"The great river is east of Mengjin, the north bank is extremely flat, and the south bank is blocked by many hills and mountains." On a small hill to the west of the Tiger Prison Pass, the Shogunate of the Han Andong Shogunate Zuo Changshi Diao Ying talked eloquently: "There is Shouyang Mountain (not Guanzhong or Shouyang Mountain in the east of Hedong) to the west of Luokou, which is the east Lu of Mangshan (Pishan). In the east of Luokou, the original and the saka are connected, and the yellow horse and the revolving door Zhuban are gradually higher and higher in the east, to the big Ling Mountain, and the steep is more than 40 zhang. ”

"To the east of Daling Mountain, the remaining vein is Guangwu Mountain, which is the place where Guangwu Jun Li Zuoche taught Liu Ying to train soldiers and horses. To the east of Guangwu Mountain, it gradually enters the plains, that is, Xingyang. ”

"This section of the mountain is the remnant of Songshan Mountain that stretches to the north, is the square mountain, is the big Ling, the north and south are continuous, and it reaches the river bank, which is the obstruction of the east-west traffic."

"The ancients opened the big mountain road by the river, so it was the hole of the east-west traffic in the Central Plains, so since the Han Dynasty, it has been 'the mouth of the Gao, the world is not passable', and this is a place where soldiers must fight."

Shi Le listened to it for a long time, and he didn't understand it very well, but he still asked for details carefully, and then corroborated it with his previous experience, and finally understood.

From Luoyang to the east, this is the post road of the Eight Classics.

There may be small roads, but they have not been dug manually, and they are difficult to travel, and the carriage cannot cross.

If you can't cross horse-drawn carts, ox-carts, and donkey carts, you can only use pack beasts, and the transportation capacity will be sharply reduced, and if you encounter a little high-intensity war, the consumption of equipment will not be able to keep up.

My knife was curled and I wanted to get a new one, but it didn't. If you wait for the people of the auxiliary carpenter's battalion to repair it, you don't know how many days it will take.

If you encounter the enemy's large army and hold on to the fence, it will be difficult to break through for a while, and I am afraid that there will not be enough food.

The route of the upright army is basically fixed, and it is impossible to do what you want.

Shile brought 20,000 horsemen, which was very expensive, and it was too risky to take the mountain path. If one is not good, they will kill horses to satisfy their hunger, and the cavalry will turn into infantry and retreat.

As for the infantry, they stayed in the areas of Yecheng, Jijun, and Dunqiu for training.

After Liu Cong succeeded to the throne, he sent a large number of ordnance over to show his favor.

Shile has always had a lot of resentment against the "lame" infantry, and this time he just stayed in the lair to practice well and improve his combat effectiveness.

This infantry army, which is in the tens of thousands of people, has become quite impressive after two years of rectification.

However, if he hadn't seen Shao Thief's Silver Spear Army, Shi Le might be satisfied with the combat effectiveness of his own infantry army, but he had seen it and knew that there was a big gap between the two sides, so he was very dissatisfied, and he focused on training, expecting its combat effectiveness to improve a lot.

In this battle, he simply did not bring infantry, but brought some more pack horses, donkeys and mules to carry logistics materials, and the main thing was to be fast.

Promote strengths and avoid weaknesses, people like Shi Le, who came out of the bottom, know this truth very well.

"Diao Changshi said it well." Shi Le looked at Diao Ying with a smile and said, "Since the Jin people have taken precautions in Chenggao, I am afraid that the military order of King Shi'an (Liu Yao) will not be completed." What should we do for now? ”

"Or you can go back to King Shi'an and ask him to transfer Wang Mi and Zhao Gu's infantry army to the east to open the Tiger Prison Pass." Diao Ying replied.

Shile looked at Guancheng in the distance again.

Guancheng just cut off the mountain post road of the revolving gate, at this time the gate is closed, the gate is closed, the Guancheng is lined with flags, and the figures are longing and shouting.

He could see that the soldiers guarding the pass were not elite, and the military discipline was not very strict, so he might try to fight. But after all, people have a favorable location and a city wall, so it's hard to say whether they can be built.

