Holding the latest battle report from Pucheng, above the Xi'an Governor's Hall, Governor Li Yingzhi frowned deeply.

The story told in this battle report really made him deeply puzzled by what the thieves had done.

Raising his head, he looked inquiringly at Du Wenhuan, the chief soldier who was sitting stiffly opposite, and when he looked at it, Du Wenhuan's face was full of worry.

Du Wenhuan as a senior general, playing a small army, starting from the general's side to send orders, after decades of fighting with the Mongolian Tartars on the battlefield, every station must behead the enemy, the history books say: the first year of the Apocalypse, and then the town of Yansui. Zhao Wenhuan aided Liao, thousands of miles to aid Liao, it was simply a chaotic fate, but Du Wenhuan sent troops out of the Hetao and smashed the nest to Kou. The tribes hated, went deep into Guyuan and Qingyang, surrounded Yan'an, threatened to bind Wenhuan, and plundered for more than ten days. Ordered to be dismissed pending investigation. Extravagant Chongming besieged Chengdu, and the governor Zhang I continued to ask Ling Wenhuan to come to the rescue. At the end of the siege, the siege was lifted, and the army returned to Chongqing. Chongming escaped Yongning, and Wen Huan did not advance. Looking for the prime minister, he will command the Sichuan, Guizhou, and Huguang armies. You can't control the thief, thank you for your illness. Sitting on the crime of Yansui wreck, on the side. Seven years, starting from Ningxia. Ning and Jin warned the police, Zhao Wenhuan rushed to help, and the Russian order was divided into Ningyuan. Enter the right governor and guard the gate. Seek to lead the way.

In the first year of Chongzhen, he recorded Chongqing's merits and commanded the affairs. In three years, the Shaanxi group of thieves started, and the five towns were in charge of the king. Governor Yang He asked Wenhuan to extend the town affairs and supervise the original army. The ministry will set up a general to coordinate the discussion of the mountain and Shaanxi armies. It was to make Wen Huan the admiral.

The above resume is also an outlier among the Ming generals. Therefore, Governor Li Yingzhi admired this military general with real talent and real learning in his heart, not to mention, when the Tartars committed the border every year in the border areas and the mainland was full of bandits, this cautious and brave general soldier was relied on by Li Yingqi, so in this Ming Dynasty, there was a rare situation of civil and military compatibility, and it became a model mentioned by the emperor several times.

"General Li, what do you think this thief is going to do?" Li Yingzhi handed the Pucheng battle report to Du Wenhuan.

Du Wenhuan took the battle report, but he didn't read it. In fact, he can't understand even if he reads it, as a martial artist, being an illiterate martial artist is the most reassuring to the imperial court, and only then can he have the opportunity to be promoted, what is said in the history books that he is both civil and military, in this Ming Dynasty, there is no difference between looking for death and going to prison? But in fact, although he didn't know how to write and ink, the wife of the family was in the bedroom, constantly reading military books and war strategies to himself, so that he could achieve the current great future of his great military achievements, which is the secret of the two of them.

In particular, he was criticized several times for his dismissal, which made his mind more cautious, and this time he had to be retained by the governor Yang He, not to go east to the king, but also felt that he had a heavy responsibility on his shoulders, and he did not dare to hate the literati in everything, and bad for the king's affairs, so he did things more tremblingly, in his feeling, in the face of internal strife, far more than the battle against the enemy.

"My lord, what did Pucheng County Zun say?"

Li Yingzhi knew that he was a soldier who did not learn the language, so he no longer let him read it, and briefly told him the contents of the book with a heavy heart: "Pucheng County ordered Liu Guoxiao and the garrison Zhang 15 to report that the thieves were not as eager to attack the county seat as we imagined, but divided the troops and took out a long-term trapping posture. Looking at his trusted colleague partner, he couldn't help but sigh worriedly.

Du Wenhuan was stunned when he heard this, but in fact, there were too many elements of drama in this stunned, because, at the beginning, when he was formulating the powerful and exquisite plan for the Battle of Weinan, Du Wenhuan, as an old military officer, scoffed at the wishful thinking plan formulated by this group of literati.

First of all, this dignified army, minus those guards that have really rotted, the garrison still has strong combat effectiveness, and against the thieves, why do you want to defend it? Not to mention whether this method is right or wrong, it is already discarded in terms of military morale, which is not advisable.

Second, it is not advisable for these literati to look at the current thieves with the eyes of a normal view of the rogue pole.

The Rogue Pole did not dare or was able to attack the city, especially the fortified city that had been repaired for hundreds of years. And these scribes, one by one, wishful thinking that they can rely on the siege warfare that has been preached in the books to consume the strength of the thieves, and reach the kind of fortified city as mentioned in the war book, waiting for the veterans of the thief division to be tired, and have a daydream-like combination of inside and outside, and the battle will be decided.

Although, due to the geographical location of this Pucheng, even people with a little strategic vision will know how to deal with it, not to mention the thieves who show too much ability, for Pucheng, the hub of Weinan that contacts the thieves, it is absolutely imperative to attack and besiege the city.

However, even so, with a mere 5,000 poles that had just been surrendered, and 10,000 hastily prepared signatories to guard Pucheng, and in the face of thieves who were so powerful that they had already defeated the official army several times and dozens of times their combat power, where was there any chance of victory?

What's more, the foreign aid that was relied on at the beginning is now going to King Gyeonggi Qinwang, where is there still the strength to cooperate with the outside? This change completely trapped the defenders of Pucheng in a desperate situation.

