As the dusk became deeper, almost all the enemy soldiers retreated from the city. In a short period of time, there was no sign of the enemy soldiers' intention to attack Gong County. Xu Huaixian led the soldiers back to the camp to rest and recuperate; the city was also busy saving lives and repairing war equipment.

Qian Shangduan, Xu Wujiang, Lu Xiong and others accompanied King Jing Zhao Tuan down the city tower and returned to the palace to rest first; Zhang Xin, on behalf of King Jing Zhao Tuan, continued to sit in the city tower with the generals, staring at the movement outside the city.

Xu Huai waited for the generals to settle down, and had eaten something with Wang Ju, Guo Junzong and others, and rushed to the palace.

It was already dark, and Qian Shangduan and others were still beside King Jing Zhao Tuan, and no one left to rest.

After several days of hard fighting, although the defending Gong County was not lost, Xingyang, Zhengzhou, Hulao and Yanshi were all lost, and there was no sign of the enemy's troops being withdrawn. How could everyone really feel at ease?

In the side hall of the palace, in addition to hanging maps of prefectures and counties in the north wall of Jingxi Road, Qian Shangduan also found craftsmen to use wood to make wooden plates with wood and place them on long tables. He also made craftsmen to carve some small ornaments in the wooden plates as marks of enemy camps and troops, and clearly mark the offensive and defense forces on the wooden plates.

The Great Yue respected literature and suppressed martial arts, and his military preparations were abolished. The generals and soldiers had not been in the army for a long time. There was also a lack of generals in the court who could command troops and fight, but this small effort was better than the previous dynasty.

As a scholar, Qian Shangduan was a person who was good at official affairs. In addition to these small work, the collection and allocation of materials other than defense were arranged in an orderly manner.

Now everyone has returned to the palace, but any new trends of the enemy will be reported at any time. Zhu Tong and Hu Yu are responsible for summarizing them and marking them on the wooden plate of the long case.

Zhu Tong and Hu Yu are young and have not yet entered the government, but it is appropriate to stay by King Jing Zhao Tuan to walk, assist Qian Shangduan in handling documents and passing orders.

Xu Huai walked into the side hall, and King Jing Zhao Tuan was standing in front of the wooden plate of the long table.

On the wooden plate, after nightfall, there were still continuous attacks from the Hulao Pass; the enemy soldiers were expanding the scale of Hekou camp and strengthening it, and also drove prisoners overnight to dig trenches on the south side of its camp to create obstacles such as resisting horses, as if they were to stay for a long time.

King Jing Zhao Tuan was full of confusion about the new trends of the enemy soldiers. When he saw Xu Huai coming in, he called him over and asked:

"Although the enemy soldiers received reinforcements from the new division, they did not have the intention to attack Gong County again. It should be that the Western Army's troops had passed Tongguan or entered the area east of Hangu Pass. Logically speaking, they should retreat to Hulao Pass, use Hulao Pass as a vassal screen to block the Western Army's way to advance eastward. How could they build camps at the mouth of the Yiluo River and continue to increase their troops?"

Defending Gong County is of course far from indicating that the situation in Hehuai has improved.

The Chihu people still had the absolute initiative in the Hehuai battlefield at this time. Xu Huai had long anticipated this. His thoughts were to defend Gong County and wait for the Western Army.

In this process, if there is an unexpected major change, such as the main force of the Western Army's King of Rescue defeated by the Chihu people, or Bianliang accidentally fell, he would take King Jing Zhao Tuan to retreat to Songshan and flee back to Caizhou without hesitation, and would not have any nostalgia for Gongxian.

In addition, under such a bad trend, Xu Huai didn't think that his team could really make any waves.

Therefore, he would not ask the enemy soldiers to make any disturbances and make them feel anxious.

Of course, he thought so, and he could eat enough and sleep soundly at this time, but King Jing Zhao Tuan and others were worried, hoping to grasp any subtle changes in the situation, and even unable to sleep or eat for this, which is normal.

Xu Huai walked to the wooden plate and said, "If Yuehai Tower is not removed, it is a great disaster - he is too familiar with the imperial court and the Western Army. The enemy soldiers could not capture Gong County and did not retreat to Hulao Pass. Instead, they pushed the troops to the mouth of Yiluo River. Of course, it is not ruled out that the Chihu people had studied our dynasty deeply before this invasion of the south."

"How do you say it?" Qian Shangduan couldn't see through why the enemy soldiers were deployed like this and asked worriedly.

"Gong County has been attacking and defending for several days. In addition to driving the surrender of the rebels and attached cities, the chiefs also arranged some of their elite troops to dismount and wear armor to climb the city. But everyone also saw it? The enemy soldiers are strong, but they are not strong enough to defeat. Especially when they invade the south this time, their preparations are far from sufficient. There is no way to say that they are strong in a hurry to attack the city and capture the village."

Xu Huai looked at everyone and said,

"Their cavalry galloped in plain land, and there was no army in Dayue that could defeat its sharpness. However, in addition to siegeing cities and villages, city defense is also a weakness that they cannot avoid. The Western Army has fought with the Dangxiang people among the steep mountains and ridges in the northwest over the years, mainly fighting for the fortress and guarding, and is also quite good at siegeing cities and villages. In addition, the enemy soldiers failed to capture Luoyang Prefecture. After the Western Army advanced east, relying on the supply of food and equipment from Luoyang Prefecture, the ability to attack cities and villages would only be stronger. Let's look at Hulao Pass, which is located between the ridges and the surrounding terrain, which looks easy to defend and difficult, but a single Hulao Pass is very thin. The enemy soldiers cannot deploy elite cavalry inside and outside the city to assist in the battle. It is not their strength to defend the city, but it is difficult to defend the city for a long time by just using rebellion and surrender. And the Western Army only needs to be ashamed of the elite cavalry.

