Li Zicheng decided to use Song Xiance's time to lure the enemy into the battle, and it had been two hours since Chen County was attacked and fell.

It's just that the two places are separated by more than 100 miles, so the news can't be transmitted at all in two hours, and Li Zicheng's order is fully implemented.

Anyway, it's just some operations in the field of intelligence scouts, plus some rumors and deceptions, and it doesn't take much manpower and resources, as long as Song Xiance is authorized, he can arrange it all in half a day.

And taking a step back, this is originally an idle move, even if it doesn't succeed, or if it is too much, it is a waste of resources, and Li Zicheng will not have any other losses.

So, in the evening of the same day, the scouts of the Chuang army who were sent out to spread rumors all left Yuncheng in a hurry. A few more hours later, about the second half of the night, a few Li Ji who escaped from Chen County encountered the remnants of the cavalry, and rushed to Yuncheng to report the news.

After all, Li Jiyu's subordinates suffered a sudden defeat and fled on their own, and they were not told by Li Jiyu before leaving the city that they must report to King Chuang.

And these people are not professional scouts, and the direct allegiance is only a little thief like Li Jiyu, and they are not too worried about the loss of King Chuang, under the blessing of various factors, their response to the report is relatively slow, and it is almost in the afternoon of the same day that they remember to go to Yuncheng to report the emergency, to see if they can exchange some hard work and reward, and with the blessing of various factors, they arrived so late.

And the guards on the side of Yuncheng didn't dare to believe it at first, and they didn't dare to open the city gate in the second half of the night, so they could only use hanging baskets to hang people up for questioning, repeatedly confirming and delaying for a while, watching that the sky was about to dawn, and dragged it until Mao, and then took people to find Song Xiance first.

Then Song Xiance took the messenger to the former Yuncheng County where Li Zicheng stayed to report to the government. They didn't dare to disturb Li Zicheng's rest too much, anyway, everyone knew that this kind of military situation was not worse than this hour and a half.

When Li Zicheng slept until Mao, his heart was not steady, and when he heard some movement outside, he woke up vigilantly, and was about to get angry, when his henchmen and guards immediately took the opportunity to go in and spread the word, leading Song Xiance and others to enter, and explain the cause and effect.

Song Xiance had already realized at this time that his plan yesterday was too much, so before entering the door, he brewed a tone and expression that was very suitable for diverting attention:

"King! Chen County Military Intelligence! The official army suddenly attacked Chen County, and the city had been lost yesterday morning, and Li Jiyu's life and death were unknown, and most of his troops should have been annihilated. ”

Li Zicheng just woke up, his blood pressure was unstable and he was dizzy, Rao was strong and strong, and he was stable for a while before standing up straight, and his eyes were wide with anger for a while:

"What? Chen County was lost like this? Li Jiyu's wine bag and rice bag are really the foundation of the bandits, and the muddy lake is not on the wall! How could he be wary of being stolen by the officials and soldiers for such laxity? Is it the soldiers and horses of the Sinking Dog Officer? Why didn't our scouts find out! How did Officer Shen Dog deceive us on the march! ”

Song Xiance was also very helpless, and he didn't dare to fabricate it, so he had to pick out the part of the explanation he had just asked clearly: "Now I don't know if the Shen Dog Officer has personally dispatched, or it may be that other officials and soldiers under his command have taken risks alone." Li Jiyu reported back from the defeat of the army, saying that among the enemy generals was the banner of Huang Degong. ”

Li Zicheng calmed down and woke up, then he touched his beard and said to himself: "Huang Chuangzi?" If it were him, he would probably have done such a thing. This thief is not afraid of death, and this king is very jealous.

In this way, the officers and troops of Chen County may not be outnumbered, and may even be just a sneak attack? Song Junshi, what do you think, should you do your best to fight Yuncheng and immediately besiege and rescue Chen County? ”

Because Song Xiance knew the news in advance, he had already thought of countermeasures before entering the door, so he answered this question without hesitation:

"King! The students thought that it was not appropriate for the whole army to press on it for the time being, because the enemy situation was now unclear, and they did not know how many officers and soldiers there were in Chen County.

