The Northern Expedition to quell the Restoration Army soon started in Heqing County in the northwest. General Lu Guangcai had led his troops to capture this county before, so this time he was familiar with it. The three giants easily deceived Heqing County.

At the city gate of Qingxian County, Liu Jijin's fast-horse cavalry army rushed into the city and captured Heqing County without any effort. The same was true for the adjacent Jiangxing County. The two counties were easily defeated by Lu Guangcai.

and the Pingfan Restoration Army led by Zhao Jian took it down.

The next few counties occupied by the Tufans were alert and strengthened their defenses. Lu Guangcai and Zhao Jian had no choice but to use hard attacks. In fact, it was very simple. They sent three giants, wearing indestructible armor, to rush to the enemy.

The garrisoned city gate was forced to break open, and then the cavalry followed up, occupied the city defense, and finally the army entered.

In these small towns in the northwest, the number of Tufan troops stationed was only 30,000 to 50,000, and they were unable to withstand the attacks of the Restoration Army. They were almost always defeated at the first attack, defeated and quickly fell.

Soon, the four counties of Wenhe, Baiyang, Wangcang, and Xinqu located in the northwest of the Central Plains all fell one after another and fell into the hands of the Restoration Army. At present, except for Jinyang County, the six northwest cities have fallen.

It fell into the hands of the Restoration Army. The speed was unexpected.

At first, after the two cities of Heqing and Jiangxing were lost, Tufan thought that Yuwen's army was playing some trick of attacking from the east to the west and diverting the tiger from the mountain, so he didn't take it to heart. Until almost all the cities in the northwest fell, Tufan Khan Deyong

Only then did he realize the seriousness of the problem, especially when he learned that King Yuwen was still alive. He was so furious that he reluctantly killed General Dong Zanlang, who had failed to do things well at the time, and ordered General Dadan Zhenta to lead an army of 200,000, and immediately

Cross the Nu River to the west and go to rescue counties in the northwest.

After the Restoration Army in the northwest captured six cities in one go, the army had already tightly surrounded the last city, Jinyang County, and could break into the city with just an order.

At this time, Zhao Jian suddenly ordered his troops to stop attacking, and only sent a small number of troops to harass Jinyang County every day, but they did not attack Jinyang County.

General Lu Guangcai was a little confused and came to ask Zhao Jian. Zhao Jian said to him: "We attacked the city so fast that the enemy did not even have time to send reinforcements. Commander Yuwen's intention of sending troops this time was to siege the city.

Call for reinforcements. If we capture the entire northwest now, I wonder if the enemy will send reinforcements to rescue us. If no reinforcements come, what reinforcements will be sent?"

"What you say makes sense, but we must also be careful not to let Jinyang County fall into the hands of enemy reinforcements. Then it will be very difficult to capture the city or encircle and annihilate the reinforcements in the future." General Lu Guangcai reminded.

"This is indeed the case, so we must always be ready to capture the city. The specific time to attack the city must be grasped. It is best to attack the city quickly after the enemy's reinforcements have crossed the upper reaches of the Nu River. We must capture the city within two hours.

Go down to the county seat and make preparations to deploy defenses to meet the enemy's reinforcements." After that, the two gathered the generals to study and deploy the next battle plan. They were fully prepared to capture the city at any time.

Sure enough, as soon as the Tufan reinforcements led by General Dadan Zhenta waded across the Nu River, the Restoration Army sent troops to capture Jinyang County and set up a posture in Jinyang County, preparing to face the Tufan army.

The news came that Tufan sent 200,000 troops to the northwest for rescue. Commander Yuwen was overjoyed. He immediately ordered Chu Weitian, the general of Tongyuan, to mobilize 200,000 troops. Under his personal leadership, he went straight to the upper reaches of the Nu River to attack the enemy.

The Tufan reinforcements were all encircled and suppressed here.

The Restoration Army that captured Jinyang County had already deployed city defenses in the city, gathered all its forces in Jinyang County, and set up a formation to block the Tufan reinforcements from heading north.

When the Tufan reinforcements led by Dadan Zhenta arrived at the outskirts of Jinyang County, they stopped advancing. The Tufan army did not seem to intend to attack the city immediately, but instead set up a defensive formation outside the city.

Two generals, Zhao Jian and Lu Guangcai, discovered that although they intercepted the Tufan army's path, they were unable to launch an effective attack on the Tufan army because the Tufan army deployed more than 10,000 armored soldiers in front of the city.

The yaks are like rows of copper and iron walls surrounding Jinyang County. This iron barrel-like formation makes people feel frightened just by looking at it.

Here, the 200,000-strong Pingfan Restoration Army led by Commander-in-Chief Yuwen himself has arrived on the west bank of the Nu River, blocking the retreat of the Tufan reinforcements and sandwiching the 200,000 Tufan troops in the middle. But at this time, Commander-in-Chief Yuwen

Suddenly I realized that I had made a mistake, that is, the intelligence I had previously obtained was inaccurate. Although the reinforcements sent by Tufan were only 200,000 horses, the mounts mounted by 20,000 Tufan soldiers were ignored by the intelligence soldiers.

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Among the 200,000 Tufan reinforcements, more than 20,000 Tufan soldiers came riding yaks. Yak is the most adept offensive weapon of the Tufan people. The combat power of more than 20,000 yaks is almost equal to that of 100,000.

Therefore, although the Tufan army is now surrounded, the two armies are equally matched in terms of combat strength, and Yuwen's army does not have any advantage.

In this case, it would be difficult to quickly annihilate the Tufan army. If the attack fails for a long time, Yuwen's army may be surrounded and destroyed by the Tufan army who later supported it.

But now the tiger is stuck, and the only way to ensure victory in the Northern Expedition is to quickly and decisively eliminate the Tufan troops in front of him. Commander Yuwen did not want to give up this piece of fat, so he decided to take a chance.

On the one hand, he sent people to closely monitor the movements of the Tufan army east of the Nu River. On the other hand, he sent the general Chu army to lead 50,000 cavalry troops to charge against the Tufan army at Dadanzhen Pagoda.

The 100,000 Nationalist Army here in Jinyang County also launched an attack on the Tufan Army, but were soon forced back by Tufan's armored yak formation, leaving some casualties and had to retreat back to the city.

The 50,000 cavalry troops of General Chu were even more miserable. They encountered Tufan's fire ox formation. The Tufan people used a trick this time. They put a felt on the tail of the yak, poured oil on it, and put it in front of the formation.

When it was ignited, the yaks burned by the fire were like crazy and rushed forward desperately. Even if there were mountains of swords and seas of fire in front of them, tigers, leopards and jackals could not stop them from moving forward.

More than 3,000 yaks with flames blazing from their bodies smashed into pieces the iron cavalry troops of General Chu, resulting in numerous casualties. The defeated iron cavalry were defeated and fled. Some soldiers finally pursued them.

The yaks were exhausted, or were burned to death and fell to the ground, but they managed to escape.

There were fireworks in front of the formation, the smell of roasted meat was everywhere, and the miserable screams of burned soldiers were everywhere. It was unbearable to see and hear.??
Chapter completed!