Chapter 502: Discord Meter
At night, the city of Yi'an, a magnificent house.
"General Cai, this glass of wine is respectful to you, if it weren't for you helping the official in the snow, the official would not be able to make a comeback." In the living room in the backyard, Fan You picked up his wine glass and said with a smile to Cai Fu, who was sitting opposite.
Due to the shortage of food in Yi'an City, the wine and food on the table are a little shabby, only two meat and three vegetables, but it is already very rare, and only a high-ranking general like Fan You can enjoy such treatment in the city.
"It's just a gesture, so why worry about it." Cai Fu raised his wine glass with a smile and touched it with Fan You, "I hope General Fan will take care of him in the future." ”
"Don't worry, in the future, if you have a bite to eat from me, you will never go hungry." Fan You couldn't help laughing when he heard this, patted his chest hard and said, looking high-spirited.
"Then thank you General Fan!" Cai Fu's eyes flashed with an imperceptible gleam, and he drank all the wine in the wine glass.
Subsequently, the two staggered, talked and laughed, and the atmosphere in the room seemed very light.
Li Li would never have thought that Fan You would lie to him, Chen Yuan did drink with Fan You and other rebel generals, but he did not say anything bad about him, just to boost the morale of those generals, and the so-called Chen Yuan's dissatisfaction with him was made up by Fan You.
Not only Fan You, but Li Hai and Li Ge also deceived Li Li, and the purpose of the two was the same as Fan You's to destroy Chen Yuan and Ruan Yan.
As the rumors of Li Li and Li Yuntian's private peace agreement spread, Li Hai and Li Ge's life was relatively depressed, because Li Ge was the protagonist of the rebel army who sat back and watched the retreat of the Ming army in Qinghua, and Li Hai participated in the evacuation of the rebels in Langjiang City, and he was sent by Li Li to supervise the retreat of the guards of Langjiang City, so both of them were involved in the situation, and they can be said to be on the cusp of public opinion.
Therefore, the two of them hated Ruan Yan who leaked the peace between Li Li and Li Yuntian, and of course they had to deal with it quickly.
As for how Li Hai and Li Ge knew that the person who leaked the secret was Ruan Yan, it was naturally leaked "unintentionally" by Cai Fu, who was good friends with the two, after all, it was Cai Fu who took Li Yuntian to Xiaohe Town back then.
However, including Li Li, no one doubts that the person who spread the peace between Li Li and Li Yuntian in private will be Cai Fu, first, Cai Fu did not participate in the negotiations at that time, and did not know the content of the negotiations, and second, Cai Fu is a rebel general of the Ming Dynasty, how can the Ming army collude with him soon?
No one would have thought that Cai Fu would be subdued by Li Yuntian and become an undercover agent planted by the Ming army in the rebels, secretly working for Li Yuntian.
It was precisely because Cai Fu broke the gap among the rebels according to Li Yuntian's instructions that Li Hai and Li Ge hated Ruan Yan and Chen Yuan to the core, and wanted to put them to death.
Winning over the frustrated Fan You is naturally a strategy formulated by Li Yuntian, the purpose is to give Ruan Yan and Chen Yuan the final blow, and if Fan You testifies, Li Li will dispel the last trace of concern in his heart, and then kill Ruan Yan and Chen Yuan.
Fan You's career can be said to have fallen into a trough after experiencing the fiasco of the falling leaf slope, and the former home suddenly became crowded, making him experience the warmth and coldness of the world.
Therefore, in order to climb to the peak of his career again, Fan You gradually lost himself under the temptation of Cai Fu step by step, and his heart of fame and fortune swelled sharply, and then decided to replace Chen Yuan.
Cai Fu can be said to be an important chess piece laid by Li Yuntian in the Jiaozhi rebels, the reason why Li Yuntian adopted the strategy of besieging but not attacking the rebels in Yi'an Mansion was to trap them to death in Yi'an Mansion on the one hand, and on the other hand, to wait for Cai Fu to "make waves" within the rebels.
