On the evening of the third day after Gu Qi left, he rode a fast horse and galloped to the gate of the governor to stop, and handed over an urgent letter to the guard at the door. And Ji Qingchen's face showed a faint joy when he finished reading the contents of the urgent mail, and he said to Li Changzheng, "You pass on the generals to the Governor's Mansion to discuss the military situation." ”

"No!" Li Changzheng strode away.

In the middle of the ring, I saw that the generals of the Northern Liao Governor's Mansion came to the hall of Ji Qingchen's Governor's Mansion in turn. Everyone saw Ji Qingchen, who was already sitting on the main seat, and after saluting him, they sat on their seats and drank tea silently.

After the three-way drum sounded, Ji Qingchen only opened his mouth after the generals arrived, "Everyone, there is a six-hundred-mile rush from Yanmen Pass, and Fang Wanqi and Xiang Ziyu have successfully captured Yanmen Pass. ”

As soon as his words fell, there was a discussion of the cheers of the generals in the hall, and everyone was not only happy about this surprise attack, but also happy that they were going to go on the expedition again, because this was the phalanx set by Ji Qingchen, to capture Yanmen Pass, and then give Meng Buge and Haoge a gate to beat the dogs.

"Since Yanmen Pass has been controlled by us, I don't know when the Governor of the Dao Dao will send troops to the Northern Capital?" Cheng Qianfan was the first to ask.

"Naturally, the sooner the better, because the people of the northern capital have been bullied by Meng Buge for too long." Ji Qingchen said in a resolute tone, but after he finished speaking, he moved his gaze to Huang Taiji and asked, "How are your 30,000 cavalry reorganized?" ”

"As long as His Highness gives an order, Huang Taiji's 30,000 cavalry can get on the horse and fight." Huang Taiji said confidently.

He was very confident in the 30,000 elite horsemen he had selected from the 130,000 Beirong captives.

Because he knew very well the combat effectiveness of the 30,000 elite cavalry in his hand, he felt that in the Northern Liao Metropolitan Governor's Mansion, in addition to the Xiao cavalry camp beside Ji Qingchen, only the 1,000 guards of Baixiang City and the 10,000 elite cavalry under the command of Wang Yin and Liu Qingqing could compare with his 30,000 elite cavalry, and other people like the Long Xiang Army and the Black Eagle Cavalry were not his opponents of the 30,000 elite cavalry.

Of course, he didn't count Xu Dachun's devil ride here.

After all, these are two different cavalry teams, and they cannot be compared with their usual combat effectiveness.

"What about the three thousand dead cavalry?" Ji Qingchen asked Zuo Zongquan again.

"The selection is complete, but it will take at least a month of training." Zuo Zongquan replied.

"Brother Xiang Cheng, let's talk about Meng Buge's situation!" Ji Qingchen said to Bai Xiangcheng.

Bai Xiangcheng received the order, he got up and walked to a three-plate in the center of the hall, and began to introduce Meng Buge's troop deployment in the Northern Capital.

Since Meng Buge and Hakesu invaded the northern capital, because there is not enough army to defend, and because Meng Buge and Hakesu are both Beirong fierce generals and wise generals, the 60,000 troops led by the two have wantonly attacked, burned, killed and looted in the northern capital, and now two-thirds of the cities in the northern capital have fallen. Moreover, Meng Buge also listened to the advice of Haksu, and gathered the young men of the captured cities together and trained them into a new army attached to them, which was named the Han Army Zhenghuang Banner and Zhengbai Banner. The strength of the two is now quite strong, and the number of four cavalry has reached 160,000. However, with the destruction of the Chinese army of Modahan, Meng Buge and Hakesu restrained their arrogance and adjusted the deployment of the army in time, and they mobilized all the 160,000 troops to the junction of the northern capital and Yunzhou, with the obvious intention of defending against Ji Qingchen's army.

