After Li Xuanqing returned to Tianjin from the sea, he also met Hu Xiaosi, originally he was also going to go to the sea trial with the ship, but he had something to stay for the time being, and at this moment he saw Li Xuanqing with a stack of information and couldn't help but say that he was ready to say something.

"I said, Xiaosi, what's the urgency for you?" Li Xuanqing was a little inexplicable, and said with a smile after letting Qiaoxi go back to the room to rest. Because this was a trial voyage, several people lived in the dormitory of the Naval Academy. This naval academy is somewhat similar to the university campus of later generations, with rows of two-story buildings with cement and brick walls, and a good view.

"Zhu Quanzhong increased his troops in Jingnan, and it is estimated that he is going to have a showdown with Chen Yu." Hu Xiaosi said a few words briefly and then said with a wry smile: "This is probably Xie Tong's idea, avoiding the line of the Yellow River where the main force of our army is located, and breaking through from Jingnan can not only reverse the disadvantage of insufficient troops, but also even form an advantage in local areas, thereby cutting off the momentum of our army's southward movement." ”

"How did Tianxiang deal with it?" Li Xuanqing nodded, and asked while looking at the information brought by Hu Xiaosi.

"The General Staff has already mobilized the Guards Battalion to go south to participate in the war, and Tianxiang asked Qin Kong of Xuanying Weishan South Road to be responsible for contacting Cheng Wei, saying that he was trying to persuade the other party to surrender." Hu Xiaosi continued: "Cheng Yu sent someone to contact Chen Yu, and he was ready to cede the northern Hubei gateway to us in exchange for Chen Yu sending troops to attack the back of the Xuanwu army. ”

Li Xuanqing stopped the information in his hand, nodded with a slight groan, and said with a smile: "It seems that Cheng Xuan has seen the end of the war." You can immediately ask Qin Kong to change his strategy, tell Cheng Wei that the Xuanwu Army and our army will attack the Fangzhou area, and ask him to drag Zhang Guihou's front army in Fuzhou so that it does not go north for reinforcements. If he is not willing to surrender to our army, it is okay to wait until this battle is over. ”

"What do you mean?" Hu Xiaosi was a little surprised.

"Chen Yu didn't understand what Cheng Wei meant, the meaning of ceding the gateway to northern Hubei is to talk about things after the war, wouldn't mentioning Cheng Cheng lose face at this time?" Li Xuanqing's words also made Hu Xiaosi reflect, and he immediately jumped up and said with a smile: "This Chen Yu really doesn't give people face." Qin Kong can't do it, this guy and Chen Yu are almost carved out of the same mold. My lord, I rushed over at once. ”

"Go quickly, I'm also going to rush back to Chang'an." Li Xuanqing nodded, and after sending Hu Xiaosi away, he and Qiaoxi rested for a day, and then set out on the return journey. Ma Laosan and Han Xun stayed in Tianjin, preparing to rest for a while, and by the way discussed the construction of Tianjin Port.

"Big brother is in such a hurry to rush back, is there something wrong at the front line?" Qiaoxi caught a cold when the sea breeze blew on the sea, and asked in a slightly wistful voice.

"Something went wrong, right? Jing Nan Cheng Wei wanted to surrender, but he was upset and took a tactful approach, but was rejected by Chen Yu. Xiao Si has already rushed back, so there shouldn't be any problems. Li Xuanqing patted Qiaoxi in his arms and said with a smile: "I'll find you some medicine when I get to the front, saying that this Chinese patent medicine seems to be slower than Western medicine, and it would be nice if cold medicine could be invented this year." ”

"It's okay, I have a big brother with you, and I'm not afraid of catching a cold." Qiao Xi smiled, shrunk into Li Xuanqing's arms and said with a smile.

"Okay, that's what you said, I'm going to speed up." Li Xuanqing laughed, the whip in his hand shook in the air, and the jade lion led the way, and dozens of guards behind him galloped westward.

