Chapter 239: Between Victory and Defeat
Yuanwu Empire, the freshly baked founding emperor His Majesty Bayar held the letter sent back from the 800 miles of the Green Ridge Pass by Badama Ningbu of the Zhengqing Banner, his hand trembled slightly, the people of Dingzhou crossed the ocean, transported heavy troops to Murwei, and helped the prince of Murwei Tienig to unify Murwei, the two sides of the coalition army, nearly 100,000 troops outside the Green Ridge Pass, ready to attack the city.
If it is Huhe's wolf running that guards the green ridge pass at this time, then Bayar has nothing to worry about, even if it is the two flags of Boyan's Zhenghuang and yellow, there are forty or fifty thousand soldiers who can fight, with the help of the momentum of Xiongguan, it is no problem to firmly block the enemy from outside, but now, the town guarding the green ridge is the Zhengqing banner that has been greatly weakened by the people of Dingzhou, Bayar also knows in his heart that under his own intentional or unintentional laissez-faire, under the thunderous blow of Li Qing in Dingzhou, the Zhengqing banner has already fallen from the status of the second largest tribe in the grassland, In particular, Haningqi's death was a fatal blow to the Qingbu, and the Qingbu ministers and elders fell one by one. For the first time in his life, Bayard regretted it.
Picking up the pen, Bayar hesitated again and again, at the moment, he really couldn't draw troops to help the Green Ridge Pass, through the wall, looking at the direction of Dingzhou, where are all the knots, if you can break the current stalemate in Dingzhou before the Dingzhou people capture the Green Ridge Pass, you can take the initiative.
"The empire lives and dies, the heir of the grassland bloodline, tied to Er, do his best to defend the Green Ridge Pass, and he is the first king of the Yuanwu Empire." Bayar dropped the last stroke, threw away the pen in his hand, and said loudly: "Someone, give me the letter for eight hundred miles and send it to the owner of the Zhengqing Banner." ”
With the drastic changes in the situation outside the Green Ridge Pass, the battle on the front line of Dingwei suddenly became tense, Boyan, Sushun, Naben, Fu Sen in Dingyuan, Weiyuan, Zhenyuan under the three fortresses, each left more than 10,000 people to contain the knife, the rest of the men and horses poured in, began to force the defense line of Shahe Town, risking the risk of cutting off logistics, but also to storm Shahe Town, the previous safe strategy, with Li Qing's soldiers out of the Green Ridge Pass, has been unnecessary, the hinterland of the grassland except for the 30,000 dragon Ben stationed in Bayar to guard the royal court, there are no more fighting soldiers,, If Li Qing is allowed to break through the Green Ridge Pass, the grassland barbarians will have no place to stand, and then it will be a disaster for the country and the clan.
Three 60,000 troops approached Shahe Town, and the Great War broke out immediately.
The defense line of Shahe Town, Li Qing's big tent of the Chinese army, as the war escalated, Li Qing returned to Shahe Town to preside over the overall situation.
"Everyone, Bayar is in a hurry, and wants to fight with us quickly, this is their last madness, as long as we hold the defense line of Shahe Town steadily, once we break through the mountain wind and break through the Green Ridge Pass, the barbarians will inevitably retreat, and at that time, it will be the moment for us to counterattack."
The generals were excited, and their eyes showed eagerness.
"Gentlemen, I want to remind you that the more this moment, the more you have to cheer up, do you know the fierce beast after being injured, that is their most dangerous moment, the barbarian at the moment is the injured beast, they know very well, once the Green Ridge Pass is broken, they will no longer have peace, they will fall into the quagmire of the two-front battle, and their demise is not far away, Bayar's army gathered in Dingzhou, and it is impossible to rescue the Green Ridge Pass in a short time, then his only strategy is to defeat us first, as long as they defeat us, Occupy Dingzhou, and General Guo will become water without a source and a tree without roots. So they will jump over the wall in a hurry, fighting to the death, Dingzhou and the barbarians, who wins and who loses, who survives and who dies, will be in this battle. Shang Haibo stood up and said loudly.
Li Qing also stood up and said: "Tell all the officers and soldiers, the Hall of Heroes, the Monument to the Unknown Heroes is behind us, they are looking at us with wide eyes, hundreds of thousands of people in Dingzhou are looking at us, their parents, wives and children, relatives and friends are watching us behind us, brave fighters, rewards, those who fear the enemy, kill!" Those who are wounded in the chest and die will be affected by their parents, wives and children, and those who will be injured in the back, which will affect their families. ”
The generals stood up and replied in unison: "I swore to die for the commander, swore to fight to the death, defend the commander, defend Dingzhou, defeat the barbarians, and would rather die forward than retreat." ”
Li Qing nodded with satisfaction: "Very good, sit down, let's arrange defense affairs." ”
Shahe Town, is the last line of defense in front of Dingzhou City, once the barbarians break Shahe Town, then they can go straight to Dingzhou City, the iron cavalry can go straight to the rich land of Dingzhou, Fuyuan, Shanglin will all fall into the encirclement, if so, the defeat of Dingzhou is a foregone conclusion, is that Shahe Town is the decisive battle between the two armies, 60,000 soldiers and horses of the barbarians, and nearly 30,000 people of Wang Qinian stationed in Shahe, plus the rebuilt Whirlwind Battalion, 10,000 cavalry of the Changsheng Battalion, a total of 40,000 people, although the strength is at a disadvantage, but there are strong fortifications to rely on, Behind the barbarians, the three fortresses each had thousands of troops, and after the barbarian army left, they had the spare strength to go out of the city to disturb the logistics and supply of the barbarians, and on the battlefield that spanned hundreds of miles, Li Qing's unswerving policy of clearing the wilderness made the barbarians' strategy of fighting and nourishing war completely useless, and they could only rely entirely on the transportation behind, which also greatly dragged down the barbarians' combat power. In the face of such a favorable situation, Li Qing was fully confident that he would fulfill his promise to completely defeat Bayar within three years, as long as he dragged the barbarian army in Shahe Town, and better yet, defeated him, then the barbarian army that retreated into the grassland would henceforth fall into a situation of fighting on two fronts, and would no longer be able to pose any threat to Dingzhou, and he could slowly dismember and eliminate him with ease.
