Most of the Chu army were the children of Huguang, and they had a natural home advantage in the Chongyang area, Tan Xiao and Wang Meng's troops relied on their familiarity with the terrain and environment, and captured the peripheral strongholds such as Baishizhai lightly, and then the surprise soldiers raided Chongyang, and with the help of the gentry of the people, they mixed into the county seat, and suddenly made a move.

The Wuzhen Chaoha soldiers who defended the city were defeated, and nearly 1,000 people were wiped out by Tan Xiaowang Meng, and the other remnants of the defeated army fled separately, some fled north to Puqi, and some fled west to Yuezhou Mansion, Tan Xiaowang Meng but clenched on, took advantage of the victory to pursue, and seized the Yanglou Cave and other passes while chasing and suppressing the remnants of the enemy, blocking the road to Luckdehun to reinforce the city.

Tongcheng!

At the same time that Tan Xiao and Wang Meng attacked Chongyang, Wang Kefan personally led the army, turned from Baishizhai to the southwest, crossed the mountains and crossed the mountains to kill Tongcheng, Chongyang's Wuzhen Chaoha soldiers were just an appetizer, and the elite of the five thousand Qing troops in Tongcheng was the real goal of this battle!

The sky is high and the clouds are light, and the red flags are rolling.

More than 20,000 Ming troops stepped out of the mountains and entered the wide and flat Yunmeng Plain, the three armies were full of vitality, compared with Tan Xiao and Wang Meng's department, they drilled in the ravine for four or five more days, and the whole body had already held back a lot of energy, and the desire to fight was very strong.

Tongcheng is more than 70 miles away on the west side, the Chu army suddenly appeared, and finally alarmed the scouts of the Qing army, and there were constantly small groups of cavalry to investigate, Wang Kefan sent cavalry to drive away, while speeding up the march, and rushed to the place 30 miles away from Tongcheng that night to set up camp and make the last rest before the battle.

In the evening, the smoke in the camp was faint, and the soldiers were eating dinner, but the sound of horses' hooves chasing and fighting sounded from time to time outside the camp. The Qing army sent more scouts than during the day, and the cavalry of the Western Cavalry Battalion were intercepting and chasing them, but these Qing scouts relied on their skill. After being dispersed by the Ming army, he did not retreat, but circled around and back like a nasty fly, constantly harassing him.

On the watchtower in the middle of the camp, Wang Kefan put down the binoculars and instructed Jingliang: "Go and tell General Sù Ti, there will be a big battle tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, and the most important thing is to save horsepower, and the Tartar scouts will not be within a hundred steps of the camp, so don't pay attention to them." ”

After a day's march, the scouts of the Qing army had already seen the strength of the Chu army. There's no point in hiding it right now, and instead of focusing on this game of cat and mouse, it's better to concentrate on resting.

Jingliang agreed, Wang Kefan went down the watchtower, and returned to the tent to eat. Just halfway through eating, Kyorashi came back to his life. Teng Shuanglin and Lu Renqing also walked in with him. I probably ran into it halfway through.

Teng Shuanglin said after seeing the ceremony: "Qiqi military gate, there has been no movement in the city all day, and the Tartars have neither escaped nor repaired the city wall, I don't know what the hell is going on!" ”

"Oh? This is the meaning of waiting for work......" Wang Kefan pondered for a moment and asked, "Since this is the case." Let's rest here for a day or two, what do you think? ”

Lu Renqing clapped his hands excitedly: "That's exactly what we mean, if the enemy doesn't move, I won't move." The Tartars want to compete with us, but we've just run hundreds of miles of mountain roads, so it's best to rest and fight again! ”

Teng Shuanglin also nodded and said: "We have plenty of food and grass, we can afford to spend a few days with him, General Wang San has already gone north, and Luck Dehun can't come for a while, so we should be ready to fight this battle again......"

After a few people discussed, Wang Kefan nodded and clapped: "Then notify the battalions, let's take turns to sleep tomorrow, if the Tartar has been squatting in Tongcheng, we will have a serious battle with him!" ”

Teng Shuanglin and Lu Renqing agreed, got up and left, Wang Kefan took care of himself and continued to eat, white rice with braised pork, eating deliciously, but found that Jingliang, Hua Xiaodi and Li Yushi were all gathered next to them, and they seemed to have something to say.

"Sit down and eat together." Wang Kefan pointed with chopsticks.

Jingliang and the others immediately moved stools, served rice and vegetables, and Xili snorted and ate, all of them were young men in their twenties, and they saw meat like tartars, and they would not give up until they were wiped out. Wang Kefan was born in the army before the crossing, and he had a lot of experience in wolves with more meat and less food, but he didn't expect that he couldn't compare to the three of them, and even the broth on the plate was poured into his rice bowl by Brother Hua.

"Eat more, you can grow taller." Wang Kefan smiled slightly, and ate the rice with the little green vegetables, Jingliang and the three of them plus the black fish, all of them were his henchmen and cronies who brought it out single-handedly, and among the more than 20,000 people in the Chu army, only they dared to grab meat with themselves to eat.

Jingliang burped, put down his chopsticks and asked, "We didn't understand just now, why did we stop here?" ”

Brother Hua and Li Yushi also raised their eyes and stared at Wang Kefan together, eating meat is very important, but it is more important to learn skills from Wang Junmen, they have been by Wang Kefan's side for the past two years, and they have a certain military level, and it is more than enough to be a middle and low-level officer.

