"No, it's not time to talk about the city."

Wang Pu smiled and shook his head, but there was a hint of approval in his eyes, Liu Ru was really very strategic, and she could see at a glance that Liaocheng, which was choking the canal, was a key place related to the success or failure of the Northern Expedition, which she was much stronger than Zhen Youcai, although Zhen Youcai was scheming, he lacked the overall situation in strategy.

However, compared with Wang Pu's strategic vision, Liu Ru still lacks some heat.

"Why?" Liu Ru's beautiful big eyes showed a hint of unconvincing, "Why is it not time to talk about the city now?" Liaocheng tightly chokes the canal, which is the lifeline of the success or failure of the Northern Expedition! Now Liaocheng is only guarded by a few thousand Jiannu, and the central army can take this city in one go, why give up such a good opportunity? ”

Wang Pu didn't answer Liu Ruye's question, but asked rhetorically: "After taking Liaocheng, what should I do next?" ”

"Of course, it's a straight smashing Jingshi!" Liu Ru is fair face swelled up with excitement crimson, and said in a coquettish voice, "As long as the central army appears under Yanjing City, it can form a posture of sealing the throat with a sword from the strategic situation, because Hou Ye once broke Shengjing with more than 1,000 families, Jiang Ting, Wang Chengyin, Tang Tong and others at both ends of the first rat will definitely fall to the Ming Dynasty again, thus forming a siege posture on all sides of Jiannu in Yanjing City, so that the end of Jiannu will come!" ”

The perfect strategic concept, Wang Pu couldn't help but praise it secretly in his heart.

But this can only be a strategic concept, it can never become a reality, as a traverser, Wang Pu knows that the most unreliable thing is to divide the warlords, and it is very stupid to pin the hope of destroying Jiannu on Jiang Pin, Wang Chengyin, Tang Tong, these warlords at both ends of the first rat!

That's right, as long as the Central Army appears under Yanjing City and wins one or two more battles, Jiang Pin, Wang Chengyin, and Tang Tong will definitely turn their faces with Jiannu and announce that they will "rejoin" the arms of the Ming Dynasty, but Wang Pu knows better that these warlords will never send a single soldier, they will only watch the Central Army and Jiannu fight to the death!

In this way, the Central Army has become a lone army in depth, and the logistics supply line is unimaginably long, from Huai'an to Yanjing is more than a thousand miles, such a long logistics supply line not only makes the transportation of grain and grass and weapons and ammunition difficult, but also gives Jiannu countless opportunities for sneak attacks!

Once the Central Army, which had run out of ammunition and food, fell into the heavy encirclement of the Jiannu army, the result could only be the annihilation of the entire army!

After all, there is an essential difference between the central army of the Ming Dynasty and the Jiannu, the Jiannu army is a cold weapon army, which can carry out bloody plundering of the people of the Ming Dynasty and implement the logistics supply strategy of "feeding the war with war", therefore, as long as the climate is suitable and the troops are sufficient, the Jiannu army can fight all the way to the south of the Yangtze River without worrying about the problem of logistics supply.

The Ming Central Army is a firearms army, the consumption of weapons and ammunition is very huge, must be replenished in time, otherwise the entire army will completely lose its attack power, in addition, the Ming Central Army is also impossible to implement the strategy of "fighting to feed the war" within the country, therefore, the Central Army's dependence on logistics supplies is very serious.

It is precisely because of the limitation of logistics and supply that Wang Pu set the operational goal for this Northern Expedition is only to threaten Yanjing to force Jiannu to shrink his forces, not to capture Yanjing and drive Jiannu back to Guanwai, of course, this does not mean that Wang Pu does not want to capture Yanjing, if there is an opportunity, Wang Pu will never let it go easily.

"That's right." Wang Pu sighed lightly and asked rhetorically, "What if Jiang Zhuo, Wang Chengyin, and Tang Tong don't send troops?" ”

Liu Ru is ice and snow smart, Wang Pu can understand everything with a little words, if the general army of Jiang Pai Three Towns does not move, the situation faced by the Central Army will take a sharp turn, from a steady victory to a defeat without victory, but Liu Ru does not think that Jiang Pai will sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight.

