please make me king

Chapter 672
Hong Chengchou, governor of the five provinces, launched wave after wave of sieges under the city of Luoyang, but Zhang Shun saw all the tricks, and only defended but not attacked.

It's not that Zhang Shun is afraid of the large number of people under Hong Chengchou's command, but that his "appetite" has grown a lot since his "resurrection".

Originally, he only intended to defeat Hong Chengchou's strategic goal, but now he has revised it to "eat" these more than [-] elite Qin soldiers.

The great men of later generations have a good saying, "It is better to cut off one finger than to hurt the enemy's ten fingers".In the previous battle under the city of Luoyang, although the rebels won, Zhang Shun was accidentally killed in battle and did not further expand the results of the battle. They only fled back to the camp at the cost of [-] to [-] casualties.

If it is only counted by the number of people, the strength of the officers and soldiers is still higher than that of the rebels.It's just that the officers and soldiers beat the few with more, and the strong bullied the weak, and they were defeated by the rebels, and their morale was seriously injured. In fact, they couldn't bring out their original advantages.

So, by the way, Zhang used his brains and tried to annex Hong Chengchou, the governor of the five provinces, in one fell swoop.

When Zhang Shun proposed this plan, not only Zhang Shenyan, Song Xiance and Hong Niangzi were taken aback, but even Cao Wenzhao and Chen Changliang, the rebel generals strongly opposed it.

Although there are many examples in history of winning more with less, most wars still follow the most basic laws.

"Sun Tzu's Art of War" said: Therefore, the law of using troops is to encircle them if they are ten, attack them if they are five times, divide them if they are twice as many, fight them if they are few, escape them if they are few, and evade them if they are not strong.

Although this value may not be particularly accurate, it can roughly reflect the number of people a party needs to achieve its military goals.

Only when one side has ten times the number of people can they encircle and annihilate the other side; with five times the number of people, they can directly attack the enemy;

Now the number of rebels is barely enough to make up [-], which is still lower than the [-] newly defeated officers and soldiers.

Zhang Shun quickly confided all his plans, and only then managed to convince everyone.

It turned out that Zhang Shun's strategy was simple. The first step was to use the false news of his "death" to paralyze Hong Chengchou and attract him to attack Luoyang City with all his strength.

The specific method is to find the handwriting of Huang Deqing, a disciple of the old mountain leader Zuo Lengchan, pretending to be Lu Weiqi's disciple Yuanmou, and ask Lu Weiqi's son Lu Zhaolin to write a letter of atonement to Hong Chengchou.

At that time, apart from the letters Hong Chengchou received, apart from the spies he sent into Luoyang City, the other two were the "Letters from Yuanmou" and the letters from Lu Zhaolin.

It's a pity that Hong Chengchou is old and cunning, and he is still hiding in the camp, and he refuses to come out.Fortunately, after all, news came that "Chuang Jiang" and others captured Fengyang Mansion in Zhongdu. Under the pressure of the court, this fellow had no choice but to leave the "warm nest" and launched an all-out attack on Luoyang City.

To be honest, Zhang Shun's original calculation was to cut off the water transportation by "Chuang Jiang", "Living Cao Cao" and "Eight Great Kings", but he didn't know why the Fengyang Mansion in the central capital was destroyed by a mistake.

Fortunately, the effect was the same, and it still caused the court to suffer, and fortunately, it did not affect Zhang Shun's plan.

Of course, Hong Chengchou, the governor of the five provinces, is not a fool, and he can't beat the desire to leave by himself for a long time.Zhang Shun hurriedly ordered Cao Wenzhao and Cao Bianjiao's uncle and nephew to contact Hong Chengchou by letter again, bargaining with him in private, falsely claiming that he was going to "open the city gate to welcome the king's teacher", making Hong Chengchou hesitant.

