East Factory Governor

Chapter 605 Lai San'er's "naive" strategy

Fan Wencheng smiled slightly, "The food and grass in Zunhua City can't last for many days. As long as we continue to besiege the city, the Ming army has only two ways. One is Qin Shuhuai's desperate attack on the Santun Camp, opening up the way to help Zunhua. The Santun camp is guarded by my [-] elite soldiers. Even if Qin Shuhuai has the ability to conquer the sky, he will not be able to capture it. Second, Yuan Chonghuan waited for reinforcements for a long time, so he had to lead troops to break through. Once he leaves the city, with the strength of our army , as long as they are properly arranged, they will definitely defeat his [-] troops! Therefore, no matter which way they go, it is a dead end for the Ming army."

Huang Taiji pondered for a while, and said, "Sir, what do you mean, should we continue to besiege the city as usual?"

Fan Wencheng said with certainty, "That's right, continue to besiege the city and see who can lose their composure first!"

Huang Taiji frowned again and said, "Sir, what you said is indeed reasonable. It's just that our army doesn't have much food and grass now, so what should we do?"

"Khan, Zunhua City is a dead city, so we can't get food and grass. And our army is outside the city. As long as we are willing to look for it, how can we really run out of food?"

Huang Taiji seemed to understand something, but he still asked uncertainly, "What do you mean, sir?"

Fan Wencheng said lightly, "Our army has conquered more than ten cities and dozens of villages and counties. If we go to collect food in a 'detailed' way, will we really have no food? If we can't collect it, we will have to 'borrow' from the people." ’, it’s time to pay them back.”

After hearing this, Huang Taiji had a playful smile on his face—Fan Wencheng's suggestion, to put it bluntly, was to let him go to the occupied land to grab food, but it was just a nice way of saying it.

The reason why Huang Taiji was not sure before was that he did not expect such a suggestion to come from a Han man.To be honest, he had also thought about this idea, but in view of the series of problems caused by Jin's plundering among the Han people before and after, he has been reluctant to make this decision.Moreover, before he set off, he himself said to the people below that he should not rob the people without authorization, and now he changed his course, wouldn't he slap himself in the face?
However, he never expected that this Han man's heart was more ruthless than his own.

What "requisition", what "borrowing", if the army really set out to go door-to-door in the occupied area to ask for food, it would definitely be a situation where there would be corpses everywhere!According to past experience, as long as such an order is issued, incidents of exterminating men and villages will inevitably emerge one after another-this is completely different from his previous order to only collect food from big and rich households!
But this Han man is urging himself to make this order.

This is really... a loyal Han Chinese!Perhaps, it's time for him to join the banner, he is more like a bannerman than most of us!

Fan Wencheng continued to say nonchalantly, "No matter what method we use, as long as our army can raise food and grass, our army will surely win this battle to enter the wall! Please make a decision early, Khan!"

After hearing this, Huang Taiji took a deep breath and said, "Every word that Mr. Fan said made me suddenly enlightened! In this way, I will follow what Mr. Fan said!"

At night, inside the government office of Qian'an County.

Qin Shuhuai, Zu Dashou, He Kegang, Meng Wei, Meng Hu, Lai Saner, Zhang Xiao, Zhiren, Wang Datong and others gathered together to discuss the next move of the army.

Ever since he tasted the sweetness in Baoji, now Qin Shuhuai likes to have Ming army generals and martial arts people have meetings together. These people have their own ways, and they can always collide with surprising sparks.

However, everyone has been discussing how to attack Santunying for two hours, but they still haven't been able to come up with a plan that can be unanimously approved by everyone.

The comparison of the strengths of the two sides is there. With the Ming army now going to fight the Santun camp, no matter how they fight, they are doomed to fail.

There was really no other way, Qin Shuhuai took advantage of everyone's rest, quietly pulled Tang Sanniang aside, and asked her if she still had any poison in her hand, such as the "Thousand Poison Ten Thousand Gu Xuan Bell" used last time.

