Chapter 122: Hardcover
Since you want to give face to others, you must first do it yourself, and you can't leave a handle for others!
Therefore, Zheng Defeng, who was sure that Tan Zhen would definitely make concessions, wanted to be neutral in the barracks, and his first impression was to let Tan Zhen and the soldiers around him know his strength, otherwise it would be difficult to start the next work if he kept talking low like when he first arrived!
And Lu Zhen's sudden appearance messed up all Zheng Defeng's plans and deployments, but he quickly analyzed the meaning of the other party's words, and knew that the arrival of this young general should be helpful to him, so he immediately changed the policy and strategy of contingency and played the "emotional card". Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
Just after Zheng Defeng's seamless "performance", Lu Zhen, who was infected by it, tried his best to discourage public opinion and assigned all the two hundred and sixty-eight horses of better quality that he had collected with great difficulty on the outskirts of the city to Zheng Defeng's army!
Tan Zhen was the first senior general of the Zhang Army to jump out and express his opposition, but the excuses he put forward such as the shortage of grain, grass and materials, and the shortage of soldiers and horses from all walks of life were all vetoed by Lu Zhen!
Lu Zhen first asked Zheng Defeng to go back first, and concentrated the family members of Dongzhen Mansion, who were going to lead the horses in the afternoon, and promised him that after getting the horses in the afternoon, let them act immediately!
When Lu Zhen returned to the tent camp and was about to draft the relevant documents, Zhou Yan, Liu Ming and others learned about it from the spies sent by Tan Zhen, and hurriedly ran back from the various training grounds.
They all want to dissuade him, you and I say it painstakingly, and I hope their boss will think twice!
Tan Zhen and the others really didn't just consider their interests this time, but more importantly, there was indeed a shortage of good horses in the entire Zhang army.
If you want to resist the attack of the Mongol vanguard army, in order to gain more time to prepare for the defense, sending your own cavalry to fight it is absolutely indispensable.
Although this is a case of hitting stones with eggs and mantis arms as a car, the suburbs of Gaoyou City and in various small cities, the people who defend there are also fresh lives!
Since they were able to sacrifice their lives for the sake of the people and happiness of Gaoyou City, to maintain Zhang Shicheng's rule and even to overthrow the rule of the entire Yuan Dynasty, it was naturally necessary for the soldiers in Gaoyou City to make some reasonable sacrifices!
Lu Zhen is so generous, it is not that Zheng Defeng and the generals of Dongzhen's mansion still have enough face for Su Zedong.
Therefore, under the premise that Lu Zhen was full of anger towards the Mongols and their cavalry, he gave Zheng Defeng enough soldiers and horses, and the main purpose was to fight against the Mongol cavalry!
Because all the troops in Gaoyou City have not yet had the experience of face-to-face confrontation with the Mongol cavalry, and the soldiers and militia outside are basically killed, the information obtained by the spies is categorically deviated from the real situation, and it is not known what the strength of the Mongols is.
Moreover, Lu Zhen also took into account the strength of the Dongzhen Mansion, can he really deal with the thousand cavalry of the Mongols?
If they can deal with it, those people in Dongzhen Mansion will also be hit hard by this, so that the strength of Juyi Hall in Gaoyou City will also be reduced on a large scale, which will not be helpful to Xiang Feng, Wu Shicheng and others in their next move.
However, if it can't be dealt with, Dongzhen's mansion is likely to be destroyed because of this, because Su Zedong's practices in many places are contrary to the interests of many people in the court, and many people have long regarded it as a thorn in the side and a thorn in the flesh!
Lu Zhen knew that although he thought like this, it was very unfair and inhumane to Zheng Defeng and Su Zedong!
No matter what, what Su Zedong did was a matter of officialdom, his servants and subordinates are now helping him to protect Gaoyou City, and if you want to reward meritorious deeds, their credit will be attributed to themselves, because they are their direct commanders......
The more Lu Zhen thinks about it, the more he hopes that Zheng Defeng can win, even if the loss is too great, there is still a chance to breathe, now is the time of war, as long as Qingshan is retained, there will be a lot of opportunities to make a comeback!
The stronger his hope, the tougher his attitude, completely ignoring the dissuasion of Tan Zhen and the sworn brothers Zhou Yan and Liu Ming who came later, he still insisted on distributing more than 200 horses, all of which were assigned to Zheng Defeng's account.
Lu Zhen felt that it was inappropriate, if Zheng Defeng's whole army was wiped out, his face would not be able to hold his face, and it would not be easy to explain to Su Zedong, Zhang Shicheng, who was sitting in a high position in the imperial court, would not look good;
Therefore, he also arranged for Tan Zhen to transfer two battalions of 500 cavalry to fully support the attack of Zheng Defeng's cavalry troops!
Since even Lu Zhen, a capable general in Zhang Shicheng's camp, has done everything he can to help Zheng Defeng and the ghost soldiers complete the plan of action for the first head-to-head encounter with the Mongolian cavalry;
As Zheng Defeng's most sincere friend and direct boss, Su Zedong, after learning about Lu Zhen's attitude, immediately asked the people in various departments to do all the work of fighting the Mongolian cavalry!
Since Lu Zhen helped solve the problem of horses, the equipment problem in the hands of the members of the ghost soldier team was solved by Liu Zhenming.
Since it is a cavalry, it is necessary for the majesty of Guan Ning's iron cavalry to deter the Mongols.
In the long river of history, the Guanning Iron Cavalry recorded in the ancient texts appeared at the end of the Ming Dynasty, even if their team is not large, the number is limited, and the scale is only in the area of Liaodong, but their combat effectiveness is very strong, and the equipment is the three-eyed god gun!
Liu Zhenming has been transforming the pig iron of the three-eyed fire gun into wrought iron, and there is an inevitable gap between the purity and the steel of later generations, the weight will be heavier, and the durability is not a grade, but it will take one or two years, and the gap will not be so obvious.
Moreover, the soldiers of the ghost army already have actual combat experience in the use of the modified version of the three-eyed firearm, that is, when the anti-encirclement and suppression plan was implemented against Xiang Feng and others in the Dongzhen Mansion last time, the modified version of the three-eyed firecracker, that is, the "one-eyed", showed its might!
The three-eyed firearm also had a chance to appear in the positional battle of the Dongzhen Mansion against encirclement and suppression, but the limelight was taken away by the "one-eyed".
Therefore, for the sake of conservatism, Liu Zhenming not only equipped the 120 newly recruited members of the Ghost Soldier Team and the 80 original veteran members of the Ghost Soldier Team with three-eyed firearms, but also equipped them with "one-eyed" firearms and long daggers made of steel.
Originally, these eighty veteran members of the ghost soldier team were not arranged for this operation, but Su Zedong saw that Lu Zhen actually gave him two hundred horses, so he naturally needed to make some substantive actions to respond.