Biaozi and Ge Cunzhou talked all night outside the capital of Kitahara, and the two stared at the walls of the capital of Kitahara with red eyes the next morning, still glaring at each other. For Biaozi's method, Ge Cunzhou felt a chill from the bottom of his heart, in fact, until now he still disagrees with this approach, as a battlefield general, it is really not suitable for him to play conspiracy, not to mention that in his opinion, Biaozi is a typical joke about his more than 30,000 people, a bad one, not only will he be ruined, but also let his 30,000 brothers under his command be charged with treason. Moreover, he believes that this kind of situation on the peninsula does not need this kind of strategy, as long as he does not make mistakes, there will be no problem in uniting with Liu Yi's corps in the northeast to push south, and there is no room for resistance in the face of the strong strength of the Eastern Expeditionary Army with the coalition army temporarily formed in the south.

However, Biao Zi did not agree with this brainless advance flow, and analyzed his situation from his point of view and Hu Xiaosi, the current war on three sides of the empire must do everything possible to shorten the war time, otherwise not only will it not be able to complete the task of supporting the war with war issued by Li Xuanqing, but it will even lead to a sharp decline in the empire's economy, after all, in addition to the peninsula in charge of the Eastern Expeditionary Army, whether it is the northwest where the war is in full swing or the Tibetan area that has just begun, All are wars that take a long time and the terrain limits require massive attrition to destroy the opponent. This is also the reason why Hu Xiaosi finally decided to let Biao Zi intervene in the eastern battlefield, Xuan Yingwei must find a way to help the army end the eastern battlefield as soon as possible, so as to control the cost of war within the affordable range of the empire to the greatest extent, so that the wealth captured on the peninsula and the market brought to the domestic industry can effectively promote the development of the empire's economy. At this point, Ge Cunzhou's considerations are naturally incomparable. However, after Biaozi couldn't convince Ge Cunzhou, he simply pulled him and immediately set off towards the Andong Protectorate to find Chen Fan, as long as Chen Fan had a clear military order, then Ge Cunzhou's worries would not exist, and his own ideas would be realized. Biaozi has dug a big hole for his old opponent and is waiting for him to jump down, so there must be no mistakes.

After Ge Cunzhou was pulled away by Biaozi, the fifteenth corps under his command suddenly stood still outside the capital of Beiyuan, and there was no too urgent request for the current Eastern Expeditionary Army to attack the city, and Beiyuan Jing, as the capital of Goryeo, had a lot of gold and silver wealth in it, and Xuan Yingwei did not plan to attack the city directly before the news of the proper arrangement, so it was not a big problem for him, the commander, to leave the army at this time.

When the two came to the Andong Metropolitan Protectorate, Chen Fan was also about to go south with the headquarters, but after seeing the two of them arrive, he suddenly stopped, Chen Fan glanced at Biaozi with interest and smiled: "It seems that you didn't talk well along the way?" Isn't it frustrated? ”

Chen Fan's reaction made the two of them stunned, Biao Zi was okay, at least he had a simple communication with Chen Fan before, but he didn't expect Chen Fan to guess that he would go to Ge Cunzhou, but Ge Cunzhou was different, the commander of the Eastern Expeditionary Army, who had always been very steady in his eyes, seemed to agree with Xuan Yingwei's plan at this moment, so he stood up directly, and didn't even care about the teacup sent by the staff officer, so he was stunned and said: "Dashuai, you won't let me defect too, right?" This is too difficult for me, and the emperor will be suspicious of me if this matter is not good. ”

