In late October 889, Li Xuanqing commanded the guard battalion to attack the advance of the Xuanwu army, the battle lasted for a whole night, driving the Xuanwu army for more than ten miles, Wang Yanzhang's forward troops were completely dispersed, countless grains and grass were burned, and the siege of Cangzhou by the Xuanwu army was broken.

Gao Siji, who was originally in charge of the response, led the troops out after learning the news of the victory of the pro-guard battalion, cutting off Wang Yanzhang's retreat, forcing the Xuanwu army, which had been scattered, to collapse again, and countless soldiers began to spin around like headless flies. This kind of scene made Li Feixue, who came later, simply order all the guards battalions to dismount and capture the prisoners.

In the early morning, the two divisions began to defend the army, and this battle also completely disrupted Zhu Zhen's plan, greatly boosted the morale of the Cangzhou army and people, and the prisoners of the brigade were escorted back to Cangzhou City and were quickly put into war preparations such as renovating the city wall and producing military supplies.

According to Li Xuanqing's plan, the rebel army was reorganized into seven battalions, and all the rebel armies were scattered and incorporated into various formations with grassroots officers drawn from the military academy as the core.

It's just that this reorganization made Wang Houchun cry and laugh because at the beginning, the five or six people led by Du Yinghao openly disobeyed the order, refused to hand over the military power in their hands, and even disagreed with Wang Houchun in the school field.

Originally, the reorganization had begun before Li Xuanqing's victorious return, but as soon as Li Xuanqing's army entered the city and saw that the results were so rich, these people instantly closed their mouths and began a cold confrontation, secretly instructing their henchmen to refuse to carry out Wang Houchun's orders.

I have to say that this trick is too poor in Wang Houchun's opinion, and these chaotic henchmen were arrested by the Flying Eagle Brigade who were eyeing them almost instantly, and they were directly killed in front of these people.

Hundreds of heads were hung on the school field at the same time, and the thick murderous aura made the Flying Eagle Brigade a messenger of hell. Just now, some people tried to resist, but no matter how high your martial arts are and how good your methods are, they have no effect in front of this group of soldier kings, and the methods and martial arts of these people have shocked everyone.

After the suppression by force, Wang Houchun no longer asked the opinions of these leaders, and directly asked the officers of the Tiance Army to start picking people, filling in the establishment of seven battalions in one day, and then driving them outside the city for training, and the remaining tens of thousands of unqualified personnel were all organized in the name of the construction corps to help repair the salt works outside the city, or to assist the people sent by several wealthy businessmen to carry out industrial construction in Cangzhou. Even the people of the industrial conglomerate chose a beach and prepared to open a shipyard in high spirits.

The army trained Wang Houchun to catch it personally, and he did not relax at all, and all other things were thrown to Tan Haomin's people sent by the logistics department, and asked Su Xiaohu to let the Flying Eagle Brigade assist. And Du Yinghao, the leaders who were unwilling to cooperate, were all raised in the city guard mansion according to the title of a senior staff officer, and became the door god for An Xiuxiu.

"General An, do you still have a lot of experience in handling government affairs like this?" When Li Xuanqing walked into the city guard mansion, An Xiuxiu had just finished arranging the restoration and reconstruction work of the three counties under the jurisdiction of Cangzhou, and Tan Haomin also sent his deputy to take a team of construction corps to the nearest county.

"The last general used to be a counselor in government affairs for a period of time, so now he can be regarded as returning to his old business." An Xiuxiu shook his head, and arched his hand towards Li Xuanqing and said: "The last general has not yet congratulated the general, last night's night attack, a big victory over Wang Yanzhang, and the results were remarkable. ”

"I'm here to tell you about it." Li Xuanqing waved his hand and motioned for him to sit down and said: "Although Wang Yanzhang is rude in this battle, and the forward troops have also suffered a lot of losses, the foundation has not been shaken, and Zhu Zhen's army has also reached the border of Cangzhou, after the two converge, the whole army will inevitably be pressed and attack Cangzhou, and the big war will start soon." I plan to let your Shatuo cavalry and personal guard battalion go out of the city for a hundred miles, and camp in the west of Cangzhou City, forming a corner with the infantry in the city. ”

"The last will understand." After receiving the order, An Xiuxiu hesitated for a moment and then spoke: "General, Siji doesn't mean anything else, he just has a knot in his heart, that's why he is like this." ”

"I understand, so I didn't ask much." Li Xuanqing also knew what the two of them were thinking, but there was no good way to untie this knot, unless Li Ke was caught in this matter, so he just nodded and said: "You go and inform him that in the evening, lead the army out of the city, and target Xiaocang Mountain, a hundred miles west of the city." After saying that, he walked out on his own.

