Qiming 1158

Chapter 1085 The reinforcements are finally here!

What is certain is that no one except Li Xianzhong himself knows what he plans to do next.

Perhaps even Li Xianzhong himself is not sure what he will do next.

Therefore, the spies of the Skynet Army and the sentry troops of the Henan Corps can only give full play to their subjective initiative, take advantage of the information transmission to seize the time difference, and use the time difference to inform Zhang Yuejing of Li Xianzhong's attack plan ahead of time, and then let Zhang Yuejing make arrangements.

But Zhang Yuejing, as the first general in the Ming army to be independent from Su Yonglin's command, is obviously not a generalist.

Zhang Yuejing analyzed Li Xianzhong's attack plan according to the Song Army's advance plan passed to him by Skynet Military.

Directly come to attack the blockade of the Ming army?
Li Xianzhong is a capable person, and he may not be able to do that. In their opinion, Xiangfan is invincible and will not be easily broken, so there will be room for him to make plans carefully.

And at this moment, Zhang Yuejing also has a person who has strange feelings for Li Xianzhong.

Ma Hongxing, deputy general of You Yijun, who was originally stationed on Huainan East Road to guard the local area.

During the first Ming-Song War that year, Li Xianzhong was the only Song general who retreated under the front of the Ming army, and his opponent at that time was Ma Hongxing.

Although Ma Hongxing defeated Li Xianzhong, he failed to pursue successfully for various reasons, so that Li Xianzhong retreated smoothly.

In this regard, Ma Hongxing was deeply depressed, and swore in his heart that he would defeat Li Xianzhong no matter what, take his head, and wash away his regrets for himself.

This time, when Ma Hongxing learned that the main general of the Song army supporting Xiangfan's army was Li Xianzhong, he immediately asked the Privy Council and Zhang Yuejing to temporarily leave Huainan East Road and went to Zhang Yuejing's army as a general to participate in the battle and listened to him under the tent. .

Hearing the name of Li Xianzhong, Ma Hongxing couldn't control his inner impulse, and he had to fight him no matter what, otherwise he would be unwilling.

Zhang Yuejing heard that Ma Hongxing and Li Xianzhong had played against each other, and was also very interested, so he called Ma Hongxing to the army to listen to him and asked him to analyze what Li Xianzhong would do next.

"Li Xianzhong is bold, but he is also quite capable. At that time, the Song army had already been defeated across the board, and he was in a hurry to run. Only this person went upstream and took the initiative to attack."

Ma Hongxing looked at the map and said sternly: "At that time, his attack was something we didn't expect, but thinking about it now, he may have been thinking about halfway interception at the time, and while our army was preparing to cross the river, he dispatched a large army to attack and caught us by surprise. "

"So bold?"

Zhang Yuejing put his hands behind his back, and said with emotion: "At that time, the army had all reached Lin'an. Song Jun Song was as afraid of Da Ming as he was afraid of a tiger. This person is unique, and he dares to take the initiative to attack. What a big picture?"

"If an ordinary person waited, I'm afraid it would be a laughing stock, but this person is not only a laughing stock, but is very good at fighting, and his subordinates attacked him with more troops than him, and he was defeated from noon to dusk, but when he was about to pursue, He actually led someone to break it off himself."

"After personally leading someone to break it?"

"Well, personally lead someone to break the post."

Ma Hongxing said with emotion: "The Song generals I saw all the way down the south were all flying generals, and they ran faster than anyone else. Only this person helped his subordinates to cut off the battle to the death, so that it was getting late, and our troops could not pursue smoothly. In the end, I could only watch him calmly retreat."

"In this way, this person is really not simple."

When Zhang Yuejing looked at the map again, he thought about it a lot and said slowly: "If this is the case, I am afraid that this person will not be restrained in his use of soldiers, but will be very bold and do things that we can't think of normally, such as he will attack Henan and threaten us. We have to divide our troops to protect the food supply.”

Thinking of this, Zhang Yuejing asked Wen Anzhi, the secretary of the Corps beside him.

"An Zhi, have the people been evacuated yet?"

Wen Anzhi nodded.

"The evacuation of the south of Nanyang has been completed, and [-] militiamen have been mobilized to participate in the defense. The Henan militiamen have been trained for a long time, and there are a large number of retired soldiers as instructors, which can be used."

"Well, fortunately, I have a better mind. Now it seems that this approach is still necessary. If you don't look at it for a while, and let the people of Henan suffer, you and I will be blamed."

Zhang Yuejing breathed a sigh of relief and said, "In this case, this person will definitely not sit back and watch the Song army in Xiangfan be destroyed, but it is very likely that he will send troops to take the initiative to attack, then he will send a cavalry to the direction of Biyang to maneuver and stand by. Once there is news, respond quickly.

If Li Xianzhong did send troops into Henan, he would annihilate the Song army that had entered Henan, then quickly interspersed, and headed to Luoshan and Xinxi to cut off the main retreat route of the Song army, cut off its food supply, and cut off its retreat so that it could not retreat.

At the same time, our army needs to send the main force to return north to create the illusion that the main force of the army will return to Henan. decisive battle! "

Zhang Yuejing set a rough tactic and set Zaoyang as the place for the decisive battle with the Song army.

Wen Anzhi was a little worried about this.

"After the main force of the army returns to the aid, it is necessary to kill a carbine. This has very strict requirements on the march of the army."

"The main elites involved in this operation should be equipped with the best shoes, socks, leggings, and enough cheese. Those who can ride on horses and those who can ride in cars will take turns on the way, and increase the speed to the highest level. You are very fast, what Song Jun can’t do is our advantage!”

