In November 889 AD, the northern line of the Tiance Army set out from Daizhou and other places, along the north of the Yanshan Mountains began to carry out the task of recovering Youyun and other places, more than 200,000 troops advanced by waterway, the troops were divided into two routes, and the northern line successively recovered Yunzhou, Xinzhou, Wuzhou and other places under the leadership of Tuoba Siji. Under the personal command of Chen Fan, the southern line set out from Daizhou, responded to Yanshan, appeared in the northern plains from Yizhou and other places, and the huge infantry cavalry corps drove out of the foothills The moment the defense of Yizhou collapsed, and it was easy to occupy Yizhou.

The fall of Yizhou made Li Keyong of Taiyuan Mansion begin to plan his own way back, and began to concentrate the Jin army scattered in the surrounding areas in Taiyuan Mansion, while resisting the Yang Tiancheng Corps that was constantly pouring in from the west, while planning to find a way out and return to the birthplace of Shatuo - Luntai Grassland, as a result, the armies in other regions of the Jin army completely collapsed after losing the support of the main force, and the offensive of the north and south lines of the Tiance Army became more and more fierce.

Li Keyong followed Zhou Dewei's advice after convulsions repeatedly, and he and Li Cunmiao set off from Taiyuan Mansion with the elite of the Jin army to the north, secretly bypassing Xinzhou and entering the Hetao area. At this time, Li Keyong no longer had the ability to attack the towns along the way, so he could only hope to take a detour.

However, at this time, the Jin army was in turmoil, internal and external troubles, and was discovered by Xuan Yingwei's people just after the Fenhe Plain, and the information was transmitted to Yang Tiancheng on the Western Front at the speed of flying pigeons. Faced with such a good opportunity, Yang Tiancheng immediately sent out all the mobile forces in his hands, and instructed the garrison in the Hetao area to do their best to intercept Li Keyong, and personally led the infantry corps to increase the attack.

The cavalry corps belonging to the Western Front transferred four battalions of heavy cavalry and light cavalry, and under the leadership of Tie Liang and Wu Huan, they set out from Fenzhou and drove straight north, and both sides were rushing for time. Zhou Dewei and Li Chengsi, who were in charge of the broken post, led the army out of Taiyuan Mansion at this time, trying to intercept the cavalry team on the western front, but they did not expect to collide with Yang Tiancheng's infantry brigade, and the two sides started a big battle outside Fenzhou.

At this time, the war situation in northern China had undergone major changes, and it was originally the Tiance Army that attacked Li Keyong in two ways, and pinned down Zhu Quanzhong in the Cangzhou area all the way. In order to allow the front-line troops to have a sustained combat capability, in addition to transferring the troops from the west into the east, the recruit department sent a cavalry corps to the northern front, and after learning that Yang Tiancheng sent troops to intercept Li Keyong, he once again sent an infantry corps to Yang Tiancheng, so far the strength of the Tiance army has reached an astonishing 400,000 people. In the face of the sudden changes in the war situation, in addition to giving sufficient support to the front line, a large number of business groups under the School of Administration and the Department of Industry and Commerce entered Hedong to quickly restore order in the occupied area of the Tiance Army and help the army relieve local pressure.

"Tianxiang, originally these were all tasks for next year, but now they have all been completed in just a few months, and the pressure inside and outside Tiance Mansion is too great." Cen Tianshi transferred Tuoba Sizhi back from Hexi to help him deal with this sudden change, and sat in the war room of the General Staff with Xu Tianxiang staring at the map full of lines and smiled bitterly.

"There is no way, Tiancheng is unwilling to give up the opportunity to completely annihilate Li Keyong, and the main forces of the Western Front will be transferred north, and the tasks of occupying the area will be thrown to us at once." Xu Tianxiang replied to Cen Tianshi while pondering the battle on the front line.

