After all, the original increase of 5,000 men to the former army to 10,000 was to attack the battles in various parts of Changzhou, and Changzhou had been recovered, so the previous decision would be annulled. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Wu Shaogang personally selected the former army sergeants, the change is not too big, except for the nearly 2,000 people under his command, followed by the 3,000 people of the Tabai Army and the Urging Front Army under the Hezhou Imperial Army.

However, there are still certain changes in these 3,000 people, and Cai Siwei selected them according to Wu Shaogang's requirements.

In the whole process of selection, Zhang Binghui, Ma Long and others all participated.

In addition to the appropriate amount of physical training conducted every day, the inculcation of the concept of military discipline and military regulations has been intensified.

No one knew that Wu Shaogang had already regarded the 5,000 people of the former army as his own strength, and he would try his best to leave all these 5,000 people on Tongchuan Fu Road as the basis for the next development.

Of course, in the process of fighting, some sergeants will be lost, but Cai Siwei, Zhang Binghui and others have put forward suggestions that the next step can be to select a number of sergeants from among the rebels and enter the army.

Wu Shaogang agreed to this suggestion, among the rebels, there are also brave soldiers, and it is much stronger to be able to absorb these brave soldiers than to recruit them among the people.

On November 15, the former army led by Wu Shaogang secretly left Anfu Town.

On November 16, Lu Wende, who had rested for several days, led his army out of Fu'an Town and headed for Luzhou.

The opening of the army indicates that the battle is about to start again.

The total number of sergeants under Lu Wende's command was close to 30,000, and the more than 4,000 rebel sergeants who were captured were all joined into the army after a simple transformation, which made Lu Wende's troops more sufficient.

In order not to involve the strength of the army, Lu Wende specially issued an order to Yu Xing, the Sichuan envoy stationed in Hezhou, to transfer some sergeants to guard the city to which Changzhou belongs.

The elite Jinzhou Imperial Front Army and Hezhou Imperial Front Army are all going to participate in the battle and will not be stationed in the city.

The news that Lu Wende led the army to set off from Anfu Town was learned by Liu Quan in less than a day.

Liu Quan, who had been stationed in Yusi Town for several days, once again began to make intense deployments.

In terms of the disadvantage of troops, Liu Cheng didn't care very much, after all, they occupied the advantage of geographical location.

Liu Cheng knows Lu Wende too well, especially in terms of operational command, Lu Wende is indeed capable, and the battle can be regarded as tenacious, but the biggest problem is the lack of atmosphere and domineering, Liu Cheng can conclude that Lu Wende will not require the army to launch an all-round attack, even if it is in the case of absolute superiority, he will retain part of the troops.

Such an operational arrangement is very beneficial to Liu Quan.

So Liu Cheng was not particularly nervous, he deployed in an orderly manner, striving to defeat Lu Wende and keep the Luzhou capital city, after all, this is his lair.

On the Tongchuan side, Liu Cheng wrote a letter to Liu Yuanzhen again, informing him of his own deployment, and the implication was that when the battle reached a critical moment, he still asked Liu Yuanzhen to help, of course, Liu Quan would not have much hope, everything still had to rely on himself.

On November 20, the two-way army of Lu Wende and Liu Chuan finally began to fight in Yusi Town.

Everything is as Liu Quan's judgment, Lu Wende is very cautious in fighting, and the number of sergeants sent to attack each time is not large, generally not more than 3,000 people, and after the fight enters the stalemate stage, Liu Cheng will often withdraw his troops.

Liu Quan is not in a hurry, his rear is stable, after all, the army led by Lu Wende is all concentrated in Yusi Town.

The two armies began to stalemate, and in a short period of time, it was difficult for either to gain the upper hand.

However, after three days of fighting, Liu Cheng felt the pressure, and in the final analysis, it was still a lack of troops.

Lu Wende took turns to fight, nearly 30,000 troops, taking turns to attack, and the interval was very short, Liu Cheng only had 10,000 people, to deal with Lu Wende's every attack, the number of sergeants sent could not be too small, otherwise there would be a danger of failure, the number of people at least remained at about 2,000 people, so that the sergeants under Liu Quan's command were extremely tired, but the sergeants under Lu Wende's command were relatively energetic.

Several times Liu Cheng thought about luring Lu Wende to launch a full-scale attack, but unfortunately Lu Wende was not in a hurry at all, and launched the attack unhurriedly, not moved at all.

The battle continued until the fifth day, and the casualties of the sergeants under Liu Quan's command began to increase.

By the seventh day, the morale of the army began to decline sharply.

Liu Cheng sensed danger, unprecedented danger.

After a whole night of thinking, Liu Cheng finally made a decision, leaving a small number of sergeants to hold on to Yusi Town, and most of the troops were withdrawn to the capital city of Luzhou and began to transfer.

Liu Quan's casualties increased, and the casualties of the sergeants under Lu Wende's command also increased, and the two of them were half a catty, and Lu Wende was not in a hurry at all, and he didn't think about quickly resolving the battle.

