Chapter Five Hundred and Eighty-Eighth: Conquering the Heart of the Army (Part 2)
When the Mongolian side first made a lot of efforts when the Li family invaded Chenxi Island, they also had their own efforts to harm the islanders. At this time, both the cavalry in Xiangcheng and the soldiers of Chenxi Island all roared at the Li family and the Mongolian side.
Zhu Chaoge, Ge Feng and other generals looked at the two groups of people who were originally clearly divided. After being spoken by the young general for a few short sentences, they aroused morale and the same enemy, and they all secretly admired them.
The young general looked shaking and waved:
"The Young Marshal's Army is definitely different from the Li family. The Young Marshal's Army's foundation is to serve the country and the people. As Guo Daxia said, 'For the country and the people, the most heroes', the Young Marshal's Army was to allow the lower-class people to live and work in peace, eat and wear warm clothes, and fight with dignity! The Young Marshal's Army's targets are those powerful people who ride on the heads of the people and oppress the people, as well as the foreign races who invade our Han territory!"
The hatred in the hearts of the soldiers present has not diminished, but their blood has been aroused.
The Young Marshals' Army has been promoting this from the beginning and is also truly implementing the "establishing the army for the people" with practical actions. It is unprecedented and can naturally arouse their strong resonance.
"The power of the people is great, and the eyes of the people are even brighter. They know who is good to them and who is standing on their side. Therefore, the Young Marshal Army has received the enthusiastic support of the people in Suizhou. At the call of the Young Marshal Army, they have saved money and actively participated in the construction of their homes in Suizhou! Now no one in Suizhou starved to death, and everyone can wear warm clothes. This is not only the contribution of the Young Marshal Army, but also the people have exchanged for their hard work!"
Countless cheers sounded around, and even Ge Feng and Zhu Chaoge, who had always been calm, felt a little longing and recognition.
The voice of the young general was still clearly heard in everyone's ears amid the cheers.
"But this awakening power of the people scared the powerful people led by the Li family. They were afraid that the Young Marshal's Army would continue to grow and grow, and eventually swept the world. At that time, the people could live a good life with dignity, and they could no longer easily rely on oppression and fool the people to live a luxurious life. Therefore, they must kill them before the Young Marshal's Army grows! For this reason, they chose to form an alliance with the Mongolian, which invaded the territory of the Han people and dyed the blood of the Han people! What is this called? The use of "recognizing the thief as his father", "traitorless dog", and "wolf hearts and dogs" is not enough to describe their sin!"
"The soldiers of Jingxiang from Xiangcheng and soldiers from Chenxi Island, do you think such a Li family should be killed? Should such a dynasty be overthrown?"
"Do it's time to kill! Kill it! Kill it! Overthrow it! Overthrow it! Overthrow it!" The 7,500 cavalrymen who were already excited were red in their eyes, and their heart-warming shouts rushed to the sky!
The young general pressed down with both hands, and the passionate shouts around him slowly calmed down.
"Soldiers from Xiangcheng, don't worry about the safety of Xiangcheng. After you leave Xiangcheng, six thousand soldiers from the Chenxi Army will rush to Xiangcheng and defend the city under the command of Guo Daxia. And you will follow me and defeat the Li family army that wants to ride on us forever and act as a blessing, and form a alliance with the alien races of our compatriots, let them collapse, overthrow their corrupt rule, and let them see the power of us, the children of civilians. Do you want to?"
The audience was quiet, and then a louder shout broke out: "Yes! Willing! Willing!"
The young general raised his head and said, "I say it last, our battle will be very difficult. We have to cross mountains and ridges and cross rivers and wading. In order to improve our speed, we can only bring three days of dry food and the most necessary weapons and soft armor. There is no logistics, no auxiliary soldiers, no civilians, and even to save horsepower, we often have to carry hay, food, dried beans for horses. So, if any of you does not have the courage to sacrifice and the determination to endure hardships, raise your hand and withdraw now, and I will ask you to come from where you come from! But if you want to be a person with a dignified life, for your family, for our Han people, and for our descendants, and win back a happy future for our common people, take a step forward and fight side by side with me!"
No one raised his hand, everyone stepped forward in unison with a firm look.
"Very good." The young general nodded with satisfaction: "Now you are qualified to know my name."
"My name is Chu Loujun! From today on, you will be my brothers in the trench!"
The audience was quiet at first, and then the shouts that almost overturned the sky rose into the sky.
"Ship Chu! Ship Chu! Ship Chu!"
"I wish to follow Shuai Chu to go through fire and water! Break into the knife mountain and put on the oil pan!"
