Duan Zhixuan is about thirty years old, tall and burly, excellent in martial arts, and is both civil and military, once served as Li Yuan's pro-soldier captain, after Taiyuan raised troops, he has been following Li Shimin's side, in the Tang Army's southern expedition and the creation of the foundation of the process has made great achievements, was named the right Xiaowei general, won Li Yuan's trust. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Originally, Li Yuan appointed him as the chief general of this attack on Hedong County, but Li Shentong insisted that Duan Zhixuan was more than brave and less strategic, and he was probably not the opponent of the Zhou army, and he couldn't withstand Li Shentong's repeated persuasion, Li Yuan finally changed his decision, but he did not let Li Shentong be the main general, but changed to the second son Li Shimin as the main general, and Duan Zhixuan as the deputy general.

If from the perspective of factional struggle, this is a big victory for Li Shimin, not only the Taiyuan general Qu Tutong is Li Shimin's person, but also the battlefield in Hedong County is also led by Li Shimin, no wonder Li Shentong and Li Yuanji are extremely uncomfortable, Li Yuanji even secretly released rumors in Chang'an, and the Tang Dynasty will inevitably seize the throne.

Duan Zhixuan pointed to Jinkou in the distance and said to Li Yuan: "Your Majesty, there were 5,000 people in the Jinkou garrison before, but the lowly post was worried that Jinkou would be lost, so he increased the army to 20,000 people, and the lowly post personally commanded it, because His Majesty is coming today, and the lowly post only came from Jinkou in the morning." ”

Li Yuan nodded, stared at Jinkou for a moment, and then asked, "Where is the enemy army stationed now?" ”

"Back to Your Majesty, Wei Wentong's garrison is stationed in Hedong City, and Su Dingfang's reinforcements are currently stationed in Anyi County."

Li Yuan was stunned, "Are you only stationed in these two cities?" ”

"So far."

Li Yuan's face suddenly became gloomy, and he glared at Duan Zhixuan angrily and said, "Since the enemy army only occupies two cities, there are still dozens of cities empty there, and there are even strategic cities like Yuxiang and Yishi, why doesn't the Tang army occupy them?" ”

Duan Zhixuan was so frightened that he took two steps back, lowered his head and said: "When the humble post got the information, His Majesty had already appointed His Royal Highness the King of Qin as the chief general, so the humble post must wait for His Royal Highness the King of Qin to decide, and the humble post did not dare to make decisions without permission." ”

"Don't you dare to make your own decisions in a word, and throw away the opportunity in vain?" Li Yuan still did not relent, and reprimanded angrily.

Duan Zhixuan lowered his head and didn't dare to say a word, at this time, Li Shimin stepped forward and said: "Father, please calm his anger, Erchen feels that General Duan is not in a hurry to send troops is also from a cautious aspect, after all, the Zhou army is twice as large as us before, if the troops are sent in a hurry, the number is not large, and it happens to be surrounded and annihilated by the enemy, we will gain more than we lose, in fact, the other party is also out of this consideration, so it only occupies two cities, and it is also to concentrate troops." ”

Li Shimin's explanation was very reasonable, Li Yuan's face softened slightly, and he asked Duan Zhixuan again: "Is this the reason?" ”

Duan Zhixuan was grateful to Li Shimin for relieving the siege in time, nodded silently, and Li Yuan said: "That being said, but dividing the troops into two lines and showing the trend of horns is conducive to combat cooperation, General Duan can lead 20,000 troops into Yuxiang County, and Shimin will lead 40,000 troops into Jinkou to confront the enemy army in Hedong City. ”

Without waiting for Li Shimin to speak, Li Yuan waved his hand, "I haven't finished talking yet!" ”

Everyone listened with bated breath, Li Yuan continued: "Retaking Hedong County is only the first step, the second step is to recapture the Bird Mouse Valley and connect Taiyuan, and the third step is to recapture the three counties of the north and the two counties of Shangdang and Changping. ”

Li Shimin smiled bitterly in his heart, how could it be so easy, it was a great fortune to be able to recapture Hedong County, but he also understood the status of Taiyuan in his father's heart, and hurriedly said: "Please rest assured that my father will definitely do his best." ”

"Very good, I will leave the matter of Hedong County to you, I hope to spread the good news as soon as possible."

"Erchen understands!"

At this time, a general hurriedly stepped forward and whispered a few words to Duan Zhixuan, Duan Zhixuan hesitated for a moment, and said to Li Yuan: "Your Majesty, there is urgent information delivered in Taiyuan, which is presented to Your Majesty." ”

"Bring it on!"

The general presented a piece of information with both hands, Li Yuan took the information and read it, his eyes showed surprise, and he raised the information in his hand to everyone: "It is really unexpected, Zhang Xuan appeared in Shouyang County yesterday. ”

This news made everyone a little nervous, could it be that this time Zhang Xuan is going to drive the expedition again?

