When Zhu Gaoyuan led more than 700 horsemen to the vicinity of Changping, it was already dusk.

Not to mention the thieves along the way, not even a single homeless person was encountered, and they all went to Beijing to eat.

Thanks to the catchy slogans put forward by Li Yan, King Chuang is now so popular with the people.

Wang Jiayan couldn't help but say: "It seems that the thieves also think that we will definitely go south after the siege is broken, so they only send cavalry to the south to pursue, but ignore the north." ”

Kim Hyun said, "This is called a surprise." ”

Zhu Gaoyuan said: "Then give the thieves another attack on him." ”

"Huh?" Wang Jiayan's face couldn't help but change slightly when he heard this, and he was unprepared?

Jin Xuan also asked, "Holy Lord, do you mean to attack Changping Prefecture City?" ”

"Yes, Changping must be taken." Zhu Gaoyuan nodded and said, "We came out in a hurry, we didn't carry baggage, and we could only get supplies by conquering Changping, otherwise just eating would be a problem." ”

No matter what the scale of military operations, logistical supply is an insurmountable problem.

Without supplies, the army will not be able to move an inch, its combat effectiveness will not be guaranteed, and it will suffer defeat.

Throughout the ages, there are not many examples of real defeats in battle formations, and most of them are defeated in logistics, such as the battle of Guandu, which is famous in history, and the battle of Qin, Zhao and Changping.

Wang Jiayan said: "But Changping is an important town in the north of Ji, the gateway to Beijing, and the thieves must be heavily guarded." ”

Jin Xuan also said: "Saint, the minister also thinks that it is too risky to fight Changping, otherwise it is better to bypass it." ”

"Bypass?" Zhu Gaoyuan asked Kim Xuan rhetorically, "Do you want to bypass Changping to fight Juyong Pass?" It's also a good choice, because as long as you win the Juyong Pass, you can go straight to Xuanfu. ”

Hearing this, not only Wang Jiayan and Kim Xuan,

Even Meng Guangxiang, Wu Linzheng, and others, who didn't know soldiers, changed their faces.

This point of people beating the mediocrity? The Holy One can't be talking in his dreams, right?

"The Holy One laughed." Wang Jiayan's face turned pale and said, "It is definitely impossible to beat Juyong Pass." ”

"Juyong Pass can't be beaten?" Zhu Gaoyuan said, "Dare to ask Wang Aiqing, where should we fight?" ”

"It's not appropriate to fight anywhere, just a few hundred men and horses, and it is extremely risky to attack any fortified city." Wang Jiayan shook his head and said, "The minister thinks it's better to find a village nearby and raise some food from the people." ”

"Raising food from the people, is it robbing?" Zhu Gaoyuan said abruptly, "I heard that there is a proverb among the people, thieves are like combs, and soldiers are like shavings, which is said that when my Ming border army was suppressing thieves, it robbed the people more viciously than thieves from all walks of life, Wang Qing meant to let me learn from the border army, right?" ”

"This ......" Wang Jiayan was speechless.

Zhu Gaoyuan sighed and said: "Qing and the others all know that Gyeonggi has been invaded by Jiannu, and the villages in various prefectures and counties have long been empty, where can you still find people?" Where is the food? There is still food to be found in the prefecture and county, so we have to fight this Changping Prefecture City, and if we don't fight, we have to fight, and if we don't fight, we have to starve to death. ”

Wang Jiayan was speechless for a moment, because what Zhu Gaoyuan said was the truth.

Most of the villages along the way were abandoned, not to mention people, and wild dogs were nowhere to be seen.

It is really unimaginable that the capital of Gyeonggi is heavy, at the foot of the Son of Heaven, it has actually fallen to this extent!

Therefore, the cruel reality is that if they don't take Changping Prefecture, their monarchs and ministers will really have to go hungry.

It's nothing to be hungry for a meal or two, but if you're hungry for a few days, you'll die, and it's thousands of miles to go to Nanjing.

Zhu Gaoyuan comforted everyone again: "But you don't have to worry, there will be no thieves and heavy soldiers in Changping Prefecture, and I have already thought of a surprise attack strategy, which can easily capture Changping." ”

In fact, there is another sentence that Zhu Gaoyuan did not say.

That is, the garrison of Changping City at this time must be lax.

He also said to Wang Jiayan: "I have to worry Wang Qing about this matter." ”

"The Holy One is serious." Wang Jiayan said, "The minister is ashamed. ”

Zhu Gaoyuan called Wang Jiayan to him again and told him carefully.

……

Guo Qi was one of the commanders of the Dashun Army, responsible for guarding the city of Changpingzhou, with 500 soldiers under his command.

However, only a hundred of them are veterans from thieves, and the rest are soldiers from the Ming Guard, although they are also soldiers, but their combat effectiveness is a big difference with the thieves' pawns.

Compared with other thieves, Guo Qi is quite cautious.

Although there was news from the front that Beijing had been conquered and the 100 old soldiers under his command had also entered a state of carnival, Guo Qi was still inspecting the city defense.

When Guo Qi inspected the south gate, he found that there was a disturbance outside the door.

"What's going on?" Guo Qi asked, "Who dares to make trouble here?" ”

A hundred households replied: "The people who fled from Yongping Mansion want to go into the city to beg for food." ”

"Yongping Mansion fleeing?" Guo Qi frowned, then pointed to an obviously elderly man in the crowd outside the city gate and said, "Old man, come here." ”

The old man came over with a bow and shouted to the general.

