On August 15, the 10th year of Baoda, it was the Mid-Autumn Festival.

In fact, during the Wei and Jin dynasties, the people began to have the Mid-Autumn Festival moon appreciation, but the custom has not yet been formed. In the Tang Dynasty, the Mid-Autumn Festival moon appreciation and moon play were quite popular. Ouyang Zhan, the prince of the Tang Dynasty, once wrote in the "Preface to the Poems of Chang'an Playing with the Moon": "August is in autumn, the season begins and ends, and the fifteenth is in the night, and the moon is in the middle of the month. The road of Jizhi is even cold and heat, and the number of months is round."

In the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, the gentry and people in the troubled world suffered from war, and naturally they had a fervent hope for family reunion, and the Mid-Autumn Festival on August 15 naturally became more and more important in people's hearts. However, the people longed for peace and stability, but the soldiers who shouldered the combat mission could not stop the pace of the expedition, and the Wuping army was fighting on two fronts at this time.

On the day of the Mid-Autumn Festival, Peng Shigao was on his way to Yiyang to meet Li Yuan. Yiyang City in the east has been fighting for nearly a month, and the battle situation is naturally tragic, because Li Yuan previously urgently transferred Zhu Kuang from this general back to Langzhou, causing Zhu Kuang, who originally wanted to rescue Yiyang, to stop for two days halfway. But in any case, at this time, the chaos in Langzhou City had subsided, and Li Yuan had already re-led the army with Zhu Kuang, and arrived at the front line in time on August 13.

Shifting the perspective to the west for the time being, Chenzhou City, located in the land of Dongxi, is also in a momentary emergency.

Located in the Yunshi Valley on the west side of Yuanshui, the 15,000 men and horses led by Pan Chongche, the commander of the Han army, finally officially launched an attack on Chenzhou City north of the Yunshi Valley after several days of trekking through mountains and rivers.

Pan Chongche's command can be described as a strong army, and the Han lord Liu Cheng deliberately handed over the 50,000 giant elephant army guarding the capital Xingwang Mansion to this famous general in order to conquer Chu this time. In terms of the number of men and horses, this is the largest scale of the Southern Han Dynasty's use of troops against other countries in recent years. And when it comes to the quality of this army, Pan Chongche is even more confident.

You must know that the Southern Han State is still a regime established by warlords, and attaches great importance to military power, and the emperor not only personally controls the planning and deployment of major military operations, but even likes to serve as the commander of major military operations. This tradition is not only counted from the founding monarch Liu Ling, but also traced back to the end of the Tang Dynasty, when Liu Ling's father Liu Qian was the assassin of Fengzhou, he had "more than 10,000 troops, more than 100 warships, and all large and small battles".

(Note: "Spring and Autumn of the Ten Kingdoms" volume 58 "Gaozu Benji" records: "In the summer and April of the eighth year of Qianheng, the emperor invaded Fujian with his generals, and Tunting and Zhangjing were attacked by the Fujian people and defeated.") ）

After Liu Cheng ascended the throne, Xu was happy to sit and enjoy the country, and was not enthusiastic about the imperial conquest, but he did not dare to really delegate the military power to the envoys of the towns, so he re-followed the Tang system, and temporarily appointed "capital commanders and recruiting envoys" to be the commander of the army every time he conquered, and led the soldiers and horses with the seal letter issued by the emperor, and returned them after the battle, forming a set of strict norms like a loan.

As for the quality of the army that the commander of the army receives, it depends on the emperor's mood and the importance of the war. Fortunately, the 50,000 troops led by Pan Chongche in this battle of "Conquering the Northern Capital", the Giant Elephant Army, are one of the few elites in the Southern Han Forbidden Army.

What is the Giant Elephant Army, as the name suggests, is a unit equipped with war elephant cavalry.

The Giant Elephant Army is not only one of the six main forbidden armies of the Southern Han Dynasty, but also a branch of the army that highlights the local characteristics of the Southern Han Dynasty.

Last year, the Southern Han Dynasty took Wu Huaien as the commander, and took advantage of the civil strife in Chu to take advantage of the situation to connect Kehe, Gui, Quan, Zhao and other Lingnan eight states, which relied on this giant elephant army that trampled on the Quartet, which shows its strong combat ability, although the war elephants did not play much role when attacking the city, but often the enemy army saw these huge creatures as high as several zhang, and most of them were already in chaos.

