"Hey, have you heard? Our lord led a lone army, directly crossed the land of Bingzhou, and ran to Cangzhou. "Outside the city of Linzhou, a large force of the Tiance army passed through the city, and a pair of soldiers bit their ears as they walked.

"That's right, didn't the lord lead the guard battalion last time and almost copied Li Ke's lair with this one-eyed dragon. I really envy the guys in the pro-guard camp, if we were also in the pro-guard camp, it is estimated that we would all be in Cangzhou City now. A person next to him whispered with admiration.

At this time, the first person said: "But it's a lonely army, and if we and those people on the northern front rush over, we will have to wait at least until November and December, so can we hold on?" I can't figure myself in. ”

"You've been fighting for more than a year, why are you still so afraid of death? Haven't you heard that the monthly allowance of the troops going to Cangzhou is twice that of ordinary wartime, do you know how much? Besides, where can there be no casualties in the war? Before he could finish his sentence, the person next to him immediately sneered.

Li Xuanqing led the team into Cangzhou over time has spread within the Tiance Army, but this move has aroused the morale of the troops, as the supreme commander personally committed danger, so that the bottom soldiers also feel a strong sense of urgency, the Western Front Corps after passing through Linzhou The troops were divided into two routes, all the way to Xue Wanli as the commander to attack Fenzhou, and the main force went south to Jinzhou to join Li Tianyi's Shaanzhou Corps.

"Tie Liang, how is the combat effectiveness of the heavy cavalry battalion recovering?" During the march, Yang Tiancheng and Tie Liang walked on the side.

"It's basically the same, the new recruits are still some combat run-in, and there are no other problems. By the way, will you transfer the third battalion of Hanzhong to make our southern front empty, if Hanzhong is attacked by surprise, we will be in big trouble. Tie Liang saw the banner of the third battalion from a distance and asked.

"Don't worry, the General Staff has already made arrangements, there are still a lot of left-behind personnel in the third battalion in Hanzhong, plus there are still two new battalions in Hanzhong that have been organized, and Zhang Cheng has also rushed to Hanzhong in person, there will be no problem." Yang Tiancheng waved his hand and said: "After taking Jinzhou, it is difficult to start a war with the Xuanwu Army in advance, you should be mentally prepared." ”

"I don't care, there is no difference between fighting the Jin Army and fighting the Xuanwu Army for me. It's just that the war potential of the Xuanwu army is much stronger than that of the Jin army. Does the General Staff have a plan? Tie Liang smiled indifferently.

Yang Tiancheng said with a smile: "I found out that when did you, a fierce general who only knows how to charge, also care about the overall situation?" Don't worry, Xiaosi went to the Eastern Capital, do you think Zhu Quanzhong can still have so much energy to pay attention to the front line. As long as we win the war, he will have to withdraw his troops, and then we can rush forward to meet the main public. ”

"Then speed it up. Hey, why is Xue Yang's speed so fast? Tiancheng, you see, the third battalion is running too fast, right? This is all caught up with the cavalry battalion. Following the direction of Tie Liang's finger, I saw a group of Tiance troops moving quickly, and the smoke and dust raised during the march were not inferior to the cavalry.

"That's the third battalion, the fastest unit in the infantry, otherwise how would I have brought them over?" Yang Tiancheng said: "The pro-guard order, the whole army accelerates, and the target is Jinju." ”

The news that the main force of the western front of the Tiance Army had entered Bingzhou in a big way also quickly reached the Xuanwu Army, and the front-line commander Ge Cunzhou received urgent information from the rear almost at the same time that the Tiance Army arrived under the city of Jinzhou.

"Heavenly King, Shigu, and the Tiance Army have arrived at Jinju City." The generals on Ge Cunzhou's side were basically the old troops of the Huangchao Uprising, and they found their partners Deng Tianwang and Pang Shigu as soon as they received the information.

"Marshal, we have just captured Qinzhou, do you want to organize the whole army to sneak attack the Tiance Army at this time? This can catch him off guard. Otherwise, it will be difficult to fight when they take Jinju. Deng Tianwang pondered for a moment.

"As far as I know, guarding Jinzhou is the Jin army general Liu Zhiyuan, I estimate that the Tiance army will not be able to take Jinzhou so easily, let's choose the elite to hide out of the city, and we can reach Jinzhou in one day and one night from Qinzhou. When the time comes, while they are in a hurry to attack the city, a sneak attack from behind will definitely have a miraculous effect. Deng Tianwang pointed to the terrain between the two cities and said: "There are many mountainous areas around Qinzhou, if we attack and defend aliens, although we can defend according to the danger, but at the same time lose the initiative, then Luzhou and other places will inevitably be occupied by the other party, and we will not be able to complete the task of the lord." Deng Tianwang continued.

Ge Cunzhou nodded and said, "What the Heavenly King said makes sense, our nearly 100,000 troops are stationed in Qinzhou City, which is not a good thing in itself. In this case, Heavenly King, you choose the elite 30,000 people to advance lightly, and act when the opportunity arises, I will let Shi Gu lead troops to meet you at the foot of Taihang Mountain. ”

"Please rest assured, the last general will definitely take the Tiance army by surprise." The two took the order and left. Although what Deng Tianwang said made sense, Ge Cunzhou still vaguely felt that something was wrong, but after studying the map for a long time, he didn't find anything wrong.

