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In the first war, the Zhenwu army was completely annihilated, and Li Keyong was still angry, and planned to continue to go south and destroy the Dangxiang clan Tuoba Department. Li Guochang was also quite angry with Tuoba Sigong, and in his opinion, the defection of the Zhenwu Army had a lot to do with the party members. Without the collusion of the party members, the 6,000 Zhenwu army would never dare to rebel against him.

Hearing the military order to go south, Gai Yu hurried over.

"Dashuai, stay behind, don't do it, don't go south at this time!"

Li Ke used the father and son to plan to go south, firstly, to avenge Tuoba Sigong's heavy wound on their great revenge, and the two of them were also to kill chickens and monkeys, and to deter other forces that were ready to take advantage of the fire to rob, so that they knew that although the Dao Shatuo people were defeated for a while, they were still not easy to provoke. Of course, it would be better if the soldiers and horses of the imperial court could be brought to the south.

However, Gai Yu didn't think that this was a good plan, he had been interrogating the captured Zhenwu Army just now, and he had already interrogated and understood that this time the rebellion of the Zhenwu Army in the Jingluo Military City, as well as the tiger's mouth and tooth extraction of the Tuoba Department, were all shadows manipulated by Li Jing of the Zhendong Army behind him.

"Now it has basically been figured out, after Li Jing entered the Jin Dynasty, he first took Ulzhou, and then secretly asked Yu Xuan and Helian Duo to attack and take Shan Yu Duhufu. Even Tuoba Sigong was the enemy of us, and the Zhenwu army rebelled, all of which were planned and promoted by Li Jing behind the scenes. This is a very terrible thing, judging from Li Jing's defeat of Lu Longjun in Youzhou, Li Jing's strength is quite strong, but for so long, they have only taken Ulzhou, which was abandoned by one lady. Even after capturing the Taixi Pass, he did not pursue the defeated army of Ulzhou, which is unusual. Gai Yu said with a worried face.

Li Keyong has always trusted Gaiyu. Hearing this, he couldn't help but be surprised: "Do you suspect that Li Jing has been hiding his strength?" ”

"Not a suspicion. Rather, it must be. Li Jing is now playing a big game. He's laying a huge trap and he's going to put us all in there. Gai Yulian himself was taken aback by the results he had speculated.

According to his speculation, the soldiers and horses of the seven towns of the entire imperial court may have been united, and Zhengda laid a huge net to envelop them. Li Jing has been fighting in Ulzhou, but he actually has an extremely powerful army of soldiers and horses, and Yu Xuan has copied the lair of the Zhenwu army.

Especially after interrogating from the captives and learning that the Zhenwu Army and the Tuoba Department were both sent by Li Jing's envoy, he became even more worried. I heard that Li Jing gave the Tuoba Department 3,000 taels of gold, so Tuoba Sigong sent troops. And Zhenwu Army. They all got a lot of money to be bought. A Tuoba Department and a Zhenwu Army were both bought by Li Jing, so it is possible that more people will be bought. Now that they are out of the army, the base camp is empty in Daibei, and the three-way army of Li Jing, Yu Xuan and Zheng Congyan has already taken place.

If the three roads send troops together, they can directly besiege Yunshuo. No matter how strong the Shatuo soldiers are, if the foundation is lost, not to mention anything else, just the problem of logistics grain and grass supply can directly destroy the Shatuo soldiers.

If you have to go south at this time, then you won't even have a chance to escape.

"If you go it alone. One Shatuo warrior can deal with three Tang officers and soldiers. The Tang Dynasty's three-way soldiers and horses faced any of them alone. We are not afraid. But the current situation is outflanked by three ways, and we can't stand it at all. ”

"And what do you think we should do?" Li Ke looked at the apartment expectantly.

"Avoid the edge for the time being, go back to Yunshuo first, take the tribesmen out of the jam, and avoid this limelight, and then come back." Gaiyu gritted his teeth.