However, I know all this, but I can't say it, not because of the battle of will, but because I don't have the opportunity to interject.

Now this paper war report is confirming the result he least wants to see, besiege the city, but not attack, so what is he going to do?

With Lu Shi's habits of action, he would not compete with the officials and troops for one city and one place at all, consuming the manpower he least wanted to consume, but besieging Pucheng, slowly consuming the officials and troops, and then during this period, calmly occupying the surrounding countryside, reducing rent, reducing interest, dividing fields and land, and so on.

Now this siege of the city, the elite soldiers are under the fortified city, with their own shortcomings, and the enemy's strength, what does that mean? Conspiracy, no, this is no longer a conspiracy, this is a conspiracy.

Under the long-term difficulty, Pucheng had to be saved, and then, continue to exert his field ability, consume the few remaining officers and troops in the field, and wait for the officers and troops to be gone, then Weinan, no, then the whole Shaanxi will become an undefended world, what is the next step? Even the blind can see it.

Alas - what can you see? Don't you have to be led by the nose and jump into some big hole?

So, Du Wenhuan carefully owed his body and asked in a low voice: "I don't know how much the thieves have attacked the city in the past few days?" ”

Li Yingzhi saw the governor asking, and said solemnly: "The war report said that the thieves also knew that my Pucheng was impregnable, so they did not attack the city, but only practiced every day. ”

"Hiss-" Du Ruhuan heard this, couldn't help but take a breath of cold air, and said secretly in his heart: "Sure enough, it seems that this thief has seen our plan, which is the opposite of waiting for work, annihilating our reinforcements who went to rescue one by one, as long as the reinforcements from all over the country are wiped out, then the whole of Weinan will become an empty field, and only one victory will achieve what you want." ”

"General, why don't you breathe inhale? Is there something wrong here? Li Yingzhi hurriedly asked if this was a famous general in a hundred battles.

"My lord, the thief, not the Liukou compared, the Liukou has no ability to use the method of siege and the consumption of the official army, now he sits on the seven counties, and under his rectification, the seven counties have a large population and abundant food and grass, and now he is putting on this posture, in fact-" I just wanted to say that the thief had seen the details of his own waiting, and it might be a way to do the plan, but I suddenly remembered that this strategy was made by those literati, especially with the governor and the Yan Suihong Chengchou leading the customization, if it was said that the thieves saw through, wouldn't it lose the governor's face? So, the conversation changed and said: "Actually, it may be a fight with the defenders in our city." Peeking at the governor's face, he saw that he was dignified and did not have any suspicion, so he said again: "Although Pucheng is rich, but the population is also large, if it is really hard to consume, within March, there will be a phenomenon of starving to death, at that time, there is no grain and grass inside, no reinforcements outside, Pucheng will be in danger." ”

When Li Yingqi heard General Du's words, his original frowning brows stretched, and he smiled and said: "But I'm not afraid, how much grain and grass can be grown in the barren land of just seven counties?" How can it be compared to my province? What's more, as long as the thieves stop under Pucheng for a month, if they want to improve their morale, their baggage will fall into a trough. Speaking of this, he tilted his head and said proudly: "If it is really according to what General Du said, wouldn't the thief be in my urn?" At that time, a great victory for the officers and troops was just around the corner. ”

Looking at the somewhat proud governor, Du Wenhuan couldn't help but shake his head secretly, but for the sake of the king's affairs and his own future, he reminded again in a low voice and carefully: "What my lord said is that thieves are thieves after all, and they can't become a climate if they are not moral, but what I am most worried about is that the thieves have seen through our clever plan, take the encirclement point to send reinforcements, and then annihilate our reinforcements on the way. ”

"Is this-" Li Yingqi heard this, and also felt that things were not as perfect as he thought, and it seemed that there was really such a possibility.

In fact, if there was no full Tartar to enter Kou Jinggi, the emperor issued an edict to the king of the whole country and transferred the regular army of the whole Shaanxi, Li Yingqi was still very sure of defeating the thieves, but the bad thing is that when he and Hong Chengchou had planned a complete plan to encircle them on all sides, there was such a thing, and he had to transfer troops to King Qin, breaking the perfect plan between himself and Hong Chengchou, so that the thief had a chance to live.

The king of the army Qin, there is no way to change, the rest is not in the actual sequence of the official army Xiangyong and the garrison troops and guards in various places, and there is a new surrender of the non-muddy part, helpless, can only write with Hong Chengchou to leave this soldier in Shaanxi to deal with the thieves, now it seems that leaving him is indeed worth 100,000 soldiers.

The whole hall fell into a dead silence, and the sun outside converged with the sound of knowing it endlessly, which added to the dead silence of the lobby.

"According to the general, what should we do?" Li Yingqi asked modestly.

Du Ruhuan didn't feel a toothache, this is a hot potato, and now it is in his hands, in fact, he should also be thrown in his own hands, after all, he is the military governor of this province, and he is duty-bound.

"It's not a way to be trapped after all, isn't it, let the officials and soldiers of Pucheng go out of the city and tentatively harass the thieves?" Don't talk about attack, only about temptation, but it's helpless, attack the thief? Everyone knows the consequences.

Li Yingqi thought about it and nodded helplessly. Only this method allows the thieves to be constantly harassed without mud, and has the effect of exhausting the soldiers, so that the thieves have to attack Pucheng, and then walk the established policy.

After walking to the table, Li Yingqi lifted the pen with difficulty, and stopped writing several times, this pen went down, what is the consequence, but it has changed in every way, Pucheng everyone, ask for more blessings.

(I don't feel like this chapter is written, it's awkward)