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Although Li Jing is far away under the cowhide pass of Yunzhou in Daibei, he has actually been paying close attention to the battle situation in the entire Hedong.

In the military tent in the camp, a huge sand table in the east of the river and the meanders of the river has already been erected, which is a sand table established after the use of the detailed information found by the scouts of the Flying Eagle Battalion and the plum blossom gate, which is very standard, the mountains and rivers, the city and the town, are clear at a glance. On one side of the sand table, there is a large screen, on which is pasted a piece of paper, with a string of numbers listed, each number represents a small flag on the sand table, and the number is accurately written behind the number of garrisons in each city and town, as well as the population, and even food and supplies.

There are several other maps next to it, which are marked in red and blue colors with the offensive routes and situation maps of the troops and horses of both sides at this time.

More than a dozen counselors, staff officers, secretaries, clerks, and other staff members and officials in the army are constantly collecting the information they have received and then analyzing it. After the last, it will be summarized from the analysis of the good information and displayed on the sand table and the turf.

This is the staff department that Li Jing has been working hard to set up since the army was dispatched. Originally, although there were also staff officers, praise paintings and other positions in the Tang Army, the number was too small, and there were only one or two people in the army, so it was difficult to play a big role.

In the past, it was good to have fewer soldiers and horses, but now that there are more troops, intelligence and intelligence analysis are becoming more and more important. Li Jing already plans to set up a separate intelligence department and a separate staff department. Situation report, specializing in collecting and probing all kinds of information, and developing secret agent insiders. Rebellion and surrender. Even assassination, decapitation, these tasks. At present, one of the intelligence sources of the Zhendong Army is the Flying Eagle Battalion. The other is the Plum Blossom Gate. The two sides are not subordinate to each other, and the Flying Eagle Battalion is still a war battalion, and the Plum Blossom Gate is an anti-Tang secret organization that is currently only cooperating.

It is clearly inappropriate to rely on them all the time for intelligence.

The new intelligence department is still being secretly formed, and the name Li Jing is tentatively planned to be the Xiaoqi Division, which will carry out investigation and vigilance. Search, capture, reverse! Waiting for the opportunity to infiltrate, intersperse, and detour, in order to use surprise soldiers. The first task of the Xiaocai Division is to collect intelligence, and it usually undertakes tasks such as counter-attack, interrogation of prisoners, as well as infiltration, espionage, rebellion, surrender, and assassination.

The first chief officer of the Xiao Cavalry Division was a general, and the rank was tentatively set to be the same as the van-level soldiers and horses. The first chief general, Li Jing hesitated for a long time between Li Wei and Gongsun Lan. Li Wei is good at battlefield reconnaissance, while Gongsun Lan is a good at infiltration, espionage, and assassination. But Levi is more trustworthy than loyal. And even if Gongsun Lan is his lover, her origin has always made Li Jing a little vigilant. Second, she is a woman. After hesitating for a long time, Li Jing decided to hand over the position of the first Xiaoqi Shilang to Li Wei, and Gongsun Lan was appointed as the deputy general, sharing the tasks of infiltration, espionage and assassination.

The formation of the Xiao Cavalry Division is quite secretive, except for announcing it to the senior civil and military subordinates at the level of Lin Wu Wang Chongjun, and maintaining a state of secrecy from below. Levi ostensibly still serves as the ten generals of the Flying Eagle Battalion. The first batch of people in the Xiao Cavalry Division is not too many, but they are all elites in this area, mainly composed of backbones drawn from the Flying Eagle Battalion and the Guard Battalion.

In terms of the staff department, Li Jing did it openly. Equivalent to the level of the Xiao Cavalry Division, the staff officer Chong is temporarily named the Staff Department, the chief officer is the marching staff officer, and there are two deputies of the Senator and the Counselor below, and a number of staff officers are set up. For the time being, the General Staff Division is only set up at the military level, and their responsibilities are not easy, the first is to be responsible for compiling and analyzing the intelligence collected by the intelligence department. What intelligence is true, what intelligence is fake, and even from some small intelligence, find clues and find more useful information, this is their basic duty. In addition to analyzing intelligence, they will also serve as assistants to the commander-in-chief, responsible for formulating corresponding countermeasures based on intelligence, and making some major strategic layouts and tactical arrangements. It can be said that although the rank of the staff department is not high, the highest marching staff officer is the last one among the first-class officers in the army, which is lower than the marching judge and the secretary-in-charge, but the low-level has a great right to speak.

This is also the reason why Li Jing directly set up three chief officers: the marching staff officer, the senator, and the counselor.

The General Staff Department is headed by the marching staff officers, with the senators and counselors as the second officers, and there are a number of staff officers, secretaries, yatui, and low-level staff members such as clerks, military attendants, important registers, drives, random orders, Confucian officials, servants, and other low-level staff.

Li Jing is ready to appoint Li Liang for the position of marching staff officer of the General Staff Division, but Li Liang is now going south to eastern Zhejiang, so he is temporarily acting as the marching Sima Li Zhen.

