This day was the twenty-fifth day of the first month of the first year of Tianbao, and Ye Chengcheng's team had completely penetrated into the desert of the Shangzhen Mohe River Basin, and they passed through several Khitan tribes and important military facilities along the way, all of which they silently recorded. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 Along the way, they have already mastered a lot of useful information, and they have all been sent back by him in the way of rune transmission, at the beginning, the Shuo Fang army was also quite surprised, and later such goshawks came one after another, and they got used to it.

It is rumored that Wang Zhongsi raised a very special intelligence unit, which is different from the original scout camp, and there are even Taoist priests in it, because some people have seen the goshawk turn into a rune paper in Wang Zhongsi's hands, according to which some people speculate that there should be Taoist priests in that army.

However, this is just speculation, although the current saint Li Longji is extremely disgusted with witchcraft, but he does not restrict Taoism much, and even there are many alchemy Taoist priests in the palace, so these Tang soldiers are fresh at the beginning, and they are used to it later.

But for Wang Zhonghe, Ye Chengcheng has opened his eyes more and more, according to his report, a group of fifty of them are now wearing the costume of a Khitan patrol, plus a Khitan puppet, is rampaging on the land of the Khitans, which can be said to be unimpeded. They reported a lot of valuable information, such as the distribution of troops behind enemy lines, the distribution of granaries, etc., although it did not have much impact on the upcoming general battle, but it can also be used as a reference.

What moved him the most was Ye Tingcheng's last report, they had learned where the largest granary behind the enemy was located, and there were one million stones of grain in it, which could be said to be the largest granary among the Khitans, but the garrison was only 3,000 people, because their current enemy only thought of the Tang Dynasty, and did not expect the post-Turkic khanate that was in chaos behind them, plus there was Yin Mountain as a natural barrier, they never expected that there would be a Tang army from Mobei along the foot of Yin Mountain to their rear.

Moreover, if they found an opportunity to blend in with these 3,000 people, light a fire when they were on guard, and burn down this granary, then the logistics and supply of this so-called Xiqi coalition army would be strained, although it was not to the point of paralysis, but as long as he dragged it out, their morale and combat effectiveness would be greatly reduced.

At present, the 200,000 troops on each side of them are facing each other on both sides of the Sanggan River, and they have not made a move, obviously waiting for something. He knew that Li Huaixiu was waiting for news from the three surrendered cities, and he was waiting for the news that their granary was on fire. The Sanggan River, also known as the Little Yellow River, is not small in the northern basin, and it is a river with a large flow from time to time. However, the place where the two armies face each other is located near Wutai Mountain in the northeast of Daizhou, in the upper reaches of the Sanggan River, the width and flow of the river here are not large, although the two armies face each other across the bank, but in fact, it will not take long for the army to cross the river, and it will not be washed away by the river, because the depth of the water here is only half the height of the horses, and it is not difficult to cross the river at all.

This place is very close to the East Surrender City, and reinforcements, especially the cavalry, can arrive in half a day, so Wang Zhongsi decisively believes that the East Surrender City will not be the target of attack, and after he arrives here, he hurriedly let the heralds ride their best Dawan horses to report to Li Guoren, although I don't know if it will be in time, but this can at least reduce the probability to one-half, and the garrison of the East Surrender City can go to the other two surrendered cities to support.

Although he held several meetings with his generals, saying that he was waiting for the opportunity, there were still many people who advocated finding the source of the Sanggan River and bypassing it directly, or building a bridge to pass through, although some people would die when crossing the river, but the overall combat effectiveness of the Tang army was obviously stronger than that of the opposite side, and the lethality of the nomads' bows and arrows was extremely difficult to be effective against the Mingguang armor, and there was no fear of crossing the river at all, and Guo Ziyi, the envoy of the Zhenwu Army, offered another clever plan, that is, referring to the previous opinion, so that the Hexi army that did not meet them and was on the way to the lagging behind a total of 60,000 cavalry, 40,000 cavalry to find the source of the Sanggan River and go around to the opposite bank, and act at the opportunity, and 20,000 infantry rushed to meet, in this case, once the opportunity that Wang Zhongsi said came, and there was chaos on the opposite side, then the large army would force the Sanggan River and cooperate with the Hexi cavalry to defeat the Xiqi coalition army in one fell swoop, and under the high mobility of the cavalry on their side, they should not let go of the deserters on the opposite side.

Originally, the generals thought that this would be an extremely fierce cavalry battle in the grassland, but they did not expect it to turn into a river-crossing battle, although the casualties caused by this are very likely to be smaller, but this also means that there will be fewer people who can get credit, and there are many people who want to fight a big battle, such a battle is not refreshing enough.

So the storm of war that was originally dense outside the pass was temporarily suspended for a few days, so that Chang'an was wondering what this Wang Zhongji was thinking, a group of barbarians, and they still had to confront them?

Although it stands to reason that such a thing as a war should not be the business of their civilian officials, but some people are nosy and impeach Wang Zhonghei for being a mercenary, but he has an army of more than 200,000 but refuses to fight, what is his intention?

If it weren't for Wang Zhonghe, who grew up in the palace since he was a child and was loyal to him Li Longji, he would probably have been suspicious, but at this time he was not as mediocre as in the later period, and although he was wary of the prince and border generals, it was not as serious as later. In particular, he received a secret report from his cronies lurking in the Shuofang army, saying that the Hexi army was nowhere to be found, not only delaying the military situation, but now he had lost contact, and only high-ranking officers knew where they went.

After thinking about it carefully, he understood Wang Zhongsi's intentions, he was very likely to arrange for the Hexi army to go to other places, and even his intelligence officers didn't know where to go, so even if the Khitans planted spies in the army, it was impossible to know Wang Zhongsi's plan, wonderful, wonderful.

Although he also looked down on the so-called Xi Qi coalition army, but after all, there were 200,000 people, if Wang Zhongji could defeat them in one battle, he would consider letting him serve as the jiedu envoy of a town again, and now these guys dared to ignore his will and delay the dispatch of troops, it was time to pack them up.

It's just that Tianbao has just changed the year and changed the festival in half a month, so it doesn't seem appropriate, so it's better to wait for this battle to end and settle it together.