Just as Hongnong was defeated by the Qi army and the Wei army was defeated, Xiangyang's army also arrived at Yique. But after learning about Heluo's current situation, Li Tai couldn't help but be a little dumbfounded.

"Otsuka Jae is suspected of dying, and the Jiuqu City division and brigade are in ruins?"

Although Li Tai had a pessimistic prediction about the situation in Heluo, after listening to the report of Gao Le and others, he did not expect that the situation would be even worse than he imagined.

Originally, he led his troops north to respond to Yuwentai's urgency, but after coming to the realm, the object that needed to be rescued no longer existed. And looking at this situation, it is not just a trip in vain, but also contains a crisis that is extremely dangerous for their entire Western Wei regime.

What was in front of him now was either to continue the march towards Heluo. But now that the people of Jiuqu City have been defeated, and he has no plan to enter Tuheluo for the time being, it seems that there is no point in continuing to march towards Heluo.

Either retreat and return to Chubei along the Sanya Road, and then march to Guanzhong via Wuguan, in order to reach Guanzhong as soon as possible to grasp the power vacuum left by Yuwentai's death.

When Li Tai frowned and groaned, all the people in the tent were silent. This is the atmosphere of affairs in Taiwan, where the masses can speak freely and have sufficient debate before a decision is made, but once the decision is made, things begin to proceed, and unless Li Tai makes it clear that everyone can express their opinions, they cannot raise objections to the previous decision.

Among the people present, although Yu Jin was not a member of the Taiwan government, when he heard that the situation was like this, he couldn't help frowning, and he had no plan in his mind for a while, and he didn't know how to remedy the situation in the fastest and most effective way.

"How's the situation of the Heluo thieves right now?"

After pondering for a while, Li Tai looked at Gao Le again and said.

After entering the new city, Gao Le also quickly arranged scouts to disperse in all directions, and the scouts and detectives added the situation reported by the group of barbarians here, and they also had a very detailed understanding of the hostile situation between Heluo.

After hearing the king's question, Gao Le hurriedly got up again and said, "King Qiqi, on the day the garrison of Jiuqu City was withdrawn, the main force of the Qi army of 50,000 horses went east to pursue, and there were thousands of garrisons in Jiuqu City, and there were nearly 30,000 garrisons in Zhucheng such as Kim Yong Yong and Henan, but after knowing that our army entered Heluo, the people of Zhucheng retreated to Kim Yong City one after another......

While listening to Gao Le's report, Li Tai sketched a map of the battle situation in his mind, and after a while, he said, "Since Jiuqu City is not defended, Hongnong will definitely be in danger. Whether it is to go to the Kunling Mountains or to transfer to Wuguan, it is difficult to solve the urgent need, and only by attacking the enemy must save and inflict heavy damage on the enemy army, can we solve this upside down danger!"

Everyone heard that Li Tai had made up their minds, and they were secretly relieved in their hearts, but what to do next, they were still a little at a loss, what place was there right now that they could reach and the thieves would be saved?

"Kim Yong City, the army is attacking Kim Yong Kim!"

Li Tai saw everyone's doubts and directly pointed out the goal of the next battle.

The situation between Heluo and Heluo has collapsed like this in such a short period of time, it is basically certain that Yuwentai should have died, and other personnel disputes have broken out within the army, whether his own father-in-law is involved, Li Tai is not clear, but he doesn't dare to have too high expectations for these guys now.

Jiuqu City, a fortress related to advance and retreat, was so rashly discarded, it was obviously impossible for tens of thousands of troops of Northern Qi to go west just for outings, and the possibility of going to the next city was equally great, and even if those guys were a little more wasteful, it was unknown whether Tongguan could be defended.

No matter what the situation is in the west, Li Tai is beyond the reach of the whip at the moment, if he continues to pursue rashly, whether he can catch up with the enemy army in the west will not be said, but also stretch his own supply line and magnify his own crisis.

With so many famous ministers and generals going out of the customs to fight, the results were ruined like this, and now Li Tai didn't dare to expect too much from the situation in Guanzhong.

Judging from the worst-case scenario, it is now necessary to temporarily and strategically abandon Guanzhong, in order to inflict heavy losses on the enemy army on the Heluo battlefield, at least so that the Northern Qi will not be able to continue to invade the west and south in recent years, so that Li Taicai has enough time to clean up the domestic mess and eliminate the many problems left over from this defeat.

"But、But before Otsuka

The siege of Kim Yong City by the Zaiqin Brigade is still difficult, and now there are more defenders in the city......

Hearing that Li Tai chose to attack Kim Yong City, Gao Le couldn't help but say.

"The old slave feared me and shrank into a lonely city, so that I could calmly besiege me. After besieging Kim Yong City, if the thief division is still blocked to the east of Tongguan, he will worry about his back road and return to his army in a hurry to save him, and then stop Luochuan's army, meet Xin'an's returning army, and defeat his army respectively."

If those guys have not yet reached home, it is naturally best to stop the enemy army at Tongguan, and if the enemy's advance is blocked, they must think of retreating, and then they can take advantage of the distance and road conditions of the north and south roads to make a time difference and try to defeat the enemy army separately.

But if the enemy breaks through Tongguan and successfully enters Guanzhong, then Heluo is not the only way to retreat, and Pusaka and other places can retreat to Hedong.

Speaking of this situation, Li Tai's tone also turned heavy and said, "If this is the case, then I need to do my best to capture Kim Yong City and restore Heyang, first according to Heluo, and then invest in Shannan personnel here, and coerce Hebei to control the thieves!"

