Chapter 699: Impermanence

Water is impermanent, and soldiers are impermanent. As a commander, he must grasp the situation on the battlefield and quickly make the most favorable adjustments and changes according to the changes in the battlefield situation.

Since Zhang Zhongjian sent an urgent report, telling him that Lu Shishen and Guo Xiaoke did not evacuate after raiding and taking Luokoucang, the original battle plan was no longer meaningful. In the original plan, Zhang Zhongjian and Wang Xuanying's Jianghuai army feinted to attack Li Mi at Luokou and dragged Li Mi's army. Then the Hebei army divided into two routes, one route Lu and Guo Erjun crossed the mountain, raided Luokoucang by taking the trail, and after taking Luokoucang, they burned Li Mi's logistics grain and grass in Luokoucang City. Then, Lu and Guo Er will stay behind as planned, and the small troops will block the incoming enemy in the direction of Baihua Valley and Yanshi according to the city for three days. On the other hand, the 15,000 Hebei Army under the command of Chen Kefu raided the Tiger Prison, and after capturing the Tiger Prison, he also left a small number of troops to block the Wei army in the direction of Xingyang for three days at most.

Then, Chen Kefu and Lu and Guo's soldiers and horses returned to Luokou from the east and west, and together with Zhang Zhongjian and Wang Xuanying in the north of Luokou, they attacked Li Mi, and started a decisive battle with Li Mi in Luokou, inflicting heavy losses on Li Mi.

This plan is very bold, the key is to take Luokou Cangcheng and Tiger Prison Pass, cut off the logistics of Li Mi's army, and in a short time, Li Mi will be locked in Luokou, cut off the Wei army in Henan counties to rush to Luokou to reinforce Li Mi.

Because of the urgency of time, and the strength of the coalition forces is not superior. Therefore, Chen Kefu's plan goal was only to return to Hebei quickly after severely invading Li Mi. There was no naΓ―ve idea of annihilating Li Mi's army and killing Li Mi in Luokou.

It's just that Danglu and Guo Er will take Luokou Cangcheng. But after changing the military order and holding the city of Luokoucang, this plan is meaningless. Without the 30,000 main Hebei Army of General Lu and Guo, Chen Kefu led his division back to Luokou alone, and he was not very sure of defeating Li Mi. What's more, Chen Kefu didn't want to risk going back to Luokou. More than 10,000 people returned to Luokou. And Li Mi and Wang Xuanying of Luokou each had an army of 100,000, and he didn't want to take this risk.

The Hebei Army and the Tiger Prison defenders entered the Tiger Prison Pass together, and the Hebei Army took over the defense, while Huang Junhan took the initiative to issue a military order to the surrendered Wei army, ordering all the Wei troops to return to the barracks. No one is allowed to leave the camp without an order.

In the general's mansion, the generals of the Hebei Army and the generals of the Wei Army gathered together.

"Ladies and gentlemen, today we and the two armies gathered in the Tiger Prison, and we should have set up a banquet to kill pigs and cattle to celebrate together." Chen Kefu stood at the top, his face solemn. "However, the military situation is urgent and time is pressing. The king has to regret to inform everyone that this celebratory banquet can only be postponed. ”

"Military affairs are important, military affairs are important." Huang Junhan sat on the lower right of Chen Kefu, and hurriedly stood up when he heard the sound. "Your Highness, does the last general now report to His Highness the storage of soldiers and various materials in the Tiger Prison Pass?"

