The Reborn Lao Tzu Is the Emperor

Chapter 852
The night passed.

It rained heavily in Changlin County.

Su Quandang stayed in the barracks, and some soldiers hurried outside the hall, "Commander, there is a letter from the imperial city."

"Present!"

Su Quandang, who looked down at something, immediately raised his head.

After reading the secret letter, a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

Taking the initiative to seek a decisive battle, the emperor and his thoughts coincided with each other.This relieved him of any pressure.

After waving his hands to let the soldiers retreat, he fell into deep thought again.

How to seek a decisive battle is undoubtedly a question that needs to be pondered.After all, judging by the current movements of the Yuan army, they have no intention of a decisive battle.

It took a long time before Su Quandang raised his head and shouted to the outside: "Let the chiefs and deputy commanders of all armies and the heads of special regiments come to discuss matters!"

He obviously already had some idea in mind.

After the generals arrived at his tent, Su Quandang was already standing beside the sand table with his hands behind his back.

"Master!"

Liu Zaiyuan, Wen Qi and others bowed their hands one after another.

Su Quandang waved to them and asked them to stand beside the sand table, and said with a smile: "The emperor's decree has come down, let me wait for a decisive battle with the Yuan army."

Some of the generals smiled, some were surprised.

Their claims are not the same.

Liu Zaiyuan was surprised, and couldn't help but said: "Commander, our army only has more than [-] troops, how can we fight the Yuan army?"

Su Quandang laughed and said: "When the military regions were first established, the emperor said that it is always necessary to count one as a hundred and one as ten. Does the Yuan army have more than [-]?"

Liu Zaiyuan was slightly stunned, then smiled wryly, "But... our army's strength is still too small compared to Yuan's army..."

Su Quandang said: "Soldiers are good, not many."

As soon as he said this, Liu Zaiyuan stopped talking.The generals next to him who intended to speak were also silent.

Of course they could see that Su Quandang had already made up his mind.

Wen Qi is also more inclined to take the initiative to seek a decisive battle, with a look of excitement on his face, "Coach, just tell us how we should fight!"

Su Quandang narrowed his eyes slightly and said, "Pretending to abandon the long forest."

"Pretending to abandon Changlin?"

All the generals showed doubts.

Su Quandang didn't explain, but said: "The people in the city will be evacuated later. They will be escorted by the garrison of Commander Wen Qi."

He looked at Wenqi, and then pointed to a place on the sand table, "After you escort the people out of the city, when you get to Gongji Ridge, let the people go to Jiangdangyang County or Jiangling Mansion by themselves. You led the Changde garrison The soldiers set up an ambush on the Rooster Ridge."

Then look at Liu Tong, commander of the Changlin garrison, "General Liu Tong, you lead the army to follow General Wen and escort the county magistrate and others. Get out of the rooster collar and continue south to Jiangling Mansion."

Liu Tong was slightly stunned, "Marshal Su, isn't my Changlin defender going to join the battle?"

Su Quandang shook his head lightly, "The equipment of the defenders is far inferior to that of the imperial army and the garrison, so there is no need to add casualties."

Liu Tong smiled wryly, but he didn't know what to say.

Su Quandang looked at Liu Zaiyuan again, "Commander Liu, you and this commander led the army to break up. The army followed the Changlin defenders and slowly withdrew from Changlin County. After leaving the city, let the Artillery Regiment and Feitian Regiment go to Gongji Ridge to occupy the high ground to ambush .We led the cavalry and infantry to try to attract the Yuan army to Gongji Ridge."

Liu Zaiyuan nodded, but then frowned, "Commander, what if the Yuan army doesn't pursue us, but occupies Changlin County?"

"Humph!"

Su Quandang sneered, "If they don't catch up with the trick and pursue them, we will bombard Changlin."

His Zhenbei military region is not the defenders of Yongzhou. The army has a lot of firearms such as thunderbolts.

Having said that, all the generals are no longer doubtful.

Soon, all the generals left the tent in a hurry, and went down to prepare to go.

The magistrate of Changlin led the officials in the city to run back and forth in the city, persuading the people to move away from Changlin.

Although the people were reluctant, most of them quickly started packing their things.

Ezhou.

He Fangsong, Jiang Xiu, and Jin Hao also received a reply from Zhao Dongting.

It's just that Ezhou was originally a heavy city, and it was a city that the Yuan army had to capture when they attacked the Song Dynasty. It was obviously impossible for them to pretend to retreat like Su Quandang did.

It wouldn't have much impact if Su Quandang bombed a small Changlin County, but if they wanted to bomb Ezhou City, the price would be too high.It takes a lot of hard work to rebuild a city like Ezhou.

And after withdrawing from Ezhou, they will have nowhere to go.

In the barracks, after He Fangsong, Jiang Xiu, and Jin Hao read the secret letters one after another, they discussed in low voices.

