Tang Tianfang couldn't help it, he was still at the same level as him yesterday, and now King Huai let him take on the important task of commanding all the armies, and he couldn't be too official.

Tang Tianfang was very generous this time, and directly allocated 50,000 troops to the former army, so that he must tie the hole when the ebony tribe retreated to the big meadow, which is related to whether the goal of King Huai can be completed in this war.

He is now wealthy, and now he has gathered nearly 200,000 troops here, as well as a thousand new chariots and 5,000 transports.

The morale of the soldiers is also sufficient, and they are stimulated by the thorns, of course, King Huai is also ruthless, as long as these thorn cavalry are strangled, the heads of the low-level soldiers will be upgraded to one level, and the soldiers will blow up when they hear it, what do you use to cheer up!

King Huai had already explained to Tang Tianfang that General Yang Peimin would lead the Wuwei army to return immediately to prevent a situation like the one that had been annexed.

And General Li Yan took almost all of the Wumeng army away, and his goal was to merge the state, and the task was to stabilize the situation and prevent the other thorn army from attacking again.

Left to him were 150,000 Yulin border troops, 30,000 Miao soldiers and 30,000 wolf soldiers.

Tang Tianfang was also afraid that Liu Xiaochun would go crazy, so he still told a few words, if you face the team of flower thorns, you can't fight hard, just block them, of course, if it is a small group of cavalry, it is best to prevent the news from leaking.

Liu Xiaochun was full of promises, but as soon as he set off, he didn't think about it so much, with so many troops, just do it!

So when he quickly arrived in the middle of the Great Meadow, he told the horse that the Ebony Front Army had just entered the Great Meadow.

He wasn't in a hurry, he was really afraid that the ebony people would run away, and it was good to know that they were still there.

He estimated the time, carefully studied the map at hand, and asked Tanma to explore the surrounding terrain for dozens of miles.

The battle for more than ten years has not been fought in vain, and he is not the kind of brainless martial artist, how to fight the enemy, he still needs strategy.

On the evening of 17 June, they happily rushed to the center of the meadow, and after taking a bath and eating and drinking, the 30,000 flower thorn cavalry was attacked by Liu Xiaochun in his sleep.

The entire ebony striker of 30,000 people can't organize a decent team at all, and in such a situation, even if the ebony people are very capable of individual soldiers, no armor, no teammates, and some don't even have horses, how to fight, more one-sided slaughter.

Although after this battle, Liu Xiaochun's achievements were offset and he did not get any practical benefits, but this battle has become a relatively classic case, and it has also become the capital that Liu Xiaochun has been boasting about for decades to come.

The reason why he was not beheaded by King Huai was that he had to thank Tang Tianfang.

Although Liu Xiaochun was given the opportunity to strike, he knew Liu Xiaochun too well, for fear of smashing the fragrant meal.

He also successively appointed two generals to lead 30,000 soldiers to echo from both wings, and surrounded the second group of 30,000 ebony men at a distance of 100 miles from the ebony advance army.

Before Ebony Lei Zhen could react, the chariot army led by Yang Huaide arrived, and together with the Miao soldiers and the wolf soldiers, 100,000 horses had formed a large circle of nearly 100 miles, tightly besieging the 20,000 people of the most elite pro-army in the middle.

I have to admit that Liu Xiaochun's opportunity to seize the fighter plane is very accurate, in a different environment, 50,000 people against 30,000 people, a vicious battle is unavoidable, and if it is not done well, the Great Xia Army may suffer a big loss.

That is, the thorns were completely defenseless, and in the dark night, the thorns were tired from afar to have this great victory.

The second group of 60,000 border troops surrounded 30,000 ebony people, there was no surprise attack, not to mention that the ebony people were on guard, this part of the ebony people was vigorous, and the materials were also fully prepared, as soon as they came up, the two sides became a scorching battle.

Youzhou General's Mansion

The general of the Youzhou border army has been Liang De'an, the prince of Yanguo, for many years, this is a veteran of a hundred battles, it can be said that Youzhou has been able to maintain the current stable situation for decades, and the old general has a lot of credit.

So now not only is the Youzhou Army under the direct command of the old general, but even the Ningzhou Army is under the command of the old general.

Of course, it is precisely because the old general is old that the control of the passes below has been slightly relaxed in the past two years, and it is generally directly handed over to the local generals and captains for management.

In addition, the alien races in the north are hindered by the strong soldiers in Youzhou City, which is difficult to attack, and the large-scale battles in Youzhou have gradually decreased in recent years, and many middle and lower-level officers have begun to relax their vigilance, and some have even started business with Guanwai.

The reason for the surprise attack on the annexed prefectures this time has a great deal to do with the slackening of armaments at the border gates and the lowering of the vigilance of officers and men.

Yan Guogong has not only been irritable and angry in the past two days, but even his voice has become a little hoarse, and his speech is not very clear.

As early as three years ago, he submitted an official document to the court to resign and return to Beijing.

It wasn't because of the urgency of the war in Longzhou at that time, and more energy in the court was involved, and there was no way to draw out two generals at once, and the generals were changed here in Youzhou.

After receiving the official document from the prefect of Bingzhou, Yan Guogong was very anxious, and he really didn't expect that this time the Flower Thorn Man would go around nearly a thousand miles and attack directly from the side pass.

