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Chapter 474 I guessed

Fang Xie spent a day memorizing the names and appearances of all the officers above the sixth rank, which was not a difficult task for Fang Jie, who had an extraordinary memory. Fang Xie always believes that a qualified general not only needs wisdom and experience and good martial arts, but also needs the most rigorous attitude.

Over the next few days, Fang Xie began to familiarize himself with the cottage. He personally visited each battalion, and then sat down in the barracks to talk to the junior officers above the ranks.

And Nie Xiaoju only took five days to embroider a brand-new flag. In addition to a golden flying dragon symbolizing the Great Sui, there are four bright red characters on the black flag.

Black flag kills wolves

Fang Xie likes this banner very much, it is thick and solemn.

After the embroidery of this large flag, the previous dragon flag was hung on the flagpole of the school grounds, and then Nie Xiaoju began to work on his second work. It's still a black flag, but there's only one word on it.

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After Li Xiaozong's cronies were cleared, the vacancies in the team were filled by Mou Liangbi. After Mou Liangbi died, Fang Xie did not kill one more person, and according to the meaning of the previous false holy decree, everyone was promoted to the next level, and the generals still performed their duties. Everyone thought that Fang Xie would dismantle his cronies into the team, but except for a Wupin general who was afraid of being implicated and fled because he was too close to Mou Liangbi, Fang Xie did not change anyone.

Fang Xie turned the Shanzi Battalion and the Yangzi Battalion into his own personal battalions, and sent Chen Yishan to replace the fleeing general and command the men and horses of the three folding battalions.

Counting up, there are not many people killed by Fang Jie.

Only those who were sent out by Mou Liangbi to ambush and kill the Qincha were executed.

In addition, Fang Xie selected another 500 people from the team and handed them over to Chen Xiaoru, Yan Madness and Nie Xiaoju for training. These people are trained to be sent out and put on the outside as the eyes of the Black Flag Army.

On the twentieth day of Fang Jie's army, he summoned all the generals to discuss the matter.

"It's already February, and the weather in the northwest will be warmer in another month. Although it is not as good as the hinterland of the Central Plains, at least it will not be cold anymore and you can't even take it out. If nothing else, the imperial army will intensify its offensive against the rebels in February, after all, it has already advanced to a place only a few hundred miles away from Xiangzhou. Xiangzhou is the foundation of Li Yuanshan, and all his forces are also shrinking back to defense. It seems that the decisive battle should not be too far away. ”

Fang Xie became the leader of the Black Flag Army, and Sun Kaidao's status naturally became higher and higher. Fang Xie respected him as a military advisor, and he was above 10,000 people under one person in the Black Flag Army. When Sun Kaidao chatted with Chen Yishan and others in private, he said with some pride, I am not as good as a general when I look at the overall situation, but I am not as good as a general when I look at the overall situation.

Someone told Fang Xie this sentence, and Fang Xie just laughed it off.

After Sun Kaidao said this, he walked to the map and said: "All the generals are more familiar with the fierce battle of Mandu Banner than me, Li Yuanshan opened the defensive line and led the Mengyuan barbarians to go around the back of the guards and horses to sneak attack, so that the whole army collapsed. And just before that, the reinforcements sent by the Mengyuan royal court had not participated in the battle, and the people of the Mandu Banner were allowed to fight and retreat. This is actually to lead the army to the west without stopping, and the cavalry of the Mengyuan royal court will not begin to participate in the battle until the army occupies the entire Mandu banner. ”

"Whether this strategy was conceived by Li Yuanshan, or by Meng Yuan, the Great Khan of Meng Yuan, or by Meng Lie, the special service of Meng Yuan, who led the troops, it cannot be said that it is not poisonous. Use a Mandu flag as bait to lure our army step by step into the trap he designed. ”

When everyone heard him mention the fierce battle again, everyone's faces were a little unnatural. They all survived the great war, and that fierce battle is a dream that they will never get rid of in this life.

