Delong

Chapter 236 Array Row (2)

Li Shu's decision injected a new round of vitality into this hastily launched confrontation. On the one hand, he picked up the leftovers at the tactical level to make up for the gaps, which greatly enhanced the success rate of this battle plan; Once a great leader stepped forward and announced that he would lure the enemy with himself, no one doubted the inevitability of this battle.

In addition, Li Shu's behavior will also bring a huge hidden benefit, that is, unify the command power-in any case, he is the leader of the Eastern Front and the person in charge of the Eastern Expedition, even if the Losing Yuncheng did not delay him from saving the Eastern Front troops three times in a row.

Merit is merit, fault is fault, he still has great prestige among the troops on the Eastern Front.

And don't forget, with Zhang Xing obviously showing a stronger, more powerful, and more convincing side, it is absolutely impossible for every leader to be willing to submit to this leader of the western front so simply.This is not to say that each of these people has a personal grudge against Zhang Xing, or prefers Li Shu or something, but that these leaders are essentially from powerful backgrounds. Zhang Xing is obviously going to go up today, and they are worried and afraid of being Annexation, Li Shu will go up tomorrow, they will also be worried, afraid of being annexed.

This is the difficulty of doing things.

However, as Li Shu took the initiative to lure the enemy, there was no possibility of disagreement in the command of this battle.

It can be said that starting from the evening of this day, starting from this tent, the noise in the middle and upper floors has been completely eliminated, at least from the surface, it has been wiped clean, and everyone can skip a lot of things, so as to directly face the war itself.

Sure enough, after the meeting, regardless of the darkness, Cheng Zhili carried a joint letter from Wei Xuanding, Li Shu, and Zhang Xing alone. Zhang Xing also sent a messenger to Mount Mangdang for the "defeat" troops, asking Wang Zhen to go northward from the Zhulong Gang-controlled area in the northeast of Dang County immediately after receiving the military order.

All the other leaders and helmsmen were required to disperse and station in the troops. The former appease the morale of the army, and the latter targeted logistics.At the same time, Yan Qing and the others also received the task to imitate the guardians, white knights, and cloaked knights on the western front, recruit elite backbones from the troops retreating from the eastern front, and unify the garrison and management.

That night, the rain gradually thinned out, everyone was thinking of their own, from the big leaders to the soldiers below, I don't know how many people tossed and turned, unable to sleep all night.

Among them, Zhang Xing, who wiped his body with his true energy, rarely slept comfortably next to Bai Yousi - this is of course not a half-dead life before the battle of soldiers, and there are still songs and dances in the beauty's tent, because everyone knows that Bai Yousi The eldest lady is the real representative of violence. With the war approaching, many people would like to see this scene so that they can feel at ease.

In the early morning of the next day, the rain stopped for half the night. After Xiong Bonan volunteered to contribute the part he had led, Li Shu quickly gathered four thousand troops and took them to the town of Zhen in the name of Lihu being too crowded. After leaving the city, Xiong Bonan himself also went with him - the latter was part of the fraudulent defeat, without him to deal with Zhang Changgong to cover Li Shu, it would undoubtedly be a huge flaw.

At the same time, the continuous fight between the top master of the Dragon Gang and Zhang Changgong is also one of the important means to hinder the reconnaissance of the government and the army.

Frankly speaking, Zhang Xing is still a little distressed, because a false defeat is almost bound to become a real defeat, and this army will inevitably suffer unnecessary casualties. To undertake some specific tasks.

In fact, after waking up this day, Zhang Xing has been busy since the morning, and he really didn't have much time to express his feelings. The reorganization of troops and support of logistics are very important.

And soon, he and Bai Yousi accepted the invitation of Xu Shiying and Shan Tonghai, and took seven or eight leaders to the predetermined battlefield, just to do reconnaissance before the battle.

It couldn't be said whether it was a cloudy or cloudy day, and everyone reined in their horses beside a small river ditch. Because it had been raining for days, the small river ditch was already full, and the water flow was turbid and rapid.

Taking a look at the water potential in the small ditch, Zhang Xing made some calculations in his mind, and said firstly, "Are there seven such ditch along the way?"

"That's right." Xu Dalang thought carefully and was the first to answer. "On top of that, there's siltation in a lot of places."

"Now let Lihu send civilian men over to dredge ditches along the way, and then set up temporary wooden rafts on these small ditches to act as passages, so that the preset positions can be unobstructed with Lihu." Zhang Xing ordered immediately. "It's best to set up a logistics supply army behind the predetermined position."