"Tianxiang, how is the situation on the lord's side? It's been almost a month, and the north and south lines have been unable to meet with the lord in Cangzhou, and now Tiancheng has been dragged by Li Keyong again, and the northern line heard that it has begun to snow in Jizhou and other places, and if it continues like this, if the situation changes again, there are really not many means we can use. Cen Tianshi was not worried about Yang Tiancheng, after all, he was close to the base camp and could get support at any time, and he was still worried about staring at the Cangzhou area that highlighted the eastern front.

Xu Tianxiang shook his head and smiled: "According to the information that Xiao Si just received, the situation on the lord's side is not bad, and there will be no problems for the time being." I have already given Chen Fan an order, if the situation does not allow, temporarily abandon the Youbei region, concentrate all efforts to occupy Jizhou and Zhuozhou, and then the main force will go south and advance into the Central Plains and other places, so that he can take over part of Tiancheng's tasks and let the northern line converge with the main gong in advance. ”

Cen Tianshi nodded, had no opinion on Xu Tianxiang's arrangement, put down the teacup in his hand, and said: "I have asked the Ministry of Civil Affairs and the Ministry of Logistics to take advantage of the time at the end of the year to send grain and grass to Youbei, and the Department of Industry and Commerce has also arranged for businessmen to purchase a part of it and send it to various states on the spot, waiting for the spring of the next year." ”

"Chen Fan on the northern front originally planned to let two infantry battalions guard Jizhou and Danzhou, but now it seems that it must be reduced to one point in Jizhou." Xu Tianxiang thought for a while and asked the guards outside to quickly convey the order, "The Khitans will not go south in winter, we still have time, it's great that we will start fighting as soon as spring next year, and the cavalry on the northern front will also rest in winter." ”

"You can just call the shots on military and political affairs." Cen Tianshi nodded and said, "I'll go and hurry up and see how Murong's arrangements are going." ”

Cen Tianshi's departure left Xu Tianxiang and a few staff officers who came and went in the huge General Staff War Room, and his thoughts also drifted to the corner of the east.

Time rewinds to a few days ago, that is, at the end of October, Li Xuanqing led his army to the battlefield of fierce battle with Ge Cunzhou. Li Xuanqing saw Ge Cunzhou, and when he saw the smoke and dust raised in the distance, his face turned extremely pale in an instant. After fighting with the Jin army for so many years, the generals of the Xuanwu Army are very familiar with the characteristics of cavalry, and the smoke and dust raised in the sky also announced the appearance of the opposing cavalry brigade.

At this time, the Tiance Army didn't give Ge Cunzhou time to react at all, and with a wave of his right hand, Wu Si'er began to quickly rush into the opponent's ironclad array along the passage opened by the Flying Eagle Brigade, and the scimitar swung like a scythe of death to take away the lives of those Xuanwu Army soldiers who were caught off guard.

At this time, the first to join the battlefield was Gao Siji's Shatuo cavalry, only to see the other party rushing into the Xuanwu army formation from the periphery, running left and galloping, as if no one was in a no-man's land. Because Ge Cunzhou did not take too much into account that there would be an ambush on the rugged road on the right when he arranged the Central Corps to encircle and annihilate Li Xuanqing, Gao Siji, who was originally not easy to walk, was much faster than Li Feixue on the other side.

"General Ge, stop struggling, get off your horse and surrender." Li Xuanqing smiled at Ge Cunzhou.

"Li Xuanqing, you think of beauty, you want me to surrender, in the next life, let's fight to the death today." Before Ge Cunzhou could answer, Deng Tianwang, who had been rescued by him before, roared angrily and threw himself towards Li Xuanqing again. The long lance faintly had the sound of wind and thunder and smashed down on Li Xuanqing's head, this change made the people around him unprepared, and they didn't have time to react at all, only Li Xuanqing's eyes narrowed quietly.

"Bang dang" A loud bang shook the smoke and dust in the sky, and after the soul breaking gun strongly blocked Deng Tianwang's long lance, the power of the counterattack made the other party no longer able to hold this huge rebound force, this long lance flew out far away, Deng Tianwang himself was red, blood spurted out of his mouth, and fell to the ground with a bang.

