Taiwei and Taifu such a noble official position, but also got the "Wen Gong" in another plane of history in the Song Dynasty is also an excellent nickname. Even the funeral specifications after death are known as the best among civil servants since the revival of the Eastern Han Dynasty. There is also Hu Zhen, who is quite despised even in the Xiliang Army, and perhaps he has a foreign bloodline in his body, and he should still be regarded as a Han Hu Feng general, and he is still a bit brave on the battlefield.

Even among the Hu people, there are Hu Che'er and Hu Chi'er, two famous Hu generals in the late Han Dynasty, and naturally there are some Hu monks who start with Hu's name, these people not only know many Chinese, but also have quite good learning, and most of them have obvious differences from the Central Plains people, so that the Central Plains people can easily associate the term "foreigner" when they see it.

It sounds like a Chinese society that has not yet been reformed and opened up or in the early stage of reform and opening up, and even needs to explicitly "prohibit onlookers and foreigners" to stop the never-ending onlookers' hobby.

By the way. A certain Sun family second child has blue eyes and purple beard, and his appearance is obviously different from that of the Central Plains, and then his mother dreamed that the sun flew into his dream, it seems that according to the inference of the famous Western monk Ferdin, it should be that Mrs. Wu has a very strong need for certain things and cannot get it, and considering that Sun Jiantong shoes have been working hard outside for himself and the power of the family in those days, those foreign monks will not only chant the scriptures, but also live well. So......

Ahem, these are irresponsible conjectures. Anyway, according to genetics, the greater the genetic difference between the fathers, the higher the health of the child can be obtained, which is more conducive to the eugenics of the next generation, so it is not necessarily a bad thing.

And Sun Jianqing'er was "light and unprepared" and died at the hands of Xiaoxiao. Sun Ce and Sun Yi also inherited this well as sons, but the second child of the Sun family, even under the influence of his father and brother, had such signs, but he was persuaded by Zhang Zhao to "change the evil and return to the right", and was called the longest-living one among the generations of emperors of the Sun family.

All right. The topic is a little crooked, pull back and pull back.

In fact, strictly speaking, although the word "Hu" is placed at the forefront of the name, this word should not be considered a surname at all, in fact, the so-called "Hu" character is only used as a status symbol, symbolizing that the identity of the person referred to by the name is the Hu people who are not Chinese people, that is to say, Hu Che'er really means "Hu people named Che'er".

Also a little different is the word "An".

In the Eastern Han Dynasty, there were Hu monks named An Xuan and An Qing, whose initial "An" can be regarded as both a surname and a status symbol as much as "Hu" - An Xuan was once a subject of the Anxian Kingdom, and An Qing is said to have been the crown prince of the Anxian Kingdom - but because he liked Buddhism and wanted to study in the Han Dynasty, he gave up the inheritance to his uncle.

Believe it or not, you should really listen anyway.

So although he is called Hu Anbian, in fact this is actually a Hu monk called An Bi.

Su Li accepted Hu Anbian's persuasion, and did not go straight to Xiangping, but aimed directly at Goguryeo County, the seat of Xuansu's governance - in fact, although it seems that Su Li did not follow Qian Man's idea, but the military discipline of the Hu people during the raid was always bad, and it was not surprising that the front-line generals changed their route halfway to find more valuable targets, as long as it did not have a heavy impact on the main goal of the army, the commander also turned a blind eye to such behavior.

Because this is really a matter that the law does not hold the public accountable, and even no matter how strictly it is prohibited, it cannot be banned at all.

However, after all, Suli was a general of the Hu people who had fought an old battle, and in addition to greed, he was also quite cunning in his nature, and even though he had decided to target Goguryeo, he still sent about 3,000 soldiers and horses to attack tentatively in the direction of Xiangping - naturally he was defeated by the well-prepared Gongsun Du army - but it was not so much a tentative attack as a sporty reconnaissance operation, seeing that the Liaodong army had set up a position along the river and at the main road and it did not seem like a bluff, After leaving behind more than 100 corpses, he successfully retreated and joined the main army, and the news brought naturally satisfied Suri and turned to Goguryeo.

