Chapter 444: Impermanence
There is a reason why Li Maoran will take the lead in responding to Cheng Yue's pre-war mobilization, this person is from a general's background, and he has been fighting on the front line of the war against various enemy countries for generations, which is one point. Another point, is his own reason, since the age of fifteen to join the army, Li Maoran has been fighting against Zheng Guo in the eastern frontier of the Snow Country, from the age of fifteen to the current forty years old, it can be said that Li Maoran dedicated the most golden years of his life to the great cause of protecting the family and defending the country, so he may not be particularly loyal to the Snow Country court, but in the matter of resisting the invasion of Zheng Guo, it is like dry firewood! In fact, let alone Cheng Yue, even if the imperial court sends a more annoying guy, as long as that person can say this, Li Ruran will be the first to show his support!
However, in this regard, Li Maoran's subordinate generals were as greasy as eating flies, and they were joking, didn't they say that they couldn't work hard......?
Even Li rash himself, after his brain calmed down a little, immediately regretted it, looked at his generals with a resentful face, and could only smile apologetically, and quietly gestured to show that everything was business as usual, or according to the original plan.
Yes, as originally planned. Although Cheng Yue's words are beautiful, in Li Maoran's opinion, it is still an act of seeking death by only bringing three days of grain and grass to the enemy's territory, so it should be yang and yin, and yang should be violated.
Cheng Yue didn't seem to see Li Maoran's small movements, just looked at the exciting scene in front of him, nodded frequently, and admired again and again: "It's really a military heart!"
Li rashly calmed his subordinates, and then drove his horse behind Cheng Yue: "My lord, when will we go on the expedition?"
Cheng Yue was stunned, turned his gaze to Li Maoran, and said with a smile: "Of course now, Li Shuai, don't you see how high the morale of the soldiers is?
Li laughed dryly, in fact, how could he not have seen it? This soldier's morale is clearly good for him to bring it himself?
Cheng Yue glanced at the 30,000 soldiers of Xiongwu Town, raised his voice and said loudly: "All along, my Snow Country has only been satisfied with repelling Zheng Guo's invasion, although this can quell the war as soon as possible, but it cannot give Zheng Guoren a profound lesson! Therefore, this seat thinks that if we want to completely let Zheng Guoren stop coveting our country's land, we can only burn the flames of war into Zheng Guo's territory, because only in this way can we give them a profound enough lesson to make them understand what a huge price it will cost to offend our Snow Country!"
"Your Excellency is so right!"
"I wish to go to the tail of the adult!"
"Var Zheng!
The emotions of the soldiers have been completely aroused, and many soldiers who have a blood feud with Zheng Guo have issued a generous cheer for Ji Kang!
Cheng Yue pulled the reins, turned the direction of the war horse, and marched towards the territory of Zheng State: "The whole army obeys the order and goes out to attack Zheng!"
"Var Zheng!
The soldiers shouted with all their might, and under the orders of officers at all levels, they changed the phalanx into a marching column, and set out in turn, embarking on the journey to Zheng Guo!
Li rashly looked at the soldiers who were boiling with military spirit, and couldn't help wiping the hot sweat on his head, with such military morale, once he started a war with Zheng Jun, he would inevitably break the net, and even if he wanted to disobey the yang and the yin, and he couldn't do his work, I am afraid it would be very difficult.
"Could it be that this is your conspiracy?!"
Li rashly looked at Cheng Yue's back, and secretly felt a chill in his heart.
……
The news that the snow army was the first to enter the territory of the country soon spread to the commander of the army of Zheng Guo, who had only arrived at the front line by the king's order yesterday, and as soon as he arrived at the place, he got the news that the snow army wanted to strike first, but he was only skeptical of the news, although he ordered the army under his command to prepare for battle, but he did not pay too much attention to it. But I didn't want to, those snow soldiers really ate the bear's heart and leopard gall, and preemptively entered the Zheng realm, and they were angry and funny for a while.
The good thing is that the snow army is bold, and the funny thing is that the snow army does this, which can be said to be in his hands!
