"Mr. Huang, General Zhu, you played well, and you are worthy of the fact that the official has always been optimistic about you. Zhennai, and the snow turned over the camp overnight, the divine flag froze the horse silently, looking at the fire company camp from afar, knowing that the pioneer had gone to the city. ”

About half an hour later, the sky gradually brightened, and Shen Shuren personally rushed to Chen County with Jin Shenghuan and other generals, and saw that the city had been captured. Several of the thieves have been ambushed, and the rest should be punished, and those who should be taken to serve hard labor.

Those who are coerced are released directly, or if they have nowhere to go, they take away migrants and go to the south.

The situation is so good, of course, Shen Shuren can't help but praise and praise, saying that he will definitely give the two of them truthful credit.

Huang Degong is also quite useful, and they blow to each other in business: "It's still an adult who has a proper plan and a bold decision-making, and the last general is just carrying out orders, how dare he take the first place - and the adult is really doing a good job, worthy of being born in the two lists, and having a good reputation in the world!" But it didn't snow last night, so did the adults want to set off the harshness of the fighting environment? ”

Shen Shuren smiled slightly: "This is not a poem written by me, this is the story of the Tang Dynasty people writing about Li Yuxue's night attack on Caizhou and the capture of Wu Yuanji, the town of Huaixi Domain." However, this situation is very similar to the battle of Huang Zongzhen Chacai.

In the Tang Dynasty, the county was abolished and changed to the state, and the Sui Runan County was changed to Caizhou, and the Shangcai and Ruyang that we guarded belonged to the boundary of Caizhou at that time. ”

When Huang Degong heard this, he scratched his head embarrassedly, it turned out that he had no culture and made a fuss, and secretly thought in his heart: In the future, don't praise adults for writing poems, even if you want to praise, we won't be the first birds, and wait for other literate colleagues to like it first, and then we will follow suit.

After saying the scene, Shen Shuren immediately began to ask about the details of the battle: "This Chen County has been restored, how many thieves have been annihilated?" What are the losses of our army? ”

Huang Degong patted his chest proudly and greeted: "We are a surprise attack, but after killing more than 1,000 people, the whole city will be stabilized, and the rest will fall, our army will have less than 100 casualties, and most of them are minor injuries, or internal injuries and fractures from falling from a horse."

With only more than 30 people killed in the war, it is really unimaginable that they can take a city. There were four or five thousand prisoners, and one or two thousand escaped, and they didn't bother to chase them. ”

Shen Shuren nodded, touching his beard that had grown for a short time: "I am very satisfied with this casualty, and killing and capturing the enemy can be called a complete victory." However, the siege battle was still suddenly escaped by so many people, and it was a little difficult to do. ”

Huang Degong was stunned, he didn't expect Lord Futai to be so easy to talk in front of him, and when it came to the number of fleeing enemies, he actually changed his normal state and became extremely harsh, and he couldn't help but be incomprehensible.

Huang Degong said pertinently: "My lord, this is also no way, don't look at the siege war, it seems that the enemy can only escape from the city gate, but we are a surprise attack, only one city gate is swindled, and after the chaos in the city, the other three gates are still controlled by the thief army."

In this case, they know that they are invincible, and they will definitely open the door and flee, which cannot be stopped. If the four gates are set up in advance, then the wind will leak out, and there will be no sneak attack, which will also cause the defenders to jump over the wall and fight to the death. ”

Shen Shuren waved his hand, signaling the other party to calm down: "I don't blame you, and I don't regret that I didn't capture this prisoner." The number of captives doesn't matter, are you still afraid that there will be no one in these years? I was worried that there would be too many deserters, and the movements of our army would be exposed too quickly, so I would recruit Li Zicheng's army earlier.

Now that the men and horses from Ruyang will still be here in a day or two, the reinforcements and grain convoys agreed by the Yingchuan waterway will be slower, after all, it is impossible to maintain communication in real time, and the chance of delay will only be greater. We are alone in the surprise attack, and the longer we keep it secret after we succeed, the better prepared we will be for the future.

