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Chapter 252 Li Zicheng's plan

"Huang Zongzhen, General Zhu, you fought well. As expected, I have always been optimistic about you. Zhennai, he and Xue turned the camp overnight, and the god flag was frozen and the horse was silent. Looking at the Huohao Company and the red battalion, he knew that the vanguard had already arrived. city."

About half an hour later, the sky gradually brightened, and Shen Shuren also rushed to Chen County with Jin Shenghuan and other generals in a leisurely manner, and saw that the city had been captured.Several thieves have already been put to death, and the rest who should be punished should be sent to hard labor for hard labor.

Those who were coerced were released directly, or the immigrants were taken away to the south if they had nowhere to go.

The situation is so good, of course, Shen Shuren couldn't help acting in praise and praise, saying that he would definitely give credit to the two of them.

Huang Degong was also very useful, and they boasted to each other in business together: "Your Excellency is still well-planned and decisive in decision-making, and the last general is nothing more than executing orders, so how dare he take the lead - and your lord is really good at poetry. There is also the reputation of admonishing the world! But it didn’t snow last night, could it be that your lord wants to highlight the harsh environment of fighting?”

Shen Shuren smiled slightly: "This is not my poem, it is written by people in the Tang Dynasty about Li Yunxue attacking Caizhou at night and capturing Wu Yuanji alive in the Huaixi feudal town. But this situation is very similar to the battle of Chacai in Huang Zongzhen.

In the Tang Dynasty, the county was abolished and the state was changed, and the Runan County was changed to Caizhou in the Sui Dynasty. Shangcai and Ruyang, which we guarded, belonged to the boundary of Caizhou at that time. This surprise attack on Chen County is comparable to Li Pu's shooting. "

Huang Degong scratched his head embarrassingly when he heard the words. It turned out that he was uneducated and made an oolong, and thought to himself: In the future, it is better not to praise adults for their poems. The other educated colleagues praised it first, and let's boo along with it.

After talking about the scene, Shen Shuren immediately began to ask about the details of the battle: "This Chen County is restored, how many bandits have been wiped out? How about our army's losses?"

Huang Degong patted his chest proudly and greeted: "We are a surprise attack, but we have stabilized the whole city after killing more than a thousand people, and the rest surrendered. Our army was killed and injured less than a hundred people, and most of them were minor injuries, or they fell from horses." Internal injuries and fractures caused by the fall.

It's unbelievable to think that a city can be won with less than 5000 people killed in battle.There were [-] prisoners in the collection, and one or two thousand escaped, so I didn't bother to chase them. "

Shen Shuren nodded, stroking his long-growth beard: "I am very satisfied with the casualties, and killing the enemy and capturing the enemy can be called a complete victory. However, so many people escaped suddenly in the siege battle, so it is a bit difficult to handle. "

Huang Degong was taken aback for a moment, he didn't expect Master Futai to be so talkative in front of him, and when it came to the number of fleeing enemies, he changed his normal routine and became extremely strict, which was hard to understand.

Huang Degong said pertinently: "My lord, there is no way to do this. Don't look at the siege battle as if the enemy can only escape through the city gate, but we are a surprise attack. We only defrauded one city gate. After entering the city and causing chaos, the other three The door is still in the hands of the bandits.

In this case, knowing that they are invincible, they will definitely open the door and flee, which cannot be stopped.If the four gates are surrounded in advance, then the news will leak out, and there will be no way to sneak attack, and it will also cause the defenders to jump over the wall and fight to the death. "

Shen Shuren waved his hand, signaling to the other party to be safe and calm: "I didn't blame you, nor did I regret that this few prisoners were caught. The number of prisoners is not important. In this year, is there no one? I am worried that there will be too many deserters. Expose our army's movements too quickly, and at the same time recruit Li Zicheng's army earlier.

Now the troops from Ruyang still have a day or two to arrive here, and the reinforcements and grain transport fleet agreed by the Yingchuan Waterway will be slower. After all, they cannot maintain communication in real time, and the chance of delay will only be greater.We are alone in the in-depth surprise attack. The longer we keep it secret after we succeed, the more fully prepared we will be for the follow-up.

