The marching team in the dark was like several long snakes winding on the earth, advancing quietly towards the north.

"General, there are five miles ahead to Xindu."

"Very good, follow the plan. Cangcheng, you lead your troops to attack the city from the south, striving to go down in one go. If you can't, you should also attract the main force of the enemy as much as possible. Let's go west into the city!"

"Follow the order."

In the darkness, the army quickly divided into two routes and advanced north along the water.

Xindu City.

The soldier holding a spear yawned, wiped the overflowing tears, and couldn't help but jump a few times. It was cold in the middle of the night, and it was so cold that people could really freeze to death.

"Lei Er, do you say that the General General let everyone huddle in this Jizhou City, and refused to pass the Solu River. When will he drag it?"

"You care about him, you have food and drink here, do you have to go to war with Solushui?"

"But I heard that three groups of envoys have come from Erji Town in the north. We want to send troops east. I heard that we want to take Zaoqiang, and there are no Xuanfu army or Datong army stationed there..."

"Who said it? Can those people in Jizhen believe what they said?" The thin man named Lei Er wiped his nose and shrank his neck and said, "I heard from him that Zao Qiang is a trap. He coaxed us over. Maybe once he went over, he would be surrounded by the Xuanfu army. At that time, he should not be called "Di Di Tian Tian is not effective. Who will save us?"

"But we've been consuming here all the time. How can we fight this battle?" The soldier holding a spear sucked his nose. "I heard that Jizhen Army fought in the north, and we didn't have any movement here, so how can we pay the ticket?"

"What are you afraid of? The people in the northwest of the south are the same. They are in Guangzong and Weixian County, and they are still moving. Isn't this a war just depends on who is patient? Maybe as they drag, the other party can't afford to spend it and they will lose."

The two were talking, but they heard something inadvertently. Lei Er raised his back and raised his ears to hear something, but there seemed to be nothing. He poked his head out of the scepter and stretched out from the stool, looking at the black stool outside the city, with nothing.

"Xu San, did you hear any sound?" Lei Er asked worriedly.

"What sound?" Xu San was also startled and subconsciously leaned out, "I didn't hear anything, huh, what is that?"

Both of them stared at each other with confusion and raised the torch inserted beside them. Looking outside the city, there seemed to be strange sounds outside the city, which seemed to be shaking the ground and neatly impacting, slowly getting louder and louder.

The two of them looked pale and they realized in an instant that this was the marching of large groups of troops. Without even thinking too much, they grabbed the gatehouse and shouted loudly: "Enemy attack, enemy attack!"

Immediately afterwards, the sound of a warning sound of gold warning sounded, and the entire Xindu City suddenly became restless.

At this moment, the army outside the city suddenly raised a fire, and a pattern like a galaxy in the dark night appeared under the city wall. The soldiers no longer needed to hide anything and rushed towards the edge of the city wall.

The entire Xindu city was in chaos. Su Shengdu, who woke up from his sleep, couldn't believe that he would be attacked. Where did the enemy come from? Is it the Datong Army or the Xuanfu Army? Or the local civil war?

As soon as he received an attack from Nancheng, the enemy was hitting the city gate and climbing up the city wall. He hurriedly ordered the reserve team to reinforce Nancheng immediately. It was heard from there that the Xicheng gate was opened by the inside of the city, and the enemy army entered the city.

This news made Su Shengdu's eyes dark and his body moved down suddenly. It's over!

When Liu Baichuan heard the news, he was so shocked that he almost jumped out of his chair.

"What did you say? Where did you get the news?"

"General, we are the Shanxi Town defeated soldiers who ran down from the north. Our scouts encountered a large number of Shanxi Town defeated soldiers in the Ganling City area, with hundreds of people running away from Nangong County." The subordinates who reported the report were also sweating heavily on their faces. They obviously rushed back all the way and came to report it in a hurry.

"After just led a team from Wei County to walk north along the Bingshui River, I didn't expect to meet the scouts sent out before. Xuanfu army raided Jizhou, Shanxi army was defeated, and the entire army was destroyed..."

"How can the Xuanfu Army be so easily destroyed? More than 50,000 people, even 50,000 pigs, the Xuanfu Army cannot kill them all at once!" Even Liu Baichuan was calm and could not help but get angry, and swept all the pens, inks, paper and inkstones on the desk to the ground: "Are they the Xuanfu Army or the Datong Army? Isn't Sun Shaozu confronting Su Shengdu?"

"It is said to be the Xuanfu Army, not the Datong Army!" his subordinates also replied impatiently: "Xie Wensheng's troops of the Xuanfu Army!"

It was said that it was Xie Wensheng's army, but Liu Baichuan didn't speak for a while.

Xie Wensheng is the number one general under Niu Jizong. When Wang Ziteng was the General of Xuanda, he was the deputy general and was also a long-time general who had fought countless battles with the Chahar people.

But wasn’t Xie Wensheng’s army still in Dongchang Prefecture? How could he suddenly run to Jizhou hundreds of miles away? Even if there is a canal to mobilize, it is impossible, unless the other party had already made plans and even kept pretending to cover it up, and successfully deceived himself.

