Seeing Fan You's contempt for General Dingnan of the Ming Dynasty, Ruan Yan's brows furrowed slightly, wanting to say something, but in the end he didn't say it.

Although Ruan Yan thought in his heart that Li Yuntian was not as simple as Fan You imagined, all the Yiqiē was just his guess, and now that the rebel army and the Ming army were about to fight, how could he praise Li Yuntian? In that case, it would be alarmist and disruptive to the morale of the military.

Therefore, in the face of this scene in front of him, Fan You had no choice but to choose to remain silent, and when the rebels attacked Anliang County, he was reminding the rebel generals to be careful.

"This king gave you 50,000 horses, but not for you to go to Anliang County to capture the Dingnan general of the Ming Court, but to take Sanjiang City for this king, do you have confidence?" Regarding Fan You's initiative to ask for help, Li Li pondered for a while, looked at him and asked loudly.

"Don't worry, the prince will definitely take down Sanjiang City and send it to the prince." Fan You is the top three generals under Li Li, and when he heard this, he bowed his hand to Li Li and said in high spirits.

"Okay, if you capture Sanjiang City, this king will not only personally hold a banquet for you to celebrate, but also take down the Ming court Dingnan General This king will remember your first merit." A smile appeared on the corner of Li Li's mouth when he heard this, since Li Yuntian wanted to block the rebels outside Sanjiang Mansion, then he would cut off Li Yuntian's back road and trap Li Yuntian to death in Anliang County.

"Lord Wang, I want someone from you." Fan You couldn't help but be happy on his face, and then remembered something and said to Li Li.

"Who do you want?" Li Li felt very surprised, Fan You had never bargained with him when he received the task before, but now he actually wanted someone, so he asked with a smile.

"Cai Fu, the rebel general of the Ming army." Fan You also laughed, "Lord Wang, although this person is greedy for life and afraid of death, he still has some ability to fight, since he taught his brothers to attack the city, we have attacked the city more smoothly than before." ”

Cai Fu, who was a commander of the Jingwei Guard, followed Chen Zhi to Jiaozhi, but was later defeated and captured in a battle, and because he did not want to be killed by the rebels like the other captured Ming troops, he defected to the enemy and surrendered to the rebels.

A few months ago, Li Li sent Cai Fu to persuade Luo Tong, the governor of Thanh Hoa Province, to surrender, but was scolded by Luo Tong.

After Cai Fu's rebellion, Li Li attached great importance to him, asked him to help the rebels train and practice siege methods, so that the rebels' siege skills steadily improved.

Obviously, facing the thick and towering walls of Sanjiang City, it would undoubtedly be much easier to attack with Cai Fu's help.

Although Li Li valued Cai Fu and gave him the title of a general, Cai Fu was not a Jiaozhi person after all, so he could not participate in military meetings like this.

"Well, this king promises you." Li Li did not hesitate at all, and casually agreed, this attack on Sanjiang City is very important, and Cai Fu's words will undoubtedly have more protection, and then corrected one of Fan You's mistakes with a smile, "General Cai is now our own person, and he has made a lot of contributions to us, don't mention him as a traitor of the Ming army in the future." ”

"I know." Fan You laughed when he heard this, nodded and agreed, but he was extremely contemptuous of Cai Fu in his heart, don't talk about him, how many of these people at the scene regarded Cai Fu, who was greedy for life and afraid of death, as his own?

"Ladies and gentlemen, this king has decided to leave 30,000 people to defend the city, and the rest will follow this king to Lilian City and capture the Dingnan general of the Ming Court!"

Seeing Fan You's disapproving look, Li Li naturally knew his thoughts, and knew that he couldn't force it, and then his face turned pale, glanced around at the scene, and said in a deep voice, "As long as you can catch the Dingnan general of the Ming Court, then the emperor of the Ming Court will not dare to underestimate us, we may have a good life in the future, this king hopes that this is the last battle of Annam, you must work together, do not slack off!" ”

"Don't worry, I will do our best to capture General Dingnan of the Ming Court and protect the peace of Nan forever." Hearing this, everyone at the scene got up one after another, arched their hands at Li Li, and shouted in unison.

"Hopefully this is the last battle!" Li Li glanced at the people in the room with satisfaction, and secretly said in his heart, he wanted to make Emperor Xuande realize that it would take a huge price to exterminate the rebels in Jiaozhi, and only in this way would Emperor Xuande be able to discourage the intention of continuing to use troops against Jiaozhi.

"I hope this trip will be smooth!" Like Li Li, Ruan Yan also prayed secretly, he didn't know why, he always felt that the night attack of the Ming army in Sanjiang City on Anliang County was a little weird, as if there was some indescribable taste in it, which made him a little uneasy.

Due to the fact that there was too little information obtained now, Ruan Yan could not judge Li Yuntian's true intentions at all, so he could only wait for further information to come.

Early the next morning, the 120,000 rebels in Jiaozhou City left the city gate amid the whispering of residents on both sides of the street, and marched in the direction of Sanjiang Mansion.

