Chapter 460: The Truth Falls Out (I)

"Qiyu Military Division, five miles ahead is already the capital pool of the Northern Plains." Zheng Fan led the army to arrive at the location of the five miles of Beiyuan Jing also got the latest information, Ge Cunzhou led the team to blow up the city wall of Beiyuan Jing, and the main force also drove to the edge of the city wall and fought with the remnants of the Goryeo army led by Jinshan Dao, in order to take Beiyuan Jing as soon as possible, Ge Cunzhou transferred almost all of his main forces to the front, and the entire camp was almost empty, and even he himself went to the front line to supervise the battle. This news did not make Zheng Fan happy, but frowned, Ge Cunzhou's move was obviously stimulated by the outside world, according to Zheng Fan's assumption, in addition to the pressure from the top of the Tiance Army, there is only one factor, that is, the other party has found out that he has arrived, and strives to take Beiyuan Jing before the arrival of the enemy, so that he can concentrate the main force and start a decisive battle with himself.

"It seems that this Ge Cunzhou has really made up his mind." Zheng Fan sighed after a slight groan, he was still very optimistic about Ge Cunzhou Zheng Fan, after all, he was the only general under the Xuanwu Army who was handsome. It's a pity that such a character has surrendered to the Tang Dynasty, and all the generals under his current command may not be his opponents combined, Zheng Fan didn't think that if Ge Cunzhou turned around, there would be at least one commander of the armies on his side, but at this time, when he saw Ge Cunzhou attacking the city with all his might, he suddenly stopped this fantasy.

"Order the whole army to give me, assault Ge Cunzhou's flanks, scatter them, force them to push west, and then order the commander of the front army to make General Zhu lead the army to pursue and move closer to the marshal." Zheng Fan suppressed the thoughts in his heart and gave an order coldly, and suddenly the last elite troops of the Xuanwu Army immediately rushed out of the hidden mountains and forests towards Beiyuan Jing, which was five miles away, and the 100,000 army was like a tiger descending from the mountain, and the distance of five miles was not a matter for the elite troops at all, and in a quarter of an hour, the vanguard had arrived outside the Beiyuan capital, rushed into the flank of Ge Cunzhou's troops, and a battle began.

"Head, there is already a fight ahead, and General Ge has led his troops to withdraw from the city as planned, and is engaged in a fierce battle with Zheng Fan's front army." After Zheng Fan ordered the troops to charge, on a hill outside the capital of Beiyuan, Biao Zi quietly showed his figure, and a secret guard hurriedly reported the battle situation on the front line that he had detected.

"Let's go, there's nothing for us here. Ordered everyone to leave for Nishiharakyo at once, where they waited for the arrival of the army. Biao Zi sighed a little regretfully, it was a pity that he couldn't see the trap he had arranged to trap Zheng Fan, but he still shook his head and took Xuan Yingwei's people and immediately set off towards Xiyuan Jing, and at the same time sent someone to inform Chen Fan as quickly as possible that the battle on Beiyuan Jing's side had started as planned.

However, at this time, Ge Cunzhou, who was in the center of the battle, was a little confused, Zheng Fan's troops looked good at combat power, except for the increase in combat power brought by weapons, they were already approaching their own soldiers, at least the momentum of charging up belonged to the momentum of veterans who had fought for the rest of their lives, and they were not timid to fight against their own soldiers, and they could quickly change their tactics after being suppressed by bullets, and the whole army could all crawl forward in a short period of time to avoid the shooting of bullets, and when the distance was less than thirty zhang, The archers in the front row even lay on the ground and shot arrows to fight the opponent. This fierce momentum made Ge Cunzhou sigh secretly, but in just a moment, Ge Cunzhou changed his strategy, ordering the troops who had already attacked the city to withdraw immediately, then shrink the defensive line, gradually retreat in the northwest direction, and then stabilize their footing, and retreat later in exchange for space. As a front-line general, Ge Cunzhou could not leave such a big flaw to the other side, and after relying on the artillery unit to shell and cut off the infantry to cover the withdrawal of the infantry, the two sides were in a group outside the capital of Beiyuan.

