In the next few days, there were two rumors circulating in Yanzhou City, one was that a Dutou surnamed Lu of the forbidden army snatched a big beauty from the party members, and even had a child, and the other was that the party members were about to take revenge, and the rumors became more and more evil. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

The sky is also clear, the New Year is approaching, the forbidden army far away in the border pass did not feel a trace of the joy of the New Year, the spies in Xiazhou in the north sent an urgent report, saying that there were a large number of party soldiers and horses outside the city of Xiazhou, for a while, all the military forts outside the city of Yanzhou were nervous, ready for battle, the military horses in the city of Yanzhou were also ready to go, and the war seemed to start at any time.

After a few more days, the party envoy entered the city, and then saw that there was no black cloud and Xiao Yuanhao went away in anger, and on the third day, the party envoy entered the city again, this time leaving a golden arrow.

The golden arrow represents peace in the party, and the party's people are about to negotiate peace.

However, Dane threw the golden arrow into two in front of the envoy and threw it down the tower, and only said one sentence: The Great Song Dynasty Forbidden Army has no right to negotiate peace, only the responsibility of quelling the chaos, and if you want to negotiate peace, let Li Ji move into Bianliang to bear the guilt of Jing pleading, otherwise, the forbidden army will swear to set foot on Helan Mountain.

Four days later, on the thirtieth day of the Chinese New Year's Eve, the garrisons of the battalions in Yanzhou City received a report, the whole army entered the preparation for the march at any time, and the front came to report that the party army was pouring from Helan Mountain, and the army was surging, blocking the road, and there was no end in sight, this time, Li Jiqian recruited all the tribal soldiers he could mobilize, the whole army was no less than 50,000 people, the snow road was trampled into mud, the battle flag covered the sky, the sky did not see a single cloud, the sun hung high, and the bitter cold of winter days was swept away.

This is not Li Jiqian's decisive battle against the Song army, but he has no way not to fight, Yeli's begging bride was snatched away by the Song generals, this shame has shamed the entire Yeli clan, and if they don't avenge this revenge, their clansmen will never be able to raise their heads on the grassland, even if they fight until the whole clan is destroyed, this battle must be fought.

Li Jiqian tried to dissuade him uselessly, the Yeli clan was too powerful, before the expedition, the embarrassed and angry Yeli Yuqi knelt in the snow for a day and a night, he was swearing to the immortal heaven, and he was repenting to Helan Shenshan, he wanted to take out the spirit of a steppe wolf to personally kill the Song people who made him humiliated.

Li Jiqian was helpless, so he could only raise a large number of troops to come to help, because he knew that if the Yeli clan fought alone, it would be destroyed, and as soon as he fell, half of the party's strength would be lost.

The actions of the party made Dane overjoyed, on the one hand, he reported to the imperial court, and on the other hand, he sent someone to find out the movement of the unhidden forehead in the Liao State, Dane wanted to send troops to escort the beautiful woman who did not hide the black cloud into Beijing to dedicate it to the official family, but he was worried about the rumors in the city, everyone was saying that Lu Dutou had already had a skin with her, and even had a child, so he gave up, so as not to attract a flattering lord to cause rumors to the lord, so he only played according to the truth, and stepped up urging the grain, grass and ordnance.

Shuai Tang urgently raised the account, Lu Fei stood behind Dane with a sharp knife hanging from his waist, and all the generals in the hall stood in armor, majestic and majestic.

Dane looked solemn, looked around at the generals, and said softly: "The enemy situation is like this, the party army has entered Xiazhou City, the opportunity is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, before Li Jiqian retreats, let's talk about it, how to fight?" ”

This is indeed a rare opportunity, the forbidden army is not capable of a long-distance march across the desert to Helan Mountain, the infantry army, the forbidden army is all infantry troops, want to attack the cavalry with infantry in the grassland desert, don't kill the enemy and exhaust the three armies, entering the desert is equivalent to mud cattle into the sea.

Lu Fei is not qualified to be in front of these big people, and he is happy to be quiet, so as not to attract criticism, he just listened to a few ears there.

Just when the generals were talking about each other, there were sentinels outside the hall to report, the latest military situation, Li Ji moved to Xiazhou City, and the main force of the army of nearly 40,000 people drove into Longzhou City at the foot of Hengshan, less than 200 miles away from Yanzhou, and threatened that if the Song army did not hand over the little prince of the party and did not hide the black, they would set foot in Yanzhou City, and the chickens and dogs would not be left.

For a while, there was a dispute in the Shuai party, and some generals advocated taking advantage of Li Jiqian's unstable foothold in Longzhou City when the army pressed up, trapping Li Jiqian's army in the city, whether it was fighting or encircling the initiative, it was in the hands of the Song army, but this article was quickly denied, the reason was that it was too difficult to surround Li Jiqian's 40,000 people, and the Great Song Forbidden Army plus the government troops just transferred from Yanzhou, Qingzhou and Fenzhou were only 70,000 people in total, even if they fell into the city, it would be enough to choke, and besides, if the main force of the Song army was trapped under Longzhou City, then Yanzhou would be empty, All the grain, grass and ordnance of the Great Song Dynasty were all stationed here, and if the Liao army took advantage of the weakness to attack Yanzhou at this time, then the Western Expeditionary Army would be in a desperate situation.

After arguing for a long time, the plan to besiege Longzhou City was completely abandoned, so someone put forward a surprise attack plan, and sent the only horse army of the Song army to go around the rear of Longzhou, attack Xiazhou, where the Dangxiang people were stored, transfer part of his troops and then divide and attack it, but this one was objected to, on the grounds that the mobility of the forbidden army was far less than that of the Dangxiang cavalry, and it was easy to expose the target when marching outside the Sai, and the speed of the infantry to follow up was too slow, and it was not very good, and the surprise attack could not be completed, and the only horse army might be buried.

