"The rebels are in full swing now, if the eldest brother doesn't give them a powerful look, Li Li will definitely not negotiate peace with the eldest brother."

In the face of Lei Ting's inquiry, Li Yuntian took a big bite of the flatbread he was holding in his hand, and then his eyes flashed coldly, and he said in a deep voice while chewing, "When the eldest brother takes Anliang County, he will be able to sit down with Li Li and have a good talk." ”

"Big brother wants to attack Anliang County?" Lei Ting was immediately shocked by Li Yuntian's decision, and couldn't help but remind him, "There are not only 30,000 rebels in Anliang County, but also less than two days away from Lilian Prefecture. ”

Lilian Prefecture is a scattered prefecture under the Jiaozhou Prefecture, located in the north of the Jiaozhou Prefecture, bordering Sanjiang Prefecture, Li Li has transferred 20,000 rebels to gather here, and there are rebels continuously marching towards Lilian Prefecture.

According to Li Li's plan, he was ready to mobilize 100,000 rebels to attack Sanjiang City, and take Sanjiang City before the arrival of the Xiaowu army, even if he could not capture Li Yuntian, then he would break Li Yuntian's confidence, and then show the strong strength of the rebels to the imperial court, so that Emperor Xuande understood that he would pay a huge price if he wanted to quell the rebellion in Jiaozhi.

"Two days is enough." Li Yuntian naturally knew the situation in Anliang County, and smiled at Lei Ting disapprenously, "The art of war is cloudy, surprise and attack it unprepared, now the rebels in Anliang County will not think that our army will take the initiative to attack them no matter what, and they must be negligent in taking precautions, which gives our army an excellent opportunity for a surprise attack." ”

"Big brother wants to sneak attack Anliang County now?" Seeing Li Yuntian's appearance of being a bamboo in his chest, Lei Ting immediately understood his intentions, and after hesitating for a moment, he asked worriedly, "The troops in the city have only rested for ten days, can they fight the rebels?" ”

After Li Yuntian reorganized the Ming army in Sanjiang City, the 50,000 Ming troops in the city were divided into two large battalions, the front army and the rear army, the front army used to fight, and the rear army used to defend the city.

Among them, the former army consisted of 10,000 Beijing troops, 5,000 people brought by Li Yuntian from Xuanhua City, and 5,000 people selected from the local guard posts, with a total of about 20,000, which was an important force in Li Yuntian's hands to fight against the rebels.

The rear army consisted of the remaining 30,000 Ming troops, and although the soldiers were mixed, at least they were more effective than the common people, and the rebels were able to resist on the city walls when they attacked the city.

This means that Li Yuntian wants to use 20,000 former troops to attack Anliang County, which has 30,000 rebels, and is at a disadvantage in terms of both strength and terrain.

"The people in the former army camp are all veterans, and after these ten days of recuperation, they have recovered their body and morale, and they will be able to fight the rebels to the death." Li Yuntian knew Lei Ting's worries, so he stretched out his palm and slowly clenched his fists, and comforted her with a smile, "Although there are many rebels, the head-to-head confrontation is definitely not the opponent of our army, our army has caught them off guard again, they are absolutely difficult to resist, in the eyes of the eldest brother, Anliang County has become a bag." ”

"Big brother doesn't want to command this battle himself, does he?" Lei Ting suddenly became nervous when she heard this, Li Yuntian took the risk of defending in Heiniu Town last year, Anliang County is related to Li Yuntian's governance strategy for Jiaozhi, this battle can be said to be very important, and it is not impossible for Li Yuntian to personally supervise the battle.

"Killing chickens with a knife, a small Anliang county is not worth the big brother." Seeing Lei Ting's worried expression, Li Yuntian suddenly laughed, "Big brother is going to let Fang Zheng and Ma Ying lead the army this time. ”

Lei Ting breathed a sigh of relief, she was really afraid that Li Yuntian would go to Anliang County to supervise the battle, as the saying goes, swords and guns have no eyes, in case there are any unexpected consequences.