At this time, after Ge Cunzhou ordered the troops to withdraw, it was also seen that Zheng Fan led the army to help, forcing the Tiance army to withdraw from the siege. Urged by the sense of urgency, Jinshan Dao organized more than 30,000 people, the last living force in the city, to follow him out of the city and fight with Zheng Fan. He understands that this is not the time to cheat and play tricks, if the Tiance army defeats Zheng Fan's Liang army, then his Beiyuan Jing will still be captured by the other party, and the only chance to survive at this time is to use the advantage of the Liang army's strength to defeat the Tiance army together. However, after he led the army out of the city to participate in the attack, the Tiance army also seemed to be implementing a new strategy, after all, after Jinshan Dao led the army from the north to detour, Ge Cunzhou's pressure was very great, and the other party's total 130,000 troops were almost 100,000 more than himself, which was not something that could be eliminated by weapon superiority. Therefore, Ge Cunzhou immediately arranged for the troops to retreat after participating in the attack on Jinshan Road, and he personally led his personal guards to leave with the artillery units, and the front-line troops began to withdraw from the battle under their own cover after the artillery units left, and retreated to the west.

Ge Cunzhou's retreat direction made Zheng Fan feel at ease, it seems that the information he received before is true, although he did not succeed in separating the relationship between Ge Cunzhou and Chen Fan, the commander of the Tiance Army, but according to the current direction of Ge Cunzhou's retreat, the reason why Ge Cunzhou was eager to capture Beiyuan Jing must have been forced by pressure from the top to force him to take Beiyuan Jing before Goryeo could have strong reinforcements arrive at any time, and at the most important time, Ge Cunzhou stepped forward at this time and did not ask his superiors for help, but prepared to retreat to Xiyuan Jing, It shows that something must have happened to their headquarters, or that they are not willing to use troops to support Ge Cunzhou at this time. Thinking of Ge Cunzhou's previous victory over Jinshan Dao in Changkou, the enemy rushed forward and led the army commander to drive straight into the Andong Metropolitan Protectorate and was ambushed by Jinshan Dao, if it wasn't for the other party's commander to prepare in advance to let the cavalry corps tear open a gap, he was afraid that Ge Cunzhou would have to confess to the Andong Metropolitan Protectorate, which made Zheng Fan immediately order the front-line troops to follow Ge Cunzhou's troops in pursuit, and personally stepped forward to persuade Jinshan Dao to follow him to participate in the pursuit of Ge Cunzhou. Because on his own territory, a reinforcement that was originally a potential enemy could catch up bravely, and Jinshan Dao did not give up this opportunity, and let the troops catch up. In this way, whether it is Ge Cunzhou, Zheng Fan, and Jinshandao who are on the front line, or Biaozi and Zhu Youliang, who have arrived near Xiyuan Jing in advance, or even Chen Fan, who has arrived near Xiyuan Jing in advance, all focus their eyes on Xiyuan Jing, and a shocking war is destined to occur here, and the war for the reunification of the entire peninsula will start here.

At this time, Chen Fan ordered Hou Yong to immediately lead the army south to attack, and at the same time received a military report from Liu Yi, the Silla people had indeed led the army to march out quickly, almost arrived at Lintun County when the Battle of Xiyuanjing began, and successfully defeated the hundreds of defenders who were stationed in Lintun County and entered the city, and then swept almost the entire most of Lintun County.

The battle has almost no need for Chen Fan to intervene until now, as long as the various battlefields can be implemented according to the plan formulated before, there is almost no suspense in this battle, and almost all the actions of the other party fall into their own presets. After the Silla people occupied the county town of Lintun County, they vigorously co-opted the local resistance forces of Goryeo that had been strongly suppressed by Liu Baoliang, and almost overnight, these local snakes surfaced one after another, which was only afraid that Zheng Fan's previous planning and tandem could allow these people to be organized in a short period of time. Because of the need for secrecy, Chen Fan did not give specific instructions in many places, so these people fought fiercely with the logistics troops of the Tiance Army stationed in the local area when they shot, although the logistics troops were also issued with guns when they were on daily duty, but they were basically breech guns, so when these people shot, except for a few logistics supply places with a large number of garrisons, almost all other places were lost. These logistics units of the Tiance Army, which were defeated by their own enemies for the first time, were almost one-sided after the defeat, sending an urgent message to the headquarters to report the situation, while uniting on their own and then starting to organize a counteroffensive on the spot, not to mention that these people really achieved results in dealing with some small places after uniting with each other.

However, Liu Yi and Liu Baoliang, who were in charge of the northern front, stopped these people's spontaneous counteroffensive after learning of this situation, and instead instructed them to immediately move closer to those well-guarded logistics bases, shrink their forces and wait for the support of the main force, so as to avoid more casualties. As a full-time staff officer trained within the Tiance Army, Liu Yi has become more and more mature about these things, and even Chen Fan has praised him several times for his proportionality. Therefore, when a full-scale fierce battle was launched on the Western Front, Liu Yi and Liu Baoliang strangely chose to stand still and quietly watch the next move of the Silla people and the local forces of Goryeo.

