The northern army camped south of Jiashan and confronted the southern army, but Yuan Xingqin's subordinates took turns fighting in front of the southern military camp for several days.

It is also a psychological tactic, first of all, to overwhelm the opponent in terms of momentum.

For the challenge of the northern army, the southern army just closed its doors, but no one responded.

Wang Yanqiu knew that the Northern Army had more cavalry, was good at field warfare, and was not good at attacking the camp, so he ordered his subordinates to guard the camp and ignored the scolding of the Northern Army.

After inspecting the front, Li Qi returned to the camp, gathered the generals and said: "The other party's camp is solidified, this Wang Yanqiu can be regarded as a good general, and it will take a few days to start setting up trebuchets outside the city to force him out of the city to fight." ”

He Zhaoxun said: "Our side is here with victory, and the momentum is flourishing, why should Your Majesty wait a few more days?" ”

Li Qi smiled: "There is an opportunity here, you must guard the camp these days, don't be exploited by the enemy." ”

The generals ordered each to return to the camp, but Li Qi asked Yuan Xingqin and An Xianqi to stay, and after retreating, he said to An Xianqi: "Your cousin is very stubborn, it seems that he wants to go all the way with Li Siyuan." If he refuses to surrender again, don't blame me for being unkind. ”

After receiving the order, An Xianqi returned to his right army camp, and wrote a letter, summoning An Hebao, a personal general from home, and ordering him to disguise himself as a southern army and sneak to the An Xiantong camp stationed north of Jiashan, and persuade the southern army to recruit the deputy envoy An Xiantong to the north.

Yuan Xingqin waited for An Xianqi to leave and said to Li Qi: "Then An Xiantong has a close relationship with Li Siyuan, and Wei Bo and Huo Yanwei were the first generals to defect to Li Siyuan after the rebellion, then Li Siyuan trusted him and ordered him to be the commander of the horse army on the right wing of the forbidden army, and handed over all the cavalry to him, and he will definitely not come to serve His Majesty." ”

Li Qi smiled: "I am preparing to let Wang Yanqiu kill him!" ”

This An Xiantong is the son of An Guanquan, the second brother of the Jin army veteran An Jinquan, who has been with Zhuang Zong as a personal guard since he was a teenager, but after the Wei Bo Rebellion, he and several Liang generals Huo Yanwei, Duan Ning, Wang Yanqiu, etc. took the lead in taking refuge in Li Siyuan, which made Li Siyuan easily capture Bianliang and then enter Luoyang.

So when he was pitted, Li Qi didn't hesitate at all.

This Wang Yanqiu is a general of the Liang State, but Li Siyuan has a lot of trust in him, this time he conquered Dingzhou, promoted him to the north to recruit envoys, the position of the head of the armies of the Zhudao, those generals who were originally from the Jin army were dissatisfied with such an arrangement. After Li Qi took Youzhou lightly, some generals from the Jin army began to secretly collude with the Jin Yang army.

This was a very normal thing in the late Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasties, everyone found a way out in advance before the war, fought if they could fight, surrendered if they couldn't, and stepped on several boats at the same time. The so-called loyalty and righteousness are not worth a penny in the eyes of this group of martial artists.

Therefore, Li Qi was relatively clear about the internal situation of the Southern Army.

The biggest contradiction with Wang Yanqiu was Zhang Yanlang, An Xiantong, Zhu Hongzhao, Zhang Qianzhao, Gao Xingzhou and other generals of the unified army. Needless to say, Zhang Yanlang has died in Zhenzhou City, and Zhang Qianzhao has secretly colluded with Jinyang before because his home is in Liaozhou.

After setting off from Youzhou, Li Qi sent someone to contact An Xiantong and persuade him to do it anyway, but he was sternly rejected by this guy, which made Li Qi want to kill him even more.

An Xiantong was a cavalry general, with 3,000 cavalry in his hands, and the camp was located in the north and back between Quyang City and Jiashan.

Na An and Bao pretended to be the Southern Army to infiltrate the scouts, infiltrated the camp of An Xiantong, and after seeing An Xiantong, handed him the letter written by his cousin An Xianqi to persuade him to do so. After reading the letter, An Xiantong immediately tore up the letter and threw it on the ground and said: "The first emperor trusted the traitor, and let the eunuchs and servants confuse the court. Now you follow the abolished prince to make trouble, this is the way to die, don't talk nonsense, go back and send a message to a certain uncle, let him see the situation clearly, and obey Luoyang as soon as possible. ”

An Hebao is a member of the An family, and An Xiantong naturally didn't do anything to him, and after scolding him, he ordered him to return.

The problem is that after leaving the camp of An Xiantong, this An He Bao was unfortunately bumped into by the patrol team under Zhang Qianzhao who was located in front of the camp of An Xiantong, so Zhang Qianzhao sent An He Bao to Quyang City and handed it over to Wang Yanqiu for disposal after interrogating a few words.

Wang Yanqiu then sent someone to call An Xiantong to confront him, and after An Xiantong's righteous and awe-inspiring speech, he also released An Hebao suspiciously. Although his title is to recruit envoys from the northern camp, and An Xiantong is the deputy envoy of the edict, although he is still the leader in the army, the cavalry of An Xiantong is not under his command, and he is afraid of causing chaos in this war.

It is also normal for there to be some contradictions between the main generals in this army, and they generally do not make a public turn against each other, although Wang Yanqiu has doubts, but as long as he hides them in his heart.

However, two days later, Jiang Shiqing, a barnyard general, suddenly reported that he had killed a spy of the Northern Army while he was patrolling, and found a letter from him.

Wang Yanqiu took the letter, but it was an agreement between the Northern Army and An Xiantong that the siege of the city would begin in three days, so that it could be joined by the outside world. This made Wang Yanqiu even more suspicious, but he didn't say anything, just paid more attention.

As a result, the next day, he watched from the city, but when he saw that the Northern Army began to erect and assemble siege equipment outside the city, he suspected that An Xiantong and the Northern Army were secretly conspiring. In the afternoon, when he saw that the northern army had indeed prepared for the next day's siege, Wang Yanqiu couldn't sit still, so he conspired with Zhu Hongzhao, the envoy of Xuanhui, and Cui Ju, the envoy sent by Li Siyuan, to conspire and discuss, and in line with the idea of striking first, he lured An Xiantong into the city and killed him and his generals Wen Shaoqi and Li Wei.

After Li Qi heard that An Xiantong was killed, he smiled and said to Yuan Xingqin: "The big thing has been decided, tomorrow the general can start attacking the city and force the enemy out of the city for a decisive battle!" ”

It's okay to control the overall situation by yourself, make some bad ideas in the back, and do some sabotage, as for the marching formation, it is still dominated by Yuan Xingqin and other generals. These people are all old fritters who have fought for decades, and Li Qi is naturally not good at mixing with his opinions on how to fight......

Actually, he didn't have any special ideas.

As for the so-called sneak attack, there was no need for it in the first place, and if it was not done well, it would cause the loss of its own attacking troops...... It should be easier to win when there is an internal response. However, when Li Qi listened to Yuan Xingqin's pre-war arrangement, he did not consider the variables of internal response at all. The thought he has spent in the past few days does not seem to be counted, Yuan Xingqin wants to be better, it doesn't matter if he doesn't, he doesn't expect this thing to win.

This made him feel a little lost, and it took a long time for him to work hard, so someone had to praise him......