A hundred-legged insect, dead but not stiff; The Han Kingdom spans hundreds of years of time and space, countless legends were born in the Han and Han dynasties, and there are even "Ji Han" who have extended their lives for decades!

It's not like the Jin Kingdom, a little oppression, as soon as the domestic wealthy families are persecuted, they surrender unconditionally!

The Han State will not act like this, of course, there is also the Han State is not like the Jin State, the north and the south are in a bitter war, the country is besieged, the families in the territory are all rebelling, the vassal king abandons the land, and the famous general cannot act!

It is impossible for the Han State to be like this, many vassal kings of the Han family have their own talents, otherwise under the surprise attack of the army, the territory of the Han State south of the Yellow River still has not all fallen!

However, now, it is only possible to retreat!

"Edict, Yuzhou Mu Zhuge Liang moved the general to control the deployment of the army along the river and defend against the enemy!"

"Edict, Hussar General Wei Qing commands 100,000 Praetorian Guards, 500,000 conscripts, 500,000 auxiliaries, and the northern deployments, and the Lie King Liu Bei supervises the army, and the top and bottom are united to subdue the three passes!"

After arguing for three days, a choice was finally made, Liu Bang gave an order, and the war machine of the Great Han Kingdom started!

The heritage of the Great Han Kingdom is very deep, there is enough grain and grass everywhere, and there are countless people, although the Central Plains is lost, but it is not a problem to mobilize a million troops!

The Standing Guard of the Han State was originally only 100,000, but after the war began, it was expanded by another 100,000, and these 200,000 are all legendary troops, which is also the foundation of a great empire!

For example, if you can have a team of legendary troops, you are already a bigwig-level character, and you can't imagine the situation where thousands of legendary troops form an army!

At this time, the three northern passes of Yanmen, Ningwu and Biguan were stepping up the construction of fortifications at this time, and all kinds of city defense equipment, grain and grass, and auxiliary soldiers crossed the river from Shangjun, and a team of troops was put into the three passes!

The Empress of the Great Sui also mobilized the deployment of Guanzhong at this time, and ordered the prefectures and counties of Hanzhong and Liangzhou to be mobilized one after another, and all armies and departments successively sent reinforcements to the north through Shangjun to enter the three passes!

The newly established Yellow River fleet was also mobilized at this time, heading north along the river to harass the Han border!

Wei Qing commanded the 100,000 Praetorian Guards, 200,000 ordinary Han troops and 200,000 auxiliaries mobilized in advance, and the goal was to go north in advance, and the goal was directly at the three passes!

Ningwu Pass is the most frequent pass of the wars in the past dynasties in the three passes, and the northern ethnic groups must pass through the three passes as long as they go south; Due to the Yellow River as a natural hazard, only in winter, the cavalry can step on the ice to cross; And Yanmen takes the mountain as a natural danger, and it is difficult for the cavalry to break through.

Only the Huihe River that Ningwuguan relies on is a seasonal river, in the season when the Huihe River is broken, the cavalry can wave along the river valley to the south, and reach the pass, if it is the original boundary, the Huihe River valley can accommodate "ten horsemen marching together", so in most of the history, Ningwuguan has become the main battlefield of the war between the steppe nomads and the farming peoples of the Central Plains.

Historically, due to the feudal lords of the Xianbei, Turkic, Khitan, Mongolian and other nomadic peoples, they often chose Ningwuguan as the breakthrough point, so in many historical periods, the wars here almost continued year after year.

But at this time, it is different, the map of rivers and lakes is a large map that has been expanded ten times on the basis of the original, and any small river has become an immeasurable natural hazard at this time!

The source of each river comes from the snow on the high mountains, the original high mountains are not high, there is not much snow, but now it is different, the height of the mountains has increased tenfold, and the snow at this time is enough to make a small river with intermittent flow become a big river!

So Ningwuguan has also become a natural hazard!

The great craftsmen of the Great Sui Ministry of Industry and the people worked day and night, not only to expand the wall of Ningwu Pass, but also to expand the moat of Ningwu Pass, and to make Ningwu Pass, which was originally between the two mountains, directly connect the cliffs of the two mountains, and a fortress was also built on the two mountains, and now not a bird can fly out from here!

Mayi County north of Ningwu Pass was also captured at this time, and the counties north of Sanguan have basically changed their lords at this time, that is, Datong is still lonely!

Ningwu Pass is located between the two mountains, the army can not be carried out, Wei Qing only sent a partial division to go, the first goal of the army is not here, before the partial pass is a large plain, suitable for the development of the large army, but along the way the mountain road spreads, the army is not easy to advance, so the first target chosen by Wei Qing is Yanmen Pass, and the choice of Yanmen Pass can also get the assistance of the army of Datong!

Half a month later......