In addition, the benefits of secrecy can be attacked and defended. Defending can give us more time to gather troops. The thief army wiped out some more——

Now, because there are too many thieves who have escaped, it is impossible to keep it secret for too long, so the advantage of the time difference can no longer be expanded.Li Zicheng in Yancheng will definitely know that Chen County has fallen within one day, and as long as he is quick, he will definitely be able to bring the main force to come one day at most.

We can only think about it again, how to use this information gap to use our brains in continuing to attack and expand the results of the battle. I am only cautious in my life, and it is rare to take a risk. "

Huang Degong was amazed when he heard the words, even Zhu Wenzhen next to him was the same. Mr. Futai is really far-sighted. He took one step to see three steps. He just took Chen County, and he was already thinking about how to use the time difference of this information to maximize the benefits. how cheap.

But the two of them didn't think about this direction at all, so they couldn't come up with an idea for a while, so they had to be educated with an open mind: "I don't know what adults think, where can I take advantage of it now? I never thought about it, just now I just think about how to take down Chen Xianxian."

Shen Shuren thought for a while, and said carefully: "I don't have much hope, I can only say that if there is a date or not, let's try a shot. If you really can't catch the emptiness, you can accept it as soon as you see it——

Didn't we pretend to be the banner of Yuan Zongdi who went to Guide Mansion to raise food before, and opened the gate of Chen County fraudulently?Then simply keep doing nothing, and if the cavalry brothers have spare energy, continue to expand the results of the battle eastward as soon as possible today.

They pretended to be Li Jiyu's defeated soldiers in Chen County, and said that the officers and soldiers suddenly went east and had a field battle with the Chuang army between Chen and Cai. .

If there is someone like Yuan Zongdi, he will be fooled immediately. If he can steal the county seat, he will steal the county seat.We only have one day at most to expand our victories. We have to come back tonight or tomorrow morning. The soldiers have not slept and their bodies can't bear it.

It is nothing more than to take advantage of this time to weaken the wings of the Chuangjun. Once Li Zicheng moves to us for a decisive battle, it is also possible to weaken his troops a little before the decisive battle. "

Huang Degong and Zhu Wenzhen looked at each other when they heard the words, and they both saw eager anticipation and eagerness in each other's eyes, and they gritted their teeth and pleaded:

"Then please give an order from Master Futai! Brothers have been out at night for a few days. It's okay to not sleep for a day and a night. Just fight for another day and expand the results of the battle as much as possible. Sleep well at night Feel, turn back the day and night."

Huang Degong spoke so easily, as casually as if he was talking about "jet lag".

Shen Shuren was no longer in a hurry, but just nodded: "Even if a person can hold on, his horsepower is lacking. Don't rush too fast, just accept it when you see it. The art of war is endless, and those who seek profit can become generals. We are already on the run." The surprise attack of Baili has made great achievements, and if the attack continues, it will be a profit of two hundred miles in one day and one night."

Huang Degong patted his chest: "It's okay! Although our old Huang didn't study, he heard people say three points. Cao Cao chased Liu Bei in Changbanpo, Qingqi [-] miles a day and a night, from Xiangyang to Dangyang, didn't he also beat Liu Bei Big defeat?

We can last two hundred miles a day and a night!At worst, all the soldiers will remove their armor and only bring weapons and firecrackers!Only two days' rations! "

Without even thinking about it, Huang Degong chose the method of "light riding" to save horsepower and save time. As for not wearing iron armor, it's no big deal. Anyway, he is going to fight sports, steal a ticket, and he doesn't plan to fight hard. .

Shen Shuren explained a few more words, and then told Huang Degong and Zhu Wenzhen to be careful. He brought the main force of the infantry to garrison Chen County to restore order, strengthen the city defense, and prepare to guard against possible counterattacks within a day or two.

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The conversation was divided into two parts. At the same time that Shen Shuren raided Chen County, Li Zicheng was still drinking in Yancheng City, depressed.