Second, Chen County is not a top-level battleground, but a county town that is still on the front line, although it also controls two land and water routes. However, our army had analyzed it before, and it was not worried that the Shenshu people would attack Chen County, because the western end of the capture canal had to pass through Yuncheng.

Huang Degong went to Chen County, this is to give up the advantage of waterways, relying only on two legs, at most relying on cavalry to march alone, there is no food road - of course, that is only our original estimate, now that he dares to do the opposite, the students have to wonder if they are better prepared.

But even so, a better preparation is nothing more than relying on two grain routes, the second of which is the road from Huainan Shou County to Chen County via Yingchuan.

This student had not advised the king to be vigilant before, but he had only read the officialdom information from the government: Ma Shiying, the prefect of Fengyang, especially his henchman Ruan Dacheng, had a grudge against the Shen Shu people, and had heard many times before that they had made a stumbling block for the Shen Shu people, and they would definitely not cooperate with the raising of food and ships.

And the grain road from Xinyang down the river to Shouxian and then into Yingchuan, adding up to a total of thousands of miles of detours, this loss and waste of sinking trees may not be able to afford.

Even if we can afford it, with the temperament of a mediocre dog emperor like Chongzhen, who likes to reuse speech officials, there will definitely be a bunch of dog speech officials to help us impeach Shen Dog officials for spending state funds and taking the opportunity to embezzle and enrich their own pockets.

And so far, our eyes and ears in the court have not found out that there is a Yanguan who impeached Shen Shuren like this, which means that he really did not blackmail the officials along the way and force them to provide people, boats, and food to cooperate in the war......"

Li Ziwei was in a bad mood, and he was still a little angry when he got up, listening to Song Xiance's cowardly tone, it was like he didn't want to take responsibility for his remarks, and he was also a little annoyed, seeing that he was still talking nonsense, he directly interrupted rudely:

"What so much nonsense! You just say that we shouldn't press the whole army to Chen County, and it's over! ”

Song Xiance was robbed, and he was also speechless for a while.

He didn't deliberately want to be ambiguous, but this person was born as a fortune teller, and which fortune teller didn't say enough to leave room for himself to make up for it in the future?

But at this moment, he was in a hurry, and he had to take a risk, and said a few words of accurate faith: "The student does not recommend that the king be pressed by the whole army!" Since there is no official in the DPRK to impeach Shen Shuren for harassing the place and looting and embezzling Fengyang, most of the Shen Dog officials are putting on a posture of attacking Chen County, and even really take it, to pretend that he has prepared a second grain route!

If the whole army is pressed and the Yuncheng side is empty, once there is a loss, it will really open up the grain road for the Shengou officer! Yuncheng has heavy troops to ensure that Chen County will be like a withered vine and a lonely fruit behind the enemy, and it will be difficult to revitalize!

Of course, Chen County can't help it, whether there is a chance to force the enemy to fight in the field, or there is a chance to force the enemy to divide his troops and be surrounded by reinforcements, no matter which of these two situations, our army cannot give up!

Therefore, about two-thirds of the troops should be divided to ensure that the remaining guards on the Yuncheng side are absolutely more than enough to protect themselves. If you still don't think it's enough, you can go to Ye County to withdraw people, and don't think about robbing Zuo Liangyu's side. ”

Song Xiance's final idea was to divide the troops, and he was not worried that he would not be able to concentrate his forces and would be defeated by the Shen Shuren.

Because the overall size advantage of the army is still very obvious, in comparison, it is easy for Shen Shuren to be broken by each after dividing his troops, at least Song Xiance thinks so.

Li Zicheng himself knows this in his heart, he just wants to find out the reality of the official army, which side is the main force and which side is the sheep movement, since Song Xiance helped him judge, he will decisively implement it.