The battle situation has not been opened, a team of soldiers were thrown into the battlefield, but it seems to have fallen into a millstone, and disappeared in an instant, time passed little by little, the winter days were short, it was already afternoon, and the two armies of Sui and Han had been fighting for half a day, but this battle still did not see any signs of the end.

Pan Feng rushed to the battlefield with two big axes in his hand, his robe was stained black with bright red blood, and a long wound on his cheek, the flesh turned outward, and the bones were visible.

The breath seemed to be with fire, burning his throat, burning his trachea, burning his lungs, his whole body was like water, soaked in sweat, the war horse under his crotch, a long white gas erupted from his mouth and nose, just this half day of fighting, Pan Feng had already changed two horses, and the third horse seemed to be about to be unable to support it.

His axe was too heavy, and with the heavy armor and weight on his body, he had to prepare a few more good horses to replace it in order not to damage his horsepower!

An axe cut off the opponent's right arm, and the other axe separated a stray arrow, and lowered his head to let go of the oncoming blade, but a wind sound rushed down from behind, it was the sound of the iron shovel breaking the wind, the wind was fierce, Pan Feng's cold hair stood up, it was too late to dodge, buried his head and shrugged his shoulders, put up his back armor, and took this blow hard.

A blow with more than a thousand blows hit Pan Feng's back hard, the thick back armor was smashed backwards, and a fishy sweetness immediately surged into the throat, and the person also lay on the horse's back, the war horse under the crotch sank, and Herod's scream.

Pan Feng gritted his teeth tightly, and waved the big axe with his backhand, only to hear a neighing of the horse, and out of the corner of his eye, he saw the war horse man chasing behind him standing up and throwing the rider on horseback to the ground.

Rushing too fast, Pan Feng, who was bleeding from the corner of his mouth, straightened his back and looked around, his heart suddenly cold, he was alone in the encirclement of the enemy, and a group of cavalry following him did not follow, and the surrounding Sui troops looked at Pan Feng with bright eyes, and the armor and high-headed horses that looked very good on his body made Pan Feng as conspicuous as a diamond in a pile of coal and stone in the Han army.

It's just that the despair hasn't had time to rise, and the next moment, there was a sudden chaos in the corner of the encirclement, and a team of Khitan cavalry rushed into the battle circle with their heads covered.

Pan Feng saw the opportunity and immediately leaned over, he has been in Datong for many years, and has dealt with the Khitan people a lot, he can also say two words in Khitan dialect, plus the general armor on his body is special, his courage is very, and he has seen a lot of people who have seen him in the past two days, roared twice, and smoothly integrated into this team of Khitan army, and even led them to disperse a group of Sui soldiers who surrounded him, and rescued the trapped subordinates.

The two armies in the center of the battlefield have been mixed together, Pan Feng is among them, one moment he still defeated the enemy in one fell swoop, and the next moment, he was chased and killed, and the cavalry could be seen falling off his horse all the time, and then being stepped on by the galloping war horse.

The battlefield without the suppression of the infantry corps was extremely tragic, and the pace and rhythm were far beyond the control of either side.

When Pan Feng withdrew with the remnants, his mouth and nose were bloody, and his body and face were covered with red and black blood stains, and he couldn't tell whether it was his own or from the enemy he had killed, and his subordinates were all wounded, all of them were stained with blood, and a team of Sui heavy cavalry chased behind them, and hundreds of horses galloped wildly, biting tightly, seemingly wanting to take advantage of the situation to attack the Chinese army where Zhou Yafu's handsome banner was.

"Whoever disrupts our army's formation, all will be killed!"

Zhou Yafu's heart was like a stone, and he didn't move, even if he saw his henchman Pan Feng returning in embarrassment and being chased behind by the heavy cavalry of the Sui army, he just ordered the reserves in front of him to raise the longbow in his hand.

Pan Feng knows the Han military system very well, and he also understands Zhou Yafu's strict management of the army; He did not dare to attack the Chinese army, as soon as he saw that the front army was about to shoot, he immediately turned his horse and turned around, and crossed in front of the formation with the remnants of his troops.

The arrows rained down, and a group of heavy cavalry pursuers of the Sui army who rushed to the front were wiped out in an instant.

After many days of battle, the casualties of the Han army were not few, Pan Feng led the troops to kill several times, and less than half of the cavalry he originally belonged to came back, he originally brought a whole 5,000-person elite cavalry team, and at this time the damage was more than 3,000, which is not a small damage for the Han Kingdom, not to mention this army at this time.

Among the more than one million Han troops who crusaded against the Sui army, only one-tenth of the elite cavalry troops, plus those ordinary cavalry troops, would not exceed 300,000, which is one percent of the damage, and they are all elite!

Zhou Yafu's Chinese army tent also had only the last 5,000 elite cavalry as a reserve unused, but at this time they all dismounted and lined up, just like the infantry army guarding them, and retreated several Sui elite cavalry that rushed to the front with longbows.

