I want to be emperor

Chapter 125 Chen Yongfu Q&A

The placement of the surrendered generals in the Baoxiang Army was arranged in the early days as the first, second and third ranks of the staff office and the senior staff, a total of four levels of staff positions.

However, with the gradual improvement of the staff system of the staff office, the position of the first, second and third staff officers has become an official position in the Rural Protection Army, and it is still very important.

Therefore, the position of staff officer cannot be used as a false title indiscriminately.

For this reason, Luo Zhixue set up an advisory system to arrange for surrendered generals.

Basically guerrillas, generals, chiefs, and garrisoning these mid-level generals in the Ming army system, the rural protection army will award the first-class and second-class generals to the staff office respectively according to their original positions, the number of troops they lead, and the rank of their officials. First-class and third-class military advisers and other empty positions and matching corresponding personal treatment.

The chief soldier and deputy general/deputy chief soldier, these senior generals, that is, people like Chen Yongfu, were appointed as special military advisers of the staff office.

Even in addition to military advisors, Luo Zhixue has also set up a civil service advisory system. Unfortunately, for the time being, Luo Zhixue has not captured any civilian prisoners, not even a ninth-rank civil official. Therefore, the civil service advisory system , still in name only for the time being, none of them exist.

This has to be said to be a pity!

For a while, Chen Yongfu still didn't understand what kind of job this special military adviser was. After all, he had never heard of this kind of affairs, but he also knew that this time was not the time to care about any job, but a happy face I agreed.

Immediately afterwards, Chen Yongfu, as a special military adviser, began to perform what he believed to be his duty: to make suggestions for the Rural Protection Army.

He advised Luo Zhixue very carefully: "We should send troops to conquer and control the two strategically important areas of Luyang Pass and Yuzhou as soon as possible to ensure the safety of the north."

"It won't be long. I'm afraid Hong Du...Hong Chengchou will know the news of my defeat. After Hong Chengchou knows the news, even if the Central Plains war situation is tense, he will definitely send troops south regardless of the safety of Nanyang Mansion."

"The best way to prevent the large-scale main force of officers and soldiers from going south is to occupy Luyang Pass and Yuzhou."

"As long as Luyang Pass is guarded, it is equivalent to cutting off the ancient road of the three passes of Yalu; as long as Yuzhou can be captured and guarded, then the ancient road of Fangcheng can be cut off."

"As long as we can cut off these two passages connecting the north and the south, it will be impossible for the main force of Hong Chengchou's officers and soldiers to go south quickly. They will take a detour to Tongbai Mountain and take a trail to enter Nanyang Mansion, or they will attack Lu. Yangguan or Fangcheng ancient road!"

"No matter which one it is, it is enough to buy us more time."

When Chen Yongfu used words, he had unknowingly used us.

Although he had just cast a thief, he knew very well that once he cast a thief, there would be no way out.

The imperial court may tolerate a defeated general, but it will never tolerate a general who surrenders to a thief.

If the Township Protection Army was subsequently defeated by the officers and soldiers, then Chen Yongfu's fate would not be worse than that of Luo Zhixue, the leader of the rebels.

Therefore, from the moment he decided to cast a thief, he had already changed his mentality.

He was more reluctant to see the defeat of the rural protection army than Wang Xiazi, Huang Dingquan and other generals of the bandit army.

After hearing what Chen Yongfu said, Luo Zhixue turned his attention to Chen Yongfu.

At this time, blind Wang also spoke: "Consultant Chen, why can you conclude that Hong Chengchou will definitely send troops south?"

"Now we haven't attacked Nanyang City, nor captured Nanzhao County. We're just doing activities in the countryside. Logically speaking, we won't attract too much attention from officers and soldiers!"

"There are so many thieves in the Central Plains. I don't know how many thieves are bigger than us. We are only a few thousand people. Even if we win a game, it will not be able to let Hong Chengchou put down the large-scale thieves in the Central Plains and mobilize The main force has dealt with us, right?"

Luo Zhixue also showed the intention of asking.

At this time, Chen Yongfu showed a hint of embarrassment, but he didn't mean to hide it, but directly said the whole story: "Actually, I have written to Xuan Mo and Hong Chengchou many times before, telling us about the situation of the Township Army. A lot of information, that... the wording in the letter may be a bit exaggerated, portraying us as the elite of the elite of the rebel army..."

"In the past, they all took what I said as exaggeration, thinking that I was passive and slack, making excuses for not wanting to go to Lu's, so they didn't believe it."

"However, before I led the army to the north and wiped out the whole army... They would never think that I would rather lose thousands of troops, and even come to annihilation of the whole army just to show them."

Just like what Chen Yongfu said, in the past half a month, he has reported the situation of the township protection army to Xuan Mo, Hong Chengchou and other superiors many times.

At that time, in order to delay time, the situation of the rural protection army was slightly exaggerated.

But I didn't expect that after talking too much, Xuanmo and Hong Chengchou didn't believe what he said, and they directly believed that Chen Yongfu wanted to be passive and idle, and finally forced him to end the Nanyang war quickly, and then he was embarrassed. Slip away to Lu's.

As a result, Chen Yongfu really went north, and then the whole army was wiped out...

The news of the annihilation of Chen Yongfu's entire army is estimated to spread to the surrounding areas and to the ears of Hong Chengchou and others within a few days.

At that time, Hong Chengchou will know that Chen Yongfu is really not acting. Even though the description of the Xiangbao Army before was exaggerated, it can't be too far off.

Under such circumstances, what would Hong Chengchou think?
As long as Hong Chengchou is not stupid, he will send a main force of the Ming army south to Nanyang Mansion!