This general shouted that Guo Qi's heart was secretly refreshed, and his attitude was much kinder.

"You fled from Yongping Mansion?" Guo Qi asked, "What happened to Yongping?" ”

"Don't mention it." The old man sighed lightly and said, "The Guan Ning army has entered the customs, and these dog officers and soldiers will rob the village when they see it, and they won't leave us a grain of grain. ”

"It's right to come and join the king." Guo Qi said with a smile, "Follow King Chuang to eat." ”

After speaking, he said to the guards behind him: "Jiang Baihu, let them in and eat." ”

Jiang Baihu hurriedly led people to move away from the rejection horse, and the old man and the fifty or so homeless people behind him entered the city with great gratitude, and came to the porridge field outside the state government under the guidance of the descendants.

Needless to say, this little old man is Wang Jiayan.

Wang Jiayan is dark and thin, and playing a refugee is his true colors.

There are also more than 50 homeless people behind him, who are also black and thin family members specially selected by Wang Jiayan.

After a full meal, it was dark, and Wang Jiayan and they found a dilapidated courtyard near the south gate where no one lived to settle down temporarily, and the thieves didn't bother with it.

……

Five kilometers southeast of Changping Prefecture, there is a sparse birch forest.

In the dead of night, a squirrel came out of a tree hole and was about to go down to the ground to feed, but just halfway down, he heard a low neighing of a horse, and he was so frightened that he hid back in the tree hole.

When I looked down again, I saw a cavalry ghostly emerging from the woods.

The first three horsemen were all wearing Xuanshan armor, wearing hoods, and their faces were covered with demon masks.

Zhu Gaoyuan pulled off his mask and said in a deep voice: "Horse bit, man bit, target Changping City, go!" ”

Gong Yonggu, Liu Wenbing, and more than 700 horsemen behind them put branches on their horses, and the soldiers themselves also had a bunch of withered grass in their mouths to ensure that they would not make a sound during the journey.

At night, only the horses' hooves trampled on the hard ground, making a dull tuk-tuk sound.

About an hour later, more than 700 horsemen quietly came to the outside of Changping City, Zhu Gaoyuan looked up, only to see that the South Gate Tower was pitch black, and everything was silent.

"Ready." Zhu Gaoyuan shouted in a deep voice.

More than 700 horsemen rushed out all kinds of weapons.

However, the arquebus was not lit for the time being, for fear of exposure.

A quarter of an hour later, three flames suddenly rose from the South Gate Tower.

"Holy Lord, look." Gong Yonggu roared excitedly, "Firelight! ”

The firelight was the signal that Wang Jiayan had agreed with Zhu Gaoyuan before leaving.

If he successfully enters the city and wins the gate at midnight, Wang Jiayan will raise three bonfires at the south gate, and Zhu Gaoyuan can rest assured that he will lead the army into the city.

"Excited." Zhu Gaoyuan said in a low voice, "Go and see if the city gate is open?" ”

Gong Yonggu stepped forward immediately, and after a moment turned back to say that the city gate had been opened.

Zhu Gaoyuan no longer hesitated, waved his hand and shouted: "Raise the torch and enter the city!" ”

Hundreds of torches were soon lit, and these torches gathered into a fire dragon and slaughtered into Changping City.

Wang Jiayan had been waiting in the city gate for a long time, and as soon as he saw Zhu Gaoyuan, he shouted: "Qisheng Sheng, there are only about 100 thieves, and they are stationed in the East Gate Tower and the Changping Prefecture Ya, and the grain and straw are also in the State Ya. ”

Zhu Gaoyuan immediately said: "The commander of the horse led two hundred horsemen to raid the east gate, and remember that there is no need to fight to the death, just drive it away!" The rest of the people went to the state government with me and killed! ”

Wang Jiayan led the way with a team of family members in front.

Soon, more than 500 horsemen were killed outside the state government.

At this time, some thieves were already awakened by the movement from the direction of the south gate, including Guo Qi.

Guo Qi took more than a dozen thieves and old soldiers to block the gate of the state government and shouted a fierce battle, Liu Wenbing, Zhang Qingzhen and Wei Shichun rushed three times with their respective families, but they failed to rush in.

The performance of these three nobles was really disappointing.

Jinyiwei commanded Tongzhi Wang Guoxing to be furious when he saw this, and led more than a dozen Jinyi guards to rush and kill, but he was cut off the horse by Guo Qi's backhand, and the Jinyi guards behind him were also scattered.

Zhu Gaoyuan couldn't help but be dumbfounded, the TV series was really deceitful.

This is also a fucking brocade guard? What about the praying mantis legs hornet waist? That's it?

Zhu Gaoyuan's heart couldn't help but feel a little anxious, Beijing, which was surrounded by hundreds of thousands of thieves, had escaped, and he wouldn't have a fight in the small place of Changping, right?

At this time, it is really fatal to fall and fight.

Just when Zhu Gaoyuan was hesitating in his heart whether to go into battle in person, he suddenly heard a swishing sound breaking the air in his ears.

Immediately, a miserable scream sounded at the gate of the state government, and when I looked closely, I saw that the thief who was still majestic just now had already covered his throat and fell on the bluestone steps.

Between the fingers of the thief, a piece of goose feather was exposed.

"Good archery!" Zhu Gaoyuan praised, "Who is it?" ”

"Little carving insect trick, what a way." A civil official appeared beside Zhu Gaoyuan, and then fired three arrows in succession, shooting the three thieves to the ground.

The few remaining rogues finally collapsed.