A knife in love

Chapter 2590
Hearing Li Qiufeng's words, Murong Danyan became more and more puzzled, and said, "Brother Li and Lord Xu have both said that this army is the vanguard of the Fusang army, not the troops of the headquarters. Since they are the vanguard, they ride Perhaps the small boats carried by the big warships. When the Fusang army arrived in the coastal waters of Dongliao County, they were afraid of being ambushed, so they parked the big warships at sea, released these small boats, and let the vanguard soldiers ride in small boats. It is not surprising that the ditch entered the Dashi Cave to scout the way for the Fusang army."

Li Qiufeng shook his head, and said: "When an army goes to war, they will definitely send vanguard horses to open the way across the mountains and build bridges when encountering water. If the vanguard cannot clear the obstacles for the army, there is always the danger of the entire army being wiped out. Therefore, the general who leads the vanguard, He must be a very powerful general, and the soldiers and horses he leads are all elite soldiers. Throughout the dynasties and dynasties, those who can be the vanguard generals are all famous generals. If the fleet on the sea is the vanguard of the Fusang army, The warships they took must be the most powerful warships in the Fusang fleet, and definitely not just small boats."

When Li Qiufeng said this, seeing Murong Danyan's blank face, he knew that she didn't understand the situation of the army at all, let alone the situation of the famous generals of the past dynasties leading the army to fight.Apart from reading a few papers, most of the art of war she knew was told to her by Wang Xiaoyu after hearing about it from the storyteller.Thinking of this, Li Qiufeng secretly thought that Miss Murong is a girl's family, it is not surprising that she doesn't know these things, so there is no need to talk to her.The most important thing right now is to find out what the vanguard of the Fusang army is doing, and then come up with a way to deal with it.

While Li Qiufeng was thinking, Murong Danyan said hesitantly: "Even if the vanguard of the Fusang people went ashore in a small boat, what's the big deal? Brother Li and Master Xu didn't want to fight to the death with the vanguard of the Japanese pirates. Just put them into the big stone cave. When the Fusang army arrives, it will not be too late to attack with fire."

Li Qiufeng didn't want to talk to Murong Danyan at first, but she couldn't stop asking, but she had to answer.Therefore, after Murong Danyan finished speaking, Li Qiufeng had no choice but to continue: "The Japanese pirates changed to a small boat. From this, we can know that the Fusang army is not far from the coast. Otherwise, the small boat will be caught in the wind and waves within a few miles. In other words, the Fusang army had already arrived, but they were not in a hurry to go ashore. Most of them knew that there were enemies on the shore, so they didn't dare to go ashore. In addition, Japanese pirates approached by small boats, and most likely they would not enter the big stone cave from the Dashuigou, but They want to go ashore by the sea. If these Japanese pirates go ashore and protect both sides of the ditch, it will be even more difficult for us to set fire to the boat in the ditch."

After hearing Li Qiufeng's words, Murong Danyan was a little puzzled, so he looked at Li Qiufeng in a daze, and didn't speak for a while.Li Qiufeng was anxious, and while Murong Danyan didn't ask any more questions, he hurriedly said to Xu Yingyang: "Master Xu, when Li came to the county government just now, he met Qi Jiu on the way. He said that Master Xu ordered him to guard the north of the city. , and said that Master Xu has already beheaded Master Jiang, what is the purpose of Master Xu's move?"

Xu Ying stroked the back of the chair with his hands, pondered for a moment, and then said to Li Qiufeng: "After Xu heard the report, he discussed with several thousand households in the Beisi, and thought that the Japanese pirates went ashore in a small boat. They will not enter the Dashi Cave, but will level the city of Dongliao County, and kill all the Han people south of Motianling and north of the wharf, leaving no dogs or chickens behind. In this way, the Japanese pirate brigade will have no worries and rest assured Boldly sail the warship into the water pool of Dashidong, without worrying about someone intercepting and killing it. It seems that we think too cleverly about the Japanese pirates, thinking that they are proficient in the art of war and strategy. Unexpectedly, these barbarians don’t know how to hide their power and bide their time, and they want to be brutal .”

