In early March, King Yang Nan of Qi led his army into Qi County and advanced to Zhongchuan River.

Li Fengyun organized troops in Changqing, Shagou and Shanchi. Tens of thousands of troops built an arc-shaped half-moon defense line with the Zhongchuan water as the axis.

The two sides were tense, the war was about to begin, and the atmosphere was very tense, but the soldiers on both sides were very relaxed under the tense atmosphere. The soldiers of the two armies started fighting a "tactic understanding" war as early as last summer, and the battle was very lively. The King of Qi's army chased from Henan to Xuzhou, and from Xuzhou to Qilu. The battle was fought one after another, and some people died, but they never defeated the rebels. Gradually, everyone discovered the mystery from it. So the two sides became more and more "tactic understanding". Every time they fought, they would fight to the earth-shaking, but they would never hurt their muscles. So after the battle, the battlefield was in a mess, but half of the broken limbs could not be found. It can be seen that the two sides had reached a certain level of understanding.

Faced with the majestic and murderous official army, the alliance soldiers were calm and confident. Only Pei Changzi and Shi Zihe who had just joined the alliance were frightened and uneasy. Li Fengyun "started" them. Not only did he put the reorganized Pei Changzi's 12th Army and Shi Changhe's 10th Army on the left wing of the entire defense line, but he also personally directed them to fight the official army.

At the beginning of the battle, these two troops that were seriously lacking in combat almost collapsed, but the official army fought very restrainedly. When they saw that the opponent was not good, they immediately retreated and gave the opponent enough rest time, and then came up to fight. It was like an offensive and defensive drill, and it was clicked and stopped. It looked very fierce. The drums and trumpets shook the sky, the arrows were like rain, and the killing sound was like thunder. In fact, it was not raining. Not to mention that the sword was dead, it was rare for a few people to die.

However, this is a real battle with real swords and guns. If you are not careful, you will have life worries. The old army who has been through the battle formation can easily deal with it. A group of new recruits cannot do it. You must fight to the fullest, force yourself to integrate into the battlefield as soon as possible, and adapt to the bloody and cruel battle. Only in this way can you survive. The result can be imagined that the growth rate of these two newly rebuilt teams has reached an incredible level.

Soon, Li Min, the prefect of Lu County, and Niu Jinda, the general of Yingjilang, also brought more than 3,000 armed forces into Qi County and joined the "heating" Qi County battlefield.

On the one hand, Yang Nan, the King of Qi, sent envoys to Licheng, urging Zhang Xutuo to take the initiative to attack and attack the white-haired thieves with him. On the other hand, he urgently reported to the Eastern Capital to details the reason why the thieves in Qilu were too rampant. Because the large number of thieves in Hebei went south, the situation in Qi County suddenly deteriorated, which endangered the second expedition of the Donglai Navy. For this reason, the King of Qi begged the Holy Lord to urgently dispatch Jiyin Prefect Wei Baoluan, and Pengcheng's remaining guard Dong Chun to support quickly, striving to kill the rebels in the shortest time and stabilize Qi County to ensure the smooth progress of the Second Eastern Expedition.

In March, the news that Li Fengyun had a fierce battle with King Yang Nan of Qi on the front line of Zhongchuan River quickly spread to Licheng on the north bank of the Great River. Wang Bo, Hao Xiaode and other heroes from Hebei did not hesitate and immediately ordered to cross the river south and kill Qi County directly.

The news that the Hebei rebel army crossed the river southward reached Licheng as soon as possible. At this moment, Zhang Xutuo had received a secret letter from Zhou Fashang, deputy general manager of the navy, and confirmed that Zhou Fashang had agreed to his request. The main force of the navy was about to enter the battlefield of Qijun along the river channel, cutting off the retreat of the Hebei bandits, so he decided to take the initiative.

Zhang Xutuo ordered Jia Wuben to lead 2,000 troops to stay in Licheng and closely monitor the Zhongchuan water battlefield to prevent accidents. He personally led 20,000 infantry troops out of the city to attack.

Before leaving, Jia Wuben reminded Zhang Xutuo that King Yang Nan of Qi had sent letters several times to meet to attack the white-haired thief. Although Zhang Xutuo did not believe King Yang Nan of Qi and had no intention of attacking the white-haired thief with him, he had to send a reply to it in terms of emotion and reason. After all, King Qi was the legitimate son of the Holy Lord and the most noble prince of the dynasty. Not only did he lose his courtesy, he also gave the King of Qi a reason to attack.

"Everyone knows the intention of King Qi to plan for Qi and Lu." Zhang Xutuo sneered and asked, "If someone bows down to him, will he change his mind and stop trying to seize Qi County?"

Jia Wuben was speechless, worried, and an unknown thought was overwhelming.

Zhang Xutuo is stubborn and would rather fail than surrender than be upright than offend. It is easy to offend people. Because of this, when his backer, Yang Su, died, he was quickly driven out of the Wei Mansion and transferred to the local chief executive. He thought that the Xiao Yue Duke could regain his "primeness" and help him return to the Wei Mansion, but unfortunately, Yang Xuangan's lack of merit was his political "shortcoming". He could not convince the public even if he was appointed as the priest, let alone win a seat in the military. The Xiao Yue Duke lacked the right to speak in the military and of course he could not shelter the loyal subordinates of the old Yue Duke. Middle and senior officers like Zhang Xutuo could only stay in the local area for the time being and continue to endure.

Zhang Xutuo's aggrievance was imagined. He was a Hongnong native, and Hongnong's nobles were all vassals of the Yang family, so he followed the old Yue Duke to conquer the world since the beginning of the army. This was not changed by his will. When he finally left the army due to the storm between political factions, left his bloody battlefield, left his achievements and achievements, and left his ideals, especially in the Western Expedition and Eastern Expedition, such a major war, his old army became a spectator, which made him feel even more painful and resentful, and made him hate politics and politicians extremely.

