Chapter Seventy-Four: Guo Deng's Judgment

It has entered the rainy season in the south of the Yangtze River, and under the continuous heavy rain, large areas of roads have become muddy, and even in some places, puddles on official roads can bury a person.

Not to mention this mountainous area, under the continuous heavy rain, it is easy to have geological disasters such as mudslides.

Therefore, even though the army knew that Ye Liuzong's headquarters was in the area of Lead Mountain, it did not have the ability to attack.

The two sides faced off in the middle of the rain.

It seems to be waiting for a sunny day after the rain.

And Guo Deng's subordinates have arrived at this moment. Guo Deng's headquarters entered the Yangtze River from the canal, then entered Poyang Lake from the Yangtze River, and then went ashore from Raozhou, and is now stationed in Guixi County. It was arranged to the west of the lead mountain to prevent Ye Liuzong's headquarters from escaping to the southwest.

Guo Deng wanted to meet Wei Guogong in Guangxin Mansion.

In any case, Wei Guogong was the main general in this battle.

When Xu Xianzong, the Duke of Wei, saw Guo Deng, he naturally didn't mention it for a while, and it seemed that the friendship between Xu Da, the king of Zhongshan, and Guo Ying, the Duke of Yingguo, was all involved in one breath.

Wei Guogong grabbed Guo Deng's hand and said, "Uncle Guo, now that the war is going on, I will ask Uncle Guo." ”

Counting from Xu Da, the king of Zhongshan, and Guo Ying, the Duke of Yingguo, Xu Xianzong, the Duke of Wei, is the great-grandson of Xu Da, and Guo Deng is the grandson of Guo Ying.

So it's okay for Xu Xianzong to call this uncle.

But Guo Deng's father is just a concubine of Guo Ying, so Guo Deng is not ranked in the Wuding Hou family. But Wei Guogong is the head of the Wei Guogong lineage, and the difference between the two sides is too great.

Guo Deng hurriedly saluted and said, "The last general will not dare to be." ”

Xu Xianzong, the Duke of Wei, said: "You and I are world friends, what dare not be done, spread out, but Xu does not understand etiquette." ”

There is a reason why Xu Xianzong is so polite.

Very simply, he had already heard the rumors, and the imperial court, especially the palace, was very dissatisfied with the results of his encirclement and suppression of Ye Liuzong in the past half a year.

But Guo Deng is the old department of the Marquis of Baoding, and who is behind the Marquis of Baoding? It's today.

And now it is almost clear to him, so that after Guo Deng arrives, he only needs to endorse Guo Deng.

There is no way to do this, the commander of the three provinces, the chief general, at least one earl. This is a system that has been passed down to the present since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, and Zhu Qizhen has been trying to maintain, that is, only with a knighthood can he serve as a coach.

Therefore, although Fang Jin is younger than Guo Deng, Fang Jin can serve as it, but Guo Deng cannot.

Among Zhu Qizhen's entrainment, there are not many generals who can be trusted by Zhu Qizhen and have knighthoods. Zhu Qizhen has already decided that if Guo Deng pacifies Ye Liuzong and fights beautifully, he will give Guo Deng an earl. The two were polite, and Wei Guogong asked, "In this situation, what is Uncle Guo's good plan?" ”

Guo Deng naturally made a lot of analysis of the situation in front of him, and said: "There is one thing that the last general has been thinking about, that is, why can Ye Liuzong march so fast? ”

Wei Guogong was a little puzzled, and said: "This generation is afraid of the imperial army, and when they see the imperial army arrive, they flee, why not?" ”

This is a problem that Wei Guogong has been worried about, and he actually doesn't think that Ye Liuzong's department is very powerful. He has always wanted to gather a large army, and the army of forty or fifty thousand will fight a big battle with Ye Liuzong.

Ye Liuzong is definitely not an opponent.

But only when Ye Liuzong was stupid would he stop fighting with Wei Guogong.

Therefore, as soon as Wei Guogong led the troops, he almost kept doing one thing, that is, chasing, chasing, chasing. Ye Liuzong is running, running, running.

However, Wei Guogong still did not know much about military affairs.

The crux of Guo Deng's question is not why Ye Liuzong ran? But why did Ye Liuzong run so fast?

Guo Deng has been in the army for most of his life, and he knows too well how fast the army wants to run and how fast it can march in the marching industry, which are two completely different things.

