"Brother Li Yang, where are we going?" The Eastern Route Army and the Middle Route Army successfully crossed the river one after another and launched the first campaign, only the Western Route Army led by Xue Yang was still slowly circling in Jingzhou Province, and it seemed that there was no hurry at all.

At this time, another partial army of the Western Route Army secretly detoured through Yuezhou and other places under the cover of a large army and quietly entered the Jiangnan region, with more than 20,000 people walking day and night, and under the guidance of Xuanyingwei along the way, they actually bypassed Du Hong's defense area and came to Zhong Chuan's territory.

"Brother Shenfu, this is the order that the marshal gave us before leaving." Seeing that Jiangzhou was not far away, Li Yang didn't want to hide Li Shenfu, so he took out Xue Yang's general order and handed it to Li Shenfu and said with a smile: "Brother Shenfu, we are going to sneak attack Zhong Chuan's bridgehead along the Yangtze River - Jiangzhou this time, and disperse Zhao Deshu's army entrenched here, so that it will be clear at a glance whether Zhong Chuan is truly obedient to the Tang Dynasty." Li Shenfu was originally a little unhappy about transferring himself to the Western Route Army, but after taking Xue Yang's general order and hearing Li Yang's explanation, he suddenly realized that he was originally the first fierce general under Yang Xingmi's Huainan Army, and he naturally liked this kind of sneak attack.

"Not to mention that this Jiangzhou city is relatively prosperous." Li Shenfu smiled: "It's better than Luzhou." ”

"After this battle, let's go to Chang'an, then it will be called a prosperous and prosperous world." Li Yang said a rare digression, and then nodded and said: "Their city defense in Jiangzhou City should be arranged towards the riverside, if we detour back to the south, maybe it can work wonders." What does Brother Shenfu think? ”

"No problem, didn't Xuan Yingwei send news this morning that the big marshal was already making a tactical feint for us. If we appear in the south, we will definitely be able to take him by surprise and catch him off guard. Li Shenfu nodded, he admired Li Yang's thoughts, if he were to change to himself, it was estimated that he would definitely lead the army directly to attack and fight the other party.

The two of them made a decision, returned to the barracks and began to convey a message to the rear, so that Xue Yang's brigade would also choose to cross the river tonight to attract the opponent's firepower to move to the riverside, so as to take the opportunity to sneak attack Jiangzhou. At the same time, the people of the Xuanying Guard also got in touch with the secret guards in the city and brought the defense map in the city to the outside of the city.

After the two sent a message to Xue Yang, they immediately led the army to make a detour and began to march towards the south of Jiangzhou, but soon Li Yang began to frown, there are many houses near Jiangzhou, and the people live on the river, how can the daytime march hide people's eyes and ears at this time? Moreover, the uniforms and flags of the Tiance Army have also become extremely eye-catching at this moment.

"Brother Li Yang, it is estimated that we will soon be unable to cover our tracks when we march like this, the sentry in front of us reported that the mountain under our feet will soon be gone, and the place five miles ahead is a large plain, where several villages live, and there is no way to pass through it for the time being, or run to another place." Li Shenfu was originally leading the team to explore the way ahead, but he walked over quickly at this time.

"Order the troops to rest on the spot and pay attention to concealment." Li Yang ordered the troops to stop and continued: "We need to find a way to hide our whereabouts so that we can easily attack at night. ”

"In this way, Brother Shenfu, we can send a small number of men into the city, and when the time comes, we will receive a large army to enter, and the others will ambush here." Li Yang made a gesture on the map and said: "This place is still about fifteen miles away from the straight road of Jiangzhou Nancheng, and according to the speed of the fifteenth battalion, the distance of fifteen miles can be reached in two quarters of an hour." ”

"What does Brother Li Yang mean?" Li Shenfu didn't react for a while, but behind him, there was the hurried footsteps of the Xuanying Guard's entourage.

"Two generals, Commander Hu has the latest news from Hongzhou." Xuan Yingwei hurried away after delivering the information.

Li Yang took the information and glanced at it, handed the information to his side, and Li Shenfu was silent alone, his fingers constantly swiping around the map, as if he was thinking about something.

"Commander Hu asked us to attack Hongzhou? Isn't this Zhong Chuan's lair? After reading the information, Li Shenfu wondered: "How can we break into Hongzhou with 20,000 horses?" ”

"Send this information to the marshal quickly, and match it with the defense map of Jiangzhou." Li Yang handed over all the information in his hand and the Jiangzhou defense map sent by Xuan Yingwei to the guards to take to Wuchang, Jiangbei, and then said to Li Shenfu beside him: "Brother Shenfu, we need to immediately change the target and cooperate with Xuan Yingwei to go straight to the other party's lair - Hongzhou." ”

"Commander Hu sent information at this time to let us change the target, it must be that there was an accident in Hongzhou, in my opinion, Zhong Chuan's true intentions have been detected." Li Yang nodded and continued: "And if we raid Hongzhou, we will also break the division of the entire Zhong Chuan forces in one fell swoop, thus stirring up the entire front war, and when the marshal leads the army to cross the river, we can also take the entire Hongzhou region in one fell swoop and end the war on the Western Front." Li Yang had already thought of Hu Xiaosi's intention to let him raid Hongzhou.

