Chapter 21 Luoyang Attack and Defense
Nanyang can no longer afford the consumption of hundreds of thousands of troops! Finding grain and grass has become a top priority, and the only quick way to find grain and grass is to attack the prefectures and counties of the imperial court and seize the treasury! And the most suitable place near Nanyang is Luoyang!
This Luoyang has been the fief of the vassal kings since the Ming Dynasty! Today's Luoyang has dozens of kings, large and small, such as the Fu King, the Zhou King, and so on! These royal families have already gathered a large amount of wealth after several decades of accumulation and looting! And this wealth has inevitably become the target in the eyes of the rebels!
These days, all the generals of the righteous army have gathered in the yamen of the Nanyang prefect to discuss the plan to attack Luoyang! All the generals are full of confidence in taking Luoyang, but only this Li Zicheng is worried!
"Big brother, I have sent my brothers to sneak into this Luoyang City, according to the information of the brothers inside, Chen Yongfu, the Henan general soldier in this Luoyang City, has led most of the troops and horses to Shaanxi. Although Luoyang City claims to have 50,000 horses and horses to defend it, most of the troops in the patrol battalion do not have much combat effectiveness! Big brother, this is a good time for us to attack Luoyang!" Of course, Liu Zongmin understood the importance of attacking Luoyang this time, so he sent someone to check Luoyang early in advance!
"Big brother, don't hesitate!" Seeing that Gao Yingxiang still didn't say a word, Hao Shaoqi was also anxious, and those of them who led the troops were of course heartbroken when they saw their soldiers being frozen and starving these days! Now that there was a great opportunity in front of them, how could they not fight for it!
"Big brother, there are already five hundred brothers in the city that I have arranged, as the eldest brother, there should be a big brother to do it, if you don't do it, it will be too late, and when Chen Yongfu returns to the teacher, then we won't have this opportunity!" Liu Zongmin was also anxious, for fear of missing this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity!
Gao Yingxiang stared at Liu Zongmin's expectant eyes! He didn't know in his heart that this was a great opportunity, but the more he needed to calm down at this time, after all, now Gao Yingxiang was no longer following dozens of hundreds of people but hundreds of thousands of people, and every decision he made was related to the life and death of these hundreds of thousands of people, so he had to be cautious!
"Hongji, why didn't you say a word?" As the mind of the entire righteous army, Li Zicheng, who usually talks a lot, didn't say a word at this time, Gao Yingxiang had to take the initiative to ask!
As a matter of fact, Li Zicheng really wanted to say in his heart that he was opposed to the plan to send troops this time! I don't know why Li Zicheng felt an inexplicable but unspeakable uneasiness in his heart this time! Although he was uneasy, Li Zicheng would never be stupid enough to directly oppose it, because after all, Liu Zongmin and Hao Shaoqi had clearly stated that they wanted to attack! If Li Zicheng directly objected, it would definitely hurt the relationship between several people, and this would be absolutely unfavorable to Li Zicheng's future commanders! Therefore, Li Zicheng was not stupid!
"Great commander! The last general thinks that what General Liu and General Hao said is indeed reasonable! But the last general thinks that we should not only consider the enemy inside Luoyang City, but also the enemy outside the city!" Li Zicheng said very cleverly, first, he catered to Liu Zongmin and others, and secondly, he also expressed his opinion euphemistically!
"The enemy outside the city, where is there any enemy outside the city?" Although Li Zicheng catered to himself, he still raised different opinions, Liu Zongmin was still very unhappy, and his tone of voice became higher!
"Dare to ask General Li, what do you mean by this enemy outside the city?" Although Hao Shaoqi was also dissatisfied with Li Zicheng's words, he didn't dare to express his dissatisfaction like Liu Zongmin!
"Zong Min, how do you talk to Hongji, don't worry, it's not too late to get angry after listening to Hongji's words first!"
"Zong Min, the outside enemy I'm talking about refers to Yang Sichang, who Chongzhen just sent down to serve as the governor of Shaanxi and Gansu?" Li Zicheng has always been very concerned about the movements of the imperial court, so this Yang Sichang has just arrived in Xi'an, and Li Zicheng has already received the news!
"Who is Yang Sichang? Why haven't I heard of it? Is he as powerful as Hong Chengchou? The Hong madman didn't exterminate us, and he Yang Sichang has this ability?" After fighting with Hong Chengchou many times, Liu Zongmin admitted that this Hong madman is indeed powerful, but this Hong madman has not been able to exterminate them, and of course Liu Zongmin will not believe it if it were someone else!
"This Yang Sichang is the son of Yang He, the former governor of the three sides, the head of the household, and the scholar of Wenyuan Pavilion! The current governor of Shaanxi and Gansu is specially responsible for exterminating us!"
"It turned out to be a powerless literati, so there's nothing to be afraid of!" After listening to Li Zicheng's introduction, Liu Zongmin looked down on this Yang Sichang even more! "Marshal, the last general asked to lead five thousand cavalry to capture Yang Sichang alive!"
"Zong Min!" Li Zicheng still wants to persuade again!
"In this way, let's send spies to Yang Sichang's camp to investigate first, and when we have the results, we will make the next step!" Gao Yingxiang saw that the two were arguing, so he simply came up with a compromise solution!
In the camp in Xi'an, many soldiers have been punished one after another! However, the reason for the punishment turned out to be that the commander was just for fun! Every day Yang Sichang was always drunk, and after drinking, he would definitely order the two soldiers to fight to the death, and the losing side would often be beaten with a military stick and the butt would blossom, and it could be said that the camp was full of complaints these days!
And these news quickly reached the ears of Nanyang Gao Yingxiang through the spies!
"Haha, this Yang Sichang didn't expect it to be such a wretch, just how he can compare with Hong Maniac? It's a joke!" When he heard the spies' evaluation of Yang Sichang, Liu Zongmin couldn't help but laugh out loud!
"Hongji, you don't have anything to say now!" Liu Zongmin is now triumphant!
Li Zicheng didn't know what was going on, he had already confirmed the news from the spies again and again, and he was sure that it was true! So now Li Zicheng couldn't say anything even if he objected in his heart!
"Well, in that case, we will send troops to take Luoyang City directly the day after tomorrow!" Seeing that Li Zicheng didn't say a word, Gao Yingxiang finally made the final decision!
"Report, it's not good, it's not good!" "On the second watch, Gao Yingxiang had just fallen asleep when he heard the waiter outside the house banging on the door loudly, and Gao Yingxiang, who was in a hurry, didn't even have time to put on his shoes, so he opened the door in a hurry!
"The marshal is not good, this Yang Sichang personally led an army of 300,000 to encircle and suppress us?"
"What?" The words of the chamberlain shook Gao Yingxiang's heart like a thunderbolt on a sunny day, he decided to attack Luoyang during the day today, but he didn't expect that the team of the official army would come to the door just night!