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Chapter 1444 Raid in the hinterland

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    Yuan Taizuo went to great lengths to hide his whereabouts, and even put his own brother and tens of thousands of troops in danger. His purpose was to catch the Sui army by surprise.

    Last winter, Yuan Taizuo discussed with Beggars and Buyers about the expedition to Liaodong.

    But it is easy to go to war, but difficult to win.  The Sui army was far more powerful than them and was good at defending large cities such as Buyeo City and Nainai City. The Sui army would inevitably station a large number of troops here and the defenses would be impregnable.  Even if they were arrogantly begging for profits, they would not have the confidence to attack the fortified city where the Sui army was heavily armored.

    After all, siege is a process of attrition. If it is attrition, they will definitely not be able to defeat the Sui army.

    The two discussed day and night, trying to win by surprise, and they really found a suitable way to advance.

    The two believed that if the Sui army stuck to the big city, it would lose defense in some small towns.

    The coalition forces could take the opportunity to attack Huiba City directly (near Huifa Town in the northeast of Huinan County, Jilin Province), and then go south along the Huiba River (now Huifa River) valley to directly attack the hinterland of Liaodong.  The main force of the Sui army heard that Liaodong was unstable and would definitely send reinforcements from the Fuyu City area.  And Yuan Taizuo planned to occupy the new city and then ambush the Sui army in the valley on the north bank of the Xiaoliao River. He would definitely defeat the opponent.

    Yuan Taizuo still remembers what happened when Yuexi was ambushed in the battle, and he must take revenge.

    The two even planned that if the attack failed and they lost the opportunity to encircle and annihilate the main force of the Sui army and were forced to retreat, they would go all the way east and return in the direction of the Tutai Mountains.

    It must be said that the plan of the two men is surprisingly bold and highly executable. If it succeeds, it will definitely hit the Sui army hard.

    Yuan Taizuo also planned that they are now stationed in Limo Shuinan, and the room for maneuver is too small.  If we take the opportunity to recapture the domestic city, with the Tutai Mountains at our back, and the support of the local Goguryeo people, we will definitely be able to use this as a base to counterattack Liaodong.

    It can be said that the two of them have deduced the plan to the extreme, leaving only the final execution.

    This joint dispatch of troops can be regarded as Goguryeo borrowing troops from the Mohe people, so the thankless task of attracting the attention of the Sui army was left to the Goguryeo people.  But the Goguryeo people did not suffer too much. Yuan Taizuo and the beggars negotiated and decided to send troops to the front army while the Goguryeo people sent troops to the rear.

    Yuan Taizuo hoped to use Mohe people to pull chestnuts from the fire for them, and begged for profits in the hope of grabbing more loot, but everyone got what they needed.

    After Yuan Jiansheng led his troops to the south, Yuan Taizuo also led his troops to turn southeast and go back to Bacheng along the Yimi River (today's Yinma River).

    A few days later, the Goguryeo Army and the Mohe Allied Army, which had been waiting here for a long time, joined forces to form a coalition.  Among the coalition forces, there were 45,000 Mohe people and 35,000 Goguryeo people, a total of 80,000 people.

    The morale of both sides was high, and their troops and horses were like dragons, heading straight back to Bacheng.

    Huiba City cannot actually be considered part of Liaodong, because the Han regime has never occupied it from beginning to end.  This place was actually built when Goguryeo was building a mountain city system.  Like other Goguryeo mountain cities, it is surrounded by mountains and rivers, located on an important transportation road, and is located on the top of Huiba Mountain and on the platform at the foot of the mountain.  The geographical shape is dangerous. It faces the Huiba River on three sides in the south, north and west, and faces the valley plain on one side. There are cliffs on the south side, steep slopes on the north side, and a slight gentle slope on the east side. The mountains are used as natural barriers. City walls are built along the direction of the mountains. The city is divided into two parts.  It has three levels: the city, the middle city, and the outer city. It can be said to be a truly easy-to-defend but difficult-to-attack place.

