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Yelu Abaoji discussed with Zhou Yanzhong, it is estimated that Zhu Youyu is prepared, and we are not the point, it is better to help His Highness develop Guanzhong. and he who pushes the boat down the river.

For a time, the situation became a stalemate, and the two sides were unable to come up with any effective measures.

The war dragged on from February to April, and there was not much progress, and in the south, Li Cunhuan had already given Li Shenfu 20,000 Yan Navy support, with a total strength of 80,000. And Li Cunxiao's side also increased to 80,000 soldiers and horses, but the number of soldiers is not absolute, Zhang Cunjing's soldiers and horses are also quite a few full of 40,000 people, in addition to leaving 14,000 people in Yunzhou City, but also in Puzhou (now Puyang), Caozhou (now Dingtao) each left 10,000 soldiers and horses, Yunzhou counties left 6,000 soldiers and horses.

According to Sun Tzu's Art of War, ten rules are for it. Li Cunxiao said that he also needed 400,000 soldiers and horses. In addition, Zhang Cunjing is not a weak person, and Li Cunxiao really has no choice. Coupled with the poisoned arrows, the people under him did not dare to let Li Cunxiao kill him personally. You have a high force value, but you are not invincible. Last time, I was lucky, when the soldiers broke the arrow for Li Cunxiao, they found that the skin near the wound was wrong.

Otherwise, after breaking the arrow, Li Cunxiao will kill it again, and it will be normal for the blood and qi to run, and it is normal to really die on the battlefield. No one dares to allow such a dangerous thing.

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"No! It's too risky! The Sprinkler family will not agree! Zhang Chengye resolutely objected, "Now Lu Long's strength is very constrained!" Recently, Shan Yu has been uneasy on the side of the Metropolitan Protectorate, and Li Cunqiao has colluded with the remnants of the Tatars and has sent 15,000 soldiers and horses to the direction of Shan Yu Metropolitan Protectorate. Anton and Xiongjin both need a certain amount of soldiers and horses to garrison, needless to say, Anton has many Tibetan tribes, and Lu Long does not have much binding force on them. Until now, those remnants of Baekje and Silla have not been restless! All of this needs soldiers! ”

"It's a stalemate right now, but it's a different way to break through. The current Xuanwu is like an egg shell, don't look at the hard surface, but as long as there is a hole, the egg white and yolk inside will be exposed to the outside and be slaughtered! But if the confrontation continues, Lu Long will certainly win, but his vitality will also be greatly damaged, besides, His Royal Highness did not leave too many soldiers and horses in Huainan and Jiangdong. After a long time, who knows what kind of mess will come up! "The person who spoke was Guo Chongtao, although he was young and his official position was not very big, but his opponent was Zhang Chengye, a veteran of Lu Long, and he had no fear!

"What do you think?" Zhang Chengye frowned and asked the others.

"In fact, Ben Jiang feels that this thing can also be done, although the transfer of 30,000 soldiers and horses will make the situation in Hebei unstable, and the pressure on money and food is also very great. But as long as Zhu Laosan is exterminated, who else in the world can resist Lu Long's iron horse? Yang Shihou was silent for a while, and said slowly.

"This time, Ben will personally lead the soldiers and horses south!" After Gao Siji made Yang Shihou's statement, he immediately stood up, his eyes were full of fighting intent, and he said loudly.

"The old man still thinks that you are too risky in this matter! But, hey, forget it, the old man won't mix! Nie Yizhong said hesitantly, although he had just expressed some objections, but he didn't know what his concerns were, and finally chose to abstain.

"When His Royal Highness left, he just asked Sha Eucalyptus to hold Yanjing City, and other matters were absolutely decided by several adults and generals, so Sha Eucalyptus didn't intervene in this matter!" General Sha Yuke shook his head and did not say anything......

Two abstained, one opposed, and two agreed. Guo Chongtao's strategy won by a narrow margin.

Although Zhang Chengye was still dissatisfied in his heart, he did not push back for this. This is also the reason why although Zhang Chengye is a eunuch, everyone still respects him, and Li Cunhuan strongly pushed Zhang Chengye to a high position. Public is public, private is private. Even if I think there is something wrong with this matter, I will still do my best to deal with it.

A week later, an army of 30,000 set off from Yanjing City, but he did not let him personally lead the troops according to Gao Siji's intentions. Gao Siji mastered the Shence Army and was now the only army in Yanjing City that could go to the battlefield. Although Jin Wuwei, together with the Shence Army and the Imperial Forest Army, they are collectively known as the 'Three Armies of Beijing'. But in fact, Jin Wuwei's surname is similar to that of the armed police, small things, the management of Yanjing City's officials, and big things, Jin Wuwei is out of the horse. Of course, guarding the Imperial City is naturally the elite of the elite, and it is even more powerful than the elite of the Imperial Forest Army and the Divine Ce Army. But the number was not large, only a little more than 2,000 people.

Therefore, the Shence Army naturally cannot be mobilized, and Gao Siji cannot be mobilized. Some people will say that other soldiers and horses can be transferred, but Yang Shihou and they dare not take this risk, in the last years of the Tang Dynasty, no! Since the Anshi Rebellion, there have been countless of the following crimes. It's just that in the last years of the Tang Dynasty, it was more cumbersome.

In the past, it was just said that Li Cunhuan was in charge, but now that Li Cunhuan is far away in the south, who knows which generals have what kind of thoughts. Even if some generals don't have a mind, who knows what the minds of the people below them are? Although the addition of the yellow robe did not happen, there were many things that made the body stronger.

