In the fourth year of Yuanhe, on the night of August 30, there was no moon, no wind, and starlight scattered in the night sky, but it was powerless to prevent the earth from being completely covered in darkness.

About thirty miles east of Bianzhou City, a camp of about 3,000 people of the Changying Army was lonely in the dark wilderness, and the camp was full of fires.

With the flickering firelight in the camp, it can be seen that groups of cavalry are constantly patrolling outside the camp, and teams of patrols are also constantly on guard.

In the small camp in the southeast corner of the camp, more than 100 cavalrymen were busy nervously, either placing weapons and equipment on the war horses, or taking out polished rice to add food to the war horses in front of them.

In the small camp in the other direction of the camp, more than 1,000 Lu Longjun prisoners were carefully curled up on the ground one by one, and the entire camp was silent.

Although the camp was quiet, and everyone seemed to be curled up on the ground one by one, there were really not many people who were really asleep, and most of them were pretending to sleep, and at the same time looked at the more than 100 figures on the brightly lit corridor not far away with envy.

Two hours ago, those dozens of people were still with one of them, but after only a period of food, these guys who had eaten Dashuai (Mr. Liu) for several years, or even more than ten years, changed from Lu Longjun to a member of the forbidden army.

When the more than 100 newly promoted Changying troops were transferred, the sound of abuse was endless.

"Phew! These treacherous, duplicitous things, the wind makes the rudder, and the duplicity ......"

"Dashuai has raised you for so many years, and now it's time to repay Dashuai, but you ...... Ungrateful dog thing! ”

"You wait for the army of Lu Long to come back......"

The scolder was indignant and showed the so-called "loyalty" to the fullest, but the scolded person was unmoved, and there was only one reason why he was scolded, that is, those who were left failed in the competition and became sad losers!

It's just that at this moment, these victors who were brought out by Guo Zheng didn't have the heart to think about anything else.

First, they were guided by a company instructor of the Changying Army for a whole hour, and before they could come to their senses, more than a dozen squad leaders and platoon commanders of the Changying Army had already come to them.

Under the command of these elite of the Long Tail Army, they are the same as the cavalry of the Long Tail Army, which is making the final preparations, these guys who have just been changed from the pawns of the Lu Long Army are being reorganized and rearmed.

The Chinese military tent in the center of the camp was brightly lit, and compared to the outside, the soldiers and horses who were preparing in full swing were extremely quiet, and no sound came out except for the rustling of writing.

Mo Lingjun, who led 2,000 cavalry to attack in advance, was holding a charcoal pen and was writing hard, and next to the few eucalyptus that were being written, there were two letters that had been completed, and the letters had been sealed with ink.

A map with Bianzhou as the center and a radius of 100 miles was spread on a few eucalyptus that Mo Lingjun leaned over to write.

On the map, a thick line stretching from Caozhou to Bianzhou is particularly eye-catching, with obvious black dots on the thick line, marked with small but clear numbers and places one after another.

August 27, Jiyin;

August 28, Dingtao;

August 29, Dongming;

……

The seventh day of the ninth month, Tongjin;

On the seventh day of September, Bianzhou.

In addition to this thick line, several dotted lines are scattered with a cinnabar pen, which seem to mark potential positions and directions.

Outside the tent, a small group of messengers was waiting for orders, ready to go.

It's approaching midnight.

"Gotcha! Get! Gotcha"

There was a hurried sound of horses' hooves, and a small group of cavalry rushed directly into the camp like the wind, and a moment later, the sound of the passage reached the tent of the Chinese army.

"General Zhonglang, Wang Zheng has brought people back!"

Hearing the voice of the guards, Mo Lingjun, who was struggling to write in the military tent, put down the pen in his hand, unconsciously glanced at the map placed beside him, and said.

"Let him in...... In addition, go and call Guo Zheng, Pei Song, and Ouyang Liang over...... Also, prepare those who are preparing tonight to be ready to strike at any time. ”

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Mo Lingjun's personal guards had just left, and a tall figure dressed in rough air walked into the military tent.

"It's hard work, how is the situation in Bianzhou, are the rebels' foot soldiers keeping up?"

