When Wang Ze arrived at Qingzhou City with the fierce general Chu Honghang and 15,000 reinforcements with decent combat effectiveness, Wang Yong, who was busy arranging defenses in the city, couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

At this time, Wang Yong had only summoned more than 20,000 troops in Qingzhou City and its surrounding areas, and although Zhou Guang and Fa Yan had been sent to the coal and iron mines near Yidu to recruit many strong miners a few days earlier, it was still impossible to quickly form combat effectiveness without a certain amount of training and the test of war.

Now the tens of thousands of Northern Qi reinforcements who have rushed from the north bank of the Yellow River to Qingzhou City again are the Youzhou Qi army that once participated in Pijing and the encirclement and suppression of the Yan army in Hebei.

The Yan army is the original Zhangwu Yi army led by Fan Yong, Zhang Hui, Gao Qian and others in Zhangwu Daze, after suffering more than 100,000 Qi troops mobilized by the Northern Qi for more than half a year, the Yan army finally could not withstand the offensive of the Qi army, and Yingzhou and Gaoyang County were finally conquered by the Qi army this month after holding on for more than half a year.

Although Fan Yong, the former leader of the Zhangwu Righteous Army, was captured and killed by the Qi army after the defeat of the Yan army, the remnants of the Zhangwu Righteous Army continued to flee into Zhangwu Daze under the leadership of the two leaders Gao Qian and Zhang Hui, and continued to insist on fighting the Qi army.

However, the Zhang Wu Yi army was wiped out by the Qi army after all, and the remaining army was only a few thousand people, and it could no longer cause too much harm to the Northern Qi, so the Youzhou Qi army, which originally went south from Youzhou to participate in the encirclement and suppression of the Yan army, was sent to the south to participate in the attack on Wang Yong.

This army, under the leadership of the Northern Qi general Jing Xianjun, traveled south from Yingzhou through Bohai County for a day's rest, crossed the frozen Yellow River and Jishui from Leling County to Le'an County on the south bank of Jishui, and then joined the group of Northern Qi troops stationed in Le'an County and came to Qingzhou together.

According to the information that came a few days ago, there were still more than 200,000 Northern Qi troops on the front lines of Jeju and Jibei County, which were fully taken over by Murong Yan, and these Qi troops were attacking the defense lines of Jeju and Jibei County with all their might under the command of Murong Yan.

The more than 100,000 troops led by the Northern Qi Metropolitan Governor Hu Lawyers Association began to attack the east and west after capturing the city of Jinan in Qizhou, of course, the Hu Lawyers Association to the east mainly occupied Changbai Mountain, which is a very important iron-smelting area for Wang Yong, and Linzi City, which is between Qingzhou and Qizhou, was captured by Pi Jing and a general under his command with the cooperation of the Hu Lawyers Association.

Although Pi Jinghe's army and Jing Xianjun's army were in front of him, in fact, for Wang Yong, the danger of the Hu Lawyers Association to the entire Sanqi land was the biggest threat, and the capture of Qi by the Hu Lawyers Association not only cut off the grain route and retreat of Wang Yong's frontline army, but also could even fight with Murong Qi's army before and after.

It can be said that the Qi army of the Hu Lawyers Association can not only help Murong Yan, but also cooperate with Pi Jing and Jing Xianjun to the east, which seriously threatens the safety of Qingzhou City.

In addition, the original three-way army of the Northern Qi alone already has nearly 400,000 people, plus the army of Jing Xianjun who came to Qingzhou in front of him, the land of the three Qi occupied by Wang Yong actually had to face the attack of more than 400,000 Qi troops, if you count the two Qi armies of Liu Damo and Dugu Yongye, which have been wiped out, the Northern Qi actually used more than 600,000 troops to attack Wang Yong.

Although the land of Sanqi occupied by Wang Yong also has more than 3 million people in six states, it is still a small piece of land compared to the territory of Northern Qi, but it is such a small piece of land that now hedgehogs have gathered more than half of the troops of the entire Northern Qi.

I have to say that the Northern Qi really thinks too highly of Wang Yong, in order to ensure that Wang Yong can be absolutely defeated this time, the army used is actually twice as much as the army mobilized during the battle with the Northern Zhou, although most of the Qi army is now mostly new soldiers, but looking at the number of Qi troops is desperate.

