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Although Li Jing was far away from Niupai Pass in Yunzhou, Daibei, he was actually paying close attention to the battle situation in Hedong.

In the tent of the Central Army in the Great Camp, a huge sand table in Hedong and Hequ had already been built. This was a sand table established by combining the detailed information found by the scouts of the Flying Eagle Camp and the Plum Blossom Gate. It was very standard, mountains, rivers, and city and city. In particular, each city and gate were equipped with a small flag marked with numbers. On one side of the sand table, there was a large screen with a piece of paper pasted on it and a string of numbers listed on it. Each number represents a small flag on the sand table. The number behind the number accurately describes the number of troops stationed in each city, the population, and even food resources.

There are several other maps next to it, which are marked with red and blue colors on the offensive routes and situation charts of the troops on both sides at this time.

More than a dozen counselors, staff officers, secretaries, clerks and other military staff members are constantly collecting the information they receive, and then analyzing the information. Finally, the analysis will be summarized from the analyzed information and displayed on the sand table and territory.

This is the General Staff that Li Jing has been working hard to form since the army was sent. Although there were also positions such as staff and Zanhua in the Tang army, the number was too small, and there were only one or two people in the army, which was difficult to play a big role.

In the past, it was fine if there were few soldiers, but now the more troops, the more intelligence and intelligence analysis became more and more important. Li Jing had planned to set up a separate intelligence department and a staff department. The situation report gate is specially collected and investigated various intelligences. He also developed a secret spy inside line, instigating surrenders, and even assassinating and beheading these tasks. At present, one of the sources of the Zhendong Army's intelligence is the Flying Eagle Camp and the other is the Meihua Gate. The two sides are not affiliated with each other, and the Feiying Camp is still a combat military camp, and the Meihua Gate is a secret anti-Tang organization that is currently only a cooperation.

It is obviously inappropriate to rely on them all the time.

The new intelligence department is still being secretly formed. The name Li Jing is temporarily planned to be the Xiaoqisi, and conducts reconnaissance. Alert, search, capture prisoners, and counter-spinion! Waiting for opportunities to infiltrate, intersperse, and detour in order to use surprise troops. The first task of the Xiaoqisi is to collect intelligence. Usually, it also has to undertake counter-spinion, interrogation of prisoners, as well as infiltration, spies, instigation, surrender, and assassination.

The first chief officer of the Knights was Lang General, and the rank was tentatively set as the wing-level military envoy. The first chief officer, Lang General, Li Jing, hesitated for a long time between Li Wei and Gongsun Lan. Li Wei was good at battlefield reconnaissance, while Gongsun Lan was a good player in infiltration, spies, and assassination. However, Li Wei's loyalty is more trustworthy. Even if Gongsun Lan was his lover, Li Jing was always a little wary of her origin. Secondly, she was a woman. After hesitating for a long time, Li Jing finally decided to hand over the position of the first Knightsun General to Li Wei, and Gongsun Lan was appointed as the deputy general to share infiltration, spies and assassination tasks.

The formation of the Knights is quite secret. In addition to the announcement of the senior civil and military departments at the military level such as Lin Wu Wang Chong, it is kept confidential. Li Wei still serves as the ten generals of the Flying Eagle Camp. The first batch of personnel of the Knights are not too many, but they are all elites in this regard, mainly from the Flying Eagle Camp and the Guards Camp.

In this regard, Li Jing made publicly. The level of the Staff Department is the same as the Staff Department. The Staff is temporarily named the Staff Department, and the chief officer is the marching staff. There are two deputys, and there are also the Senate and the Counselor, and a number of staff members are established. The Staff Department is currently only established at the military level, and their responsibilities are not easy. The first is to summarize and analyze the information collected by the intelligence department. What intelligence is true and what intelligence is false, and even find clues from some small intelligence and find more useful information. This is their basic responsibility. In addition to analyzing the intelligence, they will also serve as assistants of the main generals, responsible for formulating corresponding response measures based on the intelligence, making some major strategic layouts, and making tactical arrangements. It can be said that although the level of the Staff Department is not high, the highest marching staff is at the last of the first-level military officers, which is lower than the marching judge and the chief secretary, but the lower level has a great say.

This is also the reason why Li Jing directly established the three chief officers of the marching staff, the senator and the counselor.

The General Staff Office is the chief officer of the marching staff and the senators and counselors as the assistants. There are also several other staff officers and secretaries below, including yamen and clerks, who follow the army, ask for registration, and drive them, and randomly follow the officials, and other low-level staff members.

Li Jing was preparing to appoint Li Liang as the marching staff officer in the Staff Department, but Li Liang has now gone south to eastern Zhejiang, so he is temporarily acting as the marching Sima Li Zhen.

