Li Yan, who was in Puzhou City on the east bank of the Yellow River, also didn't sleep well. Even though it was confirmed that Gao Yigong was in Dali, based on his understanding of him and the behavior of the bandit army at this time, he expected that the bandit army would not go crazy on a large scale for a while. Counterattack, but when the mountain rain is about to come, the wind is the strongest.
He doesn't know when the wind will stop or when it will fill the building, so even if he is as calm as he is, he still worries about gains and losses and dare not be careless. After all, if he is not careful in fighting, all previous efforts will be wasted, and the entire army on the other side may even be annihilated.
If Li Guo is in Tongguan at this time, Gao Yigong of Dali does not dare to go to war rashly. He will first ask for orders and dispatch troops to launch a siege. It will be tomorrow afternoon at the earliest, but just in case. , I couldn’t sleep well tonight either.
If the bandit army wants to counterattack and regain the lost territory in one fell swoop, they must send a large force. They can't take Chaoyi City with a fierce attack of 51,000 soldiers per day, but can Dali County have tens of thousands of soldiers and horses?
Although the information is similar, does it really dare to use all the troops there? Aren't you afraid that something might happen to Dali?
If he doesn't dare, he will definitely mobilize troops from other places, from Tongguan in the south, from Henyang, Chengcheng County, Hancheng in the north, or from the rear. If he mobilizes troops from both wings, won't he be afraid of being diverted away from the mountain by the officers and soldiers? If troops are mobilized from the rear, it will take a long time. When others and horses are combined, the defense of Chaoyi City will only be stronger.
But Li Yan knew that Li Guo was neither indecisive nor a grinding person. He would take action immediately when the officers and soldiers were on an unstable footing, and he was not someone who worried about gains and losses and would decisively mobilize troops and horses from somewhere on both sides to encircle them.
In this case, wouldn't the two wings have an opportunity to take advantage of it?
Ma Huabao and others guessed correctly. Li Yan was waiting here. He just wanted to see where Li Guo would mobilize his troops. If he only used Dali's troops or mobilized them from the rear, that would be fine. If he mobilized them from both wings, which side would he mobilize? I'll attack somewhere.
Therefore, before the capture of Chaoyi, Wu Sangui and Ma Ke of Shaanzhou were ordered to send troops and horses to advance towards Tongguan. Qin Songwang of Hejin was also ordered to strengthen reconnaissance. If there was any sign of mobilization of troops and horses in Hancheng on the other side, troops were immediately sent across the river to attack Hancheng.
As the saying goes, if you know this and know the enemy, you will be able to fight a hundred battles. Li Yan and Gu Junen have both been in the bandit army, and they know the character, style and fighting style of their generals very well.
Everything is under control, just waiting for the other party to make a move!
The night was getting darker and the lights were getting brighter. Li Yan was lying in his clothes in the Yamen of Puzhou City. Suddenly he heard the roar outside. He stood up and opened the door and asked, "The thieves are attacking the city?"
"Back to Li Shuai, it was thunder." The attendant outside the door hurriedly said, Li Yan exhaled, he thought it was a cannon fire, the door next door opened and Gu Junen also came out and looked up at the sky, frowning: "Weird, drought thunder!"
The so-called drought thunder means thunder without rain, or thunder on a sunny day. The ancients regarded it as an omen.
Li Yan said calmly: "We can't capsize the boat."
At dawn, when Li Yan got up and washed up, he found Ma Huabao waiting for him in the hall with red eyes: "Vice General Ma, have you been up all night or can't you sleep?"
Ma Huabao smiled bitterly and shook his head: "There is no big difference between sleeping and not sleeping. The thieves have been harassing me all night long. How can I sleep?"
"Then go back to sleep right now. They will probably do it in the afternoon or evening, and you won't be able to sleep even if you want to." Li Yan said to Ma Huabao with certainty.
However, when Ma Huabao came again the next morning, he saw Li Yan frowning, and Gu Junen shook his head repeatedly: "It was not Li Guo's fault. It stands to reason that he would not be able to calm down."
"Did the bandits attack us last night?" Li Yan raised his head and asked, Ma Huabao nodded quickly: "No less than ten times, most of them scolded the formation outside the trench. Twice he tried to cross the trench and was shot out by the general's order..."
Li Yan's face became more solemn and he pondered for a long time: "Eat first, then wait, maybe today..." Before he said anything, there was an urgent report from outside: "Li Shuai, the bandit army raided Hejin in the early morning and broke the river bank defense line here. We are currently besieging Hejin City!"
Bang, the tea cup in Li Yan's hand fell and shattered: "You Li Guo, you learn quickly!"
When Li Yan received the news that Hejin was besieged, the good news he wrote to Chang Yu was also sent to the capital. Then Chang Yu went to the palace in a hurry. He and the emperor were happy for a while, but they didn't know that Huang He Bian was in disarray at this time.
In fact, even if he knew, he wouldn't worry because he believed in Li Yan's ability.
What's more, he also had trouble on his hands at the moment. After chatting with Emperor Chongzhen, he left the palace. He wanted to meet his lover to talk to Zhu Zhi'e about life, but as soon as he left the palace, he was stopped by Dongchang's fans. : "Report to the Governor, someone has rebelled!"
