Chapter 88 Guo Chongtao made a decision in one word, and the vanguard met and defeated

(Third Update.)

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Li Congjing received a military order from Li Cunxuan.

Li Cunmiao accepted Kang Yanxiao's suggestion and decided to take advantage of the emptiness of Liangdu to conceal the army to Yunzhou, and then set off from the northeast to attack Liangdu and settle the world in one battle.

In these days, a lot happens. First of all, after Wang Yanzhang was defeated in Yangcun, he was recalled to the court by Zhu Youzhen, intending to ask for guilt, and the Liang army on the river was handed over by Zhu Youzhen to Duan Ning to guard the south bank of the Yellow River. After Wang Yanzhang returned to the dynasty, he presented all the experiences of this campaign to Zhu Youzhen, as well as the false accusations made by Duan Ning, Zhao Yan, Zhang Jie and others.

And Li Cunqiao was able to make up his mind to march from Yunzhou, and it was Guo Chongtao's words that played a great role. Some time ago, after Kang Yanxiao came to vote and offered a strategy to destroy Liang, Li Cunshen from the north came with news that the Khitan threatened to go south. At that time, many generals did not agree to march according to Kang Yanxiao's strategy, because this move was too risky, and now the Liang army was marching on all sides of the Tang Dynasty, and the Khitan was in trouble, so they all suggested that they temporarily suspend their troops, return Yunzhou to the Liang Dynasty, and rule by rowing a river with Liang.

Guo Chongtao, who was recalled from the military city, said to Li Cun with great righteousness: "Your Majesty has not taken a bath or dissolved the armor, and it has been fifteen years now, but he wants to destroy Liang Xue's shame." Now His Majesty is honoring the number, sweeping Hebei, if the new Yunzhou will be discarded, the minister is afraid that the soldiers will be cold, and his eclipse is scattered, that is, the river is the boundary, who is His Majesty's guard? At present, the elite of Liang is all returned to Duan Ning, stationed on the south bank of the Yellow River, and the river is self-consolidated, thinking that it can prevent me from crossing the river, and I can sit back and relax. At this time, Zhu Youzhen sent Wang Yanzhang to commit Yunzhou, and it was a strange plan to shake our army by attacking the two roads at the same time. ”

"However, Duan Ning is incompetent, and he can't be broken at a critical time, Wang Yanzhang has few troops, and he is suspicious of Lord Liang, and it is difficult to succeed. The minister's strategy, His Majesty can order the partial division to guard Weizhou, protect Yang Liu, and personally lead the elite to join the Yunzhou army and go straight to Liangdu! The land of Liang is already empty, and the enemy army will inevitably collapse, so I can achieve great things. Otherwise, this year's autumn grain will not be abundant, and the military rations will be urgent. If it doesn't work for three years, Your Majesty will make a decision, so why let the generals talk about it? The emperor must have a mandate of heaven, why is Your Majesty afraid of the head and tail? ”

Guo Chongtao's words, Xiaozhi was moved by emotion and reason, and immediately helped Li Cunqiao make up his mind. The Hundred Battles Army, which was stationed in the military city and had been recuperating for a long time, was ordered by Li Cunqiao to be the vanguard and drove to Yunzhou first to help the Yunzhou Army deal with Wang Yanzhang.

After Li Congjing got the military order, he naturally did not hesitate, immediately ordered the army to assemble, and then waved his army straight to Yunzhou.

After Li Siyuan captured Yunzhou, he has been stationed in Yunzhou, the only city of the Tang Dynasty on the east bank of the Yellow River, which is both dangerous and of great military and strategic significance.

Li Congjing has been fighting with the Liang army for so long, and now it is finally time to destroy the Liang state. Thinking that this time I can join forces with father and son to attack a country together, I am inevitably excited. Since joining the army, Li Congjing has never had the opportunity to fight side by side with Li Siyuan, and now he can fight on the battlefield together, and the so-called father-son soldiers are also a matter of pride. And when he thought of the number of troops under his command, which was three times that of his father, Li Congjing couldn't help but feel a little vaguely happy in his heart.

