Qin Ziqing suggested that he invade Jiangning, and Yuan Zhen was shocked when he heard it. I don't doubt anything else, I just think in my heart: Qin Ziqing has been repeatedly frustrated by Jiang Ning, but now he is eager to get back this holiday.

Qin Ziqing saw the hesitation on Yuan Zhen's face, showed a slight resentment, and said, "That's it." ”

Yuan Zhen glanced at Ji Sixian, who pondered for a long time, and said slowly: "Hearing Ziqing's words, the mouth suddenly opened. It's just that I'm invading Jiangning now, and I can't catch it. ”

Qin Ziqing snorted coldly, looked at Ji Siqian and the others with disdain, and said: "Jiangning's water camp is beneficial to the world, and when the Huo clan cedes the city of Jingbei to Jiangning, Jiangning's warships sail into Pengli Lake, it is too late. ”

Nanping poured the power of the whole county, operated the water camp for decades, and accommodated the remnants of Gongliang Youqin, and formed the water camp of more than 60,000 people, while Xu Ruyu was in Jiangning for several years, and the combat power of the water camp was equivalent to Nanping. Listening to Qin Ziqing's words, the potential of Jiangning's water camp is still hidden in HNNA, and Jiangning is based on the side of Pengli Lake, and Nanping is bound to be temporarily subject to Jiangning.

However, Qin Ziqing didn't mean to be here, but listened to him continue: "Is it possible to invade Jiangning and Ning, but to take advantage of the situation to seize Jingbei?" Xu Bodang, Gongliang Youqin and Jiang Ning have a big enmity, so they should be seconded. You have 100,000 soldiers, and it is easy to seize Pengze, Raozhou, and Leping on the east side of Pengli Lake. This move not only prevented the Jiangning forces from entering the waters of Pengli Lake, but also occupied the majestic Jingshan Mountain and looked at Liyang. ”

Yuan Zhen knew that it would be good to take advantage of the situation to invade Peng Ze and other cities, but he thought that he could use this move to regain control of the military and government on the Eastern Front, and it was also possible to bring Xu Bodang, Gongliang Youqin and others under his command, how could he not be moved? said, "Please help me, sir." "Anyway, bow down for a long time, and there is a tendency that Qin Ziqing will not agree and not get up.

Qin Ziqing said: "Jiang Ning regards me as a traitor, if I help you, my surname will be worried." ”

All families are taboo about plotting assassination, but traitors are not among them, Qin Ziqing is not proficient in martial arts, and he is a minister in Linxiang, Jiangning Si Wencao will definitely send a secret camp to assassinate Yingwu.

Ji Siqian nodded and said, "I have a few people who can be driven by Ziqing and protect your thoughtfulness, it's not difficult." In this way, every move is under Ji Sixian's control.

Qin Ziqing said again: "I kneel to the sky and the ground, kneel to the ancestors, but I can't bear to bow down to the living, Linxiang needs to stand me." ”

Yuan Zhen said: "I regard Mr. as a teacher, where will I be wronged by Mr.?" ”

Qin Ziqing saw that Yuan Zhen's eyes were sincere, and immediately climbed down the dangerous rock, bowed to Yuan Zhen, and said: "Ziqing is frivolous, and I hope that the lord will see the sin." ”

Yuan Zhen laughed and said, "Mr. is an extraordinary person, how can he be confined to vulgar etiquette? He also said, "Linxiang officials, Yuan Zhen can't decide alone, Mr. temporarily succumbed to the position of Jianyan Palace's pawn and planned everything for me?" ”

It is also appropriate for the pawn to do the work of the secretary and serve on his side.

Jiangning included the entire territory of Yuejun under its jurisdiction, and when Xu Ruyu led the army to cross the river in the north, Qin Ziqing took up the post of Jianyan Diandian in Linxiang and planned to invade Jingbei for Yuan Zhen.

However, at this time in Jingbei, Nanping and Huo's respective sides of Pengli Lake, Xu Bodang and Gongliang Youqin led 60,000 soldiers and horses to occupy Jiangzhou, Jianchang, Yuzhang and other cities on the west side of Pengli Lake. Waiting for the Huo clan to cede the city on the east side of Pengli Lake to Jiangning, the elite of Jiangning's Fengling camp will be stationed in Pengze, Raozhou, and Leping City, and the terrain on both sides of Pengli Lake is favorable to defend and not conducive to attack, but Jiangning's water camp is sharp, but it has a slight advantage on Pengli Lake.