Li Shenfu nodded and said, "Then should we act immediately or wait for the commander's order?" ”

"Time waits for no one, and the marshal will definitely let us act first." Li Yang waved his hand and said, "Brother Shenfu, let's take a detour again without further ado, avoid the village in front of us on the right side of the front, and then we will reach the road to Hongzhou." Li Yang thought about the map.

"In that case, let's go now." Li Shenfu didn't have any opinion when he saw Li Yangdu saying this, and the two immediately led the army towards Hongzhou.

At this time, Hu Xiaosi, who was in the dangerous place of Hongzhou, may not have known that a news spread by him actually directly changed the situation of the entire Jiangxi later, and also allowed the Western Route Army to take Hongzhou and other places in one fell swoop, becoming the first group army to complete the strategic goal.

However, at this time, Hongzhou has indeed reached the most dangerous situation, Hu Xiaosi and Li Jipeng were locked immediately after contacting Zhong Chuan, if Hu Xiaosi brought the dragon group into Hongzhou City with him, I am afraid it will be really difficult to be good. After the dragon group intercepted and killed several groups of people who came to assassinate Hu Xiaosi, the two also discovered the abnormal movement in the city. I'm afraid that this Hongzhou City has also been out of Zhong Chuan's control.

"Commander, why don't I find a way to get you out of the city." Li Jipeng came back to Hu Xiaosi after the news came out. For this operation, Li Jipeng was the most injured one, Zhong Chuan had almost negotiated and was ready to return to Chang'an, but he didn't expect it to backfire, but he himself fell into danger.

"You are not to blame for this. However, as a member of Xuanyingwei, you still committed a big taboo, no matter when Xuanyingwei is the highest level of a spy, but at this moment, we are in Hongzhou but we are being calculated by others, do you know why? The utilitarian heart in your mind is too heavy, and you have broken your own state of mind, and it seems that what happened in Chengdu before may not be a good thing for you. When this is over, you can go back to the headquarters. Hu Xiaosi sighed and said: "If we lose our state of mind, we will inevitably reveal flaws, so that we will lose ground." ”

"Go and inform the dragon group, one will go to squat in front of Zhao Deshu's mansion tonight, and now tonight Zhao Deshu will take action to intercept and kill immediately, and the other will go to ambush near the north city gate. I estimate that with Xue Yang's speed, if the third battalion travels day and night, it will inevitably appear under Hongzhou City in less than two days. Hu Xiaosi patted Li Jipeng on the shoulder and said, "Let's move too, this place has been targeted." ”

Hu Xiaosi was right, the Tiance Army did secretly arrive outside Hongzhou City in the evening of the next day, but it was not the third battalion, but Li Yang came over in advance. However, for the fate of Hongzhou City, April 15 of the second year of the Apocalypse is a key node. Zhao Deshu secretly sent dead soldiers to prepare to kidnap Zhong Chuan, and was killed by Hu Xiaosi's dragon group members, and dozens of dead soldiers who had been trained for more than ten years died in less than a hundred zhang after leaving the mansion. This bad news made Zhao Deshu think that he was no longer safe in Hongzhou City, and Zhong Chuan was ready to attack him, so he prepared to escape from Hongzhou and return to his garrison Jiangzhou on the night of the 15th, but what he didn't expect was that he just ran into the Tiance Army outside the city.

Originally, Li Yang and Li Shenfu were still thinking about how to attack the city, but they found that the city gate opened by itself, and a group of people and horses inside went out of the city at night. The two looked at each other and killed almost at the same time. Under the leadership of the two commanders, the Tiance army swarmed out to completely defeat Zhao Deshu, and before he could react, Li Yang had already led his personal guards towards the city gate. Zhao Deshu was about to stop him, but he found that a general in black armor rushed in front of him like a gust of wind, and the long knife in his hand was like chopping melons and vegetables, and the guards around him were thrown to the ground one by one.

"Who are you?" Zhao Deshu, who was in the chaos, couldn't take care of Li Yang anymore, and shouted angrily with the long lance in his hand to hold Li Shenfu's fatal knife.

"The one who wants your life." Li Shenfu didn't take Zhao Deshu in his eyes, and immediately rubbed his body after the long knife turned around, a knife was as heavy as a knife, and he didn't give Zhao Deshu a chance to breathe at all, his body jumped into the air, and after splitting Huashan with a move and suppressing Zhao Deshu who was riding on a war horse, he borrowed his strength in the air to directly reach Zhao Deshu's back and lifted him up.

This change made Zhao Deshu's men and horses suddenly chaotic, and Li Shenfu's army also took advantage of the situation to surround him at this time.

