The 30,000-strong army led by Li Hong was encamped directly next to the Shence army barracks, while the 30,000 Jingyuan army was stationed on the north bank of Weiqiao. Although it is separated by a river, it has the connection point of Weiqiao, and it is not worried about the sneak attack of the Shatuo army.

Due to command problems, Li Ye did not let Li Hong, Zhang Jun, or Liu Kui serve as the commander of the 100,000-strong army, because it was not suitable. Liu Kui's age and qualifications are hard injuries; Li Hong's status in the forbidden army was higher, but it was not appropriate to command the Jingyuan army; Zhang Jun is even more impossible, let an 'outsider' command the forbidden army, will the forbidden army generals listen?

So in the end, Li Ye planned to personally conquer and personally command the 100,000 army to confront the Shatuo army.

Although the camp of the Tiance Army is next to the camp of the Shence Army, it is on a gentle slope, and Li Ye's big tent is naturally at the highest point of the gentle slope. Coming to the watchtower, condescendingly, the most important river in the Guanzhong area is the Wei River in the north, Chang'an is opposite the Bahe River in the west, and Zhongnan Mountain can be seen in the south. To the east are Weinan County and Huazhou City.

The change in the battle situation gave Li Ye a new idea. If Wang Chongrong still attacked Huazhou with an army of 30,000, he could only attack Li Keyong's Shatuo army with all his strength, and he only had these troops at this time.

However, Li Keyong made a mistake and actually transferred Wang Chongrong's main force back, and at this time there were only 10,000 Hezhong troops outside Huazhou City. So Li Ye changed his previous plan, first opened a breakthrough from Huazhou, and then forced Li Keyong to withdraw his troops.

That's right, the withdrawal of troops.

At this time, Li Ye had already given up the idea of completely annihilating and defeating the Shatuo army.

Yesterday's battle made Li Ye realize that even if he defeated the Shatuo army, he would suffer heavy losses. At this time, he didn't want to take risks, if the main force under his command and Li Keyong fought to defeat both sides, he would not be able to deter the Jingyuan army and the Bao army, as well as Zhu Wen, Zhuge Shuang and other feudal towns in the Central Plains.

However, the Shenji Battalion has no offensive ability, so if it wants to defeat this Wanhe Middle Army, it can only transfer troops from other places. The Shence army suffered a large loss, and at present, the only new force that could be mobilized under Li Ye's command was the Zuo Tiance army, so Li Ye asked Li Hong to gather the cavalry, and let Ouyang Jing lead the reinforcements to Huazhou, and defeat the Hezhong army outside Huazhou with the cooperation of the Shenji battalion.

"Your Highness, Liang Guogong has arrived." A general of Jinyiwei next to him came to report.

Liang Guogong is Chen Jingxuan's title, but with Chen Jingxuan's disobedience to the imperial court, his title and all official positions were deprived, so the title of Liang Guogong was vacant.

And Liang Guogong in the general's mouth is actually Zhang Jun. It's just that at this time, the edict officially canonizing Zhang Jun as Liang Guogong has not been promulgated, but the people below have begun to call each other Liang Guogong.

Li Ye turned around, and saw Zhang Jun rushing towards the location of the watchtower under the escort of hundreds of personal soldiers, and after a while, Zhang Jun came to Li Ye and bowed his hand and said, "Jingyuan Jiedu makes Zhang Jun see His Royal Highness King Shou." ”

Li Ye smiled slightly and returned the salute, "Liang Guogong is polite, yesterday's battle, if there was no timely arrival of Liang Guogong's army, the result is unimaginable." ”

For Zhang Jun, Li Ye also saw each other for the first time. When he heard that the other party had personally led his troops, he was a little surprised at first, but he quickly guessed the reason.

Zhang Jun looked polite and polite, with the demeanor of a Confucian general. However, you can't look at the surface of everything, in fact, Zhang Jun himself is a general of the Jingyuan Army.

Although he was in the Jingyuan Army as soon as he joined the army, it was not so easy for him to become a festival envoy in terms of qualifications.

