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Chapter 1200 Zhu Xieyuan's Judgment
"Yang Sichang was defeated?" Zuo Zhuguo and Zuo Governor Zhu Xieyuan, who was nearly [-] years old, felt his heart skip a beat when he heard this, and thought to himself: It's broken!
Zhu Xieyuan was worthy of being a famous general who managed the five southwestern provinces, and he immediately realized that something was wrong.

"What's the matter, Supervisor?" The new Shanxi governor Yang Wenyue couldn't help but wondered when he saw Zhu Xieyuan's expression.

"It's not right!" Zhu Xieyuan shook his head involuntarily and asserted.

"Although Yang Sichang is not a famous general, at least he has gone through the prefectures and counties, and he has also been appointed as the center, so he has some experience. Against ordinary thieves, even if he cannot win a big victory, he will not lose a big defeat."

"And then Zhu Dadian served as governor of Shandong and governor of water transport for many years. He has experienced the Denglai Rebellion and the battle to recapture Fengyang. He can be regarded as a man with a long history of military service. How could he lose more than half of it in the first battle?"

"It is said that Yang Sichang, Zhu Dian and others stormed Huaiqing Mansion, but suddenly they heard that the thieves had suddenly arrived, so they had no choice but to part ways." Yang Wenyue couldn't help explaining.

"Then Yang Sichang crossed the river and returned to Qinghua Town, while Zhu Dadian retreated along Qinshui to Wuzhi."

"Unexpectedly, a bandit chief led his troops to cut off his way back, and the army of bandits also arrived, so they were surrounded by the bank of Qinshui."

"Officers and soldiers lined up against the water, fighting hard until the end, and the thieves cannot be broken."

"Unexpectedly, the thieves' Hongyi cannons arrived, and they were all shattered by the cannonballs. There were also soldiers mutiny inside, and the inside and outside attacked, causing the officers and soldiers to collapse."

"The thieves took the opportunity to cover up and kill for thirty miles. The corpses of officers and soldiers were piled up, and the water was completely red. Since I lost Shaanxi, I have never suffered such a big defeat."

"No, that's not what I said!" Zhu Xieyuan shook his head and reminded.

"Earlier Yang Sichang said that the thieves led elite troops of [-] yuan to cross the river and look at Shanxi. Now it seems that this is not entirely true!"

"Oh? How do you say that?" Yang Wenyue was taken aback when he heard the words, and couldn't help asking in surprise.

"No matter how fierce that thief is, how can one count as ten?" Zhu Xieyuan frowned when he heard this, he had already talked about this point, but Yang Wenyue didn't understand the meaning?
"Based on my point of view, the number of thieves is not more than ten thousand, it should be thirty or forty thousand!"

"This..." Yang Wenyue's face immediately changed upon hearing this, "Master Supervisor, you mean it."

"Do the thieves intend to seize Shanxi, or even go north to the Shuntian Mansion in the capital?"

"This is why I worry about the country!" Zhu Xieyuan couldn't help but sighed.

"In the past, my struggle with Yang Sichang was not only for profit. I only cared about Shun Thief." According to the solidity of Weihan, the land of Yongzhou was owned by the monarchs and ministers to guard the Zhou Dynasty. Desolate Heart'!"

"If this is the case, the battle must not be small, the soldiers must not be small, the plan must not be in Hanoi, and the ambition must not be in Jinyu!"

When Yang Wenyue heard this, why didn't he understand what Zhu Xieyuan meant?
"You mean, the thieves want to break through Shanxi, encircle the north and take the capital?"

"That's right! If I save him, the thieves will use an army of [-] to compete with me for the land of Shanxi." Zhu Xieyuan frowned.

"What should I do? But you want to support the right supervisor and others?"

"The thieves who are aggressively attacking now are just the ears of the master. There should be [-] to [-] troops watching, waiting for an opportunity to attack Shanxi!"

"This...how can this be done?" Yang Wenyue couldn't help being anxious when he heard the words.

As the saying goes: It is hard for a clever woman to cook without rice.The new governor of Shanxi Yang Wenyue took office, how could he not know the real situation of Shanxi Town?
Among the three towns of Xuanda, Xuanfu and Datong are the most important, and Shanxi Town is just a second-tier border town.

However, just such a border town has just experienced the defection of the former Shanxi governor and the surrender of the Shanxi general army to the enemy, and it has become weaker and weaker.