Zhang Yuejing slammed his fist on the map, and said angrily: "The Song army's [-] main force will come to help. If it can be wiped out in one fell swoop, the battle of Xiangfan will basically be a victory. Unless the Song army also calls out the Sichuan and Shu army, he will wait. I was cut off by the waist!"

"Then what if the Xiangfan Song army was out of town?"

"Isn't that a good thing? By the way, we have to make big moves, and we must let Xiangfan Song Jun know."

Zhang Yuejing grinned and said: "Let the Song army in Xiangfan know that our rear has been attacked and that the reinforcements of the Song army have come to save them. After we annihilate Li Xianzhong, we will pretend that the Song army's breakthrough is important to save them and trick them into opening the city. Door, like this, Xiangfan will go down!"

Zhang Yuejing's face was full of confidence.

So when he learned that the Song army was about to arrive in Xinyang, he dispatched Pei Le, the deputy general of the trapped army, and Su Jianian, the secretary of the army, led the cavalry directly under the army and [-] cavalry supported by Zhongdu to become a rapid mobile response force, galloping towards Biyang County. And go.

Pei Le and Su Jianian arrived in Biyang County one day after Wang Chong's departure, and then learned through intelligence that a Song army was heading towards Biyang County.

They sighed with emotion for the accuracy of Zhang Yuejing's analysis, and then decided to go to Biyang County to take the lead in preparations. After arriving, they would go to the field to clean up the Song army and prevent them from entering the city.

But the so-called unpredictable situation, no matter how Zhang Yuejing calculates, it can't be considered that Wang Chong is a super paratrooper.

Good guy, the mission is no longer executed, and I ran in violation of the order. It ran very fast, and I was not afraid of beheading at all.

"Want to chase?"

Su Jianian looked at Pei Le.

Pei Le thought about it.

"Let's chase, anyway, we are going to the Xinxi area. If we can catch up on the route, we will kill them. If we can't catch up, they are lucky. Anyway, our mission is to cut off the back road, and then we will kill the enemy. It's enough to know the priority."

Su Jianian nodded in approval.

1 Ming army cavalry quickly marched eastward, targeting Luoshan County and Xinxi County.

On the other hand, four days after Pei Le and Su Jianian sent troops, Zhang Yuejing ordered Ma Hongxing to lead [-] elite soldiers from the army to march towards Nanyang in full force.

Fancheng defender Zhou Benyuan was the first to notice something was wrong.

During this period of time, the Ming army violently bombarded the city wall of Fancheng every day, and the wall of Fancheng was tragic and miserable. There were potholes everywhere, gravel and soil splashed, and several small gaps were blasted out, which scared Zhou Benyuan to the core. Get it fixed quickly.

That repair is really a life-threatening repair. Many soldiers did not dare to go up to repair, and the craftsmen were unwilling to go up. Zhou Benyuan killed more than a dozen soldiers and craftsmen in anger, killing chickens and monkeys, telling them that they might live if they go up, but they will die if they don’t go up. .

By coercion and inducement in this way, some soldiers and craftsmen urgently repaired the city wall, barely maintaining the defense of the city wall.

The Ming army's artillery fire was fierce, Fancheng was obviously difficult to support, and the road to Xiangyang City was cut off by the Ming army. The two sides could no longer support each other, and they were isolated from each other, which really made people feel palpitations.

What's more terrible is that the Ming army has already started filling the moat, and the progress is rapid. Seeing that the Fancheng moat is about to be filled with a passage, at that time, the Ming army can directly attack the Fancheng city wall and start fighting.

Zhou Benyuan's worried hair turned white.

At this critical moment, the Ming army suddenly stopped its daily artillery bombardment, and the army also made unknown movements.

Zhou Benyuan climbed to the highest point of Fancheng and looked into the distance, and found that there were signs of the Ming army moving northward.

After being stunned for a while, Zhou Benyuan was ecstatic.

There are only two possibilities for the Ming army to move northward.

First, the Yellow River burst, and the Ming army needed a large number of people to go back to help clean up the mess.

Second, reinforcements came, they attacked the rear of the Ming army, and the Ming army was forced to mobilize the army to the rear to put out the fire urgently.

And now has not yet reached the summer with the most abundant rainfall, the possibility of the Yellow River bursting is relatively small.

Well, there is only one option left.

Reinforcement came.

Great.

The reinforcements finally arrived.

Zhou Benyuan left tears of excitement.

He immediately arranged for someone to shoot the news at Xiangyang City through the bed and crossbow, so that Xiangyang City also knew that reinforcements were coming.

Then he passed on the news again, ordering every soldier to know the news of the arrival of the reinforcements from the Song Dynasty.

Soon, there was a deafening cheer in the city.

After being surrounded for so long, the only thing that can make people feel happy now is the news of the arrival of reinforcements.

The news was enough to cheer up the low morale.

So after a while, cheers came from the direction of Xiangyang.

The soldiers of the Song army in the two cities were equally happy and their morale was also boosted.

During the whole day when the morale of the Song army in Xiangfan Second City was soaring, the Ming army did not launch artillery fire, nor did they make any offensive moves.

The second day did not, and the third afternoon was worthy of the artillery bombardment.

However, the intensity of the shelling was completely different from the previous days.

This further proved their guesses were right.

But at the same time, neither Zhou Benyuan nor Wang Yan, nor anyone in the two cities, seemed to have thought of a very critical issue.

The new firearms of the Ming army...their city walls can't handle it, so can the Song army's field troops really handle it?

If they think about it, they probably won't be happy so soon.

But seriously, they needed a win so much, so much a victory that they could cheer.

Therefore, the Song army in Xiangfan Second City began to spread that the reinforcements had gone straight to Kaifeng and beat the Ming army to pieces.

I have to say, this optimism is quite interesting.

But the reality is often less rosy.

(End of this chapter)