golden scales

"Your Majesty, please think twice." Gu Junen finally said: "Whether it is going to Yongliang or Bashu, the first priority is to gain a foothold. However, taking Jingxiang will fall into the place of the Four Wars, and there will be no peace. For example, if a strong man suffers from epistaxis, it may seem like a small loss, but in fact, his energy and blood will be exhausted in rounds of battle, and it will be difficult to recover."

Let alone whether Xiangyang is still in hand when the army goes south.Even in Xiangyang, there are Prince Zhu's Ming army in the north, Zuo Liangyu's army in the east, and Zhang Xianzhong's eyeing tiger in the west. The Dashun army is exhausted just by sending troops to test the truth.

Taking a step back, Dashun has gained a foothold in Xiangjing, but how will the tens of thousands of troops survive the winter?Since the founding of Dashun, there has never been a base area that can stably supply the army with food and grass, all through chasing donations and salaries. If the source of food cannot be guaranteed, and there is no natural barrier to rely on, they can only resort to mobile warfare again, and become rogues again.

But today is different from the past. Although they were bandits back then, they are on the rise.As the saying goes, buy up and don’t buy down, the country gentry all over the country think that the time for a change of dynasty is coming, and they can quite accept Li Zicheng, the new emperor and his propaganda slogan of "free food and free service", and they are naturally willing to open the city to welcome them and celebrate a beautiful new life.

It can be said that at that time Chuang Wang Li Zicheng represented the new order of the world.A new order that can resist the old order and help the gentry get rid of the oppression of the old order.

After abandoning Yanjing, Shanxi, and Shaanxi, the decline of Dashun was inevitably exposed to the eyes of the world.Would anyone else be willing to bet on a declining rogue regime at this time?Will there be any squire who hopes that Dashun will bring him a new and better life?Considering that Dashun has oppressed the country gentry even more than Zhu Ming, if he really wants to conquer Nanjing, he will definitely not see the good situation that he had waited for the wind to surrender.

Once the prefectures and counties really resist, just using human lives to fill it is like a knife edge that is constantly bleeding, no matter how strong a person is, they will lose too much blood and die.

And this has not yet calculated the dispersion of troops caused by the garrison in various places.

Gu Junen even believed that if Li Zicheng really wanted to resume his old career, Dashun would be the first to fall apart.Those civil servants will find the opportunity to escape at the first time, and return to their hometowns to become their own landlords and rich families.Even the army may defect and surrender. Jiang Guan, Bai Guangen, Ma Ke and others have repeatedly proved that surrender is unreliable.

Looking at it now, Dashun is like a big mouth, devouring the world in just a few years.

But it is just a mouth, there is no stomach and intestines to digest it...

So now I can only spit it all out.

In contrast, Zhang Xianzhong was able to guard the Shu Road, occupy the land of abundance in Bashu, and manage a corner, which seems to be quite wise.

Li Zicheng looked at Gu Junen, and patiently listened to his chief counselor's advice, but he still didn't think of such a profound connotation.His evaluation of himself has been somewhat divorced from reality, and he still thinks that he is still the new generation of true destiny who can respond to everyone with the banner of "Chuang".

……

"Has your Highness made a decision?"

A group of staff members whispered.

"It's too much to let Li break into the south of the Yangtze River. After all, it's all Ming's land!" A captain's staff excitedly said.

"You are a woman! The advantage of our army is that it is good at fighting, but the disadvantage is that the number of soldiers is not as good as that of Chuangni. The more places occupied by Chuangni, the more soldiers must be allocated to guard the place. As long as he divides his troops, The disadvantage of our army will no longer exist." Someone immediately retorted rationally.

"It is easy to write on a piece of white paper," said another experienced person, "His Royal Highness is in Shandong like an arm and a finger. It is precisely because the place has been bloodbathed by Eastern captives and bandits. Dare to disobey orders. However, the powerful and powerful families in the south of the Yangtze River are so intricate that government orders and military orders cannot be understood, so it happened to be destroyed by Li Chuang's hands."

"The people in Jiangnan are not the people of Ming Dynasty? The military rations we eat are also sent from Jiangnan." Someone said in a muffled voice.

"You guys underestimate His Highness the Crown Prince too." Another person said: "With His Highness's talent, do you still need to use Li Chuang's hands to do this kind of thing? What difficult and miscellaneous diseases can be easily caught by His Highness? "

"Hehe, what happened to Yan Shenggong's mansion?" Someone said in a strange way: "Luo Yukun had just copied the Kong family, then turned around and surrendered to the East Palace, and a lot of stolen goods were sent to His Highness. You still Thinking of His Highness is too simple!"

"You spitting blood!" The captain before shouted: "You actually slandered His Royal Highness the Crown Prince without any evidence!"

The others also frowned and looked sideways, quite annoyed at this rude lunatic.

"Ha," the man sneered, and said, "It is His Highness who has made such a plan, and I, Wei Yun, are willing to be his pawns!"

The captain was at a loss for words before, and couldn't say something like "The Crown Prince is not worthy of your following", and his face turned red.

"Stop arguing, all of you!" A staff officer pushed the door open and said loudly, "His Royal Highness sent an order: The General Staff will immediately drive to Luoyang and set up the East Palace Xingyuan."

"What about Nanyang?"

"Nanyang? Your Highness has sent an order to the guerrilla battalion to seal off Xiangyang before Chuangni goes south, and not let them go out of the mountain." After the staff officer finished speaking, he went to pack his things expressionlessly.

