East Factory Governor

Chapter 606 Let's go again!
From Qian'an to Jizhou, it is almost 280 miles, and from Jizhou to Zunhua, there are still about 120 miles. In this way, the army will have to travel a total of 400 miles.In terms of distance alone, it is not far. If you march 400 miles in a hurry, you can get there in three days and three nights.

But the problem is that if you want to go this way, you will have to take two important towns that have already been occupied by the Tartars - Yongping and Shimenzhai.If they arrived at Zunhua quickly, the army would not be able to spend too much time in these two places.Of course, you can't consume too many troops, otherwise it will be meaningless to go to Zunhua.

But compared to the heavily guarded Santun camp, it is obviously safer to detour to Jizhou.

So Qin Shuhuai said, "This Marquis thinks what General Zhang said is reasonable, what do you think, let's discuss."

Seeing that her proposal was approved, Lai San'er said excitedly, "What Lao Zhang means is what I want to say. Hehe, please hurry up and discuss it. Anyway, I think it's better for us to go back."

He Kegang pondered for a while, and said, "The last general also thinks this plan is feasible, but it's best to make a detour without anyone noticing it, so as to play a surprise attack and catch the Tartars by surprise!"

Zu Dashou also said, "The final general seconded the proposal. It is suggested that a large number of outposts should be placed between Qian'an and Santunying, and between Yongping and Shimenzhai to prevent the Tatars from sending reports."

Qin Shuhuai thought for a while and said, "This can be done. The Jinfeng Village entrenched in this area should be very familiar with the large and small passages between Qian'an and Santunying. Let the people from Jinfeng Village lead the way, and we will send a thousand Dong Changfanzi can seal it off by setting up guard posts and secret posts in this area. From Yongping to Shimenzhai, there is only one road in Jizhou and one trail in Hengling. Send a thousand Jinyi guards to those two roads Just lay in ambush."

The entrance of the small road in Hengling is near Yutian, and it is the road where Qin Shuhuai led people to ambush Huang Taiji and won the great victory in Hengling last time.But that road is not easy, the army is very slow in the past, it is not as fast as taking the official road from Jizhou, so the coalition army still chooses to take the official road from Jizhou.But for the horse post, it is relatively easy to take that path, so we have to guard against it.

Zu Dashou said, "What Hou Ye said is very true. If there is no other way, the Tartars should have no way to inform Shimen Village."

Apart from these two roads, if the Tartars in Yongping had to notify Shimenzhai, they would naturally be able to cross the mountains, which the coalition forces could not defend against.However, crossing the mountain meant that he could not ride a horse, and it was much slower than the coalition army walking on the road. It is estimated that he would arrive at Shimenzhai after he notified the coalition army.

Everyone added it in a hurry, and the basic strategy came out.

Qin Shuhuai immediately ordered that a thousand Dongchang Fanzi set off immediately, guided by people from Jinfengzhai, deploy and control multiple points on all the roads between Qian'an and Santunying, and completely cut off the connection between the two.

At the same time, the army immediately assembled and prepared to set off overnight.

At midnight, the army was assembled.According to Qin Shuhuai's opinion, no soldiers will be left in Qian'an City, and all of them will be taken away. If the Tartars want to divide their troops to attack, then they will be given to them. The purpose of this war is not to fight for territory, but to wipe out the main force Purpose!

At this time, Meng Wei came to ask, what about the servants and Tartar soldiers who surrendered?
The total number of Tartars and servants who surrendered was about 5000.To leave them in Qian'an City is to let the tiger go back to the mountain, and it may not be too convenient to take them on the road.Moreover, the food and grass in the entire Ji Town are very tight now. Although the coalition forces have enough food and grass after replenishment, considering that they may not be able to get the food and grass for a long time in the future, they have to save some food and give these people the precious food. It was a bit wasteful, that's why Meng Wei asked this question.

Qin Shuhuai asked without thinking, "What do you think?"

Seeing Qin Shuhuai's gloomy face, Meng Wei knew what to do, and said, "The general will know."

In the past, he might have hesitated, but after so many battles, Meng Wei's heart has already become harder than iron - because the enemies he saw never talked about "benevolence and righteousness".

Before the army set off, Meng Wei led 2000 people murderously into several temporary prisons where the prisoners of war were held, and started the massacre without saying a word.

In less than a quarter of an hour, nearly [-] unarmed and bound hands were killed.However, according to Qin Shuhuai's previous behavior, Meng Wei still kept around twenty "pure-bred" Tartars. Keeping these Tartars alive can allow the coalition forces to put on a "surrender but not kill" posture, which is used to persuade them to surrender and psychologically fighting.

After being with Qin Shuhuai for a long time, Meng Wei also knew Qin Shuhuai's tricks.

Afterwards, the army set off immediately to the first destination, Yongping.

As for the eight thousand Tartar elite soldiers in Yongping, Qin Shuhuai's original idea was to ignore him, just go around and send people to watch, but now that they come out of the city to follow them, they should ambush them and eat them, which saves time and money It can consume less troops - after all, ambushes consume less troops than siege.

However, Zu Dashou, He Kegang, Zhang Xiao and others immediately raised questions, that is, if they are ignored, the eight thousand Tartars in Yongping will probably give up Yongping immediately and go to Qian'an or Go straight to the Santun camp, not only will you lose the good opportunity to wipe them out, but you may also tell the Santun camp the whereabouts of the army, and if the Santun camp rushes to inform the Tartars everywhere, then the effect of surprise soldiers will not be achieved. .

Although they raised doubts, they still thought that Qin Shuhuai must have other intentions in doing this - after all, Lord Hou "uses soldiers like a god", how could he make such a low-level mistake?

So these people all looked at Qin Shuhuai, hoping that he could clear up everyone's doubts.

Qin Shuhuai was embarrassed, what other intentions did he have?It's completely taken for granted, okay?Now I don’t have many soldiers on hand, as a dick, I want to save money when I have no money, and how to save troops when I don’t have soldiers, but I get myself involved and come up with such a thoughtless idea.

To put it bluntly, as a double lover of Ming history and war history, with his understanding of the major historical events of this dynasty and historical figures, sometimes he can really come up with a strategy that will amaze the world in a flash of inspiration, but when it comes to marching and fighting, He is really incomparable with these generals.

However, he also has self-knowledge. In almost all battles, he only sets big goals and never directly commands the army. Most of them go into battle with his own sword and act as a "brave man".Even if he has less time to play in person recently, he is just "sitting in charge", and the specific command is still left to professional generals.

In order not to affect his "brilliant image", he still pretended to think calmly, and then said, "Since everyone wants to take Yongping first, then let's do this. Hmm...it shouldn't affect the overall situation."

It seems that the strategy was changed in order to accommodate everyone's ideas.

　Note 1: Some people may say that flying pigeons can also be used to communicate between the two places. Let me explain here that flying pigeons use the ability of pigeons to fly back to their old nests.That is to say, for example, if you want to fly a pigeon to Zunhua, then Tartar must have raised that pigeon in Zunhua for a long time before, so that it will go back after it is released elsewhere.However, the Tatars had just entered the Central Plains not long ago, so it is impossible to have this condition.Cough cough, I said so much because I was afraid that some noobs would spray it.Note 2: The reason why Qin Shuhuai made this low-level mistake is because it was a mistake that the city owner almost made. Fortunately, after thinking about it, he found out haha, so I can laugh at myself.

　　
　
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