A distance of several miles is an instant for a cavalry running at high speed. As the sound of galloping horses' hooves got closer and closer, the soldiers and civilians in Jinju City also seized the last time to carry all kinds of equipment and materials to the city, and everyone was sweating nervously.

When the soldiers lined up at the head of the city to meet the enemy, the enemy cavalry finally arrived at the foot of Jinju City, with thousands of cavalry and a large number of war horses.

These enemy troops paused for a moment to the east of Jinju City, but did not immediately attack the city, but adjusted their riding clothes, turned on their horses under the noses of the soldiers and civilians of the city, and continued to the north.

"This, these enemy soldiers, what are they going to do?"

When the defenders at the head of the city saw this scene, they couldn't help but be a little dumbfounded, looking at the enemy troops running farther and farther north, they couldn't figure out the situation for a while, but their tense heartstrings were slightly loosened.

In any case, as long as the enemy army does not attack Jinju Fortress directly, it is a joy. Before the sudden arrival of the enemy army, they rushed to respond, and it was inevitable that there were many omissions. Not to mention anything else, even the armor ration of the soldiers is insufficient, and once the enemy attacks immediately, they will inevitably be overwhelmed.

Now, for whatever reason, the enemy army went around the north of the city and did not launch an offensive against Jinju City, which always gave them a chance to continue to strengthen the city defenses and be able to meet the enemy army in a better state.

Not to mention that the ordinary soldiers and civilians secretly shouted luck in their hearts, Xian Yu Shirong and other generals who were preparing for battle at the head of the city saw this scene, but their hearts sank sharply, and each other's eyes showed worry: "The enemy rode through Jinju without attacking, it must be to seize the dangerous place of the pass in the north!" The former, Nanshuozhou and other armies have just crossed the border to the east, and the defense of the northern border is weak, and once it is disturbed by the enemy, the crowd will be frightened! ”

"Yes, the thief took the traitor of Northern Yuzhou as bait, disguised his general Tuheluo, and misled our country to deploy heavy troops in the east, but unexpectedly he wanted to enter Tu Jinyang. Now that the thief's trace is first explored, the harm is not deep, we must not defend this city exhaustively, we should send divisions and brigades to pursue the thief, and we must not let the Qiang thieves block the pass and intercept the north and south! ”

After the initial panic, the generals defending the city also saw the intentions of the Wei army, and Mo Duo Lou Jingxian even spoke again.

Between Jinzhou north to Jinyang, it is not a smooth road, Fenshui is two mountains and valleys from Lingshi, the road is narrow, winding and rugged, it is called the Bird Mouse Valley. This section of the road is difficult to travel and easy to hold, once it is occupied and blocked by the enemy, it will be difficult for the Jinyang Division and Brigade to reinforce to the south.

As a result, the entire Jinju area will become an enclave, and it will be difficult to communicate with the Jinyang area. At that time, the Western Wei army will advance again, and the situation will be several times more critical than at this time.

The only way to do this is to take advantage of the fact that the main army of the Western Wei Dynasty has not yet advanced here, and quickly send troops out of the city to defeat the light cavalry that is going north, ensure the smooth passage of the Fenshui military road, and then quickly ask Jinyang for help. As long as the passage between each other can be kept open, there will be a steady stream of reinforcements from the south on the Jinyang side, and even if the thieves are vicious, they can also hold on to the city.

However, at this time, Wei Cang was already frightened and uneasy, when he heard that the generals still wanted to go out of the city to meet the enemy, when he shook his head again and again: "The enemy army is coming, and I have fallen behind in the theory, and now the people in the city are still panicking, and defending this fortified city can also appease the people's hearts. ”

Staying in the city at the moment still made Wei Cang panic, and when he heard that Mo Duolou Jingxian even suggested going out of the city to fight, Wei Cang naturally refused to agree. If it was feasible to go out of the city, wouldn't it be good for him to simply run back to Jinyang?

"Rest assured, my lord, if the thieves really believe that the army has arrived, they will not go around the city without attacking. It is precisely because of the advance of its former division that it needs to go north to block reinforcements. If I can't get out, it's just what the thief wants! ”

Seeing that Wei Cang was so timid, Mo Duo Lou Jing hurriedly admonished in a deep voice, and even took the initiative to ask for the task of attacking the enemy.

However, Wei Cang still refused: "It is not yet known how many thieves have come to commit crimes." At present, the defenders in the city are still or may be insufficient, and when this is difficult, what is the intention of dividing our forces? Could it be that he planned to take advantage of the unsuccessful siege of the thieves and lead his troops to flee? There are many roads from north to south, how can a brigade of thieves cut them off? If anyone wants to divide up the forces defending the city and flee to other places, I will rule it out! ”

Hearing Wei Cang's words, all the generals could only shut up, and then the governors continued to repair and strengthen the city defenses to cope with the attack that would come soon.

At this time, in the suburbs north of Jinju City, there was a team of armor soldiers guarding the plateau on the side of Fenshui, and the leader was Gao Le, who led his troops north as a forward general.

After the brigade rushed to the north, he led hundreds of elite soldiers to ambush here, preparing to ambush the men and horses attacking in Jinju City, but nearly an hour passed, and there was still no movement of men and horses attacking in the direction of Jinju City. At this time, the men and horses going north sent troops to report that they had captured the Gaoliang Bridge in the north, and asked whether they wanted to rest on the spot or continue the attack.