In addition, the advantage of secrecy can be attacked and defended, and defending can give us more time to gather troops, and if we attack, it is also possible to take advantage of the fact that the other thieves do not know that our army dares to take the initiative to attack deeply, and annihilate the lone thief troops around them-

Now, because there are too many thieves who have escaped, it is impossible to keep it secret for too long, so the advantage of guarding the time difference can no longer continue to expand. Li Zicheng of Yuncheng will definitely know that Chen County has lost within a day, and as long as he is fast, he can definitely bring the main force to come one day at most.

We can only think about how to take advantage of this information gap and use our brains in continuing to attack and expand the results of the battle, I am only cautious in my life, and it is rare to take a risk, of course, I must eat and wipe out this suddenness, and squeeze out all the value. ”

When Huang Degong heard this, he was impressed, even Zhu Wenzhen next to him, Lord Futai was really far-sighted, he took one step and looked at three steps, he had just won Chen County, and he was already thinking about how to take advantage of the time difference in this information to maximize benefits and take more advantages.

And they didn't think about it in this direction at all, and they couldn't come up with an idea for a while, so they had to be taught directly and humbly: "I don't know what adults think, where else can they take advantage of at the moment?" I never thought about it, just now I was only thinking about how to take Chen Xianxian. ”

Shen Shuren thought about it, and said after consideration: "There is not much hope, I can only say that there are dates and no dates to try it, if you really can't catch the emptiness and flaws, you can just accept it when you see it-

Didn't we pretend to be Yuan Zongdi, who went to Guide Mansion to raise grain, and opened the gate of this Chen County by fraud? Then simply don't do it again, and if the cavalry brothers have the strength to spare, continue to expand the results to the east as soon as possible today.

disguised as Li Jiyu's defeated soldiers on the side of Chen County, saying that the official army suddenly went east and fought a field battle with the Chuang army between Chen and Cai, and Li Jiyu's troops bore the brunt of the defeat and some remnants fled eastward to find General Yuan to meet.

If there is really Yuan Zongdi's person, he will be immediately involved, and if he can steal the county seat, he will steal the county seat, and if he can't steal the county seat, then it is better to kill some people in the field and defeat a little miscellaneous army. We will only have one day at most to expand the victory, and we must come back tonight or tomorrow morning, and the soldiers have not slept and their bodies cannot bear it.

It is nothing more than to take advantage of this time to weaken the wings of the invading army a little more, and once Li Zicheng moves over to find us for a decisive battle, it is also possible to weaken his forces a little more before the decisive battle. ”

When Huang Degong and Zhu Wenzhen heard this, they glanced at each other, and they both saw the eagerness and eagerness in each other's eyes, and gritted their teeth and asked for help:

"Then please give the order to Lord Futai! The brothers had been out of the day for a few days, and it was rare for them to go without sleep for a day and a night, so they fought for another day, and they could expand as many results as they could. Get a good night's sleep and turn back the day and night. ”

Huang Degong said it very easily, as casually as if he was talking about "jet lag".

Shen Shuren was not in a hurry, but nodded: "People can hold on, but the horsepower is lacking, don't be in a hurry, just accept it when you see it, the art of war is a hundred miles and those who seek profit can be pouted by the general, we are already rushing to attack a hundred miles of surprise attacks, and if we continue to fight, it will be two hundred miles a day and a night." ”

Huang Degong patted his chest: "It's okay!" Although our Lao Huang doesn't study, he has also heard people say that three points, Cao Cao chased Liu Bei in Changbanpo, rode three hundred miles in one day and one night, chased from Xiangyang to Dangyang, didn't he also beat Liu Bei to defeat?

We can hold on to two hundred miles a day and a night! It's a big deal that all the soldiers have unloaded their armor and only brought weapons and firearms! Only two days' rations! ”

Huang Degong didn't even think about it, so he chose the method of "light riding" to save horsepower and grab time, as for not wearing iron armor, it is not a big deal, anyway, he is going to fight a sports war, steal a vote, steal as much as he wants, and he doesn't plan to fight a tough battle.

Shen Shuren explained a few more words, and then instructed Huang Degong and Zhu Wenzhen to be careful, he took the main force of infantry to garrison Chen County, restore order, strengthen the city defense, and prepare to guard against a possible counterattack of the invading army in a day or two.

