"Good steel should be used on the blade, your men and horses have just passed through the battle of Shangyang Pass and need to recuperate, this time you will feign an attack and leave it to others!"

Gao Xianzhi's attitude was rare and clear, and he rejected Huoba Guiren's request to take the initiative to lead troops to feign an attack. However, Huo Ba Guiren was not reconciled, he thought that Gao Xianzhi's handling of this matter was too conservative, if he could seize the opportunity of Sun Xiaozhe being beaten by the first battle of Shangyang Pass, and make another hard blow to the rebels, maybe the siege of Tongguan could be lifted.

"Xianggong is worried about the lack of military strength?"

Gao Xianzhi groaned, noncommittal.

At the end of the crossbow, the rebels were also exhausted, and at such a moment, it was a matter of who had more stamina. Gao Xianggong, please make a decision, the rebels must not have expected ** to make a surprise attack, this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, once Sun Xiaozhe eases up, and I don't know when I will be able to ......"

"Okay, I know your suggestion, how to act, it depends on the development of Hedong, if Qin Jin can clear Shi Siming's partial division entrenched in Jiangzhou, it may be able to fight!"

"Gao Xianggong, don't miss the opportunity and don't come again!"

Although he received Gao Xianzhi's promise, in Huo Ba Guiren's opinion, this promise was no different from no promise.

Qin Jin thought that the Shenwu army he led would be able to fight the rebels on two fronts by uniting with Huangfu Ke's Shuofang army? This kind of self-righteous risky move was undoubtedly similar to a desperate gamble, and there was almost no need to think about it, waiting for Qin Jin's end to be defeated and killed.

And this desperate and risky move was tantamount to a move that bordered on mockery for the Tang Dynasty defenders at Tongguan.

"Opportunity?"

Gao Xianzhi asked rhetorically and then didn't speak, his decision could not be changed, if Qin Jin failed in Hedong Dao, all his rash actions would make Tongguan's ** fall into the quagmire of struggle. People are like this, they come from different positions, they have different starting points for looking at problems, and they come to very different conclusions.

For example, Huo Ba Guiren, he was just a general of Gao Xianzhi in the army, and the starting point of all his actions was to behead and kill the enemy, and make meritorious contributions. And Gao Xianzhi has long been the head of the prime minister of the political hall, and also led the last main army of the Tang Dynasty, it can be said that he has achieved fame, a very popular minister, when the desire for fame no longer occupies the first place, a person's choice will often be more practical.

For example, Gao Xianzhi's current position, and the main goal of the Tongguan army, at least in the short term, is not to defeat Sun Xiaozhe's rebels and counterattack Luoyang.

The difference in strength between the two sides is still very large, and there are at least two reasons why the battle of Shangyangguan can be won, one is that Sun Xiaozhe has other plans, and it is not the elite main force that enters the battle, and the other is the first is the mourning soldiers, the so-called mourning soldiers will win, not that the mourning soldiers will win in every battle, but the mourning soldiers have the tragic heart of fighting to the death, which can greatly stimulate the combat potential of the soldiers.

But after all, manpower is sometimes exhausted, and if you ignore the big gamble, it is not only irresponsible to the more than 200,000 soldiers in Tongguan, but also irresponsible to the court and the Son of Heaven.

Because, Gao Xianzhi has only one goal in a short period of time, the puppet Yan rebels are in full swing, and it is not the best time to fight to the death at all, all he can do is to hold Tongguan, keep Chang'an, and wait for the puppet Yan to run out.

Only when this day comes, Tongguan will open the gate, and hundreds of thousands of troops will rush to the east, all the way to conquer the city, kill all the rebels, and recover all the lost cities.

However, this kind of deep-seated thought, how could Gao Xianzhi say it to Huo Ba Guiren, and if he said it, the other party might not be able to listen to it. Although Huo Tu Nhon is brave, in his opinion, he still has obvious shortcomings, that is, in addition to his personal bravery, he lacks enough overall concept.

From this point of view, Huo Ba Gui Ren is still a step worse than Che Bihe. This is also one of the reasons why Gao Xianzhi left Qi Bihe to guard Shangyang Pass alone, and found Huoba Guiren back to Tongguan.

It's not that Gao Xianzhi trusts Huo Ba Guiren more, but there are too many risky factors in Huo Ba Guiren's character, once he leads the army alone, he will inevitably have greedy behavior, if this kind of adventure will put him personally into a desperate situation, if even Shangyang Pass is involved, the result is that even the imperial court can't bear it.

Huo Ba Quy Nhon left Gao Xianzhi's Chinese military tent and was very disappointed with the promised results.

After thinking about it for a while, he even thought that this was Gao Xianzhi's inconvenient and straightforward refusal, and he used Qin Jin as a shield.

What are you kidding, how can the 10,000 men of the Shenwu Army be compared with the battle-hardened Youyan Iron Cavalry? Instead, it is still the Shenwu Army attacking, and Shi Siming's division is on the defensive. This is obviously the folly of hitting a stone with an egg.

After all, Huo Ba Guiren was still convinced by Gao Xianzhi, he could only secretly scold Qin Jin for being stupid, why did he take the initiative to provoke the two rebels? If he concentrated all his forces against one side, maybe there was still a possibility of victory, but now......

