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Chapter 40 Anticipates the Enemy

Meng Da rode a horse to report to Gan Ning in the starry night, and the large army led by Cheng Gongying was obviously a step slower, because the Xiliang army not only had iron horses, but also foot soldiers. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info//Update fast//Press Ctrl+D to quickly collect ""

However, when Cheng Gongying pursued Meng Da in vain, he would naturally send cavalry to Wuwei to warn Han Sui non-stop.

As a result, Cheng Gongying did not lead the army back to Wuwei before Gan Ning, but the person he sent the letter came to Wuwei one step before Gan Ning to report the letter to Han Sui.

Gan Ning led his army to Wuwei and directly controlled Wuwei without even attacking the city.

Han Sui escaped!

Han Sui fled to the northwest with the recruits he had recruited, leaving Gan Ning with a dilemma of Wuwei.

The people in the city were indignant, and they could no longer be described as unfriendly to the Taiping army, and after Gan Ning led the army into the city, in less than half a day, there were more than 10 incidents of civilian killings.

The whole city was under martial law, and Gan Ning issued the first order after entering Wuwei.

But all the people who wandered in the streets were imprisoned, and those who resisted were put to death on the spot.

The weather was hot and irritable, Gan Ning was pacing back and forth in the tent with his hands in his hands, Zhang Liao was frowning, and the two of them didn't know how to face the current situation.

Meng Da scolded and walked into the tent, and angrily bowed his hand to Gan Ning: "Yu Dadu, this dog thief Han Sui distributed all the grain he couldn't transport to the people before he fled, and spread rumors that Dadu Governor led the army to grab grain and enslave the people of Wuwei, and now the people in the city don't listen to our explanation, and they will attack the patrolling defenders when they have the opportunity, no, there was an emergency in the north of the city just now, the people splashed boiling water on the patrol soldiers, and took the opportunity to grab a knife and kill people, alas, Dadu, what to do, you still have an idea." ”

Gan Ning and Zhang Liao glanced at each other, and they both saw the deep helplessness in each other's eyes.

This Han Sui is an old man, and he has his own set of experience in winning people's hearts, and he has been building momentum since last year, but at that time, the spearhead was aimed at Ma Chao, and he plundered Ma Chao's territorial resources to enrich himself, on the other hand, it is indeed good for the people of Wuwei, at least they will not starve to death.

Han Sui borrowed grain from Guo Jia, which was a favor between the princes, and he used grain to help the people who were suffering from famine and in danger of their lives, so that the people would count their kindness on Han Sui's head.

Wuwei was empty, and Han Sui stepped up to recruit 10,000 outlaws as a new army, but once Wuwei was surrounded, Han Sui knew that there was no place to bury him, so he fled, and he fled, but he couldn't let the Taiping Army take over Wuwei smoothly.

"Our army has always committed no offense with the people, this is a military order issued by the lord personally since the establishment of the Taiping Army, the current situation is a dilemma, allowing the people to behave indiscriminately will be unfavorable to our army, and if the harsh suppression is too radical, it will make the people rise into greater resentment, Wen Yuan, what do you think?"

Gan Ning can't be said to be helpless, but in the face of the people, if the methods and methods are not accurate, the consequences will be difficult to predict.

Zhang Liao smiled bitterly, now he is also a famous general, but it is a pity that the light of the famous generals is on the battlefield, and treating the people is the embodiment of the people's ability to govern the people, and it is difficult for him to make a complete decision.

"Heh, Xingba, don't lift me up, what can I think? In my opinion, the top priority of our army now is to deploy a horizontal defense with Wuwei as the center, and wipe out the main force of Han Sui behind him in the area south of Wuwei. ”

After listening to this, Gan Ning pondered for a long time and agreed with Zhang Liao's statement.

However, Meng Da shook his head slightly and was not very optimistic, his hometown is in Guanzhong, and he has a very clear understanding of the folk customs in the northwest, it can be said that the northwest has experienced more than 20 years of turmoil, and the people have long been very disgusted with the views of the officials, but they are more inclined to accept the rule of the independent warlords.

Meng Da didn't say what he was thinking, because he didn't have a plan to deal with it, the top priority at the moment was to solve the main force of Han Sui behind him, and other things were put aside for the time being, so it was better not to make trouble.

Flipping through the map and leaning over, Gan Ning looked at the geographical situation around Wuwei, raised his head and said: "If Zu Li's enemy army did not attack Jincheng, then even if they retreated to the northwest, they would definitely expect that our army would be ready to ambush them in Wuwei." Two, if we are now deployed horizontally, our army will disperse its forces, even if it really intercepts the enemy, I am afraid it will be difficult to destroy the enemy, I think we should take a risk, concentrate our forces, and fight to the death directly on the way of the enemy's retreat. ”

The Taiping army has the advantage of troops, if you don't give full play to this advantage, if you break it into zero, it is equivalent to giving the enemy a chance to break through one by one, the northwest is vast, the battlefield is mostly plains, if the Xiliang iron cavalry rushes and kills from all directions without discipline, even if the Taiping army has a strong bow, I am afraid it will fall into a passive situation.

Meng Da nodded in agreement, but he looked at the map for a long time, and had no clue, Wuwei was hundreds of miles horizontally to the east and west, where to go to fortify? Which road would be the enemy's place to go? The plains of the northwest can go anywhere, and how to fight this battle with all its might is a tricky problem.

After Zhang Liao looked down at the map for a long time, he stretched out his hand and lightly tapped his index finger on a piece of territory east of Wuwei.

