In May, Li Chongjiu led his army to cross the Bashang grassland and arrived at the Liaoxi County, where the mountains were high and densely forested. The Liaoxi Muhe had already secretly opened a forest road that could accommodate three cavalry parallels in the mountains, so ten thousand troops passed through the forest land very quickly and arrived at the station of the Liaoxi Muhe.

Here, Wugunai had been waiting for 5,000 Muhe soldiers for a long time. Muhe people prepared military rations for 20 days. Muhe people in western Liaoning are a combination of agriculture and animal husbandry, and the mountain people usually plant crops such as millet, wheat, and sap crops. Muhe people set fire to the mountains in spring, and then burn them, sow seeds and let them grow naturally. This primitive slash-and-burn plant and extensive farming, and the harvest is less than two buckets per mu. However, western Liaoning is vast and sparsely populated, and can withstand such troubles, but most mountain people must be supplemented by fishing and hunting to live.

Therefore, the military rations for these ten days are all the savings of the Western Liaoning Martial Arts, and they are simply frugal. In other words, Li Chongjiu and his own food and fodder do not have to conquer Liucheng within 20 days, otherwise the food will be exhausted.

When they first came to Liaodong Yinghefu, Wang Mahan and others looked at the extremely tough mountain people wearing pig skins and holding iron forks, all of whom showed appreciation. Although such mountain people have not yet escaped from ignorance, they are undoubtedly born excellent soldiers. Fighting in the mountains and forests, they can definitely block ten.

Unlike the mountain people, the heads and shamans of various tribes of the Marine tribes are quite polite. These heads, shamans, all have private property and worshipped by their tribes, so they have no worries about food and clothing. They have been in western Liaoning for a while and the degree of sinicization is relatively high. Most of the heads can speak Chinese language roughly, and even the old Phuket shaman can understand a few Chinese characters. For example, Tudiji led a group of Marine people to serve in front of Emperor Yang of Sui and deal with Han people for a long time.

Compared with that, the Xi people were the same. Over the years, they exchanged and traded with the Han people. The Xi people gradually gained the title of the most clever hand on the grassland, which could provide the most exquisite blankets and sharp swords. The tribe's heads were also highly sinicized. If Li Chongjiu met Hei Shui Moe, Shi Wei, Khitan, and these uncivilized nations, let alone conquering them, they would be simply talking to each other and could not even communicate with language.

So I don’t know which great man once said that it is easy to defeat a nation. If you really conquer a nation, you still have to conquer their culture first. In this regard, Han culture is definitely full of yearning and attraction for the barbarians who are backward on all sides. With the grain supply from the western Liaoning Marine, Li Chongjiu ordered his soldiers to rest and camp here and secretly garrison, but he didn’t have much time left.

Later, Li Chongjiu discussed the next attack on Luo Yi, judging from the terrain of the entire western and eastern Liaoning.

The two counties of Luoyi were distributed along the Daling River Valley in western Liaoning and Liaodong. In the past, there were only two channels to the northeast, one was the Daling River Valley and the other was the Liaoxi Corridor. Both routes were from Yuguan, which is today's Shanhaiguan. One was the Daling River Valley, passing Liucheng, and then arrived in Liaodong. The second was the Liaoxi Corridor. After leaving Shanhaiguan, it was through Ningyuan, and finally passed Jinzhou and arrived in Liaodong. In the Ming Dynasty, this was called the Ningjin Defense Line. However, now the Liaoxi Corridor, north of Yuguan, reaches Jinzhou, and now it is not only a small population, but also difficult to access.

Therefore, unless you go from the Central Plains to Liaodong, you will walk around hundreds of miles from the grassland, and the only way is the Daling River Valley. When Cao Cao conquered Wuhuan and the Sui Dynasty conquered Goguryeo, they all went to the Daling River Valley.

In terms of the distribution of the entire Daling River Valley, Liucheng in Liaoxi County is the key point, while Huaiyuan Town in Liaodong County is hanging near the Liaohe River. Tongding Town was in the eighth year of Daye. Emperor Yang of Sui attacked Goguryeo twice and captured Wuli City. It was established here as the location of the Liaohe River, which is only separated from Goguryeo. Huaiyuan Town is sixty miles west of Tongding Town. It was the place where the Sui army fought against Goguryeo and was the place where the army was hoarding grain. Therefore, when it came to the battle against Luo Yi, Wen Yanbo and Li Chongjiu coincided with it, which was to capture Liucheng and take the Daling River Valley into its possession, thus completely cutting off the connection between Liaodong County and Luo Yi's Beiping County.

According to Tudiji, Liucheng is now guarded by Deng Hao, who is Luo Yiqi's brother. When Luo Yi rebelled, Deng Hao defeated Luo Yi in western Liaoning and Liaodong counties. Now he is named the general manager of Yingzhou by Luo Yi.

In addition to Liucheng where Deng Hao stationed, there are five forts and eleven forts in Liaoxi County, all distributed along the Daling River Valley. After secret investigation by Tudiji, there were 100 Sui army guards in each of the forts, and 30 Sui army in the forts. There were originally only one thousand defenders in Liucheng. However, after Luo Yi failed to conquer the western Liaoning Martial Arts, the troops were strengthened to 1,500, including iron-armored cavalry and strong bows and crossbows. The military strategy was five to attack them, and ten to encircle them. Li Chongjiu had to use his current strength to attack Liucheng, and the casualties would definitely be huge. Therefore, another method must be found.

