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When dawn arrived, the Weizhou capital Lingqiu City had already replaced the flags of Zhendongjun and Li Guan. Next to these two flags, there was a slightly smaller general banner, which read the official position of the general who occupied Lingqiu City at this time.

"The ten generals of the vanguard of the Zhendong Army's valeman, the deputy of the Yin Gun Battalion, rushed to the capital's general Li"

The four disciples of Li Xiaocun, Li Guan, was ranked fourth among the four disciples of Li Guan. In the last battle at Zhigu Pass, Li Cunxiao was the best in the army. At that time, the four young generals suddenly broke out behind Zhigu Pass. The defenders were caught off guard and rushed to fight. Li Xiaocun only braved the rain of arrows to kill the city. The generals guarding the pass came to fight. As a result, Li Cunxiao captured him as soon as he made a move. He wanted to steal the main general back, but Li Cunxiao had one iron spear at a time, and no one could get close to him.

In that battle, as many as 113 people died under Li Cunxiaohun's iron spear, and more than ten officers including the guards of Zhigu Pass and the generals of the team were captured alive.

This battle completely exerted Li Cunxiao's reputation. After the war, the soldiers involved in this battle were shocked and all of them were legendary about Li Cunxiao's courage in the army, and someone gave him the nickname Li Hengchong.

After hearing this, Li Guan smiled and simply called Li Cunxiao to call Li Hengchong, and directly selected 200 elite cavalry to be led by Li Cunxiao, and these were named Hengchongdu. Liu Xun, Wang Yanzhang, and Gao Siji were also rewarded, and each led the elite cavalry of one capital.

After breaking the pass, the Zhendong Army did not continue to advance quickly, but temporarily rested. Li Guan just sent the cavalry from Li Wei's Flying Eagle Camp to scatter and go to Weizhou to inquire about the news.

"Why don't the county lord take advantage of the victory and kill before Lingqiu City is ready or escape?" Guo Chengan followed behind Li Guan and climbed to Zhigu Pass to look into the distance.

Li Yan smiled slightly, did not answer directly, but turned to ask Li Zhen, "Xingxu. Do you think we should attack immediately at this time?"

"At this time, the attack can capture all the Zhu Xie party members in Lingqiu City in one fell swoop." Li Zhen said, twisting his beard, but after a little pondering, he said: "But the Duke of the County has captured this pass, but he has temporarily rested here. Zhen thought that the Duke of the County seems to be planning to hunt like a group of wolves. He found that the prey did not rush up directly, but drove up and chased him first. Then when the other party was exhausted, he would naturally fall behind and be alone, so that he could easily catch the one behind."

This explanation only shows the reason why Li Guan did not attack immediately from a tactical perspective. The real reason is that after Li Guan entered Jin, he did not intend to really fight the Shatuo people. Although Shatuo's soldiers were few, the strength of the Shatuo people cannot be ignored. Although the Zhendong Army won consecutive battles, it could not conceal the Zhendong Army's weakness was actually too young.

Such weakness in the past was either because of their weak opponents or because of their excellent tactical strategy. But this is Daibei, which is the territory of the Shatu people. The Shatu people's toughness does not need to be explained. Even if Li Keyong and his son are not in Datong now, these Shatu soldiers are not so easy to deal with. Fight hard and hard. Although they can definitely defeat them, they will also cause great losses to the Zhendong Army.

In the battle of Zhigu Pass, although Li Cunxiao and his team captured this pass by 1,000 people, and Li Cunxiao killed more than 100 people. However, the results of the battle were found that he annihilated 1,000 enemies in this battle, and the Zhendong Army that participated in the battle also lost nearly 500 people.

He attacked a dangerous pass with a thousand people guarding one thousand people, and finally captured the pass city and wiped out the enemy. The casualties were exchanged for two. If it were others, it was a great victory. But in Li Guan's view, this was a huge battle loss ratio that the Zhendong Army had never encountered before. Especially those Shatuo people finally escaped more than ten cavalry, and all the others did not surrender, and they fought to the last man.

Li Guan learned from several Shatuo wounded soldiers that the last person who escaped was Li Keyong's newly adopted son, Li Siyuan. When he heard this name, Li Guan was very surprised. Li Siyuan, one of Li Keyong's thirteen Grandmasters, in history, he and Li Cunxiao were both Li Keyong's adopted sons. The two were brothers. Although Li Siyuan was not as brave as Li Cunxiao, he was also a brave and wise general.

In history, Li Siyuan was the real Li Hengchong. When he was very young, he followed Li Keyong to fight south and north, brave and fearless, and could fight. In previous battles, Li Siyuan often led the most elite cavalry and forcibly broke through the enemy formation. Everyone said that "Li Hengchong" was famous for his bravery. At that time, he defeated the famous general of Later Liang and Ge Congzhou at Qingshankou, defeated Liao Taizu Yelu Abaoji in Youzhou, and took advantage of the Yellow River freezing opportunity to attack Yanzhou. He ended the 40th year of Liang and Jin, and finally attacked Bianzhou. The one who destroyed Later Liang and Liang was Li Siyuan's troops. It can be said that during the establishment of the Later Tang Dynasty, Li Siyuan made great contributions.