After hearing this, Yu Jin couldn't help but sigh. If the latter situation really happens, the future hegemony between the two sides needs to be centered on the Taifu of Shannan Province, and the hegemony of Kansai that these people have been fighting for many years need to be forced to give up.

Li Tai had no intention of feeling at this moment, and he still needed to be prepared with both hands at the moment, first instructing Gao Le to lead his troops to the lower reaches of Luoshui in the north of Jiuqu City to garrison the valley in order to prevent the Qi army from returning to the division, and then sent his troops back to the Taiwan government to continue to strengthen the armament, Li Yunxin temporarily replaced He Ruodun to guard Jiangxia in preparation for the downstream, and He Ruodun led 10,000 horses to the north to garrison the city and stand by for help.

After making these arrangements, Li Tai personally led the army straight to Heluo. Because Hu Lujin took the defensive position and took the initiative to withdraw the garrison of Zhucheng, this march was also smooth, and soon the army arrived on the south bank of Luoshui.

After some reconnaissance by the front people, Li Tai naturally chose Henan City, where Yuwentai's army was stationed before, as the garrison of the army, after all, this city is the largest among the Luonan cities, and it is also the closest to Kim Yong City, and there are also military roads, earth mountains and other fortifications built by the Chinese and foreign people before.

In the cold winter, the frozen soil is inconvenient for large-scale civil construction. Judging by the ruined gates and fortifications of Henan City, as well as the wells that were filled in the city, it seems that the Qi army also tried to destroy the fortifications outside of Kim Yong City before evacuating the city, but in the end, it was limited to time and had limited effect.

However, the long fence built by the Chinese and foreign government armies outside Kim Yong City has been destroyed a lot, and the numerous gaps in the ruins make this long fence useless. The dirt hill south of Kim Yong Shing has been flattened in half, and the earthwork below has been left because it is too heavy.

After the men and horses settled in Henan City, Li Tai led a team of soldiers to patrol outside Kim Yong City, and when he saw the ruined long wall, he couldn't help but frown.

Generally, the siege of the city by a large army, if it is based on the man-horse camp alone, it must invest several times or even more than ten times the enemy's troops, otherwise it will need to assist a certain fortification, and the long siege is the most common one, which can effectively isolate internal and external communication.

Especially in the war in the north, each side often has a large number of cavalry, if the long siege cannot be used to limit the play of the enemy's army, then the attacker is also not worried about staying outside the city for a long time to attack the enemy city.

Li Tai turned over and dismounted, drew his saber and slashed the land next to the long and short wall, and a few white marks appeared where the blade fell, which was the ice ballast after the frozen soil was chopped up.

Seeing this scene, Li Tai couldn't help frowning deeply. The men and horses he led on this trip were only in his early 20,000s, and they were not even as large as the number of defenders in the city, and if he wanted to besiege Kim Yong City, he would inevitably need to rely on fortifications. However, looking at the current frozen soil situation, it is obviously difficult to rebuild the long fence in a short period of time.

"Actually, you can build a sand bank!"

Li Taizheng frowned and groaned, and suddenly a voice came from behind him, and when he turned his head to look, he saw Li Yazheng in the pro-soldier team looking at himself cautiously, and he immediately asked, "What do you say?"

"If the king is worried about how to besiege the city, he can actually build a sand bank. The sand that is not near the river is soft and easy to dig, and there are many can be dug along the Luoshui coast, and then the ice is dug to take water and pour, and the layers of ice are sealed and hard beyond the soil and stones. I, I and Brother Dharma are in Shangyuan

The village game has been built in this way in winter!"

Li Ya saw the king looking at him, so he hurriedly said again.

After Li Tai heard this, his eyes also lit up, and he remembered that he had indeed told a few Feng and others about similar things in his early years, but it was too long for him to forget about it for a while, and at this time, he remembered it again after being reminded by Li Ya.

So even if he led the crowd back to the shore of Luoshui, he chose a beach with extensive river sand, and the river sand closer to the frozen water surface had been frozen and solidified, but according to this, the sand a few steps away had a sharp decrease in moisture, and it was still easy to dig, and the hard knife of the sand that had been frozen and solidified could not be broken, which also confirmed the feasibility of this idea.

Having found a suitable method, Lee Tae-dang ordered his men to begin building a new enclosure along the outside of Kim Yong Castle, and shared this experience with Kole who had gone in the other direction.

In the city of Kim Yong Kim, all the soldiers below Hu Lüjin also paid close attention to the movements of the enemy troops outside the city, and when they saw that the enemy troops were digging sand and earth outside the city and seemed to be building a long siege to besiege the city, many soldiers could not help but laugh loudly. If it were that simple, would they still let the dirt mountain in the south of the city still stand in the distance?

But the next morning, when they saw a new long fence rising from the ground in combination with the ruins of the original long fence, the soldiers of the Qi army in the city suddenly couldn't laugh, and their eyes couldn't help but flash with panic.

"Hu Lu Jin's life is here!"

After the long fence was built, it was still necessary to continue to strengthen and increase the height to about one zhang, and Li Tai asked people to hang a long banner on the soil mountain outside the city that had been leveled, with a few big characters written on it, and feared that Hu Lujin was illiterate and sent people to climb the earth mountain, and constantly shouted to the city in two languages, Chinese and Xianbei.

"Drag out a hundred captives in the city, and kill Liwei in the city!"

Hu Lujin saw the long encirclement outside the city rising from the ground, and the sergeant on the earth mountain shouting, his face also became extremely ugly, and he ordered in a deep voice.