After counting and verification by the new governor Yang Wenyue, there are more than [-] people in Shanxi Town, and most of them are distributed in the three important areas of Biantou, Ningwu and Yanmen.

Excluding the two or three thousand defenders stationed at Fenglingdu, Pubandu and Yumendu, there was not a single soldier under Yang Wenyue's command.

Even with Zhu Xieyuan's sub-battalion, Luo Xianggan's two battalions, and Baoding General Soldier Liu Guozhu's battalion, the total number is only [-]. How can we deal with [-] to [-] thieves?
"One needs to speed up the repair of the city, and this is your responsibility; one needs to ask Xuanda Governor Zhang Fengyi to lead troops to support it as soon as possible, and this is my responsibility; the other needs to support Yang Sichang, Zhu Dian and others to stabilize the situation, and I am going to send Baoding generals Liu Guozhu to go." Zhu Xieyuan had already made up his mind, so he couldn't help telling them one by one.

"Okay, that's very good!" Yang Wenyue, the governor of Shanxi, thought for a while after hearing this, and found that he couldn't say anything, and couldn't help admiring Zhu Xieyuan.

Then when Yang Wenyue admired Zhu Xieyuan very much, he didn't know that Zhu Xieyuan also admired "thief chief Zhang Shun" in private.

It still didn't work, the timing of the Shun thief's choice was too good, and the officers and soldiers had no time to mobilize enough soldiers and horses.

As a result, the emptiness of Hedong and Hanoi made Zhu Xieyuan very uncomfortable.

"Zhang Fengyi, Zhang Fengyi, I'm afraid this Great Ming Dynasty is within your grasp!" Zhu Xieyuan pondered for a long while, but he was still stretched, so he had to pin his hopes on Xuanda Governor Zhang Fengyi.

To be honest, if the rebel army hadn't provoked disputes in Kaifeng Mansion and Huaiqing Mansion, the Ming court would have created a new post of Baoding Governor just in case, and Xuanda Governor Zhang Fengyi would be the natural commander of the three towns.

However, when Zhu Xieyuan, the governor of the left, pinned his hopes on Zhang Fengyi, the governor of Xuanda, Zhang Fengyi himself was in a dilemma.

Do you know why?

It turns out that although there are about [-] registered soldiers and horses in the two towns of Xuanfu and Datong, the actual number is only [-] to [-].

Among the [-] to [-] soldiers and horses, tens of thousands were transferred to Liaodong as guest troops, and most of them had to garrison forts and cities, so only [-] could actually be used.

With only [-] mobile troops, Xuanda Governor Zhang Fengyi still needs to guard against the two threats of Tartars and northern captives. It is really more than enough to defend but not enough to attack.

Therefore, after Zhu Xieyuan received the letter asking for support, he failed to reply for a long time. It was really a dilemma and it was difficult to make a decision.

"Report ~ Zhu Xieyuan, the left governor, wrote again, claiming that the 'thieves' want to invade and seize the whole town of Shanxi, and ask the military gate to lead the army to go south to support as soon as possible. If it is too late, it will be too late!" Busy rushing in to report.

"Understood!" Zhang Fengyi smiled wryly, shook his head and said.

"He has his troubles, and I have mine too! The imperial court's more than [-] troops gathered in Jiliao to guard against Houjin, how can there be any spare power!"

The thing is so ridiculous, dignified and dignified, besides the soldiers and horses stationed in various places, the actual field troops that can be drawn out are probably only a few hundred thousand.

And these [-] people are scattered in the three towns of Henan, Nanzhi, Baodi, Denglai, and Xuanda, as well as Jiliao and Changping, like pepper noodles.

They couldn't get together for a while, and the Ming court wanted to compete with the bandits, even a fight to the death was impossible.

"Reply to Supervisor Zhu Xieyuan and tell him that I have trained [-] elite soldiers and can go south at any time." Zhang Fengyi couldn't help but calmly said.

"The premise is that I have to see people, and see the thieves aggressively attacking, and then I can use soldiers, otherwise nothing will be discussed!"

Zhang Fengyi has served as Minister of the Ministry of War for many years, and he has long been like a bright mirror in his heart about what is going on in the Ming Dynasty.

At the same time he replied to Zhu Xieyuan, the governor of the left, he sent a letter to the imperial court, asking Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youjian to be ready to call the guest troops stationed in Jiliao and other places to guard against Houjin to enter the customs and participate in the possible outbreak of Shanxi. Great War, a decisive battle that will ultimately determine the ultimate fate of Ming Dynasty.

(End of this chapter)