"Xu Fujun, General Wen, and Qian Langjun, you still have to stop for a moment, and your stomach will not be able to bear it!" Seeing Xu Wei, Wen Hengyue, Qian Zerui and others, they were still not satisfied with cooking a few bowls of meat porridge, Xu Huai was worried that their stomachs would not be able to bear it, so he hurriedly persuaded him.

At this time, Xu Huai, Xu Wei, Wen Hengyue, Qian Zerui and others sat directly on the blood-stained wall to discuss matters.

Xu Huaixian introduced the current deployment of the enemy and us on the Northern Front to Xu Wei, and Wen Hengyue and others knew about it.

The Chihu people had very limited troops on the northern line.

The Qing Shun Army has been crippled. Cao Shixiong seems to be able to gather seven or eight thousand troops in Ningwu, but his overall combat effectiveness will not be stronger than the five thousand defenders in Lanzhou City, which were completely wiped out, and will only be weaker.

Cao Shixiong didn't even dare to pull these seven or eight thousand men out of Ningwu.

This is his last capital.

Otherwise, the Qing Shun Army and Lanzhou would have changed their surname to Meng, not Cao.

The Zhennanzong Palace had only 3,000 cavalry left behind in Datong, but it had to take into account several directions. In a short period of time, there was no way to launch a fierce offensive against them.

Although the Zhennanzong Palace could also move south to the Huihe Valley (Yunshuo Yingwu and other prefectures) to recruit thousands of cavalry, it took time.

Xu Huai is mainly snatching this time now.

In addition, Chihu also had a small number of left-behind soldiers and horses in Xin, Dai and Yanmen, but their troops were limited and their combat effectiveness was poor. He retracted back to the city and was not afraid of them daring to act rashly in a short period of time.

The Chihu people's troops on the northern line were Li Chulin who guarded Taiyuan City and Yin Chao's two troops, but these two surrendered troops attacked Taiyuan City for a year, suffered heavy losses and failed to capture the city, and their morale and fighting spirit were very low.

Although the two troops were constantly recruiting young and strong troops from Yunshuo and other places to join the camp, maintaining the scale of the troops, their combat effectiveness was not strong.

If Li Chulin and Yin Chao dared to pull all the troops out of the camp, Chu Shan cavalry would not be afraid of one against five, or even one against ten in the field.

Now I am afraid that they will not be able to shrink.

At this time, the Chushan Cavalry, Zheng Jinqing's troops, and Yang Qiye's troops had several battles that were extremely fierce and rapid. In addition, forcing the forced marching against the wind and snow for several days, it inevitably caused great casualties. However, including the prisoners of Tianxiong's army advancing east, they still had three thousand elite soldiers near Taiyuan.

There are also two thousand people in Qipan Mountain, Huanglongpo, Heiyanyi, Taohua Chongbao and other places, including the injuries that were removed and rested.

In addition, although the Gu family would not send troops to Taiyuan, it was obvious that they would not refuse to send troops to reinforce Qipanshan, Huanglongpo, Heiyanyi and other places, and use screens to protect the flanks of Taiyuan's soldiers and civilians retreating west from Lanzhou.

I dare not be unhappy with Gu's family. This is also the bottom line that Xu Huai gave them.

Xu Huai was unable to predict whether Xiao Linshi would mobilize his troops to join the war. However, even if the Khitan remnants were not moving west of Caochengchuan, they would definitely be able to help them restrain some of the encampments in the north foot of Guancen Mountain.

Otherwise, how bold would Yan Muchi be to avoid being on Yangkou, Guangwu and other flanks to deploy troops to prevent Xiao Linshi, and crush all the gathered forces to Qipanshan and Huanglongpo?

They still have the advantage simply from the perspective of the size of the troops and combat effectiveness. The core goal of the enemy soldiers is to capture Bianliang and to completely open up the passage from Yanji to Heluo as quickly as possible. It is impossible to divide the troops and take into account this side in a short period of time.

