"Where can I ask for help?" Sun Chuang asked again.
Xiao Wu from the Second Battle Barracks hesitated for a moment and said, "Go to Shunde Mansion to find Lu Xiangsheng?"
"You may not necessarily go to Lu Xiangsheng from time to time, maybe to the capital. Don't forget that Liu Yangcui, the prefect of Guangping Prefecture, once served as a censor." Xu Guang reminded at the side.
If you know yourself and your enemy, you can fight a hundred battles without danger.
Tiger Character Banner is not an ordinary bandit and bandit. Since he wants to attack Guangping Prefecture, he naturally has a clear understanding of the situation of the prefect of Guangping Prefecture.
Liu Yangcui's situation, including that of some officials in Guangping Mansion, had been compiled into documents by spies from the Foreign Intelligence Service and sent to the head of the First War Division.
On the intelligence system, Tiger Flag spends a lot of money every year. The expenditure is so large that it can feed a half-war division. Moreover, this expenditure does not end at one time, but continues to be paid, and even continues as time goes by. The demands of intelligence systems gradually increase overhead.
Such a large amount of money and food consumption is not something that ordinary forces can afford.
No matter it was fake gold or the Ming Dynasty, they would not spend such a large sum of money on intelligence.
Xiao Wu said: "It will take a long time to go to the capital, and there is no guarantee that Lu Xiangsheng will come out from Shunde Prefecture to rescue Guangping Prefecture."
"Do you mean to fight, or to wait a little longer?" Xu Guang looked at Sun Chuang.
As the commander-in-chief of the army, Sun Chuang was the one who made the final decision.
Sun Chuang pondered for a while, then said after thinking: "The army is not short of money and food for the time being, so why not wait a little longer. If Lu Xiangsheng is still hiding in Shunde Mansion, then we can directly capture Guangfu City."
The reason why he dared to say that the army was not short of money and food was that there were too many vassal kings in Henan, and many vassal kings were seven or eight generations older. It was no exaggeration to say that wealth could rival the country.
The money and various treasures accumulated by these vassal kings for generations have now become the trophies of the Tiger Flag.
Not only that, Henan itself is a major grain-producing province. Although the poor cannot eat, it does not mean that there is no food. It is just that the food falls into the hands of the rich.
Now all this food has fallen into the hands of Tiger Flag, and it does not require any capital.
Even if there is not enough food, there is still Huguang, a place with enough food in the world, where you can buy food.
In the Ming Dynasty, if you have money, you don't have to worry about not being able to buy food.
The army stayed near the Fuyang River outside Guangfu City for many days.
However, the army was not idle here. In addition to bombarding Guangfu City with several cannons every day, it also cooperated with the local peasant association to form peasant soldiers and suppressed all forces that opposed the peasant association.
Liu Yangcui, the prefect of Guangping Prefecture, not only prays to gods and Buddhas in Guangfu City every day, but also hopes that his colleagues in the court will help him out of past friendship.
I don’t know if it was his sincerity that moved the gods and Buddhas all over the sky, or the money he sent had an effect. Just a few days after his long followers arrived in the capital, the Ministry of War sent a message urging Lu Xiangsheng to send troops to recover Guangping Prefecture and Daming Prefecture. Order.
When Xu Yinsheng, the prefect of Shunde Prefecture, learned about the order from the Ministry of War asking Lu Xiangsheng to send troops, he immediately came to Lu Xiangsheng's temporary residence.
Lu Xiangsheng asked the prefect of Shunde to come in and arranged for hot tea to be served.
"Deputy Ambassador Lu, why are you still in the mood to drink tea? I heard that the Ministry of War sent an official document asking you to deal with Liu Futai in Guangfu City?" Prefect Xu Yinsheng said anxiously.
Lu Xiangsheng took a sip of tea and said, "Yes, the imperial court has indeed urged me to send troops, and I have already decided to send troops to Guangping Mansion tomorrow."
