Li Mi, the leader of Wagang Mountain, the leader of the eleven counties in the Central Plains, and the commander-in-chief of the Thirty-Seventh Bandit Army, was extremely angry with Li Jing's methods, because Li Jing's actions completely disrupted his plan.
Faced with the 40,000-strong Far Eastern Army that came to attack aggressively, Li Mi, Xu Shiji and others decided after deliberation that the overall strategic purpose was to shrink their troops, lure the enemy deeper, and then find opportunities to mobilize enough troops at the right place and at the right time.
A hundred thousand troops simultaneously surrounded and killed 40,000 Far Eastern troops.
Although Li Mi was arrogant, he had a natural fear and deep jealousy of Wang Junlin, and he felt even more like a formidable enemy against the Far Eastern Army, which had never been defeated once, even though the Far Eastern Army only came with 40,000 people.
There is no way, although Li Mi is the top tycoon in the world, he has suffered several big losses at the hands of Wang Junlin.
The rebellion with Yang Su was four years ago.
Secretly colluding with Yu Wenhua, the bandit army and officers and soldiers gathered more than 200,000 people to surround and kill the 5,000 men led by Wang Junlin again.
When was there not a situation where more was used to defeat less?
When was there not a time when Wang Junlin's people defeated more with less?
Therefore, although Wang Junlin only sent 40,000 troops, Li Mi did not dare to look down upon him in the slightest.
Because not to mention the 40,000 violent bear camp, just the fact that Wang Junlin dared to send these 40,000 people here shows that Wang Junlin has great confidence in these 40,000 people.
Li Mi had already studied Wang Junlin's past history. He even sent a large number of people to go to the northwest where Wang Junlin had stayed and where he first appeared. He had also done so in Chang'an, especially in Fanyang County.
He collected a large amount of information, conducted in-depth and careful research, and found that Wang Junlin's past was a miracle. There were too many things that made no sense, too many incredible and unbelievable things. Taken together, Wang Junlin gave
Li Mi had an unfathomable feeling.
As for the people around Wang Junlin, it is not that he has not investigated and studied it. For example, Wang Junlin's mysterious junior sister Nie Xiaoyu. The result of his investigation was that he did not agree with it. This was related to his inherent contempt for women, so he thought that Nie Xiaoyu was just Wang Junlin.
Jun Lin is just a right-hand man. Everything on Snake Island, including the training camp, and many things that are said to have been caused by this woman, were all done under Wang Junlin's instructions.
In short, Li Jing's small trick broke the strategic plan that Li Mi, Xu Shiji and others had discussed for many days, forcing them to renegotiate the plan.
On the contrary, although Xu Shiji was very familiar with Wang Junlin's evil reputation, he had never fought against Wang Junlin, nor against the Far East Army. He was very confident in himself and the troops of Wagang Village he had trained, and asked Li Mi for battle every day.
, he will lead the village's 50,000 troops to meet the 40,000 troops of Bao Xiong camp.
Li Mi firmly opposed Xu Shiji's request to fight, which in turn aroused Xu Shiji's dissatisfaction. Especially as the fighting spirit fermented day by day, the second person in the Tang army after Li Jing in history was exhausted.
strength.
This is naturally what Li Mi is happy to see. In fact, it is also a very important link in Li Mi's series of plans.
Because Li Mi knew very well that although he was good at strategy and winning over people's hearts, and thought he was also good at governing the people, he knew that he was only half a bottle of water when it came to training troops and fighting, at least much worse than Xu Shiji, so he relied a lot on Xu Shiji.
, especially this time when dealing with the 40,000 Far Eastern Army, whether the opponent can be annihilated or driven out of the Central Plains mainly depends on Xu Shiji and the 80,000 Wagangzhai inner camp built by Xu Shiji.
However, considering that the 80,000 Wagang Army's inner camp is the real support of Wagang Village and the capital to compete in the world in the future, Li Mi does not want to destroy the Baoxiong Camp and cause the inner camp to suffer too heavy losses.
Therefore, his plan was to let the large and small copycat armies attached to Wagang Village consume the Far East Army. To this end, he specially convened a meeting with various thieves to unify their thoughts, and also replenished each copycat with food, grass and ordnance.
Equipment, unfortunately it was taken away by Li Jing
A small trick was enough to crush it.
At this point, the armies in the outer camp have no hope of fighting anymore and can only change their plans.
"Mr. Mi, although the Far Eastern Army is powerful, our Wagang inner camp is not bad either. I don't believe that I can't defeat the 40,000 men of the Far Eastern Army with my 80,000 inner camp. Please give me the order, and I will personally lead the 80,000 inner camp."
