Chapter 571 Crossing Mount Menghe

After the plan was formulated, the departments of Chongqing Town immediately began to take action.

Xie Yuan returned to Daningwei, while strengthening his vigilance to the west, he mobilized reinforcements to guard the food route of Dinghuwei.

Yang Mingzhen and Yang Chengze led the soldiers of the two battalions to leave Dinghu Guard early the next morning. They also needed to take a long way to attack the flag of the Ula tribe.

The remaining army left Dinghu Guard slowly and slowly advanced towards the locations of Sari Lake and Menghe Mountain Que.

At the beginning, Yang Zhengshan did not lead the Zhenbiao camp to separate from the sixth reinforcement camp. They first slowly approached the territory of the Ula clan along the Tun Fort of Dinghu Guard.

Tens of thousands of troops rushed to the road, and the speed was extremely slow. It took them three days to get out of the Dinghu Guard and enter the territory of the Ula tribe.

Marching forty or fifty miles a day should be a normal level. Yang Zhengshan is not in a hurry. He needs to first determine whether the left and right second battalions can destroy the Ula flag and land before he can divide his troops.

If the Ula family's flag land was not destroyed, it would be very dangerous to set up camp outside Menghe Mountain Que. If you are not careful, you will fall into a situation where you are attacked from both sides.

Just as Yang Zhengshan was slowly advancing, Yang Mingzhen and Yang Chengze had already led the left and right second battalions around Sari Lake to the Ula flag.

But they did not find the Ula tribe, but only found an empty flag.

There are a large number of brick and stone houses and felt tents in the flag area, but there is no one or any livestock here. Obviously, the Ula family has already run away, and when they run away, they take all the supplies away. It's right.

Yang Mingzhen and Yang Chengze came to a house, and they looked at the mess inside.

"They should have left seven or eight days ago!"

"The Ula family has 100,000 people, both young, young, and young, and they should be able to travel at most. They can walk up to two hundred miles in seven or eight days!"

Yang Mingzhen analyzed.

Yang Chengze nodded, "They can't go east or south. They either entered Menghe Mountain west or went north to the snowfield!"

Yang Mingzhen thought for a while and said, "The possibility of entering Menghe Mountain is not high. They still have a large number of livestock. The plants and trees in Menghe Mountain are not enough to support so many livestock. Instead, the edge of the snow field can be provided for it. A lot of livestock.”

There is no clear boundary in the snowfield, and any cold land in the north can be called the snowfield.

It is May, and it is the most vibrant time for vegetation on the edge of the snowfield. In the next six months, Ula can live on the edge of the snowfield, and even if they are well prepared, they can still live in the snowfield. The land of the cold winter.

"Do we want to pursue?" Yang Chengze asked.

Yang Mingzhen was a little hesitant, "The order given to us by the Marquis was to directly cross Menghe Mountain after attacking the Ula clan. It is more important than crossing Menghe Mountain and going deep into the hinterland of the Wulianghu clan!"

"We don't have the exact route for Ula to escape, and it probably takes a lot of time to pursue it now."

“Instead of wasting time on the Ula family, it’s better to cross Mount Menghe as soon as possible!”

Yang Chengze nodded, "This is OK, but the food and grass we carry may not be able to support us across Mount Menghe!"

Yang Mingzhen said: "Then let's grab it. There are still many small tribes in the south of Sari, which is enough for us to replenish some food and meat!"

Their original plan was to attack the Ula family and replenish supplies from the Ula family. Now that the Ula family has run away, they can only loot the small tribes around.

After the two agreed, they sent a team of cavalry back to send a message to Yang Zhengshan, and then took the army and swept towards the south of Sari Hunan.

On the way of the army in Chongqing Town, Yang Zhengshan was a little surprised after receiving the letter from Yang Mingzhen and Yang Chengze.

"Wula actually ran away?"

He didn't know his bad reputation in the Ula family, so he naturally wouldn't have thought that the Ula family would run away on his own initiative.

In fact, it is not difficult to understand that the Ula clan escaped. The Ula clan originally defected to the Ulghur clan from the East China Hu clan. They were able to betray the East China Hu clan, but now they can naturally betray the Ulghur clan.

What's more, the Wuliang King Ting was suspected of using them as cannon fodder this time, and Xuan Ting had no psychological burden for betraying Wuliang King Ting.

Yang Zhengshan pondered for a moment and said to the soldiers who came to deliver the letter: "You go back and tell Mingzhen and Chengze what to do, they can do it themselves, and there is no need to ask for instructions back and forth!"