In fact, when Hong Chengchou, governor of the five provinces, sent troops to attack Luoyang City, Zhang Shunzao sent Chen Changbing and Li Mou to lead two battalions of [-] officers and soldiers to sneak westward to Yiyang County.

Yiyang County is located in the upper reaches of Luoshui River in Luoyang City, more than [-] miles away.When Zhang Shun made a surprise attack on the Beijing camp before, he also broke through the city, but later he abandoned it in order to concentrate his forces for defense.

The magistrate of Yiyang County was in panic all day long.But after all, he has no soldiers or generals in his hands, and he has heard that King Shun is benevolent and will not torture or kill, so how can he have the heart to defend?

So Chen Changbing and Li Mou arrived that night, and the Yiyang county town waited for the wind to surrender, not delaying the rebel army from having dinner in the city.

The rebel army rested overnight in Yiyang County, and the next morning, only a dozen or so people were left to guard the magistrate, and the rest of the troops headed north under the leadership of Chen Changliang and Li Mou.

The terrain and geomorphic features of Yiyang County are exactly "three mountains and six tombs, one branch of Sichuan, Nanshan and Beiling are beaches, and Luohe River runs through the whole territory from east to west".

To the south of the county seat is the Xiong'er Mountain System; to the north is the remaining veins of the Qinling Mountains, separated from the north and the south, with the Luo River running through the whole area in the middle.

According to the truth, from Yiyang to the north, you will go deep into the mountains and mountains, and there is no way to connect.Fortunately, Lu Weiqi was originally from the Lu family in Xin'an, and he was quite familiar with the terrain of Xin'an County, so he knew that there happened to be a small road between Yiyang and Xin'an.

This Lu Weiqi was originally inclined towards the rebel army, and now not only in order to save the life of his son Lu Zhaolin, but also for Zhang Shun's promise, he did his best and reported this road to Zhang Shun.

After Zhang Shun found out, he couldn't help being overjoyed, so he dispatched Chen Changbing and Li Mouer to lead two battalions of troops, preparing to go north from here and cut off the way for Hong Chengchou, the governor of the five provinces, to escape to the west.

It was just after the New Year, the sky was freezing, the trees in the mountains were bare, light snow was flying, and the roads were difficult to walk.Chen Changbing and Li Mou simply got off their horses and walked with the soldiers.

As the two walked, they encouraged the soldiers and said: "I have been following King Shun for a long time, and I have already earned farmland, money and food through 'like a bereaved dog'. Now I have promised a wife. If I make such great achievements again, it is no problem to start a family and start a business." Down."

The morale of the soldiers improved a little, and it was getting late, so they managed to cross the remaining veins of the Qinling Mountains and came to the bank of the Jianhe River.

Going west from here, just over a hundred steps is the ruins of Hangu Pass in the past. Although this place is not as dangerous as Qin Hangu Pass, Tongguan and other places, there is a tendency that one man should guard the pass and ten thousand people will not open it.

Li Mou couldn't help admonishing him, "This place just cut off Hong Chengchou's return route, how about ordering the soldiers to set up camp here?"

Chen Changliang looked at it for a while, then shook his head and said: "Although this place is good, it's a pity that the old pass has been destroyed. What's more, since Hong Chengchou came to the west, Xin'an County should be guarded. If the officers and soldiers are defeated when they turn around, they will rush to jump under the wall and attack back and forth. I'm afraid I won't be able to support it."

"Since I'm waiting to cross the mountains and rush to this place, the officers and soldiers will definitely be unprepared. Why don't I stay with more than a thousand people and garrison here for the time being, and I will personally lead [-] people to attack the city."

"If the officers and soldiers are really unprepared, everything under Xin'an City is fine; if Xin'an does not go down, we can also retreat and wait for the second time, and station troops here to defend!"

When Li Mou heard the words, he couldn't help calling him good, so he led more than a thousand officers and soldiers to set up camp at the old Hanguguan site, while Chen Changliang led his soldiers to go to Xin'an County at night.

(End of this chapter)