Gao Huaiyuan also had a good impression of this stammering Deputy General Lu, nodded and asked him to step back first, and then asked this Chen Yu: Has this Deputy General Lu already verified everything with the military academy? Is what he said true?

Chen Yu immediately replied: Xia Guan has already verified the matter with the returned military school, and there is indeed no discrepancy with what Deputy General Lu said, although the army was defeated this time, but Deputy General Lu has merit, but because of the defeat, Xia Guan did not dare to ask for credit for him!

This is your mistake, the merit is the merit is the fault, although they were defeated, but it was not the deputy general Lu who caused the defeat, we are the generals, when the merit is too clear, the rewards and punishments are clear, if the deputy general Lu is meritorious, it can't be lost because of their defeat on his credit, this time I want to go to Bazhou to quell the chaos, this Lu deputy general will go with me for the time being!

Besides, you find some soldiers for me who are familiar with the situation in this area, and follow me as a guide to Bazhou to quell the rebellion, and tomorrow morning, I will send troops, and I can't delay any longer! Gao Huaiyuan immediately reprimanded Chen Yudao again, and made arrangements to send troops. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

The lower officials have been taught! Thank you for your advice! However, the adult saddle horse is tired all the way, and I see that these soldiers led by the adult are also very tired, it is better to rest in Jinzhou for two more days, let the soldiers rest, and be energetic to go into battle to kill the enemy, the Jinzhou battalion is now empty because of the continuous reduction of soldiers, so that the soldiers can take a good rest! I wonder if you can stay for two more days! Chen Yu hurriedly persuaded Gao Huaiyuan.

Gao Huaiyuan thought about it, after coming out of Chuzhou, although they didn't dare to say that they were traveling day and night, but this way, the road was dangerous, and it was very hard, and the soldiers he brought from Chuzhou walked here, and they were indeed quite tired, and the water and soil here are different from Chuzhou, some people are a little unaccustomed, if they don't let them rest for a while, they will enter the army immediately, I am afraid that they will not be able to reach it quickly.

So Gao Huaiyuan thought for a while and nodded and agreed: It seems that General Chen also knows how to sympathize with the hard work of the soldiers, so it's okay, I'll stay here for two days, and after the soldiers have rested, I can enter Bazhou! Then the food and lodging of these soldiers will be entrusted to General Chen!

Chen Yu hurriedly received the order, and while asking Gao Huaiyuan to rest in peace, he went down to arrange the rest of the officers and soldiers led by Gao Huaiyuan.

When Chen Yu saw this Chuzhou army, he couldn't help sighing, they were all soldiers, although this army of soldiers and horses marched for more than a thousand miles, it was quite tired, but their military discipline was still very strict, the main general did not order to enter the city, no officer and soldier dared to leave the army to wander, one by one sat on the side of the road to rest, and there was no such situation of talking and laughing and making trouble in groups.

The junior officers, though they also worked hard, did not sit down and rest, but walked back and forth in the ranks, supervising their men.

Such a general, let Chen Yu know what is called distance, compared with the strict military discipline of the Chuzhou generals, his soldiers and horses in the Jinzhou Metropolitan Division are far behind, in front of this Chuzhou army, it is like a rabble, he finally understands, why this time the prime minister came to quell the rebellion, did not call their local garrison, but did not hesitate to travel far, from Chuzhou to transfer troops here, it turns out that this high minister does not believe in the ability of their local generals at all, now look at Gao Huaiyuan's decision, it is really very wise!

Gao Huaiyuan summoned his subordinates Huang Yan, Yue Kun and Zheng Bingjie that night to discuss how to send troops to quell the rebellion, and also recruited Deputy General Lu of the Jinzhou Metropolitan Division, and at the same time asked Deputy General Lu to find some local soldiers to inquire about the situation here.

The land of Bashu is high and densely forested, which is very different from the plains with soldiers, and the roads here are very dangerous, which is very unfavorable for the large corps to fight, so this time to Lizhou to quell the chaos, it is also a new challenge for Gao Huaiyuan, so Gao Huaiyuan has to be cautious, so as not to plant a big heel here because of carelessness, and ruin the reputation he has accumulated with great difficulty.

The cavalry is not easy to use in most places here, but the infantry is very capable of exerting combat effectiveness, so Huang Yan, the vanguard officer who sent troops this time, could only take the horse back and gave it to Yue Kun to take responsibility, and Huang Yan's 5,000 loyal army became the rear army.

After Gao Huaiyuan inquired about this Lu Youliang and a few soldiers who were familiar with the local situation, he expected that the entire territory of Tongjiang County should basically be controlled by the rebels, and if they wanted to enter Bazhou, they would have to pass through Tongjiang County, and from the previous defeat of the Jinzhou Metropolitan Division, they could infer that the Jinzhou rebels were likely to have a detailed work, so they would be so well aware of the Jinzhou Metropolitan Division's dispatch of troops, so that they had enough time to mobilize troops and horses, set up an ambush on the road in advance, and beat the Jinzhou soldiers and fled.

