Everyone was taken aback at first, and then they each shook their heads secretly, although Li Chongbao emerged in several battles after the Battle of Yecheng, but after all, he was immature, and his military experience was far less than that of Lao Niao, and it was estimated that Li Siye would not send him.

Who knows how long it will take for Li Siye to face the two of them: "How long will it take to capture the two states until the Pujin ferry is taken?" ”

Duan Xiushi took the lead and said: "Within fifteen days, I will wipe out all the Zhaoyi army on the north bank of the Yellow River and base ourselves on Pujindu." ”

Li Chongyun hesitated and said, "I need a little longer, a little more than a month." ”

Li Siye laughed, and said to Duan Xiushi first: "You are my mainstay, I need you to lead troops in Luzhou, in case Shi Siming is not the opponent of the Hedong Army, Deng Jingshan led his troops south from Taiyuan, only you can stop it." ”

Duan Xiushi nodded, as if he understood Li Siye's idea of wanting to train young people, and sat back in his seat and smiled without saying a word.

He looked at his son and said with a gratifying face: "Wang Sili was the commander of the infantry army of Longyou at the beginning, and he was extremely strict in governing the army, and only the Guannei Army led by him and Li Guangbi's Hedong Army were able to retreat in the battle of Yecheng. You ask for a month, and I can give you enough time. ”

Li Chongbao crossed his hands excitedly and said: "Thank you grandpa for your trust, if your son can't take down the two states, he should apologize for his sins and never come back to see his father." ”

The grain that Li Siye's army took out from Luoyang's Hanjiacang provided his army with enough time to react. During the attack on the party, he ordered nearly 100,000 soldiers led by Tian Zhen and Yan Xiaosi to stay in Tongguan, and was ordered to challenge under Tongguan every day, so as to increase the pressure on Guo Ziyi and others, so that the imperial court increased the weight of strength on the front line of Tongguan, and weakened the strength of Pujindu, which made Wang Sili helpless.

Li Chongbao began to organize an attack on Jiangzhou, and Zelu Jiedu made Wang Sili know that his current forces could not resist the Hexi army, so he sent people north to ask for help from the Hedong army on the one hand, and sent people to Guanzhong to ask the emperor for help.

The emperor's reply to him was that the troops were all used to defend Tongguan, and the imperial court really couldn't draw extra people, so I issued a decree to transfer troops and ordered Deng Jingshan to lead the Hedong army to come to the rescue.

After the arrival of the people sent to Taiyuan by Wang Sili, they found that Deng Jingshan was facing a more serious situation than the Zhaoyi army. Shi Siming led the Yan army and his generals Zhang Zhizhong and Tian Chengsi to break through the Jingjingkou and are attacking Taiyuan.

Deng Jingshan was wearing iron armor on the head of the city, and opened his throat to shout loudly to the envoy: "Borrow troops from me? Look at what I look like now, the Yan army is attacking Taiyuan City on three sides, if I lose Hedong! Will not the saints make my head move? ”

The envoy said reasonably: "Deng Zhongcheng, it doesn't matter if the northern capital is lost, if Li Siye is allowed to capture Puzhou and let him cross the Yellow River into the Central Plains, Your Majesty will have to abandon his family and tour the south again." ”

"What does Shuo Fangjun do for food? There are also the Zhaoyi Army, the Guannai Army, the Sage's Imperial Forest Army and the Longwu Army, and the Longxiang Army What do they eat. I don't believe that so many soldiers can't even defend one Tongguan and two ferries! How come everything happens to count on us Hedong? ”

The messenger smiled bitterly and shook his head: "No way, those who can work hard!" ”

No matter how he put a high hat on Deng Jingshan, the other party ignored it, the reason is that there is no strong imperial court to make overall arrangements, and Deng Jingshan put himself in his own shoes to consider, and he is naturally more inclined to defend Hedong.

Since the Battle of Yecheng, the Hedong Army has become the most powerful existence in the Tang Army array, and the entire line was defeated by the Seven Sections, and only the Sanjin Army and Wang Sili's Guannei Army were able to retreat in formation. In order to prevent the Hedong family from forming a separatist and threatening Guanzhong, Suzong Li Heng deliberately divided Hedong into two, and set the area south of Shangdang as Zelu Jiedu envoy, and the north of Shangdang was still the Hedong Army, and the strength of Hedong Jiedu envoy was also divided into two and assigned to Wang Sili.

