If the rear army under Chen XuanZhen''s command included the people''s courage and craftsmen recruited, there were 300000 or 400000 people, and there were also a considerable number of soldiers and elite cavalry, but most of them were soldiers. At this time, they either escorted one vehicle and horse team back to Yanjing in batches, or were escorting the vehicle and horse team escorting grain soldiers from Yanjing and on the way to Heyang, As a result, Chen XuanZhen could only organize more than 2000 cavalry in Guoling at this time, staring behind Huang Shuangsuo, unable to launch an attack for a short time.
As for the more than 20000 soldiers left by the rear army in Guoling, they were sent by Chen XuanZhen to put out the fire in the granary of Houshan.
Although hundreds of granaries in the back mountain have been completely lit. At this time, the fire column soars to the sky, and the thick smoke directly clouds the night. People standing outside the valley can feel the scorching heat rush, and even cause large-scale mountain fires, which tends to spread to the front mountain, the food and grass of millions of soldiers and horses of the Xiyuan army and zhuluqin Wang army are concentrated in the back mountain, even after the fire is extinguished, If you can grab 12 / 10 of the grain, the army can support it for a few more days, so as not to run out of grain immediately.
Chen XuanZhen was also suffering at this time. On the one hand, he wanted to organize people to put out the fire as soon as possible, hoping to grab more food. On the other hand, he couldn''t let Huang shuangbu''s thief army escape to heaven. In that case, how could he face to see his Highness the king of England?
Tu Chongjin gathered more than 200 sentinels and more than a dozen war birds and rushed to meet Chen XuanZhen. His face was more ugly than crying.
Tu Chongjin was the chief sentry officer of the Xiyuan army. Although he had less than 3000 troops, his 3000 generals were elite princes with at least the foundation of cultivation in the later period of tongxuan territory.
In addition to more than a hundred powerful spirit birds, the elite of Tu Chongjin''s Department denounced Hou''s fighting cavalry. The worst is also a green cunning good cavalry. Its main responsibility is to organize a strict reconnaissance network to keep an eye on every plant and tree outside Ganquan mountain, so as not to let a mouse miss it.
Who can imagine such a big leak?
After Huang Shuang led 3000 troops and horses to sneak attack by the thief, the army camp burned the granary. As the rear army leader, Chen XuanZhen naturally had to shoulder the responsibility of lax camp guarding, but he had to count carefully. Speaking, Tu Chongjin was the most responsible.
In his early years, Tu Chongjin guarded Qin Tongguan. To his carelessness, he fell into the conspiracy of Gong Liang, the Heavenly Master of the red eyebrow sect. He was coerced by the disciples of the red eyebrow sect to take Qin Tongguan away. Only two or three thousand of his tens of thousands of soldiers escaped. After the Millennium Xiongguan was destroyed, it was not completely repaired at this time.
It is said that Tu Chongjin should have been pushed out to the owl head to ask for guilt. Later, with the help of Chen Hai, he gathered the remaining soldiers and fought with the army in qintongshan, expelled the refugee army and made meritorious service. Only then could he finally atone for his meritorious service and resume the general position of duwu general. Who would have thought that he would poke such a basket again at this time?
Seeing the seventh uncle''s look of being deeply hit, Tu Ziji was also extremely worried. He didn''t know whether to tell the truth to seventh uncle. But he dragged him to expose Chen Hai''s identity until this time. It seems to have no special significance, but he didn''t say it. If his Highness the king was angry and directly pushed out the seventh uncle who had delayed the event to behead him in public, who can stand up and plead for mercy?
"Your Highness, what''s the reaction?" Tu Ziji drove his horse and leaned over to Tu Chongjin, pressing his voice.
"Your Highness, how can you react? My head is just temporarily attached to my neck. Your highness sent a message. If the thieves who attacked the camp escape, don''t say my head. I''m afraid your aunts and brothers and sisters'' heads will be killed and even can''t be protected." Tu Chongjin said with a sad face.
"..." Tu Ziji saw that although the seventh uncle gathered a small number of troops and horses to join them at this time, he was determined to wipe out the soldiers and horses of Huang Shuang''s attack camp so that he could escape the punishment of death from his Highness the king, but he thought in his heart, what would he think if the seventh uncle knew that the thief army attacking the camp was actually led by Chen Hai?
"Seventh uncle, have you ever thought that we may not be able to wipe out the thief army in front of us in the end?" Tu Ziji asked tentatively.
"Hum, if we hadn''t been careless, we would never have made such a big basket; and your highness would have worked hard to attack the West foot camp of the thief army at this time, so as to avoid being attacked by the enemy, but he said that if the thief army had appeared and could escape to heaven in the end, it would really make the world laugh!" Tu Chongjin said disdainfully.
Although Tu Chongjin and Chen XuanZhen''s soldiers were in one place, and there were only more than 2000 cavalry, they were unable to directly eat the thief army, which had been more than ten miles away. At this time, in addition to informing zhuluqin''s King''s army to dispatch more elite cavalry to meet, Dong Shou, Duke of Qin Mu, also led more than 20000 Hexi iron cavalry to the south of shishiling to intercept the troops of the thief General Huang Shuang.
Even if the thief led Huang Shuang to join the more than 20000 cavalry of Le Yi''s Department, Tu Chongjin was not afraid that they could escape.