"General, this matter needs to be urgentized." Zhang Jing, the right chief of the history, said worriedly: "It's really not good, I'll wait to cross the river to the north, and then detour to Liyang to the south to avoid the Tiger Prison Pass." On the side of the king of Hanoi, most of them also encountered obstacles. This battle is a bit strange. ”

Liu Cang, the king of Hanoi, was the son of Liu Cong, the son of heaven. According to the order of Liu Yao, the governor of Dadu and the king of Shi'an, the king of Hanoi will lead more than 10,000 light horsemen out of the Yuyuan Pass, go deep into Yingchuan, Runan, Chenjun, Liang and other places to plunder, turn Shao Xun's hinterland upside down, and destroy his foundation.

Now, it doesn't seem to be going well. There are also defenders on the other side of Yuyuan Pass, and it is difficult to pass without a big battle.

This is what I am afraid of.

The ideal situation is that the Jin Kingdom is disabled, the government and the opposition are in chaos, and no one cares about the eight passes of Luoyang, so they can enter and exit at will.

This will lead to the worst-case scenario.

The Jin Kingdom was organized, and several communication passages were guarded by soldiers, and they had to be captured one by one.

Shile thought of a person, the one who had been in the limelight in recent years.

Without him, the situation would not be like this.

"Well, immediately send an envoy to the big camp and ask the governor of the capital for troops." Shile commanded.

The messenger quickly mounted and departed.

Shi Le looked at Zhang Bin again and asked, "What does Meng Sun think?" ”

Zhang Bin has been looking at the map.

Shi Le waited patiently for a while, and then Zhang Bin said: "This time, the Jin people retreated too neatly, and the peripheral villages were all abandoned, and Luoyang was guarded alone, but it was not easy to fight. For today's plan, or you can only find another way to lure the Jin people out. I can only say - just give it a try. ”

"What if the Jin people are not fooled?"

"If you are not deceived, you will concentrate on gathering grain, grass, and goods for the future."

"What about the future?"

"The foundation of the general lies in Hebei, not Henan."

Shi Le pondered for a long time and said with a smile: "I heard that Wang Jun sent troops to Liaodong again, and he also suffered a defeat, and the losses were not light. But Jizhou Thorn Shi is Shi Chao, what can he do? ”

After Ding Shao's death, Wang Jun led the Jizhou pastor. In order to win him over, the Jin court entrusted the two states of Youyou and Hebei to Jun and looked for Sikong. Zhang Bin said: "Shi Chao's troops are weak and he occupies Jizhou County, Wang Jun will not tolerate him, and a big war will break out sooner or later." Shi Chao - not an opponent. ”

"Hmm......" Shi Le was a little moved.

Wang Jun is a person, he knows something.

Arrogant and look down on others. After taking over the two states, it may already be fluttering.

His ally, Duan Bu Xianbei, did not have a good time. In recent years, a lot of grassland has been robbed, and the power has become weaker and weaker, so that Wang Jun had to send troops to help, but it only slightly curbed the decline of Duan Xianbei, and failed to fundamentally improve his situation.

Moreover, in this matter, Youzhou has also repeatedly lost troops and lost money.

In such a situation, Wang Jun was not only worried, but instead led the Jizhou pastor himself, forcing the Jin court to admit the fait accompli and reissue him with an edict of appointment.

Such a person is indeed not difficult to deal with, as long as he has the know-how.

"With Mengsun, my great cause can be accomplished." Shi Le smiled: "However, for now, I still have to work hard for the imperial court." ”

"The general is wise." Zhang Bin praised.

******

Liu Yao's camp was camped in the west of Luoyang City.

This time the troops were dispatched in the early stage, which can be described as extremely smooth.

The Jin people did not entangle themselves in the periphery at all, and simply retreated to Luoyang, camped outside the gates, and the city was a horn situation, and they made up their minds that they could not defend it.

Liu Yao had more than 70,000 people under his hands, and those who came to Luoyang City were 40,000 foot riders.

Among them, there are 10,000 cavalry, which is its headquarters.

Hanoi Wang Cang will ride 10,000 lightly.

Wang Mi led 10,000 infantry troops.

Anbei general Zhao Gu led an infantry army of 10,000.

40,000 steps to ride, it will definitely not be able to beat Luoyang. According to his plan, 10,000 people were left to monitor outside Luoyang City and contain the main force of the Chinese army in Luoyang.

