Late Tang

His plan is very simple, that is, to rely on intelligence superiority and the assault force of the Qin army to defeat each of the forces of the Jin army and Zhao army before they can really work together.

Staff Council Envoy Jing Xiang stood in the tent, holding a thin bamboo pole and pointing at the large sand table in the center of the tent.

"Everyone, please see that between us, Li Keyong, and Wang Jingchong, there is a very special terrain. Here, the central part is the Taihang Mountains, which separates Hebei and Hedong. And here, there are Puyinxing and Fei The two passages of Guxing connect Yuzhou in the east of the river and Yiding in the Hebei province. Now, we are in the north of Yuzhou, and the Liu family is opposite us, guarding Zhigu Pass, the gateway to the south of Weizhou. Li Keyong is leading the [-] cavalry had just arrived at Feihu City from Yi County via Puyinxing, and then returned to Lingqiu on the Feihu Road. Enter Flying Fox City."

If Li Keyong and Wang Jingchong rushed to Zhiguguan for reinforcements, it would be very difficult for the Qin army to win head-on with the Jin-Zhao coalition forces.

"What is our plan?" Li Cunxiao asked directly.

Jing Xiang smiled, not caring about his recklessness.

"The plan is very simple, divide, ambush, and defeat each!"

The plan of Li Jing and the Staff Council was simple but powerful. After Jing Xiang carefully stated the whole plan, Shang Shuxing and the cabinet quickly reached a consensus.

"Li Wei!" Li Jing shouted loudly.

Li Wei used to be Li Jing's earliest scout battalion commander, and later he was in charge of intelligence affairs. Now intelligence affairs are gradually handed over to Gongsun Lan. He is the new leader of Yingyang army. Come out to form an elite special warfare unit.For a long time, the Qin army has maintained an elite special warfare unit.Siege of cities and villages and special operations have always played an important role and made a lot of military exploits.

Now the Qin Army's special warfare battalion has a brand new military title, which Li Jing values ​​even more.

This most elite special warfare unit, Li Jing finally handed it over to his younger brother, Li Wei, Marquis of Pengcheng, one of the 36 princes, and asked the earliest chief officer of the special warfare team to lead the unit himself.

Li Wei hadn't been a front-line leader for a long time, and it was time for him to perform as the commander-in-chief of this much-anticipated special operations force.Hearing that Li Jing ordered the general, he couldn't help being shocked, stepped forward, clenched his fist and hammered his chest, and responded loudly: "The last general is here!"

"Lead the Yingyang army to set off from Anbian City immediately, enter Feihu Gorge through the north entrance, and capture the Black Stone Fort and Zijingguan, the fortresses of Feihu Xing!" The order was very clear.Although this command is concise, it is not easy.

Li Wei knew exactly where Blackstone Fort and Bauhinia Pass were!I know more about the importance of these two pass cities.

There is not only one passage on Feihu Road. In fact, the complete Feihu Road actually has two passages and three forks.

Feihu Main Road, also known as Lingqiu Ancient Road, is from Lingqiu City to Feihu City.The Flying Fox side road is from Anbian City to Feihu City. Among them, there are two exits on the Anbian City side.One is Beikou, also called Feihukou, which is the most dangerous section of the Sishili Heifeng Road.The other exit is Dayukou, east of Feihukou.

Now there are two passages and four entrances on Feihu Road. Among them, the two ends of the main road, Lingqiukou and Feihu City, are in the hands of the Jin army. Guangbian City outside Guguan is now in the hands of the Qin army.

Blackstone Fortress, a solid fortress made entirely of large black stone barriers, was built on the middle of Feihu Road, the north entrance to the entrance of Feihu City, seventy miles away from both exits, and was built on the dangerous Blackstone Ridge. In the 140-mile Flying Fox Canyon, the castle is next to a deep ravine, and a suspension bridge is built at the mouth of the ravine.Once the suspension bridge is pulled, there is indeed a trend of "one man guards the gate, and ten thousand men cannot open it".Controlling Blackstone Fort is equivalent to controlling the Flying Fox side road, controlling the important passage from Flying Fox City to Guangbian City outside Zhigu Pass.

And Bauhinia Pass, whose real name is Wuyuan Pass, is also called Bauhinia Pass because it is on the Bauhinia Ridge full of Bauhinia trees.This pass city is composed of five castles built on the Zijing Ridge, and the five gates lock the Zijing Ridge.

Zijingguan is not on Feihuxing, but on Puyinxing, between Feihu City in Yuzhou, Hedong and Yi County in Yizhou, Hebei.

Black Stone Fort controls Feihu Deputy Road, while Zijingguan controls Puyinxing.

