Chapter 31: A Thousand Sails Enter the Cave Court III

Ma Luan came quickly.

Although Ma Luan is recuperating, there are many things in Yueyang City that cannot be hidden from Ma Luan.

The scene of Qianfan entering the cave court naturally can't be hidden.

Although Ma Luan is not very proficient in the art of war, he can also read the different charms. Naturally, he didn't care about the subtleties, so he hurried to see Li Guo. Li Guo didn't say a word, and immediately said: "Zhang Xuan is bold, he is ready to attack Changsha directly. ”

When Ma Luan heard this, even though he was mentally prepared, he was still shocked and said, "General Li, what should I do now?" ”

Li Guo said: "Siege Wei to save Zhao." ”

Immediately, Li Guo explained in detail.

Very simply, although Zhang Xuan is swimming against the current, the speed of the army in the water is far above the land, and now although the Ming army still has some ships, they are not large at all, and they cannot compete with the sailors of the Xia army.

So the best way is to go north. forced Zhang Xuan to come back to help.

Li Guo said: "I am going to ask General Gao for troops, and when the time comes, the troops will be divided into two routes, our army will storm Wuchang, and General Gao will attack Jiangling, and the two roads will be launched together." Thinking about it, Zhang Xuan couldn't sit still under Changsha City. This is the only way Li Guo can think of after thinking about it.

Although Zhang Xuan bypassed Yueyang City, there were still Linxiang He Tengjiao's department behind, Changsha still had tens of thousands of horses, and even to the east of Changsha, as well as Zhang Kuang's department, and even south of Changsha, each province could also draw out some troops, as little as more than a thousand, and as many as thousands.

Therefore, Li Guo felt that Changsha City could only be defended to the death, and it would not be able to be captured within a month or two. If Longwu has Gao Shiheng's ability, as when he was guarding Kaifeng, he insisted on it for half a year. Zhang Xuan had absolutely no way to maintain himself under Changsha City for half a year, especially when Li Guo and Gao Yigong went north.

This is the most effective approach.

Many times, you can't be led by the nose, if you can beat yours, I will beat mine.

The reason why Li Guo did this was that he actually had a little confidence in Longwu in his heart. After all, in Li Guo's eyes, Longwu is still a promising king.

Ma Luan listened, but what he thought in his heart was different from Li Guo. What Li Guo thinks is if he wins the battle. And what Ma Luan thought, of course, has the element of how to win the battle, but he also has other ideas, the first thing he thought of was that the Xia army bypassed Yueyang and went south, who should bear this responsibility.

Ma Luan can't shirk this responsibility if he wants to.

And in the face of the threat to the capital, even His Majesty was alarmed, and at this time, he had to counterattack. And not trying to save the driver. Isn't it a sin on top of a sin?

Even Ma Luan did not hesitate to use the greatest malice to figure out Li Guo's thoughts, and said secretly: "The loyalty camp is not necessarily doing this for the sake of Daming, does it want to expand its territory by itself?" "Because the two roads go north, all that is used is loyalty

The people of the battalion headquarters, even if they lay some territory, it may not be said to be the territory of the imperial court. 、

He thought about it and felt that he couldn't do it according to Li Guo's idea.

Ma Luan said: "Marquis Yunyang, now the thief has alarmed Your Majesty. I think it's better to come back to help. ”

Li Guo said: "Master Ma, we can't catch up with the reinforcements, unless we defeat the Xia Army's sailors, but -----" Li Guo didn't have much hope for this.

If the Xia army had been running the water division for three years, it would be easy to be defeated, and Great Xia would not have invested at least hundreds of thousands of taels of silver in the water division. Facts have proved that throwing money may not be able to smash combat effectiveness, but if you don't throw money, you will definitely have no combat effectiveness.

Ma Luan said: "General Li thinks that the thieves will definitely withdraw their troops? ”

"This ----," Li Guo didn't know how to say.

This is the only loophole in his plan, and it is certainly a tactic. But where is Xia Jun's bottom line? Li Guo couldn't guess, but there was one thing that Li Guo knew, that is, Xia was strong and weak, and in the midst of hurting each other, I was afraid that Xia Chao could bear a little more.

But if you don't, what? Retreat from land.

Li Guo didn't dare, because retreating was a more difficult thing than attacking.