Now what worries Wang Yong the most is the hundreds of thousands of troops on the front lines of Jeju and Jibei County who have been cut off from the back road and a large number of officers such as Cheng Chong, Yuan Jia, Hu Bingchang, Zhou Tong, Qin Lang, etc., and the naval army led by Sun Xing has already withdrawn from the Yellow River before the Yellow River and Jishui are full of ice floes, but Wang Yong does not have to worry about it.

It can be said that almost all of these people who stayed on the front line of Jeju and Jibei County to preside over the battle were the old troops handed down by Wang Yong's father and ancestors and the troops he had recruited over the years, and once these people were all captured or killed by the Qi army, the damage caused to Wang Yong was incomparable.

Wang Yong has been unable to sleep all night these days, as if he has not encountered this situation for a long time since Wang Ze began to participate in the cottage.

Since he took advantage of the situation to sweep the entire land of Sanqi a year ago, Wang Yong also began to feel that he was destined to return, and he felt that he was not without the possibility of seizing the world in the future, but now his dream was shattered.

But mortals are awakened when they are sleeping and dreaming, let alone a country, you don't see that there were two countries around the rabbit shouting that they are the third strongest country in the world to provoke the rabbit, and they were awakened by the rabbit's angry dream, and until half a century later, these two countries still hate the rabbit.

And people also have two reactions after being shattered dreams, one is to gradually lose confidence and give up on themselves, and the other is to be angry and hysterical to realize their dreams, fortunately Wang Ze arrived in time at this time, and Liu Xin next to him continued to persuade him, which made Wang Yong gradually recover his fighting spirit.

"Father, the families of those soldiers recruited by the Yidu Arsenal and the mines, we still have to evacuate all of them to Qingzhou City as soon as possible! After all, the Yidu Arsenal is too small! As soon as Wang Ze came here, he found that Wang Yong had not removed the craftsmen of the Yidu Arsenal, not to mention, even the families of the craftsmen were there.

Now the most important iron-smelting lands on their side, Changbai Mountain, Qizhou, and Linzi have all fallen into the hands of the Qi army, and only the Yidu Arsenal, which has the largest output, is still in their hands.

Although the Yidu Arsenal is actually a small city, but the city wall is only two zhang high after all, such a little height is nothing for the Qi army.

You must know that the Yidu Arsenal now uses a large number of water conservancy machinery and many advanced technologies, in case it is taken by the Qi army, it will inevitably have a lot of gains in the strength of the Northern Qi, and it will definitely be more difficult to fight with the Qi army in the future.

"What the little marquis said is quite reasonable, he patronized the increase in the city defense of Qingzhou and Yidu before, but he ignored these problems of the Yidu Arsenal!" Liu Xin also discovered this problem at this time, and he only thought that the craftsmen of the Yidu Arsenal were brave, but he ignored the importance of these craftsmen to his side.

"Mr. Xin Shan, can't we evacuate the families of these craftsmen and soldiers to the east of the Wei River in advance?" Wang Yong also began to be a little anxious, most of the families of these craftsmen and soldiers were old and weak, women and children, not to mention that they had no combat effectiveness, and if they could not withstand the attack of the Qi army, they would delay a lot of time when retreating, so Wang Yong wanted to withdraw these people first.

Hearing Wang Yong's thoughts, Liu Xin and Wang Ze both shook their heads again and again, and Liu Xin said: "Junhou, although Pi Jing and the main force of the army have been expelled from the east of Qingzhou by the army led by Xiao Hou Ye, but the entire Qingzhou has no defensive force all the way to the Weihe River, in case the families of these craftsmen and soldiers are chased and captured by the Qi army again on the way to retreat, and the Qi army will use the families of these people to coerce the soldiers, what can the prince and the marquis do?" ”

Seeing Liu Xin say this, Wang Yong also died of this heart, and on the other hand, he stepped up to take all the craftsmen in the Yidu Arsenal and their families, as well as the families of the mine workers, to Qingzhou City, and then find time to arrange for the army to escort them out of Qingzhou City.

On the other hand, Wang Yong continued to gather troops from all over Qingzhou, and almost all the weapons made by the Yidu Arsenal were stored in the arsenal of Qingzhou City, so there were enough weapons to equip fifty or sixty thousand troops, and as long as there were people, they could form an army in time.

The strength here in Qingzhou City is growing rapidly day by day, but before a few days later, there was an even bigger blow that almost made Wang Yong fall.