"Heavenly King!" Deng Tianwang was snatched back by the soldiers around him, Ge Cunzhou stepped forward and hugged him, but when he saw his face, his eyes suddenly split, and he was about to get up when he was pulled by Deng Tianwang, "Dashuai, don't go, we are not his opponents at all." Hurry up and withdraw your troops. After reluctantly saying this, Deng Tianwang's head tilted and he lost consciousness.

"Li Xuanqing, you hurt my brother, and I will never die with you." Ge Cunzhou's fingers were white, and his steel teeth were clenched, as if he was going to swallow Li Xuanqing alive.

"Ge Dashuai, you don't have a chance." With Li Xuanqing's words, the other side of the Xuanwu army was in chaos again, and Li Feixue broke through the other party's blockade and finally arrived at the battlefield. The cavalry of 80,000 people from the three sides completely collapsed Ge Cunzhou's large array.

"Order the whole army to retreat immediately." However, the changes on the battlefield made Ge Cunzhou sober up a lot, quickly issued an order to withdraw the army, and personally commanded the ironclad army and archers to break off. It's just that in this way, the Xuanwu army in the other three directions completely lost the opportunity to retreat. After Li Feixue and Gao Si were blocked by Ge Cunzhou, they could only turn their horses' heads and rush in other directions. Although Ge Cunzhou's trick of breaking his tail to survive allowed him to escape, the price he paid was too great.

The battle lasted until almost dark in the afternoon. Gao Siji led the army to chase the other party for more than ten miles, and completely killed Ge Cunzhou's troops, if it weren't for the critical moment when Ge Cunji shot Gao Siji off his horse with arrows on Wednesday, he couldn't get out at all.

Li Feixue waited for the night directly after cleaning the battlefield, so she didn't plan to go back, but camped on the spot to rest. After Li Xuanqing pulled out the three arrows for Gao Siji, he put herbs on him and let him rest, and the Shatuo cavalry was handed over to Commander Wusi'er.

"Lord, according to preliminary statistics, we killed more than 50,000 people of the Xuanwu Army, captured more than 10,000 people, and more than 10,000 people were killed and scattered by us, and less than 20,000 people escaped led by Ge Cunzhou. This way, the Xuanwu army was completely defeated. After returning to the handsome tent, Li Feixue said excitedly.

Li Xuanqing nodded and said: "It's a good fight, this battle is equivalent to cutting off one of Zhu Zhen's arms, and when the news reaches the front line in Cangzhou, Zhu Zhen's character is about to shrink back to his Shandong Peninsula." However, the soldiers that Ge Cunzhou can collect will not be only 20,000 soldiers, and the soldiers who were scattered by you should return to the team one after another. ”

Thinking of the disgusting system implemented by the Xuanwu Army, Li Feixue was also helpless, Zhu Quanzhong ran a deficit on the faces of all the soldiers in order to prevent the soldiers from fleeing, this method effectively prevented the soldiers from fleeing, but it harmed future generations.

"Forget it, don't talk about this, after Ge Cunzhou retreats, it may provoke Zhu Quanzhong's counterattack. There will be no less war in Cangzhou. The two of you went to see the wounded soldiers, divided their troops and sent them back to the camp overnight, and after the rest of the night, we will return to Cangzhou early tomorrow morning. Li Xuanqing had just finished ordering these things, and the entourage of Xuanying Wei outside the tent hurriedly came in.

Li Xuanqing hurriedly glanced at the information, and said with a wry smile: "It seems that Chen Fan and Tiancheng fought too hard, Li Keyong has already led the elite of the Jin army north to Hetao, and now Wu Huan's light cavalry has intercepted it, and now it is circling in the Hetao grassland, waiting for the heavy cavalry battalion to arrive." ”

"Li Keyong wants to escape?" Li Feixue was stunned and said, "Isn't Luntai in Anxi?" What did he run to the prairie for? Did he think that he would be able to cross the steppe with tens of thousands of men? Thinking too much, right? ”

"He's not going to Luntai? It is possible to return to the sacred place of the Turks in the steppe - the steppe of the Ulan River. Li Xuanqing vaguely guessed Li Keyong's thoughts. However, like Xu Tianxiang and others in Chang'an, he was helpless against Li Keyong's sudden action, and his move would inevitably break the current intricate battle situation in the Youhe region.