The two of them made a rough inventory again, first divided 100,000 troops, and then went to Chen County in turn to rescue, and if the opportunity was not good, they would besiege the city, and if the opportunity was good, they could even seek a decisive battle with the main force of the official army.

In addition to 100,000 people, the remaining Yuncheng garrison continued to stay and defend the city, ensuring that the waterway and grain route from Shangcai to Chen County were continuously cut off, and then wait and see if there was any emptiness on Shangcai's side.

Song Xiance also drew a gourd in the same way as Guo Tu in history after hearing that Cao Cao intercepted Wuchao and advised Yuan Shao that "Guandu must be empty, and you can take the opportunity to send Zhang He Gaolan to attack the Guandu camp", and also drew a gourd to persuade Li Zicheng to consider dividing his troops to carry out another tentative attack on Shangcai County.

The reason, of course, is exactly the same as Guo Tu's persuasion of Yuan Shao in history: Shen Shuren divided his troops and went to Chen County, no matter how many people went, Shangcai would be a lot empty. If Shen Shuren takes the risk of neglecting to guard his family, Shang Cai can take it directly, and then he will make money!

Li Zicheng felt that there was a certain amount of truth, so he adopted it as an idle move. The only difference is that he doesn't have much expectation for this step, unlike Yuan Shao, who almost pressed all the treasures on Zhang He Gaolan.

Speaking of conscience, Song Xiance finally came up with such a strategy, and he is definitely not mentally retarded. After all, he is a storyteller, and he can do better than a professional strategist like Guo Tu, which is already worthy of praise.

In addition, Song Xiance relies too much on intelligence and likes to analyze the details of intelligence, which is also an occupational disease and path dependence that he has cultivated for many years to tell fortunes.

Fortune tellers survive by paying attention to details and trying to grasp as many clues as possible.

As for the strategic IQ other than intelligence gathering, Song Xiance can only be said to be slightly stronger than ordinary civil officials, but it is by no means first-class in the world.

Such a person, staring at the money and food information and impeachment evidence sent by the eyes of the DPRK every day, judged it, but met Shen Shuren, a strange person who "sticks money and becomes an official for the sake of the Ming Dynasty".

From beginning to end, he did not let the local government cooperate with a grain of grain, a people's husband, or a grain ship, nor did he force Ma Shiying to cooperate with him.

Such a selfless and good official, even if Song Xiance can send money to pull people into the water and infiltrate Chongzhen's court into a sieve, there will still be miscalculations in intelligence.

And other good officials of the Ming Dynasty can't do this, but Shen Shuren is the only one who can do this, to put it bluntly, it's nothing, it's nothing more than a money word.

The Shen family who stepped on the horse was too much to have the money to step on the horse.

Therefore, the Sunken Tree Man can pay out of his own pocket to pay for the sailors' ships and solve the combat expenses of a large army, without knowing it.

Song Xiance's misjudgment and deception at this point was, in the final analysis, poverty limiting his imagination.

……

After Li Zicheng's decision-making here, his action power was also very sufficient, and Li Zicheng left the stall of Yuncheng and Shangcai directly to his subordinate general and nominal brother-in-law Gao Yigong to take care of. (Gao Yigong is the younger brother of Li Zicheng's original wife Xing Shi after he ran away, and nominally found his new wife Gao)

Then he himself took Liu Fangliang, Tian Jianxiu and an army of 100,000 people, and immediately divided into three teams and marched in echelons to Chen County.

He arranged it this way, also considering that Liu Fangliang and Tian Jianxiu had suffered losses when they attacked Shangcai City before, and it was easy to lose momentum if they stayed here to fight the line.

Yuan Zongdi opposed the storming of Shangcai at the beginning and did not deal with Song Xiance, but after the siege failed, he was sent out to get food and was not in Yuncheng.

Several top generals are not there, and Li Zicheng can only be nepotistic.

Before leaving, he repeatedly told Gao Yigong a few words, so that he didn't have to be reluctant, be cautious, try it on Shang Cai's side, confirm whether it is empty, forget it if you can't take it, and reduce casualties as the first priority.

