Ming Dynasty man

Chapter 168: Enemy or Friend
Li Jing was not a philanthropist, he could not feed tens of thousands of people in Lingchuan County for several months, and all the people who took his food had to work hard to build the road from Lingchuan to Hongshanling.

As long as this road is opened, Hongshanling's materials can be continuously supplied to Lingchuan and other counties.

In order to build this road, Li Jing not only mobilized the people of Lingchuan, but also mobilized the population of Hongshanling.

In addition, in order to mobilize the enthusiasm of the folks who built the road and build the road as soon as possible, all the folks who participated in the road construction not only provided food, but also gave money.

As soon as these two big moves came out, there was a cloud of responders, and almost all the active people in Lingchuan City and Hongshanling area came.

The completion of such a large project is a test of the coordinator's ability, and the only person around Li Jing who has this ability is Yuan Keli.

However, considering Yuan Keli's advanced age, in addition to appointing Yuan Keli as the general manager, Li Jing also arranged Shen Zheng, Zhang Ao, Zhou Hengchen, and Yang Liufeng to serve Yuan Keli as helpers. At the same time, Zhang Ao was in charge of the Hongshanling project. He Yangliufeng is in charge of the projects within the jurisdiction of Lingchuan.

When Li Jing was in full swing for basic construction, a news came from Zhang Chu's vanguard battalion that the Chuang army suddenly went to Jincheng after resting in Shanhe town for two days.

Hearing this news, Li Jing was shocked, did Gao Yingxiang lose his mind?How did this guy come up with Jincheng's idea?

To be honest, Li Jing once thought about forcing Gao Yingxiang to attack Jincheng and then take advantage of the situation to occupy it, but considering the strength of the Chuang army, he later dismissed this idea.

Now that Li Jing didn't want to make enemies with the officers and soldiers, he naturally wouldn't help Gao Yingxiang attack Jincheng. It can be said that Li Jing would not poke this hornet's nest before Cao Wenzhao left.

We must know that Jincheng belonged to Zhili Prefecture in the early Ming Dynasty. Although it was later merged into Zezhou and abolished the government, the city defense of Jincheng is far from comparable to that of a county like Lingchuan. Nor is it a matter of a day or two.And Cao Wenzhao's headquarters is in Gaoping, less than a hundred miles away from Jincheng, and he can reach Jincheng in a day. How can Gao Yingxiang be given such a long time to capture Jincheng?

At this time, Gao Yingxiang dared to take Jincheng's idea, and the birthday man ate arsenic, it was too long for his life!It's not such a way to seek death if you want to seek death.

Li Jing felt that Gao Yingxiang would never be so muddleheaded if he was still alive today, so what is his intention?

Li Jing frowned and pondered for a while, always feeling as if he had overlooked something.

At this moment, a woman's voice came to Li Jing's ears: "General, please have some tea!"

Li Jingjing nodded, pointed to the table, and signaled the girl to put down the tea.

When Li Jing saw the maid Shi Li retreating, a flash of inspiration flashed in Li Jing's eyes, and he finally understood why Gao Yingxiang was going in the direction of Jincheng.

Gao Yingxiang did not intend to capture Jincheng, but to attract the attention of officers and soldiers.

Because before that, Gao Yingxiang rested in Shanhe Town for two days.

Gao Yingxiang didn't pretend to be shit, why did he have to rest in Shanhe Town for so long?Waiting for the army to encircle and suppress it?
In fact, it was an illusion that he was resting in Shanhe Town. He was not only confusing the officers and soldiers, but also confusing Li Jing.

The reason why Gao Yingxiang couldn't get rid of the pursuit of the officers and soldiers, and couldn't get rid of the trailing of the Ji Shi Army, was simply because there were too many old, weak, women and children in the rushing army.

In the past two days, Gao Yingxiang thought that he had found a place to hide the old, weak, women, children, food and other supplies, so that he could move lightly, and even if he lost the battle, he could escape without losing food and grass.

If Gao Yingxiang had been smarter, he could have divided his troops into two or even three groups, one of which feinted to attack Jincheng to attract the ideas of the officers and soldiers, and the other two to attack Yangcheng and Qinshui.

Yangcheng and Qinshui had just been breached for a few months, and the city wall was repaired not so quickly. At this time, Gao Yingxiang led the army to kill them, and he would be able to easily capture the county seat.

Even if Cao Wenzhao knew Gao Yingxiang's actions, he could only stare blankly, who told him that he only had three thousand soldiers and horses in his hands.

It should be said that although Cao Wenzhao became the chief soldier, the strength of the troops on hand has not changed. It used to be 3000 people, and it is still 3000 people now.

Just these 3000 people fought from Shaanxi to Shanxi, and the rogues who insisted on killing were terrified.

Although the combat effectiveness of the rogue bandits was not good, Cao Wenzhao was indeed too powerful in using troops. Li Jing thought he had no such ability.

Li Jing had just guessed Gao Yingxiang's intentions here, and news came again from the Qianfeng Battalion: Gao Yingxiang's troops were divided into three groups, one to attack Jincheng, one to attack Yangcheng, and the other should go in the direction of Qinshui.In addition, the person who sent the letter from the Qianfeng camp also said that the three groups of people are all young and strong, and those old and weak women and children have gone to nowhere.

Li Jing nodded silently. He could guess where those old and weak women and children could go. The Chuang army was going to fight the government army in the area of ​​Qinshuiyang City. Naturally, these people could not be allowed to stay near the battlefield. , but it can’t be too far away, as it will be difficult to supply, that is to say, it will not exceed a day’s journey at most, and these people have to try to hide as much as possible, so they can only go to the mountains.