Yancheng is farther from Chen County than Shangcai is from Chen County. These three places are distributed in a reverse shape.Yancheng is in the northwest, Chenxian is in the northeast, and Shangcai is in the middle to the south. Between Yancheng and Chenxian, there is the ancient canal waterway of the Qiulu Canal, which connects Ruying.

So, up to now, the question that Li Zicheng has been depressed these days is not "how to fight Shen Shuren" at all.
Instead, he was worried that Shen Shuren would be like a tortoise, huddled in Shangcai County and unable to defend himself.However, Shen Shuren's ability to defend the city seemed to be far superior to Kaifeng's general soldier Chen Yongfu, which really made Li Zicheng lose his appetite.

That's why Li Zicheng himself recently returned to Yancheng from the army camp outside Shangcai City. He really didn't want to drink wind and rain outside Shangcai City anymore. , will only suffer in vain.

However, the daily military discussions must continue, otherwise the hearts of the people will be hard to lead.

Early this morning, after checking the military situation as usual, Li Zicheng looked listless again, so he dismissed all the generals and let them go to their own military affairs.

Military strategist Song Xiance was good at observing words and expressions, so he stayed.In the past few days, he also figured out what King Chuang was worried about.

And Song Xiance wants to keep his position, and he still can't relax in making suggestions, so he has been worrying about his humiliation day and night, and has lost a lot of hair. Last night, he finally came up with an idea, and he didn't care if it would work or not. Reported to Li Zicheng.

Li Zicheng saw that Song Xiance was left alone, and he was used to it. Knowing that this was a military adviser, he had some kind of crazy idea, so he personally poured a large bowl of wine for Song Xiance, "Did the military adviser teach me?"

Song Xiance took it carefully, took a symbolic sip, and didn't dare to complain that the king was vulgar, and actually served wine instead of tea when talking about military aircraft.

After finishing drinking, he put down the wine bowl, and then said: "My lord, let the students guess what your worries are. Could it be that you are worrying about Shen Shuren defending Shangcai and Ruyang and consuming food for the stalemate with my army?"

Li Zicheng became impatient: "Everyone can see this, are you still using nonsense? Speaking of the point, is there a way to solve it?"

Song Xiance was robbed, a little embarrassing, but he also knew that the king was in a bad mood, and his tricks didn't work. Not only did he not win extra respect, but he was disgusted.

He also quickly changed his words with a smile on his face: "It's because the students are not straightforward enough. We did think of a clever plan last night."

Li Zicheng: "Speak quickly!"

Song Xiance: "Isn't our army already running out of food, so we redistributed some of our troops and sent them to Guide Mansion for food. Yuan Zongdi and others didn't have too many soldiers and horses, and they were lightly armed without siege weapons. It is also impossible to break through Shangqiu County.

But after all, our army's momentum is fierce. It is impossible for the officers and soldiers to know that our army will not attack the city indiscriminately. As long as we let out the wind and scare the officers and soldiers, we can definitely convince the officials that our army will shift its target and take down the entire Guide Mansion as soon as possible. , and even harassed Bozhou and Xuzhou again. "

After hearing this, Li Zicheng just groaned and remained silent. Up to this point, he hadn't heard the slightest bit of cleverness in Song Xiance's strategy.

Isn't that the "fleeing where there is food" that has been over for more than ten years, but if the fleeing is too far, the troops are scattered, and Shen Shuren really goes north to seek a decisive battle, wouldn't it give Shen Shuren a chance to defeat them all?

Thinking of this, Li Zicheng couldn't help but said angrily: "What's so clever about this? The reason why Shen Shuren dare not go out to fight now is because our army has assembled a large number of troops. Even if a part of them is divided, the number of troops remaining here is still several times that of his, at least five times. more than double.

