The Huainan army entered Xingyang, the process was extremely smooth, within ten days to recover Mixian, Jingxian, Kaifeng, Zhongmu, Guandu and other counties, most of Xingyang has been pocketed, only Xingyang County, where Xingyang is located, and the south bank of the Yellow River Biankou, Huting, Juan County, Yangwu and a few other places have not yet been recovered.

The reason why the progress is so great is that the Huainan Army is in great difficulty this time, and Guo Yu, Lu Yong, Mao Bao and other troops gathered nearly 60,000 horses, numbered as an army of 100,000, and pushed slowly all the way. In Xingyang, there was no too strong opponent in itself, and Chen Guang's rebellious army was oppressed in the remnants of Chenliu's counties, and it couldn't move at all.

In the entire territory of Xingyang, the only known enemy army in Chenggao is 2,000 garrisons of Taobao in Chenggao Tiger Prison City, and several thousand Shikan troops in Yanjin and Huting. The other is the bandits who wander between the counties and townships, although these bandits do not have any strong power, but they are very divided into shares, like rats in the wilderness, from time to time to jump out to harass them, and it is very difficult to track.

On the other hand, the old voice of Guo Yu and his people was really widely spread in Xingyang, and when the Huainan Army marched north, the villagers from all sides learned that Guo Yu led the army back, and all of them came in a steady stream. In fact, if it weren't for the ties of these villagers, the main force of the Huainan Army would have advanced much faster. Guo Yu was so respected and supported in the Xingyang Realm that even Shen Zhezi himself felt left out.

"It's really hard to accept the love of the villagers, and the news has been far away for more than ten years, and I have never responded to the villagers' high hopes......"

Located in the main base camp of the Huainan Army in Guandu, seeing that there was no shortage of villagers outside the camp dragging their families and families to take refuge here, Guo Yuyan was full of emotion, and the corners of his eyes were faintly flashing with crystal tears.

At that time, although he was outnumbered, he repeatedly fought with ingenuity, took the lead, and won more with less several times, repelling the attacks of the Kahu army. Returning again, although he led tens of thousands, the former teenager was already gray-haired and old, and he was seriously injured in the old battle Huai Shangyingkou, although his life was unhindered, but he was also exhausted, and he was no longer brave, and it was difficult to personally put on armor to kill the enemy.

"If you believed in treachery and led thieves into the house, you might be able to ...... it."

The early belief in Guo Mo caused the situation in Xingyang to collapse irretrievably, although Guo Yu had personally stabbed the old enemy, but this was always a knot in his heart that he couldn't let go. Although he also understood that with the situation at that time, even without Guo Mo's rebellion, the situation in Xingyang would be difficult to maintain for a long time. But the problem is that Guo Mo, the dog thief, was introduced by him as the master, which is tantamount to destroying the foundation that a group of robes have worked hard to protect with his own hands, and he has also abandoned a large number of villagers in this realm to be abused by Hu Lu again.

Hearing Guo Yu sigh with such emotion, Shen Zhezi stepped forward and comforted: "The general trend is declining, don't be guilty of two or three alone, save China, the heroes and martyrs go their own way, Guo Hou, you can take up Li Yuanjun's unfinished ambitions, and lead the people to return to the country to see the old again, it is really not appropriate to be depressed for a long time." ”

"Yes, at this time, God bless the summers, the people are prosperous, and among the billions of trillions, you should be brave and strong, expel Hulu, and restore China! The old pawn was self-loathing, which made the governor smile. It's a pity that the people who followed Li Yuanjun to the south in the early years rarely have the opportunity to return to the old land. ”

When Guo Yu said this, he couldn't help but sigh again. In previous years, there were still hundreds of people who followed Li Ju to the south, and later some of them stayed in Xiangyang to guard the tomb of Li Ju, while Guo Yu led a few people across the river into the court to ask for mourning for Li Ju, so he joined Shen Zhezi's command.

