189 Siege
Li Chongshan could already see the tall walls of the weir city in the heavy snow.
Li Chongshan turned his head and said to Batusu, who had been following him closely: "Lin Jianyue is in this city, Marshal Ba, what do you think he is thinking?" Is it excitement, fear, or helplessness? I really want to meet Lin Jianyue, but I guess he shouldn't have the guts. ”
Batusu said respectfully: "Your Majesty, the Han people have a game called chess, I have seen Your Majesty and the Qin court envoy fight, and the ministers also like this game. There is a rule in it, that is, the king cannot see the king, otherwise the winner will be divided, and it will be over. Of course, comparing Lin Jianyue to a king is exalting him, how can he be compared with His Majesty? ”
Li Chongshan didn't care, and said: "I heard that Uncle Su Hedai and Lin Jianyue met on the battlefield, so how can they meet?" It can't be that Lin Jianyue has used some demon magic! So Uncle Su Hedai was defeated and died. ”
At that time, Lin Jianyue was still far from the title of king, and he could only be a general, and of course he could meet between the general and the general. Your Majesty, as long as everything goes well, it is here, at this moment, Your Majesty has the blessing of Immortal Heaven, and you will definitely be able to beat Lin Jianyue from the king to the general, maybe Lin Jianyue will surrender? Then congratulations to Your Majesty. ”
Li Chongshan laughed, feeling that it was very appropriate to let Batusu control the Central Plains in the future, his decision was very wise, and it was obvious that Batusu understood the Han people better than Hachi, and understood the culture of the Han people better.
Lin Jianyue in the city was neither excited nor afraid, but worried.
He was afraid that Sun Zhengyi would not fully understand what he meant, but would just use Pu Jinzhong's army as a bait and a victim, in that case, Sun Zhengyi's military power would be restricted in the future, such a person was very dangerous, Lin Jianyue was unwilling to do this, Sun Zhengyi was a talent, not an ordinary talent, the strategic army was slightly stronger than other leading generals, and it would be of great use to attack the north in the future, and it would be difficult for Lin Jianyue to find someone like Sun Zhengyi.
"Mr. Liu, with Sun Zhengyi's ability and the current favorable conditions, defeating Hahe's army is not too much of a problem, the key is that after defeating, should he come here to join forces to attack Li Chongshan or directly attack Kaifeng Mansion to the north to block Li Chongshan's retreat?"
"Your Highness, there are about 120,000 people under Sun Zhengyi's subordinates, after defeating Hahe, count it as 100,000, 40,000 cavalry plus 4 or 50,000 people from Zhou Qing's department, a total of less than 200,000 people, it is impossible to stop Li Chongshan, and it is very likely to cause heavy losses, I suggest that it is better to join Li Fei back and attack Li Chongshan together, so it is safer."
"I think I've been dragging Li Chongshan like this, he must be waiting for Li Fei's cavalry to come over, and he is also waiting for Long Jie's army to come over, so that the victory or defeat can be decided. Can't do what he wants, Li Fei and I are not ready to transfer back, there is no large enemy army on Jingdong Road to ignore it, directly let Sun Zhengyi and Li Fei join the army, sweep Kaifeng Mansion, if Li Chongshan dares to run, I will attack with the whole army, and fight with Li Chongshan with Sun Zhengyi in the field, even if there will be heavy losses, but Li Chongshan will be disabled, and there will be little resistance to attacking the north in the future, such an opportunity may not be there in the future. ”
Liu Bingyun shook his head and said: "I don't know why His Highness is in such a hurry, but now, there is no need to be in a hurry, let alone take such a big risk." Don't hide it from Your Highness, I originally wanted to defeat Hahe, and immediately threaten Pu Jinzhong with superior forces, and with Ren Xiong and other leading generals echoing, I will be able to solve all the unsubordinate ministers north of the Yangtze River and south of the Yellow River in one fell swoop, how much potential will we have at that time? Even if Jiangnan doesn't support it, we can complete the great cause of expelling the Tartars. Li Chongshan is shameless, if he wants to run, run! In the end, it will inevitably fail, not to mention that by that time, the Jin Ning Army and the Liu family will have solved the problem in Hedong, and in any way, we have reversed the situation and gained the upper hand. ”
Lin Jianyue sighed and said, "Mr. Liu, do you know how big the grassland is? That's really too big, how long will it take for us to train cavalry that can compete with Li Chongshan on the grassland? No matter how strong the steppes on the grassland, there is not much use. If Li Chongshan's core main force can be solved at one time in the Central Plains, even if he can train so much in the future, his combat power will inevitably decline seriously, and even if it is all cavalry duels at that time, he will have a chance of winning. ”
Lin Jianyue only explained why he did this, and did not explicitly oppose the action of relieving Pu Jinzhong of his military power, Liu Bingyun couldn't help but be overjoyed, and it would be easy to do now.
