After learning that Niupai Pass was taken down by the "Tang Army", Gao Lin, who was leisurely and happy in Wende County, Guizhou, was shocked. He immediately stepped out of the camp without thinking. Since the Tang army attacked Niupai Pass, there was naturally no reason to tell Li Guangbi.

In order to avoid the fall of Datong City, as Yu Que expected, he asked the vanguard to send Tuoba Ganhui to lead the first with two thousand cavalry, and he followed with the remaining three thousand cavalry, while Murong Fuyun led the five thousand infantry and five thousand civilians to the end.

So, unlike what Yu Que expected, his 10,000 army was divided into three parts.

Gao Lin did this with his own reason. Tuoba Ganhui was invincible. His two thousand pioneer cavalry, mainly Dangxiang people, were very fierce and could stand alone, so he naturally had to return to Datong quickly.

The three thousand cavalry he personally led was not as powerful as the Dangxiang cavalry of Tuoba Ganhui. The Han cavalry and Hu cavalry were mixed, but the equipment was better than the Dangxiang cavalry.

In this world, as long as you have five thousand elite cavalry, you will definitely be a powerful force. If there are five thousand elite infantry troops, in the late stage of the Anshi Rebellion, it will be the prototype of a powerful vassal state.

The five thousand infantry of Murong Fuyun is such an elite infantry army that is fully equipped with heavy infantry, light infantry, strong crossbow soldiers and bowmen in the Tang army.

This is the only reason why Gao Xiuyan can stand alone outside Youzhou and stand firm under the attack of Li Guangbi and Guo Ziyi in Hedong.

Of course, the backbone of this army was brought by Gao Xiuyan from Longyou. When he was in Longyou, the battle between Gao Xiuyan and the Tubo people and Qiang people almost never stopped. In terms of combat experience, his army was still above the army that An Lushan went south.

Therefore, Gao Lin was relieved to let Murong Fuyuntong lead him.

From Datong City to the northeast, along the Baideng River, a hundred miles away is the Qing Pass Army (later Yanggao County). To the north of the Qing Pass Army is Yumai Yunmen Mountain, which extends eastward, and to the east is Liuling Mountain, and between the two mountains is the broken side wall.

Further east, fifty miles away is the Tiancheng Army (the later Tianzhen County). The Qing Pass Army, the Tiancheng Army, was on the plain washed out from the Baideng River and the river flowing down from Yunmen Mountain to the north and Liuling Mountain to the west. Further east is the rolling mountains. The Qing Pass Army, the Tiancheng Army, happened to control both ends of the plain.

Go east from Tiancheng Army, winding forward in the mountains and hills for about 150 miles to reach Shannan Quechang (Zhangjiakou City).

Yu Que set out with two thousand cavalrymen. After heading north from Niupi Pass, he crossed the gap at the edge wall and went straight east along the valley between Liuling Mountain and Yunmen Mountain. After approaching the Qing Pass Army, he continued eastward along the southern foot of Yunmen Mountain. Finally, he ambushed in a valley between Tiancheng Army and Qing Pass Army.

Since the Suoye Army immediately sent a scout cavalry to a radius of fifty miles after occupying Niupi Pass, they naturally fought with the scout cavalry of the Qing Pass Army. It is strange that in such an important place, Gao Xiuyan only released 300 defenders and only ten cavalrymen.

Therefore, when Yu Que led his army to the east along the foothills, more than ten scout cavalry appeared openly near the Qingsai Army castle. During the fighting a few days ago, the Qingsai Army's scout cavalry lost half of it. Now when he saw it, he naturally dared not go out easily. He thought that the enemy came out to investigate as usual.

The southern foot of Yunmen Mountain is about ten miles away from the densely populated Baideng River, including the Qingsai Army and the Tiancheng Army. At this distance, the defenders on the Qingsai Army's city walls cannot find enemies ten miles away. Moreover, near the border wall, due to frequent Tang people's capture of life and tribal invasions, there are almost no houses near the foothills.

So, the two thousand cavalrymen in Yuque arrived at the ambush without any danger.

At this time, Tuoba Ganhui's two thousand cavalry had just whizzed past the post road north of the Baideng River!

Then Yu Que received the position of Gao Lin's troops and Murong Fuyun's troops discovered by the detective cavalry.

"The commander, Gao Lin's army is about one day away from Tuoba Ganhui's army, while Murong Fuyun's army is two days away from Gao Lin's army."

Since there were all generals at this time, and there were not many generals who could stand alone in the Datong Army, we can basically judge who the commander of the unit was just from the banner of the team.