At this time, Goguryeo County, which was the seat of Xuansu County, and Houcheng County, which was close to Goguryeo, had already mobilized - not to prepare to resist the enemy army, but to withdraw most of the military and civilians from Goguryeo. Only a small number of troops and a certain amount of military resources were left - in order to be able to lure the king into the urn and convince Suri that Goguryeo had enough resources to attract him, Gongsun Du still had considerable courage, or if he did not do so, then it was still possible that these supplies would still go into the pockets of the Xianbei people, rather than beating their chests at that time. It's better to let it play a bigger role at this time.

Under these circumstances, the advance army led by Suri was about to arrive outside the city of Goguryeo.

Among them, the leader of the vanguard army of 3,000 people was the most trusted general of the personal guard under Su Li, and also his relative Kebari - it was this person who led the troops to the direction of Xiangping a few days ago to test the defensive strength of Gongsun Du's department, and the 3,000 vanguard army he is leading now is almost composed of the original 3,000 special forces.

At the beginning, Kebari almost "perfectly" completed the task given to him by Suri, so Suri gave himself the glory of being the first to attack Goguryeo, a loyal and brave confidant.

At this time, it was the time of the sunset, and Kebari led his 3,000 "ironclad army" to kill this Goguryeo city. Along the way, you may still see some villages that have long been depopulated, but it is naturally impossible for Kebari, who is "shouldering heavy responsibilities", to pay attention to the kind of chicken ribs that are tasteless and abandoned, and his goal is very clear, that is, Goguryeo Fortress ahead.

It was only when he was still a little far away from Goguryeo Fortress that he saw a force that looked like a large number of old and weak troops lined up in front of the dense forest, looking like defenders fleeing from the city in a hurry - as a veteran who followed Suri to the south to plunder for an unknown number of times, and sometimes even led his own special forces to act alone, Kebari was naturally very familiar with such a scene. So there is no need to think about it, and naturally there is no need to report to Su Li behind him. Kebari shouted:

"Sons, take down those 'two-legged sheep' with me, and make a good start for today's actions of adults!"

Just as Kebari thought, hearing the rumbling sound of cavalry assault, the old and weak Han people who had been hastily evacuating were even more frightened and fled, leaving their backs to the powerful and good Xianbei people who were good at riding and shooting.

This can be said to be a fatal mistake of inexperience.

It's just that Kebari found that even if he really discovered the enemy, he did make such a mistake. But they could not be used - the enemy was cowardly, but also cunning, and they seemed to have an instinctive will to escape when their lives were threatened, and they took three steps and two steps, and soon scattered and fled into the forest. The speed was so fast that the Xianbei cavalry did not even have a chance to shoot the bows and arrows in their hands.

That's bad enough.

Of course, what made Kebari feel even more helpless was that they didn't dare to really chase into the dense forest.

After all, the Suli division is a very orthodox Xianbei cavalry, not a new Xianbei infantry in the Xianbei army with strange strength and completely different from the Xianbei army tradition, or the opposite is not an exaggeration, and the mountains and hills can be regarded as nothing. As a traditional Xianbei cavalry, not only after dismounting, the ability will be greatly affected, but also in the dense forest, the impact is even greater, those like mountain monkeys like the rest of the people of the Buyeyu people are taking advantage of this characteristic of the Xianbei people, in order to be able to compete with the Xianbei people until now.

Although the Buyeong people did not dare to set foot on the grassland, this two-point result still made the Xianbei people, the overlord of the grassland, unhappy.

But there was no way, no matter how unwilling he was, Kebari did not dare to take the initiative to chase into the forest, and even he had to convey the news of the enemy's movement to Su Li behind him, so that Su Li could decide whether to risk sending scouts into the dense forest.

Kebari is not afraid of the old and weak remnants of the Han people, in fact, what he is really worried about is that the legend of joining forces with the Han people to fight against the old opponent of the Xianbei people, Buyeo, if there is an old opponent Buyeo in ambush in the dense forest, then even if Kebari is given twice the force, Kebari does not dare to guarantee that he can retreat from the dense forest under the ambush of the Buyeo people.

