On the afternoon of April 30, on the north bank of the lower reaches of the Dading River, thirty miles southeast of Huicheng.

Blue skies. Under the blue sky, the white clouds are like rippling layers of ripples in the lake, endlessly. The sun is blazing, the mountains and winding valleys are scorched by the sun, sweating profusely, the air seems to be burning, and all living beings suffer from the scorching heat.

Li Fengyun was dressed in a thin yellow uniform, holding a horsewhip, standing on the river embankment and looking at the other side, his eyes showing a burning color.

Penetrating deep into the hinterland of Goguryeo, approaching the opponent's defensive pass, if the Goguryeo people who are fighting all the people at this moment can not find the enemy's traces and react quickly, then there is no suspense in this battle at all, so the Goguryeo army that suppressed Qingchuan quickly went north to reinforce Huicheng, in Li Fengyun's expectation, but the number of opponent's reinforcements was as high as tens of thousands of horses, which made Li Fengyun have a bad premonition.

Based on Pyongyang's understanding of the strong people such as the Tatar people and Tie Li, it is reasonable for the Tatar tribes to be treacherous and turn to Middle-earth, people go to higher places, water flows to lower places, and good birds choose trees to perch, this is the basic survival rule, which is understandable, but what cannot be understood is that when the war situation is still unclear, what reason do the Tatar people have to come out and kill Pyongyang directly? It is understandable to charge into battle for Middle-earth, but the first priority of the people of the Middle-earth is to survive, and the betrayal of Goguryeo to Middle-earth is precisely to survive.

However, the truth is that there must be some secret behind this. Thinking about it from another position, from Pyongyang's standpoint, it is speculated that the only possibility for the Middle-earth people to be forced to kill is to be forced to be helpless, and the only possibility that can force the Middle-earth people to come out of the nest is that the powerful Middle-earth army has put a knife on the neck of the Middle-earth people, so behind the Middle-earth control strings, there must be a hidden Middle-earth army, and the Middle-earth control strings are just a disguise, just smoke, once the Goguryeo people are fooled, the consequences will be serious.

If Pyongyang speculates in this way, it is inevitable that Chen Chongbing will hold the front line of the Daejeong River and Sasu River and stick to Cheongcheon, on the one hand, to provide strong support for the Yalu water defense line in the west, and on the other hand, to provide strong protection to Pyongyang in the east, so that as long as the Goguryeo people hold the Yalu water defense line before the rainy season comes, and firmly hold the Pyongyang city before the Yalu water defense line is lost, the battle situation will be favorable to Goguryeo, and they will be able to seize that ray of life in a desperate situation.

After Qingchuan discovered the traces of the Tatar people in the scouts, he immediately sent reinforcements of 10,000 people north to Huicheng, which was obviously a tentative attack, that is, to verify whether his guess was correct.

Therefore, relying only on the strength of the Tatar people, seeing the army of 10,000 people of the Goguryeo people going north to support Huicheng, they will not dare to attack head-on, nor dare to attack Huicheng, but avoid the enemy's edge, so as not to fight with the enemy and lose both, but if there is an army of Middle-earth behind the Tatar people, and the purpose of the Tatar people and the Middle-earth people fighting together is to attack Qingchuan, threaten Pyongyang, and form a front and rear attack with the main force on the west bank of the Yalu River, then the Tatar people will not move forward. The Middle-earth army will also fight without hesitation.

Li Fengyun is now in a dilemma.

In the face of tens of thousands of Goguryeo supporting troops, it is absolutely impossible for the Yan Ya to rush up and attack desperately, even if Li Fengyun forcibly orders, after all, the Jin Ya tribes must take care of their roots, stand next to them and wave their flags and shout to do it, rush up and sacrifice themselves to die. In this way, the Andong Ma army can only be attacked, but as long as the Xi people, Khitan, and Turkic control strings show up, even if Pyongyang is closed to news and knows nothing about Anton's current situation, it can be estimated that it will not be far from ten, and then Pyongyang will definitely send a large number of troops to defend Qingchuan and Sashui, and even cooperate with the defenders of the Yalu water defense line, and attack the Andong army from the east and west, the situation will be unfavorable to Anton.

The purpose of Li Fengyun's long-distance expedition was to win the maximum benefit at the minimum cost, and if he paid a heavy price for the capture of Pyongyang, his plan would have failed, and he not only failed to use the Eastern Crusade to strengthen himself, but instead buried Anton, so that the Holy Lord and the Central Committee could get what they wanted.

However, judging from the current situation, the situation is developing in a direction that is not favorable to Anton, and Anton's army may be blocked by Qingchuan, stop at Sashui, and pay an incalculable price for his own risk.

Li Fengyun worked hard to achieve the best result, and Tie Li and other chieftains of the Yan tribe did not passively slack off for the time being, after all, the situation was still unclear, and no one dared to assert that their intentions had been completely exposed, so the Yan Yan still stuck to the south bank of the Dading River, using guerrilla techniques to block the Goguryeo reinforcements and delay the advance of the Goguryeo people.

