Chapter 87: Reality in the City
After receiving Chen Kefu's order, it didn't take long for all the officers under Liaodong City who were qualified to attend the meeting to arrive in the account.
Everyone didn't quite understand that the general suddenly called everyone together for a meeting, and now Chen Kefu has built a martial arts lecture hall in the battalion, and basically the officers who are qualified to attend the meeting now have to attend the martial arts lecture class at night. It can be said that if it is not something particularly important, Chen Kefu can notify everyone at night. Now that we are gathering everyone so urgently, then something important must have happened.
Chen Kefu waited until everyone arrived, and then asked Luo Lin to distribute the letters and show them to the officers.
After Li Jie looked at it carefully for a long time, he raised his head and said, "General, are these letters true?" It's been some time since we conquered the new cities, and those Goguryeo people can't be unaware, could this be some trick of theirs? ”
These letters were intercepted by General Li Benlei's men near Xincheng, and there were about 100 Goguryeo people who sent the letters, and they were surrounded and raided by General Li when they were discovered. Therefore, the truth of what is said in this letter is very high, and the Goguryeo people were so tightly surrounded by us before that it is possible that they cannot know the news from the outside. If the army hadn't retreated this time, we would have been understaffed and could only bluff, and it would have been impossible for these Liao people to quietly run out of the city. ”
"What do you mean by your lordship calling us?" Li Jie asked.
This time, the army camp was divided into five divisions, although the main force of soldiers and horses was still in the Liaodong camp, but most of the veterans in the army were also stationed in various places. Now there are really few generals in the camp under Liaodong City who can take charge alone, except for Chen Kefu, who is Li Jie.
In the past, these things judged by military intelligence staff officers were basically done by generals such as Li Benlei, Hu Hai, Zhang He, and Mao Yi. Each time they will conduct a detailed screening and analysis based on the information they get, and finally put the information together, Chen Kefu only needs to make a decision based on the situation.
But now, it was up to him to judge all this, which couldn't help but make him feel a little difficult.
glanced at the many officers in the tent, but found that except for Li Jie and several generals under him, there were not many who were really experienced. Even Chen Fu, Chen Gui, and Shen Guang were just newly promoted, and they didn't have much experience at all.
"Summoning everyone, the first thing is to analyze the information we have obtained, and the current situation is that the Goguryeo people in Liaodong City do not know that we have taken Xincheng, but they know about the rebellion in the country, and guess that Your Majesty will withdraw in the next few days. And now we have also received the Liaodong garrison's plan to transfer troops to Liaoshui to set up an ambush, not only that, but we also have their order letters and tokens. Guys, that's what we're getting right now, let's talk about it, and see how we can deal with the situation at hand. ”
Hu Hai had just returned from the camp under Liaodong City, and he was covered in rain, and he said with some doubts at this time, "General, I don't know if you can know the situation in Liaodong City now?" ”
Chen Kefu nodded, "Although I don't know yet, General Li Benlei sent over the dozen or so people they captured and the letters. Now that he is being interrogated, I believe that he will be able to know the situation in Liaodong City in a while. Now, in any case, we need to note that since Liaodong City did not know where to get the news that His Majesty was going to withdraw his troops, then this messenger sent to Xincheng may not be the only way. ”
"What does the general mean?"
"Now we occupy the big city of Xincheng, and we also besiege Liaodong City. But don't forget that in this land of eastern Liaodong, there are more than 200 large and small mountain cities in Goguryeo. There are also Buyeo, Beisha, China, and several cities with black bones about the same scale as Liaodong and Xincheng, all of which are big cities, and they are all big cities with tens of thousands of soldiers. Now we have stopped the messenger to the new city, but how can we know if the Liaodong garrison has sent people to other big cities. ”
Chen Kefu said with some worry, "This country, Beisha City, and Fuyu City are too far away from Liaodong City, so they can be ignored for the time being. But the Black Bone City is not far away, in case the reinforcements of the Liao people come up at that time, then our previous strategy of pretending to be the main force of the army and bluffing will not work. Although we have hundreds of thousands of people in the battalion, it is okay to fill the numbers, and even if there are only 20,000 people in the real Liao attack, our victory or defeat is unpredictable. ”,
It's not that Chen Kefu is alarmist, but he did think of this possibility. Now that it's been exposed, they'll have to change their strategy.
