Chapter 62: The Mainstay
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Liu Cun looked around, thought about it and said: "There is something I didn't want to say, but now the situation is critical, I have to say, I and Lord Wang Qi have repeatedly calculated, thinking that tens of thousands of Yellow Turbans did not take advantage of the victory after capturing Nanwuyang and Fei County, it is not that they are tired, nor are they afraid of my reinforcements from all walks of life, even the city They dare to fight, and they are easy to fight, how can the Yellow Turban thieves who are as high as 80,000 people be afraid of thousands of reinforcements?" ”
"Obviously, the thieves are gathered from all directions in the three states, and now they are dividing up the fruitful results obtained after the two counties, so they did not seize the opportunity to take advantage of the victory to attack, once they have completed the partition, they will reorganize the army, clear their respective forces, status and responsibilities, within ten days, tens of thousands of Yellow Turban thieves who have soared in strength are likely to launch a larger-scale war, at that time, whether the direction of attack of the thieves is Xuzhou in the south, or Kaiyang Wangcheng in the east, the war will be very tragic and huge!"
The hall was silent, and the Minister of State Zhang Fan was so frightened that he sat on the ground, Wangcheng was only more than eighty miles away from tens of thousands of thieves in Fei County!
Monarch Liu Xi's face was full of horror, the sound of heavy breathing could be heard clearly, and the lieutenants Yin Xin, Cang Ci and Cheng Bing were not out of shape despite their panic.
Mi Zhu was wiping his sweat frequently, while Mi Fang was staring at Liu Cun who was drinking tea and moistening his throat with a shocked face, and admired Liu Cun's keen eyes and incisive analysis.
"Brother Xian, how is this good?" Mi Zhu finally spoke, and after asking this, he was rude to stick out his tongue and lick his dry upper lip.
Liu Cun replied softly: "Brother, as long as you work together to face the difficulties, there is still a way." ”
Mi Zhu's spirits were greatly lifted, everyone suddenly cheered up, and Liu Xi even shouted for Aiqing to come as soon as possible.
Liu Cun stood up and asked: "Your Excellency, Weichen begs your lord to agree to this matter." ”
"Aiqing is outspoken, although she is blunt! No need to be polite, sit down and talk, sit down and talk! Liu Xi urged Liu Cun to sit down.
Liu Cun had no choice but to go back and sit down: "Your Excellency, my lords, everything that is said below, I implore you to keep it strictly confidential, because I don't know how many Yellow Turban spies have mixed into the city with the displaced people, we are now in a weak position, extremely passive, we can only take risks, and confuse the enemy with true and false, once the response strategy is leaked out, it may bring huge casualties, everyone, please!" ”
Everyone hurriedly stood up and assured Liu Cun that they would never leak any secrets, and that as long as Liu Cun needed it, they would go all out to cooperate.
Liu Cun let out a long sigh and said the secret plan of the headquarters: "At this moment, the 8,000 officers and soldiers of our army stationed in Dong'an and Dongguan are ready, and they will hand over the defense with the 5,000 young men of Dongwu County who are quietly rushing to tomorrow night, and Zhao Rong, the commander of Dongguan County, and Zhai Yue, the county lieutenant, will lead the south overnight to sneak attack Mengyin County, which has been occupied by thousands of yellow turbans for several years. This is a surprise plan finally settled on by our army after repeated analysis and discussion before its departure, and the specific marching route and combat plan were all formulated by Lord Wang Qi himself. ”
Wang Qi stood up and bowed his hand to the extremely moved crowd: "Your Excellency, my lords, in addition, since yesterday evening, our army has sent dozens of scouts and thousands of cavalry in turn to mercilessly clean up the enemy scouts and thieves in the west, with the purpose of disrupting the vigilance arrangement of the thieves, disrupting their vision and military morale, and then affecting their judgment, so that the enemy chieftains cannot transfer troops with peace of mind. ”
"As of dawn today, our army and the thieves and scouts have a total of more than 30 skirmishes, annihilating hundreds of enemy scouts, capturing more than 600 heads of the thieves who broke through the front guard, sweeping the area of 30 kilometers on both sides of the Wushui River west of the royal city, at this moment is using the tactics of taking turns to attack, constantly approaching and harassing Fei County, as much as possible to make the enemy chieftain miscalculate, if the enemy chieftain sends less than 3,000 troops to counterattack, our army's 2,000 cavalry in ambush will decisively attack, destroy the enemy as much as possible, and then achieve the purpose of disrupting the overall deployment of the bandits."