Chen Kefu nodded, "Okay!" ”

Huang Junhan had already prepared, and saw Chen Kefu nodding in agreement. Hurriedly took out a fold and submitted, "Tiger Prison Pass is the strongest Xiongguan in the east of Luoyang, the eastern capital, with the Jindi Fortress in the east, the Yellow River in the north, backed by the remaining veins of the Qinling Mountains, and the mountains and ridges of the Minshan branches. Don't open it. To the west of it, is Luoshui, and along Luoshui, there is Luokou Cangcheng and the last Guancheng Yanshi in the east of Luoyang. ”

"The Tiger Prison is already a dangerous pass, and Li Mi transferred a lot of financial resources a few years ago. Material resources and manpower have strengthened and built the Tiger Prison Pass. After nearly a year, the current tiger prison wall is seven zhang high, and the east and west gates are as high as ten zhang. And the city wall is three zhang thick, and every ten zhang of the city wall, there is an arrow tower that is five zhang higher than the city wall. In addition, in front of the east and west gates, there is also a ditch and a moat, which are extremely wide. ”

"In addition, there were originally 50,000 elite soldiers guarding the Tiger Prison Pass, but a few days ago, Li Mi transferred the soldiers and horses of the Tiger Prison and Jindi Pass, and then transferred the 40,000 soldiers and horses of the Tiger Prison Pass. Now there are 10,000 soldiers in the Tiger Prison Pass, including 3,000 cavalry and 7,000 infantry. Among the infantry, there were two thousand archers. In addition, there are about 100,000 craftsmen and people in the city who were originally recruited to build the tiger prison and have not left. ”…,

Chen Kefu listened with a solemn face, and suddenly said loudly, "How much inventory is there in the customs?" How many weapons and how much food and grass are there? ”

"There are various warehouses built in the Kannai, and there are dozens of machine processing workshops. In addition, there are 2 million feather arrows made in the workshop, 30,000 bows, 2,000 crossbows, and more than 200 catapults, 100 bed crossbows, 300 Fuyuan crossbows, 5,000 sets of Mingguang armor, 10,000 shields of various types, 50,000 spears, 30,000 spears, and 800 baggage carts. and pig iron, brass and a large number of materials. ”

Hearing this report, Chen Kefu changed color slightly, while Qin Qiong and the others gasped, and Feng Wan on the side dilated her pupils. Hearing these huge numbers, everyone understands something.

Li Mi not only regarded this as a defensive fortress to the east, but also as a huge forward base. These small quantities of grain, grass, equipment and other materials all show all this.

"Good, good, good." Chen Kefu shouted three good words in a row.

Luokou Cangcheng and Tiger Prison Pass are in the center of Li Mi's control, and maybe he won't believe it when he dies, these two cities, which are the strongest fortresses in themselves, will be taken by Chen Ke's troops without blood. Luokou Cangcheng was his grain and grass hoarding center, and the Tiger Prison was his advance base for attacking Hebei, as well as his weapons production base. Now, these two places are all under him, Chen Kefu.

It is conceivable that in order to collect more than 23 million stones of grain and grass and create such a large number of armor equipment, it must have cost Li Mi a lot of manpower and material resources.

Thinking that when Li Mi received the Luokou Cangcheng and Tiger Prison Pass and fell into his hands, Chen Kefu wanted to laugh at the scene where Li Mi might vomit blood.

As soon as he waved, Chen Kefu gave a few words to Chen Lei, and Chen Lei went out immediately, and after a while, he had already brought back a team of staff officers. In the hall, the sand table of Henan was quickly put together.

Chen Kefu walked to the sand table, held a baton in his hand, and pointed to the sand table and said, "Ladies and gentlemen, just yesterday during the day, Marshal Zhang of the Navy Division and Zheng Xuanying of the Jianghuai Army joined forces to start a big battle with Li Mi in Luokou, and the two sides dispatched more than 100,000 soldiers and horses. From the night before yesterday to yesterday morning, in the end, the officers and men of our coalition army inflicted heavy losses on Li Mi in one fell swoop, annihilating nearly 30,000 horses under Li Mi's command. Li Mi's army was defeated, and finally Li Mi's other 50,000 troops arrived at the battlefield in time to save the rout on the battlefield, and now Li Mi has nearly 100,000 horses left, retreating to the foot of the mountain to form a defense. ”

Niu Jinda and the others in the Tiger Prison Pass heard the news for the first time, and although they were surprised at this time, they didn't care much about it.

