"Lord, this is the latest battle report sent from Jingzhou Flying Pigeon." Since Xu Tianxiang had already transferred most of the personnel of the General Staff to sit in the advance headquarters of the Shenzhou Central Plains Campaign, and the person in charge of the General Staff who remained in Chang'an had also become Liu Xuan, a first-class operational staff officer of the Operations Department, he saw Li Xuanqing walking into the operations hall of the General Staff and hurriedly handed Li Xuanqing the information he had just received.

"Come, let's talk about it, can Xue Yang's strategy work?" Li Xuanqing looked at the information, and suddenly found that this Liu Xuan was frowning and staring at the sand table beside him in contemplation, and couldn't help but smile. Liu Xuan, like Chen Fan's chief of staff Liu Yi, is a top student of the staff department trained by the Military Academy, and he is not able to go to the front line to command the troops, but he is a good hand at staff intelligence, formulating campaign plans, etc.

"Lord Qiqi, the key to this battle is not whether Marshal Xue's tactics can succeed, but whether General Xu Ying can withstand Zhang Guihou. If he can withstand it, then the Jingzhou war can be completely reversed. Liu Xuan replied honestly.

"It seems that I usually do my homework well. But fighting a war is not as simple as putting a sign on the sand table and drawing an arrow. Li Xuanqing nodded, but he was a little dissatisfied with the disapproval in Liu Xuan's eyes, the pride of the Tiance Army was overflowing, and he should find a way to suppress it, otherwise if this aura spread to the field units below, it would be a big deal, thinking of this, he continued: "The basic personnel of the General Staff Department this year are not in wartime rotation training, which unit are you sent to?" ”

"The Ninth Legion." Liu Xuan heard Li Xuanqing suddenly ask this, and hurriedly stood up and replied.

Li Xuanqing nodded, put the information on the table, and said as he walked out: "Gao Siji is a veteran general who can fight habitually, you can learn a lot from him as chief of staff, and you can also see that you have a lot of shortcomings, I hope that when you come back from this rotation training, you can understand why the General Staff Department has promulgated the regulations on the rotation training of staff officers." ”

Li Xuanqing left, leaving Liu Xuan to stand alone in place, a little unintelligible Li Xuanqing's meaning, but when he really came back from the Ninth Legion, he found out how much meaning Li Xuanqing's words brought to him.

At this time, on the Jingzhou front, Xue Yang found Li Yang after discussing with Xu Ying, told him about his plan and asked for his opinion.

"Please rest assured, Li Yang will complete the task. There is just a request, please give me a chance to give the 15th battalion, and the last general wants to take the 15th battalion to complete the commander's military order. Li Yang saluted.

Li Yang's words made Xue Yang frown, and said thoughtfully: "You should understand how important this bait fishing task is, are you sure that the fifteenth battalion can handle it?" ”

"The last general is willing to make a military order." Li Yang knelt down on one knee and said: "The last will be a human guarantee, please give the fifteenth battalion a chance, give Jingzhou a chance, so that the brothers of the fifteenth battalion can truly integrate into the Tiance army and become a sword in the hands of the lord." ”

"Okay, I'll let you take the fifteenth battalion with you. You immediately go to rectify it, set off in concealment after half an hour, for half a month, you make your own specific battle plan, anyway, there is only one goal, then give me a complete mess of Zhongzhou, the logistics base of the Xuanwu Army, and force Zhang Guihou to transfer troops from the front line to help, and then you intercept and kill halfway. Xue Yang nodded and said, "After you left the team, all the contacts relied on Xuan Yingwei to prevent Zhang Guihou from sending someone to intercept your letters." ”

After Li Yang marched and saluted, he stepped out to make preparations for the expedition. Xue Yang was thinking about whether he could do something after vacating the third battalion. You must know that according to the current strength of the third battalion, with the strength of one battalion, it can almost suppress an opponent three times its size, plus Xu Ying's mountain battalion, which is almost not inferior, so according to Xue Yang's algorithm, the 40,000 people in his hands can almost be equal to the strength of the opponent's 70,000 or 80,000 people. Therefore, as long as Zhang Guihou sends troops back to help, then he can fight a field battle with the other party one-on-one, and the first battle completely interrupts Xie Tong's strategic deployment.

So after breaking up with Li Yang, Xue Yang returned to his handsome tent again, pulled Xu Ying and began to plan his own ideas, and immediately arranged for the big battalion to start covering Li Yang's actions, and after the two discussed, they deliberately changed the banner and let the third battalion move to the garrison of the fifteenth battalion. For the current Zhang Guihou, Xue Yang and his third battalion can be regarded as the most difficult enemy in the Tiance Army, coming and going freely and the dragon can not see the end, which is not at all something that humans can deal with.

And the inexplicable disappearance of the third battalion also made the brain nerves of the commander of the Xuanwu Army tense up all of a sudden, and almost immediately sent all the spies in the army, even the personal guards with Wang Yanzhang were also suffered, and several good men inside were also arrested.

