"Report, Marshal, urgent orders from the command." On the front line of Quanzhou, Xue Wanli was thinking about how to break the Quanzhou City jointly defended by Fan Hui and Wang Chao, when there was a rapid sound of horses' hooves outside the tent, and the guards hurriedly walked in and reported.

After Li Lisan took an order from the guard's hand, he said: "Marshal, the command tells us not to rush to conquer Quanzhou, but to find a way to attract reinforcements from the surrounding enemies while attacking the city, and prepare for the reinforcements of several other groups of men and horses." ”

Li Lisan's words made Xue Wanli scratch his head and said with a bitter smile: "This order is really too timely, otherwise I will have to fight a hard battle with Fan Hui with the whole army." Lisan, what do you mean by Headquarters? Why are you reluctant to capture Quanzhou so early? Even if there are 100,000 troops in the city, with the incompatible attitude of Fan Hui and Wang Chao, they will not be our opponents? ”

Xue Wanli didn't quite understand the strategic intent of the headquarters, but after Li Lisan marked the location of several other people on the map, he nodded and said, "Marshal, the meaning of the headquarters is probably to encircle the point and send reinforcements." Quanzhou is the seat of Fujian governance, but also the important town connecting Lingnan, although it is lonely on the coastline, but it affects all the nerves of the Lingnan domain, once we take it, you can attack Lu Guangchou and Lu Yanchang in the north, and you can attack Lu Guangmu and Liu Yin in the south, which is actually a powerful place. As long as we besiege Quanzhou, we will mobilize these groups of people around us, and we will have to draw troops to support Quanzhou, forcing them to leave their nests and come to Quanzhou to compete with us. This is equivalent to a decisive battle in Fujian and all the feudal towns in Lingnan Province, so as to avoid the fatigue and logistical pressure of our army under the long-distance journey, and at the same time to prepare for the future. Li Lisan is a staff officer who graduated from the orthodox military academy, once he guessed Wang Houchun's arrangement, it was naturally a good idea, and Xue Wanli also kept nodding and smiled with emotion: "It seems that the form of war has indeed changed, and the previous set is not adaptable, and it seems that I will also go to the military academy to study hard after this war." Chief of Staff, what do you think we are going to do now? ”

"Since the command has asked us to mobilize the enemy to gallop to Quanzhou, the soldiers and horses of the Second Route Cavalry Corps and the Third Route Qian Ning Marshal have already arrived at the designated place, and even Marshal Chen has already led the main force to ambush. What our First Route Army has to do is to continue to attack the city, don't worry, don't worry, I will immediately go to the logistics department, and send all the weapons that the equipment department is preparing to test to us, the same test, so that the whole army is divided into three parts, and attack the city defense day and night, but to attack but not overcome, we just want to make Fan Hui think that his Quanzhou may be broken into by us anytime and anywhere. ”

Li Lisan guessed well, and he did it very well. In the following days, the defenders of Quanzhou saw how many weapons the Tiance Army had, and saw that in addition to the standard configuration of explosives bags and ballistas, the artillery battalion under the command of Li Lisan himself, mechanical crossbows, earth-shaking thunder, and the latest artillery were laid out one by one. However, the defenders of the city suffered an unwarranted disaster, and the weapons and equipment waiting to be equipped were more powerful than the explosives packs, and the continuous earth-shattering noise filled the ancient city of Quanzhou with strong firelight.

The soldiers sent by Fan Hui to defend Beicheng suffered heavy casualties in the explosion, and had to negotiate with Wang Chao to dispatch his men and horses to assist in the defense, and at the same time the two sent people to Lu Guangmu and Lu Yanchang to ask for reinforcements to attack the Tiance army in Quanzhou.

In this way, Wang Houchun's strategic plan was launched almost at the same time, Li Tianyi's cavalry corps secretly moved to the vicinity of Tingzhou, preparing to intercept Lu Guangchou's troops, and at the same time, the news of Hu Xiaosi's walk had also appeared in Tingzhou City, and the rumor that Tiance's army had attacked Quanzhou City gave Wang Chao a headache, and he had to let his younger brother Wang Yancheng, who stayed in Quanzhou, be on guard day and night. At the same time, he urged Lu Guangchou to raise troops as soon as possible.

However, their speed is still not as good as Lu Guangmu in the south, Lu Guangmu is near Chaozhou, the territory is not big, but Quanzhou is attacked, in fact, he is the greatest threat, compared to the extremely aggressive Tiance army or Fan Hui is easier to get along with, so after seeing Fan Hui's envoy, he immediately sent 50,000 troops and immediately set off from Chaozhou to Quanzhou.

"Dashuai, the latest news received by Xuan Yingwei." Lu Guangmu's side had almost just set off, and Xuan Yingwei had already sent the news to the Quanzhou camp. Xue Wanli, who got the news, immediately asked Chai Jia to come over and arranged for him to secretly lead his army around Quanzhou and set up an ambush south of Zhangzhou to eliminate Lu Guangmu's army in advance.

