As the saying goes, hearing is false, seeing is believing, after Guo Ziyi made a judgment, he also needed someone to find out the real situation to confirm his guess, so he deliberately selected dozens of scouts with excellent water nature in Long Xiang's army, and crossed the Yellow River at night.

In the darkness of the night, Pujindu was heavily guarded, and the scouts learned that the Hexi army built a wall of nearly six miles long along the Puzhou City from the river beach to the Yellow River Tieniu with trees cut down from Zhongtiao Mountain.

The scouts tried to find out what was enclosed in the wall, and they disguised themselves as merchants and merchants, and entered the barracks to sell flint and raking belts to the soldiers, so they found thousands of wooden rafts in the camp, and in order to make these rafts, the Hexi army had to cut down a large number of trees, presumably in advance.

The scouts thought they had real evidence, and hurriedly swam quietly across the Yellow River the next night to Guo Ziyi's camp.

After listening to the report of the soldiers, Guo Ziyi couldn't help but gasp, and hurriedly lowered his head and asked, "Can you see clearly?" ”

"The subordinates can see clearly that there are indeed a large number of rafts, which should be as many as a thousand times."

Guo Ziyi turned around, bent down and propped her palms on the desk to secretly calculate. A raft can carry about ten people on one fire, so a thousand rafts crossing the river at one time is 10,000 people, plus the iron ox pulls the iron cables on both sides of the bank to lay planks, a few back and forth can transport all the combat power to the opposite bank. These rafts are also enough to prove that the main direction of attack of Li Siye's army is Jinpudu.

After he came to such a conclusion, his heart also opened up a lot, since he knew the enemy's strategy and understood Li Siye's main direction of attack, then he would take advantage of the steep advantage of the Yellow River and kill them all on the riverbank. For Datang, this will be a meritorious achievement in rebuilding the society.

At this time, from the upstream Longmendu, there was another urgent report from Fugu Huaien, saying that the Hexi Army was stationed on the east bank of the Yellow River in Longmendu, and thousands of big flags were displayed.

Guo Ziyi smiled smugly, the actions of the Hexi army coincided with his expectations, and he immediately wrote a letter to Fugu Huaien in person to reply: "You don't need to worry, this is Li Siye's suspicious army, most of the Hexi army's troops are still at the Pujin Ferry, and I already have a good plan to defeat the enemy." ”

Guo Ziyi decided to take the plan into account, withdrew all his Daxu in the camp on the west bank, led a group of soldiers and horses to ambush on the north side of Dali County in Tongzhou, and ordered people to go to Tongguan and Longmendu respectively to deliver the news to Fugu Huaien and Cheng Yuanzhen, and ordered them to send 10,000 horses to Pujindu, and distribute a pocket formation to the west of the stork tower and the north of Dali, preparing to defeat Li Siye and wipe out Li Siye on the west bank of the Yellow River in one go.

Cheng Yuanzhen, who was stationed in Tongguan, did not rush to set off after receiving Guo Ziyi's message, but reported this military order to Li Fuguo in Chang'an. At this time, Li Fuguo was in charge of the military and political power of Chang'an, especially when Li Heng Shenke of Suzong was sick, he was equivalent to sitting in the prison country. Extremely sensitive, he immediately sent an edict to Guo Ziyi in the name of the emperor, and asked him in the letter why he wanted to mobilize the Tongguan garrison.

Guo Ziyi, who received the holy decree, was naturally terrified, and hurriedly sent a letter to the emperor, reporting to Li Fuguo the situation of both the enemy and us, as well as his plan to lay out his pockets and prepare to wipe out the Hexi army at Pujindu.

Li Fuguo also seems to know that he is not in the front, and if he does not understand the situation, he cannot command indiscriminately. However, as the head of the courtiers in charge of the government, he must take the opportunity to highlight his authority, and expressed deep concern about the defense of Tongguan, and wrote to say that there were still tens of thousands of Hexi troops outside Tongguan, and since it had been found out that Li Siye would march from Pujindu to cross the river, then the Longmen garrison should be transferred more to ensure that Tongguan's troops were abundant.

Guo Ziyi, who received the holy decree again, had no choice but to comply, withdrew the military order to transfer the Tongguan army, intensified the deployment of the defenders of Longmendu, and ordered the servant Gu Huaien to lead 18,000 people to Dali County, leaving only Guo Yingyi, the envoy of the Shence army, to lead nearly 7,000 people to garrison Longmendu.

At this time, it was already the autumn and August of the second year of the Qianyuan Dynasty, and Fugu Huaien took one last look at the Yellow River beach in the distance under his command. There were still thousands of large flags planted on the river beach on the other side, and there seemed to be nothing under the flags, and there seemed to be nothing under them, and a deep worry faintly floated in his heart.

For this reason, he repeatedly instructed Guo Yingyi to closely monitor the movements on the other side of the river, but whenever there was a situation, he would immediately send a fast horse to the beacon tower to deliver the news, and he would definitely quickly send troops to help.

