In fact, no matter how Hu Xiaosi boasted about his "uprightness", Biao Zi had already begun to plan for future deployment since Chang'an stepped on the train to the Northeast, and he was no stranger to Zheng Fan, an old opponent. In recent years, although Zheng Fan has temporarily disappeared from the sight of the high-level of the Tang Empire because he followed Zhu Youlun to Sanhan, he may not be unfamiliar to people like Biao Zi and Zhao Si who have been engaged in the leadership of the first-line Xuan Yingwei for a long time, especially Biao Zi took over the management of Sanhan and the entire northern Xuan Yingwei after Zhao Si went to the northwest, and the secret war was destined to appear between the two from that moment. It's just that Biaozi didn't expect that the secret war between the two of them would affect the direction of the war on the Samhan Peninsula at this moment. Therefore, after receiving Hu Xiaosi's order, he immediately sent the Eagle Falcon to Sanhan as soon as possible, so that Chen Fan could prepare for the time being, and ordered Ge Cunzhou to cooperate with the local secret guards to carry out the preliminary deployment, since Zheng Fan wanted to make a fuss about Ge Cunzhou, then Biao Zi and Hu Xiaosi had the same idea, and completely pulled out all of Zheng Fan's backhands with a plan, so as to completely reverse the situation of the entire peninsula with a dark war.

The train of this era can run to a speed of 50 kilometers in an hour, from Chang'an to the northeast almost across the entire northern part of the Tang Dynasty, a journey of more than 4,000 kilometers, which is enough for the two special trains under the feet of Biaozi to continue to run day and night for nearly four days, and when he got off the train in Dalian and took the Navy Izumo to go to sea and go to Changkou at great speed, it was already June 27 of the fourth year of the Apocalypse, and it was almost ten days since Ge Cunzhou was ambushed in the Andong Metropolitan Protectorate. After staying at sea for two days, when he arrived at Changkou to meet Chen Fan, it was already the tenth day, although Chen Fan had withdrawn Hou Yong's cavalry corps according to Biaozi's arrangement, and Ge Cunzhou's corps was still in the north of the Andong Protectorate at this time, as a suppression and deterrent, to maintain pressure on Jinshandao and others in the Anton Metropolitan Protectorate. But Biao Zi still felt that Zheng Fan's side had begun to arrange a backhand against Ge Cunzhou. And in front of a person like Zheng Fan, the information that ordinary secret guards can detect is really limited. Therefore, after Biao Zi basically reported his idea to Chen Fan, he immediately secretly went south, crossed the area where the two armies were fighting, and began to infiltrate Daliang from Goryeo, preparing to implement his own deployment under Zheng Fan's nose.

However, immediately after Biao Zi left, Chen Fan dispatched five battalions of infantry led by Liu Yi and the artillery unit directly under the command headquarters to move south from the northern mountains to carry out the strategic operation at the other end of the scissors line. Liu Yi began to capture Lintun County at the end of June of the fourth year of the Apocalypse, and wiped out more than 30,000 elite Goryeo troops in Lintun County. The capture of Lintun County was tantamount to separating the connection between the Goryeo army and the northern mountainous areas, and also allowed the two ends of the scissors line to gradually level to the same running line, penetrating deep into the heart of Goryeo. And Liu Yi's actions were obviously also in response to Ge Cunzhou's actions in the east, because after the capture of Lintun County, most of the land and cities of the three prefectures of Hanzhou, Shuozhou and Mingzhou in the north of Goryeo were taken by Chen Fan in three strikes and two strikes. Although there were still many resistance forces on the land that was forcibly cut off in a hurry, after Liu Baoliang's cavalry corps drove out of the northern mountains, the 30,000 cavalry corps began to grate over and over again from the three northern states like a grate, and a large number of rebel forces were strangled and wiped out, and those captured personnel were also handed over to the logistics troops to be transported to Changkou and finally handed over to the navy to be transported to Dalian, and since then they have embarked on the road to the vast northwest. This tactic of attacking the infantry and stabilizing the rear after a little break has played an unexpected role in the special terrain of Samhan. At least when the civil officials rushed over, relying on the strong deterrent power of the cavalry and the strong suppression, the three states maintained calm on the surface, and all the resistance forces in the open and in the dark were immediately strangled by the swarming cavalry as long as they were discovered, and in just ten days, the entire northern part of Goryeo fell into a bloody storm, and countless wealthy families were killed because of their participation in the rebellion against the Tiance army, and the people who were implicated were also sent away, which is equivalent to forcibly diluting the number of high-level social leaders in the entire northern Goryeo, The countless wealth of these wealthy families who were strangled was transported back to China by the Tiance army, and the other land and property in their names were immediately distributed to the people at the bottom after being taken over by the civil affairs officials. As a result, a strange situation was created in northern Goryeo, where the people at the bottom who had received tangible benefits began to accept the rule of the Tang Dynasty, while the fearful nobles who had been killed tried by all means to escape. For the people at the bottom and even those free people, Datang was originally the suzerainty of the peninsula, and it was not once or twice that the Sanhan Peninsula was occupied by Datang, so they were not curious about Datang becoming their top boss after getting the benefits and getting the land. At this time, the peninsula was not at all the same as the scene of the later generations before Li Xuanqing crossed over, and the Tang dialect of the peninsula at this time was even more popular than the dialect of their own people, and even the Tang dialect was the official language of Goryeo, and the Chinese characters were their characters, and even the coins they used were mostly copper coins of the Tang Dynasty, and even the Tang coins issued by the money village could be seen here. All in all, there is not much difference between this place and the mainland of Datang, which is why Zheng Fan and the others were able to gain a foothold in Baekje.

