Han ride

Chapter 439 Yang Sichang Sends Troops

"Where are Wan Lian and the others?" Bing Dao Mansion Yamen, as Li Xin's temporary headquarters, asked Huang Qiong to appease Shuozhou, and then called Hao Laosan to ask.

"It should be Huairen's side." Hao Laosan said quickly.

"I've only come to Huairen now, so I don't know if the Golden Beach will pass." After hearing this, Li Xin shook his head disdainfully.Said: "Jiang Guan asked Wan Lian to lead an army of [-], and Zhang Douguang and Feng Ruhuan as deputy generals. From today's perspective, it is nothing more than that. It's just that Jiang Guan's army is not enough to mobilize now. I don't know how the situation on the grassland is now?"

"Don't worry, my lord. On the grassland, isn't that the world conquered by the Northern Army? Although Yang Sichang is powerful, his enemy is the lord. How can he win on the grassland?" Hao Laosan has great confidence in Li Xin.

"I hope so!" Li Xin looked at the map on the desktop, and said, "We are leaving Shuozhou, and we don't need to garrison many soldiers and horses here. Going north is Shanyin. After Shanyin, there is a golden beach." Li Xin His eyes fell on the golden sand.He had a feeling that he would eventually fight Jiang Tuan in Jinshatan.

Golden Beach is very famous.According to legend, it was the ancient battlefield where the Yang family generals fought against the Liao Dynasty in the Northern Song Dynasty, and it was under the jurisdiction of Huairen County, Shuozhou, Shanxi.The father and son of the Yang family died here in battle, and there are even legends that Yang Yebing was trapped in Lianglang Mountain and hit the Liling Monument to death, but no matter what, Jinshatan was indeed one of the main battlegrounds between Song and Liao. .The dangerous terrain is a battleground for military strategists.

"My lord, there is news from the stars that Yanzizhang has raised the banner of rebellion on Heifeng Mountain, saying that we have betrayed the imperial court and the world should punish us together. He has led an army of 10 people to conquer us." Hao Laosan said again. : "Although it is claimed to be 5 people, there are only [-] to [-] people who can fight in hardcover. Now they have already killed in the direction of Shuozhou."

"These people are just here to add my troops, don't worry about it, you just send someone to watch them." Li Xin didn't care about the swallow's palm at all, since he was a bandit, even if he was a soldier before, Now that such a long time has passed, he doesn't believe that this person will still have a very strict military discipline like the soldiers in the past. If he doesn't even have this, no matter how many people there are, Li Xin will not take it to heart.What's more, these people are composed of various hilltops, and they can't achieve a unified command. beat.

"Is there any news about Yunzhong or Shahukou?" Li Xin turned around and asked.This time Li Xin is playing a big game of chess, if he wins, he will occupy the entire Great Harmony, and there will be hope for his career as king and hegemony, if not, he may have to retreat to his old nest, and will not go south for more than ten years.

"Not yet." Hao Laosan said quickly.

Li Xin breathed a sigh of relief, no news is good news.He believed that Shi Yuanzhi would help him arrange all this.He searched on the map, and finally landed on the Yulin on one side, and said with a sneer, "This guy really doesn't see a rabbit, and he won't send troops until I take the bait."

In fact, what Li Xin didn't know was that when he was looking at the map, looking for the next opportunity to attack, in Yulin, a short and fat middle-aged man was also looking at the map. Hong Chengchou frowned, he had been facing this map for a long time, beside him, Ai Wannian and others took their seats, just looking at Hong Chengchou's appearance, not daring to disturb him, just staring at the map , but can't see any tricks.

"Has Jiang Rang left?" Hong Chengchou suddenly raised his head and asked.

"The old boy has already set off, but he only brought 5000 people with him." Ai Wannian reflected and said quickly.But it aroused the disdain of Liu Guozhen and others. These people dislike Jiang Rang and others very much.

