Ming Empire

Chapter 93 Change Plan
"Bah!" Li Yan threw a teacup heavily in front of the desk, and the teacup turned into a pile of fragments on the ground.

"Cao Yue, you are so shameless that you even sent people to sneak into my camp to attack me," Li Yan yelled at the empty tent with a look of rage, "if you have the ability, go out of the city and fight with this general!" Fighting to the death, hiding in the city and not daring to come out, only sending people to do such sneaky things, what kind of hero are you? If you are a man, you will fight with Lao Tzu with real swords and guns."

It was already dawn, the fire in the camp was basically extinguished, and the attacking army was gone. The army was in the highest state of combat readiness, ready to meet the possible attack of the army.After making these preparations, the loss statistics in the barracks were also handed over to Li Yan.

Seeing the loss of statistics, Li Yan became furious like losing his mind.Under strict vigilance, he still fell into Cao Yue's trick. Li Yan, who had a deep resentment towards Cao Yue, was of course furious.

He vowed again that if he defeated Cao Yue and captured him alive, he would humiliate him before killing him.

However, Li Yan is also an extraordinary person after all, he vented his anger viciously, calmed down after his rage, and carefully analyzed the accident.He had to admit that he still underestimated Cao Yue.

Under such strict vigilance, Cao Yue's men and horses could still sneak into his camp, and leave calmly after doing some damage, while his men and horses, let alone killing each other in a panic, didn't even see the shadow of the other party It turned out that it was impossible to figure out how many officers and soldiers sneaked into the camp to attack, how they sneaked in, and how they left.Originally, Li Yan thought that it was Jiannu's carelessness and Cao Yue's luck that he was attacked several times by Cao Yue on the way of Jiannu's invasion to the south, but now he doesn't think so.Under Cao Yue, there must be an elite team with super combat effectiveness.

This is a team that cannot be underestimated, and Li Yan deeply understands this.

Nearly 2000 Li Yan's men were killed or injured in this raid by the government army. Of course, the greater loss was food and grass.In Li Yan's army, the food and grasslands are not enough at all, and they can only last for about half a month at most.This time, two storage places for food and grass were destroyed by the army, and nearly [-]% of the food and grass were lost.

This was a fatal blow to Li Yan's army, and he had to reconsider the next battle arrangement.

It will take several days for Liu Zongmin's army to arrive. If the government and army adopt delaying methods such as raids and harassment, it may take more than ten days to arrive. However, other troops cannot afford to delay these days.Li Chen was considering whether to start attacking the city before Liu Zongmin's army arrived, trying to use his 8 troops to break through Datong City.Or, just retreat like this and join Liu Zongmin's troops to avoid greater losses?
Li Yan didn't have any confidence in breaking through Datong City, and this time he really understood the combat effectiveness of the officers and soldiers.The combat effectiveness of the Datong Army was far beyond his imagination, and it was not inferior to other troops.Facing such a team with superb combat effectiveness, and still sitting on the fortified city of Datong, it is very unrealistic for him to attack by force.It is not realistic to withdraw troops. If he retreats before receiving Li Zicheng's order to withdraw troops, he will definitely be severely punished. Li Chen knows that the most important purpose of his troops attacking Datong is to contain the government troops in Datong and Taiyuan , Prevent them from going south to support Henan and Shaanxi.

Li Yan's only choice now is to continue to attack Datong.

Of course, Li Yan has other methods, but he is not sure whether those methods will be successful.

Before sending Hong Niangzi to Datong to inquire about the military situation, Li Yan appointed some other people to bring property to Datong, hoping to buy Datong's defenders.If the bribe is successful, when the city is attacked, these bribed can open the city gate and let the rebels enter the city, and it is possible to capture Datong without bloodshed.Before leading the army to Datong, Li Yan also received reports from these people that someone was willing to cooperate with them.It's a pity that the ones who are willing to cooperate are not the generals under Cao Yue, but the generals and deputy generals.However, Cao Yue arranged a very high rank in the guards of each gate in Datong, and those who were vice presidents and generals did not necessarily have the opportunity to open the city gates and let the rebels enter the city.

