"Tongmei (Ge Congzhou), what are you doing here?" Zhu Wen was quite surprised by Ge Congzhou's performance.

"King Liang Chitose, Li Cunhuan's news of the three-day army coming to the city of Yizhou, I think you also know Chitose. In this Northern Expedition, Chitose only had 40,000 troops, plus 20,000 soldiers and horses from Yunzhou, a total of only 60,000. The last general is afraid that Chitose will be lost! Ge Congzhou said that in the back, he had some meaning of wanting to speak and stopping.

Jing Xiang, who was standing next to Zhu Wen, rolled his eyes a few times and smiled. "Chitose, General Ge, I'm afraid it's a shame to be attacked by Li Cunhuan in Qizhou, right?"

Ge Congzhou was told by Jing Xiang, and his face couldn't help but turn red, and it was fair to say that Ge Congzhou's actions this time were quite a personal vendetta. However, when Zhu Wen heard this, he didn't care, but laughed, patted Ge Congzhou's shoulder and said, "Not bad!" There is ambition, but Tongmei, you are gone, I am afraid that the generals under your command will not be able to suppress Pinglu. ”

"Although Gong Yue, the general under the command of the last general, is not talented, but under the teaching of the last general, he still has some skills. And although Pinglu Wang Shifan has some talent, it is just in the management of government affairs! Don't be afraid of exaggerated evaluations, Pinglu! No generals! With Gong Yue's talent, it is more than enough to hold Yunzhou. In addition, there is General Pang (Shigu) in Xuzhou, and then he sent Qian Biao to attack Yang Xingmi's old horseman, and Chitose's flanks and rear were naturally comforted. Although Ge Congzhou's words were arrogant, there was some truth in them.

Although Wang Shifan's ability is good, he is far behind the famous Xuanwu general Ge Congzhou, if it weren't for Li Cunhuan helping on the side, he would have been swallowed by Ge Congzhou and didn't know what was going on. Ge Congzhou naturally disdained Pinglu's soldiers and horses. Whether in ancient or modern times, although the elite degree of soldiers and horses is important, the general is even more important. What's more, Pinglu doesn't occupy either, so he relies on the strength of the crowd to resist Ge Congzhou.

The soldier is dead and will be alive. Since ancient times, there has never been a shortage of examples of relying on weak soldiers to defeat strong soldiers. So even in the face of tens of thousands of Ping Lu troops, Ge Congzhou's disdain is not blindly arrogant.

Zhu Wen couldn't help but be moved, after all, there are many generals, and the combat effectiveness is different, but he is still a little relieved, so he asked Jing Xiang: "What do you see, military advisor?" ”

Although Jing Xiang is tempted by this ......, he is cautious and knows that the world is impermanent. After pondering for a moment, Jing Xiang opened his mouth and said: "I think it is better to transfer Zhang Cunjing, the assassin of Xuzhou, and the Hou Army Ma Jun to Yunzhou and Yanzhou!" ”

Ge Congzhou couldn't help but stare at it, he said that Jingxiang wanted to mix sand, and he couldn't help but be a little dissatisfied. Lao Tzu usually has no hatred with you Jingxiang, you guy actually wants to take advantage of Lao Tzu's absence to mix sand in Yunzhou. However, Ge Congzhou is not an ordinary person in the end, although he is angry in his heart, he does not show it.

After pondering for a moment, Ge Congzhou spoke: "Chitose, I think it is better to transfer Zhang Cunjing as the envoy of the soldiers and horses of Yunzhou. As for the old general of the clan Shucong, he is a rare cavalry general in Xuanwu, and in this Hebei War, the northerners are the best at cavalry. When the old general arrives in Yanzhou, I am afraid that it will affect the situation in Hebei. What's more, now it is to attack Hebei, not to attack Lu. Let the fighters be used in the defending place, and if you don't use people properly, I'm afraid that the old general will also be angry. ”

In fact, Ge Congzhou's choice was not because he said it was above board, but because Zhang Cunjing was his former subordinate, although he was appreciated by Zhu Wen and transferred to Xuzhou. But overall, it's not mixed with sand. And Shi Shucong is different, so Ge Cong sent a strong message to Shi Shucong to settle in Yunzhou.