"It's a joke that a mere 5000 people want to seize Shahukou." Hong Chengchou shook his head with a sneer, and said, "However, it would be good to let this kid go to explore the way, I want to see, Li Xin is in his own Is there still an army in the lair?"

"If Li Xin keeps an army in his lair, I'm afraid the whole people will become soldiers." Liu Guozhen obviously didn't believe that Li Xin still had an army in the cloud.

"Junmen, why don't we lead the army into the cloud now, as for killing Hukou, let Jiang Rang take it away." Liu Chenggong said loudly.

"We can't do this. If we do this, we will surely die." Hong Chengchou shook his head and said, "Didn't you find anything different about Shaanxi recently?"

The three of Ai Wannian glanced at each other, and finally shook their heads together. Then Ai Wannian said: "I'm ashamed, but I don't see anything strange."

"There are fewer rioters. These rioters seem to have disappeared in an instant." Hong Chengchou shook his head and said.Although he is the governor of the three sides, his most important task is to sit in Shaanxi and wipe out the bandits in Shaanxi. Now that there are suddenly fewer bandits in Shaanxi, Hong Chengchou feels something is wrong.

Ai Wannian said with a smile: "It's not that the emperor's blessings are equal to the sky, and we have saved a lot of energy!"

"It hasn't rained in Shaanxi since last winter. The crops are going to be barren, and the people don't have much to eat. According to the logic, there are a lot of refugees, not to mention disorderly people. But now there is no movement at all. Don’t you think it’s strange?” Hong Chengchou shook his head and said: “There must be a force in our Shaanxi territory who manipulated all this behind the scenes. If there is no attack on Yunzhong, a sudden attack, after capturing Yunzhong, it will come back immediately. What will happen, but once we are deep in the quagmire of the cloud, it will not be very good. Shaanxi will definitely fall, and at that time, even if we destroy the cloud, we will be the unlucky ones. That's why I let Jiang Rang go Pathfinder."

"If so, what is the general going to do?" Ai Wannian asked nervously.After what Hong Chengchou said, he also felt that something was wrong.Shaanxi is really very calm now, and the calm is scary.

"If there are still soldiers and horses in the cloud, then we will divide the army in half, one will be stationed in Shaanxi, and the other will attack the cloud. As long as we can put pressure on the other side." Hong Chengchou said: "As for other things, we will leave it to Yang Sichang and Jiang Yu and the other two. What do you guys think?"

"This?" All the generals looked at each other, and finally bowed their hands to Hong Chengchou and said: "Everything is under the orders of the military gate."

"Okay, okay, I would like to thank Hong Chengchou for being so righteous." Hong Chengchou nodded repeatedly when he saw this, and finally sighed: "Hey, it's not that Hong doesn't want the generals to do meritorious service, but those who are afraid of the court! The ministers of the imperial court themselves are unwilling to attack Li Xin. It would be good if we can wipe out Li Xin quietly, but everyone, when have you seen my Han army conquer the grasslands, no, Never before. With Yunzhong eliminated, Li Xin’s remnant forces can go northward, and Li Xin can still develop and grow after hiding for a few years, but we are different. Of course, we are credited for destroying Li Xin, but we lost Shaanxi. I'm afraid it's going to be bad luck. And, hey, Li Xin can rest assured that the person who stays in the lair must be a very unresponsive person, and you have to be careful when dealing with this person!"

"According to Junmen's intention, is the three-way army's encirclement and suppression of Li Xin going to fail?" Ai Wannian asked nervously.

"I don't know either." Hong Chengchou shook his head and said, "Li Xin is a mysterious man, and more importantly, I don't know how his soldiers and horses are arranged. This makes me very nervous and suspicious. Li Xin is secretly There should be one or two soldiers and horses here, and there has been no movement at the current location. Before we find out the details of these soldiers and horses, we should be careful. We can't fall into Li Xin's schemes. Humph, everyone It is said that Li Xin led an army of 1 to go south. I think there are absolutely no [-] people, otherwise Li Xin's soldiers and horses will have no points. It's just that Jiang Yu is too stupid."

