Liang Guo Juyan.

The desert is lonely, and the sun sets on the long river!

"Woooooooooo ......" The dull and murderous sound of the horn sounded in the great sandy sea, and it lasted for a long time.

On the horizon of the endless desert, a black appeared, which became clearer and stronger, and gradually connected with the heavenly dome, like a dark cloud.

"Huh!"

The cyan wolf head flag representing Tuoba Xianbei appeared in the sky above the Juyan Sand Sea.

"It's a Xianbei person!" In the humble city, the soldiers of the Xiliang Army who were responsible for guarding this place had a frightened look on their faces, trembling all over, and they were trembling, almost wanting to go first.

"Attack!"

Tuoba Shiyi let out a howl, and with his order, the 100,000 Xianbei Iron Cavalry behind him suddenly turned into a huge torrent, and the horses' hooves were chaotic, and they rushed towards Juyan City without stopping.

"Close the gates! Hurry up and close the gates! ”

Since the last Hu rebellion, Juyan has not experienced a war for a long time, and there is no more powerful force in this vicinity that can threaten the Liang Kingdom and dare to invade Juyan's territory.

These 100,000 iron cavalry of Daiguo came suddenly!

"Click! ......The defenders hurriedly closed the heavy city gates, but it was too late, and before they could close the gates completely, hundreds of Hu men armed with scimitars rushed out of the city!

"Kill them!"

"Go!"

"Immortal Heaven will bless us!"

The corners of the Hu people's mouths outlined a bloodthirsty and cruel smile, and they unscrupulously waved the war knives in their hands to cut off the heads of the defenders' non-commissioned officers, and the defenders, who were less than a thousand people, could not resist the Hu people's attack at all.

The gates of Juyan were soon opened, and Daijun rushed in ecstatically and killed the man wearing the armor of the Liang army.

Some cruel-minded Xianbei people even cut off the heads of their enemies and pinned them to their trouser belts in order to make a wine bottle.

Evergreen Hall.

Qin Mu and Xun Ji hurriedly ran here, and when they saw Ran Min who was reviewing the recital, they said, "Your Majesty, the Dai army has already invaded the border of the Liang Kingdom and occupied Xihai County!" ”

"I already know."

Ran Min was nothing surprising, after all, everything was under his control.

"Sit down."

"Thank you, Your Majesty."

After Qin Mu and Xun Ji sat down, Ran Min personally poured them a cup of fine tea and said, "In your opinion, what will Tuoba Shi Yijian do next?" ”

Qin Mu and Xun Ji glanced at each other, and the latter said first: "Your Majesty, the minister thinks that Tuoba Shiyijian's next step should be to continue to conquer the Qiang people, Lu Shuihu, and the Hu people in the hinterland of Xiliang, expand the territory, and increase the population. ”

"How so?"

"According to the information we have, this expedition is cool, Tuoba Shiyi key is often 100,000 warriors of the Xianbei tribe, and he is the one who personally conquers, and the momentum is huge, and he goes down to Juyan in a battle, and he goes down to the West Sea in a war, and the momentum is huge. Moreover, this time Wei and Dai attacked the Liang State, Wei was strong and weak, invincible, and difficult to compete, and judging from what Tuoba Shi Yijian had done before, his purpose was very likely to expand his power and annex the Hu people in the north of the Liang Kingdom. ”

"Xun Ji, your words are not unreasonable."

Ran Min nodded, did not express his opinion directly, but set his eyes on Qin Mu's body.

"Qin Mu, what do you think?"

"Your Majesty, the minister's thoughts are completely different from Lord Xun's. There is no shortage of people of insight in the country, not to mention Yan Feng, Tuoba Shi Yijian himself is also a visionary person! Did he make such a big move this time to conquer Liang just to encroach on the territory of the northern part of the Whale Swallowing Liang Country? ”

Qin Mu frowned and said: "The barren land of the West Sea, from Zhangye to Juyanze Thousands of miles of desert, is sparsely populated and the land is barren, even if Dai Guo really occupies this land, what if he is allowed to occupy this land?" Will they be able to hold it? Your Majesty, in my opinion, the purpose of Tuoba Shi Yijian should be to extinguish Liang, or to plunder the population of Xiliang! If my guess is correct, his next step should be to lead more than 10,000 elite horsemen across the sand sea and go straight to Guzang! ”

Hearing this, Ran Min and Xun Ji were stunned.

That's a bold idea!

