On the fifth day of August, in the afternoon, on the south bank of the Juma River, the alliance camp.

Li Zixiong was invited to participate in the military meeting of the Middle Route Army. At the beginning of the military discussion, Zhen Baoche announced the news that Li Fengyun, the general manager of the alliance, was leading the army to the Juma River, and it was estimated that he would be able to meet with the army in the middle tonight.

Hearing this news, Li Zixiong was a little surprised, Lu Xingxing and other heroes also looked at each other, Li Fengyun personally rushed to Juma River, why?

Could it be that Gaoyang's food has been snatched up, and the army on the right has been evacuated? No, if the army on the right has already withdrawn, Li Fengyun will inform the army on the middle as soon as possible, asking them to also evacuate quickly, and Li Fengyun has no need to rush to give the order in person. Could it be that King Qi has already killed Gaoyang? This also doesn't make sense, if the king of Qi kills Gaoyang and the army on the right begins to withdraw, it is still necessary for Li Fengyun to go to the Juma River in person?

Since there was no problem on Gaoyang's side, the problem undoubtedly appeared in the Juma River, and Li Fengyun came in a hurry, obviously worried that the middle lane army would not be able to complete its mission. The heroes knew that they did have the idea of preserving their strength and withdrawing from Shanggu early, so they made a vague hint in their second letter to Li Fengyun. Li Fengyun did not reply in time, but Li Zixiong suddenly appeared, and gave some "guidance" in the arrangement of troops, giving the commanders the confidence to hold on for a longer time, otherwise it is difficult to say how the situation will develop today, and this is probably the reason why Li Fengyun personally rushed to the Juma River, only when he personally sat in the town, can stabilize the morale of the army.

The atmosphere inside the tent was suddenly solemn. Sitting here are the "old men" of the alliance, all of them are the heroes who followed Li Fengyun to fight in southwest Lu, and they did have some grievances with each other in the past, but time has passed, and now everyone is fighting in northern Xinjiang, struggling to survive in a completely unfamiliar place, first of all, we must unite and work together, but this is not the case, everyone still puts the interests of individuals and small groups first, and the first thing that comes to mind at critical moments is to preserve their own strength, rather than taking into account the overall situation.

The heroes tacitly understood it and kept their mouths shut. Zhen Baoche was also secretly worried, but fortunately, the situation in Shanggu was temporarily beneficial to the alliance, even if Li Fengyun was dissatisfied, it was not easy to publicly accuse.

At this moment, Zhen Baoche is very grateful to Li Zixiong, if it were not for Li Zixiong's "point" yesterday, the alliance army was redeployed, relying on Laishui and Juma River to make a two-way pinching attack, forcing the Zhuojun reinforcements to fall into a dilemma, prolonging the attack speed of the Weifu army, there must be a fierce battle on the front line of the Juma River today, and the heroes who have already begun to retreat in the face of the fierce attack of the Weifu army, there will be cowards, once the defense line is broken by the Weifu army, the consequences are unimaginable.

However, this battle can't be avoided after all, now the reinforcements from Zhuojun have arrived on the other side of the river, Li Fengyun is also in a hurry, and the two sides will start a fierce battle tomorrow.

"Tomorrow's offense and defense will be to attack from the left and right on the west and south lines, and they will support each other." Zhen Bao Station said in front of the map, "According to the scouts, the reinforcements from Zhuo County were divided into two, one was led by Zhuo County's remaining Duan Datong, and went south to Andingyi to meet Zhuocheng Yingyang, who arrived here in advance, and the other was the Xiaoguo Army, who Chen soldiers were in Qigoujin and confronted our army across Laishui. If Duan Da wants to rescue Gaoyang, his main direction of attack must be on the Juma River, so when the fierce battle on this side of the Juma River breaks out, the army we deployed on the front line of Laishui will launch an attack to contain the Xiaoguo army in Qigoujin and prevent them from having the opportunity to join the battlefield of the Juma River. ”

The heroes then discussed it in detail. Yesterday, when Zhen Baoche adjusted the deployment of troops, some commanders disagreed, believing that the division of troops into two routes was not conducive to blocking the attack, and once the reinforcements of Zhuojun tried their best to storm the Juma River, could the alliance troops deployed on the south bank of the Juma River block the enemy from crossing the river? Once it can't be stopped and the enemy breaks through the defensive line, then the alliance forces deployed on the west bank of Laishui are meaningless even if they complete the outflanking of the enemy army. To put it bluntly, the fewer troops deployed on the south bank of the Juma River, the greater the losses in the blocking battle, and the more unwilling the heroes who undertook the blocking task became. But at present, it seems that Zhen Baoche's strategy has succeeded, and the Zhuojun reinforcements have made a wrong interpretation of the deployment of the alliance army, and they have also been divided into two, which greatly reduces the defensive pressure on the front line of the Juma River.