"However, as the news of Yanmen Pass being conquered by us reaches Meng Buge's ears, he will not be as calm as he is now, and he will definitely realize our tactics of closing the door and beating dogs, and may lead the army to retreat to Liaozhou, and then break through Yanmen Pass, and want to withdraw from the pass." Bai Xiangcheng expressed his judgment after introducing the situation in the northern capital.

"What do you think?" Ji Qingchen asked, after capturing Yanmen Pass, Dayan has an advantage over Beirong in terms of time, place, and people, and now he has nothing to fear!

"Metropolitan Governor, we can besiege the army of Meng Buke in the Northern Capital Mansion in three ways, and then encircle and annihilate it." Cheng Qianfan said.

"What does General Cheng mean?" Ji Qingchen asked.

Cheng Qianfan got up and walked to the sand table, and pointed to the topographic map on the sand table with a rattan and said, "Meng Buge concentrated the army on the Cangzhou line in the northern capital, and the intention was obvious, that is, he wanted to hold the junction of the three states, so that he could invade Yunzhou and retreat to Liaozhou, because Cangzhou is the junction of Yunzhou, Liaozhou and the northern capital. But now the situation is different, Yanmen Pass has been controlled by us, Meng Buge's retreat has been blocked, his only way out is to immediately retreat to Liaozhou, and then kill under Yanmen Pass, and break out. Therefore, our first army should be sent to Liaozhou, blocking Meng Buge's return to Liaozhou, and then killing the retreat to Yanmen Pass, the second army is to enter the northern capital, and the troops are under the city of the northern capital, and the goal of the third army is Cangzhou......"

Cheng Qianfan talked eloquently, showing his Confucian demeanor at this time. And the main general in the hall listened fascinated, nodded yes from time to time, and showed a faint smile from time to time, seemingly agreeing with Cheng Qianfan's tactics. However, there are two exceptions, one is Bai Xiangcheng, when he heard Cheng Qianfan explain his tactics, his brows were furrowed and he bowed his head silently, and the other was Xu Dachun, who ignored Cheng Qianfan's tactics.

After Cheng Qianfan finished speaking, he moved his gaze to Ji Qingchen.

"The army is divided into three routes, so the number of men and horses on each side is less than 100,000, is the force too thin?" Ji Qingchen asked rhetorically. He said to Mo Dahan that he had 400,000 cavalry, which was counting the 130,000 troops of Shangzhou Mengli and Cao Yukun. Otherwise, in terms of the current strength of Caozhou City, 60,000 foot soldiers went to Yanmen Pass, and there were only 70,000 defenders left in the city, and in terms of cavalry, 30,000 Beirong elite cavalry were newly added, making up for the loss of the Long Xiang cavalry and the Black Eagle cavalry in the battle with Mo Dahan, and the number of cavalry was still 230,000, and the 230,000 army should be divided into three, and each road was about 70,000 people, and in the face of Meng Buge's 160,000 army, it did seem very thin.

"The primary purpose of the Three-Way Army is to besiege Meng Buge, but to confront him head-on......" Cheng Qianfan explained to Ji Qingchen again. And Ji Qingchen just listened to Cheng Qianfan's words quietly, but he was a little disappointed in his heart, he was not disappointed that Cheng Qianfan's talent was mediocre, but disappointed in Cheng Qianfan's self-confidence, and he had been carried away by victory, thinking that Meng Buge now just wanted to return to Liaozhou and break through again, and would not be entangled with the three-way army.

"It's too slow, there are 50,000 Haoge elite riders in Shangzhou, we can't wait!" Ji Qingchen spoke after Cheng Qianfan finished speaking.

When Cheng Qianfan heard Ji Qingchen say this, he knew that his tactics were not Ji Qingchen's thoughts, so he didn't say anything anymore, and asked, "What does Your Highness mean?" ”

"This king wants to annihilate the 200,000 troops of Meng Buge and Haoge in Liaozhou in one fell swoop." Ji Qingchen said heroically.

