Chang Yu and others met Li Guo and his party when they walked from the southeast corner to the northwest corner of Songshan Fort. At this time, the wind and snow became heavier and heavier, and it was almost impossible to see the faces of the people facing each other. They looked like snowmen.
After the ceremony, Chang Yu went straight to the point and asked Li Guo: "Tell me what you think."
Li Guo raised his eyebrows and thought for a moment and said: "The mountain and the fort are only a few miles apart. If you attack one, you will be attacked by the other. The strength of the two-pronged attack is insufficient. However, the concern is not here, but over there." He turned around
Point toward the northwest.
There is a layer of black shadow in the misty wind and snow. There is Rufeng Mountain, the barrier of Jinzhou. The mountain is named because of its shape. The local people also call it Naizi Mountain. Songshan Fort and Jinzhou City are separated by a mountain. There is a road in the mountain that leads directly to the two places.
"If we attack Songshan Fort, Jinzhou will come to rescue us! That's the key point. We can ambush an army and cut off its reinforcements!"
Chang Yu shook his head: "Don't Dorgon know that there is the key point? How could he not be on guard or ambush him!"
"If we can't cut off the reinforcements, we will have a hard time here!" Li Guo sighed, and Chang Yu chuckled: "No matter how hard you are, can you survive Zu Dashou? But if Zu Dashou is so tough, he was eaten by the Tatars back then.
I dropped it." He said with a trace of disdain on his face: "What, Li Guo, is this all you have?"
Li Guo's face turned red: "The current situation is different, the environment is different, the hearts and minds of the people and the army are different, so the fighting methods and results will be very different!"
Chang Yu snorted: "Although the weather, time, and people are different, the place is the same! The three of them already occupy one of them, and yet they still ask for so much. If the weather, place, and people are favorable, and everyone can get there, why bother using you!"
Li Guo was suffocated. Next to him, Song Xiance came to the rescue and cupped his hands to Chang Yu: "I would like to ask, how is the firearms reserve in Ningyuan City?"
"It's not much, but it's enough," Chang Yu said casually.
"If there are enough firearms, it would be easy to defeat Songshan Fort." Song Xiance stroked his beard and looked at the head of Songshan City with his eyes narrowed: "As I said, it is not difficult to defeat Songshan Fort. The difficult thing is how to cut off its reinforcements. Neither can
If there is an ambush, then take it to the table to block the attack, so attacking the city and blocking the enemy are indispensable."
"Everyone can say nice things. Whether it's a mule or a horse, it has to be pulled out." Chang Yu looked at Li Guo: "Don't say that the governor didn't give you a chance, and you will be saved by others saying that you are just talking on paper, attacking the city and blocking the enemy.
pick one of two."
Li Guo thought for a moment: "If there are soldiers and horses at hand, I will choose to attack the city. But at this time... I would like to ask the governor to allocate five thousand troops, and I am willing to block the reinforcements from the Tartars in Jinzhou!"
"Where to stop the enemy? Here or outside Jinzhou City..."
"Rufeng Mountain!" Li Guo looked determined.
Chang Yu chuckled: "You are involved in Rufeng Mountain. Although you are good at fighting in the mountains and forests, you should also know that the soldiers here are not your soldiers!"
"It's just to stop the enemy. The soldiers are the same regardless of who they are. As long as they obey orders and are not afraid of death!" Li Guo looked at Rufeng Mountain from a distance with a firm gaze, but Chang Yu poured cold water on him again: "How can there be any who are not afraid of death?
Soldiers, there is no one who is not afraid of death, even this governor is afraid!"
These words made everyone startled, but they did not dare to say anything, and the atmosphere became a little weird.
It was Chang Yu who broke the atmosphere: "If you want to stop the attack somewhere, you have to check the terrain first."
"The general has this intention!"
Chang Yu looked up at the gray sky: "It's not a good place there. Fortunately, the weather is good today, but there is no guarantee that something unexpected will happen. Please take care of yourself."
"Even if it's a dragon's pond and a tiger's den, what's the point of fear?" Li Guo looked heroic, cupped his hands towards Chang Yu, and then led his troops to the northwest, disappearing in the wind and snow in the blink of an eye.
"This Li Guo..." After Li Guo and his entourage left, Wang Zhengnan couldn't help but grumbled. Chang Yu turned around and glanced at him, smiling indifferently: "Do you think your reputation is in vain?"
"That's not true, but I always feel that compared to the rumors... it's a bit exaggerated." Wang Zhengnan pinched his chin: "I really don't know how he got such a big name and made such a big fuss before."
Before Chang Yu could speak, Li Muchian sighed and took over: "As the old saying goes, times make heroes. The situation he was in back then was very different from today. At that time, he had the right time, place and people, and he was like a fish in water. Now it's different.
If you change the environment or the place, the results will be different."
