Lord of the House

In the battle of Miaotan Ridge's throat lock, the three hanging cable trestle bridges of Longzhaoyan were destroyed and built. The rebel general Yang Xiong's troops were severely damaged, which severely dampened the morale of Yan's enemies on both sides of the north and south.

When the main force of the water camp led by Ge Cunxiong had just arrived at the Shicheng line, the Huaidong Navy, who had entered the Longzuishan line, had less than 5,000 soldiers and less than 100 warships. The sun was ordered to march north decisively.

On the afternoon of the third day, Hu Yu'er's troops approached the Hanshui Dawanshui section on the outskirts of Lumen Mountain in Xiangyang, and they forcibly broke through the blockade of the rebel Yang Xiong's troops on the west side of the evil ghosts, and then attacked the enemy at night. The army was at Hutoushan Water Village in the northwest of Xiangyang City; in the early morning of the 4th, they captured Hutoushan Island in the northwest of Xiangyang, just south of the Han River. The navy under Yang Xiong was almost wiped out, fighting hard for several days, wiping out more than 3,000 enemies, and the traitor Yang Xiong was also forced to abandon the ship and flee into Xiangyang City.

After the water camp battleship tore through the blockade of the enemy's naval forces and controlled the Han River west of Xiangyang, the fate of the enemy of Xiangyang becoming the turtle in the urn was destined to be irreversible.

In the south of Xiangyang, Zhang Gou led his troops to retake Jingmen, and the troops moved to Nanzhang and Zhongyi; in the west of Xiangyang, 20,000 troops and horses of Chen Zuo and Huang Zuyu crossed the Han River, firmly blocking the enemy in Xiangyang. The passage of escape to the west; and from the Han River below the Miaotan Ridge, to November 4, it was also completely under the control of the Huaidong Water Camp.

Although there were more than 60,000 enemy troops who had retreated to Xiangyang, Zhou Fan, Pu Jieshi, Tong Ruilin, Han Li, and Yang Xiong's remnants, but their escape routes were completely blocked, and the grain storage in Xiangyang had been exhausted and had to be slaughtered. mules to maintain.

Seeing that they did not accept the possibility of Xiangyang's troops and horses fleeing westward, even if the Huaidong navy marched against the current and entered the river section of Gucheng and Zanyang, even the troops and horses in Gucheng and the west of Gucheng would not have time to completely withdraw. To the north bank, Ye Ji Luorong had to flee from Gucheng to Zanyang on November 4, while Tian Chang had to lead him to the west of Shilongling, where nearly 10,000 soldiers abandoned Gucheng and escaped from Xianshi. He attacked from the east and fled to the Fulong Mountains on the south bank of Xunguan, and then tried to find a way to cross the Han River to the north.

Although there are many remnants of enemies in Xiangyang, the Huaidong Army must hold on to Miaotanling, Jingmen and other key passes, so that they can become trapped beasts in a cage and cannot escape.

And because the upper reaches of the Han River is dangerous, especially the flowing water west of the Danjiangkou, it is sandwiched between the Qinling Mountains in Bashan, which is even more dangerous than the waterway between the Miaotanling and Huanglongtan, which is not conducive to the Huaidong water camp warships entering the pursuit of the enemy. The enemy who fled west from Gucheng was unable to pursue him for a while. Lin Fu only ordered Hu Yu'er to lead the navy to the west to recover Gucheng and capture the Danjiangkou. He temporarily ignored the enemy soldiers who had fled westward into Fulong Mountain and Yunguan. At the same time on the fourth day, Lin Fu ordered Zhang Gou, Chen Zui, The two town divisions under Huang Zuyu suspended their advance towards Xiangyang, and each held their own ground in case the enemy of Xiangyang broke through. Ao Canghai sent Liu Zhenzhi's department to cut into Dengzhou and Xinye decisively, so that Zhang Jiheng and Yu Wencheng's army surrounded Xinye's rebel general Tu'an's department...

At that time, Yanhu still had nearly 90,000 soldiers and horses on the north bank, but they were scattered in Baiyangguan, Zanyang, Dengzhou, Yunguan and other places, and Baiyangguan, Zanyang and Yunguan were adjacent to Hanshui and Danjiang. In a hurry to shrink to Xichuan and Wuguan in the northwest, to avoid being entangled by the Huaidong navy against the current, there is no time for Xinye's soldiers and horses.

On the south bank, Huaidong only used Zhang Gou, Chen Zuo, Huang Zuyu and their 30,000 troops to trap the enemy in Xiangyang. Except for Zhao Hu to lead the forbidden infantry army at Huanglongtan to support the south bank, other troops and horses were released on November 3rd. On the 5th, the center of gravity began to shift northward, and on the 5th, more than 70,000 heavy troops were assembled in the north and east of Shiqiaoling.

Before the siege of the city, Tu'an abandoned Xinye and fled north on the 5th. Sun Zhuang and Zhou Pu each led a cavalry attack and chased Tu'an's troops in the gully in the north of Xinye, and defeated Tu'an on the 5th. When Dengzhou's rebel general Gao Yi was attacked by Liu Zhen's army, he did not have the courage to help Tu'an, and abandoned Dengzhou and fled to Xichuan in the northwest.

