Chapter 1095: The War Is About to Begin

As Huyanda had expected, in less than half an hour, there was a rush of horse hoofbeats in the city. Soon after, a voice came from the top of the city. It was the voice of Wang Men, the prefect of Lulong County: "There are people outside the city. General Huyanda?”

"Back to the Grand Administrator, I am the foreign general. Huyanda has an urgent matter that needs to be reported to the general. Please allow me to report it to the general in person!" Huyanda raised a torch to illuminate his face so that the people at the top of the city could see it. See more clearly.

"Okay, I will ask people to open the city gate right away. General, we will go into the city first." Wangmen also knew that Huyanda must have something extremely urgent to tell him. He had been fighting with these people under Huangfu Chaobo for many years. He was familiar with the situation, so he didn't think much about it, and immediately ordered the city gate to be opened a crack, allowing Hu Yandu and several of his guards to enter the city. He also rushed to the city gate cave to respond.

After a while, Hu Yanda entered the city gate and found that Wang Men came to greet him in person. He was also surprised and quickly bowed and saluted: "General, I have seen the prefect!"

Wang Men helped him up and said: "You don't have to be polite. We have known each other for many years. I also know that if there was no extremely urgent matter, you would not rush to the city overnight to see me. Tell me." , have you discovered the enemy?"

Hu Yanda looked at the soldiers around him. Wang Men understood and said quickly: "Let's go back to the prefect's mansion."

"Sir, I will not enter the prefect's mansion. I will leave the city later. I will leave after reporting the situation to the general."

"Okay, let's enter the tower!"

The two of them quickly headed towards the city tower. After entering the city tower, Wangmen drove the rest of the people out, leaving only him and Hu Yanda, and then he hurriedly asked: "Say it!"

When Huyanda saw this, he didn't say much, and directly told the Wangmen all the places where they found the Xianbei Rangers along the way, and then said: "In order to let the general know, we have received the order from the lord, let I will return to Longhua immediately, so after resting at the camp outside the city for a day, I will leave Chifeng and go south to Longhua early tomorrow morning."

Although the Wangmen were already prepared, they were still surprised by the speed of the Xianbei people. As for the retreat of the Huyanda tribe, it was as expected. As soon as Huyanda left, Chifeng had to prepare to close the city gates to face the enemy. Fortunately, in the past few days, Wangmen had people desperately collecting various supplies from outside the city into the city, and the old and weak in the city were also Arrangements were made a few days ago to move to Liaoxi County, south of Lulong City.

By the time the Xianbei army arrived, those people should have already arrived at Dianzi City. As long as they passed through Dianzi City, they would basically be safe. Now in Chifeng City, Wangmen has recruited another five thousand infantry. According to Gongsun Zan's order, another five thousand troops will be transferred to Chifeng from western Liaoning. Judging from the situation, this group of soldiers should not be able to arrive in Chifeng in time. Wangmen thought After thinking about it, he decided to immediately declare his innocence and arrange the five thousand soldiers in Pingquan City.

Pingquan City is connected to Xiabancheng of Yanbei County to the west and Kuancheng of Lulong County to the south. Guarding this place is equivalent to guarding the access between Chifeng and the south. If Pingquan is lost, Chifeng will really become an isolated city. You know, By then, Longhua City in Yanbei County will definitely be the focus of the Xianbei people's attack, so it is absolutely impossible to send troops from Longhua to support Chifeng. As a result, Pingquan will become the only channel for Chifeng reinforcements.

Wangmen woke up quickly and looked at Huyanda and said: "Thank you, General Huyan, for informing me. This will give me nearly two days of preparation time. Since the general is preparing to withdraw south, I will not leave the general behind. Please !”

"General, take care, foreign general, please retire!" Huyanda bowed his hands and left the tower without looking back, heading out of the city and back to the camp.

Early the next morning, Huyanda led nearly a thousand knights and nearly three thousand horses of various types to leave the camp outside Chifeng City and headed south. They did not go directly to Longhua in the southwest, because they did not know whether the two new territories of Yisun and Siyonghe had been occupied by the Xianbei people, so Huyanda chose to go directly south, from Go south within the territory of Lulong County,

Then turn to the west in Pingquan City and enter Xiabancheng.

Although it is hundreds of miles away to walk this way, it is safer. You must know that in addition to more than five hundred cavalry, there are also three to four hundred people who train horses, catch horses, and raise horses. They are craftsmen. Those who have no defense capability will have no choice but to flee if they encounter the Xianbei cavalry, and Jie Shi will definitely suffer heavy losses. Moreover, among the thousands of horses they have, there are nearly a thousand horses that are still untamed wild horses, and there is also a black horse, which cannot tolerate the carelessness of everyone in Huyandu.

When Huyanda and his party left the camp, the Wangmen also began to arrange the defense of the city. They had made a lot of preparations these days, but seeing that a battle was imminent, there was no room for him to be careless. After receiving the news from Huyanda last night, he began to make arrangements overnight. First, he quickly reported his defensive arrangements to Gongsun Zan, which was to strengthen the defense of Pingquan City and recruit another five thousand infantry in Chifeng City.

At the same time, 3,000 of the 5,000 cavalry were sent to the northeast, northwest and north of Chifeng City, especially the directions where Huyandu discovered the rangers yesterday. He must always keep track of the movements of the Xianbei army. . In addition to these, he immediately sent 5,000 infantry and 10,000 civilians out of the city to demolish all the camps where Huyanda and the others lived, and transported all the supplies back to the city.

Like all of Huangfu Chaobo's allies in Bingzhou, Wang Men felt sorry for the grain fields within a dozen miles around Chifeng. These were the fields that he had sent people to cultivate in the city in recent years. Although they were not as good as the fertile fields in Youbeiping and Liaoxi, they would definitely be good fields after a few more years of cultivation. Unfortunately, now that the Xianbei people have come, I don't know what these fields will be trampled into.

What Wang Men was most reluctant to part with was the grain planted in these fields. It was only ten days before they could be harvested. Originally, Wang Men thought that if the Xianbei people came a few days later, he could rush to collect the grain into the city, but he didn't expect the Xianbei people to come so quickly. As a last resort, Wang Men had to order the entire city to rush out and collect all the grain that was not fully ripe into the city. As for those that were not collected in time, they could only burn them all with a fire.

As time went by, two days later, the vanguard of the Xianbei army had arrived 20 miles northwest of Chifeng City. At this time, Wang Men had already withdrawn the soldiers and civilians outside the city back to the city, and he really burned all the unharvested grain in the city.

This day was September 5, 197 AD, the second year of Jian'an in the Han Dynasty, and the war was about to begin!