Chen Fan made a breakthrough on Liu Yi's side and Liu Baoliang strangled those rebel forces, and immediately pushed the battle line directly to the vicinity of Zhongyuan Jing in the south of Changkou, and in the next strategic action formulated by Chen Fan, the main purpose of the Western Front campaign was to take the Andong Governor's Mansion and Zhongyuan Jing, and the other end of the scissors line that Liu Yi was responsible for on the Eastern Front needed to take Beiwon Jing, completely destroy the Goryeo regime, gradually advance the battlefield to the vicinity of Kaesong in the south, and force Zhu Youlun's Liang and Silla entrenched in the southeast of the peninsula to be arranged along the northern line of Wensan.

On the battlefield, Chen Fan's side gradually advanced and stabilized the front line that was too different from the two ends of the scissor line in the early stage because of Ge Cunzhou's risk, and he lost the battle line that cooperated with each other, and he began to know that when the next stage of the battle was completed, Biaozi also arrived at the national capital of Daliang under the response of the secret guard, which was Zhu Youlun's main station at this time, Nanyuanjing, but this was the name of the place before Baekje, and Zhu Youlun changed it to Bianzhou. After Biaozi arrived in Bianzhou, he quickly began to start the deepest dark line buried before that, this is still a dark line buried by Zhu Youlun's side during the Central Plains War, and he has basically been in a latent state for so many years. Biaozi asked the accompanying dragon group to investigate carefully, and then summoned the secret line to his secret residence.

This dark line is Zhu Youliang, the adopted son of Zhu Quanzhong, the royal family who is now prominent in the Great Liang Kingdom, at this time Zhu Youliang has been the official residence of the Northern Patrol Envoy of the Great Liang, and has just replaced Kang Huaiying as the commander of the north to lead many men and horses to guard against the southern invasion of the Tiance Army. At this time, Biaozi found him, and he was inexplicably surprised, he didn't even expect that he would meet him in the heart of Bianzhou's current Daliang. You must know that Biaozi began to work hard from Zhu Quanzhong's sons after Zhu Youshu was dragged into the water by himself, but apart from Zhu Youshu, the other achievements were not big, but this adopted son was successfully won by himself and became a dark line under his leadership. This line did not play much of a role in the Central Plains War, because the Northern Tiance Army was progressing too fast because of Ge Cun Zhou's surrender, and Zhu Youliang was in Kang Huaiying's department at that time, so Biao Zi simply asked him to follow Zhu Youlun across the sea to Sanhan. In recent years, Zhu Youliang has gradually replaced the status of veteran Kang Huaiying and others in the army because of his brotherly relationship with Zhu Youlun, and has become a veritable young Zhuang faction.

He wasn't too worried about Zhu Youliang's possible rebellion, he was just going to ask Zhu Youliang to learn something about Zheng Fan's situation, and the others didn't plan to use Zhu Youliang to break through. And although Xuan Yingwei has not started this dark line over the years, the momentum of the Tiance Army and Datang is in full swing, with the rapid development of the domestic economy, the business of the Xu family in Sanhan is also becoming more and more prosperous, Zhu Youliang can naturally get more news about Datang from the businessmen, and he himself has seen the steel giant ships in the Xu family's fleet, which is a treasure that makes the Liang sailors drool, but the Datang on the other side of the sea is just a civilian ship, a ship used by merchants to do business. These are enough to make Zhu Youliang soberly realize the crushing of Datang in terms of strength. And now that the Tang army has sent troops to Sanhan, if he goes against the Tang Dynasty at this time, he will definitely die without a place to be buried, and he will not even have any life at all.