When the imperial court did not divide the two feudal towns, Li Siye naturally did not dare to rashly enter Hedong, because his Flying Tiger Cavalry and Han Navy were good at fighting in the plains, but once they entered the Taihang Mountains, they would be restricted by terrain everywhere, and it would be difficult to win in the face of the Hedong Army, which was good at mountain warfare. Moreover, Hedong Jiedu had more than 60,000 troops under his command, and in the face of such a large feudal town for an away battle, the enemy army was naturally more advantageous than him.

Li Heng's move to divide the feudal towns created favorable conditions for him to attack the Shangdang, and the two feudal towns were not subordinate to each other, and they fought separately, coupled with the addition of Shi Siming, the situation in the Hedong region was more favorable to Li Siye.

The envoy sent by Wang Sili returned gloomily, and it would take a month to go back and forth, and when he returned to Jiangzhou, I am afraid that the battle situation would be another situation.

Li Siye had already delegated command to Li Chongbao and asked him to start deploying an attack on Jiangzhou.

Since ancient times, Jiangzhou has the name of Longmen, it faces Tongguan Shaanxi County across the Yellow River, and there are Zhongtiao Mountain and Wangwu Mountain in the middle, and his north is the Luliang Mountain Range. If there is a basin in the middle of Shangdang, Jiangzhou is almost all in the mountains, rivers and hills, and only Wenxi, which is close to Puzhou in the west, and Jishan and other counties have a slightly flatter terrain.

Li Chongbao organized his subordinates into half infantry and half cavalry, and ordered the infantry army to open up when encountering mountain roads, and if the terrain was flat, they would charge with cavalry. Under such terrain conditions, the common various Qimen arrays on the battlefield of the Central Plains are useless, and it is more convenient to display the 100-man team with the regiment or brigade as the unit, based on the three-talent array, jumping, bows and crossbows, and long-term contradictory soldiers for tactical cooperation, the more complex the terrain, the more the division of labor needs to be refined.

He led the troops to take the lead in attacking Jiangxian, arranged combat missions before the battle, selected 23 brigades from the army, personally gave orders to these brigade commanders, and carried Moxian swords with strong warriors on their backs, took advantage of the night to pounce on the city wall, and quickly captured the county seat of Jiangxian.

This is Li Chongbao's first attempt to fight alone, and there is no one to guide him in what to do, he has tried to ask his father Li Siye and Duan Xiushi, and guessed how his master Feng Changqing will fight if he is here. He followed Feng Changqing for more than a few months, and followed these generals under his father's command, and had his own division of their command and combat capabilities in his heart.

If it is fair, Feng Changqing's military level is slightly higher than that of Grandpa Li Siye, and far exceeds all the generals in the Hexi Army, and even Duan Xiushi, whom Li Siye relies on very much, is much more mediocre compared with Feng Changqing.

Li Chongbao's consultation naturally hit a cold nail, and when asked about Li Siye, he only said that you make up your own mind, and I will not participate in it. He went to ask Duan Xiushi again, but the other party just smiled and said nothing. He vaguely guessed that Grandpa was deliberately teaching him, and he secretly held back a lot of energy in his heart, and he must not let his father down.

His next direction of attack was Wenxi County, located in the middle of the Zhongtiao Mountains and Mingtiao Gang, he sent scouts to investigate first, and learned that Wang Sili, the envoy of Zelu Jiedu, had personally led 13,000 people to Wenxi County, relying on Meilianggou south of the county seat to set up camp to resist, while waiting for the rescue of the imperial court, preparing to defend conservatively.

Meilianggou is also very famous here, it is the place where Taizong Li Shimin defeated Liu Wu Zhou's general Chi Jingde, and now near the pass of the ancient battlefield, the two sides also began to fight.

The Meilianggou Pass where Wang Sili was stationed was lush with vegetation, and the soldiers in his army were all mountain people in the Zhongtiao Mountain Range, and their skills in shooting and hunting were very strong, and they could rely on the favorable terrain to fight.

Li Chongbao led his troops into the ravine, because the river valley was relatively narrow, which was not conducive to cavalry combat, and the numerical advantage of the Hexi army could not be brought into play.

He himself led 800 men to search the way ahead, leaping with shields in front, pikemen with lances behind, and archers following closely behind them.

It can be seen from afar that the camp set up by the Zhaoyi army will occupy more than ten zhang of passes, among which the watchtower and other societies are built relying on the terrain, Li Chongbao saw this situation, like a hunting dog with open fangs, and could hardly find any weakness to lower his mouth.