The Staff Office has its own tent, but now they are all working intensively in Li Jing's central army tent.

A lord trotted and reported from outside, sending in a new piece of information, which was sent from Li Wei. The information was sent to a staff officer, and he immediately began to conduct intelligence analysis to judge the authenticity of the information. Based on other information he had, he quickly determined that the information was most likely true.

With excitement, he immediately sent the information to a higher-level senior staff member, and after another analysis, he delivered it to the senator.

"The chief minister, the information sent from Hequ, Zhenwu Army was anyway, Li Guochang was defeated by Zhengliangjun City, and he went south to 10,000 troops. Zhenwu Army rebelled, all Shatuo Army were killed in battle. Li Guochang's three thousand Shatuo Army, including the three thousand Shatuo Army reinforced in Hedong, almost all the troops were wiped out. Shatuo Army envoy Li Jinzhong was captured, Li Keyong General Cheng Huaixin was killed in battle. Li Guochang escaped with only a few hundred cavalry." Li Zhen, a marching staff officer of the Procuratorate Staff Office, smiled happily, trembled the information in his hand excitedly, and reported to Li Jing.

Li Jing stood in front of the sand table and couldn't help but smile. He reached out and pulled up a black flag inserted in Yuzhou on the sand table and threw it aside, "Six thousand Shatuo Essence Cavalry were destroyed, Zhenwu Army, anyway, this is a great victory."

Soon, a staff officer planted the flag again in Yuzhou on the sand table, but this time it was replaced by Tuoba Sigong's white flag and Zhenwu Army's blue flag.

After only half a day, the General Staff received another urgent report.

"Zhenwu Army entered Shengzhou, Li Guochang pretended to be defeated and lured the enemy. Zhenwu Army was ambushed by Li Ke with 10,000 elite cavalry, and the entire Zhenwu Army was wiped out!"

Li Jing pinched his chin and nodded in disappointment, reached out and pulled out the small blue flag of Zhenwu Army that had just been inserted. The Zhenwu Army had completely eliminated this war. A staff officer immediately marked the battle locations of both sides on another map, and marked Li Keyong's marching route in blue.

As the intelligence continued to gather, Li Keyong's troops returned to Lanzhou, Hedong on the map.

Afterwards, the troops from the five towns in the middle line attacked and attacked Lanzhou and Xinzhou in two groups.

Then, two crossed red swords were drawn on Jingle and Honggu respectively on the map, and then the flag representing the Rolling Army on the sand table was pulled out.

"The Shatuo people first sent Kang Junli to Jingle County to challenge Su Hongzhen and Tuoba Sigong, and then pretended to be defeated and left. When the pursuers arrived at a mountain range in the Luliang Mountains, Li Guochang and Li Ke used ambushing out. After a fierce battle for a long time, they still fled, luring officers and soldiers to chase after Honggu, and then the real ambushing out in Honggu. Su Hongzhen pursued all the way, trapped people and horses, and was surrounded by ambushing and surrounded by them. He fought hard and died. More than 2,000 troops and horses under his command had escaped for a lifetime. However, Tuoba Sigong saw that the opportunity was not good and reacted very quickly. Although he was intercepted by Shatuo's soldiers, he finally escaped with nearly 2,000 cavalry. The loss was not too great."

In this battle, Li Keyong's series of tricks were very clever. He first pretended to be defeated and lured the enemy, and then another fake ambush, which completely led the officers and soldiers to the hook. Finally, a real ambush in Honggu destroyed the vanguard of the officers and soldiers. If the Dangxiang people were not alert, Tuoba Sigong would have been unable to escape. If Tuoba died, there would probably be no Xixia in the future.

After learning about the detailed process of this battle in Honggu, Li Jing not only became more afraid of Li Keyong, but also was quite interested in Li Keyong's adopted son, Shi Jingsi. In this battle in Honggu, Li Guochang and his son were personally baited. In fact, when they arrived in Honggu, they were indeed exhausted and had no combat power. This battle was entirely due to the one thousand cavalry led by Shi Jingsi to ensure the victory.

The two ambushings between the Camel Yan and Honggu gave Li Jing a greater understanding of the strength of the Shatuo people. If it were an ordinary army, after the defeat of the military city, the old nest of the Shanyu Protectorate's Mansion was destroyed, and the backyard was captured, the people were already panicked and their morale was no longer there. However, the Shatuo soldiers could still cross the river east and west, annihilated more than 10,000 enemies in two battles.

Just this kind of brave and fearless force, Zhendong Army is completely inferior to that.

The Shatuo people are a group of desperate people who rely on the fierceness of pinning their heads on their belts. Anyone who wants to kill him will have to be killed by him first.