After thinking about it, Huo Ba Guiren was very unwilling to pin his hopes on such an unreliable person, but what could he do but stare dryly?

The irritable Huoba Guiren returned to his army and turned out the map of the southern part of Hedong Province, Jiangzhou and Zezhou are connected to Hebei Province, Hedong Province, and Dugi Province, and their location is very important, so Shi Siming still did not give up Jiangzhou in the case of the tense war in Hebei Province, and sent at least 30,000 people to garrison here.

The first purpose is to cut off the communication between the northern capital Taiyuan and Guanzhong, and the second is to control this place, for the puppet Yan rebels, they can attack and retreat.

Qin Jin put his main goal on Jiangzhou and vowed to purge the rebels there, which was understandable from a strategic point of view. However, if you want to gnaw on a stone, you must have a hard enough tooth, otherwise in addition to making the stone collapse and the mouth full of teeth, it will only be a laughing stock.

However, contempt is contempt, and Huoba Guiren still wants to deduce it to see how successful Qin Jin's measures in Jiangzhou are. So he compared and drew in front of the rudimentary map, speculating how Qin Jin's Shenwu army would attack, and how Shi Siming's partial division would respond.

Once he focused on the troop deduction, he fell into a state of self-forgetfulness, and even said to himself:

"The available soldiers of the Shenwu Army are about 10,000 people, plus the remnants of the Longwu Army with half a bottle of water, there should be 20,000 people, and some local disciples may be recruited, and the full battle is counted as 30,000 people......

As he spoke, he stretched out three fingers, and quickly retracted two of them.

"The remnants of the Longwu Army are like people who have broken their bones, they just have a shell and skin, not to mention that they have old grudges with the Shenwu Army, is there no difference between these 10,000 people...... After recruiting the place and the army, the army formed in a hurry, will not see the lessons of Doctor Feng's past......"

Counting and counting, in the eyes of Huo Ba Guiren, no matter how you look at the cards in Qin Jin's hand, it is a situation that is bound to lose. In the end, I had to look up to the sky and sigh.

"Alas, God doesn't favor me!"

……

"General, there is an urgent military situation in Hedong, ** has occupied Anyi in the east of Hedong City, and confronted our army in Xia County!"

Sun Xiaozhe was surprised, he didn't expect that the ** of Hedong City would dare to attack, even if Qin Jin was arrogant, who gave him confidence?

"Bring me the map!"

The entourage in the Chinese military tent quickly spread out a sheepskin map on the desk, Sun Xiaozhe came to the map, Xia County and Yuan County must be in their hands, the garrison is about 30,000 people, and all of them are the elite of his lineage, which is more than enough to deal with the ** of Tongguan, not to mention the ** of Hedong City?

Although Sun Xiaozhe admitted that Qin Jin and his people were quite cunning, in siege warfare, this advantage was insignificant in the face of the gap in absolute strength.

"But Qin Jin's shaft personally led the army?"

"It is said to be Huangfu Ke. ”

Mentioning Huangfu Ke Sun Xiaozhe is as disgusting as eating flies, during Shi Siming's occupation of Hedong City, in order to achieve results before Shi Siming, he sent an envoy to the Huangfu Ke army who openly rebelled against the Tang Dynasty, but who would have thought that this guy has been vain and wronged, in order to delay time, and finally dragged the time almost over, and killed him to Pujin cleanly.

"Send someone to the Huangfu Ke army, and ask him if he still intends to submit to my Dayan, and the conditions discussed before will remain the same!"

"General, isn't the general trying to kill this thief?"

A general was greatly surprised by this, Sun Xiaozhe has always been eager to repay him, how could he be open to this backsliding emperor?

Sun Xiaozhe asked coldly: "Who said I won't kill this thief?"

Suddenly, everyone present understood Sun Xiaozhe's intentions, and if the emperor did not surrender, as long as he dared to surrender, Sun Xiaozhe would definitely regret being a man.

"It is estimated that Huangfu Ke will not be easily submitted, at least before the first signs of the war in Jiangzhou, he may not agree. ”

"Dare to ask the general, how will our army deal with the battle of Jiangzhou?"

The people present are all Sun Xiaozhe's henchmen, and they all know that Sun Xiaozhe and Shi Siming have never been on good terms, if he helped Shi Siming's department in Jiangzhou, wouldn't it excuse his unfavorable situation in Hebei Province?

"Look, give orders to the generals and colonels of Xia County and Yuan County, without my orders, they can't stop them from moving a soldier in vain. ”

In Sun Xiaozhe's view, although the people and horses entrenched in Jiangxian County are not Shi Siming's elite main force, after all, they are also veterans who went south from Fanyang, and they are all warriors of a hundred battles. No matter how much the Shenwu Army spread its spirit within the Tang Dynasty, they were some raw melon recruits who had hardly been on the battlefield and had never even seen blood.

Under the comparison of the strength of the two sides, isn't it clear which is better or worse?

If this all makes Qin Jin win, unless the pig can climb the tree and the rooster lays eggs!