From Dengzhou to the northwest to Xichuan, it is located in the southern foothills of Funiu Mountain, with steep terrain, and further west is Wuguan, one of the nine fortresses in the Central Plains. After Chen Zhihu joined Gao Yi and his troops, there were still 40,000 heavy troops in Xichuan, guarding at Wuguan, and the troops were still fierce. Xinye and Nanyang in the northeast of Dengzhou defeated the enemy.

On November 6th, Ge Cunxiong led the navy to land at Zhongyi to recover Zhongyi in the southeast of Xiangyang; at the same time, Zhao Hu led his troops westward from Huanglongtan, and with the cooperation of the navy, recovered Zanyang.

On the 7th, the more than 2,000 remnant enemies entrenched in Wadian Village on the east bank of the Ganshui River saw that they had no hope of breaking through the encirclement and fleeing north under the encirclement of tens of thousands of Huaidong elites. The rebels such as Futuan left the village and gave up their resistance and surrendered.

After clearing the remaining enemies on the eastern flank of Dandong, Lin Fu envoy Ao Canghai gathered more than 70,000 cavalry troops in Dengzhou on the 8th, including Liu Zhenzhi, Zhang Jiheng, Yu Wencheng, Sun Zhuang, and Zhou Pu, and advanced on Xichuan on the 9th.

Chen Zhihu abandoned Xichuan West and fled to Wuguan on the 9th, meeting with Ye Ji Luorong.

Ao Canghai sent Zhang Jiheng to guard Xichuan and blocked the gap between the Yanbing troops and Wuguan, and made Yu Wencheng lead his troops north to recover Nanyang, Tanghe, Biyang, Fangcheng and other places. To defend the northern line—

At the same time, Lin Futiao, Liu Zhenzhi, Zhou Pu and other troops withdrew to Fancheng from the northern line. After a brief rest, they and Tang Fuguan, who had advanced westward from Suizhou, crossed the Han River from Miaotanling and Zhongyi respectively on the 15th, and went to Xiangyang from both wings. Approaching and encircling the enemy of Xiangyang.

On the fifteenth day, Zhang Gou was ordered to also lead his troops northward from Jingmen to recover Nanzhang City, southwest of Xiangyang.

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Entering mid-November, Yanjing snowed heavily for days and thousands of miles in Yanjing, all covered in silver.

The letter riders who galloped straight into the palace from Wuyangmen were splashed with snow, and the princes and ministers guarding the palace all looked up, hoping that the news from the southwest this time would make people lift the huge stone in their hearts.

The news of the successive defeats of the Western Front troops and horses in Jingxiang also came from the harem. Listening to the letter riding straight into the palace, the concubines and concubines of the harem, the palace maids, and the servants also craned their necks, hoping that good news would come back from the south.

With 200,000 elites, plus the 400,000 soldiers and horses attached to the She and Luo families, everyone thought that the whole world was in the hands of Beiyan. How could they have imagined that such an earth-shaking change would occur in just a few dozen days?

Yongning Palace is the dormitory of Concubine Jade. His Highness has a hearth. After winter, the fire will start. People will not feel the biting cold in the palace. The biting atmosphere makes people breathless, how can Yongning Palace be alone?

"Your hard-working younger brother, who fought for Dayan's country in the past few years, sweated and shed no less blood than anyone else, but his life or death in Fancheng is unknown, and Prince Mu did not say to send troops to rescue..." Ye He's eldest wife, Concubine Yu, and mother of Azhige were sitting on the soft couch in Yongning Palace and complaining to their daughter Concubine Yu.

Concubine Yu is also heartbroken that her younger brother's life and death are unknown, but now it is far from a matter of personal safety. How can she trouble King Khan for her private affairs?

In addition, the development of Jingxiang's situation makes people feel like lightning can't cover their ears.

Huaidong's ambush in Chaishan only showed its hideous face on the 21st, and the hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses in eastern Hubei on the 21st and 22nd were defeated by the Huaidong army, and there was no fight back. By the first ten days of November, the latest battle report came back from Jingxiang, and the troops and horses on the east bank of the Han River had been completely wiped out by the Huaidong Army.

At this time, Beiyan had no soldiers and horses to adjust in Hezhong Mansion, and no soldiers and horses to adjust in Guanzhong; although there were hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses in Shandong recently, even when a strange army from Huaidong attacked Shouzhou and copied Dongyuan's old nest , its elite soldiers and horses deployed in the south of Shandong and Xusi are no less than 80,000. How can Beiyan respond to such a big change in just ten or twenty days?

It is about the survival of the country and the family, but the mother thought that Prince Mu had a problem with the Yehe people, so she sat and watched her younger brother fall into the hands of Huaidong. Concubine Yu was anxious and painful, but she had to be patient to comfort her mother, saying: "Now Jing The Xiang army was in chaos, there were broken troops everywhere, and the road was blocked by the Huaidong Army. My younger brother had the courage of a thousand people, and there was no way to get out of the Huaidong Army's encirclement for a while, so don't worry too much. Maybe where it is. Hidden in the mountains, when the situation eases, my younger brother will be able to return to Yanjing to be reunited with his mother..."