When Li Xuanqing was arranging the next move against Wang Yanzhang and Zhu Zhen, Hu Xiaosi, who was in the eastern capital of Luoyang, suddenly sneezed and muttered to himself: "Who is thinking about me, it looks like something is going to happen." Before he finished speaking, a person next to him said: "Boss, the Xuanwu Army has been moving a lot recently, investigating the whereabouts of the secret guards we have planted in Bianliang and other places, and several secret guards have been accidentally arrested." Boss, shall we make a move? ”

"Is there any news from the lord over there in Cangzhou?" Hu Xiaosi nodded and groaned slightly.

"The news came the day before yesterday that the lord led the personal guard battalion to repel Wang Yanzhang's forward troops. But Zhu Zhen's main force has also arrived in Cangzhou City, so the situation has not changed. The news of Li Xuanqing and Cangzhou also made Hu Xiaosi give up hesitation and said: "Since this is the case, we can't be idle, it's time to add to Zhu Quanzhong's blockage, otherwise he doesn't know how many catties and taels he has." Let me know and execute the plan right away. Let's go around the palace and see how the little emperor is doing. ”

At this time, Hu Xiaosi's old opponent also had the same idea as him, wanting to take the opportunity to clear the Xuanying Guard forces in the Xuanwu Army. In Zheng Fan's view, the most powerful thing about the Tiance Army is not the combat effectiveness of its army, but the preemptiveness and efficiency of intelligence work, so far, Zheng Fan has no way to figure out how Li Xuanqing and Hu Xiaosi arranged such a perfect intelligence network in a short period of time, all levels are clear but do not interfere with each other, even if there is a problem in one link, it will not implicate other secret children, this method makes him puzzled.

At the same time that Xuan Yingwei dispatched to destroy Zheng Fan's intelligence, Xuan Yingwei once again sacrificed the weapon of economic warfare, using the war to manipulate the black market in Bianliang and other places, raise prices, and artificially begin to weaken the war potential of the Xuanwu Army.

If it is just to destroy the intelligence network, Zheng Fan's means are not much inferior to Hu Xiaosi, and he can even gain the upper hand by using his local advantages, but with the dispatch of the dragon group, the dragon teeth hidden in the Xuanying Guard began to gain a decisive advantage in the duel, and then Hu Xiaosi also expanded the attack area to destroy the opponent's material reserves, and several hidden military warehouses were inexplicably burned down one after another, which further aggravated the shortage of materials in the Bianliang area, and caused an inexplicable panic to the people who had just been pacified. The shadow of the economic crisis in the first half of the year once again loomed over the hearts of the people, driving these people to start to rush for daily necessities on the market.

This trick soon Zheng Fan couldn't parry, in the face of the opponent's new strike weapons, almost everyone in this era didn't know how to deal with it, although Hu Xiaosi also knew nothing about economic warfare, but he couldn't stand the opponent was ignorant, so this alternative war made him fight well, and when the front line was raging, the economic situation in Bianliang and other places began to slowly erode.

And at this time, the ambush battle arranged by Yang Tiancheng in Jinzhou on the northern front also officially began, and the 30,000 elites led by Deng Tianwang plunged into the trap arranged by Xue Yang and Wu Huan as soon as they drilled out of the remaining veins of Taihang Mountain. Although Deng Tianwang tried his best to gather his troops and fight and retreat, he couldn't stand Xue Yang like a madman and led the third battalion to the opponent directly, almost as soon as Deng Tianwang gathered some people, Xue Yang appeared in front of him, and the two started a pursuit battle in Taihang Mountain like a marquee. The terrifying marching speed displayed by the third battalion in this battle made everyone tremble, and the mountain combat ran out of the speed of the plain march, and the team of more than 10,000 people simply beat the opponent and retreated, and did not give Wu Huan's cavalry next to him room to play at all.

For three whole days, Xue Yang's third battalion fought in the mountains for three days, completely breaking up Deng Tianwang's army, and there was no way to clean up the rout, so he could only retreat with his own guards to the arrival of the leading men and horses led by Pang Shigu to stabilize the position.

This battle, which later puzzled Deng Tianwang, became a mystery in the confrontation between the two sides. After the defeat of the front line reached Qinzhou, Ge Cunzhou vaguely guessed the original meaning of the matter, and urgently transmitted the news to the location of the base camp of Bianzhou City, asking Zheng Fan to urgently send intelligence personnel to the front line to assist the army.

After Xue Yang defeated Deng Tianwang and returned to the city of Jinzhou, the battle of Jinzhou was officially launched, under the joint attack of Chen Yu and Li Tianyi, the two infantry corps, although Liu Zhiyuan, the defender of Jinzhou, was brave and fierce, he still could not stand the opponent using explosives to open the way to blow up the city wall, and thousands of soldiers of the Tiance Army rushed into the city, completely pocketing Jinzhou, which was only more than 10,000 defenders. Liu Zhiyuan died of exhaustion in a wheel battle with Chen Yu and Li Tianyi. The killing of this famous general of the Jin army not only opened one wing of Li Ke's defense line in Bingzhou, but also left one less general in the already scarce army.

