Liu Bogen watched helplessly as more than a thousand enemy cavalry left safely, leaving only a group of Donglai troops gnashing their teeth with hatred.
Regarding these cavalry, Liu Bogen guessed that they must be the Duanbu or Wuwan people from western Liaoning. They should not be underestimated. A mere thousand people rushed hundreds of miles deep.
When Liu Bogen began to send detective horses and scouts to the west of Linzi, these hateful Liaoxi barbarian cavalry came back like maggots on the tarsus, and relied on their skilled riding skills to engage in many battles with the Donglai army's detective horses. The Lai army was almost completely defeated. The Donglai army, which suddenly lost the reconnaissance and reconnaissance, was like a blind man, losing news and transportation to the west of Linzi.
In the end, Wang Mi led his soldiers, using formations and a large number of crossbowmen, to finally drive these hateful light cavalry out of the Donglai Army's communication line.
But it was already the third day.
When Liu Bogen in Linzi made contact with the Donglai Army in the three cities of Huanyi, Xi'an, and Jili to the west, he found that a large number of infantry forwards from the Youzhou Jin Army had appeared in Huanyi.
Huanyi's front is Gaoyuan. If a large number of Jin infantry appear in Huanyi, it means that Gaoyuan in front has probably been lost.
Of course, there is another possibility, that is, the Youzhou Jin army ignored Gaoyuan's Donglai army and was not afraid of them leaving the city to attack the Jin army's rear and baggage transportation lines.
The aggressive Jin army did not keep the Donglai rebels in Huanyi guessing for too long.
Another day later, the banner of Ningbei General Wang Huan appeared in the sight of Huanyi Donglai Army surrounded by tens of thousands of Jin troops. Along with it, the head of Donglai Army guard Wang Wei appeared.
Seeing the head of Gaoyuan guard, everyone in Huanyi's Donglai army was shocked. You must know that there are nearly 2,000 old brothers in Gaoyuan City, and another 2,000 recruited prisoners and green forest people, and Gaoyuan is Lele. The security station and the city are strong. As long as the guard of Gaoyuan City is not a pig, there is no way it can be breached so quickly.
Later, Liu Bogen, who received the news in Linzi, estimated that if the time spent on the march was not included, it took only one day for the Youzhou Jin army to break through Gaoyuan. Could it be that these Youzhou soldiers were descended from heaven?
"If it were a normal siege, it would not take a day just to make the siege equipment. I guess there must be someone in Gaoyuan City acting as an internal agent, allowing the enemy to enter Gaoyuan from the city gate."
Wang Mi thought for a moment and then said.
"If this is the case, it must be a wealthy family in Gaoyuan City, otherwise no one else in the city would have this ability."
Liu Bogen also thought of this possibility.
"If all these powerful men in Qingzhou are connected with Wang Huan, then Huanyi may not be able to defend it."
Wang Mi said that Huanyi was not only a small city, but there were only a thousand Donglai soldiers in the city, and the total number of powerful private soldiers in the city was probably no less than 3,000.
"It would be better to abandon Huanyi and retreat to Xi'an City in the east. The city defense there is strong, and many wealthy families in Xi'an have clan properties in Linzi City. They certainly don't dare to imitate the wealthy families in Gaoyuan City and cause chaos."
Like a bug in Liu Bogen's belly, Liu Yong, the general of Huanyi of the Donglai Army, had already abandoned the city and fled the night when the Youzhou soldiers appeared before receiving Liu Bogen's order to abandon Huanyi.
Liu Yong had no intention of abandoning the city at first.
But as soon as the Youzhou soldiers carrying the head of General Gaoyuan appeared during the day, the Donglai Army soldiers under Liu Yong began to talk to each other.
The soldiers all thought: The Gaoyuan city wall with many soldiers was breached so quickly. Now our Huanyi city is short with few soldiers and is even more dangerous. It is better to take advantage of the fact that the Jin army has not yet begun to encircle and escape as soon as possible, otherwise they will not be able to escape when the time comes. Can't run away.