Fang Zheng was the former commander of the Jiaozhi Division, originally a hereditary thousand households of Jining Wei, and moved to the capital to command the affairs due to merit during the Jing Dynasty, and later was promoted to the commander of the Jiaozhi Division with Zhang Fu to quell the Jiaozhi rebellion.

In March of the first year of Xuande, Chen Zhi, the former commander-in-chief of Jiaozhi, led the crusading army into Chalong Prefecture, which was captured by the rebels, and fought with the rebels under the jurisdiction of Li Li.

At that time, if it weren't for Fang Zhengdian's queen and leading his soldiers to fight hard, Chen Zhi would have been planted in Yi'an Mansion.

After Chen Zhi's defeat, Emperor Xuande was furious and ordered Chen Zhi and Fang Zheng and other generals to be stripped of their titles and official positions, and demoted to officials to stay in Jiaozhi for meritorious service.

It is worth mentioning that when the rebels attacked Jiaozhou City a few months ago, the Ming army in the city took the initiative under the leadership of Fang Zheng, and then defeated the 20,000 rebels in the south of the city, forcing Li Li not to act rashly and used the strategy of besieging the city instead.

Before coming to Jiaozhi, Li Yuntian had already collected information about the generals in Jiaozhi, and in his opinion, among those generals in Jiaozhi, there were two people who were most worthy of his expectations.

One is Fang Zheng, and the other is a general under Wang Tong, the former commander of Guangxi Metropolitan Commander Tongzhi Ma Ying.

Ma Ying, like Fang Zheng, was a brave and good fighter, and almost all of the battles in which the Ming army inflicted heavy losses on the rebels in Jiaozhi came from the hands of two people.

In the same situation as Fang Zheng, after Wang Tong's defeat, Ma Ying was also punished, and was dismissed from his official position by Emperor Xuande, and stayed in Jiaozhi to serve as a criminal.

In Li Yuntian's view, the reason why Fang Zheng and Ma Ying were able to defeat the rebels in Jiaozhi one after another was that in addition to their bravery and good fighting, they also had important factors in their long-term official positions in Jiaozhi and Guangxi, and they were very familiar with the situation in Jiaozhi, which enabled the two to fight the rebels calmly.

However, Li Yuntian's choice of Fang Zheng and Ma Ying to attack Anliang County this time was not only because the two were good at fighting, but also because of an important reason, that is, to use the victory of the two to boost the morale of the military and civilians in Sanjiang City and even the Ming army-controlled area.

Since the defeat of Liu Sheng's army, the morale of the Jiaozhi army and civilians has been extremely low, and Wang Tong negotiated peace with Li Li without authorization, and the evacuation of Jiaozhou City has caused the morale of the Jiaozhi army and people to fall to the bottom.

Li Yuntian knew that although his arrival had restored some morale and confidence to the soldiers and civilians of Jiaozhi, in the face of the predicament of Jiaozhi at this time, the only way to reassure the soldiers and civilians of Jiaozhi was to win a battle.

Therefore, whether it is Li Yuntian's governance strategy in Jiaozhi or the morale of the soldiers and civilians in Jiaozhi, he must take Anliang County and give Li Li a blow to the head.

Fang Zheng and Ma Ying are the two most influential Jiaozhi generals among the military and civilians of Jiaozhi, and the two of them will undoubtedly be able to better publicize and inspire the people by taking Anliang County.

Early the next morning, Fang Zheng and Ma Ying were called by Li Yuntian to his office room, and officially assigned the task of sneaking up on Anliang County to the two of them, and asked the two to go into battle lightly after nightfall, and led the troops of the former army camp of Sanjiang City to Anliang County, and launched an attack on Anliang County before dawn.

Fang Zheng and Ma Ying were stunned by Li Yuntian's decision, although the city wall of Anliang County is not too high, but how can it be more than ten meters, how can the lightly armed Ming army attack the city wall?

However, Li Yuntian then told the two of them good news, and on the second day after Li Yuntian came to Sanjiang City, a force of more than 100 native soldiers was sent by him to Anliang County to "take refuge" with the rebels.