"Dashuai, are we a little sensitive?" Wang Yanzhang was taken aback by Zhang Guihou's actions, and hurriedly came over to ask what was going on.

"You haven't been beaten enough by Xue Yang's monster-like army, have you? It's a monster that can outrun four legs on two legs. Zhang Guihou smiled bitterly: "I'd rather go to Li Xuanqing's personal guard to fight than fight with Xue Yang, how can I fight if I can't outrun others?" ”

"Actually, Dashuai, we now have 150,000 people, if we don't go out of the camp to fight, the last general will definitely be able to defeat the Tiance army of less than 50,000 people on the opposite side." Wang Yanzhang was a little puzzled by Zhang Guihou's layout.

"Yanzhang, I'll be honest with you now, we didn't come to Jingzhou to occupy Jingzhou, but to wait for the opportunity to gallop to Niu Cunjie. This is the secret mission that Xie Junshi explained to me before leaving. Zhang Guihou sighed: "Originally, I planned to be able to attract the attention of the southern and western fronts of the Tiance Army after the defeat of Anzhou City, so that I could secretly lead the army north, but I was caught off guard by Xue Yang. Now it seems that we should not be greedy to fight Anzhou at that time, if we don't care about it after a false shot under Anzhou City, we are afraid that Xie Junshi's plan can be realized. ”

"Then since this is the case, then we should take the initiative to attack, taking advantage of Xue Yang's strength at this time is only 50,000 people, if his third battalion goes to perform other tasks, we will break his main force in one fell swoop, so that no matter what his third battalion does, nothing can be changed." After Wang Yanzhang knew Xie Tong's plan, he was also silent for a long time, and suddenly said.

Zhang Guihou nodded and said, "You and I have a piece, so I will find a way to find out what Xue Yang's third battalion is doing." ”

"Is the marshal afraid that Xue Yang will hide the third battalion in the snow and carry out the task of beheading on the battlefield at a critical time?" Wang Yanzhang asked, but then nodded: "That's right, this is almost the most favorite thing for the Tiance Army to do." If Dashuai has this idea, we should also prepare. ”

"It's okay, I'll leave all the pre-war preparations to you, and from now on, I, the commander, will be personally in charge of intelligence, and I must find a way to find out the movements of the third battalion." Zhang Guihou nodded.

But what the two obviously didn't know was that just when they were trying to investigate the whereabouts of the third battalion, Li Yang had already led the army to secretly detour to the Xuanwu Army's jurisdiction, preparing to carry out Xue Yang's plan. Compared with other generals who generally explain specific tasks, Xue Yang's plan is quite casual, just telling a time and goal, and nothing else is said, everything is left to Li Yang to decide. If this style of doing things is replaced by an honest general, then there is basically no possibility of completion.

Therefore, Li Yang threw all the chores such as the marching route to the deputy general, sat on horseback and held the map, and kept thinking about how to complete the strategy of attracting the shopkeeper to send troops back to help. To be honest, if you were to change to yourself, it is estimated that it will be impossible to pay attention to what your back road is, but to single-mindedly defeat the main enemy force on the opposite side, so that you can complete your mission. However, the commanders of the two sides began to turn around in place, one was not in a hurry to attack, and the other was thinking about how to divide the opponent's soldiers, and was unwilling to fight in the field.

"Fighting in the field?" After a few words in Li Yang's mouth, he suddenly had an idea, and began to ask the deputy general to urge the troops to speed up. The 15th Battalion had also learned a lot of running skills when they had fought alongside the 3rd Battalion before, so this acceleration suddenly made the soldiers below feel as if they were really running like that. But soon those soldiers with keen senses found that their direction seemed to have changed unconsciously, which didn't seem to be the Zhongzhou that they said when they set off. This is going straight north.

"General, didn't the marshal say let's go to Zhongzhou? Where are we going? "The adjutant general of the 15th battalion, Li Yang, was brought over by Cheng Xiaojun from the past, named Zheng Qi, and he was an old man who enlisted with him, but at this moment he couldn't understand what his master was going to do.

"Zhongzhou is a remote city, and the sensation is not big, so I plan to change my mind and attack Caizhou directly." Li Yang said with a smile, "Caizhou is an important town in the rear of the Xuanwu Army, and it was also taken by Zhu Quanzhong from the previous Qin Zongquan. If we take Caizhou under a surprise attack, we will inevitably contain the entire rear of the entire Xuanwu Army, and there will be a chain reaction in all battlefields of our Tiance Army at that time. However, according to Zhu Quanzhong's current use of troops, the one who can immediately return to the aid and the closest distance is Zhang Guihou. ”

"The general is smart, the last general heard that Qin Zongquan still had a treasure trove before, and the rumors are boiling, let's look for it this time, maybe we can bring back a treasure or something for the lord." Zheng Qi was taken aback by Li Yang's thoughts, but then understood what was going on and smiled.

