Seeing that Xu Huai was silent after understanding what he meant, Zhou Jing didn't know what he was hesitating about. He was worried that the situation in Bianliang was changing rapidly, and everything needed to be decided immediately, so he advised:
"The Commander-in-Chief should make a decisive decision at the moment and declare a banner to recruit the former commander-in-chief's old troops!"
This time, in the name of the Black Shirt Army, they invited the rebels to raid Bianliang and surrounding cities. After entering Bianliang City, they also planned to act in the name of the Black Shirt Army.
Even though it is impossible to hide this from everyone's sight, the battle in Bianliang must be chaotic at the beginning. Even if someone sees through their hiding place, who can tell the defenders about it as soon as possible?
Therefore, they were able to paralyze the enemy while fighting under the banner of the Black Shirts.
However, if you want to recruit old soldiers of the Jingsheng Army in front of the battle, you must change your plan immediately and raise the flags of Jingshenghou and Chushan first.
Although the enemy cannot be paralyzed in a short period of time, the name of a person, the shadow of a tree, and the banner of Jingshenghou and Chushan will not only recruit old soldiers of the Jingsheng Army, but also deter the enemy.
In short, at the moment, setting a banner has more advantages than disadvantages.
Is it possible that, after turning Bianliang into a mess, they still hope to continue to hide their true identity?
If the enemy is really that stupid, they themselves will still have a headache. After all, they can't hope to draw Yue Hailou's attention away from Xiaoquegang immediately?
Xu Wujiang, Wang Ju and others all looked at Xu Huai, somewhat confused as to what he was hesitating about.
"The jade sword on my waist is a promise...!" Xu Huai held the sword on his waist and muttered.
Zhou Jing, Xu Wujiang and others were silent!
"What does the Marquis mean by this?" Niu Er pushed Jiang Xie, who joined the army in the recording room, and asked in confusion.
"Holding a sword at your waist, even though you only secretly agreed and made a promise, you must not deceive each other or break your promise lightly..." Jiang Xie said.
"..." Niu Er blinked for a while, and still asked Jiang Xie in a low voice in confusion, "Which girl did the Marquis sleep with? Why do you suddenly feel like this?"
Jiang Xie grabbed Niu Er's coat and explained in a low voice:
"There are many former commanders' old troops among the surrendered troops in Bianliang. It should not be difficult to make them follow them in the name of first commanders and commanders. However, many of the former commanders' old troops have families in Bianliang, and they were forced by the situation before.
If you want to fight against the enemy by commanding the old troops first and then recruiting other troops to surrender in front of the formation, the number of families involved will be even greater. What Jieshuai means is that these generals will enter Chu Mountain and Chu Mountain.
He has the responsibility to take good care of his family, and cannot simply abandon him in Bianliang to be slaughtered by the enemy. However, it is a bit difficult to do so..."
"My dear, it's a bit difficult. I think it's better to forget it! Who the hell can bear this?" Niu Er smacked his lips and shouted.
Niu Er couldn't figure out the too complicated problem, but after being forced to learn arithmetic for a period of time, he still knew how many small families would be involved in recruiting four to five hundred old soldiers of the Jingsheng Army before the battle.
If, as Jiang Xie said, more people are recruited from the Bianliang surrendered army through the old soldiers of the Jingsheng Army, then the families involved will be small...
Thinking of this, Niu Er's scalp went numb.
Xu Wujiang, Wang Ju, and Zhou Jing suddenly felt heavy in their minds.
In the name of the Black Shirt Army, they invited the resistance rebels to participate in the raid on Bianliang and surrounding cities, and they did not need to bear too much responsibility.
The rebels originally had an urgent desire to resist and attack the Red Husbands and surrender troops. They had been fighting in the hinterland of the Hehuai River for more than a year. They were also familiar with covert operations, and their families and children were hidden among thousands of ordinary people.
, even if the resisting rebels may suffer heavy losses, the family will usually not be implicated.
As for this raid on Bianliang, Xu Huai also planned to attract the attention of Yue Hailou and his troops so that the resisting rebels could evacuate and hide first.
In the end, they didn't have much to worry about.
Now they are making great efforts to recruit old soldiers of the Jingsheng Army in front of the battle, and even hope to recruit more bloody Jianrui from the Bianliang surrender army to stand up and resist the Hulu together, but their families are small, and most of them are in
In the outer city of Bianliang.
This is related to the Dai Viet military system.
Most of the officers of the Forbidden Army were tenured for life, and their young families lived and ate with the army. This was also one of the main reasons why Bianliang had such a dense population.
Of the 100,000 Imperial Guardsmen, 300,000 to 400,000 families live in the outer city of Bianliang and nearby military villages. How could the population not be large?
After the fall of Bianliang, only Liu Yan, Xie Zhong, Gu Cong and other tribes actually broke through and fled south. An important reason is that they were temporarily incorporated into the Gyeonggi Forbidden Army before the first Bianliang defense battle.
None of them moved here.
Otherwise, many of their generals might choose to stay in Bianliang and join the enemy, rather than flee south with Liu Yan and the others.
A more optimistic estimate now is that they may recruit three to four thousand surrendered troops for their own use in front of the battle, but at least tens of thousands of small families will be involved - when the enemy troops rushed to support from all directions and surrounded Bianliang, they had thousands of troops.
, is it possible to escort tens of thousands of children to evacuate safely from Bianliang?
Are they sure that they will not be completely surrounded by the enemy and no one will be able to escape in the end?
"Young Commander, you should put the important matters first, and don't worry about family affairs!" Jiang Ping figured out what Xu Huai was worried about, and immediately knelt down in front of Xu Huai and advised him not to be benevolent as a woman.
