Wang Huanfu sat down again, his eyes were solemn, but there was an extremely reassuring calmness, without any panic, which made the nervous hearts of everyone around him relax slightly.

"The main force of blocking Yinxi is the loyal battalion of Li Guo, Gao Yigong and others, where are they now?" Wang Huan gently tapped his thigh with the index finger knuckle of his right hand, and after thinking for a moment, he asked Liu Yun.

"Listening to some stragglers who escaped from Baoqing Mansion, the leading army of the governor left Baoqing at the beginning of the month and went north to attack Changde and Xiangtan. Liu Yun recalled for a moment and replied.

Wang Huan said "um", thought about it and asked, "How many soldiers are left behind in Baoqing and Chenzhou?" Who will be the town? ”

Liu Yun replied: "There are about 2,000 people in Baoqing, and there are 3,000 people in Chenzhou, all of them are miscellaneous soldiers, which are useless. ”

Hearing that the Ming army was so poor, everyone present no longer felt as funny as the army that laughed at Yang Dapu a few days ago, but felt that the black clouds overcame the top, and now the entire south of Huguang, blocking the rear of Yinxi, there are only a handful of troops deployed, much less than the Qing army, and it is so unhelpful, so that within a radius of hundreds of miles, there is only one of Wang Huan's Kuizhou army.

30,000 versus 2,000, it's hard.

The faces of Li Dingguo and the others became more and more heavy.

Wang Huan was silent, frowning and thinking about countermeasures.

Liu Yun drank the water, his spirits perked up a little, looked up at Wang Huan, and then at Li Dingguo, hesitated for a while, and said: "My lord, the Tartars are powerful, and we are alone, so it is better to turn back and take the Guangxi Road again." ”

Wang Huan was noncommittal, fell into deep thought and did not answer, his eyes looked straight at the sky, under the scorching sun, there was no cloud, his eyes looked at the deep blue sky, as if he had crossed the mountains and rivers and thrown into a very far place.

Li Dingguo wanted to reprimand Liu Yun for speaking rashly, but after a little calculation in his heart, he suddenly felt that Liu Yun was reasonable, the Kuizhou army was a passerby, and it was impossible to fight to the death with the superior Qing army for the sake of Huguang, which was not his own territory, and his own number was too small, and it was not even a slag to be thrown on the battlefield, and 30,000 Tartars could drown the Kuizhou army with a single charge, how to defeat it?

So Li Dingguo's mouth opened, and he swallowed back the words in his throat, just staring at the main general Wang Huan, waiting for his decision.

The bushes were quiet, everyone was waiting anxiously, Wang Yingxiong's hoarse screams of pain were faintly heard in the distance, his inner thighs were grinding out a lot of blisters because of riding a horse for days, and now he was being medicated by a sergeant who knew medical science with a red-hot knife, and the process was very painful.

Wang Huan's fingers stopped abruptly in Wang Yingxiong's scream, Li Dingguo's heart trembled when he saw it, he had followed Wang Huan for so long, and he already understood that as soon as his knuckle tapping stopped, he must have made a decision, what to do, the way is in Wang Huan's heart.

Sure enough, Wang Huan stood up and looked solemnly at the generals present, at this moment more than ten centurions had already stood in front of him, led by Li Dingguo, including Ma Wannian and Liu Yun, all staring at him, firmly waiting for his order.

"We are the sons of the Han, how can we see the barbarians raging and flee?" Wang Huan's voice was low, thick and powerful, as if it came from the bottom of his heart, infecting everyone: "As soon as we leave, Baoqing, Jingzhou, Chenzhou and Yongzhou, there will be no Ming officials and soldiers, and the land of one government and three states will definitely fall into the hands of the Tartars. The army that practiced martial arts did not dare to fight, did it ask the common people to take kitchen knives and shoulder to meet the battle? Where is the face of a man?! ”

The listeners were moved, the listeners were angry, and everyone's hearts were quickly infected by this simple passage, and their eyes became hot, and they shouted in unison: "I am willing to die with the adults!" ”

Li Dingguo frowned deeply, although he also shouted, but he was extremely stable and thoughtful, not just with blood, so when everyone stopped for a while, he immediately said: "My lord, but there are many Tartar soldiers, we have to fight, we must be able to fight, otherwise if you fight hard, there is no chance of winning!" ”

Wang Huan nodded and agreed: "Yes, the battle is a must-fight, but the stupid hard fight is just to send us to death, so we have to find a way, that is, to drag down these Tartar soldiers, so that they can't sneak attack from behind Plug Yinxi, and can't fight them head-on, it's really difficult." ”

When he said this, he simply squatted down, took a few stones, and laid a terrain on the ground, and everyone gathered around to watch.

