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At the same time that the Northwest Army on both the north and south fronts was launching a full-scale blocking battle, the retreat of Pinglu Province was also proceeding in an orderly manner. In view www.biquge.info of the fact that the Kamans were so vigorous this time, they dispatched four corps in one go, and there was also the Royal Guards Corps as a follow-up reserve, Ling Tianfang and Wu Feng and Liang Chongxin, who were in charge of the Sanjiang defense battle on the southern front, agreed through the snow pigeon to use the flat terrain to effectively intercept the advance of the Kamans, and then use the city defense facilities of Pinglufu City to kill and injure the living forces of the Carmans as much as possible, try their best to dampen the spirit of the Kamans, and make strategic preparations for the future northern front campaign.

When the Northwest Army proposed to let them evacuate first, and the Northwest Army took on the heavy responsibility of guarding the city, almost no one was willing to stay and retreat with the Northwest Army. This kind of outcome is also what the Northwest Army wants to see, after all, the top management has decided to temporarily abandon Pinglufu City, and letting these guys who have not done enough to do more than defeat leave is more conducive to the full defense of the two main army divisions and a garrison wing stationed in the city.

The success of the interception battle on the north and south fronts won sufficient time for the evacuation of a large number of gentry and people in Pinglufu City, and a Kaman light cavalry that attempted to break through the sneak attack on the Pingyao granary west of Pinglufu City was ambushed by the Fifth Division of the Northwest Army Corps on the choke point, and the Kaman light cavalry of a 10,000-strong team finally left 3,000 horses and more than 2,000 corpses and fled back to the east, marking that another strategic attempt of the Kamans also failed.

After three days of arduous marching, the Kaman army, which got rid of the northwest cavalry and sneak attack, finally converged under the city of Pinglufu as he wished, and more than 200,000 troops gathered under the city of Pinglufu, which was not the first priority, so that the mountain pillars and the dragon themselves stationed in the city of Pinglufu felt pressure, especially when they saw the excellent siege equipment of the Kaman people coming from the east to the city of Pinglu, which made the two feel the heavy task on their shoulders.

The Pinglu city wall has been repaired and reinforced, and all kinds of defensive weapons have been unreservedly lifted to the city's head, various types of catapults, fixed and mobile ballistas, piles of rolling logs, piles of lime bags, continuous piles of stones, throwing guns, arrows have long been prepared, and even many houses in the city have been demolished, and the wooden pillars are decomposed and added with a rough iron spear tip to make a simple javelin. Regardless of whether this battle is won or lost, the Northwest Army will withdraw from Pinglufu City, so everything in Pinglufu City has little retention value, and if it can be useful, try to make it useful.

The Kaman army, which surrounded Pinglu City like a dark cloud, seemed to be inevitable, but Nick, who arrived at Pinglu City, did not think so, the 10,000 remnant heavy cavalry and 30,000 light cavalry that escaped the siege and interception had always been a hidden worry in Nick's heart, especially the 30,000 nomadic cavalry, whose ability to move like the wind allowed them to cause a lot of trouble to their large but slightly clumsy large army at any time. Behind Pinglu there is also the Northwest Army stationed in Anyuan, although intelligence shows that the Northwest Army in Anyuan does not have the strength to threaten its own army, but the 100,000 nomadic cavalry who are traveling non-stop and night are about to enter the territory of the old Northwest County according to the time, and there is not much time left for themselves. If you really want to let these 100,000 nomadic cavalry enter Yasuhara, the threat to your own side will increase exponentially, and whether it is worth paying too much price in order to take Pinglu still needs to be carefully considered.

Just when the Kamans were struggling to cross the three days from Qinghe to Pinglufu City, Tianshui Mansion City was also staging an extremely tragic offensive and defensive battle. The tireless Taiping Sect seems to have settled down to include Tianshui City, in addition to sending 30,000 troops to intercept troops to be responsible for containing reinforcements that may come from the east and south, in fact, this move is also a little cautious in the eyes of the upper echelons of the Taiping Army, in their opinion, at least in a short period of time, the northwest will not be able to gather much vitality in the entire Guanxi to give Tianshui support, and according to intelligence, Situ Jun's two reading divisions and a division of the Fifth Army have entered Jincheng without warning, which indicates that Li Wufeng will have to face the troops from Kaman, Situ Jun, Ma Qi Khan and the Taiping army attacked from all sides, which made the Taiping army even more excited.

The remaining 150,000 troops without exception were thrown into this crazy siege battle, and their persistence made Qu Bo simply incomprehensible, such a tragic loss, even if they took Tianshui Mansion City, it would be more than worth the loss, for a city that was not stable even if it was captured, they could give up the lives of tens of thousands of soldiers, Qu Bo really couldn't understand why these Taiping Sect people suddenly became so paranoid and fanatical and unreasonable.

