Daming kill

Chapter 245
In mid-September of the 16th year of Chongzhen, on the official road leading to Miancheng, Mianyang Prefecture (now Miancheng Town, Xiantao City), there was an army of about [-] people with neither forward nor rearguard, marching alone and unhurriedly.

In this army, Li Ping is impressive.

He rode leisurely on the horse and listened to supervisor Ji Zhangkuang talking about the mountains, rivers, geography and customs of Mianyang Prefecture.

It seems that there is no concern that he and his army are going deep alone.

Although Zhang Kuang is from Songjiang (now Shanghai), he has served as the magistrate of Mianyang since the ninth year of Chongzhen. He is more familiar with Mianyang than most Mianyang locals, and he is a very good guide and commentator.

Miancheng is still far away.

From Hanchuan County to Miancheng, not counting the Hanshui River, the road alone is about 200 miles. If it is not a rapid march or a fast march, it will not be possible to arrive in a day or two. The two of them have plenty of time to chat.

Occasionally, as if he couldn't help it or felt embarrassed, Li Ping would repeatedly talk about his military plan, analyze both the enemy and the enemy, and it was rare for people to realize that he was also a young man.

At this time, Zhang Kuang (born in 1611), who was more than ten years older than Li Ping, would listen attentively like a student, completely devoid of contempt, and echoed frequently.

And Li Ping always licked his face and accepted it happily, and he couldn't tell whether it was young and energetic or ignorant of world affairs, or something else.

"Zhang Jianji, we have been walking for more than a day, and we have not seen the shadow of the bandit army. It seems that the bandit army in Mianyang is also a rat. If we want to kill the bandits, we may have to attack the city." Li Ping Once, after looking left and right for a long time, he seemed disappointed and said, as if he wished to be intercepted or ambushed by the peasant army.

He is still acting.

And Zhang Kuang also continued to compliment and said with emotion: "The Mianyang bandit army is weak, and it is completely different from the Hanchuan bandit. Although our army is small, we can tell that it is a tiger army. We are afraid that we will go to Miancheng will not meet the bandit army, and even the city may not even need to be attacked, and the bandit army will abandon the city and flee."

"The supervisor is ridiculous again! We are discussing the enemy's situation now, no need to praise, no need to praise." Li Ping laughed.

"I'm not complimenting, let alone false praise, but seeking truth from facts. The commander's strategy may not be of use." Zhang Kuang said seriously, his widened eyes seemed to emphasize that what he said was true.

Zhang Kuang participated in the raid on Mianyang Prefecture organized by Li Ping before, so he has a certain understanding of the situation of the Mianyang Peasant Army, and also knows that the Mianyang Peasant Army rarely has firearms.

And Li Ping's [-]-man troops who attacked Mianyang all came from the most elite and most important regiment. No matter the marching, equipment or the momentum displayed by the troops, they were shocking enough.

The entire army doesn't even need to look closely, just looking from a distance is enough to know the elite of a group of well-trained and battle-hardened elites.

Li Ping was naturally very relaxed in such an army.

Hanchuan County was besieged by him, and it was impossible for the peasant army in Mianyang to have the strength to eat up his army.Unless Bai Wang, who is stationed in Chengtianfu City, comes for reinforcements, but it is impossible in terms of time.

"Hey! If the bandits don't do anything when we get to Miancheng, we will have no choice but to attack the city. It's just that we don't have enough troops. I'm afraid we have to call in more troops from the Hanchuan siege. What a mistake!" Li Ping sighed. stand up.

"You don't have to worry too much about the general. If you can capture Mianyang, it will be a great achievement. The burglars will also feel the sharpness of our army. Moreover, it is difficult to get off the Hanchuan. We can jump over the Hanchuan from Mianyang and attack Zhongxiang directly, and then take Xiangyang." Zhang Kuang comforted him.

But Li Ping's eyelids twitched inadvertently, and then he held back for a long time before he said weakly: "Hanchuan is hard to get, Zhong Xiang is probably even more difficult. Supervisor, you think too highly of me."

Li Ping was really shocked in his heart, he found that he still underestimated this Zhang Kuang.

It was part of Li Ping's whole plan to attack Mianyang with light soldiers.

You can't fight Mianyang directly, or you can't just fight Mianyang.

Putting the nail on the edge of the Han River, Hanchuan County does not pull it out, and insists on looking far away and only hits Miancheng, which is on the south side of the Han River and is [-] to [-] miles away from the nearest Han River. This is a typical behavior of taking advantage and taking advantage of it. Containment and influence are very limited.

And both Li Zicheng and Yuan Jixian can easily see this.

