Chapter 114: Du Chongwei's Plans
After the failure of this sneak attack, Yang Guangyuan seemed to have lost confidence in capturing Zhenzhou City, and just guarded the camp at the south gate, released a large number of rangers, and monitored the movements of the other three city gates, and seemed to have made up his mind to trap Du Chongwei in Zhenzhou City. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
In order to make up for the lack of troops, Yang Guangyuan sent most of the newly surrendered troops to defend the surrounding towns, and gathered the 10,000 elite soldiers who were originally scattered around to the city of Zhenzhou.
In this way, the number of soldiers and horses that could be mobilized in Yang Guangyuan's hands was reduced to 32,000, of which 30,000 were the elite soldiers he trained single-handedly, and the 2,000 were surrendered troops. Of course, the main reason why these two thousand people were left behind was that they needed to do some chores.
Although Yang Guangyuan's soldiers and horses on hand have decreased, his strength has increased a lot, if Du Chongwei dares to go out of the city to fight, Yang Guangyuan is sure to defeat the German army in one fell swoop.
Du Chongwei also understands this truth.
Although victory or defeat on the battlefield does not necessarily depend on the number of participants, in the case of the same level of training of soldiers on both sides and the possibility of strategy, as long as the opposing commander is not too stupid, the victory or defeat on the battlefield often depends on the side with the larger number of soldiers.
The Great Jin Kingdom lost one defeat after another, and the morale and confidence of the other party seemed to be higher than that of the Chengde army, which had been huddled in the city.
Moreover, it is difficult to say whether the Khitan iron cavalry will suddenly appear at the most critical time of the battle, and it will be a catastrophe for the Chengde army.
The reason why the weak beat the strong is talked about is because there are so few such examples.
Those commanders who hope that their soldiers will perform exceptionally on the battlefield and suddenly burst out with super combat effectiveness have become stepping stones to the other party's fame in seven or eight times out of ten.
Du Chongwei is not a fool, and he is unwilling to use his own failures to achieve Yang Guangyuan's prestige.
"Ask for help!" This is the common suggestion of all the generals, in this case, if an elite division suddenly appears outside the city, even if the number is only a few thousand, and cooperates with the soldiers and horses in the city to attack Yang Guangyuan's soldiers and horses, disrupting their military morale, the balance of victory is likely to fall in favor of the Chengde army.
Asking for help, this is also what Du Chongwei thinks in his heart, but who to ask for help?
The cities in the east were either occupied by Khitan soldiers and horses, or they were just defeated by some remnants, and it was difficult to protect themselves.
The south side, not to mention, was almost swept away.
The only thing to count on is the west side. According to the information sent back by the black guards a few days ago, although Xinzhou was attacked by Yelu Anduan, the great king of the Khitan West Route Army, it has not yet fallen. Liu Zhiyuan, the envoy of Hedong Jiedu, had already rushed to Xinzhou with 40,000 elite soldiers, camped in the eastern suburbs outside Xinzhou City, echoed with more than 10,000 elite soldiers in Xinzhou City, and confronted Yelu Anduan.
If you can send someone to contact Liu Zhiyuan and ask him to send 5,000 elite soldiers to help and flank Yang Guangyuan with Cheng De's army, then there is still a great chance of victory.
But who should be sent? Once discovered by Yang Guangyuan, it is almost impossible to break through the many obstacles of the Yang army and fight his way out of the encirclement.
"The last general is willing to go!" Fu Yanqing strode forward.
"The last general is also willing to go!" Zhang Yanze also stepped forward.
Looking at the two tiger generals in front of him, Du Chongwei shook his head, they are all veterans who have followed him for more than ten years, losing any of them is like cutting off one of his arms, how can he be willing to let them take risks?
"No, you are all the pillars of my German army, how can you easily get into danger?" Du Chongwei vetoed.
"I'd better go!" Li Fengyun stood up, "I'm familiar with the roads on the rivers and lakes, I'll go!"
Du Chongwei pondered for a moment and said: "Okay, good boy, you should make meritorious contributions today! Fengyun, this road is extremely dangerous, you have to be very careful! Who do you want, just open your mouth, and this commander will let you dispatch the officers and men of the army." ”
Li Fengyun said loudly: "Don't worry, the kid may not be good at marching and fighting, going into battle and killing, but if you want to talk about the ability to escape, the kid is not bad at all!"
This sentence amused all the generals in the room, Du Chongwei pointed at Li Fengyun and said with a smile: "What a lazy guy!"
After the meeting was disbanded, Du Chongwei immediately mobilized twenty black-clothed guards for Li Fengyun, including three third-rate masters.
