Chapter 24: Before the Great War
Although the number of grain and grass is not much, Gao Yingxiang's troops still rely on these grains and grasses to survive, but with the increase in the number of lootings, the number of times the officers and soldiers escort grain and grass is getting less and less, and in the end, they are no longer escorted, which makes Gao Yingxiang's troops who rely on intercepting and transporting grain and grass to live in pain!
"Dashuai! Now we have reduced three meals to two meals, but the food is still not enough! We will really run out of food in a few days!" Gao Yingxiang's quartermaster was helpless, it was difficult for a clever woman to cook without rice, he had indeed thought of various methods, but the number of hundreds of thousands of troops consumed in one day sounded terrible!
"Go down, Ben Shuai knows!" Gao Yingxiang waved his hand, and the quartermaster shook his head helplessly and walked out, just bumping into Li Zicheng, Liu Zongmin and others head-on!
The problem of food has seriously troubled Gao Yingxiang's troops, and he knows that if this problem is not solved, the troops will definitely be in turmoil, and the only way to solve this problem is to attack Luoyang!
"See the big handsome!" everyone saluted!
"Sit down!" Gao Yingxiang said, pointing to the chair!
"Dashuai, the last general has copied out 300 loads of grain from a rich family's house in Nanyang!" Li Zicheng was the first to stand up and report, these days he is also worried about raising food everywhere, but the food raised is not enough for the army to consume in a day, just now I saw the quartermaster Li Zicheng knew that this marshal was anxious about the matter of grain and grass!
"It's hard work, Hongji! But these are not enough, the only way to solve the problem of our army's grain and grass is to take Luoyang and seize Luoyang's granary! So this commander decided not to attack Luoyang!" After saying these words, Gao Yingxiang breathed a long sigh of relief, as if he had just made a difficult decision!
"Obey the order, the last generals will go and prepare!" Liu Zongmin finally heard his long-awaited order, and excitement immediately crawled all over his face!
"Dashuai, have you really decided?" Li Ziwei wanted to persuade again, but he knew in his heart that there was no way to do it, and it was better to fight to the death than to sit still!
"Hongji, Ben Shuai and Zong Min personally led an army of 200,000 to encircle and suppress Luoyang this time, as for Nanyang, you must defend it for Ben Shuai, this is our foundation!" Gao Yingxiang, who has been on the battlefield for many years, of course knows the importance of the rear, whether it is a victory or defeat this time, Nanyang's position is still very important, so he must find a trustworthy person to stay, and this person is the most suitable Li Zicheng!
"Don't worry, Dashuai! Hongji will definitely live up to the trust, and the people are in the city!" Li Zicheng knelt down on one knee and made a military order!
"Hongji! please!" Gao Yingxiang held Li Zicheng's hands tightly!
"Dashuai, Dashuai, good news, good news!" Just when the atmosphere in the hall was heavy, Hao Shaoqi rushed to the hall with a book in his hand, panting in his mouth!
"Dashuai, we have just intercepted the transfer order issued by the Ming Dynasty to Yang Sichang, and this Yang Sichang will soon be transferred to Hubei to encircle and suppress this Zhang Xianzhong!"
"Really?" Gao Yingxiang snatched the fold, and suddenly remembered that he was illiterate, so he hurriedly handed it to Li Zicheng, "Hongji will help Ben Shuai take a look!"
Li Zicheng took the fold and read it carefully: "That's right, this is the order of the Ministry of War, it seems that this Yang Sichang is indeed going to be transferred to Hubei!"
"Great, great! God bless our righteous army!" Gao Yingxiang grabbed the fold and shouted upwards with both hands, before Gao Yingxiang had been worried that this Yang Sichang would take advantage of his attack on Luoyang and copy the back road, now that this Yang Sichang has been transferred, Gao Yingxiang can attack Luoyang wholeheartedly!
"The generals will listen to the order! Just wait for Yang Sichang to pull out the camp and our army will immediately surround Luoyang City!" Gao Yingxiang is still a safe person, and he must confirm that Yang Sichang pulls out the camp to the west before he dares to besiege Luoyang with peace of mind!
Pingdingshan, Yang Sichang's big tent.
"General, the messenger has been dispatched, presumably this Gao Yingxiang already knows that our army will advance westward in the near future!" Zuo Liangyu said respectfully!
It turned out that all this was designed by Wang Feng, first to satisfy the appetite of the rogue with grain and grass, and then to force him to attack Luoyang, and then to use the false news of the westward advance to embolden him! There was absolutely no reason for this rogue not to attack Luoyang!
"Okay! Now we're going to go west to show them! Let's put on a good show for them together!" Wang Feng seemed to have seen the scene of this rogue being exterminated under Luoyang City!
"Haha!" the generals laughed!
Pingdingshan, 300,000 troops drove out of the city, and soon the brigade was divided into two groups, one group headed towards Luoyang, while the other group ran south!
"Go back to the marshal! Just say that Yang Sichang's army has been mobilized!" These days, Gao Yingxiang's sentry has been monitoring every move of Pingdingshan! As soon as Yang Sichang's army came out of Pingdingshan, the surrounding rangers immediately got the news!
"Report, marshal, Yang Sichang's army has been launched!" Gao Yingxiang, who was anxiously waiting for news in Nanyang City, finally waited for the long-awaited good news!
"Have they divided their troops!" The attentive Li Zicheng asked again!
"The main force of General Hui's army Yang Sichang has already advanced westward, and only the Henan General Chen Yongfu is heading towards Luoyang!"
"Chen Yongfu has gone to Luoyang? He has more than 10,000 people under him, and if he enters Luoyang City, won't it increase the difficulty of our army's siege of the city!"
"Hongji, what do you think?" Gao Yingxiang frowned! Chen Yongfu's entry into Luoyang is indeed a big trouble!
"Dashuai, I don't think this Chen Yongfu's entry into Luoyang is not bad news for us! The reason why Yang Sichang divided his troops was that Chen Yongfu was worried that Luoyang would not be protected, and secondly, it also showed that the news that Yang Sichang was transferred to the west to encircle and suppress Zhang Xianzhong was true! Dashuai, think about it, wouldn't it be a wonderful thing that Yang Sichang just came to Chen Yongfu?" Li Zicheng, who had been worried that Yang Sichang's return to help was fake, was immediately relieved when he saw Yang Sichang's division of troops!
"Okay! We will send troops to Luoyang tomorrow! We will definitely take it in one fell swoop!" Gao Yingxiang clenched his fists and slapped the table angrily!
Since he was divided into Luoyang, this Zhu Changxun has never stepped out of the mansion!
Chen Yongfu was anxiously waiting in the hall at this time! As soon as he arrived in Luoyang, Chen Yongfu was the first to visit this Fu King! Chen Yongfu knew very well in his heart that in two days, this rogue would definitely come to the city, and Luoyang City's current strength was simply not enough to defend the entire city! Therefore, Chen Yongfu must mobilize the Fu King, so as to mobilize the entire people of Luoyang City to help defend the city!
"Lord Wang, Mr. Chen is here, and he is waiting for you in the hall!" The housekeeper of the palace cautiously replied from outside the door, and there were bursts of ** sounds in the house at this time!