Chapter 82 The old man talks about juvenile madness

Since the hidden worries in the rear, in Fu Youde's view, have been settled. He is naturally willing to play hard and fight for a slim chance.

After all, although Hebei is crisscrossed by rivers, it is a plain in the end, and it is not completely without opportunities. No matter when, whether you can or lose, whether you can or cannot, you only know after fighting. Cowardice before fighting will never be able to win a battle.

So, Fu Youde summoned the generals and divided the army into two parts. One besieged Anling Fort and dug a new river to let the canal go north bypassing Anling Fort, while Fu Youde led tens of thousands of foot riders, completely lightly armed. With only a month's worth of dry food, he marched north.

Even foot soldiers brought foot strength, pack horses, donkeys and mules, and so on. Of course, you can't go to the battlefield. But with the cavalry going north, there was no problem at all.

Moreover, Fu Youde didn't take any other roads, just went north along the canal.

Admittedly, the canal was jammed by Anlingpu. And not only Anling Fort, to the north of Anling Fort, dozens of miles away, Dongguang County, Botou Town and other places have castles. These three places are only thousands of soldiers and horses, but they are stuck in the north and south arteries.

It's just that Fu Youde's single-minded habit is simply risking his life. Put yourself in danger.

It must be known that Fu Youde is determined to be a rogue, and if we fight in the rear, then there is no problem at all in hitting the city of Tianjin.

This is Ye Shen's turn to decide.

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"Fight, must fight." Ye Shen said: "We must not let him make a detour to Tianjin, and more importantly, it is too demoralizing to let Fu Youde swagger past under our noses like this."

Ye Shen's headquarters was stationed in Hejian, but in fact, Ye Shen was stationed in Cangzhou. Without him, Hejian Fucheng is a little far from the canal.

Although it is said that the north-south traffic line of the Ming Dynasty is not only a canal. But neither one could be better than the canal. Even if the Ming army was on the Northern Expedition, it fought all the way along the canal.

Therefore, Ye Shen also guarded the canal with heavy troops.

As for the west, at the eastern foot of Taihang Mountain, there are naturally people guarding it, but it is not the point.

The line of defense conceived by He Xi and Ye Shen, Ye Shen thought of many ways. But after thinking about it, Ye Shen felt that the best way was to fight for it city by city. Even if you don't fight, it's good to besiege. At least let these castles lose their effect one by one before they go north.

But in this way, the northern army can wait for work and delay time.

In He Xi's view, every day it drags on, Beijing grows every day. When all the reforms were completed, the suppression of the national strength of the south was naturally formed, and the offensive was reversed by that time. And these castles, in He Xi's opinion, let the southern army gnaw on them, and they will gnaw for a year or two.

Ye Shen didn't think about it, the army gave up logistics and went deep alone.

But when he thought of this, Ye Shen felt that it was impossible. Because the army is not in the thousands, but tens of thousands, or even more. The dependence on logistics is too heavy, and fighting a war is time-consuming. When the two sides reach a stalemate, not to mention a stalemate of one or two years, it is a stalemate of one month, and Fu Youde can't stand it.

Ye Shen never thought that Fu Youde would really dare to do this?

Everything was as Ye Shen and He Xi had predicted in advance, but Ye Shen was not calm.

According to reason, Ye Shen only needs to send someone to follow and drag Fu Youde. Restricting Fu Youde's footsteps, it is impossible for Fu Youde to pass Tianjin. It is necessary to withdraw the troops. But Ye Shen, as a general, couldn't stand Fu Youde's bravado in front of him, let alone the change in the morale of the army.

What kind of person is Fu Youde? That powerful character, when Fu Youde was invincible on the battlefield, Ye Shen was not yet born. Fu Youde has qualifications and regards Ye Shen as nothing. And Ye Shen can accept it. It's just that what Ye Shen can't accept is that most of Ye Shen's subordinates accept it and take it for granted.

There is even a fear of war.

Ye Shen was very worried that this kind of psychology would be reflected on the battlefield.

Although the Northern Army has won several battles since the start of the army, on the whole, the results are not convincing. Today, most of the founding generals are in Nanjing, and most of them in Beijing are young people with shallow qualifications.

