Tang Tianfang had just kept comparing and drawing on the map, as if he had thought of something.

"Take a step back? Take a step back, where to retreat? ”

"Lord Wang, general, please see, this is the West Ditch, this is the Second Beam, now this place is a big valley bottom, too open, the terrain is very unfavorable to us, and we have rarely fought with thorns in such terrain in the past."

"I'm wondering if it's possible to get out of here first, although it's not good for them, it's more troublesome for us, and the more we go on, the harder it will be."

"Next, there is a high probability that they will not take the road of Xidagou, so we will simply set up an empty city plan, completely get out of the way of Xidagou, and retreat to Liupan Mountain with all our troops."

"Lord Wang, do you think, if we retreat to Liupan Mountain, will they follow or not move, not moving, it is equivalent to the failure of their careful preparation for three years of southward going south, if they move, General Yang can wave his army to the east, occupy the most favorable terrain, and we will kill back the carbine, then they will have less room to move, and we will have a lot of chances of winning if we combine three soldiers."

While listening to Tang Tianfang's explanation, the generals looked at the map, and they immediately understood Tang Tianfang's thoughts.

The current stalemate will indeed be slightly more favorable to the thorns, they don't have to worry about grain and grass, close to the grassland, and the horses have something to eat.

The Thorn people are mainly meat-eating, and they will not go hungry on the grassland.

On the other hand, in the Great Xia Army, the war horses have something to eat, and the people want to eat food, and they have to transport grain from the rear in a steady stream.

Originally, it was fine on the front line of Liupan Mountain and Ding'an, but now the distance is too far, hundreds of thousands of people, and then transport grain from the rear, the pressure is too great.

On May 23, King Huai ordered the entire army to retreat to Liupan Mountain.

By the time the spur got the news, it was already two days later. They didn't expect the Great Xia army to retreat, and they didn't know when the Great Xia army retreated, the two sides fought many times in the early stage, and the Great Xia had obvious advantages, and the sudden withdrawal made Sha Da very strange.

Shada spent a day in the tent conferring with the tribal leaders, but no agreement was reached.

Shada had preferred to stay here and wait for Rezhen to return.

However, many of the tribal leaders unanimously asked Shada to join Lei Zhen with his large army, knowing that if they stayed here, even if they plundered more loot in the future, there would definitely not be too much to share with their tribe.

But Shada is reluctant to take such a long detour at this time, there are too many small and medium-sized tribes now, they all have their own plans, such a long distance, once they encounter a large group of Xia Jun, these people may run faster.

But now, these people don't want to stay here, Shada can't do it, and the consumption is really great.

If there is no way to come back from the loot looted in the Central Plains, they will lose a lot this time, and it will not be easy to summon them in the future.

In the end, they finally reached a relatively compromise plan, there were nearly ten small and medium-sized tribal leaders willing to join forces together, gathered an army of 80,000, or along the West Ditch, but the goal was not Ding'an, salt water.

They planned to attack from the north road of Xidagou to the direction of Yulin, even if they couldn't defeat Yulin, they could meet Lei Zhen and them.

On May 27, Halder, a general under Shada, was the commander, and began to march in the direction of Xidagou with an army of 80,000 thorns.

In order to make the army obey orders, Shada specially handed over his personal guard of 5,000 men to Halder to command.

On this day, the 100,000 elite soldiers led by Lei Zhen quietly arrived near the side pass.

It is located at the junction of the Etuo Prairie and the Taihang Mountain, and is a small pass.

There are 1,000 people stationed in the Youzhou border army, defending the Mutu, Kuchit tribes, Mute and other tribes, which are generally not large, and there are very few direct attacks from here.

In the evening, a group of nearby Mutu herdsmen nominated a person to come to the pass to declare, and they waited for some exchange materials to be transported into the city, and asked the captain of the pass to be accommodating.

This is also a normal thing here in the side pass, and the court did not report the war with the thorns, and the captain of the defending army did not take it to heart.

Seeing dozens of herdsmen, young and old, pulling in a few carts of fur specialties, he lost interest and went into the house to rest.

In the middle of the night, fires broke out everywhere in the pass, and the gate of the pass was also opened by the herdsmen, and thousands of cavalry entered the pass in an instant. The captain of the garrison did not even gather the soldiers, and was slashed outside the barracks.

Lei Zhen didn't stop at all, and led his troops all the way to the east overnight, even down the plains and Shuozhou, and kidnapped more than 100,000 people, with countless food and property.

All the way to the southeast, capture Shenwu, and enter the state. All of a sudden, half of the people of the state were in dire straits, and there were fires everywhere, the people fled in all directions, and the wilderness was full of dead bodies.

When Bingzhou got the news, Lei Zhen's army had arrived at the foot of Wutai Mountain, only two hundred miles away from Bingzhou, and people in Bingzhou City were also panicking.

The patrol envoy of Bingzhou requisitioned 30,000 nearby guards and Minzhuang to prepare to defend the city of Bingzhou, and at the same time quickly asked for help from the border army of Youzhou, how could his own soldiers and horses stop the army of thorns.

Who knows, Lei Zhen turned around again, from the north of Bingzhou to the east, attacked and occupied Daizhou, killed more than 200 people in the first line of the king of Dai, robbed 100,000 people around him again, turned southwest, broke through the Wuguan Pass from behind, and attacked Shenmu Pass.

