"You think I'm just here to get Zong Min back?" Li Zicheng sat in the palace of the King of Qin, looked at the cadres under the stairs and said: "I made it very clear in the letter that only the crown prince can exchange generals on both sides if he comes to the river in person. When I change back to Zong Min, my brigade will be ambushed! Are you still afraid that he will not be able to escape? If he doesn't dare to come, who will work for the Zhu Dynasty in the future? ”

Gu Junen and the others secretly said in their hearts: A plan is a good plan, but it is the prince of the Zhu Dynasty over there, and he will really take risks for a few veterans in Liju? According to the practice of the Zhu Dynasty, only a posthumous seal will be given.

Even if the Ming Emperor was captured, the imperial court would not make peace.

Niu Jinxing said in his heart: Liu Zongmin was captured for ten months, and he had never heard the news of his righteousness, so I am afraid that he would have secretly surrendered to the Zhu Dynasty a long time ago. Bixia never forgot him, and wanted to exchange You Shiwei and others for him back. This is clearly messing with personal affairs! Alas, after all, Bixia lacks a little bit of the true dragon's decisiveness, even if he wins the world, he is afraid that he will not be able to hold it.

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Zhu Cihong took the letter and smiled at Wu Fu and Sun Chuanting: "Sure enough, it is a happy event, You Du and Wang Shiqin, Shiguo, Li Changling, and Hui Xian are just being executed, and they are not yet dead." ”

Sun Chuanting frowned slightly when he heard this. Wu Fu's face was also gloomy. Both of them are thoughtful people, and when they heard the crown prince say this, they knew that this was Li Zicheng's desire to exchange hostages for Liu Zongmin. On the same day, Liu Zongmin had already been arrested by the emperor, and he was rewarded for it, if he was replaced, wouldn't it be a crime of bullying the king? However, looking at the prince's expression, it seems that he has the intention to exchange.

"Your Highness......" The two did not dare not speak.

Who knew that they started in unison, but they were stopped by Zhu Cihong and said with a smile: "Li Zicheng also said that he wanted me to go to the river in person, and then exchange." Hehe, this is clearly fishing. ”

"Thief delusion!" The two said angrily.

With You Shiwei and others as bait, he wanted to catch the big fish of the crown prince. It's a bit whimsical indeed. However, if the crown prince does not go, Li Zicheng will spread rumors widely, shaking the loyalty of the Ming generals, so that they only say that the imperial court does not even care about the heroic defenders of the land, and there may be more military towns and cities in the future.

"This hand is playing beautifully." Zhu Cihong patted the letter paper and sighed.

"Your Highness." Wu Fu's mind had already turned a few times. Immediately said: "I don't know the truth yet, don't be gullible." ”

"Your Highness, it must be fake!" Sun Chuanting said firmly: "I think You Shiwei and the others have been in battle for a long time, and they only know that the white blade is added to the body and died, how can they be humiliated by the rope?" Even if you don't notice that you are captured by the Li thief for a while, you will definitely look for an opportunity to let the Li thief bring it all the way from Yulin to the river! ”

In the original historical script, Sun Chuanting died in Tongguan, which is indeed as he said. It is better to have a white blade than to suffer the "humiliation of rope bondage". When the two said this, they had actually set up steps for Zhu Cihong, and they could avoid Li Zicheng's trick by going down.

Zhu Cihong understood in his heart, but he didn't think so, and said: "The country is in trouble, and if you can have the strength to resist thieves and restore the country, you must save it." You Shiwei has been in the army for a long time, and his experience is really a national treasure. I have the heart to start a martial arts hall, and I need a veteran like You Shiwei to pass on his experience. so that the soldiers would not have to take their lives to die again. ”

Wu Fu said: "Your Highness, not to mention that the court will condemn itself after knowing about it." Once this precedent was set. Who is willing to die? When he sees that the limelight is not right, he will inevitably do something to steal his life and save his life, just waiting for His Highness to rescue. ”

"Just do your best." Zhu Cihong smiled: "You don't need to do your best. Only by staying alive can we do our best. ”

"Your Highness is determined to go to meet Li Chuang?" Sun Chuanting said helplessly.

"He wants to fish me, why don't I want to fish him?" Zhu Cihong stood up and straightened his muscles: "There are more powerful people than people, I am not as good as him." But if it is said to be strange. He may not be my match. ”

There are many factors that contribute to winning a war, and the ancients summarized them as the right time, the right place, and the right people. In this big branch of people, discipline, morale, and military spirit have also been supplemented by successive generations of soldiers. However, as far as Zhu Cihong, who deals with people professionally, summed up an overlooked factor: imagination.