If not

If you break this secret letter and break the authority, then when the two sides fight a large-scale decisive battle in the future, this will be a problem.

Ye Shen seemed to have an accident at that time. It's better to fight now.

Now the advantage is mine, and I don't have to win. As long as he doesn't lose and fights with Fu Youde for a month, Fu Youde will inevitably withdraw from the army, after all, it is impossible for anyone's soldiers to drink the northwest wind.

broke Fu Youde, Ye Shen may not be without confidence.

But at this moment, there is no problem with Fu Youde for a while. After all, Ye Shen's firearms are equipped to the limit, and he is very familiar with the local area, and there is no shortage of logistics or something, but the opponent is different.

In this case, they dare not fight and seek stability. When will you dare to fight? After those veterans in Nanjing die of old age?

Tie Xuan said, "General Ye, you also know Beijing's orders. We're going to have to defend for a while. At this time, when you are fighting with Fu Youde, can you guarantee that nothing will go wrong?"

Ye Shen said: "On the battlefield, it is a joke to ask for anything foolproof, anything can happen on the battlefield, and it is impossible to ask for foolproof. It's just that this battle will be fought sooner or later, if you don't fight it today, even if Fu Youde is in vain, what will you do next time? What about next time?"

Tie Hyun said, "Next time?"

This Tie Hyun really didn't think about it.

Ye Shen said: "Fighting is always a breath, if you take a step back, the enemy will take a step back, if you go further, the enemy will take a step back, and now if you don't make a move against Fu Youde, you will show cowardice in the world. When the time comes, it will be a trivial matter for the morale of our army to be damaged. If my army cannot complete the defense of the enemy army to the north, then the south of Tianjin is likely to become a battlefield. For Nanjing, the land of these two or three prefectures is not important at all. But that's not the case for us. Although the land under the jurisdiction of Beijing is not small, but there are only Liaodong and Hebei, Hebei has lost a lot, and it has been lost here, how can it be maintained in the long run? As long as you give the Southern Army a blow to the head, they will know that they can't take a step beyond the thunder pool."

"In order to stabilize the battle line in the southern part of Kama Province."

Ye Shen said it loudly. Tie Xuan was silent for a while, and he really couldn't say anything to refute Ye Shen's words. Finally, he said, "This matter must be reported to Beijing."

Ye Shen said, "That's natural. However," Ye Shen said, "The fighter plane is fleeting, and it will not be subject to the foreign monarch's order. You can only cut it first and then play it."

At this moment, Ye Shen thought a lot in his heart. Finally, I remembered He Xi's face. I immediately made up my mind.

Ye Shen has followed He Xi for many years, whether he is pampered and arrogant, he doesn't know He Xi. knew that He Xi would definitely not hold him back. As long as you win, no, as long as you don't lose. He will be able to give an account to Beijing.

As for defeat? Ye Shen didn't think about it.

No, Ye Shen was so confident that he felt that he could beat Fu Youde, but Ye Shen felt that he was certainly inferior to Fu Youde, but Fu Youde was not an immortal, as long as he was conservative with his soldiers, he would always be able to delay time.

Ye Shen immediately made up his mind.

Immediately, Ye Shen gathered tens of thousands of horses in Beijing. The mighty swept out of Cangzhou City, because of the canal maneuver, and soon camped to the north of Fu Youde, blocking the way of Fu Youde's army, and blocking Fu Youde in the narrow strip east of the canal.

The Great War broke out.

And the news also reached Beijing.

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Ye Shen believed in any Xi, but Zhu Xiongying did not trust Ye Shen.

After the news reached Beijing, Zhu Xiongying did not summon He Xi at all, but went directly to He Xi's home.

And He Xi is enjoying a moment of peace at home.

During this period of time, He Xi's busyness came to an end.

The Cabinet has already been identified by more than a dozen departments under the Cabinet. Of course, it's still not stable enough. It may change at any time due to the government process. In other words, the cabinet of university members changes, changes and mergers.

After all, there are so many affairs in the world, and if you divide each other's positions and powers, it is also a science. Today, the entire Beijing system is constantly changing.

It's normal for departments to be divided and merged.

This is also Zhu Xiongying

For a while, there was another reason why I only cared about the military and didn't care about government affairs.

I don't understand.