"Well, what Tongmei said is not wrong, let Zhang Cunjing go to Yunzhou." When Zhu Wen heard this, he didn't wait for Jing Xiang to speak again to persuade him, and he had already made a decision. Although Jing Xiang felt that something was wrong in his heart, he did not continue to advise in the end. Zhu Wen is not Tang Taizong, he is like a murderer, and he can't tolerate a character like Wei Zheng in his eyes. Jing Xiang is not a foolish and upright person.

Immediately, Zhu Wen personally issued an order, and Ge Congzhou led 20,000 Yunzhou soldiers to accompany him, and Sima Gongyue of the Tianbian Army led Tianping Town on his behalf, and transferred Zhang Cunjing as the envoy of Yunzhou soldiers and horses.

The next time he gathered troops and horses and ships in Puzhou, and it took three days to cross the Yellow River. Wei Bo Jiedu made Luo Hongxin lead 20,000 Wei Bo elite soldiers to round, and at this time Xuanwu Zhu Wen's army had reached 80,000 troops. Zhu Wen built the Temple of Heaven in Weizhou, took the oath, and encouraged morale. The claimed 200,000-strong army set out for the north.

And Li Cunhuan, the king of Qin, raided with Yuan Xingqin's light cavalry and captured Beixing County in one fell swoop, which was only ninety miles away from Anxi, the seat of Dingzhou, and it was only half a day's journey on a fast horse.

Because I feel that the general trend of Yiwu being included in Li Cunhuan's rule can no longer be resisted. After Park Jinghui ventured into Dingzhou to persuade him to surrender, Dingzhou assassin Shi Fan Yan and Zhao Fu made Zheng Jiling lead the entire territory of Dingzhou to surrender to Li Cunhuan. Yizhou Fufu made Du Hongshou lead his troops to rescue Yizhou City, but was defeated by Jiang Yingjie, and Du Hongshou surrendered. The people in Yizhou City were panicked, and it is said that Wang Gao was even more frightened and wept that day, which can be regarded as embarrassing enough.

At the same time, the left army Yelu Abaoji defeated Wang Chuzhi, and Wang Zhizhi ran south, not knowing where to go. Yelu Abaoji took advantage of the situation to collect Qingyuan and Tangxing two counties. Seeing that the situation was not good, Liu Rengong abandoned Hejian and Gaoyang counties, retreated to Boye County, backed by Chengde, and waited for Li Ke to help.

And Li Keyong took his younger brother Li Kening as the envoy of the soldiers and horses of the internal and external Han Dynasty, the Taibao of the inspection school, and the envoy of the Zhenwu Festival. He also decreed: All military and political affairs are decided by Kenin. Li Kening guarded Taiyuan Mansion, and his adopted sons Li Cunhao and Li Cunshi assisted him. He also sent Li Cunxin to lead an army of 10,000 to the south to help his son-in-law Wang Ke in Hezhong.

He also sent his adopted son Li Cunxian to the Turkic tribes in the border pass, borrowed 6,000 Turkic cavalry, and joined forces with Li Keyong in Daizhou. He also sent his adopted sons Li Sizhao and Li Cunzhang to Zhaoyi, and transferred 10,000 Zhaoyi soldiers to Chengde in the north. Then he ordered Chengde Wang Rong to lead his troops to help the battle and go north by the way. Wang Rongnai led 20,000 Zhao soldiers to help in the battle. and Li Keyong brought out 30,000 troops from Taiyuan, Shi Shanyou 30,000 Yun and Shuo troops, and Hedong sent a total of more than 96,000 troops. This is not counting the thousands of remnants in Liu Rengong's hands.

