"Abandoned Jiangling City?"
"Your Majesty, are you going to..."
Liu Zongmin and Gu Junen were startled after hearing Li Zicheng's plan. What was the emperor thinking about? Huya Mountain is not that urgent, right? There is no need to abandon Jiangling to save Huya, right?
Moreover, the emperor will personally lead an army to attack the police. The police are the red thieves' back-up. If they are threatened, it is impossible for the red thieves to attack Huya Mountain with all their strength.
Li Zicheng squinted one eye and whispered: "The red thief came to Huguang just for the sake of taking advantage of others, so he will definitely keep an eye on Jiangling City! If Li Guo abandons Jiangling, he will definitely drive in as soon as possible. And As soon as he leaves the police, he will inevitably take some of his troops with him. The mutiny caused by the red thieves staying in the police will be reduced, so we can pounce at this time so that we are absolutely safe!"
Not to mention, Li Zicheng, the founding king of the country, was still capable. After seeing through Zhu Cixiang's trump card, he immediately prescribed the right medicine and formulated a corresponding plan.
"Your Majesty," Liu Zongmin pondered for a while, "the brothers below are all a little tired. They have to rest for two or three days before heading west."
Gu Jun'en said: "We still have a lot of loot at the police station, do we want to transport it away? In addition, there are many ships on the river, how to deal with them?"
Now Li Zicheng still has prestige. After making the decision, the following two civil and military officials immediately followed his intentions and made suggestions.
"Rest for two days, and then the whole army marches westward!" Li Zicheng said, "As for the looted things, all that can be divided are divided... and those that cannot be divided are burned together with the ships on the river! This is called Burn the cauldron and sink the boat, this is what the Overlord of Western Chu did back then!
Well, isn't the territory we occupy now the west of Chu State? It should be the territory occupied by King Chu Ba back then, right? "
Not really! Gu Junenxin said: Although the name of Xi Chu's country has the character "西", its territory is in the east. Jiangling is the territory of Linjiang King Gong Ao. Therefore, Your Majesty, you cannot be the Overlord of Western Chu, at most you are the Overlord of Western Shu!
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"Master Chitose, Master Chitose, good news!"
Yan Yingyuan ran into the main hall of Yuhu Palace as if he were flying, shouting a great victory at the top of his lungs as he ran.
Zhu Cixiang was reading the report sent by Ma Shiying at this time - it was also a good report! Ma Shiying performed well in eastern Sichuan again. Relying on the outstanding performance of his commander Zeng Ying, he defeated Zhang Wenxiu (Liu Wenxiu)'s army twice in the Hezhou Waterway and Fotuguan Land Road. Zeng Ying even personally led 500 cavalry to bypass Zhang Wenxiu and kill Zhang Guangcai, the commander of the Great Western Army. Zhang Wenxiu suffered heavy losses and had already retreated to Chengdu a few days ago.
Now that Ma Shiying can finally concentrate all his efforts on dealing with Li Zicheng who may move westward, the situation in eastern Sichuan should be worry-free.
Zhu Cixiang was originally worried that there would be a three-legged situation after Li Zicheng entered Sichuan, but now it seems that he was overly worried.
Zhang Xianzhong is getting weaker and weaker and looks like he will fall soon!
And if Li Zicheng takes the "Yunyang-Hanzhong" route to enter Sichuan, Zhu Cihong really has no tricks. But he stayed in Jingzhou Prefecture, and also worked hard at Huya Mountain, Yiling Prefecture, and Guizhou. It seemed that he wanted to enter Sichuan along the Yangtze River and join forces with Zhang Xianzhong to attack the Ming army in Chongqing and Kuizhou. Now it seems that this plan has completely failed...
Putting down the memorial in his hand, Zhu Cixiang was in a good mood. He raised his head and looked at Yan Yingyuan with a smile, "Liheng, what's the good news?"
"Thousand-year-old Master," Yan Yingyuan saluted, and then handed over the victory memorial written by He Tengjiao, "What a great victory! The great victory of Jiangling...killed five thousand enemies, beheaded eight hundred, and captured the entire city of Jiangling." Come down!"
"What?" Zhu Cixiang was startled, "Is there such a thing?"
He took the memorial, unfolded it, and read it carefully word for word. It turned out that the Dashun Army guarding Jiangling was frightened by Wu Guoyong's new army's right division approaching Huya Mountain, and hurriedly abandoned Jiangling City and retreated to Jingmensuo and Dangyang - seemingly wanting to detour to Dangyang to Yiling. Zhouzhou, and then head east to Huya Mountain.