However, at this time, there was a sudden chaos at the city gate, and the city gate that had been closed was suddenly opened, and there was a fight in the city, and a team of people in night clothes opened the city gate and resisted the soldiers who came to encircle and suppress the city.

"Kill me." Li Yang didn't recognize that these people were actually members of the Dragon Group, but at this time, he didn't care about anything else, so he directly waved his army and killed them, completely dispersed the soldiers defending the city, and firmly guarded the city gate. At this time, after Li Shenfu took Zhao Deshu, the situation outside the city also became very clear, and there were not many people led by Zhao Deshu, and after the leader was taken down, the others suddenly scattered. Li Shenfu did not hesitate to directly lead the army to merge with Li Yang and enter the city.

"Brother Shenfu, our troops are divided into two ways, you lead the army to solve the soldiers defending the city, and I will lead the army into the city to find a way to meet with Xuanyingwei and find a way to take down Zhong Chuan." After a few simple orders, Li Yang directly led the army to break through to the center of the city. And at this time, those people in night clothes also began to reveal their identities, and the logo of the Xuanying Guardian Dragon Group made Li Yang instantly recognize it, and he didn't hesitate to let the people of the Dragon Group quickly take him to the Jiedu Embassy where Zhong Chuan was located.

Along the way, Li Yang asked the soldiers to shout the name of the Tiance Army, and on the surface of his identity, he killed everyone who resisted on the spot, and the bloody scene also made these Hongzhou defenders keep retreating.

"Haha, why is Li Yang you? What about Xue Yangren? How many of you came? Li Yang had just led his troops to the Jiedu Embassy, and Hu Xiaosi's figure quickly appeared in the darkness and laughed.

"Commander Hu." After Li Yang saw Hu Xiaosi, he saluted and said: "The situation is urgent, Li Yang just happened to lead the army in Jiangzhou, so he set off for Hongzhou in advance to meet the commander." ”

Hu Xiaosi waved his hand and smiled: "Don't be restrained, you kid." We're all our own people. In this way, you immediately lead the army to surround the Jiedu Embassy, and then select elite soldiers and the dragon group to break into the Jiedu Embassy Mansion and take down Zhong Chuan. ”

Hu Xiaosi's order, Li Yang did not have any opinions, and immediately asked the deputy general to lead his troops to besiege the mansion, and he led the personal guards and the dragon group to blow up the gate of the Jiedu Embassy with explosives bags and break inside.

The violent explosion of the explosive pack seemed to have completely awakened the people in the mansion of Jiedu, and a commotion was staged suddenly, but it was very simple for the soldiers of the Tiance Army who broke into the mansion, all those who resisted stubbornly were enemies, and all the rest were put into custody.

"Why don't you go in?" Hu Xiaosi saw that after Li Yang handed over the task to the deputy general, he stood outside the gate of the mansion and waited, and couldn't help but be a little curious.

"The last general faintly felt that this Hongzhou seemed a little strange, maybe Zhong Chuan was no longer alive." Li Yang said a little puzzled.

Hu Xiaosi glanced at him deeply, nodded imperceptibly, and said, "Yes, Zhong Chuan has been killed, and the murderer is Zhao Deshu." Originally, Zhong Chuan had already surrendered, but I didn't expect Zhao Deshu to start so quickly, and I didn't expect that his power in Hongzhou could actually extend to the Jiedu Envoy's Mansion. If Zhong Chuan hadn't been killed, the situation wouldn't have been like this. ”

Li Yang nodded and said, "This is also the reason why the commander hurriedly summoned a large army to come, and did not give Zhao Deshu any time to integrate the forces of all parties." And once Zhao Deshu is captured by our army, it will inevitably make the entire Hongzhou region fall into a situation where the dragons are leaderless, and we can level Jiangxi in one battle. ”

Li Yang's eloquent appearance made Hu Xiaosi seem to see the rise of a general again, for Tiance Mansion, young generals are endless, not to mention Xue Yang in the first generation, but Guo Chongtao, Li Yang, etc. have all emerged. There is a successor to the Tiance Army.

Just when Hu Xiaosi was silent in thought, the sound of killing in the Jiedu Mansion slowly subsided, Hu Xiaosi and Li Yang looked at each other and smiled, and the two walked in along the road opened up by the guards.

On the night of April 15 in the second year of the Apocalypse, the Tiance army raided Hongzhou and took the mansion of the Jiangxi Jiedu envoy, and killed more than 20,000 people in the Zhong Chuan Division, and captured 11 generals including Zhao Deshu himself.

Coincidentally, after more than two months of grinding in Wuchang, Xue Yang suddenly led his army to cross the Yangtze River, forcibly broke into the Jiangzhou city defense under the cover of the navy, and took this front-line fortress in Jiangxi in one fell swoop. After occupying Jiangzhou, they spread almost non-stop around Jiangzhou, and divided their troops to sweep Zhong Chuan's prefectures and counties.

All of a sudden, the good news of the Western Front was quickly transmitted to the Jiangjiang Crossing Headquarters and the Chang'an Base Camp.