Amid the cheers of the soldiers of the battalions, Li Tai arrived at the city of Pingyang, and looked at the city that had been surrounded by the fortifications of Changwei, and his mood could not help but become excited.

"Your Majesty, there are still about 20,000 defenders in the city, and the defenders have not attacked since the arrival of the last general and other divisions......

Liang Shiyan followed behind and told Li Tai about the various situations of the defenders in the city.

"More than 20,000 people are not a small number, and they have been sitting back and watching the forward division go north? Sit back and watch our army build a long siege outside?"

Li Tai couldn't help but be surprised when he heard this, and asked in disbelief. He knew that this Jinzhou assassin Wei Cang was a generalless and handsome talent under the evaluation of Wei Xiaokuan and others, but when he heard that the other party was in such a critical position and did nothing in the face of the enemy invasion, he couldn't understand what this guy thought for a while.

When Liang Shiyan heard this, he also shook his head and smiled: "The last general was also quite surprised by this, when he first entered the city, the division and brigade were less than 10,000, far inferior to the defenders in the city, and they could not form a siege at all, so they only built a fortress on the hill to defend themselves, and were on guard day and night. It wasn't until two days later that the successor brigade of Jianzhong Gong arrived, and the last general breathed a sigh of relief......

When Li Tai heard this, he couldn't help but sigh that he was really an incompetent and tired general, especially the position of a general in a border town, which was really not something that anyone could hold.

In the past few years, Wei Xiaokuan has been sitting in Yubi City, in addition to resisting the army of Gao Huan of the Eastern Wei Dynasty many years ago, he has also carried out many personnel operations on the border. For example, the construction of the city north of Fenshui and the southern foot of Luliang Mountain, the time to transport personnel and materials to Fenbei was completed, and the construction of the city was completed before the arrival of enemy reinforcements within ten days.

Similar operations are repeated quite a few times, and this is still in the case of being in a weak position. And it is precisely thanks to Wei Xiaokuan's business foundation in this frontier that when Li Tai added additional personnel investment in Hedong before, everything could develop smoothly.

Of course, a top-level border general like Wei Xiaokuan is a scarce talent in itself, and it is difficult for ordinary people to attain it. However, this Wei Cang sat in Pingyang and held 20,000 divisions and brigades, but he did nothing and did not cause any obstruction and trouble to the forward divisions and brigades, and this concentration was also something that ordinary people could not catch up with.

Putting these circumstances aside, Li Tai, accompanied by Liang Shiyan and others, patrolled around the city for a week, and by the way, he inspected all the surrounding geographical conditions.

Although Binh Duong's geographical location is important, the scale of White Horse City, where the state is located, is not large, and it is only a medium-sized city, which is about the same as Kim Yong City in the Ha Lok area.

Generally, such a city is not large on its own, but it should form a complete strategic defense line together with the surrounding cities. It's just that now the enemy's strongholds around Binh Duong have been removed, so the significance of this defense center has been greatly reduced.

When the group returned to the camp, Wei Xiaokuan, who had gone to Hongdong and other places in the north to inspect the situation, also returned, so the generals entered the big tent with Tang Gong to discuss the next battle plan.

"The ministers looked out to Hongdong and other places, and from the high wall to the south, all the enemy fortresses have been uprooted. As long as they stick to two key roads, it will be difficult for the enemy army in Jinyang to fly south, unless they make a detour to Tongjun River."

Wei Xiaokuan first gave a brief account of the situation in the north, and then pointed to the marked direction on the map and continued: "Tongjun River is the flow of Fenshui on the south side of Hongdong City, and the cities of Yining and Wusu that go east through here are all the key points of thieves, and enter Hebei with the passage of Fukou, and the so-called Wusu Road of the old is this. If the two roads to the north are difficult, the army of Jinyang may cross the mountains and join the people of Hebei in the Wusu Road, and then attack......

"But it's also possible to stay in Jinyang and not come out!"

When Li Tai heard this, he also opened his mouth to add a possible situation, and then he pointed to the map and said to the people in the tent: "A few days ago, he used Northern Yuzhou as a bait to lure the enemy army to divide all places. Now the thieves gather, Jinyang, Yecheng and Heyang. If the thief wants to save him from the fallen land, he must come through these three ways.

Although Jinyang's current army is weak, it has always been the ancestral nest of thieves, and the gathering of soldiers and horses is bound to be rapid, and it will also be the strongest place for the troops. Don't fight for the time being, take the easy ones first, and then overcome the difficulties. When its other path is frustrated, it will be difficult for Jinyang to become strong for a long time."

Speaking of this, Li Tai looked at Wei Xiaokuan again and said, "Although the two northern realms are being held, they still need to be led by good generals. please

Jianzhong Gong went to the other side and chose a place to build a city, thinking that it would be closed for a long time. Now the thieves are not exhausted, and they need to be confronted for a long time."

He didn't expect to completely defeat the Northern Qi with this battle, and if he wanted to maintain a relatively long-term initiative in his hands, it was naturally the most reliable to build a city for defense, and this aspect of the matter naturally needed to be handed over to Wei Xiaokuan to rest assured.

Wei Xiaokuan had also anticipated and prepared for this, and after hearing this, he nodded and said, "The last general will go to the north tomorrow and choose a place to build defenses, which will block the traces of Jinyang thieves, please rest assured."