"Keep up!"

With just three words, Mo Lingjun's heart was half relieved.

"How many?"

"This, it's hard to say, I don't know if it's the reason for the daytime attack, their defense is relatively cautious, in order not to startle the snakes, they didn't get too close, judging from the scale of their camp, the infantry and cavalry add up to at least 50,000 people!"

"Fifty thousand, which is about the same number as the general initially estimated, if there are only fifty thousand......"

While speaking, Mo Lingjun looked at a letter placed on several eucalyptus, and Guo Rong's last instructions before leaving and the battle situation that he personally analyzed for himself came to mind:

Han Hong, who had reached an agreement with Emperor Taishang and became a de facto ally with Guo Rong, insisted on Bianzhou City, and in fact became the origin or center point of the entire Shandong and even the entire Tang Dynasty.

With the city of Bianzhou as the center, 400,000 Hebei rebels surrounded Bianzhou to form the first encirclement.

In addition to the Hebei rebels who crossed the river, the Changying Army, the Luoyang Army left behind in the Eastern Capital, the Xuanwu-Huaixi Army in Songzhou, and the Lubei Army in Jeju, Yunzhou, and Caozhou, totaling about 150,000 imperial soldiers and horses, constituted a counter-encirclement of the rebels in terms of posture.

Expand your eyes from Bianzhou and Henan Province.

To the north of the river, more than 200,000 rebels Chen Bing Hebei, under the cities of Cangzhou and Jingzhou, threatened Hedong, Hezhong, Lubei, and Jiaodong while preparing to go south to participate in the Bianzhou War.

In addition, there are 100,000 Lulong troops in Liaoxi and Liaodong, and hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses composed of border people in Liaodong, Silla, Baekje, Goguryeo, and island countries, which are also a huge threat to the Tang Dynasty.

To the west of Chang'an, at least 500,000 Tibetan troops were engaged in a large-scale confrontation with the long national border stretching from Shuofang in the north, through Longyou and Jianbei, and to Jiannan and Guizhou in the south.

Hebei, Liaodong, and Tubo, thus forming a flank attack on the Tang Dynasty on the east and west fronts.

On the periphery of the Hebei rebels, the four towns of Zhenwu, Hedong, Hezhong, and Zhaoyi took over Zuo Wuwei in Cangzhou, Jingzhou, and Dezhou in Hebei, as well as the Hebei Army led by Li Yu in Cangzhou, which had passed through Liaoxi and entered Liaodong in the north......

In Zhiyun Valley, a well-known old fox in Mobei, according to the orders of Emperor Li Yu, Emperor Li Chun, and Li Xuan, the eldest princess of Yan Kingdom, he had led nearly 100,000 Uighur cavalry westward.

Far away in Qiuzi, after receiving a steady stream of support from the Central Plains and from the Princess's Mansion in Dunhuang, to be precise, the Tubo people took advantage of the opportunity to transfer troops to the west, and began to desperately insert fine work in the Western Regions, bribing the remaining Tubo officials, generals, and nobles.

The Uighurs, Anxi, and the forces directly under the Tang Dynasty and the pro-court feudal towns surrounded the Hebei rebels and the Tibetans to a certain extent.

In Guo Rong's words, the entire Tang Dynasty, now with Bianzhou City as the core, has become a pot of porridge, Datang vs Tubo, Hebei rebel alliance, who can have the last laugh depends on the victory or defeat under Bianzhou City.

Rao has grown a lot after five years of tempering, and even played an impressive record of four battles and four victories in Jiaodong, but after hearing Guo Rong's complete story before leaving Caozhou, Mo Ling was extremely confused.

Guo Rong clearly told him that Anxi was still there, and after Anxi was still recovering, he finally determined the open secret that had been circulating in the Changying Army for a long time, Guo Rong came from the Anxi Army, which was once the pride of the Tang Dynasty!

Moreover, from Guo Rong's past words and Guo Rong's consciousness, Mo Ling can conclude that everything Guo Rong did was for the Anxi Army!

Mo Ling didn't know what others would think, but he, Wang Zheng, Degang, and Yu Qian were all orphans who were adopted by Lu Kang of the former Beiting Military Academy.

