Chapter 61 Shandong Crisis, Critical

After Lu Bing took the capital, he told the world, and then gave these surrendered soldiers a chance to make their first contributions, so that they could recover the land of Shuntianfu. Most of the soldiers and horses of the Shuntianfu Gongwei capital have been transferred, this is purely a good job for credit, it sounds good and it is not difficult to do, so everyone is happy, and they have gone to "make meritorious contributions".

Lu Bing got a lot of high-ranking people from the Inhuman Pavilion, and finally discovered the secret passage of His Royal Highness Yang Xin, searched along the secret passage, and finally found the footprints of Zhu Houxi's escape. And Zhu Houxi obviously thought of the fact that in the end, this secret would not be kept for long, so he left a mechanism at the exit of the tunnel, showing his suspicious and cautious nature. Originally, I searched all the way and finally found a trace, but I was cautious at the beginning, but in the end I found that it was not so dangerous at all, and this secret passage turned out to be like an unfinished road, so everyone was more down-to-earth.

It turned out that the air from the outside was inflowing, and when he thought that he was done and found the exit, he suddenly encountered a trap, killing and injuring forty or fifty people in an instant. Lu Bing gritted his teeth after hearing the news, these forty or fifty people were either good hands or rare geeks in the Inhuman Pavilion, and it was really heart-wrenching to be damaged in the secret passage.

Where did Zhu Houxi go, he went out of the capital and knew that Lu Bing would occupy Shuntianfu in a short period of time, and the direction of Shandong would complement each other and attack the original garrison of Shuntianfu, if he ran again at that time, he was afraid that it would be too late. Therefore, he didn't care about the majesty of the royal family, and fled from Shuntianfu like a lost dog in a hurry, and went straight to the place where the army attacking Shandong was.

Along the way, Zhu Houxi felt a lot of deep feelings and mixed feelings, and he knew his own problems over the years. Even though he understood that he had forced Lu Bing back, he still hated Lu Bing. The world of the Ming Dynasty, the world of the Zhu family. Will it all be destroyed in your own hands?

No, I absolutely don't believe it, it's not the last moment, and the Jedi will definitely be able to fight back!

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Shandong ushered in an unprecedented crisis, Meng Xueqing left Dengzhou Mansion and went to Jinan Mansion, which was more convenient to convey orders. At present, the total number of soldiers and horses in Shandong is less than 20,000, and most of them are reserve troops. The so-called reserve force is the academy soldier auxiliary of Qilu College. Veterans are bishops, and recruits are trained by both parties. With the increase in personnel, it is natural that it cannot be trained like a hundred elite soldiers. Therefore, the combat effectiveness is slightly reduced, although the elite soldiers are strong, but the entry conditions are too strict, as the saying goes, the soldiers are not many but fine, and 10,000 elite soldiers are enough to compare to 50,000 ordinary soldiers and horses. But now the Lu family is competing for the world. Elite soldiers are too slow to train. And the number is too small, the equipment is too expensive, not to mention that the money can't stand it, and it can't raise hundreds of thousands of elite soldiers, even if it can't reach it in terms of energy, where can I get so many good seedlings? Moreover, if the number of people is too small, it is inevitable that they will have to conquer the east and the west, so that the elite soldiers will not be able to cultivate and will inevitably produce war weariness, and the number of people is too small to attack the city. But they could not take the city, otherwise there would be few soldiers left. Even if it is powerful, it can't form combat effectiveness.

Therefore, a large number of soldiers must join, and the low-grade is the peasant rebel army of Han Sufa's department, which has now been classified as Lu Yi's team, and the high-grade is the soldiers and horses trained by Lu Yi in the south. And Shandong soldiers and horses will always be the elite land of soldiers and horses, so even if it is a reserve army, it is also the best in the Lu army, and it is also a leader in the entire Ming Dynasty.

Although this group of soldiers is slightly inferior to the elite soldiers, they also have to undergo rigorous training and cooperate with the Lu family's advanced weapons in combat acting. Training, training, but training has trained many good soldiers, and each hundred households can pick out a few good seedlings that are enough to refine elite soldiers, and this probability is not low. But the problem is that they have not experienced actual combat, and without the influence of war, these soldiers can never be called real soldiers, and they are bound to be weak in the first encounter.