"Master Hou." Liu said, "The little woman thinks that Jiang Ji and they will definitely send troops. ”

Wang Pu asked rhetorically: "Why are you so sure?" ”

Liu Ru responded: "As long as the Hou Ye plays the court and promises them high-ranking officials, they have no reason not to send troops, after all, as long as they are willing to send troops, the army of the towns of the Ming Dynasty can form a four-sided joint attack, there is no suspense in this battle, Jiang Zhai and the three of them can also rely on the merits of this battle to become the heroes of the Ming Dynasty to restore the Central Plains, and they will be famous through the ages." ”

Wang Pu said: "No, this is just your subjective speculation and assumption. ”

Liu said: "The little woman believes that Jiang Ji will make a wise choice. ”

Wang Pu's expression suddenly became extremely serious, and he said in a deep voice: "If so, as a member of the army, you have done a very good job, and the strategic ideas you put forward are very creative, but as the commander of the three armies, Ben Hou can't listen to you, Ben Hou will never pin the fate of an army on the subjective speculation and assumption of a soldier, let alone the fate of a country on the subjective speculation and assumption of a soldier!" ”

Liu said: "But ......"

Wang Pu Huoran raised his hand, stopped Liu Ruyi's argument, and continued: "In addition, definitely don't overestimate the personalities of Jiang Ping, Wang Chengyin, and Tang Tong, for this kind of capricious villain, you can't give them the opportunity to choose their own destiny, you have to force them to accept your arrangement!" ”

Liu Ru faintly heard the meaning of Wang Pu's words, and her beautiful eyes revealed a hint of deep thought.

Wang Pu strode to the wall, pointed to the map and said: "Let's just say that in this Northern Expedition, you thought of using the armies of Jiang Pin, Tang Tong, and Wang Chengyin to deal with Jiannu, and Benhou also thought of using them to deal with Jiannu, but your strategy gave Jiang Pai the opportunity for them to take the initiative to make a choice, but in Benhou's strategy, they can only passively act as pawns and obediently obey Benhou's arrangement!" ”

Liu said: "I would like to hear the Hou Ye's high opinion." ”

Wang Pu used the fine wooden pole in his hand to Liaocheng and said: "As you said, Liaocheng is the lifeline of whether the canal channel can be unblocked, and Dolgon is not a good stubble, he also saw this, so Jiannu did not garrison troops in Dengzhou, Laizhou, Qingzhou and Yanzhou, but stationed thousands of troops in the small Liaocheng, and the 20,000 Jiannu of the Daimyo Mansion are only more than 100 miles away from Liaocheng, and they can rush to the rescue at any time!" ”

Liu Ru bowed her head lightly when she heard this, which is also the reason why she suggested that the scar-faced forward battalion rush to Liaocheng overnight, because the distance between Jiannu and Liaocheng, where the Daimyo's Mansion was stationed, was too close, and the fighters were fleeting.

Wang Pu continued: "Our army set up a posture from Puzhou, marched to Liaocheng, first forced the Jiannu of the Daimyo Mansion to send troops to rescue Liaocheng, and after the Jiannu reinforcements of the Daimyo Mansion arrived, our central army then put on a posture of storming Liaocheng, if so, if you were Dolgon, what would you do?" ”

Liu Ru pondered for a moment, and said in a coquettish voice: "Take Liaocheng as a temptation to hold the Central Army, and then mobilize absolutely superior forces to form an encirclement of the Central Army, and encircle and annihilate it in one fell swoop!" ”

"Good!" Wang Pu shouted, "That's what you want!" When our army entered Yanjing City, it had to face an army of nearly 200,000 Jiannu, but in this small Liaocheng, Jiannu would also mobilize at least 100,000 troops, which was also a strategic decisive battle that would determine the fate, but the situation was completely different between fighting in Yanjing and fighting in Liaocheng! ”

"Isn't this clear?" Liu Qingyan on the side couldn't help but interject, "Fighting in Liaocheng, our army has the convenience of nearby supply, only a few hundred miles from Huai'an to Liaocheng, but if you fight in Yanjing, our army's logistics supply line will be stretched by more than a thousand miles!" Moreover, in Yanjing, Jiannu waited for work at ease, and fought in Liaocheng, but Jiannu was far away. ”

"That's right." Wang Pu said happily, "In addition, there is another benefit to fighting in Liaocheng!" ”

Liu Ruis and Liu Qingyan asked in unison, "What benefits?" ”

Wang Pu said: "After the main force of Jiannu is attracted to Liaocheng by our army, Yanjing's defense will become empty, at this time, whenever there is a wind and grass, Jiang Jian, Wang Chengyin, and Tang Tong's generation will hear the wind and rush to attack Yanjing, and Jiannu will fall into a dilemma, and this ...... It's Benhou's killer feature! ”

Wang Pu's "wind and grass" refers to the Henan Army of the Red Lady!

Once the main force of Jiannu is attracted to Liaocheng, the Henan army of the Red Lady can go out of Baoding from the north of Zhangde Mansion and directly threaten Yanjing.

Compared with the two, Wang Pu's strategy is much more spicy than Liu Ru's!