Listening to the letter riding straight into the palace, Concubine Yu couldn't help straightening her waist and looked in the direction of Wuyangmen, only separated by the heavy palace walls and halls, where can you see the letter riding into the palace, she is charming and bright Her face also looked haggard, but her eyes were still clear, which made her look eclipsed by the seemingly beautiful palace maids around her.

"It should have been sent back from Jingxiang's battle report. Daughter, you should go to Chongwen Hall to inquire, and there may be news of your brother." Ye Heshi said.

"Mother, what are you talking about, something happened to my brother, and Yu'er is also in pain, but the princes and princes are all discussing matters with King Khan in Chongwen Hall. Why can't Yu'er ask King Khan to come over without worrying about it?" Yu'er The concubine couldn't help but complain.

Ye Heshi was speechless.

After a while, an attendant of the yellow door came over in panic, and knelt before Concubine Yu and said, "Jingxiang has a battle report handed over, the emperor is him, the emperor is..."

"What's wrong with him, Your Majesty?" The princess felt chills with palpitations. Knowing that King Khan was not in good health, she was afraid that another bad news would come back from the southwest, so that King Khan's body could not hold back the blow.

"The emperor read the battle report, coughed up a big bowl of blood, covered his heart and said that it was so painful, and then passed out!" Dingzhuliang, Empress Yufei, please go and have a look..."

Concubine Yu knew that there must be another bad news coming from the southwest. She didn't care about changing her shoes, holding a cloak, wearing silk shoes, a small jacket, and carrying a ru skirt, so she rushed to the Chongwen Palace, her face was like a knife-like snow grain. Beihan blowing hurts...

He coughed up blood again—he had vomited blood four times in the past two weeks, how could King Khan's body hold up?

Concubine Yu trotted into Chongwen Hall, Zhang Xie and other princes and ministers were still there, with a frightened look on their faces, presumably the battle report from the southwest was even more depressing.

Concubine Yu had no time to think about the war in the southwest. She was only worried about King Khan's body. She leaned back and bowed to the princes and ministers, and walked to the inner hall. Before entering the inner hall, she heard Ye Jibaishi's voice from inside: "King Bo feared the enemy like a tiger, abandoned 70,000 elites from Zhou Fan, Pujiishi, and Tong Ruilin in Xiangyang without saving him, and fled north by crossing the Han shuicang alone. Abandoning Nanyang and Henan, retreating to Guanzhong, negotiating peace with the Southern Dynasty, and secretly making alliances with Sichuan and Huaixi, it was just to cover up his responsibility for the defeat of Jingxiang. The emperor did not send envoys to his post as a punishment, and called the big one. How can the generals and soldiers of Yan be convinced?"

When Yu Fei heard this, her heart was also shocked. A few days ago, there was news that the soldiers and horses on the east bank of the Han River had been wiped out. Why can't the 70,000 elites in Xiangyang be rescued?

Doesn't this battle mean that the Western Front will be completely hurt?

The princess asked the palace attendant next to her, "What's wrong with the emperor?" The people who were arguing in the inner hall knew that she was here~www.wuxiaspot.com~ Yejier woke up and sat on the bedside in a white fox robe. She didn't give the emperor's eldest son Bai Shan's face because Yu Fei walked in, and said earnestly: "If you have to do something, your uncle Wang will definitely not give up and save the soldiers and horses in Xiangyang. Uncle King will definitely not feel good in his heart, but it is better than the annihilation of all troops on the western front. Furthermore, the battle of Jingxiang was not your uncle King's arbitrary act. Neither I nor the princes and ministers saw through Huaidong's strategy to lure troops. If you and I lead the army, I may not be able to do better than your uncle-king. At the moment of Dayan's survival, if you still think about the old grudges and can't work together to overcome the difficulties, there will be no me in the Central Plains. The place where Dayan stands, you must understand in your heart!"

Ye Zier had just woken up from coughing up blood, when he was in a hurry to speak, and coughed desperately again, making Yu Fei feel heartbroken when she heard it, and hurriedly sat down, eased his back, and asked him to take a breath.

"..." Ye Jibaishan glanced at Concubine Yu and didn't say a word, but looking at his face, it was obvious that he didn't convince his father, so he shut up and didn't speak, just didn't want to make his father Ye Jier angry on the spot.

Seeing his son Baishi's expression, Yezier felt anxious, angry, and helpless, and said, "Your uncle has fought all his life, and his knowledge is not inferior to you. I'm afraid that there will be no good days to live, and if you can share It is better to give up the Central Plains early, go back to Liaodong, and take advantage of the hundreds of thousands of elites to leave early to guard Ulun Mountain to save my heart after death!"

Concubine Yu was shocked again. Could it be that the situation was so bad that even the Yellow River could not be guarded? Thinking about the fact that King Khan deliberately arranged things behind him, it made her even more worried. My QT room is open! More vulgar official QT room number [9167] Click to enter