"Luo thought about it, the only way to do this is to obtain Xiaqu, Tiancheng, and Weijin, and threaten the retreat of the rebels in Yongxing River and Beihai County from behind, what does General Wei think of this method?"

When Bai Liyan (Wei Xian) heard the news, his face remained silent, and he said:

"This plan is quite bold, I wonder how Mr. Luo can bypass the rebels on the way to the west and win the eyes and ears?"

Luo Mou thought, with more than 6,000 cavalry members of the vanguard battalion and the Guangxin Army, to the west, and when the rice was ripe and the autumn harvest was in the west of the capital county, he could return to the city in disguise as a farmer, first take the weak Tiancheng, and then take the farther Weijin, and finally Tuxiaqu. However, this plan has very few troops, and the risk is extremely great, and there is one thing that Luo is still at a loss, and this time he wants to discuss a countermeasure with General Wei. ”

"What Mr. Luo wants to say is that it is possible for the rebels to mobilize the Pucheng army to pursue our cavalry, so as to startle the snake, but is this the case?"

"Oh, General Wei also saw this step?"

"Hehe, it's not a secret, Wei is also here for the three cities of Tuxiaqu, Tiancheng, and Weijin."

Luo Songting was surprised and hurriedly asked:

"So, General Wei has a plan?"

"Exactly, if you want to paralyze the rebels, you must not use cavalry. If the cavalry is dispatched, the rebels of Pucheng will definitely abandon the city to pursue our army, and it will be impossible to capture Tiancheng at that time. ”

"That's with the infantry army? But if you use the infantry army, you won't be caught up by the Pucheng rebels. Luo Songting said.

"Yes, but no. What if the infantry marched hundreds of miles a day and the rebels couldn't catch up? ”

"How is this possible?" Chen Yunfeng was surprised, and then said: "The infantry army can forcibly march for a hundred miles in a day, and there is no possibility of holding it for a long time. ”

"What Brother Yunfeng said is good, the rebels just didn't think of this possibility, so our army had a chance."

At this time, Luo Songting asked:

"What a statement!"

"Mr. Luo's concern is that our cavalry will be dispatched, and the rebels will definitely follow and annihilate with a large army, and send a messenger to make a detour to inform the rear of Xijun to be on guard. In this way, our army will definitely reveal its intentions, not only will it not be able to take the city, but it may also be surrounded because it is desperate after running out of food. Therefore, the infantry army can only go out day and night, and travel hundreds of miles day and night, so that the rebels cannot find out the true intentions of our army. ”

The tactical attitude towards cavalry and infantry was diametrically opposed.

If Guangxin sent 6,000 cavalry, the rebels would have to send at least 20,000 troops, and most likely from Pucheng, not from Dingyang.

And Guangxin stationed a coalition army of nearly 30 people, even if the heart is not aligned, but the rebels will also worry that the Jin army will come to bully more and less, and find psychological comfort, and the whole army will go out to fight the remnants of the defenders of Pucheng, so the 70,000 rebels in Pucheng must be acting in a group, following the Guangxin cavalry to the west, so that the purpose of the sneak attack on Tiancheng will also fail.

And if you don't want to be discovered by the rebels in Pucheng and Dingyang, it is obviously impossible. Therefore, as long as you attack to the west, you will inevitably be discovered by the Black Turban Army

But if it is an infantry army, even if the Black Turban Army finds out, there is no need to send a large number of infantry to surround and intercept it, and the rebels are very likely to dispatch a group of men and horses from outside Dingyang City and Pucheng at the same time to pursue the Guangxin West Progressive Army, so the pressure is much less.

At the same time, the fastest march of the infantry army can confuse the judgment of the rebels, even if the Black Turban Army sent messengers to Tiancheng, Xiaqu, and Weijin to call the police, the three places would never have thought that the road that could only be completed in ten days, the Xian army only took four or five days to force the march to arrive, and the rebels in Tiancheng and other places still wanted to take advantage of the Xian army to rush to harvest rice before the Xian army arrived, and the Xian army arrived in advance.