By the evening of that day, most of the soldiers Liu Yong had just recruited from the Green Forest Heroes had secretly escaped, causing panic among the other soldiers in Huanyi.
Seeing that morale was low, Liu Yong also knew that Huanyi could not hold on.
He simply opened the east gate of Huanyi that night and escaped while it was dark.
Before escaping, Liu Yong also set several fires in the city in an attempt to burn the materials in the city, but they were quickly put out by the people of Huanyi spontaneously.
Huanyi guard Liu Yong led his men to take advantage of the darkness and ran for a long time in the dark. When they finally escaped to Xi'an City, only a dozen soldiers of the original army of more than a thousand people were left. The other newly recruited green forest heroes should be free and easy to reunite in the forest.
The guard general of Xi'an City is Cao Yi, and Liu Bogen has given him a military order. If Cao Yi dares to abandon the city and flee, he will be killed immediately.
According to Liu Bogen and Wang Mi's assumptions, the city of Xi'an is only fifty miles away from Linzi. If Cao Yi holds Xi'an and Liu Bogen leads the army westward from Linzi, it won't take long to arrive. In this way, the Youzhou Jin army attacking Xi'an city will be able to get there. Forming an inner and outer surround.
Moreover, there is the Yuanshui River to the west of Xi'an City, which can hinder the retreat of the Youzhou Jin Army. As long as they defeat the Youzhou Jin Army head-on under Xi'an City, their chances of escaping are slim.
After Huanyi guard Liu Yong fled to Xi'an, Xi'an guard Cao Yi sent people out of the city to destroy the pontoon bridge on the Yuan River.
Although there are several shoals in the Yuanshui River that can be crossed, the efficiency of crossing the river is far less than that of the pontoon bridge, so Cao Yi thought of destroying the pontoon bridge to delay the Jin army as much as possible.
But as soon as the soldiers sent by Cao Yi left the city, hundreds of Xianbei cavalry appeared and quickly occupied the pontoon bridge, scaring the soldiers sent by Cao Yi so much that they all ran back to the city, and there was not even a single pontoon bridge on the Yuanshui River. There was no time to remove the iron chain.
Seeing the Liaoxi barbarians showing off their power outside the city, Cao Yi personally led 500 infantrymen out of the city, thinking of forcing the enemy back and regaining control of the pontoon bridge.
Just when Cao Yi's troops and the Xianbei cavalry were just beginning to wander around and exchange bows and arrows with each other, thousands more cavalry suddenly appeared in the west and quickly rushed in the direction of Cao Yi.
In this situation, Cao Yi saw that the enemy was outnumbered and he could only lead his army to retreat into the city.
Halfway through the retreat, the Xianbei cavalry, which had been harassing and harassing them from afar, suddenly formed a formation to attack the retreating Donglai army of Cao Yi. The five hundred infantrymen fled towards the city in an instant. When Cao Yi risked his life and returned, In the city, after an inventory, it was discovered that half of the 500 people who left the city had lost half of their strength.
From then on, Cao Yi no matter how tempted the Xianbei cavalry outside the city was, he was determined not to leave the city again. Even when the Xianbei cavalry was outside the city and slaughtered the captured Donglai soldiers in front of the Donglai army, Cao Yi was determined. I dare not leave the city anymore.
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According to the county.
Liu Yu, whose continuous training had been quite fruitful, was no longer happy at this time, even though the newly attached refugee army was making rapid progress.
Because Liu Yu discovered that he was running out of food supplies. The existing grain reserves could barely last for less than a month. Farmers and powerful people who had completed the summer harvest must have food in their hands, especially powerful people. Even if there was no summer harvest, most of them would be at home. There is food in stock.
There are basically two ways. One is to spread out the entire army and plunder everywhere like barbarians raiding grass and valleys. The other is to levy summer taxes like the imperial court.
As for the current question, how do you get the food in the hands of farmers or powerful people into your own hands?
