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Chapter 398 Mutual Testing
led by Yuwen Tai marched slowly, and it was not until noon that the army reached Shitou City.
The first city outside the two passes is the Stone City. Although now all you can see are broken walls and ruins, and it is in a dilapidated state, with sand filling the sky when the spring breeze blows, there was once a city here.
There is almost no new green in the Stone City, and everywhere is desolate.
The Stone City got its name because the ground was covered with messy stones that had been weathered by the wind and frost after the original city was destroyed.
Shitou City was originally Po Nu City, and was the bridgehead for the confrontation between Wei and Rouran .
More than a hundred years ago, due to civil strife in the Wei Palace, the disaster spread to the entire Wei Dynasty.
The Rouran took advantage of the civil strife and quickly sent troops south. They not only occupied Po Nu City, but also captured Yumen Pass and Yangguan in one fel
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After returning to the camp, Baturu immediately arranged for scouts in the front to keep a close eye on the movements of Yuwen Tai's troops . He asked the scouts to report the exact location of the Wei army every hour.The commander's reaction naturally showed that this battle was unusual, as both sides were still unable to figure out the other's moves.The Wei army's marching speed was extremely slow. After the encounter with Baturu, the army marched all the way until the evening, and then camped on the grassland before sunset.The place where the army was stationed was the area between Liangguan and Beimang Mountain . The Rouran scouts who had been keeping a close eye on this area were extremely surprised to find that the Wei army was no longer marching.The more the Wei army acted like this, the more Baturu dared not to act rashly. Although the reaction he had expected from the Wei Dynasty came true, Yuwen Tai's true and false intentions made Baturu
The Young Swordsman Chapter 400: Successfully Leaving the West
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led by Yuwen Tai could not retreat too far. In fact, he and Baturu were engaged in a psychological warfare from the very beginning. Fortunately, Baturu did not push forward.Juqu Guang, who had never relaxed, suddenly received news that Houmochen Jing's troops had begun to advance.A big war is about to begin.After Houmo Chenjing led his troops to advance another 20 miles, Juqu Guang 's 20,000 men and Baturu's 10,000 men arrived at the vicinity of the garrison of the Wuwu tribe. Judging from the situation, the three armies formed a small encirclement of Houmo Chenjing.The Rouran tent .Now the army is sixty miles away from the Beimang Mountain base and only forty miles away from the two passes of the Wei Dynasty, and not far ahead is Yuwen Tai's army.The two armies were barely separated by this distance. If one of them had the will to charge, they might have been able to have a good fight with the Wei on the grasslands outside the pass.
The Young Swordsman Chapter 402: The Enemy at the Gate
After Sangganchuan and Zuo Ji returned with the remaining troops, the news of the army's victories over the Yutulin and Afugan tribes soon reached Jiuquan. Yuan Ke was overjoyed when he heard the news.the Grand Marshal Yuan Shuang and the Imperial Censor Lu Wenmiao, who were in Luoyang, were determined to urge the emperor to return to Beijing.The two also knew that two urgent memorials would not persuade the emperor to return, so shortly after the first two memorials arrived in Jiuquan, the subsequent memorials arrived soon after.In fact, Yuan Ke himself understood that it was time to return to the capital. If he stayed here, he would not only be of no use, but would hinder the deployment of troops by General Yuwen Tai. Therefore, after learning of the victory on the front line, Yuan Ke decided to set off for the capital.Yuan Ke was returning to the capital spread, the Tianjiansi and Diwang arranged everything, and at the same time did not forget t
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the Rouran army , which was confronting the general outside the two passes, would suddenly turn around and head straight for Jiuquan, and that the Rouran army had escaped everyone's sight and was not discovered.There was no extra time for Liu Can to think about it. After receiving the news, he immediately arranged for his men to prepare the three armies for battle.On the other hand, he sent someone to urgently pass the message to General Yuwen Tai outside the two passes, because Liu Can understood that it would be difficult to resist the attack of the Rouran army with only the 30,000 troops in Jiuquan City .After arranging all these, Liu Can immediately led his men to the top of the city wall.the Rouran army that appeared in a black mass at the end of his sight , Liu Can suddenly felt the pressure.Judging from visual observation, it is very likely that the Rouran will send out all their forces.the Rouran invasion quickly reached the a
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Looking at the messy corpses on and outside the city, the blood-stained city wall had not yet dried. The army that had hurriedly followed the general realized that the Rouran had actually gone straight south to attack Jiuquan, and the flag hanging on the city wall had become the Rouran people 's wolf-head flag.Even Yuwen Tai did not expect that the city of Jiuquan with its high walls would be conquered by the Rouran within a day .On the way here, Yuwen Tai already knew that the main force of the Rouran army of more than 100,000 originally stationed at the northern foot of Beimang Mountain had come out in full force this time. Now that they had captured Jiuquan, even after a great battle, it would be easy for his side to recapture it if the forces were equal.After receiving the news of the Wei army's arrival from his subordinates, Baturu went up to the top of the city wall. Looking at Yuwen Tai who was coming late, Baturu was a little proud and said, "Gene
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