Li Keyong, the king of Jin, appointed himself as the generalissimo of the world's soldiers and horses, known as an army of 500,000, pressed Yiwu. It is called to coordinate the contradictions between the two towns of Yiwu and Lulong, but everyone can see that Li Keyong is a drunkard and does not mean to drink.

Not to be outdone, Li Cunhuan transferred 10,000 Andong troops into the pass to help defend Datong's 30,000 troops of Shi Shanyou. Transferred Yelu Abao to Dingzhou, and left Xue Atan to fight back against Liu Rengong in the south of the river. Coupled with the 10,000 regiments transferred from Youzhou to train troops and surrender troops of Yiwu, the number of troops in the hands of Li Cunhuan in Yiwu has reached more than 40,000, but 5,000 of them are guarding all parts of Yiwu, and the real ones in their hands are only 35,000.

Overall, though, each has its own advantages. Although Li Ke used a lot of troops, he was miscellaneous, including Shatuo people, Han people, Turkic people, and Tuyuhun people, which inevitably made it difficult to coordinate. Moreover, Li Ke used this dispatch to launch an attack regardless of his own dangerous situation, which was quite like Fu Jian during the Battle of Weishui. However, Li Keyong's strength is not as powerful as Fu Jian, so it can only be said that Li Keyong is a reckless backwater.

Victory in the last battle will certainly bring great benefits, but defeat also carries great dangers.

Although Zhu Wen's troops were slightly inferior to Li Keyong's, the army was mainly infantry, and it was obviously not conducive to giving full play to the combat effectiveness of the infantry in Hebei, which was mainly terrained in the plains. In addition, the opponents are all cavalry as the main force, which inevitably seems to be relatively passive, and it is not easy to annihilate the enemy's living force after victory. If you are defeated, it is more difficult than others to escape.

Although Li Cunhuan has the least troops, he occupies the fortified city of Dingzhou, and Yizhou is not under the condition that he can go down. He can defend the world according to righteousness and martial arts, although he is not enterprising enough, but he is more than successful.

The time slowly came to the middle of March, and Zhu Wen sent Ge from Zhou to the east to recruit envoys. Ge Congzhou suddenly waved to the west.

............ "What's ahead?" Zhou Dewei asked in a deep voice.

"Ahead is the county seat of Feixiang, and it is only forty miles away from the Yongnian of the Zhizhou Governor's Office!" Wei Bo's general and guide Chen Kexian responded respectfully.

"Good!" Ge Congzhou nodded, turned sideways to the rear and asked, "He Delun." ”

"The last general!" Xuanwu general He Delun hurriedly stepped forward and bowed to Ge Congzhou.

"It's up to you to go out in this battle, how many men and horses do you want to capture Feixiang County!" Ge Congzhou admired this general from Hexi, and his tone of voice was much more relaxed.

"The last general only needs thirty horses!" He Delun said proudly, although he gave people a slight sense of arrogance, Ge Congzhou did not appreciate He Delun's enterprising spirit very much.

Ge Congzhou nodded and said, "Okay!" You go to order troops, Ben Shuai is here to look forward to your good news! ”

He Delun said proudly: "Please rest assured, although Delun does not have any great ability, he has always done things relatively quickly, and he will not let the general wait for a long time!" ”

Waiting for He Delun to set off, Wei Bo's general Chen Keshan couldn't help frowning, looked at the direction He Delun left and commented dissatisfiedly: "Proud and arrogant!" Supercilious! ”

"Only talented people can be proud!" Ge Congzhou smiled noncommittally and said.

Chen Keshan laughed dryly twice, not daring to say more.

"The enemy has not yet discovered the arrival of our army, so we must take advantage of this advantage, rush into Feixiang County quickly, and capture the county order! Cut off its head, mess with its soldiers and horses, and move its military heart! "Although Hedron is arrogant, he is not stupid, and he has already planned it.

"Order!" Thirty horsemen around Hedrun responded in unison.

"Rush!" He Delun let out a low roar, and thirty horses sped forward.

