Chapter 991 Fighter is coming!
Song Wensong suddenly used troops to Huainan, and the whole world was in an uproar. This was the third time that Song Wensong had sent troops. It was obvious that when Sun Chongwen in Huainan died, there was no leader in the group. Song Wensong would never miss this opportunity at this time!
The army was approaching, and Huainan Road was in tragic and miserable state. Sun Chongwen's youngest son led his troops to surrender, which greatly boosted Song Wensong's morale. At this time, the news of Sun Chongwen's death also spread to Jiangnan and Lianghe.
In the Bianzhou of the two rivers, the palace was brightly lit. Lu Zheng summoned all the ministers to discuss matters. Zhang Pinghua was the first to stand up and said, "Prince, Shandong Song Wensong is so bold! He just lost in Huainan, but now he will make a comeback immediately. No matter what, we cannot let Huainan Road fall into Song Wensong's hands. If that is the case, it will be extremely unfavorable to our two rivers!"
Qi Yuanzhi said: "Li Xiu is in Liaodong. This time the prince transferred 10,000 troops to Liaodong. Li Xiu's hands are full of soldiers and food. It just so happens that he can offend Shandong again!"
"Yes, Mr. Qi's plan is very good. Li Xiu has great experience in dealing with Shandong. Last time, he only had 20,000 troops, which turned Shandong upside down. If he raises troops from Liaodong again and produces all his elite troops, he will definitely be able to entangle Song Wensong in Shandong.
Song Wensong is going to Huainan, and we surrounded Wei and rescued Zhao, and he will fight against the west. He will not be able to abandon Shandong without paying attention. This time he will be frustrated again when he sends troops!
The military strategy has been everywhere, and it declines again and again, and it is exhausted three times. If Song Wensong still couldn't take Huainan this time, his Shandong army would not be able to raise his head from then on. At that time, the time for us to use troops in Shandong will be ripe!"
When Qi Yuanzhi said this, someone immediately agreed. Lu Zheng sat upright in the main seat and frowned deeply, without saying a word. He was thinking about Song Wensong, and he knew Song Wensong. According to this kid's nature, he should not make such a mistake. Could it be that he really took risks? Or is Shandong really in a crisis, and this kid is going to make a desperate bet again?
Sun Chongwen of Huainan Road was dead. This was indeed a huge temptation. Not only for Song Wensong, but Lu Zheng also thought about using troops to Huainan Road!
The two rivers also border Huainan. If Lu Zheng can take Huainan, it will be like cutting off all channels between Jiangnan and Shandong, which is equivalent to a huge benefit to him!
But Lu Zheng did not move after all, but Song Wensong sent troops without hesitation. Is it really that simple between the two of them moving and stillness?
Sun Bing has never liked to talk, but at this time he couldn't help but stand up and said, "Everyone, can you think Li Xiu still make a big fuss in Shandong? I don't think Song Wensong is an ordinary person. He has suffered a loss once. Wouldn't he beware?
The first time Li Xiu sent troops to Shandong was a sing of an empty city plan. The bet was that Song Wensong was not determined! Song Wensong was deceived once, and this time he must have thought of a proper way, so if we use the same trick again, we may not be able to get a good idea!"
Someone immediately objected to Sun Bing's statement, and Chen Lizhong said: "Mr. Sun is too cautious. Our Liaodong Iron Cavalry is invincible in the world. General Li Xiu is the first-class general in our army.
He led our Liaodong Iron Cavalry into Shandong. Even if he couldn't win, there was no reason to lose! Even if he lost, he could easily return to Liaodong. At worst, he would lose a few troops.
Although our two rivers are taking a very proactive situation now, we cannot act too conservatively. If we are too conservative, we will inevitably suffer a great loss!”
Lu Zheng looked at the two sides arguing endlessly, raised his hand and said, "Okay, you don't need to argue too much, let's do this, Liu Song, tell me your opinion, you are the one who leads the army, what do you think we should do to use troops in Shandong!"
Liu Song smiled and said, "We should do a two-pronged approach to Shandong. On the one hand, we let Li Xiu attack Shandong, and on the other hand, we approach Huainan from the two rivers at the same time, and put on the stance of asking Song Wensong and Huainan to fight first. We sit in the mountains and watch the tiger fight. At the critical moment, we must take advantage of the situation!
In this way, we sent troops from both north and south. Although Song Wensong's strength was not weak, he absolutely did not have the ability to go to war with us in full swing.
