Chapter 588: Sending Troops to Faith

This time, Ali Hague and Arakhan suffered a big loss, and slapped their four most trusted henchmen from the deputy commander to a small soldier, which made them feel distressed, but they were helpless.

The two generals of the Yuan people who really took refuge in Shi Bin couldn't sleep at night when they saw the results of the four people, knowing that this was Shi Bin's conspiracy. I am afraid that one day I will be demoted to a pawn like those four people, or even a pawn, because they are not descendants and will not be extrajudicial to show mercy. Who told them to sign and draw the charge?

In this way, Shi Bin was given an opportunity to send Xu Feng across the river to contact the two again. explained the reason to them clearly, and at the same time let them understand that they had no way back except to obey Shi Bin wholeheartedly.

And the first order that Shi Bin asked Xu Feng to bring them was that they must make every effort to seize control of the city gates of Zhending and Xinde. Even if you can't control them all, you must take control of one gate per city.

This order is not very difficult to achieve, although they are not descendants, but four seats are vacant, just send more benefits, and say more good things.

It's just that Shi Bin has to come out of this benefit, he doesn't feel distressed when he shakes his hands, Jia Ling and Sai Xishi, the two iron hens, are very distressed, and the two of them have a big quarrel with Shi Bin on this matter. However, for the sake of the overall situation, the two finally agreed to give two thousand taels of silver, and the rest must be resolved by the two rebels.

Since they are not people with one tendon, of course, the two Yuan generals still have some brains, and after some effort, the two of them each controlled the two gates of Zhending and Xinde.

Hebei's preparations had reached a stage, and Shi Bin immediately ordered the two to lie dormant in order to prevent leaks, waiting for him to lead his troops to attack the city.

Because the relationship with Zhao Kui and Lu Wende was repaired well this time, and the exchange of interests was also very good, the two of them were both cheerful and generous. Within a year, the two of them sent Shi Bin 350,000 stone grain, 50,000 taels of silver, and 20,000 elites. And said that once the war starts, the rest will be made up together.

is not an insatiable person, Shi Bin knew that the two of them had been under a lot of pressure to do this, so they each sent a sincere letter of thanks.

Now that the food and soldiers and horses have arrived, the end of the war is about to begin. Shi Bin immediately summoned Wang San, Jia Ling and Sai Xishi to a meeting.

"Big brother, I heard that most of the food and salary promised by Zhao Kui and the soldiers and horses promised by Lu Wende have arrived?" Wang San asked with a smile.

"Yes, Zhao Kui sent 350,000 stone grain and 50,000 taels of silver, and Lu Wende sent 20,000 elites, and they said that once the war started, the rest would be replenished quickly." Shi Bin replied with a smile.

This answer undoubtedly made everyone present very happy, because Zhending and Xinde had already planted two big mines, and Shi Bin's side had enough soldiers and food, once this battle started, how could it be unwinnable?

"Then shall we strike Zhending or Xinde first? Zhending is the seat of Hebei West Road and an important town. Defeating it will definitely greatly deter the Yuan people, but the risk will be much greater, and it may be attacked from both the north and the south. Faith is not as important as Zhending, but it is also a very important bridgehead, and it is of great significance to take it down. Wang San said.

"Brother Xian means to attack Sindh first?"

"Yes, big brother. After taking Sindh, we can attack and retreat, and we can bear certain defeats, but Zhending is not. If the attack is not smooth, it may get into a quagmire, and it will be paid

It will take a lot of money to withdraw. ”

"What do you mean?" Shi Bin looked at Jia Ling and Sai Xishi.

"I think Wang San is right." Jia Ling opened his mouth and said, "Even if Lu Wende really gives us 30,000 horses, and Song Ting gets tens of thousands of horses to fill the façade, our total strength will not exceed 150,000 at most, and the one that can really fight will not exceed 90,000." So pick up the soft persimmons and pinch them first. ”

"Sister Ling is right, this time our strength is insufficient, and it is a siege war, we should pick up soft persimmons and pinch them first, and then talk about it when we have a place to stand in Hebei." Sai Xi Shi said.

"Okay, let's strike faith first. And we must make good use of the generals who have taken refuge in us, and strive to get down in one go, so as not to fall into a stalemate. Shi Bin said.

When the meeting was about to end, Xu Feng said softly: "My lord, did we miss something." ”

What's missing? Shi Bin didn't understand, Wang San didn't understand, and Jia Ling and Sai Xishi didn't understand. It seemed to them that the plan was very well thought out and that nothing would be missed.

Looking at Shi Bin with a puzzled expression, Xu Feng reminded: "Haven't you forgotten your promise to Zhao Zaifu?" ”

"Promise? My promise to him is to return it to the imperial court after recovering the old land, do you think I will? Shi Bin smiled.

"My lord misunderstood, the lowly office does not refer to this promise, and if you agree to this promise in time, neither the two ladies nor the brothers will agree to it. The promise of a thousand people coming from the lowly position. ”

As soon as he heard Xu Feng's words, Shi Bin really remembered the promise he made to Zhao Kui before, 'If the Yuan people have only a thousand soldiers and horses, they will not take the initiative to attack, and they can only defend passively'.

Thinking of this promise, Shi Bin was like a deflated ball, a little frustrated.