In the end, Yang Shihou personally led the soldiers and horses as the commander, and Guo Chongtao was the marching Sima.

30,000 soldiers and horses arrived in Bozhou first, making the appearance of crossing the Yellow River and arriving in Jeju, which is closest to Yunzhou, to support Li Cunxiao. But after a day's rest, under the cover of night, Yang Shihou quickly led his soldiers and horses to set off towards Liyang Port. Fortunately, walking along the Yellow River, although there is no torch shining along the way, there is a surging Yellow River as a road sign, and it is difficult to take the wrong road.

In one night, the march continued for 400 miles. On average, every twelve hours and two hundred li, of course, it is impossible for a large army to arrive, and the first to come to Liyang Port was Guo Chongtao and his 3,000 elite cavalry.

At this moment, Guo Chongtao's face was tired, his face was covered with dust, and his beard and hair were messy. If you lie on the muddy floor, you don't know and think it's the chicken coop of that house. His eyes were half-closed, Guo Chongtao dozed off on horseback for a while all night, and even ate the ground beef jerky mixed in the water bladder, accompanied the war horse to run, and naturally stirred the beef jerky and water into something similar to porridge, and drank it on his stomach. The hard work along the way made Zhang Chengye send Prime Minister Du Rangping almost didn't recognize Guo Chongtao.

Du Rangping hurriedly walked over and helped Guo Chongtao. Guo Chongtao just said one sentence: "Change horses!" Prepare meals! The person had already fallen asleep, which made Du Rangping, who was going to be very attentive, so depressed that he wanted to give Guo Chongtao two slaps. But in the end, Du Rangping resisted this impulse and honestly sent Guo Chongtao to the tent to rest.

After Guo Chongtao woke up, it was already the second watch, although he only slept for an hour and a half, Guo Chongtao deserved to be a military general, and his bones were not bad. Led 3,000 elite cavalry across the river.

Sitting in Kaifeng is Niu Cunjie, he is a veteran under Zhu Wen, in terms of qualifications, he is not much worse than Ge Congzhou, and his ability is not bad. He once defeated Wei Bo with 2,000 people, and 12,000 people. Zhu Wen appointed Niu Cunjie to sit in the rear, and it can also be seen that Zhu Wen has trust in Niu Cunjie and affirms his ability.

In Liyang Port is Huazhou, Huazhou. At this time, the Yellow River had not been diverted, and Kaifeng City was not built tremblingly in a place where the embankment was higher than the city. Behind Huazhou is Kaifeng City. But having said that, the area around Bianzhou, where Kaifeng City is located, is all plains. Defenses can only rely on wide areas of land to replace dangerous terrain.

It's like the direction of Yunzhou, which can only rely on Yunzhou City as a solid guide, plus the places of the three states including Yunzhou, this is the only way to deal with Li Cunxiao's 80,000 army. If it is changed to Shuzhong, a sword pavilion will block the 100,000 army of Cao Jun!

Therefore, Niu Cunjie pays special attention to Huazhou, especially Baima County, where there is a port, the famous Baima Port, which is an important place for Yuan Shao and Cao to compete during the Three Kingdoms period. For this reason, Niu Cunjie still gritted his teeth and arranged 8,000 soldiers and horses in Huazhou, of which nearly half and 3,500 people were deployed in Baima. In addition, 1,500 people were deployed along the Yellow River in Huazhou, after all, the other party did not necessarily land in Baima Port. The remaining 3,000 soldiers and horses were placed in Huazhou, which was closest to Weinan, Puzhou, and Weinan was only more than 30 miles away from Baima. Once the battle in Yunzhou does not go well, although these 3,000 soldiers and horses are not many, they can also be invested in Puzhou to strengthen Puzhou's defense and establish a second line of defense east of Bianzhou. And if the white horse is attacked, it only needs to hold out for half a day, and you can get reinforcements from Weinan.

I have to say that Niu Cunjie is worthy of being a general, his methods are very sophisticated, and he takes care of both sides, but the soldiers don't think the same as Niu Cunjie. Since the outbreak of fighting last year, the offensive has been from the east and west, and only recently has the south been added. But there has been nothing to do in the north, and in April, it is the season of spring rains.

When it drizzles at night, it can be so cold that you will catch a cold tomorrow. In this era, colds are not like now, just take two cold medicines, but if you can't go to the hospital and pay one or two hundred yuan, it's over. In this era, it is easy to die of colds, and once you go to the doctor, no matter how you are treated, anyway, for small families, it is normal to go bankrupt.

Not to mention the soldiers who are so poor that they can only work for their lives, one by one find a place to hide and doze off, gambling and gambling, no one wants to brave the wind and rain to patrol outside.

Although the generals knew the following situation, they also opened their eyes and closed their eyes. First, there has been no war for almost a year, and even the scouts of Lu Longjun, that is, Weinan in the east, have seen it a few times, and they want to defend the south side. The second is that now is not as good as before, once there is a bad mutiny, attracting Lu Longjun to take the opportunity to break through the defense line, these generals will definitely not be able to eat and walk around, whether they surrender to Lu Longjun or are still loyal to Zhu Wen, it will be a fate.

Because of the surrender of the Lu Long Army, the Lu Long Army will happily use the heads of their people to win over the mutinous soldiers. And Zhu Wen is angry that they have broken a big deal, and the beheadings are light, and it is normal for five horses to divide the corpses and cut them with a thousand knives. Therefore, generals naturally will not do some thankless things, as long as they do not exceed the bottom line in their minds, everything is easy to discuss.

(To be continued)