If the Yingyang army can capture Black Stone Fort and Puyinxing, then Li Jing can bypass the Zhigu Pass guarded by the Liu family, and directly enter the comparatively powerful Feihu City from the east through the side road, and then from here, To the west, you can take the Lingqiu Ancient Road and detour into the southern basin of Weizhou. From here, you can go north to the Zhigu Pass of Liushi, and go south to Taixi Pass, the northeast gateway of Daizhou. Daizhou Yanmen.

And if it goes east, enters Puyin Xingzhong, and captures Zijing Pass, then Li Jing can not only block Wang Jingchong's reinforcements to the east of Taihang, but can even directly bypass Chengde's eastern defense line, benefiting from their weak defense. In the direction of Taihang Mountain in the west of the zone, directly enter Yiding.

This is completely a sword coming from the west, and there is nowhere to stop it.

This plan, if realized, could immediately change the dynamics of the entire campaign.However, both Black Stone Fort and Zijing Pass have been heavily defended since the Han Dynasty. They are important passages connecting Hebei and the east of the river, and even the grasslands outside the Great Wall. Moreover, Li Keyong also attached great importance to them and sent heavy troops to guard them.

Attacking such a pass city, even the Yingyang army, who is best at this kind of special warfare to attack key points and break through villages, is not very sure.

Just the 140-mile-long Feihu Gorge is a great challenge.This line-of-the-sky canyon is 140 miles long, and its width can reach [-] feet, but the narrow part can only accommodate a car.The Black Stone Fortress was built in the most dangerous center of the canyon. It is easy to defend but difficult to attack.Yingyang's army was going to attack such a pass city, not just one, but also the Bauhinia Pass. In addition, Wang Jingchong was leading tens of thousands of horses to pass through here at this time.

Therefore, the Yingyang army had limited time, and Li Jing only gave them two days to march and attack the city.In two days, not only would they have to march two hundred miles, but they would also have to capture two fortresses!

This is a great challenge!

This challenge was so great that Li Wei hesitated after hearing the order. He didn't dare to promise easily, and said, "Your Highness, this..."

"Without hesitation, follow orders!" Li Jing patted him on the shoulder, "I know how difficult this task is, but we need you to complete it. Within two days, capture Blackstone Fort, Flying Fox City, and Bauhinia Pass, To complete this mission, what else do you need besides the Five Thousand Eagle Yount warriors in your hand, just ask!"

Li Wei swallowed, feeling nervous like never before.He forgot to include Flying Fox City just now, if he wanted to take down Bauhinia Pass, Flying Fox City had to be taken down.

"I need fast horses, and each of the Yingyang Army has two horses."

"Satisfy you, transfer 1 horses to the Yingyang Army, and give you the strongest mobility." Li Jing replied immediately.

"I still need firearms, enough gunpowder!"

"It also satisfies you, you can take everything you need from the engineer battalion of the supply camp!"

......

"Is there any other request?" Li Jing asked.

Li Wei gritted his teeth and considered for a long time, and finally shook his head slowly, "It's gone!"

Li Jing nodded to him, and immediately said loudly: "Very well, you should prepare immediately and try to lead the troops to set off immediately!"

Li Wei trembled, "Obey!"

Seeing Li Wei leave the big tent with a resolute face, the chief minister of the cabinet said with some concern, "Can Marquis Pengcheng complete this task?"

"Don't worry, even if Li Wei can only take down the Blackstone Fort, the plan is still feasible. Even if Li Wei can't even take down the Blackstone Fort, but as long as he can block the Feihu Gorge, then we only need to adjust our strategy a little bit, and it will still work. Nothing will happen."

"Then why did King Qin put General Li Wei on such a heavy burden?" Cao Ye was a little puzzled.

"There is pressure to be motivated. If it is really difficult for Li Wei to complete this task, it will be better."

Not long after the order was passed down, Li Wei immediately conveyed the military order to the Yingyang Army, and then selected equipment such as horses and firearms, and roared south.

Li Wei led the Yingyang Army and had just left. Fu Shen, the leader of the Brigade Cavalry Army, Yang Shihou, the leader of the Flying Cavalry Army, Li Cunxiao, the leader of the Black Banner Army, and Gao Siji, the leader of the Cloud Cavalry Army, also received an order from Li Jing to arrive. The big tent of the Chinese army came in.

Li Jing's attitude towards the four disciples was very gentle. Now he has thirteen disciples, except for Yang Xingmi and Qian Liu, the other 11 people have become the core of Qin Fan.Except for Li Rang who is a civil servant and is now in charge of Qin Fan's money bag, the other ten disciples are all generals of an army, all of them are feudal princes, and they are also inspected and Taibao.