    After the fall of Goguryeo, Huang Mingyuan did not have the energy to organize the cities north of Liaodong, so he just sent messages to each city and changed the banner.  Later, when news came of the alliance between the Goguryeo people and the Mohe people, Huang Mingyuan was advised to deploy his troops from Buyeo City to Guijie City to build a defense line, but Huang Mingyuan refused.

    There is a distance of more than 600 miles from Buyeo City to Inner City. How many troops are needed to deploy defenses?  Setting up defenses everywhere is equivalent to not guarding them everywhere.

    Huang Mingyuan considered that the troops were in the three directions of Fuyu City, Kaiyuan City, and Neiguocheng, which provided convenient support and could form a large encirclement, so he did not send troops to the cities near Hui Bashui.

    It¡¯s not that Huang Mingyuan doesn¡¯t see the importance of returning to Bacheng. This place is like a sharp knife stabbing the Mohe people in the waist.  However, precisely because of the dangerous location, sending fewer troops would not be effective, and sending more troops would cause the troops to be scattered and even alert the enemy. Therefore, no large group of Sui troops has been stationed here.

    The guard general of Huiba City was the original Goguryeo general. When the Goguryeo and Mohe coalition forces reached the city, Huiba City immediately opened its doors and surrendered.

    There were less than a thousand defenders in the city, and not long after they had surrendered to the Sui Dynasty, no one wanted to be a die-hard loyalist to the Sui people.

    Only the chief secretary of Baishan County, who was stationed in Huiba City during the Sui Dynasty, led fifty Sui soldiers who preferred death to surrender and resisted step by step. In the end, they all died in the city.

    Although returning to Bacheng is five hundred miles away from Baishan County,But it does belong to Baishan County.

    Of course, dozens of Sui troops could not stop the advance of the coalition forces, so after begging for money and occupying Huiba City, they continued southward.  It was more than four hundred miles from Huiba City to Shengjie City. The Mohe cavalry galloped in the starry night and drove straight in. It took less than four days to reach the city and surrounded Shengjie City.

    The Sui army was defenseless on this front line. If the seventh battalion of Zhentun had not been ordered to rush to Kaiyuan, which happened to be located outside the city, and immediately retreated into the city after hearing the news to help hundreds of Sui army soldiers in the city defend the city, victory in Jie City would have been early.  It was defeated by the Mohe people in one go.

    Andal was also unlucky. During the Shunyi Army rebellion, Andal was detained by Dai Lipeng in the army, which almost caused a big chaos.  Although Andal was rescued later, his subordinates had defected to the Sui people and separated from him, and Andal no longer regained his former status.

    Afterwards, the General Administration of Liaozhou reorganized the troops, and Andal's headquarters was divided into two. Zhao Renji and Han Feng, with a group of their direct descendants, were reorganized into the eighth battalion of Zhentun. Han Feng became the commander, and his troops were ordered to be transferred to Benxi  county.  But Andal had no choice but to lead Ning Zu's troops who were alienated from him and Li Chengmin's troops to be reorganized into the seventh battalion of Zhentun and transferred to Xi'an Ping County.

    In the seventh battalion of Zhentun, Li Chengmin was Zuo Yin's old subordinate and had little relationship with him. Ning Zu was even more of a quarrel.  Among the more than 3,000 people, he can directly control less than half of the army.  In the army, Ning Zu and Li Chengmin colluded, and the general manager's office also favored the two, so Andal's life was extremely difficult.

    This time, they were ordered to transfer north to support Kaiyuan, and everyone headed north from Ping County, Xi'an.  Therefore, he had conflicts with Ning Zu and Li Chengmin, and there were constant twists and turns along the way. Fortunately, the army advanced slowly, and it was only now that it crossed the river from Fushun and reached Shengjie City.

    Andal had to worry about whether he would be accused of missing the deadline.

    Unexpectedly, as soon as they arrived outside Shengjie City and before they set out, news came from the northeast that a large group of cavalry was coming towards Shengjie City.

    Andal was also a veteran. He knew that the matter was urgent and prioritized defending the city. He made a prompt decision and ordered the entire army to retreat to Shengjie City, and then closed the city gates. Only then did Shengjie City temporarily survive the Mohe people's raid.  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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