After arranging Chai Jia's affairs, Xue Wanli decisively invested his troops to increase the siege of the city, attracting the attention of the defenders in the city to himself. Speaking of which, it can be regarded as Xue Wanli's luck, Wang Chao came to Quanzhou by himself, thinking of taking Fan Hui while resisting the Tiance army, so the rear of Zhangzhou and Tingzhou is actually Wang Chao's power has declined sharply, otherwise it is impossible for Chai Jia's tens of thousands of troops to escape Wang Chao's eyes, even if Xuan Yingwei escorts along the way, it is very difficult.

However, at this time, in the Fuzhou headquarters, Hu Xiaosi was secretly planning another thing after seeing Su Xiaohu who was going south. He wants to add another one in addition to Wang Houchun's encirclement and refueling tactics.

"Little Four, do you really plan to let Xiaohu and them sneak into Quanzhou?" Yang Tiancheng didn't agree with Xuan Yingwei's plan, and frowned and said: "If Fan Hui is killed, is it possible to integrate Fan Hui's forces while resisting Xue Wanli with Wang Chao's ability, wouldn't it be impossible to steal chickens and rice at that time?" ”

"Tiancheng, you can rest assured. Xuan Yingwei has already been arranged in Quanzhou City, and when the time comes, provoke Fan Hui's generals to rebel against Wang Chao, originally the two of them have ghosts in their hearts, if Fan Hui dies, then everyone will know that Wang Chao did it. As long as we dial it a little bit in it, the good things in the city will definitely not be worse than you outside the city. Hu Xiaosi shook his head and smiled.

"If you're sure, go ahead. Maybe Fan Hui's death will become the key to breaking the game. Wang Houchun was very interested in Hu Xiaosi's approach, and said with a smile: "Without further ado, you let the Flying Eagle Brigade set off immediately, I heard that Xue Wanli has recently turned the Quanzhou front line into a weapons testing ground, and almost all the new weapons in the equipment department have been pulled out for testing." ”

"He has a very thorough understanding of the tactics of this encirclement and reinforcement." Yang Tiancheng was very curious about Xue Wanli's sudden enlightenment, and said with a smile: "Let's also set off to Quanzhou to see how much equipment the logistics department has transported this time." I don't know how the musket that the emperor said before has changed, I heard that Qin Yao of the equipment department has been looking for materials for more than half a year. His words aroused the interest of others, and as soon as they discussed, they immediately left Fuzhou and began to go to Quanzhou.

At this time, Quanzhou also officially became the focus of the offensive and defensive sides, affecting the mobilization of hundreds of thousands of troops on both sides. The Tiance army is well arranged, and the soldiers and horses mobilized by several feudal towns in the Lingnan Domain Alliance have also come in one after another. Lu Guangchou and Lu Yanchang even planned to draw some troops and horses to attack Jianzhou, so as to attract the Tiance army to come back, but they were vetoed by Liu Shizheng's envoys. In Liu Shizheng's view, only by holding Quanzhou can he attract the energy of most of the Tiance army, so that he can have the opportunity to attack Hengzhou to avenge his revenge. Liu Shizheng's opinion finally made Lu Guangchou give up his previous opinion and concentrate on relieving the siege of Quanzhou.

In this way, the battle that took the lead around Quanzhou took place near Zhangzhou, near Wang Chao's lair, the Tiance army was secretly lurking, and Lu Guangmu's army, which rushed to reinforce it, took the lead in firing. The troops led by Chai Jia took advantage of the terrain to surround Lu Guangmu's troops in one fell swoop, and quickly routed the most promising force that rushed to reinforcements in one fell swoop.

Before this news reached Zhangzhou, Quanzhou also began to undergo abnormal changes, and Fan Hui and Wang Chao, who had been at peace with each other, clashed again, and the two sides disagreed again on the issue of the defense of Beicheng, and gradually the contradictions intensified and began to erupt on the bright side. Wang Chao refused to send troops to defend the city, instead emphasizing that the northern city would be defended by Fan Hui's Min army alone until reinforcements arrived, and his own troops would wait in the city as a reserve queue.

Wang Chao's wishful thinking is that after the arrival of reinforcements, the forces of all parties will definitely fight a decisive battle with the Tiance army, so at this time, it is the best policy to try their best to consume the strength of the Fujian army and preserve themselves, and when the battle is over, Fan Hui has lost the power he relies on to support, and Fujian will inevitably fall into his hands. And Fan Hui had a thought at this time, that is, he must use the Tiance Army to consume Wang Chao to prevent him from losing his tail. The careful thinking of both sides finally buried the city of Quanzhou.

The contradiction between Wang Chao and Fan Hui gave Xuan Yingwei the best opportunity, and Su Xiaohu, who had secretly infiltrated, quickly formulated a plan and informed Hu Xiaosi, who had arrived outside Quanzhou, that he was ready to give Fan Hui a surprise attack at a critical moment and then blame Wang Chao, and asked the siege troops outside the city to cooperate.

