Chapter Ninety-Nine: Plans for Increases and Decreases

"No wonder Wu Huaien would so readily agree to a duel with us, it turns out that he is also secretly hiding people and horses, and he wants to fight!" Lin Feng said softly.

Li Congqian's eyes widened, looking at the Han army camp tent under the mountain, and he really couldn't understand why Lin Feng came to such a conclusion.

"The truth is in the details!" Lin Feng handed the telescope to Li Congqian, pointed to the location of the hidden tent, and explained softly:

"A battalion of 20,000 people never needs to set aside a dozen hidden tents. Thinking about it, it must be the person in charge of building the hidden tent who knows that there are follow-up people and horses, and he is afraid that he will be hated by Wu Huaien because of the filth of the camp, so he directly built a hidden tent to accommodate more people! The specific number of enemy reinforcements depends on whether Huzi can find the location where the enemy reinforcements are hidden! ”

Li Congqian was thoughtful and kept observing with a telescope.

"Big brother, our fleet has arrived!" Duan Rui touched the stone below and whispered.

Lin Feng immediately looked to the west, the long line of warships had docked on the shore of Lishui, and soldiers began to disembark first to guard, and the follow-up men and horses were constantly disembarking and gathering.

"Let's go, let's also get a suspicious plan for Wu Huaien!" Lin Feng said softly, motioning for everyone to hide their bodies and retreat quietly.

Wu Huaien, the envoy from the northwest of the Southern Han Dynasty, naturally learned that the Chu-Tang coalition army had arrived at the first time, and he took the giant elephant to command Wu Xun and other generals to climb the corner tower on the northwest side of the camp to carefully observe the enemy situation.

Because of the distance, Wu Xun and the rest of the commanders immediately divided and cooperated, and could only estimate the number of enemy troops according to the color of the opponent's uniform.

Counting over and over, Wu Xun's face is getting worse and worse, why are there so many enemies?

After arriving at the end of the day, Wu Xun and several other commanders were in charge of each pair, and found that the number of enemies who had disembarked exceeded 35,000, and their heads immediately became bigger. There are only 40,000 people on their own side plus reinforcements, and 5,000 people have been distributed to Mengzhou, and 2,000 people have been left behind in Wuzhou, and the current number is only 33,000 people.

When the apprehensive Wu Xun told Wu Huaien, who had been silent, this number, Wu Huaien's body remained unchanged as it had been two hours ago, and his eyes were staring at the fleet in the distance for a moment.

"Good Lin Feng, I'll come with a troop reduction plan, and he will come with a troop increase plan!" Suddenly, Wu Huaien smiled, and then turned into a hilarious smile, pointing to the ships in the distance and explaining, "In addition to food and weapons, how many people can a warship hold?" How could he hold five hundred soldiers on each of his ships? Killed from the Changsha Mansion of Chu State, how did so many people spend these ten days on the boat? ”

The more Wu Huaien spoke, the more relaxed his expression became, and he pointed to the group of people who were getting off the third boat and said, "Pay attention to the third boat, that bearded general, I have seen him go back and forth at least four times in the morning!" ”

Wu Xun tried to open his eyes wide, and sure enough, he found the long-bearded general, and then looked around, and soon found something unusual that he hadn't noticed just now: many teams had been constantly getting on and off the boat, and even the formation, the number of people, and the boats on and off had not changed, and they also smiled.

"I have carefully counted the real number of the enemy army, no more than twenty-five thousand! We've won! Wu Huaien said categorically.

Here, after Lin Feng entered the camp for the fourth time, he threw his fake beard made of horsehair in the corner, and then found a hidden place to take out a telescope to watch, and when he saw that Wu Huaien and his party were still observing at the corner tower, but their expressions became very excited, he couldn't help laughing.

After arranging the prevention of the camp, before the time, Lin Feng rushed back to Guizhou City with a large group of people, and met Ma Xiyin, Peng Yanhui and other generals in the Jiedu Embassy Hall.

After listening to Peng Yanhui's introduction to the generals of the Guizhou Army, Lin Feng bowed his head to these generals, retreated his body back, gave up Liu Renzhen, and introduced loudly: "Generals, this is my Tang Wuchang Festival envoy Liu Renfu Liu Lao General, who will secretly preside over the Battle of Guizhou on behalf of Lin!" ”

Although Lin Feng was not very happy to hear it, the unsuppressed exhalation of the audience immediately came into his ears.

