Chapter 581: Confrontation

Yu Wenke had fought against the Yan army and knew very well that when fighting the Yan people, he was not afraid of field battles or frontal combat, but was afraid that the Yan people would huddle in a strong city. It would be like a meat grinder. Even if they were captured in the end, the effort would be worth the effort. The gains are not proportional. It has not been long since the Zhengdong Army entered the Hetao Plain. Now is the time when they have not yet established a firm foothold. If you want to defeat them, you must take advantage of this opportunity. Once the Zhengdong Army has a firm foothold, there is no need to guess. They will definitely have to garrison the city. Once they build the city, it will be difficult to drive them out.

I am not a direct descendant of Thorpe. Although Yuwen Ke is quick to adapt to the situation, Yuwen Ke trusts him without reservation without trusting Thorpe. In the current form of Donghu, he wants to keep his power and position, and he wants to keep the Yuwen Department. If you want to achieve your own interests, you must have tangible military exploits.

Then, the Eastern Expedition Army was a good choice. They had not yet established a stable foothold in the Hetao Plain, so driving them out and occupying the Hetao for Donghu would be a huge military achievement.

Yuwen Ke brought five thousand cavalry, but among the five thousand cavalry, only two thousand belonged to his Yuwen Department, and the remaining three thousand cavalry were drawn from various departments. Yuwen Ke knew that as Thorpe's status became more and more The more stable it becomes, the deeper the restructuring will be, the fewer and fewer tribal private soldiers will become. Eventually, they will all become the army of the Donghu Dynasty, that is, the soldiers of King Suopu of Donghu, and they were originally the masters of these soldiers.

In the end, these originally powerful tribal leaders will become the civil and military ministers of the Donghu Dynasty, powerless civil and military ministers, with life and death in the hands of Thorpe.

But the form is stronger than the person. Either he will die in the future or he will die now. Among these two choices, Yu Wenke would naturally choose the second one without hesitation. He would keep the green hills and not be afraid of running out of firewood. Where are the bloody examples in front of him? What he has to do now is to continue to build Meritorious service. Keep climbing. I may not be Thorp's opponent in this life, but the days are long, and as long as the Yuwen Department continues to exist, maybe one day. Yuwenbu can also sit in a higher position.

Miranda is a hero of a generation, and Thorpe is a tycoon of a generation, but will their family always be full of talents?

it's out of the question.

The king's flag changes at the top of the city. The world that many wise masters worked hard to conquer was not always defeated at the hands of unworthy descendants in the end. The change of dynasties in the Central Plains is clear evidence.

The Yuwen family will always live in fear, but this kind of fear will also make the Yuwen family's self-improvement unfortunate. It destroys the talent of an individual, and as for Thorpe and his family, after sitting in high positions for a long time, naturally each generation is inferior to the last.

This is Yu Wenke's plan, and his plan is not for this life. It's about the next few lifetimes.

But what is before him now is how to completely unite the remaining three thousand Donghu cavalry. This is what Thorpe will do after integrating the Donghu tribe.

For the first time when troops were used externally, tribes were no longer used as combat units, but multiple tribes were mobilized to form an army. Unified command and unified operations are also a test for Thorpe, so he cannot tolerate failure.

Once he fails, wouldn't it mean that Thorpe's plan to form a unified force belonging to the country is wrong? that time. The scapegoat is himself.

Yu Wenke felt cold all over when he thought of this possibility.

He first had to twist these five thousand cavalry into one, and sharing the same hatred was the best choice. He chose to swear an oath in this place that turned into scorched earth because he did it deliberately, using the blood of his comrades to provoke them into fighting. Although there have always been internal fights among the various ethnic groups in Donghu, when they encounter foreign enemies, they can still unite to deal with the outside world.

Tengger turned into scorched earth, the land stained with the blood of his comrades, and the densely raised graves. Yu Wenke used these to successfully arouse the anger of the Donghu people. He looked at the people who were screaming for revenge. Soldier, Yu Wenke smiled proudly in his heart.

But ten days later, Yu Wenke's smile turned into bitterness and fear. The sentinel brought back the exact news from the west bank. The Eastern Expeditionary Army had indeed arrived in Hetao not long ago, but on the west bank of the Liao River, ten miles away from the Liao River, A city, Pioneer City, has actually been erected. But dozens of miles away from Pioneer City, another city has also begun to take shape.

This made Yu Wenke's original idea completely useless. Attacking the city was something he had never thought of.

The Eastern Expeditionary Army has a city, which means they have a foundation. Listening to the appearance of the vanguard city described by the sentry cavalry, they are afraid that they will be unable to capture it even if their entire army is dispatched and completely damaged. What's more, they As many as 20,000 troops have been gathered.

Yu Wenke suddenly realized that the entire Donghu Dynasty had previously underestimated the determination of Gaoyuan Zhengdong Mansion to capture the Hetao Plain. Such a city was suddenly built on the other side. Obviously, it was not something that could be completed in a short time. This showed that in When the Battle of Donghu just ended, the Zhengdong Army had already begun to work on this matter. It is ridiculous that Donghu people still believe that Zhengdong Mansion, which controls Hejian in western Liaoning, has no courage to actively attack Donghu, but will shrink its defense.

