As the head coach, Xu Huai was also the main general who charged forward. He handed over all the tedious affairs to Xu Wujiang, Zhou Jing, Fan Yong, Zhang Xiongshan and others as much as possible to coordinate the leaders of the rebel army. He and Wang Ju stayed at the Nanxun Gate Tower to maintain their energy as much as possible.

Chaohui pavilion shone down, and the morning light was shining brightly. Xu Huai sat on the ground with his back against the wall, with a long knife lying on his knees and chewing jerky in small mouths. Seeing Fan Yong come over with an old, two young and three soldiers in imperial guard uniforms, patted the brick floor in front of his knees, and signaled Fan Yong to sit down and talk without any rituals:

"Are there some old soldiers from Jingsheng Army looking for in the defenders on Changtai Bridge?"

"Changtai Bridge was surrounded by more than 500 defenders, and they all gave up their resistance. They first commanded eleven old subordinates," Fan Yong squatted down and said to Xu Huai, "Where is the Seven Generals?"

"It's time to make up for your sleep!" Xu Huai pointed to the city tower and said.

Nanxun Gate experienced several wars, and there were burning traces everywhere, but the overall structure was still good. The soldiers who were replaced were lying on the ground in the city tower, snoring one after another, but they were not disturbed.

"Go and bring the seven generals over!" Fan Yong ordered a guard to say.

"What's the matter with calling me?" Wang Ju took a nap for a while. At this critical moment, he couldn't sleep happily. Hearing the movement here, he walked out of the city tower and asked.

"Do you still remember me when Ge Xun met the seventh generals?" The old soldier Ge Xun said to the king.

"Ge Xun!" Wang Ju excitedly grabbed the old servant Ge Xun's shoulder, looked at his deeply wrinkled face and his frosty and sparse crown hair, and asked, "Why are you still in the army? Why don't you come to find me and Fan Yong? Don't you know that we have all arrived in Chushan?"

"I haven't made a single person like this, so where can I find the Seventh General, Young Master!" Ge Xun briefly explained the fate of Jingzhou after leaving, pulled his two stepsons to come and asked them to salute Wang Ju and Xu Huai.

"Wang Shuai died unjustly. These two kids were still young when they adopted my Ge family. I took one word from Wang Shuai's name and used it as their name. I would like to ask Jie Shuai. Seven Generals should not blame him!" Ge Xun said.

"How can we blame? We are people who do not talk about right and wrong?" Wang Ju said, "You will stay with me in the future to do things!"

"I'm afraid it won't work at this time. Master Zhou is eager to ask Ge Xun to help with the work. I just bring them over first to meet you." Fan Yong said.

At this time, they had identified 27 veterans of the Jingsheng Army. What they urgently need to do now is to sort out the list of veterans of the Jingsheng Army whom they know and are still among the surrendered army in Bianliang.

The city of Bianliang, which is seventy miles away, is still too big and too complicated in the eyes of the world.

The combat effectiveness of the rebel generals and soldiers is limited, and the number of Chushan's elite soldiers who can be used is limited. Not to mention attacking Licheng (inner city), it is impossible to defeat the nearly 40,000 surrendered troops stationed in the outer city one by one in a short period of time.

Two years ago, he rushed to Taiyuan thousands of miles in the cold winter. The journey seemed much longer, but at that time, Xu Huai determined that the core target of the Chihu people was Bianliang, and it was expected that the main force of the captured troops would never be able to easily return to Taiyuan before Bianliang was captured.

Therefore, although the Chihu people left tens of thousands of soldiers on the northern line at that time, Xu Huai had the opportunity to attack him calmly with time.

After rescuing Taiyuan soldiers and civilians and retreating into Luliang Mountain, Xu

Huai was not worried about going south to evacuate later and facing crazy pursuit from the enemy soldiers.

The situation was completely different when this raid on Bianliang.

The main force of Chihu and the surrendered army was located in Zhengzhou, which was stationed by Xiaogan. The cavalry could only rush to support Bianliang in one day; the current old nest of Yuehailou, Wanqiu, Chenzhou, is less than 300 miles away from Bianliang, Chihu Ping Yan Army and the main force of Yanji surrendered army, Bozhou, Xusu and other places, which were stationed by the main force of Yanji surrendered army, was only three to five days away from Bianliang.

Strictly speaking, Xu Huai and his team may have only two to three days in Bianliang. After this time point, if they cannot evacuate in time, they may be surrounded by elite enemy troops who have returned to support several times and are unable to escape.

In such a short time, let alone conquering the Licheng City of Bianliang, even if Yang Jingchen led more than 10,000 elite troops to defend the Licheng City, they would not be able to occupy the entire outer city simply by relying on force.

This time, the more important thing is to deal with several or even dozens of times the enemy's encirclement, blockade and evacuate calmly. This also determines that in the early stage of the attack on Bianliang, we must use our troops and avoid major casualties.

In fact, after defeating and capturing the defenders of Changtai Bridge, in addition to sending a group of rebel generals to station Changtai Bridge, Wuchihai's troops took a break near Changtai Bridge, and Fan Zongqi and other generals led the new guards of the two capitals to Changtai Bridge, and continued to kill to Guanglimen with Han Changfu and other rebel troops.

On the one hand, Guanglimen is the entrance to the river channel of the Cai River entering Bianliang City. When the water gate is opened, the boat can directly enter the outer city of Bianliang; on the other hand, the Cai River is just enough to enclose an area of ​​about eight miles from east to west and about two thousand five hundred steps deep in the north and south.

