After learning that Xue Ji, who was guarding the city, was unwilling to open the city gate, Shi Siming was furious.

However, when there were foreign enemies around him, he could not immediately attack Youzhou City, not to mention that his family was still in the city.

When he learned that the Thunder Ye Army in Gaoliying Town to the north had already set up camp and started moving south, Shi Siming hurriedly left Guangyang City and rushed north.

We must take over one of the three major cities in Yanbei!

There were 20,000 troops. When he went north, Hun didn't expect that he would not be able to enter Youzhou City. So he took down all or part of the three major cities in Yanbei to have a protracted battle with the Sailing Ye Army!

If all the three major cities, especially Bu City, were captured, the food and supplies there would be enough to support the three-month combat needs of 20,000 people. The Sailing Ye Army came from the grassland and probably did not carry much food and grass. He would definitely know the importance of the three major cities. If he took a step a little slower, it would be over.

So, a secret battle to seize the three major cities began!

At this time, Shi Siming no longer cared about being attacked by the Shattered Ye Army. He asked the vanguard commander Dong Qin to lead the three thousand cavalry to march north first and quickly.

Shi Siming's adventure was not in vain. After Dong Qin arrived, the Thunder Ye Army had occupied Ma City and Za City, and had not had time to occupy Bu City!

Shi Siming was overjoyed and immediately asked Dong Qin to start the defense on the spot. He personally led a unit of the two thousand heavy cavalry and a unit of the infantry army to arrive in the Bu City!

Among the three major cities in Yanbei, except for Ma City, there are walls, Za City, and Bu City, but because their buildings are connected together, there are only two exits in the north and south, as long as the two exits are blocked, they can still be guarded according to the danger.

When Dong Qin arrived, the people in the Bu City had already run away, but they still left a lot of food and various supplies!

Shi Siming was overjoyed!

At this time, the Sanggan River and its tributaries from the northwest separated Youzhou City from its satellite city, and were only connected between Guangping County and Lu Sitai, and the south of Youzhou City. The two bridges were built during the reign of Emperor Yang of Sui. Before Shi Siming went north to Bushi, in order to prevent his delayed infantry from being ridden by the Sailing Ye Army, he also sent people to guard the bridge.

It is still late autumn, and there is still one month before winter. The water of the Sanggan River is still abundant, and it is very difficult to get through.

"Great events are achievable!"

After Yu Wenjing set up his "temporary yamen office" in the former high-rise building, which was the place where Yu Wenjing shot Shi Chaoqing in the middle of the Cross Street in Bushi with a crossbow, Shi Siming couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

In October of the second year of Zhide (757), Shi Siming, who was already fifty-four years old, met Sun Xiurong more than ten years ago at the Hongshan altar. Unlike the extremely fat An Lushan, he was tall and thin, slightly hunched, with little flesh on his face, and a skinny look.

Shi Siming usually likes black clothes, and likes to loosen his hair like Zoroastrians. He has been in the army for a long time, but he has not become dark. His face is the usual grayish-white look of the Hu people in the Western Regions.

A pair of thin, big hands, deep eyes, and big eyes usually seem dull, but when he is doing serious business, few people are willing to confront him.

If such a person is in later generations, he will probably save on makeup when playing a vampire who appears late at night or a ghost wandering in a cemetery.

Such people are generally very cunning, and Shi Si is obviously like this.

When he was young, he could fool Suo Gao, the chief of the Mukun tribe, one of the five tribes of the Xi people, to Youzhou. Finally, Zhang Shougui moved Suo Gao's tribe to Hengzhou and Dingzhou, which gave Zhang Zhongzhi the vassal state, which opened the precedent for the Fanyang Jiedu Mansion to sneak into the Hu tribe on a large scale, and also made Yiluo River and Khitan cavalry.

Otherwise, the three towns designated by the Tang Dynasty would be mostly Han people, and he would not dare to rebel even if he gave An Lushan a few courages.

It can be said that in terms of martial arts, military command, and strategy, Shi Siming is still above An Lushan, but An Lushan has more political wisdom than him and can make friends with all kinds of people, and his prestige is still above him.

If An Lushan was not too fat and did not die so early, the situation of Anshi Rebellion might have to be rewritten, and the Tang Dynasty could not have lasted for another hundred years. This can be seen after An Lushan's death, both An Qingxu and Shi Siming were negligent and destroyed.

From this we can see that as a hero who competes in the world, what ultimately determines its limit is not force, but politics.

Liu Bang, Liu Xiu, Liu Bei, and Liu Bei are like this, Yang Jian and Li Yuan are like this!

A smart person like Shi Siming can naturally know this, but he has long been catching life, slaying and training soldiers, treating ordinary people like ants, and some things in his bones have long been established and will be revealed at any time. It is not easy to change completely.

After he came to power, he vigorously won over the aristocratic families. He didn't know that the reason why the aristocratic families could exist was not only the wealth and manpower, but also the education behind it. The education was nothing more than the aristocratic families. It was nothing more than Confucianism and Taoism, or Legalism and military geniuses. If some Huang-Lao skills were mixed, the Tang Dynasty would be even more popular at this time.

Shi Siming, who had never read a book, wanted to understand this point far from it.

An Lushan naturally knew that this was why he was surrounded by a large number of scholars who were not noble but extremely capable. Shi Siming couldn't do it. There were very few scholars around him, and the only few were staff talents who were good at strategizing in the military camp.