And Hu Xiaosi, who had walked all night, had already crossed the canal and entered the territory of Shenzhou at this time, and last night the flying pigeon passed the book to Qinkong of Shannan Province urgently, so that he could try to drag Cheng Wei and wait for his arrival.

This group came from the east, and the battle on the Jingnan front also entered the decisive stage. After receiving the news of Yang Shouliang's refusal to send troops, Cheng Wei ignored what Chen Yu brought, but looked at the map in a daze for a long time and then began to arrange troops, preparing to take advantage of Ge Cunzhou's backup to fight a battle.

In fact, the battle has reached this stage, Cheng Xiao's strength has basically been put on the table, if it weren't for the Xuanwu Army's aggressiveness to take the Jingnan region, in fact, it is not a big problem to make Cheng Wei soft, but after comparing the strength of the Tiance Army and the Xuanwu Army, Cheng Wei felt that Zhu Quanzhong's chances of victory were not great, so he didn't have the heart to pay attention to Zhang Guihou's persuasion. For him, instead of surrendering, Zhu Quanzhong is like surrendering to the north.

It is precisely because of this thought that Cheng Wei did not react excessively when Chen Yu's request reached his ears, otherwise he really didn't know how to fight this battle.

Before the arrival of the boss, Zhang Guihou decided to refuse to defend himself, but Wang Yanzhang did not agree to want to fight a battle first, and Ding Hui also felt that it would be good to try Cheng Wei's bottom. Therefore, at the end of September 890 AD, the two sides fought outside the city of Fuzhou. In the early stage of the battle, under the leadership of Zhao Wu, a brave general, the Cheng Wei army broke through the three defense lines arranged by the Ding Hui on the front line in one fell swoop, and broke through the Chinese army position of the Xuanwu army. At the critical moment, Wang Yanzhang led the army to attack, bucked the trend and Zhao Wu on the battlefield alone, Zhao Wu, who hit directly with three moves, vomited blood and fled, and the frontal offensive of the Cheng Wei army was also repelled by this wave of counterattack, and then Zhang Guihou's Chinese army adjusted, and after the rear army was mobilized, the defense line was reorganized, and the Cheng Wei army, which had lost the command of the front line, was forced into the city again. Cheng Xiao's lone army, who did not cooperate head-on, could not play a role, but was blocked by Wang Yanzhang, who came out, and was almost stopped outside the city.

In this battle, the two sides were basically tied, and the Xuanwu army suffered heavy losses, but it successfully forced Cheng Wei into the city and injured the opponent's Chinese general. Although the Cheng Wei army won a lot of gains, it lost its confidence in the first battle, and its morale was much lower than before the battle. The two sides confronted each other again after the war, and they could not completely eat each other in Fuzhou. And the arrival of Ge Cunzhou, the commander of the army, also broke the balance of the battlefield, not only bringing 50,000 fresh troops, but also his ability is much stronger than Zhang Guihou and Ding Hui, and he is a typical commander-type talent. The situation in which these two parties have grown into a situation has become more and more dangerous.

However, fortunately, Qin Kong received Hu Xiaosi's flying pigeon summons, entered Fuzhou City in the dark, and connected with Cheng Wei, conveyed the highest instructions of the Tiance Army, and said that the high-level of the Tiance Army would personally rush to Fuzhou to meet and talk with him in the near future.

This news made Cheng Wei feel happy from the sky, and immediately said that he would definitely follow the agreement between the two parties, drag the main force of the Xuanwu Army on the Fuzhou front, and wait for the good news of the Tiance Army. And almost at the same time that Qin Kong received Hu Xiaosi's notice, Li Xuanqing's order was also sent to Chen Yu's camp on the Junzhou front. After receiving the order, Chen Yu led the army to make a starry night detour and rushed towards the front line of Xiangzhou.

