Zhang Jia and Xu Ziyuan were immediately on the embankment of the Yellow River, and behind them, the army of Youwuwei was building a large camp. Across the river, this side is under the rule of Shuozhou, and that side is the area ruled by Tiande.

The great river that used to run in the past is still covered by thick ice, and it seems unusually quiet.

"Picturesque!" Xu Ziyuan stroked the three strands of long beard and shook his head.

"It's not a picturesque country, there are still too many sores on it!" Zhang Jia didn't have the same emotion as Xu Ziyuan, and said: "I guess at this time, Peng Fang has already lost more than a big defeat." ”

"After all, Peng Fang has an army of 30,000, so he won't lose so quickly, right?" Xu Zi walked from afar.

"If I were Delhi Chinan, I would inevitably use an army to contain the Tiande army that had surrendered to the city, and then ambush Peng Fang halfway with the main force, Peng Fang did not listen to our persuasion, and insisted on returning to the division to surrender the city.

Xu Ziyuan exhaled and shook his head. "Although I am not interested in this Peng Fang, I still hope that he can win a fight. Even if it's a small hope. ”

"Peng Fang is also a general, it's not that he doesn't know the risks here, but he still holds the luck of being his subordinate, but he really has fallen into blood mold for eight lifetimes." Zhang Jia snorted: "War is war, how can there be so many lucks, pinning hope on the enemy to make mistakes, it is simply taking the lives of soldiers as a child's play." ”

"Not everyone is like General Zhang, yours." Xu Ziyuan suddenly smiled and said: "I can afford to take it, I can put it down, these six words are easier said than done." Peng Fang is also a hegemonic figure, and wants him to bend his knees to Li Xiang and be a disciplined courtier from now on, but I am afraid that it will be worse than killing him. ”

"Then I'll have to slaughter Talo!" Zhang Jiadao: "His best ending is to die in the hands of the Tubo people, and he can still make a name for resisting foreign insults and dying in battle, if he dies in our hands, ha......"

"General Zhang, I don't know anything about military affairs, I just ask, why don't we cross the river and march immediately!" Xu Ziyuan glanced back at the camp being built behind him: "Right now, Delhi Chinan is fighting with Peng Fang, even if Peng Fang is defeated, but there are 3,000 nails in the broken ship, and it can always give Delhi Chinan some trauma, if we pounce on it closely, we may be able to take a big advantage." We're nailed here now, isn't that giving the other party time to breathe? ”

Zhang Jia laughed.

Xu Ziyuan is a local assassin and Li Ze's cronies, but since he teamed up with Zhang Jia, he has never asked about the military, and of course, Zhang Jia has never asked about civil affairs, as long as Xu Ziyuan can guarantee his food and salary on time.

Let professional people do professional things. This is what Li Ze often says, Xu Ziyuan really doesn't understand military affairs, if it weren't for Li Ze's rule, if it weren't for Li Ze's rules, Xu Ziyuan reached out to the army, Zhang Jia was really helpless. After all, compared with Xu Ziyuan, there is still a layer of separation between himself and Li Xiang.

Now it seems that Li Xiang's rules are indeed prescient.

"Xu Tingshi, if we want to take advantage of this, most of us will suffer in the end." Zhang Jiadao: "Under the command of Delhi Chinan, most of them are cavalry, with strong mobility, and he can choose the battlefield and the location of the attack at will. And the most powerful 8,000 cavalry in our army has followed General Li Zhonglang, and now we are mainly foot soldiers, think about it, even if Delhi China has just appeared in Peng Fang and fought a vicious battle, we can take advantage of it? When the time comes, the other party will simply intersperse our back road, and we will be able to lose immediately. ”

Xu Ziyuan's face flushed, thinking about it, this is indeed the truth. He thinks about his own strengths, but he doesn't think about the enemy's advantages.

"If you just want to defeat the opponent, I will add Li De and Yang Xing, and push it over, but I am not afraid of Nadri Chinan, but Li Xiang wants to hit Tubo hard, it is to hurt him, and to hurt him, so that they can honestly sit at our negotiating table, then we have to think about it."

"So let Li De and them take such a long detour to raid the Western Surrender City?" Xu Ziyuan said: "Speaking of which, I'm still quite worried, the weather is really not very good?" ”

"Don't worry, Li De is a ranger, and the cavalry I gave him is mainly Turkic cavalry, they are very used to this kind of weather." Xu Zi walked from afar. "Take the city of Xishou and force Delhi to attack us, I will wait for him here."

"If he doesn't come to attack us, but instead turns around and fights Li De in the city of Xishou?" Xu Ziyuan asked.

"Distance, grain and grass!" Zhang Jia said: "If Delhi Chinan doesn't want to end up with Peng Fang, then he can only come to fight me, he will come to fight me, less than a hundred miles away, as long as he defeats me, he can break into Shuozhou, then there is enough food for him to eat." If he goes to fight the city of Xishou, haha, the distance of four hundred miles is enough to kill him, even if his cavalry can arrive in two or three days, what about his foot soldiers? Can you get there? Weighing the pros and cons, he might as well have done it with me. ”

"He can also break through to the east of the river!" Xu Ziyuan reminded.