But now it is obvious that Gao Yuan put his hand into the Loop, and the most direct purpose of putting his hand into the Loop was naturally to attack Donghu. Gao Yuan is not Zhang Shouyue. Zhang Shouyue is getting old. In the end, he doesn’t want to make progress and just wants to maintain success. However, Gao Yuan is older and more determined to make progress. Moreover, Gao Yuan’s control over Liaoxi and Hejian far exceeds Dong Hu’s estimation. It was originally thought that Gao Yuan still needed time to digest the land of these two counties, and would not start a war rashly before he completed the integration.

But now, the facts slapped Donghu in the face. Those damned Yan people also provided wrong information. What they said about the people in Liaoxi and Hejian being uneasy was all false.

This was not his own problem. Yuwen Ke knew that with only 5,000 cavalry in his hands, there was no possibility of winning. He immediately wrote a memorial to Helin, asking for reinforcements.

Of course, in addition to asking for help from Helin, he also had to show his courage to Thorpe. The 5,000 Donghu cavalry advanced to a place only ten miles away from the Liaohe River, set up camp, and confronted the Vanguard City across the river.

A scene rarely seen in the countless years of confrontation between Yan and Donghu appeared along the Liaohe River. The scouts of both sides did not fight each other as soon as they met, because there was a Liaohe River between them. Since they could not fight, both sides could only curse and insult each other's eighteen generations of ancestors across the river, plus countless obscene gestures, so that in the end, both sides sent out loud scouts to facilitate their shouting and cursing to be clearly heard by the other side. Xu Yuan even enthusiastically formed a special group to study how to curse people. He had to target the Donghu people's **, and he had to curse them so hard that they were furious. He also had to change his curse every day and not repeat it. In comparison, the Donghu people's ability to curse people was much worse. They just kept repeating the same few words. How could they curse against a well-prepared opponent?

Such a failure obviously made the Donghu people extremely angry. The arrogant tribal generals could not adapt to the fact that there was a general who was not their clan leader to command them. Every day in Yuwen Ke's tent, they shouted to kill people across the Liaohe River, which gave Yuwen Ke a headache. Kill people across the river? It was really a joke. I was afraid that the expeditionary army on the other side was looking forward to crossing the river.

But coercion was not a solution. It would cause the tribes that he had finally united to fall apart. If he ignored it, it would also make the soldiers' morale low. He was even more worried that some generals would ignore his orders and send troops privately. When they suffered a great loss, the board would hit him.

After a day of hard thinking, Yuwen Ke really came up with a solution. He sent more than a hundred Yan army prisoners of war to the rear, and asked them to wear brand new Yan army uniforms, and took them to the riverside, using various means to humiliate these prisoners of war, forcing them to do various disgusting actions.

Once this move was made, it was the turn of the Zhengdong Army to be unbearable. One by one, the Zhengdong Army generals ran to Xu Yuan indignantly and asked to fight.

Xu Yuan would certainly not allow it. The current strategy of the Zhengdong Army is to consolidate its advantage on the west bank first, and in the field, Xu Yuan does not think he has an advantage. Zhengdong Mansion now requires occupying the west bank of the Liaohe River and turning it into Zhengdong Mansion's granary, so it should not be himself who should be anxious, but the Donghu Army on the other side.

Unlike the Donghu people, the military discipline of the Zhengdong Army was strict. When Xu Yuan gave an order, although many generals were suspicious, no one dared to disobey. Xu Yuan even pulled the troops to the Liaohe River and ordered them to clearly see the humiliation suffered by the Yan army prisoners on the other side.

Anger was gathering and hatred was deepening. After more than ten days, Yuwen Ke finally stopped this trick because he found that the generals on the other side were very calm, and their military discipline was not comparable to the current Donghu troops. If this continued, he would accumulate morale for the other side.

Hatred can sometimes make people lose their minds, but sometimes it can also make people burst out with strength. Yuwen Ke did not want to be a promoter of the latter.

Yuwen Ke stopped. He had successfully appeased his generals and let his generals of various ethnic groups recognize his ability. On the other side, Xu Yuan successfully incorporated the Yan army prisoners of war into the system of the Eastern Expedition Army. The more than 10,000 Yan army prisoners of war realized that if they wanted revenge, they could only rely on the Eastern Expedition Army.

Both sides gained something and returned to the initial confrontation.

Yuwen Ke waited for reinforcements, Xu Yuan strengthened the city walls and kept reclaiming wasteland.

At this time, in Jishi City, which was becoming more and more like a big city, Gao Yuan laughed after receiving the report from the Hetao Plain. Xu Yuan was really a guy with ideas.

The war in the Hetao Plain was about to start, but in the Central Plains, it was extremely uneasy during this period. A series of major events kept knocking on everyone's hearts, making everyone dazzled.