Liu Xi and the others gasped, they never thought that when they were still drinking last night, Liu Cun and Wang Qi's soldiers who had just arrived and had not yet set up camp had already gone out to fight hard.
"Lord Wang, what if the enemy chief is angry and attacks on a large scale?"
The thirty-five-year-old lieutenant Yin Xin was already colorless, and the nephew of the former minister of state, Yin De, was a learned man, and he should have been better off being a civil official, but unfortunately he had entered the wrong profession.
Wang Qi was disdainful in his heart, but his face was extremely gentle: "Don't worry, Lieutenant, even if the thieves come in a big way, it will take at least two days to prepare, our army has set up a large camp in Zhaojiadu, west of the city, and will be able to build a solid camp with a length and width of four miles by tomorrow night at the latest, if the thieves want to open the Yangwang City, they must first pull out the ferry camp of our army, and it is not easy to pull out the ferry camp, do not leave 20,000 corpses, don't think about it!" ”
Everyone was shocked again, and immediately thought of the excellent armor and equipment of the officers and soldiers of Langya, as well as the large number of bows and crossbows and cavalry, and they didn't need to think much to know that Wang Qi really didn't say much, and Yin Xin was embarrassed to apologize to Wang Qi.
Liu Cun added: "Before our army went south, Langya counties urgently requisitioned 5,000 people, formed five craftsman battalions to help the south, is expected to arrive in Wangcheng this afternoon, tonight can build a ferry camp, these 5,000 people are experienced young craftsmen, every 1,000 people in 25 craftsmen who are familiar with civil engineering, do it quickly, the length and width of several miles of camp, plus a circle of ten zhang wide trench, 5,000 people in two days to finish it is very easy, not to mention that thousands of officers and soldiers of our army have gone out in advance to cut wood, and tens of thousands of local people have gone to help, So it should be faster. ”
The monarch's face was happy again, he stood up and rubbed his hands back and forth frequently, and suddenly turned to Wang Qi and asked loudly: "Wang Aiqing, there are still 10,000 sets of armor and weapons in the widow's arsenal, how many young people can Aiqing recruit to supplement the army in two days?" ”
Wang Qi hurriedly stood up, quietly looked at Liu Cun, saw Liu Cun nodded slightly, and immediately stepped forward to salute: "Your Majesty, now the whole city has the same hatred for the enemy, and countless people are stranded outside the city who have been expelled from their homes by thieves, and the great enemy is currently available to the people, so I dare not say that it is still feasible to recruit 8,000 young people within two days, but this grain and grass ......."
"Aiqing, don't worry, there is enough food and grass, how much will you be given by the widow!" Liu Xi promised loudly.
Minister Zhang Fan also stood up and humbly saluted Wang Qi: "Although Lord Du Wei let go, we are responsible for all the ordnance, grain and grass. ”
"Xie Junshang, Lord Xie Guoxiang!" Wang Qi thanked him respectfully, thinking that this is good, after the battle, 8,000 people can survive, Lao Tzu will take it away.
"Hey, hey! Zijian, Shoushan, brother, what should I do? Don't forget that there are 14,000 soldiers in Xuzhou in Nancheng! You should work together and work closely together, you two can't just look out for yourself, right? What if tens of thousands of thieves don't attack you and go south to attack Nancheng or other directions? Mi Zhu, who had been listening, couldn't sit still, and shouted loudly when he got up.
In the blink of an eye, Liu Cun and his Qinwang army became the mainstay in everyone's minds, and the control of the overall situation quietly transferred to Liu Cun's hands.