If it is cavalry, the Black Turban Army will definitely take Shao Ping as an example, and will only take precautions in advance, and will definitely not make the slowest plan, so Luo Songting is worried that it will be difficult to take Tiancheng with cavalry.

Once Tiancheng and Weijin were taken, the rebels' rear defense line was tantamount to a big hole, and a large number of foreigners were involved in the past year.

The rebels in Yongxing River and Beihai County will inevitably have to deploy troops to counterattack, and no matter which one is loosened, it may be counterattacked by the Xian army, and the rebels' plan to besiege Beihai County will also be completely bankrupt.

"This plan is actually very dangerous, if you can't take Tiancheng in one fell swoop, you may be cut off from behind by the rebels due to lack of food. Therefore, this infantry attack is bound to take the city as quickly as lightning speed. ”

Bailiyan's voice fell, and Luo Songting was a little embarrassed:

"It's not difficult to travel 100 miles a day, but it's very difficult to travel more than 100 miles a day for four or five days in a row."

"If you only carry weapons and unload your armor, it is possible to travel a hundred miles a day, or even a hundred or twenty or thirty miles. Mr. Luo can know that the Zhijun Light Infantry can travel seventy miles a day without getting tired while wearing armor, known as the world's fastest brigade, can dominate the Central Plains, in addition to the sky crossbow, its infantry speed is also indispensable. ”

"But the Xian army is not a Zhi army, and it marches hundreds of miles every day, even if it is unarmoured, it is very difficult."

"It's not that it can't be done, but the soldiers of our Xianguo are not as strong and hard-working as the soldiers of the Zhi Army, and the method of training is not the essentials, so it is difficult for the soldiers of our army to be competent for the rapid pace. Now my pioneer battalion has been selected and eliminated 5,000 warriors, 3,000 Zhiguo archers, after two months of practice by Wei, now wearing armor can gallop 70 or 80 miles a day, and it should not be a problem to gallop 100 miles a day after unloading the armor.

With the infantry army advancing westward, even if the rebels sent a warning signal to Tim Cheng in advance, Tim Cheng would definitely not have expected that our army would arrive at Tim Cheng in only half the time. Now that the autumn harvest is approaching, this plan can only be done at this time. ”

At present, the rear of the rebels is busy with the autumn harvest, and the capital county is one of the granary population towns of the Xian country, even if the rebels know that the Xian army is advancing westward, they must harvest the rice as much as possible to dry and store, otherwise after this period, Beihai will soon turn into the autumn rainy season, and the rice will become moldy before it is harvested and dried.

Therefore, even if it was known that the Xian army was marching towards Tiancheng, the direction of Tiancheng would estimate the progress of the Xian army at the normal rapid marching speed, step up the harvesting of rice, and close the city gate one or two days in advance. If the autumn harvest passes, it will be difficult for the Xian army to find fighters to turn the tide of the war, so they can only continue to fight as trapped beasts.

"This plan is very risky, how sure is General Wei?" Luo Songting asked.

"Seventy to eighty!" Bai Liyan affirmed.

"Then General Wei does he need?"

"Prepare 8,000 people, six catties of cooked dried meat per person, and Guangxin City will continue to hold its troops to confuse the rebels."

"Okay, when can you go?"

"Mid-September, before the autumn harvest begins."

The whole journey from Guangxin to Tiancheng is about 700 miles, and it takes 13 to 14 days for a regular march and 8 or 9 days for a rapid march, but it is impossible to march in a hurry every day, so the rapid march generally takes about 10 days.

Most of the autumn harvest in Beihai County began in mid-to-late September, lasting from half a month to 20 days, Bailiyan rushed from Guangxin in the middle of the month, and arrived at Tiancheng just a few days after the autumn harvest, and the rebels would never have thought that the Xian army could rush to Tiancheng within eight days, so they were unprepared.