He has decided to release Yang Mingzhen and Yang Chengze. As the saying goes, the general is outside, and the king is unbearable. Now the two parties can still send messages, but after they separate and cross the Menghe Mountain in the courtyard, the two parties cannot contact each other at all, so everything must be done by them. Make your own decision.

As for the Ula family, since the Ula family has run away, there is no need to worry about it. Even if the Ula family takes retreat as an advance, Yang Zhengshan will not care about it now.

He could not change his plan for the sake of the Ula family. Of course, he still instructed Tang Feihu and Niuzhuang to make him beware that the Ula family might attack their camp.

"Tomorrow we will divide our troops to head north. You can continue moving forward. Don't have to be too fast, just march normally!"

"After arriving at the predetermined location, don't rush to attack. Strengthen the camp first, and at the same time, scatter the scouts, completely cut off the connection between Menghe Shanque and the outside world!"

"The Ula family should have run away, but we must also beware of their retreat to advance. In short, you must be careful to deal with it!"

"If things cannot be done, return to Dinghu Wei immediately, don't worry about us!"

Yang Zhengshan summoned Tang Feihu and Niu Zhuang and gave them detailed instructions.

After listening, the two responded, "Don't worry, Lord, we will act cautiously."

After arranging everything, Yang Zhengshan led the three battalions of the town's front, middle and back to the north early the next morning.

At this time, each soldier in the front, middle and back battalions had two horses, and even the armored heavy cavalry had three horses, and the heavy infantry also had three horses.

The three battalions had a total of 18,000 soldiers, but there were also 6,000 auxiliary soldiers, which was a total of 24,000 people.

And they also carried more than 60,000 war horses.

They only carried ten days of food and grass, which was not enough for them to get to Yemi City, but they could only carry so much food and grass at most. If they had more, it would affect the speed of the march.

As for what to do after the food and grass ran out, Yang Zhengshan had already thought about it. If he encountered a small tribe along the way, he would rob them. If he didn't encounter a small tribe, he would kill the horses and eat the meat.

Of the 60,000 war horses, only half would be left. They could kill 30,000 horses as food and fodder.

Just as Yang Zhengshan led the army to the north of Menghe Mountain, Tang Wuxi also arrived at Dongque Pass.

Inside Dongque Pass, Tang Wuxi received the news that Wu La had escaped, and his face flushed with anger.

"This group of ungrateful wolves actually ran away at the critical moment!"

"A bunch of damn bastards!"

Tang Wuxi cursed for a quarter of an hour before stopping, "When I defeat the army of Chongshan Town, I will definitely make Wu La look good!"

He couldn't do anything with Wu La now. Wu La had already run away, and he couldn't send people to chase them back.

Let alone whether he could catch up, even if he did, Wu La probably wouldn't come back, and might even kill his people.

"Where is the army of Chongshan Town?"

After his anger subsided a little, he asked his generals.

"They are still in the southeast of Sari Lake. They are expected to arrive at Sari Lake in five days and enter the Dongque Pass in eight days!" said a general.

Dongque Pass is in the east of Menghe Mountain Pass, more than ten miles away from the entrance of Menghe Mountain Pass. Standing on the wall of Dongque Pass, you can overlook the entrance of the entire Menghe Mountain Pass.

The camping location chosen by Yang Zhengshan for Tang Feihu is at the entrance of the mountain.

They will block the entrance of the mountain, so that the Chici tribe in the mountain cannot walk out of the mountain. At that time, the camp only needs to face the enemy on one side.

The Chici tribe wants to use Dongque Pass to block the army of Chongshan Town, and the army of Chongshan Town also wants to block the exit of the mountain, so that the Chici tribe cannot get any news from the east of Menghe Mountain.

At this time, Tang Wuxi naturally didn't know Yang Zhengshan's idea. He just ordered: "Hurry up and prepare for war. Cut down all the trees outside the city as soon as possible!"

In order to prevent the army of Chongshan Town from building siege equipment, they cut down all the trees outside the city. Now the mountains outside Dongque Pass have become bare.

The tall trees have been basically cut down, and only some shrubs and weeds are left.

Tang Feihu and Niu Zhuang listened to Yang Zhengshan's instructions and marched slowly. When they arrived at the entrance of the mountain gate, it was already ten days later, two days later than Tang Wuxi expected.

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When they arrived at the entrance of the mountain gate, they also followed Yang Zhengshan's order to send out scouts, and then began to set up camp.

The surrounding trees were all cut down, so they went to cut trees farther away and reinforced the camp slowly.

