Xue Chong's left Jinwu Guard was retreating, abandoning a large area and retreating to some major cities. During the retreat, the originally scattered troops were concentrated. It was obvious that the opponent wanted to concentrate his troops to guard some important areas to fight a protracted battle with the Liao army.

In Deng Jingshan and Zhang Zhongwu's view, this is naturally the most correct reaction, which shows that Xue Chong has a full understanding of the strength comparison between the two sides and is very clear that if he competes with the Liao army in the entire region, he will only lose even worse.

For Xue Chong, there is no need to compete with Zhang Zhongwu for a moment. He just needs to hold Zhang Zhongwu down and guard the throat of the Liao army entering the core area of ​​the northern region, even if he completed the task well.

When Li Ze conquered Chang'an, the form naturally reversed.

"Now Xue Chong's main forces are concentrated in Jianchang, with about 15,000 people. In addition, in Jianyuan and Suihua, there is a unit of nearly 10,000 people stationed in Suihua, forming their main defense line. At the same time, in Pingzhou, Mozhou and other places, Wang Wenshu, Bao Hui and others are recruiting local young and strong men to form a military force on a large scale." Deng Jingshan said.

"Young and strong people don't have to care too much. They can only be used as auxiliary services at most. Just defeat the opponent's main force, and the green and strong people will naturally scatter!" Zhang Zhongwu said: "It seems that we can directly attack Jianchang?"

Deng Jingshan said: "Theory is this, but there are still some troubles. In Pingzhou and Mozhou, there were originally a large number of docks and forts. These docks are now military settlement sites of the Tang army. According to the information obtained by spies, although the families of the reclaimed soldiers in these docks have retreated, the army is still stationed. Although the number of people is not large, it is a bit tricky. And there are hundreds of military settlement sites like this, large and small."

This is indeed a problem.

Similar military settlement sites also have large numbers of docks in Liao. Although these docks are not big, the maximum number is only one or two hundred people stationed at most, it is extremely difficult to attack this purely militarized dock, especially after the other party is ready.

If you want to defeat a dock with a fully equipped 200 people, you will need at least a team of thousands of people. As for how long it takes and how much the loss is, it depends on the specific situation. There is no certain rule.

"Xue Chong wants to borrow these big and small bays to delay our military operations!" Zhang Zhongwu smiled and said, "There is no need to pay attention to them at all. A large bay can only be stationed at most one or two hundred people. This little manpower cannot play a big role, and it is amazing that it is just harassment. Our main force ignores them at all, and just hits our main targets and hand over these bays to those servants to do. They will definitely be very motivated to take down these bays."

"I think so too." Deng Jingshan smiled and said, "But you know that on my side, the number of servants is far from enough."

"It doesn't matter. I will send some of them to you in advance and help you remove these forts one by one." Zhang Zhongwu nodded.

"In addition to these forts, I have another concern." Deng Jingshan pondered: "I wonder if the prince has considered that there might be enemies in the direction of the desert?"

The desert is actually controlled by Zhang Jia now. Although Zhang Jia's main force is extremely far away from here, this does not prevent the Tang army from hiding a cavalry in the desert. In the vast desert area, it is impossible for you to find out whether there is such an army. For the Tang army with a large number of barbarians, forming such a cavalry is not too difficult.

"I have sent a large number of scouts into these areas." Zhang Zhongwu said: "For this, we can only strengthen early warnings in order to detect as soon as possible, but in my opinion, what is more important is that we can quickly defeat Xue Chong's main force. As long as we complete this, even if there are enemies attacking from afar, it will not be a big threat."

"It turns out that the prince has been prepared for a long time." Deng Jingshan smiled and said, "Gao Li is still safe now. A while ago, didn't you say you wanted to change Li Zaidao?"

"This guy is very clever." Zhang Zhongwu said: "When I heard a little bit of the wind, I immediately became honest and obedient. Not only did my respect for our army increase on a large scale, but I also handed over the envoy sent by Tan Daoji to discuss peace with him to Chengyou. That man was Tan Daoji's clan uncle and a very important figure in Tan Daoji's side. This also made Tan Daoji furious and launched a fierce attack on the area controlled by Li Zaidao. His main force was very meaningless to come out of the mountain. At this time, it would be difficult to move him for a while. Let's remove Tan Daoji's power first!"

"Tan Daoji is now entrenched in the mountainous areas and his power is getting stronger and stronger. If he is not eliminated as soon as possible, it will inevitably lead to great trouble. Now he has a tendency to come out of the mountain, which is a good opportunity. You might as well let Li Zaidao and Chengyou show weakness to him, lure him out of the mountain, and then annihilate it in one fell swoop, completely eliminating this trouble!" Deng Jingshan suggested.