To enter the mountain from Shanhe Town, one is to go in the direction of Jiyuan, Henan, and the other is to go in the direction of Hengqu.The direction of Jiyuan is monitored by the Pioneer Battalion. Gao Yingxiang must not be so bold to run in this direction. The only way left is the direction of Hengqu. Those old and weak women and children walked for two days. According to the footsteps of these people, now they can reach Wang at most Yashan area.

Li Jing didn't blame the Qianfeng Battalion for not monitoring Gao Yingxiang's troops well. The scouts and spies were not omnipotent. If they had the ability to find out the enemy's every move, the battle would basically be unnecessary.

The main task of the scouts is to detect the main force of the enemy army and its route of action. It is impossible to find out all the movements of the enemy army.

What's more, there are tens of thousands of troops in total. If the troops in front have been transferred away, it is impossible for them to pass over the troops behind to see the front. Moreover, the troops still operate at night, so it is even more impossible to know the situation ahead.

The coach of one side can only analyze and judge through the news detected by the scouts, and then make a decision.

Learning how to fight in the war is not only for Li Jing, but also for Gao Yingxiang.

Gao Yingxiang obviously saw that the army in Lingchuan City was short of troops just like Cao Wenzhao, so he made the decision to divide the troops and attack.He thought that the troops in Lingchuan City didn't seem to have any intention of fighting with him, so he dared to pretend to attack Jincheng.

It's a pity that Gao Yingxiang was wrong. Li Jing just wanted Gao Yingxiang to attract the attention of officers and soldiers. If Gao Yingxiang disrupted Li Jing's strategic deployment, then Gao Yingxiang would lose his use value. Li Jing would beat him to the ground without hesitation, and then ruthlessly He kicked hard.

After learning of Gao Yingxiang's tactical intentions, Li Jing immediately decided to order Gao Qi to lead a battalion from his headquarters and Chen Dahu to Yangcheng, forcing Gao Yingxiang to turn to Hengqu. In order to avoid casualties during the siege, Li Jing asked Chen Dazhuang to split [-] troops into the direction of Yangcheng. A new type of artillery was handed over to Gao Qi.

At the same time, Li Jing ordered Zhang Chu to send a letter to Gao Yingxiang immediately, once Qinshui and Yangcheng were captured, he would immediately attack Hengqu and other county towns, otherwise he would not be polite to the invading army.

Li Jing dared to make this decision because at this time, he received a letter from Ma Wu's people from Taiyuan. Chuangtatian and other troops fled into Taiyuan, Fenzhou, Pingyang and other places.

Presumably Cao Wenzhao should have heard the news by now, Cao Wenzhao must move immediately.

Indeed, Cao Wenzhao learned the news earlier than Li Jing, because he was the commander-in-chief of Lintao, so he had to be notified of such news even if he was not notified to others, and he was notified quickly, and the speed of notifying was far faster than that of a horse. Five messengers are comparable.

In fact, Cao Wenzhao not only knew that Zijinliang was making trouble in Taiyuan and other places, but he also knew that King Hunshi, Cao Cao, Chuang Tatian and others were making trouble in the area of ​​Pingyang Mansion at this time.

But Cao Wenzhao really can't afford to deal with these guys now.

Cao Wenzhao is a very serious person. The biggest characteristic of his suppression of bandits is to kill them all. He went all the way from Shaanxi to Shanxi, and after killing Wang Jiayin and many other bandits, he set his target on Gao Yingxiang.

After chasing and killing all the way, Cao Wenzhao originally planned to eat Gao Yingxiang in the area of ​​Lingchuan, but Cheng Yaojin killed him halfway, beat Gao Yingxiang away in two consecutive battles, and then occupied Lingchuan.

Now Cao Wenzhao's combat deployment was completely disrupted.

The problem Cao Wenzhao is facing now is that in the north of Taiyuan, Fenzhou has the biggest force of rogues, Zijinliang, the Eight Great Kings, and other rogues, and in the west of Pingyang Mansion, there are the gang of rogues, Cao Cao, and Chuangtatetian.

Originally, Cao Wenzhao's best choice was to defeat Gao Yingxiang's troops, then go west to defeat the bandits in Pingyang Prefecture, and finally turn north to defeat Zijinliang's troops. This route is the fastest marching route.

But now Gao Yingxiang has gone to the border between Lingchuan and Lin County, and he will not move there. If he catches up, Gao Yingxiang can flee to Henan at any time. If he continues to pursue, he will be farther and farther away from Taiyuan and other places. The farther away, Zijinliang and his gang were still making a fuss at that time.

In addition, Cao Wenzhao was also worried about the unknown enemy and friend troops in Lingchuan City. Cao Wenzhao still hasn't figured out what these people want to do.

Say they are enemies, they came to Lingchuan to help the officers and soldiers fight the bandits, and they seemed to fight harder than the officers and soldiers.

Let’s say they are friends, they won’t leave when they stand in Lingchuan, and they are doing a lot of public support work, distributing tens of thousands of shi of grain to the common people, without sending him a grain of grain, and then wantonly recruiting people to work Well, even the salary is paid by myself.

This group of people occupying Lingchuan made Cao Wenzhao embarrassing all of a sudden.

From the bottom of his heart, Cao Wenzhao really didn't want to find trouble for himself to fight this army. He even hoped that this army could help him eliminate Gao Yingxiang, and then he could turn around and deal with Zijinliang and the others.

But who knew that this group of people would stop fighting with Gao Yingxiang's department, and let Gao Yingxiang's group stay at the junction of Lingchuan and Lin County.Cao Wenzhao went to fight now, fearing that others would run away, it would be a disaster if he didn't fight.

Cao Wenzhao hesitated, and decided to see Gao Yingxiang's movements before making a decision, so he stayed in Gaoping for more than half a month.

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