If the 30,000 snow army in Xiongwu Town is cowered in the city, with the military horses under the command of the commander of the Zheng army, even if there is a certain numerical advantage, it will take great sacrifices and a lot of time to gnaw down the Xiongwu Jiancheng, but the 30,000 snow army will take the initiative to kill Zheng Realm, and the decisive battle in the field, as long as it can defeat these incoming snow troops, then it can be pursued and killed, leaving all the lives of these 30,000 snow troops!
"Pass my general's order, and all armies will immediately go into battle to meet the Snow Army!" Commander Zheng Jun decisively ordered.
"No!"
The herald said yes, turned and was about to leave.
"No, wait!" For some reason, the next moment the commander of the Zheng army called the herald again.
"What else do you have to order, Marshal?" asked the herald respectfully.
The commander of the Zheng army walked a few steps in the military tent with his hands behind his back, and said thoughtfully: "Don't worry, don't go to war first, wait for the snow army to come to the city, and then report to the commander to know." ”
"No!" the herald agreed, and withdrew from the tent.
The generals of the Zheng Army on the side looked at each other, and their faces were puzzled.
A general of the Zheng army, who was quite famous for his wisdom, smiled and solved the confusion of the generals: "Everyone, the commander is not not not fighting, but to lure the enemy deep!"
"Lure the enemy deeper?"
The general nodded: "Exactly! At this time, the Snow Army has just entered our territory, if our army goes into battle, even if it can be defeated, because it is too close to the border, it will not be able to gather and annihilate it in one go, and most of the Snow Army will still be able to escape back to Xiongwu Town smoothly." If they flee back, the siege of Xiongwu Town will still be inevitable. However, if we wait until the enemy soldiers are approaching the city before fighting, our army will not only be able to gain the tactical advantage of having their backs to the fortified city, but will also be able to extend the distance between the Snow Army and the border, so that if the Snow Army is defeated again, our cavalry will have enough distance and time to annihilate them all on the way to escape!"
The commander of the Zheng army smiled when he heard this, and nodded with his beard, this general analyzed his intentions very thoroughly, the city he is now garrisoning is called Xinzhou, and the straight-line distance from the border between Xue and Zheng is sixty miles, and the straight-line distance from the town of Xiongwu is even farther, there are a full one hundred and twenty miles, such a long distance is enough for thousands of elite iron cavalry to harvest 30,000 routed soldiers!
All the generals were convinced and saluted the commander of the Zheng army together:
"Brilliant plan!"
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Because the Zheng army did not fight, the 30,000 snow army was able to drive straight into the territory of Zheng State.
The more he went to the territory of Zheng State, the more anxious Li Maoran's heart became, you must know that the 30,000 troops under his command only brought three days of food, if they went too deep into the territory of Zheng State, these grains and grass would definitely not be enough, and at that time there would be no need for the enemy army to attack, and the tired and hungry 30,000 snow army would have to collapse, and if the enemy army pursued and killed them wantonly, all of them would have to leave their lives here!
At this time, Li Mao hated two people, one was Cheng Yue, who forced them to die, and the other was the commander of Zheng Jun!
"If you don't go into battle immediately as Ben Shuai expected, this Zheng thief is really damned!" Li thought fiercely, his teeth almost crushed.
Cheng Yue was marching not far away, and when he saw this thing gritting his teeth, he couldn't help but feel very funny.
The art of war is cloudy: soldiers are impermanent, and water is impermanent. How can the enemy act exactly as you think?
Although Li Maoran has fought against Zheng Guo all his life, he has only defended the city, and he has no knowledge of offensive operations at all!
Before the sun set, the 30,000 snow countries that marched lightly arrived at the city of Zhengguo Xinzhou, at this time, the 100,000 regular army had already recuperated and waited for a long time!
At this time, after a day's journey, the 30,000 Snow Army was already exhausted and its combat strength was greatly reduced!
"Out of town!"
Commander Zheng Jun pointed in front of his sword, "Even if you fight at night, you must defeat these 30,000 snow troops to this commander!"