Early the next morning, Chen Wenzhou was carrying vegetables when the sentry officer came.

When Chen Wenzhou was called to Li Siye's military tent, he was talking to a middle-aged man.

The middle-aged man is about forty years old, with a thin face, bright eyes, wearing chain mail, obliquely wearing a soap robe, feet on amphora boots, and a three-foot jade sword hanging from his waist.

Judging from Li Siye's respect for that person, Chen Wenzhou knew that it was a big official.

"Wen Zhou is here? Come and see General Shuo Fang's Right Marquis Army, Shuo Fang's Right Wu Feng Envoy Gu Huai'en! ”

Depend on! Official, this is a person from the Shuofang Army Headquarters, Chen Wenzhou didn't dare to slack off, and hurriedly clasped his fists and saluted.

At the same time, Chen Wenzhou muttered in his heart: This is Fugu Huai'en, who was the old man last night?

The First Corps of the Tang Army has seven brigades: the middle army, the front army, the rear army, the left and right Yu Hou army, and the left and right box army.

Taking Shuofangjun as an example, the commander-in-chief of the corps is Guo Ziyi, the deputy commander is Li Guangbi, and below is the general of the Seventh Brigade.

These seven generals also served as the marching Sima (chief of general staff), judge (political commissar), left and right military envoys (vanguard commanders), and left and right soldiers and horses envoys of the Shuofang Army Headquarters.

Under the seven generals, each commanded six to ten captains.

Fugu Huaien was one of the seven generals, he nodded, looked at Chen Wenzhou, and asked, "Little brother, are you Chen Wenzhou?" ”

Chen Wenzhou replied: "It's the villain." ”

"I'm here today, first, to convey the commander's order, and second, to come," Fugu Huaien walked up to Chen Wenzhou, "and second, to see this stargazing master!" ”

When Li Siye heard this, his face was overjoyed, didn't he know? It is enough to convey the order of the general to send a sentinel, and He Lao's dignified Wu Feng envoy personally went out, which clearly shows that he wants to meet Chen Wenzhou in person.

He knew that this stupid boy with strange ideas in his head had been valued by the leaders of the Shuofang Army.

Chen Wenzhou maintained his usual low profile and humility, and arched his hand and said, "General Fugu has raised his love, and he really doesn't dare to take the name of a master, just call me Chen Kongming." ”

Fugu Huaien was stunned for a moment, and then laughed. I gave Chen Wenzhou an objective and pertinent comment without any subjective emotions in my heart: I have never seen such a brazen person in the Northern and Western Regions for more than 20 years!

Fugu Huaien conveyed the order of the Shuofang Army Military Department: In view of the rout in the Guannei War Zone, the Shuofang Army Military Department decided to step up the pace of the Eastern Expedition, and promoted Li Siye to the former general of the Youyu Marquis Army, leading a total of 1,200 Yue cavalry, tun cavalry, and jumping cavalry (raid cavalry) to form the Youyu Marquis Army Front Army (Right Front Army), which went out from the east of the general ditch, as a mobile force, and cooperated with the main army to march into Youyucheng and recover the Jingbian Army (originally a Tang Dynasty military town, and was subordinate to the rebel army after the Anshi Rebellion)!

Chen Wenzhou is the captain of Yilu (military rank, from the seventh grade), and temporarily leads the former army master of the Youyu Marquis Army (actual position).

Li Siye was overjoyed in his heart, he himself won the three armies, but he was really stretched thin in terms of strategy.

When fighting against the nomads in the northwest, there is not much need for tactics, only violent suppression, and whoever has high force and good equipment is the big brother.

But the Central Plains is different, and the requirements for the tactics of war are relatively high.

Now that the Shuofang Army and Military Department have assigned Chen Wenzhou to themselves, they are making up for the shortcomings of their lack of strategy, which can be described as a tiger with wings.

Chen Wenzhou thought to himself, the Huotou Army was promoted to the seventh-rank captain, so in this way, I, Chen, am also the seventh-grade Huotou Army!

Li Siye looked at Chen Wenzhou with a little provocation, "Don't you kid want to follow me?" What to say now? There is a kind of disobedience to the military order to go back to your fire team to wash vegetables? ”

Chen Wenzhou said loyally and generously, "Chen obeys the organization's arrangement, but he will never succumb to any personal authority and administrative oppression!" I'm going to ask General Fugu for my life! ”

"Oh?" Fugu Huaien was stunned for a moment, and said with a smile, "What, the suspect is too young?" ”

Chen Wenzhou shook his head, "Please keep the military status of my Fire Head Army." ”

"Why?"