Under the influence of Lu Kang's ears and eyes, in Mo Lingjun's hearts, the original respect and trust for Guo Rong has now directly turned into worship and admiration.

Of course, more importantly, after Guo Rong's detailed analysis, Mo Lingjun better understood the essence of Guo Rong's task assigned to him.

Even if the Changying army is elite, even if it has the ability to reach the sky, it is impossible to annihilate the 400,000 elite Hebei rebels in one battle, so it is necessary to make the rebels gathered under the city of Bianzhou be separated again.

Therefore, Guo Rong's real mission to Mo Lingjun is actually only one, to attract as many rebels as possible to the east!

For them, the more rebels they attract, the more likely they are to win a true team battle in this epic battle.

Mo Lingjun began to think in his heart......

The total number of rebels crossing the river was roughly 400,000.

Today's own attacks and counterattacks have killed at least 10,000 rebels.

The strength of the rebels to initially extend their defenses in three directions combined was roughly 40,000 to 50,000, plus 50,000 in pursuit.

In other words, everything went well, and when the main force of Guo Rong's troops arrived, the rebels facing under Bianzhou City might still be as high as 300,000.

Considering that in order to avoid a sneak attack by the defenders of Bianzhou, the rebels need to look at some of the rebels guarding against Bianzhou City, and the probability that the Changying army will face the enemy will still exceed 200,000, or even 250,000.

200,000 to 250,000, although the upper limit of the Changying Army's response has been touched, but the ghost knows how many living people will be left in the Changying Army after the fight.

"300,000 is still too much, this number is still too much!"

"Mo Tou'er, what you said is too much."

"I said that there are too many rebels left under the city of Bianzhou, and if you continue to resist, I don't know how many brothers we will die!"

Mo Lingjun didn't expect that his words made Wang Zheng's expression go down directly, and just when Mo Lingjun looked confused, Wang Zheng put his hand in his backpack.

"Ding Lingdang!"

A whole handful of black was taken out by Wang Zheng and placed directly on a few eucalyptus in front of Mo Lingjun.

Mo Lingjun naturally knows this thing, this is a famous brand that every Changyingjun will have, from the beginning of bringing this thing, everyone will treat it as a treasure and place it close to their body, there is only one possibility for these things to leave their bodies, that is, these people have died in battle.

Looking at the famous brand like a hill in front of him, Mo Lingjun also looked solemn.

"How many people are there?"

"Sixty-four were killed."

Mo Lingjun nodded, took out a black rucksack from the back, and began to carefully straighten out each nameplate, and then put these nameplates in, waiting until the full sixty-four nameplates were all put in.

"I think only 50,000 rebels are too few to satisfy our appetite, so I want to play a big ticket, what do you think?"

"Die of the bold, starve the cowardly, doesn't godfather often say that!"

Hearing these words from Wang Zheng's mouth, Mo Lingjun remembered his godfather who seemed to be loyal and honest, but was extremely obscene, cunning, and fierce in nature, trying to restore the glory of the former Anxi and Beiting armies - Lu Kang, the former captain of the Beiting Army.

Thinking about the style of that old man, Mo Lingjun and Wang Zheng looked at each other and smiled, in the words of the old man in their own house, they didn't know what death was since they crawled out of the pile of dead people under Tingzhou City!

However, after smiling, he looked at the bag full of nameplates in front of him again, and Mo Lingjun's expression became solemn again.

"Brothers, are they all arranged?"

"You should be able to bring them back before dawn!"

"Let's do it here, let the engineer platoon settle down, mark it, and take the rebels back to Guanzhong when they are cleaned up."

"Okay, I'll go tell the sappers!"

"No need, I'll arrange it, you hurry up and rest for a while, I have important arrangements after an hour, you have to do it."

Hearing that there was an important task, Wang Zheng nodded and walked out of the military tent leisurely, while Mo Lingjun turned his gaze to the three people who had been waiting in the military tent for a while, Guo Zheng, and the two Changying Military Academy Pei Song and Ouyang Liang.