Although Feixiang County is located in a border town, it has rarely had a war with Weibo over the years, and the soldiers have been much lax. Suddenly, the soldiers couldn't help but be shocked when they saw thirty cavalry galloping over, but they didn't close the city gate, after all, the other party was only thirty cavalry. More than 30 crossbowmen poured out of the city, and the soldiers at the city gate also began to pick up their spears and aim them in the direction of the 30 cavalry. In the eyes of the crowd, this was enough to deal with the thirty horsemen.

"Humph! Too little to see me! He Delun snorted disdainfully, and galloped with the cavalry.

At this time, even idiots could see that they were not good, and the crossbowmen at the head of the city hurriedly released their arrows and sounded the alarm at the same time. However, the city gate was still not closed, after all, in the eyes of everyone, the other party was only thirty horsemen. There were thousands of officers and soldiers in Feixiang County, and they were frightened by the thirty horsemen to close the city gate, which was too cowardly. I'm afraid I won't have the face to look up at people in the future.

As a result, they lost their last chance to save the defeat, and Hedrun led thirty cavalry to kill like a whirlwind, and the defense line laid by the soldiers at the city gate, as fragile as the red leaves hanging on the trees in autumn, was blown by the whirlwind, and all of them dissipated into the air. Before the officers and soldiers could react, Hedron had already entered the streets. The long drive approached the county government.

"Protect your lordship! Fast! "The rain of arrows on the city wall and the time of Hedrun along the way still bought a little time for the county lieutenant. The county lieutenant hurriedly summoned the officials to pick up weapons to protect the county lord, and more than 30 officials either took water and fire sticks or ring rulers, but no one of them held regular weapons anyway. The county lieutenant held a simple knife in his hand. However, the more than 30 people, coupled with the weapons at hand, also gave the officials a little morale.

"Kill!" It didn't take long for He Delun to come and run, and flew into the courtyard of the yamen with the war horse under his crotch. The iron hooves fell fiercely on the yellow earth, making a muffled sound that made the hearts of the officials palpitate.

"Kill! Kill one enemy, reward three times, and reinforcements will arrive soon! Everybody! The county lieutenant shouted and encouraged the officials to kill the enemy.

When the officials saw that it was only Hedelun, they immediately mustered up the courage to roar angrily, picked up the water and fire sticks and the ring ruler and killed him.

"Humph! The pearl of rice grains also dares to compete with the moon! He Delun snorted coldly, with a swing of the long knife in his hand, the war horse under his crotch made a short sprint, and the sword flashed, killing the two officials immediately. A layer of red dye was sprinkled on the yellow earth in the official office.

Those servants are just idle men who can't be soldiers, and the people are too lazy, and they have seen blood there. As soon as they saw the dead man, everyone couldn't help but scream in horror and retreated in unison. Before He Delun arrived, he was already flustered and scattered water and fire sticks and ring rulers all over the ground.

He Delun didn't pay attention to it, and rode his horse to rush to the county lieutenant who was about to escape, and his sword fell, and a big head fell to the ground. He Delun's majestic horizontal knife immediately roared: "Who dares to compete with me!" The frightened officials scattered and fled.

He Delun didn't chase and kill, looking at the blood and dead bodies in the county office, he laughed.

Seeing that there was no protective force left, the county magistrate was also single, walked out on his own, and directly said surrender.

"Hah! Ha! Ha! Ge Congzhou, who had just received the good news from Hedelun, laughed loudly, and asked with a smile at Chen Keshan on the side: "What do you think of Hedelun?" ”

Chen Keshan was very embarrassed, after all, he slandered the other party so much just now, and when he said that he could only laugh dryly, his face was also red and comparable to that of Second Brother Guan. "Brave! Scold! Scold! ”

………… Ge Congzhou immediately led the army to attack Zhouzhou, but Zhaozhou couldn't react at all. In fact, don't say that Zhaozhou can't react. Even Feixiang County, which was the first to be raided, still doesn't quite understand what is going on.

