Shortly after the Chuang army captured Ye County, they divided their forces and captured the undefended Wuyang County. In just a few days, Li Laiheng conquered Yuzhou, Ye County, and Wuyang, two counties and one state, and all of them were under his control
middle.
But after all, this was just taking advantage of the opportunity when the main force of the official army was mobilized by Li Zicheng to move north. The two troops, Li Laiheng's front and Liu Fangliang's left, combined, had only five thousand elite troops at full strength. They had to stop the official army.
It is still too difficult to counterattack and firmly occupy the territory of these two counties and one state.
Therefore, Li Laiheng negotiated with Liu Fangliang and continued to adopt the "city-leveling" strategy: demolishing the city walls of Yuzhou, Ye County, and Wuyang County and burying their trenches. Even if the army recaptured the three cities, they would no longer be able to rely on the city walls in the short term.
Got defensive.
In addition, Li Laiheng also specially asked Miao Lichen to lead the troops in the territorial wood camp to carefully survey the dangerous mountains and rivers in the three places. He also asked Zhang Yuheng, who was in charge of logistics, to spend a lot of money to recruit a group of experienced merchants traveling to southern Henan to help Miao.
Li Chen drew the topographic map of Nanyang Prefecture.
"After we destroy the walls of the three cities, if there is a need for defense, we can still use the tactic of defending the danger but not the city. Therefore, it is extremely important to survey the dangerous points of the three cities and draw them into graphics."
Miao Lichen and Zhang Yuheng both nodded repeatedly. Both of them were relatively calm in character. Miao Lichen had already shown a calm demeanor when he was defending Luoyang, while Zhang Yuheng was a businessman and had traveled all over the country.
I have seen a lot of things in the world.
Li Laiheng felt very relieved that they would handle this matter.
The only person he was dissatisfied with was Li Shiwei.
After the war in Ye County ended, Li Laiheng punished Li Shiwei by shutting himself up and thinking about his mistakes. He reused Li Shiwei, a young general with little qualifications. In addition to Li Shiwei's studious attitude towards firearms technology, there was indeed an element of selfishness.
If Li Shiwei were not from Mizhi, Li Laiheng's hometown, would it be this newcomer's turn to be in charge of the Bird Guns team?
His performance cannot be said to be bad. Although Li Shiwei was not as calm as Miao Lichen when defending Luoyang, there was no big mistake.
In this battle with Liu Guoneng, Li Shiwei commanded the firearms troops and his performance was remarkable. Only when Li Wanqing retreated, he was stunned and failed to take any effective blocking action, which was very clumsy.
If Li Wanqing and Liu Guoneng had not made a life-and-death agreement and took the initiative to die, they would most likely have let go of an army, which would have added variables to the subsequent attacks on Ye County and Wuyang County.
After Li Laiheng sent Miao Lichen and Zhang Yuheng away, he returned to the barracks and broke into the army to conquer Ye County. He temporarily lived in the military camp built by Liu Guoneng in the past, which could be regarded as making the best use of everything.
In the barracks where Li Laiheng rested, in addition to himself, there were two confidants, Fang Yiren and Zhang Pili. Like Li Shiwei, they were not camp breakers like Gao Yigong, Hao Yaoqi, and Guo Junzhen.
Old brother, but a "private person" purely promoted by Li Laiheng.
Especially Fang Yiren, there is almost no place for him to survive without Li Laiheng. Therefore, now that Li Laiheng has gradually developed other ideas, this person who Li Laiheng was most worried about before has gradually become the mastermind of the Little Tiger Team.
Fang Yiren sat on a bench. He was used to drinking the roughest broken tea with the soldiers who broke into the camp, and the clothes he wore became more and more frugal.
Seeing Li Laiheng's helpless expression, Fang Yiren persuaded him: "Commander, Li Shiwei is someone close to you. Besides, among the current camp, only Li Shiwei has the most experience in commanding firearms and artillery troops. He
He is still young and has very little to do. It is not surprising that he makes mistakes occasionally. As long as he can correct them, he may be a piece of Wu Xia Amon's material."
Zhang Pili stood alone against the wall, with his hands clasped in front of his chest. He did not open his mouth, but nodded repeatedly to express his approval after Fang Yiren spoke.
"Hey, it's not that I don't understand this. In the final analysis, we still have too few people in our pocket. If Shiwei doesn't make progress, we can only teach him and force him to make progress."
Fang Yiren waited for Li Laiheng to sit down and sighed for a long time, and then continued: "The great ancestor was born in Fengfei, and most of the founding heroes were his predecessors. The same is true for Hongwu. What does the commander think is going on?"
Li Laiheng smiled helplessly and said: "Of course I understand that only by trusting the private person can we get more opportunities to make mistakes and grow up. It's just that our capital is limited. If we blindly reuse the private person, we will not only annoy the brothers, but also
I lost all my business!"
"If we attack a city now, we will destroy it. If we destroy a city, we will lose it. Then the capital is naturally limited."
Fang Yiren was a little dissatisfied with the "rogue bandit" tactics of invading the army and destroying the city. He went on to say: "In fact, the strategy proposed by Niu Jinxing and Song Xiance of occupying Heluo and fighting for the Central Plains does have a long-term vision. It is just a self-defense attack.
After King Chuang failed to attack Bian, the Chuang army returned to the mountains and wandered around, which did not seem to be a long-term strategy."
Li Laiheng shook his head and replied: "I understand this. In fact, who among the people who broke into the camp, including the marshal, doesn't understand this? It's not that we don't want to stick to the city and consolidate the rear, but the strength of the official army is still far away.