Liu Bingyun knew that once Sun Zhengyi's identity was clear, Jingdong Road was run out again, Li Chongshan was not easy to say, Batusu would definitely persuade Li Chongshan to immediately withdraw his troops back to Hebei, no matter how he chose, it was impossible to keep Li Chongshan.
Lin Jianyue dragged on for so long, and Sun Zhengyi's role was originally intended to be used on Li Chongshan, but in Liu Bingyun's opinion, it was better to use it on Pu Jinzhong.
There is no nonsense, Li Chongshan first surrounded the weir city, and immediately sent many small troops, dozens of up to hundreds of rangers out to burn, kill and loot, just wait for the infantry siege equipment to arrive and immediately start attacking the city, even trebuchets have it, it can be seen how fully prepared Li Chongshan is for this big battle, just wait for Lin Jianyue's troops and materials to be almost consumed, that is, the cavalry entered the city and slaughtered the city.
Wuyang County, more than 100 miles behind Yancheng, Ma Yan stood on the head of the city and saw at least four or five teams of hundreds of people roaring by, they couldn't come to fight the county seat, Ma Yan secretly sneered, this time in Wuyang, Xiping, the two closest to Yuncheng county seats, each village is not only farmers with no experience in the army, but from Caizhou, Xuzhou and other rear counties transferred many experienced defenders and inventory of knives and guns, joined the village organization of the people, as long as there is a leader, there is a command, the combat effectiveness is greatly improved, Organizing people from three or four villages, with the help of geography and terrain, and preparation in advance, can definitely deal a heavy blow to these Hu people.
Since he learned that Li Chongshan's first siege was Yancheng, Ma Yan immediately rushed from Caizhou to Wuyang County and Xiping County behind Yuncheng, and also asked Lin Jianyue for Chen Qu, who was very good at recruiting troops and leading troops to successfully lead people to burn grain in Kaifeng, he was in Wuyang, and Chen Qu was in Xiping.
Jingbei Road is so big, in such a short time, it is impossible to organize all the young and strong militia in the countryside, but there is a way to organize the area around Yancheng, Ma Yan thought, as long as Hu Qi just came out to give a head-on attack, it will inevitably make it converge, and then the range will be Yuncheng, Xuzhou, Chenzhou as the center of the slowly expand backwards, and eventually it will be difficult for Hu people to ride an inch, not a single grain grab, there will be heavy losses.
Mengzhai Town, north of Wuyang, has gathered five villages of young people, full of knives and guns, and even some armor, but most of them are homemade rattan armor, people are not in the town, but scattered in the large and small woods and ditches outside the town, along the main passage outside the town also dug a trap horse pit, paved with trees and soil, just waiting for Hu to enter the town to rob, then draw camouflage, let them not enter.
There are still organic people in the town who raise fires and smoke to make human noises, all the wells in the town are poisoned, there are definitely not a few grains, at most there are a few chickens in a conspicuous place, in order to reduce the vigilance of the Hu people, it can be seen that leading the young and strong people is also very experienced.
The Hu people came, there were hundreds of people, naturally they did not hesitate to kill into the town, there was no one and nothing, and the Hu people were not stupid, knowing that this was a trap, and when they were about to exit, the horse fell into the pit, and there was a panic, the surrounding houses were on fire, and what hunting arrows and javelins kept shooting outside the town, and the Hu people were also people, how long could they hold out in a panic? In just half a day, hundreds of people were wiped out, and of course the young and strong were also seriously killed and wounded, but the people who survived this short encounter were different, victory is victory, and they would bring their experience and courage to the wider villages and towns, no matter which direction, as long as it was not a brigade, these rangers would surely fall into siege.