When Xu Yingyang said this, he paused for a while, and then continued: "In addition, the brothers Xu sent to Liaoyang Mansion to deliver the letter also rushed back today. They said that they found it thirty or forty miles north of Motianling. There are many horseshoe marks on the road, but these hoof marks suddenly disappeared at the southern foot of Motianling, and I don't know where they went. These brothers were in a hurry to deliver the letter and had no time to search. Xu and Bei Si's brothers discussed After that, I was worried that a small group of Japanese pirates had come ashore and planned to station north of Motianling. In this way, we can not only stop the rescuers from Liaoyang Prefecture, but also prevent us from fleeing north."

Hearing Xu Moyang's words, Li Qiufeng's heart trembled, and after thinking for a moment, he said: "A few days ago, thieves from the green forest gathered in Wangjiazhuang from all over the pass, but there were not many thieves who came here on horseback, so these The horseshoe marks would not have been left by the thieves in the green forest. This is strange, could it be that the reinforcements sent by the Liaodong General Soldier have already reached the north of Motian Ridge?"

Xu Yingyang smiled wryly, and said in his mouth: "If Master Zhang sends troops to help, it will really be a high incense. Xu sent these brothers to Liaoyang Mansion to ask them to write Xu's two letters personally. The letter was handed over to the governor of Liaodong and the general soldier of Liaodong. The governor was quite polite and wrote a reply letter to Xu. However, he poured out bitterness in the letter, saying that although he was named governor, he actually had no authority at all. He has no soldiers and no money. Although he wanted to help, he was powerless. Perhaps to reassure Xu, he said in the letter that he had already written to the Ministry of War, and asked all the adults in the Ministry of War to urge Mr. Zhang, the commander-in-chief of Liaodong, to lead his troops to Dongliao County in person. Yunyun. As for Mr. Zhang, after reading Xu’s autographed letter, he didn’t even bother to write a reply. He just said to the brother Xu sent to deliver the letter, how can there be any Japanese pirates? A small group of pirates are so poor and crazy that they plan to go to Dongliao County to plunder. The officials in Dongliao County have always been timid and fearful. In order to let Lao Tzu send troops to suppress the bandits, they deliberately fabricated a big lie about the Japanese pirates' invasion of the country to deceive people. I want soldiers here. No, if I want silver, I pawn armor and weapons, but I can still scrape together dozens of taels of silver."

Hearing what Xu Yingyang said, Li Qiufeng paused and said: "Master Zhang is also an old military officer, why is he so confused and treats military and state affairs like a joke?! I heard that this person was very serious when he led troops in Xuanfu and Datong. Bravery, you can be called a fierce general, why did you become as fearful of the enemy as a tiger when you came outside the customs?!"

Xu Yingyang said in a deep voice: "Earlier, Mr. Xu told Mr. Li about Mr. Zhang. He went to be the commander-in-chief outside the pass, and he was always resentful. He thought that the court was unfair, and moving him to be an official outside the pass was a secret move." I heard that his teacher was Mr. Liu Ge, an important minister in front of the late emperor, and the two of them walked very closely on weekdays. It was just that when the imperial court sent Mr. Zhang to be the commander-in-chief outside the pass, Mr. Zhang once went to Mr. Liu Ge. I hope that Mr. Liu Ge can speak for him and stay in the pass to be an official. I don’t want to be the commander-in-chief in such a place outside the pass. I don’t know if Mr. Liu Ge just sits on the sidelines and doesn’t intervene, or he helps but doesn’t take care of it. After the matter was done, Mr. Zhang finally went outside the pass to be the chief soldier. For this reason, he even hated Mr. Liu Ge. I heard that after he left the pass, he never sent any post to Mr. Liu. Sometimes he drank a lot of wine , and immediately scolded Mr. Liu Ge. Later, when Mr. Liu Ge became an official, Mr. Zhang was very happy. He held a banquet for three days in a row and said, "God of plague is gone." Sigh, if he knew that his students humiliated him so much, I'm afraid Mr. Liu Ge would die of anger."

(End of this chapter)