"General, since Your Majesty agrees to send troops, he is going to let us fight. If you are concerned about His Majesty the Prince, why should you rush to send troops?"

Wang Yanchao is older than Guo Hao and has many military achievements, but as the deputy envoy, his confidants feel dissatisfied.

However, he developed a gentle and respectful personality since he was young, with extraordinary qualities and respectful people. He did not say anything about Chai Rong's arrangement of soldiers, but only saw other people's doubts, so he said something.

"Even if you don't consider the matter of the prince, Liu Yanzhen is now rushing to Shouzhou. Dingyuan has 30,000 reinforcements from the Tang Kingdom, and their strength is comparable to ours. Once they advance together on land and land, wouldn't we be very passive!"

Guo Hao looked at the map and pointed out their location. Now that they crossed the Huai River, Shouzhou City is in front of them, and Dingyuan is in the east of them, so they can bypass from behind. Once the rear road is broken, they will be very dangerous.

As Guo Hao experienced more and more wars, he showed amazing talent in military affairs, and what he considered was something that no one else had expected.

In history, Li Gu was in his position and attacked Shouzhou like Guo Hao. However, Liu Yanzhen just pretended to cut off his retreat. Li Gu was panicked and retreated directly to Zhengyang.

But before Guo Hao marched again, he had guessed this possibility, so he was not in a hurry to attack the city. One was because of Chai Zongyi's affairs, and the other was because he wanted to preserve his strength to avoid being attacked from both sides.

But the army has come, so we can't stay in the barracks, everyone is waiting for Guo Hao's orders, and Guo Hao is also thinking about how to open up the situation.

"Wang Yanchao!"

"The last one will be here!"

"You personally lead 5,000 troops to provoke the city of Shouzhou. If the Tang army fights, fight him, otherwise you will come back!"

"yes!"

"Pioneer Bai Yanyu!"

"The last one will be here!"

"You lead three thousand soldiers and horses to head here to find out the road conditions and see if there are other roads to enter Shouzhou!"

Guo Hao pointed to the map and Bai Yanyu took a look. This was a small place called Shankou Town, but the geographical location was very large, which was related to the safety of Shouzhou. Maybe there would be Tang troops stationed in the army.

"Abide by the order!"

"You two set out as soon as possible, others are waiting for news. Without my orders, no one can move!"

"yes!"

The first military meeting ended like this. Guo Hao was about to take action, but a funny scene was being staged in the Southern Tang Palace.

"Isn't the envoy joking? Shouldn't your prince be in Bianliang City? How could he come to my Tang Dynasty!"

Song Qiqiu looked at Zhou Envoy with a smile. The envoy was actually just a small official and was here to test the attitude of the Southern Tang Dynasty. It was impossible for the two countries to negotiate peace now, so Li Jing was not polite to him at all.

"You are not you, you kidnapped the prince with despicable means. The great country actually did this. Are you not afraid of laughter from the world!"

"Blame? When you assassinate my son, why aren't you afraid of others' ridicule? My son died and died at the hands of you Zhou people. If you don't want to admit it, aren't you afraid of laughing at the world!"

Li Jing's eyes were fierce and frightened, and the messenger was speechless for a moment. After a while, he came to his senses and said, "It's all nonsense. It's obvious that you invaded first. The prince died on the battlefield, and the sword was blind and there was no eyebrow!"

"What a sword without eyes. I also have a sword here. Do you think it will fall on your neck?"

Li Jing said as he picked up the sword beside him, which scared the messenger backwards repeatedly. The ministers laughed, and the messenger felt that this reason was indeed impossible to convince people.

"No matter what, if you don't hand over the prince, the army of the Great Zhou will attack immediately. The little Tang Kingdom dares to oppose my Great Zhou. It's really overestimating your ability."

"Okay, I can just want the prince. I can use Guo Hao's head and the two states to add the land of the two states!"

The messenger's expression changed when he heard this. This was impossible. Even if Chai Rong was willing to kill Guo Hao, he would not hand over the two states that he had finally taken back.

"Since that's the case, see you on the battlefield!"

The messenger finally turned around and was about to leave. As a result, Song Qiqiu said, "Since the messenger is here, why bother to hurry to leave? It is better to stay there for a few more days and enjoy the beautiful scenery of Jiangnan.

Come on, take the envoy down and treat it well. Our Tang Dynasty is the richest country in the world, so let the envoys appreciate it well."