This area occupies the core of the southern outer city of Bianliang, located directly south of Bianliang, and is separated from other areas by rivers more than ten feet wide.

Including Guanglimen, Pujimen, Nanxunmen and five bridges located on the river channel have become key points for controlling entry and exit and conducive to centralized defense.

The capture of Changtai Bridge, Guanglimen and other key rushes, and controlling the encircled area within the southern outer city was the core target of the early battles of Bianliang.

With their troops, they do not have the ability to directly extend outside this area to fight.

Although the surrendered troops of Bianliang were weak, they defended the city towers, military camps and other buildings with corresponding defensive facilities. Even if the elite Chushan Mountains were strong, they would have to pay a certain price to attack.

Therefore, they had to find another way to dismantle the Bianliang defenders.

This is also one of the main reasons why Zhou Jing advocated recruiting old soldiers from Jingsheng Army in front of the formation.

Although only twenty-seven old soldiers of the Jingsheng Army were found, among the two thousand soldiers of the Bianliang surrendered army captured after the capture of Nanxun Gate, there must be quite a lot of people who are still in blood and are not willing to be accused of tigers. In the past, the enemy was only forced by the situation.

At this time, with the old soldiers of Jingsheng Army as the guide, they could quickly find these soldiers who are still bloody and unwilling to fight against the enemy, persuade them to put down their ideological burdens, put down their concerns, and directly use Chushan.

In the past, it might take many geniuses to complete a change of thought, but at this critical moment, they do not have such ample time.

Zhou Jing hoped that there would be immediate results, and that there would be one or two hundred people available immediately. However, through them, they encouraged the defenders in other areas of the outer city to abandon the darkness and turn to the light, and divide the other areas of the outer city.

The defenders of the domain may further weaken their will to resist and better create combat conditions for assault operations in other areas.

This is also the real meaning of Zhou Jing, Yan Xiaoyi, Zhang Xiongshan, Liu Yueting, Han Qihu and others fighting with the army, rather than simply scouts to spy on the enemy's situation.

In the past, only a small part of the Imperial Army in Gyeonggi lived in outer city (Guocheng), while more of them lived in military camps in Gyeonggi, and they were able to share some of the fields to make up for the lack of expenses.

After the fall of Bianliang, tens of thousands of soldiers surrendered to the enemy, and their families basically moved to the outer city to live.

On the one hand, a large number of people fled in the city of Bianliang, resulting in a large number of houses in the middle of the city being empty, and a large amount of wasteland outside the city could be reclaimed; on the other hand, it is also to facilitate control of the surrendered army in Bianliang, basically moved to the outer city area to live in a concentrated area, and basically they were closely adjacent to the defense areas of the surrendered soldiers.

In other words, Xu Huai and his friends invaded the two thousand surrendered troops captured by Nanxunmen, and their families mainly lived in the area surrounded by Caihe.

Fan Yong rushed back to Nanxun Gate. In addition to leading Ge Xun to meet Xu Huai and Wang Ju, there was another thing that Zhou Jing wanted to release the prisoners who handed over the army and armor and weapons directly to his home, and did not take centralized custody.

The release of these prisoners into their homes would not pose any threat to them in a short period of time, and would save the forces of concentrated custody. However, doing so would further soften the will of these prisoners to resist and promote more soldiers to take their homes to Chushan.

And these small families should pass through the rebel army as soon as possible, and immediately evacuate the outer prefectures and counties before the enemy aid arrives, and hide them, and reduce the pressure on their subsequent evacuation as much as possible.

"If you have agreed, do it!" Xu Huai said.

To command troops and fight is far more than just charging into battle. Xu Huai is also glad that with the help of Xu Wujiang, Zhou Jing, Zhang Xiongshan and other groups, he was able to concentrate on the progress of the war.

As soon as Fan Yong and Ge Xun left, something happened to the Zhuque Gate. More than 200 cavalrymen and about 500 armored soldiers came out of Zhuque Gate.

Xu Huai stood on the Nanxun Gate Tower and saw these men entering the enemy array on the south side of Longjin Bridge. More than a thousand enemy troops who had previously lined up on the south side of Longjin Bridge automatically made way out to both wings and gave up their position in the central army.

"This is a big fish swimming out of the Vermillion Bird Gate!" Wang raised his eyebrows and said, "Depending on the situation, we have to dispatch a rush cavalry this time..."

In order to better pass through the enemy defense line between Chenzhou and Xuzhou, and lurk in Yanling and Weishi County, most of the two thousand guards left their horses in Ye County and Wuyang.

However, in order to ensure a certain assault force, the three hundred thunder cavalry organization were still maintained, and three or four hundred war horses were brought into Yanling through various means, and the Weishi County was hidden.

At this time, the enemy had seven or eight hundred new forces joining the array in the south of Longjin Bridge. At first glance, they could tell that they were elite enemy soldiers. Of course, they could not be stingy with investing in the most elite thrust horses!

"Okay, let's go and meet Wang Xian!" Xu Huai habitually pulled out his sword to check the blade before going into battle. He bent his fingers and bounced the blade, making a slight sound. Then he put the knife back into the sheath, pushed Niu Er, who was sleeping on the wall and whimpered, shouting, "Let's go, cut a few barbarian heads to have a drink at noon!"
Chapter completed!