"Lord, what should we do?" Li Feixue obviously also thought of the subsequent changes in the situation, and when she saw Li Xuanqing pondering, she asked.

Li Xuanqing rubbed his head and said with a wry smile: "We can receive the news, or it won't be long before Zhu Quanzhong will also receive the news, if my expectations are not bad, this guy will definitely prevent the people and horses from continuing to go north to Beizhou, Jizhou and other places, and grab Li Keyong's territory with us." Now it depends on Tiance and Chen Fan's speed. ”

"Forget it, we can imagine what Tiancheng and Chen Fan will definitely be able to think of. Tomorrow morning, we will return to Cangzhou City, and if we go back early, we can also arrange the arrangement. Li Xuanqing suddenly thought of something, but he didn't say much, just told Li Feixue and Wu Si'er to hurry up and rest.

Early the next morning, Li Xuanqing led the army to set off from the camp and drove directly towards Cangzhou City, this huge cavalry corps roared past outside Jingzhou City, frightening some of the Xuanwu Army soldiers who fled to Jingzhou last night escaped from Jingzhou again and went directly to Bianliang.

However, at this time, Li Xuanqing did not have the heart to make a move against Jingzhou, and after bypassing Jingzhou, in addition to letting some of the soldiers of the personal guard battalion go to the west camp outside Cangzhou City, the main force went straight to Cangzhou. From Jingzhou to Cangzhou more than 200 miles, it took more than an hour to arrive. This huge cavalry was soon discovered by Zhu Zhen and others, and they hurriedly sent people to prepare to intercept it.

At this time, after experiencing Wang Yanzhang's sneak attack in Cangzhou City, Wang Houchun reorganized the remaining soldiers, completely baptized these rebel armies with the help of wave after wave of battles, instilled the thoughts and combat skills of the Tiance Army, and quickly matured. However, due to the intensity of Wang Yanzhang's sneak attack that night, Cangzhou City was on emergency standby for twelve hours, and Wang Houchun and An Xiuxiu even took turns on duty to prevent similar incidents from happening again.

Zhu Zhen and Wang Yanzhang, as well as Niu Cunjie and Ding Hui, who had already arrived from behind, originally planned to intercept Li Xuanqing, but they were frightened by the opponent's battle, and the cavalry of seventy or eighty thousand people rushed in front of everyone at a gallop, and went directly to Cangzhou City without stopping. This scene made Zhu Zhen and the others breathe a sigh of relief, but in the middle of the cavalry team, they found that something was wrong, and the long line was actually captured by the Xuanwu Army, which made Zhu Zhen almost spurt out a mouthful of old blood.

"They?? How could it be someone from our army? Din would stammer.

"Oh no, it must have been Ge Dashuai who was ambushed." Wang Yanzhang patted his head and pointed to a person walking in front of him: "Dashuai, you see that is Ge Dashuai's personal soldier, I know him." ”

At this moment, Zhu Zhen couldn't help it at all, a mouthful of blood spurted out, and her fingers trembled and pointed in the direction of Cangzhou City, and said intermittently: "Li Xuanqing, I'm not done with you." ”

Wang Yanzhang couldn't bear it anymore when he saw Zhu Zhen's appearance, so he rushed in the direction of the Tiance army. It's just that when he arrived at the front of the battle, he found that there was a person waiting for him all day.

"Gao Siji? So you're there, too. Wang Yanzhang roared angrily and stepped forward with a gun.

"General Wang, the marshal has ordered the withdrawal of the army." Wang Yanzhang's spear was about to head towards Gao Siji, and Ding Hui's voice came from behind him, which immediately made him completely unload it in one breath.