There was no political talent who could really set a "big plan" for him.

"Why didn't the Thunder Ye Army take down the Bushi market together? Or, why didn't we take down the Bushi market first?"

As a smart man, after recovering from a brief sigh of relief with the smell of luck, Shi Siming immediately asked a question.

Dong Qin was stunned. He was a pure warrior, how could he understand so much?

"Report to the king, when the vocational department arrived, they had just entered Zashi City, and they were probably the vanguard troops. They had not had time to enter Bushi City. After the cavalry of the in-service department entered, they had not completely occupied Zashi City. A few of the scattered Ye troops entering Bushi were driven out by our troops."

Shi Siming pondered for a moment, and he believed Dong Qin's words.

"Gaoliying Town and Guangyang City are about fifty miles away from Youzhou City. Although the Sailye Army is a cavalry, it carries more baggage than any army in the world. In total, the speed is slightly faster than me. It is not that he doesn't want to occupy all the three major cities. It probably took too much time to occupy the horse market with many animals, because for them, almost all cavalry composed of Hu people cannot live without cattle and sheep, and the importance of the horse market is even more important than that of Bu City."

"As for the market, it is estimated that the items inside are what Hu Renbing likes."

......

Is this the real situation?

Shi Siming guessed half of it.

With the speed of the Shattered Ye Army and the distance between Goryeoying Town and Guangyang City, any action between both sides will be under the surveillance of each other, and any storm will cause the other party to react.

Shi Siming said it well. With the current maneuver and scale of Sai Ye Jun, it was not so strong that Shi Siming, the local snake, had no way out. However, Sai Ye Jun abandoned the Bushi, which had a lot of supplies, but instead asked for Ma Shi and Zashi, which was intriguing.

As mentioned earlier, the three major cities are on the vast flat ground north of the north gate of Youzhou City. The farthest city is four miles away. Bushi and Zashi are also one mile away from the moat. The three quid sites are in the shape of a Pin character, and there is about three and a half miles away between each two quid sites.

In the past, the three major cities were all farmland, Ma City, Bu City and Za City were built one after another. Except for the pastures that depended on Ma City, the rest of the farmland was basically deserted. Since it was a large-scale farmland, there were naturally many livestock people carrying goods. Decades later, the places between the three major cities were crowded and livestock were stepped into wastelands, especially in autumn and winter, dust was flying everywhere under the sweeping north wind.

Such a place is a natural battlefield.

Since Guangping County, Lu Sitai, and Longhuo City are very close to Youzhou City, and there is no satellite city close to the north. At least at the beginning, Ma City, which was first established, actually assumed the role of the satellite city on the north side of Youzhou City.

Of course, with the usual style of Ye Jun, even if he occupied Mashi and Zashi, he would not rob these two places. Sun Xiurong asked the people from Bushi to Mashi and Zashi in advance, and leaving Bushi, which had the most bulk materials, obviously to teach the people in Youzhou City a good lesson.

"Look at it, let's see how the King of Zhou treats your goods!"

Of course, the reason why the Sailing Ye Army did not want to cross the Sanggan River and its tributaries that had not yet been frozen were also one of the reasons.

When Shi Siming's army all entered Bushi, the war was about to break out.

Sure enough, when the Suoye Army did not send light cavalry around the south bank of the Sanggan River to raid Shi Siming's infantry that were dragging behind, the infantry army arrived in Bu City only half a day later than the cavalry!

Although he occupied the Bu market as he wished and obtained a large amount of supplies, Shi Siming was still worried after all. When he went north, there were news from all over Li Guiren's army that there were seven or eight thousand Hu cavalry, burning, killing and looting along the way, as if locusts were advancing towards Mozhou.

Shi Siming did not care about the losses of the people at all. He also knew that it was absolutely impossible to get Li Guiren's troops to fight together, but it was not easy for the prefectures and counties south of Mozhou to defeat this branch that had been divided into several groups of cavalry.

In other words, unless the prefectures and counties that Li Guiren encountered were committed to their own death and took the initiative to go out of the city to challenge, this cavalry could only rage in the countryside.

In this case, Shi Chaoyi had the opportunity to defeat each of them and then conquer the troops.

Once this Hu cavalry is conquered and Li Guangbi in the west is not here to make trouble, Shi Siming can even fight the Sailing Ye Army in Youzhou!

Therefore, Shi Siming was also praying secretly, praying that Shi Chaoyi would subdue the troops as soon as possible and go north to support him.

But obviously Sun Xiurong doesn't want to give him this opportunity.

On the night he was stationed, Sun Xiurong sent someone to send him a letter of war.

"The two armies are fighting decisively on the open space between Bushi and Zashi?"

As soon as he received this letter, Shi Siming couldn't help but hesitate.

"The Shattered Ye Army is strong in the firearms. If it is a tough battle, our troops will definitely not be the opponent. Li Guangbi is best at relying on camps and terrain combat. In the wild wave battle, it is definitely not my opponent. It is estimated that the Shattered Ye Army is stronger than Li Guangbi, but since the Shattered Ye Army became famous, they have relied on firearms without exception. There are few cases of great victory in the wild wave battle."

"According to his words, he has only two battalions. If I send out all 10,000 troops, the other side will have 10,000 people. Although the horse market and the Zashi market are in a junction, if I monitor the horse market with one force during the battle, the remaining military power will not be without the possibility of victory!"
Chapter completed!