In the newly built camp under Fengxiang Mansion City, Liu Chengzong read the battle report.
Seeing Duan Fuxing burning the building to die, Liu Chengzong felt a little complicated in his inner peace.
There is both admiration and regret, but also a little pleasure in the beauty of adulthood.
He didn't think what Duan Fuxing did was wrong, nor did he think Duan Fuxing was a lunatic. On the contrary, he even felt sympathy for each other.
Essentially, they were all born in the Ming Dynasty and received the same education. Although they had different levels of fame and fame, they were all scholars in the Ming Dynasty. They just had different circumstances and took different paths.
This difference obviously does not prevent Liu Shizi from understanding Duan Fuxing's behavior.
In his eyes, Fuxing's death was decisive and tragic, but it was not a bad death. It was the best death he could think of.
Duan Fuxing, a scholar, gained fame, received official titles from the imperial court, received the emperor's salary, was appointed as an official of the imperial court, and his wife and mother were given royal titles. He pursued success and enjoyed glory and wealth.
When the rebels come, will he survive?
The country is ruined and the family is destroyed, and there is no way to turn things around. Scholars still have the last answer.
This is the destiny he pursues.
Right livelihood.
Liu Shishi specially called Yu Linqi, who was carrying pen and ink, to hand over the battle report, and said: "Write it down, Shaanxi Councilor Duan was revived in the Ming Dynasty, guarding Qianzhou, and the city was destroyed in the battle... Those who died doing their best are righteous lives."
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After that, he added: "Forget about the destruction of the body."
After the city was defeated, Yang Guodong, a newly demoted general under Shi Xiang, immediately searched for Duan Fuxing's whereabouts and learned that he had died in a fight in the city. He found his body and chopped it into eight pieces to express his anger at whipping the envoy, and even dedicated his head to Duan Fuxing.
Zhang Xianzhong.
However, the battle report that Zhang Xianzhong sent specifically to Liu Chengzong did not mention the destruction of Duan Fuxing's body at all.
If Wang Wenxiu hadn't had the battle reports sent by Shi Xiang to compare, Liu Chengzong wouldn't have known about this situation. For this reason, he sent someone to send a letter to Zhang Xianzhong asking about it.
As for the matter of the destroyed body being left to others, Liu Chengzong would not ask any further questions.
Anyway, the ins and outs are very clear. Yang Guodong is a relatively simple person. If he has a grudge or a grudge, he can just do it.
Shi Xiang still felt a little insecure, so he did not dare to conceal the details of the battle report, so he directly reported it truthfully to Wang Wenxiu.
This is not a big deal in itself, and it doesn't mean much whether you ask or talk about it.
On the contrary, Liu Chengzong realized that Chu Shixiang, the brigade commander, got along well with the newly demoted general Yang Guodong.
The two of them are facing each other, one facing each other, one facing the inside and the other facing the outside. They work together to complement each other, and maybe they can really squeeze the Lintao Brigade from the third-line army to the second-line army of the Marshal's Mansion.
However, Zhang Xianzhong remained silent, so Liu Chengzong had to ask.
After all, Liu Shishi couldn't hold back his expectations for Lao Zhang. They were as low as his toes, so he couldn't be a normal person.
If Zhang Xianzhong didn't take the initiative to say it, Liu Chengzong would never think that he was honest or dishonest.
He was so anxious that he sent someone to deliver the letter, thinking: Zhang Bingzhong, just don’t eat Duan Fuxing for me!
By chance, Liu Chengzong asked someone to write down Duan Fuxing's story, and the messenger came back with Zhang Xianzhong's letter.
In fact, Zhang Xianzhong felt quite complicated when he saw Liu Chengzong's letter asking about Duan Fuxing's body: it was different from what he thought!
Since Zhang Xianzhong joined the Marshal's Office, his biggest hobby has been to figure out Liu Chengzong.
If he were not worried about being misunderstood and accused of plotting rebellion, he even wanted to summon his old subordinates to sneak into the hut and hold a meeting to study Liu Chengzong if nothing happened.
But sometimes there is no point in trying to figure it out.