As far as Ran Min knows, across the gap between Zhangye and Juyan is the Badain Jaran Desert, which is thousands of miles away, has almost no water source, and is easy to get lost. Even if you have more than 10,000 elite riders, it is not easy to cross this thousand-mile desert and stick the knife into Xiliang's heart.

"It's a really risky move." Xun Ji shook his head and said, "But I don't think Tuoba Shiyi will dare to do this." It's too risky! If you are not careful, it will be the end of the whole army! Not to mention how difficult it is to cross thousands of miles of desert, even if you really let the iron cavalry of the Dai army rush to Guzang? ”

"The city of Guzang City is high and deep, easy to defend and difficult to attack, it is absolutely impossible to take it without advanced siege equipment, not to mention that Xiliang still has spare strength, and there are still tens of thousands of soldiers and horses to mobilize?"

Qin Mu asked rhetorically: "If the Dai army takes advantage of the fact that our Wei army and the Liang army are in the middle of the battle, they will kill it in one fell swoop." And how? ”

"This ......" Xun Ji didn't dare to think about it.

Ran Min said lightly: "It's nothing more than the soldiers coming to block it, and the water coming to cover it." It is imperative to extinguish the cold! I've been planning for so long, and I can't afford to go bankrupt because I'm worried about a Tuoba Wingkey. I want to drive the expedition myself! ”

Ran Min said just do it.

The next day, Ran Min ordered the crown prince Ran Ming to supervise the regent of the country, and the queen Dong Qiaoqiao listened to the government and discussed state affairs with the ministers. Ran Min mobilized 30,000 people from the left and right Yulin Wei to start the westward expedition.

The journey from Daliang to Xiliang was very long, and the army traveled a long distance, took the waterway, changed the official road, and arrived in Daxia after more than a month. By the time Ran Min led his army to the front line, it was already October of the third year of the emperor's reign.

Standing on a high slope, across a valley water, Ran Min looked forward to the Liang army camp opposite.

Xie Ai is worthy of being a famous general in Xiliang, and he is well versed in military affairs, and even this camp is built like an iron bucket, which makes people unable to speak.

After such a long confrontation in Gushui, the Liang army had built the camp like a turtle's shell, with the city camp four feet high and the bottom three feet thick; War towers should be built on the city walls, and various equipment for defending the city should be set up to keep watch towers and watchposts for the enemy.

Trenches were dug outside the city, and protective measures such as deer barricades and horse traps were set up. The city camp built in this way is actually a military fortress, which cannot be completed in a short time.

In addition to one city camp, Xie Ai also set up two trench camps in an ingenious way, just on both sides of the city camp, which are horns of each other.

A trench, as the name suggests, is a camp with a trench as the main body of defense.

Generally, it is required that the bottom of the trench is one zhang two wide, the mouth is one zhang five wide, and the depth is more than one zhang, and the excavated soil pile is tightly lined up on the inner bank, and it can be four or five feet above the ground without building a city.

If possible, set up obstacles such as deer barricades on the outside of the trench.

"Your Majesty, the minister is incompetent, he can't attack the Liang army camp for a long time, and he has lost his troops and has not gained an inch of land, please punish him!" The big Sima Li Nong next to him said apologetically.

Ran Min waved his hand and said, "You've done a good job." With such a strong city camp and such a valley water separated, how easy is it to cross the river and break the camp? ”

"Your Majesty, Xie Ai, the chief general of the Liang Army, really lives up to his reputation. If it weren't for the support of Your Majesty, the logistics supply continued, and the minister would have been unable to hold on to withdrawing the army. ”

"Haha, Xie Ai's skills are much better than you, this is a headache opponent! In the Battle of Cangsong that year, I was the general of Zhao Zhao on his expedition to the west, and I was famous, and I was almost planted in Xie Ai's hands! ”

Ran Min clenched his palms into fists and said loudly: "This time, I must capture Xie Ai alive and destroy the Liang Kingdom!" ”

"I am willing to die for Your Majesty!"

"Great Wei Wannian! Your Majesty Long live! The crowd sang loudly.

"Good!"

Ran Min squinted his eyes and said: "Pass the order, the whole army will make food at the end of the day, and the people and horses will eat seven points full, and when the time comes, all the soldiers will give me enough strength to cross the valley and kill the Liang army camp!" ”

"No!"

Tips: Enter "Panda Literature" in the search engine, you can find this site, thank you.

Chapter 0486 - The Desert is Lonely