"I see." Liu Ru's eyes were bright, and she looked at Wang Pu and said, "It is worthy of being the Hou Ye, and what you think is far-reaching than the little woman." ”

Wang Pu smiled and said, "This is called ginger is old and spicy, hehe." ”

"Poof."

Liu Qingyan and Liu Ru both laughed, and Liu Qingyan laughed very.

Liu Ru smiled very reservedly, her beautiful eyes narrowed like two crescents, and said, "Master Hou, you are only one year older than the little girl, hehe." ”

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Kaifeng, the red lady is in line.

The Red Lady is convening a military meeting with the generals of the rebel army under her command, in addition to Li Hu, Jing Maocheng and Li Yu (Li Jun is dead, last time it was a clerical error, it should be Li Yu), as well as Li Dong, Li Kai, Li Huaili, Li Huaidian, Li Huaichen, Li Huairen and other Li children from Qi County.

These Li disciples were originally serving in the thief army, and after the thieves killed Li Yan, they led their troops back to Henan and gathered under the command of the Red Lady.

The red lady went to the main seat of the big horse golden knife, Leng Sensen's beautiful eyes swept to the faces of the generals, and a solemn aura spread from her body, and the generals who were talking and whispering were suddenly silent, and they all straightened up, their eyes looked straight ahead, and they didn't dare to slant a little.

The Red Lady is the kind of typical ice and fire rose, usually she is as cold as an iceberg, her gestures are full of suffocating murderous aura, she won't even blink an eye when she kills someone, only when facing her beloved man, she will show her fire-like enthusiasm and become more feminine than a woman.

Seeing that the Red Lady's prestige in the Henan Army was getting higher and higher, Li Hu's heart was full of disappointment.

The red lady glanced at the generals coldly, and said in a deep voice: "Today I want to introduce a precious guest to you, please Leader Zhang!" ”

The eyes of the generals turned to the door, and in the sound of heavy footsteps, Monk Zhang's burly body appeared proudly.

"Brother Monk!"

"Brother Maocheng!"

"Hahaha......"

Seeing that it was Monk Zhang, Jing Maocheng couldn't control the excitement in his heart, stepped forward and hugged Monk Zhang's arms, Monk Zhang also hugged Jing Maocheng's arms with his backhand, the two laughed together, but Li Hu's eyes couldn't help but pass a shadow, Monk Zhang wasn't Wang Pu's henchman, why did he come to Kaifeng?

The red lady Huo Ran got up, Jing Maocheng and Monk Zhang quickly let go of their arms and turned around to stand solemnly.

The red lady strode in front of Monk Zhang and said to the generals: "Brother Zhang Monk was originally the general of the Ming official army, and he was the best at training recruits. ”

Li Yu, Li Dong, Li Kai and other Li disciples got up one after another to salute Monk Zhang.

As long as Li Hu sat still, the gloomy color in his eyes became more and more intense, I don't know if it was an illusion, when the red lady said the word Wang Pu just now, Li Hu felt that her eyes suddenly became very gentle, this kind of gentle eyes were only seen when I looked at Li Yan before.

The red lady seemed to be aware of it, looked back at Li Hu and said, "Huzi." ”

Li Hu hurriedly got up and reluctantly saluted Monk Zhang, and the red lady said again: "Huzi, from today onwards, the new army will be trained by the monk brothers, and you will be responsible for suppressing the resistance of the gentry in various provinces." ”

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Shanxi and Shaanxi borders, Mengmen Pass.

Li Zicheng's army of thieves and Jiannu and Guanning coalition forces have been fighting here for several days, these days have been Wu Sangui's Guanning army in the lead, after a few days of fierce fighting, although the thieves suffered heavy casualties, but the Guanning army also suffered heavy losses, but Duoduo still did not move, and did not have the slightest intention of letting the Eight Banners Army participate in the war.

Build a large camp of slaves, and many priests carry out accounts.

Duoduo, the prince of Jiannuyu, was drinking and having fun in the tent, the brazier lit a red charcoal fire, baking the big tent warm like spring, two captive Han singers were wearing a thin light veil, twisting their waists and dancing in the tent, and two Shanxi girls were clustered in Duoduo's arms, competing to use cherry mouths to drink in Duoduo's mouth.

Duoduo hugged left and right to be happy, among all the princes of Jiannu, Duoduo's lust is famous, every time he goes, the first thing he does is to collect beautiful women for him to enjoy silver, Duoduo also has a very bad hobby, the captured beauties will be beheaded after he is wiped out by the silver, and he will dig out his heart and liver to drink!

