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Chapter 1289 Decisive Battle in Taiyuan
If I want to fight, even though the enemy has high fortifications and deep ditches, I have to fight with my fighters, and I will save them if I attack them; ——"Sun Tzu's Art of War: Fiction and Reality"

When Zhu Xieyuan got the "intruder" Li Zicheng to lead the North Route Army of the rebels to attack the northwest of Shanxi, he finally realized the complete failure of his strategy of "cutting plots and cutting diplomatic relations".

The art of war says: go up to attack the enemy, next to attack the enemy, and then go down to attack the city.

The reason why Zhu Xieyuan, the left governor, stayed in Taiyuan City was naturally not because he was cowardly and did not dare to fight.

But to use the blocking effect of Taiyuan City to buy time for his own "planning and cross-cutting".

Originally, according to his idea, the rebel army had just occupied Shaanxi not long ago, and then stopped their troops under the fortified city of Taiyuan. The land of Shaanxi has already been full of "rebels".

In particular, the anti-thieves such as "Crossing Thieves", "Sacrificing Thieves", and "Scorpion Thieves" are all "off-the-shelf goods". How can they be loyal to "Shun Thieves"?
However, he miscalculated, and as a result, a group of natural "rebels" and those with rebellious bones suddenly talked about loyalty to the emperor and patriotism, which he did not expect.

Victory or defeat is a common matter for military strategists. Originally, Zhu Xieyuan, the left governor, was the commander of the Ming army.

It's just that he didn't expect that because he had been huddled in Taiyuan City, he had been noticed by the imperial censor of Ming Dynasty, and the public was furious for a while, and he was ginsenged hundreds of times.

So much so that there is no Zhu Xieyuan who can win the "soft war", so if he doesn't take the initiative to attack, he may end up with no bones left and a bad reputation for thousands of years.

There was no way, when Director Gao Qiqian approached the door again, Zhu Xieyuan, who was over seventy years old, immediately expressed his opinion without waiting for him to speak: "Now that the thieves have tried their best, I know the truth!"

"'Shun Thief' led the Chinese army himself, and fortified the wall under my Taiyuan city, it was a bluff."

"I want to rectify the troops, and fight to the death with them tomorrow. If we win this battle, the 'Shun Thieves' will not be feared, and the people of the world will feel at ease. Please also remind the director!"

"Yes!" Gao Qiqian didn't know that there was a major change in the northwest of Shanxi, and he said that Zhu Xieyuan knew each other, and he couldn't help being overjoyed.

It was decided by everyone's discussion, and before dawn the next day, meals were made at three o'clock, and troops were dispatched at five o'clock. More than [-] elite soldiers of the Ming Dynasty appeared outside the camp of the rebels.

The Ming army has just been dispatched here, and the rebel army on the other side has already received the news.

After the news reached Zhang Shun who was still soundly asleep, he couldn't help jumping up, put on his clothes in a hurry, and called all the generals to discuss the matter.

"This old tortoise probably got the news of Li Zicheng's dispatch of troops, and this time he is finally willing to stick his head out!" At the beginning of the discussion, Zhang Shun was the first to say with a smile.

The generals couldn't help laughing when they heard the words, how could they be afraid of the elite of the Daming Frontier Army?

"Your Highness, in my humble opinion, I am not afraid that he will come out, but I am afraid that he will not come out!" "Mantianxing" Zhang Dashou spoke first.

"I think this time we can show weakness to the enemy, lure him to attack, and then send cavalry to break his way back. Then Taiyuan can go down, and the Ming army can be defeated!"

It is no wonder that Zhang Dashou is so confident. It turned out that when he broke the Shenshu camp under Sun Chuanting last time, he took many horses from the left general Dong Yongwen of the Shenshu camp and surrendered. Now the [-] horses under his command have been converted into cavalry.

If this battle is fought according to his method, then he will naturally be credited for cutting off the Ming army's retreat in the end.

"I'm afraid this is not going to work, right?" Zhang Shun hesitated, and couldn't help laughing, "Although the Ming army is in a bad state, it won't be surrounded by my same troops."

It turns out that the Ming army now has the first battalion of Zhu Xieyuan and Luo Xiangqian, the first battalion of deputy commander Li Fuming with [-] troops, the governor of Xuanda Zhang Fengyi's battalion with [-] troops, the governor of Datong Ye Tinggui, the commander of the Xuanfu Li Guoliang, and the commander of Datong Wang Shiren each with [-] troops. There are [-] soldiers and horses, the director Gao Qiqian has [-] standard battalions, plus more than [-] people from the remnants of the Shenshu Battalion, a total of about [-] troops.