If Li Guo marches northward in a big way, Li Guo cannot guarantee whether he can win. But control of the army can still be guaranteed, but if there is a large retreat, the thieves only need to send 10,000 or 20,000 partial divisions to defeat the army.

There were too many such lessons in the battle with the Qing army.

Therefore, Li Guo would rather attack than withdraw.

"It's better to be steady." Ma Luan said: "Since Changsha is in trouble, I am willing to lead the army to rescue, if General Li is unwilling, how about General Li stay in Yueyang?" ”

"Division?" Li Guo frowned and said, "This is absolutely impossible." ”

It's not that Li Guo has deep feelings for Ma Luan, and under Yueyang City, he has a deep understanding of the gap between the two armies, and it can be said that in addition to the numerical superiority, the Ming army has no advantage at all. Then it's the same with the Loyalty Battalion.

Therefore, in order to maintain the only advantage, Li Guo did not approve of the division of troops, and it was easy to be broken by people one by one.

When the two were discussing, someone suddenly came to report, but the situation on Chengling Mountain had been discovered. The scout said: "There are about 20,000 Xia troops on Chengling Mountain, and the banner is Cao, it should be Cao Zongyu." There are a large number of supplies stranded in Chenglingji, and there are many ships, which should be the place where the enemy's baggage is. ”

Li Guo smiled lightly and said to Ma Luan: "Lord Ma, you see, Zhang Xuan's arrogance has almost no bounds. Other things, let's not mention it for the time being, how about swallowing Cao Zongyu's department first? ”

Ma Luan said, "Listen to General Li. ”

The two reached a brief consensus. Li Guo was a little impatient and stood up

That is, he ordered the loyal battalion to go out of the city and line up, preparing to storm the Chengling Mountain and take the land that was important by land and water.

Not to mention the turmoil between Yueyang City and Chengling Mountain. It is simply said that Zhang Xuan entered Dongting Lake by boat.

Thousands of ships divided into dozens of teams and headed south. Zhang Xuan stood on the bow of the boat, and he could still see the undulating color of the lake shore to the east, but he could hardly see anything to the west, and he could still see the shore in the distance, or see the shadow of Junshan Island in the distance.

But after passing Junshan Island, it is an ocean, and even if you look at it from afar, you can't see the slightest difference.

He who knows, knows that it is a lake. But I don't know people, it seems, they all think it's the sea.

The Yangtze River is the most water, and the lakes in the world are based on Dongting. With such an open view, it seems that the height of heaven and earth is very small, but the width spreads on all sides, and the entire galaxy falls into the lake. Even though Zhang Xuan has seen countless beautiful pictures that have not been repaired on various carriers, he still feels that the current scenery is the best he has ever seen.

However, Zhang Xuan is not here to travel.

The scenery was only once in his eyes. And he set his mind on war.

Although it was on the ship, there were always fast boats that quickly approached Zhang Xuan's boat, and then there were letters loaded on bamboo tubes and passed to Zhang Xuan's boat.

"General." Zheng Lian said: "Li Guo has gathered the loyalty camp and left the city. Prepare to storm General Cao. ”

Zhang Xuan said: "Li Guo reacted well. ”

Zhang Xuan was not too interested in this news, which was expected. He also made a good arrangement, in the future, there will be several support troops from the north into the Chengling Mountain, plus the mountain artillery, and some fleets to maintain logistics supply. Cao Zongyu is another stable person.

Zhang Xuan was very relieved of him.

Zheng Lian immediately put away this piece of information and said, "General Luo Dai was surrounded by He Tengjiao south of the Miluo River. ”

Zhang Xuan suddenly frowned when he heard this, and said, "What's the matter?" ”

This news surprised Zhang Xuan.

First, Zhang Xuan knew that although Luo Dai was a little reckless and didn't like to use his brain, it didn't mean that Luo Dai didn't have a brain. How many times he took risks, but rarely was caught. Being surrounded at this moment made Zhang Xuan a little incredulous.

Second, He Tengjiao and Zhang Xuan also know a little, and he is not a figure who uses soldiers like a god, and compared with Sun Chuanting's supervisors during the Chongzhen period, he can't be compared at all. Zhang Xuan didn't think that He Tengjiao had the ability to catch Luo Dai's tail, you must know that Luo Dai was a cavalryman.

As long as he wants to escape, there should be a way.

How could such a thing happen?

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