Chapter 43: Battle Clouds (6)

The west gate of Xianghe was lighted unknown, and a large number of cavalry entered one after another. The leader was burly, with a rosy face and a long beard. Seeing a slew of generals dismounted by the door, Zhu Di pulled the reins and said in a deep voice: "Are you here?"

The general in charge was Zhang Yu, who quickly bowed and bowed: "Go back to Your Highness, all the commanders and commanders of the guards are here to wait."

Zhu Di held down the somewhat anxious war horse and said, "Okay, let's go to the county government to discuss military affairs." As he said that, he loosened the reins of the horse, and spread his four hooves and rushed into the thick darkness.

The lobby of the county government office was brightly lit. Zhu Di pulled down his robe and threw it aside as he walked. Someone had already caught it. A young general behind him with a fierce appearance was the second prince Zhu Gaoxu. There were two rows of generals behind him. The two led the two Zhang Yu on the right and Zhu Neng on the left.

Sitting down a chair in the middle of the lobby, a guard walked up to him and bit Zhu Di's ear. Zhu Di laughed and said to the generals below: "Old Fifteen must scratch his ears and cheeks, I don't know what to do. Tell me about their movements in the past two days?"

Zhang Yu stood up and bowed, took a stick, walked behind Zhu Di. There were soldiers hanging a large map on the wall there. Zhang Yu pointed and informed everyone: "According to the arrangement of Your Highness, once Luanzhou falls, Fang Sheng's troops will leave Kaiping within three days. They should have arrived at Leting and are waiting for an opportunity to attack Changli and cut off the food route of the Liaodong Army.

As for the Liao King's troops, their troops have not moved since they captured Luanzhou. They only three days ago after learning that Fang Sheng's troops abandoned the guards, and sent Fuzhou Guards to Kaiping. One action is worth noting. One of the guards' troops moved to Changli on August 24th.

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Zhu Di narrowed his eyes and listened to Zhang Yu's report, nodded and said, "Well, Lao Fifteen can fight now, and he knows that sending troops to guard the retreat is good, it's good, and it's interesting. But the play has not been fully sung yet.

We have to add a fire to them. Fang Kuan has led the three guards of the Daning in the east on August 20th. It is estimated that they have arrived in Yingzhou now. When they approach the fifteenth house, we will go up again to let the boy know what it means to be surrounded by enemies!" After Zhu Di finished speaking, the generals below burst into laughter.

Zhu Di waved his hand and signaled everyone to quiet down: "Don't laugh. Now is not the time to laugh. This time, Lao Fifteen brought all the old masters of Liaodong and gave out all the elites.

This battle is not that easy. I hope you all will be grateful to don’t think that the Liaodong Army is a piece of paper. Like us, they are also fighting with the Tartars.

Last year, when the battle of Shahe, Gu Yi underestimated the enemy and almost suffered a great loss. This time, please ask you to fight bravely and regain your face for Gu. "Everyone agreed in unison.

Zhu Di said again: "Tan Yuan?"

One person was transferred from the crowd: "The last one is here!"

Zhu Di took out a command arrow and threw it down, saying, "I will give you the Zhenshuowei, Dingbianwei, Xuanfu Zhongwei, Xuanfu Right Guard. Make preparations tonight. I will immediately send troops to Liangcheng Station tomorrow morning and make great contributions.

To ascend to heaven, you must let everyone within a radius of hundreds of miles know that I led a large army to the east! In short, I have to sing enough the play, and to make the Liao army think that they must march from Liangcheng! If the main force of the Liao army is deceived, you will stop at Liangcheng to confront him.

No battle allowed!”

Tan Yuan picked up the arrow and held his fist and agreed: "I will obey the order." After that, he turned back into the class.

Zhu Di said again: "The other guards followed me to Jizhou, Zunhua, Qian'an and then attacked Changli. I want to hit him, the fifteenth one of his butts bloomed!" The generals in the hall burst into laughter again.

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The news that Yan's troops went out of Xianghe to march into Liangcheng Institute and the news that Fang Sheng's troops surfaced were sent to Zhu Zhi together.

Wang Feng slapped the table and shouted: "The fox finally showed his tail. It turned out that Yan Ni wanted to attract our attention to Leting and then take advantage of the situation in Liangcheng! I thought it was a brilliant plan, but I'll do it.