But now under Zhang Shun's command are Zhang Dashou, Wei Zhiyou, Yang Chengzu, Wang Zhong, Zhang Rujing, Xu Quan, Lu Xiangjin and Shen Jingbang's Eighth Battalion, and now Jiang Xiang has formed a new battalion.

If you calculate carefully, the strength of both sides increases and decreases, which is no longer the inherent situation of "the enemy is strong and we are weak".

It was a situation in which the two sides were roughly equal in number and strength, so Zhang Dashou dared to "speak wild words."

"Now that our army's victory is in sight, why bother to compete with it for a day!" Hearing Zhang Shun's words, Sun Chuanting couldn't help stepping forward to analyze.

"Currently, Li Zicheng's Department of the North Route Army is in the Northwest of Shanxi Province for successive battles and victories, attacking prefectures and counties; in the land of Luzhou Prefecture, Yang Wenyue is also in jeopardy when he is attacked by Cao Wenzhao and Li Xin's Department."

"Once these places are conquered by the rebels, what's the point of Zhu Xieyuan sitting in the isolated city?"

When the generals heard Sun Chuanting's words, they felt that it was reasonable, and couldn't help agreeing to the strategy of defending to the death.

Zhang Shun frowned, but in fact he was still a little worried about Liaodong Houjin's meddling.

It has been more than [-] days since the rebel army launched a large-scale offensive in early March, which is completely enough for Houjin to react.

If Mrs. Hong suddenly led the main force of the Jin army and entered the customs at this time, then the situation he faced might be even worse than that of Li Zicheng, who was a rock in the past.

"Let's wait for another two days, and send envoys to urge Zhang Sanbai and Zhang Fengyi to take Fenzhou as soon as possible; Li Xin and Cao Wenzhao take Luzhou as soon as possible, and then make calculations."

As for the two nails of Kaifeng and Daming Mansion, although they made the rebel army a little uncomfortable, they still did not threaten the overall strategic layout of the rebel army, so let's put them aside for the time being.

Not to mention how Zhang Shun and others care about it, let's say that Zhu Xieyuan led the generals out of Taiyuan City and rushed all the way to the camp of the rebels.

Zhang Fengyi, the governor of Xuanda, couldn't sit still for a moment, and couldn't help reminding: "The 'Shun Bandit' is treacherous and vicious, and it is difficult to deal with."

"The last time our army fought against them for a long time, but because of the fierceness of the Hongyi cannon, we had no choice but to retreat."

"Facing the enemy today, I don't know how the supervisor will deal with it?"

We didn't win last time. If you really have no choice, why waste the lives of soldiers?

As soon as Zhang Fengyi finished speaking, Ye Tinggui, Li Guoliang, Wang Shiren and others all looked unhappy.

"What's the matter, what's the matter?" Director Gao Qi was deeply surprised, and couldn't help asking.

"The director doesn't know, this 'following bandit' method of using troops has nothing to do well, the only thing he relies on is guns." Zhang Fengyi couldn't help but smiled wryly.

"Before the director came, I waited for a battle with him, but because the thieves' artillery was too fierce, our army couldn't handle it, so we had to retreat."

"Oh?" Director Gao Qiqian is not a three-year-old child, so of course he doesn't think that the difference between the enemy and us is just a few red cannons.

The red barbarian cannon may have been a rare thing more than a hundred years ago, but it is also a common weapon in the Ming and later Jin armies today, and it cannot be regarded as a "killer".

Therefore, Gao Qiqian couldn't help becoming curious, and couldn't help asking: "Master Supervisor, is there any way to crack it this time?"

Then Zhu Xieyuan was not born as a "Yin and Yang Soldier", so naturally he would not put up any "Yin Gate Formation" or spread any black dog blood.

Seeing that even Director Gao Qiqian had no choice, he couldn't help laughing and said: "The last time we fought against the 'Shun Bandit', although there was a slight disadvantage, the governor saw the flaw in it."

"Although Shun's artillery is fierce, he is afraid of close combat. As long as I dig deep trenches to avoid their artillery, they will be defeated if they don't fight!"

"How do you say that?" Gao Qiqian, Zhang Fengyi and others were taken aback when they heard the words, and they couldn't help asking quickly.

"Let me make a fool of myself, and you will know the key in a while!" Zhu Xieyuan smiled when he heard this, and stroked his beard, looking like an inscrutable Song Xiance.

(End of this chapter)