Although Zhendong Army has won many battles, Li Jing actually knew very well that the Zhendong Army is really head-on and is not the opponent of the Shatu people at all. Zhendong Army is strong in military discipline, strong in excellent equipment, and strategic and tactical advantages. Unlike Li Keyong's Shatu people, they fought randomly and attacked from all sides. Although they finally won one after another, the situation was increasingly unfavorable to them.

Ginging at the series of marching routes of the Shatuo people on the sand table, Li Jing was slightly stunned.

Guo Chengan asked: "Monday, although the Shatu people won a battle, the situation is becoming increasingly unfavorable to them. This situation cannot change the situation by just one or two victory. Should we take action now? If it is too late, I am afraid that the Shatu people will be over, and then there will be no share of us."

Li Jing pursed his lips and suddenly asked Li Zhen: "What are the movements of Li Keyong's troops?"

"After the Battle of Honggu, Shatuo's troops entered Xinzhou, and seemed to plan to return to Shuozhou from Xinzhou through Daizhou! The judgement of the General Staff Department was that Li Keyong and his son were preparing to station troops in Yanmen Pass."

Yanmen Pass is the gateway for Daizhou to enter Shuozhou. After the Zhendong Army captured Taixi Pass, Li Keyong's wife Liu took all the soldiers and horses of Daizhou to Taiyuan to join Li Keyong. After Wang Chong requested Li Jing, he led his army to pass through Daizhou and announced that Zhendong Army had recovered Daizhou. After that, it did not station troops in Daizhou, but retreated back to Taixi Pass. As for Yanmen Pass, when Liu retreated, he did not withdraw the troops of Yanmen Pass on the border of Daishuo, but instead sent some troops to strengthen Yanmen's troops.

The General Staff Office judged that Li Keyong was preparing to go to Yanmen Pass, which was a reasonable speculation. After all, Yanmen Pass is the gateway to guard the Shuo River. If one man is the pass, ten thousand men will not open it.

However, Li Jing did not agree with this judgment, which was based on his understanding of Li Keyong's character and habits of using troops several times.

Li Keyong, who had just won two consecutive victories in Camel Yan and Honggu, would not stop so easily, especially when the five towns were still divided into three groups. He had just defeated Honggu's vanguard, and Li Keyong entered Xinzhou at this time, and would never have been as simple as going back to Shuozhou. To return to Shuozhou, he could go back to Shuozhou directly from Lanzhou. Now he ran to Xinzhou, which only shows one thing.

After Li Keyong defeated the left-wing vanguard, the Li Jun's Yicheng army had already set his sights on Li Jun's Yicheng army.

"Li Keyong wouldn't have such courage? Yi Cheng's army had 8,000 soldiers and horses. Although Li Keyong won several battles in a row, his troops were less than 10,000, and his troops were tired. He was afraid that it was unlikely that he would go all the way from Honggu, Lanzhou to Xinzhou to fight Li Jun." A consultant said in confusion.

"When analyzing the intelligence and judging the enemy's direction, the character of the main general is also very important. Li Keyong was young and rebellious, at least not defeated. Looking at his behavior after he seized Yunzhou, you can guess the character of this person. Now he is not at the end of his life. With his aggressive personality, how could he miss the opportunity to defeat each of them? I could almost expect that Li Keyong must have headed straight for Li Jun, and without any surprises, Li Jun will be defeated without waiting for Zhang Yanqiu's left-wing army to arrive." Li Jing expressed his judgment.

"If Li Jun is defeated, will the Shatuo people play Zhang Yanqiu again?"

"Zhang Yanqiu has 20,000 troops, and Li Keyong should not beat Li Jun before he hit him." Li Jing shook his head. Li Keyong was crazy, but he was still very powerful in using troops. Li Keyong was weaker than strategic layout, but tactical, using troops was elusive and very bold, and liked to take risks. However, after fighting Li Jun, the Shatuo people did not have the strength to fight another big battle. At that time, Li Keyong would probably go directly to Xin and retreat to Yanmen Pass.

"Do you notify General Wang Chong to send troops from Taixi Pass to support Li Jun, or set up an ambush in Daizhou to intercept Shatu soldiers?" Li Zhen suggested.

This is a very tempting proposal. Maybe the Zhendong Army can capture Li Guochang and his son in one fell swoop. However, this idea was just a circle in mind, and Li Jing finally decided. Wang Chong only had 3,000 soldiers and horses at Taixi Pass, which was far less than the Shatuo Army. At this time, it was too late to send troops south to reinforce. Although it was tempting to capture Li Guochang and his son, the risk was too great.

The troops are used steadily, and the Zhendong Army is currently in an absolute advantageous layout, so he will not take such risks.

"No, let them fight. Let's prepare to take the Niu Pi Pass first."
Chapter completed!