The changes in the Xuanwu army were quickly sent back to Chang'an under the investigation of Biaozi, and Li Xuanqing and Xu Tianxiang, who got the news, stared at the map for a long time and didn't see what Zhu Quanzhong wanted to do. Xu Tianxiang, who didn't know why, had no choice but to ask Hu Xiaosi to increase his efforts to inquire about Zhu Quanzhong's time and number of troops, and try to reveal the news to Yang Shouliang. But like Zhu Quanzhong, Xu Tianxiang also looked down on the combat effectiveness of the Shence Army, and in the past two years, the Shence Army has become more and more eroded in Shannan Province, and the people of Shannan West Road are full of complaints.

"My lord, could it be that our Sichuan strategy was discovered by Zhu Quanzhong, and this is his countermeasure?" Xu Tianxiang smiled bitterly: "This Zhu Quanzhong is beating Yang Shouliang at this time, I really can't think of anything other than wanting to connect directly with Sichuan, is it really for a woman?" Isn't there also a favorite concubine named Xiao Chang'e in the road trial that is close, and I haven't seen him have any ideas. ”

"How do I know, you ask me? No matter what he is for, as long as his army moves, we have to move with it, and the most annoying thing is this kind of war that moves with the pace of the opponent. Li Xuanqing replied to Xu Tianxiang casually and continued: "What is your emergency plan?" Although Zhu Quanzhong's dispatch of troops to Shannan Province has benefited us a lot, but if we let it develop, it is difficult to really be able to join Wang Jian in Dongchuan. ”

"The emergency plan has been prepared, and troops have been transferred from Youzhou. It's just that Shannan Province is basically mountainous, which is not conducive to cavalry combat. Therefore, I want to transfer the Xu Ying Mountain Battalion in the direction of Wonju back to participate in the southward operation. Xu Tianxiang explained as he spoke.

According to Xu Tianxiang's plan, the main force of infantry will be assembled to the west, and the eastern front will be dominated by cavalry. In this way, the Western Front will concentrate the infantry brigades of the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th Army Corps of the Tiance Army, as well as the Sixth Army Corps, plus the newly formed Army Corps in Hanzhong, for a total of 180,000 troops. So many people were formed into two group armies for half a month, and the Hanzhong group army was the main force in Sichuan, and the previous strategy of attacking central Sichuan was continued. In addition, a new group army was newly established, with Chen Yu as the general in chief, responsible for containing Zhu Quanzhong's plan in Shannan and seizing Shannan Province when necessary.

These two group armies almost concentrated eighty percent of the infantry of the current Tiance Army, and they were also the forces that Li Xuanqing originally used to fight Zhu Quanzhong on the Eastern Front. With the completion of the deployment of these two group armies, the overall strategy of the southern front has basically been finalized, and the confrontation in Shannan Province is actually a test before the final life-and-death battle between the two armies.

After arranging these, Hu Xiaosi also began to summarize all the information and intelligence of Shannan Province, together with the layout of the Xu family, one of the five wealthy businessmen, in Shannan Province, and at the same time issued the latest emergency order to the person in charge of the secret guard of Shannan Province to do a good job in leading the army. At the same time, the secret guard was instructed to reveal Zhu Quanzhong's movements to Yang Shouliang.

After receiving the information, Zheng Fan not only gave Zhu Quanzhong a play, but also started an urgent discussion with Xie Tong, and the two of them were mentally prepared for the reaction of the Tiance Army, but after receiving the specific information, Li Xuanqing still did not change his original intention of capturing Sichuanzhong after learning the news that Zhu Quanzhong sent troops to Shannan Province, but instead arranged a formation with the same as himself.

"Brother Zheng, did your intelligence agency find Yang Shouliang's movements on the Shannan Road side?" Xie Tong asked after reading the information in silence for a long time.

After Yang Fugong became seriously ill, Yang Shouliang couldn't suppress the group of people who withdrew from Guanzhong to Shannan Road with Yang Fugong, and Wei Zhaodu had already secretly contacted some people, preparing to let these people come to the front station and make a secret response to the lord's army. It's just that I don't know if Yang Shouliang knows about this matter at present. Zheng Fan said about Yang Shouliang's current situation and continued: "But Hu Xiaosi of the Tiance Army will not let go of such an opportunity, if my estimate is good, the other party has already told Yang Shouliang the whole trend of our army at this moment." ”

Hearing this, Xie Tong let out a long sigh and said, "Brother Zheng, do you know why Li Xuanqing went all the way from a rabble of thousands to the point where he is now in power? ”

"There are a lot of reasons." Xie Tong's question made Zheng Fan unable to answer. But Xie Tong said to himself: "Actually, the other party has a very strange ability, the investigation system they have established is different from ours, and the degree of accurate detection of news is far greater than that of any of our feudal towns. Leads to victory before fighting. ”

