In June 1354, the Quartet Rebel Army was fighting with the Yuan Army, but Deng Yu had been busy rectifying the internal affairs of the territory under his jurisdiction and training the new army, and it seemed that he had no intention of military expansion, which could suffocate Deng Yu's generals. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

No, the officer petition group headed by Deng Ming, a reckless man, came to see Deng Yu again, only to hear Deng Ming's urn and said angrily: "Dashuai, you see that the four corners of the world are in a mess, don't say anything else, just say that our old rival Zhang Shicheng, he fights there every day, but in addition to training every day, we also train every day, when will we make some noise to play?" ”

When Deng Yu heard this, he scolded angrily and funny: "Good fool! How can it be a child's play in the major events of the conquest, our army only has two city jurisdictions, and just had a vicious fight with Zhang Shicheng, which can be described as a great loss of vitality and an unstable foundation. Before regaining strength, how can you make a move easily? How many days have it been since you were suffocated as a resentful woman? ”

Hearing Deng Yu say this, Deng Ming suddenly turned around his head a little embarrassed, and then turned back to Dong Qing, Hu Dahai and the others to wink, meaning that I have already taken the lead, and it is time for you to go now.

Dong Qing understood, and immediately admonished: "Marshal, we have been training for several months, and it is not a way to always practice like this, we have to let those little cubs see blood!" I heard that the Yunqi military division said that the marshal intends to expand southward, and at present, the military and political affairs of Sizhou and Xuyi have been almost handled, and the eyes of the Tartar soldiers and horses are focused on Zhang Shicheng, and they have no time to take care of us, it is the best time to send troops, why don't the marshal send troops south to attack the city and conquer the city? ”

As soon as Dong Qing said this, Hu Dahai, Zhang Qi, Chen Hui and other generals also echoed their words, and even Lu Zhen, who had not been in Deng Yu's camp for a long time, also spoke: "Marshal, this is a good opportunity given by God to our army to expand its territory. ”

The audience spoke earnestly, Deng Yu smiled bitterly in his heart, why didn't he want to send troops as soon as possible, but Li Ke always advised him to wait for the territory to stabilize before making a move.

Looking at the generals who were eager to fight, Deng Yu didn't want to chill their high-spirited fighting spirit, so he promised to convene a group of civil and military officers tonight to discuss the matter of sending troops, and all the generals retreated with joy when they heard this.

In the evening, in the hall of the General's Mansion, Deng Yu sat in the first place, and said to a group of civil and military officials: "Recently, the generals asked Ben Shuai to send troops to the south, and Ben Shuai also felt that it was time to send troops to fight, I don't know if everyone here has any objections?" ”

After finishing speaking, Deng Yu set his eyes on Li Ke, and when everyone saw Deng Yue like this, they couldn't help but look at Li Ke, and for a while, the atmosphere in the entire hall was quite strange.

Seeing this, Li Ke smiled and said: "At present, everything in the jurisdiction is decided, and it is indeed time to send troops to fight, the southern provinces are economically rich, the population is prosperous, and the Tartar army is much weaker than the north, it is a good choice to send troops to the south, if you can take Jiqing Road (Nanjing), then our army will have a solid foundation for cutting the strong!" ”

Seeing that Li Ke also agreed to send troops south, Deng Yu smiled slightly and asked, "I wonder if Yunqi can introduce the situation of the enemy and us?" ”

Li Ke pondered for a moment, then stood up and walked to the center of the hall, and said: "If our army goes south, the first thing to capture is the four important cities west of Yangzhou Road: Lai'an, Liuhe, Chuzhou, and Quanjiao. According to the detailed report, the current guard of Yangzhou Road is the Tartar court Linfen King of the son of the king of bald Jian Buhua, there are 50,000 soldiers and horses under his command, and most of them are cavalry, although 50,000 soldiers and horses are divided into various parts of Yangzhou Road, but the war together, Bald Jian does not spend 30,000 soldiers who can gather the battle, it can be said that the soldiers are strong and strong! ”

When everyone in the hall heard that Bald Jian could gather at least 30,000 soldiers who could fight, their excited expressions that were eager to fight suddenly became solemn.

Seeing that everyone had calmed down, Li Ke said eloquently: "After recruiting troops and horses in the past few months, our army now has a total strength of 18,000, of which 12,000 have been trained for more than two months, and there are still 6,000 recruits who are being trained. In this dispatch, excluding the 6,000 soldiers and horses left behind in the two cities of Sizhou and Xuyi, our army will have a strength of up to 12,000. ”

"Although the number of troops of our army is far lower than that of the enemy, the combat strength of our soldiers is strong, and each of them can defeat three enemies with one, so if we face 30,000 enemy troops, our army is not afraid!"

As soon as Li Ke said this, the nerves that everyone in the hall had just tensed were not relaxed, and with 12,000 elite soldiers against 30,000 'miscellaneous soldiers', it was indeed not to be afraid!

When Deng Yu heard this, he immediately asked: "The situation is like this, I don't know if Yunqi has a clever way to break the enemy?" ”

When Li Ke heard this, he nodded and said: "The enemy is strong and I am weak, only by fighting can we eat away step by step, and defeat the strong with the weak!" ”

"Feed the war with war, and encroach step by step!" Deng Yue muttered secretly, and then praised loudly: "Okay! Good! Good! The clouds are sane, this strategy is wonderful! ”

"The so-called 'those who win the hearts of the people win the world, get more help from the way, and get less help if they lose the way', the Tartars have no way, oppress and exploit the Han people, the vast number of Han people are in dire straits, our army is going south to expel the Tartars, and the vast number of Han people will be able to win the support of the local people, so how can it be unreasonable!"

"This time I went south, led by Ben Shuai himself, Li Yunqi was the military advisor, Dong Baohu, Deng Boyi, Lu Guobao, Chen Mingyu and others will accompany him! Guo Hongyan, Hu Tongfu, and Zhang Zhiyuan stayed behind! ”

Deng Yuji agreed, and all the civil and military officers received the order and went back to make preparations.

Three days later, 12,000 elite soldiers of the Broken Army under the leadership of Deng Yu, the mighty south of Yangzhou Road, looking to Ancheng to kill, when the army marched to Ancheng thirty miles, Deng Yue considered that the strength of the Broken Army was limited, even if it captured Ancheng, it was not suitable to divide the troops to stay in a short time, it was better to use the siege of the city to help, not to seize the city, first try to eat away at the mobile strength of the Yuan army.

Li Ke listened to Deng Yu's thoughts, and also felt that this strategy was promising, so after resting for a night, the Broken Army began to carry out a tentative attack on Lai'an City on the second day, and the defenders of Lai'an City did send a messenger to ask for help at the first time.

Three days later, when the Yangzhou Road town guard heard the news that Lai'an was besieged, he was immediately shocked, and hurriedly ordered his guards to immediately notify all the generals to come to the town guard mansion to discuss matters.

Half an hour later, guarding the hall of the mansion, Bald Jian sat on the main seat, and said with an expressionless face about the attack on Lai'an by the Broken Army.

Bald Jian silently observed everyone's faces, suddenly snorted coldly, stood up sharply, squinted his eyes and shouted: "Hmph! I have 50,000 defenders on Yangzhou Road, and there are no more than 10,000 thieves, so why are you afraid? Now that the thief army has just invaded, you are already defeated, so what are you fighting? Why don't you come to Ancheng and offer the entire Yangzhou Road with both hands? The warriors of the great Mongol Empire have become so cowardly, what will you face when you die to see the great Genghis Khan! ”

Bald Jian didn't spend this drink, and suddenly drank so much that the generals lowered their heads unconsciously.