Li Yan, who was in Puzhou City on the east bank of the Yellow River, also didn't sleep well. Even though it was confirmed that Gao Yigong was in Dali, based on his understanding of him and the behavior of the bandit army at this time, he expected that the bandit army would not go crazy on a large scale for a while.
Counterattack, but when the mountain rain is about to come, the wind is the strongest.
He doesn't know when the wind will stop or when it will fill the building, so even if he is as calm as he is, he still worries about gain and loss and does not dare to be careless. After all, if he is not careful in a war, all previous efforts will be wasted, and the entire army on the other side may even be annihilated.
If we assume that Li Guo is in Tongguan at this time, Gao Yigong of Dali does not dare to go to war rashly. He will first ask for orders and dispatch troops to launch a siege. It will be tomorrow afternoon at the earliest, but just in case.
, I also couldn’t sleep well tonight.
If the bandit army wants to counterattack and regain the lost territory, they must send a large force. They can't take Chaoyi City with a fierce attack of 51,000 each, but can Dali County have tens of thousands of troops?
Although the information is almost the same, does he really dare to use all his troops there? Aren't he afraid that Dali will make a mistake?
If he didn't dare, he would have to mobilize troops from other places, from Tongguan in the south, from Heyang, Chengcheng County, Hancheng in the north, or from the rear. If he mobilized troops from both wings, he would not be afraid of being diverted away from the mountain by the officers and soldiers? If he mobilized troops from the rear,
Soldiers, it will take a long time. When the troops and horses are combined, Chaoyi City's defense will only become stronger.
But Li Yan knew that Li Guo was neither indecisive nor a grinding person. He would take action immediately when the officers and soldiers were on an unstable footing, and he was not someone who worried about gains and losses and would decisively mobilize troops from both wings to encircle them.
If this is the case, then there is an opportunity for the two wings to take advantage of.
Ma Huabao and others guessed correctly. Li Yan was waiting here. He just wanted to see where Li Guo would mobilize his troops. If only Dali's troops or horses were mobilized from the rear, that would be fine. If it was from both wings, which side would he mobilize?
I'll attack wherever you go.
Therefore, before the capture of Chaoyi, Wu Sangui and Ma Ke of Shaanzhou were ordered to send troops and horses to advance towards Tongguan. Qin Songwang of Hejin was also ordered to strengthen reconnaissance. If there was any sign of mobilization of troops and horses in Hancheng on the other side, troops were immediately sent across the river to attack Hancheng.
As the saying goes, if you know this and know the enemy, you will be safe in a hundred battles. Both Li Yan and Gu Junen had been in the bandit army, and they knew the character, style and fighting methods of their generals very well.
Everything is under control, just waiting for the other party to make a move!
The night was getting darker and the lights were getting brighter. Li Yan was lying in his clothes in the Yamen of Puzhou City. Suddenly he heard the roar outside. He stood up and opened the door and asked: "The thieves are attacking the city?"
"Back to Li Shuai, it's thunder." The attendant outside the door quickly said. Li Yan breathed out. He thought it was a cannon fire. The door next door opened and Gu Junen also walked out and looked up at the sky. He frowned: "That's strange.
, Drought Thunder!”
The so-called drought thunder means thunder without rain, or thunder on a sunny day. The ancients regarded it as a strange omen.
Li Yan's expression was calm: "We can't capsize the boat."
At dawn, when Li Yan got up and washed up, he found Ma Huabao waiting for him in the hall with red eyes: "Vice General Ma, have you been up all night or can't you sleep?"
Ma Huabao smiled bitterly and shook his head: "There is no big difference between sleeping and not sleeping. The thieves have been harassing me all night long. How can I sleep?"
"Then go back to sleep now. They will probably start in the afternoon or evening, and you won't be able to sleep even if you want to sleep at that time." Li Yan said to Ma Huabao with certainty.
However, the next morning, Ma Huabao came again and saw Li Yan frowning. Gu Junen also shook his head: "It's not Li Guo's fault. It stands to reason that he can't keep his temper."
"Did the bandits attack us last night?" Li Yan raised his head and asked, and Ma Huabao nodded quickly: "No less than ten times, most of them scolded the formation outside the trench. Twice, he tried to cross the trench and was shot out by the general's order..."
Li Yan's face became more solemn and he pondered for a long time: "Eat first, then wait, maybe today..." Before he said anything, there was an urgent report from outside: "Li Shuai, the bandit army raided Hejin in the early morning and broke the river bank defense line here.
We are currently besieging Hejin City!"
Bang, the tea cup in Li Yan's hand fell and smashed into pieces: "You Li Guo, you are a quick learner!"
When Li Yan received the news that Hejin was besieged, the good news he wrote to Chang Yu was also sent to the capital. Then Chang Yu went to the palace in a hurry. He and the emperor were happy for a while, but they didn't know that Huang He
Bian was already in disarray at this time.
In fact, even if he knew, he wouldn't worry because he believed in Li Yan's ability.
What's more, he also had trouble at hand. After chatting with Emperor Chongzhen, he left the palace and wanted to meet his lover to talk to Zhu Zhi'e about life. However, as soon as he left the palace, he was stopped by Dongchang's fans.
: "Report to the Governor, someone has rebelled!"