After taking Jinzhou, Yang Tiancheng instructed Xue Wanli to continue to attack and advance towards Fenzhou, and he led the main force of the Tiance army south to Qinzhou and directly confronted the Xuanwu army. Facing the main force of the western front of the Tiance Army with an army of more than 100,000 troops, Ge Cunzhou's pressure suddenly increased greatly, while holding on to Qinzhou, on the other hand, he quickly let the troops attacking Luzhou from the east come back for reinforcements, and at the same time asked Zhu Quanzhong for help, asking for more troops.

But at this time, Zhu Quanzhong was facing a dilemma, the two armies were unfavorable, Zhu Zhen in the east led the main force to surround Cangzhou after Wang Yanzhang's defeat and retreat, but he still asked for help from the rear, and now Ge Cunzhou also asked for reinforcements, could it be difficult for him to send the main force north to fight Li Xuanqing?

At this time, Zhu Quanzhong suddenly remembered Xie Tong's words on the eve of the war, when Xie Tong and others resolutely opposed their own war, and asked themselves to wait for Li Xuanqing to occupy all the territory used by Li Ke, and when the opponent's forces were scattered in the huge area in the north, the main force of the Chinese army would break through, and take Taiyuan Mansion as the goal and go all the way north, which would inevitably make the opponent's forces unable to concentrate and fall into various places for breakthrough. Now his own forces are scattered into two parts, the east and west cannot echo, and they are all repelled by the opponent, and Li Xuanqing obviously still has the strength to stop the third offensive, when the east and west fronts are confronting him, the third road is constantly fighting from north to south, occupying the territory of the Jin army.

Zhu Quanzhong, who was at a loss for a while, sent someone to invite Xie Tong, Zheng Fan, and Jing Xiang to his house, told all his concerns, and also reflected on his mistakes to Xie Tong and others in person. I have to say that Zhu Quanzhong is still very charismatic at this time, and after some heart-to-heart reassurance, Xie Tong and the others don't have much to say, in fact, these three people have been thinking about breaking the game for a long time, but they can't talk to Zhu Quanzhong more.

"Lord Xie, I secretly thought that it would be better to withdraw General Ge's men and horses, partially defend Zezhou and other places, and the main force galloped to the east." Jing Xiang pointed to Qinzhou, where Ge Cunzhou was located, and said: "After all, Qinzhou is actually showing us an attitude to the Tiance Army, and they want to let us out." ”

"I agree, after the two armies converge, our army can concentrate the main force to capture Cangzhou, as long as Cangzhou is taken, it will inevitably be able to extend its forces to the Shandong Peninsula, and then it will be possible to form a confrontation situation in which Li Xuanqing occupies the northwest and our Xuanwu army occupies the southeast, and the two sides will face each other across the river." Xie Tong nodded, and continued: "In this way, we have the advantage of the hinterland of the Central Plains, and the southern front can send troops to completely occupy the area north of the Yangtze River, and completely block Li Xuanqing's forces in the north." ”

"When the time comes, you can secretly contact the Khitans, attack Li Xuanqing from the north and south, and let him strategically divide his troops into two lines to eliminate this henchman." Zheng Fan interjected and said: "At present, the top priority is to join forces in one place, and there is another matter that must be reported to the lord and the two military advisors. Hu Xiaosi of the Tiance Army should have entered the country, and the abnormal situations in various states in recent days were also caused by him. ”

"Isn't this Hu Xiaosi a Hu person? Why do you want to serve Li Xuanqing with all your heart? Zhu Quanzhong muttered with a wry smile: "I've seen these anomalies, but I can't think of any way to deal with them." ”

"My lord, the minister thought that he could make preparations with both hands, and on the one hand, he gave Lord Zheng full power to strangle the hidden personnel of the Xuanying Guard in various states, and gradually eradicate the other party's forces. The second is to talk to local businesses in the Central Plains, reassure them and cooperate with us to stabilize prices, and the lord should also walk around the people a lot to give the people confidence, so as to fundamentally stabilize the hearts of the people. ”

Xie Tong's words were still very insightful in Zhu Quanzhong's opinion, and the other two henchmen also nodded, and immediately made up their minds, while urgently ordering Ge Cunzhou to withdraw his troops from Zezhou, defend the city with Pang Shigu, and the main force led by Ge Cunzhou to the east, and Zhu Zhen converged, and the two forces joined forces to besiege Cangzhou. On the other hand, Zheng Fan was given the highest token, authorizing him to go all out to deal with the Xuanying Guard. And began to work hard to get rid of the harm of Hu Xiaosi's economic war as Xie Tong said.

As a result, when the battle situation in front of us changed, the dark war that took place in the Central Plains also reached its peak.