Traveling through the Ming Dynasty, as soon as you open your eyes, you will die

Chapter 166: Going to war to pick up the scribe

Facing the heated atmosphere of war among his civil and military ministers, Lu Mou snatched Lu Yixing's cattail leaf fan and flapped it himself. Only then did Lu Mou reveal the purpose of his visit: "Our imperial court has announced to the world that we will be taking action this year." In August of 8, an imperial examination was launched against the students and scribes in the northwest. To this end, I had issued an order in advance to the military workers who had sneaked into the northwest, ordering them to find those scribes and mobilize them to participate in the imperial examination. Now they formed The team, sending five hundred scribes to each other along the way, has entered Huaiqing Mansion in Henan and is turning north to pass Li Guo's Daming Mansion.

I brought the independent division here this time to greet them and protect them from successfully passing through the enemy battle zone and entering the capital. This is a battle more important than recovering a province or capturing many large cities, so I gave the order. "

Everyone stood up and listened solemnly to the order.

"The entire First Army was dispatched to attack Daming Mansion. But remember, this time we went to the enemy's war zone not to annihilate Li Guo, nor to attack the city, but to place the army in Daming Mansion, oppress Li Guo, and let He did not dare to go out of the city to intercept the literati team. Do you understand this?"

Although everyone didn't understand why they didn't launch an attack on Li Guo and then regain Henan, but just made such a fuss just to welcome a poor scholar.

But everyone also believed that this must be a profound move by the prince. As a subordinate, you must implement it regardless of whether you understand it or not.

Everyone answered together: "I respect the order."

"Okay, I won't delay here too much. I'm going south to Huaiqing now. Let's take action."

In Daming Mansion, Li is living a very comfortable life now. The disastrous defeat in the last battle made him really feel that relying on looting was a waste of food. If he failed, he would fail. He had no money and food in hand, so he went out to hunt wild food temporarily.

Therefore, after he returned to Damingfu, he carried out the last serious cleanup of the wealthy households in Damingfu area and obtained a large amount of money and food.

I thought I could take a breather in peace, but my uncle King Chuang sent me more troops.

When he saw that the 50,000 so-called reinforcements sent were mostly old, weak, women and children, he jumped up and cursed Liu Zongmin. This is taking the opportunity to increase troops for oneself, but actually it is throwing away the burden and putting pressure on oneself.

If he does this, isn't he sincerely doing himself a disservice? Now, he had just plundered the wealth from wealthy households and could not hold on for much longer.

But since you are causing trouble for me, I can't feed these burdensome people in vain. While I still have some food, I will drive them outside the city and follow Li Fang's example to farm for me.

You support yourselves, and by the way, you support me.

Fortunately, I sorted out the wealthy landlords of Daming Mansion two or three times and found that the mansion was full of idle fields. There is plenty of land.

Then, according to his uncle's secret instructions, he borrowed grain from Li Fang behind him to test his sincerity.

Fortunately, Li Fang received Li Guo's request to borrow grain, and without saying a word, he borrowed a large amount of grain for himself without much discount.

With the original money and the current grain, Li Guo began to "recruit soldiers and horses". In the end, not counting the 50,000 to 60,000 family members who were stationed in the fields, he once again controlled an army composed of young men. Although they don't have the ability to attack Zhili, they are still somewhat sure of defending Daming Mansion.

Last autumn, there was enough food in Tuntian District to last for two years. Now Li Guo was more confident in holding Daming Mansion.

Life is still comfortable and peaceful this year. I hope to have another bumper harvest and then accumulate enough food for three to five years before I can make a difference.

At this time, Gu Junen, who was left behind in Xi'an, issued an urgent notice, asking him to cooperate with Gao Yigong and immediately intercept a team of scribes fleeing from the northwest. It would be best if they can be intercepted and returned, but if this is not possible, they must be completely annihilated.

Gu Junen is popular and has high prestige. After Li Chuang led the main force southward, he is actually the current master of the northwest.

His general orders must be implemented without compromise.

So, the generals were called together to hold a meeting in the camp to discuss arrangements for the interception. Everyone was confident that it would be easy to annihilate a team of scribes.

As a result, a soldier came in and reported hurriedly: "General, the Ming army sent troops from Baoding and came directly to our Daming Mansion."

Li Guo's head was big at that time. "How many enemies are coming? Who is the leader?"

The soldier replied: "The incoming army is the entire First Army stationed in Baoding, as well as the entire independent division. The leader is the puppet regent of the Ming Dynasty."

Li Guo couldn't help but take a breath of air.

It was still the same people and the same old enemies. At this time, Li Guo could smell the original strong smell in the air.

"Close the city gates and march the entire army to the city to meet the enemy."

He never dared to underestimate the enemy like before.

"General, do you still want to carry out the task of intercepting and annihilating the Scribe team as requested by Military Advisor Gu?"

Li Guo stamped his feet: "What else are we going to do? If we can save Daming Mansion, we will be good."

"If the city gate is closed, what will happen to our family members who are working in the fields in the four villages outside the city?"

"This army of officers does not steal food, nor women, nor disturb the people. Just placing them in the four villages outside the city will not only slow down the consumption in the city, but also allow us to last longer. At the same time, maybe at a critical moment, they They will gather outside to contain the Ming army."

Li Laiheng stood up: "The general is right. In this case, I will go out of the city, mobilize the people outside, and act according to the opportunity."

"Then please leave it to big brother. When the time comes, we brothers will cooperate internally and externally to defend Daming Mansion.

The dust was rising at the end of the earth, and the Ming Dynasty's military flags were overwhelming. The red Ming Dynasty mandarin duck coats were in front of us in the blink of an eye.

Li Guo, who was standing at the top of the city, was puzzled because the Ming army was not surrounded on all sides. They clearly had the ability and strength to surround Daming Mansion on all sides, but they only chose to garrison outside the north gate. But a Ming army of 10,000 people bypassed the city and headed south without hesitation.

This arrangement immediately made Li Guo understand. This time the Ming army attacked, not for its own Daming Mansion, but for the literati team to the south.

Li Guo had fought for many years and was familiar with battle formations, but he really didn't understand why Lu Mou paid so much attention to a team of literati returning to the north. Is it necessary?

Li Guo thought it was not important, but after veteran Li Laiheng understood the mystery here, he immediately paid attention to it.

He knew that the Ming army outside Daming Mansion was only to contain and monitor Daming Mansion's own army, not to attack the city, but to prevent his main force from robbing and killing the literati team.

Li Guo didn't understand the importance of scribes to the rule of a political power, but Li Laiheng did.

He knew that Daming Mansion was safe, so he immediately gathered the family members of the camp. He selected those who could fight among them and immediately followed Lu Mou's independent division south, preparing for a sudden attack on Lu Mou. In order to implement Gu Junen's arrangement, those scribes cannot be intercepted and used by Dashun, so just kill them, and they must not be used by Ming Dynasty.

Because they were all scribes in the northwest, they had a huge influence in the area. Once the imperial court wanted to regain the northwest, these 500 scribes would be enough to equal an army of 100,000.

(End of this chapter)