It has to be said that these disciples were all famous generals in the original history.After Li Jing recruited them under his family and gave them the opportunity to practice for several years, maybe they have not yet reached the peak in their history, but they have already become generals, and they have just emerged and made their mark.

Li Jing praised each of the four disciples heavily, and detailed the recent outstanding performances of several of them, especially Fu Shen and Yang Shihou's strange plan to capture the military capital last time, which was a big praise.

Fu Shen and Yang Shihou came later than Gao Siji and Li Cunxiao, and their qualifications are slightly lower, so they sit here very respectfully.Gao Siji was the most handsome among the several disciples, but he was also the most respectful. Only Li Cunxiao was always so forthright, sitting there at this moment, still thinking that he didn't get the chance this time, and leading the troops to attack Blackstone Castle City.

"Hu Chen, do you really want to lead troops into battle?" Li Jing asked with a smile.

"Of course, it's a pity that His Highness didn't give this opportunity to someone." Li Cunxiao said hehe.

Li Jing glanced at the four disciples, and said: "Well, now I will give you a chance. You should know that we also came to Daibei a few years ago and fought a battle at Zhiguguan. That time, we faced That's right, it was Liu Shi, Li Siyuan and others, that time, we took Zhigu Pass very easily, remember."

Li Cunxiao smiled embarrassingly, "That time a certain disobeyed the military order and chased Li Keyong's wife to Taixi Pass with dozens of riders without authorization, and because of this, the eldest brother, the second brother, the third brother and the others also came to rescue him , rushed into the Thai opera pass, and almost killed several brothers."

Li Jing burst out laughing, the four apprentices were really impulsive at that time, but the impulsiveness was really impressive.Li Cunxiao dared to rush into the Taixi Pass with a dozen people, and Liu Xun, Wang Yanzhang, and Gao Siji dared to raid the Thai Opera Pass with a few hundred people. In the end, they even lasted until the reinforcements arrived, helping the army capture Taixi Pass. The play is off, this past event is like a legend, the momentum, the love of brothers and comrades in arms, the righteousness of life and death, it is really moving, and countless soldiers in the Qin army still admire it.

But Li Jing brought up the old matter again at this time, of course not for those.

"Chengwu, Huchen, do you still remember that time, we captured Zhigu Pass because the four of you brothers found a shortcut path, copied to Zhigu Pass, and broke through this pass?"

White Horse and Silver Spear Gao Siji nodded, "There is indeed a trail to the east of the Zhigu Pass. That trail used to connect the village in the mountain to the small Hanging Temple on the cliff in the mountain. Not many people know about it, and there is no defense, so That time we were able to go around the Zhigu Pass, and the surprise attack succeeded. Could it be that Your Highness wants to repeat the same trick? However, I heard that the Shatuo people on that road are now on guard, and they have built three stone villages at dangerous places in the mountain path , each stationed with a thousand soldiers and horses, easy to defend but difficult to attack."

Li Jing smiled, "That was in the past, not now. Now the three military strongholds are only defended by half of the soldiers and horses. As for Zhigu Pass, there are only 1 soldiers at this time, and the remaining [-] are auxiliary soldiers. I will give you a task now, the four of you will lead [-] troops to take this small road, capture these three military strongholds, go around to Zhigu Pass, and then capture Zhigu Pass."

Gao Siji was a little surprised, "Isn't there a Liu family in Zhiguguan? She has not only [-] auxiliary soldiers, but also [-] soldiers."

"Don't worry about Mrs. Liu, she and her Detachment Army have already squatted in the mountain pass north of Zhigu Pass for two days and two nights, thinking they are secret, and are still waiting to ambush us!"

Now Li Cunxiao was also stunned, "Since my lord knew that Li Keyong wanted to ambush us, why didn't my lord lead his troops to destroy her earlier?"

Li Jing smiled, "Mr. Liu is a good bait. If we take down Mrs. Liu too early, Li Keyong will not come here in such a hurry. If he doesn't come, how can we ambush him?" How can he lure Wang Jingchong into a trap? In short, Mrs. Liu is a good bait. Since she likes to squat in the wild in such rainy and snowy weather, let her continue squatting until you take Zhigu Pass , we'll invite her back then."

The four of Gao Siji were shocked, they didn't expect King Qin to play such a big game of chess.This game of chess not only counted Li Quanzhong, but also Li Kexiu. Now, the three departments of Datong, Li Keyong, Liu Shi, Wang Jingchong, etc. have also been counted.

On Li Jing's entire chessboard, countless traps have already been laid, and countless holes have been dug, just waiting for Li Keyong to jump down one by one.Thinking of this, the four of them couldn't help but looked at each other. They couldn't help but increase their awe for this teacher and master who was not much older than them. This is really an admirable character. (To be continued.)