Li Guochang held his forehead, "Will we still come back then?" ”

Gai Yu thought that it was okay, the imperial court soldiers and horses were composed of seven towns, and they could not be consumed here all the time. As long as they wait for them to retreat, at that time, they will fight alone, and no one in Shatuo will be afraid. And Gai Yu is also very good at studying the current situation in Datang.

Nanzhao has begun to attack Xichuan again, and the imperial court transferred the most capable Gao Yu to Xichuan for this reason. In Henan, there was a grass army of Huangchao Wang Xianzhi in the Tianping Army, and Wang Jingwu in Ziqing Town was still in rebellion.

"The grass army and Wang Jingwu have already leaned together, although they haven't heard of their alliance yet, but just by getting together, the momentum has already been greatly boosted. Ziqing Town and the Tianping Army have begun to erode, and the Yicheng Army is next to the Tianping Army, and the turmoil will burn back the Yicheng Army at any time. Li Jing's Zhendong Army is also under Ziqing Town, and if Wang Jingwu's rebellion is difficult to quell for a long time, Song Wei will definitely have to transfer Li Jing back. As soon as they returned, the court wanted to transfer them again, but it was difficult. ”

"That's true." Li Guochang nodded, after the battle of Jingluo Military City, he now thinks farther, and the whole person is not as arrogant as before. Even if it is a strong soldier like the Shatuo Army, it is difficult to resist the siege of Zhuzhen.

Under the persuasion of Gaiyu, Li Guochang and his son decided to return to Yunshuo first.

"We can't just run away from the wilderness, otherwise even if we flee into the grassland, the soldiers and horses of the imperial court will chase after us all the way." Although Li Keyong agreed to retreat first, he did not agree to withdraw directly. "We have to find a way to fight first, and it is best to cripple and destroy all the way of these three soldiers, so as to deter them from chasing all the way."

"Then fight the Tiande army, the Tiande army is the weakest of the three routes, only 12,000 people." Li Guochang directly proposed to fight the Tiande army, not only because the Tiande army was the weakest, but also because the Tiande army copied his lair, and his wives and concubines were all in the Shan Yu Protectorate.

"No, if you want to fight, you have to fight the strongest, so that it can work. Otherwise, even if the Tiande Army is defeated, it will not have much effect. Li Ke clenched his fists and said with anger in his tone.

After careful deliberation for a long time, Li Guochang and his son decided. Go back to Hedong first, find a way to fight Zheng Congyan's middle route army once, and then retreat.

Before leaving, Li Guochang summoned Shengzhou Assassin Shi Gao Wenshun, and asked him to take Shengzhou's soldiers and horses to escort the wounded soldiers back to Yunzhou, and asked him to strengthen the guards of Yunzhou and be sure to keep the passage out of the fortress smooth.

Gao Wenji, the guard general of Shuozhou, was Gao Wenshun's younger brother, and Li Guochang asked him to pass through Shuozhou first, and then transfer some troops and horses from Shuozhou to Yunzhou with Gao Wenji. He and Li Kehe first went to the Lanzhou area to look for fighters, and then joined them.

Taiyuan Mansion, the northern capital of Jinyang City.

Li Jing and Yu Xuan's messengers arrived one after another. Zheng Congyan sent the good news of the camp on the east and west roads.

Li Jing of the Eastern Army of the East Road Xingying Town has recovered the whole of Ulju. and captured the important Guancheng Taixi Pass on the border of the Wei Dynasty. And it has recovered Daizhou a few days ago, and now the Zhendong Army is stationed in addition to a part of the two states of Weidai, and the large army is under the cowhide pass in the north of Yunzhou. Li Jing regained two states in a row and killed 5,000 Shatuo rebels. and captured Li Guochang's three sons, Li Kexiu, Li Kerou, and Li Kezhang.