After a little muttering, Gao Le also gave up ambushing the enemy here, and first led his troops to rush to the Gaoliang Bridge in the north, and after inspecting it, seeing that it was still early, he decided to continue north along Fenshui and attack the next target.

From Jinju to the north, a Northern Qi city is Hongdong City, which is also set up near Fenshui, the scale of the city is not very large, and the defenders have about nearly 1,000 soldiers.

When they saw a large group of enemy troops appear outside the city, the defenders of Hongdong City were shocked. Not long ago, a large army had just crossed the border, and the personnel in the city were still a little chaotic, and there was an important town of Jinju in the south, so the defenders in the city could not help but be a little slack.

When the enemy cavalry suddenly attacked the city, the first thing the guards thought of was not to defend the city, but to flee directly out of the city to the north. Even though some of the soldiers rushed to meet the battle, they did not even have time to close the city gates in a hurry, and after a strong attack, the city was conquered.

All the way from Xiangling along the Fenshui army to here, Gao Le's department was inevitably a little tired, after capturing the stronghold of Hongdong City, they did not continue to march north, but settled in the city for a short rest. It's a pity that the storage in Hongdong City is also very limited, after all, it has just been eaten up by the army, so the group can only use the grain and grass carried by the army to feed the horses.

War has always been an act of extreme ingenuity, and once a war starts, the situation changes rapidly. Before, Mo Duolou Jingxian and others also wanted to take the initiative to attack, taking advantage of the enemy's main force to attack and kill its forward light cavalry first, although they were stopped by Wei Cang, but they were still a little resentful in their hearts, feeling that Wei Cang, the commander, was as timid as a mouse and delayed the fighter.

But nearly two hours after the first enemy had crossed, another enemy cavalry came rolling in from the south, and it was far more numerous than the previous one, and its troops were in battle with more equipment and baggage.

The second group of seven or eight thousand enemy cavalry did not go around the city as directly as the first team did when they arrived outside the city, but directly led their troops to the east of Jinju City, and piled earth platforms on the wall, and soon a camp was erected outside the city.

"You and other contemptible husbands are self-assured, and they have to ask for orders to go out of the city to fight before, but now you can see how the thief is doing? If I had allowed to go to war then, how would this army of thieves come again? ”

Wei Cang stood on the city tower and watched the enemy build up the barracks, his mood was nervous and worried, but he couldn't help but stare at everyone and said. After hearing this, everyone was also a little speechless for a while, so they could only bow their heads and remain silent.

Not to mention the Northern Qi soldiers trapped in the city, the Western Wei side no longer concealed their true intentions after revealing their fangs.

As early as Wei Xiaokuan learned that the Northern Qi Jinyang Division Brigade went to Yecheng through Jinzhou East, he immediately told Tang Gong, and then the 30,000 divisions and brigades of Tongzhou that had been on standby for a long time crossed the river from Pujin into the Hedong area, and then marched north along the Shushui River, and met with the people and horses of Fennan Zhulu in Baibi City, totaling nearly 60,000 horses, under the leadership of Wei Xiaokuan, Gao Le, Liang Shiyan and other generals, they went north between the ditches and ridges of Emeiyuan in Fennan.

At the same time, Han Guo, the general who had previously served as the assassin of Fenzhou and sat in Dingyang City at the southern foot of Luliang Mountain, also led 3,000 troops and thousands of men and horses, including Hu Liu Kuzhen, and came south, directly choking Fen, Beihuagu and other places, cutting off the connection between Yongzhou and Jinzhou in the east of Northern Qi.

From Jiangjun to the north into Jinzhou, on the way there are dangerous Qiaoshan, Mengkeng, its land is rugged and difficult to travel, the army is quite inconvenient to advance and retreat, and Mengkeng to the north is where the Xiangling City of Northern Qi is located.

After the army arrived, Wei Xiaokuan raised the water level of Fenshui with the weir Fenqu, and at the same time personally led the elite troops to float across Fenxi and then detoured to the north of Xiangling City to attack the city, directly erasing the eyeliner south of Jinzhou. After that, Gao Le and Liang Shiyan successively led the elite cavalry to the north first, while Wei Xiaokuan led the men and horses to continue the north, while the crew quickly reported the results to the south.

At this time, Li Tai had also led a large army to the vicinity of Tongguan, and ordered Yang Zhong to continue to lead the forward 20,000 horses to march to Hongnong. When Wei Xiaokuan's battle report arrived at Tongguan, Li Tai no longer concealed the movements of the army, and immediately ordered the whole army to cross north from Fengling into Hedong, and he himself personally led the main force to cross the Yuncheng Basin and march north along the Shushui.

As for Yang Zhong, who confused the enemy in the front, he no longer advanced after arriving at Hongnong, but led the army directly from Hongnong to the north, into Shaozhou on the north bank of the Yellow River, and after joining forces with Yang Yan, the assassin of Shaozhou who had been preparing for a long time, he passed through the mountains from the Drum Bell Road and also entered the Hedong region.

Since then, the strategic intentions of the Wei army have been completely exposed, and after its large army gathered, it did not follow the previous route to attack Heluo, but directly poured into Hedong, killing northward with great momentum!

At this time, on the Northern Qi side, Heluo, Heyang and other places all gathered heavy troops, but they didn't expect that the old enemy they were waiting for released their pigeons this time.