The rest of the men and horses divided their troops and swept around, and while obtaining supplies, they also dealt a blow to the prestige of the Jin court, weakened its foundations, and prepared for the future capture of Luoyang.

However, the king of Hanoi did not have a smooth journey, and more than 10,000 horsemen rode to the outside of the Yuyuan Pass and found that there were already defenders on the pass.

He dismounted and attacked for a while, losing hundreds of soldiers, and then withdrew.

He went to the outside of the Otani Pass and saw the defenders again. This time, I didn't even attack, and left directly.

Shile had another 20,000 cavalry, and those who originally let him go east to Chenggao and plunder Xingyang, Chenliu, Yingchuan and other places were also blocked outside the Tiger Prison Pass and were not allowed to move forward.

General Zhenxi brought more than 10,000 Qiang foot cavalry on a single expedition, dividing the line of Tun Xin'an and Mianchi, and he was not allowed to enter an inch.

Looking at it this way, the Jin army is very well prepared.

To be honest, Liu Yao didn't know how to fight it.

In the past two days, he has ordered the infantry army to move eastward to besiege Wubao in Yanshi, Wushi and other places, and forcibly recruit Ding Zhuang.

Some gains, but nowhere near as expected.

Looking at Luoyang's towering city walls, wide moats, and these grassland men under his hands who are only good at fighting on horseback, Liu Yao is even more depressed.

I heard that Luoyang imported a lot of grain last year, and it should be able to hold on in the short term.

In the end of this battle, if you can't keep it, you will retreat from your own army, and Liu Yao seems to have been able to foresee the outcome.

It's better to scavenge for more grain and grass!

On October 24, while Shao Xun was still waiting in Deng County, Liu Yao personally arrived at Yanshi.

The county seat has been broken by the "Wang Division".

Zhao Gu incorporated all Ding Zhuang into the army, not even eleven or twelve-year-old children.

Wang Mi was attacking Shiliangwu, and at the moment before Liu Yao arrived, he was able to break through and get more than 1,000 Guanxi refugees.

After fighting these two places, the two of them prepared to move to the Wu clan, and the soldiers pointed directly at the Baiguwu where the Cao clan was based.

Baiguwu is much more than Shiliangwu, there are more than 1,000 families at the beginning, and most of them are the children of the Cao clan, servants and maids, and tribesmen. In the past two years, it has absorbed displaced people from Hebei and Guanxi, and it has become the largest dock fort in the area of Wushi, Yanshi and Gongxian.

Zhao and Wang were a little hesitant and a little greedy, and at the moment Liu Yao arrived, they still didn't make up their minds whether to besiege Baiguwu.

"Go to Yiyang." Liu Yao's order made the faces of the two who came in a hurry change greatly.

Liu Yao didn't bother to care about their expressions, and only said: "Your Majesty wants Yuanyan's head, since he can't capture Chen and Ying, he will go to Yiyang first and get Yuanyan's head." ”

"No." Wang Mi and Zhao Gu were stunned for a moment and responded.

"Metropolitan Governor, Shi Andong asked to send an infantry army to attack the Tiger Pass, how to respond?" Wang Mi asked again.

The smile on Liu Yao's face was a little dangerous, and he asked, "Am I the Metropolitan Governor, or is Shi Le the Metropolitan Governor?" ”

Wang Mi hurriedly lowered his head, and at the same time scolded in his heart: Liu Yao and Shi Le don't have any good things.

"Go to Yiyang first, and then you and Shan Zhenxi will follow the order of the king of Hanoi and attack Yuanyan together." Liu Yao said: "As for the Tiger Prison Pass, I will order Wang Sang and Shi Chao to lead the troops south, from east to west, and pull them on their backs. ”

"Yes." Wang Mi and Zhao Gu responded in unison.

Actually, going to Yiyang is not a bad thing.

I heard that it was the territory of the Shao thieves, which was relatively densely populated, and it might be possible to plunder it to strengthen the army.

Anyway, the battle is all done like this, so why not give it a try?

The two of them didn't talk nonsense, they went to gather their troops immediately, slowly retreated, and went in the direction of Yiyang.

Liu Yao personally led the cavalry to patrol in the field, waiting for an opportunity to intercept and kill the messenger, and by the way, to see if any Jin troops were faint and went out of the city to fight.

If the situation is like this, he has made the best choice.