Zheng Fan's face turned red when he heard this, and he was about to say something, but Xie Tong stopped him, "Actually, sometimes I wonder if if we were to assist Li Xuanqing, would the situation be better than the current situation." ”

"Adults are geniuses, whether it is military affairs or government affairs, they are all familiar with it, if they are by Li Xuanqing's side, I am afraid that the unification of the world will not be far away." Zheng Fan knew what Xie Tong was thinking, and comforted: "Now that Li Xuanqing has also divided his troops into Shannan Dao, the lord's strategy is not the worst, and the other party has also drawn a large number of troops from the Eastern Front." Let's divide the troops, and he also divides the troops, which means that the situation is still the same. Moreover, the other side has to take care of Kawanaka, and our situation is still good. ”

"Brother Zheng, you see that our Shandong and Bianliang regions are mostly plain terrain, endless, unobstructed, if the cavalry of the Tiance Army advances in a big way, our war potential will soon be exhausted, and even if we are lucky enough to win, it will be a defeat for both sides, not to mention that the difficulty of infantry to deal with cavalry in the plain area is not ordinary." Xie Tong said lightly and then stopped continuing the topic, but turned to Shannan Dao, "You go and inform Jing Xiang, if you want to send troops, you must do it as soon as possible, don't delay it for a long time, if you wait for Li Xuanqing to increase the troops, we will definitely be frustrated at both ends." ”

Looking at Zheng Fan's departing back, Xie Tong fell into an unprecedented loneliness, sitting alone in the empty study and looking at the maps on the wall and muttering. In fact, he didn't finish his words, if Li Xuanqing occupied Sichuanzhong, then the Xuanwu army would definitely not face the enemy on both sides, but strategically fall into the encirclement of the other party, and this encirclement is now actually accelerated by his own people. If Shannan Road is taken down, then the other side does not need to start from Sichuan, and directly send troops from Bingzhou to the south, cross the mountainous area of northern Hubei Province, and reach the Yangtze River.

What is Li Xuanqing's backhand on the southern front? This question inadvertently popped up in Xie Tong's mind, and after carefully studying the map and finding no results, Xie Tong temporarily suppressed this question that he didn't even think of an answer to.

If Li Xuanqing was by his side at this time, he would definitely give Xie Tong a thumbs up, and he could guess his strategic direction so well, and only Xie Tong could do it in the world. It's just that the backhand of the southern front has not yet been born at this time, so naturally no one can guess it.

At this time, Li Xuanqing also sat in Chang'an and began to supervise the dispatch of troops from the two major group armies. Xu Tianxiang couldn't help but ask when he saw Li Xuanqing staring at the map and pondering, "Why does the lord keep looking at the Ezhou and Jingzhou regions?" ”

"Tianxiang, do you think it is very likely that Zhu Quanzhong will surrender in the road trial?" Li Xuanqing shook his head, he always felt that the purpose of Zhu Quanzhong's trip would not be so simple, in the two provinces of Shannan, the west road was occupied by Yang Shouliang, and the east road was divided into several forces.

"The lord means that Zhu Quanzhong may have been guaranteed by the surrender in the road trial, right?" Xu Tianxiang was also taken aback by Li Xuanqing's speculation, and hurriedly walked over and carefully compared Ezhou and other places, and said: "If this is the case, then isn't Zhu Quanzhong playing with the grand strategy planned by his think tank?" ”

Li Xuanqing shook his head and said: "Not necessarily, for Zhu Quanzhong, the states in Jingbei in the road trial are adjacent to his own territory, wouldn't it be better if he took it quietly, and the most important point is that after taking Jingbei, he can peep into Jingnan and swallow Cheng Wei in one bite." You must know that although Cheng Wei has a large territory and is talented, his biggest weakness is that he has too few troops, and the people in Jingnan are few and poor, so he cannot have a large war potential. ”

"How do I think this guy is a robber, he wants to rob if he has a good place, and he has no rules at all. Wouldn't his words make Xie Tong's plan come to naught? Moreover, once the army unleashes its hands and feet to plunder, it will inevitably be a corruption of military discipline and a sharp decline in combat effectiveness. Xu Tianxiang couldn't laugh or cry when he listened to Li Xuanqing's analysis.

"It may be that the sequelae left by the last Xuzhou War are at work, or it may be not only himself, this kind of sign in the army made him aware of it. It's just that his method is to drink water to quench his thirst, and in the long run, he will inevitably repeat the mistakes of Qin Zongquan. Li Xuanqing said a little uncertainly: "It's just that it stands to reason that this kind of thing should be discovered with Xie Tong's intelligence, but Xiao Si's intelligence does not explain this, it just says that Xie Tong has been closed to guests recently, except for Zheng Fan's occasional visit, he never contacts anyone else." ”

Li Xuanqing naturally didn't know that Xie Tong had become discouraged because of the great change in Zhu Quan's loyalty, and he had no intention of asking about this. In addition, Zhu Quanzhong was angry with him and did not let him interfere in military affairs. Jing Xiang, on the other hand, only cares about fighting the war, and rarely worries about other issues. This question has been artificially delayed.