The judgment of Li Fengyun and Tie Li and others is that the Goguryeo people saw that the people of the Shen Ya were rushing from all directions, and there were many people, and it was extremely dangerous to continue to cross the river, and once they were hit by the half of the Yan people, the losses would inevitably be heavy, not to mention the rescue of Huicheng at that time, and it would be difficult to save themselves, so they would inevitably stop slowly, and while dealing with the Yan people, looking for countermeasures, they would urgently report to Qingchuan for support, and Qingchuan's reaction would definitely make the situation clear quickly. If Pyongyang does not have support, it is very likely that this support force will be withdrawn in order to ensure the safety of Cheongcheon, and if Pyongyang reinforcements have arrived in large numbers, Cheongcheon will inevitably send reinforcements again to attack strongly, in order to find out whether the invading enemy has Middle-earth troops in addition to the Tata.

However, as time went by and the sun shifted westward, the battle situation did not develop as expected by Li Fengyun, Tie Li and others, and this Goguryeo reinforcement not only did not stop advancing, but attacked more fiercely, killing to the river bank before dusk, and then crossing the river quickly under the cover of night.

The Goguryeo people resolutely attacked and marched forward in great strides, so that the guerrilla harassment of the Tatar people could not play a role, and if they wanted to stop the advance of Goguryeo, they had to rush up with real swords and guns, but the Tatar people were worried that their casualties would be too large and they were unwilling to fight to the death, so the battle situation was unfavorable to the Andong army.

Tie Li has already consulted Li Fengyun three times, what should I do? Did you let the Goguryeo people kill them to the Dading River?

Ashina Pegasus came, pointed to the embankment, and said anxiously, "The enemy is still twenty miles away from the embankment, and at the current attack speed, we will definitely be able to reach the embankment before dusk, and by then, we will be the ones who are passive." ”

The Ma army needs a favorable geographical position in battle, and the open and flat river valley is very conducive to the Ma army's charge, and the siege on all sides is even more conducive to the Ma army's tearing apart the enemy formation, which can give full play to the advantages of the Ma army, on the contrary, if the Goguryeo army rushes to the river, with the help of the advantage of the big river to strengthen the battle formation, although the back of the battle, but also has the power of a battle, in this way, even if the Andong Ma army attacks fiercely at any cost, the time to destroy the enemy will be greatly extended. And this place is only more than 100 miles away from Qingchuan, and Qingchuan reinforcements can arrive within a day, so once the battle situation is stalemate, Anton's horse army will be very passive.

Li Fengyun's expression was grim and he didn't say a word.

"Don't leave it to chance." Ashina persuaded him, "If Qingchuan is unprepared, it is impossible to send tens of thousands of troops to support Huicheng after discovering the Yan people, on the contrary, they will abandon Huicheng and will use all their limited forces to defend the city to ensure the safety of Qingchuan and ensure the smooth flow between Pyongyang and Yalu water, there is no doubt about this." ”

Li Fengyun bowed slightly, "What I'm worried about is not that Qingchuan is on guard, not that Qingchuan will send reinforcements again, but that Qingchuan would rather abandon this army of tens of thousands of people than send an army to save them, so that we will be more passive, we will be blocked under Qingchuan City, and we will fall into the danger of rapid cutting off of food and grass weapons, and then we will be finished, chaos without a fight, and defeat without a fight." ”

Grain and grass weapons are the "key point" of Anton's army, long-distance running, lone army deep, the most afraid is not that the enemy is strong, but that he is hungry and hungry, so Li Fengyun wants speed, to fight quickly, all the way to the gallop to burn, kill and plunder, do not dare to waste time to attack the city and plunder, dare not fight with the enemy for the loss of a city and a place, let alone be restrained by the enemy and trapped in a place and unable to move.

As soon as Ashina Er's heard it, he understood that he was worried in vain, Li Fengyun was not an indecisive person, and he would not look forward and backward at critical moments, the reason why he did not give orders was because he could see far and see accurately, his eyes were not on the battlefield in front of him at all, and it was no longer Qingchuan City, where the army was gathered, but to other places.

Ashina hesitated for a moment, and asked tentatively, "Kill Pyongyang?" ”

Li Fengyun nodded, "If we want to solve the grain and grass crisis, we can't stop moving forward, we can't stop burning, killing and looting, so we can't pass this road in Qingchuan, so we will immediately turn around and find another way to kill it." My strategy is to divide my troops into two routes, one way to stay on the north bank of the Dading River to confront and maneuver with the enemy, and do everything possible to attract Pyongyang's attention, while all the way to take advantage of the fact that the battle situation is still unclear and the enemy has not yet ascertained the truth and has not yet made a correct response, quickly cross Sasu, kill the city of Pyongyang, first burn, kill, and plunder the surrounding areas of Pyongyang, confuse and worsen the situation in Pyongyang, and actively look for a good opportunity to break through the city and annihilate the enemy. ”

Ashinadur frowned, and after a moment's thought, he said, "Pyongyang and its surrounding defense forces are very strong, and if you want to cross the Sashui River to the east, you must all cross the river with the Ma army. ”

"The Tiger Ben, Fengyun and Leopard Riders led by Han Shige are coming day and night, and they are only three days away from us." Li Fengyun said without hesitation, "You immediately lead the army to find a suitable place to cross the river, starting tomorrow morning, the armies will cross the river to the east one after another, and three days later, the last group of the people will cross the Sashui." ”

Ashina Duer agreed, flew on the horse, and galloped away.

"Pass on an order." Li Fengyun shouted at the heralds, "Order the people of the Yan Dynasty to immediately withdraw to the north bank of the Dading River and let the enemy kill them to the riverside." ”

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