In addition to being able to recover Hulao Pass, in addition to greatly inspiring the morale and morale of the Hehuai army, the defenders of the capital can also form a left-right confrontation with the defenders of the capital. Although the Western Army's king-supporting troops still cannot win with the main force of the enemy's soldiers, but there are only 180 miles away from Bianliang and Hulao, and there are many cities in the middle. The Western Army relies on the food, grass and combat equipment provided by Luoyang Prefecture to step by step, and it is not difficult to attack the city and village from west to east. If the enemy's soldiers do not want to be blocked by the Yellow River after the melting of the ice, they even need to retreat north when Hulao Pass falls! Although the enemy's soldiers have not been able to capture Gongxian, they may have given up their intention to attack Gongxian, but their chief should have seen clearly what I said just now, and decided to extend the battlefield where they fought with the Western Army to the west to Gongxian..."

"You mean that the camps built by the enemy soldiers in a hurry on the northern foot of Songshan Mountain cannot be compared with Hulao Pass City, but there are more large areas for their cavalry to rely on the camps to rush and circulate, which is enough to make them play their strengths and avoid their weaknesses?" King Jing Zhao Tuan frowned and asked.

"Your Highness's clarification," said Xu Huai, "It is not even ruled out that they want to attract all the Western Army's soldiers to the northern foot of Songshan Mountain and use their superior cavalry to fight..."

"..." Hearing Xu Huai's analysis, Qian Shangduan and others were also nervous and speechless.

Seeing everyone like this, Xu Huai smiled and said, "No matter how bad the situation is, it is better than Gong County being trapped in the opponents together!"

If Gong County is invaded, the Chihu people will connect Yanshi, Gong County, Hulao and Xingyang.

The main force of its cavalry can be directly interspersed into the low-ridge area west of Mengjin and Luoyang, making it difficult for the main force of the Western Army to get out of Hangu Pass.

At this time, they defended Gong County and blocked the Chihu people's entrance to Luoyang. Not only did the Chihu people dare not go west, they even had to worry that the narrow passage along the Yiluo River would be cut off by their small army.

This forced the Chihu people's western wing troops to shrink into Gongxian for defense deployment, which was the best choice.

This also means that the Western Army's troops can not only go out of Hangu Guan to advance east, but also can easily recover Yanshi and enter Gongxian to join them.

Although this is still far from being lifted from the siege of Bianliang, compared with the fall of Gong County, the situation has improved a lot, at least not so desperate.

Xu Huai had no hope of completely regaining his disadvantages through one or two battles.

He thought to himself that if he could get back a little bit of his disadvantages in any effort or struggle, then if he gritted his teeth and persevered, the final victory would be destined to be inclined.

It is obvious that King Jing Zhao Tuan, Qian Shangduan and others have not yet established this concept of long-lasting combat, so they will be trapped in the worries in front of them and it is difficult to resolve them.

Xu Huai didn't expect to help them solve this problem at this time. Instead of worrying about this longer-term problem, it is better to think more about how the Gongxian defenders would cooperate with them after the Western Army's king-supported troops arrived in Gong County. Should he be more silently reducing his sense of existence.

When Dayue was first established, Shaanxi Road was one of the fifteenth roads. Its land was in the east, connected to Longchuan in the west, Shangluo in the south, and controlled Xiaoguan in the north, and was governed by Chang'an Prefecture.

During the reign of Emperor Xian, in order to better organize the war against Dangxiang, in addition to the entire territory of the Shaanxi Transportation Commission, Shaanxi was under the jurisdiction of the Shaanxi Transportation Commission, and military and political affairs were divided into five routes, including the Fuyan, Huanqing, Jingyuan, Qinfeng, and Xihe. In fact, Shaanxi Road was divided into five war zones.

Therefore, in addition to the five-way strategic pacification envoy and the five-way imperial guard commander, the Western Army also had the General Administration of the Military and Horse Commission of Shaanxi Fifth Routes (Western Army), which took charge of the coordinated combat of the Dangxiang people in five theaters.

Before Cai Ying was transferred to Bianliang to take charge of the Privy Council, as a scholar, he served as a scholar in Jingyuan's governor, the commander of the Jingsheng Army, and the chief manager of the military commander of the five routes of Shaanxi for a full sixteen years.

Although Cai Ying has been imprisoned and the ruling faction in the court has collapsed, in order to appease the generals of the Western Army and make them work hard to serve the king, the court has given lenient relief to Cai Ying's generals and officials promoted to the Western Army.

Although Liu Shidao, who persecuted his uncle Wang Ju, had already passed away from illness, and Liu Shizhong died in battle outside Yanmen Pass and Yue Hailou surrendered to the enemy, he participated in the forgery of edicts and gained profit from the forgery of edicts, or later relied on Cai Ying, and all of them were in high positions and powerful positions.

And these people would never put aside all their concerns and suspicions about the people of Tongbai Mountain just because he had fully helped Liu Yan and Chen Yuan gather the remaining troops in Shuozhou. From then on, they would be heart-to-heart and heart-to-heart to go to the national crisis together.
Chapter completed!