On July 25, in Boling County, Hebei, in the mountains and forests outside the Tang City, Li Zixiong summoned the left commanders to discuss the attack strategy.

"I believe that everyone knows the reason why the Grand Manager is confident and bold in handing over the important task of flying foxes to me, so I will not talk about it anymore."

Before Li Zixiong finished speaking, there was a burst of laughter in the temporary military tent.

Yang Xuangan's mutiny in early June and surrounded Dongdu in mid-June. The storm came very quickly and a lot of news had not spread yet. As for the betrayal or fall of wealthy families such as Li Zixiong, Han Shiyan, Zhou Zhong, etc., and Yang Gongdao, Yu Rou, Lai Yuan and other wealthy families, some of them were not very clear about, let alone the northern border thousands of miles away. The news of cities such as Lingqiu and Feihu were originally blocked, so it is certain that as long as Han Shiyan, Zhou Zhong and others showed their prominent names, these pass cities were at their fingertips.

If Li Fengyun personally led the troops north to Feihu, he would also ask for help from wealthy nobles such as Han Shiyan and Zhou Zhong. Since this is the case, it would be better to give a favor to the flow. Everyone will be happy with mutual benefit. But the important thing is that only Li Fengyun is willing to give this favor, and others may not have such a mind and demeanor? Of course, some people are happy, some are unhappy.

The heroes of the alliance are originally humble and have a strong sense of inferiority in front of the wealthy families. If the Feihu was defeated by them, it would be like they protected these wealthy families and their mentality would be different. So what if you are noble? You should still rely on my breath? Now it is backwards. These nobles are proud and can point fingers in the alliance. This makes the heroes of the alliance very depressed. I don’t know what Li Fengyun is thinking and what is the medicine sold in the gourd? But they absolutely trust Li Fengyun. Li Fengyun proves with miraculous victory that his decision has never been wrong, at least there have been no mistakes so far.

Chen Rui, Han Yao, Guo Ming and others were also laughing, but their smiles were very reluctant. However, thinking about Li Fengyun's persuasion, he let go of his heart. After all, the alliance's flying fox is just a small part of the entire north plan, which is really not worth mentioning. Li Fengyun needs time now, and he is willing to pay any price for this. The real goal of the alliance is to occupy the entire northern border and dominate the northern border. However, in the process of achieving this goal, the northern border is the biggest obstacle. For this reason, all the forces that can be united must be united, otherwise, the efforts will be in vain and nothing will be obtained in the end. Therefore, you must look forward to the long-term and never be blinded by the small profits in front of you.

"I would like to be the leader of the election, going day and night, killing the flying fox." Han Shiye volunteered. The most important thing for him now is to embrace Li Zixiong. The people in Jiangzuo were not trustworthy, and Li Fengyun was even more eyeing him. Only Li Zixiong, the old general who was the same age as his father Han Qinhu, could trust him. In the worst case, even Li Zixiong and Han Shiye could also make a world in the northern border.

Li Zixiong smiled and nodded, raised his hand and pointed at Li Mengchang, "You are the military officer of Xinyi Gong for the time being, and go first with Xinyi Gong."

Li Mengchang hurriedly stood up and bowed to take the order. Now he knew about Li Fengyun's purpose of insisting on entering Yanbei after returning to the alliance. In name, it was to block the invasion of the Northern Barbarians, but in fact it was to help the King of Qi seize the crown prince. However, it was difficult for him to accept Li Fengyun's pessimistic predictions about the situation in the north and south. Judging from Li Mengchang's movements between the north and south, although the Northern Barbarians have developed rapidly in recent years, the possibility of invasion south is not high. At least there are no sufficient conditions for a war between the North and the South.

Of course, if Zhongtu took the initiative to provoke a war, that would be another matter. During the Fenglongshan military discussion, Li Zixiong made a shocking statement. Li Mengchang had to speculate on the true intention of Li Fengyun to enter Yanbei with the greatest malicious intention. If Li Fengyun really wanted to deliberately provoke the Civil War, the situation in the northern border would be bad in the future. For Li Mengchang, the biggest loss was the loss of smuggling interests, so Li Mengchang had to plan for his future and see if he could "rely" climb to the sky, the big tree of King Qi.

