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Chapter 483 Liu Chengyun's Judgment
In fact, Chengyun was so panicked that his legs wobbled.

He has never experienced a big defeat, let alone a defeat when the two brothers were not around. At this time, the whole army has no backbone. Instead, because of his blood, he was raised among the dwarfs and forced to become the backbone.

It just so happened that my family knew about my own family affairs. At this time, whether it was Liu Chengzu or Liu Chengzong, both of them could carry this big beam and reorganize the team to stabilize the front line. Among the three brothers, he was the only one who couldn't.

It is not difficult for him to gather the defeated soldiers and stabilize the front, but where should the front be stabilized?Carrier don't know.

The worst thing is that there is no one around him who can make up his mind. Basang and Xie Erhu are the two weakest brigade marshals in the marshal's mansion. If all the generals of the two grazing brigades are tied together, they are not as good as one in the field battalion. General.

But Chengyun couldn't blame them. He knew very well that Basang and Xie Erhu had maintained a super-level performance in this battle that lasted nearly four months. The performance is also a second-rate level.

Everyone can survive until now, relying on unity and overcoming all difficulties, it would be too rude to have higher expectations.

Ever since Xie Erhu's soldiers retreated outside the city and Bai Guangen attacked Zhuanglang Acropolis fiercely, Cheng Yun's brains were all dumb. Basang and Ah Liu came forward to suggest a breakout, but he also vaguely agreed to come down and run out.

It wasn't until he arrived at West Datonghebao that Cheng Yun's mind became a little clearer and he began to think about what he could do. While sending people to search for Xie Erhu, Gas and A Haidaiqing from Hehuang East Gate, he summoned Basang and A Liu , Ask why you came here.

Fortunately, Basang and Ah Liu didn't run around. They were frightened by the fighting power of Cao Wenzhao's cavalry. From the first day of Bai Guangen's siege, they discussed breaking out of the siege. After two days of discussion and repeated arguments, they came up with this The way to go to the Liancheng Mountains to defend the West Datong River Fort.

The enemy was outnumbered, and they stayed in the city with one hundred dead, and when they ran south to fight with the Ming army and bumped into Cao Wenzhao, a thousand died, and they had to run to the mountainous area to the west.

Fan soldiers are not flexible enough to form a large formation in the plains, but they can make use of their strengths and avoid their weaknesses when they travel through mountains and rivers like walking on flat ground and fight against the Ming army in the mountains and forests.

Chengyun understood this and asked, "Liancheng, can you hold on for three months?"

Basang and Ah Liu looked at each other, but they didn't know.

Basang had fought several bad battles with the chieftain with Fanbing in Kangning Mansion, but they were all fast forward and fast rewind, and none of the battles lasted more than ten days.

Ah Liu has a lot of experience. He fought hundreds of battles with She Chongming when he was young, but he didn't have confidence in his defense experience, and the city that She Chongming took was lost in the end.

Now Chengyun asked them to rely on the Liancheng mountain area to estimate the time they can defend, how did they know!

The two of them didn't talk, and Chengyun probably knew it in his heart. He thought that this would not work. I don't need to trust your strength, but you must not doubt yourself!

The self-confidence of being a general is gone, isn't this going to end sooner or later?
So he encouraged: "Although Zhuang Langhe was defeated, the two generals should not be discouraged. We are just a partial army on the battlefield. The more troops they waste and the longer they spend on us, the easier it will be for my brother. Isn't that the truth? ? As long as my brother wins, we will lose a hundred times and win in the end!"

In fact, Chengyun himself has no idea what he said. Those in northern Shaanxi who dare to kill their heads for sale are foolish and bold, and they can be relied on if they just pick one.

He is different from others, he is timid, deep down he never thinks that he is a reliable person, but when the critical moment comes, he forces himself to be reliable.

Fortunately, Liu Chengzong's prestige is as stable as Mount Tai in Basang's heart. When Chengyun mentioned the name of the second brother, Basang was not afraid at once, nodded and said: "Yes, even if we die to the last person, it will not spoil the matter of the commander-in-chief. .”

Ah Liu and Basang had nothing in common. He turned his face and said, "If you want to die, you can die. I haven't raced with Liu Guoneng yet, so I can't die. Three generals, we will leave the defense of Liancheng Mountain to us."

After all, Ah Liu glanced at Basang, no matter what, it is always a good thing to have allies who don't take his life seriously, he said: "Until General Ba dies, the Ming army will not be allowed to enter Hehuang from here."

Ah Liu immediately led the officers of the Yongning Camp to deploy defenses in the mountains, dig trenches and set up traps; Basang called on the Xifan Camp to fight to the death, and issued a military order that those who died in battle without meritorious service would not be rescued, and reincarnation was prohibited.

And Liu Chengyun has a heavier mission, he must ensure that Hehuang can survive until the day Liu Chengzong wins.

The first place he was going to was Dongguan Town in the Five Towns of Hehuang, where there were five enemy towers built by Liu Chengzong with the bricks of Xigu City, and it was also the direction of the Mongolian brigade of Xie Erhu's troops.

