Chapter 1390 Eastern Xianbei
Remember [New] in one second! Seeing that the soldiers on the top of the city finally got excited, Wang Men and a group of generals finally breathed a sigh of relief. Ordinary soldiers were not clear about the current situation of the Tang Kingdom in Youzhou, but the generals knew that Wang Men was able to defend Chifeng City at the beginning, relying on the more than 10,000 elite soldiers under his command. Although there are also 7,000 or 8,000 soldiers and horses in Chifeng City now, there are only more than 2,000 real elites. The remaining more than 2,000 were recruited last year, and another 2,000 were newly recruited.
There is a world of difference between this more than 10,000 and the more than 10,000 a few years ago, but Wang Men has no choice. If he doesn't find a way to raise the morale of the soldiers, Chifeng City is estimated to be unable to defend for even a day. By then, tens of thousands of people in the city will become slaves of the Xianbei people. They may even be killed by the Xianbei people.
As for the reinforcements he mentioned, Wang Men actually knew it in his heart. Not to mention ten days and half a month, it is estimated that whether there will be 3,000 to 5,000 people appearing under the city of Chifeng after a month is still unknown. The various counties of Youzhou in Tang State are now at their most depleted in terms of military strength. Moreover, the Wei army is still eyeing Youbeiping to the west. Once they find any opportunity, they will definitely attack Youbeiping.
However, Wang Men himself has no idea how long Chifeng can be defended, but he is unwilling to give up without saying a word.
On the one hand, he has worked hard for several years to make Chifeng City what it is now, but he is unwilling to give up so easily.
Another point is that he has just surrendered to the King of Tang, and he has abandoned the city and fled in the face of the invasion of the Xianbei army. Isn't Wang Men playing with his own life?
What's more, there is another point. When he received the news of the Xianbei army's attack, the Xianbei army had already reached dozens of miles north of Chifeng. It was really dangerous to escape at this time, so Wang Men quickly made a decision. While sending people to warn the south, he led the soldiers to defend the city to the death, hoping that a miracle would happen.
Outside Chifeng City, 50,000 Xianbei troops approached Chifeng City rapidly and soon arrived several miles outside the city. The army that sent troops to Chifeng City this time was the army of the Eastern Xianbei.
In fact, many people don’t know that the Xianbei today are no longer the Xianbei of a few years ago. For example, the Eastern Xianbei army outside Chifeng City was defeated again by Huangfu Chaobo and Gongsun Zan a few years ago. The prestige of Eastern Lord Suli among the Eastern tribes has fallen to the bottom.
In particular, the two major wars caused Suli to lose several generals, and the heavy losses of his direct troops and horses made many small tribes alienated.
Mijia and Queji took the opportunity to win over some dissatisfied tribes, which increased their strength a lot. As a result, Suli’s prestige among the Eastern Xianbei tribes has been in name only.
Afterwards, Suli fell ill and died. In the battle for the Eastern Lord, Mijia emerged as a new force and defeated Queji, who was not much different from him in strength. After the defeat, Queji finally led only more than 20,000 loyal subordinates to flee north and escape to the vast desert of Mobei.
Afterwards,
Mijia surrendered the tribes left behind by Suli's death, and then spent several years to integrate the Eastern Xianbei. This time, he heard the news that Youzhou was short of troops, so he ordered the southern expedition.
After several years of integration, Mijia had basically completely controlled the Eastern Xianbei in his own hands. Not only that, he was also preparing to secretly establish another Xianbei royal court. Although he now only proclaimed himself as the Left Wise King, anyone with a discerning eye could see that he was only one step away from the position of Chanyu.
And this southern expedition was the first step for him to establish his own royal court. He planned to place the position of his own royal court in Chifeng. As long as he could successfully capture Chifeng City, he would be able to achieve the results that Suli had not achieved, and he would be able to overwhelm the last bit of opposition in the Eastern Xianbei and successfully establish himself as the Xianbei Chanyu.
This time, the vanguard general of the southern expedition was Mijia's eldest son Morigen, who led an army of 50,000. Their goal was to rush to Chifeng City as soon as possible, and it would be better to quickly capture Chifeng before the Han people reacted. This would be even better.
Unfortunately, man's plans are not as good as God's plans. Who knew that the scouts in Chifeng City would actually go deep into the grassland for one or two hundred miles? Although Mori sent out the most elite guards, he did not leave all the Han scouts in the end.
The 50,000 Xianbei army stopped three miles north of Chifeng City. Under the banner of General Zuo, dozens of Xianbei generals gathered together. Among them was a Xianbei general in his thirties, who was the vanguard general of this southern expedition, the eldest son of Zuo Xianwang Mijia, General Zuo Morigen.
"Jin Muzhen, have all the Han messengers for help been intercepted?" Morigen asked without turning his head, looking at the flags on the top of Chifeng City, and the Han soldiers standing on the top of the city, with high morale;
The general he asked was not disrespectful at all. He sat on his horse and saluted Morigen with his chest and said: "Reply to General Zuo, I am incompetent. When we sent troops to arrive, the messengers in the city had already left the city in five groups. Although the men tried their best to intercept them, a few people still escaped."
"But please rest assured, General Zuo, the news sent back from the south is absolutely correct. Now the entire eastern counties of Youzhou are short of troops. If you want to send troops to support Chifeng City, it will take several months."
"Because there are too few reinforcements, it is useless. But if you want to send tens of thousands of troops, I guess you can't get so many troops even if you sell a few governors."
At this point, the Xianbei general laughed out loud. If you don't pay attention, no one will find that this general is actually a player.
The other Xianbei generals beside him also laughed when they heard this. Some even laughed strangely and said, "Maybe, when the majority of Zuo Xianwang's troops arrive at Chifeng City, the Han reinforcements have not yet been seen."
"Since they can't be stopped, there is nothing we can do. Who knew that Wang Men would send scouts so far away. Pass the order, the army retreats two miles to set up camp."
"Jida, Tufa Ji Neng, you two each lead your troops to station in the west of Chifeng City to prevent reinforcements from Yison City in the west of Tang State. The rest of the troops are stationed in the west of Chifeng City. Follow this general to stay in the north, the army will rest for a day, and start the siege tomorrow. Jin Muzhen, you take people to go around Chifeng City and take a careful look, and then report the specific situation to this general. "
When everyone heard this, they hurriedly stroked their chests and said, "I will obey your orders!"
With his order, 20,000 Xianbei cavalry separated from the large group of troops and headed towards the west of Chifeng City. Then, thousands of cavalry came out of the large group and went around the east of Chifeng City. It seemed that they wanted to go around the south gate to check the surrounding situation. The rest of the troops slowly retreated to the selected camping site.