Chapter 523: Warning
Late at night, Wei Wensheng led the Chinese army to arrive at the Matoushan camp.
Wu Benlang hurried Dou Lu Xian to report. The military situation on the front line of Michi, which the scouts had detected two days ago, was basically accurate, and there were about three or four thousand rebels surrounding Michi
"At present, the scouts are investigating the area of Xiaoxin Ancheng and Qianqiu Pavilion under the cover of night, and it is estimated that there should be news back before dawn." Dou Luxian looked tired, but his tone was very relaxed, he could see that he was in a good mood, and he had an optimistic judgment of the current situation, "I thought that Yang Xuangan would set up an ambush in Kun, even if he couldn't stop us, he would disturb us to delay our progress, but I didn't expect that I didn't even see a figure all the way. Ming Gong still knows Yang Xuangan, before Ming Gong said that Yang Xuangan is not good at using soldiers, let alone thinking of setting up an ambush in Kun, and sure enough, Ming Gong said it."
Wei Wensheng's face sank like water, stroking his long gray beard with one hand, and tapping lightly on the table covered with the map with the other, ignoring Dou Luxian's compliments.
Dou Luxian hesitated for a moment, and was about to ask about tomorrow's attack strategy, but heard Wei Wensheng speak, "Send a scout to the south bank of Gushui to take a look. This goes to the Han Valley, two mountains and a water, the terrain is steep, once the ambush, the consequences are severe."
Dou Luxian hurriedly agreed, but he disagreed with Wei Wensheng's concerns, "Yang Xuangan's rebellion is still short, even if the respondents gather, the number of troops is very limited, if he chooses to fight with us outside Hangu Pass, then he must divide his troops into two ways, one way to fight a decisive battle outside Hangu Pass, and all the way to continue to besiege the eastern capital to contain the defenders of the eastern capital, so its decisive battle force will inevitably be insufficient, so if nothing else, Yang Xuangan should put the decisive battlefield in the eastern capital, in this way, Yang Xuangan will inevitably show the enemy weakness in order to lure us into the battlefield of the eastern capital, This trip to Hangu should still be as Ming Gong expected, unimpeded."
"Don't despise your opponent, Yang Xuangan is not a dog slaughterer, since he dares to launch a mutiny, he must rely on it." Wei Wensheng admonished, "Don't be afraid of 10,000, just in case, it's better to be careful."
Dou Luxian snorted repeatedly, "Early tomorrow morning, will the Xuan Feng Army launch an attack on Mianchi?"
"Attack" Wei Wensheng waved his hand vigorously, "Since you have decided to enter the Eastern Capital, you should give up your life and forget about death and move forward."
Wei Wensheng passed down the order, and the troops will immediately go to the Chinese army to discuss the plan for tomorrow's attack.
Late at night, in Yang Xuangan's tent, all the generals gathered to listen to Li Mi's account of Li Fengyun's specific plans for tomorrow's decisive battle.
Previously, Li Mi had already conveyed Li Fengyun's opinion to Yang Xuangan. Yang Xuangan thought about it for a long time, and issued an order for the generals and commanders to discuss the accounts, but he never expressed his opinion, which couldn't help but make Li Mi very worried, and he didn't know what Yang Xuangan's attitude was.
In fact, Yang Xuangan was very angry, the cooperation between him and Li Fengyun was divided into primary and secondary, he was the master, Li Fengyun was secondary, Li Fengyun had a certain right to speak in military decision-making, but in the end he still had to obey him. However, all along, Li Fengyun has used his own advantages to firmly control the development of the situation in the Eastern Capital, first captured Nanguo and ransacked the two cities, and then let Han Xiangguo go to the Xingyang battlefield, and then transferred the decisive battlefield from the Eastern Capital to Mianchi, and now he has intensified his efforts to make Yang Xuangan accept his decisive battle strategy, although Li Fengyun's actions have never affected Yang Xuangan's interests, and even helped the mutiny alliance a lot, but Li Fengyun's strategy and aggressive momentum are superior, and the containment and restraint of the mutiny alliance, which still made Yang Xuan feel aggrieved, and even a little annoyed and angry, making him feel a sense of humiliation by being played by Li Fengyun.