Some of these old people have died of old age, some have become old, and some have different interests and turned to other places. There are very few people who have been following Guo Yu's side, and Ji Hong, a veteran who died in the first battle of Yongqiu, is one of them. In the end, only a few people were left who could follow Guo Yu and return to Xingyang, including Zhang Jing, who joined the army, General Li Gui, and Duan Xiu's nephew Duan Xiong.

"Please see the governor today, there is really one thing to ask for, beg thousands of people, and restore the old county of Xingyang in the north. Reciting but can survive for a breath, and never let the thieves attack a single step! ”

Guo Yu said in a deep voice.

When Shen Zhezi heard this, he laughed and said: "Huainan has raised the army for several years, and the king is extremely vigorous, this northward march is a battle that must be won, why do we need our generals to report to the death!" If Guo Hou can't make up his mind, I can't pay you the generals! ”

Although the tone is relaxed, the meaning is quite warning, Guo Yu was already ashamed after hearing the words, and bent down and arched his hand: "The old feelings are full of nostalgia, and the heart is uncertain, thank you for supervising me." However, if it is feasible, Yu still wants to personally lead the soldiers into Xingyang to make up for the old regrets. ”

After recovering Xingyang, it was to quickly occupy various ferries along the Yellow River, and then seek a decisive battle with Shikan, which is across the river. However, this does not mean that the tactics will be clear later, since Xingyang nearly a thousand miles of the Yellow River waterway, everywhere may become the decisive battle, and it is impossible for Shi Kan to lead the army to plunge headlong into the key point defended by the Huainan army.

Therefore, later the army will be assembled and deployed into battle, and it must be fast and agile. Otherwise, once the Shikan army breaks through the Yellow River defense line and goes all the way to the south, then southern Henan will be empty, and then the battle will be a complete defeat.

The Huainan Army entered Xingyang at this time, but it was actually a little reluctant. Due to the existence of Chen Guang's chaotic army, all the troops could not be completely distracted into this battle, and they could not achieve unimpeded cooperation with the Xuzhou army. Therefore, it is difficult to completely defend this section of the Yellow River waterway, and once the Shikan army pounces into the hole in the defense, it will cause extremely bad variables.

Therefore, in this battle, Shen Zhezi planned to take the initiative completely and cross the river first, so as to seek the timing and place of the decisive battle with the Shikan army. He knew that Guo Yu had an obsession with Xingyang, but the focus of this operation was not to defend a certain place, but to kill the enemy as much as possible.

Therefore, Shen Zhezi's original intention was not to let Guo Yu sit in Xingyang, but to use Lu Yong to sit in the town in case the Peach Leopard army in the west came out to interfere in the war. However, at this time, when he heard Guo Yuli's invitation, Shen Zhezi was a little embarrassed.

Seeing that Shen Zhezi was silent, Guo Yu knelt on one knee, bowed his head and said in a trembling voice: "Although the recitation is mediocre, I also know the great things that the governor wants, and I will never dare to ruin the strategy because of personal feelings, and I dare not disregard the safety of the current robe because of the old feelings......"

"Guo Hou, why are you so hard, just give you 3,000 people to go back and forth to Xingyang."

Shen Zhezi hurriedly bent down to help Guo Yu up, and finally decided to give Guo Yu more trust.

At this time, the main force of 30,000 people of the Huainan army gathered in Guandu, north of Zhongmu, because the march was too fast to make up for it, and at the same time waited for the army to assemble on the back road, and at the same time cleared the countryside and thieves to protect the stability of the grain road, so the army did not continue to move forward, but only sent a part of the army to occupy various important places.

Soon 3,000 soldiers were assembled, a considerable part of which was a new army recruited by the exiles of Yuzhou, from Guo Yu onwards, and five Huainan generals accompanied them. The next day, the army of 3,000 men marched west from the Guandu camp and marched in the direction of Xingyang County.

