Wanli 1592

Chapter 824 Retreat
After several days in the capital, on the tenth day of September, Li Hualong officially led the army as the governor of Henan and Nanzhi and the title of the right servant of the Ministry of War.

In the ninth day of junior high school, Shen Yiguan assigned him the task of opening the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal within three months and sending grain to the north. The grain stocks in the capital and other places could only support his military supplies for three months at most. If he still can't complete the task, he can figure it out by himself.

He commanded [-] soldiers from Jizhen and [-] elite troops from the Beijing camp, a total of [-] troops, and the troops of Henan and Nanzhi local guards also had to obey Li Hualong's dispatch. One hundred thousand.

The Beijing Division has gathered people with military experience in the Ministry of War to do strategic analysis together, and analyzed a more appropriate strategy, that is, use a small force to pretend to be the main force and go south to Yangzhou Prefecture to deter the main force of the Zhennan Army Navy, while the main force will spend it from other places. The Yangtze River directly attacked Nanjing.

This is a more appropriate tactic.

But in the early morning of the tenth day of September, an hour before the army set off, the latest information arrived.

In Zhenjiang Prefecture, the Zhennan Army Navy began to attack Yangzhou Prefecture five days ago. With the help of the navy and firearms, they easily reached the north bank of the river.

So their strategic plan faced a major shock.

Shen Yiguan had to convene the military meeting again in a panic.

"We still have to fight according to the original plan! Otherwise, our army will fall into the trap of the rebels! Let them lead you by the nose! The rebels have a shallow foundation in the south of the Yangtze River. If you don't take this opportunity to cross the river and wipe out the main force of the rebels Once Nanjing is recovered, if the main force of the Xiao thief goes northward and makes rapid progress, the situation will change fundamentally!"

Li Hualong insisted on his previous strategy unwaveringly, insisted on following the previous strategic plan, and resolutely could not be led by the nose by the Zhennan Army. He felt that this was the conspiracy of the Zhennan Army, forcing them to concentrate their main force in Yangzhou. Instead of taking a detour to attack Jiangnan.

This will also buy time for Xiao Ruxun's main force to advance.

Xiao Daheng was quite dissatisfied with this.

"Could it be that the Yangzhou government is allowed to be breached, and then the rebel navy marches all the way north along the Grand Canal to the capital? The capital has only [-] soldiers ready to fight! You don't know what the rest are, Governor Li! The court handed over the main force to you, not for you to use the court as bait to attract the main force of the rebel army!
At that time, even if you have recovered Nanjing!The capital is gone!Then what's the point of you regaining Nanjing?We have all become prisoners of Thief Xiao!What's the use of you recovering Nanjing? ! "

Daheng Xiao had been angered by Li Hualong a lot in the past few days, but at this moment it completely exploded.

Li Hualong had several veins popping out on his forehead.

"What do you know?! This is what the rebels want us to do! If we use the main force to go south to Yangzhou, we will fall into the tricks of the rebels! Put the main force in Yangzhou, and entangle the rebels there? Wait for the food to run out and catch them without a fight ?!"

"How many thousands of rebels? How many tens of thousands of our army? You Li Dushi has [-] elites and countless local troops. Could it be that even tens of thousands of rebels can't do anything about it?! Or are you Li Dushi just pretending to use the capital as a weapon?" The idea of ​​bait, wanting to put all of us in danger to fulfill your reputation?!"

Xiao Daheng scolded Li Hualong angrily, Li Hualong's complexion changed, his face flushed, and he shouted angrily: "What did you say?! How dare you slander me so much! I'm devoted to the country, yet you slander me so much!"

"Isn't it?! You take the main force away, the capital has only tens of thousands of garrison troops, and the defense is weak. How do you know that this is not a trick of the rebels? The purpose is to take the capital in one fell swoop?! When the time comes, the chief assistant will not Now, Your Majesty has fallen into the clutches of the devil, what do you want? What do you want?!"

Xiao Daheng and Li Hualong quarreled so red-faced that they refused to give in to each other, and they didn't stop the quarrel until Shen Yiguan yelled angrily.

"Enough! The current situation of the enemy is serious. Instead of trying to cooperate sincerely, you slander and shirk each other. What is the reason for this?!"

Seeing that Shen Yiguan was so angry, Li Hualong and Xiao Daheng didn't dare to say any more, they glanced at each other, and stopped the quarrel bitterly.

Then Shen Yiguan breathed a sigh of relief, thought for a while, and looked at Liu Huangshang.

"Xuanzi, tell me, what should I do now?"

Compared with Daheng Xiao and the arrogant Li Hualong who have never been on the battlefield, Shen always admires the experienced and humble Liu Huangshang who has been on the battlefield more.

When Shen Yiguan asked, Xiao Daheng and Li Hualong immediately stared at Liu Huangshang.

Liu Huangshang felt a strong oppressive momentum.

It goes without saying that Li Hualong is a strong man.

Xiao Daheng is the noble man who has made Liu Huangshang, and Liu Huangshang cannot sing against Xiao Daheng.

Shen always asked Liu Huangshang, not necessarily without the intention of letting Liu Huangshang support Xiao Daheng's opinion.

Liu Huangshang has already guessed it, and Shen Yiguan's sensitive heart has already sensed a deep sense of crisis. He doesn't believe that the troops and towns along the canal can withstand the attack of Xiao Ruxun's navy. If Xiao Ruxun can take Zhenjiang If the government and Nanjing are not involved, then it is only a matter of time before the capital is taken down.

Similarly, Shen Yiguan didn't quite trust those trash Beijing camps in the capital to achieve miracles.

Shen has always been very sensitive and restless, and now, he may not want to take any risks at all.

After he took the biggest risk in his life, the aftermath still hasn't ended, and even intensified, and he has a little doubt and distrust of himself.

At this moment, he needs a sense of security, not a dangerous move.

Although Liu Huangshang believes that Li Hualong's method is not impossible, and even Li Hualong's method is correct, at least it can bring the occupation from the point where Xiao Ruxun took the lead back to a stalemate, and let the court react to mobilize soldiers from all over the country to Qinwang. Time, instead of being passively beaten like now, even the route of the rebels has not been figured out.

However, Liu Huangshang said what Shen always wanted to hear.

"The lower officials think that what Xiao Butang said is very reasonable, the capital is the most important thing, if the capital is not guaranteed, everything else is nonsense."

Liu Huangshang briefly explained his thoughts: "Maybe it is possible to use the main force to go south to Yangzhou, and at the same time send a force to go south to the south of the Yangtze River to threaten Nanjing and Zhenjiang from the side, forcing the rebels to retreat, so as to achieve the purpose of stabilizing the war situation. We can’t lose control of the canal, and we can’t give the rebels the possibility to follow the canal north to the capital, after all, we don’t have a navy that can confront the rebels on the water.”

Daheng Xiao looked at Li Hualong with a sneer.

Li Hualong looked at Liu Huangshang's anxious face, and wanted to open his mouth several times, but after seeing Shen Yiguan's cold eyes, Li Hualong instantly understood what Shen Yiguan meant.

Ever since, Li Hualong had no choice but to sigh deeply.

"Since that's the case, I will use a strong general and an elite soldier to go south across the river to threaten the rear of the rebel army and maintain enough pressure on the rebel army. Otherwise, the rebel army will not retreat easily!"

Li Hualong could only settle for the next best thing.

"Yes, it's better to have more protection."

Shen Yiguan directly nodded in agreement.

Li Hualong said nothing more.

(End of this chapter)