Chapter Seventy-Seven: A Plan Within a Plan
It turned out that Zhang Hengyi was also quite proficient in the art of war, using the strategy of half-crossing and attacking, only waiting for the Chengzhi army to cross half of the river, and then attacking, Liu Chengzhi had no way at all, fortunately, taking advantage of the gap in building the pontoon bridge, Liu Chengzhi also urged his subordinates to step up shipbuilding, and prepare to cross the river by force.
After nightfall, Zhang Hengyi was depressed and knew that the situation in front of him was not a long-term solution. But suddenly I heard the rumors from my subordinates that an old man came to visit. Zhang Hengyi was surprised, so he called to bring it up to meet.
Zhang Hengyi saw that it was Zhang Shuwu, the original guard of Ganzhou City, and he already had a plan in his heart.
Zhang Shuwu is straight, and as soon as he came up, he said: "Master Zhang, come down and be a lobbyist!"
Zhang Hengyi raised his eyebrows and said, "Hmph, I know if Lord Zhang doesn't say it, whose lobbyist you want to be, the lord treats you and I am not thin, how can you be like this?"
After a pause, he said: "If we hadn't had a friendship, I would have beheaded you a long time ago!"
Zhang Shuwu laughed and said, "When Zhang came here, he already had the intention to die, but he just wanted to show Master Zhang a clear way." ”
Zhang Shuwu continued: "Zhang is not a person who is afraid of death, why would he serve the young master, don't you want to know?"
Zhang Hengyi frowned and said, "I have something to say, but don't expect me to be moved by you!"
Zhang Shuwu said: "Since Li Longxun took charge of Jiangnan Province, although he has treated our group of officials well, has Master Zhang seen the suffering of the people, and our Ganzhou water towns in the south of the Yangtze River for generations have made the people's livelihood miserable because of the wanton expropriation and extortion!
"On the other hand, the young master of my family, inheriting the martyrdom of his father and brother, is not arrogant or rash, subdues the Nanban, and returns the border to peace, and the Kunyang Province and Mianzhou City under his rule are all singing and dancing, and every common person remembers his benefits!
In the end, Zhang Shuwu sighed and said, "Lord Zhang, Zhang has finished speaking, if you want to kill or chop, listen to it!"
Zhang Hengyi still frowned, didn't say a word, hesitated for a long time, and said: "There are still supervisors and adjutants in our army, even if I plan to cooperate, what are you going to do?"
Zhang Shuwu stared at Zhang Hengyi and said, "As long as you withdraw your troops one mile back early tomorrow morning, we will have a way to win and defeat General Zhang of Jinling!"
Zhang Hengyi was overjoyed and said, "In this way, let's plan!"
In the early morning of the next day, all the troops of the Chengzhi Army were mobilized, leaving only 2,000 sergeants as a reserve, and they swam through the pontoon bridge.
Liu Chengzhi walked in front of the troops, and found that there was not a single soldier on the shore as promised, and he was overjoyed, so he ordered the Chengzhi army to speed up the swimming. In a short time, Cheng Zhijun had already spent a third of it.
At this time, the bow and arrow were like locusts, shooting at the Chengzhi army that had already crossed the river, and the Chengzhi army was well-trained, and hurriedly used a shield to resist, but it did not cause great damage.
But in front, Zhang Hengyi led 50,000 spearmen to rush towards the Chengzhi army in Bandu. As if they had been prepared, the Cheng Zhi army quickly dispersed in all directions and built a human wall, so that the troops in the rear could quickly swim into the water.
came and went, attacking and defending each other, and the Chengzhi army was already half of the water, but the casualties were very large.
Zhang Hengyi sent all his troops to attack with all his might. Cheng Zhi's army gradually could not support it and began to retreat to the river.
This was the most terrible part of the half-crossing plan, and the troops crossing the river were unable to exert their combat strength at all, and became a live target.
The Chengzhi army was struggling to support the plan, but there was a lot of commotion in the rear of Zhang Hengyi's troops.