After Fugu Huaien led the army to Wanli County, he expressed his concern to Guo Ziyi: "Ling Gong Ke is sure that Li Siye will definitely cross the river from Pujin?" In case the Hexi Army was not a suspicious tactic, there would only be more than 8,000 people left at Longmen Ferry. ”

Guo Ziyi was silent for a long time, sighed and said: "The enemy army is difficult to distinguish between reality and fiction, even if the forces are evenly divided, Li Siye crosses the Yellow River west with a superior army, it will be difficult for us to resist." Therefore, I can only concentrate superior forces to resist the enemy, and I am at least seventy percent sure that Li Siye will cross the Yellow River from Pujin, and it is worth fighting for this seventy percent chance. ”

Fugu Huaien once again said to Guo Ziyi: "Soldiers make dangerous moves, and they have to do it as a last resort, and at this critical moment in the world, it is not appropriate to make any more dangerous moves." Now there are still tens of thousands of imperial forest troops in Chang'an City, so why don't you ask Your Majesty to transfer 20,000 troops to Longmendu to garrison. In this way, even if Li Siye chooses to attack from Longmendu, Guo Yingyi will be able to resist for a while with these forces, so that we can quickly rush to help. ”

Guo Ziyi stood in place for a moment, stretched out his hand to help Fu Gu Huaien up from the ground, and said in a low voice: "There are too many things in the world that cannot be done, I led my troops to resist Li Siye in Guanzhong, and behind me is the capital and the king, which is equivalent to dancing in shackles." What Li Siye can easily do, but I need to put in the effort but I am suspicious. ”

Fu Gu Huaien's expression gradually dimmed, and he said with a negative attitude: "Since we generals are suspicious, what is such a court still loyal to it, it is better to follow the example of Li Siye, so that the great talent of the prince can still achieve immortal deeds in this troubled world." ”

"Shut up!" Guo Ziyi sternly reprimanded him: "You and I, as ministers of the society, have been favored by the Tang Emperor for generations, how can we be rebellious because of a momentary situation!" ”

Fugu Huaien hurriedly bowed his head and knelt on the ground, stretched out his hand to support his chest and said: "Don't blame Linggong, Huai'en is only in a hurry, and he will never have such an idea in the future." ”

Guo Ziyi helped him up, held his hand and said: "Now that the power inside and outside the court is controlled by eunuchs, and there are prosecutors everywhere to monitor civil and military officials, you must not mention such words to others, so as not to be held by outsiders." ”

"Lead the troops well, this battle can only be won, not defeated. Let's go down. ”

Fugu Huaien retreated, and looked back at Guo Linggong before walking out of the tent, his gray hair has increased a lot these days, which is also caused by the hard work of the villagers.

Huaien was worried all night, and for several days he did not take off his armor day and night, patrolling the camp with a knife, and he did not change his will when the autumn wind was cold. His loyalty is not so much to the imperial court, but to Guo Ziyi, if it were not for the support and promotion of this old superior, he would not have been able to achieve today's achievements.

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Li Siye led a large army to be stationed in Hejin County, with the Flying Tiger Cavalry as the vanguard entrenched on the river beach, Bai Xiaode led the soldiers to cut down trees day and night, and set up a wooden raft to cross the river at any time.

In order to verify whether the Tang army was in the scheme, he also sent scouts to swim to the other side of the river at night, but the Tang army's camp was brightly lit and the camp gate was heavily guarded, and no one could approach it at all. Villages near the Yellow River have also fled to the ground because of the impending war.

The scouts, who had nothing to gain, had no choice but to swim back to the east bank of the Yellow River and go to the camp in Hejin County to report the military situation to Li Siye.

Li Siye twisted his beard and paced, turned back and asked the scouts kneeling on the ground: "The three camps of the Tang Army are heavily guarded?" Ten paces away no one can approach? ”

"Indeed, we are incompetent and cannot find a way to enter the enemy camp."

He asked, "You look at the enemy camp from afar, and you find anything unusual. ”

The scout also reported: "There is nothing unusual, but the Tang army seems to be very nervous, almost everyone is wearing armor and not slacking off, but the slightest disturbance will arouse their vigilance." ”

"So alert?" He raised his head and pondered carefully: "The Tang army is so nervous, maybe there is such a possibility, that is, Fugu Huaien has mobilized most of the troops to leave Longmendu, and the three camps are actually empty. ”

He resolutely ordered: "The whole army will prepare dry rations for six days, start camping from tonight, and cross the Yellow River tomorrow night to attack the Tang army's camp with fire arrows." ”

He took Bai Xiaode as the vanguard, Duan Xiushi was responsible for crossing the river, Zhao Chongyu and Ashina Silu led the left and right rear armies, and he led the Chinese army to cross the river in person, and the time was set at the time of the child.