Zhang Xuan deployed 200,000 troops on the front line of Bingzhou, including 100,000 troops in Mayi County and Yanmen County, 100,000 troops in Taiyuan County, and 80,000 heavy troops in Taiyuan City. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

At present, the Sui army on the southern front is personally commanded by Zhang Xuan, the king of Qi, and Taiyuan City is under the command of Li Jiancheng, with full command of 80,000 Tang troops to fight against the Turkic army.

Although they may not be able to give up their previous suspicions, but the situation forces them to cooperate, especially for Li Jiancheng, the pressure is huge, he is not only to hold Taiyuan City, he is also responsible for the security of the entire state, the Turks to fight to feed the war, if regardless of Taiyuan City, the army directly swept south, and what about the millions of people in the south of the state?

As a last resort, Li Jiancheng had to put down his posture and take the initiative to express his intention to cooperate with Zhang Xuan, and as soon as the Turkic army moved south from Loufu Pass, the situation in Taiyuan County suddenly became tense.

In the afternoon of that day, a Tang cavalry escort Li Jiancheng's envoy, military advisor and marching Sima Wei Zheng, arrived in Shiai County.

"Sima, it should be the Sui army barracks." The captain of the cavalry at the head pointed to a large battalion that was faintly visible ten miles away and said in a low voice.

Wei Zheng nodded, "I think the scout patrol of the Sui army is nearby!" ”

As soon as the words fell, a Ming Di swept over their heads, making a sharp whistle, and they saw more than a hundred cavalry rushing out of the woods on both sides, raising their crossbows and pointing at them, and one of the generals shouted and asked, "Who are you?" ”

The first lieutenant hurriedly replied in a loud voice: "We came from Taiyuan, this is the marching Wei Sima, who came to see His Royal Highness the King of Qi on the order of His Royal Highness the Prince!" ”

In fact, the Sui scouts had already discovered them a hundred miles away, but they were not numerous, so the Sui scouts did not alarm, but sent people back to deliver the letter, and the two hundred interceptors were specially waiting for them here.

General Lang nodded, and sure enough, it was the envoy of the crown prince Li Jiancheng, so he urged him to step forward and said, "Please come with me, my family commander is already waiting for you in the camp." ”

Wei Zheng was puzzled, and asked with a smile, "Does His Royal Highness King Qi know that I am coming?" ”

Lang Jiang said lightly: "This is only ten miles away from the camp, if you were found now, the scout master would have committed suicide a long time ago, and our scouts would have found you in Shouyang County, but they were not alarmed." ”

Wei Zheng was stunned, and secretly thought in his heart, "It seems that Zhang Xuan also hopes that he will come, and the two sides will reach a cooperation intention, which is a good sign!" ’

Thinking of this, he was relieved in his heart, so he clasped his fists and smiled: "Then please ask this general to lead us to meet His Royal Highness King Qi." ”

"You guys, please!"

As soon as the scout Lang waved his hand, he took Wei Zheng and the others in the direction of the camp.......

In the big tent of the Chinese army in the camp of the Sui army, Zhang Xuan is standing in front of a huge sand table, which is a sand table made only a month ago, which clearly shows the mountains, fields, rivers, cities, roads, passes, bridges and so on.

Fang Xuanling, Jia Runfu, Pei Xingyan and Wei Wentong stood around the sand table, and they were also watching that a red flag had just been planted on the sand table.

There is a red flag planted on the east bank of Fenshui about 30 miles north of Jiaocheng County, Taiyuan County, where the Turkic army camp is stationed, and it also happens to be the junction of Loufan County and Taiyuan County.

"As you can see, the Turkic army has always refused to really go south."

Zhang Xuan's speed of speech was very slow, and every word was said very clearly, "Their garrison is between Taiyuan City and Lou Fu Pass, and they are in a position where they can attack and retreat, which shows the caution of Luo Khan, he is not as blind as we first thought, from the point of view of his insistence on attacking Shanyang County, it is more of a forced act for him to lead the army south, of course, this is just my guess, let's talk about it!" ”

Zhang Xuan's eyes fell on Fang Xuanling, as a military advisor, Zhang Xuan hoped that Fang Xuanling could express his opinion.

Fang Xuanling smiled and said: "Judging from the north of the Turkic garrison, Chu Luo Khan is indeed very cautious, of course, we can also understand that the huge Lou Fu County is empty, which means that we are already waiting for it, as the commander of the Turkic army, as the king of a country, Chu Luo Khan's hesitation is completely normal, maybe he intends to evacuate at any time, maybe he will continue to go south after confirming the enemy situation, but these are not important, the important thing is that we must block his retreat as quickly as possible, that is, to seize Lou Fu Pass, Wechen believes that this is the top priority. ”

Wei Wentong also said: "The military advisor is right, it is very important to cut off the Turkic back road, and when we retreated, we did something in Lou Fu Pass, and we can completely capture Lou Fu Pass." ”

Zhang Xuan took a few steps, he didn't know the importance of attacking Lou Fu Pass, but Chu Luo Khan obviously also knew the importance of Lou Fu Pass, so he gathered 50,000 heavy troops in Lou Fu Pass, in order to ensure the absolute safety of the northern retreat fortress, now the biggest trouble of the Sui army is that the Turks have too many troops in Lou Fu Pass, making it difficult for them to attack, how to transfer the main Turkic force in Lou Fu Pass, it has become a problem for them to consider.