"My lord, Li Xin has already broken through Shuozhou City." At this moment, the spies broke in, with a look of panic on their faces. This Shuozhou City is different from other places, not Pinglu. Shuozhou is an important town.

The spy's words woke up Hong Chengchou and others. Ai Wannian took a deep breath, and finally looked at Hong Chengchou and said, "My lord, what should we do now? Shall we hurry up and attack Yunzhong?"

"Wait." Hong Chengchou thought for a while, with a serious face, and said: "It is no small matter to dispatch a large army. Li Xin captured Shuozhou, Jinke attacked Datong, and went south to invade Taiyuan. This is not a good place! Jiang Yu is in trouble this time. big."

"My lord, if this is the case, we will attack Yunzhong even more, and we can recover some losses!" Liu Guozhen said in a low voice.

"I want to make a move too, but I can't act rashly at this time." Hong Chengchou still shook his head. Of course he hoped that he could enter the grassland and destroy Li Xin, but he always thought that this time was probably not the best time for him to make a move.

"Report." At this moment, a stern voice came, and a soldier broke in with a panicked expression. The man said loudly: "My lord, there are riots in the Weinan area, Tongchuan and other places, and the momentum is huge. The rioters attacked the government. Yamen, the local government has no place to resist."

"Sure enough, it's here, it's here. The Duke of Liao is really extraordinary. Once he made a move, he disrupted our layout." Hong Chengchou gave a wry smile, and sat down on the chair all of a sudden, his face full of bitterness.

"Is this the Duke of Liao's action?" Everyone's face tightened, and they were horrified. If this is the case, then how big is Li Xin's plot, and he had expected this a long time ago.

"Maybe it's not him, but it's definitely someone who recruited the Northern Army." Hong Chengchou said without thinking.At this time, it was definitely Li Xin who made the move, and other people would not have such calculations.

"If this is the case, we may not be able to enter the grassland. Now there is only one Jiang Rang and Yang Sichang left, and I am afraid that we will not be able to attack Yunzhong." Ai Wannian sighed.

"Li Xin's plot is very big. This person is used by all people, and he can use all means. If this person is really allowed to sit in the world, it will be my Ming Dynasty's disaster." Hong Chengchou stood up and said loudly: "No matter what, this time absolutely Li Xin cannot be allowed to succeed."

"Please also order from the military gate." All the generals looked at each other and said loudly.

"Well, I will personally lead [-] soldiers to attack Yunzhong, and the rest of the soldiers, generals, Hong will ask you generals to sit in Shanxi and sweep the rebels in Shaanxi." Hong Chengchou said loudly.

"Is 2 people too little?" Ai Wannian thought for a while and said.

"If this is not the case, are you generals sure to defeat the rebels? Don't forget that there are not only these rebels around you, but more importantly, there are Gao Yingxiang, Li Zicheng and others. If these people know that Shaanxi is disrupted, they must I will come to find trouble for you." Hong Chengchou thought for a while and said.

Everyone was stunned when they heard the words, and immediately felt that something was wrong. Shaanxi has always been the source of chaos. Whether it is Gao Yingxiang or Li Zicheng, they are all from Shaanxi.Almost all the rebels and bandits in the late Ming Dynasty emerged from Shaanxi, Shanxi and Henan.Once there is another rebellion in Shaanxi, I am afraid that these guys will immediately react, return to Shaanxi, and then engulf countless people again. These people are enough to pose a threat to Shaanxi soldiers and horses.

On the grassland, Yang Sichang was sitting in the big tent. When Yang Sichang's army learned that Li Xin had left Pinglu to attack Shuozhou, Yang Sichang personally led the army. The young general Cao Bianjiao was the forward, and the generals Wang Dou and Huang Degong accompanied the army. Even Yang Sichang, a civil official, walked with the army with a sword hanging from his waist and paper armor on his body.