Just like Duan Fuxing, Zhang Xianzhong couldn't figure out whether Liu Chengzong would like it or hate it.
Because Zhang Xianzhong had experienced it himself, he had seen the magistrate of Ming Dynasty defending the city and killing many of his subordinates. The magistrate had to kill him, but after killing him, he felt very complicated: how many such loyal people would there be if they were his subordinates?
good?
So he couldn't figure out Liu Chengzong's views on this matter. It was dynamic. Liu Shizi might feel that the killing was good today, but he would feel that the killing was not good tomorrow.
Therefore, Zhang Xianzhong cleverly made two preparations. On one side, he prepared a limewood box to hold the head, and just put the head in it to send the express. On the other side, he found the second cobbler in the army to collect Duan Fuxing's body and gave an order.
It can be restored to its original state.
Then he sent a battle report to Liu Chengzong, which did not mention Duan Fuxing's body at all. He planned to make his own choice based on Liu Chengzong's attitude in replying to the letter.
Unexpectedly, Liu Shizi once again acted against common sense and wrote back to him directly asking: What happened to Duan Fuxing's body?
Duan Fuxing is now like Schrödinger's cat, jumping between being intact and being shattered into thousands of pieces. How should we, Mr. Zhang, answer this?
I could only bite the bullet and tell the truth: whatever the commander-in-chief wants Duan Fuxing to do, he will do it.
When Liu Chengzong read the letter, he guessed that it was almost the same. He felt relieved at the moment. He flicked the letter and said to himself: "It's better if you don't eat it."
In the Chinese army camp, Wang Wenxiu, who was directing the painter to outline the enemy's situation on the map, heard him talking to himself, but he didn't hear clearly, so he asked: "Commander?"
Liu Chengzong shook his head, put down the letter with a smile, and said to the messenger: "Go back and tell Zhang Butang that I want Duan Fuxing to be buried in Qianzhou, and ask him not to waste time. Once it's done, he can lead his troops to Fengxiang..."
While they were talking, Wang Wenxiu had already ordered the painter to draw the map around Fengxiang Mansion, and placed wooden plaques marking the military strength on the map, which made Liu Chengzong feel confused.
He couldn't understand at all what the Ming army entrenched to the west of Fengxiang Mansion wanted to do.
During the time when he led his army to move from Xi'an Prefecture to Fengxiang Prefecture, Wang Wenxiu and the Ming army broke out in more than a dozen minor conflicts in Fengxiang Prefecture, basically identifying the Ming army's numbers.
At present, Baoji, Sanguan, Long'an and even Longzhou in the north are all camps set up by the Ming army, gathering more than 30,000 troops from Changping, Yunnan, Sichuan, Ningxia, Yansui and other places. Wang Wenxiu alone can accurately point out the generals
There are six battalions named.
However, this is also what puzzles Liu Shishi the most.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! He turned his head and stared at the map, pointed out several Ming army camps, and asked Wang Wenxiu: "What do these people want to do, surround me?
Are you crazy to call me for help?"
Encircling a point for reinforcements is a simple and effective tactic.
Generally speaking, this tactic is very simple to implement. It surrounds the weak, attracts the strong, and achieves the purpose of pulling, containing, and annihilating the enemy's forces, while preserving important strongholds of one's own side.
But on top of this, there is another basic condition, which is to first grasp the initiative in the battle, that is, to have comprehensive intelligence and to be sure of the speed of annihilation.
First of all, it must have the deterrent effect of quickly annihilating the besieged army, and secondly, it must have the ability to defeat the reinforcements before encirclement and reinforcements can be carried out.
Liu Chengzong thought that a large number of Ming troops had entered Fengxiang Mansion by themselves. If they formed a majestic formation and fought a positional battle, Wang Wenxiu's army of 10,000 people would naturally not be enough.
But the problem was that Wang Wenxiu was defending the fortified city. Not to mention that the Ming army did not have the power to quickly annihilate Wang Wenxiu. Even if Liu Chengzong came to fight, he was not sure of this.
Secondly, if the Ming army did not know anything about the intelligence from the east, it was at best hearsay.