Yu Xuan, the envoy of the Tiande army camping on the west road, has also recovered the Shan Yu Duhufu, the middle surrender city, and the east surrender city to the north of the Yellow River. Annihilated 3,000 Shatuo soldiers, and recruited 5,000 Shatuo soldiers. In the entire Zhenwu army, only Shengzhou and Yinerzhou to the south of the Yellow River have not been recovered.

When Zheng Congyan announced this good news in front of the generals of the five towns, the generals of the five towns were a little incredulous. They have seen the bravery of this Shatuo people, and the powerful generals like Cao Xiang were directly defeated and died. You can see it from this.

Zheng Congyan was also a little skeptical at first, so after he received the good news, he did not announce it immediately, but first sent someone out of Lu to verify it, and finally confirmed that this victory was true. Although he believes that the number of enemies killed by the two armies may not be as much as reported, the matter of recovering Zhenwu and Wei Dynasty will not be false.

The generals went from disbelief at the beginning, to surprise and shock later, and slowly turned into envy and jealousy.

"Report! The messenger of General Li Jing, the commander of the eastern camp, has arrived! A guard shouted outside the council chamber.

"Biography!" Zheng Congyan heard that it was Li Jing's messenger, so he hurriedly asked someone to bring it up.

It was Li Yang who had just arrived from Youzhou, and as soon as he entered the lobby, Li Yang immediately congratulated Zheng Congyan.

"What's the joy of?" Zheng Congyan asked in surprise.

"Congratulations to Jung Sang-kook for his good command. I have recruited the army and made new contributions, and the good news will be passed on again. Under the planning of the Solicitation Envoy. My family was in charge of the liaison layout, and finally succeeded in persuading Youzhou Assassin Shi Tuoba Sigong to lead the party soldiers to participate in the counterinsurgency, and instigated the Zhenwu army to come to the battlefield anyway. Just a few days ago, under the planning of Li Dutong, 3,000 Dangxiang Tuoba and 6,000 Zhenwu soldiers defeated the traitor Li Guochang, killed 6,000 Shatuo elite soldiers and horses in a battle, and captured Shatuo soldiers and horses Li Quanzhong, as well as Shatuo general Cheng Huaixin, Li Guochang was defeated, the whole army was annihilated, and only fled with more than 100 horsemen. ”

When the generals heard the news, they all took a breath of cold air.

Zheng Congyan couldn't suppress the excitement in his heart, and suddenly stood up: "What you said is true?" Li Guochang's entire army was annihilated, and 6,000 Shatuo soldiers were annihilated? ”

"Absolutely." Li Yang nodded, "Here is the detailed before and after story written by the post, in addition, Li Quanzhong has also been escorted to Jinyang, and the heads of the six thousand Shatuo thieves have been sent to Chang'an City to report the victory!" ”

After reading the letter, Zheng Congyan understood what had happened before and after. In the letter, Li Yang not only wrote down the history of Jingluo City, but also deliberately added a few sentences to it according to Li Jing's meaning, indicating that the mastermind behind this battle was planned by Li Jing and Zheng Congyan together, and gave more than half of this credit to Zheng Congyan.

In the end, it was also written that the Zhenwu army was greedy for merit, and as a result, Li Ke, who was driven to Shengzhou Camel Weir, was lured into an ambush circle, and the whole army of more than 5,000 soldiers and horses was defeated.

Zheng Congyan didn't like the capriciousness of this Zhenwu army. At this time, seeing that they were all wiped out, they didn't have any expression at all, but they felt that there was one less troublesome thing in their hearts, and it was better to have them gone. However, he was more interested in the party cavalry, and heard that Tuoba Sigong led three thousand cavalry to come, so he hurriedly asked people to summon the five Tuoba brothers to come.

Tuoba Sigong was originally a soldier and a horse to take Yinzhou, but when he heard that Li Ke used Shengzhou, and 5,000 Zhenwu troops were wiped out in the first battle, he couldn't help but be afraid. happened to receive Li Yang's invitation to them to go to Taiyuan, and immediately went south to Suizhou, then entered Hedong Shizhou from Mengmenjin, and rushed to Taiyuan after the last day.