"It may not be in time." Xu Shiying said one thing.

"I know, what can be done is a little bit, dredging ditches and erecting wooden rafts first." Zhang Xing replied immediately without even thinking about it. "If you have enough energy, then build a military stronghold."

Everyone nodded immediately, and Xu Shiying called Guo Jingke who was accompanying him to go back to look for Wei Xuanding. Now, starting from Lihu, he sent civilian men to clear the way for the army.

After Guo Jingke left, Zhang Xing immediately looked up at a very conspicuous hill to the northeast.

"The right dragon head, that's Lishan." Liang Jiading, who is one of the local leaders, came out of the crowd, pointed at it, and said a nonsense... After all, a group of people, there are some people who have achieved alchemy and congealed alchemy. There are even masters who have horses, and it is not because of a swollen river ditch that they stop here.

Looking back, to be honest, the mountain is neither high nor big.

The geographical environment of the entire administrative eastern region is clearly bounded by Juyeze. The counties downstream of Jishui River in the east are the hilly areas of His Royal Highness. There are not only mountains like Mount Tai, but also countless other hills; and Juye The counties in the upper reaches of the Jishui River in Jersey are more like plains belonging to the Central Plains...As for this Lishan Mountain, it is also like an extension of the eastern hilly area across Juyeze, but because it is surrounded by plains, this is prominent out.

At this time, the clouds above the head dispersed slightly, and the vision was clear. Coupled with the previous days of rain, the mountain was green. From a distance, it looked like a washed green rice dumpling standing on the same green plain.

"The mountain is not too high, nor is it very big." Zhang Xing frowned.

"Indeed." Xu Shiying was equally serious. "But this is the only decent mountain around... Moreover, there is a protruding corner on the west side of Mount Li, which can be slightly more effective in shading the view."

"It's better to count on digging ditches and piles of earth for shelter." Zhang Xing said seriously. "It is also convenient to maintain the front and formation."

There is no way, it is basically impossible to expect him to use soldiers like a god. In this case, it is inevitable to fortify the fortress, fight dull battles, superstitious fortifications and logistics.

"Can people hide on the mountain?" Bai Yousi suddenly asked immediately.

The people around were all startled, and no one answered for a moment. Obviously, it wasn't that this question couldn't be answered, but that all the leaders were not mentally prepared to communicate with this famous lady from the Bai family.

They don't even know what to call each other?

"Just call me Bai Sanniang." Bai Yousi seemed to have sensed the problem, and smiled immediately.

Xu Shiying immediately responded, and cupped his hands: "Reporting to Bai Sanniang, it's not easy to hide people on the mountain..."

"How to say?"

"The mountain is relatively steep, with many trees, dense vines, rugged earth and rocks, and it has been raining for several days... I guess it will continue to fall in the next few days... The mountain is soft and the road is slippery." Xu Shiying said sincerely . "It's not easy to go up, but it's even harder to come down."

Bai Yousi nodded.

Zhang Xing, on the other hand, instinctively felt that something was wrong: "This mountain is not big, and it is in a densely populated place. Why is the vegetation so dense on the mountain? Logically speaking, there should be some buildings and sayings."

"Don't hide from Zhang Longtou." Shan Tonghai finally opened his mouth with his eyes narrowed. "If I remember correctly, there should indeed be a temple on this mountain that worships the real dragon, but it has long been abandoned...Moreover, the reason why the surrounding people don't go up the mountain has something to do with this temple... It is said that there is something sneaky in the temple. "

"I heard people say that the real dragon made an order not to allow people to go up the mountain to disturb them." Liang Jiading didn't hold back from speaking again.

"What I heard is that there was a murder case in the temple on the mountain. Several Taoist priests who sacrificed to the real dragon fought each other for money. The entire temple did not escape a few people, and it has become a murderous place since then." Xiahou Ningyuan also added a statement. "There are also people who say that these Taoist priests were originally murderers and robbers, which belonged to internal strife."

Zhang Xing immediately went to see Bai Yousi.

Bai Yousi took a deep breath, looked at Xiao Shan, and said, "I do feel a little full of energy, I guess a real dragon has indeed visited, but to put it bluntly, from here to the east, Lei Ze, Julu, etc. Ze, then to Mount Tai, and Luolongtan, there is no shortage of such places in the Eastern Territory."