Among the examples of warfare that have been handed down from ancient to modern times. Whether it is Zhao Hao's rescue and battle, or Lu Meng's white-clothed crossing of the river, there is one thing in common: the master will dare to think!

The so-called "odd" is the competition of imagination. Only those with strong imagination can come up with tricks that catch the enemy off guard, and can achieve amazing results on key battlefields. This kind of person is the one who sublimates war from a professional killing to an art, and he is also a genius general who is not born in the world.

Being well-informed can compensate for the lack of imagination and make it more difficult for the enemy to perform strange moves. In this regard, Zhu Cihong took advantage of four hundred years. At the same time, because there is enough natural science knowledge to enable Jihua to be put into practice, Zhu Cihong has to superimpose the advantages of 200 years.

With this confidence, of course Zhu Cihong dared to be right, make a bait by himself, and go fishing for Li Zicheng's pseudo-dragon. What's more, yesterday Xu Dian sent a secret report, which was a report on breaking into the camp to transport military rations to Longmen Town, which shows that Li Zicheng had selected Longmen Town as the rear granary for attacking Shanxi.

Longmen Town faces Wanrong and Hejin in Shanxi across the river, and it seems that this is the area where Li Zicheng selected his army to cross the river, and it is bound to fight such a battle.

After making up his mind, Zhu Cihong first asked the messenger to meet Liu Zongmin, and then immediately sent the old people of Yulinwei in the camp to the camp to verify the identity and physical condition of You Shiwei and others. He held a military meeting in the battalion to discuss the operational layout. Because of the surprise attack, this military discussion was limited to the two thousand commanders of the East Palace guard battalion, as well as the two battalion officers of Chen De and Niu Chenghu. Sun Chuanting attended.

"If Li Zicheng chooses to exchange on the river, if His Highness wants to withdraw, he will have to gallop across the open land that is three miles long. When the time comes, we will not be able to resist the cannons or archery. Xiao Mo pointed to the newly made Hejin-Longmen sand table and pointed out three possible exchange locations.

These three points are all suitable places for Li Zicheng's cavalry to attack, and if Li Zicheng has a ghost in his heart, he is bound to choose one of these three. Elsewhere, on one side or on both sides, there are piles of rocks, and it is not easy for even infantry to pass through, let alone horsemen who require higher road conditions.

Xiao Mo stopped, and said: "It's useless for us to avoid these three roads, Li Thief can rush straight across the river with horsemen and attack Hejin to cut off the back road of our army." ”

Zhu Cihong looked at the three points on the sand table that were specially planted with small red flags, and said, "I also need to set up an ambush in an open place." That's it! ”

The officers looked towards the place pointed by Zhu Cihong, which was a key point at the entrance of the Yellow River just out of Yu, and the width was in the middle of the three points.

"Your Highness, this place is too close to the entrance of Yu, if it is copied up by the Li thief from the south bread, I am afraid it will be inconvenient to retreat." Xiao Dong Corridor.

"Don't be afraid, he won't be able to get over the two points in the south." Zhu Cihong said with a smile: "There should be a formation on the river. ”

In the cold winter when the water drips into ice, the easiest way to block the river is to use icicles. As long as it is a half-height bucket tank, even a few wooden planks made out of the temporary hoop can be wrapped in a layer of straw to become a container for water. In the harsh winter low temperature, it is already frozen without waiting for how much water to flow out. If it weren't for the limited conditions, Zhu Cihong would still want to connect these icicles with iron chains, and it would be even more difficult for the horsemen to pass through.

By the time the thieves passed through the icicle formation, the formation would definitely be chaotic. The guards of the East Palace lined up on the riverbank were just waiting for their work and retreated.

"Your Highness, what if the thief sees these icicles and refuses to exchange them for the place we have set?" Niu Chenghu asked out loud. Although he is not established now, he is generally regarded as the commander of the Qin barracks, and a red heart is also in the hands of the prince.

"Then we have nothing to lose." Zhu Cihong said: "It's just a matter of labor. ”

"Then you won't change it?"

"Haha," Zhu Cihong said with a smile, "Li Zicheng is more anxious than us!" Liu Zongmin and he are good brothers from birth to death, but You Shiwei and I have never had a personal relationship. If I don't come back for You Shiwei, the Ming Dynasty will be cold. Could it be that he sat and watched Liu Zongmin being killed, and the generals who broke into the camp were not cold? Now this game, if it is consumed, it will be even more disadvantageous for him. When the Yellow River thaws, it will not be so easy to hit Shanxi. ”

Everyone knew in their hearts that this was to see who could hold their breath. (To be continued......)