But if it really spreads too far, and the heads and tails of the ministries can't care about each other, Shen Shuren may change his timidity before... Hey, the meaning of the military division is that we want us to pretend to send out more troops to attack the city, but in fact there is no division too much?Just to lie to Shen Shuren? "

Song Xiance smiled complacently. Sure enough, the king's brain is still not as good as his. If it is so easy to see through, how can he be a military adviser in the future?
However, the king still has to give face, so Song Xiance boasted without any psychological burden: "The king really has a good opinion, the students and the king have the same views, but there are more improvements in the details.

Think about it, my lord, it is impossible to deceive Shen Shuren's eyes and ears by falsely deploying troops and spreading news.Especially after the scouting battle these days, the students have observed that the cavalry of the army has a very sensitive short-barreled firecracker.

It is very convenient to use on horseback. It is not as big and bulky as the three-eyed blunderbuss, and cannot be reloaded on horseback. The new horse blunderbuss of the government and army can be loaded after shooting.

With such a sharp weapon, the official army has always had an advantage in intercepting and killing scouts. If our army's movements are fake, how can we deceive people?Therefore, in order to mobilize Shen Shuren, he had to really mobilize troops. It didn't matter that there were too many troops, but he had to think of a good excuse. "

When Song Xiance said this, Li Zicheng had completely regained his confidence in this military adviser who had not performed well recently, and he couldn't help but look forward to asking: "What excuse?"

Song Xiance took a deep breath, enjoying the feeling of being asked again, and finally reported the answer: "Your Majesty, you still remember that two months ago, when our army was short of food, we moved north to cross the Yellow River. Looting Huaiqing and Weihui areas?
At that time, he mainly wanted to hunt down and kill King Sifu, as well as King Lu and others whom he had taken refuge in.But when Weihui City was broken, I realized that these guys had already been frightened and ran away secretly.

Now at least one and a half months have passed, and it has been more than 50 days.Even if it took more than ten days on the road, he should have heard where King Lu and Fu fled.

But now it is not known that King Lu has gone to the capital, or to Nanjing, and he has not even heard of news from Fengyang, the central capital.Therefore, most of them did not escape far, at least they did not dare to go to Sandu.Probably because he felt that it was not safe to travel far away due to the chaos of war, so after escaping from Wei Hui, he found a nearby place to hide his name and hide from the limelight.

Our army can definitely let the wind out, saying that in Guide Prefecture governing Shangqiu County, we found the traces of King Lu and Fu, so you personally ordered to send additional reinforcements to Yuan Zongdi, just to kill two more under the nose of Shen Shuren The closest feudal lord to Chongzhen!

If this is true, think about it, Your Majesty, it can be said that Shen Shuren had nothing to do with the defeat of the Henan army and the killing of the vassal king, but now Shen Shuren is in Shangcai nearby, and has been stalemate with us for half a month.A vassal king was killed at most two or three hundred miles away from him, but he sat on the sidelines and watched the success or failure. Why didn't Chongzhen chop off his head? "

Li Zicheng was overjoyed when he heard the words, but when he thought about it carefully, he was a little blunt: "But, how did the military adviser know that King Lu and King Fu fled to Shangqiu?"

Song Xiance had an expression of hating iron and steel, but fortunately he stopped it immediately, and patiently explained: "My lord, think again, we don't need King Lu and Fu Wang to be really in Shangqiu. As long as Lu Wang and Fu Wang don't show up, no one can prove that they are there." Well, the rumors we let out are true!
Does King Lu and Fu dare to show up in public and say that what we said is wrong?Wouldn't that be the initiative to seek death and seduce us to come and kill them?And this kind of thing, as long as no one shows up to refute it and prove it to be false, Shen Shuren dare not believe it! "

Li Zicheng's IQ is not low. He just didn't realize it all at once. After sorting out his thoughts, it suddenly became clear: this kind of thing is always more difficult to prove than falsification. Believe it or not.

"Military master's great plan! Send me the general order! Just follow this! You must lure Shen Shuren to leave Shangcai County within a few days, and take the initiative to go to Guide, so that our army will force you to fight in the field! Let's see how he still stays in Shangcai City Inside this turtle shell!"

Li Zicheng was gearing up, overjoyed.

(End of this chapter)