Moreover, Li Siyuan was a rare simple, loyal, loyal and upright person. However, under the tide of the Five Dynasties, even a loyal and honest person like Li Siyuan had to be forced to become the leader of the rebel army under the subsequent tide of the times, and had to go step by step, and forced Zhuang Zong Li Cunxu to death became Mingzong of the Later Tang Dynasty.

Li Guan couldn't help feeling a little regretful when he took down Zhigu Pass and actually missed such a big fish. Now Li Siyuan is just Li Keyong's newly acquired son, but Li Guan knew that this man was definitely in the level of the Five Tiger Generals in the Jin army, not to mention that he was the Emperor Mingzong who was on the dragon throne of the seventh year of the Later Tang Dynasty.

It was this battle that the Shatuo people's fierce and fearless brute force Li Guan to consider the fact that it really fought. If there was no numerical advantage, the Zhendong Army was actually not as good as the Shatuo Army. Fighting forcing would inevitably lead to great damage.

"Xingxu, what do you think is the purpose of our entry into Jin this time?" Li Guan asked.

Of course, he entered Jin to suppress the rebellion in accordance with the order, but things were not that simple. Li Zhen’s evaluation of Li Guan in his heart, this master seemed to be a man who could not get up early on the surface, but in fact, although he was young, he had a very strategic vision. Many of his actions were played in a big game. Entering Jin was not just because of the emperor's will. Although Li Guan was quite loyal to the emperor on the surface, Li Zhen had long seen that this was just because maintaining loyalty to the emperor is the most beneficial method for Zhendong Army. If this were not the case, Li Guan would never obey the emperor so much. From his original intention, he could not see the true loyalty to the emperor in his bones.

What was the purpose of entering Jin to quell the rebellion?

After thinking about it, Li Zhen thought it was for fame and reputation. Although Li Guan said that the emperor valued it, he was not strong after all, and he was not even a military governor. Now he was just a defense envoy, and there were also defense envoys, observation envoys, and military governors on the surface.

Especially now that Li Guan has offended the eunuch Tian Lingzi, Li Guan is completely at a disadvantage to fight him. If you want to change this situation, you will strengthen your own strength. This strength not only includes military, horses, money, grain, and territory, but also fame and reputation.

Li Guan was not from a wealthy family. Although he was Cui Yunqing, Yu Guan's disciple, and Song Wei's adopted son, this aspect was still insufficient. In this way, Li Guan could only rely on war to improve his reputation and popularity. This is how Li Guan can be today.

The rebellion of Shatu people was unstoppable from the beginning, and the court could not curb the successive changes of commanders.

If Li Guan could defeat the Shatuo people at this time, then Li Guan and Zhendong Army's prestige would be truly famous all over the world. At that time, even a great eunuch like Tian Lingzi had to worry much.

Li Zhen expressed his thoughts with reservations.

"Since we are trying to suppress the rebellion and strengthen the reputation of our army in the east, shouldn't we take a more attack?" Guo Chengan didn't turn around for a moment.

Li Yan smiled slightly and did not express all his thoughts.

There are several ways to fight in war. At present, among the seven towns of the imperial court, Li Guan was just a side-level army. Although he served as the commander of the Eastern Front Camp, his status was far inferior to Zheng Cong-chan, and even Yu Guan and Li Jun were not as good as that of Yu Guan. In this case, if Li Guan really fought all the way and finally fought with the Shatuo people who stayed in Daibei, even if Daibei was recovered, he would not make much contribution.

The most important thing in this rebellion is not to recover Daibei, but to defeat Li Keyong and Li Guochang.

Li Yan's goal is Li Keyong and his son. Now, he does not intend to consume power here unnecessary. What's more, if he really takes up Li Keyong's backyard here immediately and he consumes his strength in vain, it is very likely that Zheng Cong-sei and other soldiers in the middle will get a bargain.

"The brothers were tired after conquering Zhigu Pass. Let's take a break for a while, and collect military rations on the spot. By the way, according to the previous arrangement, for Weizhou, we need three lights, search all the cow heads and animals, collect all the money, grain, gold and silk, and all the people and the border people." Li Guan said.

Li Guan’s idea is very simple now. He just needs to lead the army to suppress the Shatu soldiers from various cities in Daibei and evacuate voluntarily. Then he easily recaptured the cities and robbed all the cattle, sheep, horses, money, grain, and property from the northern city. He even wanted to move all the people from the northern city to southern Liaoning and Dengzhou.

As for whether the left-behind Shatuo people would withdraw and go to join Li Keyong and others to increase their power, Li Guan didn't care.

The first merit in joining Jin was to recover Daibei. This was Li Guan's goal. Moreover, he wanted to recover Daibei, but he did not intend to fight with the Shatuo people, but wanted to easily accept this surnamed Cheng. He rushed these people to join Li Keyong first. It would be best if Li Keyong got these soldiers and could beat the imperial soldiers and horses. Otherwise, how to show the bravery and extraordinaryness of the Zhendong Army.
Chapter completed!