In fact, the three of them had already arrived when Wang Zheng reported the reconnaissance information to Mo Lingjun, but Mo Lingjun did not let them leave or avoid it.

In Mo Lingjun's opinion, it is beneficial to let these three listen to it, after all, Guo Rong will never deliberately create secrets in the camp, and trust and information are far more valuable than hiding.

"Guo Zheng!"

"In!"

"Chang Wanchao seems to have woken up."

"Yes, Mo Zhonglang, after Chang Wanchao woke up, Doctor Liu had already summoned me as soon as he woke up."

"Remember what I said earlier?" 、

"Remember!"

"Well, just remember, I'm going to ask you one last time today, do you dare to take risks?"

"I ......"

"Don't worry, I don't just want you to dare, but I also need you to dare to guarantee completion, if you refuse now, I won't blame you, but if you fail because of stubbornness, think about it again, and give me an answer later!"

"Pei Song!"

"The last general!"

"Is the costume change complete?"

"The 148 people of the whole company have all replaced the equipment and armor of the Hebei rebels."

"Well, the Yulin Army has already set up camp with the Emperor Taishang Xihunting, and Brother Ling is accompanying him as the chief of staff of the Yulin Army, do you know?"

"I know, the general told me alone before I set out."

"Well, this time the risk is greater than the risk of being stationed in Chencang, don't be in a hurry to refute, you also think about it, in case your brother has an accident, you are the only seedling, you also have a chance to refuse, think about it carefully."

"Ouyang Liang!"

"The last general!"

"If Liu Sima (Liu Yuxi) is right with me, you should be ......"

"Zhonglang General, the last general is not afraid of death, Zhonglang will ask once is not afraid, ask a hundred times is not afraid, the last general is not afraid of death, only afraid of insulting the name of the great ancestor, and hope that Zhonglang will not speak!"

Looking at Ouyang Liang, who had learned to answer, Mo Lingjun smiled awkwardly, and took the opened letter from a few eucalyptus and handed it to Ouyang Liang.

"This, Captain Ouyang...... Hey, here's the thing, the Emperor Xijia had left a message for the Changying Army before, asking the general to select the person who painted the iron and silver hook from the army to write it. ”

"The general heard Han Changshi and Liu Sima say that your calligraphy has the demeanor of the ancestor Ouyang Xun and the great-ancestor Ouyang Tong, and you can be called the first person in the forbidden army, so the general wants to entrust Captain Ouyang to write on his behalf, originally I wanted to dissuade it, but since Captain Ouyang has already answered, I will no longer dissuade it, I only hope that Captain Ouyang will pay attention to safety."

Ouyang Liang looked stunned, and then took Guo Rong's letter from Mo Lingjun's hand, and seeing the crooked font on it, Ouyang Liang was sure that this was Guo Rong's font.

Guo Rong's letter was not long, but seeing the words of the Emperor Taishang, Ouyang Liang became extremely excited and excited.

"Please rest assured, please rest assured, please rest assured, Ouyang Liang will definitely do his best and return with his whole body!"

"Captain Ouyang has already made up his mind, what about you?"

"Mo Zhonglang, I believe in my brother, and I also believe in myself!"

"Please rest assured that Mo Zhonglang is already full of confidence and will definitely be able to complete the entrustment and return triumphantly."

"Well, since the three of you have made up your mind, then I'll talk more nonsense."

"First, this trip is mainly based on Guo Zheng, Pei Song and Ouyang Liang are assisted, second, the number of people is reduced, from five hundred to fifty, how to distribute the personnel The three of you decide, third, the responsibility is heavy, the danger is abnormal, do not be cautious."

"I will ask Wang Zheng to lead people to cooperate with you, give you the last hour to prepare, and set off after an hour, and you must dare to arrive before dawn."

"Obey!"

With that, the three of them left in a hurry, and Wang Zheng was called in front of him by Mo Lingjun.

After explaining the task, Wang Zheng inadvertently saw the letter with the iconic Guo Rong font on several eucalyptus, and saw that Mo Ling didn't react and picked it up directly, and then he saw what the Emperor Taishang wrote for Changyingjun.

"Changying went west to the point of no return, and swore to pass on the good news to Chang'an!"