Even if Wu Chaoyue deliberately did not inform Monk Greenqin of his whereabouts, Monk Greenqin, who was fighting in Nanyang Mansion in Henan, also knew that this time he might have to join forces with the unpleasant little hedgehog again. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Monk Greenqin's mood is very complicated, more than two years of long time has not diluted even a little bit of Monk Greenqin's resentment towards Wu Chaoyue, if there is really any opportunity, Monk Greenqin will never mind getting rid of Wu Chaoyue's top and let Wu Chaoyue's family be ruined and broken into thousands of pieces! But the monk Lingqin knows very well that if he really wants to completely annihilate the main force of the White Banner Gong Deshu of the Twist Army, which is active at the junction of Hubei, Anhui and Henan provinces, the only way is to abandon the previous suspicions and work together with Wu Chaoyue, who is not pleasing to the eye.

The letter of the old friend Guan Wen and the governor of Henan, Yinggui, also greatly affected the attitude of Monk Greenqin, and the official text strongly advised Monk Greenqin not to worry about the past, and clearly told Monk Greenqin that Wu Chaoyue was not a difficult person to get along with, and that he had a bad relationship with Wu Chaoyue before, and it was completely Monk Greenqin's own fault. Ying Gui, the commander-in-chief of Ping Twist, directly asked Seng Greenqin to fully cooperate with Wu Chaoyue's battle, respect Wu Chaoyue's suggestions, and said that he would definitely deal with things fairly and would never favor and shield anyone, and indirectly gave the arrogant and arrogant Monk Greenqin a wake-up call - Ying Guike also knew some bad things between Wu Chaoyue and Monk Greenqin.

Old friends and honorary bosses have said so, of course, Seng Greenqin, who has already suffered hardships, can't but think carefully about how to get along with Wu Chaoyue this time, and when he convenes a group of henchmen to discuss this matter, several henchmen led by Qingqi and Zhelimu also unanimously suggested that Monk Greenqin learn a lesson, don't just think about finding trouble with Wu Chaoyue like taking the wrong medicine, and should take advantage of this opportunity to use Wu Chaoyue's power to annihilate Gong Deshubu, a twisted army that is getting stronger and stronger.

Qingqi, who has also dealt with Wu Chaoyue, also said: "Lord Wang, in fact, Wu Chaoyue is also a little barbarian who is also very good at being a man, as long as he is a little better to him, he will repay the peach, in the past, Zai Wang Ye and Rui Shilang were good to him, and the credit for his life to kill the thief was distributed to Zai Wang Ye and Rui Shilang, Shengbao was good to him before, he helped Shengbao to recapture Tianjin City after losing Changmao, Shengbao was greedy and just drove him away, and the bandit leader Ji Wenyuan immediately took the opportunity to flee for his life, and Shengbao was also assigned to Xinjiang because of that incident. We have to learn from the prince and the rui, and we must not learn to win again. ”

I originally regretted that I had a bad deal with Wu Chaoyue before, and after listening to the persuasion of a few henchmen, Seng Lingqin also made up his mind completely and said: "Well, since even you don't care anymore, can this king continue to deal with a yellow-haired boy?" If we really meet again this time, this king will let him order, and you should also restrain the soldiers more, so as not to let the soldiers below have any conflicts with the soldiers of the little barbarian. ”

When the generals agreed to the promise and discussed the specific plan to join forces, Fang Yurun, a great calligrapher of staff who was very trusted by the monk Lingqin, proposed: "Lord Wang, the students think that we should make arrangements in advance, drive the bandits to the south as much as possible, and force them to the area of Xiangyang Mansion on the border of Hubei, so that Wu Futai can fight a decisive battle with them, and our army will fortify on the northern front to cut off the retreat of the bandits. With Wu Futai's ability, it is not a big problem to defeat the twisted bandits, and it is of course best for Wu Futai to annihilate the main force of the twisted bandits on the Huguang border; if the twisted bandits repeat their old tricks and run away again, our army can also rely on the danger to cut off their roads and cooperate with Wu Futai to annihilate the twisted bandits in one fell swoop. ”

After studying the sand table of the map for a while, Seng Lingqin found that Fang Yurun's proposal was indeed feasible, and it was necessary to lengthen the battle line and dilute the troops by driving the Twist army to the south as much as possible, but as long as this was done at any cost, it would be much easier to annihilate the Twist Army Gong Deshu. Because of the junction between Hubei and Henan, hundreds of miles east of Huyangdian are Tongbai Mountains, and there are deep mountains and old forests everywhere that are sparsely populated, which is extremely unfavorable to the wandering activities of the Twisting Army with cavalry as the main force of combat.