The battalion fought against the 40,000-strong Far Eastern Army." Seeing that Li Mi's previous plan failed, Xu Shiji came to ask for orders again.
Li Mi shook his head without hesitation and said: "The Far Eastern Army is invincible in the field. It is said that when the Turkic army besieged Yang Guang in Yanmen City two years ago, Wang Junlin only brought 10,000 cavalry there and defeated 20,000 Turkic cavalry in the field.
In the end, when the Turks were defeated and fled north, it was said that the Far Eastern Army pursued them all the way and consumed all the Turkic Khan's 40,000 wolf cavalry. Therefore, Maogong had better not act rashly, otherwise even if the Far Eastern Army was defeated, the Wagang inner camp would suffer heavy losses.
I'm afraid the copycat troops in the outer camp will have different ideas and shake the foundation of our Wagang."
Xu Shiji wanted to say something else, but Li Mi said without any doubt: "I plan to give orders to all armies not to go out to fight no matter how the Far East Army provokes them. And if they want to attack the stronghold, let them attack. I don't believe it."
They will have no consumption.”
Xu Shiji sighed and said, "Mr. Mi, will this make others angry?"
Li Mi sighed: "Mr. Mao, you have never fought against Wang Junlin's army. Wang Junlin and his army cannot be judged by common sense. We must use the copycat troops in the outer camp to consume the Far East Army first.
Otherwise, we will lose even if we win. Besides, we now have more than 300,000 troops in the outer camp. They are all good and bad, and their combat effectiveness is low. I want to organize the army into a unified organization and hand it over to you for training. These idiots don't agree either. This time
Just use the Far Eastern Army to give them a beating. When they were beaten badly by the Far Eastern Army, Mao Gong led the inner camp to defeat the Far Eastern Army who was tired of attacking the mountain stronghold and had a certain amount of consumption. This could just highlight the power of the inner camp. The next step
I can use this to integrate the outer camp, which can be regarded as killing two birds with one stone."
Next to Li Mi, Fang Yanzao, the chief strategist, interjected: "Mi Gong, although the outer camp of the Wagang Army is not well trained, our inner camp and outer camp combined now have more than 400,000 people. If Wang Junlin leads the Far East Army,
It’s enough to come in full force. Now they just sent a young general in his twenties and led 40,000 horses to attack. Even if we don’t count the inner camp led by Mao Gong and Cheng Zhijie, there is one warrior for every ten people in the other camps.
Counting the number of soldiers, compared with the invading Far Eastern Army, the ratio is seven or eight to one. I really don’t understand why Mi Gong is so afraid of the incoming enemy.”
Li Mi was unable to stand down after being told by Fang Yanzao, and his face was a little embarrassed. This Fang Yanzao was a famous talent in the world, and he was one of a group of talented people from all over the world who believed that Li Mi was the destined emperor and took the initiative to join him.
He was a very famous person, and he was quite talented in literature and ability, so he was reused by Li Mi.
But this man is a bit arrogant. Apart from Li Mi, only Xu Maogong in Wagang Village can catch his eye. Others including Zhai Rang, Cheng Yaojin, Shan Xiongxin and others are just reckless in his eyes.
That's all.
Li Mi's embarrassment only lasted for a moment, and he soon returned to normal and said with a smile: "Yan Zao doesn't know something about King Qin An. If you are not careful against the Poison King, you will end up losing everything. We
It’s not easy to accumulate wealth in Wagang Village until now. If these family assets are destroyed, what will we use to compete in the world?"
"What the secret official said is reasonable, but the lower official did not think carefully enough." Fang Yanzao knew that what he had just said was a little too much, and he did not dare to say more on the matter. He said instead: "It's just the Far East Army spreading rumors through the mouths of the defeated soldiers.
, disrupting the morale of our army, although Duke Mi already has a long-term strategy in his mind to defeat the enemy, in order to prevent the armies in the outer camps from deserting, and to arouse their fighting spirit, we should also think of an emergency measure!"
Li Mi smiled and said: "Don't worry, Yanzao. The villages in the outer camp are short of food and grass. I have already sent an order that the heads of Far Eastern Army soldiers can be used to come to Wagang main village to receive rewards. Each Far Eastern Army head can be exchanged for one stone of food.
If you kill a thousand people and your food is doubled, your general will be promoted to one level.
class."
Fang Yanzao said with admiration: "Mi Gong is far-sighted."