The 7,500 elite cavalry in the audience formed a momentum like a dragon and a tiger, and it could almost swallow the sky!
Zhu Chaoge, Ge Feng and other generals saw that the thousands of soldiers present were actually attracted by Chu Shuai before he reported his name. After he was announced, he condensed into an extremely powerful force. They all sighed. No wonder they could become the leader of the three commanders of the Young Marshals Army!
I just feel that with such an elite cavalry with a strong morale, well-trained and experienced one, what can’t be done?
On that day, Chu Zheng stayed in the camp and conducted a two-day and two-night training with 7,500 cavalrymen.
He followed Guo Jing and Huang Rong to learn military strategies for a period of time, so he naturally knew that he wanted to gather an elite force of nearly 10,000 people to exert his greatest strength. First, the morale of the army must be consistent, and then the orders must be imposed. The third is strategic, tactical, and strategy and military use.
These 7,500 cavalrymen have now been gathered by him, but it still takes time to adapt to each other.
This adaptation includes the mutual adjustment between two cavalry from different forces, as well as the "coalition commander" who has never really been a commander and has taken this position for the first time and has been running into this position.
Moreover, although the 7,000 cavalry in Xiangcheng are still well-equipped, they are wealthy and have purchased a large number of excellent weapons through overseas trade. The Chenxi Army is still quite different from that in the past two days, they have to complete the change of equipment and become familiar with the new equipment.
In the next two days, Chu Zheng and the generals not only arranged and led the cavalry to train, but also discussed specific combat deployments at night.
The "Telecommunity Gate" leading to the border between Xiazhou and Chuanzhou has also been established, and Yang Guo was personally stationed there. The elite scouts arranged by Guo Jing have entered the mountains and ridges between Xia and Sichuan through the teleportation gate, and conducted early intelligence and terrain exploration.
That night, Chu Zheng and the generals gathered in the central army camp. In addition to them, Yelu Qi, who was in charge of another route, also secretly sneaked up and attended the last important combat meeting before the official dispatch of troops.
"What I just said is the next marching route. Brother Yelu will be responsible for the attack on the grain route. The information on Li Shimin's grain route and escorting troops along the way have been written here. Brother Yelu can decide for himself." Chu Zheng handed over the information to Yelu Qi.
"Yes." Yelu Qi took it, and indeed saw that it was filled with dense messages of Li Shimin's army's escort of food and grass. Even who was escorting food and grass, and how many troops were recorded.
He couldn't help but be surprised that the intelligence capabilities of the Young Marshal's Army should not be underestimated.
Yelu Qi didn't know that this was not just the credit of the Young Marshal's Army. After all, the Young Marshal's Army has been established for less than a year, and no matter how the intelligence system develops, it is impossible for it to penetrate into Sichuan Province. The source of this intelligence comes more from the "Sun and Moon God Cult" with a history of nearly a hundred years.
The Sun and Moon God Sect has been rooted in the world for so many years, and the church has spread across all the religions and even major forces, so their intelligence power is naturally amazing.
Chu Zheng brought the Black Wood Order that day to him by Dongfang Bai, so that the branch rudders of the Sun and Moon God Sect would pay attention to and transmit the information of Li Jia. Among them, the information of the branch rudder came the fastest and most complete, and Chu Zheng merged into the information in Yelu Qi's hands.
Chu Zheng opened another map. This map was more detailed than what Huang Rong showed in Xiangcheng before. It was naturally made up of three aspects: information from the Sun and Moon Sect, the Young Commander Army, and the Xiangcheng Army.
"This is Shengcheng Pass. The Young Commander Kou Zhong and the Young Commander's army's elite 5,000 Feiyun Guards are here to resist Li Shimin." Chu Zheng circled around the map.
Shengcheng Pass is the only way for Chuanzhou to enter Suizhou. Chuanzhou has a dangerous terrain, easy to defend and difficult to attack, but equally, as long as you guard Shengcheng Pass, no matter how powerful Li Shimin's Tiance army is, you will not be able to enter Suizhou easily.
"Shengcheng Pass is a famous pass in the world. It is surrounded by steep cliffs and walls. The city of Guancheng is built according to the formation, which can strengthen defense and weaken the strength of the attacking party. The young marshal guards here and has successfully resisted Li Shimin's several large-scale attacks. However, Li Shimin's morale remains unabated, well-trained, soldiers are not afraid of death, and the attacking equipment is complete. The offensive has always been very fierce. The number of defenders in the young marshal's hand is only one-tenth of that of Li Shimin's army. The defense these days have been very difficult." Chu Zheng's expression is a little solemn.
As the intelligence was sent continuously, the performance of Li Shimin and his Tiance Army repeatedly surprised Chu Zheng and Xu Xingzhi.