"Let the whole army put away all the banners of the 15th Battalion, and we will also pretend to be a tiger once, pretending to be the third battalion of the commander, and we can't play our own banners when we do bad things." Li Yang was also moved in his heart and said with a smile.

In this way, the fifteenth battalion changed its clothes while marching, and drove towards Caizhou at a high speed under the banner of the third battalion.

However, in this way, Xue Yang's bait tactics were changed beyond recognition, and the whole became a tactic of attacking him to save the siege and send reinforcements.

Li Yang's side quickly changed his practice of not hiding his whereabouts and appearing in the hinterland of the Xuanwu Army, and naturally he was quickly discovered by the Xuanwu Army, and the news was quickly sent to Zhu Quanzhong's base camp Bianzhou. By the time Li Yang marched to three hundred miles away from Caizhou, the Xuanwu Army's base camp had also received a message. Zhu Quanzhong was taken aback after getting the news, and hurriedly asked about the countermeasures, although Caizhou has been destroyed by war, but its own geographical location is too important, once Caizhou falls, it will inevitably make the surrounding Chenzhou, Yingzhou and Xuzhou and other surrounding states and counties, and it will also affect the overall layout of the Xuanwu army. Therefore, Xie Tong could only agree to Zhu Quanzhong's rescue plan in desperation. However, he knew too well what Tiance Army was thinking at this time, so although he agreed, he instructed Zheng Fan to issue an order three days later, and Starry Night sent someone to inform Zhang Guihou, hoping that he would try to resolve it.

At this time, Xue Yang also received the military report sent back by Li Yang, compared to Xu Ying, Xue Yang nodded and secretly began to ask the accompanying Xuan Yingwei to cooperate with Li Yang to start implementing the new plan. However, Biao Zi, who was in Bianzhou, discussed with Zhao Si, who came back from Huainan, at this time whether to make a fuss with Xie Tong's plan handed over from the inside. However, at this time, the two did not know Xue Yang's plans, and Zhao Si planned to disrupt the rear of the Xuanwu Army and create a condition for Yang Xingmi, who had just persuaded him to send troops. So the two of them decided to make this matter bigger. Only if it is made bigger will it cause chaos within the Xuanwu Army, which may weaken the pressure on the Huainan side, and if the Xuanwu Army can be forced to draw troops from the Huainan direction to return to help, then the possibility will be more than one and a half stars.

"Fourth, what if we mess up Xue Yang's kid's plan? Isn't he attacking Caizhou on his side? Do you really want to make it public to him? Biaozi said a little surprised.

"Don't worry, you see, that kid Xue Yang must be eager for us to spread the news to him, only in this way can Zhang Guihou's side withdraw the army and return to help." Zhao Si smiled and said, "Biaozi, don't you know this kid's temperament?" Didn't he dare to lead the army to attack Caizhou just to attract Zhang Guihou to come back for help. As long as Zhang Guihou divides his troops, he will inevitably be defeated by each of them. I'm sure Xu Ying, this kid has been sharpening his knives a long time ago. ”

"Okay, say okay, if the boss wants to make trouble then, I'll say it's your ghost idea." Biaozi also laughed.

"Then you hurry up and arrange it, this Bianzhou is your territory, and I plan to let you invite me to have a good time." I heard that little Chang'e has come out again recently, let's go and see it too? Zhao Si said with a smile.

Biao Zi also smiled, called his deputy, and then stood up and pulled Zhao Si out of the door. With the dispatch of these two intelligence officers, Xie Tong's arrangement and the drastic changes in Caizhou also quickly spread in Bianzhou City, and accompanied by the flying pigeon transmission of the secret guard, it quickly spread in the major military towns. This change caught Zheng Fan off guard, so he could only hurriedly and quickly send a letter to Zhang Guihou, asking him not to delay and quickly send troops back to help.

However, when the secret confrontation began on the Bianzhou side, Li Yang, who was preparing to sneak attack outside Caizhou City, probably never thought that his actions would cause such a big reaction, and as time went by, his reaction was gradually fermenting.

"Zheng Qi, arrange manpower to prepare for a sneak attack on the city gate, the personal guards will concentrate on preparing for street battles, and the others will prepare for me, as long as the city gate breaks through, I will be killed immediately." Li Yang shook his head after arranging for Zheng Qi to sneak attack the city gate, it seems that in addition to the geographical location and political role of this Caizhou, it seems that it is really not good, and from a distance it is not as good as Anzhou City, and the destruction of Qin Zongquan in the early years is really difficult to recover in a short time.

"Go and send a message to the marshal, Caizhou City has been taken, and it will definitely be known to everyone in the Xuanwu Military District within five days." Li Yang watched Zheng Qi lead people to rush in, and smiled at the herald behind him.