This unit of native soldiers was selected by Li Yuntian from the Xuanhua Mansion Guard, and it belonged to the same ethnic group as the rebels, so it would definitely not arouse the suspicion of the rebels.

Li Yuntian had already made arrangements for this native army of more than 100 people, and at that time, they would open the gate of Nancheng, which was the weakest defense in Anliang County, and let Fang Zheng and Ma Qi enter the city smoothly.

Turen soldiers and native soldiers are two different concepts, because the southwest region was regarded as a barbarian land by the Ming Dynasty, so the Ming Dynasty called the various ethnic groups living in the southwest region "Turen".

Among the ethnic groups in the southwest region, they are also divided into the main ethnic groups with the superior number and the ethnic minorities with the inferior numbers.

Generally speaking, the Tusi of the Ming Dynasty in the southwest region are the leaders of the local ethnic minorities, and the armed forces owned by those Tusi are local soldiers.

The vast majority of those who have served as civilian officials are members of the main ethnic groups in the locality, and a few are members of the local ethnic minorities.

Among them, those who became the main ethnic and ethnic minority personnel of the military households of the Daming Guard were called Turen soldiers, corresponding to those military households from the Daming Guard.

The reason why the south gate of Anliang County is the weakest garrison is because the south gate faces Jiaozhou City, which is the farthest gate of Anliang County from Sanjiang City, and the rebels think that the Ming army will attack the north gate of Anliang County to face Sanjiang City, so they send some troops at the north gate.

It is worth mentioning that although Li Yuntian has been in Sanjiang City for more than ten days, the rebels in Anliang County have no matter of defense at all, because the rebel generals do not think that the Ming army, which has been defeated by them and fled, dares to attack the city.

Moreover, since Wang Tong led the soldiers and civilians of Jiaozhou City to evacuate Jiaozhou City, the rebels from top to bottom have been immersed in the joy of victory because of the victory over the powerful Ming army:

Jiaozhou City, as the seat of the three divisions of Jiaozhi, represents the rule of the Ming Dynasty over Jiaozhi, since the Ming army withdrew from Jiaozhou City, it means that the Ming Dynasty has given up Jiaozhi, undoubtedly announcing the victory of the rebels in this Jiaozhi war.

With Wang Tong's withdrawal from Jiaozhou City, there was a series of chain reactions within the rebel army, not only did some generals begin to compete for territory and seize control of those rich cities, but also the military discipline of the army became sloppy.

The soldiers who followed the rebels rebelled basically came from the countryside, and now the rebels have driven the Ming army out of Jiaozhou City, which means that the victory of the rebels is imminent, and those soldiers naturally have arrogant thoughts, and they have been looking for pleasure in the city, raping and plundering, which makes the cities occupied by the rebels are stirred up and miserable.

Originally, the residents of those cities were full of good feelings for the rebels, after all, they were of the same clan as the rebels, but no one thought that the rebels they welcomed into the city would harm them, making them miserable, not only lost a lot of property, but also some people's wives and daughters were ****.

In particular, the generals under Li Li took advantage of the opportunity to enter the city to seize by force, and in a short period of time, they collected a large amount of real estate, land and property.

As the richest city in Jiaozhi, those wealthy businessmen in Jiaozhou City bore the brunt of the victims, many people's property was occupied by the rebel generals, the lucky people could get a way to live, and the unlucky people were directly killed by the rebel generals An Yi Gou Ming Army.

Li Li turned a blind eye to this kind of thing, the reason why those generals under him followed him to fight the country was naturally to enjoy the glory and wealth in the future, if he interfered, wouldn't it chill everyone's hearts?

Since the main generals have no intention of fighting and are trying to reap the benefits, the so-called upward and downward effects, the soldiers below will naturally take the opportunity to have fun, and it is conceivable how the city defense of Anliang County will be, which is also the most important reason why Li Yuntian is confident in taking Anliang County.

Wang Tong privately negotiated peace and evacuated Jiaozhou City without authorization, although the situation of the Ming army in Jiaozhi was worse, but at the same time, it also had a heavy impact on the rebels, making the rebels fluctuating and lax, and then giving Li Yuntian an opportunity.

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