At this time, Baili Wuji handed over the military command of the north to Baili Yi, and returned to Jinling Mansion, he sent Prime Minister Feng Dao as the main envoy, and the governor Zhou Zong and Li Honggao as deputy envoys to participate in the negotiations, and at the same time, in view of the role of Zhou in this war, Baili Wuji asked Chai Rong to send people to attend the peace talks.

After that, Chai Rong sent Wang Pu as a representative of the Zhou State to attend the peace talks.

Chai Rong was anxious to fight against the Divination army, and the Zhou army had nearly twice the strength advantage of the enemy, but it was really difficult to engage the rangers in the north.

Although the Zhou army has supported a lot of grenades, mines and other firearms in the Ming Kingdom over the years, and has already had two imitation ordnance workshops, the cold weapon combat method has been ingrained in the heads of the Zhou army's soldiers. It was simply impossible to give full play to the advantages of firearms, and for the Zhou army, firearms were only used as a supplement in battle, nothing more.

The north is not like the south, there are no walls that need to be blasted, so in the eyes of the Zhou soldiers, gunpowder bags and other things are useless at all. The mines are almost furnished, except for the defense of the Liao army when laying to block the enemy, other times are not used at all, the only popular by the Zhou army is the grenade, but it is only used in the two armies to attack and defend the position of the war.

The Zhou army, which could not give full play to the advantages of firearms, was naturally very difficult to fight against the rangers. If it weren't for Yunyang's First Army holding back 30,000 cavalry on the east side of Baiting Sea, it is really unknown whether Zhou Guo could resist this battle.

When Chai Rong heard that the Ming Kingdom had achieved a strategic victory in Huanghe, he was stimulated. So, he personally launched a battle. It is known as the "Battle of Lingzhou" in history.

Since at this time, all the lost lands of the Ming and Zhou countries south of Lingzhou had been recovered, Chai Rong ordered Fengxiang Jiedu to make Wang Jing, Jingnan Jiedu to make Zhi Congyuan, and Changyi Jiedu to make the three towns join forces and gather into an army of 60,000. The commander led the army north to Zhongning, then crossed the Yellow River in the north, detoured out of the Great Wall to the west of Lingzhou, and then attacked the Bu army.

At the same time, Chai Rong ordered the Dingyan Army originally garrisoned in Xiazhou and Zheng En's 30,000 forbidden army to form a 50,000 army, with Zheng En as the commander, and led the army to the northwest to cross the Yellow River in the west of Shizhu Mountain. Then attack the Blockade army to the south.

And Chai Rong himself gathered the Xiang Training Department, Zhao Kuangyin Department and the 50,000 forbidden troops he brought from Kaifeng to form an army of 100,000 to defend Lingzhou.

Chai Rong's plan is very good, and he uses the Lingzhou he is holding on to as a board. The 120,000 Obstruction Army west of Lingzhou is regarded as meat, and the Far Away and Zheng Enbu are used as two knives to chop meat, one south and one north, so that as long as their 100,000 troops firmly resist the attack of the Obstruction Army. So. Sooner or later, the Obstruction Army will be flattened layer by layer by two knives that chop meat.

In Chai Rong's thoughts, the Obstruction Army suffered from the north and south, and the only way to flee to the west or to the east was to flee to the west, and it was almost impossible to flee to the west. However, the obstruction army attacked Lingzhou, but it was blocked by the Yellow River, and Chai Rong had 100,000 forbidden troops stationed there. Even if the combat power is not as good as the Divination Ranger, but the bow and arrow are half-crossed against the Divination Army. Presumably, there is no difficulty.

Even if Baili Wuji personally planned the plan, it was nothing more than that. But Chai Rong counted a little less, that is, the Obstruction Army did not cross the Yellow River to attack Lingzhou, which was heavily defended, but divided the troops into two routes, all the way to the south and the other to the north, and launched an attack with the attacking Zhicong Yuan and Zheng En's troops.

Zheng Enbu is okay, he led Chai Rong's forbidden army, and the more than 20,000 troops stationed in Xiazhou were originally soldiers who surrendered from the Dingyan army, and they were all veterans who had been on the battlefield for a long time, and they resisted the attack of the obstruction army.

But it was different from afar, the 60,000 troops came from the three towns, many of them were some mixed food and other dead soldiers, and there were many old, weak, sick and disabled in the army, such an army resisted and blocked the attack of 60,000 rangers, and there was only one result, that is, it collapsed.

In fact, if Chai Rong can be transferred to the training department or Zhao Kuangyin's department is enriched from afar, the result of this battle may be rewritten, but there is no if in the world, and there can be no if in history.

When the 60,000 troops from far away were defeated by the Blockade Army after only one and a half days and a half, the Blockade Army entered the Great Wall from Zhongning, crossed the Yellow River in the south, and then marched east to the south of Lingzhou, forming a flanking attack on Lingzhou.

When Chai Rong learned that he had been defeated by the Blockade Army from afar, it was too late, and the Blockade Army had already reached fifty miles south of Lingzhou City.

Chai Rong could only hastily adjust his troops, on the one hand, he ordered the 30,000 forbidden troops in Lingzhou City to go out of the south gate of Lingzhou to block the Bu army, so as to delay time, and on the other hand, he urgently transferred the troops deployed on the bank of the Yellow River to return.

At this time, Chai Rong made a mistake, Lingzhou City is a small city, just abandon it, the blocking army is fifty miles away from the city, and it is completely possible to lead the three forbidden armies to move along the Yellow River, and the Yellow River bank will be integrated with the various departments, so that 100,000 forbidden troops against 60,000 cavalry, even if they are invincible, they can be invincible.

The Obstruction Army was originally a ranger, and they were not good at defending the city, but Lingzhou City gave it to them, but it increased their burden, and they had to send some troops to defend the city. It's a pity that Chai Rong mistakenly made an order to let the 30,000 forbidden troops go south to block the enemy.

This order not only caused the 30,000 forbidden troops to be defeated, but also caused confusion among Xiang Xun and Zhao Kuangyin's troops on the banks of the Yellow River due to their hasty mobilization.

Tragedy often happens inadvertently, Chai Rong has a good battle plan, but due to his miscalculation and chaos, he fell into failure, and almost brought himself and the forbidden army around Lingzhou into a rout.

The 30,000 forbidden army that went south to block the enemy only supported for two days, and was defeated by 60,000 obstruction rangers, and when the defeated army retreated to Lingzhou City, the forward of the 40,000 forbidden army who withdrew from the Yellow River was just ordered to return to help, but most of the forbidden army soldiers were still on the march.

Chai Rong could only piece together the 10,000 forwards that Xiang Xun arrived with and the remnants of the defeated forbidden army, forming an army of 20,000 to hold Lingzhou City and wait for reinforcements.

However, the Divination Army, which was carrying the power of the new victory, did not give Chai Rong a chance to breathe, and the Divination Army, which followed the rout of the forbidden army, surrounded Lingzhou City on all sides.

Xiang Xun's 30,000 follow-up troops had to stay 20 miles away from Lingzhou City, waiting for the 30,000 people to be assembled, and half a day had passed.

And this half a day can be described as a thrilling danger for Lingzhou City, which is only defended by 20,000 people. The small city of Lingzhou Prefecture is short, and the city walls are thin, and it cannot even resist the cavalry archery that blocks the rangers. The defenders were in semi-cover, and for a moment, casualties skyrocketed.

The Obstruction Army took the whole thick tree and struck the south gate.

Fortunately, the Zhou forbidden army was equipped with grenades from the Ming State, which played a certain role in blocking the attacking soldiers from the city wall. (To be continued......)