The troops and horses of the black Yan army stationed in the defense line of Ganquan mountain are mainly divided into four camps: the south foot, the West foot, the north foot and Zhongfeng. Among them, the West foot camp, which confronts the main force of the West Garden army, is the largest, with a total of 400000 troops and horses. Gong Liang, mother-in-law crane and others usually sit in the West foot camp.
In addition to the Zhongfeng camp, which gathers 100000 elite troops, although the two battalions at the south foot and the north foot have 150000 troops and horses respectively, the main purpose is to ensure that the Ganquan mountain defense line can open enough strategic detour space on both wings and monitor the Lu Qin Wang troops encircled from both wings. Neither the scale of troops and horses nor the sharpness of soldiers can be compared with the West foot camp.
The main business of Beilu camp is located in xiaolianshui city at the north foot of Ganquan mountain.
Lianshui River originates from the Tianzhu Mountains where Jiyang County intersects with Heyang County and Yanmen county. It gathers large and small tributaries, bypasses the west side of Ganquan, flows southward, and finally flows into a 3000 mile long tributary of Chu River. It is also the geographical division between Heyang County and Jiyang County.
At the north foot of Ganquan mountain and Huapu mountain in the north, several streams and rivers also flow out, and finally converge into a large river with a width of 70-80 feet at the northwest foot of Ganquan mountain. After leaving the north foot of Ganquan mountain in the west, it flows more than 200 miles to the Northwest and finally flows into Lianshui River.
This river is also called xiaolianshui.
Xiaolianshui city is built between the gap between the north foot of Ganquan mountain and Huapu ridge. In addition to xiaolianshui city as the main camp, the north foot camp extends to the northwest along the Northeast Bank of xiaolianshui river. Using the old villages and fortresses, it has built more than ten defense villages to prevent Xiyuan army and zhuluqin Wang army from crossing xiaolianshui River and entering Huapu ridge.
Huang Shuang attached great importance to le Yi and left him in xiaolianshui city to help him preside over the battle of Beilu camp; He still had doubts about Chen Hai''s identity, and thought that Ning chaner''s temper was too strange. As a teacher brother, he couldn''t control it. When he returned to xiaolianshui City, he simply kicked Chen Hai and Ning chaner to Qiushi stronghold, the northernmost wing of xiaolianshui defense line, as guards.
In this general situation, Chen Hai also knew that he could not help much, so he and Ning chaner took a horse north with more than a dozen drug slaves to take over the defense at Qiushi village more than 100 miles northwest of xiaolianshui city.
Qiushizhai is stuck between two two or three hundred meter high stone ridges. In the southwest, it is facing the xiaolianshui River, which is more than a hundred feet wide and has been frozen in the cold winter season. Behind it is the Huapu ridge, which is two or three hundred miles long and the highest peak is only a thousand feet. To the north, it is the Tianzhu Mountain range at the intersection of Yanmen, Jiyang and Heyang.
"Le Yi is really a fool. Why did he take the initiative to ask to go to the Beilu camp to help defend, so that we were kicked to the Qiushi stronghold..." Ning chaner asked more than ten drug slaves to guard at the foot of the mountain. She accompanied Chen hai to the stone ridge on the north side of Qiushi stronghold, looked at the mountains around, and said grumbling.
Chen Hai looked at everything in front of him calmly.
Once the main force of the black Yan army in Ganquan mountain decides to retreat to the boundary of Yanmen County, the xiaolianshui defense line at the north foot of Ganquan mountain will bear the heavy burden of delaying, intercepting the main force of the Xiyuan army and Zhulu Qinwang army, and covering the main force of the black Yan Army to withdraw to the north.
It is not hard to imagine how tragic the fighting and casualties on this line will be when 150000 weak divisions are used to resist the division of millions of tigers and wolves composed of the Xiyuan army and the 11th route King Qin army to cover the retreat of the main force of Ganquan mountain.
At that time, the generals of Beilu camp, no matter how high their accomplishments, may fall at any time.
Yue Yi took the initiative to ask to go to the Beilu camp to help defend, which is why he paid attention to this. He has the consciousness of sacrificing for the black Yan army and the red eyebrow cult at any time.