In the past, the elite soldiers of Shandong have experienced more or less actual combat edification, and then when they go to the battlefield, they are not so nervous, at least they can deal with it calmly and listen to the orders so that nothing will go wrong. Either it is to suppress bandits, or to go on an expedition with Lu Bing, or to fight with the imperial soldiers and horses stranded in Shandong, or to assist in defensive battles with the help of strange and lethal fortifications. All of these have one thing in common, that is, the Lu Jiajun has an absolute advantage, has a large number of people, advanced weapons, and is properly equipped with personnel, so it can naturally win the battle, and it not only has actual combat experience but also increases the confidence of the soldiers, and it will be different when they go out to fight again.

Sometimes, in the first battle like this, the generals will deliberately delay the time of the war, cooperate with the attack in many ways, leave a line of room for the enemy, and fight after the enemy has eased up, which is nothing more than to let all branches of the army take turns to try different combat modes, and the generals can also increase the ability of actual combat command, find problems and correct them in time.

But now it's different, this group of Shandong reservists has never experienced this at all, and as soon as they came up, they encountered two menacing forces, both of which were the elite of the imperial court. First of all, the army of Shuntianfu, those people are the elite troops selected by the Gongwei Jing Division of each guard, and they are rearranged after being disrupted, although the feet of the Son of Heaven are not well fed, but they can also be fed, so the body is naturally not bad. Although the weapons are backward than the Lu family, they are also full of lethality, at least fully equipped, and can be called a strong force.

The soldiers and horses of Shuntianfu came from the north, and the corresponding people from the south came from the famous general Yu Dayou, who was no stranger to Yu Dayou Mengxueqing, who was originally classified into the camp of the land system, and was somehow rebelled by Chen Hongce. Although Yu Dayou is young, he can be called a generation of famous generals, superb martial arts or a disciple of Qingyuan Cave, to be literate and literate, to have martial arts, the art of war and strategy is even better, it is a hereditary official position, and he was later promoted, and he belongs to the children of Jiangmen. Naturally, he experienced several big battles with Lu Bing, and then often clashed with thieves in the south, and never stopped fighting, so he can be described as a battle-hardened opponent.

At the same time, the soldiers and horses under his command are also very good, they are all regular troops of some guards of the imperial court, and some of these guards have had a brief confrontation with the Zhao family or the Lu family's Han Sufa department, and they have not surrendered or lost. Although they are not victorious, it is enough to show that they still have some strength. This time, Yu Dayou went to Nanjing, and by the way, he gathered some soldiers and horses that Ying Tianfu was defeated, and the soldiers and horses of Ying Tianfu failed because of poor command and no leader. Although it failed in the end, in the final analysis, it was also the most powerful army of the imperial court in the south, and it should not be underestimated.

The most important thing is that they are full of confidence this time, that is, they came to capture the thief and capture the king and smash the Yellow Dragon, and take it as their responsibility to quickly fight and quickly destroy Shandong, the foundation of the Lu family, in order to achieve the goal of ending the battle. Therefore, it will definitely attack fiercely, and it is very determined. Once Shandong falls, it is difficult to say whether the war will end, but the Lu family will definitely be greatly damaged and weakened. Failure is only a matter of time. Therefore, this battle can be described as a crucial battle.

Meng Xueqing saw the military newspaper and immediately broke out in a cold sweat, such a purposeful and purposeful army. The total number of people on both sides is 150,000. However, there are less than 20,000 people in the Lu family in Shandong, and they are all recruits, so how can this battle be fought. The elite of the imperial court collided with the elite soldiers of Shandong, but the difference in numbers was too great, if Meng Xueqing was a veteran of 20,000 elite soldiers in her hands, even if it was 10,000, she still had some confidence in her heart, but now she was a new soldier, and no one could guarantee what this battle would look like.

Nowadays, in addition to the cities to defend in Shandong, those peripheral traps have been used. At that time, it took several years to complete the construction, and now where can it be rebuilt in a while. Besides, the enemy already knows. Such a trap that leaks under the blue sky and white sun is useless. Facing only offensive and defensive battles, although the art of war is cloudy, the siege of the city is more than three times the strength of the defending soldiers and horses, but the Lu family has such a small number of people, and they dare not defend the city separately, otherwise the siege of the city will be broken one by one like a devastating and decaying.

