Zhang Chengye nodded in agreement and said: "As you said, Gaoyi is indeed a good place to camp, but how to break the enemy next, does the general have a proposition?" ”

"The enemy lacks cavalry, so our army can use cavalry to lure the enemy out of the camp, and when the enemy army comes out, our army will retreat, and the enemy army will retreat to the camp, and then cut off its food and salary with light cavalry, and within ten days, the enemy army will be defeated!" Zhou Dewei said in a deep voice.

The old man is not good at military affairs, but he also understands that the general is right. Anyway, the old man will go to meet the king, and he will persuade the king to obey the general's words! ”

"Thank you Zhang Jianjun for speaking up!" Zhou Dewei said happily.

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"Is it really inappropriate to say that you can fight the enemy quickly?"

Li Cunqiao was lying in his tent, closing his eyes and recuperating while thinking back to what Zhou Dewei had just said.

Although he was young and vigorous, he felt offended after listening to Zhou Dewei's words before, but he was not a fool after all, and he knew that he was not as good as a veteran like Zhou Dewei in marching and fighting.

In addition, he also knew that a rough person like Zhou Dewei, who had fought all his life, was normal to speak a little impulsively, and he didn't mean to offend him.

So when I returned to my tent, I became angry and began to think about it seriously.

The most important point mentioned in Zhou Dewei's opinion is that the camps of the two sides are too close to each other, which is not conducive to the performance of the cavalry, if the enemy builds a pontoon bridge and crosses the river to go straight to the camp of the Jin army, judging from the strength of both sides, I am afraid that the Liang army is more likely to win.

After thinking about it carefully, his heart began to tend to move the camp and stick to it.

Although he has realized his mistake, he is the king of Jin and the lord after all, and it is impossible for him to admit his mistake to Zhou Dewei now.

But it's not a problem if it's just like that.

Just as he was hesitating in his heart, the attendant came in and reported: "King, Zhang Jianjun is here!" ”

"Let him in!" Li Cunmiao's heart moved, and he hurriedly commanded.

It didn't take long for Zhang Chengye to walk in, and when he saw Li Cunqiao still lying on the bed, with a depressed expression, he couldn't help asking: "Dare to ask the king, do you still remember your ambitions in the past?" ”

Li Cunmiao jumped up and said, "Of course I remember!" Brother Seven, why are you asking this? ”

He was able to successfully inherit the throne of King Jin and take power, Zhang Chengye made great efforts, and Li Ke used his deathbed to support the orphan, so Li Cunmiao attached great importance to Zhang Chengye, not only often went to Zhang's family to worship his mother, but also often called him "Seventh Brother" in private as a brother.

It is also a strange thing that he, a young man in his twenties, actually called Zhang Chengye, an old man in his sixties, his brother.

However, in this era, it is still very commendable that Li Cunmiao can do this step as a king.

"Since the king still remembers, I wonder if I can talk to the old minister?" Zhang Chengye bowed.

He didn't dare to be complacent just because Li Cunqiao called him a brother, but always remained humble.

"Gu Ping has four major ambitions, one is to eliminate Zhu Wen, the second is to eliminate Liu Rengong, the third is to go north to the Khitan, and the fourth is to compete with Yang Wu, the king of Wu, to dominate the world!" Li Cunmiao said solemnly.

These four aspirations are the driving force for him to move forward and the goal he strives for, and if he cannot achieve them, he will never slacken.

"So have you accomplished one of these four goals now?" Zhang Chengye asked.

Li Cunmiao shook his head and said, "None of them are finished!" ”

"Since his ambition has not been realized, why should the king be at odds with the general?"

"This ......" Li Cunmiao looked stunned.

"Zhou Dewei is a veteran, experienced in the battlefield, good at military affairs, his opinions must be reasonable, the king cannot be ignored!"

Li Cunmiao got up and bowed: "What Brother Seventh said is very true, I can't hide it, I thought about it carefully just now, General Zhou's opinion is really the best policy!" ”

He immediately ordered the generals to be reconvened to discuss the matter.

Now is the time of urgency of the war, and the generals are naturally on call, and they will regroup in a short time.

At this time, several Liang soldiers who were captured in World War I also took the initiative to surrender and confessed some confidential information about the Liang army: The Liang army was secretly building a pontoon bridge ten miles upstream of Baixiang, preparing to cross the river to attack the Jin army camp.

After learning the news, Li Cunqiao agreed with Zhou Dewei's opinion even more, and immediately ordered the camp to be pulled out overnight, preparing to go to Gaoyi.

The next day, the whole army arrived at Gaoyi, built a new camp outside the city, and began to build a pontoon bridge, preparing to send cavalry to attack the Liang army after the pontoon bridge was built.

At this point, after some twists and turns, the final choice of the Jin army was completely consistent with the choice made by Li Chengsi when he deduced the sand table.

In fact, this is normal, the biggest advantage of the cavalry is its strong mobility, especially in the Hebei Plains, which is extremely conducive to the galloping of cavalry.

As long as they are excellent generals who know how to give full play to the power of cavalry machines, they will make the same choice as Zhou Dewei and Li Chengsi.

In the face of the continuous attacks and harassment of the Jin cavalry, although Han Qing and Li Si'an advocated going out of the camp to fight the Jin army, Wang Yanzhang believed that the Jin army might have an ambush and should be safe.