Chen Kefu moved the wooden stick and pointed to the position of Luokou Cangcheng in the south of Luokou, "And in the first half of last night, the two generals of our Hebei Army, Lu Shishen and Guo Xiaoke, have led 30,000 Hebei elite soldiers to raid Cangcheng, easily take Luokou Cangcheng, and seize all the grain in Cangcheng. Now, the southern side of Li Mi has been cut off, and all its logistical food and grass has also been cut off. ”

Then he pointed his baton at the Tiger Prison Pass on the sand table, "And we have now occupied the Tiger Prison Pass to the east of Li Mi and cut off the reinforcements in the direction of Xingyang to the east." Li Mi is now a turtle in an urn. ”

Huang Junhan couldn't help but sigh in his heart, Li Mikong claimed to have the most soldiers and horses in the sky, but now he was dizzy by Chen Kefu's tens of thousands of horses, and he was also encircled. At that moment, he sighed in his heart and asked, "Your Highness, are we going back to fight Li Mi with Zhang Shuai now?" ”

"No," Chen Kefu shook his head, "This king has just sent the latest situation of Luokou Cangcheng and Luokou battlefield and the tiger prison to Marshal Li Jing, and this king has already given him an order to immediately wave his army south and go straight to Jindi Pass." This king knew that General Huang still had many old subordinates in Jindi Pass, and he would like to ask General Huang to write a few letters to his old subordinates in Jindi Pass later. ”…,

Huang Junhan hurriedly got up and said, "Your Highness, please rest assured, the last general has already agreed with his subordinates at Jindi Pass that once my Hebei soldiers attack Jindi Pass, they will immediately respond in the pass, and they will cooperate with each other to help my Hebei soldiers take Jindi Pass." ”

"Okay." Chen Kefu clapped his hands and praised, "In this way, the king of this book is no longer worry-free, and the generals will listen to the order!" ”

"The last general!" Dozens of generals quickly stood up, stood up straight, and replied loudly.

"General! Qin Qiong led his headquarters with 500 Thunder Battalion light cavalry, 4,000 infantry and 500 sappers to stay in the Tiger Prison Pass, remember, your task is to hold the Tiger Prison. As long as you stick to the Tiger Pass, you can not go out of the city to fight the enemy without the order of the king. ”

Qin Qiong took a step forward, took the token from Chen Kefu's hand, and said loudly, "The last general will take the order!" ”

Chen Kefu nodded at him with satisfaction, Qin Qiong is the most old-fashioned and respectful of the young generation of lieutenant generals. He has rich experience on the battlefield, and he is old and serious, and he is even more loyal to himself, Chen Kefu has always valued him. This time, he planned to change his original battle plan, and after taking the Tiger Prison, he would not return to Shiluokou. Instead, he continued to march eastward with his men and horses, and in order to prevent Li Mi from sending troops to seize the Tiger Prison, Chen Kefu planned to take away the 10,000 Wei troops who surrendered at the Tiger Prison Pass.

Let Qin Qiong have 5,000 people to guard the tiger prison, there are indeed some soldiers. However, Chen Kefu took the initiative to attack to the east, so the enemy in the tiger prison was only Li Mi in the west. In a short period of time, Chen Kefu thought that Qin Qiong could still hold on to the tiger prison, especially since today's tiger prison is no longer the tiger prison of the past, and the current tiger prison is a super fortress, which requires food and food, weapons and weapons. Moreover, the city is high and strong, and the ditches are dense.

After noon, the king will lead 10,000 troops from Hebei with you, and 10,000 soldiers from Henan, a total of 20,000 horses and horses out of the east of Guancheng, and take the county seat of Xingyang thirty miles to the southeast. Before dark today, we must not only take Xingyang County, but also Xingyang County. And go north as fast as possible, outflank Xingze City south of Jindi Pass, and join General Li Jing under Jindi Pass! ”

"No!" The generals responded in unison, and the sound shook the night.