The 3,000 defenders of Shenmu hurriedly responded to the battle, and fought fiercely with the ebony army for three hours, all of them were killed, Shenmu Pass was lost, and Lei Zhen's army returned to the Great Meadow smoothly.

This ebony tribe traveled three thousand miles, and there were five large cities that were conquered by them alone, as well as countless villages along the way.

According to post-war statistics, more than 70,000 people were killed or wounded along the way, and as many as 170,000 people were taken away by ebony.

The hands of the inspectors holding the documents were trembling, the county seat of Shuozhou had no defense, most of the militia groups defending the city were killed, the magistrate committed suicide, and the death of an adjutant official was able to escape, and Shenwu had become an empty city.

Shenwu was slightly better, some of the people fled with the magistrate and some officials, and the thorn people returned to the county seat after leaving, and they were cleaning up the aftermath.

Daizhou is the worst, because the fight is the longest, and the most people are slaughtered, and there are nearly 10,000 corpses left in the county alone.

The state inspector was quite courageous, first reported the situation to the court, and went straight to Yulin with more than a dozen guards.

The most direct way he thought of was to let the Yulin border army send troops to help save at least 200,000 people first, of course, it was his action that saved his own life, and finally let him return to his hometown to retire.

Let's talk about Bigalo Khan again, he knows very well that he only relies on his own tribe, not to mention Youzhou, Yunzhou and other border cities, and even Wuzhou is not something he can provoke.

Originally, he thought that if Shada started fighting on the Yulin side, he would take the opportunity to take the pass and attack Bingzhou.

But he never expected that the Ebony Tribe Lei Zhen would actually do what he planned.

When he heard the news, he scolded directly in the tent, and his subordinates stood on the side and didn't dare to say a word.

It took him a long time before he came back to his senses, there was no way, the battle still had to be fought.

He watched his adviser mutter, so he didn't bother, and asked the others what they were going to do.

At this time, one of his subordinates looked at him cautiously, "Great Khan, I have a suggestion, I don't know if it's appropriate, or not, let's strike first and snatch those belongings in the big meadow over there!" ”

Pigalo Khan didn't respond, in fact, he had just had this idea in his head, but it was just inconvenient to say.

Bachelor Liu opened his mouth at this time, "It's not okay to rob them, or it's not cost-effective, you think, they also have more than 100,000 warriors."

Although we are currently in a disadvantageous situation, we have a hand in the middle, and we can't get much to say, and we have left Shada with a handle, which is meaningless.

Playing Yunzhou, it is difficult for us to succeed for a while, and it is even more inappropriate. But there is one place that can, that is, in the clouds, and now they must be staring at the big cities of Yulin and Yunzhou, which are too small in the clouds. ”

"We hit the clouds, but the goal is not in the clouds, what we want is here, Yingzhou. This is the backup place of Yunzhou, a large amount of food and armaments are stored, as long as we take here, quickly, we will withdraw after taking something, the target of Great Xia must still be Shada them, and they will not care about us. ”

When Pigalo Khan heard this, he jumped up directly with joy and praised Master Liu.

It was also when the Ebony tribe was wantonly looting in Shuozhou and Shenwu, and Pigalo Khan's army of nearly 100,000 quietly captured Yunzhong.

On 11 June, an 800-mile rush war report was sent to the capital, and the entire capital was shaken.

When Xining Shengshang saw the battle report, he immediately spit out a few mouthfuls of blood and fainted directly on the main hall!

The Manchu civil and military panicked to the extreme!

In the apse, the pale-faced Xining Shengshang had already come to his senses, he looked at the several important ministers gathered around, smiled reluctantly, and motioned to the attendants around him to help him lie half-lying.

"I'm in a hurry, I'm to blame for this, I've always thought that my time is short, so I've always wanted to do something before I die, but I'm getting old after all."

"We can receive the battle report, King Huai should know before us, he hasn't played yet, he should be delayed on the road, I'm also confused, he has an idea, we can receive his battle report in a few days."

I don't know if Xining Shengshang really communicated, or comforted the ministers, "I've always had this disease, so don't notify him." ”

"During this time, the government will be handled jointly by several of you."

"The most important thing is to merge the people of the state, no matter what, find a way to appease it!"

Seeing the ministers kowtow and leave, the saint gave another order, and the old eunuch asked people to call the commander of the silver eagle to come.

"Li Mu, next, you should know what to do, one last time!" The saint rested for a while before giving an order to the Silver Eagle Grand Commander who was kneeling below.

Li Mu knelt below, quickly kowtowed, and slowly retreated.

"Look closely, you can act casually in extraordinary times, and you can kill a batch of people who should be killed!"

"Wait for the king of Zhou Jun to come, and issue an edict for King Cheng and the British Duke to take over the Praetorian Guard!"

"You first issue a secret edict to summon the King of Huai into Beijing and leave it to the Duke of Wei Guogong without leaking it."

"The court situation can't be chaotic, tell Wei Guogong that the defense inside and outside the capital let him watch it tightly, and then issue a secret edict to him, everything inside and outside the capital, he can act cheaply, as for the rest, let them make trouble!"

"Give an edict to the King of Qi Linzi Palace, and seal it within a month!"

"Edict, give the king of Chu, the king of Chu ......, forget it, forget it, I can't manage so much!"

After listening to them one by one, the old eunuch turned around silently.