At this time, Chen Shuda, the Xiangguo who accompanied Li Yuan to inspect Pujin Pass, said: "Your Majesty, Zhang Xuan should go to the front line to boost morale like Your Majesty, it will not be the royal driving pro-conquest, if it is the imperial driving pro-conquest, he should go to Hedong County first, and then turn around and go to Taiyuan County, if Weichen is not mistaken, he will soon come south to Hedong County." ”

Li Shentong, who had never caught the opportunity to speak, hurriedly said: "Chen Xiangguo is right, Zhang Xuan is bound to win Taiyuan, if it weren't for a sudden snowstorm last year, Taiyuan City would have been lost long ago, including Jinkou on our shore, which was also a sudden snowstorm, and the Zhou army had to retreat to Hedong City, so that we could keep Jinkou. ”

Li Shentong's words were not nutritious, Li Yuan saw that his second son Li Shimin was pondering and was silent, so he asked, "What do you think?" ”

"Father, after dealing with Zhang Xuan for so many years, Erchen found that he was never one-on-one, two-to-two, but good at drawing inferences from one another, if he inspected and merged the state, Erchen was worried that his real goal was not to merge the state, just like when he attacked Jiangxia, the real target was Luoyang."

"The emperor's nephew is wrong!"

Li Shentong said a little disappreciatively: "Luoyang is not Zhang Xuan's original goal, his goal is to take Jingzhou, but we have created conditions for him, he will gain an inch, and then seize Luoyang, and the state is what he will take last year, but due to the impact of the blizzard, it has to be postponed until now, how can His Highness say that his goal is not to merge with the state?" Is it just a joke to send more than 200,000 troops? ”

Li Shimin held back the anger in his heart and said: "Uncle Huang misunderstood what his nephew meant, my nephew said that Zhang Xuan not only wants to seize Bingzhou, but may also have more far-reaching goals, such as Longyou and Hexi, he will contain our main force in Bingzhou, which will create conditions for him to be in Longyou Hexi." ”

Li Shentong sneered and said: "I can understand the emperor's nephew's worries, when attacking Luoyang, the emperor's nephew was worried that Zhang Xuan would attack Longyou and Hexi, and all of them gave up Luoyang, now does the emperor's nephew have a reason to give up and merge the state?" ”

Li Shentong was extremely scathing, which made Li Yuan suddenly remember the shame of their loss of Luoyang, Zhang Xuan only threatened a few words, Shimin led the army to retreat westward, and surrendered Luoyang and Nanyang counties to Zhang Xuan, which is also Li Yuan's dissatisfaction with Li Shimin, he did not dare to struggle, and always sought compromise by retreating, without waiting for Li Shimin to refute, Li Yuan waved his hand and said: "Shimin, don't argue, your imperial uncle is right, no matter what strategy Zhang Xuan has, what plan he has, we still have to recapture the state in a down-to-earth manner, don't be led by Zhang Xuan's nose." ”

At this time, Chen Shuda also said to Li Shimin seriously: "Your Highness, the Holy Lord also took into account the threat of Hetao, so when he decided to increase the troops in Hedong County, he did not transfer the army of Longyou, but called the army of Chengdu and Hanzhong. ”

Li Shimin was speechless, so he had to nod depressedly, "The teachings of my father and the emperor are remembered by my son." ”

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Jingzhou Yiling County, which has been controlled by the Tang army, is the springboard for the Tang army to attack Jingzhou, but in the final Jingzhou negotiations, the Tang Dynasty had to give up Yiling County and Qingjiang County in order to get back the 10 million catties of pig iron from the Jiangxia warehouse.

In the winter of last year, although it snowed heavily in the north, the south was not affected by the heavy snowfall, and since October last year, the navy has continued to transport military rations from Baling County to Yiling County, and in just one month, all the 300,000 military rations and a large number of military supplies in Baling County have been transported to Yiling County, and the warships in Yiling County have reached as many as 500, and 30,000 sailors have been stationed.

But this is only the action of the navy, at the same time as the north was attacked by a blizzard, the Zhou army from all over the country was also rapidly mobilized and assembled, from Xuzhou, Jingzhou, Jiangdong secretly mobilized 50,000 troops to Yiling County, Xu Shiji and Du Ruhui also arrived in Yiling County, because the 50,000 new Zhou troops were scattered in more than a dozen military camps in the county, and the news was tightly sealed, even the people of Yiling County did not know that the county had gathered 80,000 troops.

On this morning, the 10,000 internal guards who had arrived from Liang County finally arrived in Yiling County after ten days of marching, which was the third time that the internal guards had come to this county, and this time they also accepted a special mission.

The internal guard army is directly under the jurisdiction of the military machine, all of which are cavalry, very well-equipped, and is the most elite army of the Great Zhou Empire.

Liu Lancheng asked Li Keshi to arrange for the army to be stationed in the naval camp to rest, and he himself rushed to the big tent of the Chinese army, greeted Xu Shiji and Du Ruhui, and the three of them sat down.

"General Liu has worked hard all the way!" Du Ruhan said with a smile.

Liu Lancheng bowed and said with a smile: "The humble post is here by order, please General Xu and Du Senjun to explain the task first, so that the humble duty has a bottom in his heart." ”

(To be continued.) )