After agreeing with Luo Songting about the matter, Bai Liyan left the mansion by car and came to the department store at dusk.

Xiao Er went out to meet him, smiled and said:

"Brother Wei, you're here."

"Well, how are the department stores doing these two days?"

"It's all out of stock, there's nothing to sell."

"Yes, has Miss Tang Tao been here?"

"I just came here half an hour ago and sent a note."

"Xiao Nizi is quite quick, let's go, go and have a look."

came to the second floor of the department store, and the note sent by Tang Tao was lying on Xiao Er's desk. The content is very simple, within fifteen days, Zuixiangju produced a total of 27,321 pieces of sugar paste, which seems to be quite a lot, but 8,000 people will be divided into more than three pieces per person, and if it is 780,000 people, one person will be distributed to half a piece.

"Brother Wei, what do you want to sell a lot of sugar paste."

Bai Liyan shook her head and smiled:

"It's for the army, you'll know later."

"Oh...... By the way, in the afternoon, Ding Caidong asked someone to bring a letter from the Jin Kingdom. ”

"Yes, the messenger?"

"I said I was back to Yongxing River, and the letter is here."

After rummaging through a stack of ledgers for a moment, Xiao Er handed over the letter.

Ding Su went to the Jin Kingdom for almost a year, and the goods of Yongxing City were intermittently sent to the northern land of the Jin Kingdom through the port of Dongyuan County, and then transported to the Jin Kingdom and the Song Kingdom for sale through Ding Su's trading house.

"Brother Wei, what did Ding Caidong say in the letter?"

"The wall fell down and everyone pushed it, the tree fell down and pulled it out overnight, and the Jin State saw that the Xianguo was about to die, and the Jin State seized the goods of the Xianguo merchants in the country."

"Then Ding Caidong is fine."

"He is hiding in the Song Kingdom, and he is fine for the time being. However, some goods were lost, and it is estimated that they will not come back. This time, we stopped shipping, and he took the opportunity to go to the countries of the West Sea. ”

In Bai Liyan's view, the current Jin State is more like a rogue country, with no bottom line and no principles, and no basic political credibility and sense of morality.

Of course, morality is essentially a pale and powerless political slogan in the face of the jungle, and the Jin state's large-scale seizure of the goods and capital of the merchants of the Xian State is to cut off the economic arteries of the Xian State, so as to force the Xian State to bow its head, or simply collapse the domestic economy of the Xian State, and remove the obstacles for the Jin State to finally take over.

Ding Su's letter was a long letter, in addition to accusing the Jin State of rogue behavior, it also mentioned four other things, one was the rumor about the defense line of Qianyue Mountain.

The Song State was recruiting troops on a large scale, and it was rumored that the army would be expanded to 400,000 people, probably because Jin Xuedi's scouts had infiltrated the defense line of Qianyue Mountain, and realized that it was no longer the Xu army that was guarding the western section of the defense line of Qianyue Mountain, but was replaced by the Yuke Army, so as to judge that the Central Plains was in a civil war and there was a possibility of a large-scale invasion of the north.

Since the border of the Song State was more than 2,000 miles away from the defense line of Qianyue Mountain, Ding Su was in the hinterland of the Song State, and he did not know the specific situation of the defense line of Qianyue Mountain, and most of it was hearsay.

For the Song State, a plateau country with a population comparable to that of the Xian State and a land area larger than the Jin State, the expansion of the army to a population of 400,000 is almost the strength of the whole country.

After all, although the Black Turban Army was far away, the Song State bordered the southern part of the Xu State and the Zhi State, and its northwest side was inserted into the southeast border of the Xu State like a protrusion, which was very close to the area where the Xu State and the Black Turban Army were fighting.

The second thing is that the three barbarians of the West Sea, Qiushan, and the Martyrs have ceased war with the Chen State and the Zhao State, and reopened the border Rongchang Mutual Market, and the gold of the Western Tapir, Qiushan, and Martyr Nationality is expected to flow out again.