A few months ago, it was this war elephant that launched an attack during the fierce battle between the rebels and the counterinsurgency army brought by Liu Sheng, breaking up the formation of the counterinsurgency army in one fell swoop, disintegrating the last trace of morale of the counterinsurgency army, and causing the counterinsurgency army to flee in defeat.

The arrangement of the war elephant unit is very special, first of all, an elephant is set up on the back of the war elephant, and a soldier sits in the middle of the elephant, and there is an elephant rider in front and behind the elephant.

Each of the four pillar-thick legs was guarded by a warrior with a sword and shield, and seven men formed an independent unit.

In the era of cold weapons, war elephants were rampage heavy tanks on the battlefield, often able to sweep through the ranks of enemy troops, and enemy soldiers usually had nothing to do with such a behemoth in panic.

It is recorded that war elephants charged at speeds of up to thirty kilometers per hour on the battlefield, and unlike cavalry, the charge of war elephants could not simply be defused by infantry phalanxes armed with spears.

The power of the war elephant charge lies in their great strength, they will trample the enemy soldiers and fight with their tusks when they break the enemy formation, and the enemy army that is not crushed will at least be driven aside by the war elephant's charge, or they will retreat under their pressure, causing their formation to be thrown into disarray.

In addition, war elephants do not need to make contact with enemy troops to cause panic, and enemy soldiers tend to flee in fear when they charge.

Moreover, the cavalry was not spared in the presence of war elephants, because the horses were not familiar with the smell of elephants, so they were easily frightened in front of elephants.

The elephant's thick skin makes it extremely difficult to kill or defeat them on the battlefield, and the elephant's enormous advantage in height and weight provides considerable protection for their riders.

In addition, war elephants are covered with armor for protection, which makes them more vulnerable to weapons.

The war elephants under Li Li were covered with a layer of armor, and the Ming soldiers in the counterinsurgency army led by Liu Sheng were basically the first time to see this kind of invulnerable and huge monster, and they were defeated in terror, which was an important reason why the rebels were able to achieve a great victory.

At the same time that Li Li sent troops from Jiaozhou City, a Ming army unit rushed from Xuanhua Mansion into Sanjiang City with a batch of grain and grass, which did not attract the attention of the outside world because this was a normal military transfer in Sanjiang City.

After nightfall, two wagons covered with oilcloth drove out of the place where the grain and grass were stored, and were escorted by the Xiaowu army to the back door of a house in the south of the city, and the wooden box covered under the oilcloth was carefully moved in.

In the hall of the front yard, Li Yuntian and Han Wei were chatting about the current battle situation in Jiaozhi, and on the table in front of the two of them was a topographic map of Jiaozhi, which marked the locations of the state capitals and counties and checkpoints in Jiaozhi.

"If the official didn't guess wrong, Li Li would definitely lead a large army to besiege him after learning that the 'official' had gone to Anliang County."

Li Yuntian stretched out his hand and pointed to Anliang County on the map, then moved his finger to Sanjiang City, and said to Han Wei in a deep voice, "However, he will definitely come to capture Sanjiang City first, and want to copy the back road of this official, once Sanjiang City is captured by the rebels, then Anliang County will become a lonely city." ”

"Your Excellency, rest assured, I will do my best to protect Sanjiang City and prevent the rebels' tricks from succeeding." Hearing this, Han Wei bowed to Li Yuntian and said in a resolute tone.

"We only brought 3,000 people to Jiaozhi this time, and even if we recruit troops in Guangxi, we will not be able to enter Jiaozhi to fight the rebels until next year at the earliest."

Li Yuntian smiled, pointed his finger at a mountain pass called Fallen Leaf Slope in the middle of Sanjiang City and Anliang County, and looked at Han Wei solemnly, "Instead of letting the rebels besiege the city, it is better to take the initiative to attack, give him a head-on blow, and kill their prestige, only in this way will they not dare to act rashly." ”

"Your Excellency, are you trying to ambush the rebels here?" Han Wei immediately understood Li Yuntian's intentions, and his eyes couldn't help but show a look of surprise.

There are only 30,000 Ming troops in Sanjiang City, and they should not fight with the rebels, otherwise they will not be able to be effectively replenished after the loss of troops, so in his opinion, the Ming army in Sanjiang City should stick to the city and rely on the city defense of Sanjiang City to kill and injure a large number of rebels.

"The rebels would never have thought that we would ambush them here, so this ambush has a very high success rate." Li Yuntian nodded, affirmed Han Wei's guess, and then said to him in a deep voice, "This official has decided to let you lead those soldiers who were recruited in Xuanhua City to fight this ambush on the Fallen Leaf Slope, are you willing?" ”

The expression on Han Wei's face became more and more stunned, and he looked at Li Yuntian with some disbelief, not to mention whether the 10,000 reorganized Ming soldiers could defeat the rebels, in this way, the strength of Sanjiang City would only be 20,000, and the shape would become extremely bad.

"Willing to do it!" Now that Li Yuntian had already spoken, Han Wei would take this order even if he no longer had the confidence to defeat those rebels, so he bowed to Li Yuntian and said loudly.

"This official won't let you go to the ambush in vain, I have prepared some gifts for you, and I may be able to help you at that time." Seeing that Han Wei had accepted it, Li Yuntian couldn't help but smile and said.!^!

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