Chapter 277: Actively Preparing for War
After listening to the words of the two of them, Gao Huaiyuan nodded secretly in his heart, now these guys already have their own opinions, and they can see the key to the problem, and today he inspected the defense of Li Quanjun outside the city of Chuzhou, and saw the horses galloping on the city wall, and the soldiers were all over the place, under the early spring sun, the swords and guns were shining, and the flags were waving, although there was some chaos, but there was no big chaos, and there was still a great distance from the dispersion and disintegration of the military heart in his imagination. It seems that the first day of the heart-to-heart battle has not yet achieved practical results, and in a short period of time, Li Quan does not seem to have the idea of surrendering. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info。
His original plan was to settle the city of Chuzhou peacefully, and it was better to force Li Quankai to surrender, so as to reduce the losses of the Song army and even the local soldiers and civilians, and also reduce the damage to the storming of Chuzhou City.
But so far, this is still his unilateral idea, whether Li Quan can do it according to his assumption, has not yet become a certainty, he also knows that righteousness is not to keep money, mercy is not in charge of the army, if he wants to have greater achievements in the future, he can not be afraid of temporary losses, if Li Quan is really obsessed, in the end he can only take the approach of storming Chuzhou City, war, it is impossible not to die, if necessary, you still need to fight with a knife and a gun.
So he nodded and said: We really can't wait for Li Quan to surrender, we should prepare for a strong attack, we still need to make full preparations, at the moment, Li Quan really has no intention of surrendering, we can't wait like this!
Convening you today, in fact, this official is to warn you that we can't have the kindness of a woman, if Li Quan's iron heart does not surrender, then we can only attack one way, and we want Li Quan to surrender, not afraid of them, I am afraid it will not be possible!
Now everyone listen to my orders, today we set up a large camp, overnight began to prepare for the siege of the city, at the moment our troops are limited, not enough to fully surround Chuzhou City, only to merge one, concentrate on the West Gate, Baoying City a battle, the enemy has seen the power of our artillery, this time we are still the old way, concentrate all kinds of artillery carts, first slam the city, hit them when they are afraid, things can take a turn.
The generals immediately responded in unison, and then Gao Huaiyuan immediately began to give orders one after another, and the generals immediately received the order to leave the account and began to get busy.
Gao Huaiyuan sat alone in the tent, re-examining his gains and losses after leading the troops out this time, so far, his Northern Expedition is basically expected, the initiative of the war is always in their hands, no defeat, the current Song army can be said to be morale, but for the storming of Chuzhou City, Gao Huaiyuan is still a little worried, now although he has many advantages, there is also a foreshadowing, but if Li Quantie is determined to defend the city, in a short period of time, It's really not easy for him to capture Chuzhou City.
Gao Huaiyuan now knows that he doesn't dare to be careless, if he is a little careless, Li Quan is not a vegetarian, and he will definitely fight back, if Li Quan defeats him, then things will be very bad.
At the end of the day, Yang Miaozhen's letter had also been sent into Chuzhou City, but Li Quan didn't move at all, and even faintly, the number of enemy troops on the city wall had increased a lot, Gao Huaiyuan pondered Li Quan's thoughts, could it be that Li Quan really didn't care about the life and death of Yang Miaozhen's mother and son? Do you want to fight yourself to the end here?
When Gao Huaiyuan was still pondering Li Quan's thoughts in the big tent, he suddenly heard a soldier shouting outside the tent:
After Gao Huaiyuan heard this, he chuckled in his heart, after he arrived here yesterday, he had already sent someone to shout for a day and a night, and informed Li Quanjun in the city of the news of Yang Miaozhen's mother and son's surrender, Li Quan has not reacted at all so far, and actually sent troops out of the city to raid, could it be that he really doesn't care about the life and death of Yang Miaozhen's mother and son?
Gao Huaiyuan immediately ordered.
This matter was originally a trivial matter, but it revealed a bad message to Gao Huaiyuan, that is, Li Quan did not plan to surrender now, could it be that this guy really didn't think about the lives of his wife and children?
Gao Huaiyuan was worried, stood up and paced back and forth in the big tent, constantly thinking about this problem, for a long time, he has developed the habit of thinking alone when encountering things, at the moment Ji Xiancheng and Jia Qi are not by his side, no one can analyze the current situation for him, although Hua Yue has no problem commanding the operation, but he is still not good at figuring out people's psychology, he can only think on his own.
After thinking about it for a long time, Gao Huaiyuan suddenly secretly said that it was bad, this time he still thought about things too simply, Li Quan did have the courage not to surrender at the moment, because although Yang Miaozhen fell into the hands of the Song army, but Gao Huaiyuan really couldn't kill Yang Miaozhen's mother and son, not for anything else, just because of Yang Miaozhen's reputation in the Northern Army, he couldn't touch her, if he killed Yang Miaozhen because Li Quan didn't surrender, not only could he not force Li Quan and the defenders in the city to surrender, but it would arouse the hatred of the Northern Army. The Northern Army, which was already close to falling apart, was reunited and returned to Li Quan's subordinates to carry the Song Army, so that things would not be easy to do.