Seeing that everyone was a little confused, he explained, "This king's plan is to start with the 230,000 troops of Caozhou to go straight to the northern capital, and force Meng Buge and Hakesu and his 160,000 troops to Liaozhou, as long as Meng Buge retreats to Liaozhou, with Haoge's temperament, when he is destroyed in Zhilu Dao Modahan, and Yanmen Pass is controlled by us, he will definitely retreat back to Liaozhou and want to make peace with Meng Buge, and then they will gather 210,000 troops in Liaozhou, and we will have 230,000 troops in addition to Caozhou. There are also Mengli's 100,000 elite cavalry and Cao Yukun's 30,000 bandit army that rushed from Shangzhou, a total of 360,000 troops, enough to annihilate Meng Bu Gehaoge's 210,000 army. ”

"Another point is that the whole of Liaozhou is a grassland, no matter whether we besiege Meng Buge and Haoge and force them to surrender, or the 600,000 troops on both sides fight to the death, there will be no situation like in Caozhou City, or the Northern Capital, or the destruction of houses and wheat fields after the confrontation between Shangzhou and Beirong Jingcai." Ji Qingchen said what he thought.

"I agree with His Highness's suggestion, if Meng Buge is besieged in the Northern Capital, he will jump over the wall in a hurry in order to withdraw from the Northern Capital, and we will fight to the death, and then we will besiege him, and our own losses will be great. But the situation is different in Liaozhou, because when they arrive in Liaozhou, as long as they break through the Yanmen Pass, Meng Buge and Haoge will have a chance to get out of the pass, and in this case, their army is besieged by us, and they still have the hope of going out of the pass in their hearts, so they will not fight to the death with us to the end, as long as they leave room for them, the combat effectiveness of the soldiers will be insufficient, and when we fight with them, their losses will be less. Bai Xiangcheng said.

"I also agree with His Highness's tactics." Xu Dachun also said, "If Meng Buge is besieged in the northern capital, there will be no problem with the rich Meng Buge in the northern capital in terms of grain and grass, and Meng Buge wants to spend it with us when there is no shortage of food, he will spend a year and a half, what can we do with him?" However, when we arrived in Liaozhou, it was different, not to mention how much grain Meng Buge could not take with him when he retreated, as far as the grassland environment of Liaozhou itself was concerned, as long as we besieged them for a month or two, Meng Buge and Haoge ran out of grain and grass with them, and they could not collect food locally, the army would fall into famine, and when we attacked him again, there might be a situation of self-defeat. ”

Bai Xiangcheng and Xu Dachun's exposition is a supplement to Ji Qingchen's tactics, and it is very pertinent and to the point.

In fact, Ji Qingchen also thought of these two questions himself, but he didn't say it.

Because he saw the distress and disdain of Bai Xiangcheng and Xu Dachun when Cheng Qianfan talked about tactics, he guessed that the two of them must have other ideas in their hearts, so he kept these two questions of his own in his heart, wanting to see if the two of them could see the key to it, but he didn't expect the two of them to really see the doorway.

It made him happy.

It is not surprising that Bai Xiangcheng saw that Ji Qingchen was the doorman, because Bai Xiangcheng himself had the potential of a famous general, and after the battle with Mo Dahan showed his extraordinary talent, he was even more sure of his potential as a famous general.

But Xu Dachun, a brave general, can also discover the trick, which makes Ji Qingchen happy. Because Xu Dachun is a very important general, otherwise he would not hand over to him such a heavy cavalry as the Devil Rider who decides the victory, and Xu Dachun's impressive performance in the past three days also made Ji Qingchen very satisfied.

With Ji Qingchen's proposal, and with the support of Bai Xiangcheng and Xu Dachun, in the hall of the Dadu Governor's Mansion, Ji Qingchen finally issued a military order to attack the northern capital with an army of 230,000 troops, and ordered the army to set off in two days.

Suddenly, Caozhou City fell into the pre-war tension again.