On the other hand, even if you stick to a city, such as Dengzhou Mansion, the strongest city in Shandong, which is where the Lu family's home is located, it is estimated that it will not work. The army will definitely encroach on Shandong, and finally 150,000 people will besiege Dengzhou Mansion, what should I do if the ammunition is exhausted, what should I do if the people in other places receive the scourge, and the foundation that has been operating for many years will be lost, and the people will hate the court while missing the Lu family, but even if the Lu family regains it again, it will lose the trust of the people, and the people's hearts are easy to deceive, but trust is not easy. Even if these are not there, 150,000 people attacking the city also made Meng Xueqing, who was less than 20,000, feel frightened, and Meng Xueqing was a little afraid to think about it.

Yes, that's right, for so many years, Meng Xueqing has been helping Lu Bing to give advice and even monopolize power and actively develop, but what she does is the work of a civilian official, and she does political affairs, although Meng Xueqing also knows a lot of the art of war when leading troops to fight, but after all, she is still panicked when she has never been in battle to command, especially in the face of a famous general like Yu Dayou. But the Lu family must always send one person, otherwise the soldiers will have no backbone, and the soldiers will be leaderless, repeating the mistake of the defeat of the Ying Tianfu army, and the same mistake can not be made again with the lessons of the past, so even if Meng Xueqing is worried, she still stubbornly takes it.

Because Yu Dayou's troops turned back from outside Nanjing, they were one step slower, and the first to arrive was the troops of Shuntianfu to defend the capital. When such a large army is coming, it is useless to set up an ambush, which is to be used for a small force on the move, and a large force may be in pursuit. As long as the number of people exceeds 50,000, it is not easy to use the basic ambush, which is why Qi Jingtong will be so proud after setting up an ambush to kill many Lu Jiajun, and why he will praise Xu Yang after the ambush is indeed a talent.

Meng Xueqing is ready to face the enemy head-on and fight with the enemy, although it may be a loss to Yan Zòng, but this must be the best opportunity for the soldiers to increase their actual combat. Shuntianfu came with 60,000 horses, the momentum was unstoppable, the recruits of the Lu family set up camp and lined up in a large array to wait, and relied on the surrounding city walls as the final bottom line, once invincible, they were assigned back to their own cities, and they cooperated with each other to form a battle line to block the enemy army.

Qi Shuhai on the southern front only led a thousand soldiers and horses, and when he left, he said goodbye to his sister Xiaorui vaguely, and said to Meng Xueqing: "Eldest sister, you can rest assured that you are in charge of the northern line, there is me on the southern line, although the enemy is outnumbered, I will definitely make good use of the previous trap." Of all the traps, only our Feng Shui traps can be activated, and I will fight them in a mountain battle for a while. I will hold high the recruitment flag, Qi Shuhai will definitely do his best for you not to worry too much, just wait for the victory of the northern front to come back to help me, I look forward to your good news. After Qi Shuhai finished speaking, he turned his head and left, Meng Xueqing nodded meaningfully with teary eyes.

Qi Shuhai's change was something that Meng Xueqing didn't expect, she didn't expect Qi Shuhai to become the mainstay of the Lu family, nor did she expect Qi Shuhai to still stand up at this critical moment, and she didn't expect that Qi Shuhai's change was just the credit of her own sea cucumber noodles that night after she came out for herself. Qi Shuhai doesn't want much, what he wants is respect and a sense of survival, and when these are satisfied, the ruffian Qi Shuhai transforms.

When Meng Xueqing came to the front line, she found a letter in her bookbag, and when she opened it, she was immediately shocked, this was a letter written by Lu Xun to Meng Xueqing. The letter said that he obeyed his father's orders and exercised in the army, and now when the Lu family is in danger, Uncle Xu is fighting the front line, and Uncle Qi is also going to the southern front. Brother Zhang of the Lu family led the army of the Lu family in the south alone, made great contributions to the Lu family, and laid a large family business. As the son of the Lu family, how can he have no merit at all? Now it is no longer the age of the child's cry, and he must serve the Lu family, and the Lu family has a strong temperament and is willing to go to the most dangerous place, so he only led ten captains to the southern line to help Uncle Qi. (To be continued......)