It's a pity that the land of Baixiang is just a small city, and before the arrival of the Liang army, there was no grain and grass stored in the city at all, and almost all the baggage needed to be transported from the rear.

After the Jin army attacked with cavalry, the supply of the Liang army suddenly became tense.

In addition, the grain and grass needed for the horses of the Liang army also needed to send soldiers out of the camp to cut, but under the threat of the Jin army's rangers, the Liang army did not dare to go out at will.

As a result, within a few days, many of the Liang army's horses starved to death due to lack of food and grass, making the already scarce cavalry even rarer.

Liang army camp, in the camp of the Chinese army.

"General Wang, Your Majesty has entrusted you with the important task of recruiting envoys, and now the enemy army is bent on attacking and harassing, I wonder if the general has a clever plan to break the enemy?" Han Qing, the deputy envoy of recruitment, looked at Wang Yanzhang with some disdain.

Another deputy envoy, Li Si'an, was also asking: "The enemy cavalry is attacking, and the officers and men of our army are panicked all day long, even in the camp, they may be injured by the enemy's cold arrows. Therefore, I also ask General Wang to make up his mind as soon as possible to reassure the hearts of the soldiers! ”

In the face of the harassment tactics of the Jin cavalry, every Liang general felt a deep headache.

The Liang army and the Jin army had not been fighting for a day or two, and they had long understood the attack tactics of the Jin cavalry.

But understanding doesn't mean there's a way to crack it.

When the Liang army was at its peak, even in the face of the Jin cavalry, it had achieved a great victory; However, the Liang army at that time was indeed very strong, much stronger than the current Liang army.

After all, half of the Liang army is the state soldiers of Xingzhou, Zhaozhou and other places, as well as Wei Bo's army, and their combat power is low.

In addition, when the Liang army defeated the Jin army, the strength of the Liang army was far greater than that of the Jin army, such as the time when the Shuzong soldiers besieged Jinyang in the second year of Tianfu, the strength of the Liang army was as many as 100,000.

On the Jin side, after Li Cunqiao succeeded to the throne, he underwent a vigorous rectification, and the military discipline was greatly improved, and the combat power was much stronger than that of Li Keyong's era.

Under the advantages of the other, it is not surprising that the Jin army was able to suppress the Liang army.

At this time, in the face of the run of the two lieutenant generals, Wang Yanzhang's face was extremely unsightly.

He was able to get this opportunity to lead the army to conquer Hebei alone, and he originally thought that he could display his talents and establish a meritorious career.

Who knew that as soon as they arrived in Hebei, they were beaten up, and the Jin army did not engage them head-on at all, but only blindly harassed them with ranger attacks; What's more, the two deputy generals were not worried at this time, not only did they not help to make suggestions, but they deliberately ran on the side, obviously not having a good heart.

Of course, he could also understand the feelings of the two, after all, among the Liang army, his qualifications and prestige were far inferior to those of the two deputy envoys.

When he was still a pro-army colonel under Zhu Wen's account, Li Si'an and the others were already generals who commanded tens of thousands of troops; By the time he was promoted to Kaifeng Mansion, both of them had the experience of being in charge of each other.

However, now that the two are serving as deputy generals under their command, they will feel unhappy if they are replaced.

Fortunately, Wang Yanzhang is not a person who has no foundation at all, he was Zuo Longxiang's military envoy before he was selected by Zhu Wen to serve as this envoy.

In other words, among the 70,000 Liang troops in Baixiang today, the most elite Long Xiang army is his old army, an army that he can completely control!

This makes him far inferior to Han Qing and Li Si'an in terms of prestige and qualifications, but with the backing of Long Xiangjun, the real voice in his hands is still very great, at least much better than Wang Jingren, who has no foundation in the Liang army in history.

"Attacking rashly is too risky; The enemy harassed our army with light cavalry in every possible way, the purpose of which was to attack our army's supply and make our army lack food and grass; Second, it was to lure our army to attack. ”

"If our army really does what the Jin army wants, then it will fall into the hands of the enemy!" Wang Yanzhang said unhurriedly.

Although he was extremely brave on the battlefield, he was extremely calm at this time, and he was not at all anxious about the current situation.

"What's the use of saying that? If General Wang can't come up with a way to break the enemy, then it is useless to analyze these things clearly! Han Qing sneered.

Wang Yanzhang ignored him and continued: "However, if our army keeps ignoring it and allows the enemy to attack and disturb like this, not to mention that there may be problems in logistics, even the morale of the soldiers will quickly decline. ”

"So Ben decided to continue to build the pontoon bridge, and when the pontoon bridge is completed, cross the river to find an opportunity to break the enemy!"

"Didn't the Jin army already build a pontoon bridge in Gaoyi? Our army only needs to seize the bridge of the Jin army; Moreover, after seizing the pontoon bridge, it can directly attack the camp of the Jin army, which is much easier than our army building a new pontoon bridge by itself. Li Si'an's attitude towards Wang Maozhang is much better than Han Qing's.

"Otherwise, it will be much more difficult to seize the pontoon bridge in front of the enemy than it will be for our army to build it ourselves. If our army goes to Gaoyi to fight with the enemy and fails to capture the pontoon bridge, then it will be a loss of ground and a great defeat! Wang Yanzhang shook his head and said.