Thief Emperor

Chapter 632 Jiangbei decisive battle!

That evening, Li Yun arrived in Fengyang.

Deng Yang, who was stationed in Fengyang, led a group of generals out of the city to greet him. He bowed to Li Yun, bowed his head and clasped his fists, saying, "Take the throne!"

The Jinling Army generals behind him also bowed their heads and saluted, saying, "Take your place!"

The situation was urgent, so Li Yun did not say much. He just strode into Fengyang City and asked as he walked, "What's the situation in Fengyang?"

Deng Yang followed behind him and reported as he walked: "Reporting to the superior, not long after the Pinglu army besieged Chuzhou, Fengyang also encountered the Pinglu army, with a number of about 10,000 people. However, they only attacked for a few days and did not forcefully attack Fengyang again, and began to attack Chuzhou with all their strength."

At this point, he looked at Li Yun and whispered, "Go up, Gushi..."

Li Yun looked calm and said, "Meng Qing will not break at the slightest touch. The number of people is not much different. He can fight with the Pinglu Army. Besides, Chen Da is behind him, so nothing serious will happen."

"It's a good opportunity to take a look at the field combat capabilities of our Jiangdong Army."

On the way to Fengyang, Li Yun had received news from the Nine Departments one after another. Now he had a relatively clear understanding of the Gushi battlefield.

After the Pinglu Army withdrew from Yangzhou, they split into two groups. One group went north to Chuzhou to confuse the enemy, while the other group broke up into small groups and went directly to intercept Li Yun's reinforcements from Jingxiang.

What is certain is that the Pinglu Army also has an organization similar to the Jiusi, which is responsible for intelligence work, and its intelligence capabilities are quite impressive. It can accurately detect Li Yun’s reinforcements and secretly keep an eye on Meng Qing’s troops.

However, at that time, Li Yunren was still in Chuzhou City and had no way to come out, and he was unable to make a good response for a while.

The good news is that Jiusi is not blind, so Zhou Xu did not send his main force to intercept directly with great fanfare, otherwise he would have certainly failed.

Therefore, Zhou Xu only brought about 10,000 people to Gushi to intercept, or to fight against Meng Qing.

Of course, after the two sides engaged in battle, it would be difficult for Meng Qing to escape, so after the battle, the Pinglu Army bypassed Fengyang and began to continue to send reinforcements to Gushi.

Now, the number of Pinglu troops in Gushi has exceeded 15,000, and Meng Qing will soon join Chen Da. The battle between the Pinglu Army and the Jiangdong Army was originally one of attack and one of defense, but now...

There was gradually a trend towards a decisive battle in Gushi.

Feng Yang thought for a moment and said, "There are at least 20,000 Pinglu troops in Chuzhou. As far as the current situation in Jiangdong is concerned, the superior..."

"The Pinglu Army has sent at least 50,000 troops to Jiangbei, which is already their main force."

Before Wang Junping's rebellion, the Pinglu Army had only 50,000 soldiers. Later, when the world was in chaos, the Pinglu Army took the opportunity to occupy a large area and expanded its army to 100,000.

Among these 100,000 people, there were previous conflicts with Li Yun, and a period of confrontation with the Fan Yang army. In addition, Qingzhou's economy was in serious problems. In fact, at this time, there were no longer the full complement of 100,000 people.

In other words, the Pinglu Army has mobilized most of its troops to fight against Li Yun this time.

Deng Yang looked at Li Yun and said, "Sir, they are making such a fuss in Jiangbei, Huaibei will definitely be unstable. Can you send a letter to Fanyang and let the Fanyang Army swallow up several states and counties of the Pinglu Army, or let the Fanyang Army go south of the river, so that the Pinglu Army will be unable to take care of both ends..."

Li Yun glanced at Deng Yang in surprise, then smiled and said, "Why are you studying these things instead of fighting?"

Deng Yang lowered his head, a little embarrassed, and said, "Master, when I was free, I thought about these things... I was a little crazy."

Li Yun made a "tsk" sound.

"Among the people in our anti-theft team, there was also a soldier who was not a pure soldier."

Deng Yang was startled by this and waved his hand quickly, saying, "Sir, I have not delayed the military affairs. I..."

"Well, I didn't mean to disparage you by saying that."

Mr. Li said softly, "Your mind is entirely on military affairs, so you can only be considered a general. Only if you can look beyond the battlefield can you have the potential to be a commander. It's a good thing that you are willing to think, but you still think too little."

He paused and continued, "The troubles of the Fanyang army have not been resolved yet. They will have to fight the Khitans sooner or later. At this time, they are unlikely to offend Qingzhou for the sake of one or two prefectures."

"Writing to them would only show your cowardice."

"Deng Yang."

Li Yun shouted.

General Deng immediately lowered his head and said solemnly, "I'm here!"

"There are still more than 4,000 people left in Chuzhou, plus the people here and the thousands of troops in Yangzhou. I will give them all to you to command. You only need to do one thing for me."