"My dream is to serve the grassroots."

He verbally commended Chen Wenzhou, saying that he was a clear stream in the turbid military and political circles, and a strange flower in the world.

And Chen Wenzhou and Li Siye both know that a new journey is about to begin!

Li Siye followed Chen Wenzhou's suggestion and reorganized the Right Front Army.

The 1,200 cavalry were divided into three regiments, the Tun Cavalry Regiment, the Yue Cavalry Regiment, and the Jumping Brigade, each with a lieutenant and an adjutant, which were served by the non-commissioned officers with outstanding performance in the Battle of Jiangjungou, and then the two had a night-long debate on the issue of baggage.

Li Siye thinks that the soldiers and horses go first before moving the grain and grass, and do not bring heavy miscellaneous labor, what to eat and what to use? Is it hungry to march and fight? Do you want the cavalry to cook on their own?

Chen Wenzhou believes that Li Siye's ideas belong to right-leaning conservatism. The right front army was all equipped with cavalry, which was agile and swift as the wind, and carrying heavy grain and grass was bound to slow down the march.

Regarding the issue of supply, Chen Wenzhou gave the general policy of strategic supply: to nourish the war with war!

In the end, Chen Wenzhou won the debate.

After the Shuofang Army received the news, most of the generals were furious and scolded the two for being pure nonsense and taking the ultra-left adventurist line, especially Chen Wenzhou.

Because they knew that it was impossible for Li Siye to make such a hasty decision.

Only Guo Ziyi and Li Guangbi were not angry, both of them said the same thing: it is going to rain in the sky, and the mother wants to get married, and the military orders outside the country will not be accepted, let him go.

At the military headquarters of the front army on the right, Li Siye and Chen Wenzhou were lying on the table studying the map.

If the Shuofang army wants to enter Youyucheng, it must first take the tiger's mouth, which is known as the name of natural danger, as long as it has this strategic location, it can hold the big passage between Hebei, Hedong and Hexi, and Beiting.

Kill the tiger's mouth according to the Great Wall as a barrier, the two sides of the high mountains confront, the terrain is very precipitous, its east depends on the Tangzi Mountain, the west is next to the Dabao Mountain, the open Cangtou River valley between the two mountains, it is an important passage between the north and the south since ancient times, the rebel general Zhou Wanqing led 7,000 Jingbian troops to garrison this place.

forcibly blocked the 15,000 Shuo Fang army led by Guo Ziyi from the mouth of the tiger!

Jingbian Army, Tang Taizong Li Shimin set up a military government, the battalion is located in Youyu, the chief commander is Gao Xiuyan, is An Lushan's general.

The Jingbian Army originally belonged to the battle sequence of the Tang Army, and after An Lushan launched a rebellion, Gao Xiuyan followed An Lushan to rebel, so the Jingbian Army became a rebel.

"Killing the tiger's mouth is a natural danger, easy to defend and difficult to attack, we, as a mobile force, should attack the rebels from the flank or detour to the rear, and create an opportunity for the main army to take the tiger's mouth," Li Siye pointed to the map and said, he looked at Chen Wenzhou, "Wenzhou, tell me what you think." ”

Chen Wenzhou looked at Li Siye for a long time before saying, "You're done, what else do I say?" General, I don't think you can be so shameless. ”

Li Siye smiled, "Then our ideas coincide, so how about we both write down our thoughts in our hands and open them together?" ”

Chen Wenzhou thought for a while, "Then let's write down a target to enter." ”

Li Siye nodded, picked up a pen, and wrote a few words on his hand.

Chen Wenzhou picked up the pen and looked at Li Siye vigilantly, "Hey, don't peek, it's illegal to copy my ideas." ”

Li Siye turned around to avoid suspicion, lest Chen Wenzhou say that he had infringed on intellectual property rights.

As Chen Wenzhou wrote, he turned his head and glanced at Li Siye behind him to see if he was peeking at him.

After writing, the two looked at each other and spread their palms at the same time.

Li Siye looked at Chen Wenzhou's palm, and then looked at his palm-Cangtou River!