The departure of Hu Xiaosi and Cheng Wei also means that the end of Shannan Dongdao is doomed, and the chief political officials of the Ministry of Civil Affairs from Chang'an set off almost at the same time to go to the Jingnan area to accept the new territory, and with it, in addition to a large number of materials, the Yuwen family specially sent a convoy to carry a large number of medicinal materials and rubber products for the treatment of schistosomiasis infectious diseases, and the Xu family in Shannan Road to meet.

And with the simultaneous occurrence of these things, Xue Wanli also finally took the important town of northern Hubei - Xiangzhou, the mainstream area of Shannan West Road and Tiance Mansion into one, and the straight road of the logistics department was also repaired to the Junzhou area, which was almost dug out of the mountain area in the rough gunpowder bombardment finally played a major role, and the third brigade of the construction company responsible for the construction also became the trump card of the later empire to build roads in the mountainous areas, leaving a brilliant mark in the later traffic construction tide.

With the opening of Xiangzhou, the infantry of the Shannan Group Army also moved forward and joined the cavalry brigade, and the first division immediately took Li Feixue as the main commander to recover Ezhou in the east, and captured Suizhou in the north, driving all the remnants of Ge Cunzhou back. The other division, under the leadership of Xue Wanli, began to be reorganized into the old department of the Wei Army, and three infantry battalions were reorganized. As a result, the number of the Hannam Army Group skyrocketed, with a staggering size of 150,000 field troops.

"Li Yang has seen the handsome." After Chen Yu joined Xue Wanli, he gave the Anzhou battalion to Xue Wanli, and let him be in charge of the reorganization matters, and he commanded the headquarters of the group army and two cavalry battalions to go to Yingzhou and become the seat of governance. Otherwise, these two short-tempered people will be together, and they will be slaughtered with a character like Chong, and they will all be slaughtered if they don't have an impulse.

Chen Yu looked at Li Yang, who was two years younger than him, nodded in front of him, beckoned him to sit down, and said: "In the first battle of Anzhou, Commander Hu specially mentioned you to Ben Shuai, and you can keenly grasp the fighter, you are a good talent." Now that the Jingnan Army has been reorganized into a part of the Tiance Army, your General Cheng has also gone to Chang'an to be summoned by the Tiance General. What are your plans? During this time, Xuan Yingwei had also sent Li Yang's information to his case, Li Yang was the third son of the Li family, a big family in Yingzhou City, but he was only a concubine, so he was sent out to join the army.

"Obey the arrangement of the commander, and the generals will obey their orders." The reorganization during this period of time also made most of the Jingnan Army feel the strict military discipline and formal training of the Tiance Army, and even Zhao Wu and Cheng Chong, who had just begun to fight against the reorganization, were unable to raise their heads under the pressure of this strong reorganization. And Li Yang was directly eliminated from the reorganization team by Chen Yu and followed him to Yingzhou.

Li Yang's answer made Chen Yu nod, and he no longer concealed it, and said directly: "Commander Hu had a proposal before leaving, and Ben Shuai Sizhi repeatedly decided to tell you and let you choose for yourself." After a pause, he continued: "Ben Shuai wants to send you to the Military Academy to study for half a year, and after half a year, you will be transferred to the Central Plains to participate in the battle of the Central Plains, I don't know what you think?" ”

Chen Yu's words made Li Yang surprised, originally he was transferred to Yingzhou just thinking that the Tiance Army needed to dismember the Jingnan Army and break the system of hugging together, but he didn't see Zhao Wu being taken away by Li Feixue to the Ezhou front, and Cheng Chong and some other deputy generals were transferred to other troops, and only a small number remained in the integrated team. So Li Yang groaned slightly and asked, "Dare to ask Dashuai, what are you going to learn?" ”

Chen Yu smiled slightly, very satisfied with this young man, and said with a smile: "The Military Academy is the highest academy of the Tiance Army, which is responsible for training generals of all levels of the Tiance Army, and the lord has special instructions, all soldiers and generals who need to be promoted for military merits must enter the academy for further study as long as conditions permit, learn formal command skills and marching skills, and will also teach the latest tactical skills of the Tiance Army." ”

"Thank you for the clarification of the doubts, Li Yang followed the order." As soon as Chen Yu's words were finished, Li Yang immediately hugged his fists and agreed, without the slightest drag.

"Give you a special approval, bring your mother and sister with you, and go to Chang'an to live, your family situation is also known." Chen Yu thought about it and handed him a paperwork, patted him on the shoulder and said. Because Li Yang is a concubine, he doesn't have much status within the Li family, his mother is just a concubine, and there is a younger sister who is in a very bad situation within the family.

"Thank you Marshal, Li Yang will swear allegiance to the Tiance Army and the lord." Chen Yu's arrangement made Li Yang rarely moved.

