Chapter 39: The War of True Decision (1)

"The moon is so full today. Third, have you eaten the moon cake this year?" A soldier lying under the city whispered.

The companion who was lying beside him said, "I've eaten it, damn it, those I've been sent at noon are hard and slim, it's better for your wife to do it."

"Hehe, that's right, my wife is famous for making mooncakes." Xiaobing said proudly.

"Oh, this Mid-Autumn Festival came to touch the city, and it still won't make people live."

"I said above, it's because it's Mid-Autumn Festival that the Southern Army was not prepared, so don't talk nonsense. It's all from the Jingying camp, so we'll get rich after we'll fight." The soldier said excitedly.

A person in front turned his head and whispered: "It's all fucking worthless, stop talking quickly."

In the darkness, the two of them stuck out their tongues and stopped talking. The soldier moved his body, leaned against the city wall, took out a moon cake from his arms, opened his mouth to chew, and reached out to him with a hand, and he spread it halfway and handed it over.

The city wall behind me was a little cold, so dark that I didn't know how high it was.

...

The vanguard of the Southern Army and the commander-in-chief Chen Hui led the 9,000 left guards of the palace army to travel day and night, and arrived in Xiongxian at sunset on August 14th. This place was already the front line of the Southern Army's control range. From then on, the new city Bazhou, a hundred miles north, was already the control range of the Yan army.

Geng Bingwen has always been careful in his military use. As the vanguard, the left guard of the government army first set up a line of defense in Xiongxian. In Mozhou, fifty miles later, the commander of Pan Zhong, Yang Song led the right guard of the cavalry and more than 20,000 people to guard the Guangwu guard; then, the governor Xu Kai supervised three guards and 25,000 people to station in Hejian, and these three places formed three lines of defense.

Geng Bingwen led thirteen guards to station 100,000 people in Zhending, and waited for the garrisons in Shandong and Shanxi and other places to slowly advance northwards. Geng Bingwen's strategy was very clear, that is, large troops were approaching the border, hundreds of thousands of troops rolled northwards, and used the general trend to oppress the Yan army to fight a decisive battle.

For such an arrangement.

Geng Bingwen's son, Sima Geng Rui, strongly opposed it. He said to his father: "Master, the news sent by Peiping, Yan Ni led the main force to Daning north. In the huge Beiping, there were less than 10,000 elderly, weak and remnants left to guard it. It was in emptiness. It would be better to order Governor Xu to lead the six satellites in front to attack Peiping at night, and the general led his army to take over.

As long as you act quickly, before Yan Ni returns to the army, the troops will be at the city and in Beijing, the Yan Ni rebellion will only scatter birds and beasts."

As soon as Geng Rui said this, several of the generals around him nodded thoughtfully to agree.

The commander Ping'an was the first to jump out to agree: "Master General Geng Sima said this very much. Soldiers are very fast. As long as you attack Beiping, it is equivalent to losing your foundation for Yan Ni. Ping'an is willing to take three thousand elite soldiers and seize Peiping for the commander within ten days."

Geng Bingwen's face was as calm as water. He looked at the military newspaper in front of him calmly, which stated the movements of various troops in Zhu Di's army: Yan Ni, Zhang Yu, Tan Yuan, Zheng Heng and other troops went west to Xuanda, and then went north to Daning.

Zhu Neng, Qiu Fu, Zhao Yi, Jiang Yu and other troops went west to Shanhaiguan. Only the prince of Yan, Zhu Gaoxu, was assisted by Zhang Xin, and commanded the Yanshan vanguards to guard the 8,000 troops. The information was signed seven days before the eighth day of the eighth month.

The generals below saw Geng Bingwen silently, and no one dared to disturb him. After a while, Geng Bingwen turned his body to the left and right deputy generals Li Jian and Ning Zhong and said, "What do you think of me?"

Ning Zhong said: "When he returned to the commander-in-chief, Yan Ni left Peiping on the seventh day of the seventh month. They first attacked Xuanfu and then moved into Daning. It was only one month and seven days now. No matter what, they could not travel thousands of miles to return to Peiping.

Although Geng Sima's plan was quick, it was a clever plan." As he said that, he looked at Li Jian.

When Ning Zhong was about to leave the capital, Huang Zicheng personally told him that Yan's uprising had not yet established a stable foothold, so he should advance in large quantities and quickly seize Peiping. This is not only a military need, but also a need for the court's political affairs. For such rebellion, it must be extinguished with thunder.

Therefore, Ning Zhong adhered to this purpose and immediately came out to agree with the strategy of rushing troops to advance quickly.

Geng Bingwen looked at Li Jian again. His son-in-law Li Jian was the second princess of Lao Zhu after Prime Minister Li Shanchang. Li Jian has been fond of talking about military affairs since he was a child and has been highly appreciated in front of Zhu Yuanzhang.

Li Jian thought for a while and said, "Our army has a great power. If we rashly send the front troops to advance, we will violate the taboo of dividing troops and splitting the troops and sending them to Jiancheng, Beiping. If the situation cannot be opened in a short time, Yan Ni returned to the aid place and cooperated with the inside and outside.

Our army is in danger, the general thinks twice."

Seeing that everyone agreed, only Li Jian opposed it, Geng Rui immediately replied: "There are few soldiers in Peiping, and Yan Ni and the East and West battled with the Ning King in Daning. With the strength of the Daning army, Yan Ni could not win in a short period of time; there was also the Liao king on the east side. Not to mention overcoming Shanhaiguan, it would be nice if the rebel army could escape unscathed.

At least within half a month, Yan Ni was unable to return to Beiping to help. Could it be that he could not open Beiping within half a month?