However, during the pacification of the Huangchao Rebellion, Cheng Zongchu and Hu Gongsu were killed in battle, and Zhang Jun, who was the queen of the army, was recommended by the generals as the new Jiedu envoys, and Wang Duo, who was in charge of countering the rebellion in Guanzhong, appointed Zhang Jun as the envoy of Jingyuan Jiedu.

Historically, Zhang Jun served as the envoy of the Jingyuan Festival for more than ten years, which was a very long term since the middle and late Tang Dynasty, when the average term of office of the envoy of the feudal town was only three or four years.

Because of the control of Jingyuan for many years, so after his death, his brother Zhang Xiao succeeded as the Jiedu envoy, after Zhang Xuan's death, his eldest son Zhang Lian continued to serve as the Jiedu envoy, to the back of Zhang Ke, four consecutive Jiedu envoys are from the Zhang family.

It's just that in the face of Li Maozhen, Zhang Ke was defeated, and in the end, Jingyuan became Li Maozhen's territory.

That was the original historical incident, and now Zhang Jun's control of Jingyuan is far from reaching the point of saying the same, so he will agree to Li Ye's conditions, give up the Jingyuan Jiedu envoy, and enter Chang'an as the general of Liang Guogong and Zuolongwu Army.

"Your Highness has an overreputation, this is what a minister should do. The Shatuo army committed the following crimes, despised the prestige of the court, and everyone was punished. ”

Zhang Jun's coming here does not mean that he really agreed to enter Chang'an, why did he come in person, just to see the reality of King Shou. If King Shou is powerful, he will choose to enter Chang'an; If King Shou and Li Ke were both defeated, he would naturally be willing to be his soil emperor in Jingyuan, rather than come to Chang'an to be controlled by others.

Li Ye didn't believe Zhang Jun's official tone, but pointed to the Shatuo army camp looming in the distance, and asked, "What does Liang Guogong think of this Shatuo army?" ”

Zhang Jun didn't know what Li Ye really thought, so he could only answer ambiguously, "Although the Shatuo army is strong, it is not the opponent of the army under His Highness. Along the way, the Guantian Ce Army and the Shence Army were neat and well-equipped, and they were worthy of being a strong army trained by His Royal Highness. ”

Zhang Jun's words are half-true. The forbidden army is indeed neat and well-equipped, but this is only the basis for a strong army, and it is still people who really determine whether an army is strong or not.

The strong production capacity of the Ordnance Supervisor can naturally meet the daily needs of the forbidden army.

However, compared with the Shatuo Army, the forbidden army still has a lot of things, the most important thing is that it has never seen blood and has not experienced a big war, unlike the Shatuo army, which is the elite who was killed in the sea of blood in the corpse mountain.

They fought the imperial army, the local feudal towns, the other nomads of the north, and even the rebellions.

This is how the Shatuo Army was fought, the five dynasties of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, in addition to Zhu Wen's Later Liang and Guo Wei's Later Zhou, the Later Tang, Later Jin and Later Han are all Shatuo clans, even Guo Wei was born in the Later Tang Army in his early years, and assisted Liu Zhiyuan of the Later Han Dynasty. Therefore, these five short-lived dynasties, except for the Later Liang established by Zhu Wen, which has nothing to do with the Shatuo tribe, the last four are all related to the Shatuo tribe.

Just like many people scolded Hou Jin Shi Jingjiao as a traitor, because he ceded the sixteen states of Yanyun to the Khitan, and also recognized Yelu Abaoji, who was younger than him, as his father-in-law. In fact, this can be regarded as wronging Shi Jingjiao, because he is not a Han person, but a Shatuo person, so naturally he cannot be regarded as a traitor. If you say you are a traitor, you must at least be a Han Chinese.

Of course, these are all outside the topic, but the Shatuo people can establish three dynasties, which shows the strength of the Shatuo army.

Seeing Zhang Jun's compliments, Li Ye knew that it was not so easy to hear the truth from the other party, but he didn't continue to ask.

