"What is Li Maoxun's letter saying?" Li Zhen couldn't help but feel curious after seeing Li Jing's letter that he had just been sent. Could it be that Li Maoxun surrendered? But even so, it is not worth laughing at the county government.

"Look at it yourself, this Li Maoxun is really interesting." Li Jing chuckled and handed the letter to Li Zhen, with a smile on his lips, but the smile had turned into a sarcasm at this time. "This Li Maoxun was crying to me in the letter, saying that the mice in the Youzhou warehouse were starved to death. He also said that last time we robbed tens of millions of stakes of money from Youzhou and plundered 100,000 young and strong Youzhou, which made him very attacked by the soldiers and the people in Youzhou. He also said that he didn't want us to return the snatched money, just to offset the one million dollars."

After reading the letter at this time, Li Zhen couldn't help but laugh, pointing to the letter paper and said, "This Li Maoxun is really interesting. He wants to marry his daughter to the county magistrate. You see what he wrote, and he always praised his daughter Nian Fang for being a beautiful girl. He had a good idea and wanted to be the princess's Taishan Grand Priest."

"This is a cunning person, so you should be careful and be careful. In the letter, he said that he was already mobilizing troops and said that he wanted to raise 50,000 troops to help the county magistrate to quell Shatu into the rebellion. This is a very naked threat. This is a dagger, and the words are threatening."

Li Jing gave in and called Li Wei and asked, "What is the current movement of the soldiers and horses in Youzhou?"

"Guizhou general Gao Shunli and Gao Zhongwu brothers were the commander-in-chief military envoys in the front army. Li Maoxun led the middle army, his son Li Keju led the rear army, Ya general Li Quanzhong led the left army, and Jingsai army envoy Liu Yue was the commander-in-chief military envoy of the right army. Five troops, each with 10,000. Now Gao Shunli's front army was along Sangqian River to Changzhou, and from our Gu'an, Anci Second City. Li Maoxun has also led the middle army out of Youzhou City, and is currently in Wozhou. Li Keju's rear army is still in Youzhou City, Li Quanzhong's left army is in Liangxiang, and Liu Yue's right army is in Lu County along Lushui, with the target of Yongnu in the northeast of ours." Li Wei's Flying Eagle Camp had been scattered out of Huichang as soon as he arrived in Huichang. The soldiers in Youzhou were moving and quiet, and the Flying Eagle Camp had already known it.

Li Zhen turned around and gestured a few times on the Youzhou sand table made of sand in the hall, and inserted all the five troops in Youzhou with small flags.

"The Changzhou where the former army is located is less than a hundred miles away from us, and the army can reach it within two days."

"Split the troops and attack together!" Li Jing smiled. What did Li Maoxun think about the competition? The Zhendong Army had 30,000 horses, and there was also a not-so-large county town. Lu Long's army did not have much horses to enter, but they still had to be divided into five routes. Isn't this to give Li Jing a chance to defeat each of them?

"This is luring into a crime!" Li Jing sighed.

"According to my judgment, the main force of our attack this time should be Gao Shunli's front army and Li Maoxun's central army. Gao Shunli of the front army was a general of Guizhou and the direct descendant of Li Maoxun. Li Maoxun led the Uighur cavalry. In addition to the group he recruited at the beginning, he recruited about 10,000 Uighur soldiers and horses during this period. Li Maoxun cried poorly, and I think he used all the money he should give us to recruit soldiers and horses. In addition to these two groups of troops, I guess most of the 10,000 soldiers and horses led by Li Keji of the rear army were civilians and auxiliary soldiers. These people could not fight the war. Therefore, they are still in Youzhou City, and their role is to be responsible for food and grass supply."

As he said that, Li Zhen pointed to the other two groups of soldiers, "Although Li Quanzhong on the left is also the direct subordinate of Li Maoxun, the soldiers he led were originally Zhang Gongsu's soldiers. These were just newly reorganized soldiers, with low combat power and suspicious loyalty. In this battle, they did not undertake the main offensive tasks, but established a defense line in the southwest of ours and did not allow us to advance westward. Similarly, Liu Yue on the right is the old army leader of Lu Long, and his troops Li Maoxun could not truly command. Once the battle is unfavorable, they will definitely protect themselves and evacuate immediately. Looking at their attack route and heading south along the Lushui River, they should establish a defense line in the northeast of ours to prevent us from entering the northeast of Youzhou."

"In general, Li Maoxun's intention is actually very obvious. They did not have the determination to fight us in a real battle. The five-way attacking formation he set up actually had only one real intention. Look at the map, that is, to drive us back to the sea and return to Dengzhou, southern Liaoning."

Li Jing turned his head, and Li Zhen’s analysis made sense. Li Maoxun just took the position of General Lu Long, but he was still unsteady. At this time, he naturally did not want to fight Li Jing. If one is not good, even if Li Jing is repelled, he might be stalked by other generals who have always coveted his position as a general, and the oriole is behind.

