The lights were bright, and Chen Wang was sitting in the bright hall, looking at the map in his hand and listening to the report from the soldier in tattered linen clothes in front of him.
The information reported back by the sentinels was much clearer than Chen Wang expected, and they even drew a rather detailed map, marking several important pieces of information.
There are nine hundred Liao cavalry in Chunhua City. This is not a secret.
The refugee spies who had entered the city early had already used various means to get their news out of the city.
In order to prevent the Ming army from attacking the camp, martial law has been declared in the Chuangjun camp.
Many people only know that Li Zicheng was born in Yi Zhan, but in fact, after the Yi Zhan was abolished, he served as a border soldier and became the general manager along the way.
Li Zicheng himself had some experience in leading troops to fight, and later he led a rebel army to fight.
In many battles with the Ming army, Li Zicheng's progress can be said to be visible to the naked eye, and his basic skills of setting up camps and fortifying the troops are not bad.
In the camp facing Chunhua, although the camp walls were not erected due to time constraints, many obstacles were also placed.
A defensive position was set up, and the arrangement was almost watertight, with not many flaws.
However, there were too many old and weak people in the rear camp, and the defense was not strict. All the sentinels sent out got in.
All the news that came out was summarized, and the general situation of the rogue camp was roughly outlined.
Li Zicheng only divided his troops into about 10,000 people and protected them with more than 3,000 cavalry.
The cavalry station is at the end, and the troops are outside. The rear camp is divided between Gao Jie and Han Zheng to guard the north and south. Gao Jie guards the south and Han Zheng guards the north.
Zhang Chengde led his troops to the west to protect the rear camp.
Han Zheng and Zhang Chengde had a slightly lower status than Gao Jie, but they were also generals under Li Zicheng.
Chen Wang also got a piece of information. Hui Dengxiang was not with Li Zicheng, but was heading north without knowing where he was going.
However, Li Zicheng's cavalry has about 9,000 people, and the Jingqi team has been expanded to 3,000 people.
There are a total of 40,000 troops and hungry soldiers including the rear camp, including 50,000 old and weak.
Compared with the initial encounter in Qiutou Town, there were much more horse troops and fine cavalry, and their strength had almost doubled.
Chen Wang knew that some of Li Zicheng's cavalry and fine cavalry might not be here, guarding the official road from Pizhou to Sanshui to prevent being attacked from both sides.
Now Li Zicheng is actually taking a risk. From Sanshui to Chunhua, there is only one avenue that can pass through at this time, sandwiched between two mountains.
If Zuo Liangyu defeats the troops behind him, he only needs to defend Sanshui, and they will become turtles in the urn.
At that time, it was extremely difficult to escape with the Jingqi alone.
Because of the need for defense, Gao Jie's camp was located on the outside.
The bandits are no longer a completely chaotic group. They already have basic disciplines, and there are even relevant regulations for the old, weak, and hungry soldiers.
However, the intruder army did not control the old, weak and hungry soldiers very well, and it did not go too deep into the grassroots. Most of the people still did not know each other, so they also gave opportunities for sentinels.
No one in the Chuang army thought that the Ming army would send sentinels to sneak into the rear camp.
The sentry who entered the camp found out a lot of things. In the camp behind the army, the vigilance of the soldiers was extremely low. Except for the slightly tighter defense near the periphery, the rest were extremely lax.
There is almost no defense against the old, weak and hungry soldiers inside the camp. In some places, the soldiers on night duty are even sleeping, and there are only a few patrol teams patrolling at night.
Chen Wang put away the map in his hand, raised his head, and stared at the waiting sentry in front of him.
Getting in touch with Gao Jie doesn't seem to be a difficult task now.
But when things came to pass, Chen Wang found it difficult to calm down.
He was a little hesitant whether he really wanted to send a message to Gao Jie and ask him to cooperate with him internally and externally.
There are still many variables, and there is no guarantee that everything will go wrong.
In case something unexpected happens and the news is leaked, Li Zicheng will use his plan to set up an ambush.
When the time comes when he leads his troops into battle and is ambushed by thousands of soldiers, even if he saves his life, I am afraid that this battalion general will not be able to do it and all his efforts will be in vain.
Compared with civilian officials, military attaches are promoted much faster during wartime.
But if a civil servant makes a mistake, the most he can do is be fined and demoted.
However, if the general is defeated in battle, he will be dismissed from his official position at the least, or beheaded on suspicion of crime.
Even if the plan was successful and Gao Jie stirred up trouble in the rear camp, he would only have less than two thousand troops capable of fighting in the field.
The guard's defense of the city is okay. If he were to go into battle with a sword and a gun, he would probably be able to run faster than anyone else if he encountered a headwind.
A total of 6,000 cavalry and 6,000 troops were placed outside Li Zicheng's front camp. The central army was guarded by 3,000 fine cavalry, for a total of 15,000 people.
Two thousand versus fifteen thousand, a troop strength difference of more than seven times...
All kinds of messy thoughts were wandering in Chen Wang's mind for a while.
If you are not careful, you will fall into an abyss...
The past of the Battle of Qiutou Town is still vivid in our minds.
Chen Wang's expression was deep, and his eyes flickered with the lights in the tent.
All the military academies in the hall were holding their breath and waiting for Chen Wang's decision.
Chen Gong and Hu Zhili only followed Chen Wangma's lead in everything.
Tang Shiping, on the other hand, watched Chen Wang go from being a servant to becoming a general manager.
Now he has been promoted to the rank of Chief Qian, and even leads a battalion alone.
He was only a vice president at first, but now he has taken advantage of Chen Wang's shareholder style and been promoted to acting president.
Tang Shiping had already made up his mind to follow Chen Wang, and following Chen Wang was undoubtedly the best choice he made.
Zhao Huailiang was silent. He also learned about Chen Wang's rapid promotion.
It took him more than ten years to become the Commander-in-Chief. However, Chen Wang was awarded the title of Commander-in-Chief from the very beginning and temporarily took over the post of Commander-in-Chief. Now he is leading the entire battalion. Everything happened in less than two months. .
Although he has been demoted to deputy commander, Chen Wang has let him do the work of deputy camp commander and has not removed him from the core level.
Most of the hundreds of generals in the hall were servants under Cao Wenzhao. They came to assist after receiving orders, and naturally they all looked towards Chen Wang.
Today's military discussions can be described as Chen Wang's words.
But because of this, there is no one who can discuss with Chen Wang now.
Chen Wang now needs to bear the huge pressure alone.
The more he thought about it, the more Chen Wang felt that the original plan was too rough.
Taking the initiative to attack, the enemy is now heavily fortified and there are not many soldiers under his command.
Even if Gao Jieli cooperates with others, it may be difficult to defeat the more than 100,000 intruders outside the city. Once they fall into a fierce battle, it means defeat.
The breaking army led by Li Zicheng was not the complete ragtag group outside Pizhou City.
And the Liao cavalry he led were not elite servants who had followed Cao Wenzhao through life and death for many years. He himself was not Cao Bianjiao, and he did not have the reputation of being a brave warrior among the three armies.
Chen Wang slowly raised his head, the candlelight in the bright hall kept dancing in his eyes.
He figured out something. He had fallen into a misunderstanding before, and there was no need for him to take the initiative.
Li Zicheng is now waiting for the city's internal response just like him.
Why doesn't he do something about this, put down the bait, and lure the snake out of its hole...