"Lord, since this is the case, do we want to let Xiao Si-" Xu Tianxiang heard footsteps outside the door before he finished speaking, and then scolded with a smile: "I'll go, Xiao Si, why can you pinch the time every time?" ”

"I heard the lord summon me." Hu Xiaosi smiled, sat on the side with a big grin and said with a smile: "Lord, I have found evidence of collusion between Zhu Quanzhong and the road trial." ”

"The pet concubine in the road trial has been secretly sent to the Eastern Capital." Hu Xiaosi said: "And the smoke bomb released by Zhu Quanzhong before said that Yang Shouliang's concubine is this woman nicknamed Xiao Chang'e." I'll just say, where did Yang Shouliang get a concubine from a eunuch? ”

His nonsense made Xu Tianxiang cry and laugh, "When did people become eunuchs?" Yang Fugong is a eunuch, it does not mean that Yang Shouliang is also a eunuch. ”

"My lord, do I think we should remind that Cheng Wei? I think this person is a good person, he can lead troops, and he is also good at governance. If I go and spend three inches of incorruptible tongue to make him surrender to us, Zhu Quanzhong's face must be very exciting. Hu Xiaosi was stunned by Xu Tianxiang's words, then smiled indifferently and changed the topic.

"Have you been in contact with Cheng Wei before?" Li Xuanqing didn't have much impression of Cheng Wei, so he didn't have any opinion on this proposal, if Cheng Wei could attach himself to him, then he could cut off Zhu Quanzhong's wishful thinking and complete the deployment of the Western Front ahead of schedule.

"Cheng Wei is very strange, in the year before last, he fought with Wang Jian, Lu Trial, and the remnants of Qin Zongquan at that time, Chang Hou, and kept the land of Jingnan, and after pacifying Han Chuyan, the assassin of Kuizhou, he ignored the chaos of the outside world, but instead pondered how to govern the territory of Jingnan, and after two years, the land of Jingnan has also recovered a lot of vitality, and he has contributed a lot." With Hu Xiaosi's narration, Li Xuanqing also had a general understanding of Cheng Xiao's deeds, which is a typical heroic hero like Yang Xingmi, but it is very strange that in the history of later generations, how this separatist regime did not exist for long before disappearing.

"You go ahead and try it, it doesn't matter if it works or not. Our army has already been dispatched, and we will not make any changes because of this, if Cheng Wei is unwilling to surrender, then we will directly take Jingnan and cut off Zhu Quanzhong's westward path. Li Xuanqing asked Hu Xiaosi to play by himself and no longer paid attention to this matter. Instead, it aroused curiosity about Yang Xingmi, "What has Yang Xingmi done recently?" Huainan is surrounded by feudal towns like wine bags and rice bags, can't he still handle it? ”

"My lord, now it's Pei Yili, Qin Yan and Gao Yu who are besieging him together. I feel like it's good if he can hold on. Why does the lord seem to have a lot of confidence in him? Hu Xiaosi shook his head, not very optimistic about Yang Xingmi.

"How about a bet? I bet that within a month, Yang Xingmi will definitely be able to crack these three attacks, and he will also be able to counterattack two. What do you think? If I win, how about you marry Princess Gesang of Tubo instead of Tiancheng? Li Xuanqing smiled and said: "Tianxiang, you are here to testify about this matter." ”

"I'll go to my lord, you're playing a little big. Why let me go? I just want to marry a Han girl. I can't serve the princess of this plateau. Hu Xiaosi muttered with a bitter face and couldn't help but be curious: "Lord, why are you so sure that Yang Xingmi can win?" ”

"You want to know what I'll tell you when you get married?" Li Xuanqing said with a smile: "It's been almost two months since Princess Gesang came to Chang'an, right?" You are all hiding like you've seen a ghost. This time it has to be the real thing. It's so decided, if Yang Xingmi wins, Xiaosi, you are responsible for marrying, and if he loses, Tiancheng will marry. ”

"Okay, come on. I don't believe that the opponent of the three times the number of people can win. As soon as Hu Xiaosi agreed, Cen Tianshi's voice came from outside the door, and people also walked in and said with a smile: "Lord, who wants to marry?" Why bet? ”

His question immediately made the three people present laugh, and even a few staff officers in the combat hall on the side couldn't help but cover their mouths and snicker.

After a long time, the intermittent explanations of several people finally made Cen Tianshi understand, and he also smiled and said: "The lord of this matter has done a good job, is it easy for the princess to come all the way?" And you've all seen it, the parents are very good-looking, why haven't you been tempted? I originally came today to urge the lord to settle this matter, but as a result, haha, Xiaosi, I will start preparing for you tomorrow to prepare for marriage. Bet that you actually faced up with the lord in this matter, aren't you looking for a loss? ”