Although Ning chaner also hopes that the black Yan army can preserve its strength, it is far from the extent to which she herself stepped forward and sacrificed her strength for the black Yan army.
On the opposite side of Qiushi stronghold, separated by Lianshui, the 40000 elite King soldiers stationed on an unknown mountain in Hexi.
Ning chaner suspected that once the final decisive battle broke out, only Hexi Qinwang army could tear the weak xiaolianshui defense line into holes, not to mention the existence of three other elite Qinwang armies in the front of xiaolianshui defense line.
Ning chaner and Chen Hai climb to the top of the mountain to see the situation. They want to confirm with Chen Hai where their retreat route is once a large number of Qin Wang soldiers and horses rush up.
Not only will she not live or die with Qiushi stronghold, but she will not even take care of the four thousand generals and twenty or thirty thousand refugees who fled the war in Qiushi stronghold.
Chen Hai didn''t want to live or die with Qiushi stronghold. Seeing that there was a Jiashi communication to the depths of Huapu mountain from Qiushi stronghold to the north, he thought that after the war could not be resisted, 4000 guards and more refugees could escape from Jiashi ditch to the depths of Huapu mountain, and most people should still be able to save their lives; The key question now is how to persuade Le Yi, who is determined to die, to give up xiaolianshui city and run away with him and Ning chaner.
After the death of the great heavenly master Gong Qing, no one in the red eyebrow sect could stand up and carry the banner that made heiyanjun and yunmengze generals surrender. There were many internal problems and faced with such difficulties. It is not difficult for Chen hai to see the final outcome of the disintegration of the red eyebrow sect in the near future.
At this time, Chen Hai wanted to save Le Yi. In addition to his previous friendship and Le Yi''s understanding of the true meaning of Tao, the main reason is that in the past few years of the rise of the black Yan army, the light on Le Yi is more dazzling than any other general of the black Yan army.
If Chen Hai wants to incorporate the remnants of the black Yan army and the red eyebrow sect as much as possible, Le Yi is more important than Huang Shuang, Gong Liang, Yan Yuan and others.
Chen Hai took over the defense of Qiushi stronghold and could not do too much. He just took a team of soldiers every day to chisel away the thick ice on Xiaolian water and expose the turbulent and cold river water.
The river with a width of 100 feet in xiaolianshui is sometimes more reassuring than the wall of Qiushi stronghold.
Otherwise, let Qin Mu Hou Dong Shou lead 10000 elite riders to raid Qiushi stronghold. Chen Hai is also powerless and can only be caught.
Mother crane returned to Ganquan mountain on the fifth day. Chen Hai and Ning chaner were not called to Zhongfeng for discussion.
On the sixth day after mother-in-law he came back, they went to xiaolianshui city and heard the detailed plan of Heiyan army''s withdrawal to the north from Le Yi''s mouth.
Songpan ridge is located in the southeast of Heyang County, more than 1000 miles ahead of Ganquan ridge. It is planned that the garrison of Songpan ridge will withdraw first, break away from Huben army, retreat to the south of Yanmen County, Songdu mountain at the junction with Heyang County, build a second line of defense, and then the garrison on Ganquan mountain will withdraw again.
Even if the great heavenly master Gong Qing does not die, shrinking the defense line is also the most likely choice for the black Yan army. At this time, using the suspicion between the Huben army and the Xiyuan army, the two main forces of the black Yan army can still withdraw to Yanmen county north of Songdu mountain.
The retreat plan on the side of Ganquan mountain is the same as what Chen Hai and Ning chaner initially expected. The xiaolianshui defense line bears the heavy responsibility of delaying and detaining the main force of the Xiyuan army. Even if there is a risk of completely falling into siege, any sacrifice is worth it as long as it can ensure that the main forces of the West foot camp and Zhongfeng camp withdraw to the north of Songdu mountain.
In order to ensure that this intention can be fully realized, the Nanlu camp will also be a victim and remain motionless at the initial stage, so as to ensure that the main force of the Xiyuan army has no way to bypass the south foot of Ganquan mountain and pursue the main force of the black Yan army.