After Sun Kaidao finished speaking, he glanced at everyone and said, "And now, Li Yuanshan seems to be repeating his old tricks again." ”

He pointed to the map and said: "The news sent back by the spies is that the rebels in Shannan Province will collapse at the first touch, and they will abandon Shannan Road and retreat to Shandong Road in just half a month. Shi Lei, a rebel general who was deployed in Hexi Road, also retreated step by step, and deployed about 400 miles east of Xiangzhou. The rebels of Yin Poshan were forced by Luo Yao to retreat to the north of Mangdang Mountain, and the left avant-garde had already entered Shandong Province. You see......"

Sun Kaidao drew a semicircle on the map: "The rebels are shrinking on all fronts, and the imperial army is victorious. This...... Does it look like another Mandu Flag trap? It may seem slightly different, but at the end of the day, it is not different. At the beginning, the Mengyuan people gave up a Mandu banner to lure the western army westward, and now Li Yuanshan used the people he sent to forcibly capture as bait. ”

"Over the past two years, Li Yuanshan has continued to expand the army, and constantly instigated his subordinates to forcibly kidnap the people to join the army, and now it seems that he is waiting for the arrival of the imperial army. He used these rebels, who were huge in number but had no combat power at all, and he would not feel sorry for him even if they were killed. The continuous defeats and the continuous deaths led the imperial court to march forward step by step. It is said that the three roads of the imperial court have killed more than 600,000 enemies, but such a brilliant record is not gratifying at all! Because these people are the abandoned sons thrown by Li Yuanshan. ”

After hearing him say this, all the generals in the big tent gasped.

"What the military advisor means, Li Yuanshan is repeating his old tricks!"

Lu Fenghou was surprised: "No wonder the cavalry of the Mengyuan barbarians has not withdrawn from the northwest, Li Yuanshan knows that those barbarians are useless to stay, but he still supplies them with a large amount of money and grain. These barbarians swept away most of the northwest like locusts crossing the border, and they never helped Li Yuanshan fight. I heard that Li Yuanshan's subordinates also had many dissatisfactions, and they all hoped that Li Yuanshan would let the Mengyuan cavalry retreat to the grassland. Now it seems that if the military advisor guessed correctly, then the more than 200,000 wolf riders who stayed in Shandong Road were waiting for the opportunity to show their swords for the second time. ”

Lu Fenghou's temperament directly thought of this, and these veritable generals in the big tent naturally understood it.

"It's a little worse."

Wupin General Xiahou Baichuan pondered for a while and said, "If Li Yuanshan wants to repeat his old tricks, then there is still one condition missing. At the beginning, Li Yuanshan calculated that the reason why the imperial court's expedition to the west was so successful was because he did the most crucial thing, opening the defense line and letting the Mengyuan wolf ride around the back of the army. The current situation is different from that time, Li Yuanshan guarded Xiangzhou, and his generals arranged the defense line on a semicircle three or four hundred miles away from Xiangzhou...... If the Meng Yuan people wanted to go around behind the imperial army like they did last time, who was the one who opened the line of defense? ”

After he finished speaking, the atmosphere in the big tent immediately became a little solemn.

This time, His Majesty drove the expedition in person, and only brought more than 200,000 soldiers, most of whom were brave. Those brave men were recruited before the war, and it is impossible to have any collusion with Li Yuanshan. Then there are not many goals......

All eyes were fixed on a location on the map, their faces solemn.

Mangdang Mountain North

The left avant-garde of the Great Sui

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Sun Kaidao was silent for a moment and then said, "Luo Yao's left avant-garde has crossed the Yishui, and hundreds of thousands of troops are forcing the rebels of Yin Poshan to retreat step by step. If nothing else, it won't take half a month for the left avant-garde to join forces with the imperial army......"

