The Jin Zheng army had a total of 2,400 palace soldiers, 600 cavalry, and a hundred personal soldiers, with a total of more than 3,000. The route was not complicated, just take a detour first and then advance northwest along the Zhongling River.

This river flows from Shanwu City to the northwest, and then divides into two.

It turns all the way to the northeast and is called Wo Shui. It is named after it flows east from the old county of Hanwoyang. It is called "Kebu Nicheng" in the Xianbei (now Shuang Ancient City, Liangcheng County).

It continued to flow to the northwest, then turned to the southwest, and was still called Zhongling River, which is now the Honghe River, and finally merged into the Yellowhe River.

There is a north-south tributary along the way, called "Gaosheng Yuanshui". It was named after Gaoshengyuan, the leader of the Tiefu Xiongnu. Going north along this river, you can directly penetrate an east-west road connecting Shengle and Pingcheng, located in the west of Shenhe Xing.

This is exactly what Kim Jong’s goal is.

However, they encountered big trouble as soon as they attacked: their detour to the north were finally discovered.

Dou Qin immediately dispatched more than 3,000 cavalry to chase him and try to intercept him.

At the same time, thousands of soldiers from Shanwu City, protected by the Jie cavalry, arrived outside the city at night, carrying the simple long ladder made during the day, and climbed the city to attack fiercely.

For a moment, there were stars in the wilderness, and people were catching up everywhere, and the shouts of killing almost pierced the night sky.

Dou Qin was worried that the city would not be able to be defended, so he led his troops to rush for a while.

As a result, Liu Runzhong also took the battle personally and fought with the Suotou Cavalry with the cooperation of more than a thousand palace soldiers.

Dou Qin rushed for two consecutive times, but failed to break through the Jie cavalry who had scattered in the daytime, and was suddenly a little frightened.

By the second half of the night, the more than 2,000 soldiers who were sieging the city had already attacked the city twice and almost took it down.

At this time, Dou Yuzhen led a team of cavalry to retreat, carrying a few arrows on his back.

"Grandma, where is Aitou? If you continue this battle, you will have no chance of winning. Some people have left at night just now. They should have gone to the mountains to meet with the elderly, weak, women and children, and they may surrender." Dou Yuzhen said breathlessly.

The elderly and weak and livestock of their tribe retreated to the direction of Woyang. Although the losses were of course considerable, they also preserved their vitality as much as possible.

Shanwu really has no reason to persevere.

"Aitou miscalculated!" Dou Qin sighed heavily and said.

The three armies went south and met in Mayi, taking the lead. When this plan was first proposed, Dou Qin did not object too much, because it was not impossible to succeed. The reason why the troops were divided into three groups was mainly because the cavalry consumed too much, 30,000 people were crowded into a group, 70,000 to 80,000 horses, and the terrain was not open enough. When encountering the enemy, only a few people like the vanguard could take the battle, which was a waste of troops.

But the bad one is that the enemy attacks first.

More than 20,000 of them came up from Zhongling River and directly blocked their troops, fought and won consecutive victories, and advanced to Zhishanwu City.

It was only when we got here that the terrain was relatively open and the situation of retreating was restored.

But the enemy commander seemed to have led people north again, and did not take them seriously at all, and was extremely brave.

Dou Qin thought for a moment and calculated that Jin Zheng was trying to go to Sheng Le.

The route is not difficult to guess. Advancing troops in the mountains is the most convenient way to follow the river valley. Not only is the terrain flat, but the water and grass are also abundant along the way, which is more conducive to drinking water for people and animals. Otherwise, a shortage of water alone can destroy tens of thousands of troops.

"I have sent several groups of people to find Aitou. The Qiu Dun family on the west road also sent people to contact him." Dou Qin said: "If Aitou is willing to come back, what will Qiu Dun family do? It's up to fate."

Dou Yuzhen stomped his feet heavily and cursed: "The situation has declined so far, and it is all done by the descendants of the Tuoba family themselves!"

Dou Qin smiled bitterly.

This is true. If you don’t mess around, how can others have a chance?

From Tuoba Yilu being killed by his son Liu Xiu, Tuoba Pugen kills Liu Xiu, then Pugen and his son Shisheng died one after another, Tuoba Yulu was killed, and then Tuoba Shiyijian, Tuoba Yihuai and He Jie, and He Na attacked each other, and now Yihuai is again, Shiyijian turns his back and becomes enemies...

It was a civil war from beginning to end.

Sometimes, Hedouling was wondering, would it be better if the Tuoba Alliance did not contact the Jin people and always maintained traditions, and there was no dispute between the old and the new or even revenge killing within it?

Once you Chineseize it, something went wrong.

The most terrifying thing is that this problem was caught by others and kept holding on.

The Tuoba family scattered into a whole place. Even though Hedouling was not a Xianbei person, but a Gaoche, he regretted this.

I wonder if anyone can unify the Tuoba Xianbei again and fight against the enemy together.

If anyone could do it, Dou Qin was really willing to vote for him. At this time, some disputes between the old and the new seemed to be nothing, and what should be considered is the life and death of the entire Tuoba Alliance.

The sound of horse hooves sounded, attracting the attention of the father and son.

The sound of hooves came from the east, and the rangers arranged on the periphery stepped forward to intercept them and asked questions.