Although Beilu camp undertakes the most difficult task of blocking, Zhongfeng has no intention to strengthen Beilu camp. On the one hand, it does not want to arouse the vigilance of Xiyuan army. On the other hand, Beilu camp has been regarded as a victim. Precious war equipment and a large number of stored quenched gold arrows have to withdraw to Yanmen county with the main force.
When Le Yi informed Chen Hai and Ning chaner of the evacuation plan, the soldiers and horses of the Xilu camp had transferred to the hinterland on the back of Ganquan mountain through the Valley Road between Zhongfeng in the form of rotation training.
At this time, even the Xiyuan army and Zhulu Qinwang army were vaguely aware of the withdrawal intention of the black Yan army, but they did not make any special action. After all, their initial strategic intention was only to continuously compress the living space of the black Yan army, and they did not expect to completely annihilate the nearly 2 million main force of the black Yan army in Heyang County in one or two campaigns.
In that case, it would be extremely risky for the Huben army and the Xiyuan army, and neither army could afford such a big risk.
In the last few days of emperor Yitian''s seventy-eight year, although the exploratory contact between the armies became more frequent, the northern withdrawal of the black Yan army was going on in a slow way.
The first batch of 50000 elite soldiers who withdrew from Songpan mountain withdrew to Songdu mountain as soon as possible. Neither Huben army, Xiyuan army nor zhuluqin Wang army dared to easily enter between Songpan mountain and Ganquan mountain and enter the inner line of Heyang County controlled by the black Yan army. They mostly stared at the soldiers behind the halls of the black Yan army in both places and prepared to eat them, It can also be regarded as a fat year at the end of 78 or the beginning of 79.
In front of the xiaolianshui defense line, the troops and horses of Qin Wang army gathered more and more densely.
They also had the same idea. The price of encircling and annihilating the main force of the black Yan army was too high, but it was obviously hundreds of thousands of black Yan army troops behind the hall. Don''t want to escape the birth of heaven.
If they could break through the xiaolianshui defense line in advance, they might be able to bite another piece of meat from the main body of the black Yan army retreating north.
If yu zonghu, the chief General of the left army of songpanling of the black Yan army, had not suddenly rebelled on the way to retreat, it would not be a big problem for the main force of the black Yan army to retreat north to Yanmen County for rest. Even Ning chaner packed up and prepared to take the drug slaves out of Qiushi stronghold first. At that time, even if the news of the death of the great heavenly master Gong Qing leaked out, millions of tigers and wolves of the black Yan army would shrink between the dangerous mountains and waters of Yanmen county, Can also breathe for years.
Yu zonghu is not a disciple of the red eyebrow sect. He is the son of Yu in Yanmen county. In his early years of practice in xulingjian sect, he passed the election of the Academy with the title of No. 1 in the northern region, and then joined the Huben army. In the most critical years of fighting for imperial power, he was already in the middle of the cultivation of daodan territory. He also promoted to general duwu Wei and led 50000 Huben army to Yanmen county to eliminate civil unrest.
After the battle of huangmoyuan, the black Yan army, led by Gong Liang and Le Yi, rolled all the way East, blocked Yu zonghu''s retreat to the south, and besieged Yu zonghu''s 50000 elite Huben army and 200000 local military equipment in Yanmen County in Yandu city.
Finally, Yu zonghu led the Ministry and local armed forces, Xuling sword sect and Yu''s disciples in Yanmen county to surrender to the black Yan army, and Yu zonghu''s relatives and nephews in Yanjing and all relatives and nephews of the surrender ministry were killed. A total of more than 3200 people were killed outside the Wuyang gate of Yanjing city.
Because Yu zonghu and his direct department had a blood feud with Ying, they were not excluded after surrendering to the black Yan army. The Fengshen general continued to command the elite of the Huben army and the 200000 local military equipment surrendered by Yanmen county. He was one of the most important god generals of the black Yan army. He also fought bravely in Lichuan and Heyang in recent years.
Who would have thought he would suddenly rebel again on his way north?