Chapter 235: Preparing for War
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This is not a question of history or not, but a "Water Margin", even if you haven't read the novel, you have always learned these four famous works in school textbooks, right? I have also seen it in TV dramas in later generations, and he can be described as a well-known character.
It's just that he is a character in a novel after all, but why did he all run here?
Not only that, but this information also stated that Lu Junyi and Lin Chong were the deputy commanders, and each commanded the army.
If Song Jiang is a coincidence, what about Lu Junyi and Lin Chong?
If you don't know who Lu Junyi is, then Lin Chong's name should be familiar, right? His popularity is no less than that of Song Jiang, and he has also learned it in textbooks.
The appearance of Song Jiang, Lin Chong, and Liangshan heroes made Li Chu confused.
Is this Water Margin a real story in history, or a fictional story that has been rewritten by later generations?
Li Chu didn't watch "Water Margin", although he knew the names of some of the characters in it, but he didn't watch the plot story, even if it was a TV series, he only watched a few episodes superficially, and he knew about it, but he didn't know the situation inside, and now there is Song Jiang here, it seems that this Water Margin should have happened really.
Before the crossing, when Li Chu studied the history of the late Northern Song Dynasty, he didn't seem to see the shadow of Liangshan.
Water is not the water margin put aside first, the 200,000 army is coming, and this matter has immediately become the most urgent thing on the Qilin Army's side at present.
Sure enough, as Li Chu and Shi Tianyi guessed, the imperial court really sent troops after this year, and it was 200,000.
Two hundred thousand, that's not a small number.
This time, the imperial court sent troops to encircle and suppress it, not only to deal with the Qilin army, but also to prepare to kill Wang Qing in one pot. This point is known to the Qilin Army, but due to the geographical location, if the imperial court wants to destroy Wang Qing, it must first pass through the chassis of the Qilin Army, so that the imperial court will not divide the troops, and the 200,000 will come directly to the Qilin Army.
Immediately, Li Chu and Ma Feng and Ning Rong's two cavalry immediately set out to go out of Xiangcheng County to capture Yangzhai.
Yang Zhai's defenders had already gathered in Yingchang Mansion, but there was no garrison locally, allowing Ma Feng Ningrong to seize Yang Zhai and occupy the upper hand.
To the northeast of Xiangcheng County, there are all open plains, and there are Pingdingshan mountain ranges next to the southwest side, so the cavalry must be released first, as soon as the cavalry is out of the cage, the difficulty of the officers and soldiers will increase a lot if they want to chase and kill, and at the same time let the soldiers dig trenches outside the city gate in case of emergency, and at the same time ordered Li Han to lead 3,000 soldiers out of Xiangcheng and stationed in Yingqiao Town.
After Li Han led the army to Yingqiao Town, he immediately implemented Shi Tianyi's plan and led his troops to the upper reaches of the Yinghe River to cut off the Yingshui River.
In this winter, the water source of the river itself is scarce, and as soon as the upstream river is cut off, the downstream river gradually breaks off and dries up.
At the same time as the water was cut off here, he ordered people to build various sandbags and pile them up on the high ground southwest of Yingqiao Town, one to form a fortification, and the other to prevent the river from flooding the residential buildings in the town.
The Leopard 1 tank was also driven to Yingqiao Town by Li Qun and was on standby at any time.
At the same time, two arsenals in the town of Rufen also began to ramp up the production of Molotov cocktails.
After Li Chu returned from Yanchang County, Li Chu was responsible for the construction of these two arsenals, and the blacksmiths, carpenters and other craftsmen in Xiangcheng County, Jiangdian Town, and Rufen Town were concentrated, and at the same time, a lot of apprentices and workers were recruited to establish these two arsenals, which were mainly responsible for the production of Molotov cocktails and siege equipment, such as siege vehicles and catapults.
As early as years ago, these two arsenals had already produced some of their stocks, but it was obviously not enough to face the coming war.
The north of Wancheng in Nanyang is a large mountain range, and now Wang Qing's 40,000 troops in Nanyang have been disabled, and the crisis from Nanyang has been temporarily lifted, so Li Chu mobilized 1,000 soldiers from Lushan County to come to Xiangcheng County to garrison.
Lushan is surrounded by alpine terrain, in addition to the exit of Pingdingshan, it can be said that it is in a ravine surrounded by mountains on three sides, now the road on Pingdingshan is difficult again, and there is the Yudai River to block the road, if the Song Dynasty also sent troops from Xijing, it must also go to Liang County, Jiaxian, and then enter Xiangcheng County from Yingqiao Town, this route is the route of Ma Fenglai.
If he came from Xijing, Shi Tianyi didn't think there would be too many.
Li Chu took Chen Zu as his general and led 1,000 men to garrison Changqiao Town in the east of Jiaxian, holding the estuary of the river crossing here.
Let Shen Ning lead 500 people, plus the private soldiers of the Shen family and the Wu family to form a thousand people, and go to a place called Cigou next to the Rushui River in the south of Xiangcheng County. Rufen Town has a natural geographical advantage, that is, the Junshui River and the Rushui River converge in the east of Rufen Town, forming a protective wall, the two rivers are wide and spacious, and there is no bridge, so it forms a natural hazard in the east of Rufen Town.
If the garrisons of Yuncheng and Linying in the east also came to join in, they could only walk along the river. Here, you only need to send one soldier to Cigou to stop the reinforcements from both places.
Still like Na Xijing, there won't be many reinforcements from these two places, so Shen Ning's 1,000 people are enough.
The main purpose has to be placed in Yingchang Mansion, which will be the main direction of attack of the imperial court officials and troops.
Although Wang Qing had been defeated, it was inevitable that this person was behind the scenes when the imperial army came to encircle and suppress him, and Li Chu divided another 1,000 people to be stationed at Fangcheng Mountain Pass in the southwest of Ye County, and at the same time stationed 500 troops in Ye County.
As the orders were distributed one by one, the entire Xiangcheng County and Rufen Town were mobilized.
Not only soldiers and officials, but even some ordinary people, when they heard that the imperial army was coming, they spontaneously organized to help the Qilin Army, and most of the places that could help were in logistics, such as delivering food, clothes, water, and so on. Especially the people of Rufen Town, in the past two or three months, everyone has seen the Qilin Army's goodness to everyone, and the Qilin Army is the local soldier, how can they sit idly by?
If your heart is already there, how can you care about the Song Ting?
While he was busy with the war, a herald suddenly came to deliver a message, saying that a merchant had asked to see Li Chu.
Businessmen, their own China Merchants Bureau is responsible.
The herald said, but this man was different from the other merchants, but said that he wanted to join the Kirin army.
Because Li Chu had instructed before, if someone came to vote, he could report to Li Chu according to the situation.
"Okay, you invite them to wait in the living room on the second floor of the Qingfeng Xulai Hotel, and I'll go over right away."
The political center of Rufen Town has not yet been built, and when Shi Tianyi came to Li Chu with news, Li Chu was in his small courtyard, and due to the seriousness of the matter, this small courtyard temporarily became a small headquarters, and the generals of all the departments came here to obey the order.
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