Although the terrain to the west of Huyangdian is relatively open, as long as the rare north-south rivers in the Xinye area are tightly defended, and the large number of cavalry and horses under the command of Seng Lingqin are mobile to remedy, it is enough to completely block the westward road of the Twist Army, forcing the Twist Army to flee south or north. At that time, even if the monk prince's forces are somewhat scattered, he can also rely on the Hubei New Army to fight the main force, and chase and annihilate the main force of the twist army.

Thinking of this, the monk and prince, who had always preferred to die rather than suffer, also changed his temper this time, nodded and said: "This plan is feasible, so let's do it." Mr. Youshi, on behalf of this king, wrote a letter to Wu Chaoyue, telling him our battle plan, so that he could have a bottom in his heart and make arrangements in advance. ”

Fang Yurun agreed, and immediately wrote a letter to Wu Chaoyue on behalf of Monk Greenqin, and Monk Greenqin first discussed a very detailed battle plan for dividing troops to expel and encircle, and then couldn't help but sigh, and said with a wry smile: "Rushing thieves to behead others and make meritorious contributions, such a thing of suffering and making others choose a cheap thing, this king is really the first time to do it." ”

Coincidentally, on the same day that the letter of Monk Gelinqin was delivered to Wu Chaoyue, Wu Chaoyue also happened to arrive at the city of Xiangyang with the new army of Hubei. And when it was time to hand over the cup and change the lamp at the banquet, the letter signed by the monk Lingqin was also presented to Wu Chaoyue, but Wu Chaoyue smiled and laughed: "It's rare, I really didn't expect that the monk and the prince would also be willing to let himself suffer." ”

Du Xing'a, who was sitting next to Wu Chaoyue, curiously asked the reason for the loss of laughter, and when he learned the content of the letter, Du Xing'a suddenly became a little angry, and said: "Weiting, or your face is big, if the monk and the prince were willing to do this, you would still need to go out in person to exterminate the bandits at the junction of Hubei and Henan?" I'll clean up the bandits! ”

After that, Du Xing'a couldn't help but ask Wu Chaoyue: "Weiting, if I'm not mistaken, when you were in Tianjin, you had a lot of trouble with the monk and the prince?" This time, the monk took the wrong medicine, how could he willingly let you choose such a big bargain? ”

Wu Chaoyue didn't quite understand that Monk Greenqin would suddenly become so easy to speak, and even suspected that this was a trap arranged by the monk and the prince, and he didn't have any good intentions, but after careful calculation, he found that it was unlikely - the letter signed by Monk Greenqin was in his own hands, and he was still in Xiangyang Mansion, even if he missed the opportunity to let the Twist Army get out of Monk Greenqin's encirclement and escape, the black cauldron that was not blocked was also carried by Monk Greenqin alone, and he didn't do his own business. If Seng Greenqin's plan succeeds, the biggest danger for him is nothing more than to take advantage of the situation to rush into the hinterland of Hubei, but he still has enough reserves to put into the battlefield at any time, and his teammates such as Duxinga and Duolonga are also quite effective, and they can't kill the Twist Army, which is only a second-rate army at present, and he has really been a waste of time all these years!

