Shi Zhengyi, the marshal of the southern march, did not want the war to drag on, hoping that the imperial army could solve the Anzhou rebels as soon as possible, he thought that the battle would have to be fought sooner or later, so late than later, it was better to fight early, and if it dragged on, I was afraid that the prime minister's side would not be able to explain.

Another very important issue is that the autumn harvest is approaching.

Now the imperial court, the 'puppet Zhou', and the Anzhou rebels have all dispatched troops with a size of hundreds of thousands to fight, but everyone knows very well that this force has a lot of water, because many soldiers were farmers not long ago, and now they are just temporarily mobilized to serve in the military.

The army of the southern conquest is claimed to be 150,000 people, but there are only 50,000 or 60,000 soldiers who can really fight, and the rest of the conscripts are afraid that they will tremble when they see the dead on weekdays, let alone go into battle to kill people, so many people are just auxiliaries, except for transporting grain and grass and opening roads and bridges, there is nothing to do, and no farm work can be done, and time is wasted here in vain.

Now it is late June, to August is the autumn harvest season, if you delay the agricultural time, I am afraid that the harvest will be sharply reduced, besides, such a person eats horses and chews empty for a month, not to be able to afford it, but how to make up for the loss later?

According to the normal food supply in the army, the daily consumption of grain per person is seven dou, which is about 200 dou a month, and if you remove the fraction, it is counted as two stones, and the army of 150,000 people consumes 300,000 stone of grain a month, and even more if you include livestock and war horses.

In Lianghekou, if the Anzhou army spends a month, even if it wins, it has to be pursued by victory, the war is smooth, maybe a month can solve the problem, if it is blocked under the fortified city, it will take time, this back and forth is not two months, I am afraid that it will not work, so it will consume food.

Zheng Yi believes that the stored grain is consumed a lot, and the autumn harvest is affected, in case there is a famine, and the peasants who can't survive have to send troops to solve the trouble, so the long pain is better than the short pain, and the action should be done.

The generals present here have basically done a state assassination history and even the general manager, so they also know that what Zheng Yi said is not unreasonable, they don't think they will lose, so they have to think more about the aftermath.

Liang Shiyan, the head of the march, thought for a while, and then spoke, which can be regarded as a statement: "Changshi is reasonable, if our army delays here for too long, if the battle in Luoyang is unfavorable, it will not be good for Wei Chi to send troops south, and then it will not be good to suffer the enemy on his back." ”

The Luoyang boundary is separated by Funiu Mountain in the middle of the north of the Jingzhou Governor's Mansion, and now the imperial army is facing off with the army of the 'pseudo-Zhou' Wei Chi Dan in the Luoyang territory, and sooner or later it will be a decisive battle.

If it wins, it's okay to say that if it is defeated, Wei Chidun sends troops south to attack the Jingzhou Governor's Mansion, then the Zhengnan Army, which is still confronting the Anzhou Army, will be finished.

Yang Su, the head of the march, also thought that even if he wanted to drag the Anzhou army, he might not be willing to wait, he felt that the other party was afraid that the whole army would be locked into a decisive battle in a few days, so he didn't have much time to find out the specific inside story of how Fancheng fell.

But this decisive battle should be cautious, because the Anzhou army is afraid that it will use some powerful ordnance.

At the end of June last year, Marshal Wang Yi led his troops to a decisive battle with the Anzhou army outside Changshou City, but the other party made a huge crossbow and shot the imperial army in agony, and finally collapsed because his cavalry was startled by the strange sound made by the other party when he hit the flank, resulting in a loss of the whole game.

The families of the defenders of Fancheng are all under house arrest as hostages in the city, and they are unlikely to surrender the city, so the Anzhou army must have used some means, so if the other party uses strange means in the decisive battle, how should they deal with it is the key issue discussed by the generals.

Zheng Yi had no intention of participating in the discussion, he was relieved when he saw that the generals decided to fight quickly, and then began to think about his future, because now his career is not going well.

