Chapter 1398

The war in Chifeng City has begun, and in Chengde City, more than a hundred miles away from the southwest, the governor Meng Yizheng has a discussion with the county Cheng Yuan Si and the Duwei Zhao Yu.

"The help letters from Lord yuan, General Zhao and the royal family's prefect have been sent to Luoyang by Feilu, but now the king is in the northern expedition to the state of Zhao. Although the state of Zhao has been destroyed, in order to stabilize the land of Bingzhou, he should not set out to return to Luoyang. Therefore, according to my estimation, even if the urgent letter reaches the king at the fastest speed, it will take a day or two."

"But Chifeng City's defense strength is seriously insufficient, so now the plan can only be arranged by us first. At that time, we will report to the king." Looking at the two people in front of him, Meng Yi said solemnly;

"However, if you send troops without the king's will, then..." unlike Meng Yi, Yuan Si is a remnant of the yuan family. It is not long before he took refuge in Huangfu Chaobo. Although he was appointed as a county magistrate, he does not act like Meng Yi. He obviously needs to be cautious.

"It's not necessary." Meng Yi waved his hand in disapproval. They can be said to be the servants of Huangfu Chaobo, and now most of them have settled in Henan county for several years. It can be said that they are loyal to Huangfu Chaobo, and Huangfu Chaobo gave him permission to do it under special circumstances when he arranged for him to come to Yanbei.

Another point is that even if Meng Yi has any other thoughts, Zhao Yu is Huangfu Chaobo's nephew and daughter-in-law. She is also the general of the army. With her, Huangfu Chaobo will not have any bad ideas about sending troops.

"If we wait for the king's will, more than ten cities in Lulong County and Yanbei county may be lost, so we must arrange it as soon as possible. What's General Zhao's intention?"

"Zhao Yu has no opinion. Since the king handed Yanbei over to the adult, he believes in the adult's behavior. What should we do according to the adult's wishes?" Zhao Yu is over thirty at this time. She is not the funny little girl of that year.

As a woman and mother, she has grown into a mature general. Now Huang Xu, as the master general of Yanbei County, leads the army to go abroad, and Zhang an leads 10000 soldiers to support Gongsun fan's youpeiping. Then she, the county lieutenant, has become the master general of the army. She also agrees with Yu Mengyi's idea. If she waits for the will of Luoyang, the cauliflower will be cold.

Therefore, in the face of Meng Yi's inquiry, she immediately expressed her support, but she didn't have much idea about how to arrange it. After all, she rarely led the army alone, and most of the time she appeared as a general.

Meng Yi nodded. He was thinking about reinforcements as early as after receiving the letter from wangmen. However, although there are three more Youzhou counties in the whole Tang Dynasty, namely youpeiping, Liaoxi and Lulong, the military strength is already stretched.

When Huang Xu led the army, he took 30000 infantry. Later, when Gongsun Yue brothers asked for help, he transferred nearly 10000 troops from Yanbei. Now the total number of troops in Yanbei is less than 40000, but he still needs to defend eight cities.

In particular, the northern city of Yixun is a top priority. Chifeng City was attacked by Xianbei army, and Yixun city must not be spared. Now there are only 6000 troops in Yixun city. Fortunately, the position of Yixun city will be much simpler to defend than Chifeng City. Just for the sake of safety, Meng Yi decided to send a reinforcements to Yixun.

"I've made up my mind. I'll send troops from Longhua and Shuangluan cities to form reinforcements. It's up to..." at this point, Meng Yi hesitated a little. Now Zhao Yu is the only one who leads the army. However, Meng Yi doesn't want to be led by her.

"I am the leader of the army. Please don't hesitate. My uncle entrusted Yanbei to us at the beginning. Now my husband and brother Zhang are not here, so I have to lead the army in person. Moreover, I have been in the army for more than ten years. I went to war with my uncle and husband many times at the beginning, so please rest assured." Zhao Yu said firmly;

Meng Yi thought for a moment. Except for Zhao Yu, there are only a few young generals, dianman and huangfuli. It is estimated that Meng Yi is not at ease if he wants them to lead the war.

"After all, general Hao jianlao and I want to go out of the sea together, in addition to general Meng jianlao." Meng Yi had to promise. Originally, he was ready to lead the army. The children of the Meng family have always been proficient in both literature and martial arts. Just looking at Zhao Yu's posture, he had to promise. However, he still put forward his own requirements.

Yuan Si saw that both of them decided to send troops, so he no longer hesitated: "please rest assured, sir and General Zhao, that if the army needs to go to war, the lower officials will provide it with all their strength and will not delay the army."

"OK, that's it." Meng Yi clapped his hands immediately;

Next, the three discussed the arrangements for the deployment of troops and reinforcements, then wrote a pigeon letter for the simple arrangement and sent it quickly by using Feilu in Chengde city. After that, the detailed arrangements were written into memorials. After the three signed respectively, they were quickly sent from to leting port and handed over to the Navy express ship to Luoyang.

After arranging these, the order of the Imperial Palace began to be issued to the other cities.

First of all, 4000 soldiers were transferred from Longhua city and quickly went north, leaving 2000 soldiers to enter sifanghe Town, making the defense force here reach 5000. The remaining 2000 people continued to go north to support the city of Yixun. In this way, the strength of Yixun City reached 8000. Because the city was much smaller than Chifeng City, these 8000 soldiers were enough to deal with it.

Luanping, Shuangluan and Xiaban counties each dispatched 4000 infantry and 1000 cavalry, together with 2000 cavalry from Chengde, to Zhao Yu's command, with a total of 12000 infantry and 5000 cavalry. They quickly entered Pingquan city in Lulong County to take over the defense of Pingquan.

The reason why he stationed in Pingquan instead of continuing to go north to support Chifeng is that Meng Yi inferred that Chifeng City could not support the arrival of its own reinforcements. You know, Chifeng City of Nuo university has only 5000 garrisons. Facing a full 50000 Xianbei forwards, it is estimated that it can't support for ten days.

Another point is that Chifeng City goes out of Yanshan Mountain in the north and has gone deep into the grassland. The only back road of Chifeng City is to go through Louzidian town to the south, then dianzi city and Xiaosigou town to Pingquan City, and then go from Pingquan city to right Beiping or Yanbei County in the East.

Therefore, in order to defend Chifeng City, several cities along the whole route need to be defended, but these cities are all on the same line. One side of this line is close to the mountain and the other side is grassland. Therefore, Xianbei cavalry can isolate these cities at any time. At present, the state of Tang does not have so many troops to defeat most of Xianbei. Therefore, Meng Yi's attitude towards Chifeng City and dianzi city is to save if he can save, He gave up if he could not be saved, including in the memorial. He also reported his ideas to Huangfu Chaobo.