Furthermore, this is a strange plan. If there is a mistake, it will not hurt my strength when I challenge the enemy. But once I succeed, I will remove the firewood from the bottom of the pot. This kind of battle will obviously be a good deal for us."

Li Jian smiled slightly: "Sma Geng said it is indeed not bad, but has Sima considered the difference in combat power between the border army and the Beijing camp? The border army fought every year, had rich combat experience and was extremely powerful.

Although the Beijing camp is well equipped, but it has not been licking blood for a long time, how can it compete with the border army? Therefore, our army can only wait for local garrisons to gather, and use its military advantage to suppress the Yan army step by step, offsetting the gap in combat power."

Geng Rui sneered: "Ship Li, you are the deputy commander of the First Army. How can you say such words that enhance others' ambition and destroy your own prestige?"

"Bang" Geng Bingwen slapped the table, and his halberd was furious: "What are you? You're just a marching Sima. What qualifications are you to say to General Li? Why don't you be punished quickly?"

Geng Rui was scolded by his father, and his face turned red. He knew that he had done something wrong just now, so he had to kneel down and accompany him indifferently. Li Jian naturally went down the donkey and let Geng Rui get up.

Geng Bingwen said: "I have heard of all your opinions.

The light cavalry is too reckless and impetuous to advance. I have encircled hundreds of thousands of people to suppress the rebellion, which is a manifestation of my advantage. Don’t forget the incident of Zhou Yafu? Therefore, this general cannot agree with Geng Sima’s suggestion.

The strategy of rebellion remains unchanged as originally planned, and the army gathers and then becomes an eagle and a rabbit fight."

Among the Ming army, Geng Bingwen was the few founding generals left, and his prestige was beyond his reach in the country. So he was the only one in the army. When he spoke at this time, everyone knew that it was the final decision.

The generals bowed quickly and said, "I'm sure to listen to the command of the general." As he spoke, Geng Rui just kept shaking his head and sighed in his heart: My father is old, isn't his plan again Wei Yan's suggestion?

...

A rope slowly slid down the city wall, and then several more ropes hung down. Several officers walked quietly under the city wall and patted each soldier. It was already past the third day, but each soldier immediately stood up like a javelin.

The soldiers followed the rope one by one. After half an hour, all the soldiers climbed to the top of the city. A little light shone on the top of the city, and three sounds and three darks.

The faint light traveled through three miles and landed in the woods outside the city. "Get on the horse!" The war horses were covered with darkness in the woods, and the soldiers who had been waiting for a long time turned over the horses neatly.

When the first general slowly pulled out his waist knife, the flag-holder beside him carefully held the flag into the aristol, and then the bright moonlight of fifteen years was vaguely embroidered on the flag.

There is a Southern Army soldier standing against the wall on both sides of the door opening. Today's sentry is the most painful. The Mid-Autumn Festival dinner in the evening was so sumptuous. The local gentry sent a total of thirty pigs to work the army. The left guard of the government army did not eat more meat in the ground for a month. There is also the most famous "Xiaokou Shao" in the local area. The sentry only felt that Xiongxian was simply a paradise.

But after drinking and eating, I still have to stand guard on this cold night, which is the most painful thing in my life. This is the Mid-Autumn Festival, and those rebellious people always have to celebrate the festival!

The sentry tightened his battle robe and looked around. It was obvious that the officials had already fallen asleep. The two of them slowly sat down, their minds were confused.

When they were about to fall asleep, they were unaware that two ropes on the city tower were hanging down the wall, and the rope was hanging upside down on two soldiers with swords in their mouths. They slid on the heads of the two sentries, took off the daggers in their hands, and covered the sentry's mouth with one hand, and wiped the daggers on the other side.

After dealing with the sentry, the two of them sent signals to both sides. Dark shadows surged out from the corridors on both sides of the city tower. The Yan army rushed into the entrance hall, and there was a small flag guard inside and slept soundly.

The Yan army effortlessly solved the guards in the interior of the gate. The east gate of Xiong County slowly opened, and the cavalry who had been waiting in the woods rumbled past the gate.

Not long after, the entire Xiongxian County was already in chaos, with crying and fighting one after another, and firelights were scattered in the city.

Zhu Neng quickly walked up to the East Gate Tower, and a row of black-clothed sneak attackers stood in the corridor and greeted him. All his personal soldiers were veterans who had been through life and death. They were in the inner response and went up the ropes, and they took the east gate of Xiongxian without knowing it.

Zhu Neng patted the veterans on the shoulders with satisfaction.

Suddenly, a noise sounded under the city, and several soldiers led one to the top of the city. This man was tall and strong, but his clothes were not uniform and his armor was very embarrassed. Someone had reported it to the front of the city, and Chen Hui, the commander of the left guard of the government army, was taken to the top of the city.

"You rebels, why don't you abandon the darkness and turn to the light early..." Chen Hui walked up the corridor cursing all the way.

Zhu Neng looked at him with a sneer. When Chen Hui walked up to the city, Zhu Neng shouted loudly: "If the defeated general is not surrendering quickly, you can win a battle with your nonsense?!"

Chen Hui ignored him and still stretched his neck to shout around: "What kind of good man can you think of secretly? Guigui is all done by villains. The imperial soldiers will arrive soon, don't you know what will happen to the heavens!"

Seeing that nonsense was useless, Zhu Neng waved his hand and pressed Chen Hui to the top of the city and took the head with one knife. Zhu Neng snorted coldly and turned around and ordered his men: "Quickly control the four gates, search for defeated soldiers, and collect supplies.

Be prepared to fight before noon tomorrow.”
Chapter completed!