After facilitating the peace talks between the imperial court and Anzhou last year, Zheng Yi got along with Prime Minister Yang Jian, and the momentum was good, but this year it was not good, because he carried out 'technical services' and accepted too many bribes, and Yang Jian was very unhappy after knowing about it.

Of course, Yang Jian didn't want to make Zheng Yi, an old classmate who helped him take the position, too embarrassed, in order to save the other party's face, he just set him up in the air. Zheng Yi, who is the head of the prime minister's office, found that his subordinates did not know him about any official business, and the history of the prime minister's office became an ornament.

Zheng Yi is not a fool, knowing that the prime minister is expressing dissatisfaction with himself, so he hurriedly apologized and asked for dismissal, Yang Jian pursued 'water is clear, there is no fish', seeing the effect of the warning, he was not embarrassed, Zheng Yi still let him do a long history, but there is no heavy responsibility or something.

Therefore, Zheng Yi was unwilling to think about 'resurrection', he liked money, but he had no power, no money, so he wanted to 'take risks' to make meritorious contributions, and coincided with the imminent war, so he took the initiative to invite Ying as the marshal of the southern march, Changshi, to go out together to fight against the Anzhou army, which was definitely going to rebel.

The reason why he chose this way of the army was because he felt that the risk was small and the victory rate was high, and the imperial army in Luoyang had to deal with Wei Chidun's army, which was the top priority, so Zheng Yi couldn't go if he wanted to, and the heavy responsibility of supervising the army was handed over to Yang Jian's henchman, Gao Gong.

It is not safe to deal with the Turkic army in the north, for fear that one will accidentally besiege the city or be raided by the cavalry, and he is afraid that his life will be over, so Zheng Yi chose the road of conquering the southern army.

Although Yang Jian complained about Zheng Yi's wanton bribery, he also understood that at least his loyalty was fine, so when he saw that he took the initiative to ask Ying, he did not shirk the direct appointment, so Zheng Yi rushed to go south with the army to do something.

In particular, I want to find an old customer, Xiyang County Gongyu Wenwen, to 'reminisce about the old'.

After all, Zheng Yi is still Yang Jian's confidant, so he knows the overall plan of the imperial court, as the so-called 'soldiers will come to block the water and cover the earth', and now this 'pseudo-Zhou' and the Turks are menacing, but they may not be able to take too much advantage, and the Anzhou army that 'robbed while the fire is hot' will sooner or later fall into the trap set by the prime minister and finish playing.

Therefore, the imperial army was all the way to conquer Anlu, which was no problem for Zheng Yi, and then his 'business opportunity' came.

Yu Wenliang, Yu Wenming, Yu Wenwen and his son, as the 'rebellious' Great Zhou clan, must be killed, but if they can be captured alive, they will definitely be sent to Chang'an for 'Ming Zheng Punishment', so Zheng Yi plans to 'squeeze out' his old customer Yu Wenwen during this period.

As far as he knew, there were already people who wanted to 'book' Yu Wenwen's rumored wife Wei Chi, who looked like a fairy, but Zheng Yi was not interested in women, so he liked money, so he planned to use his incorruptible tongue to encourage Yu Wenwen to 'give money and save his life'.

As for whether he can save his life after paying the money, God knows, of course, if the money is given to Duo Yuwenwen, it is not impossible to keep his wife and fight for a chance to become a monk.

Therefore, Prime Minister Yang Jian eradicated the Anzhou rebels, Zheng Yi made another contribution and made a fortune, and the generals were rewarded for their military merits, which was really a happy situation.

Zheng Yi thought that after the war was pacified, the prime minister was afraid that he would replace Zhou, so he took advantage of the war to make meritorious service and quickly make meritorious service, and when the time came, he saw the opportunity to 'persuade' and then his son's wealth would be guaranteed......

In the Anzhou Army Hexi camp, Yu Wenwen was also cheering before the war when he was holding a meeting with his subordinates.