The General Staff Department has its own tent, but now all of them are working intensively in Li Jing's Chinese army tent.

A servant trotted out to report a new piece of information, which had been sent from Levi. The information was sent to a staff officer, who immediately began to analyze the intelligence to determine the authenticity of the information. Based on the other information he had, he quickly judged that this information was most likely true.

Feeling excited, he immediately sent the information to the senior staff officer at a higher level, and after another analysis, it was delivered to the senator.

"Dutong, the intelligence sent from Hequ, the Zhenwu army is anyway, Li Guochang's army was defeated in Jingluo Juncheng, his south of the 10,000 army, the Zhenwu army rebelled, all the Shatuo army was killed, Li Guochang's 3,000 Shatuo army, including the 3,000 Shatuo army reinforced by Hedong, 6,000 people were almost wiped out, Shatuo's soldiers and horses made Li Quanzhong captured, Li Ke died in battle with the general Cheng Huaixin, and Li Guochang escaped with only a few hundred horsemen." Li Zhenxi, the marching staff officer of the General Staff Department of the inspection school, smiled happily, shook the information in his hand excitedly, and reported to Li Jing.

Li Jing stood in front of the sand table, and couldn't help but smile, stretched out his hand to pull up a black flag planted in Youzhou on the sand table, and threw it aside, "Six thousand Shatuo elite cavalry are destroyed, and the Zhenwu army is anyway, this is a great victory." ”

Soon, a staff officer replanted the flag in Youzhou on the sand table, but this time it was replaced with the white flag of Tuoba Sigong and the blue flag of the Zhenwu Army.

Only half a day later, the General Staff Division received another urgent report.

"The Zhenwu army entered Shengzhou, Li Guochang deceived the enemy, and the Zhenwu army was ambushed by Li Ke with 10,000 fine cavalry. The 6,000 Zhenwu army was wiped out! ”

Li Jing pinched his chin. He nodded in disappointment. Stretched out his hand and pulled down the small blue flag of the Zhenwu Army that had just been planted, and in this war, the Zhenwu Army was completely out. Immediately, a staff officer marked the place of battle between the two sides on another map, and marked the route of Li Ke's march in blue.

With the continuous collection of intelligence, Li Ke returned to Lanzhou, Hedong, with troops and horses on the map.

After that, the five towns in the middle attacked and attacked Lanzhou and Xinzhou in two ways.

Then, two blood-dripping red swords were drawn on the map, respectively, in Jingle and Honggu. Subsequently, the flag representing the captives on the sand table was removed.

"Shatuo people first sent Kang Junli to Jingle County to challenge Su Hongzhen Tuoba Sigong, and then deceived and left, and when the pursuers arrived at a mountain range in Luliang Mountain, Li Guochang and Li Ke used ambush soldiers to kill, after a fierce battle for half a day, but still deceived and fled, luring the officers and soldiers to chase until Honggu, and then in Honggu only the real ambush was exhausted. Su Hongzhen pursued all the way, and the people were sleepy and tired. He was killed by an ambush and surrounded on all sides. He died in battle, and his subordinates had more than 2,000 soldiers and horses, and none of them escaped. However, Tuoba Sigong saw that the opportunity was not good, and reacted very quickly. Although he was intercepted by Shatuo's soldiers, he still escaped with nearly 2,000 cavalry in the end, and the loss was not too great. ”

In this battle, Li Ke's serial strategy can be described as very clever, first deceitful defeat and lure the enemy, and then another fake ambush, completely luring the officers and soldiers into the bait, and finally a real ambush in Honggu, destroying the vanguard of the officers and soldiers. If it weren't for the alertness of the party members, it is estimated that Tuoba Sigong would not have escaped death. If Tuoba died, it is estimated that there would be no Western Xia in the future.

Knowing the details of the Battle of Honggu, Li Jing was not only a little more jealous of Li Keyong, but also quite interested in Li Keyong's adopted son, Shi Jingsi, in the white robe. In this battle in Honggu, Li Guochang and his son personally used as bait, but in fact, when they arrived in Honggu, they were indeed exhausted and had no combat effectiveness. In this battle, it all relied on a thousand cavalry led by Shi Jingsi to ensure the victory.

The two ambushes at Camel Weir and Honggu gave Li Jing another layer of understanding of the strength of the Shatuo people. In other words, it is an ordinary army, after the defeat of the Jinglu Military City, the attack on the old nest of the Shan Yuhu Mansion, and the capture of the Wei Dynasty in the backyard, the people are already panicked, and the morale is no longer there. But this Shatuo soldier can still crisscross the east and west of the big river, and destroy more than 10,000 enemies in two battles.

Just this fierce and fierce force that is not afraid of death, the Zhendong Army is completely inferior.

The Shatuo people are a group of outlaws, relying on the ferocity of pinning their heads to the waistband of their trousers, and whoever wants to kill him must be killed by him first.