Zhang Zhongwu laughed: "The heroes have similar views. Chengyou is already doing this."

"Oh, have you started to lure Tan Daoji?"

"Yes. Chengyou set up a trap and pretended that his main force in Goryeo was withdrawing one after another because he wanted to participate in our attack on Tang land. To maintain Goryeo's public order and fight against Tan Daoji, the army will be dominated by Li Zaidao's army. You also know that Tan Daoji has always looked down on Li Zaidao. If we knew that our army had left, he would definitely go out to the mountains to launch an attack on Li Zaidao. In my opinion, Tan Daoji's recent series of military operations are testing our reactions." Zhang Zhongwu Dao.

"If we really have withdrawn the main force, we will definitely be unable to fight back against Tan Daoji's temptation, which will give him a reassurance." Deng Jingshan said.

"Before you come, I just received the latest military newspaper. Tan Daoji had captured three prefectures." Zhang Zhongwu said with a smile: "It's not far from the day his main force left his nest. Chengyou will continue to give him some sweetness and let Tan Daoji be further away from his nest. It's best to lure him to the plains and stay away from the mountainous areas, so that he cuts off his retreat and then wipes it out in one fell swoop."

"Chengyou is getting more and more experienced now." Deng Jingshan gave a thumbs up, "In this way, it is not far from completely solving the Goryeo problem. If you only need to take down Tan Daoji, the resistance forces in Goryeo will disappear. Taking this opportunity, we can further control Li Zaidao. I think that by that time, this person no longer needs to exist. Didn't he have given birth to a son? It would be better to help his son to the top, a young child, be easier for us to control."

"After destroying Tan Daoji, Chengyou can do these things slowly, so there is no need to worry!" Zhang Zhongwu Dao.

"Since everything is under the control of the prince, I can launch an attack towards Jianchang in the next time." Deng Jingshan said: "Prince, why don't you see Brother Zhongwen?"

"I know you're coming, so my brother went to prepare some gifts for you." Zhang Zhongwu said: "You can't let you run for a walk in the air. Arms, supplies, food, and money for excavation will follow you when you leave. A 10,000-person servant army will also follow you back. These people are eager to obtain land, identities, and want to make contributions. They are very eager to make contributions. They are a very useful knife."

Deng Jingshan was overjoyed and stood up and bowed deeply to Zhang Zhongwu: "Thank you, Prince. Jingshan will definitely live up to the prince's expectations, and advance bravely and attack Jianchang, striving to defeat Xue Chong's main force in Jianchang and open a passage for the prince's army."

He pressed the other party's shoulder and sat down. Zhang Zhongwu said, "After you go back, you will immediately launch an attack on Jianchang. I will launch a large army in early September. My brother stays in the rear to stay in charge. On the one hand, it is to deal with the autumn harvest, and on the other hand, it is to raise food and grass for us so that our attack will have no worries."

"If Jianchang can be successfully captured and the entire Pingzhou land can be taken into account, the harvest of Pingzhou land this season will greatly supplement our food needs and avoid the pain of long-distance transportation." Deng Jingshan said.

Hearing Deng Jingshan's words, Zhang Zhongwu couldn't help laughing. The autumn harvest season was about to come. If everything went well, he could indeed eat the enemy and plunder more supplies from the enemy. In recent years, Pingzhou, Mozhou and other places have developed rapidly and are a very good target of plunder.

Deng Jingshan stayed in Zhang Zhongwu's prince's mansion for two days and returned urgently. He naturally returned with his personal soldiers in advance. However, the servants and a large amount of weapons and food that Zhang Zhongwu promised to him were immediately transported behind him and moved towards Jinzhou in a mighty manner.

At this time, Wuhu Mountain, Liu Yan, Fan Jian and others were also making final preparations.

As expected before, the Liao army was unwilling to pay a huge price to attack Weihu Mountain and completely wipe out the bandits, but they could only send envoys to negotiate with Liu Yan and bribe to confuse Liu Yan so that he would not make trouble at this stage. At the same time, they also recruited the servants to cooperate with some regular Liao army to block Weihu Mountain to prevent Liu Yan from going down the mountain.

The Khitan man Xiao Jing was one of the servants who blocked Weihu Mountain. After Fan Tong gave Xiao Jing a large sum of money, Xiao Jing finally opened up the joints and avoided being conscripted into the army to attack the Tang army. Instead, he got a relaxed job and came to block Weihu Mountain.
Chapter completed!