"Could it be that the monk has really changed his sex? Do you really want to join forces with me? ”

Holding this difficult question, Wu Chaoyue skillfully erased the topic, while continuing to chat with Du Xing'a, while casually asking about the latest movements of the Twist Army, Du Xing'a replied truthfully, saying that the Twist Army was mainly active in the easterly area of the open hinterland of Nanyang Mansion during this time, and once tried to attack Yang Liuliu to Runing Mansion, but was blocked by Monk Lingqin Qigao first, and was driven back to the hinterland of Nanyang. Later, the Twist Army tried to flow to Hubei again, but I don't know whether it was to know the news that Wu Chaoyue personally led the army to Xiangyang, or was frightened by Du Xing'a's strict fortification in the Zaoyang area, and just arrived at Zhenbeihe and returned to Henan, and the last confirmed news was that the Twist Army was wandering around the area of Credit Banner Store (now Sheqi County).

When Wu Chaoyue asked about the strength of Gong Deshu's army again, Du Xing'a sighed and said: "I can't count it, I only know that their cavalry is about three or four thousand people, and the infantry can't be counted at all. ”

"Most of them were also forced to become thieves so that they would not starve to death." Wu Chaoyue didn't mind showing a little bit of his sympathy for the soldiers of the Twist Army, and said: "As long as you kill their backbone cavalry, without the mobile and flexible cavalry, even if the Gong bandits pull up more homeless infantry, no matter how much they wander in the flat hinterland of Nanyang, they will give us heads, and it will be easy to destroy." ”

Du Xing'a nodded, and also knew that if he wanted to clear the Twist Army on the Hubei border, the best way was to kill the backbone cavalry of the Twist Army, but Du Xing'a also had some worries and said: "Comfort Pavilion, but how can we destroy the cavalry of the Twist Bandits?" The best way to break the cavalry is to attack with cavalry, but you only have one battalion of cavalry, and the number of cavalry in my hands is only about three battalions of fifteen hundred, which adds up to not as many cavalry as the bandits, even if they are all sent out, they may not be able to annihilate the bandit cavalry in the hinterland of Nanyang, which is full of plains? ”

"The soldiers are expensive, not much, how to break the enemy can be discussed slowly, and I will talk about it after I see your cavalry situation first." Wu Chaoyue smiled comfortingly, and said with a smile: "Besides, it may not be necessary to rely on cavalry to win, if the monk's tactical plan is successful, we don't need to send troops to Henan, and we can directly kill the bandit cavalry in Hubei." ”

Du Xing'a laughed heartily, and even said that this was indeed the case, and Wu Chaoyue, who had always disliked Manchu parasites, didn't know what the reason was, and always felt that Du Xing'a was not so hateful, and Du Xing'a was quite a good conversation, and finally Wu Chaoyue and Du Xing'a and other Xiangyang civil and military officials dispersed happily and lived in the Xiangyang prefect's prepared line for himself.

After settling down in the temporary residence, although he drank a lot of wine and was a little tired, Wu Chaoyue still took out Monk Greenqin's letter and read it carefully, and carefully studied the map sand table with Zhao Liewen, Shao Yanhong and other henchmen, analyzing the feasibility of Monk Greenqin's tactical plan, and analyzing whether the monk and the prince had set a trap for himself this time.

After carefully deducing for a while, Zhao Liewen first frowned and said: "Comfort Pavilion, although this tactical plan of the monk prince is feasible, the possibility of success is very small, as long as the luck is slightly bad, it is possible for the twister to break through the encirclement and escape." ”

After Wu Chaoyue turned his inquiring gaze to Zhao Liewen, Zhao Liewen explained: "Gong Deshu, this group of twisted bandits has been active on the border of Hubei for a long time, and must be very clear about the terrain of this area, the junction of Hubei and Henan has a dense water network, and the three medium-sized rivers of Zhenbei River, Tang River and Baihe have seriously limited the activity space of the bandit cavalry. ”

"Also, even if the twist bandits are temporarily away from the Hubei border, it is very likely that they have already known or are about to know the news that you have come to Xiangyang in person, you hold the south, and Monk Greenqin is desperately driving the twist bandits to the south, as long as the twist bandits have a little military acumen, they must understand that the south is a trap and a dead place. Therefore, the twist bandits will never go south, and will definitely try their best to run north, the open terrain in the hinterland of Nanyang is placed there, and the monk and the prince have stretched the battle line too long, and the troops are too scattered, and if they are not careful, the twist bandits may break through his defense line and flow to other state capitals to continue to harm. ”

Looking at the three medium-sized rivers on the sand table that almost blocked the southward flow of the Twist Army to Hubei, Wu Chaoyue nodded, and also felt that as long as Gong Deshu had a little military knowledge, he would definitely not go south, but would only seize the opportunity of Monk Greenqin to disperse his troops on his own, and highlight the encirclement of the Qing army at any cost, and flow towards the more open North China Plain.