Who's the boss here? Is it me or you Li Fengyun? Why do I give in every time, and I listen to you? However, Yang Xuangan had to admit that Li Fengyun was indeed superior in strategy, especially in grasping the overall situation, and he had an innate talent. This time it was the same, when Li Mi explained Li Fengyun's decisive battle strategy in detail, Yang Xuan was secretly afraid, it was obvious that he and his staff and generals were carried away by anger, not only in many key places negligence and omission, but even in the judgment of the overall situation, once these mistakes were caught by the opponent, the consequences were unimaginable.
However, Li Fengyun's hand was stretched too "long", which was tantamount to making public the military decisions involving Yang Xuangan, which made Yang Xuangan unable to accept it, feeling that his dignity had been insulted, his power had been provoked, and he could not persuade himself to accept Li Fengyun's decisive battle plan, so he ordered to convene all the generals to discuss, if all the generals were willing to accept Li Fengyun's decisive battle plan, he would make one last concession in order to win the decisive battle, and then the two parted ways, went their separate ways, and had nothing to do with each other.
Li Fengyun's strategy is impeccable. The generals were silent, and everyone could clearly feel the true intention of Yang Xuangan to let Li Mi explain this strategy in public.
The authorities are confused, the bystanders are clear, and Li Fengyun is actually the authorities, but why can he keep a clear head? Because he was not carried away by the anger, and the others, including Yang Xuangan himself, had fallen into the madness of revenge and hatred, and had lost their calm and reason, and if this out-of-control emotion could not be suppressed quickly, if the armies could not quickly adjust their mentality, then this decisive battle would probably not bring them victory, but endless sadness and despair.
In the depressing atmosphere, Hu Shitan coughed twice, breaking the silence in the tent, "We have never believed in Bai Fa, we are worried that Bai Fa will rebel and escape, and from this strategy, we seem to have some misunderstanding of Bai Fa. According to the plan of the white hair, he surrounded Michi for the second time, cut off the retreat of the Xijing army, and attacked the Xijing army with us in front and rear, so that he had to do his best, because if he wanted to return to the eastern capital, if he wanted to evacuate Gyeonggi safely, he had to step on the corpse of the Xijing army and march east to Hangu Pass. ]"
Speaking of this, Hu Shitan looked at the generals, stroked his beard and said, "In other words, from this moment on, we must not only believe in Bai Fa, but also work together with Bai Fa to fight this decisive battle together and clear the biggest obstacle for our Xijing Guanzhong."
Hu Shitan made his position clear, immediately changed the deployment of the decisive battle, and used the white-haired strategy to re-deploy the decisive battle.
The generals were still silent, and no one echoed Hu Shitan. Yang Xuangan's face was gloomy and he didn't say a word, which made the generals at a loss, and they didn't dare to express their opinions lightly, after all, the sudden change of tactics was a blow to Yang Xuangan's prestige, although Li Mi and Hu Shitan successively stated their positions, but the final decision was still in Yang Xuangan's hands, if Yang Xuangan was stubborn and refused to adopt it, the strategy of white hair would be in vain, at most it would play a warning role, so that everyone should be cautious in the decisive battle, and not be blindly impulsive for revenge.
At this moment, Yang Xuanting spoke, "Brother, the white-haired decisive battle strategy has a lot of merits, in order to ensure the victory of the decisive battle, we should learn from each other's strengths, as long as it is conducive to the decisive battle, we should adopt it."
"Brother, a certain person also proposed to adopt a part of the white-haired strategy, which is more conducive to our total annihilation of the Xijing army." Yang Jishan saw that Yang Xuan was very supportive, and immediately followed.
