The Son of Heaven replied and agreed to Li Yi's request, and transferred the Changshui Battalion of the Northern Army and the Jizhou Army to Li Yi's account, and followed him westward to Merge the Prefecture to fight against the Barbarian Hu.

After receiving the holy decree, Li Yi began to arrange the defense of Youzhou.

In Liaodong, with Zhang Jaw as the main general and Xun Yu as the military division, he led 20,000 Liaodong troops to resist the attack of the rebels and the Zhuhu coalition army.

In Yuyang County, with Yue Fei as the main general and Tian Feng as the military division, he led an army of 15,000 to resist the attack of the Xianbei army in the east.

In Shanggu County, with Zhao Yun as the main general and Xun You as the military division, he led an army of 15,000 to resist the attack of the Xianbei Tuoba tribe in the north.

In Daijun, with Guan Yu as the main general and Jia Xu as the military advisor, he led an army of 15,000 to resist the attack of the younger brother of Putou, the leader of Xianbei and Xianbei in the central part of the county.

In addition, with Xun Di as the main general, he led 5,000 troops to sit in Quanzhou to defend Li Yi's lair.

In the end, Li Yi personally led 3,000 personal guards, 25,000 iron cavalry and 25,000 foot soldiers, day and night, and hurried to Bingzhou to meet the Xianbei army. Xu Maogong and Liu Bowen, who had just joined the army, went with the army as military advisors, and the accompanying generals included Zhang Fei, Tai Shici, Dian Wei, Chang Yuchun, Xu Da and others.

At about the same time, Xu Rong, the new captain of Changshui, led 5,000 iron cavalry of the Changshui Battalion of the Northern Army, crossed the Yellow River from Mengjin, and went north via Hanoi, Shangdang, and Taiyuan counties, planning to join the army led by Wei General Li Yi in Yanmen County.

In Jizhou, Bei Jie led 20,000 soldiers from Jizhou County, and also set off from Julu County, crossed the Taihang Mountain from Changshan State, and went to Yanmen County to join the army of Wei General Li Yi.

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In late March, when Li Yi led an army of more than 50,000 and rushed to the battlefield of Bingzhou, a fierce battle was raging in the western part of Bingzhou.

The army of Western Xianbei is under the command of the Western Xianbei Lord Law Day Deduction. Crossing the Yellow River, he began to attack Guangmu City.

At the same time, the combined forces of the Dongqiang and Xiongnu Tu tribes crossed the Yellow River and attacked Linrong City and Woye City respectively.

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The battle against Linrong City was extremely fierce, and as the seat of Shuofang County, Linrong City was not large. But the city was very strong, easy to defend and difficult to attack. The handsome Pi Lou Kei oversaw the fierce attack for three days in a row, but still did not take it.

In this situation, the Western Xianbei Lord was very annoyed by the law and day, and sent someone to send a message to Pi Louji, if he could not capture Guangmu City on the fourth day, he would come to see him.

Pi Louji smiled and said to the herald: "Go back and tell your lordship, just say that there are not many defenders left in Linrong City, and they will be able to take it tomorrow." ”

There were about 2,000 soldiers and civilians who defended Linrong City. More than 1,000 of them were inhabitants of the city and its vicinity, both men and women, young and old.

When the Xianbei army was assembled on the border, some of the residents had been forcibly relocated by the government. The rest are righteous men who have not had time to move or who have sworn to defend their homeland.

Shuofang County, who guarded the city, was more than forty years old, was a Confucian scholar who read poetry and books, and after his arrival, he was diligent and diligent, repairing canals and tuntian, and was very loved by the people.

After the invasion of the Hu people. He did not retreat with part of the county government according to the order of the Assassin Mansion, but resolutely stayed. He vowed to live and die with Linrong City.

In order to reduce the casualties of the siege, the Xianbei people did not exert all their strength, but adopted intermittent attack methods to consume the defending forces. They attacked for three days, and the defenders of the city suffered heavy casualties.

On the fourth day, the Xianbei people simultaneously began an overwhelming attack from the four walls. It only took an hour for the city of Linrong to fall.

Ran Ping commanded the soldiers and civilians defending the city to fight the north city wall. Although he didn't know martial arts, he held high the Great Han Battle Banner and ran back and forth on the city wall, his mournful and crazy roar. Inspire the soldiers to be enthusiastic. Everyone stepped forward bravely, sacrificing their lives to kill the enemy, and there was no longer any desire to survive.

There are more and more enemies. The shouts of killing in the city were earth-shattering, and the rapid sound of war drums and the rousing sound of bull horns filled the entire bloody battlefield, and the sky was full of whistling arrows that slashed through the air.

"Kill...... Fight bravely to kill the enemy......" Ran Ping waved the battle flag that had been shattered by long arrows in one hand, and pointed at the enemy shouting on the city wall with the other, his expression was angry and hoarse.

The fighting intensified.

As soon as the little marshal He Laixiao, who was the first to climb the city wall, rushed to the front, he was slashed by three roaring Han soldiers. Fortunately, there were many Xianbei soldiers, and everyone hurriedly killed the Han soldier and rescued him in embarrassment.

"Archers, archers." He Lai Xiao shouted angrily, "Shoot...... Shoot me the flag dancer...... Shoot him......"

Dozens of long arrows whizzed away, and they came in the blink of an eye.

"Whew...... Whew...... "The long arrow was exactly nailed into Ran Ping's body and pierced out.

Ran Ping's voice stopped abruptly, and his emaciated body was taken a few steps back by the huge inertial force of the long arrow, leaning against the city wall, blood overflowing.

Ran Ping glanced at the enemy in front of him contemptuously, scolded hatefully, and raised the flag to die.