He can now use less than 30,000 troops in his hands, Ningzhou is not able to move, and now he hears the news, Liaojing is about to move, and the old general has been busy with things over there in the early stage.

The old general regretted it a little, he thought that as long as King Huai arrived in Longzhou, relatively speaking, the thorn would not be able to jump for a few days.

The court has gathered nearly 500,000 troops, and there are so many generals, the king of Huai personally commands, if the thorn is smart, he will retreat directly to the north of the desert, and maybe he can still have a little way to live.

The thorn trapped beast was still fighting, and he didn't dare to fight against King Huai, so he actually rushed to the boundary of Youzhou, and suddenly put himself in a very disadvantageous situation.

He didn't know how the court would arrange it, and what he urgently needed now was to stabilize the state first, and he could only draw the fastest light armored cavalry in Youzhou, which was also the last hole card in his hand.

"Someone, go and invite General Gao Zhen to come," the old general hurriedly ordered.

After a while, a middle-aged general with a sturdy figure entered the Great General's Mansion.

"The last general has seen the general," the general in the Youzhou army generally refers to Yan Guogong as the general.

"General Gao, please sit down, this time the trouble is a bit big, and General Gao needs to work hard."

The old general was not polite, he knew that the news had spread almost in the entire Youzhou now.

"Although the general commands, the last general will definitely live up to his trust," Gao Zhen hugged his fists and chest.

Gao Zhen, a descendant of Gao Huaide, the Duke of Ji in the early Song Dynasty, served in the border army from the age of 18 after the founding of the Great Xia, and successively served in the Ningzhou Army and the Youzhou Army.

From the four-rank general to the current first-grade general, Xining was awarded the title of Huaiyuan Bo, Huaiyuan General in the fifth year of the Holy Gift, and he is also the general candidate of the Youzhou border army recommended by Yan Guogong.

"General Gao, please see, from Youzhou to Daizhou, eight hundred miles, if your light cavalry can be one person and two horses, at most three days, you can reach Daizhou. The Thorn people left when they left, but the people of Bingzhou couldn't be kidnapped by them, so I gave you all the 20,000 light horsemen in Youzhou, not to ask you to fight hard with the Thorn people, and try every way to save the people back, even if it was half. ”

"General Gao, I have urgently notified Bingzhou for eight hundred miles, so that all the garrisons on the side of Bingzhou are under your command, and at the same time, let them quickly rush to the side pass, and strive to plug this gap, what do you think is needed?"

The old general knew Gao Zhen's habit of doing things, watched him keep comparing and drawing on the map, and also told him his arrangement.

"General, give me a day, and the morning after tomorrow at the latest, I will lead my troops to set off."

Gao Zhen is also a very refreshing martial artist, and the key at this time is time.

"Okay, I'll let the armament cooperate with you," the old general stared at Gao Zhen for a while, "Gao Zhen, don't worry about doing it boldly, if anything goes wrong, I, the general of Youzhou, will carry it, Yan Guogong will carry it, you just do your own thing......"

When the words came to his lips, the old general stopped again, he originally wanted to say that Gao Zhen would rest assured, and then he would do a good job of taking over his position as a general, but he didn't want to put pressure on him at this time, for fear that he would have the heart to win.

Watching Gao Zhen go out to assemble light horses, the old general sighed and picked up the letter of guilt to the saint on the table, which was not only a letter of guilt, but also a letter recommending Gao Zhen to be the general of Youzhou.

The Chaer tribe Bigalo Khan was overjoyed when he looked at the full supplies in the Yingzhou treasury, this time he really made a lot of money, not to mention the grain and cloth, the weapons alone can equip tens of thousands of people, and the Chaar tribe can completely dominate the grassland with these materials.

This time from the clouds to the south, Picarro did not expect it to be so smooth. It took 3,000 men to encircle and kill all the nearly 800 border troops stationed in the clouds and the pass.

In the middle of the clouds, Tie Liguo personally led 10,000 light cavalry to directly attack Yingzhou, a hundred miles away, and at the same time, in order to prevent the defenders of Yunzhou from attacking, he left 30,000 cavalry outside Yunzhou City.

As the rear base of Yunzhou, Yingzhou has always been a turnover place for armaments and materials, and the materials transported from Jingzhou and Tanzhou are generally distributed in Yingzhou, where 5,000 border troops are stationed and led by a school captain.

Chen Anguo, the captain of Yingzhou, was less than 30 years old, and as a peasant child without any background, it was very difficult for him to grow from a pawn to a captain with 5,000 soldiers.

Of course, there is still a difference between this captain and the captain of the border army who officially fights, although his men are 5,000 men, but in real battles, they still can't beat the regular border troops of the previous battalion.

Chen Anguo was the first to follow Huaiyuan General Gao Zhen, who had been in the border army for seven years, and had experienced a lot of large and small battles, and was stabbed in the right chest in a battle three years ago, and he had been cultivating for more than half a year.

After recovering from his injury, Gao Zhen thought that he was not suitable for fighting in the border army for the time being, so he asked him to be in charge of logistics and military affairs in Yingzhou.

Chen Anguo's battle for so many years was really not in vain, and the Iron Ploughbone Pioneer only arrived twenty miles away from Yunzhou, and was discovered by the exploration horse arranged by Chen Anguo.

This is his habit, ordinary generals would never have imagined that Yingzhou behind Yunzhou would be attacked, and besides, the thousands of people here in Yingzhou are not troops that can fight against the enemy.