After a while, the Wuhuan man in a fur was drawn over.

"Yu De, I haven't seen him for many years, so I've always been good?" The visitor laughed.

"You are--" Dou Qin looked carefully in the fire and said, "Wang Feng's family order Wang Chang?"

"It's me." Wang Chang laughed and said, "After leaving for many years, why don't you invite me to have a drink?"

In the darkness, Dou Qin's face changed several times.

Wang Chang took a few steps and said softly: "Ke Dun asked me to bring you a word."

Dou Qin had no expression on his face, but he did not stop him from talking.

"Ke Dun said that if you continue to fight, it will be just that the Xianbei will be able to fight the Xianbei and consume its vitality." After Wang Chang said this, he kept silent.

Dou Qin pondered for a long time and said, "Come to my tent."

*******

Since May 23, Helan Aitou has been hesitating.

According to the prisoners, there were only more than one thousand soldiers in Yinguan City, and he had more than ten thousand cavalry, ten times more.

Some subordinates asked for a fight, which was called to capture Xiayinguan and there was no shortage of food and grass.

But Helan Aitou did not agree.

They attacked a grain transport team near Mayi County City and killed more than a thousand Shao soldiers.

After two successes, nearly 70,000 hu of millet and wheat were found, and a grazing site for the Jie people was found, with more than 80,000 cattle and sheep and 6,000 war horses.

At this time, it was said to be a 15,000 army, but the only ones at hand were the five thousand iron armored cavalry with the best equipment and the strongest combat power. The remaining ten thousand cavalry scattered, plundered everywhere, and searched for the grassing places of the Shao army. In case of fighting with the powerful cavalry of Mayi who were mobilized, they would not be able to gather them up for a while.

What's more, are there really only more than one thousand soldiers in Yinguan County?

Looking at the abandoned grain trucks outside the city, you can tell that there should be a large number of young men in the city. They may not be able to fight in the field, but is there any problem with squatting on the top of the city? It seems that cavalry dismounted and attacked the city very powerfully.

On the afternoon of the 23rd, he led his army to advance towards Yanmen Pass, and the two sides fought almost immediately.

Three thousand Zuo Xiao cavalry guards rushed with them for a while and were directly repelled.

After dismounting the horse and forming a formation, the armored cavalry rushed for a while and returned in disgrace.

At this point, Helan Aitou tried to get a big deal: this so-called Luonan Prefecture soldier is indeed powerful in infantry battles and cavalry warfare is also good, and can defeat the Hun cavalry, but it is still a little worse than the most elite iron armored cavalry in the Xianbei.

But they did not retreat.

There were also a total of six thousand silver spear soldiers who were protected by the vehicle array and moved forward slowly and resolutely, which was difficult for them to deal with.

For example, in this moment—

The iron armored spirit rode away the iron armor, abandoned the horse lance, and only wore light leather armor, replaced it with a bow, and rushed around the chariot formation, but there was no chance.

"Oh." Helan sighed silently in his heart.

At this moment, dozens of riders rushed from the northeast.

"Pillow people." Someone said softly.

Someone also greeted him and brought the group of people over after a while.

Helan looked at him and saw two of them having arrows stuck on their backs, as if they had been attacked and killed.

"The minister of the Sui, this is Fu Zhuzhen (the postman's meaning), and he chased after him from Tu Wenshui. He met the Jin cavalry halfway through. Judging from his banner, it was Yi's army, and came from Xinping. The people from the Pilou tribe had already met."

Helan Aitou was not surprised by this, and just asked: "What's wrong with Hedouling? Why haven't you come to meet up yet?"

"My Lord, he met Jin Zheng, the main force of Jin Zheng, halfway through, and the battle was unfavorable. He retreated to Shanwu to lure the Jin army." Fu Zhuzhen endured the pain on his body and said, "When I left, I saw more than a thousand cavalry traveling westward in Wuzhou City, which should be the vanguard. At that time, the night was dark, and we were not discovered by them, so we went south to report the news."

"Where are the people from the Yilu family? Didn't they intercept Wu Zhouchuan's enemy?" Helan's Aitou felt something was wrong after hearing this and asked subconsciously.

The messenger was confused.

His status is too low to know his overall deployment.

No one told him where the Ilo tribe was. Even if they made a big move, he would not know in a short time.

Helan's head also reacted and stopped looking at the messenger, but his face became more and more gloomy.

The Jin general named Kim Jong was brave and diligent, which made him feel uncomfortable. At this moment, it was neither right to advance nor retreat.

"Dangdang..." The sound of the snarling sound from afar awakened Helan's head.

It was when the Silver Gun Right Camp saw that it was getting late, so he decided to camp on the spot.

The soldiers of Zuo Xiao Cavalry guards were guarding each other and staring at this side from afar.

Everyone looked at Helan's head, and there were many people with ugly faces.

Kim Jong's army of 100,000 is definitely fake, but there may be 30,000 people. Among these 30,000 people, most of them are infantry, and they have a great chance of conquering Shanwu. Once Shanwu is lost, they will be garrisoned in various important roads, which will be too great.

Now I only hope that the people of the Yilu family can come as soon as possible, so that the people of Jin can comfortably control such a large area.

Helan looked up at the silver spear right camp in the distance and the left cavalry guards more than 8,000 soldiers.
To be continued...