Zhang Jia glanced at Xu Ziyuan with a smile and said, "It's great, I don't even have to fight, I can go to harvest the surrendered city in a good way." ”

The two of them looked at each other and both laughed.

What Zhang Jia admires most about Li Ze is that Li Ze can always bring together many things that seem to be unrelated, and then solve them in one package.

Just like this war, Li Ze thought not only about hurting Tibet and solving the hidden dangers in the northwest, but also planned to open up the Hexi Corridor, reset the protection of the northern court of the Western Regions, and control the south and north of the desert.

Of course, you can also take advantage of this war to sort out the internal problems of Zhenzhou again. Compared to the previous few things, this last one is the hardest.

Hezhong is better to say, in Zhang Jia's view, those so-called local wealthy families are now just fat pigs waiting to be slaughtered, even if they jump hard, it is difficult to jump out of the pigsty, but it is difficult to say in Hedong.

If Delhi Chinan does not come to compete with him, but instead flees to the east of the river, Zhang Jiale will see it.

"If Delhi Chinan really goes, I will tell Li Cunzhong that I am happy to raise troops to help him encircle and suppress Delhi Chinan." Zhang Jia said with a smile.

"It's easy to ask God to send God, but I'm afraid that Li Cunzhong won't agree at all." Xu Zi walked from afar.

"I'll respect his opinion, but if they lose because of this, they can't blame me." Zhang Jia spread his hands and said.

Xu Ziyuan sighed: "I'm afraid that when Li Cunzhong doesn't respond properly, Hedong will suffer a big loss, and it will always be our people who will lose at that time." ”

"In my estimation, Li Xiang must have a backhand, and even the problem I thought of, Li Xiang couldn't think of it?" Zhang Jia said with a smile: "Even if there is any problem, it is limited to the east of the river at most." Xu Thorn History, sometimes sacrifice is inevitable. But as long as the results are good, that's good. ”

Xu Ziyuan nodded, he understood what Zhang Jia said, but for a while, it was still a little difficult to accept the feelings.

The two stopped talking, just looked into the distance.

In the evening, the scouts sent out by Zhang Jia finally returned, and with them, there were several bloodstained and embarrassed Tiande soldiers, and the leader turned out to be a Guide general.

"How badly did you lose?" Zhang Jia looked at the frightened Gui De Lang general and asked directly.

With a pop, the Gui Delang general knelt down in front of Zhang Jia, and knocked again and again: "I beg the general to send troops immediately to save our Tiande army." ”

"To save nature is to save, you first tell me about your situation!" Zhang Jia waved his hand, "How bad did you lose?" ”

General Lang lowered his head, tears falling from his eyes, "Of the 30,000 army, there will be no more than 5,000 people who can break through in the end." Following the marshal fled into the city of Zhongshou, my team of cavalry, finally ordered by the marshal, came to ask General Zhang for help. ”

Zhang Jia sighed: "I knew today, why bother at the beginning, when you withdrew the army overnight, I sent someone to tell Peng Fang that our two families should join forces together and advance slowly, don't care about the gains and losses of one city and one pool, and focus on preserving vital forces, but Peng Fang categorically refused, causing tens of thousands of soldiers to die." ”

"The marshal has already regretted it, and asked the general to send a large number of troops to rescue our marshal, Tiande is up and down, and it is unforgettable." Lang will kowtow heavily.

"Saving nature is to be saved, but how to save it still needs to be carefully considered!" Zhang Jia waved his hand: "I hope Peng Fang can hold on to the city for a little longer." ”

"What do you mean, General?"

"I have long known that if you go to the commander, you will inevitably be defeated and lost, but with my strength, it is difficult to compete with a large number of Tubo cavalry, so I can only think of another way, and now, the cavalry under my command has made a detour to the desert to attack the city of Xishou. Once I have taken the city of Western Surrender, I will cut off the return route to Delhi Chinan, and then it will be a good time for me to march. ”

General Gui Delang's eyes widened, "But, I'm afraid that the city won't last long?" ”

"What are these words? There should be no shortage of food and grass in the city, and your marshal has brought thousands of people into the city and guarded it for ten days and half a month, will there be any problems? Zhang Jia shouted: "Okay, you have worked hard all the way, go down and wrap up your injuries and rest well." ”

Two guards approached, half supporting, half forcing the general to take him down.

"Zhang Xi." Zhang Jia pondered for a moment, then turned his head to look at one of the generals in the tent.

"The end will be."

"You lead your cavalry across the river, and once you find the Tibetan scouts, try to keep them as far as possible."

"Yes!"

Zhang Xi turned around and wanted to go.

"Wait!" Xu Ziyuan stopped Zhang Xi: "If you find people fleeing on the road, tell them to flee to Shuozhou." ”

"Got it, Xu Tingshi!"

"General, I'm going back to prepare, I think there will be a large number of people fleeing Tiande and entering Shuozhou soon." Xu Zi walked from afar.