In mid-November, a cold snap hit.

The weather suddenly became a lot colder, although there were no snowflakes fluttering, the north wind was bleak, and the world was vast, but the grass and trees along the way withered, and the frost on the ground was all over the place, which was already a sign of winter.

To be honest, marching and fighting in such weather is a very painful thing.

That is to say, Chengdu Mansion is located in the southwest hinterland, and most of the soldiers in the camp are from the north.

Li Sheng naturally knew about this situation, but there was no way, the Tubo people were on the plateau all the year round, and they could not adapt to the climate of the inland in spring and summer.

Otherwise, how could there be the birth of anti-autumn soldiers?

But then again, there is also an advantage to marching and fighting in winter, at least the soldiers do not have to worry about contracting the disease.

Guo Ying, as usual, stayed in the camp in the morning to preside over military affairs, followed Li Sheng to learn the way of governing the army in the afternoon, discussed the art of war and military aircraft with his generals in the evening, and patrolled the camp every one or two days.

Patrolling the camp is naturally to patrol the military tents of ordinary soldiers.

Although Guo Ying did not share food and clothing with the soldiers like Wu Qi, lay down without a seat, and did not ride, he still tried his best to worry about the worries of the soldiers and the injuries of the soldiers, and paid great attention to the material and spiritual care of the soldiers under his command.

Whatever is issued by the imperial court, he does not take a penny.

After a long time, the sergeants also had a great change in their opinion of this young commander.

Born in a general, strong in martial arts, noble status, but no arrogance; Although he is young, he is decisive and has a lot of rules in the use of soldiers; And he is fair and never favoritism; What's even more rare is that the soldiers below are also laughing and smiling, and there is no arrogance at all.

This made them have a very good impression of the new little general, although they are not willing to talk about being brave, but they are also willing to do the work of dogs and horses.

And because Guo Ying often rides white horses, the sergeant gave him a new nickname in private-General White Horse!

When Guo Ying heard this, he couldn't cry or laugh, and said in his heart that the name of General White Horse was ominous, and I didn't dare to wear it.

There are two people who are known as White Horse Generals in history, one is Gongsun Zhan, who was defeated and self-immolated; One was Pound, who was martyred.

He didn't want to follow in the footsteps of these two.

However, as soon as this title came out, it spread in the army, and even the Shannan soldiers and Dongchuan soldiers knew that there was such a number one person in the army.

Of course, this is not a bad thing, on the contrary, Guo Ying's fame has become more and more significant after this incident.

In fact, fame is not only for literati, but also for military generals, Guo Ziyi rode back to Su is an example, and the road to Paris of the Corsican monster in later generations is even more legendary.

So for this title, Guo Ying could only choose to accept it in the end.

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After patrolling the camp, Guo Ying returned to his own military tent, and all the generals under his command were all there, eating dinner, but the atmosphere was not right.

Hao Jue scolded again.

"This Chengdu Mansion Yin is not a thing, Jianzhou, Mianzhou, Hanzhou along the way into Shu, all the way are Hu cakes, soup cakes, rice dishes for us to eat and drink, every day or two can also see a meat, partial to Chengdu, suddenly to us to eat this moldy corn......

Although we didn't come to Chengdu to make a target, the eight Qiang tribes and tens of thousands of soldiers and horses of the Tubo Middle Route Army, known as the Eight Kingdoms of the West Mountain, weren't they afraid of us and fled? ”

As Hao Jue said, it was surprisingly simple for the camp army to relieve the siege of Chengdu, and as soon as the Tang army's forward scouts arrived, the Qiang tribesmen who had looted in the counties of Chengdu withdrew from Guankou and returned to their old nest, Jinchuan.

Jinchuan, that is, on the western plateau of Sichuan in the later generations, the old dog spent 70 million taels of silver and fought for seven years to get the big and small Jinchuan, with many lofty mountains and mountains, and the terrain was dangerous and abnormal, and the Tang army had no idea of pursuing and attacking them.

Only Quhuan led the Dongchuan soldiers to recover Victoria and Maozhou, which had been captured by them before.

It is said that the Northern Tubo Route Army and the Middle Route Army both left, and the marching army was to march south day and night to break the last line of troops and horses of the Tubo Southern Zhao Coalition Army, but for some reason, Li Sheng did not order the army to march to Linqiong City, which was attacking two hundred miles away.

Combined with the Chengdu Mansion's rather contemptuous attitude towards the army, Guo Ying felt that there might be something wrong here.

But Li Sheng didn't say it, and he didn't want to ask blatantly, after all, in the eyes of others, there was still respect and humility.

Hearing Hao Jue's complaint, Guo Ying shook his head and smiled: "Chengdu Mansion Yin is the marshal Dr. Zhang, who has just arrived, and he is a newcomer, and it is estimated that the military and political affairs are all decided by the military leaders of the Xichuan Army, do you blame him for having a fart?" ”

The current Xichuan Festival envoy is Wei Gao's father-in-law Zhang Yansheng, Guo Ying was afraid that Hao Xuan would be unobtrusive and say something that would make Wei Gao's face unbearable, so he hurriedly interrupted his complaints.