Although Li Yuntian is fully capable of taking Yi'an City, he doesn't want the soldiers to die in the siege battle in vain, so he naturally has to find a way to disturb the morale of the rebels, and the discord plan is undoubtedly the best way to destroy the internal unity of the rebels.
In fact, in addition to using discord tactics in the rebels, Cai Fu also assisted Li Yuntiance in the case to rebel against some of the rebels' generals, causing those generals to defect to the battle, otherwise how could the Ming army capture Jiaozhou City, Lilian City, Dongguan and Thanh Hoa City so lightly?
It seems that it is very easy for the Ming army to capture Jiaozhou Mansion and Qinghua Mansion, but in fact, secretly Li Yuntian put a lot of effort into rebelling against the rebel generals, and sent out a lot of property, thus avoiding heavy casualties of the Ming army.
Two days later, one night, a shocking incident occurred in the city of Nghe An that shook the rebels: Li Li lured Chen Yuan, Ruan Yan and their subordinates to their homes on the pretext of discussing military affairs, and then asked their own soldiers who had already laid an ambush to kill them and their subordinates on the spot on the charge of secretly communicating with the Ming army.
At the same time, Fan You and Cai Fu entered the barracks of Chen Yuan's army, killed a large number of military attaches and soldiers who were close to Chen Yuan, and quickly seized the power of the barracks.
In order to avoid long nights, Li Li had to kill Chen Yuan and Ruan Yan, both of whom had great influence in the rebels, and if they were kept, there would be no accidents.
Afterwards, Li Li released the evidence of Ruan Yan and Chen Yuan's crimes, a forged letter between the two and the Ming army, poor Ruan Yan and Chen Yuan were loyal to Li Li, and in the end they ended up with an inexplicable tragic death, until the two people were killed, they did not understand why Li Li suddenly wanted to kill them.
In the face of this sudden change, the generals and officials of the rebel army were stunned, and no one could have imagined that Ruan Yan and Chen Yuan would die like this.
Li Zhi was puzzled by this, and once looked for Li Li alone, but later someone saw Li Li leaving Li Li's room with a depressed expression, and since then he has become silent.
Li Li didn't want the rebels to be entangled in the killing of Ruan Yan and Chen Yuan, so he had already arranged a plan to break out, and in order to divert the attention of the rebels, he announced it after Ruan Yan and Chen Yuan's deaths:
On the night of the thirtieth day of the Chinese New Year's Eve, Fan You led the 50,000 main forces of the Yi'an rebels to attack the Zhancheng military camp in Yanzhou, defeated the 60,000 Cham soldiers in the barracks with one blow, and then entered the mountains from the defense area of the Cham soldiers to deal with the Ming army.
The reason why Li Li set the time for the breakthrough on the night of the thirtieth day of the Chinese New Year's Eve was because Chinese New Year's Eve was the most important festival of the year in the Ming Dynasty, when the Ming army in Jiaozhi also had to celebrate the New Year, which gave the rebels an opportunity to escape.
There are two main roads from Yi'an Mansion to Yanzhou Mansion, which are more than 80 miles apart, one route is guarded by 30,000 Ming troops, and the other route is guarded by 60,000 Zhancheng soldiers.
Since the combat effectiveness of the Ming army was higher than that of the Cham army, and 20,000 of the 30,000 Ming troops were elite Xiaowu troops, Li Li naturally chose to use the defense area of the Cham soldiers as a breakthrough.
Moreover, the large camp of the Zhancheng army was located in the northwest of Yanzhou Mansion, only more than 20 miles away from the Nanzhang Kingdom, and the large camp of the Ming army was located in the northeast of Yanzhou Mansion.
This gave the rebels an opportunity, as long as the rebels could defeat the Champa soldiers in the Champa army camp in one fell swoop, then they could pass through the defense line of the Champa army before the Ming army of Yanzhou arrived to the rescue.
On the morning of the thirtieth day of the Chinese New Year's Eve, Yanzhou Port.
