After Li Qi won Weibo, he did not carry out a major military operation, but rectified Weibo's military affairs, and only sent cavalry troops to invade and harass the southern army.

Li Chengyue, the assassin of Zhaozhou, was unbearable, and saw that the northern army was strong, and Li Congrong. Duan Ning and Li Conghou only guarded Cizhou and Shanzhou, and they didn't dare to march. He was originally a general in Youzhou, but when he saw this, he simply raised the city and surrendered the northern army. Mi Junli, the envoy of Xingzhou Jiedu, was originally from the Shatuo Department of the Jin Army, and was once named Li Shaoneng by Zhuang Zong. At this time, it was besieged for more than two months, and the northern army was simply surrendered.

That section was condensed in Cizhou, and when he heard that Xingzhou had fallen, he was so frightened that he abandoned Cizhou, retreated to Xiangzhou, and camped on the west bank of the Zhanghe River, intending to resist by the river.

The Northern Army won the two states of Xinghao, and its momentum was greatly boosted. In addition to the original more than 10,000 soldiers and horses in Li Siyuan's headquarters, most of the generals in various places are grass-like figures. Li Siyuan had no choice but to send all the forbidden troops in Luoyang, led by Fan Yanguang, to reinforce Li Conghou in Shanzhou, and ordered his second son, Henan Mansion Yin, Heyang Jiedu to make Li Congrong lead the army to aid Xiangzhou, and finally stabilized the situation.

After Li Qi arrived in Xingzhou, Mi Junli said that the old beggar would return to Daizhou, and then allowed him to give him preferential treatment with the title of Jiatai teacher. In addition, Yuan Xingkai was ordered to be the envoy of the Baoyi Festival, and the armies of Xing, Wei, and Cizhou were reorganized.

Yuan Xingqin has led a large army into Fuyang City, Tuncizhou, at this time it has come to August and September, in the autumn rainy season, the river water soars, feeling that the troops are insufficient, the northern army has also temporarily stopped the operation, and the southern army is holding each other across the river. However, after the autumn harvest, the Northern Army began to transfer the garrison troops to Hebei one after another.

In mid-September, after the autumn rainy season, Li Congrong strongly advocated sending troops to recover Cizhou.

Li Congrong was arrogant and arrogant, but Duan Ning withstood the pressure and refused to send troops to cross the river, even at the expense of arguing with Li Congrong in public. Although he is a general of Liang Guo, he is more cautious and less courageous, but he has also been mixed in the army for decades, and he has been able to live until now, and his actual combat experience is very rich.

It is obvious that the cavalry of the northern army is numerous, the number of infantry troops is insufficient, the field battle is fierce, and the siege ability is insufficient. If the southern army left the city and the camp and fought a decisive battle with the other side on the plain, it was no different from looking for death. No matter how angry Li Congrong was, Duan Ning just didn't eat hard and soft.

Li Congrong had no choice but to impeach Duan Ning, but was reprimanded by Li Siyuan and ordered him to obey Duan Ning's orders.

This made Li Congrong feel even more angry.

Judging from the intelligence, the Northern Army did not have many soldiers and horses in Cizhou, only more than 10,000 infantry troops were stationed in Fuyang City, and there were no troops to defend on the east side of the Zhanghe River, and a cavalry unit was stationed in Handan County and Zhaozhou.

Li Congrong and Duan Ning combined their forces of more than 50,000, but Duan Ning has always been afraid of the enemy, claiming that the northern army deployed troops in this way to lure the southern army to cross the Zhanghe River, and then carried out a surprise attack with the advantage of cavalry, refusing to enter the army.

In late September, news came from Youzhou that 60,000 soldiers and horses of the Northern Army crossed Yishui and began to besiege Zhuozhou.

All signs indicate that the Northern Army has shifted the focus of its offensive to Youzhou.

After hearing the news, Li Congrong forced Duan Ning to gather all the generals and gather at the Xiangzhou military office to discuss countermeasures.