Wang Chongyin also sent two people, both of whom were good players in the army and third-rate masters.
Fu Yanqing also sent two people, one was a third-rate master, and the other was a second-rate beginner.
Zhang Jun, Zhang Song, Yuan Ba and Xiao Jingyun, the four people from Xiaoyaotang, also asked to go together, but the brothers of the Fengyun camp also needed to be trained, Li Fengyun left Zhang Jun, Zhang Song and Xiao Jingyun behind, and only took Yuan Ba, in terms of martial arts, among these four people, except for Zhang Jun, his martial arts are the highest.
Zhang Jun has the ability to command the army, and the Fengyun Battalion cannot be managed by no one, so Zhang Jun was left behind.
In the past few days, Li Fengyun's Fengyun camp has also been set up, and the military camp has been arranged in the west of the city.
Wang Chongyin and Fu Yanqing each sent 50 veterans, plus those who originally came with him, as well as newly recruited recruits, a total of more than 300 people, who were divided into three brigades, led by Zhang Song, Yuan Ba and Xiao Jingyun, and picked out the most brave and highest martial arts, about 40 people, led by Zhang Jun, as Li Fengyun's personal guard, Zhang Jun also took charge of the affairs of the whole battalion.
Yuan Ba wanted to follow Li Fengyun to Xinzhou, and his team was temporarily handed over to Wang Dashan to lead. Although Wang Dashan's martial arts are not high, he has a high prestige among the group of people who came to Zhenzhou with Li Fengyun. This person fought bravely and was also quite talented in leading troops, which won Zhang Jun's praise, and he temporarily led this team, and no one was dissatisfied.
Zhao Wuji was seriously injured and did not recover, and Li Fengyun wanted to wait for him to fully heal, and he would be in charge of the personal soldiers, while Zhang Jun was in charge of the affairs of the whole battalion as a lieutenant and concurrently served as the head of the battalion.
Everyone's official positions have also been reported, and Du Chongwei has also been approved.
The establishment of the Chengde army is in accordance with the Tang system, a battalion of soldiers is equivalent to a Zhichong Mansion in the Tang Dynasty, with one Zhichong Commander, one Guoyi Lieutenant on the left and right, one Changshi, Bing Cao, and other generals, and four to six regiments under the jurisdiction of the Press, Zhongfu, and Shangfu Zhichong Mansion, totaling 800 to 1,200 people.
Du Chongwei appointed Li Fengyun as the lieutenant of Zhichong Prefecture in Xiafu, which was fully composed of 800 people and had four regiments under its jurisdiction.
Each regiment has a full strength of 200 men, with a lieutenant and two brigades, each with a full strength of 100 men.
Each brigade has a brigade rate, and has jurisdiction over two teams, each with 50 people.
Each team is divided into five fires, with ten people per fire and a fire chief.
In view of the fact that Fengyun Camp was created, except for Du Chongwei, who was the official position of Guo Yi, Changshi, Bing Cao, and other generals, he did not allow Li Fengyun to make his own decisions, and other official positions were arranged by Li Fengyun himself.
At present, everyone has no military merits in the Chengde Army, and Du Chongwei has not arranged for his cronies to be inserted into the Fengyun Battalion, so the positions of Guo Yi, Changshi, Bing Cao, and Don't General are all vacant, and they can only wait for everyone to be promoted after they have military merits in the future.
Zhang Jun was awarded the rank of lieutenant.
Zhang Song, Yuan Ba, Zhao Wuji and Xiao Jingyun were awarded the post of brigade leader.
Wang Dashan was awarded the post of team leader.
The other positions were all veterans recommended by Wang Chongyin and Fu Yanqing, as well as the best of the people who came to Zhenzhou with Li Fengyun.
As for Mo Qingyan, he was originally a catcher of Dali Temple, even if Du Chongwei did not pass through Dali Temple, he would not have the right to transfer him to the military, so Li Fengyun did not arrange his position.
Mo Qingyan wanted to go to Qizhou with Li Fengyun, but he was seriously injured and had not recovered, so of course Li Fengyun would not agree.
Li Fengyun originally wanted to find a first-class master to be his personal bodyguard, but who expected to touch his nose, even if Feng Yuan'er persuaded him, it was useless.
Ma Ying made it clear that he was a servant of the Feng Mansion, not Li Fengyun's nanny, Li Fengyun wanted to be reckless and sent to death, which had nothing to do with him. He just needs to protect Feng Yuan'er's safety, God knows when Zhenzhou City will be breached.