Zhu Siqing was unmoved, and remained vigilant, which made all of Qin Yanhui's plans impossible to achieve.

In the final analysis, his strength is completely inferior to the Wu army, and he can't engage the Wu army head-on at all, so he can only hope for a sneak attack, which in itself is inferior.

In addition, after all, the Chu army was all infantry, and its mobility was limited, so it was possible to achieve victory if it was to take advantage of the Wu army's defenseless surprise attack, and it was impossible to use attack tactics like the cavalry of the Jin army.

As long as he exposed his position and was bitten by Wu Jun, it would be difficult for him to make a difference.

After waiting for another two days, news finally came that Hengzhou had been lost.

The remnants of more than 2,000 defenders in the city finally had to surrender to the Wu army after an unsuccessful attempt to break through.

These surrenderers have resisted resolutely before, so they will all be punished.

What they will face is likely to be exiled to Yizhou.

However, all of this is no longer important to Qin Yanhui, and now that Hengzhou is lost, it doesn't make much sense for him to continue to stay here.

As for sneaking up on them while Zhu Siqing was halfway north to Tanzhou, Qin Yanhui just gave up with a thought.

With Zhu Siqing's prudence, he did not relax at all during the most difficult time of the siege, so how could he not be on guard during the march?

So after weighing, Qin Yanhui planned to take advantage of the fact that Hengzhou had just fallen and Zhu Siqing was going to rest in Hengzhou for a few days, and quickly went north to Tanzhou to join forces with Xu Dexun in Tanzhou City to see if there was a chance to defeat Liu Xin first.

Of course, he also knew that this was equally unlikely.

Liu Xin's troops were small, and during this time, he was sticking to the camp, mainly to contain the defenders of Tanzhou.

In the case that Liu Xin could not hold out, even if they joined forces with Xu Dexun, it would be difficult to break through Liu Xin's camp.

What's more, it is obviously impossible for Zhu Siqing to stay in Hengzhou for long, Liu Xin needs to hold on for a short time, and with his ability and the strength of Wu Jun, he will definitely be able to do it.

……

When the Wu army broke through Hengzhou, the Jin-Liang War in the north also reached the most critical period.

On December 23, the Liang army arrived in Baixiang under the command of Wang Yanzhang, and the combined forces of Jin, Zhao, and Beiping also marched south under the command of Li Cunqiao to the north of Baixiang, thirty miles from Yehe to build a camp.

After the camp was repaired, Li Cunqiao sent Zhou Dewei to cross the river to challenge the Liang army, but the Liang army avoided the battle.

All this is basically the same as that of Yang Wu and others in the sand table deduction.

However, in the future, Li Cunmiao did not directly move the camp to Gaoyi like Li Chengsi in the sand table deduction, but directly moved the camp to the north of Yehe, only five miles away from the Liang army, and once again sent Zhou Dewei to lead the cavalry to the Liang army's camp to challenge.

This time, the Liang army did not hold on any longer, and the general Han Qing personally led 30,000 infantry out of the camp to engage Zhou Dewei.

Zhou Dewei was mainly cavalry and had fewer troops, so he naturally would not engage the Liang army, so he chose to retreat and wait until he joined up with the infantry led by Li Cunzhang before starting to engage the Liang army.

I have to say that the two elite forbidden armies of the Liang State, the Long Xiang Army and the Shenjie Army, are indeed not comparable to ordinary armies.

Those soldiers were not only highly motivated and experienced, but also freshly dressed and angry, and they looked very imposing.

These are the two most elite armies under Zhu Wen's command, naturally they are the most well-equipped, and coupled with their status as the Son of Heaven's own army, they are all brilliant.

The soldiers of the Jin army were either from the Hu people, or from the Han people in the northern borderlands, plus the north was poor and experienced wars all the year round, so although the soldiers were brave and good at fighting, they were standard poor ghosts, and they had never seen such a costumed army like Long Xiang and Shenjie.

In contrast, their own side is like a bun out of a poor ravine, and they suddenly encounter such a group of "noble" enemy troops on the other side, so they are a little ashamed of themselves, plus there are many enemy troops, and as a result, the morale of the Jin army is taken away by it.

At the critical time, Zhou Dewei stood up and encouraged the soldiers and said: Although the enemy is brightly clothed, in fact, they are all some peddlers and pawns, and street scoundrels, even ten of them together can't beat one of you.

If you can catch an enemy, their wealth alone will be enough for you to live a prosperous life!

When the soldiers heard this, their morale immediately rose, and they rushed to kill the Liang army one by one, hoping that they would be lucky enough to catch an enemy army.

It's a pity that the two armies of Long Xiang and Shenjie are not only bright in armor, but their combat power is indeed very strong, even if the soldiers of the Jin army are competing for the first place and bravely killing the enemy, Zhou Dewei is leading the elite cavalry to constantly attack the left and right wings of the Liang army, but this battle ended in a draw.

At this point, the first confrontation between the two armies ended, and the Liang army failed to help the Jin army, and the Jin army failed to help the Liang army.

That night, in the camp of the Jin army, in the big tent of the Chinese army, the generals sat in turn to discuss the military situation.

