Offense is the best way to defend.

Six days after the occupation of Dengzhou, Dayong reversed his previous decision to hold the fortification and decided to attack instead of fortifying. There were two reasons for his change of course: first, more and more rebel officers secretly surrendered to the Jinzhou army; The second is the more than 1,200 war horses in Dengzhou City.

The rebels' hearts fluctuated and gave Dayong the confidence to attack, and the more than 1,000 war horses in the city made the Jinzhou army itself stronger.

There is no lack of soldiers in the army who know how to ride roughly, when Pingdu was reorganized for the fifth time, many soldiers in the left and right two battalions of the infantry army were transferred to wolf cavalry and light cavalry, although there were great casualties in the subsequent battle, but the whole army was able to piece together hundreds of "semi-cavalry".

After discovering that there were more than 1,000 high-quality Mongolian war horses in the city, Cao Bianjiao cried with joy and tried his best to persuade Shi Dayong to expand the wolf cavalry army, and draw soldiers who could ride horses from each battalion to train them, in order to form a powerful cavalry.

Strong is relative to Denglai, looking at the entire territory of Denglai, except for the cavalry brought by Zu Dabi and Wu Sangui from Liaodong, the rest of the soldiers and horses are cavalry, and there are not a few war horses. The Beijing camp is still better, more or less always touched by the advantage of the Royal Forest Army, the war horses of the Taifu Temple and the Imperial Horse Supervisor are always replenished in time, and the army of a battalion can have six or seven hundred war horses available. It's a pity that the Beijing camp has been eroded, and no matter how many war horses and sophisticated weapons are, they can't change the reality that the Beijing camp is not combatable. Those soldiers and ruffians have already seen it in Xianghe, and they are so proud of the Imperial Forest Army, and the Jinzhou Army is more than enough to be ten in total.

The 3,000 cavalry of the ancestral family can be put on the table, and Dayong does not shy away from saying that in terms of strength, the overall strength of the cavalry of the ancestral family is far better than his Jinzhou army. The wolf cavalry can defeat him a few, but the number is too small, and if it really fights, I am afraid that there is nothing cheap to bargain.

The unknown hidden things that happened during the battle of the Great and Small Ling Rivers, Da Yong weighed in his heart, whether it was public or private, the confrontation with the ancestral family in the future was inevitable. Wu Sangui's sudden shot in Xiaoguanzhuang has actually announced that the ancestral family and his Shi Dayong are already in flames.

It is still too careless, too relaxed after the victory in Jinzhou, only thinking about entering Beijing as soon as possible, but there is no layout of the remnants of the ancestral family, and now he has become a duckweed without roots, but the ancestral family is a big family with intertwined roots in Liaodong, and the amount of power that can be mobilized between the two is too different.

The strength of the ancestral family can be glimpsed from the 3,000 cavalry in the hands of Zu Dabi, and the cavalry under Dayong is not more than 1,000 at most, but the ancestral family can easily form a cavalry of 3,000 people when the head of the family is dead and the backbone is lost.

Therefore, when Cao Bianjiao advocated using the war horses in Dengzhou City to expand the wolf cavalry army, Dayong immediately agreed, in addition to hoping to replace defense with offense, I am afraid that it is also the fear of Zu Dabi and Wu Sangui's 3,000 cavalry.

The lesson of the trip south taught Dayong that if you want to no longer be controlled by others, you must have the strength to make others afraid.

Dayong is optimistic that the Son of Heaven will re-recognize himself and the Jinzhou Army, but he can't help but be unguarded, what if the young Son of Heaven doesn't recognize him? What should I do if Dengzhou City can't get the forgiveness of the Son of Heaven?

Plan for the last rain, and always think about the bad side of everything. It doesn't hurt to prepare in advance, Dayong doesn't want Kong Youde to die, tens of thousands of Ming soldiers will come to Dengzhou City, and he will become the "rebel leader" of the DPRK and China.