However, Liu Yi and they did not move, but Ge Cunzhou on the western front has begun to fight back, because Zheng Fan had explained in advance, so Zhu Youliang calmly commanded the 100,000 Baekje people under his command to sit outside the Xiyuan capital, quietly watching Ge Cunzhou and the attack of the chasing Zheng Fan and Jinshandao coalition forces, the two sides launched a shocking battle in Xiyuan Jing, relying on the city wall of Xiyuan Jing as a cover, Ge Cunzhou finally stabilized his position after experiencing the chaos in the early stage, and blocked the nearly 200,000 troops outside the city outside the city outside the city wall.

"General, Zhu Youliang's 100,000 Baekje people are an unstable factor, and these people don't trust us or Zheng Fan, so we need to find a way to eradicate them." Biaozi found Ge Cunzhou in the middle of the battle.

At this time, Ge Cunzhou no longer had many scruples, and after learning that Hou Yong's cavalry corps had rushed towards Xiyuan Jing, he was ready to deal with the coalition forces outside the city. So after hearing Biaozi's words, he said indifferently: "It's just a hundred thousand fish belly troops, this kind of person Zheng Fan can't trust, so he didn't let them go into battle, but if I let go of part of the garrison area so that Zheng Fan's army can climb the city wall, then he will definitely not be able to help but let these people into battle, as long as they are put into battle, then they can't be alone." ”

"Yes, I will immediately send someone to send a false information to Zheng Fan in disguise, just saying that the marshal has sent a cavalry corps to the south, in this case, Zheng Fan will definitely not be able to bear it in order to speed up the encirclement and suppression of the general." Biaozi laughed.

"Have you planted people to Zheng Fan's side?" Ge Cunzhou glanced at Biaozi a little curiously, but was given a big roll of the other party's eyes, and immediately shook his head and stopped dwelling on this topic, Xuan Yingwei does not belong to the jurisdiction of the General Staff, but only belongs to Li Xuanqing, so outsiders can't figure out how they operate at all, and even the high-level leaders of the General Staff don't know much.

However, Biaozi's method did speed up the process of this war, after sending someone to pass the news to Zheng Fan through the dark line, Zhu Youliang also received Biaozi's order, and then the entire Xiyuanjing battlefield began to gradually become clear under the tandem of Biaozi, after Ge Cunzhou deliberately reduced the number and vitality of the soldiers defending the city, Zheng Fan's troops took the lead in achieving results, and some of the siege troops began to climb the city wall, although Ge Cunzhou immediately dispatched reserves to come forward and fight with them, But after seeing the hope, Zheng Fan began to put all his strength, not only the troops of Jinshan Road were also pulled up, but even Zhu Youliang also received orders, after Ge Cunzhou gradually fell into the disadvantage, these Baekje people also began to fight one after another, because Ge Cunzhou had previously focused his main energy and troops on Zheng Fan's coalition army, so these Baekje people were even faster than Zheng Fan's elite progress, and directly climbed the city wall in the first wave of offensives, although the Tiance army in the city quickly rushed over, However, the strength of these Baekje people in the Shunfeng War was not much worse than the elite in Zheng Fan's hands, and for a while, they even forced the soldiers of the Tiance Army who stepped forward to block the attack to retreat step by step, but these Baekje people who were in excitement did not see the mocking look on the faces of the soldiers of the other Tiance Army when they retreated.

"General, the Baekje people have already stormed the city, and the brothers have begun to retreat to the walls of Urnseong according to the plan." Ge Cunzhou had already withdrawn from the front-line battlefield at this time, and stayed on the wall of the urn city with Biaozi, and the battle reports in front of him were quickly reported to him.

Ge Cunzhou glanced at Biao Zi, saw the latter nodded, and immediately understood that Hou Yong's side outside the city had all preparations in place, and began to issue the latest order, all the reserves of the 15th Corps immediately concentrated near the southern city to attack the Baekje people, and in order to prevent Zhu Youliang from being injured, Biao Zi also followed the troops. And Ge Cunzhou himself took his own personal guards to personally command the battle in Xicheng, and together with the cavalry corps that was speeding up outside the city, he flanked the coalition forces in this battle.

"Launch smoke rockets, blow horns, and assault the whole army." Ge Cunzhou roared, the sound was earth-shattering, and everyone in the fifteenth corps in the city roared at the same time at this moment, and threw themselves into the whole line to counterattack. The Tiance Army has fought for so many years, this is the most aggrieved battle, although there is a strategy in it, but it is completely different from the previous Tiance Army's fighting method of sweeping thousands of troops, so the 15th Corps, which was holding its breath in its heart, took out all its combat strength at the moment when the charge horn sounded, and the entire battlefield began to change drastically from this moment.