Although Duan Ning is the commander, Li Congrong is the second son of Li Siyuan, the superintendent, because his eldest son Li Congjing was killed by Yuan Xingqin, Li Congrong became the eldest son, and it is very likely that Li Siyuan will be designated as the heir. Although due to Li Congrong's brutal personality, most of the Luoyang courtiers and generals of the Southern Army supported Li Conghou in the eastern capital, but Li Congrong was the Yin of Henan Prefecture, which was the default heir position.

So at the meeting, Li Congrong unceremoniously sat in the position of the coach, and Duan Ning could only sit on his side.

"The latest news is that the Northern Army is concentrating its forces to attack Zhuozhou, and it is obvious that the troops of Xing Wei and Wei Bo have been transferred to the Youzhou area. Our army should take advantage of the enemy's empty forces to recover Xing Wei and Wei Bo with all their might, and then jointly attack Zhenzhou, forcing the Northern Army to return to the division, which also happened to relieve the difficulty of Youzhou. As soon as Li Congrong came up, he directly put forward the idea of sending troops.

Duan Ning frowned when he heard this and said: "The Youzhou Army has nearly 50,000 soldiers and horses, in addition to the Cangzhou Army supporting from the side, which can withstand the attack of the Northern Army. The situation is still unclear, and we should wait to see the situation before acting. ”

Li Congrong's patience seems to have reached the limit, in his opinion, Duan Ning is ill-intentioned, and he was extremely angry, so he opened his mouth to reprimand Duan Ning and said: "Youzhou is in danger today, the Northern Army is empty in Xinghao, such a good time, but you can't sit back and watch, so delay the fighter, do you have suspicions and want to learn the way of Li Chengyue and Mi Junli?!" ”

Having said that, it is basically to say that I now doubt the loyalty of you, the general of the Liang Kingdom!

At this point, Duan Ning knew that he could no longer drag it out, even if he took the risk, he had to fight. Otherwise, no matter what the result is, you will not end well.

Thinking of this, Duan Ning had no choice but to sigh and say, "Since His Highness is determined to do so, then he can only follow the order, but he still tries to get in touch with the Western Capital first, and the two sides can cooperate with each other." Although Li Siyuan did not canonize Li Congrong, Li Conghou and others as kings, the court had already moved, and Duan Ning called it His Royal Highness at this time, and he also meant to be soft.

Li Congrong's henchman Kang Yicheng smiled after listening to Duan Ning's words: "Is the general showing goodwill to the guards left behind?" He said this to deliberately force Duan Ning to hand over the command, so that Li Congrong could have a great success.

Sure enough, Li Congrong heard this and looked at Duan Ning: "Third brother, a certain self will send someone to contact him, and the general will not worry about it." ”

Duan Ning was also disheartened after hearing this, no matter how mixed he was with such a war, he couldn't get out of it. So he said: "In this case, Duan is willing to stay in Xiangzhou and be responsible for logistics to ensure that the rear of His Highness's army is worry-free, okay?" ”

Li Congrong was thinking that he was hindering him, and when he heard him say this, he smiled and said: "In this case, a certain bento should not be compromised, and personally lead the army to conquer the traitor, and in the rear of this army, the general will work hard, and in the future, he will definitely not lose the general." ”

When Duan Ning heard what he said, he almost didn't get angry, arched his hand, and never said a word again.

Li Congrong seized the military power from Duan Ning as he wished, so he transferred troops and sent generals to lead the army to Linzhang to station.

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The movements of the southern army have long been known by the scout newspaper and Yuan Xingqin, who is sitting in Fuyang.

"The southern army is going to Linzhang, what do you want to do?" Yuan Xingqin also felt a little strange about the movements of the Southern Army.

"I'm afraid I want to take it directly, right?" Joining the army with the battalion, Xun Ming looked at the map and said.

"That period of condensation is serious, where do you dare to take such an adventure?!" Yuan Xingqin was also taken aback.

Huo Xunming smiled: "From the news that the enemy just received, this operation was under the full command of Li Congrong, and that section stayed in Xiangzhou and did not come out with the army. ”

Yuan Xingqin laughed after hearing this: "It turned out that the melon baby from Li Siyuan's family came out, this is simply a food delivery, and the old man is wondering." Belch...... The Son of Heaven went to Luzhou and immediately sent someone to report the news to His Majesty......"