"Absolutely not!" Magistrate Xu Yinsheng hurriedly stopped him, "I heard that there are tens of thousands of tiger bandits in Guangping Prefecture, but Deputy Lu only has a few thousand soldiers and horses around him. It is undoubtedly a waste of time to send troops at this time. Stone, the gain outweighs the loss!"
As the prefect of Shunde Prefecture, Lu Xiangsheng was able to lead the Tianxiong Army to stop in Shunde Prefecture, which made him feel at ease, and he was willing to pay even a little money and food for this purpose.
The tiger banner army has arrived at Guangping Mansion, and the next one will definitely be his Shunde Mansion. Now he not only does not dislike that Lu Xiang may compete with him for power if he stays in Shunde Mansion for a long time, he even wants to hand over all matters in Shunde Mansion to Lu Xiangsheng. .
If possible, he would even want Lu Xiangsheng to take over the prefect's black gauze hat.
Hearing this, Lu Xiangsheng chuckled and said, "Where did Xu Futai hear that the tiger bandits came with tens of thousands of troops to attack Guangping Mansion? The news I received was that the tiger bandits had less than 10,000 troops in Guangping Mansion. "
He knows very well the principle of knowing yourself and your enemy.
The Tianxiong Army is mainly made up of locals, so it is not difficult for him to figure out the situation in Guangping Mansion and Daming Mansion.
"Impossible. What I heard was that tens of thousands of troops attacked Daming Prefecture first, and then attacked Guangping Prefecture. Now only Yongnian and a few counties in the north of Guangping Prefecture have not been captured by tiger thieves." Shunde Prefecture The prefect Xu Yinsheng did not believe Lu Xiangsheng's words at all.
The thieves dared to attack Fucheng, and there was no time when there were not tens of thousands of troops.
Lu Xiangsheng smiled and said: "I have sent people to investigate, and it is true that there are less than 10,000 people. I am fully confident on this point."
"Even if there are 10,000 people, that's still a lot. Deputy Lu also has less than 10,000 soldiers and horses. According to my opinion, it is better to stay in Shunde Mansion and recruit more soldiers. You have to do what the foreign emperor ordered." No, since they don’t know the situation here, Deputy Lu can completely ignore the order from the Ministry of War." Prefect Xu Yinsheng advised.
He really didn't want Lu Xiangsheng to leave.
Only by guarding Shunde Mansion could he keep Wushamao, but without Lu Xiangsheng, he had no confidence in guarding Shunde Mansion.
Moreover, Lu Xiangsheng had recently recruited thousands of troops from Shunde Mansion. Once the Tianxiong Army left, Shunde Mansion's strength would not only not be enhanced, but would be weakened.
It can be said that Lu Xiangsheng is his life-saving straw now.
Of course, if he knew that the ultimate goal of the Tiger Banner army that invaded Guangping Mansion was for Lu Xiangsheng and the Tianxiong Army, he would probably push Lu Xiangsheng out immediately.
Lu Xiangsheng shook his head slightly and said: "I have long heard that the tiger thieves are so powerful that even the slave thieves are no match for them. I have wanted to try it for a long time. Now I have the right opportunity to see how powerful the tiger thieves are. , my Tianxiong Army is even better."
"There is no need to fight the tiger bandits now. You can wait a little longer. When Deputy Lu has the upper hand, it will not be too late to fight the tiger bandits again." Prefect Xu Yinsheng continued to persuade.
Hearing this, Lu Xiangsheng shook his head again.
He said: "No matter how many troops I have, I can only have tiger thieves with the support of Henan Province. Now is the best time to fight against tiger thieves. As long as I win, I will break the tiger thieves' undefeated streak." According to the myth, the imperial court can then send out a large army to encircle and suppress the tiger thieves and regain the land in the three provinces forcibly occupied by the tiger thieves."
He sees it more clearly than Xu Yinsheng, the prefect of Shunde Prefecture who only cares about Shunde Prefecture.
As the military commander in charge of Shunde, Guangping, Daimyo, and the three prefectures, now only Shunde Prefecture can draw on his strength. If he continues to delay, the advantage will not be on his side.