And the Zhendong Army, although it has been winning many battles, Li Jing actually knows very well in his heart that the current Zhendong Army is really tough and is not the opponent of the Shatuo people at all. The Zhendong Army is strong in military discipline, strong in well-equipped, and strong in strategic and tactical advantages, unlike Li Ke's Shatuo people, although fierce, but they fight indiscriminately and attack from all sides, and although the result is the most rear, although the victory is one after another, the situation is becoming more and more unfavorable for them.

Staring at the series of marching routes of the Shatuo people on the sand table, Li Jing was slightly distracted.

Guo Chengan asked: "Jungong, although the Shatuo people have won a battle, the situation is becoming more and more unfavorable for them, and this situation cannot be changed by just one or two victories." Isn't it time for us to make a move now, if it's too late, I'm afraid that the Shatuo people will be finished, and then there will be no part of us. ”

Li Jing pursed his lips and suddenly asked Li Zhen: "Where is Li Ke's soldiers and horses?" ”

"After the Battle of Honggu, Shatuo's soldiers and horses entered Xinzhou, and it seems that they intend to return to Shuozhou from Xinzhou via Daizhou! The judgment of the General Staff Division was that Li Ke used his father and son to prepare for the garrison of Yanmen Pass. ”

Yanmen Pass is the gateway for Daizhou to enter Shuozhou, and after the Zhendong Army took the Taixi Pass, Li Ke used his wife Liu to go to Taiyuan with all the soldiers and horses of Daizhou to join Li Keyong. After Wang Zhong asked Li Jing, he led the army to pass through the territory of Daizhou, announcing that the Zhendong Army had recovered Daizhou, and then did not garrison Daizhou, but returned to Taixi Pass. As for Yanmen Pass, when Liu withdrew, he did not withdraw the soldiers and horses of Yanmen Pass on the border of Daishuo, but instead sent some troops to strengthen the strength of Yanmen.

The General Staff Division judged that Li Keyong was going to Yanmen Pass, which was a reasonable speculation, after all, Yanmen Xiongguan was the gateway to Shuo. If there is a husband, there is no risk.

However, Li Jing did not agree with this judgment, which was based on his understanding of Li Ke's character and habits of using soldiers several times.

Li Keyong, who had just won two battles in a row, Camel Weir and Honggu, would not give up so easily, especially now that the soldiers and horses of the five towns were divided into three roads. Having just defeated the vanguard of Honggu, Li Keyong entered Xinzhou at this time, and it would never be as simple as returning to Shuozhou. If he wants to return to Shuozhou, he can go directly from Lanzhou to Shuozhou. Now he is running to Xinzhou, which can only mean one thing.

After Li Keyong defeated the left vanguard army, he had already set his sights on Li Jun's Yicheng army.

"Li Keyong wouldn't have such guts, would he? The Yicheng army has 8,000 soldiers and horses, and although Li Keyong has won several battles in a row, the soldiers and horses are less than 10,000, and the soldiers are tired and tired, he went all the way from Honggu in Lanzhou to Xinzhou to fight Li Jun, but he is afraid that it is unlikely. A staff officer wondered.

"When analyzing intelligence and judging the enemy's movements, the character of the commander is also very important. Li Ke was rebellious at a young age, at least not in a big defeat. Looking at his behavior after taking Yunzhou, you can guess this person's character. At the moment, he has not yet reached the point of real exhaustion, with his aggressive character, how could he miss the opportunity to break through? I could almost expect that Li Keyong would definitely go straight to Li Jun, and if nothing happened, Li Jun would be defeated before Zhang Yanqiu's left army arrived. Li Jing spoke his own judgment.

"If Li Jun's army is defeated, will the Shatuo people go to fight Zhang Yanqiu again?"

"Zhang Yanqiu has 20,000 horses, Li Keyong should not beat Li Jun before beating him." Li Jing shook his head, Li Ke is very crazy, but he is still very powerful in using soldiers. Li Keyong is weak in strategic layout, but tactically, the use of troops is elusive, and he is very bold and likes to take risks. However, after fighting Li Jun, the Shatuo people did not have the strength to fight another big battle, and at that time, Li Keyong was likely to directly enter the generation from Xin and retreat into Yanmen Pass.

"Do you inform General Wang Chong to send troops from Taixi Pass to support Li Jun, or set up an ambush in Daizhou to intercept Shatuo's soldiers?" Li Zhen proposed.

This is a very tempting proposition, and maybe, the Zhendong Army will be able to capture Li Guochang and his son in one fell swoop. However, this thought only turned around in his mind, and Li Jing vetoed it after the last. Wang Zhong only had 3,000 soldiers and horses in Taixiguan, which was far inferior to the Shatuo army. At this time, it was too late for him to send troops south for reinforcements. Although it is tempting to capture Li Guochang's father and son, the risk is too great.

The use of troops is steady, and the Zhendong Army is currently in an absolutely advantageous layout, and he will not take such a risk.

"No, let them fight, let's prepare to take the cowhide pass first."

There is a sentence that Li Jing didn't say, anyway, if Li Keyong defeats the Yicheng Army, it won't have much impact on his layout, since what, why not let them tear it up, they are here to sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight! (To be continued......)