Although Gao Yigong was still young and vigorous, he also listened to persuasion, and responded to his brother-in-law's instructions one by one, and then Li Zicheng went on the road.

As soon as Li Zicheng left, Gao Yigong also began to count the men, check the remaining siege equipment, and other preparations, and spent two days returning to Shangcai City and organizing a tentative attack.

There is no longer a descendant army of Shen Shuren in Shangcai City, and there is no Huang Degong's people. Even Ruyang County, behind Shangcai County, no longer has Zuo Zixiong.

When Gao Yigong arrived, Shangcai County had been completely taken over by Liu Guoneng's army in Xinyang Prefecture, and Liu Guoneng himself had been entrusted by Shen Shuren two days ago to personally rush to Shangcai to set up defenses.

Shen Shuren's arrangement is also due to the fact that Liu Guoneng has been guarding Xinyang Mansion for three years, and he has a good foundation in the local area, so if he guards his base, his combat effectiveness will naturally be bonus, and he does not have to worry about the stability of the soldiers' morale.

Most of these soldiers were Liu Guoneng who wandered to the local area and was newly expanded after being ordered by the imperial court, and they were all native to their hometowns.

was preached by Liu Guoneng again, and the thieves were coming to slaughter, steal food, and eat people, and the soldiers naturally had high morale and wanted to keep their hometown from being slaughtered.

Liu Guoneng carried the line, Huang Degong and Zuo Zixiong attacked, and Shen Shuren's arrangement could not be more perfect.

Before Gao Yigong started to attack, he also let people shout and scold the formation, insult Shen Shuren, and let Shen Shuren come out to answer, this trick was obviously taught to him by Song Xiance before Li Zicheng left.

However, the official army obviously did not intend to conceal this information, and after Gao Yigong scolded the formation, Liu Guoneng immediately appeared in person and led a group of scolding fighters to the city.

"A high grade? What kind of waste are you, but you gave your sister to a eunuch as a wife in exchange for wealth, people like you are worse than the godson of a dog eunuch, Li Zicheng actually let you lead the troops, that is because the soldiers under him live too long. ”

"Dog mongrel, you dare to insult Shen Futai? But you save it, Shen Futai is not here, and it is impossible for Shen Futai to hear a word if you scold to death. Now in Shangcai City, your grandfather and I Liu Guo can have the final say!

Ahh ”

After all, Gao Yigong is still young and vigorous, and he was insulted by Liu Guoneng like this, and he also scolded Li Zicheng's ancestors for eighteen generations, and arrogantly exposed that Shen Shuren was indeed not there, and you had already been tricked.

He finally couldn't hold back the fire, and immediately ordered the whole army to attack Shangcai at any cost.

In Shangcai City, it is indeed missing the dozens of sharp and flexible Franco cannons that were sharp and flexible when defending the city, and the side-firing firepower of the root of the fortress wall has been weakened by at least half.

However, the Fallen Tree Man left all the Hongyi cannons behind, and although the reloading speed of this thing was many times slower, it was absolutely powerful.

In addition, Gao Yigong was angry, and felt that there seemed to be hope, and he could get this credit by jumping hard, so he couldn't eat or vomit, and was consumed for several days, and finally completely recognized the situation, and directly killed thousands of people, paid more light and serious injuries and sick, and returned home.

This level is many times more rubbish than Zhang He's Gaolan Daguandu, and the only thing that is fortunate for the Chuang army is that Yuncheng was not recaptured by Liu Guoneng in reverse.

However, it is inevitable that the tens of thousands of defenders in Yuncheng will lose one or two thousand living forces and will no longer be able to support other battlefields in a short period of time.

Shangcai County, which had been under the strategy of the Shen Shuren before, was like a magnet, sucking the army to bleed, and successfully released it twice.

Now it is another wave of tactics to lure the enemy, repeatedly, three and four, weakened by the hand of a high merit, and it can only be said that the army has reached the blood mold of eight lifetimes.

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