Gu Changchun's face was swollen and red, of course he knew that he had made a mistake that had caused his army to suffer heavy losses, but he was also very grateful to Li Yanqing for criticizing himself in this way of reviewing each other and saving his face.

After a while, Gu Changchun sighed and said: "I also made a mistake in this battle, I have been repeatedly reminded by the commander before, do not leave the official road three hundred steps away, I didn't realize the true meaning of this reminder at the time, and I didn't take it to heart, plus the enemy army was scattered, I was eager to kill the enemy, and led the army to leave the official road to chase and kill a mile, and as a result, I became a lone army, so when the enemy's front army counterattacked, I couldn't ask for support from other generals in time, resulting in heavy losses, with two hundred and eighty-four brothers killed and wounded, accounting for most of all the casualties, I will definitely learn this profound lesson and will not make similar mistakes again. ”

Li Yanqing saw that he frankly admitted his mistakes, so he smiled and nodded, "There are two sides to everything, although General Gu is eager to kill the enemy and becomes a lone army, unfortunately suffering heavy casualties, but it is also thanks to General Gu who led the army to withstand the enemy's counterattack, so that we can retreat calmly, and the credit cannot be erased, I will report to the commander in time, and the commander will also report to the imperial court, now let the brothers have a good rest, and then we will prepare for the next battle." ”

Everyone got up and left, Gu Changchun hugged his fists and said: "The hard work of the commanders is grateful!" ”

Li Yanqing smiled and said: "Everyone can't be perfect, when I first led the troops to attack the Xixia Reservoir, I also made the mistake of underestimating the enemy, resulting in heavy losses for the brothers, the key is to learn a lesson, don't make the same mistake again, I think the so-called famous generals are honed in the lessons again and again." ”

"The commander is right, and the humble post will definitely learn a lesson."

Li Yanqing nodded, "You have lost a lot of soldiers this time, I have a group of prisoners of war in Qizhou, which have been reorganized into a reserve army, I will give you three hundred soldiers, let your army be replenished, and train them well then!" ”

Gu Changchun was overjoyed, "Thank you to the commander for taking care of the humble position!" ”

Gu Changchun saluted and left, Li Yanqing came to the cavalry's resting place, and Liu Jian came up with Wang Gui and Niu Gao, "How is it, are there any soldiers and horses injured?" Li Yanqing asked with a smile.

"Fortunately, a dozen brothers were slightly wounded and three horses were lost, but we captured more than two dozen horses from the enemy's rear army and completely made up for it."

"That's good, go back and have a good rest, the next attack, I'm afraid you will need to carry the beams."

Liu Jian hurriedly asked in a low voice, "Where is the target of our next attack?" ”

Li Yanqing smiled slightly, "It's difficult to divide troops from Sucheng now, but it's not impossible, as long as we attack the place where it must be saved, they will have to send troops." ”

The three of them suddenly realized, they knew where Li Yanqing was referring to?

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Two years ago, Song Jiang made a major decision to move the ruling center of the Liangshan army from Liangshan to Sucheng County, which was a major decision for the Liangshan army to change from a mountain bandit to a separatist regime.

But Liangshan as the Liangshan Army's gathering place, still has a very important position in the Liangshan Army, especially the Liangshan generals of the spiritual holy land, so far the Liangshan Army's Juyi Hall is still placed on Liangshan, in order to protect the safety of Liangshan, Song Jiang also made great efforts to build three defense lines, one of which is a waterway, two land, the waterway refers to the islands of Liangshan, Liangshan Water Army has 8,000 soldiers, hundreds of ships, firmly control Liangshanbo, which is also the most stable defense line in Liangshan.

The other two land defense lines are on the west side, and are divided into the inner line and the outer line, the inner line is the defense of Yangsan itself, and there are still 4,000 garrisons on Yangshan, controlling the various passages of Shangliangshan.

The outer line is two county seats, one is Shouzhang County in the north, and the other is Yuncheng County in the south, of which Shouzhang County is thirty miles away from Yangsan and belongs to Yunzhou, while Yuncheng County is about forty miles away from Yangsan and belongs to Jeju, and these two counties each garrison 3,000 troops, in fact, the Yangsan Army invested 20,000 troops in the defense of Yangsan to protect the safety of Yangsan.

Shouzhang County is located in the northwest of Liangshan, itself is a medium-sized county seat, the circumference of the city wall is only more than ten miles, thousands of households, after the Liangshan army entered the state of war, the control of Shouzhang County has also become very strict, the entry and exit of the city are strictly checked, especially the foreign merchants entering Shouzhang County is even stricter, not only to thoroughly search, but also must have the guarantee of the shops in the city.