Li Zixiong solemnly instructed Han Shiye, "You are very unfamiliar with Lingqiu, Feihu, and Weicheng. You should discuss everything with Li Guanjun. Don't be arrogant, miss the front, and miss the big thing."

Han Shiye was indeed very arrogant, but in the face of a meritorious old minister like Li Zixiong, he could only pretend to be humble and agree respectfully.

Li Zixiong pointed at Li Min and Niu Jinda again, "You will lead your army to follow Xinyigong. After Lingqiu is captured, you will station in Lingqiu, and push your camera towards Shaquan. Set up a blocking battle formation in the west and north directions to block attacks that may come from Yanmen and Mayi."

Li Zixiong pointed to the alliance with the Third Army of the Alliance, Yue Gao, "Yue Jun stayed in Changshan Pass." Then Li Zixiong pointed to the map on the hanging side, "But only a group of people and horses are enough to stay in Changshan Pass. Your main task is to handle the evacuation of the Gaoyang battlefield by the Grand General Manager, so you immediately surrounded Wangdu, Chaoyang and Tangcheng north of Yaoshan, and advance to the Lexiang and Qingliang City more than 100 miles away to ensure that the evacuation of the Grand General Manager is unobstructed."

"After taking down the flying fox, General Manager Guo and General Manager Zhong, and General Manager Cao killed Puyinxing as quickly as possible to support General Manager Zhen." Li Zixiong looked at Guo Ming, Zhong Xin and Cao Kun, with a solemn tone, "Yishui, there must be a fight on the front line of Jumahe. Although Duan Da, the remaining troops in Zhuo County, could not be deployed by many troops, but I am afraid that the Holy Lord and the Palace will arrive at Linshuo Palace earlier than we expected. Once the Holy Lord goes south with the imperial guards and Xiaoguo to reinforce, our losses will be greater." Speaking of this, Li Zixiong frowned and whispered, "I hope there will be no accidents in Gaoyang, otherwise there will be a lot of trouble."

At this time, Han Shiyan suddenly asked, "Ming Gong, after taking down Weicheng, should I go north along the Qiyi River and attack the city and capture the village?"

"Of course, of course, we have to take advantage of the empty time of Yanbei and fight hard to attack, and grab as much as the city can." Li Zixiong said without hesitation. "Yanbei is in an emergency, and first of all, we must send a message to the remaining residence of Zhuo County. This will inevitably shock Duan Da. After all, Yanbei's importance is far greater than that of Gaoyang. Duan Da is in a dilemma, and the reinforcements to Gaoyang will inevitably be weakened, which will help the Grand General Manager and General Manager Zhen to evacuate from Hebei."

Han Shiye laughed, "Since that's the case, I'll give Duan Da a big surprise."

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July 26th, dusk, Hejian County, Hebei Province, Houcheng.

Houcheng is located on the west bank of the Hung River. After crossing the river for more than fifty miles, it is Gaoyang Town. Du Yanbing, the commander of the Seventh Army of the Alliance, captured Houcheng with lightning speed and Jinkou leading to Gaoyang.

Li Fengyun ordered the troops to take a temporary rest and start crossing the river after the early morning and launch an attack on Gaoyang on the eve of dawn.

At the night military conference, the rich and powerful men gathered in the military tent, each smiling happily, full of confidence, and morale was very high. Hao Xiaode, Liu Heita, Sun Xuanya and other heroes in Hebei were originally very dissatisfied with Li Fengyun's arrangements. It was not until Li Fengyun came to them on the way north that everyone suddenly realized and admired Li Fengyun very much, and was determined to win the battle against Gaoyang.

In fact, it sounds very simple, it is the asymmetry of information. Li Fengyun is very familiar with Gao Yang's current situation, while Hao Xiaode and others are blinded by Gao Yang's real situation and know nothing about it.