Everyone was thinking, but no matter what they thought, they just nodded.

Only Zhang Xing was still curious: "Which real dragon's priest is it?"

"Fen Tiger." Xu Shiying blurted out.

Zhang Xing was stunned for a moment, but the people around him were so frank. Obviously, although the Trinity Orthodox Church forcibly covered most of the sacrifices of real dragons and gods with the belief of three brilliance and four royals, it can be divided into tigers as the dynasty in the east. At least the township real dragon granted by the local imperial edict shouldn't be too barren.

Only Bai Yousi saw Zhang Xing's face and knew it in his heart, but he jumped up from his horse, flew up into the air, and went straight to the top of the mountain.

Seeing this scene, the eyelids of many leaders below Xu Shiying and Shan Tonghai twitched.

After a while, Bai Yousi turned back here, landed easily on the horse, and made a statement to Zhang Xing again: "As I said before, the vegetation on the mountain is dense, and it belongs to the wild mountain that is difficult to approach, but you can still see the old road and the ruined view. ...It's all weeds, the main hall has collapsed, and there's no one there."

Zhang Xing nodded again and again, then calmed down, and looked at the battlefield again, still frowning.

Seeing this, Xu Shiying said seriously: "Third brother, I probably know what you are worried about, but if you want me to say it, it can only be like this, because the time is too short, and it is very likely that there will be a battle in three to five days. On the other hand, It is because of the rush of time that it is possible for the enemy to directly collide with us, and we dare to fight this battle. At this time, it is better to have a strategy than nothing."

Zhang Xing nodded again.

Besides, why doesn't Zhang Dalongtou know what the other party means?
The biggest feature of this battle is not waiting for work with ease, nor is it luring the enemy to go deep. Those are only microcosmic. From the perspective of the entire battle, it is simply a head-on collision, and the officers and soldiers are caught off guard.

Time is tight, tasks are heavy, everything can only be done, everything may not be done well, and there are loopholes everywhere, this is a fact.

But at the same time, it is necessary to count on this tight time, so that the officers and soldiers have no time to react, no preparations for large-scale operations, and no determination and ability to rescue.

This wave, this wave is called doing nothing well, and doing nothing to win.

In fact, this idea was originally Zhang Xing's own idea.

"Let's go through it!" Zhang Xing sighed, and finally stopped thinking about it. "Look at the position and the swamp."

There is nothing to say, everyone came down the mountain and continued to investigate.I first looked at the flat ground at the foot of the mountain, and there was nothing to say, then I turned west and found a large area of ​​low-lying waterlogged land only five or six miles away from Lishan Mountain—this is too obvious. Even if the waist-deep crop fields completely cover the flooded ponds and sleepers, it is still noticeable, because many farmers try to drain waterlogging here.

This scene caused everyone to be silent for a moment.

"Get rid of them."

Zhang Xing suddenly turned around and ordered. "Who of you go back and summon an army to control the place and not allow them to drain the water? If possible, ask Chief Wei to move all the surrounding villages away, hide women and children in the city, and recruit strong men for logistics. We must not let them run to the northeast, so as not to bump into Zhang Xuguo's troops, which will be self-defeating."

"Let me do it!"

Shan Tonghai took a deep breath, it was rare for him to take the initiative to undertake this task. "Xiahou, you go back and lead the troops, do it immediately."

Everyone around, from Bai Yousi to Xu Shiying to several other local leaders, were all silent... Of course they knew that what Zhang Xing did was right, undoubtedly right, and they couldn't win this battle Don't want people like Han Yingong to indulge his subordinates. It's just that the army is mopping up and the situation is turbulent. How can they expect to continue farming here in peace?
As for these surrounding villages, forcibly relocating them to the rear is not only for the victory of the battle itself, but also for the good of these villagers.In a real fight, regardless of the tens of thousands vs. tens of thousands, and regardless of the outcome of the victory or defeat, just scattered and defeated troops would be a disaster for these villages.

Even putting these aside, the farmers themselves may not be able to drain waterlogged water, because the weather is still relatively gloomy, and the probability of rain in the next few days is still high, and it will be continuous rain. In this case, today's row , It will be flooded in a few days.

Instead of this, it is better to let the Dragon Army take advantage of this terrain.

But if you know it, you know, as a local tycoon, who doesn't work part-time as a manor or landlord?The mentality of farmers up and down is very obvious.So for them, preventing farmers from self-help behavior in agricultural production is undoubtedly something against common sense, and they even have a certain sense of moral instinct.