Thinking of this, Liu Baichuan was even more angry. There was no doubt that if this was the case, he would be responsible. He did not find that tens of thousands of troops slipped away from under his nose, which would lead to such a situation.

"How did the Xuanfu army sneak attack Jizhou? Didn't they even notice the attack on Nangong?" Liu Baichuan slowly took back his thoughts, but he still couldn't believe it.

Although Su Shengdu was a little mediocre, he was very cautious in deploying troops. In Xinhe, Nangongdu was stationed in Nangongdu. Although there were no troops in Zaoqiang, there were a large number of ranger sergeants. It was difficult for the Xuanfu army to escape the eyes and ears of these ranger sergeants with more than 3,000 people. In addition, there were also Solushui and Shishui blocking. How could the Xuanfu army achieve such an easy raid?

"I heard that the Xuanfu army quietly landed from Jiama camp north of Wucheng, then advanced east overnight, bypassed Nangong County from the south of Nangong, and then penetrated directly between Xinhe and Nangong, and sneaked into Jizhou. Su Shengdu was unprepared and caught off guard, so..."

His subordinates spoke a little low, especially when they talked about Nangong Nan, he paused, but Liu Baichuan's heart trembled.

Nangong County is right next to Guangzong County. If the Xuanfu army bypassed Nangong County, it would definitely pass through Weixian and Guangzong. Since the Shanxi Army and the Northwest Army had no contact with each other and there was little contact between the two sides, a gap between Guangzong and Nangong was formed, and who knew that they were actually caught by Niu Jizong.

"I remember we had garrisons in Mingshui City, didn't we find it?" Liu Baichuan asked in a deep voice.

Mingshui City is north of Wei County. In the fifth year of Wude in the early Tang Dynasty, Taizong Li Shimin and Liu Heita fought here, and repeatedly fought for it. In the later Yuan Dynasty, Weizhou was established here, and Liu Baichuan stationed 500 troops here, which was to guard against the enemy's north of Wei County and Guangzong. However, he did not expect the enemy to be so bold.

"Mingshui did not find it. After all, there are still dozens of miles away from Nangong. With such a big gap, even if tens of thousands of people have to go there, it is easy," the subordinate explained.

Liu Baichuan was no longer thinking too much. Although he was not sure what the Shanxi army had been beaten, it can be imagined that even Jizhou was captured. Then Su Shengdu’s so-called defense iron triangle Jizhou, Nangong, and Xinhe would probably collapse. The 50,000 army would probably be left. If the Xuanfu army took advantage of the situation and swept south, could the 20,000 people be able to withstand it?

Liu Baichuan felt a little excited.

His 20,000 people were scattered on the front of thousands of miles from Julu to Dongming. Although the southern line was not arranged too much because it relied on the main force of the Northwest Army, it still left behind five thousand people. In this area in the north, there were only 15,000 troops.

Except for the eight thousand main forces stationed in Jize, the other seven thousand people were in Daming Prefecture, Julu and Guangzong respectively. They were too scattered. Once the Xuanfu army rushed south rapidly, they might not be able to resist it.

Liu Baichuan had no time to think about it and immediately ordered: "In addition to the scouts staying for many times, he ordered Mingshui City, Guangzong, and Julu troops to retreat south to Jize concentration, and the troops of Daming Prefecture also concentrated in Yongnian to prevent accidents."

I have to say that Liu Baichuan reacted quickly enough. When the Northwest Army had just withdrawn from Mingshui, Julu, Guangzong and Weixian, the Xuanfu Army, which had won again in Nangong, met with another Xuanfu Army that advanced west from Linqing, and quickly captured Guangzong, and almost surrounded thousands of troops in Guangzong.

The two sides fought on the front line of Pingxiang, but the scale was not large, and they were both contact battles between small troops.

Just as the Xuanfu army raided Jizhou and defeated the Shanxi army with one sentence, the Northwest Army Liu Dongyang's troops suddenly advanced eastward, crossed the Yellow River, bypassed Fengxian, defeated a unit of Huaiyang Army in Peixian, and then conquered Xiazhen in one fell swoop, completely shaking the throat of the canal.

After Liu Dongyang took over Xia Town, he still had an unsatisfactory feeling. He captured Yi County to the south and broke into Teng County to the north. The Xuanfu army had few troops on this line. Liu Dongyang's troops took advantage of the situation to sweep the entire southwest of Yanzhou and made people overwhelmed the entire southwest of Yanzhou.

After Liu Dongyang's troops captured Xia Town and surrounding Yi County and Teng County, Tu Wenxiu's troops followed suit and drove the Huaiyang army out of Feng County and Pei County, completely controlling the area north of the Yellow River from Dangshan to Yi County, completely separating the Huaiyang army and Shandong.

At this point, Liu Dongyang took the opportunity to set up a pass in Xia Town to inspect ships from south to north. It was strictly forbidden for ships to travel north to transport grain, cloth, weapons and other strategic materials to the north, completely interrupting the supply line between the Xuanfu Army and the Datong Army.
Chapter completed!