I want to be emperor

Chapter 151 Lu Xiangsheng uses soldiers

After hearing Xu Zhixian's words, Luo Zhixue nodded slightly, but he did not immediately comment on Xu Zhixian's words, but turned his head to look at Huang Dingquan: "If you go out of the city to fight head-on, then your first The infantry brigade will be the mainstay, how sure is the first infantry brigade against the impact of the main force of the enemy infantry?"

Huang Dingquan was very cautious. He didn't speak brazenly, but said cautiously: "My brigade has only two thousand soldiers, and it is possible to block the enemy's 4000 to [-] people. A good man is no match for Luan Quan."

"However, if other friendly forces can cover the flanks of our brigade and prevent our flanks from being exposed and besieged, my [-]st Infantry Brigade has absolute confidence in blocking the enemy's attack. If the artillery can still cause certain damage to the enemy infantry phalanx through shelling If we kill and shake the morale of the army, then our brigade can launch a counterattack and flatten the entire battlefield with less fighting and more!"

Luo Zhixue turned his attention to Dong Mingjie, the brigade commander of the fifth mixed brigade: "How is the reorganization of the fifth mixed brigade going? Can this war be pulled out?"

Dong Mingjie said: "Although my Fifth Mixed Brigade is currently undergoing adaptive training, I can go directly to battle if necessary!"

"Because when our brigade recruited soldiers, we selected as many soldiers as possible from the surrendered troops, and kept the grass-roots formations at the ranks of Wu and Shi as much as possible. At the same time, the formation, tactics, and equipment used the traditional equipment and equipment that these surrendered soldiers were familiar with before. Tactics, and our army is well paid, everyone can eat enough, and the morale of the surrendered soldiers is relatively high, so the basic combat effectiveness is still available."

"The general combat strength should be equivalent to that of the ordinary soldiers in the Ming Army Guards. The specifics, I'm afraid we will have to fight to know."

Luo Zhixue nodded slightly, and finally raised his head to look around the crowd: "Since everyone is confident, then there is no need to talk nonsense, the staff department will make a plan to take the initiative to go out of the city to fight."

"All ministries immediately enter a state of combat readiness."

"The logistics department must prepare enough food and ammunition."

After Luo Zhixue made the final decision, the decision to take the initiative to confront Lu Xiangsheng's troops was finalized. Next, the Xiangyang Army in Xiangyang City will enter a state of full combat readiness and make various preparations for the start of the war.

And when Luo Zhixue and the others were making various preparations for a big battle, Lu Xiangsheng also brought the army to a place not far from Junzhou City.

They set off from Yunyang on May 40th, and now it is May [-]th, and it took them three full days to walk more than [-] kilometers.

It took three days to walk such a small distance. If this marching speed was placed on the side of the Xiangbao Army, the leader of the team would probably be scolded by Luo Zhixue.

When the rural protection army marched southward from Nanyang City to attack Xiangyang, they traveled an average of at least [-] kilometers a day.

Of course, the terrain is flat and the roads are smooth, and at the same time, there are a large number of mules, horses and carriages in the rural protection army.

But the foundation of all this is based on the abundant physical fitness of the soldiers of the Rural Protection Army.

However, the Ming army did not have such good physical fitness, nor did they have so many mules and horses. Under such circumstances, they could walk more than ten kilometers in a day with a large amount of luggage southward.

And this is also Luo Zhixue's courage to take Xiangyang City, and now he plans to take the initiative to face Lu Xiangsheng.

No matter how strong Lu Xiangsheng's personal military talent is, it can't change the fact that his army is a bunch of weak chickens.

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Luo Zhixue also soon learned that the speed of Lu Xiangsheng's troops going south was not fast.

The spies from the intelligence department followed Lu Xiangsheng's headquarters all the way from Yunyang. Although they would not get too close, they could still monitor the general movements of Lu Xiangsheng's headquarters.

After all, it was an army of tens of thousands of people, with a large amount of luggage, and even the civilian husbands accompanying the army were several thousand people, which added up to at least 8000 people.

This can be called an army of [-], and it can be boasted as an army of [-] if you are shameless.

In fact, when Lu Xiangsheng went south, he really claimed to be an army of [-] in order to show his strength. After he joined the Ming army in Junzhou and Gucheng, he would still be called an army of [-].

But, it's useless to claim that tens of thousands of troops are useless. The Township Protection Army never includes civilian workers in the number of troops, even if these civilian workers are incorporated into the transport battalion under the jurisdiction of the logistics department.

Lu Xiangsheng led the army all the way to the south at a high speed in the eyes of the Ming army and a low speed in the eyes of the rural protection army. This undoubtedly gave the rural protection army more time to prepare.

Before Lu Xiangsheng and the others arrived, the logistics department rushed through Baihe, dispatched food from Nanyang Prefecture to Xiangyang City, and at the same time dispatched a batch of ammunition to arrive.

The Seventh Infantry Battalion, which was originally far north of Dengzhou, also received an order to bypass Dengzhou and go south urgently.

According to the speed of the Seventh Infantry Battalion, it must be able to arrive at Xiangyang City earlier than Lu Xiangsheng and the others, even several days earlier.

With the addition of the Seventh Infantry Battalion, the strength of the Xiangyang Army in Xiangyang City will increase by more than 500 people. A new infantry battalion of gunners and large-caliber musketeers.

At that time, the pressure on the First Infantry Brigade can be greatly relieved.