"I think we can directly grab Li Maoxun to fight. If we can defeat Li Maoxun's direct front line, Li Maoxun would be like breaking one arm. At that time, he would either surrender to us to maintain his strength and deal with other Youzhou soldiers. Or continue to fight with us, but it is very likely that other Youzhou soldiers would be very happy to see us help them defeat Li Maoxun." Wang Chong had been listening to Li Jing and the others' analysis just now, and he also expressed his own opinions.

"This idea is very good, but the Gao Shunli brothers are from a military general family and are quite difficult to deal with."

Li Jing carefully studied the map for a while and chuckled: "I don't think it's difficult. Here, Gu'an City. We broke through it once last time, and we can fight again this time."

When the city entered the capital, Gu'an was on a tributary of the Youzhou River. On the right is Anci City, and Longshan City, and to the northeast is Changzhou City. And if you go up the river and go one hundred and fifty miles northwest, you will be Youzhou City.

"The Duke of the County is to take Gu'an?" Guo Cheng'an frowned and said, "The enemy soldiers are gathering now, so it is not appropriate for us to divide the troops. Moreover, Gu'an is in the middle of the Youzhou Front Army and the Left Army. If it is not done well, it will be surrounded by them."

Li Jing laughed, "This is actually the simplest but usually most useful move. At present, the front line army guarding Changzhou did not come immediately. It must be waiting for the other three troops everywhere to half-encircle us and then return us to the sea. Therefore, to break the opponent's situation, we must first mobilize the enemy and eliminate the enemy's invasion in the movement."

"We attack Gu'an, which is what we must save when we attack the enemy. If they do not save Gu'an, we can take Gu'an and then directly follow the river to the empty Youzhou City. Therefore, as long as Li Maoxun and the generals of Youzhou are not stupid, they will definitely come to save Gu'an. And we can come to attack and support."

"Assessing and aid!" Li Zhen's eyes lit up, and he immediately understood Li Jing's intention. This move was powerful, and he would first attack the enemy and rescue him. He mobilized the Youzhou front army stationed in Changzhou City. When they left the strong city defense and arrived in the field, Li Zhen believed that with the field capabilities of the Zhendong Army, there would be a great chance of winning against ten thousand Youzhou Army.

If the front army could be defeated, then Li Maoxun's central army would be directly exposed to Li Jing. At that time, he could beat Li Maoxun.

"Okay, this is a good plan."

"Okay, let's discuss carefully and come up with a plan to fight Gu'an, which will be rescued and will surround and fight aid."

During the night, Li Jing left Wang Chong to Huichang City, and handed him over the eight thousand united soldiers and two infantry battalions. Li Jing drove straight to Gu'an with 18,000 troops and horses in the night. Huichang City was only 60 miles away from Gu'an. The Zhendong Army marched at night, and although the speed slowed down a lot, because of the Zhendong Army's strong mobility, carrying a large number of mules and donkeys, armor, weapons, and food, the soldiers were still advancing very quickly.

By the dawn of the second day, Li Jing had already reached the periphery of Gu'an. Li Jing asked Wang Pu, Shi Shoucheng and Jiang Ju to bluff with 10,000 Liaonan soldiers, torches more, to pretend to be 20,000 in, to surround Gu'an City, pretending to attack the city.

Li Jing led the elite troops of the East Army of Eight Thousand Towns to the Changdao Ferry north of Gu'an City, ambushed in the reed marsh on the shore, and quietly waited for Gao Shunli's front army to come to help in Changzhou City dozens of miles away.

There were not many soldiers in Gu'an City at this time. If Li Jing wanted to attack, he could take it directly. But this was Li Jing's bait, how could he break through? Wang Pu led the 10,000 Duli Town and Liaonan soldiers to attack from all directions, with a fierce momentum, but he was always so short of that.

In the dawn of dawn, more than a dozen horses in Gu'an had escaped from the city before the besieged and slackened towards the north. Li Jing watched these horses wading across the river. The water surface was not deep, frowned and pondered for a long time. Then he called Lin Wu. "I will give you a task. You can lead your brothers to block the river from the upper stream a few miles and build a dam. When I set off the cannons here, you will immediately open the gate and release the water."

Lin Wu understood what Li Jing meant and left excitedly.

Li Jing waited until about dusk, and a horse was exploring his horse and flying cavalry came to report.

The knight rolled down from his saddle and kicked his horse, and knelt on one knee in front of Li Jing: "Report, report to the Duke of the County, the soldiers and horses in Changzhou City have come here. There are three thousand cavalry in front and seven thousand infantry in the back."

"Have you all been in the ten thousand? Didn't you stay in Changzhou City?" Li Jing asked.

"It seems that there is no entry in Changzhou City, and the enemy's front army is coming."

“How far is it?”

"It's half an hour left!"

"Okay, thank you for your hard work, go down and rest, and go back and get a five-chariot reward."

"Xie Jungong!" The siege retreated excitedly.
Chapter completed!