Your Highness, since they have all been put on the table, we won’t be able to eat or give face!”

Qu Neng looked at the map with a smile. He said: "The most convenient road to move from Beiping east is to Xiaxiang River from Tongzhou, and then transfer to Liangcheng to Kaiping. Although this road is a bit round, you only need to cross two rivers, Lianghe, on the road.

A flat horse here is the most conducive to the cavalry's advancement. "Qu Neng didn't say it clearly, but his meaning was obviously to recognize Wang Guan's statement, believing that the main force of the Yan army came from the southern line.

According to the scout report, there were ten guards on the avenue southeast of Xianghe. The main forces of the Yan army were basically there. The smoke and dust rolled for ten miles. These were military information obtained by the scouts at the cost of their lives.

Zhu Zhi nodded and said, "Since that's the case, let's plan the next step. What do you think of Dingshi?"

Tie Xuan stood aside and kept silent. He pondered for a long time. When he heard Zhu Zhi reminding, he murmured: "I really can't understand why Fang Sheng would run to Leting if they took this route. Normally, Fang Sheng should have defended Liangcheng Station and met Yan Ni's army, but he went to Leting.

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Zhu Zhi was always not good at military affairs. In his opinion, from Shanhaiguan to Kaiping’s palm-sized place, the Liaodong Army has arranged heavy troops to defend every important point. What other strategies can be used? Anyway, I can’t figure it out.

He took his hand and stared at the sand table. He couldn't find any reason even after looking.

Qu Neng said: "It is normal to go to Leting. This is a natural fortress, which is wrapped in the delta between Dingliu River and Hulu River. The Yan army just needs to set up sentry guards along the river to prevent us from building a pontoon bridge.

They knew that the city walls and gates could not be defended, so they came here. If we came to attack, Fang Sheng could use the river to block the river for a long time, and at the same time they could stick us here, waiting for Yan to come and attack."

Wang Wen said: "General Qu is right, but we can completely ignore their existence. There are only more than 10,000 tired soldiers, just put a guard to monitor it. Our main force still needs to fight Yan Ni."

After saying that, the three of them looked at Tie Xuan again, and Tie Xuan said, "I don't think that things are that simple. If we stand in Yan Ni's position, how do we need our army the most at this time? Your Highness, you see, from Shanhaiguan to Kaiping, there are Changli, Luanzhou, and Kaiping. Now my main force is stationed in Luanzhou, and you can attack and retreat or defend. This is the most troublesome thing for Yan Ni.

I feel that Yan Ni has made so many moves, but only one purpose is to transfer our army from Luanzhou. Whether going south to Leting or going west to Liangcheng Station, the two points of Luanzhou and Changli will become the rear, but once the Yan army comes from other directions.

Our army's food supply route is quite fragile. Even if the main force of the Yan army is in Liangcheng Station, they can send one or two guards of cavalry to harass our food supply route.

So the judgment of the humble official is that Yan Ni’s article is done on the food industry! It’s just that we can’t understand how to do it for the time being.”

Wang Wen said: "Old Tie, you are thinking too much! Each of our cities has a guard guard. With the current combat power of our Liaodong Army, even if Yan Ni's entire army is besieging him.

It will not be able to open the situation within three or five days. At that time, my main force will move to the city, and it will be dangerous to cooperate with Yan Ni inside and outside. So my opinion is to go west to Liangcheng Station and find Yan Ni's main force to fight to the decisive battle.

"The two men said that the husband was right, but the mother said that the mother was right, and there was no unified opinion for the time being. Zhu Zhi was only anxious. The fourth brother must have ideas, but now hesitated. The other party was unable to judge any conspiracy. The generals were most afraid of hesitation.

Zhu Zhi waved his hand to signal Wang Feng to stop, and then said to Tie Xuan: "Look at the tripod, he is the head coach!" Wang Feng Qu Neng looked at each other and stopped talking.

After a moment of silence, Tie Xuan said: "Since Your Highness trusts a humble position, then only one guard will be placed to monitor Fang Sheng.