"It's too abrupt for the Commander to come here." Zhu Youliang looked at the middle-aged man in front of him who was about the same age as himself, and couldn't help but smile bitterly: "I've only been a few years old, and I'm going to be sleepless again so soon." ”

Regarding Zhu Youliang's wry smile, Biao Zi shook his head and said, "When the three Koreas are reunified, won't you be able to have a peaceful birthday again?" And you should know that activating you at this time is actually giving you a way out, it's much better than the Tiance Army coming over and turning you into a prisoner, and you can still get an official and a half position in the future for meritorious service to the Tang Dynasty, not to mention the others, at least you are a magistrate at the state and county level, right? How could this be worse than you are now? Do you really want to become a prisoner under the destruction of the city like Zhu Youlun and Zheng Fan, and spend the rest of your life in a prisoner of war camp? ”

Biaozi's smiling expression made Zhu Youliang take a deep breath and nodded. Biao Zi is right, at this time, activate his own dark line, at least after the Tiance Army comes over to do it, he can use the identity of the secret guard to justifiably become Datang's own person, and he is also a meritorious person, it is much better than going all the way to the dark with Zhu Youlun and becoming a prisoner at that time. As for Zhu Youlun being able to win over the Tang Dynasty, this is impossible in Zhu Youliang's opinion, the power of the Xuanwu Army was still defeated by the other party in its heyday, and had to flee across the sea.

"What does the Archon want to know? I am now an official in the northern border and a core general, and I know a lot of plans in the army. Please speak up, and I should do my best. Zhu Youliang's face became extremely serious, and as soon as he opened his mouth, he asked Biao Zi to nod secretly, sure enough, it was the dark line that he personally selected back then, and once he made up his mind, he would be clean and neat, and he would not drag the mud and water at all.

"How many troops do you have at this time? What is Zheng Fan's plan? Now that Zhu Youliang has made a decision, Biao Zi simply began to ask the core question and changed his original intention.

"The elite of 100,000 Han people we brought over back then, and there are nearly 100,000 local Baekje people, but they are all composed of former prisoners of war, and their combat power is not strong, and the relationship with us, that is, Daliang, is not good. Zhu Youlun was very suspicious of them before, and the two sides were inseparable. It's just that the population we brought here is too small after all, and 100,000 people are not enough in such a large place, so we have to use these locals. Zhu Youliang also relaxed at this time, sat next to Biaozi and said: "You came too quickly this time, and Goryeo retreated too quickly, so in order to deal with the crisis, Zhu Youlun has ordered me to be the patrol envoy of the northern border, Kang Huaiying as the generalissimo of the soldiers and horses of the Great Liang State, and Zheng Fan as the military division to form the supreme core to deal with the changes in the north." Because Zhu Youlun doesn't believe in Kang Huaiying too much, basically I am actually in control of the military power on the northern front. Well, it should mean that Zheng Fan and I are in control, but Zheng Fan is basically not in charge of the army. ”

"And what has he been planning lately?" Biao Zi knows what Zhu Youliang said, after all, Zhu Youlun is not stupid, Zheng Fan is almost his biggest reliance so far, so he should have given Zheng Fan the greatest authority, but Zheng Fan is not in charge of the army, so the military power is in the hands of Zhu Youliang, but relying on Zheng Fan's prestige and authority, if he and Zhu Youliang turn their faces, they can deprive Zhu Youliang of his power in minutes.

"He was colluding with the Goryeo and Silla people, preparing to form a three-nation alliance in the area north of the Cheongchon River to deal with the Tang army. Moreover, he said before that he seemed to be preparing to set a trap for Ge Cunzhou in the Andong Governor's Mansion and the Beiyuan Jing generation, instigating the Tiance army to fight among themselves, and winning time and opportunity for the Three Kingdoms Alliance. But he didn't say exactly how to arrange it, and I didn't know that you would come to Bianzhou, so I didn't pay attention. But if I had to ask, he wouldn't hide it from me, because I actually have a pretty good relationship with him. Zhu Youliang patted his head and smiled quite confidently: "I've actually done well here in the past few years, Zheng Fan and my younger brother still recognize my brother's loyalty very much, after all, I am just an adopted son, not a pure Zhu family, so my defense against me is not very strong, and my previous desire for power is not high." ”

Although Zhu Youliang didn't know how Zheng Fan arranged it, Biao Zi vaguely guessed a rough idea, which made him more determined about his previous deployment, so he nodded and said: "It's not necessary to inquire about Zheng Fan, don't ask if he doesn't say it, people like him are too suspicious, and sometimes they will suspect a person for no reason, don't be targeted by him, otherwise it will affect the current situation." But since you are the current commander of the northern border, you can prepare secretly, not too much, and concentrate your own henchmen, whether it is arranged in the front army or the rear army, anyway, you can concentrate it, wait for my order, and then return to the Tang Dynasty openly, I think the emperor and the prime minister are still very recognized by you, and whether you are in the army or politics, they will not treat you badly. ”

"Rest assured, Commander, I understand that." When Zhu Youliang saw Biao Zi arranging him, he immediately understood that he was afraid that the date of the decisive battle had been set, so he didn't say much, and turned around and walked out after making sure that Biao Zi had nothing else to do. After he left, Biaozi's eyes began to become unusually distant, and after pondering for a long time, he said slowly: "This is also the time to start." After saying that, the people with the dragon group also quickly left from this place. And with his departure, the fateful duel between him and Zheng Fan in the land of Sanhan officially began.