Chen Yu suddenly changed the route of the march, and from Xiangzhou to the east, he was able to enter the Suizhou area at any time, and the Xuanwu army was taken by surprise. In the face of Li Xuanqing's military order, Chen Yu bypassed the city of Xiangzhou without entering, passed lightly from the west of the city, and let the cavalry brigade of 50,000 people led by the guard battalion gallop day and night to the border of Suizhou three days after the Battle of Fuzhou. At this time, Ge Cunzhou had also come to the city of Fuzhou, and was holding a pre-military meeting to prepare to defeat Cheng Wei in one fell swoop before the Tiance army went south, but the urgent report from Sui Zhou made him put this plan on hold for the time being.

In fact, when the urgent report from Suizhou came, Li Feixue's cavalry had already begun to attack. After sweeping away the strongholds outside the city and the scattered Xuanwu army, the main force did not even pay attention to the reaction of the defenders of Suizhou and went south directly, pressing down on the Xuanwu army with a furious advance. However, the infantry brigade of Chen Yu's army surrounded Xiangzhou under the leadership of Xue Wanli, and wanted to take advantage of the lack of reinforcements outside Xiangzhou to move south to this important town in the north of Jingzhou in one fell swoop and cut off the southward passage of the Xuanwu army.

This series of abrupt changes disrupted the deployment of the other side as the Xuanwu Army's previous sudden increase in troops. In the face of such sudden changes, Ge Cunzhou decisively led his army to retreat from outside Fuzhou to the vicinity of Anzhou. In this way, the danger of being flanked by the front and rear of the opponent was avoided, and the forces that had been spread out in the early stage were concentrated again. Moreover, Ge Cunzhou concluded that the galloping cavalry of the Tiance Army must lack the follow-up of the infantry, so he decided to lead the army to cut off Li Feixue's way under the premise of Anzhou's stable defense, intending to gather and annihilate him in the mountains north of Anzhou in one fell swoop.

But just when he was about to let Wang Yanzhang lead the elite to attack the northern front, Cheng Wei took the initiative to lead the army to Anzhou City, and the two sides started a big battle again. As if a different person had changed overnight, Cheng Wei dragged Wang Yanzhang to the foot of Anzhou City regardless of casualties and the opponent's superior forces, and even Zhao Wu, who was seriously injured before, appeared in front of the two armies and commanded the soldiers to charge forward. This scene made Ge Cunzhou feel a strange atmosphere, but the fierce battle did not allow him to think so much, and after a whole day of fighting between the two sides, he found that Cheng Xiao was actually stationed on the spot after stabilizing the situation, as if he was not dying. It stands to reason that Anzhou did not belong to Cheng Wei's territory before, and Cheng Wei should guard the Fuzhou defense line at this time, and wait for the Tiance Army and the Xuanwu Army to divide the victory and defeat before making a decision. But the abnormal situation at this time made Ge Cunzhou unable to sit still anymore. A pre-military meeting was held overnight to discuss the matter.

"Could it be that Cheng Wei and the Tiance Army have reached some kind of agreement? Joining forces against our army? At the meeting, Ding Hui's words shocked everyone, and Ge Cunzhou also stood up suddenly, spread out the map and carefully compared it, and his face suddenly became heavy.

"Marshal, if the Tiance Army really reaches an agreement with Cheng Wei, then our army will be in danger in Anzhou, and this is a situation where there is no way out than us." Zhang Guihou obviously realized the seriousness of the problem and said in a deep voice.

"There is no way to advance or retreat, at least our army can retreat from Ezhou to Shenzhou and enter the territory of our Xuanwu Army." Ding Hui shook his head and said, "It's just that in this way, we won't be able to fulfill the lord's intentions, and the entire Shannan Dao battle will fall short." ”

"Not necessarily, at least let's keep the areas in the road trial of Ezhou, Suizhou and Anzhou." Zhang Guihou smiled bitterly.

"Dashuai, is there any foolproof plan?" Wang Yanzhang saw that Ge Cunzhou had not spoken, and asked directly.