"If you want to exterminate the twist bandits in Nanyang, the best way is to drive the twist bandits from east to west, or from west."

Another aide, Shao Yanhong, also gradually showed his military talent, and suggested: "My lord, you lead the army out of the province and join forces with the monk and the prince to expel the twisted bandits in the east and west directions, and it is of course best to drive the twisted bandits to the west, which is full of mountains and mountains." It is really not possible to rush to the east, there are only three ways for the twisted bandits to run eastward, the two roads are Tongshan and Maoji Town in Piyang County, and the third is Huaiyuan Town in Tongbai County, all of which are surrounded by mountains and forests, the road is narrow and not conducive to cavalry, only a few hundred infantry can be deployed to easily cut off the road for the twisted bandits to flee eastward, and it is easy to destroy the twist. ”

Wu Chaoyue smiled and nodded, and in his heart, he couldn't wait to start thinking about buying the villagers there to surrender to the Twist Army, luring the Twist Army into the ambush circle. However, as soon as Shao Yanhong was in the limelight, he immediately didn't look long, and said: "Lord Futai, why don't you write a letter to the monk and the prince for you, and suggest that he rearrange the tactical plan." ”

"What are you writing to him for?" Wu Chaoyue rolled his triangular eyes and said angrily: "Yanhong, you haven't seen it yet?" This is the credit of the monk who did not welcome me into Henan, did not want to join forces with me, and wanted to destroy the white flag of the bandits! I wrote to him to rearrange the tactical plan, and he would listen to me? ”

"Monk Wangye, do you want to monopolize the credit of exterminating the bandits?" Shao Yanhong was a little dumbfounded, he never expected that Monk Lingqin seemed to sacrifice his good intentions to hide such a bad intention.

"That's what the monk has always been used to." Wu Chaoyue said angrily: "When he was in Tianjin, he was like this, he rushed faster than anyone else when he fought a good battle to grab credit, and when he hid farther than anyone else when he fought a tough battle, he just wanted to take advantage and never suffered a loss, he treated others as fools, thinking that he was a smart person!" ”

Shao Yanhong opened his mouth even more, and Wu Chaoyue continued to hum: "The account of the messenger who beat my grandfather has not been calculated, and the account of Tianjin has not been calculated, and he has not joined forces this time, he has come again." Come and don't be rude, Huifu, write a letter to Yinggui, the governor of Henan, for me, and complain to him, the commander-in-chief of the suppression, saying that the monk prince is greedy for merit and obstructs me from crossing the province to participate in the war, and by the way, I will tell Yinggui the reason why the monk Lingqin's tactics cannot succeed and the tactics proposed by Yanhong, and let Yingfutai see who is right and who is wrong! ”

Zhao Liewen agreed with a smile, and immediately put pen to paper according to Wu Chaoyue's explanation, and wrote a letter for Wu Chaoyue to complain to Yinggui, and the letter also tried to distort the good intentions of Monk Greenqin this time, and also counted down the various bad deeds of Monk Greenqin who fought for merit and bullied friendly troops before. Then taking advantage of Shao Yanhong's opportunity to look at the map sand table, Zhao Liewen smiled again and whispered to Wu Chaoyue: "Comfort Ting, you have really become a hedgehog." ”

Wu Chaoyue smiled, and said secretly in his heart: "The same hedgehog is not good, if you don't hurry up to provoke the monk and the prince, and if you don't use his hand to provoke my subordinates, and provoke the hatred of the Hubei New Army against the Manchu court, what will I do to rebel in the future?" ”

"Monk Wangye, I know that you have a good heart this time, but the Tao is not the same, I can only stick a cold ass to your hot face this time. Also, why is Dorona a Manchurian? Even if it's a Mongol or some other minority! (To be continued.) )