Zhou Yafu used his own bait at this time, and the big tent of the Chinese army was very far ahead, and it seemed that there were only more than 10,000 infantry troops left around him, attracting groups of Sui troops to target him.

However, after the Sui army elite cavalry suffered two losses in front of his infantry arrow array, he decisively changed to the Han army on both wings, leaving only a cavalry army of more than 3,000 people wandering in front of the formation to contain Zhou Yafu's Chinese army, these more than 3,000 elite Sui army heavy cavalry only cruised outside the arrow array at this time, very cautious, thinking that if it wasn't for Pan Feng's retreat just now that Sui cavalry saw the opportunity, no one should rush straight to Zhou Yafu's Chinese army battle formation.

At this time, it has been more than half a month since the start of the war, and since ten days ago, Zhou Yafu, who is the deputy general of Datong Town, has been ordered to go south, and allocate 100,000 Datong Guard Corps to the south and Wei Qing to attack Yanmen Pass!

It was just blocked in Yingxian, and the Sui people actually sent a group of more than 30,000 elite cavalry to block Zhou Yafu's army!

Zhou Yafu only had 20,000 cavalry, and the Sui people relied on the cavalry, so they sent several partial divisions before the war in a vain attempt to surround the back of the Han army, but the Khitan cavalry army that Zhou Yafu immediately sent to occupy several strategic points outside the battlefield was intercepted in the southwest.

The Khitan army is an ally that Zhou Yafu called for, there are not many defenders of the Han army in Datong, and there have not been many wars in Datong over the years, and after the Battle of the Central Plains opened, the Han family gradually let the legions of the important towns go south to help, and Datong only has 100,000 defenders left!

This time, the Han army invited 20,000 Khitan cavalry, Datong only allocated 50,000 defenders, and the remaining 30,000 were the garrisons of the counties along the way!

Among the 50,000 defenders of Datong, only 15,000 elite cavalry, and the Khitan cavalry were all assigned by Zhou Yafu to guard along the way, so when the Sui army's 30,000 elite cavalry blocked, Zhou Yafu could not break through in one fell swoop!

was blocked by the Sui army, so he could only carry out a small battle with the Sui army in Yingxian, as for sending the cavalry army to the south, who knows what the situation is behind the Sui army, he can't take risks at this time!

The overall strength of the Han army is inferior to that of the Sui army, so he is not allowed to take risks!

After the start of the war, the Sui army had to appoint a thousand cavalry troops every day to try to go directly behind Zhou Yafu's back!

However, Yingxian County is located in the middle reaches of the Sanggan River, the southern end of the Datong Basin, the southeast of the Hengshan Mountains, is the watershed of the Sanggan River and the Hutuo River, the mountains are steep, as long as a few key points are occupied, the Sui army is impossible to climb into; The west is the river, at this time the Sui army did not have a naval army, after occupying the ferry and burning the fishing boats, the Sui army could only look at the river and sigh!

The army is in the county seat, the big camp is standing outside the city, after more than ten days of drowning, the damage on both sides is not small, but Zhou Yafu is becoming more and more worried, the damage of the Sui army has exceeded 10,000, but the number of the army has not decreased at all, and his side is fighting less and less, otherwise Pan Feng will not be besieged today!

If he hadn't immediately mobilized the Khitan cavalry to rescue, Pan Feng might have folded in the Sui army today!

Pan Feng had successfully retreated to the rear at this time, bandaged the wounds, left the soldiers who went out to rest and recuperate, and after changing a horse, he immediately went to Zhou Yafu's side, although it was already afternoon, but the war was in full swing, and when he came back, he had to lead the troops to charge again.

Pan Feng watched the battlefield from a distance under Daxu, regardless of the left flank or the right flank, the offensive and defensive were still orderly, only the Chinese army was on the side, and it was a mess, Zhou Yafu commanded the army to fight, and always paid attention to the strict formation, but when the main force of the army under his command was replaced by infantry to cavalry, it became chaotic.

It's not that Zhou Yafu doesn't want to use the infantry army, but the infantry army is facing the light and heavy cavalry corps and combined attacks of the Sui army, and it is really unstoppable, the infantry gun array can block the heavy cavalry raid, but it can't block the cavalry of the light cavalry, and the sword and shield soldiers can block the cavalry of the light cavalry, but they can't stop the surprise attack of the heavy cavalry!

Zhou Yafu's Han army corps can be regarded as elite and well-equipped, but the number is too small, the 30,000 local troops temporarily recruited are still training and fighting, of course, there are 20,000 war horses assisted by the Khitans, but this group of Khitans is in the way of command, if it weren't for Pan Feng and a group of Han army generals fighting in front, plus Zhou Yafu's powerful military art, the Han army should have retreated a long time ago, but now it is also dangerous, the Chinese army did not retreat, but the right flank of the front is retreating too much, every time the Sui army attacks, It is getting closer and closer to the banner of the Han army on the right flank.

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