Chen Yishan's face has not been very good-looking, in fact, he has long thought of who Sun Kaidao refers to. He also knows that this is the most reasonable idea at the moment. But after all, he was born in the left avant-garde, after all, he has been a soldier under Luo Yao for more than 20 years. Now everyone pointed the finger at Luo Yao, but he couldn't speak.

Fang Xie glanced at Chen Yishan, his eyes were gentle. He bowed slightly to Chen Yishan, signaling that he didn't have to worry.

Chen Yishan nodded gratefully, and then took a deep breath: "If this is Li Yuanshan's conspiracy, can the military advisor have a way to crack it?" ”

"It's not a conspiracy"

Sun Kaidao shook his head: "If the arrangement of the first half can still be regarded as a conspiracy, then the arrangement of Li Yuanshan in the back is a conspiracy." ”

Seeing that everyone was puzzled, Sun Kaidao explained: "Since you and I can think of this, will Your Majesty be an immortal Ming Jun who can't think of it? Everyone knew that Luo Yao was unreliable, and His Majesty naturally knew it too. But there was no way to stop it, Luo Yao's left avant-garde crossed the river and entered Shandong Road, even if His Majesty ordered Luo Yao to return to the south of Yishui with his troops, Luo Yao would definitely not retreat. Anyone can see how the next thing happens, and it's not a conspiracy. Therefore, Li Yuanshan's strategy can be called unsolvable, as long as the imperial army comes, he will walk into this trap. And in the first half, he used conspiracy to build momentum, and once this momentum was formed, everything became transparent and bright. ”

"This momentum has now taken shape, so it seems that the imperial army has been winning consecutive battles to regain lost ground, but in fact, it is Li Yuanshan who has the advantage...... Once this momentum is formed, unless the imperial army immediately retreats, stationing and defending next to Luoshui, and does not show its back, then Meng Yuan's cavalry will never have a chance to go around the back of the army. But will Your Majesty retreat? ”

This sentence he asked Fang Jie.

He looked at Fang Xie and waited for Fang Xie to give an answer. None of the people present knew the emperor better than Fang Jie, so he was the only one who could give everyone this answer. However, Fang Xie frowned and fell into deep thought, as if he didn't see Sun Kaidao's inquiring eyes at all. Perhaps it was Sun Kaidao's previous words that made him suddenly think of something, and the questions that had been circling in his mind were gradually unraveled.

Lu Fenghou opened his mouth to remind Fang Jie, but Sun Kaidao shook his head to stop him.

Everyone turned their eyes to Fang Jie, waiting for Fang Xie to come back from his contemplation. I don't know what Fang Xie thought of, his brows were locked deeper and deeper. He didn't notice that everyone was looking at him, and his face became more and more solemn.

In this way, after a full stick of incense, Fang Jie's face suddenly changed.

He jerked his head up, his eyes full of horror.

Everyone was surprised, and they didn't know what was wrong with the general.

"Not good!"

Fang Xie stood up and strode out: "Don't disperse first, just wait here, and the military advisor will go back with me." Someone, please come to my study to discuss matters! ”

In the surprised eyes of everyone, Fang Xie walked away quickly.

This bad sound made everyone's hearts tighten.

Sun Kaidao signaled to everyone not to panic, and he strode to the study with the pace of the above solution. Fang Xie walked in front and whispered, "Sir, have you ever remembered that Your Majesty gave me a secret decree?" ”

"Remember"

Sun Kaidao replied: "I can't figure it out after listening to the general, I can't guess what His Majesty's arrangement is, and I can't guess when His Majesty wants the general to return to Chang'an City. ”

"I guessed ......"

Fang Xie said in a heavy tone, as heavy as he had never been.

Sun Kaidao was taken aback, and he had a premonition from Fang Jie's tone that something important was about to happen. He had been following Fang Xie for half a year, and he had never seen such an unnatural expression on Fang Jie's face, it was actually ...... Fluster. He couldn't think of what kind of big thing could make Fang Xie panic.