Chapter 214: Humiliating the Zhongzhou Army
Whose responsibility should be for the defeat in the first battle, in addition to General Lin, as the commander of the three armies, he is naturally to blame, but what he has to admit is only the mistake of transferring command and the responsibility for underestimating the enemy's defeat.
Only in this way can he not be talked about in the court, and can he hide his true intention to consume the Royal Forest Guards with the hands of the winner's army, and some people will think,
If all the blame for the defeat in the first battle is blamed on General Lin, the prince can be left alone and leave the relationship behind, wouldn't it be better to cover up his true intentions.
Anyway, the dead don't speak, so why bend around and cover up their true guilt with a false guilt that they racked their brains to come up with.
But this is precisely the smartest place for the prince, as the commander of the three armies, he has been trained with the army since he was a child, and he understood a truth early, when the water is clear, there is no fish, whether it is in the army or in the court,
Looking at the past and present, there has never been a sage who has been foolproof in his life, and the emperors of the ages who have left their names in history and praised the past and the present are just successive kings whose merits are greater than their faults.
One hundred dense and one sparse has been called a heroic, seamless characters throughout the hundreds of years of history of the dynasty can not find one, Ziwei the Great unified the Central Plains, ended tyranny, and created a prosperous era,
can be called a famous king, but even so, he still left the stain of killing his brother and father in Xuanwumen, seizing power and usurping the throne, so the prince, who is well versed in the way of using soldiers, understands,
There is never a perfect person or plan on the battlefield, and the more he tries to clear himself of his guilt, the more he will arouse the suspicion of the emperor and the court.
There must be a demon when things go wrong, and the biggest culpability is the loss of a battle, and the boss is not guilty, so the prince did not avoid it, but actively informed the emperor,
While pointing out that General Lin was greedy for merit, he commended the bloody battle of the Imperial Forest Army, and at the same time took the initiative to admit his responsibility for poor command and negligence of the enemy.
In this way, as long as he conquers the enemy city in the next battle and makes up for his achievements, he can dispel the doubts of the emperor and his courtiers.
Those ministers who oppose him will definitely make a fuss here, and he has already thought of a countermeasure, when the army first arrived in the eastern capital, General Lin tried his best to disagree with the public,
At the expense of life and death, he also wanted to push the Imperial Forest Army to the vanguard position, he was a general directly under the emperor, and the morale of the generals and commanders of the Imperial Forest Army at that time was high.
It is reasonable for the position of the vanguard to be handed over to him, which can be testified by both the Imperial Forest Army and the local generals of Zhongzhou, which is also an important reason why the prince wants to keep the two royal forest commanders.
These two people will provide the most crucial confirmation of another fact on the battlefield, the generals of the Southern Xinjiang Army are subordinates of the prince, and the generals of the local army in Zhongzhou may be bribed.
The Imperial Forest Army is the emperor's direct subordinates, and the true situation of the defeat in the first battle will not be wrong to say it from their mouths, the prince's face is gloomy, and the top priority is to launch a general attack on the Tiger Prison Pass as soon as possible,
As long as the winner's army can be exterminated, the stain of the first battle defeat will be completely erased, and as long as this henchman can be eliminated, the emperor will not hold him accountable.
Those ministers who oppose this campaign will also have nothing to say, the prince thought so, and the three commanders of Southern Xinjiang saw that the latter had been silent for a long time, and they were also secretly puzzled in their hearts,
What is this genius crown prince on the battlefield thinking, and what arrangements will he make regarding the offensive of the Tiger Prison Guanxi City Gate, seeing that the latter is silent,
Luo Yu couldn't sit still, he immediately clenched his fists, looked at the latter and asked cautiously,
"Your Highness, General Wei Chi is right, Tiger Prison Guanxi City can be said to be the weakest link in this city, who should we send to attack, how many soldiers and horses should be sent to attack, and please ask Your Highness to make it clear",
At the same time as Luo Qi asked, the other two commanders of southern Xinjiang also looked at the latter in unison, obviously they couldn't wait to know the military deployment of attacking Tiger Prison City.
Wei Chilin also subconsciously glanced at several Zhongzhou generals above the main hall, and he guessed that the task of attacking the West City Gate should be delivered to the local army of Zhongzhou.
Now that the Imperial Forest Army has been disabled, the three commanders and the Southern Xinjiang Army have all had the next siege arrangements and military deployments.