Dengzhou has been lost for a long time, and those officials of the former Ming Dynasty in the city except for the death are the so-called "forbearance and humiliation", and the former Dengzhou Dao Song Guanglan and the prefect Wu Weicheng and their cadres have been closed to the house after the Jinzhou army entered the city, and there is no appearance of a commanding civil official.

The intellectuality of these people, Dayong naturally accepted it, and without the dictates of civilian officials, the military management of the Jinzhou army in the city can be said to be very smooth.

As for what to do with these officials who have been rebels, Dayong doesn't worry about it, because it's them who should be worried, not himself.

What Dayong has to do is wait for these people to take the initiative to come to him, and now he is the only one who can save these people's lives. If Dayong didn't admit that it was these rebels who took the initiative to open the city to welcome the Jinzhou army into the city, then these people's heads would be completely off their necks.

I don't want to be famous, and my face is naturally even less valuable.

Before leaving the city, Song Guanglan and others really came to ask for a meeting, but Dayong didn't see them because he was in a hurry to go on the expedition, but he reassured them - "The day Kong Cheng dies is the day when you see the sun and the moon again." ”

After asking Dayong's permission, Song Guanglan and others reorganized the Dengzhou official system, borrowed a team of soldiers from the Jinzhou army as a government officer, and began to maintain order in the city for the Jinzhou army.

In this regard, Dayong smiled indifferently and ordered not to interfere and let these civil officials do their own thing.

After the expansion of the wolf cavalry, the original master of Cao Bianjiao trained for a period of time, and then went into battle when the rebels came. Dayong was impatient, and as soon as the personnel were expanded in place, he asked Cao Bianjiao to lead the army to fight with him.

Although Cao Bianjiao is bold, the wolf cavalry has just been expanded, the appointment of officers has not yet been in place, and most people can only guarantee that they will not fall on the horse, and they cannot be used as real cavalry at all.

Xiao Cao was reluctant to take out these newly formed wolf cavalry to use as cannon fodder, and he was bent on building a powerful cavalry comparable to the Eight Banners of Donglu. Cavalry is different from infantry, and those who can go into battle with a spear must be trained with effort and time, otherwise they are not real cavalry.

The Jinzhou army has endured all the hasty hardships so far, including Shi Dayong, and all the generals believe that as long as they are given a year and a half of recuperation time, the Jinzhou army can definitely be several times stronger than now. However, from the day of Songshan's departure, the Jinzhou army was accompanied by constant fighting, in addition to fighting or fighting, the veterans were getting fewer and fewer, and the team could not be expanded.

The suffering of his subordinates, Dayong knows that he is also bitter, why doesn't God give himself enough time.

If it were possible, Dayong would not be able to recuperate in this Dengzhou City for a year, but Kong Youde and Li Jiucheng's heads must be obtained, otherwise, he would not know whether what was waiting for him Jinzhou Army and Shi Dayong was the mighty imperial grace of the Son of Heaven or the thunderous rage.

Outside Laizhou, Kong Youde commanded tens of thousands of rebels to march towards Dengzhou with the intention of taking one step at a time; In Dengzhou City, Shi Dayong also led a thousand wolf cavalry towards Laizhou with the intention of taking one step at a time.

On the same day, in order to go to the aid of the Daling River, three thousand Changping children staged the helplessness of "living people tied to horses" in the Jinzhou army, and today, for Kong Youde's head, the marching cavalry ranks also have soldiers tied to horses.

In the first battle of Zhaoyuan, it was said that the strong power of the cavalry had gained the upper hand, but it was better to say that the rebels who had no will to fight had collapsed from within.

The battle of Zhaoyuan strengthened Dayong's confidence in success, and when he learned from the prisoners that the main force of the rebels led by Li Jiucheng and Kong Youde was in Zhuqiao, more than 20 miles away, Dayong immediately ordered the whole army of the wolf cavalry to march towards Zhuqiao.

He wanted to create a miracle with these thousand cavalry.