Occupying a major city but having to take the initiative to seek a decisive battle is really a mind-consuming thing.

In Longxing Mansion, the situation is similar to that of Ezhou.They can only choose other methods to force the Yuan army to fight.

In Jianning Mansion, Wen Tianxiang originally ordered the Tiansu and Tiansha armies to garrison Songxi and Zhenghe counties respectively.He himself led a strange army to stay in Jianning, forming the residence of the three cities.

Now that he received Zhao Dongting's order, his idea was actually similar to that of Su Quandang.Let the two armies of Tiansu and Tiansha pretend to withdraw from Songxi and Zhenghe counties.He will lead the army to respond.

To attract the Yuan army to go to war, it seems that the most direct and easiest way is to show the enemy weakness.

On the next day, there was no movement in the two cities of Ezhou and Longxing, but there were people in the three counties of Songxi, Zhenghe and Changlin who were escorted by soldiers and went out of the city to the south.

Within Guangnan West Road.

The troops led by Liu Hongyi, Zhu Haiwang, Ran Anguo and others have not yet arrived at Hengshan Village.

Liu Zhuwen and others ran after the tail of the Dali army, but failed to fight the Dali army.It seems that these Dali troops completely disregarded the logistic supply route.

This gave Liu Zhuwen and the others a faint premonition.

Cutting off food and grass is a taboo in marching.

The Dali army marched very fast, and it was impossible for the army to carry too much food and grass.But they continued to march deep into the Song Dynasty, which only shows that they have chess pieces buried in the Song Dynasty.

This chess piece will definitely choose to vote for Dali like those traitors on Kuizhou Road.At that time, all the food in the city will belong to the Dali army.

So, they had no choice but to continue chasing Yue Li Jun's footwork.

And in the territory of the Luo family, Zhang Jue also waited like Liu Zhuwen, just leading the army to chase the Dali army's ass.

The Dali Army made up its mind not to confront the Song Army.

No one knows how many hidden chess pieces Duan Qilin has buried in Song Dynasty.I don't know whether Zhao Dongting's new political review will work.

If those dark chess pieces can be found out, some people in the country will be restrained from surrendering.The Dali Army is bound to be in trouble.

Within the territory of Kuizhou Road.

After more than a dozen county towns and state capitals successively invested in the Xin Song Dynasty, this trend finally stopped.Probably all the dark chess pieces buried by Duan Qilin have come to the fore.

The White Horse Army of the New Song Dynasty was able to have an extremely vast living area in the territory of Kuizhou Road.There is no need to worry about logistical supplies.

The food and grass in these surrendered cities alone may be able to support them to fight for a long time.

But in this case, they still did not attack Chongqing and Dazhou.Instead, the army was dispersed in various counties, and at the same time launched an attack on the surrounding small counties.

The New Song Army passed by along the way, and the counties, small towns, and even villages of the Song Dynasty were all occupied by them.

This naturally gave Yue Peng, Du Hu and others a headache.

Although Miao Youli, Zhao Da, and Zhao Hu had already rushed to the Chongqing mansion at this time, the strength of the Song Dynasty was undoubtedly far inferior to that of the White Horse Army.

It is easy for them to defend the city, but going out of the city is bound to be dangerous.

In desperation, Yue Peng, Du Hu and others had no choice but to pass on the situation to Zhao Dongting.The New Song Army avoided fighting in heavy cities and ravaged towns and cities.

Yue Peng put it more bluntly. He said that he had nothing to do at this time, so he directly asked Zhao Dongting if he had any good ideas.

After Zhao Dongting received Yue Peng's letter in the palace, although he was a little worried about the situation on Kuizhou Road, he still couldn't help laughing.

This guy Yue Peng is really thick-skinned, he is also the coach of Zhenxi, and he even bluntly said that he has nothing to do.

This is simply playing a rogue!

However, these actions of the New Song Army in the territory of Kuizhou Road also caused Zhao Dongting to think deeply.

Occupying only a small town, but not a major city, is this considered to be avoiding the important ones?

Zhao Dongting had to admit that this move was really clever.

Duan Qilin was probably right, since the Great Song Dynasty did not have many troops, and probably would not take the initiative to go out of the city to meet the enemy.

And as long as the New Song Army can capture all the counties in Kuizhou Road, what is the use of the Song Dynasty just leaving Chongqing Mansion?

The isolated city of Xiangyang was so impenetrable back then, but it still fell in the end.

In the end, Zhao Dongting's reply to Yue Peng and Du Hu only had four words, "Strengthen the wall and clear the wilderness."

Now he has probably seen the combat strategies of the Xin Song Dynasty and Dali, which are similar to the siege of Zhanye.

And he remembered that the strategy of fortifying the wall and clearing the wilderness of a certain island country had a strong effect on this strategy.

(End of this chapter)