Chang Yu was very surprised when he first heard that someone was rebelling. Nowadays, no one in Ming Dynasty except Zhang and Li, the two time-honored brands, dare to be so arrogant. Especially since he came out and swept across the country with tyrannical and brutal strength, who would dare to do so?
Let’s talk about rebellion.
But Dongchang's information is not wrong.
Someone really rebelled, and it wasn't all in one place.
Hundreds of refugees in Wucheng, Shandong Province, killed officials and rebelled. In Cangzhou, Hebei Province, some gangsters incited believers to raise flags and rebel. In the city northwest of Baoding Prefecture, bandits entered the city and looted... As many as five or six groups rebelled, which made Chang Yu couldn't help but frown.
eyebrow.
Damn it, things are going to change again.
But then I realized that this day had become very strange.
The dates of these five or six rebellions were not far apart. They were all started within the past three to five days, and most of them were in the borders of Hebei and Shandong, which were on the periphery of the Gyeonggi area... Things got a little interesting, and Chang Yu soon realized,
This change is man-made.
Li Chuanggu jumped over the wall in a hurry, Chang Yu sneered, and the people around him were puzzled for a moment.
Ever since Chang Yu was alerted to Li Zicheng's appearance in the capital, he ordered a large-scale manhunt. Not only Dongchang fans and masters came out, but also the Jin Yiwei, several battalions of troops under Dongchang's command, and even the Beijing camp and the Guards were involved. Such a large-scale
Even Li Zicheng's cunning rabbits and three caves were in a state of confusion during the arrest, and rebellions suddenly broke out in these places. It was obvious that he had been forced into a corner. In order to escape, he had to expose the hidden forces to confuse and divert the attention of the pursuers.
This is called cutting off the tail to survive, abandoning the pawn to save the commander!
Now for Chang Yu, the best time to hunt down Li Zicheng has passed. The rest is a matter of luck and character. It is good to catch him, but there is no loss if he cannot catch him. Anyway, even if Li Zicheng escapes back to Xi'an
, the mess on his side is enough for him to drink from, and he is not qualified to raise conditions if he wants to negotiate peace again.
However, Chang Yu will never allow anyone to dare to rebel. Since he broke out to cover Li Zicheng himself, he has no reason to be soft. He must uproot it and cut it off to serve as a warning to others!
So he immediately summoned Wang Jiayan to the Yamen to discuss sending troops to quell the chaos.
The rebellion is mainly in the borders of Hebei and Shandong. In the past, the Shandong general army could be mobilized to quell the rebellion, but now...
The Shandong General Army has lost its troops. All its soldiers and horses have been transferred to the Yellow River defense line. Even Hebei has no troops. To put it bluntly, except for Gao Jie in Xuzhou who has more than 20,000 soldiers and horses in Jiangbei at this time, there are only troops in the capital.
The others are either in Jiubian or the Yellow River, or they are all in the south.
Big cities like Jinan Prefecture and Baoding Prefecture only have about a thousand troops stationed there. It would be too difficult to defend the city if they could go far away to quell chaos and fight wars.
What's more, five or six thunders exploded at once, and if they were not extinguished in time, the consequences would be disastrous.
So Chang Yu decided to pull the emperor's personal guards out to practice. They may not be enough to fight with the regular army, but they are still sure of defeating these small rebellions.
Theoretically, only the emperor has direct leadership and jurisdiction over the Guards, but in many cases the Emperor has no time to take care of it. Most of the Guards are entrusted to other yamen, such as the most powerful Tengxiang Siwei among the Guards.
It is managed by the imperial eunuch of the inner court, while most of the rest of the Guards are entrusted to the Beijing Camp or the Fifth Army Governor's Mansion.
Wang Jiayan was the governor of the capital camp. His rise to power was the result of Chang Yu's behind-the-scenes manipulation. During the battle to defend the capital, he and Shi Kefacheng were in charge of logistics and assisted Chang Yu in the battle against the rebels and the Qing army. During this period, they also had many changes in Chang Yu's view.
, instead of looking at him as a stubborn eunuch in the past, although civil servants and eunuchs are mortal enemies, and although there is still a lot of prejudice and even contempt for Chang Yu, he really admires his military ability.
After hearing Chang Yu's summons, Wang Jiayan hurried to Dongchang Yamen full of doubts. When he heard that someone was rebelling while serving tea in the hall, he was so shocked that he almost dropped the tea cup in his hand. At this moment, there were still people who dared to make trouble in the wind. He had never heard of Xiao Xiao.
Do eunuchs kill people without batting an eyelid?
Return to five or six places!
"Uproot it! Leave no grass behind!" When Wang Jiayan walked out of the Dongchang Yamen, Chang Yu's words were still swirling in his mind. The task of suppressing the bandits and quelling the chaos was left to him, the governor of Beijing.
Chang Yu ordered him to personally lead troops and horses to various places to quell the chaos.
Wang Jiayan was a civil servant and had never fought in a war, but at this time he felt eager to try. In fact, this impulse had already existed when he followed Chang Yu during the Gyeonggi War!
He also wanted to become a strategizing general like Chang Yu and Li Yan and leave a name in history, which would be worthy of his status as the governor of the capital, but he had no chance, and he didn't know if he had the ability.
Now that the opportunity has come, he wants to give it a try.
After all, there was no big risk this time, and it was just a little exercise. He also knew that Chang Yu meant to train him and the army, so he was more or less grateful to the little eunuch for giving him a chance to practice.
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