Deng Yang bowed his head and said, "The superior has given orders!"

Li Yun looked at him and said with a smile: "Since you like to think about things, why not make a guess."

Deng Yang thought for a moment and said, "Let me intercept the Pinglu Army near Chuzhou to prevent them from going west from Haozhou or Chuzhou to support the Gushi battlefield."

Li Yun nodded first, then smiled and said: "They should still have more than 20,000 people in Chuzhou. It is a bit unrealistic for you to go out of the city with such a small number of people to intercept them. Moreover, going out of the city to fight them will play into their hands."

"Jiu Si will join you. You need to stir up trouble here, such as harassing their march and cutting off their food supply."

"Or use a feint attack to stop them from continuing to support Gushi." Deng Yang nodded his head and then looked at Li Yun and whispered, "The superior wants to see who is better with the Pinglu Army in Gushi."

"There are a lot of people, so it's not easy to run."

Mr. Li narrowed his eyes, showing his murderous intent: "At this time, if we don't dare to fight them and show our cowardice, and the news gets out, others will still not be afraid of us in Jiangdong, and someone will still come to cause trouble in the future!"

"We can't defend the city forever. Sooner or later, we will have to fight a battle like this, or even a siege. Although this happened in a hurry, I think it's a good opportunity."

"A large army of tens of thousands of people is fighting in the field."

Mr. Li looked at her with a burning gaze: “I haven’t tried it yet!”

Deng Yang looked at Li Yun and said, "If you get hurt when you get promoted..."

"Even if we suffer a loss at this time, it may not be a bad thing."

Li Yun glanced at Deng Yang and said slowly: "It's settled. I will rest here with you tonight. Tomorrow morning, I will rush to the Gushi battlefield in person."

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At this point, Li Yun paused and asked, "How many horses do you have here?"

Deng Yang answered without hesitation: "Three or four hundred horses."

"Give it all to me."

Li Yun said directly: "Give me the corresponding troops, and I will take them with my guard battalion to support the Gushi battlefield. With this base, we can use it as a captain battalion when we arrive in Gushi."

"it is good!"

Deng Yang lowered his head quickly and replied, "I'll arrange it right away!"

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The next morning, when it was just light, Li Yun led nearly 800 cavalrymen and left Fengyang. He didn't even have time to see his brother-in-law Xue Shou, who was the governor of Haozhou in Fengyang. After leaving the city, he headed west towards Shouzhou.

Deng Yang also began to send out his scouts, and at the same time asked the Nine Departments to contact Chuzhou and Yangzhou to begin implementing the interception plan.

Because everyone had a mount, Li Yun was much more reckless when traveling this time.

He need not worry about a sudden encounter with the enemy.

Because the Pinglu Army was mostly infantry, it would be difficult for these infantrymen to catch up with Li Yun's cavalry even if they met them head-on. Even if they encountered a small number of Pinglu Army soldiers, Li Yun and his men could directly dismount and fight them.

This is the benefit of high mobility.

The initiative is completely in your own hands. You can run away if you want to, but it is difficult to run away if you want to attack the enemy.

And this is Li Yun and his people, who are not very proficient in riding and shooting. If they are all proficient in riding and shooting, and the quality of horses is improved, they will become proper cavalry and may even become the decisive force on the battlefield of Gushi.

A group of nearly a thousand riders entered Shouzhou. They did not stop at all and headed directly to the west of Shouzhou.

Gushi is located in Guangzhou, west of Shouzhou, and in the eastern part of Guangzhou. In other words, as long as you pass Shouzhou, you will be in Gushi.

"Ascend!"

After running for almost two days, in the evening of that day, when Li Yun was resting his horse and eating dry food under a big tree, Yang Xi strode over, sat next to Li Yun, and whispered, "Sir, this is the territory of Huoqiu County."

"The main force of the Pinglu Army may be stationed in Huoqiu, and General Xiao Meng's main force is stationed in Gushi."

"Here, we may encounter the Pinglu Army at any time."

Li Yun lowered his head and took a bite of dry food, then looked up at Yang Xi with a calm expression: "We ran all the way here just to find the Pinglu Army."

"With a confrontation involving tens of thousands of people, the battlefield must be very extensive."

Li looked up at Yang Xi and said, "Send twenty or thirty brothers with excellent horsemanship to go around Huoqiu County. Although we only have 800 people, we are in the rear of the Pinglu Army."

“There are a lot of things that can be done.”

Yang Xi responded quickly and said, "I'll go right away!"

After he left, Li Yun called Meng Hai, who had been following him for some time, and said in a deep voice: "Help me contact Meng Qingchen and tell him that I am in Huoqiu."

Mr. Li paused and continued, "From now on, the Nine Departments will coordinate in real time, and I will be in the rear..."

"Remote control of the battle on the front line."

(End of this chapter)