But not long after the [-]th Infantry Battalion bypassed Dengzhou, Li Duo, the deputy commander of the [-]rd Infantry Brigade and commander of the [-]th Infantry Battalion who led the battalion southward, learned an extremely important strategic news: a large number of soldiers were found in the southwest direction. The Ming army numbered at least three thousand.

Li Duo was at a loss when he received the news!
"Why are there so many Ming troops ahead? Is the main force of the Ming army heading south to Xiangyang City along the Han River?"

Li Duo had also received news from Xiangyang City before, and was told that Lu Xiangsheng would lead an army of tens of thousands to go south, and that the Ming army from Junzhou and Gucheng might be gathered to go south to Xiangyang City in the future, and asked him to urgently lead troops south to Xiangyang City to reinforce the first Infantry Brigade etc.

But what's going on now?

How could the Ming army who were supposed to go south to Xiangyang City appear between Guanghua and Dengzhou?
Intuition told Li Duo that this is not normal!
"Immediately send more reconnaissance cavalry to the surrounding area, and go deep into the enemy's rear to investigate. Be sure to find out the surrounding situation and see if there are more enemy troops!"

Now that this abnormal thing happened, Li Duo had to wonder if these Ming soldiers came here directly.

When Li Duo discovered at least [-] Ming troops in the area between Guanghua and Dengzhou, he left Junzhou with the army, and Lu Xiangsheng, who had already arrived at Yangpitan, also looked to the east.

At this time, a general under his command, deputy general Yu Yuanhua, stepped forward and said: "Report to Qian Xian, Mr. Sun sent someone to report, he has dispatched [-] soldiers from Gucheng and Guanghua to attack, and it is expected that he will be able to attack in three days." Arrived in Dengzhou!"

Lu Xiangsheng nodded slightly and said: "Well, write back to Sun Hongcai and tell him to take down Xinye City quickly after gathering the soldiers from Dengzhou, and our department will go there later."

Yu Yuanhua immediately said: "As ordered, I will reply right away!"

But after finishing speaking, the thick-browed and big-eyed Yu Yuanhua was a little hesitant, and said after hesitation: "Qian Xian, let's go directly to the north, how about Xiangyang City?"

But Lu Xiangsheng chuckled: "Xiangyang City is a strong city in the world, it is not easy to attack by force."

"Furthermore, there have been reports recently that the bandit army has sharp guns, multiple armors, and hundreds of elite riders. Under such circumstances, it is not wise for our army to storm Xiangyang City."

"However, the security thieves have stolen Nanyang and Xiangyang, and their strength is divided into two. Dengzhou reported before that the number of thieves who stole Xinye City is only five or six hundred. If our army can regain Xinye, it will be enough to stop the security thieves in Xiangyang and Nanyang. And break."

"This Xiangyang City, what's the point of letting them occupy some more time? After our army regains Xinye and cuts off the connection between the two guards, we can retreat and go south to besiege the enemy in Xiangyang, and we can enter..."

Speaking of this, Lu Xiangsheng raised his head and looked north: "Jinke can recover Nanyang, cooperate with Hong Duxian's southward army to attack from north to south, and then gather and wipe out thousands of bandit soldiers in Nanyang Prefecture, and then turn around and go south. At that time, Nanyang will be lost. Even if the thieves in the hinterland can hold Xiangyang City, how long can they hold it?"

Yu Yuanhua was still worried: "If the bandit army sees a bad opportunity and abandons Xiangyang and goes south directly to Jianghan, the guards in Huguang are still a little worse. , I am afraid that the cities in northern Chu will encounter military disasters!"

Lu Xiangsheng looked down at him, and immediately snorted coldly and said: "If the bandits abandon Xiangyang City and go all the way south, it is true that there will be a flat river, but there will be no place to defend. At that time, our army will chase all the way south, how can they besiege other people?" During the time in the city, they can only flee around the city."

"And when they escape to the Yangtze River, the whole army will be wiped out!"

Lu Xiangsheng raised his head again, instead of looking at his subordinates, he said to himself, "No matter what, they are all dead!"

"Pass it on quickly and get ready to cross the river. We will cross the river tomorrow and catch up with the vanguard army in time to prevent the vanguard from being surrounded by the enemy."

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Just when Lu Xiangsheng was leading an army to cross the river, Sun Hongcai, the general under his command, was leading an army of three thousand towards Dengzhou.

Luo Zhixue in Xiangyang City has just learned that the Ming army in the Gucheng and Guanghua areas has changed. Before the main force of Lu Xiangsheng's headquarters in Yunyang arrived, the Ming army in this area was headed northeast under the leadership of the commander-in-chief Sun Hongcai. and go.

Look at the marching direction of the Ming army marked on the map.

Luo Zhixue frowned:
"Could it be that they discovered the emergency southward movement of the Seventh Infantry Battalion, so they dispatched the southward movement?"

"No, according to the time, when they dispatched troops, the Seventh Infantry Battalion was still in the north of Dengzhou. It is impossible for them to know that the reinforcements of the Seventh Infantry Battalion are going south so early. It is impossible to predict at least two days in advance. Go north to Dengzhou."

"Are they really going to Dengzhou?"

"but why?"

"Don't they wait for Lu Xiangsheng's army to come to Xiangyang City together? Or is it that Lu Xiangsheng is confident that he can take Xiangyang City with only a few thousand people?"

Luo Zhixue stared at the map repeatedly, and dug out all kinds of intelligence documents that had been sent back by the frontline in the past few days.

After flipping through several documents in a row, he finally set his sights on one of the ordinary combat reports.

After more than ten seconds, he heard him say loudly: "Send an order to hold an emergency military meeting!"

(End of this chapter)