The city of Gaoyang is indeed tall and strong, easy to defend and difficult to attack, but because the Holy Lord built Gaoyang Palace between Gaoyang Town and the Hutuo River, the focus of the garrison shifted to the palace city. However, Gaoyang City and Gaoyang Palace were not Li Fengyun's targets. Li Fengyun's target was a temporary storage located on the banks of the Hutuo River to hoard various materials such as grain.

During the Eastern Expedition, Gaoyang's materials were transported to Zhuo County by water, so naturally they had to build transit warehouses in Jinkou. This time, Yang Xuangan rebelled and the Grand Canal was interrupted. In order to ensure the military supplies of the Eastern Expedition, most counties in Hebei that were not affected by the rebellion naturally became the targets of the imperial court's focus on collecting. Suddenly, the harvest of summer grains was given to local governments the opportunity to impose intensive taxes. Therefore, grain from various places was sent to Gaoyang, and the transit warehouses at Jinkou could not accommodate them, so they quickly expanded.

The most important thing after the expansion of warehouses is of course a safety issue. After all, the bandits such as Geqian and Gaokaidao in the north of Bohai County are only more than 400 miles away from Gaoyang. The bandits in the plains and Qinghe are now frequently active on the north bank of Yongji Canal. If you are not careful, you may rush to the Hejian to cause disaster, endangering Gaoyang's safety.

Xu Hua, who was also the commander of Gaoyang Palace Supervisor, specifically asked Duan Da for help from Zhuo County. Duan Da was too busy to take care of himself, and was even more powerless in the allocation of troops. Xu Hua had no choice but to ask for help from Hejian County where Gaoyang was located and the surrounding Shanggu, Boling, Xindu and other counties, but the counties all politely refused for various reasons. Now the thieves in Hebei are rampant, and the garrisons of the counties are in demanding people, and they are robbing people with levies and taxes. They don’t have enough people, so how can they care about Gaoyang? Besides, although Xu Hua’s original hometown is from Gaoyang, Hebei, the Xu family has “broad and lush branches” in Jiangzuo after he crossed south. Now the Xu family belongs to the Jiangzuo noble group, and Xu Hua himself is also valued by the Holy Lord. Hebei people are very unhappy at first, so of course they have to "pull his back" at critical moments and add to the injustice.

As early as on the battlefield of the Dongdu, Li Fengyun received the news that the alliance went north in advance and failed to plunder enough food, he began to "focus on Gaoyang Town". For this reason, he inquired about information related to Gaoyang from many parties. Later, when he met with the King of Qi, he made up his mind to fight Gaoyang, because only in this way could he give the King of Qi a "high-sounding" excuse to go north to chase the alliance, so he asked the King of Qi to provide detailed information about Gaoyang Town. The King of Qi understood it and acted very quickly. Before Li Fengyun arrived in Fenglong Mountain, specific news about Gaoyang was delivered.

The Gaoyang Duwei Mansion has the right to recruit armed forces such as the local township clan regiments and clan regiments in the counties and counties around Gaoyang. However, due to the eastern expedition, most of these local armed forces went to Liaodong, and the rest were requisitioned by local counties. Therefore, the Gaoyang Duwei Mansion can actually call only one Gaoyang Yingyang Mansion, five regiments and one thousand Eagle Yang Guards, and this Thousand Eagle Yang Guards are the entire garrison force of Gaoyang, and are scattered in three places, Gaoyang Palace, Gaoyang City and Jinkou Warehouse. This shows how weak the Gaoyang garrison power is.

Xu Hua also worked hard for Gao Yang's safety. If he wanted to sing the empty city plan, he would certainly bluff. For this reason, he tried every means to create the illusion that multiple reinforcements were stationed in Gao Yang, and made great efforts, which made it well known. Everyone thought that Gao Yang was heavily guarded and was as vigilant as a destruction.

However, Li Fengyun saw through his empty city plan and destined that Xu Hua would defeat Gao Yang.

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Chapter completed!