The second batch of long arrows ...... "Huh" arrived, and immediately nailed Ran Ping to the bloodstained city wall.

"Slaughter the city......" He Laixiao raised his knife and roared, "Give me the ...... to slaughter the city"

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Located in the northeast of Linrong, Fertile City is a small city that is easy to defend and difficult to attack. Seeing that he could not attack for a long time, Kui Xian, the great leader of Dongqiang, immediately ordered his men to cut off the water source of Woye City.

The next day, Kyuhyun led a large army and quickly pounced on the city of Guangmu to the east. Xiao Shuai Fuxue was ordered to stay, and he surrounded the small city with 2,000 men, intending to starve the defenders of the city to death of thirst.

Three days later, the two hundred Han troops defending the city were bravely killed by the county lieutenant **** when there was no hope of survival. The Han army was outnumbered and all of them were martyred.

After the Huns rebelled, they immediately besieged the city of Linrong, but their leader, Dugaiting, did not order the troops to attack immediately. He didn't want to lose too much, and he planned to join the two armies of Kyuhyun and Ritsuri before launching a siege battle.

Tu tribe is a branch of the Southern Xiongnu, living in the area of Wuyuan County and Shuofang County in Bingzhou, its leader Jiuyuan Banner Wang Dugaiting and the Southern Xiongnu's Shan Yuqiangqu have always been at odds, and they are also extremely hostile to the Han State, and have repeatedly rebelled.

This time, Pu Tou, the great leader of Xianbei, took the initiative to invite him to send troops, and the conditions promised to him were very generous. Twilight Getting originally wanted to rebel, but this time it was exactly what he wanted, and the two immediately hit it off.

At the end of the month, the three armies gathered at the foot of Guangmu City. The 40,000 Hu coalition troops, under the command of the Ri Deduction, immediately launched a ferocious attack on Guangmu City.

Sun Jie, the magistrate of Guangmu County, was not afraid, and he met the enemy with 2,000 men, and the two sides fought fiercely.

In the evening, the Huns took the lead in breaking through the defenses of the Han army and attacking the city. The two sides then began to fight even more violently in the streets.

On the way back to the palace, Sun Jie was intercepted by the handsome commander of the Xianbei people. Sun Jie's attendants were all killed in battle, and Sun Jie's was captured. Ritsuri persuaded him to surrender, but Sun Jie refused and scolded him. Then he was dragged to the door of the government by the Xianbei people and beheaded with a knife.

At this point, four of the six counties of Shuofang County fell into the hands of the enemy, and only Shuofang County and Dacheng County, which were far away from the battlefield in the east, were still under the control of the Han army.

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At the beginning of April, the sky was high and the clouds were light, and the wind was beautiful.

The water of the Sangqian River is clear and cold, and under the gentle blowing of the spring breeze, it sings happily all the way to the east. The big trees on both sides of the bank and the grass on the embankment have been dressed in tender green, and they look full of life, beautiful and pleasant.

The cavalry of the Zhenbei Army formed three columns and rushed along the riverside valley to Yinguan City, the administrative office of Yanmen County.

The battle in Bingzhou was very unoptimistic, and the Han army could not resist the attack of the absolutely superior forces led by the Xianbei leader Pu Tou himself, and was defeated all the way to the south, until the line of the Great Wall barely stabilized its position.

But Li Yi knew very well that without strong support, the Great Wall was in danger of being lost at any time. Once the Great Wall defense line is defeated, it will definitely be bad news for the situation in northern Xinjiang. To the south, the Xianbei army could occupy the entire Yanmen County; To the east, they could attack Guan Yu in Daijun along the Sanggan River Valley. With Guan Yu's troops, it is absolutely impossible to resist the attack of the main army of Xianbei on both roads. And once Guan Yu's department is defeated, it is very likely to cause a chain effect, leading to a continuous rout of the northern Xinjiang defense line.

This was a situation that Li Yi would never accept, so he had to lead the army to rush to the front line of the Great Wall and block the road for the Xianbei army to go south.

Therefore, Li Yi left behind 25,000 foot soldiers, led 25,000 iron cavalry, and 3,000 personal guard iron cavalry, and rushed to Bingzhou day and night.

Within three days, the iron cavalry marched nearly 1,000 miles from Quanzhou to the junction of Youzhou and Bingzhou, the northern foot of Taihang Mountain.

Although it was in the valley of the Sanggan River, the terrain was still somewhat rugged, and the march of the Iron Cavalry had to slow down.

This area has a well-known name - Flying Fox Valley.

Feihuyu is one of the eight Taihang mountains, located in the northeasternmost part of the towering Taihang Mountains in the northeast and southwest directions, just at the junction of the Taihang Mountains and the Yanshan Mountains, and just at the foot of the Xiaowutai Mountain, the highest peak of the Taihang Mountain Range, it is an ancient passage through the intersection of the Taihang Mountain, Yanshan Mountain and Hengshan Mountain.

The mountains in this area are as high as 2,000 meters, with an average altitude of between 1,500 and 2,500 meters. This rugged and winding valley valley is only 70 to 80 meters to 100 meters wide at its widest point, and only about 1 meter at its narrowest point.

In the era when there were no automobiles, trains and other motor means of transportation, Feihuyu has always been an important passage to the Shanxi Plateau and the Mongolian steppe, and Feihuyu has always been famous in history.

Because he didn't know the real situation of the battle in Bingzhou, Li Yi was worried that the Xianbei army had broken through the defense line of the Great Wall, so in a terrain like Feihuyu, he had to be careful and careful.

After all, if you are ambushed by the Xianbei people in such a place, you really don't know how to die. Li Yi now has a big family, a loving mother, and a virtuous and beautiful wife, but he doesn't want to die untimely without explanation. (To be continued.) )