The most critical and important problem they are facing at present is that the 100,000 soldiers and civilians in Taiyuan are too weak and too large in scale.

So many people have to go through the narrow Lingjinggou Canyon (Yang Guang Old Road) to retreat to Lanzhou. There are only 3,000 soldiers and horses behind the palace. How can we protect all the things without revealing any flaws?

And as long as they reveal a flaw and are caught by the captured soldiers, who dares to imagine what a catastrophic scene of the chaotic collapse of 100,000 soldiers and civilians?

"We definitely cannot retreat west in a hurry now. We will fight a few more fierce battles in Taiyuan, at least annihilated Li Chulin's troops; however, in the northeast and northwest of Taiyuan City, we will use the captured enemy camp to establish defenses and block Yinchao's troops south of Taiyuan City; at the same time, we will also need to establish defenses on the north side of Tianmen Mountain to intercept the encamped troops gathered in Xinzhou. After these preparations are made, we can only arrange for Taiyuan soldiers and civilians to retreat westward through Tianmen Pass and Lingjinggou Canyon."

Xu Huai said his next combat goals and plans.

"Li Chulin is cautious by nature. When Tianxiong's army raided Datong City, he defended the inner city to death. Now I don't have hope to lure them out of the camps and fight in the field. Therefore, there are still a few camps left in the Han army camp in Yunzhou and the two wings. We must pull them out one by one, and we cannot delay time! To achieve this, it is impossible to do three thousand soldiers and horses in my hands. Although the generals and soldiers in Taiyuan are weak, they have very limited time to rest. I hope to dispatch people in batches now and as auxiliary soldiers to join various positions. Even if they are used to bluff the reputation in the early stage, it is still good - Xu Fujun, General Wen, what do you think?"

Regardless of the Yinchao tribe in the southern part of Taiyuan, the Li Chulin tribe that besieged Taiyuan City from the north, after the two camps were occupied, there were still 12,300 soldiers guarding seven camps and the large camp on the north side.

Xu Huai only has three thousand soldiers and horses, and using these three thousand soldiers and horses alone is not enough to fight. Moreover, if the Chushan soldiers and horses suffer too much casualties and lose their combat effectiveness, the consequences will be devastating.

Therefore, we must now call out the defenders in the city and directly join various positions to participate in the battle. Even if we take on auxiliary operations first in the early stage and do not go directly to the front line to face the enemy, it will be a major support for the next battle.

At the same time, the people in Taiyuan City need to stabilize first, provide full supply of porridge and food, and recover some physical strength; the other three gates need to maintain a counterattack to restrain Yin Chao's troops on the south side.

Of course, contacting the rebels in the mountains of Luliang is also the work that we have to do now.

Xu Huai had thought of this before. On the one hand, he could not reveal his plan of march beforehand. On the other hand, after launching an offensive, he fought for several days and forced his troops, but he was still unable to free up his hand.

"Okay! Everything is arranged as Xu Junhou said! We will now transfer all the people who can climb to Xu Junhou. You can control the matters in the city. We will be responsible for the matters in the city!" Xu Wei and Wen Hengyue said.

They believed that reinforcements would arrive after seeing them. They were excited and many things were pushed to do. They also knew that they had no way to consider them in a hurry, and they did not have enough research on the situation of the enemy and us on the periphery. In this case, it was impossible to make any reservations about Xu Huai's trust.

In the northern part of Taiyuan, it is mainly divided into five battlefields.

In the northeast of Tianmen Mountain, on the east side of Qizi Mountain, camps need to be established to prevent the enemy from coming from Xinzhou. When Taiyuan soldiers and civilians officially retreat westward, this will also be the core defense line on the flank of Pingyao Tianmen Pass.

At present, led by Xiao Yanhan and Chen Zixiao, the 500-day enchanted soldiers were on guard on the spot.