The other people gathered in Luanzhou, and built several more floating bridges on the Luan River and Shahe River. Once the main force of the Yan army was determined to be, they would quickly move to fight with them. As long as the road was clear, they would not be afraid that Yan Ni would play tricks."

Just as Wang Ju was about to say something, Zhu Zhi nodded quickly and said, "Okay, just act according to the arrangement of the iron tripod and stone. Little Ma Wang, you must be calm. No matter how you fight, we will rest for many days, waiting for work." Wang Ju bowed and agreed.

Tie Xuan immediately arranged according to his plan. In addition to strengthening the floating bridges on the Luan River, the engineers also built eight floating bridges at the Cangting Ferry on the Shahe River to allow the army to move unobstructedly.

Then he issued a death order to Zhang Shun again, ordering him to find out whether the Yan army in Liangcheng was the main force within three days. He also ordered Zhuang De's left guard to go south to monitor Fang Sheng of Leting.

After seeing Tie Xuan set up, Zhu Zhi left the three of them for dinner. After three rounds of wine, Tie Xuan, Wang Guan and Qu Neng exchanged glances while Zhu Zhi was not paying attention. Tie Xuan kicked Zhu Zhi with his feet and glanced at the left and right.

Zhu Zhi looked at Tie Xuan for no reason, not knowing what important things he had to say, so he had to order the people around him to retreat.

Seeing that everyone on the left and right had gone out, Tie Xuan said: "The battle is imminent. Xuan has something unknown, how dare you ask Your Highness?"

Zhu Zhi said: "Dingshi has something to say. How to act like a mother-in-law and mother."

Tie Xuan said: "Your Highness! Is the court still counting on it?" As soon as this statement came out, Zhu Zhi's heart skipped a beat. Everyone here is Zhu Zhi's confidant. Although everyone has thought about this issue, they have never been mentioned on the table.

Qu Neng drank the wine in the cup and said, "Dingshi should have asked this question before, can the court beat him? We helped the court at this time, but what will the court treat us in the future?"

Wang Feng also said: "That's right, we have completed the following days. This time we enter the pass, we will inevitably have to fight Yan Ni hard. But once we fight both sides are injured, will the court become a fisherman?"

Zhu Zhi smiled bitterly and listened to the three of them, but he didn't expect that they would have planned this all these days. Zhu Zhi shook his head and said, "I can't beat him, and the elite officials of the court threw Li Jinglong's bucket in Baihegou.

Now the imperial court has gone to the seven pavilions, and there are not many left. Although Wei Gong is brave and has a full strategy, he has no capital left. The remaining soldiers are just old, weak and disabled soldiers, and they are not worthy of the burden."

Tie Xuan said: "Actually, your highness doesn't need your highness' answer, everyone knows it. So we want to ask your highness what he plans in the future.

If the decisive battle with the Yan army is taken away by Yan's main force, what are the benefits of Liaodong? If the court wins in the end and the King of Yan is executed, then who will not be the next one to be deposed?

The brothers here all fought with His Highness. In the eyes of the court, we are all your confidants. Even if His Highness is loyal and dedicated, we must think about these soldiers under our command.

Fang Huang Zhiliu has never died of his heart to destroy His Highness. Now we have blood and sweat to help the court defeat the King of Yan, but what will happen in the end? Your Highness thinks twice!"

After hearing Tie Xuan's words, Zhu Zhi smiled slightly and said calmly: "Dingshi said it is right. This time, everyone may have been a little confused about why they had to fight with the King of Yan.

In fact, I have three goals to achieve. First, it is to weaken the King of Yan and make the Yan Dynasty continue to maintain a balanced power; second, after the training, test the strength of the Liaodong Army and the Yan Army; third, it is also to give the court an explanation. At least, they have to listen to the news.

These three goals need to be achieved one by one and are also prepared for future actions.

I can’t know how to keep birds hidden in the court, and how can I not know the way of cooking rabbits and dogs? As for the matter after Jingnan, I have to worry. Don’t worry, I am definitely not a person who believes in it, and I will definitely give you a satisfactory result."

The last sentence was solemn, but the meaning was very clear. Then everyone explained Yan and stood up to bow down: "I am waiting for Meng Lang, please forgive me."

Zhu Zhi smiled and said, "Get up, it's better to say anything, it's better than keeping it in your stomach.
Chapter completed!