The closest road to the Liangzhou Tang Army's camp is the North Route Army of the coalition army, which has conquered Baiba City, the easternmost part of the Wenzhou Prefecture, and is only twenty or thirty miles away from Lizhou under the rule of Shannan West Road.

Of course.

It is a matter of course that the soldiers and horses in Tubo are like bamboos, and there are only more than 1,000 households in Wenzhou, and there are no soldiers and horses stationed in Wenzhou, and the fall of the state border is only a matter of a moment.

It was only after the army marched from Liangzhou to Lizhou that it was discovered that after the Tubo army conquered Wenzhou, it did not take the Yinping Trail and go straight to Hanzhou in Mianzhou, as the generals initially expected, and joined the army on the road to take Chengdu together, but stayed in place, delayed and did not advance, as the generals initially expected.

"He has reinforcements, don't we? Tell Li Shuming of Dongchuan Jiedu that Jiangyou doesn't need him to guard it, and all the soldiers and horses will be transferred to Lizhou for me. Li Sheng is still full of confidence.

"What about us?" Quhuan hesitated for a moment and asked.

"It's nothing more than a typing, crossing the river tomorrow and going straight to Wenzhou."

Li Sheng's eyes were blazing, looking north at Wenzhou.

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The river in Li Sheng's mouth refers to the Jiamengshui (now Bailongjiang), a tributary of the Jialing River.

The water of this river is clear and cold, and the blue waves are sparkling from afar, like a giant dragon lying there, as if watching the movement on the bank of the river.

On October 22, the army set out from Yichang County, Lizhou, to Jinggu County, a small county along the Jiameng River, and requisitioned more than 1,000 people to build a pontoon bridge together with the soldiers.

The width of the Jiameng Waterscape Valley section is about ten zhang, the bridge is very easy to erect, the amount of work is not large, less than two hours, a pontoon bridge that can be crossed by tens of thousands of troops has been erected.

Li Sheng verbally commended the conscripted people, and said that he would report their righteous deeds of helping Wang Shi cross the river to the Son of Heaven, and ask the Son of Heaven to reduce their taxes.

Guo Ying didn't know if he was casual or sincere, but seeing the cheering appearance of the people, he also had a different opinion on Li Sheng.

At least, he's not the kind of famous general who can only fight.

Subsequently, Li Sheng arranged for 1,000 Shence soldiers to guard the pontoon bridges on both sides of the strait, and personally led the remaining nearly 20,000 horses to cross the Jiameng River.

There is a saying that there are more than 1,000 men and horses, and there are more than 10,000 people and horses, and there are no boundaries, not to mention 20,000 soldiers and horses, plus a huge amount of ordnance, grain and grass, just crossing the river will take many hours.

Fortunately, Li Sheng commanded the army in a good way, and there was no chaos in the process of crossing the river.

This also gave Guo Ying a more intuitive feeling of marching and fighting, the 20,000 army still stretches for miles, and there are many affairs, what about 50,000, 100,000, 200,000?

From this point of view, Han Xin's statement that Liu Bangke would have 100,000 soldiers really did not mean to demean him.

Since ancient times, 100,000 soldiers have been able to kill the enemy back and forth, and how many people are there?

Guo Ying asked himself, he didn't have the ability, and now 800 people is his limit.

Of course, in this era, famous generals are basically fought, and if they fight more battles and accumulate enough combat experience, they will slowly become stronger, rather than overnight, just like Gao Xianzhi, Xue Rengui and so on.

It's just that many people didn't become famous generals, and they died halfway through, becoming one of the ten thousand dry bones in "One Will Become Famous and Ten Thousand Bones Withered".

Guo Ying hopes that she is not such an ending.

After crossing the Bailong River, the army stopped advancing and honestly camped to rest.

With the tired soldiers who had been marching for days against the Tubo army, Li Sheng could not make such a reckless decision.

But the generals certainly can't be like the soldiers, and they don't want to fall asleep with their heads down.