When Ling Fengjing learned of this, he sent a letter to Rong Yanmen, and he returned to Linxiang to lead the ministers to argue and veto the proposal.

Yuan Zhen's eyes were blazing, staring directly at the Lingfeng mirror, and said: "Zuo Governor detains Huo Qingtong's 40,000 elites in Jingbei, don't let the north return, and then encroach on Jingxiang after the peace of Chengyu." However, today's situation has changed greatly, Jiangning rises, its momentum is not weaker than Nanping, if Huo Qingtong leads 40,000 elites to return to Jingxiang, by that time, Jingxiang City is solid, Nanping has a big trouble in the east, presumably with the ability of the left governor, can no longer expand an inch of land for Nanping. ”

Although Ling Fengjing knew that Yuan's move was intended to be on the eastern front, it could not be refuted, Rong Yanmen led the generals and ministers to march westward, and in the city of Linxiang, the voice of seconding Ling Fengjing was much weaker, but the attitude of the generals on the eastern front, Gongliang Youqin and Xu Bodang, was quite clear, and they supported the opportunity to invade Jingbei.

Xu Bo was more and more confused, his fair face was slightly narrow, but his eyes were as beautiful as a woman's, with a feminine light, and he said in a soft voice: "As long as the war is controlled in the north of Jing County, it should not hinder the great strategy of the left governor to conquer the west." But he didn't lie to Qin Ziqing.

The Qin clan of the Northern Tang Dynasty has an inextricable relationship with the Yaoguang Palace, Qin Ziqing does not attach Xun Zhuwu, and wants to surrender to Hulan, but let Jiangning rob him halfway, and when he was imprisoned in Jiangning, he was bent on seeking a career but was repeatedly frustrated, and ran to Linxiang.

Such an experience is indeed disdainful.

Qin Ziqing knew that Xu Bodang had full opinions on Rong Yanmen's decision to give up the Eastern Front. Thinking that if Rong Yanmen had gone east first, Xu Bodang and Gongliang Youqin would not have to lead the remnants of the army to Nanping.

Now that Jiangning and the East China Sea are sticking, and Nanping is taking advantage of the fire to rob and invade Jingbei, how can Gongliang Youqin and Xu Bodang not support it?

At the end of the year, the land of Zhongzhou is full of wolf smoke, and there seems to be no place to enjoy a moment of peace.

Rong Yanmen went west, the war ignited most of the Chengyu County, in Jingxiang, there were fierce battles between Nanping and Huo. In the west of Qinzhou, Gu Shida's commander Suchuan Tiger and Wolf Soldiers fought endlessly with the Qinzhou family coalition army, and Xun Zhuwu sat back and enjoyed its success, waving his troops into Xijing City. In the northern part of Fen County, the Han clan occupied Daiyi, Loufu and other places, and Liu Gui's camp of displaced people occupied Linhu, and there were also fierce battles with the elite of the Xun clan led by Xun Da of the Northern Tang Dynasty. In the northern part of Youji, the Cai family was trapped in the lonely city of Fanyang, and Hulan built a dam in the lower reaches of Laishui, only to wait for the water to rise sharply in the spring of the next year; In Bianzhou, which is at the junction of Fen County, Youji and Qingzhou counties, Boyan Ziyi led 5,000 Hulan iron cavalry to cross the river from Bianzhou, and Cai Zhengshi led the Anyang battalion to cross the border into Hanoi Province. In the southern border of Qingzhou, the beacon fire in Pengcheng has just been extinguished, and countless displaced people are pouring through here to the territory of the East China Sea. Refugees migrated to the East China Sea, taking risks, gathering crowds, wandering around, and looting villages and forts. Jiangning and the East China Sea have been confronting each other on the border for several months, and a major war is about to break out, and all the elite troops in the East China Sea have been transferred to the south, leaving the East China Sea with an empty force and unable to do anything in the face of the rampant bandits in the territory.

