Li Qi arrived in Luzhou from Wu'an via Fukou in early September.

His original plan was to take advantage of the emptiness of troops in the Heyang area, and send troops from Yiguan or Taihang to recover Heyang in one fell swoop. However, after arriving in Shangdang, it was found that the southern army was still very tightly guarded for these two passes, and there were still heavy troops stationed in Jiyuan and Huaizhou. On the contrary, in the Weizhou area, the troops were transferred to the front line of Xiangzhou by Li Congrong.

There were only a few southern troops stationed in the Baicheng area.

This news was brought back by the caravan of the Chai family in Luzhou.

The Chai family is a big merchant in Luzhou, and more importantly, the daughter of the Chai family is the side room of Zhuangzong Li Cunqiao, who was officially canonized as "Mrs.". History is sometimes wonderful, in this time and space, Mrs. Chai still married Guo Wei.

It's just that it's not surprising to think about it, the Chai family has a big business, and without Li Cunmiao's thigh, in this troubled world, it needs to attract some martial artists to keep the family business. As for the so-called love story, Li Qi doesn't believe it. Relying on the financial resources of the Chai family and some relationships with Mrs. Chai, Guo Wei has now achieved the position of commander of the Luzhou infantry army from an ordinary military academy, and he can be regarded as having some fame in Luze.

At least in Luze, or even in Heyang, when those bandits want to move the Chai family's caravan, they have to weigh their own weight first.

For Mrs. Chai, Li Qi has always treated her as an aunt, although she has remarried, she will still send someone to bring gifts to Luzhou to greet her. In the Sui and Tang dynasties and the Five Dynasties, many grassland customs were still retained, and it was normal for women to remarry, but it was very rare for them to "keep festivals" for their husbands.

After the autumn sowing, Li Qi sent 100,000 troops to Hedong, 60,000 soldiers and horses entered Hebei from Zhenzhou, and the other 40,000 soldiers and horses gathered in Luzhou. He showed that he completely let go of some of his previous scruples, and was ready to show the strength of the Northern Army in front of the world's heroes and show off a wave of muscles.

This is mainly for the Jiedu envoys of Guanzhong and Liangchuan, and what he needs to deter now is the ambition of these people.

The autumn wind gradually rose, and Lu Wenjin and Yang Chengxun led the Xin Dynasty and Jinyang Tun troops to Shangdang, and the army gathered. Li Qi stood at the head of Shangdang City, looking at the endless military camps under the city, and a kind of pride was born in his heart. More than 40,000 troops gathered under the city and turned the outside of Shangdang City into a large barracks.

In only five and a half years, he has mastered 250,000 soldiers and horses, and his strength has surpassed that of Li Siyuan, and in terms of troops, it is only slightly less than that of the Khitan.

Today's Hedong Army is very similar to the Beifu Army in the Northern Dynasties and the Sui and Tang Dynasties. Therefore, when Li Qi chose a large-scale operation, he should take into account the agricultural time.

Winter is a time when the farmers are slack, and the Tuntian Army also has to train in peacetime, but now it is just a training for actual combat.

At this time, the Hedong Army was ready for a big battle.

As time passed, Li Qi's prestige grew, and after he said that he intended to send troops to attack Shannan from Baicheng, one of his generals raised doubts, which was not a good phenomenon.

Luzhou Bureau, Li Qi sat in the center, and on both sides sat Zhou Guangfu, the envoy of the Zhaoyi Festival, Lu Wenjin, the envoy of the Yanmen Festival, and Lu Yan, the commander of the Zhongmen, Cao Xin, the envoy of Hedong, and Li Huai, the supervisor of the Zhaoyi Army, etc., but the generals were all standing in the hall.

"This battle is good for a quick victory...... After the successful raid on Gongcheng in the front, he immediately turned to Huaizhou. The road is narrow and dangerous, and it is still not suitable for the army to pass, and the main force is still from Tianjing Pass, and takes Taihang to break into Shannan. If this battle is successful, the enemy army on the front line of Xiangzhou will inevitably be in chaos, and our army will naturally take the land of Shannan and Hebei lightly. Li Qi's voice echoed in the lobby, "Wang Jing, Guo Wei!" ”

"The end will be." Wang Jing of Luzhou Thorn Shi and Guo Wei of Luzhou Regiment Training made Guo Wei stand out of class.

"You are more familiar with this Baicheng road, and you are ordered to be the main and deputy vanguard, lead 5,000 infantry troops, and drive the army forward, and you must not take the city directly along the way!"

"The last will obey."

"Yang Chengxin, Huo Wei!"

"The end will be."

"The two of you are the deputy envoy of Shannan, and you lead the Jinyang infantry army to 10,000 people to think that the king and Guo should respond, and they are also out of Baicheng. If the Gongcheng is successful, it will directly take the two towns of Qinghua and Wanshan in the south of Taihang, and cooperate with the army to break into Taihang and capture Huaizhou and Heyang. ”

"The last will obey."

Li Qi continued: "The other armies don't need to be arranged, and they will be moved to Zezhou one after another tomorrow. If our army successfully captures the city, it will all march from Tianjing Pass to Shannan. I repeat here that military law is ruthless, the army is not a bandit, and if someone dares to plunder lawlessly in the course of the battle, the military law teams of all armies have the right to cut first and then play! ”

The troops around Jinyang have been almost educated, and he said this to Luze and some generals in the river.

Early the next morning, with the sound of a low horn, the detachments set out one after another, and embarked on the journey south under the sound of the officer's order.

Li Qi did not move with the army, but prepared to return to Jinyang, and then inspect the northern grasslands.

This is all a planned thing, and it is also a way to increase loyalty by going to the Northland grasslands and summoning some of the larger tribal leaders on the grasslands, and everyone meeting often.

The combination of grace and power is the long-term solution, and it cannot be maintained for a long time by force alone.

However, during Li Qi's inspection and arrangement to carry out the military tuntian in Luze, he received an urgent military report from Hebei: the main force of the southern army in Xiangzhou actually left the military village and went straight to Zhaozhou.

After seeing the military report, Li Qi knew that the opportunity for the Northern Army had come, so he gave up the plan to go to the North, and then set off, still going to the front line through Handan County.

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An old guy like Yuan Xingqin, who has experienced a hundred battles, faced a "rookie" like Li Congrong, and when the southern army began to cross the Zhanghe River, he actually strictly ordered all departments not to fight, and also gave up the county seat of Cheng'an.

"Xiangzhou soldiers and horses are about 30,000 or 40,000, the puppet dynasty Heyang Jiedu envoy Li Congrong personally commanded, Xuanyi Jiedu envoy Duan Ning did not accompany him, the enemy's goal should be to take Zhaozhou first, with the intention of cutting off the retreat of our Fuyang City defenders......" Speaking of this, Huo Wei was also happy, this way of going deep behind the enemy and cutting off the enemy's return route was a combat method that only dared to take when the troops were strong and intended to completely annihilate the enemy. The strength of the southern army was similar to that of the northern army in this area, and Li Congrong dared to adopt such a risky tactic and go deep behind enemy lines, he really did not expect such a method of warfare.

Isn't this drilling troops into the opponent's encirclement net?!

Moreover, Yuan Xingqin, the old yin goods, was still afraid that the enemy would run away, and ordered the troops on the front line to "promise defeat but not win", hoping that the enemy would retreat, and only launch a counterattack when the enemy army was attracted to the city of Yuzhou.

Although these old guys don't have much education and haven't read the so-called military books and war books, their grasp of the battlefield situation and rich experience are beyond the reach of these young officers who came out of Jinyang Academy......