"There is some truth in what the Taoist priest said, but we cannot underestimate him with generalizations. Although his past achievements have been at the forefront of the current situation, there is luck, and there is luck, but they are still tempered thousands of times. When it comes to marching and fighting,
The experience of fighting on the battlefield, let me ask you now, who can compare! At the moment, he is a little confused because he has not fully integrated into it, but when he gets into the rhythm, he will do amazing things."
What the governor said was absolutely true, and everyone agreed.
Chang Yu then continued to walk around Songshan Fort. The wind and snow became stronger. Although the Qing troops on the city knew that there were people outside the city, they did not move. Chang Yu couldn't help but mutter: "Why are the Tatars so good-tempered?"
"If we reach out to Tashan Castle at this time and there are enemies outside the city, what should you do?" Chang Yu asked casually, Li Muxian stroked his beard and smiled softly, Wang Zhengnan frowned and lowered his head, then looked confused, and Kuang Ren said
He said: "Let's explore the truth first..." Before he finished speaking, Monk Fan started shouting: "Go out and kill them."
"Then why don't they come out to kill us?" Chang Yu asked with a smile. Fan Seng snorted and rolled his eyes: "That's because they don't know that we only have so many people, and they are not sure whether we have an ambush."
"You are really smart." Chang Yu gave a thumbs up, and everyone laughed and agreed. Monk Fan looked proud: "Monk... I'm so smart, little monk..." As he said this, he suddenly felt something was wrong, but
I couldn't figure out what was wrong for a while. It took me a long time to realize that there was something wrong with their smiles. They seemed to be laughing at themselves.
"A little impatience will mess up a big plan. Dorgon is holding back his big move!" Before leaving, Chang Yu glanced at the top of Songshan City.
Li Muchian chuckled: "Master, are you willing to recruit me?"
"We don't have any big moves, they are all dirty moves that can't be put on the table." Chang Yu chuckled, but Li Muxian put away his smile again, and said with a solemn face, the current situation: "The strength and actions of both sides are on the table.
Now that it’s on display, is there still a chance to use underhanded tactics?”
"Master Taoist, do you know why Yin moves are called Yin moves and not Yang moves?" Chang Yu looked relaxed: "The more this happens, the more unexpected it will be!"
"A poor Taoist has little talent and little knowledge. He has to learn more from the Governor in this regard." Li Muxian figured it out and complimented with a grin. Chang Yu did not accept this trick: "Young master, you are the ancestor of this aspect."
Master, we all learn from you and sell them now."
"Hey, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, Lord Du Gong is a scholar of heaven and man. He is self-taught without a teacher. You are the ancestor."
"No, no, no, the Taoist priest is the one. You have a master who has passed down the secrets. Yes, the secrets passed down from the ancestors..."
"Ahem, cough, cough, poor Taoist, hey, I don't dare to humiliate the teacher. This unique skill is not passed down to the teacher. It is a poor Taoist who has learned it by himself without a teacher..."
"Just admit it, Taoist Priest!"
A few hundred meters away from the southeast corner of Songshan Fort, more than a thousand soldiers and horses of Zu Zerun are waiting in formation. However, in such a windy and snowy day, neither the infantry nor the cavalry can withstand it if they stay for a long time, and they will freeze you to death in minutes.
A popsicle.
Of course, military discipline these days is not as anti-human as in later generations. No matter whether it is the scorching sun or the cold winter, you have to stand motionless for several hours, and you still have to maintain a military posture and other such abnormal manners.
Now that the soldiers were cold, they started walking around, even running, jumping, and having snowball fights, making a lot of noise. Zu Zerun didn't stop him, he even got off his horse and started moving to keep warm.
After a while, Chang Yu arrived and waved his hand: "Break camp and return to Tashan Fort."
However, Li Guo and the others... Zu Zerun was a little confused. He said he came here just to protect Li Guo just in case, but there was no sign of Li Guo at the moment, and Chang Yu asked him to leave.
"On normal days, we should be more careful, but in this snowy day today, the Tatars are staying behind closed doors and keeping their troops stationary. With only the cats and dogs wandering outside, do you think they can keep Li Guo?"
Chang Yu didn't explain, and Zu Zerun didn't dare to ask, but the kind-hearted Wang Zhengnan gave him a suggestion.
"If you really keep him, it won't be Li Guo." Li Muxian started to praise Li Guo at this moment, but Chang Yu said casually: "It's not so full of words. If the horse stumbles, the boat capsizes in the ditch."
There are not many examples, I have encountered them all!"
"Well... in this case, why do you let him go alone?"
"This thing depends on fate! If a person is lucky, it will be fine if he sneaks into the city of Jinzhou. But if he is not lucky, no matter how many people follow him, he will be beaten again and again. Why bother to let so many people escape in this windy and snowy day?
He is suffering a lot." Chang Yu said and sighed: "It depends on whether his life is good or not."
Li Muxian and others behind him looked at each other without saying a word.