The military confrontation between Jiangning and the East China Sea was mainly concentrated in Guangling and Cuipingshan, and only the garrisons in these two places restrained themselves; even if the outposts crossed the border, as long as they did not get too close to the barracks, they would not be sniped, but on other border lines, they would not be so calm, and the outposts that infiltrated into the enemy's territory from those places were all small units of elite combat forces, and they used contact warfare to test the deployment of the opponent's troops.

After Zhang Jidao led the elite of the northern front into the southern border of the East China Sea, Xu Ruyu ordered Qingfeng to gather between Guangling and Hailing, threatening the flank of the Longyou garrison in the East China Sea, and ordered the 40,000 troops stationed in Wangjiang to march north into the gap area between Guangling and Cuiping Mountain, and Xu Ruyu and Shao Haitang and others then entered this area.

On the snow, Xu Ruyu, Zhao Jingyun and others slowly rode their horses, and Xia Axi was like a dark ribbon in the distance. Behind him was a continuous stream of blue-black tents.

Others may not know, but Zhao Jingyun knows in his heart that the military camp behind him is indeed the Wuzhou Army. After the capture of Lanling, the establishment of the Fan surrendered army remained unchanged for the time being, and Fan Wenlong acted as the commander. Xu Ruyu urgently transferred more than 2,000 people from Yanwutang to fill in the Wuzhou surrender army, and roughly reorganized it, and in less than a month, the 40,000 surrendered troops stationed in Linjiang were transferred to Xia'axi.

Zhang Jidao led the northern elite to march from the central part of the East China Sea, and when they arrived in the south, they were in the eastern part of Longyou City. When Xu Ruyu personally led 40,000 soldiers and horses into Yongyang and peeked into the gap in the west of Longyou, Chen Yu had to personally lead the troops and horses out of Longyou City, and went west to intercept the soldiers and horses led by Xu Ruyu himself, and handed over the defense east of Longyou to Zhang Jidao.

In order to guard against the 40,000 soldiers and horses that might be composed of the main force of the Xiao Guard Army and the Fifth School Army, Chen Pre gathered 60,000 troops on the north bank. Riding a horse to the embankment, you can see the East China Sea camp on the north bank, Xu Ruyu got off the horse, handed the reins to the Jingwei behind, and said: "Zhang Jidao let Wan Rong command the troops to enter Longyou, and he led the 50,000 foot battalion along the Xiaoyang River to the east. ”

Hailing and several counties west of Hailing have only 10,000 soldiers and horses under the command of Ning Yueshan.

Zhao Jingyun said: "Zhang Jidao suspected that Jiang Ning was bluffing, and waved his troops to the east, just because he saw the gap there, and he was afraid that Zhang Jidao would launch an offensive from there. ”

Xu Ruyu sighed and said, "Zhang Jidao does have something extraordinary, how can it be easy to let him in?" More than 100,000 elites in the East China Sea are spread out along the border line, in the north of Cuiping Mountain, Zeng Yixing led 30,000 elites to confront Zhang Xu's department, where Chen pre-commanded 60,000 elites to confront me, in the north of Guangling, in Longyou City, Wan Rong led 20,000 elites to confront Mei Liting's department, and Zhang Jidao personally led 50,000 elites to the east to find a gap, the whereabouts of the cavalry camp are undecided, if Zhang Jidao wants to attack and defend, the cavalry battalion will probably let him be transferred to the east. In this way, it seems that the East China Sea did not leave reserves in the depths. Zhang Jidao and Chen Yu also made a posture of fighting for their lives, wanting to make Jiang Ning retreat. ”

"Jing Yun thought that Zhang Jidao or Zhihai Lingcang, he led the army east to the north of Qingpu, but in fact, he coveted Hailing."