The movement of the army crossing the river must not be hidden from the ears and eyes of the Tubo people, and it was expected that there would be a tentative attack on both sides tomorrow and the day after tomorrow at the latest, so Li Sheng once again beat the drum and gathered the generals.

Without the process of discussion among the generals, this time Li Sheng chose to be arbitrary, did not give the generals a chance to speak, and directly arranged specific combat tasks for everyone.

The army is still divided into the front, the middle and the rear according to the custom.

Han Min and his 3,000 Youzhou soldiers served as the vanguard, responsible for sweeping away the scouts and rangers arranged by the Tubo army along the way, making the battlefield situation tend to be one-way transparent.

The Chinese army was led by Li Sheng himself, and the 3,000 Shence army plus Jingyuan, Suining, Fengxiang, and Xianghan soldiers, a total of 6,800 people, this is the main force of the army, and it is also the elite of each town, and it must bear the heavy responsibility of meeting the enemy head-on.

The rear army is 10,000 soldiers and horses in Shannan West Road, commanded by Quhuan and Zhang Xianfu, the general of this road, the responsibility of these 10,000 soldiers and horses is not good to be directly determined, the key is to see whether the vanguard and the Chinese army are victorious or defeated, and the commander of the rear army will make his own decisions after observing the battlefield situation.

Quhuan is a veteran, who has fought for more than 20 years, has rich experience, and is very keen in judging the battle situation, and he is very relieved to hand over the rear army to Li Sheng, who is under his command.

After the arrangements were made and the sentinels were dispatched, Li Sheng sent the generals back to their respective camps.

Guo Ying didn't sleep, and then gathered the generals under his command.

"But it's time to take over, ten generals?" Hao Yu rubbed his hands excitedly.

Although the generals also call him a general in private on weekdays, on this occasion where the army gathers, everyone still restrained himself a little and called him ten generals.

After all, Li Sheng is also a head.

"Isn't this lice on the bald head?" Guo Ying bowed slightly.

Hearing this, Hao Yu shouted arrogantly: "His grandmother's, from Jingzhou to Fengxiang, and then from Fengxiang to Liangzhou, and from Liangzhou to Lizhou, along the way, he was in a hurry, and he was already in a panic, and he will definitely kill seven or eight of him tomorrow, and catch two more skeletons to relieve the hatred in my heart." ”

Hao Jue spoke impassionedly, but the audience would have a black line on his face.

Kill it, kill it, what are you doing to remove the skeleton?

The corners of Guo Ying's mouth twitched, and he said in his heart that he was really right to give him that brave and less worried evaluation, but after thinking about it, in history, Wei Chi Gong, Dian Wei, Xu Chu, and Fan Xu...... and other fierce people seem to be the same character.

That's it, let him go.

I only hope that he can inherit Zhang Fei's wisdom and strategy, and don't really treat himself as a pawn.

"I actually don't have anything to say, what I listen to Li will be when I go into battle, I will call us left, we will be left, we will be called right, we will be right.

But my ugly words are ahead, if anyone dares to turn back and retreat on the battlefield, disturb the morale of the army, and break the military formation, he will definitely not be spared. ”

The big war is about to start, Guo Ying inevitably has a little hesitation in her heart, but she doesn't know what to do, so she has to reiterate the military law.

The generals got up one after another.

Seeing this, Guo Ying breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, waved his hand and ordered everyone to disperse, and left the ten generals Duan Cheng who commanded the foot soldiers assigned by Feng Heqing to him.

After all, Wenzhou is a place with high mountains and dense forests, rivers and rivers, and it is inconvenient for the cavalry to perform, and most of the two armies are going to fight with foot soldiers, and Duan Chengzhi and the foot soldiers under his command are very important to Guo Ying.

……

And almost at the same time, the chief general of the Northern Tubo Route Army, the veteran General Ron Wai Zang, also received the news that the Tang Army had crossed the Jiameng Water.

The big war is about to break out.