"Woo....."

The long sound of trumpets echoed across the desolate wasteland, and in the endless wasteland, rows of neat infantry phalanxes were moving forward with neat steps, and there were ten such infantry phalanxes in all, and there was no end in sight from one row to the other.

Behind the infantry phalanx, there are military formations of different sizes, the center is a large phalanx of 10,000 people, the innermost part of the large phalanx is surrounded by the army, there is a huge luxury chariot, surrounded by gold-armored cavalry, holding a dragon flag with the word Kun written on it.

"In March of the first year of the Great Kun Shenwu calendar, Taizu drove his own expedition to defeat the rebel thief king Shichong, in..."

In the big tent, looking at the records recorded in the book by the entourage, Ye Chen smiled, his eyes fell on the sand table in the center of the big tent, and his subordinate general Zhang Ling pinched a wooden stick in his hand and pointed it on a small sand pile with a black flag in one of them, and said to Ye Chen and several generals around the sand table:

"This is Yuan County, Wang Shichong sent the general Song Mengqiu to garrison here, with a total of 50,000 defenders."

The stick pointed to two other places:

"This is Hangu Pass, west to Chang'an important pass, there are 30,000 defenders, Maojin crossing, the only way to cross the Yellow River, there are 15,000 defenders, the three take Maojin Ferry as the fulcrum to attack and defend each other, attack any place can be quickly supported, we must break through Maojin before the arrival of reinforcements from Yuan County, cut off the connection between the defenders of Yuan County and Hangu Pass, and then break through each one by one."

Dugu Zhan, who was standing on the opposite side of the sand table, said:

"But the news of our dispatch has already spread, and the reinforcements from Yuanxian County are afraid that they will set off long ago, and now Maojindu is only afraid of no less than forty or fifty thousand defenders, and it is not easy to capture it."

Zhang Ling smiled and said:

"General Dugu doesn't need to worry, His Majesty has already prepared for this matter."

Ye Chen didn't sell it either, and said with a smile:

"A month ago, I ordered General Xu Shiji to cross the Yellow River from Mengjin with 50,000 soldiers and horses, and now I am afraid that he has reached Yuan County, if he does not send troops, it is okay, once he sends troops, General Xu Shiji will definitely be able to take Yuan County and cut off his back road, then tens of thousands of troops south of the Yellow River will become rootless water, and they will be defeated!"

Except for Zhang Ling, everyone else was overjoyed, and Wang Xuan stepped forward directly:

"The last general is willing to be the vanguard and capture Maojindu for His Majesty!"

The others didn't fight with him, and the battle with Wang Shichong couldn't be finished in a short time, there was a lot of success, there was no need to fight, and the first merit had already been taken away by Xu Shiji, and it was useless to fight again.

Ye Chen walked back to his seat with a smile and sat down, and said with a solemn face:

"Wang Xuan listened to the order and ordered you to take 10,000 troops as the vanguard to Maojindu, and you must not act recklessly when you see the opportunity."

"Whoa!"

He took the token and turned to leave.

"Lonely Battle!"

"The last general!"

"Order you to lead 30,000 generals to Hangu Pass, besiege but not attack, stand by and move, and do not attack the city without authorization!"

"Whoa!"

"Zhang Ling, you lead an army of 50,000 to Hongnong, closely monitor the movements of Li Tang's army, and report to me if there is any change."

"Whoa!"

"The others will follow the Chinese army and set off tomorrow morning!"

"Whoa!"

The generals left one by one, leaving only Zhang Ling, and he stopped pretending without outsiders, and said with a smile:

"I didn't expect you to be the emperor in a decent way, how is it, is it cool?"

Ye Chen smiled:

"There's nothing cool about this, I've been an emperor in other worlds before, and it's just like that as soon as the freshness passes, it restricts freedom, anyway, I won't do it when the world is unified."

He glanced up at Zhang Ling and suddenly said:

"Well, are you interested in becoming an emperor?"

Zhang Ling shrugged his shoulders and said:

"There must be interest, I haven't tried it so many times, but it's impossible in this world, I can't compete with you."

"It's good if you're interested, I'll lend you a piece of soldiers and horses when the world is unified, and you go to the east to destroy the messy small country on that island, and you can also establish a country and try to be a soil emperor." Not only you, but as long as Wang Xuan and others are still alive after unifying the world, they will give you a chance, which can be regarded as a reward for helping me conquer the world, how about it? ”

Zhang Ling said with a smile on his face:

"That's a good dare, I heard that that small country is a mess, and it dares to become a country of its own if it is less than a county big, which makes people laugh off their big teeth."

"Well, I heard that there are many beautiful women there, so send me a few when the time comes."

"Come on, an ordinary woman of your size can't bear it, don't kill people then."

"Nima...."

Two days later, Ye Chen's army had not yet arrived at Maojindu, and the news that Maojindu was captured came from the front, to be precise, it was Li Yuan's son Li Jiancheng who suddenly led hundreds of thousands of troops to break through Hangu Pass, and attacked Maojindu with the Hangu Pass rout, and it happened that Wang Shichong's reinforcements in Yuan County, north of the Yellow River, were preparing to cross the Yellow River.

The defenders located in Maojindu had an internal quarrel with the defeated army, and some of them actually surrendered to Wang Xuan, who immediately seized the opportunity to attack Maojindu with the surrendered army.

But at this time, Li Jiancheng's army of more than 100,000 rushed to surround Maojindu, and at the same time, Xu Shiji led the army to cross the river to support Maojindu, and the two sides confronted each other at this ferry.

This series of dazzling changes even Ye Chen, a battle-hardened person, was a little flawless, not to mention others, directly dumbfounded, he immediately ordered the Chinese army to speed up to catch up with the Dugu Zhan army that had not yet passed Maojindu, and rushed to Maojindu in the evening of the same day, and saw the Tang army waiting outside the Shuizhai Pass at a glance.

I have to say that Ye Chen is a little fortunate to have this pass, otherwise in the current chaotic situation, as long as Li Jiancheng leads the army to rush, it is very likely that he will directly defeat Wang Xuanjun in the chaos, at that time, he had just accepted the surrender of Maojindu, and the army was chaotic, even if he faced the same number of opponents, he couldn't beat it, let alone hundreds of thousands of troops, even if he added Xu Shiji's department.

The 70,000 Chinese army and the 30,000 army of Dugu Zhan arrived at the same time, Wang Xuan on the wall of the pass breathed a sigh of relief, 10,000 forwards and 100,000 troops, and Xu Shiji's 30,000 troops crossing the river for a total of 140,000 troops, plus Ye Chen, an invincible god general, it is not difficult to defeat Li Jiancheng.

This time to deal with Wang Shichong, Ye Chen mobilized a total of more than 200,000 troops, 70,000 Chinese troops, 10,000 forwards, 50,000 Xu Shiji, 50,000 Zhang Ling, 30,000 Dugu Zhan, and 20,000 rear troops, a total of 230,000 regular troops, that is, to destroy Wang Shichong in one fell swoop, and then move the army west to destroy Dou Jiande, and finally attack Chang'an Li Yuan with Zhang Ling.

It's just that this plan can no longer be implemented, Li Yuan is also fighting the same idea as him, the eldest son Li Jiancheng's army of more than 100,000 people confronted him in Maojindu, Ye Chen immediately realized that this was a good opportunity, take the opportunity to destroy part of Li Yuan's main force here, and it would be easier to deal with Li Yuan later.