The Ziqing army confronted the Hebei army in Puzhou, both sides were unwilling to launch an offensive easily, Li Zheng had rushed to Yanzhou Rencheng County at this time, and the 20,000 troops led by the eldest son Li Na were stationed here, their target was of course Xuzhou, but the imperial court seemed to have taken precautions, and also stationed 20,000 troops in Xuzhou, so that Li Na did not dare to act rashly for a while.

Li Zheng and his entourage had come to the camp, and Li Na hurriedly welcomed his father into the big tent.

"What is the background of the Xuzhou lord?" Li Zheng had already walked into the big tent and asked.

"Back to my father, the chief general of Xuzhou is Guo Song."

"Is that him?"

Li Zheng frowned, "Wasn't he dismissed?" Why is it here again? ”

Of course, Li Zheng already has his own intelligence system in the capital, and has formed a complete intelligence network, and every day he sends all kinds of major events in the capital to Qizhou through pigeon letters, and Li Zheng can already keep abreast of the movements in the capital at any time.

Of course, Li Zheng knew what happened to Guo Song in the capital, but the focus of his concern was not Guo Song, but Xiangguo Chang Gon, who was fined for one year for impeaching Guo Song and given a warning, which means that Chang Gon's re-election is in danger, so who will inherit the phase?

Although Guo Song resigned on his own, everyone knows that this is no different from dismissal and dismissal, but it is really incomprehensible how he appeared on the battlefield in the Central Plains again and became the main general who stood alone.

"Father, the child thinks that the burning of the Yellow River warship and the burning of the Huaishui warship are all done by Guo Song, and he has not been visible until Li Zhongchen's entire army was destroyed, obviously he has been hiding in the shadows."

His son's reminder made Li Zheng suddenly wake up, that's right, Guo Song is a little secret chess deployed by Li Yu, the son of heaven, on the battlefield in the Central Plains, so his dismissal and dismissal was deliberate, confusing everyone, and hiding from the world.

However, Li Zheng really didn't take Guo Song in his eyes, he was born as an assassin, and he won two battles with Xue Yantuo in Fengzhou, this capital is still too thin in his opinion, maybe he is strong in martial arts, but strong in martial arts is useful when fighting alone, but it does not play any role in the decisive battle of thousands of troops.

It is also because Li Yu, the son of heaven, likes to play shady methods, that an assassin like Guo Song has the opportunity to be reused.

"Guo Song can attach importance to him, but there is no need to be afraid, Xuzhou must be taken down, and as soon as possible, we must get everything we deserve before Tian Chenghe's army is finally resolved, and there is not much time left for us."

Li Na nodded slowly, his father was here to urge the war, and there was no point in confronting him any longer.

That night, Li Zheng had already returned to Puzhou, and Li Na also pulled out his camp and went south, leading an army of 20,000 to Xuzhou to kill.

Guo Song also sent a lot of scouts, and as soon as Li Najun moved, he immediately got the news in Pei County, but Guo Song still did not move.

In the big tent, Guo Song stood in front of the map and took a closer look, the water network between Rencheng and Peixian was dense, and there were dozens of rivers of all sizes, so it was more likely that the other party's logistics would take the waterway.

He called Liang Wu and said to him: "According to our old rules, if you lead a thousand brothers to harass the other party's grain route, you must pay attention to preserving your strength, and do not take risks or rush forward. ”

Guo Song said to Yao Jin again: "You are all experienced veterans, you must persuade General Liang, don't let him take risks and fall into the trap of others." ”

Everyone bowed and saluted, "Obey the king's orders!" ”

That night, Liang Wu led a thousand Fengzhou cavalry to leave, and they detoured to the rear of the enemy army to harass the other party's grain route........

Two days later, Li Na led an army of 20,000 into Xuzhou and advanced to Xinping Town, about 20 miles from the Tang army's camp, where the Ziqing army also set up a large camp south of the town.

The situation is so interesting, in the north, the Ziqing army and the imperial army join forces against Tian Chenghe's Wei Bo army, and in the south, the Ziqing army and the imperial army set up a battlefield to prepare for a big battle.

At noon, a cavalryman of the Ziqing Army galloped forward, one hundred and fifty steps away from the Tang Army camp, and shot an arrow at the camp gate, and a letter was naturally inserted on the arrow.

A soldier ran forward to pick up the arrow letter, hurried back to the camp, and presented the letter to the commander Guo Song.

This turned out to be a war letter, inviting him to fight a decisive battle tomorrow morning, Guo Song smiled and tore the war letter to shreds, he was not in a hurry, let Li Na go in a hurry.

Guo Song pondered for a moment, and asked all the generals to be summoned to the Shuai tent for discussion, and after a while, more than 20 generals and above gathered together, Guo Song said slowly to everyone: "I just received Li Na's battle letter, he invited me to fight tomorrow morning, what do you think?" ”

There was a sudden discussion in the big tent, and everyone expressed their opinions, most of them were in favor of a decisive battle with the Ziqing Army.

Guo Song saw that Zhang Duo, the lieutenant general of the First Army, was silent, so he asked, "What does General Zhang think?" ”

Zhang Duo shook his head and said: "I just think it's a little weird, although Li Zhengzheng is a feudal town, but on the surface he is still a minister of the Tang Dynasty, he is still the inspector of the school, the Pingzhangshi of the Tongzhong Shumen, and the king of Raoyang County, how can his army openly issue a war letter to the imperial army?" The lowly position felt very strange. ”

Guo Song smiled slightly: "Actually, I got the war book, and I also had this idea, but if I think about it again, I'm afraid this war book is just a little trick to confuse us, I think he has other plans." ”

Zhang Duo's eyes lit up, "Could it be that the other party is coming to steal the camp tonight?" ”

Guo Song nodded, "I think it's very possible!" ”

..........