Chang Yu was very surprised when he first heard that someone was rebelling. Nowadays, no one in Ming Dynasty except Zhang and Li, the two time-honored brands, dare to be so arrogant, especially since he was so decisive and decisive after his debut and swept across the country with strong and brutal strength. Who else dares to Let’s talk about rebellion.
But Dongchang's information is not wrong.
Someone really rebelled, and it wasn't all in one place.
Hundreds of refugees in Wucheng, Shandong Province, killed officials and rebelled. In Cangzhou, Hebei Province, some gangsters incited believers to raise flags and rebel. In the city northwest of Baoding Prefecture, bandits entered the city and looted... As many as five or six groups of people rebelled, which made Chang Yu couldn't help but frown. eyebrow.
Damn it, things are going to change again.
But then I realized that this day had become very strange.
The dates of these five or six rebellions were not far apart. They were all started within the past three or five days. Most of them were in the borders of Hebei and Shandong, which were on the periphery of the Gyeonggi area... Things got a little interesting, and Chang Yu soon realized, This change is man-made.
Li Chuanggu jumped over the wall in a hurry, Chang Yu sneered, and the people around him were puzzled for a moment.
Ever since Chang Yu was alerted to Li Zicheng's appearance in the capital, he ordered a large-scale manhunt. Not only the fans and masters of Dongchang came out, but also the Jin Yiwei, as well as several battalions of troops under Dongchang's command, as well as the participation of the Beijing battalion and the personal guards. Such a large-scale Even Li Zicheng's cunning rabbits and three caves were in a state of embarrassment, and rebellions suddenly broke out in these places. It was obvious that he had been forced to a corner. In order to escape, he had to expose the latent forces to confuse and divert the attention of the pursuers.
This is called cutting off the tail to survive, abandoning the pawn to save the commander!
Now for Chang Yu, the best time to hunt down Li Zicheng has passed. The rest is a matter of luck and character. It is good to catch him, but there is no loss if he cannot catch him. Anyway, even if Li Zicheng escapes back to Xi'an , the mess on his side is enough for him to drink from, and he is not qualified to raise conditions if he wants to negotiate peace again.
However, Chang Yu will never allow anyone to dare to rebel. Since he broke out to cover Li Zicheng himself, he has no reason to be soft. He must uproot it and root it out to serve as a warning to others!
So he immediately called Wang Jiayan to the Yamen to discuss sending troops to quell the chaos.
The rebellion is mainly in the borders of Hebei and Shandong. In the past, the Shandong general army could be mobilized to quell the rebellion, but now...
The Shandong General Army has lost its strength. All its soldiers and horses have been transferred to the Yellow River defense line. Even Hebei has no troops. To put it bluntly, except for Gao Jie in Xuzhou who has more than 20,000 soldiers and horses in Jiangbei at this time, only the capital has troops. The others are either in Jiubian or the Yellow River, or they are all in the south.
Big cities like Jinan Prefecture and Baoding Prefecture only have more than a thousand troops stationed there. It is too difficult to defend the city and go far away to quell chaos and fight.
What's more, five or six thunders exploded at once. If they were not extinguished in time, the consequences would be disastrous.
So Chang Yu decided to pull the emperor's personal guards out to practice. They may not be enough to fight with the regular army, but they are still sure to deal with these small rebellions.
Theoretically, only the emperor has direct leadership and jurisdiction over the Guards, but in many cases the Emperor has no time to take care of it. Most of the Guards are entrusted to other yamen, such as the Tengxiang Siwei, who are the most capable of the Guards. It is under the control of the Royal Horse Supervisor of the Inner Court, while most of the rest of the Guards are hosted in the Beijing Camp or the Fifth Army Governor's Mansion.
Wang Jiayan was the governor of the capital camp. His rise to power was the result of Chang Yu's behind-the-scenes manipulation. During the battle to defend the capital, he and Shi Kefacheng were in charge of logistics and assisted Chang Yu in the battle against the rebels and the Qing army. During this period, they also had many changes in Chang Yu's view. , he does not look at him as the stubborn eunuch in the past impression. Although civil servants and eunuchs are mortal enemies, and although there is still a lot of prejudice and even contempt for Chang Yu, he really admires his military ability.
After hearing Chang Yu's summons, Wang Jiayan hurried to Dongchang Yamen full of doubts. When he heard that someone was rebelling while serving tea in the hall, he was so shocked that he almost dropped the tea cup in his hand. At this moment, there were still people who dared to make trouble in the wind. I had never heard of Xiao Xiao. Do eunuchs kill people without batting an eyelid?
Return to five or six offices!
"Uproot the roots! Leave no grass behind!" When Wang Jiayan walked out of the Dongchang Yamen, Chang Yu's words were still swirling in his mind. The task of suppressing the bandits and quelling the chaos was left to him, the governor of the capital. Chang Yu ordered him to personally lead troops and horses to various places to quell the chaos.
Wang Jiayan was a civil servant and had never fought in a war, but at this time he felt eager to try. In fact, this impulse had already existed when he followed Chang Yu during the Gyeonggi War!
He also wanted to become a strategizing general like Chang Yu and Li Yan and leave a name in history, so that he could be worthy of his status as the governor of the capital, but he had no chance and didn't know if he had the ability.
Now that the opportunity has come, he wants to give it a try.
After all, there was no big risk this time, and it was just a good time to practice. He also knew that Chang Yu meant to train him and the army, so he was more or less grateful to the little eunuch for giving him a chance to practice.
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