Tang Sanniang expressed embarrassingly, "Thousands of Poisons and Thousands of Gu Xuanzhongs" were almost used up last time, and now the remaining ones can poison up to 80 people.And she didn't bring many other poisons of the Tang Sect, they were all for self-defense, and couldn't be used to kill Tartars in batches.

Qin Shuhuai was not reconciled, and asked her if she could refine some here.Tang Sanniang shook her head, and told him that the main ingredients of Tangmen's poisons are only found in Western Hunan and the Western Regions, and they cannot be purchased here.

Qin Shuhuai could only smile awkwardly, and even said that he was just asking casually.

Hehe, just ask.

Tang Sanniang also responded with a "hehe".

Qin Shuhuai returned to his seat, feeling one head and two big.

Yuan Chonghuan is still waiting anxiously for his rescue, but from the battle yesterday, it can be seen that there is still a certain gap between the martial arts coalition forces and the Tartars. It is basically impossible to use these 2000 people to capture Santunying possible.Even if they are beaten down, most of them will be killed or injured, so what a fart!
Can we go directly to Zunhua by bypassing Santunying?This is even more hanging.Santunying is on the only way from Qian'an to Zunhua!So many people want to sneak around Santun camp, unless the Tartars are blind.At that time, they only need one to follow, and then Huang Taiji will send another 1 people to intercept in front, and the two ends will attack, and the game will be over.

If you want to bypass Santunying, you have to go over mountains and mountains.Leaving aside the fact that crossing mountains and ridges is one's own exhaustion of soldiers, it is impossible to accept the fact that one has to abandon horses and luggage before entering the mountains.You want to fight the Tartars without cavalry, what's the matter?You want to save Zunhua without enough food and grass, how about playing?
At this time, a person suddenly shouted, "If we can't fight Santunying, let's stop fighting! Is there only one way to go to Zunhua?"

Everyone fell silent at once.

Looking for the reputation, I saw that it was Lai San'er who said it.

Just now everyone's discussion was in full swing, and Lai San'er couldn't get in the way all the time, so he yelled out such a sentence when he was in a hurry.

Everyone's first reaction after hearing this was naive.

If you don't go to Zunhua from Santunying, there is only another way, that is from Jizhou to Zunhua via Shimenzhai.In this way, the army will have to go back the same way, and it will be flat from Jizhou?Don't forget that Shimenzhai is also in the hands of Tartars, and the places such as Malanyu to the north of Shimenzhai are also Tartar territories. Will the Tartars have no soldiers there?

But since Lai San'er is Qin Shuhuai's confidant, everyone didn't attack directly, only Wang Datong and Zhiren laughed.

Unexpectedly, after hearing this, Zhang Xiao said, "What Master Lai Xiang said is not a solution."

Qin Shuhuai could habitually ignore Lai San'er's "bad idea", but he couldn't ignore Zhang Xiao's opinion, so he asked, "Old Zhang, tell me."

Zhang Xiao stood up and said, "Master Hou, everyone, think about it, do the Tatars now think that we will attack the three camps like us? At present, we have preliminarily determined that about [-] to [-] elite Tatars have entered the wall. , now they have lost [-] in Zunhua, [-] in Qian'an, and nearly [-] lone troops in Yongping. In fact, they only have about [-] troops at their disposal. The general thought that in order to prevent us from saving In Zunhua, the Tartars will at least station [-] to [-] troops in the Santun camp, so they will have [-] to [-] troops left. If they encircle [-] in Zunhua, how many troops can they have near Shimenzhai? Wan Jingrui? I thought there were not many of them!"

When Zhang Xiao said this, everyone's eyes lit up.

Now there are only [-] to [-] Tartar soldiers who are not sure where they are. These soldiers must set aside some of them to guard the passes outside the wall, such as Da'ankou, etc., and some soldiers have to guard more important towns, so they can stay near Shimenzhai There are not many Tazi soldiers!

(End of this chapter)