The course of the war, just as Li Ze had predicted in advance, was separated by a stalemate between the two sides across the Juma River.

Lu Long's army is very strong, for more than ten years, they have been fighting non-stop, a division of a hundred battles, no matter in terms of combat skills and combat experience, it is undoubtedly the best choice.

But Wu Wei is not bad. After two years of continuous fighting, under the survival of the fittest, the elite is gradually revealed.

Li Ze put himself above the position of a weakling. He thought that above the strength of the army, the Wuwei Army was still a little worse than the Lu Long Army, so at the beginning of the battle, Wuwei put on a defensive posture.

Gathering heavy troops and Laishui County, with Rongcheng, Pucheng, and Wuhui County as the chain, it has created a system that can attack Zhuozhou in the forward and defend Yizhou in the future. After Laishui County, not only Cao Xin's Zuodu Governor Yamen was set up here, but after Li Ze's arrival, Li Ze's general Xingyuan also stood here.

The difference in strength between the two sides is similar, they are also elite troops, the Lu Long Army in Zhuojun is led by Zhang Zhongwu himself, and the Wuwei Army in Yizhou is commanded by Li Ze, but in fact, it is Cao Xin who is in the overall arrangement, and in Laishui is the general under Li Ze. Li Ze's biggest role here is mostly to boost morale.

Whether it is Cao Xin or Zhang Zhongwu, they are both extremely experienced in warfare, and it is difficult to find too many flaws in their arrangements.

The two sides have just experienced the autumn harvest, the grain and grass are complete, and after nearly a year of truce, they are fully prepared, and in such a situation, a stalemate is inevitable.

After fighting again and again, the two sides won and lost each other, but neither could break through the opponent's fundamental ground, and it was extremely difficult to win even a camp. And the inability to take the camp and kill and wound a few soldiers is really insignificant for a large army of more than 100,000 people. How much is lost, and soon there will be enough troops to replenish it.

Such a battle situation is what Li Ze wants.

Stalemate, procrastination, both sides slowly grinding time.

Under the rule of Wuwei, there are many people, Li Ze is not afraid of loss at all, and in such a combat situation, Li Ze does not even need to mobilize all. At present, in addition to the army, only Yizhou, Dingzhou, Yingzhou and other places are really engaged in the war, and all of these places have been mobilized. And the rest of the place, what to do or what to do.

And for Lu Long, it's different.

Although they have a vast territory, they are severely lacking in manpower. Large-scale mobilizations like this one, he will not last. If you stick to it for two to three months at most, he will inevitably not be able to hold on.

Zhang Zhongwu had two options, either to switch from attack to defense, disperse the army, and defend the city in order to deal with Wuwei's attack. Either you can go alone and find an opportunity to have a decisive battle with Li Ze in this battle and be able to defeat Li Ze, so as to take the full initiative.

Without thinking about it, Zhang Zhongwu will definitely choose the second path.

If he switches from offense to defense, I'm afraid he will continue to defend like this forever.

In Yingzhou, Liu Chenglin's right guard has fully gained the upper hand in the contest with Deng Jingwen, Deng Jingwen is just struggling to support, just waiting for Zhang Zhongwu's side to win.

Li Ze was not in a hurry at all, he hoped that this time the battle would drag on for a longer time, so that he could see the situation in the Central Plains more clearly. People with ill intentions are the most hairy in their hearts, as long as they make a move, they will be more calm.

To put it bluntly, Li Ze hopes that the world will be chaotic. It's not just Zhang Zhongwu who jumped out, if more people jumped up to change the Great King Banner at the head of the city, he would be happier, because in this way, he could clean up one by one in the name of righteousness.

In the military, Cao Xin, Shi Zhuang, Tu Lichun, Wang Sili and Li Ze, who had nothing to do, organized the people to start building roads and water conservancy in Yixian and other places with the assistance of Yang Kai.

With so many people gathered here, it would be a waste to just eat rice without effort. The war is only temporary, but the production and operation will always go on. Roads extending in all directions, perfect water conservancy and irrigation facilities, this is a matter of merit in the present and benefit in the future.

These things that happened in Yizhou and Dingzhou naturally couldn't be hidden from Lu Longjun, who was only separated by a river.

