readx; When Lu Xiangsheng led the main force of the official army to Nushan Lake, the situation here had completely calmed down. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 I saw that despite the twists and turns of the process, Li Wanqing surrendered to the "shooting the sky", and nearly 20,000 people surrendered to Huang Degong, who had only more than 100 people, which can be regarded as creating a miracle in the history of war. Although some of Li Wanqing's subordinates were reluctant, the situation changed too quickly, and before they could react, Li Laiheng led three thousand elite cavalry to arrive, and it was too late for someone to take a risk.

In accordance with the requirements of the imperial court, the official army ordered Li Wanqing's troops to hand over all their weapons. After Lu Xiangsheng arrived, he met with Huang Degong, Li Wanqing, Liu Guoneng and others, encouraged Li Wanqing a few words, and praised Huang Degong and Liu Guoneng, and immediately sent a letter to the court according to Liu Guoneng's example, asking the emperor to give Li Wanqing, who took the initiative to surrender, to avoid death.

However, due to the urgency of the military situation, Lu Xiangsheng is now unable to divide his troops, and escorts the nearly 20,000 people to the rear, so Li Wanqing can only temporarily control the old troops and stand by in the same place as Nüshan Lake. Because the weapons and horses have all been confiscated by the official army, there is no need to worry about the remaining people.

Immediately afterwards, Lu Xiangsheng immediately convened the generals to discuss the military situation, in addition to Yang Tinglin, Li Laiheng, Meng Gong, Huang Degong, Liu Guoneng and Li Wanqing were also present. Only Hao Yongzhong has not yet arrived because he has to escort the infantry and the baggage convoy.

Lu Xiangsheng first asked Li Wanqing how much he knew about the specific attack plan of the thieves. Li Wanqing hurriedly said: "Lord Huishangshu, according to the division of labor of the thirteen families, Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong, Liu Guoneng, and Zhang Yichuan are responsible for harassing and confusing the officials and troops in the north; The sin general and Luo Rucai, Wang Guang Enhuideng, are counted as all the way, mainly attacking Chuzhou; Ma Shou should be allowed by He Jinhe Yilong to change Ma Jinzhong to be regarded as a road, mainly attacking Yangzhou, and after defeating Yangzhou, he crossed the river and detoured to Nanjing. But Sin will be obedient and deliberately dragged behind, and the other families have been out of camp for three days, and Sin will not know where they are now. ”

Liu Guoneng also said: "Among the thirteen, Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong have the strongest troops, followed by Ma Shouying and Luo Rucai, just the four of them, and now there are probably no less than 400,000 people even with the old and the young." However, the strange thing is that Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong originally said that they were going to feint to attack Pengcheng, but they didn't show up in the past few days. ”

"King Li Chuang is gloomy and cunning, and the Eight Kings are even more of a glass monkey, I'm afraid he is playing you and Zhang Yichuan." Li Wanqing smiled bitterly, "It turned out that when I divided the troops, I wondered, with the personalities of these two people, how could they endure hardships by themselves and let others be disgraced?" Now it seems that they have other plans, maybe they want to take advantage of the lively fighting between Chuzhou and Yangzhou, and find a place to secretly cross the river to attack Nanjing? ”

Lu Xiangsheng nodded and said, "This possibility cannot be ruled out. As for the two roads of Chuzhou and Yangzhou, which one do you think is stronger? ”

Liu Guoneng replied: "Lord Hui Shangshu, Wang Guangen and Hui Dengxiang, they also intended to submit some time ago, but they were not very determined. If the attack on Chuzhou is smooth, they will be more active in fighting Nanjing; If something goes wrong, you may not be willing to do much. But Ma Shouying, He Jinhe, and Yilong are all diehards, and they are afraid that Yangzhou will be even tighter. ”

"General Liu is extremely worried." Yang Tinglin said, "Yesterday, Lord Shangshu just received a letter from Lord Flying Pigeon of the Nanjing Garrison, because Chuzhou is closer to Nanjing, and the defense is slightly better, but it only sent 5,000 guards to Chuzhou, as for whether it can fight, it is difficult to say." As for Yangzhou, no one in the Nanjing Guards dared to go, even if they were forced, it was useless. In desperation, Lord Wang had to transfer the Guanning Iron Cavalry, which was originally in Chuzhou, to Yangzhou, and now it should still be on the way. ”

