Chapter 306: Decision-making
Bao Hui hurriedly walked into Liu Chenglin's big tent.
"Got it figured out." Bao Hui looked at Liu Chenglin and said urgently: "The general who leads this cavalry is a disciple of the Fei clan of Youzhou, called Fei Can, who is just thirty this year, and is the son of Fei Zhong, the general of the Lu Long Army, and this person is also a famous cavalry general in Lu Long, since he was twenty years old, he has followed Zhang Zhongwu to fight everywhere, and the best thing is cavalry raids. ”
Liu Chenglin nodded, compared to the anger when he first saw Panjiawu being attacked, Liu Chenglin at this time had completely calmed down.
"What's going on with Shi Jiawu?"
"Shijiawu originally had about 3,000 township soldiers, because most of them were from the Shi family, so the combat effectiveness of this township soldier was much stronger than that of ordinary township soldiers, and the effect of division and division was not great for them." Bao Hui said with some shame: "So, general, the plan I drew up before was too taken for granted, and they couldn't get the things that the general wanted." Because they don't have access to the core at all. ”
"This kind of big clan is the most hateful." Liu Chenglin nodded understandingly.
"However, our people still inquired about some useful information, Lu Long did have a part of the army into Shijiawu, the number is about two thousand, and it is Deng Jingwen's troops in Mozhou. This unit has fought against our army in the Deep State, and it is relatively familiar to us. ”
"2,000 foot soldiers in Mozhou, 2,000 cavalry in Fei Can, plus 3,000 township soldiers in the Shi family, this battle is really interesting." Liu Chenglin laughed.
Bao Hui said: "General Liu, now we only have General Li De's 2,000 cavalry and 5,000 foot soldiers in our hands, if we want to conquer Shijiawu, the strength is still a little too thin, what if we don't gather village soldiers?" ”
"No, you don't." Liu Chenglin categorically vetoed: "The people in Yingzhou are now unstable, and more people have been waiting and seeing because of Fei Can's attack." Gathering township soldiers, a bad, not only will not become our help, but will become a burden, and from Shenzhou, Jingzhou to gather township soldiers, the movement is too big, in the past two years, Shenzhou and Jingzhou have been fighting, the people want peace more urgent than ever, at this time, it is not appropriate to recruit them. ”
"General Li Rui's soldiers and horses in Shenzhou?" Bao Hui said.
"This is my war." Liu Chenglin smiled and waved his hand, "Bao Changshi, don't worry, I already have a plan, within a month, I will definitely take Shijiawu, Shijiawu, and the remaining few dock forts will not be a climate, either roll away for me, or surrender to us." ”
"Since the general is confident, Bao is relieved." Bao Hui nodded, "Since that's the case, Bao will leave." ”
"Bao Changshi, please." Liu Chenglin smiled and sent Bao Hui out.
When Bao Hui left, someone in the inner room of Liu Chenglin's big tent came out, this person turned out to be the Shenzhou Don't Drive Li Rui who should have left long ago, since Panjiawu returned, Shenzhou Thorn Shi Duteng, Jingzhou Thorn Shi Sun Zhi and Li Rui have said goodbye and left, but I don't know when, Li Rui actually came back.
"Bao Hui is still trustworthy." Li Rui said.
"General Li naturally trusts him, and of course I don't doubt him, but the people under him are too complicated." Liu Chenglin shook his head and said: "The basis of whether we can win this battle is whether we can kill Fei Can's more than 2,000 cavalry, I don't want to make any mistakes." My subordinates, except for Liu Changfeng, the others don't know anything about it. ”
Li Rui nodded in understanding. He knew how much pressure Liu Chenglin was at this moment. After Fei Can attacked Panjiawu, he did not stop, but relied on his familiarity with the terrain and the strong mobility of the cavalry to attack three dock forts in a row. And to be able to do this, it is also thanks to Li De's cavalry chasing after Fei Can, which makes Fei Can's attack time extremely limited.
The casualties are decreasing dramatically, but Fei Can's destruction of Yingzhou is unparalleled. A large number of crops that were growing very well were wiped out in this wave.
In addition to these visible losses, what is more important is the turmoil in the hearts of the people in Yingzhou. The Lu dragon cavalry went in and out like no one, which made the people of Yingzhou not help but think of the strength of the Lu Long army in the past ten years, and there were great doubts about whether the Wude army could defeat the Lu Long people.
The two stood in front of the map, Liu Chenglin's thick fingers pressed on the map, moving from one point to another, and the places they pointed to were all the places that Fei Can had attacked.