After saying that, the imperial guards stepped forward and drove the messenger from left to right. The messenger struggled to get out, but how could he be a literati succeed?

"What are you going to do? The two countries are fighting, and they will be sent to the envoy if they don't kill them..."

After seeing off the messenger, everyone's smiles disappeared. Since they chose to fight this battle, they must take it seriously.

...

"The grandson in the city, your grandfather is here. If you have the ability, come out and fight. What kind of hero is hiding in the city!"

Wang Yanchao asked the side general to call the battle. The five thousand soldiers were not very eye-catching. The Tang army on the top of the city saw it and was not very panicked, but instead was eager to try it.

"Sir, the last general asks to fight and go to meet the Zhou army under the city!"

A Tang general asked the magistrate to fight. When the magistrate saw that there were not many Zhou troops, he nodded. The Tang general was overjoyed and immediately led the troops to fight.

"Kill--"

The city gate of Shouzhou opened and about two thousand soldiers came out from it. Wang Yanchao was overjoyed when he saw this and greeted him: "Soldiers, kill me, the opportunity to make meritorious contributions is here!"

Originally, Tang Jun thought that Shouzhou City was behind them, and Zhou Jun was afraid of it and would not do anything to them.

Unexpectedly, Wang Yanchao was a ruthless man. Even under the enemy's city, he would be rude. When the magistrate saw the bravery of the Zhou army, he thought they were fearless, so he ordered the withdrawal of troops.

"Hahaha……"

Wang Yanchao repelled the Tang army and did not dare to attack the city directly, but it was very helpful to the Zhou army in terms of morale.

At the same time, Bai Yanyu also met a team of Tang troops in Shankou Town. As expected, there were Tang troops stationed here. Bai Yanyu was not polite and directly ordered an attack.

There were only more than a thousand Tang troops here, and they were defeated by Bai Yanyu, but Bai Yanyu did not dare to pursue him deeply, so he could only lead his troops back.

Both soldiers and horses won the battle, and the generals were very happy, but Guo Hao was expressionless and waited for everyone to laugh for a while.

"Although we defeated the Tang army, we did not make any substantial breakthroughs. We closely monitor the southeast direction and be wary of the Tang army in Dingzhou.

At present, Liu Yanzhen's army is approaching Shouzhou. If they divide their troops to attack our floating bridge, we will have no way out.

Zhao Kuangyin obeyed the order!”

"The last one will be here!"

"I ordered you to lead an army of 10,000 to be stationed in the downstream areas. If you find that the Tang army is showing signs of going north, try your best to stop him!"

"Abide by the order!"

The reason why Zhao Kuangyin was sent was because the Zhou army was not good at water warfare, and Guo Hao's way to deal with the Tang army was explosives, so he could only send the closest people.

After solving his worries, Guo Hao was only waiting for news from the court. Whether the Southern Tang really wanted to fight was waiting for news from the envoy.

But after several days, no news came from the Southern Tang Dynasty or the imperial court. Guo Hao had no choice but to write a letter. Ten days later, the news came back. It was Chai Rong's handwritten book, with only one word on it: "War!"

Seeing this word, Guo Hao knew that the envoys sent by the court were of great danger, either killed or left behind.

At this time, the soldiers were already anxious. Since they were going to fight, then fight!

Without so much nonsense, Guo Hao immediately issued an order to attack the city, but the battle of siege was not that easy. The Shouzhou Prefect also had some skills and actually blocked the Zhou army's attack.

In the rear army, Guo Hao stood in the car, still dressed in Zhuge Liu. His mood was much better than when he faced the Liao army before, and the casualties of the soldiers were not as difficult as before.

Guo Hao did not use explosives. This time he only sent 10,000 soldiers to attack the city. His purpose was to lure Liu Yanzhen, after all, that was the main force of the Tang army.

Sure enough, when Liu Yanzhen learned that the Zhou army was siege, he immediately led his troops to rescue him. When he arrived at Laiyuan Town, two hundred miles away from Shouzhou City, he transferred to Zhengyang and looked like he was going to attack the Houzhou army's floating bridge.

After Zhao Kuangyin learned the news, he immediately became excited. Guo Hao made every decision and had expected Liu Yanzhen to do so.

So Zhao Kuangyin quickly told Guo Hao about the news. Guo Hao learned that Liu Yanzhen was coming and ordered Wang Yanchao to guard the camp and continue to attack Shouzhou City.

And he himself led a 10,000 army to support Zhao Kuangyin and ambush Liu Yanzhen!
Chapter completed!