As the saying goes, if a hundred cavalry is divided into a sheet, it can cover thousands of people; if a thousand cavalry is divided into a sheet, it can make a profit of hundreds of miles.
In Qinchuan, a three-hundred-mile stretch to the west of the Guanzhong Plain, a full 7,000 Mongolian cavalry were deployed on the plains to herd horses. Every village and every important road was under their surveillance.
It would be easy for the Ming army's large army to drive them away, but it would undoubtedly be a fantasy for a small group of messenger cavalry to cross the Guanzhong plateau silently.
In this case, surround the spot and call for help?
Liu Chengzong would rather believe that the Ming army was showing off its power and planned to sell itself at a good price in the hope that he would come and pay them; he would not believe that the Ming army was surrounding Luo Rucai here in an attempt to reinforce him.
After all, Liu Shizi is now strong and has a bunch of new surrender troops who can be thrown to the front line of the battlefield to show their loyalty. He is not afraid of the Ming army attacking the city or fighting in the field.
There was only one thing that made Liu Chengzong look frightened when he thought about it. He asked Wang Wenxiu: "They are camped in the west, don't they... want to surrender to me?"
Wang Wenxiu was guarding Fengxiang Mansion and had never been afraid of facing 30,000 Ming troops alone. But after hearing what the Generalissimo said, his face turned green and he quickly shook his head: "No way? No, it shouldn't be. The Generalissimo is overly worried."
Fengxiang Mansion was the food storage camp for the Marshal's Army during this Eastern Expedition. Wang Wenxiu was in charge of both the army and government. Liu Shizi had all the food and grass in his hands.
At present, the marshal's army is in the pass, showing off its power, but no one knows better than Wang Wenxiu that they are strong on the outside and capable on the inside.
Originally, Fengxiang Mansion had sufficient grain reserves, and the income from Changpingcang and wealthy households in various places was almost as much as the Marshal's Mansion's income in the past year.
Enough to keep 40,000 marshal's troops going until winter.
But with the two victories in the east, there were nearly 20,000 more mouths, and rations were distributed to Li Zicheng and Zhang Yichuan's nine battalions. Now Fengxiang Mansion's rations can support this larger army, and it will be stretched even until the end of July.
Especially when Wang Wenxiu met Liu Shizi and found out that the handsome man had sent Zhang Zhen back to his hometown to recruit traitors. Even though he was young and strong, his heart was pounding and he was about to fall ill.
As one of the generals closest to Liu Chengzong in the Marshal's Office, Wang Wenxiu had heard from Liu Chengzong's judgment on Gansu's surrender more than once in the past.
It is said that their territory is too small and their production capacity is too weak. Even if they capture Gansu, they will not be able to support the tens of thousands of surrendered troops in Gansu, and will eventually be pushed in an uncontrollable direction by the army.
But later their territory expanded, and the terrible prophecy of Gansu did not come true.
But now in Guanzhong, Wang Wenxiu felt that the prophecy was getting closer and closer to them.
However, Liu Chengzong just said casually that he was just afraid that his food reserves would not be enough to eat. The Ming army was currently stationed in the west of Fengxiang Prefecture in a very organized manner, and it did not look like they were planning to surrender.
Seeing Wang Wenxiu's nervousness, Liu Shizi chuckled and said seriously: "I think they have more important things to do. Is there anything more important than annihilating Luo Rucai in Baoji City?"
Wang Wenxiu followed this line of thinking and asked: "Military rations?"
Liu Chengzong nodded slowly: "They must be out of food and want to give it a try... How long will our army have enough food?"
"Eat it all in July, too many soldiers will be sent down, and it will be difficult to raise them."
This answer was a bit difficult for Wang Wenxiu to explain. He suggested: "Commander, the top priority is to break the city of Xi'an. Otherwise, our army will have to drink from the northwest wind in two months at most."
"oh?"
Liu Chengzong turned around and glanced at Wang Wenxiu in surprise: "Did you not read the letter I gave you carefully? There was a message from Wei Qian'er that there was not much food in Xi'an, and Chen Qiyu had transported all the food into Tongguan."
