For the "Chief of General Staff" of the Taoqiu Army and the General Counselor of the Army, the most ideal candidate in Dai Yan's heart is Guiguzi. With full enthusiasm, he found the dean of the Mou College of Taoqiu University, and offered him extremely generous conditions: he could be the brain of the entire Taoqiu army, and all the command and dispatch of the Taoqiu army could be handed over to him!

Basically, it was the Kaiser's attitude towards Moltke Sr. during the Franco-Prussian War in the future!

However, this master, who has taught many strange people, has no interest in this kind of power and status that ordinary people are so eager for. He directly rejected Dai Yan: "This kind of war like a child's fight, if Cao Gong can't win, then it's better to give up Taoqiu as soon as possible and go into exile in Zhao State!" ”

Although what the other party said was not so direct, the meaning was unmistakable. Faced with such a situation, he had no choice but to retract the invitation and make himself the marshal of the Taoqiu army, and personally concurrently serve as the chief of the general staff. In this way, the setting of the staff department of the military counselor has become similar to a pure advisory body, which is quite regrettable to Dai Yan!

And when the army in Taoqiu was completely restructured and the soldiers had basic training, the army in Suiyang had also completed the training!

Most of Le's territory was concentrated in the northern part of the Song Kingdom, that is, in the vast area from Suiyang to Taoqiu. For the war between Suiyang and Taoqiu, Hua Rong may have other careful thoughts because of the support of the Chu State behind him, but Le's will definitely not! Because their foundation is now directly threatened by Taoqiu, if they can't stop Taoqiu, or even defeat Taoqiu, then they will face the risk of their foundation being destroyed!

For Le's, they also believe that "offense is the best defense"! As soon as their armies in each territory were mobilized, they immediately began to send troops north, hoping to put pressure on Taoqiu!

Just as Dai Yan was in Taoqiu, leading the army counselors to plan the entire war plan together, he suddenly received news: The Suiyang army arrived at the foot of Puqiu City and sent people to force the city to surrender!

Puqiu is a small city located less than 20 miles south of Taoqiu, such a small city, the width of the city wall is less than a mile, the height of the wall is less than 3 meters, it can hardly be called a city, but a slightly larger village. If this place is really said, it was originally regarded as Le's sphere of influence, but after the development of Taoqiu, this place was like the status of Baoding in Beijing in later generations, and it was sucked by the central city and completely became a subsidiary city of Taoqiu.

As soon as the traces of the Suiyang Army were found outside Puqiu City, Dr. Puqiu cried and shouted to Dai Yan for help. When Dai Yan heard the plea for help, he didn't dare to delay at all, and immediately sent scouts to probe the number of Suiyang troops and began to prepare for it.

Due to the relative proximity, the scout's investigation of the Suiyang Army soon had results. Dai Yan received the news that the Suiyang army was under Puqiu City, and there were only about 5,000 people, which was not a very large army. Dai Yan was a little confused about the actions of the Suiyang army, and after the discussion of the counselors of the army, everyone did not understand what the significance of Suiyang sending such a small army to the vicinity of Taoqiu!

couldn't discuss a reason, and Dai Yan didn't want to think so much. He made a deployment neatly and sent the Crane Control Army to Puqiu to meet the battle!

The general of the Crane Control Army was the first ranger Xiao Xiang to defect to Dai Yan. This ranger, who has always been a sharpshooter before, has followed Dai Yan many times to make military exploits, and later followed Dai Yan when he went to the Qi Kingdom, so his loyalty is naturally not in doubt. And what Dai Yan especially admires about him is that he has the unique prudence of a sharpshooter and his keen sense of smell on the battlefield! Dai Yan asked him to deal with the Suiyang Army that came to challenge, so he could naturally repel the Suiyang Army and find out the purpose of the Suiyang Army!

Since the army was already in a state of assembly, Xiao Xiang immediately set off after receiving Dai Yan's order. With a distance of less than twenty miles, and no need to worry about logistics, the Crane Control Army rushed to Puqiu after only an hour's rapid march!

As soon as Fang arrived at Puqiu City, Xiao Xiang encountered the Suiyang army that was ready to fight. They didn't have any intention of attacking Puqiu, or even attacking the Crane Control Army, they just lined up in place.

When Xiao Xiang saw such a scene, he didn't discuss with the counselors at all, and directly ordered the Crane Army to launch an attack on the Suiyang Army!

The Crane Control Army is a fully organized army, it has a division of standing army, this kind of standing army similar to Wei Wushu, is the backbone of the entire Crane Control Army, the real descendant force!

When he was in Taoqiu, Xiao Xiang also learned a lot of military knowledge from Guiguzi, such as how to use the power of the lineage and miscellaneous power when mastering the army! If according to the theory of Principal Chang Kaishen in later generations, when fighting, the strength of the descendant line should give priority to preserving strength, and those dirty and tiring work that need to be desperate should be given priority to miscellaneous cards!

However, here in Guiguzi, this is not the case at all for the application of military power. Xiao Xiang's education is that an army must ensure fairness! As the main force of the army, the descendants of the army enjoy the best treatment and the most resources, so they should play the greatest role in the war, rush to the forefront in battle, and set an example! That's what a fair army should do!

The First Division of the Crane Control Army is a descendant unit composed entirely of the standing army. After receiving Xiao Xiang's order, the division commander Shan Kang immediately commanded his army and launched an attack on the Suiyang army!

As a well-trained standing army, the division within the 1st Division of the Crane Army was extremely strict. Each of its brigades is a combat unit with a unique role, and Shan Kang faced the Suiyang army that was ready to be armed, and immediately sent a melee strength as a strong formation-breaking brigade to launch an attack on the Suiyang army!