"There is a perfect strategy, but the risk is too great, once the operation is wrong, our 200,000 troops in Jingnan will inevitably be attacked by the other party in two ways, and fall into a situation where there are no bones left." Ge Cunzhou sighed and said with a wry smile: "The combat power of our old opponent, the Tiance Army, is much stronger than the Cheng Xuan Army. ”

"What does the marshal mean is to block the Tiance army with inferior forces, and the main force will do its best to defeat Cheng Wei?" Ding Hui and Zhang Guihou instantly understood what Ge Cunzhou meant, and said in unison: "Great Shuai, the Tiance Army is a cavalry brigade, if you intercept the other party with a small number of troops, there is a chance that the entire army will be wiped out." ”

Ding Hui and Zhang Guihou looked at Ge Cunzhou and waited for his decision. This method is too dangerous, if the main force fails to break through the Chengxu army as scheduled, and the partial army cannot stop the Tiance army, then it will inevitably be annihilated.

Wang Yanzhang saw that the atmosphere on the field was dull, and said: "Why don't you let the last general go to intercept the Tiance army?" ”

"No, Yanzhang, you must stay on the main battlefield, if you are not there, you will not be able to break through the Chengwei army on time. I have made up my mind, and the main force is under the command of General Zhang and is responsible for the frontal battlefield. Ben Shuai personally led 30,000 elite troops to meet the Tiance army. Ge Cunzhou waved his hand to stop Wang Yanzhang Dao.

"The big handsome can't, the big handsome is the chief steward appointed by the lord, how can he go deep into the danger? Let's go on to meet the Tiance Army. Ding Hui stopped Ge Cunzhou and said: "Ding Hui has dealt with the Tiance Army the most, and he can block it on his own, please rest assured." ”

Wang Yanzhang also knelt down and said, "What General Ding said is, how can the army be without a commander for a day? Even if we die in battle, we will definitely complete the deployment of the commander. ”

"Alright then, General Ding, I'll add another 20,000 to you, and you will use 50,000 against 50,000, remember to delay until dark anyway. My frontal army will leave the city early tomorrow morning and fight to the death with Cheng Wei. You immediately go out of the city to the north of the city and wait in formation for a hundred miles, and be sure to stop the cavalry of the Tiance army. ”

When the Xuanwu army made a plan and prepared to start the war, the cavalry brigade led by Chen Yu and Li Feixue had already set off from Suizhou. For the use of cavalry, Li Feixue got the essence under Li Xuanqing's ear and face, and never attacked the city target, and its main tactic was to use its high mobility to disrupt the opponent's deployment, cut off the opponent's contact, and force the opponent to go out of the city and fight with himself.

Therefore, after sweeping away the peripheral forces outside Suizhou City, he went south non-stop and attacked Anzhou. The hooves of these 50,000 elite cavalry trampled on the land of Shannan Dongdao, bringing a murderous aura that penetrated deep into the bone marrow into this war-torn land.

However, at this time, Hu Xiaosi was already sitting upright in the camp of Chengxi. If he hadn't arrived early, Cheng Wei wouldn't have worked so hard during the day. After knowing Hu Xiaosi's identity, Cheng Xiao directly said his thoughts and was willing to accept the reorganization of the Tiance Army. The big problem is clear, and the rest is nothing, when the Xuanwu Army was busy with tomorrow's war, Hu Xiaosi also pondered this matter with Cheng Xiao. Hu Xiaosi won't be able to fight, but if you want to say that there are few people who play conspiracy and trickery, he immediately guessed Ge Cunzhou's thoughts after knowing Chen Yu's whereabouts. Cheng Xiao began to be nervous and busy after Hu Xiaosi said his guess, tomorrow's battle is the real battle of life and death for them, and it is also the first battle in the new group, which must be fought well.

The Jingnan War has really reached its climax at this point, and the two sides have coincidentally saved the most elite edge and the last strength for tomorrow.