It is estimated that Li Quan is unwilling to surrender now, and it is precisely because he sees the situation of their Song army to throw a rat trap, so he does not have to worry about forcing the Song army to kill Yang Miaozhen's mother and son, so he dares to resist stubbornly in the city.
Even if Li Quanjun is not very united now, after all, they still have enough troops, so many people take turns to defend the city, do not resist hard, let the Song army kill with a knife and a gun, I don't know how many days it will take to kill, not to mention that there are more than 10,000 soldiers and horses of Li Quan's descendants in the city, and these more than 10,000 people are Li Quan's new force and the capital of him and the Song army, which is a big trouble.
Thinking of this, Gao Huaiyuan immediately spoke:
Although Li Ruohu is now squeezed by Qiu Tong to become Gao Huaiyuan's deputy guard captain, he is still the actual captain of the personal guard, Gao Huaiyuan likes to be quiet alone when he thinks, he knows Gao Huaiyuan's habits very well, and after Qiu Tong brought back Yang Miaozhen in the past two days, his heart is a little wild, and he doesn't stay in Gao Huaiyuan's big tent very much, and Li Ruohu has been waiting outside Gao Huaiyuan's big tent.
Hearing Gao Huaiyuan call him, Li Ruohu immediately walked in from outside the tent.
As soon as Gao Huaiyuan saw Li Ruohu, he immediately commanded Li Ruohu.
Li Ruohu immediately bowed down to receive the order, immediately turned back to the camp, and arranged to release carrier pigeons to pass Gao Huaiyuan's instructions to Zhou Jun and others.
And Gao Huaiyuan immediately ordered his own soldiers to beat the drum and raise the tent, and ordered the generals in the army to discuss matters in his big tent, and these generals who had just dispersed the meeting heard the drums of the Chinese army's rising tent, and they were a little puzzled, but the military order was like a mountain, and they immediately explained the matter at hand, and rushed to the big tent of the Chinese army.
After the generals arrived, Gao Huaiyuan didn't talk to them, and said: This is my fault, no wonder everyone! Now you are at my disposal.
Arrange for a messenger to meet with the general Xia Quan in Siyang, and tell him that if he is really willing to submit to the imperial court, he will show sincerity and limit him to lead his troops within three days to attack Sizhou!
Ordered Wang Quan to send a naval army to strengthen patrols on all waterways from Suqian to Siyang, and prevent the rest of Li Quan's troops from rushing to aid Chuzhou from the west!
ordered Luo Zhuo to quickly capture Yancheng, and then return to the division to attack Chuzhou from the east, sweeping the counties and townships controlled by Li Quan along the way.
Huang Yan immediately sent the cavalry of the Zhongshun Army to sweep the counties and townships within a hundred miles around Chuzhou, clear the remnants of Li Quan, and knock out the scouts released by Li Quan outside the city.
With Liu Dayong's cavalry out of the camp, Chen was stationed about five miles outside the south gate of Chuzhou, monitoring the movements of Chuzhou City, and strictly preventing Li Quanjun from taking advantage of our unpreparedness to send cavalry out of the city to attack our army's grain road! Once it is found that Li Quan's army is out of the city, contain the enemy army and wait for the army to send troops!
The Zhao Mansion strengthened the construction of the camp and built a solid camp with the vehicles of the army, so as to strictly prevent Li Quan's army from going out of the city at night to attack the camp.
Another person was sent to Yangzhou immediately, and Xu Xiji was ordered to transport arrows, gunpowder, grain and other materials from Yangzhou to this place to support our army's strong attack on Chuzhou.
Then he ordered Zhao Shanxiang and Chuzhou troops to march in the direction of Dingyuan and Fengyang, forcing the local Li Quanjun not to move.
Looks like we're going to have a tough fight this time! To you can work together with me to capture Chuzhou City, Gao will never lose your merits, you go back and tell the soldiers, this battle is very important, if you want to fly Huang Tengda, you must dare to use your life forward, the official rewards and punishments are clear, all those who make military merits, can be rewarded!
As Gao Huaiyuan issued orders one after another, the generals who had been instructed came out one after another to receive the orders, and the scribes in front of the tent issued orders that needed to be conveyed to the outside, and immediately wrote them into secret letters, and then arranged for messengers to be sent to various places.
And Zhao Fu asked at this time:
Everyone was a little puzzled by the change in Gao Huaiyuan's attitude, staring and waiting for Gao Huaiyuan to answer.