At this time, the Liyang court suddenly realized that there were only a handful of trustworthy generals available.
Thinking back to the beginning, among the veterans who have made great contributions during the Spring and Autumn Period, including Yang Shenxing, Yan Zhenchun, and Zhao Yang, which one of them was not a mainstay in the army who could stand alone?
But now, the old generals of the Spring and Autumn Period either died in the battle of Guangling Road when Western Chu restored the country, or died on Xu Fengnian's way south.
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Gu Jiantang also had to garrison the two Liaos to guard against Wang Sui and could not be mobilized any more.
For such a big man, Li Yang couldn't find anyone who could replace Lu Xiangsheng.
It was also at this time that Yao Baifeng, the imperial minister of the Imperial Academy, resigned due to illness, which did not cause any turmoil.
The good news for Li Yang is that the war in the south has finally improved.
After Lu Xiangsheng received the appointment from Liyang, he immediately used his power of control to gather the remnants of the Jing'an Second Road in the south of the Yangtze River. At the same time, he abandoned most of the Jiangnan Road and gathered in Jiangxin County. He was able to withstand the joint offensive of Xie Xijie and Kou Jianghuai. , the two sides fought fiercely on Jiangnan Road.
Chen Zhibao stationed troops at the Western Barrier, leading 80,000 troops to confront Zhang Bianguan.
On both sides, you attack and I defend, each showing his unique abilities.
Although Chen Zhibao had the advantage, he was unable to break through the Xichu defense line and reverse the situation.
This naturally caused many people in Liyang Dynasty to question the abilities of this white-robed soldier.
Many people believe that the reason why this world-famous villain has not taken down Zhang Bianguan, a Liyang Rebellion, is because he simply did not try his best.
This kind of speech is still very popular among the officials who live in Tai'an City.
Thinking back to the battle of the Western Barrier that destroyed Chu, Chen Zhibao was not inferior in the face of the soldier Ye Baikui.
Could it be that Zhang Bianguan could still compare with Ye Baikui?
Naturally, Zhang Bianguan cannot be compared with Ye Baikui.
After several battles, Chen Zhibao commented that Zhang Bianguan was a little immature compared to the late Chu Bingsheng.
But this does not mean that Zhang Bianguan is weak. On the contrary, his way of using troops is superb and combines virtual reality with reality.
And the troops led by Chen Zhibao were not the Northern Liang cavalry that conquered the Spring and Autumn Kingdoms.
The battle between Chen Zhibao and Zhang Bianguan can be described as extremely dangerous.
Although Zhang Bianguan lost two battles in a row, he was able to gather the remaining troops and stabilize his position each time with the help of his remaining backhand.
Later, relying on the support of Xi Chu from behind, Chen Zhibao was unable to expand his results.
When fighting against such a person, you never know what kind of killer is hidden behind his so-called defeat.
One time, Chen Zhibao fell into the trap prepared by Zhang Bianguan because he was chasing Zhang Bianguan. If it weren't for the Dian Xiong Zhu Yinbing in the camp, he would have realized something was wrong and quickly returned for reinforcements. The camp was almost captured by an ambush arranged by Zhang Bianguan.
From then on, Chen Zhibao led troops to fight Zhang Bianguan, and important generals must be left to guard the camp.
As the number of battles between the two sides increased, Chen Zhibao could clearly feel the improvement in his opponent Zhang Bianguan's command ability.
Chen Zhibao himself is best at large army battles. He can give full play to the abilities of each soldier and truly make the three armies operate like an arm.
This is his advantage, but now this advantage is constantly diminishing with the growth of Zhang Bianguan.
Chen Zhibao finally understood the meaning of what King Yan said before leaving Beiliang.
Even though Chen Zhibao, who had high hopes from Liyang, was unable to open up the situation as he wished, the situation in the south did not continue to deteriorate.
Liyang, who had Gyeonggi, Lianghuai, Jing'an and other places in his hands, could finally take a breath and began to recruit grain and grass, train soldiers, and support the southern front line.
As long as there is enough time, Zhao Zhuan is confident that he can use his huge physical advantage to destroy Xi Chu, who seems to be arrogant now.