This also loses the meaning of playing Mianyang.

Therefore, before this, Li Ping, who had just recovered from a serious illness, led the army to cross the Hanshui River from Hanyang to the north on the third day after Wang Si left Wuchang, and then rolled into Hanchuan County along the river, posing as if he wanted to go all the way to the west. Advanced style.

Of course, the Xie Yinglong Department of the Peasant Army stationed in Hanchuan also cooperated very well and shrank into the city without doing any blocking.

As a result, the army led by Li Ping arrived safely and smoothly at the foot of Hanchuan County. After setting up the camp, he set up cannons as planned and tried to blast the city first.

Since there is no heavy artillery, and there is no advantage in height under the city, and the peasant army in Hanchuan County is also good at firearms and has heavy artillery, the result of the bombardment of the city was, as expected, frightened by the condescending peasant army.

Fortunately, the quality of the peasant army's artillery was uneven, and the gunner training was so-so, with poor accuracy. Li Ping's artillery casualties were very small, but the damage caused by the inferior artillery he deliberately placed in the front was a bit greater.

There is a saying in the art of war, ten rules surround it.

Because Li Ping wanted to keep a garrison in Hanyang, the number of soldiers and horses brought to Hanchuan was less than [-].

Although Xie Yinglong had less than 2000 soldiers, most of these soldiers had been killed with him for a long time, and Xie Yinglong also had more than 1000 young and strong people who were urgently mobilized and recruited to support the peasant army.

No matter how elite Li Ping's soldiers were, it would be difficult to storm the city under such circumstances and the casualties might be huge.

And there is no hope of breaking the city in a short time.

So Li Ping dug trenches along the periphery of Hanchuan County from east to west section by section, and locked the river with cannons on the opposite side of the Linjiang River of Hanchuan County. up.

Then, "unwilling to be frustrated", he divided more than a thousand troops to cross the Han River to attack Mianyang, which is also logical and understandable.

The plan seems a bit complicated, but there is no way, it is all forced by this era and society.

And it's not over yet.

According to Li Ping's plan, everyone knew that it would be impossible to capture Miancheng with the more than a thousand troops allocated.

His explanation is also very simple.

It is just using a small number of troops to go deep alone to lure the enemies of Mianyang to encircle and wipe them out at ease, and then this small but extremely elite army will severely damage the main force of the peasant army in Mianyang in the wild, achieving the purpose of fighting thieves.

In other words, what he showed to the people of the Ming army was that he had no intention of attacking Miancheng, but only to kill the thieves, to restrain Zhongxiang's peasant army, General Guoyi Baiwang, and to keep him too busy to support Xie Yinglong.

But in fact, Li Ping believed that the possibility of the weak Mianyang peasant army coming out of the city to attack him was very slim, and the Mianyang peasant army was most likely to stick to the city.

Then he can continue to logically transfer half of the troops surrounding Hanchuan County to attack Miancheng, which lacks firearms and has poor soldiers and horses.

As for Hanchuan County, just continue to surround it, and all his goals and wishes can be fully realized.

Although the whole plan looks a little big, it can be explained in every way. Li Ping thinks it is worthwhile and necessary. He still has to consider a lot of political factors.

However, his own appearance in this lonely and deep army was a complete accident.

Historically, Zuo Liangyu and Jiayu suffered major losses from Ma Shixiu's naval forces. The total loss of troops was only a few thousand and more than [-] ships.

A few days ago, although more than half of Zuo Liangyu's 10 troops who went south and were defeated ran back, a lot of losses were actually impostors who were not much better than ordinary civilians.

But considering Zuo Liangyu's disastrous defeat in Guangji, its losses and blows are quite astonishing.

This made the civil servants who were dissatisfied with Zuo Liangyu feel embarrassed to continue accusing Zuo Liangyu and urging him to send troops again. Even many civil servants who had been most determined to fight began to become cautious.

Including Yuan Jixian.

The failure of a battle, especially the failure of a large-scale battle, hits people's confidence beyond imagination.

Therefore, when he suddenly heard that Li Ping had gone west, Yuan Jixian, who was depressed and depressed, was naturally pleasantly surprised and couldn't be more pleasantly surprised.

Although it is not clear that there has been a major change in the war situation in the north, and Sun Chuanting's plan is still unknown, Yuan Jixian also realizes that the war in the north may be more critical.

So he quickly ran to Li Ping's barracks at the foot of Hanchuan County to supervise the battle.

