Losing both the wife and the army
Liu Buqi silently calculated the time and rode at his fastest speed day and night.
Even if Yue Chengqiu and Yue Hua discovered that he had left Beijing at the first moment, the news of his return to Youzhou would not reach Yanjing until at least three days later!
By making good use of the three-day time difference and taking advantage of the fact that the enemy is in the open while we are in the dark, there is a great possibility that our side will turn the disadvantage into an advantage!
He ordered Lu Xin to arrange the most capable and trustworthy sons of the Lu family to convey the three instructions to Gao Yi in Changcheng, Wang Changling and Zhu Caicai in Yanjing respectively.
After receiving the order from Liu Buqi, Gao Yi immediately ordered the Great Wall garrison to be on martial law and prepare for war. The entire Great Wall defense line was only open to entry but not exit!
At the same time, the urgent battle report was placed in front of the Youzhou governor, inspector, generals Taiping and Taixiang, and Wang Changling within one day!
The battle report contained only one content: the Yehe army has begun to assemble, and the siege is imminent, provide support quickly!
Officials from the capital are still figuring out how to submit this battle report to the court, waiting for the next instructions!
The three generals who have been stationed in Youzhou for many years have begun to put aside their disputes over positions and sit together to discuss matters related to supporting the Great Wall.
The siege of Yehe City is not like fighting on the grassland, it is a cruel duel where you either die or I die!
At this moment, Wang Changling and Generals Taiping and Taixiang can only unite!
Faced with the civil officials' doubts about the battle report and the constant delay in discussions, Wang Changling, who had already received Liu Buqi's instructions, was the first to make concessions.
He personally led the Yanjing cavalry and headed directly north to the Great Wall, handing over Yanjing City, the center of Youzhou, to two imperial envoys and two generals!
To show his sincerity, Wang Changling ordered the cavalry to set off immediately, and at the same time, he took his personal guards and the confidants of Generals Taixiang and Taiping and rushed to the Great Wall that same day!
Before leaving, he spoke earnestly to Generals Taiping and Taixiang.
"Only the people of Youzhou care about their lives and deaths. Youzhou belongs only to the people of Youzhou! I hope the two generals will prioritize the overall situation and not delay the arrangements for subsequent reinforcements!"
At this point, the capital completely controlled Yanjing City and no longer had any doubts about Yehe's siege!
If the situation was not extremely urgent, the generals under the command of the Youzhou Commander-in-Chief would never dare to rashly give up the ruling power of Yanjing when Yue Lingxi was not in Youzhou!
Generals Taiping and Taixiang immediately issued assembly orders to the two governments respectively, assigning their trusted aides to lead the troops and bring all the weapons and food to support the Great Wall as soon as possible!
The two imperial envoys also reported the news of Yehe's siege to the capital as soon as possible!
Youzhou, the empire's largest war machine, began to operate!
What the officials in Yanjing City didn’t know was that after the first wave of scouts who conveyed their orders left safely, the cavalry who received orders from Wang Changling had already arranged a large number of scouts to patrol near Yanjing!
The entire periphery of Yanjing City was tightly sealed off, and it became an isolated city with no news at all!
Wang Changling did head straight for the Great Wall, but halfway he met Gao Yi who was leading some infantrymen away from the Great Wall!
After a brief handover and taking control of Generals Taiping and Taixiang's confidants, the two men immediately parted ways.
Wang Changling will replace Gao Yi to guard the Great Wall. Although the news that Yehe is about to attack the city is false, the assembly of the Yehe troops is certain, and a general must be stationed at the Great Wall!
Gao Yi led the infantry and cavalry to bypass the outer edge of the "encirclement" of Yanjing and headed straight for Taiping Prefecture and Taixiang Prefecture!
At this time, war mobilization had already begun in the two governments, and the personnel, funds and materials had been gathered. The first main force to support the Great Wall had begun to leave the city and head north!