The Anzhou Army Battalion sent a messenger to convey the decision of the governor Yu Wenliang: a decisive battle tomorrow. His arrangement for the defenders of the Hexi camp was to nail the eastern flank of the southern army and not move, so as to contain the opponent's forces.

The original garrison stationed in the camp was 15,000 people, but now there are about 8,000 people left, and more than 2,000 people under the command of Gongyu Wen Wen of Xiyang County, who happened to pass through here and then assisted in the battle, a total of 10,000 people, led by Sima Zheng Wanqing, the chief general and manager of the defenders.

The messenger specially explained: After the decisive battle begins, unless the battle situation is obvious, the whole army must not move, especially Gongyu Wenwen of Xiyang County!

Yu Wenwen couldn't cry or laugh at the last sentence when he and Zheng Wanqing and other senior generals obeyed the order, and his father Yu Wenliang was afraid that he would make a lot of contributions, so he specially asked Zheng Wanqing to 'watch' himself.

Although he was named by the commander of the whole army and said that he would be 'strictly guarded', he was not so honest, so after the meeting ended, he gathered a group of 'minions' to plan to make a 'big news' the next day.

The participants are the owners of the building and above, but Yang Ji, the leader of the long knife team, is also listed, and the main topic of the talks is how to give full play to their strengths tomorrow to add fuel and fuel to the victory of the army.

The new army is dominated by infantry, so what kind of cavalry breaks through, and then takes the head of the general among the thousands of troops, even if it is forgotten, the number of pikes and phalanx is more than 1,000 people, and there is no strength to advance step by step and oppress the flank of more than 100,000 troops.

The place where they were located was the eastern flank of the two large armies, and behind them was the river cavalry, which could not rush up and attack in a roundabout, so the enemy troops facing them should be mostly infantry and a small number of cavalry.

After this afternoon's battle, the enemy is afraid that he has summed up the lessons and transferred a large number of archers to deal with him, so the next time he fights, his own archers must accompany him in the formation as cover.

"So make a list of hollow phalanxes, and keep the archers and the longsword team on standby." Yu Wenwen made a decision after summarizing everyone's thoughts.

"And cavalry." The cavalry lord Yuwen fifteen was afraid that he would miss himself, and he and his subordinates counted the ants in the camp for an afternoon because they could not participate in the battle, and they didn't want to be in a daze on the side.

"There are also auxiliaries, which may be seriously damaged in the decisive battle, and they need to be replenished in time." Xu Shao added that he felt that as a leading officer, he would also go into battle to kill the enemy, and besides, this time he was accompanied not only by auxiliaries, but also by 'special equipment', which happened to show his skills in the big war.

"The last general proposes that all spare rattan medals be distributed to the phalanx soldiers, especially the outermost soldiers." Yang Ji also spoke, saying that he believed that the enemy army might not only use archers, but also have other long-range attack methods.

In particular, throwing short spears, axes and other lethal power is also quite powerful, although their own soldiers are wearing two armor and rattan helmets, but the formation of the enemy can not move at will, as long as the opponent throws short guns, axes and even stones into the phalanx, it will definitely hurt people.

Although they have archers to cooperate, the enemy soldiers may not be able to suppress them when they are surrounded by mountains and seas of people, and the soldiers' arms, faces, and legs are unprotected, and they are easily injured after being attacked.

When the two armies are fighting on the battlefield, it is difficult to get immediate treatment for injuries, and once they are seriously damaged, they can only endure for a long time, causing unnecessary casualties, so it is necessary to strengthen the defense of the soldiers in the front row.

I have considered this problem during the daily drill, so the soldiers in the front row will not be too awkward to hold a gun in their right hand and a shield in their left hand to defend against long-range attacks, and it is no problem to throw away the rattan card and then use the gun with both hands to assassinate after the opposing infantry rushes up.

"Tomorrow's battle will look at the situation first, no matter what the victory or defeat of our army is, we will never watch from the wall!" Yuwen Wen made the final decision.