Zhang Xuan pondered for a long time and then asked, "Is there any news that the Turkic army of Lou Fu Guan is going north?" ”

Zhang Xuan received an eagle letter from Yanmen County in the early hours of this morning, Li Jing annihilated 10,000 reinforcement Turkic troops in Zihe, and believed that the Turkic generals of Lou Fu Pass would soon know this information, and this signal was to tell the Turkic army that the Sui army would attack the Turkic royal court in the north, forcing the Turkic army to divide troops to return to the royal court, and once the Turkic reinforcements went north, then the Sui army would be given the opportunity to attack Lou Fu Pass.

Fang Xuanling shook his head, "At present, there is no movement of the Turkic army in Lou Fuguan, but I am afraid that it is not Kang Sheli's decision to let them go north to rescue the royal court, and it must be agreed by Luo Khan, but in this way, I am worried that Luo Khan may also withdraw his army." ”

This is indeed a loophole in their strategy, if Chu Luo already has the idea of withdrawing his troops, then the attack on the royal court is just an excuse for him to withdraw his troops.

Zhang Xuan couldn't help but be upset for a while, when he planned Li Jing's strategy to go north, he thought that the Turks were very determined to go south, and once the main Turkic force went south from Loufu Pass, they would definitely march south quickly, but he didn't expect that Chu Luo Khan had been stationed in the north of Jiaocheng and refused to go south, which led to Li Jing's strategy to go north was likely to backfire, but instead contributed to the retreat of Chu Luo Khan to lead his army north.

Fang Xuanling had nothing to do for a while, so he had to be silent, and Wei Wentong next to him was just about to speak, when a soldier's report came from outside the tent, "Marshal Qiqi, the Taiyuan envoy Wei Zheng has arrived." ”

Zhang Xuan hurriedly ordered: "Please ask Mr. Wei to sit in the guest tent for a while." ”

At this time, Fang Xuanling said with a smile: "It's better to let Weichen talk to him first." ”

Zhang Xuan shook his head, "At the moment of the great enemy, we should show sincerity, it is our common wish to deal with the Turks, and stop testing each other." ”

"Your Highness is right, you are derelict in your duties."

Zhang Xuan smiled and said, "The military advisor might as well go with me to see Wei Zheng." ”

Wei Wentong hesitated for a moment, and finally swallowed back the words that came to his mouth, now is not the time to speak.

Wei Zheng was ushered into the guest tent and sat for a while, and a soldier outside shouted, "The commander has arrived!" ”

Wei Zheng hurriedly got up, only to see that as soon as the curtain was lifted, Zhang Xuan and Fang Xuanling walked in one after another, Wei Zheng hurriedly stepped forward, bowed down and said, "See His Royal Highness King Qi!" ”

"Excuse me, sir, please take a seat!"

The three of them sat down separately, and Zhang Xuan saw this famous minister in history for the first time when he died, and saw that he was very dark and thin, and his appearance was not good, but his eyes were very bright and flashed with wisdom.

Zhang Xuan smiled and asked, "Is the prince in good health?" ”

"Thank you Your Highness for your concern, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is still in good health, but he is fully deployed for defense and is very busy, I feel that he is too tired."

"At the moment of the great enemy, he is under a lot of pressure, I can completely understand it, in fact, the defense problem of Taiyuan City is not big, the key is to merge the southern part of the state, once the Turkic army bypasses Taiyuan and kills the counties in the south of the state, it will be a misery."

"Your Highness is right, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is also anxious about this matter, I came to see His Highness this time, on behalf of the Crown Prince and His Royal Highness, how to deal with the Turkic army together, if we lack cooperation between the two sides, it is likely to be broken by the Turkic army."

Zhang Xuan nodded, "Prince Jiancheng is right, I also feel the same way, our two families have a combined army of 180,000, almost twice as much as the Turkic army, as long as we cooperate properly, we can indeed wipe out the Turkic army in Bingzhou." ”

Wei Zheng's eyelids jumped, and he hurriedly asked, "Does Your Highness mean that you want to annihilate all the Turkic troops in Bingzhou?" ”

Zhang Xuan nodded, "That's exactly what I meant!" ”

Wei Zheng was silent for a while, Chang'an's idea was to drive the Turkic army out of the state, but he had no intention of fighting a decisive battle with the Turkic army, but Zhang Xuan wanted to annihilate the Turkic army in the state, and the fundamental intentions of the two sides were different.

However, Chang'an has a deeper intention, which is said to be the intention of the Son of Heaven, but Wei Zheng does not dare to think deeply. (To be continued.) )