In order not to be discovered by the other party's sentinels, Deng Tianwang deliberately chose to go out of the city in the dark, but it was impossible for no one to notice such a big movement of tens of thousands of people, and the Xuanwu army occupied Qinzhou for less than ten days, so there was no time to operate, although Zheng Fan's subordinates entered Qinzhou one step earlier, but Zheng Fan's attention was not in the north, and Zhu Quanzhong's decision to send troops to Qinzhou was too sudden, and the intelligence organization of the Xuanwu Army did not have time to arrange in Qinzhou. On the other hand, on the side of the Tiance Army, Xuanyingwei has sprinkled his eyeliner in almost every place in Bingzhou, Qinzhou, as the junction of the Jin Army and the Xuanwu Army, is also the center point of intelligence exchanges between the two sides, the layout here is particularly important, and the strategy of the Tiance Army has always been very clear, so the world in Qinzhou City is almost the monopoly of Xuanyingwei's family, and even overshadowed the Jin Army.

Although Deng Tianwang's movements were hidden, what he didn't know was that he was under the surveillance of Xuan Yingwei throughout the whole process, and when Yang Tiancheng got the news, even Deng Tianwang had not left the Qinzhou boundary.

"Xue Yang, you and Wu Huan immediately led the army to Sandaowan in the east of Jinzhou to ambush and prepare to ambush the incoming army of the Xuanwu Army." Yang Tiancheng urgently summoned Xue Yang to his handsome tent and said, "The cavalry corps has set off, and your third battalion will set off immediately." After saying that, he handed him the information in his hand.

Xue Yang just glanced at it, nodded and took the order. Suddenly, Yang Tiancheng was left alone in the handsome tent, staring at the map in a daze.

And when Yang Tiancheng was pondering the war, Chen Fan of the northern front had also gathered all the troops in his hands, compared to Yang Tiancheng's side, which basically relied on infantry to fight the world, the northern front is now strong and strong.

"Ladies and gentlemen, the northern front has General Tuoba as the vanguard, commanding the Fifth Army Corps, the Third Army Corps and the Steppe Cavalry Battalion to advance along the northern road, focusing on recovering Jizhou, taking all the states bordering the Khitans, and the main force will set off from Ulzhou and enter Youzhou eastward. After the end, two infantry battalions of the Fifth Army Corps were used to defend Jizhou and Danzhou respectively, and the two cavalry battalions were led by General Tuoba himself to defend the northern front. Chen Fan pointed to the map and commanded.

"Marshal, is this suspicious of dividing troops?" Hou Yong pointed to the territory of Youzhou and said with a wry smile: "We still don't have enough manpower for such a large territory. ”

"The Youbei operation is mainly mobile warfare, supplemented by defensive tactics. If necessary, you can abandon the city and attack the opponent's living forces. Chen Fan reminded Tuoba Siji: "Li Keyong in the Youbei region has not been recovered for a long time, and the people are not convinced, so there will be no difficulty in recovering it, but winter has come, and it is now mid-October, and the weather in Youbei has become cold, so you have to pay attention." ”

"The Northern Front Brigade then dispatched to wait for an opportunity to take Youzhou after General Tuoba took the important town of Youbei, control the Youzhou Plain, and let the army survive the winter safely." Chen Fan pointed to Youzhou Road.

"So how do we cooperate with the lord? Is it too difficult to rely on the Western Front Corps to open up the east-west passage alone? Hou Yong saw that Chen Fan didn't mention Cangzhou at all, and immediately asked.

"Who said I didn't cooperate with my lord?" Chen Fan glanced at Hou Yong and said, "According to our plan, the Yellow River should also freeze after taking Youzhou." At that time, all the cavalry troops were in Youzhou, responding to the border towns in the north to prevent the Khitans from moving south, and the infantry led by Liu Baoliang went south to cross the territory of Li Congwei and Liu Rengong to support Cangzhou. If these two men rob in the middle of the journey, destroy them on the spot. ”

Chen Fan said this, along his marching route, he could rush to Cangzhou one step ahead of the Western Front Corps, so everyone felt that there was no problem with this plan, and immediately reorganized the army and began to set off for Ulzhou, and then Tuoba Siji led the forward troops from Ulzhou to Xinzhou and Wuzhou, and Chen Fan led the main force from Ulzhou to the east into Youzhou.

Compared with the Western Front, the Northern Front felt particularly important for the urgency of time, and the Logistics Department had already issued winter clothes to all units. Many soldiers carried their winter clothes on their backs.

However, when the two main forces of the Tiance Army were dispatched one after another to prepare for the battle around Cangzhou, the night attack designed by Li Xuanqing was also officially launched. Su Xiaohu led the Flying Eagle Brigade to infiltrate Wang Yanzhang's camp, and a fire burned the baggage camp, and then the soldiers were divided into two roads, one way Su Xiaohu led the Xuanwu Army soldiers who came to fight the fire, continued to grow the fire, and attracted more people to the baggage camp, and the other under the personal leadership of Li Xuanqing touched the southeast direction of Wang Yanzhang's digging pit, ready to break the opponent's countermeasures in one fell swoop.