However, the question that arises is, does Duan Da, who stayed behind in Zhuojun, understand the strength of the alliance army? Is he so stupid? First of all, Duan Da is very smart, otherwise he would not be able to get to today's status, and secondly, he doesn't know anything about the alliance army at all, and he doesn't care about the strength of the alliance army, in this case, his division of troops? It is possible that the plan will be calculated, and the alliance army will deliberately let the alliance army shoot itself in the foot and bring disaster upon itself.

At the end of the discussion, Lu Xingxing, Xiahou Zhe and other heroes who were responsible for blocking the Juma River in the front, suggested that Zhen Baoche transfer the troops of the two armies from the west bank of Laishui and put them on the front line of Yishui as a preparation.

Zhen Baoche hesitated, so he took the initiative to seek Li Zixiong's opinion.

Li Zixiong still has some understanding of Duan Da, although this person has been with two generations of emperors most of the time, and he has been forbidden to guard, but he has also led the army during the Great War of Unification, has made many achievements, and has a certain amount of actual combat experience, it stands to reason that he should not "attach importance" to the rebels so much, let alone divide his troops to fight, unless Duan Da sees through the confusing situation in front of him, sees the true intentions of this "rebel army", and sees the future trend of the situation in Youyan and even the entire northern Xinjiang, so he has neither the intention of rushing to Gaoyang to grab the merits of the king, nor is he with " The rebels "had the motivation to fight fiercely, so there was such a "tacit understanding" in front of them, and they would plan to delay the rescue in the south, so as to wait and see how the situation would develop and ensure that they did not make political mistakes.

"How many men did the Xiaoguo Army dispatch? How many Xiongwu Mansions are there? Li Zixiong asked, "Have the scouts ever seen the banner of the unified army?" Is it Ori Chong Lang General or Guo Yi Lang General? ”

"According to the scout report, there are about 6,000 people in the Xiaoguo army, and the commander is a general surnamed Yin." Zhen Baoche was a little puzzled, what Li Zixiong said about Xiongwu Mansion, Zhichong Lang General and Guo Yi Lang General, he had never heard of it, it was very unfamiliar, after all, the Xiaoguo Army had just been established in the early spring of this year, it was a new thing, and there were too few people who knew about it.

"Six thousand? Six Xiongwu Mansions? Li Zixiong's face immediately changed, "Wu Benlang will be the Yin World Master?" The Yin World Division is one of the five major unifying armies of the Xiaoguo Army, don't you know? ”

Zhen Baoche realized that the problem was serious, and Lu Xingxing, Xiahou Zhe and other heroes were shocked when they saw Li Zixiong hearing that there were 6,000 Xiaoguo, and immediately became nervous.

"Please give me advice." Zhen Baoche hurriedly asked for advice.

After the defeat of the First Eastern Crusade, the Holy Lord and the Twelve Guards had a fierce conflict, and the high-level military and political struggle was fierce, in this context, even if the Holy Lord and the Central Committee forcibly concentrated the military power, but as long as the commanders of the Twelve Guardian Mansions disobeyed the Yin and the Yin, the Holy Lord and the Central were in fact hollowed out, and this was still secondary, the important thing was that the safety of the Holy Lord and the Central was threatened, once there was a rebel mutiny, especially on the expeditionary battlefield, how to ensure the safety of the Holy Lord and the Center? The solution is simple, expand the Praetorian Guard.

Under the current unfavorable situation in which the situation at home and abroad has deteriorated sharply, expanding the strength of the Praetorian Guard will not only help the safety of the Holy Lord and the Central Guard during the expedition and inspection, but also help the Holy Lord and the Central Guard to have the ability to devote the strongest forces to the decisive battle at the critical moment of the battlefield, so as to consolidate and strengthen the authority of the Central Committee and reduce the constraints of the Twelve Guards.

However, the expansion of the Praetorian Guard will inevitably involve the reform of the Praetorian Guard system, and the reform of the Praetorian Guard system will inevitably involve the reform of the military system and the vital interests of the entire military, and the resistance is too great, so the Holy Lord and the center "don't take a wrong path" and build a new Xiaoguo Army, so as to supplement and adjust the government military system and the internal and external sixteen guard government systems, which will not affect the vested interests of the military, but also meet the requirements of the Holy Lord and the center to expand the Praetorian Guard force.