When the Hundred Battles Army set off from the military city, outside Yang Liu City, Li Cunmiao was bidding farewell to his wife and son who accompanied the army, and he did not stop until he left the pavilion, and said goodbye to the imperial concubine Liu and the prince Li Jiqi.

The prince Li Jiqi is the son of the Liu family, just crowned this year, and is the most favored by Li Cunqiao among the sons, and is the most promising person to be established as the crown prince.

Yang Liu Yiyi, Li Cunqiao said to Liu: "The success or failure of the country is in one fell swoop." But if it does not work out, gather together the young and old in my house, and burn it, and you will not let it fall into the hands of the enemy. Tang and Liang were national enemies, so Li Cunqiao called Liang Jun an enemy.

Li Keyong, the father of Li Cunmiao, the king of Jin, helped Zhu Wen, who was not yet the emperor at that time, when he was young, but afterwards Zhu Wen wanted to kill Li Keyong in the name of the banquet, if it wasn't for Li Keyong's life, he would have died at that banquet. After Li Keyong fought with Zhu Wen for half his life, but he was not able to avenge this revenge when he was dying, so Li Keyong handed Li Cunqiao three iron arrows when he was dying, and instructed Li Cunqiao to take revenge on him, one of which was Liu Rengong, who had already been wiped out by Li Cunqing, one was Khitan, and the last one was Zhu Wen's Liang Dynasty.

Liu listened to Li Cunmiao's words, but he didn't have half a sad look, but said to Li Cunmiao very calmly: "Your Majesty is the true son of heaven, now come to heaven and earth to work together, no hero in the world can be the enemy, you will definitely succeed here!" Besides, you are so brave that no one can stop you, so how can there be an accident? Your Majesty, don't read it, the concubines are waiting for good news! ”

Li Cunmiao was greatly pleased, and turned his head and instructed Li Jiqi: "Now that you have reached the crown and are taking on a great responsibility, this time you will return, and you should stick to the city with Prime Minister Dou Luge, Xingtang Yin Wang Zhengyan and others, don't let me down!" Li Congjing can attack the city and plunder the land, and you must also be able to hold the land! ”

Li Jiqi said with confidence: "Father and emperor just rest assured, they are both sons of men, how can their sons lose to Li Congjing?" You won't be disappointed! ”

Li Cunqiao nodded, and then waved goodbye to everyone.

After Li Congjing led the army to cross the Yellow River on the side of the military city, he went straight to Yunzhou all the way non-stop, on this day, on the march, Li Congjing was listening to Tao Yaoyao's report on the latest information of the Military Intelligence Department, Tao Yaoyao said: "After Wang Yanzhang returned to the dynasty before, although he was not punished by the crime of defeating the army, the Lord of Liang sent him to Yunzhou, but its momentum can no longer be the same as the attack on Desheng City that day. According to our spies in Liangdi, when Wang Yanzhang went on this expedition, Zhu Youzhen only gave him 500 Baoluan soldiers, and the rest of the thousands of soldiers were recruits, and Zhang Hanjie accompanied him as a supervisor. ”

Mo Li shook his head when he heard this: "Zhu Youzhen's amount is too small, Zhang Hanjie is already in collusion with Duan Ningxin, he sent Zhang Hanjie to supervise the army, obviously he doesn't trust Wang Yanzhang, afraid that he will abuse power." ”

Before Li Congjing could speak, he had already reported from a distant scout: "Twenty miles away, there are two armies fighting, one side is playing the banner of the Yunzhou Army, and the other is fighting the banner of Wang Yanzhang of the Liang Army!" Looking at its formation, it has been fighting for a long time, and it is still fighting fiercely. ”

"Presumably the two armies have exchanged strikes." Mo Li speculated.

Li Congjing immediately called Li Shaocheng and said to him: "There is a fierce battle between the Yunzhou army and the Liang army in front, you lead the army to slow down in the rear, and I will lead the gentlemen to support." ”

Li Shaocheng agreed, and Li Congjing took three thousand gentlemen to immediately separate from the army, gradually quicken up his speed, and followed the scout away.