"Your Majesty, judging from today's battle situation, the strength of the enemy army is indeed very strong, and it is only difficult for our army to defeat the enemy army quickly. The best thing to do now is to stick around and wait for the right time! At this time, Zhou Dewei's resolute words echoed in the camp.

Li Cunmiao was puzzled: "Our army came from afar this time to save people; The army of our three towns is only temporarily formed, and if it takes a long time, I am afraid that there will be internal problems, so our army should fight quickly. The general advocates steady and steady fighting, why is this? ”

"The king doesn't know that the armies of the kings of Zhao and Beiping have low combat power, and they are only suitable for defending the city, not for field battles. At the same time, the advantage of our army is in cavalry. ”

"King, please forgive the last general, now our army's camp is too close to the Liang army's camp, only five miles away, this distance is not enough for the cavalry to gallop, this is completely self-tied, how can we break the enemy?"

Perhaps because today's war was not going well, Zhou Dewei was also a little impulsive when he spoke.

Leading the army to the camp of the Liang army, this was a decision made by Li Cunmiao himself, and now he was unceremoniously called self-binding by Zhou Dewei, which naturally caused the young and vigorous Li Cunmiao to feel unhappy.

"Humph!" Li Cunmiao's face was gloomy, and he got up and left directly without saying a word, leaving only the many generals in the camp tent looking at each other.

"General Zhou, it's not that the general is talking about you, even if you are dissatisfied with the king's arrangement, then you can put it in another way, why do you say it so ugly?"

"That's it, General Zhou, you've angered the king now."

"In the general's opinion, General Zhou will go to see the king in person and admit his mistake to the king later. After all, you are a major general under the command of the king, and if you are unhappy with the king, it will affect the next battle! ”

……

The generals persuaded one after another, but none of the people present thought that Zhou Dewei's point of view was wrong.

After all, everyone is an old man, so they naturally know how to give full play to the strengths of cavalry.

Although Li Cunqiao achieved a brilliant record in the Battle of Luzhou, it was just a sneak attack battle, and in terms of actual combat experience, he was naturally inferior to veterans such as Zhou Dewei.

At this time, in the face of the persuasion of the generals, Zhou Dewei also realized his previous mistakes, but he did not plan to admit his mistakes directly to Li Cunqiao.

After all, for him, convincing Li Cunqiao to move the camp was the most important thing.

If he can't do this, he will rashly talk to Li Cunqiao now, and the relationship may be stiffened.

So after leaving the camp, Zhou Dewei thought about it for a while and went to find Zhang Chengye, the prison guard.

In that year, Zhu Wen crusaded against Li Maozhen, and surrounded Fengxiang for nearly a year, and finally forced Li Maozhen to hand over the Son of Heaven.

In order to find enough reasons for this battle, after Zhu Wen got Tang Zhaozong, he forced Tang Zhaozong to order all the major feudal towns in the world to kill all the local eunuchs.

As a result, other small feudal towns did so, but Wang Jian, Li Keyong, Yang Xingmi and other powerful feudal towns all disobeyed this edict and each protected some eunuchs.

Among them, the eunuch under Yang Xingmi's protection was named Cheng Kuangrou, who was the supervisor of the former Qing Navy.

However, this person died of illness not long after being protected by Yang Xingmi.

However, Zhang Chengye, the Hedong supervisor under Li Keyong's protection, is still alive, and because of this incident, he was loyal to Li Keyong, and later assisted Li Cunmiao wholeheartedly, and was Li Cunmiao's confidant.

Of course, although Zhang Chengye was loyal to Li Cunqing, he was even more loyal to the Tang Dynasty, and he refused all the additional officials and knights given to him by Li Cunqing, insisting on claiming to be the Hedong supervisor appointed by the Tang Dynasty emperor.

At this time, after Zhou Dewei found Zhang Chengye, he said bluntly: "The king has fought with the Liang army in recent years and won many victories, so that the king has the heart to underestimate the enemy. ”

"Now the king doesn't consider the strength of the enemy and our armies at all, but he is bent on a quick battle with the enemy."

"Now our camp is only a river away from the enemy camp, if the enemy builds a pontoon bridge to cross the river to attack, and our cavalry is difficult to gallop, then the defeat is in sight!"

Although Zhang Chengye is over 60 years old, he is still in good health.

After listening to Zhou Dewei's words, he pondered for a moment before slowly asking, "Since you think that our army's current camp is inappropriate, where do you plan to move the camp?" ”

"Gaoyi!"

"Gaoyi?"

"Not bad!" Zhou Dewei nodded, his eyes radiated brilliance, and he said with some excitement: "Gaoyi is the most suitable camp for our army at present. ”

"First of all, it is very close to the wild river, and our army can build a pontoon bridge there and cross the river at any time!"

"Secondly, Gaoyi is thirty miles away from Baixiang, if our cavalry crosses the river there, there will be enough distance to exert the power of the cavalry!"

"Last point, no matter how small Gaoyi is, it is also a county seat, if the situation is critical in the future, our army can also rely on Gaoyi to defend, which can give full play to the advantages of Zhao Bing and the Yiwu Army!"

"It can be said that Gaoyi is a perfect camping place, if the king can move the camp to Gaoyi, then this battle will be won!"

The more Zhou Dewei spoke, the more excited he became, and his voice became louder and louder.