Only the local army of Zhongzhou is the most suitable to be sent to attack the West City Gate, although the combat effectiveness of this second-line army is really a little flattering, Wei Chilin looked at several local generals in Zhongzhou,
I couldn't help but shake my head, but it was also the face of the local army in Zhongzhou this time, but I couldn't find anyone who could pick the lead.
The entire Zhongzhou army doesn't even have an eight-layer cultivation master, the most powerful one is only a seven-layer cultivation general, and he doesn't even bother to mention the combat effectiveness of the army.
These local armies are deep in the territory, far away from the border passes, with the winner army in front of them, and they have not fought any battles at all on weekdays, so such an army is not to mention that it is on a par with the winner's army.
It's more than a grade worse than the Royal Forest Army, but I didn't expect that the Ziwei Dynasty is really short of soldiers and major generals now, and it needs to use these rabble to pick up the beams.
Yu Chilin thought in his heart, at this moment, the prince's voice sounded above the main hall, this time he looked at the commanders of the local army in Zhongzhou and said,
"General Li, General Wang, the big battle is imminent, our conquest army will launch a general attack on Tiger Prison City tomorrow, the two of you are the leaders of the Zhongzhou army, you must be very familiar with the terrain and areas around the Eastern Capital and Tiger Prison Pass."
The prince asked inexplicably, the three commanders were full of doubts, is there anything to do with being familiar with the terrain and attacking the gate of the Tiger Prison Guanxi, the two Zhongzhou generals glanced at each other,
General Li, who is the chief general of the local army in Zhongzhou, randomly hugged his fist,
"Back to Your Highness, the terrain of this piece is quite familiar to your subordinates",
Although he didn't know what the prince meant, General Li knew that how a little person like them with no background asked him, he just answered.
Don't give birth to right and wrong, if you don't say anything right, the anger of the prince is not something they can bear.
The prince bowed slightly, looked at the two of them at random, and continued,
"Tomorrow the army will launch a general attack on the Tiger Prison City, and the size of the 300,000 army, the resulting war readiness resources, the transportation of the wounded, and the need for logistical supplies are very huge."
The prince paused, and continued randomly,
"Since the two generals are well aware of the nearby terrain, then this important task will be handed over to the Zhongzhou army, you are responsible for the logistics of this campaign, and tomorrow's army will attack the city,
"A large number of siege equipment needs to be used, and the two generals are tired of transporting these siege equipment to a place 10 miles outside the east gate of the Tiger Prison Pass in advance."
The two Zhongzhou generals glanced at each other, and they didn't come to their senses for a while, is this to ask their tens of thousands of Zhongzhou troops to act as logistics and transportation soldiers for the southern Xinjiang army?
Before the two of them came back to their senses, Luo Yan's voice sounded again,
"Why, are the two of you bad ears or what, don't you understand what the prince meant, tomorrow morning my army will go to the Tiger Prison City, those siege weapons must be transported before the army arrives, the east city gate and the south city gate that General Wei Chi is responsible for are half each, do you understand?"
He looked at the two Zhongzhou generals and scolded in a deep voice, and it was difficult to hide the contempt in his words,
Luo Yu's words are all this, even if the two of them are stupid, they can understand that this is to squeeze them out of the discussion of this attack on the Tiger Prison, because people don't look down on you at all.
That's why I arranged for you an idle job that thousands of old and weak soldiers can complete, and took the opportunity to drive you out, and the two Zhongzhou generals didn't think so.
Anyway, this expedition to the Tiger Prison Pass itself is a thankless errand, and the credit for winning is all the Southern Xinjiang Army and the Royal Forest Army, and if they lose, they are the pawns and cannon fodder who rush to the front.
Moreover, they also know what level their army is, and if they want to go head-to-head with the invincible winner army, it is simply looking for death, not to mention that the winner army has kept one side peaceful all these years.
It is the local army of Zhongzhou that will benefit, once the winner army is gone, the next time the Xirong army attacks, the first one on top is not the local army.
But how could these armies that had not fought in eight years be the opponents of these tiger and wolf divisions, I really couldn't figure out why the good people of the court had to get along with the winning army.
These uncles from southern Xinjiang look down on them, and they don't want to work for the prince, so just transport it, it's the safest errand on the battlefield.
The two generals immediately hugged their fists at the prince and Luo Qi,
"If your subordinates obey orders, you will do it"
After that, he walked out of the main hall and went to organize people and horses to transport the equipment for tomorrow's siege
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