As a military official of the governor Jiangxi, Huguang and Yingtian, Yuan Jixian is also quite pitiful.He didn't have a large army in his hands like Sun Chuanting, and he could say what he said. Even when Sun Chuanting left the customs and went south, he only issued military orders and notices to Zuo Liangyu, but he didn't notify Yuan Jixian at all.

The key is that Sun Chuanting is not sure whether Yuan Jixian has arrived in Jiujiang, Jiangxi Province to take office, let alone whether Yuan Jixian will take the risk of going to Huguang to supervise the war, and he is not sure whether Huguang still has any living civil servants who can speak and count.

Sun Chuanting only thought of simplicity and trouble.

Then, Zuo Liangyu did not tell Yuan Jixian about Sun Chuanting's military order so far.

It is estimated that Li Ping is the only general in Huguang who usually gives Yuan Jixian more face, and he is also a master who is used to making his own decisions.

Although Yuan Jixian had no doubts at all about Li Ping's caution in attacking Hanchuan County, Li Ping was still very uncomfortable. A high-ranking person hangs around with you all day long, and it would be uncomfortable for anyone else, not to mention Li Ping still has ghosts in his heart.

Moreover, if Yuan Jixian really got hotheaded and asked Li Ping to attack Hanchuan County or issue other military orders, Li Ping would not listen, nor would he not listen.

So Li Ping simply ran away with the troops attacking Mianyang.

As long as he is not around, his troops have enough reasons to ignore Yuan Jixian.

But unexpectedly, this moved Yuan Jixian even more, thinking that Li Ping wanted to lure the enemy with his body, so he resolutely sent Zhang Kuang, who was also not afraid of death and wanted to go with him, to him.

Li Ping doesn't bother Zhang Kuang, but he doesn't like Zhang Kuang either.

Not for anything else, just because this is also a smart guy, which makes him have to continue acting.And even if the acting is very tiring, I don't know if it will be effective.

It even gives me a sudden shock sometimes.

Just like just now!
Zhang Kuang used to be the number one in the township examinations, and he was famous for his literary style and friendship. He was also recognized as alert and alert.

Li Ping knew that even though Zhang Kuang was respectful to him, he had no way of knowing what Zhang Kuang was thinking.

This made Li Ping very irritable deep in his heart, but he had no choice but to continue acting.

It can only be said that it is good that he sent troops to Mianyang, including the westward march. Zhang Kuang, who is regarded as a bereaved dog, should be happy both emotionally and rationally, and he should be ashamed to catch his pigtails.

Facing Zhang Kuang, Li Ping couldn't help but think of Zhou Wen, and then secretly lamented that you can't have both!
You are talented and talented, but you have to think about how to coax and how to defend every day, sometimes it is really tiring!
Duan Qiang is better.

Although his brain is the most dull, and his stomach has no ink, he is the one who is most at ease, pointing to where to hit.

And Han Jiu, the leader of the group who is with him now, is also very good, with well-developed limbs and a simple mind.Li Ping was not at all worried that Yituan would be taken away if he was handed over to him.

But the problem is, if he wants to continue to grow, he cannot do without smart and cultural people, and it is best to have as many people as possible.

This is really a headache.

And are Duan Qiang and Han Jiu really that simple?

Not necessarily!

Li Ping knows that the most valuable knowledge he has learned in this era is never to underestimate anyone.

You can think you are smart, but don't think everyone else is stupid.

For example, Li Zicheng simply released Xie Yinglong, who is good at using firearms, into Hanchuan, and locked Hanshui tightly, completing the cover of the entire Chengtian Mansion and Xiangyang.

Its level of knowledge and skillful use and sophistication makes people have to be convinced.

Any government army that wants to advance westward, Hanchuan is actually a hurdle that cannot be bypassed, and it is also a bone that is difficult to chew.

Even if Li Ping just wanted to hit Mianyang, he would have to spend a lot of time, and his brain cells would die countless times, and then it would not be right to fight Hanchuan, or not to fight.

Even such a devious plan to fight Mianyang was actually not Li Ping's idea, but Zhou Wen's.

This is not Li Ping's style. Li Ping hates complicated plans.

Li Ping now wonders if he has fallen into Zhou Wen's trap.

This bastard Zhou Wen definitely has other thoughts.

After going through this trick with Zhang Kuang and watching the scenery leisurely, Li Ping also figured it out.

Xie Yinglong was not easy to deal with, and that General Guo Yi named Bai Wang might be even more difficult, otherwise Li Zicheng would not have been given a greater responsibility by Li Zicheng.

Xijin, he really could only think about it.

After taking down Miancheng, he must resolutely stop, and he must not think too much, let alone be fooled by that kid Zhou Wen.

(End of this chapter)