On this day, Wang Yong was conducting military training for the newly recruited soldiers with the assistance of Han Biao, Zhou Guang, Luo Huan and others, after all, the defense of the city mainly relied on the infantry to defend the city, and Fa Yan and Shi Haiguang were sent by Wang Yong to harass the army of Jing Xianjun, who was already less than 100 miles away from Qingzhou City. Online eBooks

At this time, a guard from the General's Mansion suddenly came in a hurry: "General Qiqi, a ragged soldier suddenly came outside the mansion, he claimed to be General Hu Bingchang's clan, brought the news of General Hu from Jibei County, and noisily said that he wanted to see the general!" ”

As soon as Wang Yong heard the news that the guard said that someone had brought Hu Bingchang from Jibei County, he immediately became nervous and took the guard and said, "Did he say how Jibei County is doing now?" ”

The guard said: "No, at that time, I was guarding the door with all my brothers, this man was in tatters and went to the courtyard to look at the door, and we almost beat him at that time, then he said that he was General Hu Bingchang's clansman and brought General Hu's letter, we didn't believe it at first, but then someone recognized him, and the captain asked me to report it!" ”

When Wang Yong and Wang Ze saw this soldier who came back from the front line, this person was gobbling up soup cakes, which is now noodle soup, and they didn't know that this person had been hungry for a few days.

At this moment, the guard saw Wang Yong coming in and hurriedly came to salute, and the soldier who was still gobbling up just now immediately rushed up and knelt down and cried as soon as he saw Wang Yong: "General, Jeju and Jibuk County have been lost!" ”

Just one sentence made Wang Yong almost faint, although Wang Yong had long known that this day would come, and he thought that he had a certain psychological preparation for this, but now that things have happened, it is still a little unacceptable.

After Wang Ze, Han Biao and others were busy patting their backs and rubbing their temples, Wang Yong finally recovered, he slowly sat up straight and continued to ask the soldier: "How did Jeju and Jibei County fall into custody, you tell me about it." ”

The soldier choked up, and said carefully while shedding tears: "After the heavy snow stopped more than ten days ago, the Qi army suddenly launched an attack again, and General Hu was still a little strange at that time, thinking that the heavy snow caused the logistics supply of the Qi army to be poor, so the Qi army was eager to attack, so the generals didn't care, and when it was later found that the two big rivers of the Yellow River and Jishui were frozen, the Hu Lawyers Association had crossed the Yellow River from Ande County and occupied Jinan Chen, Qizhou!" ”

"At this time, General Hu and General Yuan communicated with each other and found that the situation was not good, but there were more than 200,000 Qi troops in front of them who were attacking fiercely, and there were more than 100,000 Hu Lawyers Association troops behind them to cut off the back road, and they didn't know what to do.

When the soldier said this, Wang Yong interjected: "Then what is the situation of these two generals now?" Have they already withdrawn? To be honest, Wang Yong does not cherish every soldier under his command very much like Wang Ze, and when he is forced to do so, Wang Yong will use the method of losing the car to protect the commander.

In the era of classical cold weapons, a master general with superb military skills is the most important to the soul of the army, as long as there is a good general, a group of troops can be trained to be okay.

The soldier said in a low tone: "At that time, although the section of the Yellow River in Jeju was frozen, it could not withstand the passage of the army, and there was still a Qi army defense on the opposite bank that could not pass, and the two or three hundred thousand Qi army led by Murong Yi on the west and south sides was even more impossible, and the army led by Hu Lawyers Association himself in the northeast was rapidly approaching, and the two generals had to decide to go east into the mountains of Mount Tai!" ”

Speaking of this, the soldier burst into tears and said: "At that time, our army in Jeju and Jibei County had more than 200,000 troops, how could so many troops be withdrawn without being discovered by the Qi army, at that time, General Qin Lang took the initiative to ask to stay and serve as the queen of the palace on the grounds that he was good at defense!" ”

Hearing this, Wang Yong couldn't help but burst into tears, when Duan Yining's department raided the cottage camp in Changjun, there was Qin Lang's younger brother, Qin Ming, who was the chief instructor of the lion cub camp at that time, died in battle to cover the cottage people and the young children of the lion cub camp, and now Qin Lang took the initiative to take on the task of defending the palace, how not to move Wang Yong.