The Qing history manuscript said that Zhang Xianzhong, the king of Daxi, killed people and became surnames, liked to eat living people's hearts and livers, and slaughtered Sichuan, which is actually completely slanderous.

Zhang Xianzhong did kill people like hemp, and he did kill many scholars in Sichuan in Qingyang Palace, but he rarely killed ordinary people, and he really killed people to become surnames, and the executioner who slaughtered more than 7 million people in Sichuan to less than 500,000 people was not Zhang Xianzhong, but He Luohui, a Manchurian! The demon who kills people and likes to eat the hearts and livers of the living is not Zhang Xianzhong, but Duoduo.

In order to curry favor with the slave chieftain Kangxi, Zhang Tingshu and these minions had no choice but to transfer Duoduo's barbaric habits and He Luohui's bad deeds of slaughtering Sichuan to Zhang Xianzhong.

With the sound of hurried footsteps, Wu Sangui, who was bloodied and heavily robbed, came straight to Duoduo's tent.

The two Goshha guarding outside the tent suddenly drew their swords to block Wu Sangui's way, and shouted: "Stop! ”

Wu Sangui wiped the blood and sweat on his forehead, and said hurriedly: "The slave has an urgent matter to see the master." ”

"You wait."

One of Goshha snorted from his nostrils and turned to go into the tent.

After a long time, the Goshha re-came out of the account and said to Wu Sangui: "The master said, if you want to drink and appreciate the beauty, please come in, if it is to ask for help, then it will be exempted, the master also said, we are tired of the Qing Dynasty, and we are recuperating at the moment, and it is not suitable to go to war." ”

"Hey."

Wu Sangui stomped his feet and turned to go.

Wu Sangui had just left the Jiannu camp, and as soon as he rode a fast horse, he rushed into the gate like a gallop, and the Jiannu knight on horseback turned over and fell off his horse, and shouted to the Eight Banners soldiers who came forward: "Jingshi urgent!" ”

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Across the Yellow River from Mengmen Pass is Li Zicheng's camp of thieves.

Li Zicheng is not a fool, Niu Jinxing is not an idiot, both of them know that Guanzhong is an important surname for the righteous army, and now Guanzhong has become the only foundation of the righteous army, once it is lost, the righteous army will return to the old road of previous displacement, which Li Zicheng can never tolerate.

Li Zicheng mobilized almost all the troops he could muster, and he was determined to fight to the death with Jiannu and Wu Sangui at Mengmen Pass.

Compared with Jiannu, what makes Li Zicheng grit his teeth the most is Wu Sangui, a dog man! If it weren't for Wu Sangui's rebellion, how could Jiannu enter the customs? If it weren't for Wu Sangui to lead Jiannu into the customs, Li Zicheng at this time would already be the Emperor of Dashun, who ruled the world, how could he end up in such a field today?

Also, from the defeat of Yanjing to Mengmen Pass, it has always been Wu Sangui's Guanning Army that chased and killed the rebels along the way, and almost all the soldiers of the rebel army died in the hands of Wu Sangui.

"Wu Sangui, this dog thief!"

Li Zicheng clenched the big sea bowl in his hand, the beard under his chin stood up like a steel needle, his round angry eyes were even more murderous, and he gritted his teeth and said, "One day, Lao Tzu will skin his dog and draw his dog tendons, so that he regrets coming to this world to be a man!" ”

Liu Zongmin, Li Shuangxi, Tian Jianxiu and other thief generals were all in a depressed mood, the situation faced by the rebels was very bad, they couldn't see the hope of turning defeat into victory, Prime Minister Niu Jinxing also looked solemn, he actually regretted it a little now, was it too hasty to kill Li Yan? If Li Yan threatens Yanjing in Henan, will Jiannu still dare to attack Shaanxi so unscrupulously?

"Report ......"

In the terrible sound of the trumpet, a thief stumbled into Li Zicheng's tent as if he had gotten crazy, and then fell to his knees on the ground, gasping and said, "Report to the king, Wu Sangui has withdrawn!" ”

"What did you say!?"

Li Zicheng Huo Ran stood up, he couldn't believe his ears, Wu Sangui, the dog thief, had obviously gained the upper hand, and there were still 100,000 Jiannu troops on the other side of the river who were still moving, judging from the situation, the righteous army was at an absolute disadvantage, what reason did Wu Sangui and Jiannu have to retreat?

Liu Zongmin, Li Shuangxi and other rogue generals also got up, and Niu Jinxing asked in a deep voice: "Is this true?" ”

The thief nodded again and again: "It's true! ”

"Let's go!" Li Zicheng waved his hand and shouted, "Go and see what kind of reputation this dog thief Wu Sangui is doing?" ”

……

(To be continued)