The reinforcements from Taixiang Prefecture, which were closer to Yanjing, entered the outskirts of Yanjing City without any hindrance and stationed there.
The messengers sent by Yue Hua and Yue Chengqiu in the capital took advantage of the gap opened by the Yanjing cavalry and entered Yanjing at the same time to pay their respects to General Taixiang and General Taiping respectively!
"Liu Buqi, the Youzhou fox spirit, is leaving Beijing and returning to Youzhou. Proceed with caution!"
Faced with the sudden news and learning about the situation outside Yanjing from the messenger, Generals Taiping and Taixiang looked at each other in surprise!
The two civil envoys could not understand the huge influence a woman had in Youzhou at this time, but the two generals knew it very well!
She single-handedly overpowered Ye He, single-handedly planned the Lu family's migration, and made Gao Yi follow Yue Lingxi wholeheartedly! How could an ordinary woman do that?
This layout and planning were clearly the work of Liu Buqi! The Youzhou Spirit Fox lived up to its reputation, clearly intending to trade the isolated city of Yanjing for the entire Youzhou!
At this point, the two generals could only keep sending out scouts and secret messengers, hoping that one of them would break out and spread the news!
But all of them fell on deaf ears, without causing any ripples! After the Taiping garrison troops that should have appeared under the city according to the normal plan did not show up!
Generals Taixiang and Taiping in Yanjing City have already sensed that the situation in Youzhou is irreversible!
In fact, the reinforcements from Taixiang Prefecture that arrived at Yanjing City were so close to Gao Yi's troops that they almost passed each other by!
Since Taixiang Mansion is Youzhou’s arsenal, this support force is actually mainly composed of engineering troops, and their battlefield skills are really not high!
Relying on his scouting advantage, Gao Yi bypassed the support troops right under their noses and arrived directly at the city of Taixiang Prefecture!
Relying on his newly conferred title of Governor of Youzhou and under the pretext of inspecting backup preparations, he took a small number of soldiers and tricked the city gates open.
A large number of cavalry followed closely behind and swarmed up, completely controlling the Youzhou Arsenal in Taixiang Mansion, which had never experienced any war!
Afterwards, after leaving some soldiers to guard the place, Gao Yi led his personal guards to chase after the defenders of Taiping Prefecture without stopping. The main force then headed to Taiping Prefecture, and as usual, they used cavalry to block the news along the way!
Liu Buqi, who came from a modern background, knew the importance of information transmission. In this era without mobile phones and telephones, and when carrier pigeons had not yet been domesticated, as long as he could block the news from land!
Then even if the two cities are close to each other, they will just be blind!
Just within the territory of Youzhou, relying on the advantage of information asymmetry, they can frequently mobilize the enemy's military forces and create a favorable situation for themselves.
Gao Yi barely stopped the Taiping Prefecture garrison outside the city of Yanjing. Protected by a small number of personal guards, he announced that he had just arrived from Yanjing and was on his way to Taiping Prefecture to urge for reinforcements!
I didn't expect to meet them here, so I just took command of the central army and led this army directly across the city of Yanjing and headed for the Great Wall defense line!
Everything was so logical and reasonable! The Taiping Prefecture reinforcements were initially ordered to support the Great Wall garrison.
Gao Yi has been stationed at the Great Wall for years, a veritable barrier to Youzhou! Now, having recently been appointed Governor of Youzhou, he dares to take command of the Taiping Prefecture army with only a handful of personal guards. It's only natural that he can issue orders!
This would obviously be impossible without the tacit consent of General Taiping Prefecture!
Therefore, this Taiping Prefecture garrison that was led astray was completely taken over by Wang Changling's troops before they even reached the Great Wall!
At this point, except for the Great Wall garrison and the Yanjing cavalry, most of the combat-capable soldiers of the Taiping Prefecture garrison, the only one in the entire Youzhou that still had some combat effectiveness, fell completely into Liu Buqi's calculations!
As for the imperial court, this time they definitely lost both the wife and the army!
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