"Or not."

After absent-mindedly passing through the swamp and the ridges of the water-logged farmland, Zhang Xing came to the foot of the mountain protruding westward from Mount Li, and discovered a problem again. "On both sides of the east and west, the narrowest place is three or four miles away. If Xu Dalang's previous plan is followed, after the battle, an elite team will be dispatched to circumvent the flooded place by familiarizing themselves with the terrain, and cut off the officers and troops. How many people will be needed? ?”

"I originally planned to ask for at least [-] yuan." Xu Shiying's complexion turned pale, but she still answered earnestly. "And they all have to be elite."

"But looking at it now, 1 people have come around, maybe they have adjusted their military strength long ago and retreated directly." Shan Tonghai frowned.

Everyone fell into silence, but no one gave up. At the end of the day, it was a situation where 1 people worked hard to get over it. They just needed a better way, or as good as possible.

And just when the top of his head was gloomy again, following Xu Shiying's peek at Miss Bai again, he gritted his teeth and said:

"I have an idea. Once the war starts, why not send a master to lead the middle-level cultivators and some elites, not too many. Hundreds of people will come over immediately, forcefully insert here, and set up an array in the road. You must know that once this happens, the officers and soldiers Then the forward and backward transfer was not smooth. Then we will send the troops over from the flanks in order of 3000, 6000, and [-] people... In this way, we can choke the officers and soldiers under Mount Li."

Suddenly, everyone went to see Bai Yousi together.

Even Zhang Xing came to see his heroine.

And Miss Bai just smiled: "Since I'm here, of course I have to help you all, otherwise wouldn't it be difficult for Saburo to help you?"

Everyone was startled, then laughed, and Zhang Xing also laughed, and Li Shanxia barely had a happy atmosphere.

So far, the survey of the battlefield has achieved a barely passable result. As Xu Shiying hinted before, in this case, it is already very remarkable to be able to have a barely smooth flow, and it is not easy to worry too much. They rushed back before it rained.

Back in Lihu, the leader Guan Xu had already started to lead some civilians to clear the road, and after Zhang Xing sent the geographical information to Li Shu, he continued to devote himself to the reorganization of the troops.

And, soon in the afternoon, the basic military task assignment was completed.

The first is the most important [-] troops around the rear.

It was Bai Yousi who led most of the men of cultivation and hundreds of elite guards and supports to go there first, lined up in the rear, wedged into the tail or heart of the enemy like a nail; then Jia Yue led One thousand led the headquarters as follow-up; then Shan Tonghai personally led the remaining 3000 people in his own family as the follow-up; the last 6000 people came from a platter of various ministries, including 2000 people from Zhai Qian's department, and 2000 from Ding Shengying, and There are 2000 people led by Guo Jingke.

As for the face-to-face army formation, Zhang Xing was naturally the leader, Xu Shiying and Wang Shuyong were the assistants, and all the military forces were united and dispatched in a unified manner.

It can only be said that this is another barely justifiable result.

In the evening, Zhang Xing stayed in the army and ate a big pot meal with the troops. At this time, the rain finally started again. Zhang Dalong listened to the raindrops hitting the surrounding tents, and there was no movement on the surface. I couldn't help feeling a little uneasy.

The reason could not be simpler, it is a simple math problem.

This link is smooth, and it seems to be smooth, and that link is also smooth, and it seems smooth. However, basic probability and mathematics will tell you that if multiple smooth links in a row are connected together, ten out of ten Eighty-nine will not be smooth.

There are bound to be surprises and problems.

Of course, when the soldiers come to cover up the water and the soil, and when problems arise, it is just a matter of trying to solve them, but as the commander of the first army, it is not so pleasant to wait for the process of the problem to erupt.Especially when he faced soldiers, mid- and lower-level officers, and officials, he still had to put on an attitude of being wise and prepared for everything.

"Faucet."

Just when Zhang Xing ate two pancakes and a bowl of soup, and was about to refill a bowl, Zhang Jinshu suddenly appeared outside the shack, waving in the rain. "Something."

Zhang Xing immediately put down the bowl and chopsticks, and followed the other party out.

The two didn't take shelter from the rain, they just walked towards a corner where there were few people. When they came here, Zhang Jinshu immediately said, "Longtou, a family member suddenly ran away from Cheng's place..."

"What do you mean?" Zhang Xing didn't turn the corner for a moment.

