When the Chinese and foreign governments of the Western Wei Dynasty issued an order to march and gathered people from all walks of life to prepare for the eastward expedition, the news also spread to the Northern Qi realm at the same time.

Several previous sorties of the Western Wei Dynasty were when the army entered the Heluo area to meet the Eastern Wei, so Yiyang Jiuqu City, a front-line fortress that confronted the Western Wei, received the greatest attention from the Northern Qi defenders.

At that time, Ke Zhu Hunyuan, who was the assassin of Luozhou, sent elite troops to increase the number of troops stationed in Jiuqu City, and on the other hand, he ordered that whenever there was any wind and grass on the front line, he would report back immediately and not be lazy.

The name of the defender of Jiuqu City is Yuan Jing'an, and he is also a wise and brave general, and before that, he had already relied on superior troops and calm strategies to firmly suppress and blockade the Western Wei Dynasty's on-track defense, and now he has a greater responsibility, and naturally he has a spirit of twelve points.

"General Qiyu, there are frequent flags entering and exiting the south of the city on the same track, and there seem to be signs of manned and horse-mounted reinforcement."

On this day, the scouts assigned to the periphery of the Western Wei Dynasty on the same track returned to Jiuqu City to report to Yuan Jing'an the unusual signs that had occurred in the same track defense city.

After Yuan Jing'an heard this, he was shocked in his heart, he had been worried and prepared for the arrival of the Eastern Expeditionary Army of the Western Wei Dynasty for a long time, and when he heard that there were signs of increasing the garrison of the same track defense, he asked again: "Is there any sign of the Western Thief Army in Nankun Road?" ”

Seeing that the scout shook his head in denial, Yuan Jing'an immediately frowned, and then muttered, "Since it's not reinforcements from the west, where is it...... Could it be the Yichuan Bandit Army? Does the thief Li Boshan want to repeat his old tricks? ”

The Western Wei rangers from Jingzhou appeared near Yiyang, and Yuan Jing'an also learned of the news when he sent people to hunt down the Western army rangers.

Although he has never fought against Li Boshan, he is naturally no stranger to his people and affairs, and after learning about this situation, he also felt a headache, and he was originally prepared to guard against the enemy army coming from the east of Guanxi to make him quite nervous, and Li Boshan actually led the army from Jingzhou to the north, which undoubtedly added more variables to the situation between Heluo.

And this Li Boshan has always been treacherous and fierce with his soldiers, and even the main general in the rear has suffered a big loss in his hands, when tens of thousands of troops besieged Jiuqu City, but Li Boshan launched a surprise attack over the mountains, and broke the camp and solved the danger of Jiuqu City.

The situation that day was quite similar to today, Li Boshan also marched from Yichuan, crossed Bear's Ears Mountain, and suddenly appeared in the south of Jiuqu City, taking the defenders by surprise.

Now that Li Boshan has been killed from Yichuan, and at the same time, there are also reinforcements here in the same track, the more Yuan Jingan thinks about it, the more he feels that this may be great.

Thinking that he was about to face such a tricky enemy, Yuan Jingan was also quite nervous. Naturally, he did not dare to slack off the enemy, and while sending people to quickly report this situation and his own speculation to the main general in the rear, Ke Zhu Hunyuan, he personally inspected the city defenses, so as not to have any loopholes for the enemy to take advantage of.

After the establishment of the Northern Qi Dynasty, Zhu Hunyuan, as the original veteran of the Jinyang Hegemony, was awarded the title of King of Fufeng, and was still in charge of sitting in Heluo, and in order to more comprehensively monitor the situation in the entire Heluo area, the town was relocated from Heyang South City to Kim Yong City.

Soon, the situation in Yiyang was passed to Kim Yong Cheng and handed over to Zhu Hunyuan, but after Zhu Hunyuan learned about these situations, his expression suddenly became serious.

As early as after learning that Li Boshan led his army to rush through Yichuan, Zhu Hunyuan personally led 3,000 elite cavalry southward, intending to defeat Li Boshan's spirit through a field battle in the Luonan area, and at the same time to flee for the defeat outside Jiuqu City before the snow.

But he didn't expect Li Boshan to directly garrison Yique and no longer move forward, and in desperation, Zhu Hunyuan had to temporarily lead the army back to Kim Yong City. At the same time, in order to prevent the city defenses in various places from being breached again, or the situation that the Yichuan defenders abandoned the city and fled before, Zhu Hunyuan directly beheaded all the defenders of Fuliu City, and sent all the heads to Zhucheng, telling them that if there were any more people who fled without a fight!

At this time, the information from Yuan Jing'an naturally made Zhu Hun Yuan recall his previous experience. There is no shame in his heart, after all, he is not the only Jinyang general who has been deflated in the hands of Li Boshan, and some people have even lost their lives. At this time, thinking of the previous battle, it was just to prove how big Yuan Jing'an's guess might be.

According to his understanding of Li Boshan's military style, his people were more focused on intrigues, and rarely arranged a large army in a step-by-step manner to form a formation and engage the enemy.