However, the mad paranoia of the Taiping sect did not affect Qu Bo's strategy according to the established plan. In order to ensure the stability of the situation in the southern Sanjiang and Tiannan, the entire northwest is unusually unified at this point, that is, the northern line can take a defensive position or even an appropriate strategic retreat, but it is necessary to ensure that Tiannan is stable and not threatened by the Maqi Khans, and ensure that Sanjiang becomes a barrier in the southern part of the Western Xinjiang Protectorate, and the best way is to support the Lin family to continue to act as a strong shield against the westward advance of the Maqi Khans, so Qu Bo has already received clear instructions from the upper peak to kill and injure the elite forces of the Taiping Sect as much as possible, and do not care about the gains and losses of one city and one placeEven if you want to give up, it must be valuable, that is, you must give it up at a considerable price.

Qu Bo had already understood this, and in addition to trying the lethality brought by the Knox longbowers of the Taiping sect, he immediately deployed counterattack measures, and on the third day, when the Taiping army used longbowmen again to cause damage to his side, he also quietly sent the light cavalry wing of the first division, and suddenly opened the door to attack when the opponent's attention was focused on the offensive and defensive battles at the head of the city.

This sneak attack was unexpected by the Taiping army, which thought it was a sure victory, and swept the longbow and archer phalanx like a hurricane, and the light cavalry equipped with a sharp and matchless machete suddenly broke into the archer camp, this iron flow brought a shock to the Taiping army that had been on the offensive can be imagined, like chopping melons and vegetables, the slaughter almost killed the entire bow and arrow team, and the archer team that was stunned by this crazy raid was almost defenseless and had no ability to resist at all, except for the wolf running and the pig suddenly scattered.

This rout not only made the killer weapon of the Taiping army suddenly come to naught, but also directly impacted the reserve formation that was originally deployed in the rear, and the Taiping cavalry, which had been idle, was very lax because of the idleness of the first two days, and the Northwest cavalry could not respond effectively in the face of the whirlwind sweeping for a while, and was also killed by the Northwest Light Cavalry who killed the surname to cover up。

After killing the phalanx of archers from the front, the light cavalry rushed north along the open passage of the Taiping cavalry, and then took advantage of the situation to break up a formation of 10,000 Taiping infantry, and then made a detour to break through the weakly defended western defense, and happily re-entered the city, returning triumphantly as if it had completed a honeymoon trip.

After receiving the news, Yu Yongzhi, the commander of the Taiping Army, who came to Tianshui Mansion to inspect the battle situation, was simply angry, and the encirclement he arranged looked like an iron bucket was regarded as nothing by thousands of light cavalry, like a tiger entering a flock of sheep, and after ordering the military judge to execute the captain of the cavalry 10,000 people who was responsible for guarding and protecting the archers, he personally redeployed the attack plan, and a more fierce and cruel siege battle began again.

The speed of the 30,000 rangers reinforced from Xikang set a new record in the history of the Northwest Army, and it took only five days from receiving the order to prepare to set off and then entering the Tianshui territory from the northeast of Hanzhong, and this also included the 30,000 rangers who quietly rested overnight in the border area between Tianshui and Hanzhong.

Yu Yongzhi stood under the city wall and stared at the tragic situation in front of him, he had never met such a hard bone, he was also a veteran of the Holy Country, in addition to personally leading the army to conquer everywhere during the period of the incident, he also personally commanded the Battle of Heshuo, annihilating the two main army corps of the empire in one fell swoop, thus laying the foundation of the Holy Kingdom in Heshuo, which is the masterpiece that Yu Yongzhi is most proud of. But today, the intelligence shows that there is only one division of the Northwest Army in Tianshui City, at most plus some garrison troops, less than 30,000 people actually let their 180,000 troops attack three times in a row without defeat, but instead lose more than 20,000 horses, especially the other side's insidious and bold is even rarer, and it actually dares to send thousands of cavalry to launch a surprise attack in the heavy encirclement of more than 100,000 people, although this is to blame their subordinates for being too light and lax, but it is also related to the boldness of the other side.

He didn't really advocate the battle of Tianshui in his heart, but the tense situation within the Holy Kingdom forced him and the Holy King to make such a choice. After the failure of the mutiny of Bo Xu and the two, the moderates of the Holy Kingdom were purged, and it seemed that the radicals led by themselves had the upper hand, but this did not ease the contradictions in the Holy Country, especially after the problem of food shortage became prominent, the moderates advocated the revocation of the imprisonment of Bo Xu and the two people, and the public opinion naturally did not dare to say much about the Holy King, but the opposition to him was Sheng, if he did not use a war to transfer the contradictions, he could also get some grain as capital by the way, but he was afraid that it would be difficult for him to maintain the beautiful situation in Heshuo.

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