As for Beiliang, whom Liyang has been worried about, news recently came back that Beiliang is preparing to continue using troops against Beimang.
This news reached Tai'an City, and the civil and military personnel, including Zhao Zhuan, breathed a sigh of relief.
In the eyes of these big shots, there is no difference between Beiliang and Beimang. They are both barbarians.
If a barbarian kills a barbarian, it would be best if both of them die together.
At worst, one will die and the other will be injured.
Beiliang fights Beimang, no matter who loses or wins, they will buy time for Li Yang.
Li Yang can use this time to concentrate on dealing with Xi Chu.
In order to prevent Beiliang from going south, Li Yang also made two preparations.
Xu Cong was sent to temporarily lead Jizhou General to continue to strengthen Jizhou's defense line. He must not let Beiliang cross the defense line as easily as last time.
Because Beiliang had already captured Xishu, in order to prevent it from rushing out from here, Liyang sent people to train the Qingzhou Navy day and night. At the same time, he appointed Lu Baijie, the Minister of War, to build the Qingcheng Mountain defense line, intending to block it from all aspects.
In this situation, time passed by the end of the second year of Xiangfu and came to the third year of Xiangfu.
In the past year, the offensive and defensive momentum between Liyang and Xichu has reversed.
Lu Xiangsheng, who had been guarding for nearly a year, finally began to use his full strength to push back Xi Chu with Li Yang's full support.
On the Western Chu side, Xie Xijie and Kou Jianghuai blocked Lu Xiangsheng and started a cruel tug-of-war on Jiangnan Road.
Chen Zhibao and Zhang Bianguan were still taking turns attacking each other, and their troops had been rotated several times.
Once there are casualties, the rear can immediately replenish the troops.
Therefore, both sides maintain around 80,000 troops each.
During this period, Li Yang had the idea of replacing Chen Zhibao and reopening the situation due to internal discussions.
So the famous generals Xu Gong and Qi Shence were temporarily transferred to replace Chen Zhibao in charge of the Liyang army in the west barrier.
Qi Shence studied at Shangyin Academy. He was second only to Xu Weixiong in vertical and horizontal skills, second only to Kou Jianghuai in military science, and won the first place in the academy in swordsmanship.
Now that Kou Jianghuai has become famous, how can Qi Shence, who is also known as the Eight Horsemen of the Academy together with Kou Jianghuai, Zhao Kai and others, be content to fall behind others.
Starting from an ordinary soldier, he rose to prominence through the Jiangnan Road War and made remarkable achievements in battle. He was soon promoted to captain on the battlefield.
Liyang Qi Shence, a rising star in Liyang, has been carefully cultivated. This time, he is allowed to serve as Xu Cong's deputy to help lead the army.
In addition, because Beimang was about to have a decisive battle with Beiliang, many Beimang troops stationed on the border between Liao and Liao were transferred back.
The pressure on the border armies of the two Liao Dynasties was greatly reduced, so they sent Gu Jiantang's son-in-law Yuan Tingshan to lead 50,000 Liaodong elite to support the two men.
Chen Zhibao did not make any unnecessary move except sneered at Li Yang's decision.
After accepting Li Yang's order, he directly took Dian Xiongchu, Wei Fucheng and other confidants, a total of more than a thousand people, to leave the West Barrier and handed over all 80,000 troops to Xu Cong.
He led his troops and stationed them in a small city next to the Western Barrier.
As soon as Xu Gong took office, he immediately began to implement the divorce plan.
According to Yang's order, while waiting for Yuan Tingshan's arrival, he made several tentative attacks on the Chu army led by Zhang Bianguan.
It was found that although Zhang Bianguan defended the gate tightly, he fought back hard.
In order to find the weaknesses of the Chu army, they began to attack frequently.
After repeated attacks, he was actually found.
While sighing that Zhang Border Pass was not simple, he also believed that Chen Zhibao was indeed as the court said, working hard without making any effort. Otherwise, with his ability as a soldier in white, he would not have been able to block the Western Barrier for so long.
When Yuan Tingshan leads his troops to arrive...
