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Xu Huai looked at the trembling son of Cao Shixiong standing in front of him, his mood was quite complicated.

A year ago, Xu Huai captured them and Cao Shixiong's eldest son Cao Xuanwen in Lanzhou City. After Taohua Chong executed Cao Xuanwen, he handed over the unsuccessful Cao Xuanwu and Cao Xuanxing to the General Administration of the Linfu Road Military and Madushi Office to deal with it. Of course, Gu was unwilling to make a feud with the Cao family, so he escorted Cao Shixiong's second son to Bianliang in the name of the General Administration of the Linfu Road Military and Madushi Office.

Xu Huai did not expect that those people in the court would surrender and even secretly release Cao Shixiong's two sons to Lanzhou, and they didn't know about this for a long time.

And fate's teasing made Cao Shixiong's two sons fall back into his hands.

"What's wrong with these two girls?" Xu Huai looked at the two girls behind Cao Shixiong's two sons and asked.

"Cao Shixiong took his second son to Minglu Village to train with Cao Shili. They took these two maids to Minglu Village to warm the bed." The captive captives led Cao Shixiong to pull out the two sons from hiding in the valley, and had already interrogated them, and walked forward to report.

"At a young age, I have a lot of bad water," Wang Juju stared at Cao Shixiong's two sons, pressed the sword on his waist, and said coldly, "They are all whips high now. Since the Cao family has surrendered to the barbarians, then the barbarians will rule them with the law!"

Cao's family betrayed the Chihu people and was willing to charge for the Chihu people for the vanguard. The two sides formed a life-and-death hatred. Wang Ju killed all his life, and of course he would not feel any compassion for the two bastards of the Cao family. He wanted to kill them directly.

""Cao Xuanwu, Cao Xuanxing's two sons are only thirteen or fourteen years old. They have been frugal since childhood. They have been imprisoned by the prefectures and escorted to Bianliang. Because all the people and horses have been careful, they have not suffered any hardships. At this time, Wang Ju, who was stained with blood in the robe and armor, looked over and wanted to ask for forgiveness, but his teeth were trembling and he couldn't say a word, and a heat flow came out from his crotch.

"These two dogs were actually scared!" Tang Pan came over and looked at Cao Shixiong's crotch wet, and laughed disdainfully. He reached out to lift one of them up and said, "If you can help us open the gate of Taohua Chongzhai, how can you spare your life?"

"There is no defeated soldier running towards Taohua?" Xu Huai's mind moved and asked Tang Pan.

"More than 40 people escaped into the mountains to the north, and seventeen or eighteen people escaped to the southeast," said Tang Pan.

Guancen Mountain has steep slopes and deep ditches, but overall, it is far less dangerous than Luliang Mountain and Changshan (Yanmen Mountain) to the north.

A year ago, after Xu Huai raided Lanzhou City, he led his troops to escort Wang Gaoxing, Qian Zerui and other officials and hundreds of people from his family crossed the Guancen Mountain and retreated to Fuzhou. Langu City went west to Fuzhou City and also had a post road across the northwest foot of Guancen Mountain. In the past, tens of thousands of grains were transported from Taiyuan to Fuzhou through Lanzhou to support the consumption of the Linfu Road Military and Madu General Administration.

Guancen Mountain is also an extremely important horse-raising ground because there are large areas of gentle slope meadows in the mountains.

Therefore, Xu Huai and his friends were unable to wipe out all the enemy soldiers here, and a small number of enemy soldiers were destined to escape and rush to Langu, Kelan and other places to inform them.

However, although Zhufeng Villa is a certain distance from Huanglongpo Post, overall, it is still on the eastern half of Guancen Mountain.

The escaping enemy soldiers were also generally familiar with the terrain. When the east and west ends of the gorge were blocked by ambushers, in order to survive, they fled to the three cities of Loufan, Ningwu, and Langu in the northwest, which was their best choice.

Tang Pan just took over the command of the battlefield, stood at a high place and looked at the battlefield, and saw the direction of dozens of enemy soldiers running away. Although many of the fleeing enemy soldiers had no time to chase, he confirmed that the invincible soldiers ran away in the direction of Taohua.

"These two cowards, seeing that they are useless, are willing to help us in order to survive, but they are afraid that they will show their strength when Taohua rushed to the village," Wang Ju looked at Cao Shixiong's second son with disdain and said, "But it's still worth a try!"

The most important thing in this battle is not how to kill to Taiyuan, but how to withdraw from Taiyuan.