"What's so bad? This is the latest instruction sent by the emperor to the General Staff Officer. Chen Fan looked at Ge Cunzhou's anxious face and picked up a copy of the base camp instruction he had just received and said: "The emperor said that Ge Cunzhou will never rebel and is a loyal and good general of the Tang Empire, so the general doesn't have to worry, rest assured to carry out the plan specified by Xuan Yingwei." After a pause, he looked at Ge Cunzhou and said solemnly after reading Li Xuanqing's evaluation: "I won't say much else, I just want to reiterate here that the strategic tasks and combat methods of the Eastern Expeditionary Army and the Western Expeditionary Army are completely different, and the army in the northwest takes a long time and needs to assist the civil affairs officer to deal with local contradictions at any time." Because the northwest is vast, there are hundreds of tribes of all sizes living in the huge Anxi homeland, and there are very few traces of the existence of my Datang there after losing the ruling power of Anxi for a hundred years, and even the local people have forgotten that the former central dynasty is the real master there, so it is necessary to continue to fight and even frontal field battles to completely crush the confidence of all tribes to rebel, and fight them until they are completely frightened to be able to establish the foundation of our Tang Dynasty rule on a ruin. In addition, the northwest road is far away, and the grasslands, mountains, deserts, and Gobi along the way are continuous, crisscrossing thousands of miles, and every war requires the empire to go all out to ensure logistics supply, so the goal set by the General Staff for the Western Expeditionary Army is to completely stabilize a place under the ground, and use the method of encroachment step by step to incorporate Anxi into the empire's territory little by little, so that where the war is fought, our logistics and civil affairs will be stabilized, which is the real solution to the logistical pressure, and those areas will really become the help of the empire rather than a drag. Chen Fan said here and continued: "The Tibetan area is almost the same as the northwest, and even because it is located on the plateau, the test for our Tiance army is more severe, and the pressure on logistics is also greater, so the only thing that can speed up and shorten the war time is our eastern battlefield. The Samhan Peninsula is a small area, and it has close ties with our interior, and geographically it is close to the northern industrial belt that we are building with all our might, relying on convenient shipping we can quickly concentrate the main force to eliminate the opponent, and because of the proximity to the Central Plains, the time we need to polish after the war will be shortened, so the way our army should be disposed of is the opposite of the northwest, as soon as possible to defeat the resistance and then incorporate it into the empire's territory, and the subsequent civil reform and assimilation because it is very close to the core area of the empire, Therefore, the time spent will be shorter and the difficulty will be less. ”

"So what the army is thinking about at this time is how to end the war as soon as possible and reduce the burden on the empire." Biao Zi took Chen Fan's words and continued: "Although the method designated by our Xuan Ying Wei is more risky than your military's original strategy, relatively speaking, sometimes intrigue can speed up the course of the war and allow us to end this war as soon as possible. After Biao Zi finished speaking, he looked at Ge Cunzhou in front of him and said solemnly: "So General Ge, please temporarily grieve for the sake of the empire, fortunately, the emperor knows the general's loyalty, and will not discriminate against you and the 15th Corps." ”

"Well, it seems like I can't say no." Ge Cunzhou smiled bitterly: "Don't worry, Cunzhou is not a stubborn person, since the emperor trusts me, then what else do I have to say?" Anyway, I'm also a member of the empire, and I should do my best for the development of the empire, so if you have any tricks, just come, I promise to remember. ”

"Okay, Biaozi, tell all your plans, and I'll fill in the gaps for you." Chen Fan saw Ge Cunzhou nodding and waved his hand to signal Biao Zi to explain his plan and plan.

"It's very simple, I have already found out that Zheng Fan will soon lead the main force of the army north to fight a decisive battle near Beiyuan Jing, and the specific fighter plane should be that when the 15th Corps is attacking the city, he will attack from behind, so as to combine the aid of the Korean people and the killing and wounding of our army. My plan is that when the time comes, General Ge will feign defeat and retreat, retreat west from the vicinity of Beiyuan Jing, and take Zhongyuan Jing as the destination, and then the commander will send someone to reprimand you, and you will pretend to have a conflict with the commander, causing discord between the generals in front. Biaozi's words made Ge Cunzhou puzzled and said: "There are too many flaws in this strategy, Zheng Fan knows this person very well, so he can't easily believe me, and he will be able to calculate it." ”

"All he wants is that he will do what he wants." Biao Zi smiled: "He naturally won't believe you, but he won't demolish you, and he will definitely be false to you, so that he can use you to dig a pit for us to jump." The most important thing in my plan is the back, he wants to dig a pit for us to jump, I also want to dig a pit for him to jump, and not only him, but also the Silla people in the southeast. According to the news that our Xuanying Guard Detective heard, Zheng Fan has already said that the Silla people will fight against our army together, so when our army gathers in Bukwonkyung, the Silla people will definitely not be willing to lag behind, according to my understanding of Zheng Fan, he must have let the Silla people rush behind us along the eastern coastline of the peninsula and attack Lintun County, on the one hand, contact the local resistance forces in Goryeo who were overwhelmed by us, and on the other hand, lead the army to start a detour to attack Changkou to disrupt our rear supply lines, and even directly attack the Andong Metropolitan Protectorate, In this case, we will definitely lose contact with our army in front and behind, and we will find ourselves in a situation where we will be exposed to the enemy on our backs. Biao Zi guessed Zheng Fan's arrangement almost word for word like a roundworm in Zheng Fan's stomach, nodded and said: "This guy is very insidious, on the surface, he is leading the main force of Liang State to face us head-on, and handed over the task of this sneak attack to the Silla people to show his sincerity, in fact, this kind of long-distance attack is too difficult under the situation that the Silla people have no intelligence support, as long as one of the links is not operated well, the entire army will be destroyed, and he can sit on the profits of the fisherman at that time." , waiting for us to draw troops from the front line and go back to exterminate the Silla people, and use tricks to break our front-line army in one fell swoop. Biao Zi glanced at Ge Cunzhou and said with a smile: "The role of General Ge will be evident at this time, you will definitely be a pawn for him to use at that time, he will completely divide the relationship between you and the marshal, and seize the time to surround you while creating contradictions, so that the marshal can not only distract the war to exterminate the Silla people in the rear but also divide the troops to rescue you, and he will have a calm time to plan all the flaws of our army." ”

