June 18th of the first year of Yongping.
After receiving orders from Huyan Yunyao and Wanyan Chizha, they sent troops from the two countries. He immediately abandoned the city where he had been stationed for less than a month and began a comprehensive withdrawal of troops!
In a short period of time, the originally peaceful state capitals in northern Xinjiang suddenly became turbulent. Troops were rushing in and out, and the figures of cavalry galloping could be seen everywhere.
The people in various states and capitals who had just regained their freedom and wanted to move around because the enemy troops had withdrawn from the city were so frightened that they huddled in their homes and closed the doors tightly when they saw this kind of battle.
Northern Xinjiang, a small and medium-sized territory, is always faced with the crisis of "dark clouds bearing down on us".
The Dalong soldiers and horses received a message from Liu Mingzhi from the Golden Eagle and learned that the enemy was actually planning to abandon the city and withdraw, and began to pursue and intercept them at all costs.
For more than half a month, fighting between the two armies has been happening all the time in Northern Xinjiang.
War is about to break out.
On the Mizhou official road, Liu Mingzhi looked through a letter from a scout with a stern expression.
Song Qing and Jia Zhengjing were also helping to sort out the information that Liu Mingzhi had read, trying to find out some areas that had been missed by the commander.
"Commander, it's chaos. Everything is chaos. There are soldiers and horses everywhere. It's fine during the day, but at night it's hard to distinguish between ourselves and the enemy!"
"Some of my brothers who have gone out have already had seven battles with the retreating enemy troops. However, according to their reports, these enemy troops fled as soon as they were touched. They seemed to be exhausted and did not bother with our brothers at all!"
"So far, out of the twenty-seven prefectures in the North, there have been traces of enemy troops in twelve prefectures, dozens of large and small prefectures and counties, and without exception, they are all trying their best to withdraw northward. The brothers' troops are really limited and there is no way to do so. Now you know which route of troops to block!"
"Fortunately, we responded in time, and there is no news of any troops evacuating from our defense line yet."
Jia Zhengjing held up a piece of information and placed it in front of Liu Mingzhi: "Commander, both our troops and the enemy's troops are now torn apart and are fighting on their own!"
"Although they can't break out of our defense line in a short time, we can't completely intercept them because of our strength."
"If the remaining two armies do not encircle us in time, there is a real possibility that the soldiers and horses of the two countries will forcefully charge out."
Liu Mingzhi put down the last piece of rice paper with a stern expression and looked at Du Yu: "Du Yu, haven't you heard back yet from the 300,000 new troops? It's been half a month, why are there still no signs of arriving in northern Xinjiang?"
"Back to the commander-in-chief, the general has sent several letters urging troops. The last letter I received is that 300,000 new troops have now arrived in Tianzhou!"
"Tianzhou?"
Liu Mingzhi hurriedly squatted on the ground and examined the map on the ground, and finally found the location of Tianzhou. Looking at the distance between Tianzhou and Fengyundu on the northern border, Liu Mingzhi's face became a little gloomy.
"At least it will take about twenty days to get to Mizhou. If there is another problem on the road, we won't be able to get back in less than a month!"
"Why is it so slow?"
Song Qing hurriedly put his eyes on the map and started looking at it.
"Commander, the treasury no longer has enough silver to form 300,000 cavalry. I heard that among the 300,000 new recruits, there are only 100,000 cavalry, and the rest are all infantry."
"It's not too slow to reach Tianzhou at the speed of infantry marching. After all, the time they set off from the capital was too short. Being able to reach Tianzhou is already considered to be outstanding speed."
Liu Mingzhi crumpled the letter in his hand and threw it on the ground: "Damn it, the new recruits formed an army in March, why didn't they start going to the north until June? If they can't join forces in time and let the enemy escape, I’m ready to draw my sword and kill myself.”
Gumo Rongrong hesitated and walked to Liu Mingzhi and stopped. Now the two have been married many times. Liu Mingzhi did not hide many things from Gumo Rongrong, and some brief arrangements were already made known to her. Aunt Mo Rongrong.
When Aunt Mo Rongrong saw her sweetheart's anger rising, she naturally felt heartbroken.
"Commander, if it doesn't work out, just send an order to Commander Zhang Mo and others to go south and encircle us. Things will change later. If the melee continues like this, it will increase the chance of the enemy troops withdrawing from the pass."
When Liu Mingzhi heard this, he looked at the map and was full of hesitation.
"They guarded the Turks, the must-pass fortress for the Jin Kingdom's withdrawal. Only there can they give full play to the advantage of their military strength. Once they are ordered to go south to encircle them, judging from the vast terrain of the northern border, our current military strength will be basically wasted. Don’t open such a big place!”