Suddenly I felt that I had fallen into Zhao Kui's old horseman's plan, the Yellow River was more than ten miles wide, and if the Yuan people wanted to attack, they would either be a small group of cavalry to investigate, or they would wave a large army to attack. The number of 1,000 was very embarrassing, which not only alarmed the defense of the Song army, but also could not play much role, but would be surrounded and annihilated because the target was too large. Therefore, there will be no such a lone army crossing the river to harass at all.

As for the Yuan people to attack with a large army, I don't know when to go, although sooner or later it will be fought, but Shi Bin doesn't like the initiative in the hands of the Yuan people, he wants to take the initiative.

"Xu Feng, tell me what you can do." Shi Bin asked.

"My lord, across a big river, forgive me for my incompetence, there is no way for the time being." Xu Feng said ashamedly.

"It doesn't have to be like this, I also want to thank you for reminding me of this, otherwise I would have broken my faith one more time. Although I will definitely lose my trust after defeating Hebei, it is always good to lose my trust once. ”

"Thank you, sir." Xu Feng said happily.

"It's okay, then you all think about it, how can we take the initiative to attack the Yuan people to take Zhending and Xinde, but what if we don't break our promises?" Shi Bin asked.

"Big brother, if you want to get fat without breaking your word, then you must have Yuan people to attack, and there are no less than a thousand people." "But that's almost impossible at the moment." Since it's really impossible, let's make some fakes. ”

The people in the house are all smart people, where can't they hear what Wang San means? A sly smile appeared on everyone's face, and they all smiled and nodded to Wang San in admiration.

"Brother Xian, do you mean to let us have a fake and a real one? A thief shouts to catch a thief? Shi Bin smiled.

"Exactly!"

Shi Binli

Ke expressed his support for the plan, but at the same time wondered how to make the play more realistic. After all, when the Yuan people attacked, they would not only ride horses in the east of the river, but also do some things to intercept and kill. And this time, the 'Yuan people' can't mess around, they have to set the rules, what things can be done, what things can't be done, who can rob, who can't rob, and so on.

Soon the rules were set, and a thousand 'Yuanren' cavalry appeared in the east of the river, shouting the words of the Yuanren and plundering everywhere. It's just that no one was killed in vain from beginning to end.

Since the Yuan people have appeared, Shi Bin naturally wants to lead the army to encircle and annihilate them. So he mobilized nearly 20,000 horses in the four counties to chase and intercept, and finally annihilated the 1,000 'Yuan army' outside Taiyuan City.

The battle report was delivered to Zhao Kui in an expedited manner of six hundred miles. Ben wasn't going to believe it, because it didn't seem to him possible. The Yuan people would not be brainless enough to send a thousand lonely soldiers to Shi Bin's territory to seek their own death. It's just that the spies in Hedong told him that there were indeed thousands of people who were surrounded and annihilated in Shilipu outside Taiyuan City.

This made Zhao Kui believe it even if he didn't believe it, so he had to keep his promise to mobilize more grain, grass and troops to go to Hedong to support Shi Bin's march into the West Hebei Road.

Looking at the continuous grain trucks, baggage trucks and soldiers, Shi Bin was ecstatic. This means that as long as you plan well, even if you can't take the entire Hebei West Road in one fell swoop, there will definitely be no problem in capturing Zhending and Xinde.

Ali Hague and Arakhan were puzzled by this, they certainly did not send a lone army of 1,000 people to Hedong to make trouble, and they did not think that the guards of the other state capitals would do such a brainless thing. The only explanation is that there is a conspiracy. And the two of them couldn't see through what this conspiracy was, so in the end they could only further strengthen the defense level of the two cities, and respond to all changes with no change.

On the day of the dispatch, Shi Bin delivered a stirring speech, making all his soldiers want to rush into the city to kill the Yuan people. And divided the 150,000 horses into two groups, the first group of 100,000 horses and 60,000 elites, Shi Bin and Lu Wende 30,000 each, and the remaining 40,000 were the old soldiers of the Song Dynasty. The remaining 50,000 soldiers were Shi Bin's 30,000 elites and Song Ting's 20,000 old soldiers.

Relying on the southern soldiers who were good at water warfare, Shi Bin used 30,000 Lu Wende's men to seize all the docks controlled by the Yuan people overnight, and sent the first batch of 100,000 horses across the Yellow River within ten days.

Suddenly, seeing so many Song troops rushing in, and obviously most of them were elites, the defenders of those county towns either abandoned the city and fled, or Kaicheng surrendered. Until the city of Sindh, Shi Bin did not encounter a single decent resistance.

Although he did not suffer any resistance along the way, Shi Bin was not very happy in his heart, because this showed that many Yuan troops were not wiped out, but retreated into the city of Xindefu. In this case, the defenders in the city will have at least 70,000 troops, and the difficulty of attacking the city will increase a lot. Even if there is an internal response, the price to pay to lay down faith is not small.

And if the time drags on too long, and the Yuan people calm down and send troops to help, Shi Bin's situation will be much more critical. So he immediately sent someone quietly into the city to contact the general who decided to be the defender of the city.

Shi Bin was satisfied with the answer he brought back, the general of the Yuan people held the control of the two city gates, although there was a deputy general who was in the way, but with some tactics he could relieve this trouble. Because Shi Bin came to attack and was like a bamboo, the people in the city were panicked, which made Ali Hague uneasy, but he didn't plan to ask for help from Arakhan, and he would support it for a while.

Shi Bin naturally wanted to make good use of this time, so he surrounded Xinde and lacked one.