"Yes, but my troops on the north bank of the river are mainly concentrated in the west, but Zhang Jidao let Chen Yu bear the pressure on the west alone, which shows that the contradiction between the two is so deep that they don't even bother to do superficial work. Passing on our military order, Fan Wenlong led the department to go north from Zhenning, cross Axi from the eastern foot of Cuiping Mountain, and enter the right flank of Chen's pre-station; Zhang Xu led the Qing Wei army to attack Zeng Yixing's department, so that Zeng Yixing could not go to help Chen Yu; Mei Liting led 20,000 Zhongli troops to cross the Xiaoyang River from the west of Guangling, entered the west of Longyou, and threatened the left flank of Chen's pre-station; Shen Yi commanded 10,000 Zhongli troops to guard Guangling and monitor Wanrong's troops. This scene is not fake at all. ”

On December 26, Fan Wenlong led more than 40,000 soldiers and horses of the Fan nationality to cross the Xiaoyang River and wedge the gap between Zeng Yixing's headquarters and Chen's pre-station.

On the Xia'a River on the border of Anyang County, dozens of warships of the Jiangning Water Camp came from west to east, and more than 100 military vehicles landed on the north shore from the warships. The back of the military chariot leaning on the river bank is arc-shaped, the middle is protruding, the chariot array is followed by an array of more than 400 longbowmen, and the longbow array is followed by 600 spearmen holding spearmen, these more than 1,000 soldiers quickly landed on the shore from the warship, defeated the patrol soldiers of the East China Sea on the north bank, occupied a place of nearly hundreds of steps around the river embankment on the north bank, and gradually pushed the chariot array outward. In the encirclement of the arc-shaped car formation, the pontoon bridge formed by more than a dozen boats was horizontally erected on the lower river, and the army on the north bank boarded the north bank with the help of the pontoon bridge.

Chen Pre and Liu Zhaoyu saw more than 1,000 Jiangning soldiers in front of the camp and set up a military formation on the north bank, and urgently ordered 2,000 sword and shield soldiers to fall into their formation, trying to prevent Jiangning's soldiers from crossing the river from here. The sword and shield soldiers used round shields to protect themselves, divided into three wedge-shaped formations and charged towards the river embankment arc, before the array, the round shields were dense like fish scales to protect the charging array; The longbow behind the formation could not shoot through the round shield, so naturally it could not stop the sword and shield soldiers from approaching. Who knew that the lieutenant in the center flipped the flag, and dozens of crossbows were pushed to the back of the military cart, and the spear more than three feet long was stretched on the crossbow string and shot away. The iron edge of the spear flashed with cold light, and it could pierce through three or four ** in a row. The giant spear only shot one round, and then the front of the charging array of the dense shield soldiers with fish scales shot people on their backs, and the longbowmen used sharp arrows to shoot the East China Sea soldiers behind the gap, the East China Sea soldiers did not reach the car formation, they had already dropped more than 200 corpses, and when the car crossbow was stretched on the second round of giant spears, the charging array collapsed.

Chen foresaw that he could not prevent Jiangning's troops from crossing the river, so he ordered the soldiers along the river to gather the large camp and cede the riverbank position to Jiangning.

Xu Ruyu stood on the embankment on the north bank of Xia Axi, his hands cut behind his back, and he looked at the boundless land on the north bank.

Jiangning's troops on the north bank of the river are mainly deployed in the area west of Guangling, and the defense of Hailing, Qingpu, Sanshui, Zhenhai, Yanling and other places east of Guangling is responsible for the garrison and the tunwei, although Xu Ruyu ordered all the tunding in Zhenhai and other places to be transferred to active service before crossing the river, but in the face of the 50,000 elites led by Zhang Jidao, the defense of Zhenhai and other places is still quite weak. The only thing that can be called elite combat power in these areas is the 10,000 5 school army under the command of Ning Yueshan, and the main responsibility of this 10,000 school army is to ensure that Hailing Cang is not lost.

If Zhang Jidao could not be attracted to transfer troops to the west, Hailing, Zhenhai and other places could not guarantee foolproof.

Fan Wenlong and Mei Liting each led their troops and horses to threaten the two wings of Chen's pre-station, and Xu Ruyu personally led 40,000 soldiers and horses to cross Xia'a Xi from the front, with the ambition of encircling and annihilating 60,000 elites of Chen's pre-institute in the field.

It is not an easy task to encircle and annihilate 60,000 elites with 100,000 troops on the plains of Pingchuan, but if the other party's commander is Xu Ruyu, who has become famous in recent years, he cannot afford to think twice.

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