To the east and south, they will encounter the main force of the enemy soldiers. They are not as good as this little manpower. The Chihu people moved into a large number of foreign tribes in the north, intending to operate Yunshuo into its core area. There seems to be no left-behind soldiers. However, these foreign tribes that had been attached to the Chihu people in their early years were not all enlisted by the Chihu people into the army, and they were all good at riding and shooting. The tribes maintained the semi-militarized nomadic habit and organized their troops very quickly. If they wanted to escape from the Huihe Valley (Yunshuo), they would only fall into the siege of more and more British cavalry.

The only feasible path is to enter from Lanzhou and then come out from Lanzhou.

Therefore, in the early stage of the raid on Taiyuan, the focus is to do everything possible to attack, weaken the Qingshun army stationed in Lanzhou, and make it lose its ability to intercept and block them in Lanzhou. It is best to control several key nodes first.

The Heiyan Post and Huanglongpo Post are all extremely critical nodes, but they do not mean that peach blossoms are rushing, deer forts, and Langu City are not important.

In fact, peach blossoms are more important and the song of the deer fort is even more important. A small group of elite soldiers can cross mountains and ridges without walking on the road. But how can tens of thousands of weak soldiers and civilians in Taiyuan cross Guancen Mountain before the large group of soldiers chased?

However, these docks are extremely strong, and Cao Shixiong stationed hundreds to thousands of elite troops in these docks, and it is extremely difficult to conquer them.

People rely on the city to guard. In addition to well-trained soldiers, sharp swords, guns, and strong bows and crossbows, a large number of rolling stones, wood, gold juice, boiling oil, wolf teeth rushing, etc. are usually placed on the village walls to assist in defense.

If we cannot deploy calmly and only use hundreds of elite elites to attack with hasty, how many people will die to take down such a stronghold?

Xu Huai directly commanded the raid this time, with only 3,000 elite troops killed and injured in one battle. Should he fight again?

Xu Huai's original plan was to bypass these docks first, and when he was able to meet Taiyuan's soldiers and civilians retreat westwards, he used the Taiyuan defenders, which were weak but extremely large, to attack these docks and blast the way to retreat westwards.

However, now there is a chance to drive Cao Shixiong's two sons to trick the peach blossoms into the fort. Even if there is a possibility of failure, of course we should try it.

"Okay, let's first use Cao Shixiong's two sons. Tang Pan, you immediately select two hundred men and change them into armor and 'escorts' the two young men of the Cao family to Taohua Chong. I will send someone else to Wang Xian to lead a battalion of troops to Taohua Chong to meet you," Xu Huai said, "But you have to remember one thing, if you can't trick the village gate, you must not attack!"

To the west of Guancen Mountain, the first group of only 800 people lurked in the wind and snow.

In the battle of the gorge, casualties were very limited, but Xu Xin'an needed to seize the Black Yan Post and cut off Yang Guang's old road before Cao Shixiong reacted.

Xu Huai will also lead hundreds of people who have just fought to Huanglongpo Post.

In addition to the urgent rest and rest of the troops who just participated in the battle, the more important thing is to seize this key point and divide the Qingshun army in Lanzhou into three parts, making it impossible for them to gather together in a short period of time.

Otherwise, Cao Shixiong would see through their intentions, give up Langu, Ningwu and other cities, gather all the 14,500 troops in his hands on the east bank of the Fen River, relying on Lanzhou City, and forming camps on the east bank of the Fen River, so they would have to catch them blindly.

Now there are only two hundred people who can earn Taohua to the camp for Commander Tang Pan to earn the opportunity to fight.

However, a large number of them were hiding in the mountains between Shengjun Fort and Taohua Chong Village. As long as Tang Pan could successfully open the village gate of Taohua Chong, they would naturally directly dispatch troops to reinforce from there and take down Taohua Chong, a key pass in the southwest of Langu County.

Of course, Xu Huai's courage to use troops in such a dispersed manner was to have aroused that Cao Shixiong's last elite combat power that could maneuver quickly had just been eliminated.

Cao Shixiong sent Jianjia out of the city to fight, facing the wind and snow, and maintained his combat formation to prevent cavalry from charging from the flanks at any time. It is fast to complete the ramp from Lanzhou City to Huanglongpo Post in one day.

When Cao Shixiong came to Ningwu, Langu dispatched troops to join the siege. Pan Chenghu, Xu Wujiang, Tang Qing, Yin Peng, Han Qiye, Zheng Jinqing and others had already led their troops to the vicinity of Huanglongpo Post.

In order to raid Taiyuan, Chu Shan seemed to have transferred two thousand troops, but the core generals were basically all out.

In Tang Pan, Xu Huai ordered Niu Er, Shi Hu, Wu Chihai and others to follow Tang Pan to Taohua Chong.
Chapter completed!