Above me, if you are trapped in the city, you will be trapped. You still need to use mobile tactics to defeat the main force of the army, and then you can try to figure out a strategy to build the foundation."
"Sigh." Fang Yiren sighed, "If after conquering Luoyang, we don't risk attacking Kaifeng, which is a waste of time and troops, but instead divide our troops to go south to Ruzhou and Ye County to capture Nanyang and its affiliated counties, we can make Wan and Luoyang
They are connected together and form horns with each other. One army is stationed in Nanyang and divided into divisions to defend Dengzhou. Then the Ming Dynasty's officers and soldiers in Huguang cannot enter the Central Plains from Xiangyang and Yunyang, and the officers and soldiers in Shaanxi cannot enter from Shangzhou and Wu Guandong.
Come."
Fang Yiren looked outside the barracks and sighed: "If Wan and Luo are consolidated, we can leave Chenggao from Luoyang, leave Ye County from Nanyang, take Zhengzhou and Xuchang to the east, join forces with Kaifeng, march east to Shangqiu, and approach Xu and Yang. From
Fangcheng and Wuyang, taking Yancheng and Runan in the east, sweeping Chenzhou and Yingzhou, and returning to the Jianghuai River. At this time, the combat strategy based on Henan will be considered successful and invincible.
It is called to occupy Heluo and fight for the world."
Li Laiheng clapped his hands and said with a smile: "What Leshan said is that the insight is profound, which can be said to be brilliant. But have you ever thought that the real warriors of the Chuang Army only numbered more than ten thousand people, and it was really easy to divide the troops to defend Nanyang and Dengzhou.
Can it block the Qin and Chu troops from entering Henan?"
"If there are thirty or forty thousand elite warriors in the Chuang army, then Luoyang and Nanyang can naturally be used as the base to recruit exiles, subsidize the people, reclaim wasteland, and restore production. But now that we don't have this capital, we can only adopt the strategy of pinging the city.
, we can only consider establishing fundamental matters after our troops and horses have grown stronger."
Fang Yiren opened the platinum fracture fan that Li Laiheng had obtained from Prince Fu's treasury and later gave it to him, shook it and said: "The sentry thinks why Emperor Hongwu was able to cross the river and take Jiqing as king when his army was not strong enough."
Where is Ba Zhiji?”
Li Laiheng frowned, waved his hand and asked Zhang Pizhu to close the door and go to guard outside the barracks. Then Fang Yiren replied: "Is it because King Xiao Ming restrained the Yuan Ting army in the north?"
"This is part of the reason, but not all." Fang Yiren studied in the south of the Yangtze River and had contacts with many scholars. At that time, it was quite popular among the literati in the south of the Yangtze River to study the history of the Ding Revolution in the late Yuan and early Ming dynasties, so he also mastered many common people's knowledge.
Unclear historical data.
"In the 16th year of the Zhizheng period, Zhang Shicheng attacked Jiangnan. Taking this opportunity, Emperor Hongwu led the land and sea troops to attack Jiqing for the third time. They captured Stone City and renamed Jiqing Yingtian Mansion, which laid the foundation for the unification of the world."
Fang Yiren came straight to the point and said directly to Li Laiheng: "If the commander wants to enter Chu, he must have Chuang Wang's army in the north to contain the main force of the official army, and Xian, Cao, and Ge in the south to attack Hannan and Jianghuai. If the situation is like this, our army will
You can take advantage of the opportunity to seize the Chu land, blocking Tongbai Mountain in the north and Han River in the south. First, use the land of several prefectures and counties as a foothold to reward farming and warfare. You will have strong soldiers and horses, who can fight and defend, and you will have wealth, soldiers and horses.
If you go out, the future is limitless."
Li Laiheng tapped the table with his index and middle fingers. Fang Yiren's strategy hit exactly what he was thinking.
But what he hesitated was: the Little Tigers were different from Zhu Yuanzhang. The Haozhou Red Scarf Army regime to which Zhu Yuanzhang belonged had no close relationship with the Red Scarf Army Central Committee of King Xiao Ming. After Guo Zixing died, Zhu Yuanzhang naturally became the leader of the Haozhou Red Scarf Army system.
As one of the heirs, as long as Guo Zixing's eldest son Guo Tianxu and Guo Zixing's brother-in-law Zhang Tianyou are settled, he can naturally become the sole leader of the Haozhou Red Scarf Army system.
This is a condition that Li Laiheng does not have. It has only been more than a year since he joined the camp, and his foundation is still very weak. More importantly, Li Zicheng is to Li Laiheng the same as Guo Zixing who has the financial strength of Han Liner and Liu Futong.
It is not possible for Li Laiheng to do what Zhu Yuanzhang did, to a large extent break away from the central government and go it alone.
"Before there is a situation where a marshal in the north blocks the army from entering Chu and a cao cao in the south attacks the Han River, we can only adopt the method of attacking one city first, leveling one city and then moving one city. First, we need to expand our capital and become stronger.
Only when you get up can you consider the big plan of occupying the three Chu states."
Li Laiheng picked up the tea cup, touched it lightly with Fang Yiren, and said with a smile: "There are too few people who are literate in our army. The number of troops is increasing rapidly, and there is a shortage of people in various literary and artistic businesses. In the future, we will set up official professors in various states and counties.
The job is to govern the place. There are not many people who are proficient in writing. The job is to be in charge of prison books, so things are not easy to handle."
Fang Yiren lowered his eyelids and replied: "When recruiting scholars and employing people, there will be a commander who is determined to be dictatorial, so it is not convenient for me to comment on it."