Therefore, Gao Huaiyuan's momentum in Sichuan this time is so huge, it is difficult to hide the rebels from finding out about their situation, so it is estimated that there is basically no possibility of winning by surprise.

Since it is impossible to win by surprise, then the only thing left is to forcibly march into the army, Gao Huaiyuan asked those soldiers who are familiar with the terrain and roads in detail, and marked out three routes on the map, one is to take the northernmost Zhuyu Town detour from the north of Tongjiang County to attack Tongjiang County, one is to take the middle of Shiren Town to attack Tongjiang County, and the other is to take the south of Wanglin Town to attack the south of Tongjiang County.

These three roads have to go around a lot of far, and the road is very difficult to walk, and the middle road is the best to walk, but it is also the most tightly controlled by the rebels, the last time the Jinzhou soldiers attacked Tongjiang and the place where the army was defeated was to take this road, so after everyone discussed for a while, under the suggestion of Lu Youliang, Gao Huaiyuan decided to send troops.

After Gao Huaiyuan rested in Jinzhou for two days, the army was able to replenish supplies, and at the same time, the soldiers also got a full rest, and their mental and physical strength recovered a lot.

Pedestrians along the way saw the army passing by, all of them avoided and immediately knelt down on the side of the road to send each other off, the military chaos on Lizhou Road, for the people here, is not good news, originally they also expected the army of Jinzhou Metropolitan Division to be able to exterminate the thief army, did not think that the Jinzhou soldiers went back quickly, and fled back in just a few days, which suddenly made the people even more panicked, they were afraid that they did not know when, the rebels on the side of Lizhou Road would hit them, Therefore, the local people have long been panicked, and many people wonder whether they should change places to avoid the limelight first.

And now I heard that the imperial court sent a large army, which will enter Lizhou Road to quell the chaos, and saw that this imperial army is so majestic, so these ordinary people have confidence, and many people along the way who heard the news have spontaneously sent farewell, and the squires from all over the country have also taken out a lot of pigs and sheep to slaughter and put them on the side of the road to reward the officers and soldiers.

For such a scene, Gao Huaiyuan secretly sighed, the people are actually not willing to rebel, the most suffering in the world is the common people, the current local military chaos, so that the people are so frightened, if one day, the Mongolian army invades the Song Dynasty, the people here are afraid that six or seven out of ten will be difficult to escape the slaughter of the Mongolian army.

So now that he has become such an important official, he can't let this kind of thing happen, thinking of this, Gao Huaiyuan immediately ordered the army to speed up its action and rush to Tongjiang County, and it must be attacked outside Tongjiang County within seven days.

So the army did not stop, accelerated the speed of action, and rushed along the main road in the direction of Tongjiang County.

The rebel general of Tongjiang County is a subordinate of Zhang Tong, named Liang Tietou, who was just a commander of the local soldiers in Pengzhou earlier, and now he has been awarded by Zhang Tong as the general of Xuanwei after accompanying Zhang Tong to rebel, leading 7,000 rebellious troops, responsible for guarding the area of Tongjiang County, and strictly preventing Jinzhou soldiers and horses from entering Bazhou to quell the rebellion.

When he was ordered by Zhang Tong to garrison Tongjiang County, he looted in the area of Tongjiang County, and captured a lot of treasures and women, and at the same time he also knew that his chaotic soldiers would sooner or later lead to the encirclement and suppression of the imperial court, so he was very concerned about the situation on the side of the Jinzhou Metropolitan Division, and sent Xizuo to Jinzhou early to monitor the situation of Jinzhou's soldiers and horses.

This is also an important reason why the Jinzhou soldiers were ambushed by him last time and returned defeated, the Jinzhou soldiers did not know the strength of the rebels, and rashly marched into the army, but they were ambushed by Liang Tietou, and even Geng Biao, the deputy commander of Jinzhou, was shot on the spot, which made Liang Tietou feel that his face was full of brilliance, and the morale of the rebels was also greatly boosted.

Zhang Tong is a person with a little ability, he used to be just a ruffian in Lizhou, and then he joined the army after committing the crime, and he was transferred to Pengzhou as a promotion through the relationship of an officer who was mixed with a box, and since then he has been a powerful man in Pengzhou.

This time I heard that the soldiers under his jurisdiction were also in the process of being cut by the imperial court, and they were required to leave for Jingdong immediately, so many of his generals made a fuss, and refused to move north to Jingdong to suffer, Zhang Tong did not want to stand firm, so because of a paper order from the imperial court, it disappeared, so he delayed and refused to move, under the strict orders of the local prefect, he simply led the troops to rebel, but he did not expect him to capture Pengzhou at once, and killed the local prefect and many officials,

This guy saw that things were going to be big, so he didn't do anything, and simply tossed harder, his wishful thinking was to toss it up first, and after occupying some territory, he would win a few battles as much as possible, and then the court was helpless, and he would not be able to recruit them, and then he would at least be able to mix up as a big official.