"Abandoning the fortress and going south to encircle them will give them a chance to withdraw from northern Xinjiang!"
"But if this continues, what if they take a detour and retreat?"
"Especially the Turks. Their cavalry traveled long distances and detoured to Yunzhou. It is not difficult at all to withdraw troops from Ganzhou and return home. The reason why there is a melee now is because they are unable to contact their commander because of the continuous fighting. Once their troops and horses If you engage, it will be easy to find the weak points of the breakout.”
"If we don't encircle you at this time, once the battle line is extended and there are only so many troops, it will be even worse!"
Liu Mingzhi heard the doubts in Gumo Rongrong's words and lost his mind for a moment.
Gumo Rongrong was right. Now it was a melee, and the enemy had no idea how many soldiers and horses Dalong had sent to surround them.
That's why they panicked and chose no other route, and had no chance to withdraw from the northern border.
If they were given time to breathe and the soldiers and horses were contacted, they realized that there were not as many soldiers and horses surrounding them as they thought, and they would be able to find a route to withdraw from northern Xinjiang immediately!
But if Zhang Mo comes to encircle them at this time, with equal strength, once the fortress defense that the enemy must pass through is abandoned, and the enemy wants to withdraw their troops and return home at all costs, it will be impossible to encircle them.
When the strength of the troops is not much different, the enemy does not want to fight, and it is completely foolish to want to keep them all.
At most, a small number of soldiers and horses can be surrounded and killed!
However, 300,000 new soldiers have not yet arrived, and the three groups of troops on the left, center, and right combined are not much more than the enemy. There is no way to hold back some while annihilating others.
The enemy is not just a wooden figure standing still waiting to be killed.
If I can't fight, I'll run away. What can you do to me?
When the time comes, several groups of enemy troops will appear and fight to the death to block the dragon's encirclement opportunity. It will only take five days for the remaining large groups of enemy troops to withdraw from the pass.
At that time all calculations were in vain.
"Commander, make up your mind quickly, fighter planes are changing rapidly!"
"Don't be anxious, let me think about it carefully. The more anxious you are, the more chaotic you will be. At this time, you need to calm down even more!"
Liu Mingzhi rubbed his temples and started pacing, trying to calm down his turbulent mood.
According to my own estimation, it will take about 20 days for 300,000 new troops to rush to northern Xinjiang. But will the enemy army give me so much time to surround them?
Liu Mingzhi thought about more than ten possibilities, and finally came to the conclusion that once the enemy discovered that the number of troops surrounding them was not as large as they imagined, they could calm down immediately and find countermeasures.
Risking Zhang Mo and the reinforcements from the Western Regions to abandon their well-arranged fortresses and come to encircle them? What if, as I expected, several enemy troops with tens of thousands of death squads appeared to block the encirclement offensive?
It can be said that success or failure is a matter of five to five.
Liu Mingzhi never fought an uncertain battle with his troops, but now he was going to have a 50-50 battle.
This situation left him with no confidence at all. Even though he had a 50% chance of winning, he still had no confidence at all.
"Report!"
"Commander, on the official road from Luozhou to Zhenzhou, a group of about 20,000 Turkic cavalry are fighting hard towards Zhenzhou. Our brothers failed to stop them!"
Liu Mingzhi didn't know the state capitals outside the twenty-seven prefectures in Northern Xinjiang, but Liu Mingzhi knew every state capital among the twenty-seven prefectures by heart, and the location of Zhenzhou immediately came to mind.
Liu Mingzhi suddenly looked a little embarrassed.
If the 20,000 Turkic cavalry broke out inadvertently towards Zhenzhou because they were in a panic, it would be troublesome. This shows that the melee in the past half month has made the enemy aware of it. Something! .
"Commander!"
"The humble position is here!"
"Send a message to the commander-in-chief of the 300,000-strong new army, asking him to lead 100,000 cavalry and separate the infantry, and immediately join forces in northern Xinjiang!"
"Got the order!"
"Commander!"
"The humble position is here!"
"............Call to Commander-in-Chief Zhang Mo, ordering him to command the troops stationed in Yanzhou, Fengzhou, Tanzhou, Yingzhou, Jeju... Abandon the fortress and join forces southward!"
"Destroy the enemy with all your strength."
"Got the order!"
After Liu Mingzhi gave the order, he habitually turned the lever on his thumb. He would only do this when he was extremely uneasy.
At this time, Liu Mingzhi's heart really couldn't calm down. It would be an exaggeration to say that it was ups and downs.
Letting Zhang Mo lead his troops south to encircle them was simply a risky gamble.
If you win the bet, the world will be determined, if you lose the bet...
Liu Mingzhi no longer dared to think about what would happen if he lost the bet!
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