After that, he raised his hand and pointed at the northern part of Xi'an Prefecture on the map and said: "The places where there is food now are Pucheng, Tongzhou, Hancheng and other places on the north bank of the Wei River. There is no point in attacking Xi'an... We have to let Chen Qiyu take the food
Then move back from Tongguan."
"Even if we don't move, we still have to wait until the autumn harvest, so that Huazhou and other places in Weinan will have food and grass available."
Wang Wenxiu was surprised and asked: "How to move back?"
"It depends on the abilities of Li Zicheng and Zhang Yichuan. They are making a big fuss in Henan. We are less of a threat in Guanxi. Naturally, they are the two evils. Sooner or later, they will move the grain back to Xi'an Fucheng."
"Anyway..."
Liu Shizi stopped looking at Xi'an Mansion and only focused on Fengxiang, saying: "We have more food than them, let's first see what kind of medicine they sell in their gourds!"
As the commander-in-chief's will was conveyed to all the battalions of the Marshal's Army, within three days, the Marshal's Army and the Ming Army started a confrontation in Fengxiang Mansion.
There was no communication messenger, and no one took the lead in attacking. There were only Tangqi who came and went shooting at each other, infiltrating, fighting, and retreating on the river bank.
However, the strange thing is that the increasingly fierce skirmishes have never escalated the battle. Whenever the Ming army tried to cross the river with a large force of more than a hundred people from the south bank of the Wei River and pursue Marshal Jun Tangqi to the north bank, large swaths of Tangqi would appear in
Under the cover of the Mongolian cavalry, they retreated like a tide.
It was not Tangqi's style of slowly retreating in preparation for encirclement and annihilation, but rather shrinking the defense line regardless.
On the first day, Zuo Liangyu could calm down.
The next day, he couldn't stand it anymore.
On the third day, Zuo Liangyu once again received the news that the Marshal's Army did not respond to the challenge. Zuo Liangyu was so angry that he threw everything he could in the tent.
Their default battlefield was the north bank of the Wei River. Because there was Baoji City on the south bank, no one could tell whether Luo Rucai in the city would dare to jump out during the battle.
There is also a problem on the north bank, that is, in terms of the tactics of raiding Liu Chengzong, it is difficult for the cavalry to move quickly on the south bank, so they need to use the gradually escalating conflict as an excuse to slowly move the army to the north bank.
Otherwise, the invitation to fight would be too obvious, and I might worry that Mr. Liu Chengzong would become defensive.
But what's good now is that the marshal's army will not escalate the battle at all. The meaning is clear. If you are willing to cross the river, don't do it in small groups. I will give you the river bank and just cross in large groups. I will kick you down the river while you are halfway across.
This fool just crossed the river!
"Back off, back off, as long as you fucking know how to back off!"
Zuo Liangyu was so angry in the tent that he cursed loudly, summoned his servants and said: "Go and ask Cao Wenzhao, our army still has seven days of rations left, whether we can fight this battle or not!"
As soon as the servant left, Luo Rucai's daily curses were sent to him.
Luo Rucai from Baoji City defeated Kangning's invincible opponents because of Liu Chengzong's words and deeds: In war, you have to put yourself in someone else's shoes. If the enemy wants to do something, you can't let him do it; if the enemy doesn't want to do something, you have to force him to do it.
Luo Rucai didn't know what it meant that more than 30,000 Ming troops were surrounding him, but it was obvious that they did not want to attack the city.
So since he discovered that Zuo Liangyu did not dare to attack the city, Luo Rucai adopted the attitude of "I am your ancestor" and used bows and arrows to shoot letters outside the city every day. The letters contained nothing but curses.
Whenever one of the Ming army generals in the city was recognized, Luo Rucai would have people scold them without hesitation. From the ancestors to the descendants, he summed up his spirit in one word: coward!
If you dare not attack my city, you are a coward!
When had Zuo Liangyu been pointed at the nose and scolded like this?
At this time, he was angry again, and he immediately slapped the table with his palm: "Never mind, tell Cao Wenzhao, Ai Wannian and Long are in the field, I want to attack the city, first kill Luo Cao in the city to sacrifice the flag!" Like it!
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