Fortunately, the rebels of Qilu were rising, and he was able to "return to his old career" and saw hopes for returning to the Wei Mansion and further in his career. However, the politics and politicians who had suffered setbacks came to Qilu like ghosts, rushing to the land of Qilu, gusts of cold wind blew, and swept him away. In fact, Zhang Xutuo had limited status, power and strength. Facing a large group of military and political leaders, he would be swallowed up if he was not careful and would not even have the power to fight back. Therefore, he placed all his hopes on this battle to suppress the thieves. As long as he won, defeated the rebels, stabilized Qi County, and ensured that the navy crossed the sea and expedition, he would definitely win the praise of the Holy Lord.

Now Zhang Xutuo no longer has great expectations for the Duke of Xiao Yue. Just imagine that the Duke of Xiao Yue has been at the center for several years. Not only has he failed to reach the military to protect the old subordinates of the Duke of Lao Yue, but he can only stay in the Eastern Expedition to watch over the wall in such a major war. It can be seen that his situation at the top of power is far from as glamorous as he seems.

Zhang Xutuo could not count on Duke Xiao Yue. As a member of the Heluogong noble group, he could not change his family, so he could only rely on himself. After years of setbacks, Zhang Xutuo also came to a conclusion that the court is the world of the reformists and the Holy Lord is the leader of the reformists. As long as he follows the ideas of the reformists and does the tasks assigned by the reformists in a regular manner, he may have a further possibility.

Based on this conclusion, as well as the current situation in the Dongdu political situation and the Qilu situation, Zhang Xutuo made a decision. Even if he completely offended King Yang Nan of Qi, he would never take the risk of offending the Saint Lord and the Reformers. Offending King Yang Nan of Qi would be suppressed by the local nobles of Guanlong, but offending the Saint Lord and the Reformers, not to mention his career, he might even be in danger. Therefore, Zhang Xutuo did not take Jia Wuben's warning at all. Although he knew that he had done too much in dealing with King Yang Nan of Qi, he would inevitably lay unpredictable disasters for himself and Qi County, but there were too many lessons before, and bloody lessons 丨 Shocking. Zhang Xutuo knew that his ability was limited. A roaring vortex that accidentally fell into the roaring vortex of the imperial throne must have been left without any bones and was also involved in countless disasters.

"Ming Gong, from the current situation, if we can cooperate with the army of the King of Qi and attack the white-haired thieves from the front and back, we will be able to drive the white-haired thieves out of the battlefield of Qi County. In this way, the situation on the battlefield of Qi County will be very conducive to our joint encirclement and suppression of two rebels with Hebei and Qilu."

Qin Qiong spoke, and this thought had been in his heart for a long time.

Qin Qiong's view on the battle situation in Qi County was consistent with Zhang Xutuo, but the decision made by Zhang Xutuo in the end was far from the previous analysis and deduction of the battle situation, and it could even be said to be contrary to the situation. This led to 20,000 soldiers taking great risks in the subsequent battle, which was obviously contrary to Zhang Xutuo's usual combat style.

Zhou Fashang, deputy general manager of the Navy, clearly warned Zhang Xutuo in his letter not to be blindly confident and not to think that he could cooperate with the Navy and eat two rebels. With Zhou Fashang's military experience, why are he still so cautious when the official army on the battlefield of Qi County have a clear advantage in the strength of the official army? In fact, everyone knows it well, but no one wants to speak out.

Zhou Fashang's prudence was on the one hand because of the ambition of King Yang Nan of Qi to seize control of Qilu, and on the other hand, because the navy commander Cui Junsu came from the Cui family in Qinghe and had a strong demand to protect the interests of Shandong, especially Hebei. So when Zhang Xutuo, a Guanlong man and Zhou Fashang, a Jiangzuo, joined forces to kill the rebel army of Hebei and Qilu, who could guarantee that Cui Junsu would not attack at a critical moment?

So how to ensure the smooth implementation of the "one-two-eat" strategy? First, we must defeat the white-haired thieves and drive the strongest rebels out of the battlefield of Qi County, so as to give Zhang Xutuo and Zhou Fashang enough time to join forces to suppress the thieves. Now King Yang Nan of Qi is at the foot of Mount Tai, near the waters of Zhongchuan, and at the Shagou and Shanchi. As long as Zhang Xutuoquan accepts the invitation of King Yang Nan of Qi, the two armies will attack the white-haired thieves in one battle and temporarily solve the biggest threat of the white-haired thieves.

However, Zhang Xutuo turned a blind eye to such a winning strategy, and ignored it. Why? He could not see the fighter jets contained in it? If he did not seize this fighter jet, the dangers contained in it would be infinitely magnified. The white-haired thieves were very likely to risk their troops at critical moments. One continued to block King Yang Nan of Qi, and the other launched an attack from behind Zhang Xutuo. This formed a situation where the Hebei thieves restrained Zhou Fashang, while the white-haired thieves took the opportunity to attack Zhang Xutuo with the Qilu thieves. The failure of the white-haired thieves and the Qilu thieves to attack Zhang Xutuo does not mean that they would not be able to fight in the field, and the Qi army, which had just expanded its army, had the ability to withstand the two thieves? Can't Zhang Xutuo see such a clear and visible huge risk?

Zhang Xutuo glanced at Qin Qiong with a complicated expression. After a long time, he finally said, "Duke Jianchang (Li Zixiong) is coming to help. According to Duke Qiao's wishes, Duke Jianchang should be responsible for attacking the white-haired thieves with King Qi."
Chapter completed!