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Chapter 53 Dulan invades the south

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    When Huang Mingyuan and everyone made a fortune and were filled with joy because of this victory.  Dulan Khan, who had already arrived in Monan, couldn't laugh anymore.  He, who had just parted ways with Datou, received the bad news so quickly that three of the main force, Wanqi, were wiped out by the Sui army at the foot of Yinshan Mountain, and he only had a total of Wanqi on hand now.

    Du Lan swept the order arrows and talismans on the table to the ground, and kicked the table over.

    His teeth couldn't stop grinding into pieces, and he cursed loudly: "Sui people, Fengzhou, I want to fight you to the death."

    Du Lan originally knew that Datong City was reorganizing its army to prepare for war, and he cautiously ordered the Ashinacha cadres to suspend their march, but he still did not expect to suffer such a big loss.  He did not expect that the one who defeated him would be just a force from Datong Town. He just thought that the Sui Dynasty had assembled the main force of the Sui army in Fengzhou.  He decided that this time he would knock off the protruding fangs of the Sui people no matter what.

    ?This must be a bad March for Dulan.

    After much effort, he let Tuli escape at Qikou. In this battle, no fewer than thousands of his troops froze to death; then Datou refused to agree to his proposal to march into the Hedong area and insisted on marching into Lingwu.  , which led to another public break between him and Datou; now the Sui army swallowed up all his Fengzhou Corps in one go.

    Previously, he believed that his biggest enemies were Tuli and the Sui army. If they join forces, even if they cannot defeat the Sui army, they will still have the ability to compete with the Sui army.  But now I never expected that although the alliance with Datou allowed him to liberate ten thousand horses in the northwest, the Sui army had not yet seen that Datou's alliance with the old Turkic aristocratic tribe in the Mobei grassland had already been defeated.  He had trouble sleeping and eating.

    Although he thought that it would be difficult to let Datou go back after letting him enter the grassland, he still couldn't bear it when Datou let go of Tuli under his nose in Qikou.  He wanted Datou to follow him to open the door to the Hedong region and regain the support of the nobles by plundering the Han region; but Datou also wanted him to help cut off the arm of the Sui Dynasty in Hexi that contained the Western Regions.  .  The two sides are completely different from the starting point. In the stalemate, they can only go their separate ways.  Now he has lured the wolf into the house. Not only has he failed to gain a true ally, he has also attracted another powerful opponent to himself.

    Anxious Du Lan was restless, but this battle report was like a whip hitting Du Lan's face.  Du Lan was angry, and he wanted to get back his lost honor from Fengzhou.

    Du Lan roared and shouted: "Demogate all the escaped soldiers and generals into slaves, and all the other fleeing cavalry will be assigned to 10,000 horsemen as retinues."

    No one dared to dissuade this angry grassland lord, so the more than 2,000 people who fled back to the camp were demoted as auxiliary soldiers, and this Monan Corps no longer existed.

    It was mid-March, and Dulan had already led his troops across the river into Yuzhou (Zhilingqiu, now part of Shanxi). The rapid raid made his advance go smoothly, and he quickly captured Yuzhou.  After Weizhou was defeated, it was equivalent to tearing through the Sui army's Great Wall defense line and cutting off the connection between Bingzhou and Youzhou.  Now it will take at least half a month for Gao Jiong's middle route army to arrive. Half a month is enough time for Du Lan to harvest enough loot and return to the grassland.  But now for the sake of his majesty, Du Lan decided that he must go west to break Fengzhou.

    After he and Datou broke up, the 100,000 cavalry brought back from the Western Front were re-positioned on the Western and Northern Fronts.

    Now Dulan still has the same army from Yazhang. He has handed over the original 60,000 cavalry on the eastern front to the command of General Awu Sili and his younger brother Dusu. Dulan himself leads 110,000 cavalry.  Seventy thousand Turkic cavalry attacked Datong City along the Great Wall like dark clouds.

    In late March, Du Lan¡¯s army marched along the north side of the Great Wall for several days and finally entered the Fengzhou border. It was like an armed march and encountered few obstacles along the way.  The entire marching team consisted of more than 110,000 horsemen and more than 70,000 people, and stretched for dozens of miles during the march.

    Huang Mingyuan has already received the news about Dulan's arrival.  In order to slow down the march of Dulan's team, Huang Mingyuan ordered Cai Zhiyun to lead a group of rangers selected from slaves in advance to harass Dulan on his way forward.

    Whenever Cai Zhiyun's troops approached Dulan's rangers, they would shoot a few arrows and then disappear without a trace. Dulan sent people to hunt them down several times, but he was afraid of falling into the trap of the Sui army, and in the end it had no effect.  Cai Zhiyun and his group of more than a hundred people rode on horses with branches hanging from their tails. As they ran, the dust started to rise, as if there was an ambush.  The entire team was equipped with more flags and war drums. During the march, it was like a galloping army of thousands of horses, which made Du Lan think that there were thousands of people attacking them.

    The troops in Dulan were noisy, suspicious, and exhausted along the way, and the morale of the entire marching team plummeted.

    Although Huang Mingyuan delayed Dulan's pace, Dulan still arrived?The eastern boundary of the same town.

    After entering the Sui Dynasty, Du Lan sent General Ashina Gudu Lieshu and his troops to attack Huyan Valley in an attempt to cut off the connection between Fengzhou and Shengzhou, and at the same time, it could also provide an early warning to the Sui reinforcements in the direction of Shuozhou;  They also sent their son-in-law Pu Guhudu to lead an attack on Tiande Town in an attempt to separate Fengzhou from the central part of Fengzhou and cut off the reinforcement route for the Fengzhou army to advance eastward.

    And Du Lan¡¯s arrangement just put Datong City on the path he must pass when he invades the south.

    Du Lan believed that the Sui army had at least 5,000 cavalry arriving, intending to slow down their pace before the main force arrived.  What Du Lan has to do is to eat this part of the Sui army's vanguard before the main force of the Sui army arrives.

    Entering the valley between Yinshan Mountain and Muna Mountain from the east, Dulan walked carefully all the way.  For fear of encountering an ambush by the Sui army, the leading sentinels had already scouted this part of the area fifty miles in advance.

    The scout troops led by Jiao Fangjie fought several battles with the Turkic scouts in this area, with both sides winning and losing.  Because of the numerical disadvantage of the Sui army, although Jiao Fangjie tried his best to create all kinds of trouble for the Turks, he still could not open up the situation.  In the end, Jiao Fangjie could only move all the scouts to the mountains on both sides.

    Although the northern slope of Muna Mountain is gentle, it has lush vegetation. The back of the main peak, Daye, is covered with lush greenery and green pines like the sea.  Yinshan Mountain on the north side is even more steep and precipitous.  In the mountains and forests, the Turks had no advantage.

    Jiao Fangjie¡¯s scouts either tied mutton legs to drums and beat them at night, or lit countless piles of smoke during the day, like thousands of troops and smoke billowing.  Sometimes they shouted killings at the Turkic military camp. Although it did not cause much damage to the Turks, this approach made the Turks exhausted.

    Since the Dulan army entered Fengzhou territory, they were tortured by Jiao Fangjie for three consecutive days and complained. At the same time, the physical strength and spirit of the Turkic soldiers also declined greatly.

    Du Lan frowned in the tent and listened to the general's report. The Sui army in Datong City was a tough one. This battle might be more difficult to fight than he had thought before.  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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