Lu Fei listened on the side, to be honest, if this kind of large-scale battle is handed over to him to command, he will also be blinded, the cold weather, the shortcomings of the grain, grass and ordnance, the infantry army against the cavalry, all kinds of unfavorable factors have restricted the foresight of the war, although everyone is eager to end the northwest in a big war, but the outcome is unpredictable, 70,000 infantry troops against 50,000 cavalry, of which in addition to the 50,000 main forces of the Japanese army, the other 20,000 government troops are purely soy sauce, this battle is enough to be handed over to whoever commands, one wrong step, all the games are lost, as long as the Song army is defeated, The party's cavalry would not even give Dane a chance to escape.

Li Jiqian's recruitment ability also far exceeded the expectations of Dane and Song Tianzi, and the original 30,000 military strength of the party members came out in a blink of an eye, and it would be difficult for him to conquer the northwest for a few more years.

Dain listened to the crowd's gossip and suggestions, and it was difficult for him to choose for a while that he didn't speak for a long time, and the sky was getting dark.

"Okay, let's discuss this today, send orders to all battalions, strictly prevent enemy attacks, and go down!"

The generals retreated, and Dane sat alone behind the handsome case with his eyes closed and silent, looking preoccupied, which was very different from the Dane whom Lu Fei met in Bianliang City.

There was silence in the hall for a while, and Lu Fei stood quietly without speaking, and it could be seen that Dane was entangled.

"Lu Fei!" Dane broke the immersion with a heavy whisper.

"Marshal, what do you command?" Lu Fei arched his hand.

Dane slowly stood up, walked to the door, waved his hand to signal the guards at the door to retreat, and then stood there all the way to the snow.

Dane said, "You didn't disappoint me, I'm glad I kept you by my side that day"

The sentence "headless and brainless" made Lu Fei a little inexplicable, and he also came over and said: "Why did the big marshal say this, his subordinates have to thank the big boss for his kindness."

Dane turned his head to look at him, and said with a smile: "What's the use of me promoting people who have no talent, I have asked Pan to write a song and report it to the official family, no matter whether this battle is won or lost, with this credit, as long as you can survive, the promotion is certain."

Lu Fei said with a few gratitudes: "Xie Dashuai, Dashuai, now that the party members are in Longzhou, why don't you enter the army?" ”

Dane took a long breath and said after a while: "The enemy army is new and the morale is high, so it's not a bad thing to cool down first."

Lu Fei frowned and said: "Don't blame your subordinates for talking too much, your subordinates have also walked around the barracks in the past few days, our army has been trapped in this bitter cold town on the border for a long time, the soldiers are quite resentful, and many people are bored."

There is a saying that the decision made by a slap on the head may not be the best, but often the choice made repeatedly is nine times out of ten unsatisfactory, sometimes arbitrariness is not necessarily a bad thing, maybe the crooked hit is right, just like now, the war is not over, who knows how the victory or defeat is, according to Lu Fei's idea, fuck him, beat him first and then say, if he fails, he will run, if he can't beat others, he is not ashamed, and if he can't beat, he doesn't know how to run.

Dane nodded and said very sincerely: "Now there is no one else, and there is no defense to talk about psychological words, how can I not know what you said, the 70,000 army is crowded in this small foreign town, and the New Year is coming, no one can stop the homesickness of the soldiers, I won't tell you, many generals are dissatisfied with me, if it weren't for the official family to send Pan Mei to the military prison, I can't hold it down at all."

According to Lu Fei's observation, the current Western Expeditionary Army is divided into at least three factions, one faction is the most powerful imperial faction headed by Shi Baoji, the other faction is the local military generals of Gyeongju and Fenzhou, headed by Gyeongju Jiedu Tian Renlang, and the other faction is Dane and his old brother who is supporting the Japanese army.

The three parties have their own little Jiujiu, Shi Baoji and others just want to rely on this military operation to go through their military careers, no matter whether the war is won or lost, their future will not be greatly affected, and they can still enjoy the treatment of the emperor's relatives after returning to Beijing.

Tian Renlang and other local government generals have a simpler idea, fighting a war is a matter for the forbidden army, they just come to join in the fun, and as soon as the battle is over, the forbidden army will return to Bianliang, and the task of guarding the local city has to fall on their heads, so it is good to save a little more strength, anyway, even if the battle is won, the forbidden army will still take the lion's share when it comes to rewarding meritorious deeds.

Dane and his group of brothers can only win but not lose, they all say that victory and defeat are a common thing in soldiers, that is, the end of losing soldiers is death, even if the official family is merciful, but they can't stand some people who fall into the well.

Dane has the talent of a general, but he rarely has a plan for a commander, it is difficult for him to balance the tripartite forces for a while, fortunately, Pan Mei's reputation is high enough, and there is also the transfer with the army so that Yang Guangmei can coordinate grain and grass for thousands of miles in such a difficult environment, with him will not cause the soldiers to starve, if this battle is won, the greatest merit is not Dane but this Yang transfer envoy.

Song Tianzi has been using soldiers for decades, and he rarely makes mistakes in employing people, and he truly knows people well.

Lu Fei could understand Dane's difficulties, and said with a smile: "The official family is the son of the saint, with these people to assist the marshal, the marshal only needs to devote himself to the war and play the prestige of our forbidden army."

Dane nodded approvingly, didn't speak again, and suddenly said after a while: "You're right, Lu Fei, you are a lucky general, just do what you say." ”

Lu Fei was a little surprised? I didn't say anything.