"A team leader who deserted before was caught and beheaded. His family collected the body the day before yesterday, and suddenly dismissed the servants yesterday. Today, the rest of the family also disappeared. It is said that his brother once swore in front of the servants, He said that he wanted the Dragon Clan to die with his life, so the servant was careful, and today when he found out that his family members were missing, he came to the county government to sue, and transferred from the left-behind officer to me." Zhang Jinshu explained in detail. "I'm worried that they went south to find Han Yingong."

"Have you sent someone to chase after him?" Zhang Xing didn't feel any disturbance in his heart, he just asked calmly.

"Go, my most capable subordinate has already gone." Zhang Jinshu answered immediately.

"That's enough." Zhang Xing was also a bachelor. "The thing is like this, Lao Zhang, I don't expect to be able to hide it from Han Yingong at all, as long as I can hide it from the past few days before he has time to deal with it... You try to deal with such loopholes as much as possible, but after tomorrow, you will have to deal with them." Leave him alone."

"Yes." Zhang Jinshu responded decisively.

Just like that, after leaving Zhang Jinshu, the sky was getting dark, Zhang Xing and Bai Yousi were still sleeping in the barracks outside the city, but this time, he was simply woken up by Bai Yousi in the middle of the night.

"What's wrong?" Zhang Xing opened his eyes in a daze, momentarily at a loss.

"A few people came outside, they seemed to want to see you, but they didn't dare to disturb us." Bai Yousi pushed again. "It's all yours, you go and deal with it."

Zhang Xing got up in surprise, and walked out with his clothes on. Sure enough, he saw Wei Xuanding, Jia Yue, Yan Qing, and Zhang Jinshu with several soldiers standing under a small shack with torches on the opposite side of his tent. Uneasy, he immediately released his true energy, walked through the rain calmly, and came to the opponent.

Seeing Zhang Dalong approaching with his head, the four of them felt a little relieved.

"What's the matter?" Zhang Xing reluctantly made a candid gesture.

"Shen Qing has escaped." Daoist Wei got straight to the point, and at night, under the light of the torch, the other three also had ugly expressions.

"Who is Shen Qing?" Zhang Xing tried hard to think about it, maybe he was too busy and tired these days, so he didn't remember it.

"That protector, who lives in Chengwu in the south, is worried about his family members, and the protector who is worried that Han Yingong will come over." Daoist Wei stomped his feet. "The one who participated in the military meeting yesterday evening."

"Looking back at the news now, it is very likely that he will run away in the afternoon." Yan Qing's face was also very ugly, this person came up through his channel. "I don't know whether to go to Zhang Xuguo or Han Yingong, or if I just want to take my family out."

Zhang Xing was stunned, suddenly realized, and then his expression changed slightly.

But after a while, he returned to his previous smile: "It's going to rain, my mother is going to get married, and the protector Shen is going to run away. Let's send someone with a higher level of cultivation and take ten or eight soldiers to chase after him." Just chase, if you can’t catch up, forget it, otherwise, what else can I do? I guess I just want to take my family and run away. If I really want to go to the official army or Han Yingong, because Chengwu is in the south, if he really wants to fall into the hands of the official army, it must be When Han Yingong's troops passed by, what he was most worried about was the brutality of Han Yingong's troops, so he was unlikely to go to Zhang Xuguo, and if he didn't go to Zhang Xuguo, it would not be too fatal."

Below Daoist Wei, several people were quite speechless, but they couldn't refute.

"It's the same for you guys. Allocate good manpower, go to rest early, and be serious and responsible. Don't get angry about this matter. In the past few days, you must recharge your batteries." Since Zhang Xing had given the order, he ignored it. It was just a little exhortation, and the cold qi was blown up, and he turned back to the tent majesticly in the rain.

Back in the tent, of course, there is no need to repeat it to Bai Yousi, because she must have heard it clearly, but this does not delay the calm and calm Zhang Dalong outside the tent, sitting on the simple wooden couch, staring up and listening for a long time The rain, just lying down again - it's just a war, why is it so difficult?
But as soon as he lay down, Bai Yousi hugged him from behind, which made Zhang Xing slightly relieved.

PS: Thanks to Master Fat Tiger in front of the palace, Master Hei H and Boss Huang for their alliance. I am very grateful. Of course, I am also grateful to Lin’an Li Gong for his strong support.

Goodnight everybody.

(End of this chapter)