Li Tai then pointed to the Heyang area and said, "Heluo has been a place for soldiers for a long time, and there are many thieves stationed there, but this time they expected the wrong military aircraft, and the people will be annoyed and anxious to recall the division and brigade. But it is also necessary to prevent thieves from turning anger into anger and taking risks, or Harassing us in western Henan or Hanoi. Therefore, this time the army has not all gone north, and An Lugong and others still need to stay behind and wait for the enemy."

This time, the overall army of the tyrant reached 160,000, not including some local garrison forces. For example, Wei Xiaokuan and others sent 50,000 horses first, but only 30,000 people were actually sent by the overlord envoys, and the remaining nearly 20,000 divisions and brigades were all garrisons in Hedong, including Yubi City, Baibi City and other places.

The 20,000 horses of the East Road pioneers led by Yang Zhong before crossed the river to Shaozhou and joined Yang Yan after arriving in Hongnong, and then entered the Jianzhou carriage.

The main force led by Li Tai had an army of 100,000 men, of which 80,000 actually followed him north, and 20,000 remained in the upper reaches of the river.

Since you want to encircle the point and send reinforcements, you must first figure out where the reinforcements are. With the passage from Jinyang to the south being controlled, the only people from Heyang and Yecheng who could actually reach the battlefield in a timely manner in Northern Qi were from Heyang and Yecheng.

The route of Yecheng's reinforcements is relatively simple, and only the army enters Fukou to aid this line through Wusu Road, which is the Tongjun Sichuan mentioned by Wei Xiaokuan just now.

As for the choice and variables of Heyang's personnel, it is relatively large, and it is also an opportunity for the development of the next war.

At present, Heyang is considered to have gathered the largest number of people, and it is conservatively estimated that it must be more than 100,000. If these centaurs wanted to reinforce the Jinzhou battlefield, they either returned to Yecheng and entered Fukou with the Yecheng people, or they went north from Heyang to enter Jianzhou, and then followed Qinshui north to the vicinity of Yining, and then marched west after joining forces with Yecheng.

But in addition to these two modest choices, in fact, there are two dangerous tricks for Heyang people. The first is to encircle Wei and rescue Zhao, launch an attack on western Henan from the Heluo side, and if it can break through the defense lines of Xin'an, Yiyang and other western Henan, it will directly march to Hongnong and Tongguan.

The second is to enter Qiziling from Hanoi to the west, and after entering Shaozhou, go north through the Drum and Bell Road, and directly arrive at the north of the salt pond in the heart of Hedong.

For the Western Wei army, the most dangerous thing is naturally the last situation, once the back road is cut off, and the flank is attacked by the Wusudao people, it is not a siege to send reinforcements, but the enemy on all sides.

However, the possibility of the latter strategy adopted by the Heyang side of Northern Qi is also the least, because the requirements for the quality of the army and the courage of the main general are too high. If you want to complete this deed, it is no less difficult than Li Tai who took advantage of Gao Huan's crusade against Yubi City and attacked Jinyang City.

Although it may be very small, he, the sixth oldest, still arranged for Yang Zhong's subordinates and the upper reaches of the Lianshui River to have nearly 50,000 horses. The reason is also very simple, on the one hand, I am used to stealing chickens, of course, I must focus on protection, on the other hand, that is, if you don't come, then I will go!

In fact, in addition to the negligence of the border town of Pingyang in Jinzhou, there is another place in the Northern Qi Dynasty that also does not pay enough attention. Or that it was originally more important, but after the start of this war, it was ignored. And this place is still within the reach of the Western Wei army, that is, Jianzhou.

Jianzhou is located in the Jincheng Basin on the west side of the south of the Taihang Mountains, connecting Hanoi down to Heyang, adjacent to the Shangdang area to the north, entering Hebei through the mouth of Fukou, and reaching the west side of Pingyang along the Qinshui Road to the northwest, which is also an important geographical hub and one of the goals of Li Tai's military operation!

Before the war began, the Northern Qi subconsciously took the Heluo area as the main combat area and invested a lot of manpower and material resources in Heyang. And with the Western Wei army marching into Jinzhou and pointing at Jinyang, the entire Northern Qi military resources will inevitably surround Jinyang and Ben

Adjustments were made to save Jinju.

But in fact, Jinyang was not in the target sequence of Li Tai's military operation at all, and his primary goal was naturally to occupy Pingyang and then engulf the entire Linfen Basin, placing the blade directly under Jinyang's nose.

The second goal was to establish a state, and to further cut off the interaction and exchanges between different regions of the Northern Qi regime by occupying the state. Moreover, after mastering Jianzhou, Hanoi and Ha Yang can be attacked in the south, and Shangdang and Yecheng can be attacked in the north, so as to increase the pressure on the border defense of Northern Qi to the greatest extent.

Therefore, Yang Zhong and a few other people in the rear can wait and repel the enemy army from Heyang is also a surprise, if not, do not have to be disappointed, can cooperate with the military operations of the North Road Army, at the right time to cross the Zhongtiao Mountain to the east, when the main force of the enemy is attracted to the north of the border to capture Jianzhou in one fell swoop.

If you want to make a more vivid summary, it is that Li Tai launched this time not the Battle of Taiyuan, but the Battle of Changping. The real focus of this campaign was to meet and defeat the Northern Qi reinforcements coming from the west of Fukou.

Of course, to achieve such a tactical concept, it was necessary to take it step by step, and the main task facing the Wei army at the moment was the attack on Binh Duong.

So after a meeting, Lee Tae ordered, "Tomorrow at the end of the day, all the camps will have dinner and prepare to attack Jinju City!"

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