"Tell your lord, get out of this place quickly, and don't stay and disturb people anymore! The river bridge is newly defeated, the East thief is rampant, I will lead the people to return to the decisive battle today, and the victory will be happy, if you can't win, Hou will ask for more blessings! ”

Li Tai lowered his eyes and looked at Wang Wei, who was introduced into the hall again, and said in a deep voice, the defeat between Heluo made him have no intention of entangling with Hou Jing anymore, and the most important thing at the moment is how to save the situation.

Wang Wei's face changed dramatically after learning of the upheaval between Heluo, although it was the Western Dynasty that failed, but it also made the prospects of these traitors suddenly turn bad. His lord Hou Jing spent a great deal of money to lure the people of the Western Dynasty into the game, but now that the Western Dynasty was defeated in Heluo, then they naturally had to bear the military pressure of the Eastern Dynasty next.

"Please rest assured that Xihe Gong was a misunderstanding before. The Eastern Dynasty and the thief army are the great enemies of the righteous people in the world, and my lord must also ......"

Wang Wei was about to express that they would fight the enemy together, but Li Tai was too lazy to listen to his nonsense, and just waved his hand to drive people back. After Hou Jing learned the news, he ran faster than anyone else, after all, there was a Wang Sizheng in Yingchuan in front, and it was the right plan for him to go south first to join the people of Nanliang, let alone stay to help Li Tai save the Heluo crisis.

After dealing with this matter, Li Tai quickly reported the situation to Wang Sizheng in the direction of Yingchuan, while he left Zhao Gang to continue to garrison Liangquewu, and he led the other horses to Fuliu City.

"Xihe Gong, Yique has been taken by thieves! There are people in Yiyang who ask for help coming over the mountain......"

As soon as Li Tai returned to Fuliu City, Han Xiong and the others who greeted him outside the city told him another bad news.

When Li Tai heard this, his mood suddenly became even more anxious, and the situation collapsed much faster than he expected.

It is difficult for the river bridge to make a big advance, he naturally understands, so he withdrew from the ominous place in time, and guessed that according to Yuwen Hu's talented, reckless and reckless character, there is likely to be an accident, but he didn't expect the defeat to be so quick and so thorough, and even he has avoided the front line of the river bridge, and he is still inevitably affected by this collapse situation!

After entering the city, he first ordered the generals to sit down, and then said with a straight face: "Victory and defeat are commonplace, and there is no need to be discouraged and depressed by the ups and downs of fortune for a while. There is no place for my king and division between the former Heluo, and all parties are enterprising and my soldiers have fought hard, even if there is no previous merit, but my soldiers are united and ambitious, and they are not afraid to fight again from the beginning! ”

The first thing to be faced with in the collapse of the situation is not the loss of power, but the rejuvenation. In many cases, a large-scale rout is not really a lack of strength, but a collapse of military morale.

Especially now, with the loss of the two cities of Heyang, most of the cities and passes between Heluo that were originally occupied by the Western Wei Dynasty have also been lost, and the men and horses led by Li Tai have become a lone army forced to stay outside.

However, fortunately, the psychological quality of the generals in western Henan is absolutely excellent, after all, they still insisted on fighting the Eastern Wei Dynasty after the Battle of Bishan, and the situation they faced at that time was much more difficult than the current one.

As for Li Tai's protégés, they are also accustomed to obeying him, daring to go straight to Jinyang, the nest of thieves, and daring to capture the two cities of Heyang, their internal cohesion and self-confidence are cast by one after another with outstanding feats, and they are much stronger than ordinary heroes and private songs.

Therefore, when they heard Li Tai say this, all the generals agreed with a bang, without fear, and all of them were full of fighting spirit.

After cheering up, the problems that should be faced still have to be faced. Although Li Tai is now garrisoning Fuliu City, the changes in the situation in Heluo are also closely related to his men. After all, he was stationed here before to ensure the safety of the flank of the Heluo battlefield.

Now he is still stationed on the flank, but the frontal battlefield has been blown up by the enemy, so naturally there is no need to stay here any longer. But the question is, where can we go?

Yique is the gateway from the upper reaches of Yishui to the Heluo region, but now it is guarded by the enemy, directly cutting off their retreat.

If it is only Li Tai's headquarters and the purpose is only to withdraw to Guanzhong, you can also choose to make a detour to Luyang, Guangzhou, and then return to Guanxi via Wuguan. Although the journey is rough and long, it can still be unimpeded.

But the problem is that now all the people in western Henan are controlled by him, and of course he must fully consider the wishes of these people when making decisions, and he cannot act arbitrarily.

Of course, these people hope to return to Heluo, and even when the situation is most critical, they choose to persist in fighting the Eastern Wei people in Guannan, and now there is no reason to abandon their homeland and go elsewhere. And even if they were willing to follow Li Tai to enter Guanxi through Shannan Wuguan Road and then return to Yuxi through Tongguan, the current food and grass supply of the army could not be maintained.

Therefore, there is no latest news from the Bafu, and the only choice in front of Li Tai is to reopen the road and bring these horses back to western Henan as much as possible.