Not long after, Li Congjing rushed to the place where the two sides were fighting, and on the vast land three or four miles away, there were a large number of soldiers who were fighting fiercely, causing dust to fly, and the noise was constantly whispering.

Let the gentlemen move slowly, Li Congjing picked a gentle slope and ran up, and with a drop of a few meters, he was able to barely see the situation on the battlefield clearly. I saw that the two armies were coming and going, and they had fallen into a melee, and it seemed that the Yunzhou army still had the upper hand, and it seemed that the recruits under Wang Yanzhang did not have much combat effectiveness.

Li Congjing came down from the gentle slope and gave an order to the gentlemen: "Guo Wei led 500 cavalry to cut off the back road of the Liang army, Lin Ying led 1,500 cavalry to clean up the Liang army's rangers, surrounded the two wings of the Liang army, and the rest of the troops directly entered the enemy formation with his own commander!" ”

Seeing that the battlefield is close in front of them, all kinds of fighting sounds are rushing head-on, and the scene of you coming and going can be seen vividly, the snake-like gentlemen are immediately divided into three parts, one goes straight to the rear of the Liang army, one takes the lead in accelerating to meet the Liang army rangers, and the last thousand horses slowly follow up.

The gentleman's capital descended from the sky, and the situation on the battlefield immediately changed. As soon as the Yunzhou army saw that it was the Tang army, they immediately thundered with joy, their morale soared, and even their strength increased out of thin air. When Lin Ying took the lead in running towards the Liang army's main formation, two or three hundred rangers rushed over, intending to intercept one or two, but as soon as he saw him, he was killed by Lin Yingchong, and he lost his formation, and in a few moments, he turned into birds and beasts and was chased and scattered.

Immediately afterwards, Li Congjing entered the Liang army's formation, because the scene was already a melee at this time, and the Liang army was unable to effectively form a formation to resist the cavalry.

Li Congjing took the lead, with a lance like a dragon, and led the team to destroy the will to resist of groups of Liang soldiers, leaving behind the corpses of Liang soldiers everywhere.

Less than three moments after entering the battle, the Liang army was defeated, scattered and fled, losing their armor and abandoning their armor.

At this time, the three thousand gentlemen really showed their might, with the momentum of shepherding, the Liang army was circled into it several times, galloping crossbow arrows and swords, the Liang army finally could not stand, and a large number of surrenders.

Li Congjing ordered that all gentlemen accept the surrender of the Liang army. At this point, less than half an hour after the appearance of the three thousand horsemen, the fighting gradually stopped, and the situation on the battlefield slowly calmed down.

Several horsemen of the Yunzhou army rushed towards Li Congjing, led by a general with thick eyebrows and big eyes, less than forty years old, he shouted "Congjing, Congjing" from afar, approached Li Congjing, got off his horse vigorously, strode towards Li Congjing, and laughed loudly. It was Li Congke.

Li Congjing jumped off the horse, hugged Li Congke, who had not seen him for a long time, and then punched each other in the chest, and said with a smile: "Third brother, I haven't seen you for a few days, I see that you have gained a lot of fat!" ”

Li Congke was about to fight, and scolded with a smile: "You stinky boy, you don't have a good word when you meet, the third brother still wants to praise you, but now I don't have the interest!" said so, but he grabbed Li Congjing's shoulders and looked at it for a while, and couldn't help but praise: "Good boy, you are becoming more and more powerful and majestic, you really have the demeanor of our father and your third brother and me, and he is worthy of being a guy who can bring out a hundred battle troops, enough to be a cow!" ”

When Li Congjing was very young, Li Congke was already Li Siyuan's righteous son, when Li Siyuan's family was poor, Li Congke was the number one labor force in the family, and he saw the truth in adversity, and after more than ten years, he was already a real family. However, since beating Li Congjing, the Li family has made a fortune, but they have never experienced that hard time, but this does not prevent Li Congke, the third brother who often hugged Li Congjing when he was young, from being as close to Li Congjing as ever.