He Tengjiao and Chang Yanling, who were stationed at Bailizhou and Jiangling Bridgehead, immediately seized the opportunity and dispatched ten thousand elite troops (the two's Fu Biao and Zhen Biao) to pursue them. They caught up with Dashun's army near Jingmen Station and then killed them fiercely. After working for a while, I got 800 heads... I don't know if I was cheating?
However, Jiangling City was really captured, which was considered a great achievement!
"Go and invite Governor Qin." Zhu Cixiang breathed out, put down the memorial, and asked his men to go and invite Qin Liangyu.
Zhu Cixiang was self-aware and knew that he was only a strategist who could talk on paper and was incapable of commanding an army of 100,000 to fight the enemy on the battlefield. Moreover, the battle in Huguang is not a battle between the two sides in a round formation, but a mobile battle. Zhu Cixiang can't command at all, and he doesn't have the talents under him who can really fight in mobile warfare - Wu Xiang may be able to fight in mobile warfare, but he is not in Huguang.
As for Wu Sanfu, Wu Guoyong, and Li Yan, they are also considered to be commanders. They are simply not capable of large-scale mobile warfare involving 100,000 people.
That is to say, Qin Liangyu, who has been dealing with bandits for more than ten years, knows how to fight this kind of mobile warfare.
"Master Qiansui, if I hear you correctly..." Qin Liangyu is old and has poor eyesight, so Yan Yingyuan read He Tengjiao's memorial to her. After listening, the old lady seemed to want to say something, but she stopped talking.
"Just say what the old lady wants to say!" Zhu Cixi said with a smile, "I have informed the Holy Lord that I will make the old lady the Duke of the country... Is there anything else that the old lady can't say?"
There is no saying that Zhu Cixiang's court was noble and military--his foundation was originally the martial arts of Beifu. How could he be noble? Therefore, if you are granted the title of Duke of Kenan, you are truly a first-class honorable minister. Even the first assistant, Wei Zaode, can speak ill of him.
Qin Liangyu nodded and said: "Governor He falsely reported his military exploits. His regiment training troops could not have killed 5,000 Li Zicheng. Most of the 800 beheadings were worthy of success. Killing Liang was not enough. Perhaps he killed many civil servants who accompanied the army." "
Zhu Cixiang nodded, noncommittal.
Although He Tengjiao made a false report, Zhu Cixiang will also admit his contribution... After all, He Tengjiao has been very upright in standing up for the past two years!
Therefore, a marquis must always be granted the title!
In addition, his skills in internal strife are also useful. The next governor of Guangdong must be him... The struggle between locals and foreigners in Guangdong is very lively these days. Officials who don't know how to fight internally will be guaranteed to give two Sending the Cantonese people to fight has no direction.
Qin Liangyu added: "However, the bandits in Jiangling failed to ambush Governor He, which shows that their number is not large and they are not elite... By the way, there is no news from Hanyang, right?"
"Nothing," Yan Yingyuan said, "Little Mr. Wu has already started shelling Guishan..."
"Where is Huya Mountain?"
"It's nothing," Yan Yingyuan said again, "Commander Wu is building a fortress and preparing for a strong attack."
Qin Liangyu frowned, "So...the troops on the other side of Shishou are likely to be the main force of the rogue bandits!"
Of course Zhu Cixiang didn't know where Li Zicheng's main force was? It's not that easy to find the enemy's main force in mobile warfare. You usually have to slowly test them and then make assumptions based on the results of the tests.
Qin Liangyu's proposal to attack Jiangling (later changed to attacking Huya Mountain first to test Jiangling's movements) was actually to test or fish out Li Zicheng's main force.
"Old Madam..." At this time, Zhu Cixiang saw Qin Liangyu's face suddenly become extremely solemn, and asked hurriedly, "What's wrong?"
Qin Liangyu nodded and said: "Li Zicheng abandoned Jiangling... something was wrong!"
"What?"
"If he wanted to save Huya Mountain and Jiangling, he would not abandon the city," Qin Liangyu said, "but he chose to abandon the city, which shows that we failed to mobilize him."
"Then Li Zicheng will..."
Qin Liangyu said: "There are two possibilities. One is to retreat to Xiangyang and prepare to take the northern route to Sichuan; the other is... to come to the police!"
"What? Come to the police? Does he know that I am in the police?" Zhu Cixiang became nervous. Although he has two to three thousand cavalry following him and can run away at any time, Li Zicheng's old camp is no joke!