After all, even if Wei Gao is at odds with his father-in-law, it is always a bit inappropriate to say that his father-in-law is not in front of others.

Hao Jue reacted, and his old face turned red and sneered: "I forgot Brother Wei, you are the son-in-law of Dr. Zhang, but if you really say this according to the ten generals, these thieves of the Xishan Army are also hateful, and they let us eat moldy rice, what is this, is it a horse?" ”

"It's really a dismount." Wei Gao took over the conversation like a nobody, and said lightly: "I heard that the imperial court plans to leave the 4,000 Shence army brought by Li Du in Xichuan after defeating the Tubo Nanzhao coalition army, Yongzhen Xichuan, and pacify the Shu soldiers and Shu generals, which is equivalent to hanging a knife on the head of the Xishan army, ready to cut off their heads at any time, and this group of army leaders is naturally not happy." ”

"This ......" Guo Ying was a little surprised when she heard this, and hurriedly asked, "Where did you get the news?" ”

"My in-law took office with my father-in-law, and she was also in Chengdu, and when I made an appointment to meet her yesterday, she mentioned a few words in passing."

Grass!

Before the battle is fought, friendly forces are about to turn into enemy forces!

Guo Yingchang sighed and said thoughtfully: "So, Li will order the army to stop in Chengdu, is he afraid that the Xichuan army will cause chaos?" ”

"It's almost inseparable, everyone knows that the Xichuan Army is good at making trouble, in the past twenty years, Chengdu doesn't know how many times it has changed hands in the hands of these martial artists, if you want to say that Li will not be wary of the Xishan Army, who believes it......"

"Then according to Brother Wei, what do you mean next, where should our camp army go next, we can't really stay in Chengdu, delay it, and sit and watch the fall of Qiongzhou just a stone's throw away, right?"

"Where the camp army will go, that's what Li will consider, when will it be my turn to worry about it." Wei Gao replied with a smile: "But since you are asking me, then I will dare to say a few words." ”

"That's right, why teach me?" Guo Ying gave up his hand and humbly asked for advice.

"Gao has three strategies, I don't know which one the general wants to listen to?"

Recently, the army has been bored, Guo Ying talked about the storytelling with a bad taste, and told everyone about the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", and the way of saying in the romance has also been learned by the generals, Wei Gao especially likes to imitate Zhuge Liang's way of speaking.

makes Guo Ying often cry and laugh, and at this moment, seeing Wei Gao come to this set again, it is no longer strange.

"Let's talk about it first."

"The best strategy is simple, kill those generals who have made the most trouble, Jiannan Zi'an, we have 20,000 elite soldiers, and I'm afraid that if we can't suppress the Xichuan army that will only kill Xiangzi?"

After Wei Gao finished speaking, all the generals laughed in unison.

The Xichuan army is indeed unbearable, not to mention the mediocre combat power, just like to loot the hometown is enough for the whole world to laugh at the feudal towns, and the three towns of Heshuo can't do this kind of thing.

And the integrity is not very good, as evidenced by the fact that "140,000 people were disarmed, and none of them were men" in later generations.

However, Guo Ying frowned and shook his head, pouring cold water on Wei Gao's best strategy.

"Li will be loyal and prudent, and he can't do anything like Li Huaiguang who kills generals without restraint."

"This is not necessarily, Li General is not the loyal and dignified side that Guo Shi will see." Wei Gao said meaningfully.

Well, this was said a bit harshly, Li Xun was in front again, and Guo Ying didn't dare to answer at all.

But think about it, Li Shengrong is half a horse, and when he was the envoy of the soldiers and horses of the capital, he once let the festival make the horse like a man's back, how could it be as it seems on the surface, a loyal elder?

"Where's the middle strategy?" Guo Ying changed the subject.

"What's the middle strategy...... It's also simple, but Li will pay a little price. ”

"How?"

"If Li will be willing to give up one or two sons and daughters, and make an agreement with the head of the army in Xichuan on the marriage between his children, I believe he will be able to settle down."

Guo Ying was slightly stunned, then glanced at Li Xun and said with a smile: "Brother Wei, you have this idea...... That's it, let's talk about the next step. ”

"The next strategy is to leave troops and horses to guard the Xichuan Army or wait for General Qu to lead the Dongchuan Army back, then we will have to prepare for a tough battle.

I heard that the Southern Route Coalition Army entered the Koujian Southern Army on the third route with the widest number of troops, and there were 100,000 soldiers of Nanzhao alone, even if they were all rabble, it was not easy to deal with. ”

Guo Ying was silent.

Although the sense of existence of Nanzhao is not necessarily strong, it has also had a great victory that caused the Tang Dynasty to lose 200,000 teachers, which should not be underestimated.

"Let's see Li Du's decision."

After thinking for a while, Guo Ying sighed, it was useless for him to be entangled, the key was to depend on Li Sheng's decision.

Maybe he had a better idea.