What Yang Sichang didn't expect was that fighting on the grasslands was completely different from fighting in the Central Plains. There were so many villages and towns in the Central Plains with dense population, but it was normal for the grasslands to be completely uninhabited. What's more, what caught the eye was not green at all, but black. , A piece of black, then Song Xiance came up with a bad idea, that is to burn the pasture on the entire grassland, not only evacuated all the herdsmen along the way, but even left no pasture.On the first day, the army advanced eighty miles, which was already a long distance, but Yang Sichang had to order the army to stop.Because he was leading the infantry, Cao Bianjiao led the cavalry first. Although the speed was very fast, the infantry could not keep up.

"We didn't see any herdsmen along the way, even the grass was burned clean by them." Cao Bianjiao lowered his head and told what he saw, and Huang Degong's face was flushed.

"This Li Xin is really hateful." Yang Sichangjun also showed anger on his face.Originally, he thought that it would be enough for the army to go out and bring enough food. As for the forage, it could be obtained from the grassland. Over the years, Li Xin has made great achievements in governing the people, and he has managed many fertile pastures. What he didn't expect was that Li Xin actually Burn everything from Xuanfu to Yunzhong in one breath.This left the war horses of the three armies with no fodder to eat.

"I didn't expect Li Xin to be cruel to the enemy, and he was also cruel to himself." Wang Dou said coldly: "From this point of view, I'm afraid our attack on Yunzhong may not be so smooth."

"No matter what, we must capture Yunzhong." Yang Sichang thought for a while and said, "Wang Dou, the food and grass for the rear army must be properly prepared. The Xuan Mansion is a little bit of food and grass. It just takes a certain amount of time to transfer them over."

"The final general will definitely ensure the safety of the grain road." Wang Dou said without thinking, "Zhangjiakou is not that far away from Yunzhong. It is not that simple for the enemy to attack the grain and grass. If he comes, he will kill them all."

"Report." At this moment, a soldier broke in, his face was covered with soot, his armor was crooked, and his expression was full of panic.

"What's going on?" Yang Sichang looked at the person coming, and a bad thought came to his mind.

"Back to my lord, all the food and grass in a hundred carts have been burned. These damn North Army soldiers dared to attack us even when we were eating." Break it down, and the food and grass will be burnt clean."

"Stupid, get out of here." Yang Sichang slapped the desks, pointing outside the tent and roaring loudly.What he didn't realize was that his index finger was trembling, and there was a faint trace of fear in his heart.From the current camp to Zhangjiakou, the distance is only eighty miles, and the cavalry can kill it very quickly.It was under such circumstances that the Northern Expeditionary Army could actually kill them right under their noses and burn their own food and grass. What kind of impact would this have on the Northern Expeditionary Army.

"The North Army is so rampant. The food team escorted by 1000 people was easily wiped out right under our noses. It really makes people shudder!" Huang Degongyue couldn't help but said.

"Hmph! The more arrogant they are, the more they show that they are afraid." Yang Sichang said viciously, "It's only been a dozen days from here to Yunzhong. Are you afraid that they won't be wiped out?"

"General, I think it's better to send some troops to search for the cavalry wandering outside, and some troops to continue to attack Yunzhong. I don't know what the general thinks?" Huang Degong thought for a while and said.

"If all the cavalry are dispatched, then our Chinese army may not be able to be protected." After hearing this, Yang Sichang's expression was not very good, and he glanced at the three of them.

The three of them were silent for a while. On the grassland, the vast expanse, only the cavalry could move left and right. No matter how many infantry there were, there was really no good way to go on the grassland other than setting up a large formation.Now Yang Sichang is leading the Chinese army. In order to deal with the cavalry in Li Xin's hands, Yang Sichang organized all the cavalry together to form a powerful fist.But the current situation is that the enemy has obviously discovered that something is wrong. They are not targeting the central army and the cavalry in front, but the food and grass behind.If you want to ensure food and grass, you must first destroy this cavalry.Those who can fight cavalry are only cavalry.Once the cavalry attacked, the Chinese army would have no protection, which made everyone helpless.

(End of this chapter)