Tang Feihu and Yang Mingzhi came to the entrance of the mountain gate and looked at Dongque Pass with a telescope.

The two carefully observed it and fell into silence. After a long time, Tang Feihu said, "Hey, no wonder the Marquis didn't let us attack. We can't attack it at all!"

Yang Mingzhi was also depressed. Dongque Pass was too steep.

The wall of Dongque Pass was not high, about two feet high, but there were steep mountains on both sides of Dongque Pass. There were many forts on the hillsides on both sides. From those forts, you can directly throw stones to attack the valley below.

If you want to attack Dongque Pass, you must first take down those forts, otherwise you will face three-sided attacks when attacking the city.

And the positions of those forts are extremely steep. Let alone attacking, ordinary soldiers will have to spend a lot of effort to climb up.

"Forget it, let's stay here honestly!" Yang Mingzhi said helplessly.

After being beaten by Yang Zhengshan, he had given up the idea of ​​​​competing for credit.

The two observed for a while, then returned to the camp to reinforce the camp.

They first built a wall on the west side of the camp and a gate, which looked like the front of the camp, but in fact they dug three trenches behind the wall, which could be used as gates. There was a floating bridge on the trenches, and soldiers would go out of the camp every day to observe the situation at Dongque Pass.

Their camp was built very large, with more than ten miles of camps, which could accommodate more than 100,000 soldiers.

But in fact there were only 20,000 soldiers and 20,000 civilians in the camp, and another 10,000 soldiers were guarding the grain road and were not in the camp at all.

The camp was busy every day, with a large number of scouts patrolling outside, a large number of soldiers patrolling in the tents, and a large number of civilians cutting trees in the distant mountains and forests to build siege equipment.

It looked like they were preparing to attack the city.

When Tang Wuxi saw this, he sneered in his heart. He was not afraid of the Chongshan Town army building siege equipment. He was not in a hurry anyway. The longer the time dragged on, the better it would be for him.

As for the siege, he had no worries, because he could give up Dongque Pass.

There was Zhongque Pass behind Dongque Pass. One pass could block Chongshan Town for two or three months, and two passes could block Chongshan Town for half a year.

Half a year later, winter would come, and heavy snow would cover the entire Menghe Mountain, and Chongshan Town’s army would definitely not be able to attack.

Moreover, the time was so long that Chongshan Town’s army consumed a lot of food and grass, which was extremely unfavorable to Chongshan Town.

So he was not afraid of Chongshan Town’s army delaying time. The more Chongshan Town’s army delayed, the happier he was.

Let’s not talk about Tang Wuxi’s relaxed mood, just say that Yang Mingzhen and Yang Chengze led the left and right camps and spent eleven days. They finally crossed the Menghe Mountain and came to the west side of the Menghe Mountain.

This journey was extremely difficult. The road they took could not be called a road at all. Most of the places they walked were hillsides, and many of them were even very steep, and they could barely walk.

Along the way, they lost more than 300 soldiers, most of whom fell off the cliff and died, and a small number of them were injured on the way and could only stay where they were for the time being.

In order to protect the injured soldiers, they had to leave more than 200 soldiers to take care of them.

These were just soldiers, and they lost more horses.

There were thousands of horses rolling down the cliff, and thousands of horses were injured and thrown into the mountains.

The soldiers were exhausted physically and mentally along the way.

But when they stood on the hillside and looked at the endless grassland in the west, they were excited again.

"Fuck, we finally got out. I thought we were lost in the mountains when we couldn't see the exit!"

Yang Mingzhen laughed and scolded.

He was under great psychological pressure these days. There were towering mountains all around him, and he was in abysses, with no end or way out.

Yang Chengze exhaled heavily, and then showed a bright smile.

"It's our turn to show our skills next!"

Yang Mingzhen also smiled, and his smile was particularly ferocious.

After suffering such a great crime, they finally came out, and the breath of anger in their hearts should be released.

Moreover, they didn't have much dry food with them. They not only needed to vent their frustration, but also needed to plunder the supplies of those tribes.

"Order, rest for one night, and go out of the mountain tomorrow!"

Yang Mingzhen shouted loudly.

The soldiers looked for places to rest on the hillside, and many soldiers were cooking.

They didn't have many iron pots, which were definitely not enough for cooking. They could barely boil some water to replenish the drinking water in the water bags for the soldiers.

There was actually no shortage of water in the mountains. The snow on the top of the mountain was melting, forming many small rivers and streams in the mountains. They often walked along the small rivers and streams.