And Guo Deng read all the battle reports, and felt that the mobility ability of Ye Liuzong's troops was much stronger than that of the official army. In Guo Deng's view, this is not normal.

"It stands to reason that most of the rebellions are accompanied by families." Guo Deng said: "And the official army does not seem to have caught the family members of the thieves, if the thieves are only young and strong, it is not surprising that they can have this speed." But obviously the family is with the army, and they still have such a fast speed, does Guogong think this is possible? ”

Wei Guogong listened to it and was also very strange.

He hadn't thought about it here before, but now that he thought about it, if Ye Liuzong's department had a large number of old and weak women and children, and could march at such a fast speed, he would be flying at all.

Wei Guogong immediately sent an order down and asked if the thief's family had been caught.

After a while, the following report came up, most of the thieves were miners, and most of the miners were single, and they generally had no families, but not all of them were single.

However, although the number of family members in this part is small, they did not stay in place.

Wei Guogong couldn't figure it out, and said, "Uncle Guo, what's wrong with this?" Say it. ”

"Don't dare to be." Guo Deng said: "It's just that the last general has some doubts in his heart, and the last general suspects that the family members of the leaf thief are not in the army, but are hiding somewhere." ”

When Wei Guogong heard this, he immediately asked, "Hidden, where are you hiding?" ”

Guo Deng walked on the edge of the map, his sword with a sheath, clicked on the map, and said: "Puxian, Chong'an, Jianningfu, Songxi, Zhenghe, Longquan, Chuzhou, Jiangshan, Yushan, Lead Mountain." Guo Deng paused slightly, swiped the scabbard slightly, and said again: "Chong'an." ”

According to the name of the place he said, Guo Deng actually drew an irregular circle on the map.

Wei Guogong seemed to understand something for a while? But it seems to be seeing flowers in a fog, and I don't understand what Guo Deng is talking about for a while?

Guo Deng was a little helpless about Wei Guogong's ability to understand, so he could only further explain: "Although the thieves have fought for hundreds of miles, they have always surrounded Xianxia Mountain. "The point that Guo Deng points on the map is Xianxia Mountain.

Wei Guogong didn't understand at the moment, he was a fool, and he immediately said: "The thief's family is in Xianxia Mountain. If you come, you can send a large army to search the mountain, and you don't have to worry about Ye Liuzong not coming to save you, and then you can be annihilated in one fell swoop. ”

Guo Deng said: "Guogong this is not good, Xianxia Mountain is the lair of the leaf thief, the mountain is unknown, the risk of fighting with the leaf thief in the mountain is too great, and the mountain is too big, it is not easy to find the place where the thief hides his family." ”

Wei Guogong was a little puzzled, and he turned his head to look at Guo Deng.

Guo Deng hurriedly said: "As long as you know this, the scope of activities of Ye Liuzong's department has already been determined, and they can't leave the vicinity of Xianxia Mountain. In this way, where Ye Liuzong will go next can be determined. ”

"I think he will definitely return to Fujian, and then it will be the best time to encircle and suppress him."

Gordon has a strong sense of confidence in his judgment. But Wei Guogong didn't understand it very well, and he didn't need to understand, what he wanted in his heart was to throw this hot potato to Guo Deng.

Regardless of success or failure, he doesn't have to take responsibility for this one thing. Wei Guogong immediately said: "Okay, just wait for the rain to stop, and it will depend on Uncle Guo's methods." ”

It's just that when the rain in the south doesn't stop and barely stops, this long confrontation continues.

And at this moment, Ye Liuzong was also watching the rain.

It was dark and raining. It's like Ye Liuzong's mood.

The news of the arrival of Guo Deng's more than 10,000 troops, Ye Liuzong already knew. As soon as he thought of the border army, he remembered the power of Li Xin's five hundred elite horsemen under Jianning City.

In the past six months, Ye Liuzong has fought in the three provinces, and has fought many battles, large and small, and all the troops he has seen are only Yang Xin's department, which makes him frightened.

Now that Guo Deng's department has more than 10,000, how can he not make him feel uneasy.

I only feel that he has fought in the three provinces since he started the army, although he dare not say that he is invincible, but he has not encountered too many setbacks. Now the real test has come.

There are two tests, one is Guo Deng's department, and the other is to maintain the logistics of the 20,000-strong army.

Guo Deng's problem is still far away, but the more than 20,000 mouths waiting to be fed have already made Ye Liuzong a little restless and frightened.

It's easy to pull people's heads, but it's much harder to keep them going.