The Huainan army seems to be very large, but if it is scattered on the vast battlefield, in fact, there cannot be too many troops on each road. Therefore, among the 3,000 soldiers, more than 1,000 of them are Tuntian heavy soldiers with low combat effectiveness, and the real main force of the battle is less than 2,000 people, plus 200 cavalry scouts, which is all the combat strength of Guo Yu to recover Xingyang this time.

Such a combat power, if it is only to deal with the thieves wandering in the realm, it is more than enough, those rabble thieves in the face of such a military power of the Huainan army, only the head of the rat scurry, if they run slowly, they will be crushed and crushed.

However, Xingyang County is only less than 100 miles away from the Tiger Prison City on the west side of Bishui, and there are also a small number of Shikan troops in Biankou to the northeast, so this time the troops enter Xingyang, in fact, there is still a risk inside, and it is very likely to be ambushed from two directions.

Therefore, after Shen Zhezi sent Guo Chen, he urgently dispatched 600 bandit rangers within Mi County and Jing County, and was escorted by Ying Xian under the command of Guo Chen's marching flank.

"Guo Hou seems to be a little impatient!"

Mao Muzhi, a military lieutenant who was urgently dispatched from Mi County to the north, ran hundreds of miles within two days to arrive at Yangpi near Suoshui in Jingxian County, and found that only a large trace of the Huainan military camp stove remained near Yangpi, and the original military order should have been that he should have arrived in Yangpi to patrol the surrounding environment for Guo Xu's army to station, but he fell behind the army, and Guo Yu had already led the army to leave when he arrived.

This is not due to Mao Mu's missed schedule, he immediately set off to the north after receiving the military order, and at the same time summoned several villager guides to march with the army, did not dare to delay for a moment, hundreds of light horsemen went north, and Guo Chen's department was mostly foot soldiers, although the distance was far and near, but if the normal march was concerned, it would not be thrown away so far, so it can be seen that Guo Yu must be a day and night journey.

He Shannai was one of the guides requisitioned by the Huainan Army, and when he heard that the young lieutenant seemed to complain about Guo Yu in his eyes, he immediately felt a little dissatisfied, but he didn't dare to refute it out loud, and he and several other village guides in the same company squeezed their eyebrows, and they all felt that this young soldier commander was really a little arrogant, and he actually had doubts about General Guo's ability!

Mao Muzhi naturally had no time to pay attention to the eyebrow exchanges of these village guides, his duty was to assist Guo Yu, but now he was left behind the army, so he could only lead the crowd to continue to chase after him. Finally, in the afternoon of the next day, I arrived in Xingyang County, and found that there were a large number of people in the suburbs.

More than ten miles away from Xingyang County, Mao Muzhi finally found his Shangguan and the owner of the Huainan Military Building. More than 200 horsemen led by Ying Shengsu were shuttling back and forth in the suburbs, restraining and maintaining the people who were pouring into Xingyang County from all directions.

"Lord, what is going on? How can you gather so many villagers? Xingyang ......"

"It's been recovered."

There was a slightly weird smile on the corner of Ying Dan's mouth.

"Is there a ...... for the ambush?"

"It's been washed away and repulsed."

"Guo, Guo Hou ......"

"I have led the army to Chenggao. Don't ask, the people of Xingyang Township responded in groups because they knew that Guo Hou had returned to the county, and first went down to Xingyang County to wait for Wang Shi. The thousand-person ambush army of the peach leopard was directly crushed by the villagers, and Guo Hou led the army to camp outside Chenggao, and tens of thousands of people had gathered. If there is still horsepower, return to the governor as soon as possible, and the west is already worry-free. ”

Seeing Mao Muyi's stunned face, Ying Dan sighed: "You are really too young, what kind of mysterious deeds is Guo Houbing recovering Xingyang County without blood." In the early years, he was the governor of the hundred cavalry kings, and he broke the tens of thousands of rebellious troops in Jiankang......"