Jiang Ping does not have superior knowledge or vision, but he has been in the army for half his life. Of course, he understands that under the encirclement and interception of ten or even dozens of times the enemy's army, especially the enemy's large number of highly mobile elite cavalry, thousands of elite cavalry.
It is absolutely impossible to escort tens of thousands of small families to safely evacuate to Tongbai Mountain six to seven hundred miles away.
Sometimes there are bound to be trade-offs.
This is something Jiang Ping can also figure out.
"Big festival, what is a big festival?" Xu Huai smiled indifferently and said, "For most living beings, the biggest festival is nothing more than 'a cow on thirty acres of land, a wife and children on a hot bed'! Since we are recruiting each other, life and death are
If I fail to live up to my promise, how can I manage the army?"
Xu Huai walked to the inner wall of the tower and looked around.
At dawn, they easily surrounded the city and captured Nanxun Gate.
After that, except for half of the two thousand elite soldiers of the guard camp who served as a reserve mobile team to control the left and right sides of Nanxun Gate, Xu Huaiqin led the elite troops of the six capitals to rush along Li Street towards Zhuque Gate, defeating two waves of reinforcements coming out of Zhuque Gate.
At this time, he was stationed more than a thousand steps away from Nanxun Gate, attracting the main force of Xiongzhou's surrender troops who gathered at Zhuque Gate.
On both wings, in addition to generals such as Wu Chichuan and Shi Xiong, who led the elite troops from both capitals, they rushed towards the four southern city gates of Guangli, Anshang, Puji and Xuanhua on the left and right sides. At this time, Han Changfu and other rebel leaders also led the first batch to enter.
The rebel generals in Bianliang City were chasing after the elite troops, advancing on both wings, taking control of the houses and houses along the coast, and establishing strongholds.
Their first operational goal in raiding Bianliang was to control Nancheng.
There are five gates in the South Outer City. In addition to Nanxun Gate, the two most important gates, Guangli and Puji, are actually the water gates that control the Cai River (Langshui) waterway in and out of Bianliang Outer City!
The Cai River enters the outer city of Bianliang from Guangli Gate, flows north, reaches the southeast corner of the south city of the inner city, flows eastward close to the south wall of the inner city, turns south at the southwest corner, and flows out of Bianliang through Puji Gate.
"Jiang Xie, draft a secret order..."
Jiang Xie was Shi Zhen's son-in-law. He was good at writing documents. He also studied military formations with Shi Zhen. He was far more familiar with marching and fighting than ordinary civil servants. Xu Huai had written letters and edicts to Jiang.
It was very convenient for Xie to draft. At this time, Jiang Xie also officially joined the army and took the lead in commanding several scribes to handle the affairs.
Listening to Xu Huai's oral military orders, everyone was shocked, worried, and at the same time uncontrollably excited.
"Set up a commanding flag!"
Several fast horses galloped out from Nanxun Gate, loud horns were blown from the city tower, and a flag embroidered with a ferocious white tiger on a blue background with black borders was raised high on the original cypress flag of Nanxun Gate.
stand up.
Under the Dai Viet military system, only the commanders who control the troops and horses, the general manager, and the general commander are qualified to use the white tiger flag as the command flag.
Xu Huai's handsome flag was given to him by Emperor Jianji himself. The white tiger picture was embroidered with gold thread. Under the light of the morning sun, it shone brightly and even became Xu Huai's unique logo.
Han Changfu, who led his troops and horses to follow Wu Chihai's troops and advanced to the north of Guangli Gate (West Water Gate of Nancheng) and Changtai Bridge, listened to the melodious and melancholy sound of the trumpet and turned from horseback to Xunmen in the south.
Looking in the direction, I saw the shiny banner flag rising to the top of the cypress flagpole.
Although he didn't know yet what happened that made Xu Huai suddenly change his original plan and directly raise the flag on the South Xunmen Gate Tower to announce the existence of him and the elite guards of Chushan, but he knew very well that Xu Huai and Chu
The existence of the elite mountain guards will undoubtedly inspire the rebels to fight to the death.
"General Han, what's going on?"
At that time, another rebel general did not know that the raid on Bianliang was from Jingshenghou, and the Yulu general Xu Huai personally lurked in to take charge of the matter; during the last mobilization before the war, Xu Wujiang only represented the Chushan camp.
It was announced that Chushan would participate in this raid on a small scale to support the operation.
The leaders of the rebel army were mostly generals of the imperial army who were unwilling to surrender and had integrity, as well as ministers and gentry tycoons from surrounding states and counties who were unwilling to be oppressed; quite a few of them had overlapping identities.
For example, Han Changfu was a military officer of the imperial army who came from a gentry family in Yanling. When he was young, he committed crimes and was sent to the army. After the fall of Bianliang City, he led dozens of soldiers to flee back to Yanling and hide in hiding. On this basis, he gathered other soldiers who fled south and local people.
The rural soldiers developed the Black Shirt Army in Yanling.
They are quite familiar with ritual matters.
Suddenly seeing such a high-level letter flag rising from the Nanxun Gate tower they controlled, they were naturally surprised and suspicious.
Although Xu Wujiang's status in the Chushan camp was not low, he was far from qualified to raise the White Tiger flag.
"Jingsheng Marquis, Tiger General Xu Huai came to Bianliang in person to supervise the battle!" Han Changfu made no secret at this time and raised his voice to the confused rebel generals on his left and right.
At this time, there were also several horsemen galloping from the direction of Nanxunmen, shouting loudly along the way: "Jingshenghou, the tiger general Xu Huaicheng is the first commander, and the commander of the Jingsheng army. I know that the king of Jingzhou has kept his name anonymous to fulfill his last wish, and he is determined to drive away the barbarians."
, return our rivers and mountains, I will lead the 30,000 elite soldiers of Chu Mountain to attack Bianliang, and order not to disturb the people..."