"Okay, if you have anything to do in Chang'an, you can go directly to Commander Hu, he is very optimistic about you, there is nothing he can't handle in Chang'an, this guy claims to go to the lord's house without a notice." Chen Yu said with a smile: "Go back and arrange military affairs, and then take my appointment letter and take your mother and sister to set off early tomorrow morning. Chen Yu handed him a token of his own and said solemnly.

After sending Li Yang away, Chen Yu beckoned a few staff officers to start studying the map of Shannan West Road, and the order given to him by the General Staff was only half a month away, and half a month later, that is, in mid-October, troops must be sent to Shannan West Road to attack Yang Shouliang.

When Chen Yu was preparing for the battle of Yang Shouliang on his side, the frontal corps of the Hanzhong Group Army arrived in Bazhou from Lizhou through the Qinling Mountains under the leadership of Qian Ning, and faced Li Maozhen and Wang Jian's coalition army for the first time. Hu Jingzhang, the commander of the coalition forces, immediately decided to take advantage of the fact that the Tiance army had not yet gained a stable foothold in the field battle, and the two armies fought outside Bazhou for half a day, but with the support of new weapons, the Tiance army stubbornly resisted the impact of the other side, gradually stabilized its position in the second half of the battle, and held the newly built battalion, and after the logistics department arrived to put the explosives bag carried into the battlefield, it launched a wave of counter-charge against the trend and forced the opponent back into the pass.

Although the Tiance army suffered great losses in this battle, the field troops of 80,000 people were killed on the spot, and more than 10,000 people were injured to varying degrees, but they almost collapsed Hu Jingzhang's troops.

Qian Ning pleaded guilty to the General Staff after the war, but did not receive Xu Tianxiang's reproach, but sent the first battalion of Chang'an to central Sichuan after learning about the battle situation at the front to support Qian Ning.

And Qian Ning's battle on the frontal battlefield also completely attracted the attention of Wang Jian and Li Maozhen to Bazhou, and the two sides coincidentally transferred troops to continue to increase the number of troops in Bazhou, so that the two sides transferred all the troops that could be sent around Bazhou. Internally, especially in the Chengdu area, because of the distance from Tiance Mansion, there are hardly many troops left.

At this time, Xue Yang and Xu Ying's raiding troops, who had been marching hard in the mountains for more than half a month, finally connected with Xuan Yingwei's liaison personnel. At this time, the two were already approaching the Maozhou area of Chengdu. However, this result caught Xue Yang a little off guard, the two of them took a fork in the road in the mountains, and the two who were supposed to appear in Mianzhou ran to the Maozhou area northwest of Chengdu for some reason.

"Xue Yang, what should I do now?" Xu Ying carefully compared the topography of the Maozhou area and the distance from Chengdu and asked: "We are in the wrong place, and the previous plan must be adjusted in time, otherwise it will be self-defeating." ”

Xue Yang nodded, and after pondering for a long time, he suddenly made a bold decision, which was also the most risky decision in Sichuan: to divide the 20,000 people in his hands into two parts, one to raid Chengdu to complete the previous plan, and the other to lead the army to Mianzhou day and night to occupy this main road from the Chengdu Plain to the northwest front.

"No, in this way, Mianzhou will face the crazy attack of Li Maozhen and Wang Jian's army on the front line, and it will not be able to hold it at all." Xu Ying opposed the plan.

"Brother Xu Ying led the army to raid Chengdu, remember to let Li Maozhen release a messenger to transfer back the troops on the front line to break the city defense. Mianzhou is my personal responsibility. Remember to find a way to make him surrender immediately after taking Li Maozhen, so that we can completely receive Xichuan before Qian Ning's army comes to Sichuan, and not give Wang Jian the slightest chance. Xue Yang didn't pay any attention to Xu Ying's opinion, but directly started the deployment.

"You're risking yourself and your brothers from the third battalion." Xu Ying muttered and didn't continue, and there was no other better way to do it now, so after thinking about it, he nodded and said, "Don't worry, I will find a way to support you when I win Chengdu." ”

"Okay, in that case, let's split up, it will take at least three days from here to the third battalion in Mianzhou, which means that you must seize the opportunity to arrive at the city of Chengdu tomorrow night, and launch a surprise attack early the day after tomorrow." Xue Yang calculated the time.

"Don't worry, I'm here." Xu Ying is also helpless about this guy's worry. After the two discussed, they asked Xuan Yingwei's receivers to immediately set off to inform Qian Ning's army of their movements. At the same time, the third battalion began to act covertly outside the city of Maozhou, turned to the southeast and marched towards the direction of Mianzhou, in order to seize the time, the third battalion once again exerted its scud ability, this infantry that was almost comparable to cavalry took only two days and two nights to secretly come to the outside of Mianzhou.

