Chapter 130: The Lonely City

To the south of Tonghua City, a large area of camp tents was set up, which was the camp of the Great Wei Forbidden Army, and after they came to Tonghua City, they did not enter the city, but camped outside the city.

The camp outside the city and Tonghua City are each other's horns, which is absolutely accurate in the art of war, after the camp was settled, Li Yuanxiang led his troops and the Liao Iron Cavalry to fight several times, each other won and lost, and the two sides confronted each other.

"The enemy of Tonghua City will be the confidant of the southern courtyard of the Liao Kingdom, Yeluqi, the confidant of Chen Ge, this person's ancestor was once the border guard of the former dynasty Daxuan, because of the vendetta with the imperial Li family, so after the establishment of the Great Wei Dynasty, the Chen family surrendered to the Liao State, the Chen family is a family of generals, and the art of war of the ancestors of the Chen family was also recognized by the Great Xuan Military Department, and the generals in the army have to learn the art of war.

Before us, there were 30,000 elite soldiers of the king of the southern courtyard of the Liao Kingdom, 50,000 soldiers and horses of various types from the rest of the tribes, a total of 80,000 people, and more than 100,000 young and strong people, all of whom were the people of Tongzhou in our Great Wei Dynasty, all of whom were ·····."

In the camp, Li Yuanxiang's staff is introducing the origin of the enemy in front of the battle, this Liao army is not an ordinary soldier and horse, but the elite soldiers and horses of the king of the southern courtyard of the Liao State, which is the army of the economic system directly under the Liao State, and the soldiers and horses of the rest of the various tribes of the Liao State should not be underestimated, although they are not as elite as the forbidden army, but they are not comparable to the local garrison, because they are cavalry.

The cavalry of the Great Liao is the most famous, the land is vast and sparsely populated, and there are many good horses, but it is the Great Wei, although there are also many horse farms, but the cavalry is not as elite as the cavalry of the Great Liao.

In addition, the Liao army plundered in all directions, and more than 100,000 young men were captured by them, and these young men were forced to help them build ordnance, fill the moat for them, and use them as cannon fodder, so that after more than a month of fighting, the Liao army did not suffer much damage, and the tens of thousands of people who died were those prisoners.

"After more than a month of fighting, their grain should be about to run out, and there will be no food to rob Tongzhou, their grain road is three or four hundred miles long, as long as their grain route is cut off, we will win this battle."

After listening to the explanation of the staff, Li Yuanxiang said to the generals, there is not much grain in Tongzhou, the land here is very barren, and grain merchants are still needed to transport grain to the south every year, and now they have more than 100,000 people fighting for more than a month, and there should be little food left, so as long as he sends the cavalry of the forbidden army to harass the grain road, within a month, the Liao State will consider withdrawing the army, otherwise these 80,000 people will be eaten.

"General, then give the order"

"Okay, our cavalry, from today onwards, leave 3,000 to garrison the camp, and the remaining 7,000 people, bypass the enemy's camp, disturb its grain route, and make sure that not a single grain from the Liao State can enter."

Li Yuanxiang nodded, the more thoroughly they disturbed, the faster the enemy army was defeated, if he could really completely cut off the grain route, he was really confident that he could eat the 80,000 enemy troops, in this way, this was a monstrous achievement.

The generals ordered, and soon there were cavalry generals who went out with cavalry, Li Yuanxiang had 25,000 people in his hands, 10,000 were cavalry, the rest were infantry, and the remaining more than 10,000 people were enough to deal with the army in front of him.

After the cavalry left, Li Yuanxiang continued to challenge the enemy army every day, and compared with the enemy army, their advantage was not much at all, yes, they had a big advantage.

Although they are mainly infantry, but the cavalry can not penetrate the elite infantry, the cavalry, especially the light cavalry, is to contain, harass, intimidate the infantry, so that the infantry is confused because of fear, so that the collapse and then cover the kill, this trick is very effective against ordinary troops, in the face of the scene of thousands of cavalry impact, many people will be extremely frightened, but his subordinates are not ordinary troops, they are the elite of Great Wei.

They rely on the spear formation to keep the enemy from approaching, plus enough bows and crossbows, if the enemy really dares to charge with light cavalry, they can wipe out most of the cavalry, and the heavy cavalry, the number of enemy troops is also very small, absolutely reluctant to use it to charge the formation.

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"What, the Tianxia Pass has been broken?"

Li Yuanxiang was full of pride, but in three days, he received a bad news, the Tianxia Pass was broken, and Li Yuanxiang jumped up directly.

"Back to Dashuai, Tianxia was broken three days ago, the Liao Kingdom Tongtian Courtyard participated in the war, and most of the Qingyi Wei worshippers died"

"Where is Li Man, where is Li Man?"

"General Li was surrounded by the army of King Pingliao after Tianxia Pass, and gathered the remnants of Tianxia Pass, as well as seven or eight thousand people, General Li asked the marshal for help, they couldn't hold out for long"

The herald cried that Li Man was a general sent by Li Yuanxiang to support Tianxia Pass, and brought 5,000 people over.

At this time, it was too late for them to run, and once they retreated, they would only be caught up by the cavalry of the King of Pingliao, so they immediately camped on the spot, and then gathered the rout of two or three thousand Tianxia Pass, and resisted on the spot, but the King of Pingliao had at least fifty or sixty thousand people, and the elite white-clothed army was thirty thousand, and their thousands of people were not opponents at all, so they sent people to Li Yuanxiang for help.