Zheng Congyan personally met the five Tuoba brothers in the hall, and inquired about some battle conditions, and was very satisfied with Tuoba, and ordered a lot of rewards on the spot, and placed 3,000 party cavalry in his own army.

I heard that Li Guochang and his son had returned to Hedong again, and they were in Lanzhou at this time, and the generals of the five towns all asked for battle.

Among them, especially the former recruiter, Li Jun was the most active in the Yicheng Army Festival. In his opinion, now that there are many good news, Li Ke has no more than 10,000 soldiers and horses in the hands of his father and son, and this is the time to beat the water dogs. Even a few thousand party members can defeat Li Guochang, how can they be inferior to a few Hu people.

If it had been a little slower, maybe Li Jing and Yu Xuan over there would have attacked and directly recovered the Yunshuo Prefectures, and there would be nothing for them to do at that time.

Although Zheng Congyan felt that it was best to hold on to Taiyuan at the moment, Li Jing's Zhendong Army and Yu Xuan's Tiande Army suppressed and attacked from the east and west, and finally surrounded the Shatuo rebels with three routes of troops and horses, using siege tactics as the top. As long as the Shatuo people have no base, no matter how strong they are, they will not be able to become the climate, at that time they have no supplies, and it is about to enter winter, and the wind and snow on the plug alone can strangle this rebel army.

However, this cautious plan was opposed by almost all the generals, not only the Yicheng Army, the Zhaoyi Army, the Zhongwu Army, and the Heyang Army, but even the generals of the Hedong Army also opposed the overly conservative plan, and unanimously demanded that they take advantage of the victory to attack and no longer give the Shatuo people the slightest respite.

"Dutong, a certain is willing to lead the 8,000 soldiers and horses of the Yicheng Army Headquarters as the vanguard of the army, and recover Xinzhou first!" The Yicheng Army Festival made Li Jun sit up and ask for battle.

Su Hongzhen, the envoy of the captive army, also immediately asked for battle, and the captive army was originally in Lanzhou, but it was broken by Li Keyong before, and Su Hongzhen led the defeated army to retreat into Jinyang. Now that the opportunity for revenge is in front of you, you can't miss it. immediately asked for troops to be sent back to Lanzhou.

Duyu Marquis Zhang Yanqiu is known as a prestige among the generals of Hedong, and at this time he also proposed to take the opportunity to send troops, in his words, tens of thousands of soldiers and horses in their five towns sat in Jinyang City, but watched Li Jing and Yu Xuan's two partial divisions all the way to capture the pass, playing a triumphant song, which is really unreasonable.

Zhou Congyu, the envoy of the Hedong Supervision Army, also actively supported the dispatch of troops at this time, Zheng Congyan saw this, and the will of the people could not be violated, and he had to decide to send troops according to the will of the generals. Li Jun led 8,000 people from the headquarters of the Yicheng Army out of Chitang Pass and Shiling Pass, and entered Xinzhou to recover Xinzhou.

The soldiers and horses of the three towns of Zhaoyi, Heyang and Zhongwu were sent to Lanzhou, and most of the Hedong Army stayed in Taiyuan and Jinyang, but Su Hongzhen was the left vanguard envoy and Tuoba Sigong was the right vanguard, and each led 3,000 soldiers and horses from the headquarters to go first. Zhang Yanqiu, the Marquis of Yu, the capital of the Hedong Army, was the soldier and horse envoy of the three towns, led an army of 20,000, and Zhou Congyu, the other supervising army, went out with the army.

Zheng Congyan himself led 8,000 soldiers and horses to sit in Jinyang and commanded in the center.

At the same time, Zheng Congyan also ordered the Tiande Army to Yu Xuan and Li Jing of the Zhendong Army, so that the two eastern and western battalions would cooperate and send troops, preparing to kill the Shatuo rebels in one fell swoop. (To be continued......)