If the situation is allowed to continue to collapse, it is very likely that the Eastern Wei people and horses will take advantage of the situation to completely occupy the Cuihan Ancient Road, and the troops will reach Tongguan, and then it will be much more difficult to restore control of western Henan.

If there is no strategic buffer zone in western Henan, let alone the Western Wei side entering Wangheluo, Guanzhong itself will be uneasy for a long time, and the development of other aspects will be seriously restricted.

However, how to get through the way home is also a question that needs to be seriously considered and discussed. The terrain of Yique is easy to defend and difficult to attack, and if the thief army focuses on fortifying here, it will take a long time to capture it.

Even if Yique can be successfully captured, when crossing from the Yishui Valley to Luoshui, it is necessary to guard against enemy attacks from Luoyang and other places in the north, and the flanks will be completely exposed to the enemy's front.

What's worse is that the situation in Heluo is still deteriorating, and the Hanguan City has been lost, which means that the Beikun Road has been cut off, and if the Yiyang Jiuqu City is captured again, then the Nankun Road will also be cut off, and it will be difficult for the Western Wei army to enter the Heluo area smoothly. And even if Li Tai leads the army to break through Yique, he will definitely fall into the predicament of being surrounded by enemies and isolated.

Therefore, if you want to solve the current crisis, the most important thing is to ensure that Jiuqu City is not captured by the enemy. However, Jiuqu City is already in a frequent emergency, if you follow the general path to get through Yique and then rush to help, it is very likely that the reinforcements have not yet arrived, and Jiuqu City has already fallen.

"Today's plan, only by selecting elite soldiers and crossing the mountain road can we reach the bottom of Jiuqu City in the fastest time."

The same rail defense that Wei Fabao is responsible for defending is located in the upper reaches of Luoshui, which is the same river in Jiuqu City, so he is also very familiar with the geographical situation here.

The mountain range between Luoshui and Yishui is the Bear's Ear Mountain, which is a rugged and tall mountain range, which is one of the important geographical barriers in the south of the Heluo Plain. The straight-line distance from Fuliu City to Jiuqu City via the Bears Ears Mountain Road is the closest, and it can bypass Yique.

But this mountain road is rugged and difficult to walk, even the local mountain people are very difficult to climb the mountain, the brigade of people and horses plus the weight of grain and grass is extremely difficult to pass, can only be elite light to travel over the mountain to save Jiuqu City.

However, some choices are better than no choices, and after a little silence, Li Tai decided to do two things, one to attack Yique and try to open up this road, and the other to select elites to go over the mountain to help, as Wei Fabao said. It's just that when arranging the two types of combatants, there was a little disagreement.

Li Tai planned to personally lead the elite to aid Jiuqu City, but Wei Fabao and the others hoped that he could stay here and be responsible for the less dangerous attack on Yique: "It's not that the last general and the others don't believe in Xihe's talents, but this trip is very dangerous and uncertain.

The last general waited for the favor before, and has not returned it so far, Yiyang's gains and losses are related to the safety of the countryside, and he forgot to die before the battle, but he did not dare to implicate Xihe Gong and the public to fight to the death. Yique also needs a general to take it here, if the last general waits for nothing to come, Xihe Gong can also lead his troops to detour south, without hindering the way back......"

"Now that the enemy is at war, since I am the general, who of the armies dares to avoid it? Whether Jiuqu City is saved or not is related to the survival of the army, if I don't wear armor and go in person, who will dare to fight expediently? There is no victory or defeat in this battle, there is life and no death, and before the war, it is divided into good and evil, so why order the armies? ”

Li Tai shouted angrily to stop the generals' advice, and then arranged for Li Yisun, who knew the situation best on this side, to lead his troops to capture Yique, and most of the other brave generals were ordered to follow him over the mountain to help Jiuqu City, and ordered the generals to select the elite soldiers in the army, and after recruiting 3,000 warriors, they took care of their outfits and set off immediately.

The group traveled some distance north through the Yishui River Valley, and after reaching a tributary of the west bank of Yishui that originates in the Bears Ears Mountain, they turned around and headed along the small river towards the mountains.

The combat environment in western Henan was already harsh, and even Wei Fabao regarded the Bear's Ears Mountain Road as a dangerous road, and Li Tai soon learned the difficulty of the road.

The mountain road was rugged and winding, and in many cases it was impossible to find a formed road at all, and it was necessary for several soldiers to cut down the thorny vegetation that was enough to drown people all over the mountain, so that the people and horses could pass through. And it is the height of summer, the mountains and forests are unbearably hot, the miasma is pervasive, and there are nearly 100 people who are injured by snakes and scorpions on the way, and there are even more people who are unwell in various ways.

When they arrived at the bank of the Luoshui River, the number of soldiers who had lost their combat effectiveness due to various reasons alone reached two or three hundred, and these were all carefully selected elite soldiers in the army, which showed the difficulty of walking on this mountain road.

After arriving at the bank of the Luoshui River, Li Taigong's brigade first rested in a hidden place, while Wei Fabao led more than a dozen cronies to swim across the river and investigate in the direction of Jiuqu City.

(End of chapter)