The night shrouded the field, a few miles north of the Tang army camp, an army of 5,000 people is quietly approaching the Tang army camp, the main general of this army, Cai Wensheng, is a veteran who has followed Li Zheng for many years, rich experience, good at tricks, it is he who presented Li Na with this 'bright plank road, dark Chen Cang' plan.

Clearly issued a war letter to the Tang army, asking for a decisive battle early tomorrow morning, but secretly prepared to steal the camp, as long as the Tang army camp could be burned, the Tang army would be chaotic without a fight, but it could be completely defeated in the first battle.

I have to say that this is a good plan, for which they have made full preparations, specially trained a team of 500 grenades, each carrying 30 torches, can throw torches to a distance of 30 paces, and it is very accurate, this grenadier alone has been trained for half a year, just for this moment.

As long as the army can break through to the enemy's camp, these 500 people can quickly set fire to hundreds of tents, plunging the entire enemy army into a sea of fire, and the main force is responsible for encircling and suppressing the fleeing enemy soldiers on the periphery.

The idea is very good, and the plan is perfect, but it's a pity that they met Guo Song, who is better at sneak attacks.

Just north of the camp, 10,000 crossbowmen were ready to fight, and 6,000 cavalry were lying in ambush on both sides of the camp, everything was as usual, very quiet, even the sentries were pacing back and forth on the watchtowers as usual.

"Attack!"

When there were still 100 steps away from the camp, Cai Wensheng gave an order, and 5,000 soldiers went to the Tang army camp, and 500 throwers were mixed in it.

At this time, the sentry found the enemy army that had been killed, and when! While! While! The alarm bell sounded, everything was so tacit, as if the Tang army camp was defenseless.

Hearing the alarm bell, Cai Wensheng's heart let go, the other party was really defenseless, he knew that tonight's sneak attack would definitely succeed.

The five thousand soldiers rushed closer and closer, and when there were still thirty paces, a banging sound suddenly sounded in the camp, which severely shattered Cai Wensheng's confidence and made him fall into the abyss with one heart.

Ten thousand arrows were fired in the Tang army camp, 5,000 soldiers fell to the ground with arrows, and the casualties exceeded 2,000 in an instant, and the rest of the soldiers turned around and fled, and the second round of arrows was shot, shooting more than 1,000 people from behind, and at this moment, 6,000 cavalry came out from both sides to chase and kill the fleeing soldiers.

Li Na and the main force of the Ziqing Army, who were preparing to meet in the rear, heard of the ambush and retreated one after another, and the Tang army pursued and killed all the way, chasing for nearly ten miles, and was blocked by a river, so they stopped the pursuit.

In this battle, the Ziqing army suffered more than 6,000 casualties, of which nearly 5,000 were killed and more than 1,000 were seriously wounded, accounting for nearly 30% of the total number of casualties.

The next morning, Guo Song led an army of 20,000 slowly to the front of the Ziqing Army barracks, Li Nagao hung up the battle free card, Guo Song gave an order, the army launched dozens of heavy trebuchets, the soldiers pushed the winch, the long throwing rod bent, the soldiers loaded the huge fire cloth balls on the trebuchet, this kind of fire cloth balls are hollow inside, and the outer cloth strips are soaked in oil and dried, a little bit, it is a kind of fireball with excellent combat effect.

The soldiers lit the fire cloth ball with torches, threw the rod and shot out, and the huge fireballs swept through the air and flew towards the opponent's camp, the shooting distance of this heavy trebuchet was three hundred steps, and it was also the most powerful trebuchet of the Tang Dynasty Weapons Supervision at present, and the Hui people tried every possible way to get its drawings.

One by one, fireballs shot into the enemy's camp, and after landing, they bounced high and continued to rush forward, rushing into the big tents, igniting dozens of big tents in an instant, and even the handsome tent was shot into by a fireball, and the handsome tent was ignited.

Li Na was so anxious that he shouted: "Tear down the tent!" Dismantle the tent! ”

There was chaos in the barracks, Guo Song pointed his halberd and shouted: "Giant shield spearmen advance!" ”

Three thousand infantrymen with huge shields and spears marched towards the camp step by step, and the barrage of arrows in the camp could not hurt the army, which was getting closer and closer to the camp, followed by crossbow troops, cavalry, and infantry, and the 15,000-strong army slaughtered the enemy camp like a mountain of mountains.

Seeing this, Li Na sighed and ordered: "Order the army to abandon the camp and retreat north!" ”

Li Na knew that he would be defeated today, and in order to preserve his strength, he could only abandon the camp and retreat north.

But just as the Ziqing army withdrew from the camp, the Tang army's 6,000 cavalry came from the left and right, Guo Song ordered the whole line to attack, the morale of the Ziqing army was low, and they had no intention of fighting, they had to rush to meet the battle under Li Na's strong order, at this time, Liang Wu led a cavalry to kill from behind, and the Tang army attacked back and forth.

The Ziqing army lasted less than a quarter of an hour before it completely collapsed, the soldiers threw off their armor and ran desperately, and the whole army was defeated.

The Tang army pursued and killed dozens of miles, killing more than 10,000 enemies and 20,000 troops, and finally Li Na fled back to Qizhou in a panic with only more than 2,000 people.

Guo Song took advantage of the situation to march and recovered Yanzhou and Caozhou.