Ming Dynasty man

Chapter 272
Li Jing is about to shift his energy to deal with Hou Jin's invasion, how can he have time to go around in circles with the bandits, playing hide-and-seek?
You must know that tens of thousands of troops are going to fight, and the logistics needs to be prepared are not small. Needless to say, food, no matter how elite the troops are, they will not be able to fight without food.

The second is winter clothes. If you don't have winter clothes in winter combat, you're still fighting!

Finally, since Li Jing's troops were equipped with firearms and consumed shells and bullets, all the ammunition had to be transported from the military factory to the front line. It can be said that once the logistics supply was not available, the Jishi Army would have to fight the enemy in close quarters.

Li Jing's soldiers are not good at close combat, and fighting with Hou Jin's soldiers in close quarters is to attack the enemy with their own weaknesses.

What's more, what is the worth of Li Jing's soldiers?What is the worth of Hou Jin's soldiers?
Not to mention the military salary, even the casualty pension is one day at a time.

If there were a large number of casualties, Li Jing's remaining wealth might not be enough to pay the soldiers pensions.Li Jing is not stupid, how could he let his soldiers play with Hou Jin?

It can be said that Li Jing would never allow his troops to fight the enemy in close combat unless it was absolutely necessary.

In this way, the ammunition must be sufficient.

Fortunately, the military factory in Pingyang Prefecture has officially started production, especially since the heavy rain last year filled the reservoir with water.

What's more interesting is that in that heavy rain, all the factories were basically shut down, but the military factory was running at full capacity, and all the equipment was running.

By virtue of that heavy rain, a large number of artillery guns and shell casings and bullet casings were produced.

The guns and artillery parts produced in that month were several times more than Li Jing's production in previous years combined.

It is precisely because of the abundance of guns and artillery that Li Jing's confidence is sufficient, and he does not have to look forward and backward when using troops like before.

However, Li Jing also knew that if tens of thousands of people were used to fight, the consumption of shells and bullets would be astonishing, and the ammunition in reserve would not last a few battles.

Therefore, now Li Jing must control the scale of the battle, and control the scale within the range he can bear.

Therefore, when using troops against Houjin this time, Li Jing only planned to use Cao Wenzhao's cavalry division and an infantry division, with a total strength of about 2.

Li Jing had planned everything, but something went wrong.Gao Yingxiang and Li Zicheng did not follow the route he set, but turned around and entered Taiyue Mountain.In the direction of Wu'an, the official army of the imperial court has not been in place for a long time, and Cao Wenzhao's troops are in a dilemma.

Seeing the time passing day by day, Li Jing had received the news that Hou Jin had already started preparations, but his troops were still held back by the bandits.

In the past few days, Li Jing's temper is obviously not very good. He who has never lost his temper actually dropped a teacup, and the soldier who sent the letter was slow to deliver the letter once, and he was scolded by him.

On this day, Li Jing was looking at the map in his study and studying how to teach Hou Jin a good lesson in Datong, when he suddenly heard a report from his own soldiers: "Commander, a letter from the capital!"

"Did Brother Wu send it?" Li Jing pushed the map away and asked.

The soldier nodded and hurriedly handed over the letter.

Li Jing took the letter and gently opened it. After reading it for a while, he suddenly slapped the letter on the table: "Fuck, Zhu Youjian, the bastard, is he out of his mind?"

Seeing that Li Jing was angry, the soldier was startled. Seeing that Li Jing was not paying attention to him, he turned around and ran out of the study to invite Yuan Keli.

These days, the soldiers have also learned to be good. Whenever they find that Li Jing loses his temper, they quickly ask Yuan Keli to come over. If there is anyone who can hold Li Jing's temper at this time, then only Yuan Keli can do it.

After a while, Yuan Keli hurried over with his own soldiers, saw Li Jing's expression was extremely ugly, and immediately asked, "Jimin, what happened?"

Seeing Yuan Keli approaching, Li Jing's face paled, he hurriedly helped Yuan Keli to sit down, poured Yuan Keli a cup of tea, then handed the letter from Ma Wu to Yuan Keli and said, "Look, sir, that kid Zhu Youjian has passed out again. trick."

Hearing Li Jing call the emperor's name directly, Yuan Keli frowned. In the past, no matter how dissatisfied Li Jing was with the emperor, he had never called him by his name directly. Now, it seems that Li Jing was really angry this time. .

After receiving the letter, Yuan Keli read it carefully, the more he looked at Yuan Keli's frown became tighter.

After Yuan Keli finished reading it, he put the letter gently on the table, sighed and said, "Jimin, what are you going to do?"

Li Jing shook his head and said, "What else can we do? Donglu is about to move. If we don't take precautions, are we going to let them rob at will? The emperor dispatched Cao Wenzhao to Datong for defense, obviously no one is available.

It's just that I don't understand, Chen Qiyu's generals are basically in place, why don't they attack the bandits immediately, instead of advancing step by step?Isn't this a delay?Chen Qiyu has always been careful and careful, but he doesn't know that soldiers are valuable and quick, and the sooner they strike, the better it will be for the officers and soldiers.When the rogues find out the details of the officers and generals, they will inevitably come up with another trick. "

Yuan Keli stroked his beard and asked: "Are you worried that the bandits will make a false surrender again, and then get out of trouble?"

Li Jingjing nodded and said: "That must be the case. The rogues have tried this trick time and again. How can they not be used this time when they are surrounded? If Wen Zhao is here, they will definitely not allow them to feign surrender, but Chen Qiyu and those generals may not be able to see through the tricks of the rogues."