Xu Shiji next to him flashed a hint of disdain and ridicule towards Fang Yanzao in his eyes. He couldn't stand the hypocritical dialogue between the two scholars and interjected: "Secretary, since the men of the Far East Army are so difficult to deal with,
Why don't you and I go together to persuade Mr. Zhai to return Zhang Xutuo's body to the Far Eastern Army? This way, the people in the outer camp will no longer have any doubts, and the plan of the Secret Duke can be implemented smoothly."
Fang Yanzao also said: "What Duke Mao said is absolutely true. Now Mi Gong is the man of destiny and the true emperor who wants to reestablish a new dynasty. This kind of banditry of beheading people and holding the bodies for ransom can no longer be done.
Otherwise, if it spreads, it will be extremely detrimental to the reputation of Mi Gong. Besides, returning Zhang Xutuo’s head to his family will prevent the Far Eastern Army from repeatedly using it as an excuse to alienate the troops in the outer village."
"Mr. Mao and Yan Zao don't know. I have given advice to Mr. Zhai several times and even tried to persuade him. However, Mr. Zhai believes that Zhang Xutuo's body can be exchanged for a lot of ransom, and Mr. Zhai thinks that the corpse of Wagangzhai
Some rules cannot be changed lightly, so I refuse to listen to Li's advice! Please also ask Mao Gong to explain to the people below what Mr. Zhai means, so as to stabilize the morale of the army." Li Mi shook his head repeatedly and sighed, but there was a flash in his eyes.
After a flash of light, I thought to myself that if Zhai Rang took the initiative to return Zhang Xutuo's body, wouldn't the third one of my plans to achieve three goals with one stone be in vain?
Few people know that Li Jing's exaggeration of Wagang Village's failure to return Zhang Xutuo's body by claiming that the defeated army was in fact played into Li Mi's favor in some respects, and the latter immediately realized that this was beneficial to him.
He wanted to take advantage of the resentment aroused by Li Jing in Wagang Village to put the blame on Zhai Rang intentionally or unintentionally. No matter how many people the Far East Army killed in Wagang Village, they would all be blamed on Zhai Rang, and then he would
We can use this opportunity to force Zhai Rang to completely surrender and hand over power, or even remove him, and truly complete the centralization of power in Wagang Village.
Fang Yanzao didn't know Li Mi's thoughts, and he didn't hide his dissatisfaction and disgust with Zhai Rang in front of Li Mi. He sneered: "Mr. Zhai is worthy of being a bandit leader, and he doesn't look at the current situation in Mi Gong in Wagang Village.
The management is very different from the past. Besides, having tens of thousands more pieces of meat may not necessarily make the main village fat. Losing the hearts of the brothers in the outer camp will outweigh the gains. Although Mr. Zhai is considered a tycoon, he does not rule the world after all.
People’s vision is still limited.”
Although Li Mi is currently in charge of Wagang Village, Zhai Rang has a detached status, which has resulted in Wagang Village being divided into two camps.
Although Zhai Rang believed that Li Mi was the destined emperor and gave Li Mi great privileges and left many decisions to Li Mi, he still had great influence among the commanders of each battalion, and Zhai Rang had little control over money and food.
He kept looking at it closely and holding it firmly in his hand, which made Li Mi secretly hate and fear him.
However, considering that the time was not ripe, Li Mi never took action to remove Zhai Rang, but the arrival of the Far Eastern Army now is an opportunity.
Of course, in order to take advantage of this, the premise is to annihilate or at least drive away the 40,000 troops of the Far East Army. As for the great losses that the Far East Army will cause to Wagang Village, he does not need to worry about this at all. Instead, he has to think about it.
Try your best to prevent the elites in the inner camp from losing too much.
Li Mi knew Fang Yanzao's character very well. He knew that the latter was a big talker and liked to complain the most. He believed that he didn't need to say anything at all. Regarding Zhai Rang's stubbornness and conservative refusal to return Zhang Xutuo's body, he attracted the poisonous king.
Far Eastern Army, news spread that many people were killed and injured.
There were other people sitting here, most of whom were from his Li Mi family, especially those who had been demoted from the Sui Dynasty and had taken refuge in Wagang Village, and they only recognized Li Mi.
Li Mi saw the dissatisfaction of these people with Zhai Rang in his eyes, and was very satisfied in his heart. However, he gritted his teeth hard and said resolutely: "Forget it, Mr. Zhai has some wrong ideas. I can't ignore it. I
Today I'm going to stroke Mr. Zhai's beard again and persuade him to return Zhang Xutuo's body to him."