The Xiyuan army didn''t want to be completely passive. His Highness the king must lead the main force to attack the black Yan army''s camp at the West foot of Ganquan mountain. That''s exactly the case. Tu Chongjin couldn''t withdraw all his elite detractors, but when the threat to the West was lifted, not only did the Xiyuan army have more than 100000 war horses to call, but they acted quickly and quickly The battle bird camp with strong combat power can also get away.
At that time, his Highness the king of England only needs to dispatch two or three hundred elite war birds from the war bird camp to take part in the war with Tianji and crossbow. It will be easy to wipe out twenty or thirty thousand enemy horses in the wasteland where Heyang and Jiyang counties intersect.
The few remaining battle birds of the black Yan army, like the Tianji crossbow, gathered together and retreated to Songdu mountain first, so as to ensure that the black Yan army can still have a strong combat effectiveness in Yanmen County in the future.
The Beilu camp, destined to be sacrificed, has 145000 troops and horses. There are only seven or eight very poor spirit birds in their hands, and they are all the mounts around the generals. When the seven or eight spirit birds came out of xiaolianshui City, Huang Shuang was transferred to Leyi. This is convenient for Leyi to quickly gather the scattered cavalry in the south of shishiling at dawn.
At this time, mother-in-law crane was wounded and her wings were shot through dozens of holes by quenched gold arrows, but she also insisted on turning into a golden feather crane. Against the sharp wind, she flew into the sky to spy on the enemy within two or three hundred miles.
Although only two or three thousand cavalry led by Chen XuanZhen and Tu Chongjin were staring at it more than ten miles away, it was not a threat, but on the outside, Dong Shou himself had more than 25000 Hexi iron cavalry coming from the southeast of shishiling, only a hundred miles away from the snow, of which Du Junfeng led five thousand elite forward faster.
Du Junfeng seems to have calculated that they will meet with Le Yi''s headquarters at the fastest speed. With the speed and direction of Du Junfeng''s headquarters, when they meet with Le Yi''s headquarters in a pine forest 40 or 50 miles away, Du Junfeng will lead his troops to appear just outside the pine forest and stick them. At that time, they can no longer speed up recklessly and distance themselves from the pursuers.
The main force of the Xiyuan army did not stop attacking the Xilu camp. It can be seen that after the attack on the Guoling camp, Ying Wang Yingshu can keep a clear head even if he is angry. He knows that it is urgent to eliminate the threat of the black Yan army at the West foot of Ganquan ridge first, and then he can regain the initiative of the Bureau.
However, to the west of Ganquan mountain, in addition to the Xiyuan army, there are 11 Qin Wang armies such as Hexi.
In addition to the two routes of troops and horses staring at xiaolianshui City, the main city of the north foot camp of the black Yan army, and the three routes of troops and horses staring at the south foot camp of the black Yan army, as well as the Hexi Qinwang army, which has retreated to the inner line and pursued, there are five routes of Qinwang army, a total of 120000 troops and horses, which are deployed behind the main force of the Xiyuan army as the reserve troops of the second echelon.
At this time, Yingshu, the king of England, had already sent out 20000 elite cavalry from the second echelon of the reserve troops and horses to go out of the camp and encircle them.
Two hundred miles of snow March is only half a day''s journey for the most elite cavalry in the counties.
After experiencing the excitement of successfully burning the enemy camp, when the generals carefully examined the cruel reality, they had to admit that the possibility of their breaking out was zero.
Although the 30000 cavalry led by Le Yi almost gathered up after running away at night, and even seven or eight thousand anti stronghold soldiers and horses gathered to the west of shishuoling, they were avoiding the main force of Hexi King Qin army led by Dong Shou and wanted to meet them, but these 30000 or 40000 cavalry were not elite. Even if they were fighting against Hexi iron cavalry, they could not win, Not to mention being able to escape, it will be as hard as an iron wall.
It is impossible to reverse such a big gap in combat power between the two sides by taking two township level Tianji chariots.
However, the generals are not angry or depressed. They have the will to die when they leave the camp at night. Although they have no hope of breaking through the siege and escaping, their internal movement between Shishuling, Guoling and Ganquan mountain can actually contain the soldiers and horses on the west line of Dayan to the greatest extent. In this way, the soldiers and horses in xiaolianshui city may break through the siege and withdraw to Songdu mountain.
At this time, an eagle sound came from the Far West, and there were more than ten black shadows rapidly emerging between the distant clouds, headed by a gray feather giant eagle.
Huang Shuang and others will rein in the horse and hesitate to look at more than ten spirit birds flying from the West. They don''t know whether they are friends or enemies; Dozens of spirit birds also stopped dozens of miles away and dared not approach rashly.
Chen hai''ang heard a roar from the sky and sent a message to Qi Hanjiang and Han Wen. When they came to meet him by spirit bird, he flew up in the air and arched hands at Huang Shuang and others in mid air: "senior brother Huang Shuang, after you lead your department to meet senior brother Leyi, choose the place to defend first. I''ll see if I can break through by a road..."
"By the way?" Huang Shuang looked at Chen Hai suspiciously. He really didn''t think that under the current situation, who would give way to them? Even if Chen Hai can persuade the king''s army to let them go, will they all let them go in the Western Front battlefield, except for the 300000 elite combat strength of the West Garden army, there are 11 King''s army?
Of course, even if Chen Hai walked away at this time, Huang Shuang would not have the slightest resentment.