"The location of Fei Can's attack seems to be a hammer in the east and a stick in the west, and there is no pattern to follow, but in fact, there are still some connections." Liu Chenglin's fingers contracted, nailing a person's place, "General Li, do you see anything?" ”
Li Rui stared for a moment and said, "Isn't there anything strange about this person's place?" These places that Fei Can attacked were all emanating from this place as the center, and the fast horses galloped, all within a day's journey. ”
"General Li really has eyesight." Liu Chenglin said with a smile: "Stone Forest, the topography of this place is very special, there are countless rift valleys, and these rift valleys extend in all directions, and there are countless exits. If you go the wrong way, you will be at odds with the enemy. ”
"There must be people in Fei Can's army who are very familiar with the terrain here, once something happens, as long as they escape here, we basically have no way, not to mention that I only have less than 10,000 steps in my hand, even if I turn over another generation and fill in these rifts, it will not stir up any waves." Liu Chenglin Road.
"If we really attack them here, maybe they will use their familiarity with the terrain to form a counterattack against us, and if one is not good, we will be in danger of being defeated." Li Rui said.
"That's exactly what happened." Liu Chenglin said with a smile: "So although Bao Hui's people have discovered Fei Can's hiding place, we have no way to go to encircle and suppress him, and we can only have a chance to kill him by inducing him to attack again." ”
"On top of this circle, there are three dock forts, which one will the other party attack?" Li Rui frowned, "We can only guess, which is a bit troublesome." ”
"He's going to attack this one!" Liu Chenglin pointed to a place firmly.
"Cheng Jiawu!" Li Rui shook his head and said: "Among the three dock forts, Chengjiawu is the largest one, and it is also close to Gaoyang County, Fei Can will give up the easy?" ”
"Because next my main force will be pulled out with the whole army and approach Shijiawu." Liu Chenglin said: "If Fei Can is an ordinary general, it is possible to fight easily, but he is the most promising son of the Fei family, and he has a very good vision, and he can see the benefits of beating Cheng Jiawu." ”
"I want to hear about it!" Li Rui humbly asked Liu Chenglin for advice.
"I led the main force to go, and the rest of the garrison troops, Fei Can was afraid that he didn't see it, even if Chengjiawu was very close to Gaoyang, but if Gaoyang had a garrison to help, he could go to attack the reinforcements, if Gaoyang did not send troops, he could attack Chengjiawu in a good way, and even continue to march forward to the city of Yingzhou, creating panic and forcing me to stop moving forward and go back to chase him."
"Creating panic is probably his greatest goal, and using it to delay the course of our war." Li Rui said.
"That's it." Liu Chenglin said with a smile: "So I'm leaving, and Chengjiawu will be handed over to General Li here." ”
"As long as he dares to Cheng Jiawu, I will let him lose his troops, but my subordinates only have two legs, and they can't outrun him." Li Rui said with a smile.
"This General Li can rest assured, because when the time comes, Li De will come up from behind them." Liu Chenglin sneered: "And our department will also send a part of the people to the stone forest to block his way." ”
Li Rui clapped his hands and smiled: "In this way, he will be unable to escape." ”
"If we take Fei Can, we will have no worries when we march into Shijiawu, two thousand foot soldiers, three thousand township soldiers, and Liu has not yet put it in his eyes. Even if he's a tortoise shell, I'll knock a few holes out of it. Liu Chenglin sneered.
"Okay, when I get rid of Fei Can, I'll raise troops to help you." Li Rui said.
Two big hands, clasped tightly together.
This time, in order to get rid of Fei Can's worries, Liu Chenglin quietly invited Shenzhou to drive Li Rui, Li Rui is now in Shenzhou, and there are not many troops, but they are all elites who have fought many vicious battles with him, Liu Chenglin can't let his troops set up ambushes, just because he is worried about leaking news, and if he wants to kill such a cavalry, the number is small. Liu Chenglin now only has 5,000 armor soldiers under his command, if some of them are inexplicably missing, Fei Can must know that there is fraud, and whether he will be fooled or not, then he has to say twice.
A day later, Liu Chenglin's 5,000-strong army swore to march, the front army took Liu Changfeng as the vanguard, the Chinese army Liu Chenglin carried a large number of siege equipment, and the rear army was led by Hou Fangyu, and the three armies were separated by several miles, advancing rapidly towards Shijiawu.
Although Liu Chenglin concluded that Fei Can would inevitably go to Chengjiabao, he also had to prevent this guy from suddenly attacking him. After all, the high mobility of cavalry is indeed not comparable to that of foot soldiers. What's more, judging from the data, this Fei Can is best at doing this kind of thing.
And just when Liu Chenglin marched into the army, Li Rui's 800 elite soldiers were divided into small groups of men and horses, approaching Chengjiawu, Liu Chenglin's fanfare successfully attracted everyone's attention, no one thought that there was an army subordinate to Shenzhou that had quietly sneaked in. Liu Chenglin even hid Bao Hui, and the others had no way to know.