Wang Huan pointed with his finger: "This is Baoqing, this is Chenzhou, here, it is Changde, and further away, it is Changsha, everyone see!" If the Qing army captured Baoqing, directly take Changde, sneak attack to block Yinxi's back road, the main loyal battalion of Yinxi is near Changsha, and He Tengjiao's army besieges Changsha, Changde must not have a large army, 30,000 Qing troops arrived, and Yinxi either withdrew to Changsha to protect himself, or fled in the desert, abandoning Changde and running to Changsha. No matter how you choose, the siege of Changsha will be solved, and as soon as morale falls, the military prestige will be greatly reduced, and it will be difficult to compete with the Tartar army. If the Tartars join forces, they will inevitably attack, not only will the land of the recovered states and counties be lost again, but they will also fall for thousands of miles, and they will not even be able to hold the original territory, and the blockade of Yinxi will be almost over! ”

Watching Wang Huan's fingers swipe, listening to the analysis in his mouth, everyone only felt frightened, at first they thought that the Tartars were coming, it was very dangerous, and the specific danger was not clear, listening to Wang Huan say this, everyone's minds suddenly became clear and clear, this specific sense of crisis is more terrible than the ignorant sense of crisis, Huguang is lost, Guangxi and Guangdong are exposed to the iron hooves of the Tartars, and the rivers and mountains of Nanming are in danger.

Li Dingguo thought for a moment and said loudly: "In this case, we must try to hold off the Tartar as much as possible before Plug Yinxi reacts." ”

"Yes, delay, we have few people, and it is impossible for us to withstand the Tartars in a frontal field battle, and only by finding a way to delay is the way to win."

Li Dingguo knelt on one knee, looked at the stones, and said in a deep voice: "Our army is all cavalry, and they are good at maneuvering, so it is better to disperse and disturb the sneak attack, so as to disrupt the Tartars." ”

Everyone's eyes lit up, nodded their heads, and they all felt that it was feasible, but Wang Huan shook his head and said: "S can't disturb the itching of the boots, and can't move the Tartar at all, if the Tartar is smart enough, it is completely possible to divide a part of the cavalry to deal with us, and the brigade will go straight to Changde, so we will be helpless." ”

Everyone was right when they thought about it, but they scratched their ears and cheeks and couldn't think of how to break it, so they were all silent and at a loss.

Wang Huan said solemnly: "Therefore, if we want to delay the Tartar and give the plug Yinxi a roundabout arrangement, we can only find a proper place, hold it firmly, and block the Tartar with 2,000 people, as long as we hold it for three or four days, the plug Yinxi can be calmly arranged, so as not to mess up in a hurry." ”

"Therefore, there are two keys to this method, one is to notify Du Yinxi in time, there is a wolf coming from his back road, it is estimated that the person who escaped from Baoqing has already reported to him, but just in case, and in order to let him know that my Kuizhou army is blocking the knife for him, it is necessary to send a fine horse to send a letter to the past." Wang Huan stood up, sat back on the stone, raised two fingers, and said in a deep voice: "Second, we have to find a place that is enough to resist the attack of 30,000 or even more Dongyu, this place must be critical enough, the terrain is critical, and the Tartars cannot make a detour, and they must be conquered, so that we can achieve our goal." ”

The generals suddenly realized, it turned out that the adults had already had a plan, and they had a spectrum in their hearts, and most of them had a plan for this place to stick to, so everyone kept silent and honestly waited for Wang Huan to announce the answer.

Li Dingguo said with a smile: "My lord is confident, he knows the geography and mountains and rivers well, and all the prefectures and prefectures in Huguang are in his heart, and I also ask my lord to guide me and others." ”

Wang Huan didn't have an appetite, picked up a small stone from his side, gently put it between the stone representing Changde and the stone representing Chenzhou on the ground, and pressed it into the soil carefully, and the stone was as firm as a nail.

"It is here, between Chenzhou and Changde, there is a county name Xinhua, the official road passes through this county, the wonderful thing is that Xinhua is a hundred miles away, many mountains and high hills, there is no way to go except the official road, if you want to bypass, it takes a lot of time, we show it weakly, so that the Tartars think that the defenders of the city are just scattered soldiers, attract the Tartars to attack the city, and when the Tartars find a piece of Xinhua iron plate, two or three days have passed when they want to leave, and our purpose has been achieved."

Everyone was relieved, that is, they admired Wang Huan's familiarity with geography to the point that he even knew about Xinhua Town, and sighed that he had thought of so many keys in this instant, and his thoughtfulness could be seen.

However, Li Dingguo was still worried, he was full of worries, and asked worriedly: "My lord, Xinhua is just a small county town, this kind of county town is all low earth walls and dilapidated defenses, I'm afraid there is not even a moat, can it stop the army of 30,000 tigers and wolves?" ”

After a pause, he looked at Wang Huan, his eyes were full of loyalty, and he said awe-inspiringly: "Li Dingguo has handed over this life to the adult since the day he returned to the adult, and there is no regret in life and death, but we have nothing to do with the Huguang bureaucracy, He Tengjiao also once coveted the silver mine to meet with our soldiers, is it really worth spending two thousand sons for him to block Yinxi?" ”

These words were said very sincerely, without any suspicion of pretentiousness, and from the bottom of my heart, I was thinking about Wang Huan and the Kuizhou Army, Wang Huan couldn't help but move in his heart, and a warmth between his comrades-in-arms arose, this feeling was similar to the feeling of relying on each other in a group of orphaned monks who shared hardships in the broken temple in Yangzhou, which made Wang Huan extremely cordial.

"We are not trying our best to block Yinxi, we are for the people of Huguang and for the Han family." Wang Huan gently patted Li Dingguo's shoulder, and said in a loud voice: "Huguang is lost, it is not good for us now, we help Yinxi, which is equivalent to helping ourselves." ”

He blinked his eyes and said confidently, "Moreover, who said that I would leave two thousand sons here? ”