The two Zheng He treasure ships stopped at Yanzhou Port under the escort of five naval warships, and the people in the port were not surprised by the arrival of the huge Zheng He treasure ships, and were busy with their own affairs in an orderly manner.
Since the Ming army besieged Yi'an Mansion, Zheng He's ships basically arrived at Yanzhou Port every month, and a steady stream of military supplies came from Xin'an Mansion, which made the people in the port have long been accustomed to it.
Several military attachés in black uniforms disembarked from a warship, led by a burly young man with the rank of major, and quickly boarded a carriage parked at the dock, where a clear-eyed captain followed him into the carriage.
Subsequently, the carriage drove to Yanzhou City surrounded by a group of heavily armed Xiaowu soldiers.
"Big brother, Li Li would never have thought that you had already woven a big net, just waiting for him to drill into it." In the carriage, the captain smiled and said to the major sitting opposite.
If anyone knows this young and handsome major, they will be surprised to find that he is actually the general Dingnan who is in charge of the military and political power of Guangxi and Jiaozhi in the Ming Dynasty.
Of course, there is only one person in the Xiaowu army who can call Li Yuntian Brother in private, except for Li Daniu, and that is Lei Ting.
Li Daniu is now in charge of the military affairs of the Ming army's siege of the rebels in Qinghua Province, and it is also Li Daniu's luck that he originally used the tactic of "encirclement and reinforcement" to eliminate the Li Li rebels who came to the rescue when besieging Qinghua City according to Li Yuntian's plan.
It's a pity that Ruan Yan saw through Li Yuntian's intentions and persuaded Li Li to give up the rescue and camp in Yi'an City instead, waiting for the Ming army to attack, relying on the walls of Yi'an City to block and kill the Ming army.
Therefore, Li Yuntian then changed his strategy, besieging and not attacking Yi'an Mansion and trapped the rebels in Yi'an Mansion, and when the food in Yi'an Mansion was exhausted, the rebels naturally rebelled and disorganized.
This also made Li Daniu lucky to catch up with the last battle against the Jiaozhi rebels, so Li Yuntian handed over to him the military power of the siege of the rebels in Thanh Hoa Province, so that Li Yuntian could make military achievements in this battle, and then be promoted to an official position.
"It's been more than two years, and it's time for Cochin to be stable." Li Yuntian smiled slightly, stretched lazily, since he came to Jiaozhi, he has been entangled in military affairs and government affairs, a busy day from morning to night, and when the matter of Jiaozhi is over, he wants to ask Emperor Xuande for a decree and take a big vacation.
"Big brother, after the Jiaozhi rebels are pacified, how can they appease Chief Dogesa and Chief Lundus?" Lei Ting smiled when she heard this, and then thought of something and couldn't help asking.
Under Li Yuntian's arrangement, the officials of the Ming army quickly attacked, and took advantage of the turbulent situation in the city to establish a political system in most cities and appoint a large number of officials.
Since only the Grand Chief of Dogesa and the Grand Chief of Lundes were left among the five chieftains of the Champa State, the remaining three chieftains all died at the hands of the rebels, and the Grand Chief of Dogesa and the Grand Chief of Lundes are now in the camp of the Champa Army in the state of Yanzhou, ready to take revenge on the rebels in Jiaozhi, and cannot take into account the situation in the Champa State, which also makes the actions of the Ming army in the Champa State less restrictive.
In fact, the reason why Li Yuntian besieged the rebels in Yi'an Province but did not attack it also had an unknown intention, that is, to drag the Grand Chief of Dogesa and the Grand Chief of Lundes in the Yanzhou Mansion, so that the Champa State, which had experienced the invasion of the Jiaozhi rebels, would inevitably fall into a situation of no leader, which would be conducive to the Ming military officials acting in the local area.
Grand Chief Dogesa and Grand Chief Lunders would never have imagined that by the time they wanted to take revenge on the rebels in the state of Jiaozhi, the situation in the Occupy country was already quietly changing.