Li Shimin used troops like a god and had many tricks. The Tiance Army's military formation was even more powerful. It could form a formation when siegeing the city. Not only did it offset the formation effect of Guancheng, but it also had the ability to attack and defend. Although it was the strong attacking side, the casualties were not serious. Five days ago, dozens of master-level masters from the Li family were mixed in the siege team and almost killed the city.
If Kou Zhong hadn't reacted quickly and found out that something was wrong, he would have arrived in time with a large number of experts and killed these experts from the Li family back, he would have been in danger of victory in Cheng Pass.
According to Chu Zheng and military commander Xu Xingzhi, Kou Zhong's side could hold on for about a month, but at that time, he would have to give up Shengcheng Pass and retreat to Licheng due to his huge loss of troops.
It can be said that Chu Zheng can still make a calm layout on Chenxi Island now, which was exchanged for Kou Zhong and Wuqian Feiyunwei with blood.
It is precisely because of this that Chu Zheng really cannot spend more time to integrate Xiangcheng Army and Chenxi Army. He must send troops as soon as possible to integrate the two elite cavalry through actual combat.
Of course, Chu Zheng would not tell the generals here in detail these things.
"However, because of the young marshal's outstanding performance, Li Shimin's army is now completely dragged there and is focusing on siege. Although he has a defensive way, in order to attack the city day and night, he has drawn as much troops as possible for attack, and the defense has been greatly weakened. As long as we can sneak into Li Shimin's back without knowing it, find the right opportunity to be a ruthless person, no matter how powerful the Tiance army is, there will be no other result except for a defeat!"
Everyone present knew that Chu Zheng was following Guo Jing, so he naturally learned from Guo Jing's method of using troops. Seeing that he was full of confidence, he was excited.
In fact, they didn't know that Chu Zheng was pretending, and things on the battlefield changed rapidly, who dared to say that they won steadily?
However, as the head coach, Chu Zheng must pretend to be sure to win and be brave.
Ge Feng looked at the map, but said a little worriedly: "Supervisor Chu, this section of Xiazhou is easy to walk, but the terrain of Chuanzhou is complicated and it is not conducive to cavalry passage. What's more, how can it appear on the back of Li Shimin's army without knowing it? Chuanzhou is the territory where Li Shimin has been operating for a long time, and Li Shimin's eyeliner is everywhere on the road..."
Chu Zheng took a pen and drew a winding route on the map: "We don't walk the main road, we only walk the mountain path. Whenever we meet anyone along the way, we will take it down and wait for the war to be released. The scout has explored. This road can be advanced, but it is quite difficult. Li Shimin would never have thought that we could transform into more than 7,000 cavalrymen, and also walked the difficult mountain path, climbing mountains and wading, crossing the river and crossing the river. As long as we move fast enough, even if we are discovered by Li Shimin's army in the end, they will not have time to react!"
While Chu Zheng said, he took out another picture, which was painted with the Li family's camp. This was also drawn by a master scout in Xiangcheng who risked his life to draw from a distance.
"Look at it, this is where Li Shimin camped. You can see that their camp was surrounded by mountains and rivers, which was extremely beneficial. In order to prevent the young commander's army from launching a night attack from Shengchengguan, they set up camp with the Panlong Formation, which did block Kou Zhong's possibility of active attacks and night attacks. They could only passively defend the city and be beaten. But because of this, this camp also had a weakness, which was that the defense on the river side was relatively weak. As long as we find the opportunity to cross the river secretly, we then lined up and rushed into the camp, and we could completely break it before they launched the camp formation."
Chu Zheng now explained the entire tactic in detail.
"In order to speed up the journey, our armor can only choose light armor to protect the key points and combat weapons, and we carry dry food with us. I have made people prepare light and hungry bread, so that we can eat with just soaked hot water. In addition, everyone's bows and arrows are carried. If the attack fails, we will use the "retrograde method" to fight Li Shimin's army."
Chu Zheng said various plans one by one, and finally glanced at everyone: "Do you have any questions?"
Seeing that he had a careful plan, everyone had almost taken into account various special circumstances, and their confidence increased greatly.
The generals discussed until midnight to check for the missing and felt that the chance of defeat was very high, and they could still get a draw if they were not good. When they thought of defeating the famous Tiance Army and becoming famous all over the world, the generals couldn't help but feel excited.
"Okay, if there is no other opinion, you will return to the camp now. We will set off at noon tomorrow."
Chu Zheng looked around the generals and slapped the table and said, "Please help me! This time, we want to let Li Shimin see what is the best army in the world!"
Chapter completed!