"Li Ze wants to spend it with us." Zhang Zhongwu frowned, looking at the small flags of the confrontation between the two sides that were densely inserted in the sand table in front of him, red and black, and the form of confrontation between the two sides was clear at a glance.

"Yes!" Fei Zhong nodded and said: "In the hidden spy report, Li Ze has begun to mobilize a large number of cotton clothes, cotton pants, cotton hats, and even gloves to Dingzhou and Yizhou, and charcoal is also being delivered to Yizhou and other places in large quantities, and he is indeed preparing to confront us for a long time." ”

Zhang Zhongwu's brow furrowed even deeper.

"The marshal, our soldiers, and many of them are wearing summer clothes. I didn't even keep up with the autumn clothes, let alone winter clothes and cotton wool. Fei Zhong swallowed a mouthful of saliva and sighed.

"Start now, how much can you mobilize?"

Fei Zhong shook his head slowly: "Marshal Jie, this is not only a problem of the army, but also a large number of auxiliary soldiers, people, they also need it." In the past, we never provided winter supplies to these people, in addition to these people, there were also a large number of Khitan cavalry, because after the Yeluqi incident, we also began to provide them with war materials, once this head is opened, it is impossible to stop, Shengmien, Doumi Qiu, they didn't give it before, they also passed, but once it was given, it suddenly stopped, then there would be greater resentment. ”

"In other words, if there is a confrontation, we will not survive this winter." Zhang Zhongwu said.

"Our core army can naturally survive it, but a large number of auxiliaries, people's husbands, and even Khitan cavalry can't survive." Fei Zhong said: "If there is no them, how can this battle be fought?" ”

"In other words, we have to look for fighters and find opportunities for a decisive battle with our opponents." Zhang Zhongwu nodded and said: "It's a pity that Li Ze shrank his head like a turtle, and Shi Zhuang in Laishui County is really like a stone. ”

"There's always an opportunity. Strengthen the attack, keep attacking, maybe in the constant attack, the opponent will show some flaws on his own. Fei Zhongdao.

After the war entered November, it suddenly became fierce, under the tidal attack of the Lu Long army, Suicheng and Rongcheng were crumbling, Cao Xin continued to replenish the troops to the front line from the draw, in order to stabilize the defensive line, Shi Zhuang, who guarded Laishui County, led his troops and horses, crossed the Juma River, and counterattacked into Zhuo County, intending to force the Lu Long people to return to the army to support.

The two sides went back and forth along the Juma River, and finally the war entered a white-hot stage.

In mid-November, Shi Zhuang captured Zhuozhou North New Town, and established an outpost position on the north bank of the Juma River for the first time, which greatly boosted the morale of the Wuwei army.

But in Yizhou, not to mention Cao Xin, who has been in battle for a long time, even Li Ze is a little suspicious.

It shouldn't be like this! Did Zhang Zhongwu even ignore his own base camp Zhuozhou in order to defeat Suicheng and Rongcheng?

"There are ghosts!" Li Ze said categorically.

"There are ghosts!" Cao Xin nodded heavily.

Of course there are ghosts! Because just when Shi Zhuang attacked the Juma River and even went down to the important town of Zhuozhou, his main force also crossed the Juma River and stayed away from Yi County, and on the south bank of the Juma River, attacking Rongcheng, the Lulong army in Suicheng suddenly slowed down the pace of attack, and the center of gravity of the army began to tilt slightly towards Laishui County.

They wanted to cut off Shi Zhuang's way back.

They didn't want to swallow Shi Zhuang, they wanted to block Shi Zhuang's return to help.

Because at this time, the 20,000 iron cavalry led by Zhang Zhongwu himself had already traveled hundreds of miles, crossed the Beijuma River, and went straight to Yixian, and in this direction, only one army was stationed.

It's from Chang'an, one of the Shence troops who are ready to hone themselves. It's just 3,000 people.

And Li Ze and Cao Xin are all in Yi County at the moment.

Zhang Zhongwu drove the auxiliary soldiers, the people, and even the Khitan cavalry to attack regardless of casualties, and even gave up several important cities in Zhuozhou, which was finally clear at this moment.

He wants to launch a decapitation battle and take Li Ze directly.

And this tactic was often used and tried and tested when he dealt with the Khitan in the past.