"Lord Shangshu, after all, the Guanning Iron Cavalry has too few troops, let the last general go to Yangzhou for emergency relief first!" The young and vigorous Li Laiheng immediately asked for battle, "This is only more than 200 miles away from Yangzhou, and the rapid march will be there in one day!" ”

Huang Degong also shouted: "Lord Shangshu, the last general is Yangzhou Wei Deputy Thousand Households, and the thieves have all beaten to the hometown of the last general, if the last general does not save him, then the people of Yangzhou must not be scolded to death." I won't go back to Zhulong Bridge either, anyway, there aren't many soldiers there, so I just took these 100 people and went to Yangzhou with General Pingnan. ”

Liu Guoneng and Li Wanqing had just returned to Shun, and they were also in a hurry to make meritorious contributions and asked for battle, but Lu Xiangsheng was hesitant. If it was half a year ago, he didn't need others to ask for war, and he himself would have led the Tianxiong army of his headquarters to kill Yangzhou. But now it is different, he is the commander of the military affairs of the governor's five provinces and four governments, and he must coordinate the overall situation, and he has a heavy responsibility on his shoulders, how dare he act recklessly.

Seeing that Meng Gong had not spoken, Lu Xiangsheng asked his opinion. The general, who was also young but very calm, hurriedly said: "Lord Shangshu, the last general also thinks that he should rush to Yangzhou with cavalry as soon as possible. Because Chuzhou is close and Yangzhou is far away, the five military camps of the last general are all infantry and artillery, and going to Yangzhou is only afraid of delaying time. However, according to the two generals Liu and Li, the number of thieves attacking Yangzhou is as high as hundreds of thousands, even if half of the women and children are removed, there are at least 200,000 people, and General Dingnan now only has 3,000 cavalry, and the disparity between the numbers is too great, and this battle is not easy to fight."

Lu Xiangsheng nodded frequently when he heard this, which was exactly what he was worried about. Meng Gong said again: "Or, Lord Shangshu personally led the standard camp and went to Yangzhou with General Dingnan?" In this way, there are 8,000 cavalry, which can compete with the thieves. ”

Yang Tinglin shook his head and said, "No." Both the east and west roads are very important, and Lord Shangshu's standard camp is only suitable for living, and which way is tight will be saved. ”

The people deliberated for a long time, but there was no perfect plan. There is no way, who let the officers and soldiers be too small. In the end, Lu Xiangsheng finally decided to adopt Li Laiheng's plan and ordered Li Laiheng to lead 3,000 cavalry to rescue Yangzhou first, and Yang Tinglin and Liu Guoneng went to assist; Meng Gonghuang immediately raised troops to Chuzhou; Li Wanqing still kept Nushanhu and took care of his old department; And Lu Xiangsheng's Tianxiong army moved to Tianchang County, because the distance from Tianchang to Chuzhou, Nanjing, and Yangzhou was about the same, and they could be rescued left and right. In addition, he sent a letter to Hao Yongzhong, asking him to assemble the 7,000 cavalry in the rear, and then rush to Tianchang to meet Lu Xiangsheng.

Lu Xiangsheng still felt uneasy, because in this way, Pengcheng and other places in the rear would be quite empty. I had to urgently send a letter to the imperial court, asking the imperial court to try to transfer some more troops.

After completing the military deployment, the generals were immediately ordered to lead the troops. At this time, it was nearly dusk, but the war was so urgent that there was no time to rest. Lu Xiangsheng jumped on Wumingji and looked back, his eyes were full of bleak winter scenes, and a team of officers and soldiers were re-embarking on the journey against the cold wind, and they couldn't help but fall into contemplation. After a while, he said in a sonorous voice:

"Jiema Linrong has a new barrier, and even the sky is full of people. Swinging to wash the mountains and rivers, and thinking about helping the hungry and drowning people. An laid the eternal things of the common people, and swept away the dust of the eight years of the Emperor. Bring back the breeze with your sleeves, sit and watch the idle clouds and not get tired of poverty! ”

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