Biaozi's analysis made Ge Cunzhou gasp, but after thinking of Zheng Fan's personality and scheming, he had to agree with his speculation. Among the three major strategists under Zhu Quanzhong back then, Zheng Fan, Xie Tong and Jing Xiang were completely different, because they had been running Zhu Quanzhong's intelligence organization for a long time, they had developed a gloomy temperament, and they were full of scheming so that everyone had a chilling feeling when facing him. In fact, Xuan Yingwei is the same, which is also the reason why Hu Xiaosi likes gags, he doesn't like this kind of temperament, but many times it is unconsciously exuded, so he thought of another way.

However, Biaozi's analysis did not make Chen Fan feel a little flustered, but continued to look at Biaozi and smiled without saying a word, which made Biaozi a little embarrassed, in all fairness, Zheng Fan's arrangements except for Ge Cunzhou's piece, other sneak attacks by the Silla people, etc., really did not surprise the commander of the Eastern Expeditionary Army in front of him. Because in the case that his army has almost wiped out most of Goryeo, as long as he has a slight sense of distress, he will think of uniting with other forces to fight against the strong enemy in the north, and at this time, Zheng Fan came with sincerity and volunteered to lead the army to block the front, it is not surprising that the Silla people's way of making moves, plus Chen Fan is the most favorite defensive commander among the high-level of the Tiance Army, but as long as he makes a move, the other party has almost no way to break his arrangement. Therefore, even if they did not expect that the Silla people would run long distances to attack their rear, the other party must have left enough backhands to deal with the Silla people as soon as they appeared.

"Do you think there's something wrong with the marshal?" After looking at each other slightly, Biaozi was defeated, so he had to speak.

However, after he spoke, Chen Fan shook his head and said: "I talked to your commander when I was in Chang'an before, and he said that the spy is invisible, and he is always able to anticipate the enemy's aircraft first, and can see through the opponent's layout one step in advance and then calmly play his own chess pieces, it seems that you are more in line with the situation he said than the one opposite." I have no opinion, you don't need to worry about military deployment, I will take advantage of the opportunity you created to break all the resistance forces in the south in one fell swoop, and strive to take the entire peninsula in one war. As for General Ge's side, you will discuss on your own at that time, the 15th Corps will carry out independent combat missions from now on, and if any situation arises, the two of you will make your own decision, and you do not need to consult the headquarters. Chen Fan's words made Biao Zi overjoyed and hurriedly bowed down, and Ge Cunzhou on the side also saw a kind of calmness from Chen Fan's face, this is a kind of wisdom for his own self-confidence and contempt for the enemy, and suddenly he has a new understanding of this boss who is more than ten years younger than himself, Chen Fan did not say his deployment from beginning to end, and even after Biao Zi finished saying all his guesses and assumptions about Zheng Fan, he did not move him, which shows that the other party has done enough emergency treatment before this, No matter how the other party moves, he can't escape his own arrangement, and this meticulous and forward-looking vision makes him admire. Ge Cunzhou is not a genius general like Xiang Xue Yang, he has always been eclectic in wars, he is more of a general who can consider the overall situation, so in his opinion, only a person with the character and ability of Chen Fan can play the role of the mainstay and commander of the army in large-scale wars in the future.

"Okay, the 15th Corps must launch an attack on Kitahara Jing in five days, that is, before the first day of the seventh month, but remember to control the rhythm a little, wait for Biaozi's side to make Zheng Fan's moves, and create an opportunity for him to think that everything is going according to his vision." Chen Fan's words made Biaozi suddenly become a confidant.

"Alright, go and prepare, I'll wait for the Silla people to come to me." When Chen Fan asked Ge Cunzhou and Biao Zi to rush back, he called Hou Yong to start the rapid arrangement, and also informed Liu Yi and Liu Baoliang to let them act according to the plan. In this way, the situation on the entire peninsula suddenly reached the moment of the final decisive battle, and under the conspiracy of Xuanying Wei Biaozi and Zheng Fan, the fate of everyone changed drastically in the following month.