Wangshan Post in Liaoxi County is one of the eleven forts outside Liucheng.

This fort is built between high mountains and ridges, overlooking Liaodong Avenue. It was originally a post station in Liaoxi County. During the Daye period, the Khitan invaded, so the post station was strengthened into a fort. The fort is as high as five feet and five feet high, and is rebuilt with yellow rammed earth. It is divided into three levels above, middle and lower. The bottom layer is occupied by horses, the middle layer is sleeping, and the upper layer is able to watch arrows, and there are beacon fires and wolf smoke on the top.

On this day, there were a loud noise under the fortress. He woke up the master of the garrison who was sleeping with a bare-butt woman. The master of the garrison sat up, pulled the wooden board of the Loong Cave, and stretched out his head.

Under the suspension bridge of the trench, dozens of people wearing tattered leather jackets were carrying a big wild boar and squeezing with their soldiers on the edge of the trench. The garrison leader couldn't help but shouted, "Sun Er, why are you quarreling?"

"Report to the garrison master, these Dingling people beat the mountain boars and wild game and said they would sell them to us!"

"Dingling people?" The garrison master touched his head. The Dingling people in Liaoxi County have always been docile. In the past, when the Khitans were making trouble, they did not make trouble, and when the Goguryeo was making trouble, they did not make trouble. Now when the Milien people make trouble, it is even more impossible to make trouble.

If it were a man from the Marine, the garrison had a little more thought, but now he was thinking about the woman in bed. Although this local woman in western Liaoning was far less vulgar than his serious Han wife in Liucheng, she was finally greedy for something new. So he waved his hand and said, "Just exchange it for some coarse salt."

After saying that, the garrison master closed the window and returned to the bed to get the woman upside down. The officers and soldiers under the garrison were signaled by the garrison master and ordered Dingling to throw all the weapons such as bows, arrows, wooden forks and other weapons outside the trench. Then, the suspension bridge outside the garrison master was slowly lowered.

Dozens of Dingling men walked across the fort carrying wild boars. The leader kicked the wild boars and said with a smile: "Are there still so many pounds? Brothers, please have some meat tonight."

The dozen Dingling men smiled, and at this time, a Dingling man quietly took out a dagger from the boar's belly. His companions unknowingly surrounded the three Sui troops in the core, and there were hundreds of Dingling men ambushing in the woods outside...

The sudden smoke from the distance made Deng Hao in Liu City puzzled for a moment. Then he received several reports of attacks by Dingling people, and even Dingling people took their ideas to the fort. More than two thousand Dingling people with short bows and sticks attacked the fort for a day. The other four forts were attacked by hundreds of Dingling people, and even one of them was captured by Dingling people and robbed them all.

These damn Dingling people were not always docile, so why did they suddenly become different? There must be some conspiracy in this. Deng Hao immediately captured several protons of the Dingling tribe head in the city to inquire about the situation. While the inquiry was inquiring, the fort that was besieged by Dingling actually fired a war of fear, indicating that it had reached a precarious level.

Deng Hao was worried that this was a plan, so he did not send troops immediately, but the flames were burning urgently. Deng Hao thought that it was impossible for the Khitans to go south at this time, so he ordered a general to lead 300 cavalry to support him, and asked to be cautious along the way. At dawn the next day, the general came to the news and finally successfully rescued the siege. This made Deng Hao feel nervous all night and let go of it.

But just after a moment, news came that a fortress was besieged by thousands of Dingling people. Deng Hao could only send another 200 infantry troops to rescue the siege.

Within three days, Deng Hao was extremely tired. The fortress and the fortress were constantly attacked by Dingling people. The other party was also surprised that when they saw the Sui reinforcements, they immediately retreated. And from the Dingling people's hostage, it turned out that several tribes had famine when they were not in contact with each other, so they attacked the Sui army in order to get food. Deng Hao finally figured out the reason. Now that Liucheng City is tall and strong, the Dingling people must not dare to attack. As for the fortress and the fortress, it became the target of the attack by Dingling people.

There is no food and grass in the fortress, but the fortress is different. The fortress is the node of the defense of the Daling River Valley. The soldiers usually farm and plant their own crops, and they also provide food to the fortress regularly, so they stock up a lot of food.

Deng Hao, who found the problem, asked these protons to contact their father's heads and asked them to attack the rebel Dingling people, and at the same time sent troops from Liucheng to strengthen the defense in the fort. Each fort defender was raised from one hundred to two hundred. After Deng Hao divided the troops, Dingling people failed several times against the fort, and attacking the fort was attacked by the fort defender, so the Dingling people stopped.

But after a few days, the farthest bay from Liucheng was suddenly attacked by thousands of Dingling people. After hearing this, Deng Hao was furious and ordered his generals to send 300 cavalry to reinforcements. However, after a day and a night, the smoke of the bay was still not stopped, but there was no news about the 300 cavalry he sent. Deng Hao couldn't sleep all night and arrested several Dingling's protons when it was almost dawn. He tortured and questioned them. Finally, he could not stand it. Only then did he realize that the attack was a sudden instructor.
Chapter completed!