"Go, inform all the generals to come to discuss the matter, and keep this matter quiet"

Li Yuanxiang took a few deep breaths, calmed down and said to the guards, and several guards quickly went to inform the generals in the army.

The generals of the forbidden army were also shocked when they learned that the Tianxia Pass had been broken, which meant that their flanks were completely exposed, and if the enemy troops on the flanks came up again, they would fall into a state of surroundment.

"General, what to do"

"General, how is this good?"

"Give me quiet, listen to my orders, one, immediately send the flying eagle, send a message back to Yongdu City, let the imperial court send the immortals of the Asking Immortal Pavilion to come to help in the battle, to use the fastest speed, two, immediately go to the Liao army in front of the formation to call the formation, the logistics battalion immediately pack up things, and secretly retreat to Tongzhou City after collecting the troops in the evening, and the army retreats in the middle of the night, and informs Tonghua City of this plan.

The third is to inform General Li Man and let him continue to hold on, telling him that within three days, the immortals of the Immortal Pavilion will arrive, so that they can hold on."

"General..."

"Go Soon"

Li Yuanxiang roared, of course he knew that Li Man's side would not be able to support him for three days, but he had no soldiers to save him, and the 80,000 Chen Ge on the opposite side was only less than 20,000 in his hands now, how could he save it, he could only save more than 10,000 people.

"Yes, General"

"General, over there in the cavalry..."

"Send someone to deliver a message, so that they can withdraw tomorrow and go directly to Tongzhou City"

"Yes, General"

Those cavalry who scattered out to attack the grain road can't retreat now, they have to support it for another day, although it is possible that the news of their escape will come out tomorrow, Chen Ge will encircle and suppress them with all his might, but it can only be one more run.

The top of the forbidden army kept it strictly secret, and the soldiers below did not know that they were already extremely dangerous, and they still went out of the camp to challenge, constantly cursing at the soldiers and horses of the Liao State.

The soldiers and horses of the Liao State didn't care, they were mainly light cavalry troops, and they couldn't rush the elite infantry, so they stopped fighting after the temptation, and let them challenge and curse.

As in the past, in the evening, the Great Wei soldiers and horses slowly retreated, and the Liao army only followed up with a few outposts, and the outposts on both sides were fighting.

As soon as it was dark, the logistics battalion immediately retreated with baggage, and in the middle of the night, Li Yuanxiang sent a small force to go to the Liao army to attack at night.

"Report, marshal, the Wei army camp is empty"

"What"

"The Wei army camp is gone"

"Let's go, let's see"

On the morning of the second day, the Liao army was still waiting for the Wei army to continue to come to challenge, but there must have been no movement, so they sent people to check, but they didn't expect that the Wei army camp was empty.

"Haha, I understand, it's Tianxia Pass, Tianxia Pass has been won"

Chen Ge led people to the Wei army camp, and when he saw that many supplies such as camp tents could not be taken away, he immediately knew what was going on, it was Tianxia Pass that was taken down, and Li Yuanxiang's flank was threatened, so he decisively withdrew his troops.

"Dashuai, let's chase, they will go for one night at most, we can catch up"

"Okay, General Yelu, I'll give you 5,000 men, you go to chase the enemy immediately, don't fall in love, how many can you kill"

"Dashuai, why only give me 5,000 people"

"Li Yuanxiang is a general, even if he retreats, he can't take advantage of anything, 5,000 people are enough, General Herb, I will give you 20,000 tribal soldiers, immediately go to our rear road, chase down those cavalry who attack our grain routes, it's best not to let any of them go"

"Yes, Boss"

"The rest of the men, follow me to attack the city, take Tonghua City, and we can gather troops in Tongzhou City"

Chen Ge laughed and said, pull out the nail of Tonghua City, they can go to Tongzhou City to gather troops, and when the time comes, more than 100,000 troops will definitely be able to defeat Tongzhou City, and they can directly kill Yongdu City of Great Wei.

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"Tianxia Pass was broken, and Li Shuai withdrew his troops overnight?"

In Tonghua City, Jiang Cheng only learned the news from Shitang after dawn, and was immediately shocked, isn't Tianxia Pass Xiongguan, why was it easily broken.

"Lord Jiang, the immortals of Tongtian Courtyard have made a move, Tianxia Pass was caught off guard, I don't know how sure Lord Jiang is, he can withstand the immortals"

"General Shi, immortals are also hierarchical, if it is a Tianmen Realm immortal, I am not afraid at all, if it is a Xuanmiao Realm immortal, at most thirty percent"

Jiang Cheng replied, although he had killed the immortals of the Xuan Miao Realm, but this was a battlefield, unlike personal fighting, if he shot with all his strength, the enemy would definitely be three or five Xuan Miao Realm to kill him, and he was not willing to take this risk.

"If the immortals of the Immortal Pavilion don't come again, our Tonghua City will also be in danger, three days, we only need to hold on for three days, we still have hope"

Shitang said bitterly, there are not many masters in Tonghua City, if they can't stop the masters of Tongtian Academy in Liaoguo, they will be in danger, three days is a relatively conservative number, Li Yuanxiang must have brought a flying eagle, set off last night, and should arrive in Yongdu City today, as long as the people who ask the immortal pavilion come in time, they can arrive within three days, there are immortals to resist the immortals, and they still have the strength to fight.