"Yuna monk, what's going on!"

Perhaps Su Li didn't care about the old and weak soldiers who had escaped, but he was still very attractive to him by taking the opportunity to threaten, or tease, the calm and wise Hu monk of the Western Regions who had admired and convinced him when he persuaded him.

Happily, Suli is destined to be disappointed.

When the people of the city heard of the king's prestige, they did not dare to resist and fled into the mountains. This is naturally caused by the majesty of the king, the little monk here also congratulates the king first, even the people here heard the king to slip away, then the king in this battle must be easy to make a contribution, and then please ask the king to agree to the request of the little monk to establish a temple in Liaodong. ”

"Well said, well said!" Hearing Juan's argument, he also asked to do his own thing. Su Li's mood was even more comfortable, and the smile on his face was also several richer, and in the face of the news from Kebari, with a wave of his hand, he asked the other party to enter Goguryeo City first.

Sure enough, for the Xianbei people, compared to the Han people who hid in the mountains and forests and were difficult to find, those goods that were close in front of them were the last word.

Goguryeo City is here in a flash.

At this time, Goguryeo City was wide open and unobstructed, and it seemed that there was no one in the city. It's exactly what it looks like an empty city.

Seeing the silent city that can only make a little noise when the wind blows, Kebari couldn't help but laugh three times, and he was puzzled left and right, satisfying Nabakman's eagerness to peddle the pride in his heart.

"I laugh at that Gongsun Du is just a cowardly child, the Han people can only be slaves for us except for a few people, and in the face of strong soldiers such as us, they can only flee into the mountains and learn from those 'mountain monkeys' to help others. but gave us such treasures. But this is also a matter of course, because our army is strong. It is by no means comparable to these Liaodong cowards! ”

Naturally, the left and right will not sweep away Kebari's prosperity at such a time, and they are all in unison, looking eager to try.

"Well, I know what you're thinking right now, but the adults haven't arrived yet, so it's hard for us to trespass. Gather pots and pans everywhere and find something to eat, and when Lord Surri arrives, he will do what he commands, in the generosity of Lord Surri. It will definitely not make us old people who have followed him for so many years suffer, don't you still believe Master Suli! ”

"I would like to listen to my lordship!"

In fact, without making the advance party wait long, Sully led his troops into the city, which seemed to have become empty, and his first reaction to entering the city was exactly the same as that of Kebari.

But he quickly reacted, and he was a little suspicious, and he immediately looked at Juan Wei beside him, his face a little strange.

"Why did the Han people flee without a single one, is there any Han plan here?"

Although Su Li also thinks that the Han people are weak, he also knows that the Han people's strategy is quite powerful, even if the strength is much stronger than the Han people, but if he doesn't pay attention to it, he will still fall into the way of the Han people, so Su Li has to guard against this possibility.

"Probably because I knew that Qian Manshan Yu's army was behind the adults, so I wanted to flee regardless of Qiqi, after all, for those big people, even if they defeated the adults with great difficulty, they would have to pay a huge price, this is obviously an act that outweighs the losses, it is better to retain the living force, maybe they can still maintain their original status - at least even if they have to change to a new master, having stronger power is more popular than a light pole."

"You have a point." Because that's what Su Li himself thinks, otherwise he would have been in a tough fight with the Liaodong Army a long time ago.

So, Su Li, who finally felt safe, arranged for his men to loot everywhere, and it was quite rewarding. If it weren't for the fact that there was no woman who could find the Han people to relieve her excitement, this operation could be called the perfect of perfections.

That night, the army of Suri remained in the empty city of Goguryeo, although the people of the steppe were not necessarily accustomed to living in Han houses, but with ready-made houses, people were reluctant to make any effort to set up tents. And Su Li lived in the Taishou Mansion that represented his identity under the guidance of Juan Bian.

At the beginning of the shift, a fierce night wind blows from the plateau in the north all the way south, towards the vast ocean. (To be continued......)