At this moment, looking at the swords and guns under his command, the soldiers and horses of the Southern Han Dynasty who were covered with dark clouds in the Yunshi Valley, and the sound of war elephants sounded in his ears, Pan Chongche showed a surging smile. Not only because of the strength of the troops and horses he led, but as a leading general who has experienced a hundred battles, it is no exaggeration to say that Pan Chongche has lived to this day, and he has spent most of his time fighting the enemy on the battlefield, and almost all of them have returned victorious.

In short, after Pan Chongche survived a large number of famous generals of the Southern Han Dynasty, he relied on his southern expedition to the north, and made many miraculous achievements, and was the oldest among the main generals of the army, and has become the first person in the mind of Liu Cheng, the lord of the Han Dynasty.

This time he led 50,000 elite soldiers to march into Chu, and the results received by Pan Chongche did not disappoint Liu Cheng. After the design successfully ambushed Bian Hao and Zhang Luan's army, the Han army successfully conquered the entire Guiguan land, and then pushed the battle line horizontally to the city of Tanzhou, and Chu had already won two-thirds of the land. The battle report was transmitted back to the Southern Han Kingdom's capital Xing Wangfu, and Liu Cheng exclaimed happily and ordered a big banquet for the ministers to celebrate the veteran for three days.

But Pan Chongche's state of mind was not as calm or complacent as that of the Han monarchs, just because he knew in his heart that the goal of this army was to completely conquer Chu, so in the end he had to face Li Yuan, the "natural general star" who was now famous in the Southern Tang Dynasty. Although Pan Chongche had never fought the young Southern Tang star before, he did not dare to take it lightly.

The so-called desperate situation, the Han army wants to incorporate the entire Chu land into the territory of the Han State, and Langzhou is naturally no exception, but Wuping Town is the place where Li Yuan relies to survive, Pan Chongche understands in his heart that it is a matter of life and death, no matter whether this "Dang Shiwei Huo" is in vain or not, he will definitely come to fight against him.

Previously, under the city of Tanzhou, just when Pan Chongche was worried about the long-term attack, he received two surprising news one after another. The first is a letter from Tian Hongyou in Xizhou, and the second is that Li Yuan has decided to raise a large army to conquer Dongxi.

Originally thought that the Wuping army would go south to reinforce Tanzhou, but at this moment he abandoned the safety of Chu and ran to attack the barbarians, Pan Chongche was deeply puzzled at first, and then secretly rejoiced, determined to maintain the previous deployment, only to conquer Tanzhou City as soon as possible, and then take advantage of the situation to move the battle line to the north for a hundred miles.

But then a Wuping light cavalry suddenly appeared, which disrupted Pan Chongche's plan. This elusive cavalry is really a headache, the tactics can be described as extremely obscene, lying in the dense forest during the day, attacking the camp at night, but not in love with war at all, especially like when the Han army is attacking the city, go straight to the rear of the grain and grass baggage, cut and plunder and leave calmly.

The Han army is far away from the homeland, deep into Chu for several months, at this moment Tanzhou City can not be captured for a long time, the war is in a state of anxiety, the sergeants have secretly complained, by this Wuping light cavalry so attacked several times, if Pan Chongche is such an old and steady commander, he really can't sit still, and after consulting with the generals, he decided to divide his troops to Yiyang, trying to lure away this annoying cavalry.

But what happened next caught Pan Chongche by surprise. First of all, Yiyang City also fell into a bitter battle, the Han army was obviously superior in numbers but was met with stubborn resistance from the defenders, and attacked for seven days but injured three or four thousand people, and the most terrifying thing is that outside the city of Tanzhou did not know when it was like a double score, and once again there was a Wuping light cavalry that specialized in harassment.

This made Pan Chongche couldn't help but be confused, and even wanted to retreat from the army for a while, but after thinking about it, he found the clues. From the combat methods of the Wuping light cavalry that appeared twice, as well as the action of the light cavalry to rescue Yiyang, it can be faintly seen that the Wuping army has no intention or even the ability to engage the Han army head-on at the moment, and the real main army should be all taken by Li Yuan to conquer Dongxi, and it is difficult to get out at this moment.

Pan Chongche judged by his years of experience in conquest that Langzhou and even Wuping were in a state of emptiness at this moment. The land of Dongxi is notoriously sinister, if Li Yuan's army is mired in the quagmire, a surprise army can be sent to attack Langzhou City, maybe a big thing can be decided.

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