Su Xiaohu's plan made Hu Xiaosi and others begin to adjust the pace of siege, Xue Wanli began to gather his thoughts, and increased the siege intensity, and the previous tests of various weapons were almost the same, and he began to officially attack the city. This force forced Fan Hui to ask Wang Chao to reinforce the defense of Beicheng. In his opinion, the sudden increase in the siege of the Tiance army must also be the news of reinforcements, trying to take Quanzhou before the arrival of his own reinforcements, and there will be no chance in the future without consuming the combat power of the Fujian army. Therefore, Wang Chao bit his bite and did not let go, that is, he no longer sent troops to support Fan Hui.

The contradictions between Fan Hui and Wang Chao in Quanzhou City were intensifying, while the reinforcements of Lu Guangchou and Lu Yanchang were intercepted by Li Tianyi and Qian Ning one after another. These two guys are typically impatient. Li Tianyi almost took the lead in attacking as soon as Lu Yanchang's troops arrived near Tingzhou, the cavalry corps almost never encountered an opponent in the south, and the 30,000 cavalry charged up so that Lu Yanchang, a feudal town army that had not seen the cavalry charge formation, almost collapsed directly, and the two sides almost did not fight, Li Tianyi led the army to break up the opponent's formation, and the chaotic troops fled in all directions, unable to organize an effective defense at all. Lu Yanchang's striker was shot off his horse by Li Tianyi's arrows. In addition to the inexplicable fight of this battle, Li Tian wondered whether he should also add some material at first, and began to drive the rout soldiers away from the vicinity of Tingzhou, and changed the opponent's military uniform, and used his own and Xuan Yingwei's secret guards to pretend to be Lu Yanchang's troops to send a letter to Quanzhou City, explaining that his troops were not far from Quanzhou, and asked the defenders in the city to be ready to respond, and said that they were ready to attack the Tiance army camp outside the city, hoping that the defenders in the city would be able to go out of the city to attack.

Not to mention that Li Tianyi's method really worked later, Wang Chao and Fan Hui directly began to scold each other publicly after getting the news, and even once Fan Hui asked Wang Chao to withdraw from Quanzhou, and Wang Chao's tolerance for Fan Hui also reached the limit. This point was immediately exploited by Su Xiaohu later, thus igniting the fuse of contradictions in Quanzhou City.

However, at this time, Lu Guangchou's soldiers and horses were unconsciously approaching Qian Ning's defense area, compared with Li Tianyi's impatience, Qian Ning finally had a little meaning to outwit, and after meeting Lu Guangchou near Fuzhou, he knew how to use the terrain to set up an ambush, and put on a four-sided encirclement formation to attack the opponent. At the same time, he concentrated his firepower to assault the opponent's Chinese army, killed the opponent's main general in one fell swoop, and captured all of Lu Guangchou's troops, but coincidentally, like Li Tianyi, Qian Ning also sent someone to pretend to inform the defenders of Quanzhou. However, Qian Ning also sent several defeated soldiers back to Lu Guangchou, informing Lu Guangchou that the front line was attacked and hoped to send reinforcements. Originally, Qian Ning planned to set up an ambush again in the same place to attack the opponent's second reinforcements. It's just that Lu Guangchou was too timid, and he was unwilling to send troops alone after the first group of men and horses was wiped out, and dragged Liu Shizheng's partial army on the road after several days, but at this time it was too late, and Quanzhou City had been breached.

Not only was he late, but Liu Yin's soldiers and horses in Guangzhou also got the news that Quanzhou had been broken through halfway. It's just that he didn't have Lu Guangchou's good luck, and at the moment he sent his troops, he was discovered by the Xu family's inner line in Guangzhou, and quickly reported it to Xuan Yingwei, so Chai Jia also urgently set off in Zhangzhou to intercept this army from the north of Chaozhou.

However, these are all later words, at this time, the main force of Chen Yu's brigade has also gone to the front line from near Jianzhou, and the command headquarters decisively implemented the second step plan after Hu Xiaosi's side was ready, and the main force of the Tiance Army drove southwest near Jianzhou, preparing to directly defeat Lu Yanchang and cut off the center of the entire Lingnan battlefield. At this time, Liu Shizheng's army had also gone to the city of Hengzhou, and the army gathered to prepare to attack Hengzhou. It's just that what he didn't know was that almost at the same moment, the main force of Xue Yang's Western Route Army suddenly emerged from northern Qianbei after disappearing for a long time, preparing to directly attack Shaozhou and Yongzhou. All of a sudden, the entire Lingnan and Southwest battlefields came to the moment of decisive battle at the same time. However, for Wang Houchun, it is not so much the implementation of the previous strategic plan as to take advantage of the situation, although the Fujian battlefield won the first battle, but his goal was not fully achieved, at least the soldiers and horses of Qi Qi, Liu Yin and Ye Guangluo did not enter Fujian. Fortunately, Xue Yang successfully entered the northern Qianbei region, which can be regarded as the biggest part of the entire plan.

"Okay, the situation on the battlefield has always been changeable, don't think so much, let's sit and watch Xiao Si achieve great success tonight." Yang Tiancheng knew Wang Houchun's thoughts, and said with a smile: "Fortunately, the ancient city of Quanzhou will be taken down immediately, and the navy will have a base for southward expansion." ”

Wang Houchun smiled, and the two stared at Quanzhou City in the distance for a long time.