At this time, Tuoba Ganhui's army had just passed, which means that there was still half a day before the arrival of Gao Lin's cavalry. If nothing happened, Gao Lin's army would arrive here at dusk!

In the case where Datong City may be out of stock and his family is in the city, even if Gao Lin is a playboy, he will not rest in the Tiancheng Army east because of fatigue. He will probably rush back to Datong overnight!

Sure enough, Gao Lin's troops appeared at dusk!

But at this time, the Scout brought another news.

"The commander, Murong Fuyun's army seemed to have discovered something at the end. He was divided into two parts. About two thousand infantry and civilians continued to marching slowly, but Murong Fuyun personally led the three thousand infantry to speed up his pace. At this time, he was at most one day from Gao Lin's army!"

One day, at the speed of the infantry, that is, thirty miles, the Datong Army is a strong army. If it is fast, Murong Fuyun will arrive in half a day!

If the Tuoba Ganhui team in front receives news of its ambush, it will take only half a day to return to the army to rescue.

what to do?

"Attack Gao Lin's army!"

In the telescope, Gao Lin's cavalry was all riding one by one, obviously not resting much along the way, and the war horses looked a little tired.

......

On a tall horse, Gao Lin's expression was very complicated.

As Gao Xiuyan's eldest son and the only son who has been with him for a long time to participate in marches and wars, he is the natural heir of Gao Xiuyan, but this also indicates that he is the most risky of Gao Xiuyan's eight sons. Since Gao Xiuyan is old, he is actually replaced by him when he leads troops to fight.

Of course, Gao Lin is unknown, but he is called "Xiuyan Eight Son, Gao Lin's best". In fact, he is not good at marching and fighting, but is good at employed people.

There are two people around him now, namely Ru Huaiguang and Gao Ying, whom he calls "right-hand man". Ru Huaiguang is from Sumo and Martial Arts, brave and good at fighting. He is twenty-nine years old this year and is the one who really charges for him.

Ru Huaiguang is Li Huaiguang in later generations, but by chance, it happened to be under Gao Lin's command.

As for Gao Ying, after the Gao clan of Bohai, he moved to Hedong first and had some connections with the Gao clan of Hedong. Finally, he moved to Jingzhao Prefecture. When An Lushan captured Chang'an, his father was captured. Gao Ying, who was only fifteen years old at the time, knelt down and begged to be punished on behalf of his father. The rebels admired such a person, and eventually they cast both the father and son.

It was winter, and the father and son were preparing to cross the frozen Yellow River to join Hedong. As a result, it was Shi Siming that time, Gao Xiuyan besieged Taiyuan Prefecture, and the father and son were captured again. Fortunately, their father and Gao Xiuyan met, so they were included in the mansion by Gao Xiuyan.

At this time, because his father was always ill, Gao Ying was not willing to leave easily. He chose to be filial because he could not be both loyal and filial. During the years he was in Datong City, he was eventually won over by Gao Lin and basically became Gao Lin's chief clerk and marching Sima.

Although Gao Ying was less than 20 years old, he was a mature young man and was in good order in handling logistics and supplies. Gao Xiuyan, after returning to the Tang Dynasty, did his best to assist Gao Lin.

Ru Huaiguang was originally a low-level general of the Pinglu Army. He ran back to Youzhou during the sudden changes in Pinglu and Anton, and later joined Gao Lin.

Due to the existence of Ru Huaiguang, the backbone of Gao Lin's three thousand cavalrymen were actually the Chinese-styled Martialis.

At this time, it was already dark, but Gao Lin seemed to have no intention of rest. Since the Tiancheng army at the east end replenished supplies, the three thousand men continued to drive east at normal horse speed.

In the two prefectures, Guizhou and Yunzhou, outside the frontier (outside the inner side wall), Guizhou is close to Youzhou, and its convenience in obtaining supplies to Youzhou is far greater than that of Yunzhou. However, Yunzhou was the forefather state of the Tang Dynasty that faced the Xi tribe, Turks, Dangxiang Qiang tribes in the past, and it was one of the capitals of the Northern Wei Dynasty and was built tall and sturdy, so it stored a large amount of food and grass.

With the fall of the Jinmai Governor's Office near Yinshan, such as the Shanyu Protectorate, Sanggan Governor's Office, the Tang Dynasty concentrated all the food, grass, Dingkou, and military power in Zhenwu Army and Datong City. In fact, due to the scale of Datong City, the Dingkou of the city was the most materials.

