Chapter 1394 Discussion on Reinforcements

“Three Kingdoms Online Game: The Battle of the Princes ()”

The battle in Chifeng City has already begun, and in Chengde City, more than a hundred miles southwest, the governor Meng Yi is discussing matters with the county magistrate Yuan Si and the captain Zhao Yu.

"Sir Yuan, General Zhao, the letter from Wangmen Taishou asking for help has been sent to Luoyang by Feilu, but the king is now on a northern expedition to Zhao. Although Zhao has been destroyed, he should not have set out to return to Luoyang in order to stabilize Bingzhou. Therefore, in my estimation, even if the urgent letter reaches the king at the fastest speed, it will take one or two days."

"But the defense of Chifeng City is seriously insufficient, so the current plan can only be arranged by us first, and then report to the king." Looking at the two people in front of him, Meng Yi said solemnly;

"But if the king sends troops without the king's will, then..." Unlike Meng Yi, Yuan Si is a remnant of the Yuan family. He has not been with Huangfu Chaobo for long. Although he was appointed as a county magistrate, he does not act like Meng Yi, and is obviously much more cautious.

"That's not necessary." Meng Yi waved his hand disapprovingly. These Qin survivors can be said to be Huangfu Chaobo's retainers, and most of them have settled in Henan County for several years. It can be said that they are loyal to Huangfu Chaobo. In addition, when Huangfu Chaobo arranged for him to come to Yanbei, he told him that he could let go in special circumstances.

Another point is that even if Meng Yi has other thoughts, Zhao Yu is Huangfu Chaobo's niece-in-law, and she is also a general in charge of the army. With her around, Huangfu Chaobo will not have any bad thoughts about sending troops.

"If we wait for the king's will, dozens of cities in Lulong County and Yanbei County may not be safe, so we must arrange it as soon as possible. What do you think, General Zhao?"

"Zhao Yu has no objection. Since the king has handed Yanbei to you, he believes in you. According to your opinion, how should we act?" Zhao Yu is over 30 years old at this time, and is no longer the playful little girl she was back then.

Being a wife and a mother, she has grown into a mature general. Now Huang Xu is the chief general of Yanbei County, leading troops to fight outside, and Zhang An led 10,000 infantrymen to support Gongsun Fan's Youbeiping. Then she, the county commander, became the chief general of the army. She also agreed with Meng Yi's idea. If she waited for Luoyang's order, it would be too late.

So, in the face of Meng Yi's inquiry, she immediately expressed her support, but she didn't have much idea about how to arrange it. After all, she rarely led troops alone, and most of the time she appeared as a general.

Meng Yi nodded. As early as after receiving the letter of help from Wang Men, he was considering the matter of reinforcements. However, although the Youzhou counties of the entire Tang Dynasty now have three more counties, Youbeiping, Liaoxi and Lulong, the military strength is already stretched to the limit.

Huang Xu took 30,000 infantry and cavalry with him when he led the army to the expedition. Later, when the brothers Gongsun Yue asked for help, they transferred nearly 10,000 soldiers from Yanbei. Now the total number of soldiers in Yanbei is less than 40,000, but eight cities still need to be defended.

Especially Yisun City in the north is the top priority. Chifeng City was attacked by the Xianbei army, and Yisun City would definitely not be spared. Now there are only 6,000 soldiers in Yisun City. Fortunately, the location of Yisun City is much easier to defend than Chifeng City. But for the sake of safety, Meng Yi decided to send a part of reinforcements to Yisun.

"I have made up my mind. I will draw soldiers from Longhua and Shuangluan to form reinforcements, and then..." Speaking of this, Meng Yi hesitated for a moment. Now there is only Zhao Yu left as the general, but Meng Yi doesn't want her to lead the army.

"I have to be the leader, please don't hesitate. My uncle entrusted Yanbei to us. Now my husband and brother Zhang are not here, so I have to lead the troops myself. Moreover, I have been in the army for more than ten years. I have fought many battles with my uncle and husband. Please rest assured." Zhao Yu said firmly;

Meng Yi thought about it.

Except Zhao Yu, the rest are only Dian Man and Huangfu Li, the young generals. I guess Meng Yi himself is not confident to let them lead the troops.

"Okay, I'll trouble you, General. In addition to you, I want Meng Yuan and Hao Jian to go with you. After all, they also came out of the bloody sea of ​​corpses." Meng Yi had to agree. He was originally going to lead the troops himself. The children of the Meng family have always been both civil and military. But seeing Zhao Yu's attitude, he had to agree. However, he still put forward his own request.

Seeing that both of them had decided to send troops, Yuan Si no longer hesitated: "Please rest assured, my lord and General Zhao, I will do my best to supply the army with what it needs, and I will not hold the army back."

"Okay, let's do it." Meng Yi immediately decided;

Next, the three of them discussed the arrangements for withdrawing troops and reinforcing troops, and then wrote a pigeon letter with simple arrangements, and sent it quickly using Feilu in Chengde City. After that, the detailed arrangements were written into a memorial, and after the three of them signed and sealed it, they quickly sent it to Leting Port and handed it over to the navy express ship to send it back to Luoyang.

After arranging these, the orders of the prefectural government began to be issued to the rest of the cities.

First, 4,000 infantrymen were withdrawn from Longhua City and quickly went north, leaving 2,000 to enter Sifanghe Town, bringing the defensive force here to 5,000. The remaining 2,000 people continued to go north to support Yisun City. In this way, the force of Yisun City reached 8,000 people. Because the city was much smaller than Chifeng City, these 8,000 soldiers were enough to deal with it.

The three counties of Luanping, Shuangluan and Xiaban each dispatched 4,000 infantry and 1,000 cavalry, plus 2,000 cavalry from Chengde, and handed them over to Zhao Yu for command, totaling 12,000 infantry and 5,000 cavalry, and quickly stationed in Pingquan City in Lulong County to take over the defense of Pingquan.

The reason for stationing in Pingquan instead of continuing to support Chifeng in the north was because Meng Yi inferred that Chifeng City could not support the arrival of his reinforcements. You know, the huge Chifeng City has only 5,000 defenders in total. Facing a full 50,000 Xianbei vanguard, it is estimated that it can't even last ten days.

Another point is that Chifeng City has gone north of Yanshan Mountain and has penetrated deep into the grassland. In addition, the only way out of Chifeng City is to go south through Louzidian Town, then to Dianzi City and Xiaosigou Town, and then arrive at Pingquan City, and then go south from Pingquan City to Youbeiping or east to Yanbei County.

Therefore, in order to defend Chifeng City, several cities along the entire route need to be defended, but these cities are all on a line, and this line faces mountains on one side and grasslands on the other, so the Xianbei cavalry can isolate these cities at any time, and the Tang Dynasty currently does not have so many troops to defeat most of the Xianbei. Therefore, Meng Yi’s attitude towards Chifeng City and Dianzi City is to save them if possible, and give up if not. Including in the memorial, he also reported his thoughts to Huangfu Chaobo verbatim.