Mao Yi groaned, "General, why don't we strike first, there are dozens of hidden passages that have been dug up under Liaodong City now, so it is better for us to take advantage of the enemy's unpreparedness tonight and kill into the city through the secret passages." At that time, as long as we take Liaodong City, with a fortified city like Liaodong to defend, even if Goguryeo's reinforcements come up, we don't have to be afraid of him. ”
Li Jie shook his head, "But didn't Your Majesty have an order for me to wait for seven days before I can act?" Now it's not appropriate to attack the city. As soon as we attack the city, we will definitely be able to let the Liao people know about our reality at that time, and if the Liao people gather forces to pursue Your Majesty, how can we take on such a responsibility. ”
"I have already written to inform Your Majesty of the matter here, and now that things have changed, we cannot blindly stick to the original plan. In any case, if we continue to guard Liaodong City like this, this is a very dangerous situation. If we are defeated by the Liao, then Your Majesty's back road will be undefended. Besides, now the Liao people only know that we will withdraw our troops, but they do not know that His Majesty has withdrawn. At that time, we will take advantage of the night to capture Liaodong City, and the Liaodong defenders may not be able to know our reality and reality, maybe, when the Liao people see that Liaodong City is broken, they will think that the army has not retreated. ”
For Chen Kefu, he was eager to capture Liaodong City. After all, hundreds of thousands of people are now under the fortified city of others, and if the Liao soldiers come soon, then he will really cry. And as long as they occupy Liaodong City, then even if they have fewer troops and hundreds of thousands of people to help defend the city, they can still rely on this strong city to gain a foothold here.
Regarding Chen Kefu's idea, Li Jie didn't want to argue too much, anyway, it was useless for him to argue. But thinking about what Chen Kefu said, it also makes sense, if the Liao soldiers and horses really come up to surround it, then they will definitely not be able to hold a large Liaodong battalion by virtue of the main force of the 7,000 broken military camp and the more than 20,000 newly formed new troops, plus hundreds of thousands of people. It doesn't take much, there are thirty or forty thousand horses, and they can eat them, even if they can't eat them, they will also suffer heavy casualties, and then they will also not be able to gain a foothold.
Thinking of this, Li Jie said, "The general's idea is also right, but we don't have the situation in Liaodong City now, and we don't know how many soldiers and horses there are in Liaodong City now." Although we have a secret passage, we should not forget that this Liaodong City has an inner city. What if you can't get it? Once we can't take it in one fell swoop, then our reality will be known clearly by the Liao people immediately. When the time comes, we will have to move forward. ”
Chen Kefu nodded, what Li Jie said made sense, now Guan Jian still has to look at the situation in Liaodong City. Turning to Luo Lin, he said, "You go and see how the prisoners over there are interrogating, and if there is progress, bring the situation over." ”
Rollin went for a while and walked in with a piece of paper.
"General, according to your orders, we have interrogated all these prisoners separately, and these are the results of the interrogation. The ones circled above are all confessions that can be matched with each other, those that are not circled have not been verified by each other, and those that are crossed out are confessions that do not match each other. That's all they know so far, and the guards are still interrogating, and I'm sure they'll be able to ask for all the information they know. ”
Chen Kefu took the dense paper of the painting and looked at it, and couldn't help grinning happily. It seems that these guards are experts in interrogation, and they themselves are just telling them to interrogate separately and verify their confessions with each other, and they actually do it so well.
Behind the first article on the confession is to draw a circle, on which the handwriting is somewhat scribbled, Liaodong City Guard Rongliu Wang Gao Jianwu, the original defender has a total of 100,000 people, 30,000 cavalry, and 70,000 infantry troops. But the Sui army has besieged it for so long, and now there are about 10,000 defenders in the city. There were 5,000 elite cavalry and about 5,000 infantry troops, and about 100,000 people in the city, but there were less than 20,000 young and strong people.
The second one is also verified, saying that it is because a Sui Dynasty official suddenly ran to Liaodong City at night two days ago and descended Goguryeo, and Gao Jianwu also learned the news that the Sui army was going to withdraw in a few days because of his intelligence.
The third is that the Liao people sent a few teams of messengers out to give orders, but they have not yet been verified, and the rest still have the situation of grain and grass equipment in the city, and the result is that the grain and grass in the city are abundant, which can be used by hundreds of thousands of people to hold on for three years, and even all kinds of equipment are equally rich.
After Chen Kefu read it, he asked Luo Lin to show it to the generals below, and he was excited and a little worried. I am excited that Liaodong City is so rich in grain and grass equipment, and there are enough grain and grass for hundreds of thousands of people to eat for three years, and it really deserves to be the first fortress of Goguryeo. What made him a little worried was that there was actually a Sui Dynasty official who demoted the Liao, although he didn't know the specific identity of the other party, but the identity of the Sui Dynasty official alone had already made Chen Kefu worried.
If the situation is really true, then their truth and reality may be completely known by the enemy, and even the secret passage under Liaodong City may be known by the intellectual.
But in the end, he also had some doubts, if it was really the officials of the Sui Dynasty who surrendered to Liao, then why did the people in the city not even know that the new city had already been captured by the Sui army, and they actually sent people to deliver the letter? Even an ordinary soldier in the Sui camp should know that Xincheng has been taken? Why is that?
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