Yuan Keli pondered for a while and said: "Chen Qiyu is quite used to battles, so he shouldn't be confused about whether the bandits are swindling surrenders or not. As for Zuo Liangyu and the others, they are well aware of the cunning of the rogues. How can they allow them to swindle surrender?"

Li Jing shook his head and said: "What's the use of them getting used to it? Among these generals, have you seen it before? Wang Pu, this Wang Pu is greedy and afraid of death, so he must be the one who was deceived. In fact, even the rogues don't need it." If you have to surrender, you just need to bribe Wang Pu and tell him what you mean by surrender, and then when Wang Pu relaxes his vigilance, he can break through in one fell swoop. Sir, just watch, the rogues will break through the encirclement in two months."

Yuan Keli thought for a while, nodded slightly, and said after a while: "Why don't we let Wen Zhao attack immediately? Even if we can't wipe out all the bandits, at least we can wipe out most of them."

Li Jing sighed lightly and said: "It doesn't matter whether these rogue bandits disappear or not, the key is that the leaders of the rogue bandits can't let them go, especially the eighth king Zhang Xianzhong. Alas! The officers and soldiers are slow to move, and the rogue bandits are naturally prepared to catch them." How can it be so easy to live with these bandit leaders? Originally, if the officers and soldiers acted quickly, Wen Zhao still had time to wipe out these bandits. Now I have received news from here, and Wen Zhao has already received the news. He is now under Chen Qiyu's eyelids How can you resist the edict and not obey it? Forget it, let Wen Zhao go to Datong to deploy defenses!"

Yuan Keli shook his head and sighed: "It's over now, so this is the only way to go! Chen Qiyu missed the opportunity and failed our plan for nothing."

At the end of August in the sixth year of Chongzhen, Zhu Youjian appointed Cao Wenzhao as the commander-in-chief of Datong (equal to the commander-in-chief of Shanxi), responsible for the defense of Datong.After receiving the appointment, Cao Wenzhao not only sighed deeply.

This time to encircle and suppress the bandits, he spent countless money and food, but in the end he returned without success. Cao Wenzhao was really full of resentment.

Now Cao Wenzhao is the commander-in-chief of Datong and does not belong to Chen Qiyu's command. Before leaving, Cao Wenzhao decisively ordered his troops to attack the rogues in the direction of Wu'an.

Cao Wenzhao fought and won victories, captured and killed more than [-] rogues, and then Cao Wenzhao led his troops through Shexian County and entered Shanxi without stopping.

Knowing that Cao Wenzhao single-handedly defeated the bandit army, Chen Qiyu regretted it. If he had known this before, why should he fight steadily?As long as the various ministries block the escape route of the rogues, Cao Wenzhao can destroy the rogues himself.

However, Cao Wenzhao has received an order to go to Datong, and it is impossible for Cao Wenzhao to come back.

Chen Qiyu had no choice but to redo the layout, and ordered Wang Pu to lead the Beijing camp to fill up the defense area that Cao Wenzhao vacated.

It should be said that Chen Qiyu is really good at layout. This encirclement made him arrange it very solidly. Although there are many rogues and they started to break through from September, they did not break out after more than two months.

In November, the weather became colder and colder, and tens of thousands of rogues were besieged, without food or drink, unable to fight or escape, and seeing that they were about to die, several leaders gathered together to discuss and decided to use Make a final move: Surrender.

The gangsters have used this trick more than once, and every time they use it, the effect is very obvious.

Of course, the rogues didn't really want to surrender. If they really wanted to surrender, they wouldn't have waited until now. The rogues' surrender was just a false surrender.

For how to surrender, the leaders of the bandits have rich experience. They know that the trick of false surrender is not easy to use on Chen Qiyu, and it is not good to use it on Zuo Liangyu.

Because these people have dealt with their own group all the year round, they can see their own tricks at a glance, and if they want to surrender, they have to choose someone who is easy to fool.

The person who is easy to fool is naturally Wang Pu.

Because Wang Pu came from the capital, he was the most innocent among all the generals in the army.Wang Pu had never dealt with rogues before, and he didn't understand the methods of rogues at all. He belonged to the kind of person who had never seen the world.

So the bandits collected a sum of money to bribe Wang Pu, and expressed their willingness to surrender to Wang Pu.

That's right, the rogues used money to bribe Wang Pu.

In the impression of many people, the leader of the bandits should be very poor, and the general soldier should be very rich.But the fact is exactly the opposite. The bandit leaders led their subordinates to rob for so many years. In terms of family wealth, ten general soldiers combined could not compare to one of them.

For example, Zhang Xianzhong, after the surrender of Gucheng, the bribery went to the court. He went up to the cabinet scholar, down to the county magistrate, and he took money from him. If he had no money, what would he use to bribe?
Wang Pu was overjoyed when he learned that the rogues were going to surrender to him.

In Wang Pu's view, the rogues had nowhere to escape, and surrender was the only way out. How could such a good thing be let go if he could make meritorious deeds after taking the money?

So Wang Pu collected the money, accepted the surrender, and ordered the bandits to gather their troops and hand over their weapons within ten days.

It is good news for the officers and soldiers that the rogues are going to surrender. Who wants to fight in the cold weather?After learning the news that the bandits were about to surrender, Wang Pu's subordinates immediately relaxed their vigilance.

(End of this chapter)