More than 500 soldiers, wearing heavy armor and holding broadswords made of fine iron, under the personal leadership of the brigade commander Shan Kang, launched an attack on more than 5,000 people of the Suiyang Army!

And behind the Formation Breaking Brigade, there are teams of archers following behind as cover, they not only need to cover the actions of the Formation Breaking Brigade, when the Suiyang Army begins to counterattack, they also need to give the opponent a lot of damage with a long-range salvo!

When the Formation Breaking Brigade came within range of the archers of the Suiyang Army, they were immediately hit like raindrops. However, these blows, in the face of the well-defended Formation-Breaking Brigade, did not play a big role at all!

The Broken Formation Brigade is not an elite army that serves as the guard of Taoqiu Jun, they are just ordinary troops in Taoqiu's standing army. However, the military tasks they undertake are very important, so Dai Yan and even the generals of various armies are willing to invest a lot of resources in them! All of them had fully armored armor on their bodies, and for cost reasons, these armors were not made of pure steel, but of cowhide and iron!

The front of the armor was sewn with cowhide and fine iron, and the arrows fired by the Suiyang army in a volley, once they touched their bodies, were immediately bounced off by this strong protection. The only ones who can inflict greater damage on the Formation Breaker are those elite archers, who can shoot the Formation Breaker's exposed body with their superb archery skills. Therefore, when the Breaking Array Brigade arrived at the front of the main formation, the loss of five hundred soldiers was only a few people!

The brigade commander personally rushed to the front of these neatly lined enemies, split the spear stabbed by the opponent with a broadsword, and then rushed directly into the opponent's formation, and began to slash wildly with the broadsword in his hand!

In the face of such a brave opponent, the Suiyang army did not dare to slack off, and immediately sent many soldiers armed with short swords to start a fierce melee hand-to-hand combat with the formation-breaking brigade that rushed to the front!

In this kind of hand-to-hand combat, the heavy armor on the Formation Breaking Brigade immediately played an extremely crucial role! From the brigade commander to the small soldiers, everyone can be equipped with armor, and even if the Suiyang army can cause damage to them, it is very limited; In the Suiyang army, only a few generals can have armor. Their armor, except for a high-ranking commander equipped with armor made of steel, the armor on the other officers was nothing more than rhino armor!

And the archers of the Crane Control Army, who were pressing for the Breaking Brigade in the distance, saw their comrades rushing to the front line, and they immediately lined up. They all held powerful standard crossbows in their hands, and under the command of the commander, they began to launch round after round of salvos against the Suiyang army in the distance!

The hand-to-hand combat between the soldiers on both sides was extremely cumulative at the beginning, but the whole battle soon became clear. The Breaking Formation Brigade entered the large formation of the Suiyang Army, and with the support of the archers behind it, it immediately formed a stalemate with the Suiyang Army, if it weren't for the fact that the number of the Suiyang Army was much more than the Breaking Formation Brigade, I am afraid that the Suiyang Army would have been defeated long ago!

At this time, the commander of the Suiyang Army was also complaining. He never thought that the Taoqiu Army on the opposite side would be so strong in combat! Of course, he knew that the entire army on the opposite side far exceeded his own number, but the army that directly attacked the large array was quite rare, and it was incredible that such a small army could make his entire army passive!

Shan Kang, the division commander who was in the rear for the Breaking Formation Brigade, saw that the battle was in a stalemate, and he didn't talk nonsense, and immediately asked the entire First Division of the Crane Control Army to launch a general attack, and he personally rushed to the front, the pikemen followed, and the archers were in the rear, and the entire first division was like an arrow from the string, shooting frantically towards the Suiyang Army!

After the first division of the Crane Control Army was put on the whole army and began to fight head-on with the Suiyang Army, although the Suiyang Army still had a numerical advantage, their situation had completely fallen into decline! On the entire battlefield, there are people falling all the time, and the Suiyang Army has obviously more fallen soldiers than the Taoqiu Army!

The two sides fought for a quarter of an hour, and the Suiyang army finally couldn't bear the pressure and was on the verge of collapse. The commander of the Suiyang Army, as soon as he saw such a scene, immediately adjusted the deployment of the soldiers, so that some of the melee soldiers continued to fight with the Taoqiu Army, while the other soldiers immediately changed from the rear team to the front team and began to flee frantically!

In the blink of an eye, except for the corpses of hundreds of people left in place by the Suiyang Army, as well as the same number of soldiers on the other side, the rest of the army began to flee directly!

When Xiao Xiang saw this scene, he immediately led the remaining troops of the Crane Control Army, followed closely behind the Suiyang Army, and bit them to the death! As for the Suiyang soldiers who were still fighting on the battlefield, he sent someone to inform Shan Kang to solve the battle as soon as possible, and asked him to surrender the other party as much as possible!

As for the main force of the Suiyang Army that escaped, when he chased them behind behind, he didn't completely follow them to eat dirt! As a sharp-smeller marksman, he has the qualities of a hunter, and whenever the Suiyang Army wants to stop and rest, he will bite the other party hard; And those soldiers of the Suiyang Army who couldn't keep up with the footsteps of the army all fell into his hands!

The two armies chased and fled, and when night came, the crane control army led by Xiao Xiang had already moved away from Puqiu. Such a place is a plain land with a flat river, and it is the most vulnerable place to attack at night! He did not dare to slack off in the slightest, and immediately ordered people to build his strongly-fortified camp, and let people loosen the outside and tighten the inside at night, and keep a strict guard!