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The words were divided into two ends, while Shen Shuren attacked Chen County, Li Zicheng was still in Yuncheng City, depressed and drinking.

Yuncheng is far away from Chen County, slightly farther away from Chen County than Shangcai, and these three places are distributed in an inverted zigzag. Yuncheng is in the northwest, Chen County is in the northeast, Shangcai is in the middle of the south, and between Yuncheng and Chen County, there is the ancient canal waterway of the Capture Canal to communicate Ruying.

Therefore, so far, Li Zicheng has been depressed in the past few days, and the question is not "how to fight with Shen Shuren" at all.

On the contrary, he was worried that Shen Shuren was like a turtle, and he couldn't hold out in Shangcai County. And Shen Shuren's ability to defend the city seems to be far above Chen Yongfu, the chief soldier of Kaifeng, which really makes Li Zicheng lose his appetite.

This is the recent incident that Li Zicheng himself has returned to Yuncheng from the army camp outside Shangcai City, he really doesn't want to drink wind and rain outside Shangcai City anymore, the key is that there is no benefit from being drenched, and he will only be angry in vain.

However, the daily military discussion must continue, otherwise the people's hearts will not be easy to bring.

Early that morning, after inquiring about the military situation as usual, Li Zicheng looked listless again, so he dismissed the generals and let them each go to work on their own military affairs.

The military advisor Song Xiance was good at observing words and feelings, so he stayed. In the past few days, he has also figured out what King Chuang is worried about.

And Song Xiance wants to maintain his position, and he can't be lax in making suggestions, so he is also worried about his ministers day and night, and his hair has been boiled out a lot, and he finally came up with an idea last night, regardless of whether it works or not, he came to Li Zicheng to report.

Li Zicheng saw that Song Xiance was left alone, and he was used to it, and knew that this was a military advisor and some ghost idea came out, so Corporal Lixian personally poured a big bowl of wine for Song Xiance: "Did the military advisor teach me?" ”

Song Xiance took it carefully, took a symbolic sip, and didn't dare to complain that the king was vulgar and actually served wine without tea when talking about military aircraft.

After drinking, he put down the wine bowl, and then said: "King, let the students guess what you are worried about, could it be that you are worried about the Shen Shuren guarding Shangcai and Ruyang, and consuming food with our army?" ”

Li Zicheng was also impatient: "Everyone can see this, do you still use nonsense?" Speaking of the point, is there a way to solve it? ”

Song Xiance was robbed of white, and he was a little embarrassed, but he also knew that the king was in a bad mood, and he didn't sell the guanzi by himself, not only did he not win extra respect, but he was disliked.

He also hurriedly changed his words with a smile: "It's because the students are not happy enough, we did think of a clever plan last night." ”

Li Zicheng: "Say it quickly!" ”

Song Xiance: "Isn't our army already running out of food, so we will redivide some of our troops and disperse part of it, and go to Guide Mansion to get food." Although Yuan Zongdi and the others did not have too many soldiers and horses, they were also lightly armed and did not carry siege weapons, and it was impossible to break through Shangqiu County in a short time.

But after all, our army is fierce, and it is impossible for the officers and troops to know that our army will not attack the city indiscriminately, as long as the wind is released to scare the officials and soldiers, it can definitely make the government believe that our army will transfer the target, take the entire territory of Guide as soon as possible, and even attack Bozhou and Xuzhou again. ”

Li Zicheng listened, but he was silent, as of this step, he had not heard the slightest cleverness in Song Xiance's strategy.

Isn't that the end of more than ten years of "where there is food, where it flows", but if it really flows too far, the troops are scattered, and the Shenshu people really go north to seek a decisive battle, won't it give the Shenshu people a chance to break through at that time?

Thinking of this, Li Zicheng couldn't help but say angrily: "What's so clever about this? Now Shen Shuren does not dare to fight, because our army is heavily gathered, even if a part is divided, the number of troops left here is still several times his, at least five times more.

