Chapter 1111: Dousuli's Retreat After Sending Troops to the Grassland

Just when Zhou Qiang's army arrived in Liucheng and began to prepare to attack Wuhuan King's City, Huangfu Chaobo and Guo Jia in Longhua City also began to prepare for the follow-up war arrangements. After more than ten days of continuous transfer, reinforcements of 10,000 infantry have entered Longhua City. And more than half of the white horse Yi Cong and more than 10,000 guards led by Zhao Yun have entered the war horse training base in Longhua. In the next few days, as long as all the cavalry are in place, Zhao Yun will lead all the cavalry along the way. Going up Hebei, leave the grassland from the north of Hutougou Pass and go around behind the Suli army.

The scouts heading north have confirmed the location of the barracks of Suli's army. Indeed, as Guo Jia expected, tens of thousands of herdsmen from their back camp are distributed in Yisun Town and Siyonghe Town under the protection of less than 5,000 soldiers and horses. In the valley that is tens of miles long, hundreds of thousands of cattle are scattered all over the mountains and plains.

Perhaps they thought that the Han army had been surrounded by their army in the city, so neither the Xianbei cavalry nor the herdsmen had any intention of taking precautions, allowing the Tang army scouts to quickly find out what was happening in the rear camp. General situation.

For Huang Xu, after Longhua added 10,000 Qingzhou reinforcements, it became easier to defend the Xianbei people. It was thought that both Huang Xu and Tian Yu, who were just starting out, could defend the attack of tens of thousands of Xianbei troops. Now Huang Xu Xu is already a battle-hardened general, let alone a battle-hardened general. Of course, there were reasons why they were able to hold on easily at that time. Firstly, the Xianbei people underestimated the enemy, and secondly, they were also at odds internally. But now that Su Li is personally leading the troops, those situations no longer exist.

During this period of time, although Suli was trying his best to arrange the Xianbei army to attack Tangtou Gou Pass, he still failed to attack the city. Compared with the battle in Tangtougou Town, the Xianbei people once again saw the strength of the Han people's city and the advantages of their armor. It took the Xianbei people two days to fill in the trenches in front, and thousands of people were killed or injured before they were able to fill in the trench that was more than ten feet wide and several feet deep in front of Tangtou Pass.

They thought that the next battle would be easier, but they found that the siege equipment built by their army every day could not survive noon and was destroyed by the Han people's equipment. In the afternoon battle, we relied on simple siege ladders to attack the three-foot-high wall. starter

The battle at Tangtougou Pass continued like this for more than half a month.

A few days ago, Suli received a battle report from Lulong. He learned that Mijia and Queji had already invaded Chifeng City, but they were caught off guard in the inner city. In the end, they were surrounded by a large army, and then by a partial division. Defeat the remaining cities in Lulong County. Several generals proposed to go south to attack other cities, but Suli refused. In fact, as early as when he besieged Tangtougou Town, Suli had already sent people to continue southward to explore the situation south of Longhua. He had long discovered that there was another city in the south, but that city was larger and the city wall was higher. Su Li knew that it was not an easy city to attack, so he never thought about dividing his troops and going south.

In fact, Su Li's idea was right. Instead of dividing his troops and going south, it would be better to concentrate his forces to attack one place. However, he chose the wrong place from the beginning, choosing Longhua, which was the most difficult to capture. If he had left 10,000 cavalry at Tangtougou Pass after capturing Tangtougou Town, keeping an eye on Longhua's forces, and then concentrated his forces south to attack Chengde, it might have been possible to capture Chengde. It's just that it has been nearly two months since the war started. At this time, the Tang Army's reinforcements have arrived in Yanbei, so going south at this time is even more courting death.

Now the bow has to be fired on the string. Although Su Li did not notice the arrival of reinforcements from the Tang Army, he knew that there must be reinforcements from the Tang Army, so the Xianbei cavalry kept searching within a hundred miles south of Longhua every day. He hoped to find reinforcements from the Tang Army, but to his disappointment,

The scouts were never able to find any trace of reinforcements.

The battle at Tangtougou Pass continued, and Zhao Yun led nearly 30,000 cavalrymen, all the way north along the Imatu River, out of Hutougou Pass, and continued walking north for more than a hundred miles, arriving on the grassland, and then turned to the Tens of miles to the east, go south from the road where the Yisun River is located, and go around to the north of Yisun Town to take the back road of Suli.

Outside Hutou Gou Pass, 30,000 Tang troops were marching in the winding valley. They were still able to march along the way, but when they were approaching the grassland, there was a section of the valley that was more than ten miles long that was more difficult to navigate. It was precisely because This difficult valley prevented the Xianbei people from discovering the Imatuliu Valley and Hutougou Pass.

Starting from Longhua, the distance to the grassland via Hutougou Pass was actually less than two hundred miles, but it took 30,000 troops five days to reach the grassland. Afterwards, Zhao Yun ordered the army to rest on the grassland for a day, and at the same time sent a large number of scouts to investigate the situation of the surrounding Xianbei army.

Just as the scouts discovered some time ago, the situation was normal. There were not many Xianbei people on the grassland at this time. There were only a few small tribes following the army, hoping to gain some advantages. As a result, they did not find a bargain, but were encountered by Zhao Yun's army. They were killed directly and their cattle and sheep were used to supplement the food of the 30,000 army.

One day later, the army had finished resting, and the scouts had also returned to inquire about the news. There was nothing unusual about Suli's rear camp army, and they did not realize that they had been targeted at all.

After eating in the morning, the army started to head east. From here to the east fifty miles is the Yanbei Road connecting the grassland and Youzhou. This is when Huangfu Chaobo and Guo Jia and others discussed matters. They named the valley road from the grassland to the south along the Yison River as Yanbei Road, and the road from Chifeng all the way south to the Lulong Fortress is called Lulong Road. New 81 Chinese website updates the fastest mobile terminal: https:/

Going south along the Yanbei Road, they passed Yison Town and Siyonghe Town, and then arrived in Longhua, and then went south to Chengde, and then turned east and west to Xiabancheng. The Lulong Road starts from Chifeng, all the way to Louzidian Town, Dianzi City, Xiaosigou Town to Pingquan City. After the two roads meet in Pingquan, they continue to the south to Kuancheng, and then to Lulong Fortress. These two roads are the main roads for foreigners to go south and the Central Plains Han army to go north over the years.

In fact, there is another way, which is to turn southwest from Chengde into Youbeiping, arrive at Junmi, and then enter Youbeiping from the Great Wall here. This road is the road that Huangfu Chaobo took more often at the beginning, but this road is relatively more difficult to walk, so in most cases, people prefer to go to Lulong to enter and exit the grassland instead of Junmi.

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