The battle of Zhou and Tang is still continuing, following the end of the battle of Yangzhou, the Zhou army is difficult to break through in the east and west, and the rear is frequently harassed by the Tang army.

This is Guo Ziyi's strategy, in the early days of the war, the sudden outbreak of combat power of the Zhou army, and the rarely heard of but amazing generals, did cause great pressure on the Tang army, but now those people who suddenly appeared among the generals of the Zhou army are also familiar to the Tang army.

Whether it is style, surname, combat habits and ability, the generals of the Tang Army have some understanding, and they can also formulate corresponding countermeasures when they face it again.

However, this was only the first step in Guo Ziyi's strategy, and immediately afterwards, he launched a full-scale attack on Li Guangbi's central army at Chuzhou.

Li Guangbi is not a mermaid, the failure of Yangzhou also brought him a lot of benefits, and his control over the middle route army is much greater, and he also knows that the east and west roads will also retreat sooner or later, whether it is for the morale of the army or his own reputation, in the face of the menacing Guo Ziyi's army from Chuzhou, he confronted it head-on with a strong momentum.

Either you broke my trick, or I saw through your conspiracy, and the two sides fought several times, and they hurt each other regardless of the winner.

For such a result, Zhou Jun is very happy to see that the predecessors of the Tang Army are them, who don't know the prestige of Guo Ziyi, the god of war of the Tang Dynasty, but now Guo Ziyi's offensive has been resisted by Li Guangbi, and Guo Ziyi is much bigger than Li Guangbi.

Guo Ziyi is very unhappy about this, the reason for his displeasure is not that his reputation as a god of war is challenged, but for another reason, Li Guangbi is also very unhappy, because he can't beat Guo Ziyi, he is a person with pursuits, he wants to beat Guo Ziyi on the battlefield, and he never wants to drag it out until Guo Ziyi dies of old age.

The battle situation in Chuzhou was very stalemate, and neither side added reinforcements, and each of them launched a big chess game on the ground in Chuzhou with 90,000 soldiers and horses in their hands.

These things attracted the attention of the upper echelons of Tang and Zhou, but for Yang Ping'an, he was not interested at all, he was busy training.

After the First World War in Yangzhou, there were less than 40,000 defenders in the city, and considering that Yangzhou was almost lost before, he successfully persuaded Xu Yuan to implement a reserve system in Yangzhou.

Recruited locally in Yangzhou, the recruited soldiers were called "militia" by him, no military status, but in their leisure time unified military training, once the war resumed, even if the city of Yangzhou again appeared before the empty situation, these militia also have the ability to fight.

Xu Yuan wrote a note and sent it to Luoyang, stating the matter in detail, you must know that this kind of thing involving military power, if Yang Rui did not personally nod his head, it would be a big taboo.

However, Yang Ping'an didn't care, he calculated that Yang Rui would not move him at present, and he also needed a soldier and horse that finally made his own to deter Yang Rui and prepare chips for rescuing Su Min from Luoyang Palace in the future.

Before Yang Rui's reply arrived, he had already started the recruitment work, Xu Yuan reminded him several times, he just laughed it, seeing that he didn't listen to persuasion, worried that he would anger Yang Rui, Xu Yuan wanted Xue Yufeng to persuade.

It's just that he didn't expect that Xue Yufeng didn't persuade Yang Ping'an, but helped him recruit and train together, and the battle in Yangzhou made Xue Yufeng see Yang Ping'an's materiality like a god, and the latter's care for her moved her, and it also made her think of the question that Yang Ping'an once asked her, a big rebellious word.

She still didn't answer Yang Ping'an directly, but she proposed to let Yang Ping'an go to Langxi to find her father Xue Song to propose marriage.

She thought very well, as long as she married Yang Ping'an, Yang Ping'an would be the son-in-law of the Xue family, and she would be considered to have a backstage, if there was no sufficient reason and excuse, Yang Rui would not forcibly condemn Yang Ping'an.

Yang Ping'an rejected her kindness, because it was useless, he was the Mandate of Heaven, an ethereal and unprovoked but convincing Mandate of Heaven, who could threaten the Jiangshan Society, and it was difficult for any king to tolerate.

It seems that in order to take care of the Mandate of Heaven sent by God, every time the Mandate of Heaven appears, the world is in turmoil, which makes those in power have to temporarily use the Mandate of Heaven to calm the turmoil, and then hide it all.

Therefore, Yang Rui will not let Yang Ping'an go because of anyone, it's just a big deal to exterminate a few clans, Yang Ping'an knows this very well, so he said Xue Yufeng's kindness, but he also knows that the troubled times have given him a chance, and he must create a bargaining chip in his favor, a big bargaining chip.

This recruitment is very crucial, they are all Yangzhou locals, in order to protect their homeland organized, because of the prestige established by Yang Ping'an in the battle of Yangzhou, these people admire him very much.

Only prestige and the determination of the people to protect their homeland are not enough, Yang Ping'an took out money and silver as military salary, although the militia's military salary is far inferior to the soldier's salary, but for ordinary people, this windfall is also very attractive.

Yang Ping'an is very rich now, and he can almost be regarded as the richest man in Yangzhou, but his money and blood are too heavy.

That night, the Marquis of Yangzhou and his friends in the city wanted to escape from Yangzhou at night, but they were killed by Yang Ping'an, and their family property naturally had to be confiscated.

Xu Yuan originally had an opinion on this, but when he learned that Yang Ping'an used the money and silver as military pay to the Yangzhou militia, his opinion was gone, but he was worried.