In the forest, Hu He also fell into deep anxiety, the high wall in the forest, Hu He, who had been avoiding the forcible siege of the city, had reached such a point that he could only reluctantly launch an attack, containing Lu Dalin and Yang Yidao of Fuyuan, so that they were unable to send reinforcements to Shahe Town, Shanglin had more than 30,000 soldiers, and most of them were cavalry, and Lu Linlin had no intention of going out of the city to fight with him, and it seemed that he had made up his mind to use the strong city to make Hu He bleed blood, knowing Lu Dalin's thoughts, Hu He smiled bitterly, even if there was a trap in front of him, he had to jump in.
"Order, Haoge will start attacking Shanglin from tomorrow, first clear the surrounding houses for me, and then divide 10,000 troops, bypass Shanglinli, enter Fuyuan, and oppress Yang Yidao. Nokia, after Hauge launched an attack, you quietly led 10,000 wolves to reinforce Shahe Town. Hu He commanded.
Nokia was taken aback, "Hu Shuai, in Shanglin, we only have 40,000 wolf runs, and after I take away 10,000, we don't have any advantage in terms of troops, how can we defeat Shanglin?" ”
Hu He shook his head, "I can't fight in the forest, so I just launched an attack, one is to contain Lu Dalin and Yang Yidao, and the other is to put a smoke screen on the Shahe front for you to reinforce, this battle, the focus is on Shahe Town, Shahe Town wins, then all the whole is alive, Shahe Town is defeated, or it is stalemate, and if we can't attack for a long time, we will definitely lose." At that time, we can only retreat to the grassland, and from then on we will go on the defensive, and we will never have the opportunity and ability to attack Dingzhou and get involved in the Central Plains. Hu He sighed lonely.
Nokia was silent, and he didn't expect that Hu Shuai would be so pessimistic about the situation.
"Badamanbu will defend the Green Ridge Pass." Nokia is definitely authentic.
The corners of Hu He's mouth pulled out a smile, "I hope so, but the Green Ridge is a natural danger for the people of Murowei, but in the eyes of Dingzhou, who is good at defending the city and attacking the city, it is nothing, you look at the forest in front of us, think about Fuyuan, Dingyuan four fortresses, that one is strong and steep is not above the Green Ridge Pass, I only hope that Badama Ninbu can put aside the grievances and grievances with the Bai clan and the emperor at this time, and fight to the death for the fate of all the tribes in the grassland, it is good to be able to delay a little longer, he can support one more day, and we will have one more chance of winning." ”
In the Green Ridge Pass, Badama Nyingbu received Bayar's letter, and when he saw Bayar's promise, he suddenly laughed out loud, laughing so hard that tears flowed, and all the Qing generals looked at each other, and really didn't understand why the patriarch could laugh at this time, most of them still counted on Bayar to send reinforcements, and now, there was no hope.
With both hands, Badamanibu tore the letter to shreds, and with a wave of both hands, snowflake-like shredded paper fell down one after another, and the messenger who sent the letter was taken aback, looked at Badamanibu, and said in a trembling voice: "My lord? ”
Badamanbu suddenly stopped laughing, looked at the messenger, and said sharply: "You go back and tell Bayar that I, Badamanbu, will swear to protect the Green Ridge Pass, and my Qing clan and the Green Ridge Pass will live and die together, but not for his bullshit side by side, I am for my grassland vein to survive in this grassland, I will never let the Murwei people kill into the Green Ridge Pass, if they come, our grassland clan will be wiped out." ”
The messenger hurriedly saluted Badama Ninbu, and the other party was so disrespectful that it would be a great sin to call His Majesty the Emperor by his name, but now, the messenger did not dare to say more, "My lord, I will tell His Majesty the Emperor that you will live and die with the Green Ridge Pass, and the villain also wishes the Lord victory and defeat the enemy." ”
Badamanbu stopped talking, and looked through the walls, as if he had seen the fierce fighting of the past few days.
Two days ago, the Dingzhou people filled all the trenches, and drove all their garrisons outside the city into the pass, and Qiluo's 5,000 cavalry had to withdraw under the blow of the Murwei people.
Badamanbu's biggest concern is that there are not enough arrows, these days, he has ordered people to start collecting arrows from the other side to shoot at the city, in case of emergency, and then the battle to take the city, the other side will directly attack the city wall. Seeing the Dingzhou people's crazy long-range strikes, the expensive eight-ox crossbow arrows came like rain, and the city was up and down, every day, it was shrouded in the archers, and the city walls were full of feather arrows, becoming like a thorn, and Badama Ninbu really couldn't think of how to deal with it after the city battle. He knew for sure that once the other party began to attack the city, his trebuchet would be lost under the enemy's intensive blows, how to deal with the opponent's trebuchet, Badamanbu racked his brains and thought hard about countermeasures.
(To be continued)