Whether it was to encircle and suppress the Rural Protection Army, or to defend Nanyang Mansion, or simply to confirm whether Chen Yongfu's entire army was really wiped out, and whether the Rural Protection Army was really so powerful.

For many reasons, Hong Chengchou would send troops south.

And this time node will not be too late.

And is Hong Chengchou stupid?

He is not stupid!

After Luo Zhixue listened to Chen Yongfu's words, he pondered for a moment and said, "According to this, the governor of Yunyang, Lu Xiangsheng, will also know the news. In your opinion, will he send troops north to Nanyang Mansion?"

When Luo Zhixue suddenly turned the topic to Lu Xiangsheng, Chen Yongfu was taken aback for a moment, but he quickly replied: "There is a possibility, Lu Xiangsheng is just the governor of Yunyang, and his defense area is in Yunyang Mansion to the south of us. Xiangyang and other places, once the news spreads to Yunyang, he will definitely react."

"In addition, there is news that the imperial court plans to appoint Lu Xiangsheng as the governor of Huguang to prevent the rebels from the Jiangbei area from fleeing westward and entering Chubei."

"If Hong Chengchou gave him the order to enter Nanyang Mansion, he would definitely send troops to the north, but if Hong Chengchou did not give the order, it is hard to say whether he would send troops to the north. After all, he needs to be the governor of Yunyang and Chubei, and it is possible to send troops rashly. This led to the emptiness of Chubei, and was taken advantage of by other Jiangbei rebels!"

After hearing Chen Yongfu's words, Luo Zhixue thought again.

Lu Xiangsheng is about to assume the post of governor of Huguang?
This was the first time that Luo Zhixue had heard of this news. In the past, the sources of news for the Township Protection Army were all public information, but for some rumors among the high-level officials of the Ming Dynasty, there was still no channel for gossip.

Only Chen Yongfu, who was originally a senior general of the Ming army, could know some gossip about the movements of senior officials of the Ming Dynasty.

The news that Lu Xiangsheng is about to take over as governor of Huguang is very important.

Because the next goal of the Township Protection Army in the year after taking Nanyang Mansion is to attack Xiangyang Mansion in order to control the entire Nanyang Basin, and the follow-up is to capture the Jianghan Plain, which is still Lu Xiangsheng's defense area.

In other words, it is very likely that in the near future, the Township Protection Army will directly confront Lu Xiangsheng.

Luo Zhixue pondered for a while, and walked to the table to look at the map after a while.

Seeing Luo Zhixue's appearance, the other generals in the headquarters couldn't help but stop talking, for fear of disturbing Luo Zhixue's thinking.

After a while, Luo Zhixue asked again: "Consultant Chen, how many defensive troops are there in Nanyang City and Xiangyang City?"

Chen Yongfu said: "I have taken away the main force in Nanyang City. Now there are only [-] guards in the city at most, and there are about [-] civilian husbands and other auxiliary troops."

"As far as Xiangyang City is concerned, as far as I know, there are at least [-] officers and soldiers, most of whom are soldiers from the Huguang local guards. Lu Xiangsheng's headquarters is not in Xiangyang, but in Yunyang."

After hearing this, Luo Zhixue once again stared at the map and pondered for a while, then said, "If you pretend to be a defeated soldier, can you trick you into opening the gate of Xiangyang City? Then welcome the army to seize the city?"

Hearing Luo Zhixue's words suddenly, Chen Yongfu was taken aback again, only feeling that Luo Zhixue's thinking was a little bit off, and he couldn't keep up.

He was talking about Hong Chengchou at the beginning, but he was talking about Lu Xiangsheng, and then he was talking about Xiangyang Mansion after talking about Lu Xiangsheng, but in a few words, he asked if he could deceive the gate of Xiangyang City.

How do I know if I can fool the defenders of Xiangyang City...

I'm not the defender in Xiangyang city, I don't know what they think.

But now that Luo Zhixue has arrived, Chen Yongfu also has other hopes in his heart.

If, if I can really deceive the gate of Xiangyang City, and then lead the Xiangyang Army to take down the strategically important Xiangyang City, my credit will be great, and I will definitely be able to make myself in the system of the Xiangyang Army in the future. Mixed better.

Thinking of this, Chen Yongfu immediately said: "As long as the plan is proper, the subordinates are still relatively sure to deceive the gate of Xiangyang City. Even if the army cannot directly enter the city, it is not a problem to sneak in dozens of people. As long as a few Ten people, then we can create chaos and lay the foundation for the subsequent seizure of the city gate."

"If it doesn't work, we can also directly send people to pretend to be caravans, and ordinary people will sneak in one after another and then create chaos."

"There has been no rebel attack in Xiangyang for a long time, and the vigilance of the local officers and soldiers is relatively low. As long as the plan is proper, there is still a relatively high degree of confidence to deceive the city gate."

"However, we must act quickly. We cannot let them know the news of the Zhaozhuang battle in advance. At the same time, our army must also move extremely fast when attacking Xiangyang. We must seize the gate of the city before the officers and soldiers of the brigade react."

After Chen Yongfu finished speaking, Luo Zhixue nodded slightly, but instead of continuing to ask Chen Yongfu, he turned back and continued to meditate on the map, drawing a few strokes on it from time to time.

Occasionally, he turned around and whispered a few words to An Yongduo, Wang Xiazi and others.

The whole scene made Chen Yongfu look a little weird.

Then he thought: This Luo Zhixue is really planning to run to surprise Xiangyang now, right?
(End of this chapter)