But if it really flows too widely, and the leaders and tails of the departments can't care about each other, Shen Shuren may change his previous timidity...... Hey, what the military advisor meant, is it that we want to pretend to divide more troops out and conquer the city, but in fact we don't divide too much? Just to deceive the Shenshu people? ”

Song Xiance smiled proudly, sure enough, the king's brain is still not as good as him, if it is so easy to see through, how can he become a military advisor in the future?

However, the king's face still has to be given, so Song Xiance touted it first without any psychological burden: "The king is really high-minded, the students and the king are slightly the same, but there are more improvements in the details."

You think, my lord, it is impossible to hide the ears and eyes of the people by waiting for idle and false troop deployment to spread the news. Especially these days after the scout war, the students have observed that the officer cavalry has a very sensitive short-barreled firebolt,

It is very convenient to use on horseback, it is not as large and bulky as the three-eyed gun, and it can no longer be loaded on horseback.

With such a sharp weapon, the officers and soldiers have always had an advantage in scouting and killing, and if the movements of our army are fake, how can they deceive people? Therefore, if you want to mobilize Shen Shuren, you must really transfer troops, and you don't need to have too many soldiers, but you must think of a proper excuse. ”

When Song Xiance said this, Li Zicheng could be regarded as having completely regained confidence in this military advisor who had not performed well recently, and couldn't help but look forward to asking: "What excuse?" ”

Song Xiance took a deep breath and enjoyed the feeling of being consulted again, so he took the time to report the answer: "Do you still remember that two months ago, when our army was short of food last time, it moved north to cross the Yellow River and plundered Huaiqing and Weihui?"

At that time, the main thing was to hunt down and kill King Heifu, as well as King Lu and others who he took refuge in. But when Weihui City was broken, I learned that these guys were already frightened birds, and they ran away incognito.

Now, at least a month and a half have passed, more than 50 days. Even if it takes more than ten days to travel on the road, you should have heard that King Fu of Lu had fled somewhere.

But now I don't know that King Lu has gone to the capital, or to Nanjing, and I haven't even heard of any news from Fengyang, the central capital. Therefore, most of them did not run away, at least they did not dare to go to Sandu. It is estimated that he felt that the soldiers were in chaos and it was not safe to go far away, so after escaping from Wei Hui, he found a nearby place to hide his name and avoid the limelight.

Our army can completely let out the rumors, and say that in Shangqiu County, Guide Prefecture, the traces of King Fu of Lu have been discovered, so the king personally ordered Yuan Zongdi to send reinforcements, in order to kill two more vassal kings who are closest to Chongzhen's blood under the nose of Shen Shuren!

If this is true, think about it, the king thought about it, the defeat of Henan and the killing of the vassal king can be said to have nothing to do with the Shen Shu people, but now the Shen Shu people are close to Shangcai, and they have been with us for half a month. A vassal king was killed at most two or three hundred miles away from him, but he sat back and watched the success or failure, and Chongzhen had to cut off his head? ”

Li Zicheng was overjoyed when he heard this, and after thinking about it carefully, he was a little stiff: "But, how did the military advisor know that King Fu of Lu had fled to Shangqiu?" ”

Song Xiance had an expression of hatred that iron could not become steel, but fortunately he immediately stopped it and patiently explained: "King, think about it again, we don't need King Lu Fu to really be in Shangqiu, as long as King Lu and King Fu don't show up, no one can prove where they are, then the news we let out is true!"

Could it be that King Lu and King Fu still dare to jump out and make a public appearance, saying that we are not right? Isn't that the door to take the initiative to find death and seduce us to destroy them! And this kind of thing, as long as no one shows up to refute and prove that it is fake, Shen Shuren will not dare not believe it! ”

Li Zicheng's IQ is not low, he just didn't react just now, and after sorting out his thoughts again, it really dawned on: This kind of thing, proof is always more difficult than falsification, and the parties dare not come out to falsify, so they can only believe it or not.

"What a clever plan! Pass me on the order! Just do it! Be sure to seduce Shen Shuren to leave Shangcai County within a few days, and take the initiative to go to Guide, so that you can be forced to fight in the field by our army! Look how he still shrunk in the turtle shell of Shangcai City! ”

Li Zicheng was overjoyed.