The attitude of the Yang brothers immediately changed the tense atmosphere in the tent, and the generals spoke one after another, and most of them supported the decisive battle with white hair.
Yang Xuangan was as good as a stream, and quickly made a decision, "Redraft the decisive battle deployment with a white-haired strategy."
On the morning of June 27, Cui Hongsheng, the ambassador of Hebei, led his army across the Yongji Canal and advanced rapidly by land to Jicheng, the capital of Ji County.
At the same time, the deputy of Zhuo County stayed behind, and Wu Benlang's general Chen Ling also led the army to leave Tangyin City, went south along the avenue, and strode towards Jicheng, the capital of Ji County.
This is a decision made jointly by Cui Hongsheng and Chen Ling after leaving the camp of King Qi yesterday.
Yesterday, under the coercion of Zhou Fashang, the king of Qi had to make a promise to capture Liyang and open the Yongji Canal within three days, and then Zhou Fashang left in a hurry and went to rescue the eastern capital in accordance with the orders of the province. Cui Hongsheng and Chen Ling are very passive, what should they do next? Continue to garrison Nei Huang and Tang Yin to "monitor" King Qi? It seems that there is no need, after Zhou Fashang blocked the waterway of the Great River, it was impossible for the King of Qi to enter Beijing, and he could only use the largest part of the Grand Canal to defraud the political interests, and the compromise that Zhou Fashang made to the King of Qi was to give the important task of supporting Xingyang to Pengcheng to stay behind Dong Chun, in fact, it was to give up the control of the Tongji Canal to the King of Qi, so that the King of Qi had enough "capital" to blackmail the Holy Lord.
Now that Zhou Fashang has already laid out the future situation in Liyang, of course Cui Hongsheng and Chen Ling do not need to continue to stay on the Liyang battlefield to offend the "King of Qi", so the two discussed it and decided to rush to Jicheng, the capital of Ji County, one is to stay away from the Liyang battlefield, keep a "safe" distance from the King of Qi, and show his "cooperation" to the King of Qi, and the other is to maintain close contact with Hanoi and Xingyang nearby, so as to grasp the information of Gyeonggi in time, and at the same time maintain a high degree of tacit understanding with Zhou Fashang and the sailor, as long as the shape is unfavorable to Yang Xuan, It was not good for the Guanlong people, as long as Zhou Fashang began to kill the eastern capital with all his might, they would follow.
As for the province, because the Guanlong people control a large part of the decision-making power, the Shandong people and Jiangzuo people are always vigilant about the provincial orders, and if their orders are not conducive to their own interests, they will be disobeyed. Now among the commanders of the supporting armies, Zhou Fashang is the most trusted and powerful of the Holy Lord, so of course Cui Hongsheng and Chen Ling must only look forward to their horses and follow the trend step by step, so as not to make mistakes in politics, and the province will also keep an eye on Zhou Fashang and be cautious in everything.
On the same day, on the south bank of the river, in Baima City, Pengcheng stayed behind and Dong Chun led the army westward and began to march towards Xingyang.
At noon on June 27, outside Lingquan City in the upper reaches of Huanshui in Wei County, Hebei Province, Li Zixiong, Chen Rui, Han Yao and other high-level members of the alliance immediately received the news that the Youzhou Army had left Tangyin City and headed south.
Li Zixiong did not hesitate, and immediately proposed to build yƬ, and quickly went north, Hao Xiaode and Liu Heimin led the army first, the alliance governor's mansion and the baggage camp were in the center, and Wang Bo and Huo Xiaohan led the army to follow up.
Chen Rui and Han Yao were very decisive, and immediately issued an order to go north in the name of the Great Governor's Office, and asked Wang Rende, the marshal of Taihang, to carry out activities on the front line of Tangyin and Anyang to attract the attention of the government, and at the same time invited another Taihang handsome Yang Gongqing to move on the front line of Fuyang and Handan, so as to rush north with the army of the alliance.
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