Ge Congzhou's attack is like a lightning bolt that suddenly flashes in the night, you can see it, but you can't understand it, and you can't react to it. However, in half a day, Ge Congzhou captured Zhaozhou and killed the assassin of Zhaozhou.

Xingzhou Thorn Shi Ma Suyin led an army of 10,000 to fight with Ge Congzhou at a place called Ji Ze, at that time Ge Congzhou had only 8,000 troops, slightly inferior to the other party in numbers, and had just experienced the siege of Zhaozhou, logically speaking, it was a tired soldier.

However, Ge Congzhou was Ge Congzhou in the end, he was well planned on the battlefield, good at seizing the opportunity, and at the critical moment, he sent He Delun to lead the Chinese cavalry to launch an attack and defeat Ma Suyin's Chinese army, and the two wings of the Hedong Army were immediately defeated. Ma Suyin didn't even dare to return to Xingzhou City, and hurriedly fled to Liaozhou, a neighboring prefecture, and the town generals and guards from all over Xingzhou surrendered.

Ge Congzhou immediately led the army south and defeated Yuan Fengtao, the assassin of Cizhou, who committed suicide in Handan City after the defeat of Yuan Fengtao. Ge Congzhou occupies Cizhou. And in this series of battles, Ge Congzhou only took five days to occupy the three states, and he even won outstanding feats, winning more than 20,000 heads!

So from that day on, a proverb appeared in Hebei: "Shandong is a Ge, nothing to provoke." ”

This article Ge refers to Ge Congzhou.

When the news reached Li Keyong's ears, Li Ke was so angry that he almost fainted. However, Li Keyong was Li Keyong in the end, and he hurriedly found someone to invite the military advisor Kang Junli, his son Li Cunxuan, and his adopted son Li Cunxian to discuss the military aircraft.

Li Keyong showed the battle report to everyone, and everyone's faces couldn't help but change greatly. Kang Junli immediately said: "Chitose, don't hesitate, you have to quickly order the Great Taibao in Chengde not to go north, unite with Chengde, and wait and see what happens!" In case of attacking Li Cunhuan in front, and sneak attack on Zhu Wen's old guy in the back! ”

"Father, what the military advisor said is very true. Other things can be discussed in the long run, but this matter should be decided immediately! Li Cunmiao on the side also strongly supported Kang Junli's proposal.

"Well, what the military advisor and Miao'er said is not wrong, come here, pen and ink are waiting!" Immediately, Li Keyong issued an order and sent people to Li Siyuan and Li Cunzhang, who were leading troops in Chengde to prepare to attack Yiwu.

"But what now? The situation is very bad for us! Otherwise, I am afraid that I will lose more starters. The person who spoke was Li Cunxian, he was cautious, although he didn't talk much, but Li Keyong also valued his opinion.

"That's right!" This time it was Li Cunqiao who spoke, and his face was full of sorrow. "Father, our original plan to send troops this time was to target Li Cunhuan, but when Zhu Wen sent troops, he reacted and prepared to contain Zhu Wen with Xing, Ci, and Wei Prefectures, but at this time we have lost the opportunity. What's more, now our army is mainly concentrated in Yunzhou, Ulzhou and Chengde. Originally, this was a clever move, biting Yiwu to the death, and attacking the north and south. But now it seems that it was Li Cunhuan who divided our army. If the army wants to return to defense, it needs to take a long detour before it can reach Dade. Li Cunxuan's words were full of frustration.

In fact, not only Li Cunqiao is depressed now, but everyone here, including Li Keyong, is depressed. It was not only Li Cunhuan who occupied Yiwu and divided the indirect surnames of the Hedong Army. More importantly, Ge Congzhou occupied Xingzhou, Cizhou, and Zhaozhou. The north can contact Li Cunhuan to flank Chengde and annihilate the 30,000 Chengde coalition forces east of the river. To the west, Zhu Wen could attack Liaozhou and Luzhou, which were now empty of troops, so as to drive straight into Taiyuan Mansion.

(To be continued)