The excitable captain felt relieved, only then did he think of the words to counterattack, and said triumphantly: "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is a majestic heir, how can he just sit back and watch his people be ravaged?"

Wei Yun remained calm, but said: "Your Highness must have deeper considerations, but I can't see it."

The captain smiled, turned and left.

Seeing that the verbal dispute had come to an end, the other staff officers also dispersed one after another. They were busy packing up the documents, waiting for the division of labor assigned by their superiors to set up Xingyuan.

……

"I'm so dizzy! Why is it so hard for me to have a good time, and no one is willing to help!" Sitting in the tent of the Chinese army, Luo Yukun's whole face seemed to be rubbed again and again, and he didn't look good.

In contrast, Chen Chong had a relaxed expression on his face, with uncontrollable joy dancing between his brows and eyes.

Although Zhu Jiajun was not as excited as Chen Chong, he was still a little relaxed, but there was still an unknown regret flowing under this relaxation.

On December [-]th, the Luo Yukun Department received a campaign request from Xingyuan. Simply put, it was to block the Qinling Bashan tunnels, guard the pass fortresses, and not allow the treacherous troops going south to step into Huguang, let alone allow the treacherous main force to fight against the enemy. The Huguang bandit army joined forces.

For the soldiers of the East Palace who were looking for promotion and rank, this kind of order was simply a good order they could only dream of.For Luo Yukun, this kind of opportunity to show off in an open and aboveboard manner is even more rare.However, the tragedy is that on the day before the order was issued to the battalion headquarters, that is, on December 8th, Bai Wang, the rebellious general who harmed Huguang, occupied the four mansions of Jingxiang and held [-] horses, surrendered.

Baiwang's surrender, the new campaign goal, and even the strategic deployment of the entire winter offensive were overfulfilled.The Southwest Control Line crossed Suizhou and directly passed Xiaogan, only a hundred miles away from Jiangxia County in Wuchang Prefecture, across the river from Zuo Liangyu's army.

"Why can't we fight a war!" Luo Yukun beat the table in grief, and stood up stiffly.He paced to the middle of the tent: "Forget about Xiao Mo and Xiao Donglou, even Dan Ning has military achievements...Why is it so difficult for me to earn some real military achievements?"

"I think among the armies in the East Palace, our troops have the least casualties, the smallest battle loss ratio, the largest number of troops, and the most extensive Guangfu counties...isn't that enough for you?" Chen Chong is already thinking about how to write the report. Fighting undead is the best result for him.

It was difficult for him to understand the psychology of military chiefs, and he always felt that those people were too cold-blooded.The military exploits they eagerly hoped for were all dyed with the blood of their brothers in the same robe!

But this kind of thinking can't be said at all, because even the recruits think that winning the battle is a good thing.Nobody thought that they might die on the battlefield...or didn't mind it, even if they died.

——A man can't eat five tripods in life, but he should cook five tripods in death!

This is the declaration of Zhu Fuyan in the Han Dynasty, which was told by Chen Chong to Luo Yukun and Zhu Jiajun, but it turned out to be "Chen Xundao".The entire battalion was quite shaken, and their morale was greatly boosted. No one was willing to lose to a eunuch, even though few people mentioned this matter in front of Chen Chong now.

"Anyway, the task is completed." Zhu Jiajun said: "Now there are two problems: the first is to guard the tunnels on the Qinling and Bashan lines, and prevent rebels from entering Huguang. The second is to reorganize the 8 people of Baiwang's troops , to take over the land of the Four Houses before Zuo Liangyu reacts."

"It's easy to prevent Chuangni from entering Huguang. Send 5000 people with cannons to defend Yunyang (now Shiyan area). If he can come out, he will be a ghost." Luo Yukun said, scratching his head vigorously again, saying : "The trouble now is how to reorganize Baiwang's 8 people, how to prevent Zuo Liangyu from taking advantage of him, and how to prevent him from falling down and turning back... This is the troublesome thing."

"I'm afraid he won't repeat it." Chen Chong heard Luo Yukun say that Bai Wang would turn against him again, and he couldn't help being surprised: "Since he is willing to surrender, I'm afraid he really doesn't want to be a thief."

"Isn't he intimidated? If he finds out that we are paper tigers, it's just a matter of dinner." Zhu Jiajun disagreed with Chen Chong's opinion.

Luo Yukun gave Chen Chong a blank look, and said to Zhu Jiajun, "You give him a hammer! Think of a way to be serious!"

"It's better..." Zhu Jiajun thought for a while, and said, "Let him split into two groups. One goes into Sichuan, and the other crosses the river."

"I'm dizzy!" Luo Yukun rolled his eyes: "Zhang Xianzhong and Zuo Liangyu, which one can he beat?"

"The key is not whether we can beat him or not, but to make room for us." Zhu Jiajun said: "If he is defeated, he has the right to be a meeting gift with a certificate of honor; if he cannot be defeated, it is not our people who will lose."

When Luo Yukun heard it, he burst out laughing, stepped forward and patted Zhu Jiajun on the shoulder heavily, imitating the tone in the drama: "Wahhaha, Jun Zhen is my ovary!"

Zhu Jiajun was slapped on one side of his body and almost fell down.

I heard Chen Chong use his standard eunuch's voice, whispering: "Do you still want to be Han Gaozu?" (To be continued.)