Liu Zhuang was bold and wrote a letter to Lu Wende, to the effect that the two armies would rest for two days.

Unexpectedly, Lu Wende replied, and actually agreed.

Liu Cheng was overjoyed and quickly began to deploy.

The former army led by Wu Shaogang traveled day and night, trying to keep their whereabouts as secret as possible.

Scouts scout along the way to find the best route to march.

Secrecy is the top priority, and if the whereabouts of the army are leaked, all arrangements and deployments may fail.

Fortunately, Liu Cheng helped Wu Shaogang in disguise.

Liu Chuan concentrated all the people of nearby Fuzhou counties in Luzhou and Tongchuan, and most of the armies under his command were also distributed in the two places, and there were almost no armies in the rest of the place, and there were not many people.

This made Wu Shaogang's march much smoother.

Despite this, Wu Shaogang was still very careful, trying to avoid marching troops at noon, and the place of resting was generally in the mountain col, or between the hills and forests, of course, Wu Shaogang also issued a stern order, anyone who found the whereabouts of the army, no matter who it was, would be killed.

Such a march was quite arduous.

After six days of secret marching, the army finally arrived in the town of Takahashi.

After the army arrived and stationed in the hills about five miles away from Gaoqiao Town, Wu Shaogang immediately spread out the map, began to examine it carefully, and ordered scouts to reconnoiter along the way.

This check startled Wu Shaogang, and he found a mistake in his own arrangement.

Gaoqiao Town is less than ten miles away from Neijiang County, and he only has 5,000 soldiers under his command.

If Liu Chuan is a lone army, there is nothing to worry about, but Tongchuan is stationed with Mongolian troops, and Jianzhou and Longzhou, which are under the jurisdiction of Chengdu Fulu in the west, are all stationed with Mongolian troops, if the armies from these places come to help, then Wu Shaogang will have to face the dilemma of being attacked from both sides, and he can only quickly evacuate and return to Luzhou.

It was undoubtedly a major mistake for the army to set up an ambush in Gaoqiao Town and give up control of the county seat of Neijiang.

That night, Wu Shaogang ordered the scouts to investigate the county seat of Neijiang and find out all the conditions in the city.

What Wu Shaogang never imagined was that as a hub place, the number of rebels stationed in Neijiang County was less than 500 people, and most of them were old, weak, sick and disabled, and there were no people in Neijiang County, and everywhere was empty, and the sergeants stationed in the city were reluctant to come out to patrol.

Wu Shaogang was extremely happy, he didn't understand why the brave Liu Cheng made such a huge mistake.

The battle against the county seat of Neijiang began the next night.

The scouts who had already lurked in the city easily dealt with the rebel sergeants who were holding the walls and gates.

While the army surrounded the barracks, many of the rebel sergeants were even asleep.

After taking Neijiang County and not revealing the slightest news, Wu Shaogang's face finally showed a smile.

This is probably destined by God, and the overconfident Liu Cheng will inevitably escape the fate of destruction this time.

On the second day of the occupation of Neijiang County, the scouts captured more than a dozen suspicious people and searched for a letter from one of them.

The letter was promptly sent to the county office.

Wu Shaogang opened the letter, and after reading it carefully, a knowing smile appeared on his face.

This is a letter written by Liu Chuan to Liu Yuanzhen, who was stationed in Tongchuan, which detailed Liu Quan's tactical deployment, the number of troops deployed, and his plans for the next step.

Liu Cheng was really ready to evacuate Luzhou, and he carried grain, grass and people to Tongchuan and Chengdu Prefecture.

All this shows that Liu Chuan does not want to fight to the end with the imperial army, and the first thing he thinks of is to preserve his own strength.

Wu Shaogang did not hesitate at all, and ordered the scouts to kill all the more than ten people captured.

There is no need to ask, all the information is in the letter.

Next, what Wu Shaogang needs to do is to wait patiently.

Fuzhou County, which is under the jurisdiction of Tongchuan Fulu, has only recovered Hezhou and Changzhou by the imperial army, and then can successfully recover Luzhou, Fushun and Zizhou, as for the rest of the places, especially Tongchuan, it seems that there is no plan to recover, after all, Tongchuan is stationed with Mongolian troops.

Wu Shaogang is not such a plan, he must recover the entire Tongchuan Fu Road, and if possible, completely exterminate the Mongolian army that entered the Tongchuan Fu Road, originally thought that this goal was difficult to achieve, but now it seems that hope has appeared.

The secret lies in the letter in my hand.

As long as Liu Chuan was completely defeated, Wu Shaogang would have the means to completely wipe out the Mongol army that had entered the Tongchuan Fu Road.

At that time, Wu Shao was able to develop in Tongchuan Fu Road with peace of mind just now.

Neijiang and Gaoqiao Town entered a state of full alert, and more scouts were dispatched to understand the situation in the east, west, south, and north, and report to Wu Shaogang in time. (To be continued.) )