This is a naked, naked private soldier.

It's just that he also saw that Yang Rui didn't want to care about Yang Ping'an, so he didn't say more, but he was worried that Yang Ping'an would anger Long Yan and invite him to kill, so he reminded him a few times.

In just half a month, the scale of the Yangzhou militia expanded to more than 8,000 people, of which more than 2,000 people died due to the war, and they were simply accepted by Yang Ping'an as a personal soldier and handed over to An Lushan and became professional soldiers.

An Lushan's 500 people, now there are less than 200 people left, but these people have become An Lushan's henchmen, become the backbone of the militia, with the help of Xue Yufeng, more than 8,000 militia soon organized, set up a large camp in the city, under the control of An Lushan, became Yang Ping'an's "private soldiers".

Although there are only more than 2,000 soldiers and horses stationed in the barracks, they have also become the fourth force in Yangzhou City, Shi Siming's headquarters, Xue Yufeng's Xue family army, Yangzhou's original defenders, and Yang Ping'an's militia.

I finally embarked on this road, and I don't know if Lao Sutou will laugh at me when he learns about it.

Shi Siming is now a lot more honest, because of his command mistakes almost caused the city of Yangzhou to break, and afterwards he made a big fuss about the Taishou Mansion to humiliate Xu Yuan, which made his status in the original defenders of Yangzhou plummet, and now there are nearly more than 20,000 original defenders of Yangzhou, and they support Xu Yuan, who has commanded their thighs many times to attack the Zhou army.

It's just that Shi Siming's honesty is all on the surface, and his hatred for Yang Ping'an is indescribable, if it is possible, he can't wait to cut Yang Ping'an with a thousand knives.

Yang Ping'an recruited the militia and paid for his own salary, which made him excited for a long time, this is definitely death, the emperor can tolerate it, but Yang Rui didn't say anything, just said lightly that he knew, and then stopped asking, which made him deepen his vigilance against Yang Ping'an again, and restrained his subordinates from provoking Yang Ping'an.

With the acquiescence of Yang Rui, Yangzhou City has formed this deformed pattern, not to mention Xu Yuan, Xue Yufeng, Shi Siming, the three bigwigs of Yangzhou City, that is, Guo Ziyi, who was far away in Chuzhou, shook his head helplessly and warned his generals not to take care of Yangzhou's affairs.

The battle situation in Chuzhou is getting white-hot, and the two sides are still indistinguishable from each other, and the once fresh lives prove the cruelty of this battle.

War, for soldiers and junior officers, is a huge meat grinder.

This is Guo Ziyi and Li Guangbi dignified confrontation, both sides with the same 90,000 soldiers and horses, want to divide the world's first, as the battle continues, both sides of the soldiers and horses are sharply reduced, but neither has sent reinforcements.

In these days, Yang Ping'an was in a much better mood, not because Shi Siming was honest, in fact, he knew very well that Shi Siming was a wolf hiding in the corner, but because he finally had military power in his hands, and his plan was on the right track.

This time, Xue Yufeng came to see him, and brought a person.

"The last general, Ning Taoyang, has seen Lord Horse."

Yang Ping'an had seen this person and knew that he was Xue Yufeng's deputy general, but why did Xue Yufeng bring this person to see him, he looked at Xue Yufeng in confusion, and the latter explained Ning Taoyang's origin.

Ning Taoyang was not born in the Xue family army, but when Guo Ziyi sent Xue Yufeng to lead 5,000 Xue family troops to Yangzhou, he was placed in her army to assist her.

"I've seen General Ning." Yang Ping'an still respects Guo Ziyi very much, and naturally understands that Ning Taoyang came to Yangzhou on behalf of Guo Ziyi.

"The horse is at the end of the war." Ning Taoyang knew that Yang Ping'an's salute was directed at Guo Ziyi, and he didn't dare to accept it, "The handsome man really didn't misunderstand the horse." ”

The two chatted casually, and Yang Ping'an went straight to the point and said, "I don't know what instructions the marshal has." ”

"The horse is too humble, the marshal said, the world is headed by the Wenzheng martial arts horse, no one in the world is qualified to instruct, the last general is here, just want to ask the horse, now the war in Chuzhou is stalemate, the horse is willing to lead the army to help the marshal defeat Li Guangbi's army."

Yang Ping'an frowned, and asked rhetorically: "General Ning, I don't know something, why didn't the marshal send troops and horses to Chuzhou, the Zhou army was about to be defeated and retreated, and General Xue and General Feng could send troops and horses to support." ”

Ning Taoyang's answer was very concise, with only four words: "Xuanjia Jingqi." ”

Yang Ping'an was stunned when he heard this, and suddenly woke up.

He has always been very strange about the stalemate war in Chuzhou, Li Guangbi can understand that he wants to challenge Guo Ziyi's name as the god of war, but how can Guo Ziyi care about that kind of false name at his age.

It wasn't until he heard the words "Xuanjia Elite Cavalry" that Yang Ping'an understood that the reason why Guo Ziyi was willing to fight with Li Guangbi with the same soldiers and horses was to force out the Xuanjia Elite Cavalry of the Southern Zhou Dynasty.

This is definitely a soldier and horse that can change the entire battle situation, and it once bloomed with brilliant light during the turmoil of Emperor Wu, Guo Ziyi cooperated with Li Guangbi so much, the purpose was only to understand the combat power of the Xuanjia Elite Cavalry.

"In that case, why did the marshal order me to lead the troops?"

"Because everyone else will disrupt the situation in Chuzhou, only the horse will not."