Not long after Qin Qiong left Shandong with the fleet, Zhai Rang, who received the news, found Li Mi, and the two discussed how to deal with Zhang Xutuo. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

"Brother Li, at present, the imperial army is weak, there is smoke everywhere, and there are righteous armies everywhere, which can be said to be blooming everywhere, and good news is frequent, but our Wagang army has been defeated in successive battles, which is not worthy of our name!"

Zhai Rang looks worried, the Wagang army is full of talents, there are many generals, but they just can't win the battle, this Zhang Xutuo is simply their nemesis, Zhang Xutuo is not only steady with soldiers, but also has a lot of capable generals under his command, Qin Qiong, Luo Shixin plus himself, are all fierce generals who can fight tough battles, before the battle of Jindi, the first warrior of Wagang Xin Wenli died in the hands of Luo Shixin, and before, during the battle of Licheng, Qin Qiong and Qin Shubao were defeated by Shan Xiongxin, but the Wagang army was caught by Zhang Xutuo's plan to lure the enemy deep, Trapped in Licheng, the reinforcements outside could not be filled, and the lone army inside had no food and grass, and finally although Shan Xiongxin led the army to break through desperately and fled back, most of the Wagang army was not so lucky, the morale of the Wagang army in these battles was greatly reduced, and the morale of the army was unstable, and many people as soon as they heard that they were going to fight with Zhang Xutuo's army, they would immediately be much weaker.

Li Mi said with a smile: "Don't worry about Zhai Da, Zhang Xutuo is just a fleeting life, what is the right way, I am already thinking about what we should do next, whether to send troops to Henan or Hebei?" ”

Li Mi's attitude made Zhai Rang a little surprised, he glanced at Shan Xiongxin, saw the latter secretly shook his head, sighed in his heart, but pretended to be very happy on his face, and asked: "Brother Li, if you have any clever plan, please come quickly, let everyone refer to it!" ”

Li Mi glanced at Shan Xiongxin, saw him looking left and right, his eyes dodged, smiled slightly, and said to Zhai Rang: "Big boss, you see, Zhang Xutuo originally only had 30,000 troops, if he was stationed in Licheng, it would be good to say, after all, the road is far away, the army is very strange and not discovered, but he led the army to be stationed in Xingyang at this time, the land of Xingyang is thousands of miles away from Licheng, they came from afar, although the battle is even successful, but has become a proud soldier, but at this time, Zhang Xutuo also divided his troops to send Luo Shixin to attack Jindi, He also asked Qin Qiong, who remained in Shandong, to lead his army south to support the Sui army in the Jianghuai area, so that we had a good opportunity. ”

"What a chance!"

Zhai Rang hurriedly asked, it could be seen that he had been attracted by Li Mi's words, if he could really defeat Zhang Xutuo, it would greatly improve their current situation, and he could also make a name for himself among the rebels.

"Big boss, you see, this is the current situation of friend and foe!"

Li Mi took a step forward, took out a map and walked towards Zhai Rang, spread it out and looked, it was really a map of a large area of Shandong and Henan, the map was drawn very finely, and the year was also marked on it, Zhai Rang took a look, and sent a map of the seven years of the great cause, he was shocked, looked at Li Mi, Li Mi smiled and nodded.

"You guessed it right, big boss, this is the map left by Yang Gong when he was doing the incident before, I saw that it was precisely drawn, so I collected a few copies."

"Look, 10,000 people of the Sui army are stationed in Xingyang, 5,000 people are stationed in Jindi, of which the guard of Jindi is Luo Shixin, this person has courage and no strategy, we don't need to take him first, and stationed in Xingyang is Zhang Xutuo himself, he has an army of 10,000 people, you all know that the army under Zhang Xutuo can fight well, can fight tough battles, and win more with less many times, Zhu A battle, Lu Mingyue's 100,000 army was defeated by Zhang Xutuo's 10,000 horses, most of the dead and wounded were killed, Lu Mingyue only escaped with a few hundred people, In the first battle of Beihai, Zhang Xutuo took the lead, and defeated the 60,000 combined forces of Guo and Qin with 10,000 people, and killed countless people, and our Wagang army did not take much advantage in the hands of Zhang Xutuo, so this battle can only be outwitted, not defeated. ”

The expressions on everyone's faces were a little solemn, they had already seen Zhang Xutuo's power.

"But now Zhang Xutuo because of the lonely army deep, so he must be eager to fight, and we can take advantage of this, add a little more oil and fire, you see, now Zhang Xutuo's army is pouring out, Shandong is not much army left, and Qin Qiong's has already led the army south, then Zhang Xutuo must be very worried that someone will take the opportunity to sneak attack his hinterland, last year the Yellow River locust plague continued, drought continued, many places are short of food, and although the land of Shandong has also been affected, but the impact is not great, the reason is that Zhang Xutuo is strong, So that the homeless people and the rebels are much less than other places, so Shandong is a fragrant bait at this time, don't talk about ourselves, just talk about Lu Mingyue and Wang Bo, don't they want to enter Shandong? Yes, there must be, but we can't put them in Shandong, my opinion is that we can send an army to attack Bocheng, which is the gateway to the south of Licheng, and it is also the key position of the land of Qilu, backed by Daishan, can be attacked, retreated can be defended, the number of defenders in the city is not much, only more than 300 county soldiers, there is almost no battle to come, and we can send a cavalry over, the number is not much, 3,000 people can be, as long as Bocheng is taken by us, then Shandong is a piece of fat on our lips, when do you want to eat, Just eat it whenever you want. ”

"Does Master Li mean that we should send troops to Bocheng, lure Zhang Xutuo to lead the army back to help, and then ambush them halfway?"

Shan Xiongxin was a little hesitant, he didn't know if his conjecture was consistent with Li Mi's thoughts.

"General Shan, this strategy of yours is also possible, but with Zhang Xutuo's caution, he must be extremely cautious during the march, and if we want to ambush him, I am afraid that it will not be an easy thing!"

Although Li Mi did not say it explicitly, he still denied Shan Xiongxin's idea.

He glanced at everyone, but they didn't speak, obviously not thinking of what was in his heart.

Li Mi looked at Xu Shiji, who was standing beside Shan Xiongxin, and saw that he closed his eyes and thought deeply, not knowing what he was thinking.

"Xu Junshi, what do you think?"

Li Mi knew Xu Maogong's talent, and tried to win him over several times, but Xu Shiji had a good relationship with Shan Xiongxin, and Shan Xiongxin was loyal to Zhai Rang, so his wooing did not work, but Li Mi did not give up, he had already seen that Xu Shiji did not have any confidence in Zhai Rang, presumably he was the same as himself, and he had already seen through Zhai Rang's lack of ambition and was not a suitable candidate for the leader of the first army.

"Since Lord Li asked, then Xu also came to talk about his shallow views, Xu thought that with Zhang Xutuo's personality, he would not lead the army to rescue, but would take the initiative to ask us for battle, and strive to defeat or severely damage us, this is the same as encircling Wei to save Zhao, as long as we are defeated, then the army of Bocheng will retreat without a fight, and it must not stay, otherwise there is a danger that the back road will be cut off, I don't know if this is the idea and strategy in Lord Li's heart!"