This is the reason why Gao Xiuyan was able to take over Guo Ziyi and Li Guangbi alone with his own strength. In addition, half of Weizhou was also in his hands. He could get supplies from Youzhou through Guizhou to support nearly 20,000 troops. Otherwise, with Yunzhou's barrenness and thin Dingkou, let alone 20,000, it would be difficult to support three thousand infantry and cavalry.

In addition, unlike Guizhou, because Yunzhou has abundant coal and iron resources, there is a weapon workshop directly affiliated to the Armament Department of the Ministry of War in Datong City, and it is managed by the Armament Supervisor. Of course, due to the rebellion, the Armament Supervisor surrendered to Gao Xiuyan early in the morning, and later it was actually managed by the young Gao Ying.

At this time, Gao Lin's central army happened to walk in the middle of the southern foot of Yunmen Mountain, where a larger river flowed down from the mountain. If it was summer, the river water was still abundant. However, in late autumn, although the river was not frozen, the deepest part could only be covered with horse hooves. Despite this, due to the wider surface and many stones in the river, the group was still walking carefully.

At the end of this river is a valley, about five or six miles away, and on the east and west sides of this river, there are two smaller rivers about three or four miles away.

Gao Lin's three thousand cavalry are now crossing the slightly larger river in the middle, while the front army has not yet reached the river in the west, while the rear army has just crossed the river in the east!

In the north of Weizhou in late autumn, it was already a little chilling as the evening approached, which made Gao Lin, who was usually immersed in wine, put his hands together and arched on the horse.

Beside him was Gao Ying, who was only nineteen years old this year. He recognized his relatives in the two families and joined the clan. Gao Lin should be Gao Ying's cousin. Although Gao Lin has always admired Gao Ying very much, there was a hint of contempt in Gao Ying's eyes.

In his mind, Gao Xiuyan's family naturally saved him his life, but he was the Gao family in Bohai, while Gao Xiuyan was the Gao family in Hedong. In terms of Qinggui, the Gao family in Bohai was far better than the Gao family in Hedong. Therefore, the two families' family members were not so much like Gao Ying clinging to Gao Xiuyan, but rather Gao Xiuyan clinging to Gao Xiuyan.

If Gao Xiuyan had not surrendered to the Tang Dynasty again at this time, Gao Ying would have probably left long ago.

Although Gao Ying himself was a scholar and was a high school scholar at the age of fifteen, he did not have the opportunity to take the Jinshi exam. This was his biggest regret. He originally thought that he had the stain of "accomplishing the thief" and would never be able to take the Chang'an Jinshi exam in his life. However, with Gao Xiuyan, he had a chance again.

Gao Ying was riding a white horse, about half a horse behind Gao Lin. When he thought of this, he gradually calmed down, but the news that Niupai Pass was captured by the "Tang Army" still made him feel nervous again.

In fact, before leaving Guizhou, Gao Ying analyzed to Gao Lin.

"The prince, the Tang army surrendered to the east, and the Zhenwu army's army was only 5,000. What's more, Zhang Yongji was a general in Shuofang. How could he come to attack Niupi Pass when the Jiedushi had already surrendered to the Tang Dynasty and was named the prince of the prince?"

"What does Gong Chu mean?"

(Preface of Gong Chu, Gao Ying)

"Crown Prince, this is probably the plan of the Ye Army. At present, their army is trapped in the Guichuan River Basin and cannot move. Although there is a large amount of food and grass taken from Fan Yangcang, it is not a lasting solution after all. Therefore, it is very likely that they will take down the Niupi Pass as if they were Tang Army."

"Then I'll ignore it?"

"No, if it was really the Tang army, then their military strength would be very small and they could not take over Datong City. But if it was pretended by the Shaw Ye Army, it should not be underestimated. Although the main force of the Shaw Ye Army is still in the Guichuan River Basin, they have been operating in the Mobei Grassland for a long time, and there are probably several camps still there, and they are also wearing the Tang army to take down the Niupi Pass."

"In this case, we have to rescue them. However, the main forces of the Snow Ye Army are all in the Guichuan River Basin, and there must be a few who stay in Mobei. Once our army returns, they can't do anything about it, but in the end, the military forces that besiege their main forces have been reduced a lot. In this way, Li Guangbi will feel uncomfortable."

In fact, Gao Yingba had to fight the Thunder Ye Army to die. It was serious to be able to return to Datong City as soon as possible and then take a chance to go to Chang'an to take the scientific examination.

Neither Gao Lin, Ru Huaiguang or Gao Ying thought that if Ye Jun was really broken, they would just want to take over Datong City?

"hiss......"

When Gao Lin's chestnut horse stepped onto the dry river bank from the cold river water, perhaps because of his happiness, he couldn't help but neighed.
Chapter completed!