On the way, Chengyun was full of thoughts about the things he should do. He had to stabilize his heart first, and then strengthen his defense.

The situation in Hehuang was unprecedentedly chaotic. Compared with the Western Fan Brigade whose military spirit was still stable, Chengyun was more worried that the defeated Mongolian Brigade's military discipline would be corrupted, and the defeated army would attack the five towns of Hehuang.

Therefore, before he arrived in Dongguan Town, he sent two relatives who came back from victory to go to the five towns with warrants. Inform Liu Xiangyu to ask my second uncle to make preparations in Xincheng and Xining.

The news of the collapse of the front line is too dangerous for them. People's hearts are fluctuating. At a small level, looting and hoarding, killing and overselling goods, at a high level, the powerful chieftains rebelled. A careless battle has not yet resulted, and the civil strife will end first.

Deshenghe went to Wuzhen before returning, and Chengyun received a message from Xie Erhu...not for him, but for Mr. Liu in Xincheng.

What he was most worried about didn't happen. Although Xie Erhu was defeated, he didn't fled without hesitation. He led the army in a big rout. It looked scary, but this is also the ancestral method of the Mongolian army to advance when it sees benefits, and to retreat when it is unfavorable. .

The Mongolian soldiers are used to being defeated, and when they were defeated, they resumed their organization and turned into a normal retreat. During the normal retreat, Xie Erhu temporarily dispatched Darhan from the army to form a 130-three cavalry selection team. They are all good players who can open a hundred catty war bow.

However, Cao Wenzhao's army first lost touch with the infantry and cavalry during the pursuit, and then the cavalry brigade became a small team. Instead, they were raided by Xie Erhu's reorganized Mongolian soldiers while they were camping for dinner. Qingqi charged head-on and swallowed two hundred cavalry with more hits but less.

In addition, A Haidaiqing was also sent to reversely maneuver from Hexi to destroy [-] infantry.

Xie Erhu said in his heart that his grandfather could do nothing else, and he ran back and forth from Xining to Qamdo with the commander in chief. He was used to traveling thousands of miles, so running dozens of miles here is nothing!

After a few small-scale counterattacks, Cao Wenzhao's scattered cavalry was smashed out of their heads, and they honestly assembled and garrisoned for defense. The follow-up infantry also walked tremblingly, and their marching speed was significantly reduced.

However, even though he fought for his breath, Xie Erhu still had a clear understanding of the strength of the enemy and us in his heart. He assembled the army to fight head-on, but he couldn't beat it, and he couldn't accept it.

Seeing that Cao Wenzhao had been held back, he turned around and went to Lanzhou to bring in reinforcements. In his heart, the only one who could fight against the Ming army was the Marshal's Army Field Battalion, so he had to call out Wang Wenxiu.

That's why Xie Erhu wrote to Mr. Liu, telling Mr. Liu not to worry, although the front line was defeated, but I was trying to figure out a way to turn defeat into victory with Wang Lvshuai and rescue Liu Chengyun.

This letter warmed Chengyun's heart, but he quickly wrote to Xie Erhu and Wang Wenxiu, saying that he had already left, that Zhuanglang Weicheng was gone, and Wang Lushuai must not abandon Lanzhou.

Liu Chengyun has his own judgment on the battle situation.

He reckoned that his brother should have entered Jiayuguan now, otherwise the Ming army would not suddenly change tactics, but if they fought from Jiayuguan, even if they did not fight all the way, they would have to walk for more than a month. March, a year and a half, is inevitable.

In his letter to Wang Wenxiu, he mentioned that what the Marshal’s Mansion needs at the moment is not victory or defeat in one city and one place overnight. On the one hand, it is impossible to reverse the defeat and regain lost ground. Stalemate.

At this point, abandoning Lanzhou and regaining Zhuang Langwei is harmful to the overall situation. Wang Wenxiu must ensure that Lanzhou is in the hands of the Marshal's Mansion in order to better protect Hehuang.

This letter was sent to Wang Wenxiu who was stationed in Lanzhou, and the overall situation of Hehuang's defense was stabilized by Liu Chengyun.

The Ming army entered the Liancheng mountain area from the north road, and was defended by Basang's Xifan Musketeer Battalion; when attacking Dongguan Town, on the one hand, there were Xie Erhu Mengbing soldiers.

Wang Wenxiu did not sit back and relax when she received the letter in Lanzhou.

Although he personally led a field battalion, he had Luo Rucai, Li Wanqing, and Yang Chengzu, three nearly full battalions, and three surrendered generals, Shi Xiang, Li Zude, and Zhang Yunqi. With Zhuang Langwei's fall, he had to face the Ming army from both sides of the east and west, so he didn't dare to be careless.

In the south of the Yellow River, he sent Li Wanqing to build camps and camps in Dongchuan, Xigu and other places; he sent Luo Rucai to conscript all the ships on both sides of the Yellow River to Henan; Set up a stronghold and send Tangqi across the mountain to find out the enemy's situation in the Zhuanglang River Basin.