And although his army is not out of Yique, I don't know how many specific troops there are, but because it is from the north of Sanya Road, Zhu Hunyuan guessed that the men and horses he led here must not be too many, and in the case of the Western Wei Guanxi Army's eastward expedition, it is obvious that the people and horses advancing north from Jingzhou will not be regarded as the main force of the attack, and it should be more as a containment, so that the defenders of Heluo cannot be flexibly dispatched.

From this point of view, the increase in troops in the same track defense city should not be Li Boshan's handiwork. Because now the Northern Qi army is not stationed in the mountains and fields like the last time, and can use surprise soldiers to sneak attack and break the camp, but is stationed in Jiuqu City, with a strong city garrison for defense.

Even if Li Boshan's army entered the same rail defense, it would only increase the city's defense force slightly, and it would not pose any threat to the defense line of Jiuqu City. Moreover, once it entered the city and garrisoned, then all the movements of its military movement fell in the eyes of the Qi army, which not only lost the effect of containing the surprise soldiers, but also did not conform to Li Boshan's personal style of using troops.

Therefore, the abnormal dynamics of the same track defense there are very likely to be a false shot, making them mistakenly think that they should focus on defense there, but in fact, Li Boshan has another goal.

If this is the case, then what is his goal? Is it Hanguan City as the exit of Beikun Road, or Mengjindu north of Luoyang, or do you want to directly attack Heyang South City like before?

But Zhu Hunyuan was a little absorbed in thinking for a while, but he couldn't come to a conclusion for a long time.

After recapturing Heluo from the Western Wei Dynasty before, Hu Lujin and himself, as well as other generals, carefully deduced the fortification, thinking that he had set up a series of defenses very thoroughly, but now when the little evil star led the army back again, Zhu Hunyuan couldn't help but feel that there were still many loopholes in Heluo's defense, and it seemed that everywhere could become the target of Li Boshan's attack.

It can also be seen from this that although Zhu Hunyuan boasted that he had already walked out of the psychological shadow of his previous defeat to Li Boshan, in fact, there was still a great impact, after all, as a long-established general, he was defeated by a rising star when he had an absolute advantage, and anyone could not see it.

After some serious thinking, coupled with the reference of Li Boshan's personal military style, Zhu Hunyuan gradually felt that Li Boshan was very likely to want to attack Heyang Nancheng again.

His people held a very powerful siege weapon in their hands, which had already been confirmed by Pan Le and Hu Lujin and others in the Northern Qi Dynasty. Therefore, the impregnable city defense that is impregnable for others may not be in the eyes of Li Boshan.

Nowadays, although there are many fortresses between Heluo, the real impact is actually Heyang South City. Especially in the case of the imminent attack of the Western Wei army, once the southern city of Heyang is controlled, then the defenders of the Northern Qi in the entire Heluo area will be cut off from the back road and caught in the urn.

Although the risk of attacking Heyang South City is extremely high, the benefits are also huge, and there are precedents of success before, so Zhu Hunyuan thinks that this may be a great possibility.

Although he had his own views on Li Boshan's scheme, he did not ignore Yuan Jing'an's report, after all, no matter what happened, the importance of Yiyang Jiuqu City was self-evident, and it was of course good for Yuan Jing'an to have such vigilance.

Moreover, Zhu Hunyuan did not regard his speculation as a fact that it was really about to happen, and he still slightly adjusted the defense of the Heluo Zhufang, including Baiting City, which is related to the hub of personnel and material exchanges between Yiyang and Kim Yong City, and Baiguwu, which is south of Luoshui, have all increased heavy troops to ensure that even if they are attacked, they can wait for the arrival of reinforcements.

As for the southern city of Heyang, which was very likely to be attacked, because there was a precedent for Fuliu City to leave without a fight, for the sake of insurance, Zhu Hunyuan still decided to sit in charge by himself, so as to avoid the worst.

Although Li Tai is still a garrison of Yique, he can also feel the change in the atmosphere between Heluo. The scouts he sent were getting smoother and less intercepted by the enemy, which meant that the enemy's elite main force was shrinking, and it was no longer scattered and spread over the countryside as before.

This was naturally good news for Li Tai, after all, his current goal was to be able to successfully cross the Heluo Plain, from Yique in the southeast to Xiaoshui in the northwest.

However, for the sake of insurance, he did not take action immediately, but waited for a few more days to continue to recuperate, so that those boys could raise their war horses more fat, and by the way, Wei Xuan and others, who returned to Guannan, had time to complete the arrangements they needed to cooperate.

In late September, on a dark and windy night, Li Tai finally led his troops to set off from Yique and marched towards Luoyang in the dark. Not surprisingly, his move naturally attracted the attention of the surrounding Qi Jun, some people continued to follow the monitoring, and some people were busy passing the news back to the rear.

When Ke Zhu Hunyuan, who was stationed in the southern city of Heyang, got the enemy's action, it was already the morning of the next day, and after a night of hurrying, Li Tai's men and horses had also arrived near Qianjinyan in the west of the ancient city of Luoyang.

"The enemy army has only 3,000 light cavalry, and has already reached Qianjinyan?"

But Zhu Hunyuan thought about this information for a while, his face turned sideways, and then he said in a deep voice: "This Li Boshan is to capture Kim Yong City!" Attack quickly, don't give him a chance to build a tool to attack the city! ”