The soldier continued: "At the beginning, the evacuation was relatively smooth, because the Jeju defenders were farther away from Mount Tai, so the Jeju defenders withdrew first, and every night Jeju would withdraw a group of troops, and when Jeju retreated with 20,000 troops, the defenders of Jebuk County withdrew again!" But what several generals never expected was that at that time, several officers were not angry that they were lined up behind and went out of the camp at night to defect to the Qi army, but the Qi army knew that our army was false and took the opportunity to storm and seize Jeju City, and more than 20,000 robes were killed! ”

"After Jeju was captured by the Qi army, General Hu of Jibei County was even more difficult to support alone, so he had to arrange for the army withdrawn from Jeju and the remaining 80,000 troops of his own side to retreat overnight, fortunately, General Qin Lang led more than 10,000 people to stop the Qi army for a few hours, plus Cheng Chong, Xun Yun These generals led the cavalry to fight a counter-charge of the Qi army, and General Hu had the opportunity to lead the army to escape into the mountains!"

"Did General Cheng and the rest of the cavalry of the palace also follow into the mountain later?" When Wang Yong heard that it was the cavalry hall led by Cheng Chong in the end, he couldn't help but start to get nervous.

"I didn't know this at that time, because before General Hu entered the mountain, he ordered me and a few people to put on makeup and come to Qingzhou to report to the general here in Qingzhou, and General Hu said that he would definitely be able to cross the mountains to meet the general!" may have great confidence in Hu Bingchang, so the soldier is finally no longer so sad.

But Wang Yong is not so optimistic, he knows very well what kind of situation Hu Bingchang and Yuan Jia's army is facing, the central and southern mountains led by Mount Tai are already rugged, and now the mountains and forests are even more difficult to pass through the army.

What's more, there are more than 100,000 defeated troops who have fled into the mountains now, and in order to speed up the march, they don't carry much food at all, even if most of the soldiers carry the long-lasting food such as cane sugar, beans, meat floss, and canned fish equipped in the army, but they can't last four or five days when they are full.

And the time required to cross the Taishan Mountains and several other mountain ranges is at least half a month, if it is now summer, these troops can still dig some wild vegetables from the mountains and forests to satisfy their hunger, but now it is the winter when everything is bleak, and even the number of birds and beasts is scarce, where is there enough for these soldiers to satisfy their hunger.

The only thing worth celebrating is that Yuan Jia and Hu Bingchang led most of the army on the front line to avoid the attack of the two armies of Murong Yi and Hu Lawyer's Association, otherwise the Qi army would be able to starve the more than 200,000 troops to death as long as they surrounded their own battalions in front and back and cut off all supplies.

Wang Yong came to the huge sand table in his mansion and said to himself, "Where have you been again?" The territory he occupied in the past is now all his own, and Wang Yong regretted for the first time that he accepted the land sent by the Jeju Meng family.

If he hadn't occupied Jeju at the beginning, but relied on the place of Qizhou to fight against the Qi army, I am afraid that the Hu Lawyers Association would not have found such a big loophole, even if the Qi army crossed the river after the Yellow River froze, the army behind could be quickly reinforced.

If Yuan Jia and Hu Bingchang on the front line of Jeju and Jibei County have fled into the Taishan Mountains, then soon hundreds of thousands of Qi troops will come to the outside of Qingzhou City, which is now only tens of thousands of troops in Qingzhou City, which cannot be resisted, it seems that it is necessary to arrange for some people to retreat now, just when everyone is worried about the soldiers on the front line, Wang Ze secretly thought in his heart.

Soon news came from the Tanma outside the city, Shi Haiguang and Fa Yan, the two lieutenants, did not delay Jing Xianjun's army for too much time, they were only fifty or sixty miles away from Qingzhou City, fortunately this group of Qi troops did not have many cavalry.

But soon there was bad news, after the defeated Pi Jinghe ran from Le'an County to join Jing Xianjun, the Qi army attacking Qingzhou had nearly 20,000 cavalry.

However, it turned out that not everything was bad, and Shi Haiguang and Fa Yan, who had quickly withdrawn, had a good news that Ge Wei, who had fled on the south bank of the Yellow River, had returned, and had also brought Ji Xiang and Yang Wu, who were originally stationed in Qizhou, two cavalry.

Although Ge Wei's cavalry was defeated by the Qi army when it was in a scattered state, Ge Wei still gathered nearly 4,000 cavalry one after another after these days, and the light and heavy cavalry of Ji Xiang and Yang Wu, who were originally stationed in Qizhou, also escaped this catastrophe when Hu Lawyers Association crossed the Yellow River and Jishui.

However, after Wang Yong heard the news of these people, he immediately wanted to meet Ji Xiang and Yang Wu, who were stationed in Qizhou before, and must know some news about Pu Yangxun, Cheng Xueying, and Zhou Cheng!