"Although the forbidden army is strong, the Shatuo army is stronger. Li Keyong has already transferred back the main force of Wang Chongrong's Hezhong Army, and it seems that he is planning a decisive battle. ”

Li Ye guessed correctly, Li Keyong really didn't want to drag it out.

On the second day after Wang Chongrong led an army of 15,000 to join Li Keyong, Li Keyong left a few thousand men to defend the camp, and he personally led 40,000 cavalry to attack the Jingyuan army.

That's right, it's the Jingyuan Army.

In Li Keyong's view, it is better to cut off one of his fingers than to hurt his ten fingers. The Jingyuan army is not Li Ye's descendant troops, if the casualties are too large, Zhang Jun will definitely lead the army to retreat, so that he only needs to face the forbidden army.

Moreover, in Li Keyong's opinion, the Jingyuan Army was the strongest in the army in front of him, and after defeating the Jingyuan Army, the forbidden army was naturally not a problem.

If it were other feudal towns, they would definitely die at this time, and sit back and watch Li Keyong and Zhang Jun both lose.

But Li Ye knew that he couldn't do this, and when he learned that the Shatuo army was attacking the Jingyuan army with all his might, Li Ye personally led 30,000 Tiance troops and 20,000 Shence troops with a total of 50,000 forbidden troops to support the Jingyuan army, and the 120,000 troops on both sides fought in the dark on the north bank of the Wei River.

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In the early morning of the fight on the north bank of the Wei River, the gate of Huazhou suddenly opened. The 1,000 cavalry of the Shenji Battalion suddenly left Huazhou City and attacked the grain and grass storage place of the Hezhong Army outside the city.

There was a problem with the grain and grass of the Shatuo and Hezhong coalition forces, and as a result, the Hezhong Army did not check for a while, and the grain and grass of the 10,000 Hezhong Army for half a month were directly burned by the cavalry of the Shenji Battalion, and when the Hezhong Army reacted, the cavalry of the Shenji Battalion had already fled back to Huazhou City.

Although Wang Chongying quickly organized soldiers to put out the fire after the grain and grass were ignited, the cavalry of the Shenji Battalion sprinkled fire oil on the grain and grass, and although the fire was finally extinguished, Wang Chongying's face turned blue when he saw the grain and grass burned to ashes all over the ground.

"Pass my orders, give me the siege, and then kill all the defenders in the city!"

"Father, are you cautious, Huazhou City...

"Didn't you hear my orders?"

Wang Chongying, who was angry, did not calm down and think, even if his son and his generals advised him to be cautious, it did not work.

In fact, Wang Chongying had no choice at this time, the grain and grass were burned, he either broke the kettle and took Huazhou; Or a gray retreat. Obviously, Wang Chongying chose the former, and if he retreated at this time, his prestige would undoubtedly be greatly hit. If you can win Huazhou, not only will you be fine, but you can also make a great contribution.

Of course, if there were only defenders composed of the Shenji battalion and state soldiers in the city, the broken Hezhong Army would not be able to take Huazhou in one fell swoop. After several setbacks before, Wang Chongrong chose to besiege but not attack because he didn't want to lose too much, but at this time, Wang Chongying didn't have time to think so much.

Soon, the 10,000 Hezhong army was assembled under the order of Wang Chongying, and then launched an attack on Huazhou.

Seeing the Hezhong army outside the city, Long Zhi couldn't help but sneer inside the city. The cavalry under his command attacked the large camp in the middle of the river, just to provoke the army in the middle of the river and then let them leave the camp.

With the existence of a large battalion, it will be difficult for the cavalry of the Tiance Army to attack, but without the large battalion, the Hezhong Army will undoubtedly be a target.

Just when Wang Chongying commanded the army to attack Huazhou again, a dull horn suddenly sounded from the direction of the west. At first, he thought it was reinforcements from his side, but when he saw that the endless cavalry was coming towards him, his face changed greatly.

Only then did he realize that he had won the scheme, but now he realized that it was too late!

(End of chapter)