Hearing this news, all the generals present breathed a sigh of relief. Although everyone didn't say it on their faces, in private and deep in their hearts, they did muttered a lot about Lin Feng, a young Confucian student, as the commander-in-chief of this key battle, and the most basic suspicion was that Lin Feng commanded a few people, could he command tens of thousands of people? And Liu Renzhen is different, he has led troops for decades, and the Wuchang army is adjacent to the Chu State, and everyone has heard of his reputation as a benevolent and righteous soldier, and he is immediately relieved.

After throwing a reassuring pill first, Lin Feng continued to throw out the second one: "Generals, in this battle of Guizhou, all the reinforcements of my Tang elite soldiers arrived with the ship, and the number was not the three thousand people that everyone heard about, but fifteen thousand!" Here, Lin Feng still fought an ambush of 5,000 ** Tang troops and 3,000 Yuantanzhou troops.

Wow, some people can't help but exclaim, the original defenders of Guizhou are 3,000 people, and the Chu State reinforcements have a total of 13,000 people, if you add the 15,000 people of the Tang Dynasty, a total of 31,000 people, against the 20,000 soldiers of the Southern Han Dynasty, Party B has already taken advantage of the numbers!

Lin Feng was not finished, and said loudly again: "Before this trip, after Lin Mou's struggle, the King of Chu specially allocated 300,000 Guan as a reward for the victory in the Great War!" Here, Lin first explained the basic principles of rewards and punishments: each combat soldier will be paid more and more this month, and every enemy killed on the battlefield will be rewarded consistently, and there is no upper limit! Free medical treatment for the wounded on the battlefield, and ten times of money; Those who died bravely on the battlefield will be compensated! All remaining bonuses will be divided equally among the generals in the army! I, Lin Feng, myself, will be treated as a small soldier and receive a reward according to the number of enemies killed! ”

Wow! Now all the officers are starting to gear up, this Lord Lin is really generous and fair! If this had been put in the past, which Shangguan wouldn't have taken half or even the big head first!

Lin Feng waited for everyone's excitement to drop slightly, and then said: "Everyone should tell all the soldiers about these three things when they go back!" In particular, I would like to emphasize to you that on the battlefield, whether it is a Tang soldier or a Dachu soldier, everyone must be treated equally and fairly. I would like to emphasize only one piece of military discipline: order and prohibition. On the battlefield, those who do not listen to orders will be killed on the spot! Kill those who are cowardly in battle!

Now, I would like to ask General Liu to make operational arrangements for you. ”

The heavily armed Liu Renzhen stepped forward, the old general's long hair shook slightly, his body did not move like a mountain, the whole person was not angry and arrogant, he straightforwardly made the first strict order: from now on, take the front gate of the camp in the east of the city as the boundary, and any person or soldier who crosses this line without authorization, no matter what the reason, will be killed on the spot immediately!

Subsequently, Liu Renzhen made arrangements for the offensive and defensive tasks of the Battle of Guizhou:

He himself and Lin Feng led the reinforcements of the Chu State and the Tang Dynasty to participate in the decisive battle;

In the city of Guizhou, Peng Yanhui was the commander, and the soldiers of Ma Xiyin's office temporarily assigned him to command, responsible for guarding the city of Guizhou. Peng Yanhui also arranged manpower to guard all land routes and access roads around Guizhou City and upstream of Lishui, and those who did not follow the order were prohibited from passing, and those who made any changes were killed on the spot!

From now on, no one is allowed to enter or leave the city of Guizhou unless ordered, and a military curfew will be imposed in the city, and anyone who walks on the street after that time will be killed on the spot!

From now on, any troop movement in Guizhou City, as long as there are more than five people, there must be two warrants from the Chengdong Battalion and Commander Peng at the same time, and any abnormal movement must be immediately besieged and killed on the spot!

From today onwards, the traffic patrol password will be changed every morning and morning, and any soldier who answers the wrong password will be killed on the spot......

A series of "kill" orders were spit out by Liu Renzhen in extremely cold language, and immediately filled the entire council hall with a sense of slaughter, and this atmosphere then spread to the entire Guizhou City with the implementation of various military orders.