As for what Mr. Sun said that Li Xiu might encounter dangerous situations, if we use troops from both sides at the same time, we will inevitably be able to disperse the Shandong army in two places. As long as they do not encircle Li Xiu, Li Xiu's tens of thousands of cavalry will be unstoppable. Why don't we fight this battle in Shandong?
I know you have concerns about Shandong's military use. Your main concern is that you will not win a battle and will consume a lot of money, food and grass, which will cause a huge burden to the people of the two rivers.
After we were recuperating in the two rivers, we have indeed achieved good results. This result can be said to be hard-won! But if we were too conservative and allowed the Shandong army to expand, Song Wensong, who took Huainan, might be able to continue to move south. By that time, if the Shandong army grows stronger, we may not be able to gain an absolute advantage!”
Liu Song talked freely, and had to say that his words made a lot of sense. In fact, although he was not very old, he had a high prestige in the army. The whole Lianghe knew that he had an extraordinary relationship with Lu Zheng, so his words at this time were quite effective.
Lu Zheng actually wanted to send troops, but he had already unified the two rivers before, that is, the two rivers should continue to stabilize, slowly become king, less dominance, and wait and see what changes are happening.
Is it too fast to send troops in just a few days? Now that Liu Song has stood up and said this, Lu Zheng is just going to go with the flow, so he immediately sent a secret message to Li Xiu, who is far away in Liaodong, and asked Li Xiu to quickly lead the cavalry to attack Shandong.
In addition, Lu Zheng ordered Xiao Ran to be the general of Zhendong, asking Xiao Ran to lead 50,000 elite troops to reach Huainan, and acted as if he wanted to help Huainan, and at the same time he wanted to give people a feeling of watching the tiger fight.
Besides, Li Xiuren had already received news of the Shandong troops sent in Shengjing. He was so happy that he danced and laughed at his left and right, "The last time we fought in Shandong, I was not satisfied with the fight at that time! I didn't expect that Song Wensong was so cautious. He couldn't stand it after I took Texas, so he immediately returned to the rescue, which made me unable to fight Jeju even if I wanted to.
Haha, this time, I just raised good soldiers in Liaodong, and the prince added 10,000 troops to us. In this case, Song Wensong took the risk again. At this time, where will I attack if I don’t attack Shandong?
Come on, I will pass the order and immediately organize the army to attack Shandong. Let me listen to it. This time we will attack Shandong to take Jeju. We must let Jeju take it into my pocket.
Song Wensong, a kid who has been running Shandong for many years, thinks he has achieved success, so we took the lead and took Shandong for him, making him like a broken dog! Brothers, it’s time for us to make achievements. In this battle, our Liaodong cavalry should show off our might!”
Li Xiu's words were full of passion. As soon as he said this, it immediately resonated with everyone and the atmosphere suddenly became high.
"General, the prince does not have military orders. We cannot use troops privately at this time?" General Shi Gang suddenly said.
Li Xiu laughed and scolded: "Do you still remind me? You kid are still breastfeeding when I was fighting! Tell you, Li Xiu, I have been following the prince for so many years, but I still don't know about the prince?
The prince can tolerate Shandong living in a corner, but he will never tolerate Song Wensong expanding wildly! Huainan Road has an extremely important strategic position. If Song Wensong occupied Huainan Road, Shandong's portal to Jiangnan and the portal to me and the two rivers will be opened at once! In this case, it will be very difficult for us to restrict Shandong!
The prince was unwilling to use troops to Shandong because he was worried about hurting the people of the two rivers. But now that Song Wensong is going to send troops to Huainan and Shandong is empty, how could the prince be stubborn at this time?"
As soon as Li Xiu said this, all the generals felt that this was the case. Everyone had no doubts at the moment. They went back to prepare for war, and soon the 30,000 troops were well organized.
Just as Shengjing was preparing for the war in full swing, Lu Zheng's general order also arrived. Li Xiu received the order and was hesitant. With a wave of his hand, he immediately led the army to the east quickly, aiming directly at Dezhou as the commander pointed.
Li Yuanze, the governor of Dezhou, was the number one general under Song Wensong. This time, Song Wensong was obviously prepared, so he asked Li Yuanze to defend in Dezhou as soon as possible.
The city gate of Dezhou was closed, and Li Xiu quickly launched an attack without hesitation. The two sides fought fiercely for two days, but Li Xiu did not conquer Dezhou. This time, Li Xiu came up with another plan, that is, since Dezhou has such strict defense, does Binzhou have room for trouble?