The information went back and forth between two days, and Wang Wenxiu in Lanzhou city had a little understanding of the battle situation, and couldn't help feeling sorry for it, sighing that the battle opportunity was fleeting.

In fact, he was more optimistic about Xie Erhu's original idea. If Basang's defense in Zhuang Langwei was more resolute and Cao Wenzhao was completely pulled away from the battlefield by Xie Erhu, he could take the opportunity to eat up Cao Wenzhao's battalion.

But now that Basang had abandoned the city to break through the siege, Cao Wenzhao's reinforcements from the three battalions behind him were converging, and if he risked the Lintao brigade's rebellion, he would have little chance of wiping out the enemy.

At this point, Wang Wenxiu fully accepted the idea of ​​Chengyun's three-way defense, and made a suggestion: invite Liu Chengyun to recruit troops in the five towns of Hehuang, and recruit a large number of troops.

Wang Wenxiu sent Wang Wenxiu's words to Dongguan Town, and Chengyun read the letter several times before he realized that these words were two suggestions.

He didn't even know whether the subsequent conscription was really necessary, or whether it was just an excuse Wang Lvshuai made up casually out of consideration for his face.

To put it bluntly, just one sentence, don't Liu Chengyun be on the front line of the battlefield.

The marshal army is different from the Ming army, but the hearts of the people are the same. Where the vassal state is, the generals of the Ming army will not dare to run unless they don’t want to pass; the same is true for the generals of the marshal army. Do not save?

This is not a problem in itself, but Liu Chengzong pulled all the elite field regiments from the headquarters of the Marshal Army to Gansu, leaving behind some second-rate or even third-rate regiments that are good at mobile combat, and they tied their feet to prevent them from leaving. What's the matter? .

Liu Chengyun thought that anyway, Xie Erhu gathered his troops and went to Dongguan Town at this moment, so he would go to the five towns of Hehuang to recruit soldiers, to deliver food and weapons to the front line, which is also a good job.

But just the night before he was about to leave Dongguan Town, he received an unexpected letter.

The person who wrote the letter was from the Shanbei Township Party, saying that he has done some business now. He has two battalions of elite soldiers, big and small. He was tired from fighting outside. He wanted to borrow a place from the Marshal's Mansion to rest for a year, and let him buy and sell freely. Food and grass, making bows, knives and arrows, and helping him forge six heavy artillery.

In exchange, he is willing to offer ten thousand taels of gold, and to relieve the siege of Lanzhou for the Marshal's Mansion, regardless of whether it is Yang Yanchang, He Renlong or Zhang Yingchang, practicing state affairs, whoever is accused of attacking whomever.

The signature is Zhang Xianzhong, the Eighth King of Xiying.

To be honest, Chengyun was confused at first when he read this letter.

He didn't know who Zhang Xianzhong was, even if someone mentioned the arrester of Yan'an Mansion, it was very likely that Zhang Xianzhong had seen him, but he had never met Zhang Xianzhong.

Ren Quan'er has already notified the Marshal's Mansion of the gathering of bandits from Shaanxi in Longxi. Mr. Liu is worried in Xincheng and hopes that these people will go elsewhere. It's just that Liu Chengyun is in Zhuanglangwei recently and doesn't care about the people coming from the southeast. Leaders of all walks of life.

The leaders of all walks of life chose to come to Longxi at the same time, and everyone knew what they were thinking, in order to cooperate with the Marshal's Mansion to attack and defend each other, and the joint operation has a higher chance of surviving, and they are all good intentions.

But in Mr. Liu's view, regardless of his intentions, it's a bad thing if they come here... It's not that he is small-minded.

Liu Chengzong occupied such a large territory in the northwest, but he did not dare to raise [-] soldiers; the four tribes of Oirat occupied the northern foot of Tianshan Mountain, but they did not have [-] soldiers; horse.

In terms of territory alone, this Dunta Wulusi, which is nominally led by Khitan Khan Liu Chengzong, is larger than the eighteen provinces of Handi, and the number of troops from all walks of life is only about [-].

But now Gao Yingxiang, Li Zicheng, and He Yilong alone have eighteen battalions of soldiers, and counting other leaders and family members, there are more than 10 soldiers.

This is all people who are not engaged in production but still need to eat food, and most of them are soldiers who need to eat good food. The regiment is in this not-so-fertile land in the western part of the Qinling Mountains. What do you eat?

Bark and grass roots are not enough to eat.

Not only Liu Xiangyu saw this problem, but Gao Yingxiang and Li Zicheng also saw it. That's why the situation is a little awkward now. They are facing a hundred miles away, and no one opened their mouths to say about joining forces, joining or asking for help. , People are waiting for Liu Chengzong to come back.

But Zhang Xianzhong took the initiative to find Liu Chengyun for a very simple reason - Zhang Xianzhong was out of food.

　good morning!

　　
　
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