At this time, the camp of the Xuanwu Army was already in chaos, Su Xiaohu, who was afraid that the world would not be chaotic, had successfully put the fire from the baggage camp to other places, and in the darkness the other party did not know how many people came from the Tiance Army, and Su Xiaohu and others were setting fire to the thieves while shouting to catch the thief, causing the area around the baggage camp to become more and more chaotic, and the situation became more and more difficult to control. The fire grew stronger in the night, and new tents were being lit all the time, fueled by the dry October weather in the Cangzhou region.

In the end, even Wang Yanzhang arrived at the scene, commanding the guards to kill all the chaotic soldiers like headless flies, and the bloody scene gradually deterred these soldiers who were burned by the fire and did not know the direction, at this time the scene began to be controlled, but at this time most of the materials of the baggage battalion had basically been ignited, although Wang Yanzhang tried his best to put out the fire after stabilizing the situation, but how could it be so easy to extinguish in a short time, plus the Flying Eagle Brigade focused all its attention on the soldiers who put out the fire at this time, The rapid dark arrows kept shooting those soldiers holding pots and buckets, so that Wang Yanzhang didn't know what to do for a while, knowing that Wang Yantong was also here, the two brothers divided the labor, one presided over the fire extinguishing, and the other began to lead the team to encircle and suppress the Flying Eagle Brigade, so that the situation was opened.

However, at this time, Su Xiaohu concentrated the manpower of his Flying Eagle Brigade and began to retreat to the southeast, and drove the fire to the southeast, but there was no detective in this part of the area, so it was too difficult to walk through, but fortunately, this fire made the defense of the entire camp extremely relaxed, otherwise it would be too difficult for hundreds of them to cross safely.

At this time, the Flying Eagle Brigade led by Li Xuanqing rushed headlong into the ambush area arranged by Wang Yantong, but obviously the enemy predicted by Wang Yantong should be attacking from the periphery, so many arrangements and manpower were designed outside the camp, and they were suddenly blinded by the enemy behind them. But the group of soldiers of the Flying Eagle Brigade soon noticed that the elite level of the soldiers in ambush was much better than that of the soldiers in other parts of the camp, these soldiers who were still wearing silver armor and holding spears in the dark were very good at each move, and they also had a very good degree of adaptation to the upheaval, and they were calm in the face of trouble, and after the Flying Eagle Brigade killed several leaders of the other side, the remaining soldiers did not mess up, but spontaneously formed a formation to stabilize the defeat and retreat.

"San'er, you lead the team to shoot the opponent behind, and I will lead the team to charge." Li Xuanqing divided his men into two teams, and with more than a hundred people to form a diamond-shaped arrow, he rushed directly to the opponent's command center, and at the same time let people release smoke rockets and notify the outer guard battalions to start joining the battle group.

Li Xuanqing, as an arrow, naturally no one can stop the small detachment composed of this group of soldiers, especially since the other party is also a kind of unit similar to the Flying Eagle Brigade, in a one-on-one situation, the Flying Eagle Brigade broke through as if it was devastated, and Li Xuanqing killed a silver-armored general in charge of his command with a sword. Thus the army began to break up. At this time, Su Xiaohu also arrived, the two merged, and the Flying Eagle Brigade of five hundred people no longer pursued killing the enemy at this time, but took advantage of the situation to destroy the ambush facilities here, destroyed all kinds of killing facilities, and began to set fire, this time the fire was not as fast as the baggage battalion, but Li Xuanqing did not ask for this, but just used the fire to remind the guard battalion outside that had begun to charge, and wherever there was a fire, there was an ambush. In this way, under the response of the Flying Eagle Brigade, the rolling iron hooves of the pro-guard battalion quickly passed through the blockade of the Xuanwu Army outside the camp and entered the camp.

At this point, this small-scale attack around the night attack is over, but the problem in front of Wang Yanzhang's brothers is even more difficult to choose, after the swallows were repelled by the Flying Eagle Brigade, the other ambushes were also successfully bypassed by the Guards Battalion, those soldiers who were disguised as ambushes were found to be difficult to block the cavalry charge of the Guards Battalion, and the cavalry of more than 30,000 people galloped across the Xuanwu Army camp, and its destruction was not comparable to the hundreds of people in the Flying Eagle Brigade.

"Quickly pass the order, let each army cover and evacuate the camp, retreat in the direction from Cangzhou to Jingzhou, let's go find the commander." Wang Yanzhang saw that it was unsustainable at this time, so he decisively ordered a retreat, and personally commanded his own personal guards to break off, which was regarded as ensuring the safety of tens of thousands of troops, but he had no choice but to give up the entire battalion.

So far, this night attack has received unexpected results, and Li Xuanqing has successfully used this night attack to delay the time for the Xuanwu army to attack Cangzhou.