He spilled the scouts out, and the scouts from Binzhou came to report that there were only more than 3,000 defenders in Binzhou, and there was no Song Wensong's confidant general. Li Xiu was overjoyed when he received the news and immediately let his soldiers pretend to attack Dezhou, and both sides seemed anxious.
He himself led the main force of the army to circumnavigate overnight. After two days of rapid marching, the army arrived at the city of Binzhou, and he suddenly launched an attack. Sure enough, Binzhou City's defense was weak, and Li Xiu took Binzhou in one fell swoop.
The Liaodong Army broke through Binzhou City again. The news reached Li Yuanze's ears. He was shocked and immediately led a large army to the only one, trying to trap Li Xiu's main force in Binzhou and then fight the two sides.
After Li Xiu took over Binzhou, his spirits were soaring. He thought of another plan, which was to give up Binzhou directly, but to face Li Yuanze's army and act like he was going to fight Li Yuanze.
When the army between the two sides was only more than 60 miles apart, Li Xiu suddenly turned his horse and asked the army to quickly walk the northern official road in Shandong and directly penetrated into Jeju hundreds of miles away.
Jeju is Song Wensong's old nest in Shandong. Last time, Li Xiu was unable to covet Jeju, and he was always worried! At that time, he could actually harass Jeju, but considering that Jeju's city defense was strong and he lacked enough power. He was afraid that he would not be able to attack Jeju, but instead tied up himself. That would not be worth the loss.
But this time, Li Xiu led more than 10,000 elite troops. In addition, Li Yuan obviously brought the elite of the Shandong army out of the city. Li Xiu had asked the scouts to inquire about the situation in Jeju. Although the city defense of Jeju is relatively strong, the strength of Jeju is not strong. More importantly, Song Wensong has led the main force to attack Huainan.
The Shandong Army had nearly 100,000 troops in total, and the most elite troops were only 40,000 to 50,000. These 40,000 to 50,000 elite soldiers could fight to the Liaodong Army, but now these elite soldiers are divided into two.
On the one hand, Song Wensong led the attack on Huainan, and on the other hand, Li Yuan led the decisive battle with Song Wensong in Dezhou. In this case, Li Xiu felt that as long as the main force in Shandong was not fully gathered together, he had absolute confidence to easily break away from Shandong, thereby achieving the goal of disrupting Shandong into a mess.
It has to be said that Li Xiu's actions were risky. His approach was to go deeper alone! But cavalry combat has always been like this style, because cavalry has high mobility and comes and goes like the wind. They fight when they want to fight. They feel that the situation is wrong and withdraw immediately. The reason why the Liaodong cavalry has such great prestige is because of the characteristics of the Liaodong cavalry. For many years, the Central Plains are not the opponent of Liaodong at all.
Li Xiu took a big advantage in Shandong last time. After fighting with the Shandong army several times, he found that the Shandong army, except for Song Wensong's main force, was simply vulnerable to the Liaodong army.
As the saying goes, IE knows yourself and your enemy, and wins every battle. Li Xiu thought he had a complete understanding of the Shandong Army, so this time he set a goal for himself to capture Jeju. He only needs to loot Song Wensong's palace. It is best to capture Song Wensong's wife and concubines, so that Song Wensong becomes the laughing stock of the world and completely defeat the confidence of the Shandong Army.
At this moment, Song Wensong's army had reached the edge of Huainan Road, and Li Yuanze's army was urgently reported to him. Seeing this urgent report, his hand couldn't help but shake hard and said, "Mr. Di, come quickly! As expected, Li Xiu was arrogant, and the army actually pointed directly at Jeju, showing an attitude of taking Jeju!"
Di Qinghai's eyes were filled with a terrifying light. He laughed and said, "Okay, very good, Li Xiu, Li Xiu, you really obeyed my husband's dispatch. I expected you to do this. Since that's the case, why are the prince hesitating?
We immediately abandoned Huainan, and the army quickly detoured Dezhou and Binzhou, closed the door and fought dogs, and must keep Li Xiu's tens of thousands of people in Shandong. This battle was a battle to boost my morale in Shandong, and it was also a turning point between Shandong and the two rivers.
If we can win this battle, the prince will still have a chance to compete for the world! Otherwise, if we lose this battle and fall from Shandong, the prince will not dream of competing for the world in this life!”
Di Qinghai said this very directly, but Song Wensong was excited after hearing this. Song Wensong was ambitious and thought about fighting the world. Otherwise, why would he suffer so much?
Chapter completed!