It was clear that the north gate had just opened, and the peasants who were waiting outside the city to sell vegetables rushed into the city, and the soldiers hurriedly stopped them, "Don't worry, come one by one!" ”

At this time, an old farmer drove a mule cart full of winter melons and radishes to the city gate, and the two descendants behind him each carried a load of vegetables.

The soldiers guarding the city knew the old peasants, and they were old men who specialized in delivering vegetables to the county government, and their status was a little higher than that of other farmers who delivered vegetables, and they could go directly to the city without inspection.

"Lao Zhang, who are the two of them?" The soldier asked, gesturing to the two young men behind him.

"They are my two nephews, Zhang San and Zhang Si, who served as soldiers in Xucheng, my brother unfortunately passed away a few days ago, they came back to mourn, and they helped me pick vegetables by the way today."

I heard that it was also a soldier of the Liangshan Army, and the attitude of the soldiers defending the city was a little better, so he asked the two of them, "Whose subordinates are you?" Can you have a military card? ”

The two young men each took out their military badges and handed them to the soldiers defending the city, "We are the subordinates of Wang Dutong, this is our military badge." ”

The two spoke an authentic Yunzhou dialect, with the native voice of Shouzhang County, the soldiers looked at their military cards, Zhang Sanshun and Zhang Sishun, among which Zhang Sanshun was still the leader of the team, and the soldiers guarding the city did not dare to stop them, so they let the two of them into the county seat.

Lao Zhangtou did not directly send vegetables to the county government, but came to a private house not far from the city gate, which was his house in the county seat, entered the yard, Lao Zhangtou closed the door, Zhang San and Zhang Si immediately carried out two heavy winter melons from the cart, removed the outer layer of winter melon skin, inside were two black and swarthy, shaped like winter melon-like iron bumps, and two sharp daggers.

The two soldiers were scouts sent by Li Yanqing to carry out special tasks in Shouzhang County.

"Mr. Zhang, thank you!" The two of them clasped their fists and saluted Lao Zhangtou.

"You're welcome, you two can live here with peace of mind, no one will come here, I'll go out from the south gate later, I'm afraid I won't be able to help you."

"Don't worry, we'll arrange it ourselves!"

The old man opened the door and drove the ox cart away, and the two scouts closed the door again, carefully wiping the two earth-shattering thunderbolts clean, they looked at the sky, it was still early, and they had to wait patiently until it was dark.

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Shouzhang County is only the outer defense line of Liangshan, and it has never encountered any war, and the three thousand defenders in the city are not the main force, and they can't even talk about the second-line troops.

At the third watch of the night, the entire Shouzhang county was asleep, the county was dark, and the vicinity of the north city gate was also very quiet, and there were troops patrolling back and forth at the head of the city, but more than a dozen defenders next to the city gate were huddled in the corners and fell asleep.

This is the reason why Li Yanqing wants to send soldiers into the city to act, it is easy to be discovered by the defenders of the city when they move outside the city, but it is different inside the city, there is almost no patrol in the city, maybe there will be a team of security patrols on the street occasionally, but there are no soldiers patrolling at the city gate, this is the characteristic of the Liangshan army to defend outside but not inside.

At this time, Li Yanqing had led 6,000 troops to ambush a mile away from the north gate of the county seat, patiently waiting for the movement in the city.

"Will there be any accidents?" Liu Jian asked a little worriedly.

Li Yanqing shook his head, "Since they have entered the county seat safely, and Lao Zhangtou has come out of the county seat normally, then there should be no problem, unless they can't kill a few soldiers defending the city, but according to the skills of the two of them, each of them can fight ten people at the same time, I don't think there will be a problem, just wait patiently!" ”

"Why did you choose Shouzhang County?"

Gu Changchun said in a deep voice behind Li Yanqing: "I think maybe it's better to attack Liangshan directly." ”

Li Yanqing glanced back at him and said calmly: "It doesn't matter who you choose, the important thing is to let the defenders of Sucheng County understand our intentions, choosing to attack Liangshan is a little more intense, but it will only attract the rescue of Shouzhang County and Yuncheng County, not the rescue of Sucheng County." ”

"What if after capturing Shouzhang County, Xucheng County remains silent?" Gu Changchun asked again.

"Then kill Yuncheng County again and force them to send troops!"