"Report to the marshal, the defense outside Mianzhou City is empty, and there are only about 7,000 auxiliary soldiers and some wounded soldiers." Xue Yang asked the army to rest in the mountains in the north of Mianzhou and then arranged for people to enter the city for reconnaissance, and soon the situation in Mianzhou was discovered, and the difference between Xue Yang and Xue Yang was that Mianzhou was actually the logistics base of Chengdu to the front line, and a large number of military supplies were all hoarded in Mianzhou City.

"Have you seen the dark guards in the city?" Xue Yang thought for a while and asked, remembering that when he set off, Hu Xiaosi explained the arrangement of the Xuanying Guard in Sichuan.

"It has been notified, and the person in charge will come out with detailed information in half an hour." The members of the assault team who entered the city replied,

"Very well, go wake up the brothers and get something to eat, I can't say we'll be in town tonight." Xue Yang nodded, staring at Mianzhou City in the distance and squinting his eyes.

Half an hour later, the soldiers of the third battalion began to eat the special dry food specially prepared by the logistics department for this Yin Ping danger, drinking the cold water in the mountains, because it was very close to Mianzhou City, so the soldiers of the third battalion even ate quietly, and did not dare to make a sound. And Xue Yang also saw the Xuanying Guard in Mianzhou.

The information reported by Xuan Yingwei was naturally much more detailed than that of the assault team, including the defensive measures in various parts of the city, and the deployment of soldiers in the material reserve warehouse. However, Xue Yang was looking for them not because of this, but for another matter.

"Now there is something that I need your help to keep an eye on, we will raid Mianzhou tonight, I need the assault team you and I arranged to block all roads in Mianzhou, and we can't pass on the news of the change in Mianzhou." Xue Yang arranged this matter, and he had to block the news of the surprise attack on Mianzhou as much as possible. This matter can only be handed over to Xuan Yingwei.

"Please rest assured, Xuan Yingwei will guarantee to complete the task." The person in charge of Mianzhou was a young man named Liu Yong, and when he saw Xue Yang's solemnity, he immediately took the order and assured.

"By the way, is there a messenger from Chengdu passing through Mianzhou?" Xue Yang thought for a while and asked.

"A wave of Red Feather Messengers passed by this afternoon, and it was probably less than an hour since then." When Liu Yong saw Xue Yang suddenly asked, he immediately remembered something.

"It seems that something big has been decided over there in Chengdu." Xue Yang said something inexplicable, and then arranged for the assault team to follow Liu Yong's action, and the main force of the third battalion began to disguise, and arranged the task, and the troops of more than 10,000 people attacked in four ways, hiding in the four gates of Mianzhou, waiting for the opportunity to prepare for action.

Xue Yang's arrangement heralded that the war in central Sichuan had entered a stage of peak and turn, and a great change that caught everyone off guard was rapidly unfolding in the land of abundance.

But what the Chang'an base camp didn't expect at this time was that Xue Yang and Xu Ying would actually go to the wrong place and change their previous plans, and they were still preparing according to the previous expectations. This also made it more difficult for Xue Yang to fight against Li Maozhen's reinforcement army in Mianzhou alone in the later period, but there must be gains if there are losses, and this battle also made Xue Yang quickly famous, becoming the second general of the Tiance Army who is good at long-distance raids after Wang Houchun.

On the other side, after a few days of travel, Cheng Wei and Hu Xiaosi finally arrived outside Chang'an on the fifth day of October. Hu Xiaosi took Cheng Wei to Changqing Palace and met him who was arranging material procurement matters for this year's winter with Cen Tianshi, and was stunned when he saw Hu Xiaosi and Cheng Wei coming over.

Cheng Wei also saw for the first time the commander of the Tiance Army, who is now known to everyone in the world - Li Xuanqing, this scene was still excited when Cheng Wei wrote his memoirs after retirement, thinking that this was the moment that changed the fate of his life, and it was this short half an hour when Changqing Palace himself met Li Xuanqing.

However, at this time, Li Xuanqing suddenly did not realize that he would change the trajectory of the middle-aged man in front of him for the rest of his life. After Hu Xiaosi introduced the identities of both parties, Cheng Xiao suddenly knelt on the ground: "The criminal minister Cheng Xiao visited General Tiance." ”

His kneeling made everyone present inexplicable, and their minds also relaxed. Cen Tianshi's heart moved, he stood up and helped Cheng Wei up, and said with a smile: "General Cheng, it's really not easy to invite you, what a crime?" ”

"General Cheng is on the battlefield anyway, and it is a fortunate thing for Datang to facilitate Jingnan's smooth annexation to Tiance Mansion." Li Xuanqing knew that he should have been frightened by his previous order along the way, so he stood up and comforted: "Let General Cheng come to Chang'an because I have something to discuss with General Cheng, Tiance Mansion greatly appreciates the general's righteous deeds, please relax the general." ”21010