Wang Kefan attaches great importance to them, and explains various war examples to them whenever he has the opportunity, and this time is of course no exception: "Fighting a war is the same as playing chess, the most important thing is to see through the enemy's intentions, and then do the opposite. ”

"Well......" Brother Hua has poor qualifications, stared at a pair of confused eyes, and looked at Li Yushi, Li Yushi joined the army late, lacked experience, and couldn't figure out what was going on.

"I see!" Jingliang was clear at all: "Tartar feels that he is invincible in the world, and he wants to fight with us in the field!" ”

"Not bad!" Wang Kefan nodded: "The ancestor of the Tartars has a saying, the Jurchen is not more than 10,000, and the 10,000 are invincible, and the Tartars in Tongcheng have 5,000 people, so naturally they don't take our more than 20,000 people in their eyes, we want to eat him, he still wants to eat us, everyone has to break their wrists with real knives and guns, and see who is invincible in the world!" ”

With the development of the war situation, the strength of the Chu army was dispersed, Wang Sheng and Zhang Jiayu's troops were in the Xiangyin area, just crossed the Miluo River, on the one hand, they intercepted the back road of the Qing army in Tongcheng, and on the other hand, they were guarding against the reinforcements of the Yuezhou Mansion, while Tan Xiao and Wang Meng's troops were in the Chongyang area, intercepting the Qing army reinforcements in Puqi and blocking another way of Luck Dehun.

Without these three infantry battalions and one cavalry battalion, the strength of the Chu army is only sixty percent, and the actual strength is about 16,000 people, plus the five or six thousand men and horses of Ma Jinzhong and Wang Jincai, a total of more than 20,000 people.

One to four, of course, the Qing army dared to fight.

Four to one, Wang Kefan is also full of confidence.

Whoever wins will have to see the truth on the battlefield!

"May I ask the military gate, why don't we go to Puqi?" Li Yushi asked: "There are also more than 5,000 Tartars there, but they are much worse than the Tartars in Tongcheng, and most of them are clothed soldiers, so they must be accurate for a dozen or so." “

"That's a good question!" Wang Kefan said with a smile: "Let me ask you first, what is the purpose of this qiē is we working hard to defeat the Huangzhou Mansion, and then we took the initiative to withdraw and go into the ravine to suffer and suffer?" ”

Little Brother Hua immediately replied: "Tartar reinforcements are coming, we can't fight and can only withdraw." ”

Wang Kefan nodded: "Yes, since we know that as soon as the Tartar reinforcements arrive, we won't be able to defend the Huangzhou Mansion, why do we have to bother to fight?" ”

"This ......" The three young officers were stunned, and even the smartest Kyora couldn't answer.

Wang Kefan raised his right hand, clenched it into a fist hard, and then slowly let go: "When I was a child, I fought with others and found a truth, fists are always more powerful than slaps, and only by clenching your fists can you defeat your opponent...... Kong Youde's 150,000 army gathered in Hubei, it is a clenched fist, no matter where it hits, we can't afford to catch it, so we have to find ways to make him separate his fists. ”

This metaphor is vivid and vivid, Wang Kefan's explanation is even more in-depth, Jingliang and others have an understanding, but they can't grasp the main point for a while, and they rush to speak, Wang Kefan stretched out his hand and pressed down, and continued to explain with a smile.

"Geng Zhongming is in Xingguo Prefecture, Tong Yanghe is in Xianning Puqi, Le Ke Dehun went to Yuezhou Mansion, and there are still more than 5,000 Tartars here in Tongcheng, if each Tartar is counted as a finger, the Tartar's fist has been spread out and turned into a slap, and it doesn't hurt so much to beat people." Wang Kefan said in an accentuated tone: "Five fingers press the flea, none of which can be pressed, when you lead troops to fight in the future, you must remember this truth, if the enemy is strong and I am weak, we must transfer and intersperse the enemy, and after forming a local superior force, seize the opportunity to strike at the enemy fiercely!" ”

Li Yushi pondered for a while and asked, "Junmen's reasoning is really good, but he still didn't say why he didn't fight Puqi?" Also, Kong Youde's slap is spread, but it can be withdrawn at any time, wouldn't it be in vain. ”

"Since Kong Youde spread out the slap, it's not so simple to take it back!" Wang Kefan stretched out his left hand and held the little finger of his right palm: "As long as we break his little finger, his slap can't be taken back, this gang of Tartars in Tongcheng is Kong Youde's little finger, Tong Yanghe's Wuzhen Chao Ha Bing is the ring finger, and Lucke Dehun of Yuezhou Mansion is the middle finger, I want to break his fingers one by one!" ”

He paused for a moment, and then continued: "It's better to cut off one of its fingers than to hurt its ten fingers, Puqi's Tartars can flee north at any time, if we run to Puqi for a long time, we may not be able to play all the work, but the Tartars in Tongcheng have no way to escape, and they can be wiped out in a battle, so we don't fight Puqi and get through the city, understand?" ”

After the Chu army occupied Chongyang, Tongcheng has fallen into a huge encirclement, the south is entrenched in Pingjiang Wang Jincai, the north is Chongyang across the mountains, the west side has Wang Sheng's department to intercept and block, the east is the main force of the Chu army led by Wang Kefan, the Qing army in Tongcheng is not not afraid to retreat, but is afraid that the retreat will become a rout, so they will fight against the city. (To be continued......)