Gan Ning laughed when he saw this.

"What the hero sees is slightly the same, and what Wen Yuan thinks is also what I think. The only way for the enemy to retreat should be beyond the Great Wall. ”

Since the Warring States Period, there has been a Great Wall, and the Great Wall of Qin is a glorious achievement in history, and in the Han Dynasty, there is also a Great Wall in the Hexi Corridor, but the Great Wall here is built section by section and is not connected.

To the east of Wuwei, there is the Great Wall, and the Great Wall in the Northwest Corridor was established to prevent foreign invasions such as Qiang, Hudi, etc.

With this section of the Great Wall in the Hexi Corridor as the boundary point, it is necessary to make a judgment as to whether the enemy army will go inside or outside the Great Wall.

"If the enemy army is to rescue Wuwei, then it must take the road inside the Great Wall to come head-on, but if the enemy army does not save Wuwei, in order to avoid the encirclement and interception of our army, then it must take the grassland outside the Great Wall."

Zhang Liao confidently analyzed.

Gan Ning nodded in agreement, but Meng Da was a little puzzled and asked: "Wu Wei is in trouble, Han Sui's life is in danger, don't the enemy troops in the rear ignore Han Sui's safety?" ”

After all, this is an era of slow information transmission, and the news of Han Sui's escape may not necessarily reach Cheng Gongying's ears immediately, and even if it does, it may be that Cheng Gongying has entered the Taiping Army's defense area.

In this regard, Zhang Liao said indifferently: "The lord said that there are capable people under Han Sui's account, who can draw salaries from Zu Li's troops, then this person must be in Zu Li's enemy army." Such an extraordinary person, doesn't he know Han Sui's style? I'm afraid he had long expected that Han Sui's reaction in the face of our army's attack would be to flee for his life! In this case, the enemy troops in the rear of our army may not come to the rescue of Wuwei, and they will bypass Wuwei from outside the Great Wall and go northwest to join Han Sui. ”

"Exactly!" Gan Ning made a final decision and decided the location of the decisive battle with Han Sui's main army, outside the Great Wall and on the grassland.

Meng Da bowed his hand to Zhang Liao and Gan Ning with admiration: "The two generals will be slightly superb, and they are not as good as sighing below." ”

The march and battle are risky, and as a commander, you have to make judgments, and judgments must be based on evidence, and cannot be deployed based on preferences and unfounded speculations.

Han Sui retreated decisively after Cheng Gongying sent cavalry to deliver the letter, and asked the messenger to go back to bring the news to Cheng Gongying.

Back and forth, Cheng Gongying took four of the eight generals under Han Sui to lead the army back to the northwest, and the itinerary was deliberately slowed down, just to be cautious and want to get a reward before making a decision.

If Han Sui was really in danger of his life in Wuwei, even if Cheng Gongying knew that there was an ambush ahead, he would probably have to bite the bullet and save the Lord.

After the person who sent the letter back informed Cheng Gongying of the information that Han Sui led the new army to escape from Wuwei, Cheng Gongying's heart fell to the ground, and he invited four generals to play Yang Qiu, Zhang Heng, and Li Kan to discuss how to escape from Wuwei to Wulan and join Han Sui.

These four generals obviously didn't have any clever strategies, but when they heard that Han Sui was unharmed, they began to think about how to save their lives.

Wuwei must have fallen in front, they can't go to Wuwei anymore, right?

The four generals agreed that a detour should be taken.

Cheng Gongying is difficult to decide, with this boundary point of the Great Wall in the east of Wuwei, there are two roads in the east and west, which one to take?

The west side is to pass through Wuwei, and the east side is to bypass the grassland.

Cheng Gongying was a little flustered, and it was difficult to calm down for a long time.

At this time, to make a decision, it is a dead-end mental battle.

If the Taiping army is in order, it must be fortified in the Wuwei area, and if you go to the west of the Great Wall, you will be sent to death.

If there are wise and resourceful people in the Taiping army, if they try to fortify on the east side of the Great Wall, then they will fall into the net by walking through the grassland.

The consideration of choosing one of the two was on the basis of whether the enemy was accurate, Cheng Gongying racked his brains and finally decided to take the grassland east of the Great Wall.

Because he thought of Zu Li's big victory, judging from that big victory, the Taiping army's strategy of attacking the northwest was a little cautious, so it was inferred that under the strategy of the other party step by step, it seemed too risky to go to Wuwei to intercept him outside the Great Wall without defense.

Three days later, on the Great Wall, the sky was bright, Gan Ning and Zhang Liao stood on the beacon tower and looked to the east, and every half an hour soldiers came up to report the enemy's situation.

"Governor of the Great Metropolis, the enemy army was found forty miles to the south, and the cavalry was behind the cavalry, judging by its size, it was about 20,000."

"Revisit! Tell the scouts not to reveal their whereabouts, and if they startle the enemy and let the enemy escape, they will be dealt with by military law. ”

Gan Ning's eyes bloomed with a long-lost battle spirit, and after the soldiers went down to give the order, he turned to look at Zhang Liao and said with a smile: "Wen Yuan is like a god. ”

Zhang Liao chuckled and shook his head: "You and I don't want to praise each other here." Let's hurry up and set up the troops. ”

Gan Ning thought for a while and said: "Ma Chao led the Yinling Flying Cavalry to force the enemy to the northwest from behind, Meng Da led the archers to force the enemy to the Great Wall from the north, and the main force in the northwest was led by Lao Wenyuan. ”

Hearing this deployment, Zhang Liao frowned slightly.

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