Chapter 402: Dilemma, Difficult Choice
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"Report ~ His Royal Highness the King of Qin has a decree ~ The whole army of the Shenwu Army turned north to reinforce Datong Town to fight, and at the same time, the Fourth Brigade of the Cavalry Army stationed in Guangling, Keri is ready to counterattack, be sure to defeat the Ming army under the command of the Governor of Baoding, and ensure the safety of the flanks of the army!"
"The ministers, gods, and military commanders, Ning Youzun, the king of Qin."
"Come on~ Command all departments, Keri set off to the north, the logistics departments of each army immediately set off first, coordinated the military warehouses along the way, and took food with the governor's rule, and it was necessary to ensure the supply of grain and grass on the way to the army, and the cavalry battalion of the former army set off quickly, and quickly went north to Datong Town through Yingzhou, temporarily under the command of the Tiger Wing Army, and there must be no mistake." Since Ning You received the battle report from Taiyuan, he ordered the cavalry battalion of the first town of the Shenwu Army to start quickly.
The rest of the follow-up included the 1st Brigade of the 2nd Town of the Shenwu Army stationed in Fanzhi, which went directly to Hunyuanzhou, Guangling and other places to reach the border of Datong and Xuanhua, and the 2nd Brigade of the 2nd Town stationed in Wutai, which took Lingqiu and Ulzhou to reach the border.
The independent brigade quickly went north to Huairen from the garrison of Guangwu and Mayi to strengthen the defense line of the Great Wall, and after the main force of the first town division and the Tuntian army took over the defense of Yanmen, it quickly went north to Yingzhou, and at this time, the vicinity of Datong Town had gathered 50,000 people of the Qin army's Tiger Wing Army, two armies of the Shenwu Army, 10,000 people from two brigades of the Second Cavalry Army, and 2,000 men and horses from two battalions of the Tuntian Army, totaling 62,000 soldiers and horses.
In other directions, the southeast of Jin also gathered a brigade of the Qin Army's Third and Fourth Armies and the Second Cavalry Army, with soldiers and horses from the Tuntian Battalion, totaling more than 60,000 people.
In the central direction, the Yulin Army of the Qin Army, which was ordered to attack, led a brigade of the Second Cavalry Army, totaling more than 10,000 people, as a central combat group, and Liang Sijiu, the governor of the Second Cavalry Army, commanded the operation on the Baoding side in a unified manner.
On the Sichuan side, in order to prevent the Henan Henan troops from suddenly advancing westward and cutting off the back road, the original military order to transfer the First Field Army to the Jinnan battlefield was urgently changed, and after the First Army crossed the Yellow River, the whole army turned to the southwest and held on to Tongguan and other places, and at the same time, Tan Wu, the governor of the Fifth Army, was responsible for commanding the operation into Sichuan, and Guo Sheng, the governor of the First Army, was responsible for the operation in Tongguan and other places.
In mid-July, under the pretext of pursuing Liukou, the field group of the central line first crossed the boundary between Shanxi and Beizhili under the condition of notifying the local government of the Ming Dynasty in advance, with a cavalry battalion as the forerunner, and the main force simultaneously attacked the border cities of Fuping, Pingshan, Xingtang and other places.
At the same time, the partial division of another brigade of the cavalry army from Guangchang to the south surrounded Tang County and Qingdu, cutting off the road of soldiers and horses under the command of the governor of Baoding, and at this time, the entire Ming court was shaken, that is, the combat effectiveness shown by the Qin army seemed to be different from the rumors, and they also overestimated their own strength, the Ming army on the front line was simply a touch of a collapse!
"We can't wait like this, if the will of the imperial court does not change, then we must quickly march into the army, seize Tongguan, and strive for the passage into Shaanxi." In Huaiqing Mansion, the Ming army, which had already completed the whole army, was already a little impatient, because more and more spies reported that the Qin army in the north had begun to increase its troops in large numbers, and tens of thousands of main elites of the Qin army were found in the border area.
Lu Xiangsheng couldn't imagine that the Qin army really had the so-called 300,000 main forces? Or did they transfer the main forces south to deal with themselves?
"My lord, the Qin army is on the side, and Tongguan is heavily guarded, if the army here is not transferred for a day, we will rush westward, once the flanks and rear roads are attacked, everything will be over, I ask your Excellency to think twice, don't enter the army easily." Sun Chuanting couldn't take care of anything else, just the tens of thousands of Qin troops in the north, they might not have been able to fight, let alone continue to march west to seize Tongguan and march into Shaanxi.
"Who said no, the meaning of the imperial court is to start in Datong Town in the north first, attract the main force of the Qin army to the north, and then use my Henan army as a surprise soldier, all the way north to Taiyuan, capture Li Jing, all the way west to Shaanxi, and completely reverse the situation, but now in the area of Zezhou and Pingyang Mansion, the main force of the Qin army has been discovered, and in Zezhou alone, there are fifty or sixty thousand horses, with this force, it is still a question whether we can win or not." Qin Yiming also rarely questioned the military orders of the imperial court.
After all, in these years, no one is a fool, who is strong and who is weak, you can see it at a glance!
That is, there was a problem with the intelligence network of the Ming army, and he almost became blind in the Shanxi area, and he could only rely on the scouts in the army to go out twenty or thirty miles to conduct reconnaissance, and the information he got was also varied.
The Qin army, which has a main force of 300,000, is already a behemoth that can almost be equated with the Ming court, and after the whole army, the morale is high, the armament, food and grass are sufficient, and it is not comparable to the military household soldiers that exist on paper in the Ming court at all.
"But we have to obey the strict orders of the imperial court." Lu Xiangsheng was a little helpless, how could he not know that the Ming army stationed in Henan had lost the opportunity to attack Tongguan? As long as the Qin army puts 20,000 troops here, it will be difficult for him to advance an inch, not to mention that the total strength of the Qin army is even more than the army under his command, and it is even more elite.
"The princes in the court, with the battle report of unknown language on the front line, want to let us jump into the fire pit, how can it be so reasonable? My lord, Guide Mansion came to report, those rogue Kou seem to have entered Shandong, and there are some iron horses infested, at this time, instead of quickly marching east to fight the Rogue and completely eliminate them, but ask us to go and fight the Qin army, isn't this putting the cart before the horse? Wang Zhong, the chief soldier of Nanyang, also wondered, why can't this court understand?
"Yes! If the rebellion in Henan and Shandong can be quelled, then the 18th Route General Officers will join forces and attack Shanxi at the same time, then the grasp will be greatly increased, and now we are under our command, although there are tens of thousands of elite main forces, but once the westward advance fails, the Qin army takes the opportunity to attack, then the world is in danger, and the society is in danger! Sun Chuanting said with a melancholy face, and then looked at Lu Xiangsheng, who could call the shots, with anticipation. (To be continued.) )