Zhang Hengyi thought that the rear was worry-free, so he only put 50,000 archers and no other defense. Who knew that at this moment, countless spearmen were killed in the rear, and the archers were all wiped out in less than a quarter of an hour, as if they were being chopped melons and vegetables.
When the Chengzhi army on the riverside saw the reinforcements, they lifted their spirits and went all out. Zhang Hengyi was surrounded on all sides, and the situation suddenly reversed.
The more the Chengzhi army killed, the more energetic it became, and after a while, all the Chengzhi troops had crossed the river, and the army behind Zhang Hengyi's troops was vast, with more than 100,000 people.
It turned out that Liu Chengzhi and Zhang Shuwu talked separately that day and learned that Zhang Shuwu's cousin Zhang Shucheng was the director of the fortress, and half of the management of the fortress was his cronies, plus personnel entanglements, it can be said that Jiangyang Fortress was completely under the control of the spy shadow gate.
Zhang Shucheng is different from Zhang Shuwu, he has always had a lot of complaints about Li Longxun, this time he got the opportunity, and immediately surrendered to Liu Chengzhi, but he just surrendered to Cheng but made a great contribution.
Liu Chengzhi was overjoyed, so he divided 100,000 troops to garrison Wuyi, and made the appearance of crossing the river in Wuyi, and actually sent 50,000 elite soldiers under the leadership of Li Xiuqi, together with the soldiers of Jiangyang Fortress, to go around the back of Zhang Hengyi's troops.
On the same day, Zhang Shuwu was sent to lure him down, which was actually a plan to lure the king into the urn, so that Zhang Hengyi gave way to the riverbank, and attacked from both sides, and it really achieved miraculous results.
Since then, there are no more troops behind Liu Province in Jiangnan Province, and Liu Chengzhi's march has been unstoppable!
At this time, in Yong'an City.
Liu Shiingshen was holding a golden gold medal, his face was full of sadness, and he said: "Since last month, this is already the sixth gold medal!"
Zhao Hongsheng, the secretary of the military department, sighed and said: "Now that I go back to Jinling, I am afraid that there will be more evil and less auspicious, I think it must not be!"
Feng Guihua, the supervisor of the army, was Li Longxun's close confidant, and when he heard this, he was furious and said: "The lord treats you well, how dare you be so ungrateful?
Neither Lau nor Zhao Hongsheng were speechless.
Zhou Lixin said: "Don't quarrel, everyone, Jiangnan is already stormy now, if we mess up on our side, won't we be laughed at by the enemy in vain!"
Feng Guihua snorted and stopped talking, and there was silence in the entire tent.
After a while, Feng Guihua said again: "This is very good! If you don't save it, I can't help it." In this way, the last general is willing to lead a team of men and horses to save Jinling City!"
Liu Shiingshen knew that he couldn't persuade this subordinate at all, so he said helplessly: "That's fine, but the front is tight, I can only allocate 30,000 horses to you at most!" Zhao Hongsheng nodded and said: "That's all!"
Feng Guihua was furious, pulled out his sword and said: "You shameless things, the lord treats you well, but you do this, you are supporting the army and self-respecting, committing chaos, I will fight with you!"
Zhou Lixin was shocked, and hurriedly held down Zhao Hongsheng and said: "General Feng can't, General Feng can't!"
Liu Shiingshen and Zhao Hongsheng were ashamed, but they insisted that they could only divide 30,000 troops. In the end, under the mediation of Zhou Lixin, Feng Guihua returned to the camp angrily.
That night, Feng Guihua invited his cronies and asked them to gather all the soldiers they could control, and then lead the troops to Jinling City.
When Liu Shiingshen and Zhao Hongsheng found out, it was too late, and after careful counting, they found that there were 100,000 horses missing, and they couldn't help but be shocked.
Xiang Wuji got the news and launched an attack on Liu's body overnight. The two sides came and went, Liu Xingshen was hit again, the people were scattered, and there were less than 100,000, so he could only rely on the danger of the city to hold on. Cheng Zhijun has a great advantage.
At this time, Feng Guihua led his soldiers and horses to the direction of Yangjiang, striving to save Jinling City.