Chapter 320: Alone in the Depths

Hearing Zhang Chu say that he was going to take a risk, Wang Chengen felt a chill on his back, walking in the army in the past few days, the freshness had passed, and he had already understood that this war was not a child's play, it was going to bleed to death. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info He had already heard it just now, the rebels were numerous, and they were very powerful, and the other officers and soldiers who came to help were hiding around to watch the excitement, Zhang Chu would not want to bring people to rush in by himself. Although this kind of performance is very loyal to the emperor, it is not good to be loyal once and die after all.

"I want to take someone in." Zhang Chu's words showed that he, Wang Chengen, guessed his thoughts.

"Is it the whole army rushing over?" Wang Chengen had to find out if there was himself in the team that went to die.

"Yes, the whole army rushed over, and no one was left." Zhang Chu's words made Wang Chengen, who wanted to stay in the rear and watch, completely despair.

"We are not in a hurry to serve the emperor, let's think about it in the long run." Although Wang Chengen especially wanted to do something for the emperor, he didn't want to do such a hammer deal.

"Now the reinforcements from all walks of life have no desire to fight at all, and they rush to a place dozens of miles away from Laizhou but do not relieve the siege, and they also fantasize about being able to appease the rebels. We will not get help from others when we attack the rebels, and with our strength of 5,000 men, we will not be able to relieve the siege of Laizhou no matter how desperate we are. Zhang Chu said and came to the map on the table. Now the battle map of the security army has been drawn at the request of Zhang Chu, although many data are still very inaccurate, but the approximate location of each city will not be wrong.

"Kong Youde is leading the main force of the rebel army to attack Laizhou with all its might, and the siege of Laizhou cannot be lifted without tens of thousands of horses." Sun Yuanhua looked at the map and thought, although he was anxious to pacify the rebels, he still had a clear understanding of the strength of the rebels.

"So I decided to encircle Wei to save Zhao Zhi, led the team to rush over, and went all the way east to Dengzhou, forcing the rebels in Laizhou to send a team back to help. So as to reduce the pressure on Laizhou. Zhang Chu pointed to the map and said.

"Can we take Dengzhou?" Wang Chengen asked uneasily.

"We can't defeat Dengzhou, and we also have to guard against the rebels coming from Laizhou to surround us under the city of Dengzhou, so that we will be exposed to the enemy. Therefore, this time, we have to go all the way to the east and then go east to occupy Yantai, which is not far east of Dengzhou, and then build a camp there to hold on, so that we can always threaten the rear of the rebels, so that they have to stay behind to defend Dengzhou, and the pressure on the Laizhou side can be greatly reduced. "Zhang Chu's plan is more like diving headlong into the enemy pile, and he wants to make a nest there.

"In that case, we have the sea behind us, and we will not even have a place to flee if the rebels attack us." Sun Yuanhua was very familiar with the terrain of Shandong and immediately saw the danger.

"No matter how many rebels we contained, and in the end the other teams relieved the siege of Laizhou, and this credit is not ours at all." This Wang Chengen's mind is indeed flexible, and he saw the benefits at once.

"It's up to you, the prince, we want to let the emperor know our painstaking efforts to do this, it depends on how the prince reports to the emperor, you have to make our intentions clear to the emperor in advance, we not only have to gain a foothold in Yantai, but also continue to expand the territory occupied by our army, squeeze the space for rebel activities, and when the time is ripe, cooperate with other officers and soldiers to eliminate the rebels in one fell swoop." Zhang Chu's words made Wang Chengen feel very comfortable to listen to, his role in this is still very great, and Zhang Chu is also very concerned about the emperor's reward.

"I will write an excerpt to the emperor, and I must let the emperor understand our determination to move forward bravely for His Majesty." Wang Chengen felt his blood boiling, and decided to rush forward with Zhang Chu regardless of the danger.

"Okay, that's it." Zhang Chu finally slapped the board.

Sun Yuanhua can't think of a better strategy to hurt the rebels now, and if the security army can hold it, this will really have a great impact on the battle situation. There was no further objection.

After two days of repairs, the security army began to move, they slowly marched in the direction of Dengzhou, marched dozens of miles in strict accordance with the rules of marching every day, and then set up a solid camp, and the next day they pulled out the camp and continued to hurry.

The movement of the security army was soon discovered by the rebels in Dengzhou City, and the leader of the rebel army responsible for guarding Dengzhou was Li Jiucheng, who immediately called his generals to a meeting to discuss how to deal with the attack of the security army.

After easily taking Dengzhou, the rebels fought several battles with the officers and troops in various places, all of which were victorious, and now the rebels are becoming more and more arrogant, and they don't take the officers and soldiers in their eyes at all, plus the officers and soldiers who came to the rescue hesitated between extermination and appeasement, and no team took the initiative to attack, which made the rebels more arrogant.

"What's the team?" Li Jiucheng asked the officer in charge of finding out the news.

"According to the inquiry, it is a reinforcement army from Shanxi, I went up to see that it is said that it was a thief before, and he was just sent by the imperial court to rescue Laizhou, with a total number of more than 10,000 people, but there is only a small team of 100 people wearing official and military clothes, and the others are wearing black clothes, and most of the team are people who are responsible for transporting materials, which is also in line with the characteristics of thieves, and there are always a large number of people in the team, but there are few real soldiers." The rebels did a good job of intelligence work, and they were able to get to the bottom of the security forces very clearly.

"It seems that the government is also bullying this thief who has just surrendered, and the other officials and soldiers are all not moving but urging this team to continue to move forward to die, this group must also feel the danger, so they will slowly arch forward like a snail. This court also recruited this gang of thieves and didn't even give them military uniforms, it can be seen how poor the court is, so they still want to appease us, rather than going to the court to suffer poverty, it is better to rebel now and drink spicy food. Li Jiucheng took the opportunity to agitate.

"Since they came to send them to death, we don't have to be polite, let me bring a sentry to kill them and turn them on their backs, so that they don't have to move forward slowly, I am annoyed to watch." Li Jiucheng's subordinates were loudly agitating there.

"There are a lot of officers and soldiers in this force, and the officers and soldiers who lead the team are quite cunning, they set up a solid camp every day, and they also bring a large number of vehicles and baggage when they advance, and as soon as we attack, they will definitely form a formation of vehicles to defend." Li Jiucheng is old, and he is still very calm in handling things.

"There is no need to worry, we have more than 20,000 soldiers and horses in Dengzhou, leaving 10,000 to defend the city, and the other 10,000 people are all dispatched, the number is not much less than them, and most of them are just people transporting supplies and have no combat effectiveness. It's not terrible for them to form a formation, you forgot that we still have artillery, a burst of shells can break even the strongest formation. Maybe the officers and troops collapsed, we covered up in the back, and saved a lot of effort, looking at the cautious appearance of the officers and soldiers, they definitely didn't dare to attack Dengzhou City, they must have wanted to camp not far from the city, and have an explanation to the above, so it would be a threat to us after all, and it was better to beat them away as soon as possible. Li Jiucheng also has veteran officers under him who are analyzing the current situation.

"Immediately send troops to eliminate this group of officers and troops." Li Jiucheng was determined and gave the order loudly. Personally led more than 10,000 rebels and more than a dozen artillery pieces to kill the ranks of the security army. (To be continued.) )