After thinking about it again and again, Li Yan still decided to be cautious, not to rush to attack the city, but to set up camp, and then retreat [-] miles, find a more favorable terrain to camp, continue to wait for Liu Zongmin's army to arrive, and send troops , to collect food and grass nearby to supplement military supplies.

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One thing Li Yan did not think wrongly was that when his troops were attacked by the elite squad of the government army, Liu Zongmin's army was also attacked in the same way.It's just that the losses suffered by Liu Zongmin's department, which did not take strict precautions, were far more serious than those of other departments.

Although Cao Yue wrote letters to Li Yan and Liu Zongmin respectively, he didn't think his letters could move them to give up attacking Datong and join forces with the government and army to fight against Jiannu.If the rogues could be dealt with with a single letter, they wouldn't be getting worse now.

Therefore, Cao Yue did not slacken in the slightest. While strengthening his guard, he ordered the members of the elite special training team to use all means to slow down the speed of Liu Zongmin's army, and harassed his troops along the way.

For Li Yan and Liu Zongmin, Cao Yue feels differently. He wants to fight for Li Yan. This is because after he sent a special training team, he has never done anything to Li Yan's department, and he has not killed the red lady. The most important reason.

If Li Yan's men can be won over, the general situation of the world will be reversed immediately, Cao Yue is very sure of this.

As for Liu Zongmin, Cao Yue just wanted to eliminate him and had no intention of fighting for it, so he hit Liu Zongmin's department earlier and harder.

Within half a month, Liu Zongmin's department was attacked by inexplicable five times. There was no sign before, and no clues could be found afterward. Lord, he is not fond of fighting, and will leave after he wins.

The losses suffered by Liu Zongmin's troops in these few attacks were not very great. Except for the food and grass, the personnel were not injured to the point of injury, but the blow to morale was very big, even to the point of being a shadow of a snake.As a result, the marching speed of the army was seriously delayed, and the food and grass were much tighter than planned.In order to avoid running out of food and grass, Liu Zongmin had to order to "collect" from the people along the way.

Of course, this expropriation is semi-coercive or completely coercive, and it is not much different from Ming Qiang.

However, Cao Yue, who received these favorable battle reports, was in high spirits.Liu Zongmin's army began to plunder the people, and he could completely defeat or annihilate them on the basis of justice.Li Yan has been ignoring his overtures, and continued to advance towards Datong City. Cao Yue also temporarily gave up the policy of being soft, and was going to give Li Yan some warnings, and then see if it is possible to win.

If Li Yan is still obsessed after beating Li Yan severely, then he can only kill them all.

Cao Yue began to adjust his layout and plan, and prepared to launch an attack. Before the bandits came to attack the city, he wanted to defeat Li Yan's department and Liu Zongmin's department head-on.He believes that he can defeat them. In his eyes, the combat power of the rogue bandits is no match for Jiannu. In the past, if there were no Jiannu who violated the border from time to time and the elite of Ming Dynasty were exhausted, then there would be no such thing as Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong, etc. climate opportunity.

The Ming Dynasty was destroyed by Li Zicheng, not because Li Zicheng's army was very powerful, but because the Ming Dynasty's army was scumbag.

Although Cao Yue received a red education since he was a child, before he was sensible, he also agreed that the peasant uprisings written in history textbooks were all just, and they all rose up to overthrow the decadent feudal rule, but when he grew up, he learned more about history. The understanding of history has completely changed.He gradually accepted the harm brought about by the peasant riots that were deliberately ignored by officials and textbooks, especially Huang Chao at the end of the Tang Dynasty, and Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong at the end of the Ming Dynasty.

After traveling to Daming, he vowed to use his own ability to change history, drive out foreign captives, put down bandits, and restore peace to the world.

Of course, he will never be inferior to anyone, including Emperor Chongzhen. Now, with a heavy army in his hands, he has already sprouted the idea of ​​relying on his own strength to create a new era.To achieve this goal, it is necessary to destroy all enemies to be eliminated and win all possible allies.He still wants to fight for Li Yan and Hong Niangzi, but now he wants to teach them some lessons.

"Attack proactively, suppress the captives and destroy the bandits", this is Cao Yue's latest plan.

He was the first to attack Li Yan's troops.

(End of this chapter)