There is a battlefield in the north and south gates of the Han army in Yunzhou. At present, the main force of the Han army in Yunzhou will be blocked in the camp; Xu Xin'an and Wang Xian will lead 500 troops to take charge.

On the battlefields of the two wings of the battalion, all the enemy battalions in the north of Taiyuan City must be forcibly captured, so as to ensure that the Taiyuan military and civilians leave the city smoothly; at the same time, if Yin Chao's troops want to reinforce, they must come from the direction of the two wings, or send troops to strengthen the defense of the two wings, and wait for an opportunity to launch a surprise attack when a large number of civilians leave the city.

The two wings are dominated by Tang Pan and Yin Peng, and each leads 500 elite troops to establish a propulsion front.

Xu Huai had only 500 reserve troops and more than 300 injuries. He was still the generals who participated in the fierce battle of the village on snowy night last night, so he needed to rest urgently; 200 generals died in battle or were seriously injured and disabled last night, completely losing their combat effectiveness.

Last night was the worst casualties since the Chushan Cavalry launched a raid.

Now the five battlefields are seriously insufficient, especially in the battlefields on both wings of the battalion, they cannot launch an offensive in a short period of time, for fear of heavy casualties or failure to defend the front line, which will lead to a collapse of the overall battle situation.

What Xu Huai is doing now is to drag the horses that were killed or injured yesterday and the seized food into the city, and urgently cook porridge to help the hungry people. On the other hand, he brought more than a thousand generals and soldiers in the city who were still holding a knife bow to the two camps currently occupied. After simply adding some food and armor, he first sent the two wings of the battlefield.

The enemy had six catapults in the front base position, which were captured by the Chushan Cavalry. They are currently under intense dismantling, waiting to be transported to the battlefields on both sides for installation for siege.

Xu Huai was sitting on the ground and resting on the wall. However, he fought and marched for several days, and even led the way several times, charged into battle. He was quite tired. He closed his eyes and fell asleep sweetly. When he opened his eyes, he opened his eyes and cleared his eyes, and the sun had already set its sight.

Seeing Xiao Yanhan sitting beside him, Niu Er, Shi Hu and others guarding the outside, Xu Wuji, Wang Ju and others didn't know where they went, and there was silence around them. They had not launched a new attack yet, and the enemy seemed to be still holding their troops.

Xu Huai took off the felt blanket on his body, held it up, and asked Xiao Yanhan:

"I've been sleeping for three hours? Why did you come to the south?"

"There are small groups of enemy cavalry near Qizi Mountain. Xu Wuli took Yang Qiye's troops to Qizi Mountain to take charge; and some of the soldiers of Tianxiong Army strongly demanded to go to the southern line to participate in the war, so I led them here!" Xiao Yanhan said.

"The battlefield is very quiet! What's going on in Lanzhou?" Xu Huai slept sorely and swollen. He knew that the high-intensity combat and marching in the past few days would need to be relaxed for a while before the qi and blood was unblocked. Since the battlefield was quiet, he was too lazy to stand up and look around, and listened directly to Xiao Yanhan and let him know.

"Li Chulin's camp in the north was closed, and the enemy troops on both wings voluntarily gave up three camps and all retreated to the west and east corner camps. Yin Chao's troops were in the south of the city, but hundreds of reinforcements were reinforced to the two camps," said Xiao Yanhan. "The Gu family has sent a battalion of marshals to enter Qipanshan. It is planned to gather 2,000 troops into Lanzhou to meet the soldiers and civilians in Taiyuan to retreat west. Gu Ji'an and Qiao Ji'en were also on the way to Taiyuan. They obviously would not give up the opportunity to divide the credit, but they only brought two hundred cavalry here. It was too cold!"

"There are 200 more new troops here, that's OK." Xu Huai knew that since Gu decided to send troops to Lanzhou, he would definitely send someone to accompany Qiao Jien to Taiyuan to contact him. And they could bring 200 cavalry to accompany him, so Xu Huai didn't dare to expect too much.
Chapter completed!