There are 16 guard houses after the military system reform, of which the left and right reserve houses and the left and right prison gate houses belong to the inner government, which are in charge of the left and right guards and the gate control guards respectively, and they are forbidden troops, and they do not receive government soldiers. The soldiers of the government are led by the twelve guards of the outer government, including the left and right Yiwei. The Xiaoguo Army belongs to the Praetorian Guard force, and naturally belongs to the left and right Reserve Mansions of the Inner Government, but after the strength of the Reserve Mansion is doubled, it will inevitably seriously affect the distribution pattern of the vested interests of the military, so the Holy Lord and the Center decided that the Xiaoguo Army is "attached" to the Left and Right Reserve Mansions, nominally subordinate to the Left and Right Reserve Mansions, but in fact it has nothing to do with them, and the Xiaoguo Army is an independent Janissary system, which directly obeys the orders of the Holy Lord and the Center.

According to this supplementary system, the highest commander of the Xiaoguo Army is General Zhi Chonglang, and the deputy is General Guo Yilang. It consists of the left and right Xiongwu Mansions, of which the chief is the Xiongwu Lang General, and the deputy is the Wu Yong Lang General. The organizational system and the rank of generals of the Xiaoguo Army are exactly the same as those of the Yingyang Mansion under the Twelve Guard Mansions. But in practice, the expansion speed of the Xiaoguo army is very fast, as far as Li Zixiong knows, before the start of the Second Eastern Crusade, the number of Xiaoguo army has exceeded 20,000, far exceeding? the upper limit set by the system. And Xiaoguo's recruitment of brave soldiers is just a prevarication, and its main source of troops is still from the elite guards in the Yingyang Mansion under the jurisdiction of the Twelve Guards, to put it bluntly, the Holy Lord and the Center directly snatched people from the Twelve Guards Mansion in the name of the new Xiaoguo, and concentrated all the elite soldiers in the government soldier system into the forbidden army system for their own use. There are as many as 20,000 Xiaoguo troops, there are twenty in Xiongwu Mansion, and there are ten generals in Zhichong Lang.

"The strength of the Xiaoguo army of the Yin World Division is strong, if he crosses the Laishui River and storms Yicheng, directly threatens the safety of Puyin Cheng, and forms a flanking attack on you, can you still hold the Juma River?" Li Zixiong stroked his beard and sighed, "Once Pu Yin Cheng is lost, or the Yin World Master occupies five rounds and cuts off your retreat, you will be surrounded, and you will be attacked by the enemy on your back, and you will be caught in the left and right attacks of Duan Da and the Yin World Master, and you will be in danger. ”

Zhen Baoche is at a loss. Li Zixiong's words made the advantage of the alliance lose completely, and now if the main force is gathered in the Juma River, then Duan Da only needs to feint to contain it, and the Laishui side will be finished, Wang Bo will definitely be defeated by the Yin World Division, on the contrary, if the main force is gathered in Laishui and fight to the death with the Yin World Division, then Duan Da's feint attack on the Juma River will inevitably turn into a strong attack, so that Duan Da can break through the alliance's defense line and go straight to Gaoyang.

In the afternoon, on the north bank of the Juma River, Duan Da received a secret letter from Feng Deyi. Yesterday, after discussions, the Holy Lord and the Central Committee decided to make some personnel adjustments in northern Xinjiang in the near future, so as to consolidate and strengthen the forces of the northern Xinjiang suppression and improve the current tense relations between the north and the south. Feng Deyi clearly told Duan Da that the first "obstacle" for the king of Qi to go north to the border had been cleared, and he would rush south to Gaoyang on the sixth day of the first lunar month.

Duan Da weighed it again and again, and resolutely wrote to the Yin World Master, expecting Youyan people to find out the details of the white-haired thief overnight It is very difficult, it is better to ask for others than for yourself, it is better to attack, two lines of attack at the same time, there will be gains.

After dark, the Yin Shishi replied and agreed with Duan Da's decision, the Xiaoguo army would force the Laishui tomorrow morning, storm Yicheng, and threaten Pu Yincheng to see if he could force the white-haired thief to withdraw from the Juma River, and at the same time he asked Duan Da for support to ensure that he could calmly withdraw from the battle in the event of an accident.

Duan Da replied to the book, and tomorrow a certain feint will attack the Juma River to cooperate with Xiaoguo to cross the Laishui.

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