The Donglu troops withdrew, and the pressure in the north of Xuzhou dropped sharply. Li Yuan also took Chen Zilong, Fang Yizhi, Xu Du and others to escape from Xuzhou City, along with hundreds of soldiers trained by the Uprising.
In fact, Li Yuan could have managed to hold the Xiguan Gate of Xuzhou at that time and wait for Li Laiheng to lead the main force of the Breaking Army to take over. In this way, he could directly capture Xuzhou.
It's just that although Li Yuan is indeed a spy for the break-in army, he is not a professional soldier and does not even belong to the special operations system of the Red Team. Instead, he belongs to the business system of Kendeji and lacks the ability to organize a large-scale army.
experience and abilities.
Therefore, he weighed the two considerations and felt that it would be better to rescue Fang Yizhi and others first. Fang Yizhi's personal factors naturally had a great impact on Li Yuan's judgment.
Although Li Yuan didn't know the specific relationship between Fang Yizhi and Fang Yiren, they were cousins after all. Li Yuan judged others by himself and felt that protecting Fang Yizhi's personal safety should be his priority.
That "black scholar" is now called "grand master" by many surrendered officials and gentry!
If he can sell Grand Master Fang a favor, it will naturally be of great benefit to Li Yuan's future career development within the Chuang Army.
And judging from what he has observed after lurking in Xuzhou City for so long, the Xuzhou Suppressant General, who already had little combat effectiveness, has become extremely weak after the Xuzhou military rebellion.
Although Gao Qian now controls all the armed forces under the Xuzhou Suppressant General by chance, the total of these troops and horses does not have much real combat effectiveness. According to Li Yuan's estimate, the invading army only needs two to three thousand people to attack the city.
, you can easily eliminate Gao Zhen and recapture Xuzhou without spending half an afternoon.
That's why he dared to send Fang Yizhi, Chen Zilong, Xu Du and other troops to evacuate Xuzhou first, giving priority to protecting the personal safety of these famous scholars.
These people, especially Fang Yizhi, were among the people who had been personally named by the envoy and asked Ken Deji and the Red Team to pay special attention to them.
It's a pity that Shi Kefa ended up in Xuzhou City.
Li Yuan shook his head and shook this regretful thought out of his head. Although Shi Kefa was far more famous than Fang Yizhi and Chen Zilong, he was the real top border official of the imperial court, and Li Yuan had been lurking during this period.
The experience also made him understand that even if Shi Kefa was forcibly taken to the Chuang camp, it would be difficult for him to join the Chuang army given Shi Kefa's temperament and conduct.
In fact, if it hadn't been for what Yuan Shizhong had done, even Chen Zilong, Fang Yizhi, and Xu Dusansheng would have been unlikely to choose the desperate path of "going up to Liangshan".
None of them were riding horses. They were walking slowly with boots like ordinary soldiers. Fortunately, on the road from Xuzhou to Guide, all the prefectures, counties and towns had been quickly captured by the Chu Chuang army like the autumn wind sweeping away fallen leaves.
Got a clean one.
Not long after Li Yuan and his men left Xuzhou, they had only walked for a quarter of an hour when they bumped into Ye Bushou and the vanguard of the intruders scattered in front.
In the chilling autumn wind, the scouts and cavalry of the intruders stood in the wind. A red tassel on their felt hats fluttered left and right in the wind. Li Yuan stood there and looked straight at the past.
The military cavalrymen had their backs to the setting sun. Under the bloody sky, their faces could not be clearly seen. They could only see a dark blue figure, but they were full of intimidation.
"This is Chuangjun!"
Xu Du was the first to shout out. He knew the most about military affairs in his three lives. After all, he had led soldiers. He just glanced at this group of invading cavalry and felt an irresistible pressure.
Chen Zilong and Fang Yizhi also looked at each other's faces. From each other's expressions, they could see the terrifying appearance of the invading army in front of them.
The seven intruder cavalry quickly formed a team while running. After the test of the Battle of Dangshan and the rest and recuperation in the days after the war, the intruder cavalry had greater speed and efficiency in reorganizing their formations.
of improvement.
Although Li Yuan, Chen Zilong, and Fang Yizhi are not military experts who are familiar with military affairs, just by looking at the clean equestrian movements of Chuangjun Tanqi and the astonishing speed of reorganizing the team, you can know that this group of people is definitely better than Gao Qian.
Too awesome.
"Mr. Li!"
"Awei!"
Li Yuan did not expect that the first group of soldiers he saw would include his acquaintance Li Weiqun. Li Weiqun was one of the young officers who graduated from the Suiying School. He once escorted the business personnel of Kendeji to the enemy.
He has occupied the area several times, so Li Yuan is very familiar with him.
Just after leaving Xuzhou's war-torn Shura Field, he could see his old acquaintances and old friends. Don't look at the fact that Li Yuan always put on a calm and indifferent expression in front of Fang Yizhi, Chen Zilong, and Xu Du. In fact, what he
The pressure they bear is much greater than that of Fang Yizhi and several others.
Li Yuan slowly exhaled a puff of turbid air, put down the heavy pressure of the past few days, and finally looked at Li Weiqun with a smile and said, "Fortunately, I have fulfilled all the tasks assigned by Shopkeeper Xiao and the Strict Management Team.
"
"dismount!"
Li Weiqun gave the order and asked the other Ye Buzuan to jump off their horses. During the Battle of Dangshan, he followed Gu Kecheng and captured hundreds of Manchu soldiers. Now he has been promoted from the commander-in-chief to the deputy commander of the brigade due to his military exploits, and has risen to the top.
He has become one of the middle-level military officers.
Therefore, his orders certainly have great authority over ordinary cavalry soldiers.
After the cavalry dismounted, Li Weiqun led the horses to Li Yuan, Fang Yizhi and others to ride, and said: "Mr. Li, you don't know yet, do you? The generalissimo has sent someone to Guide to contact our marshal."
Li Yuan asked in surprise: "Could it be that the situation in the Central Plains has changed?"
"Haha, the situation in the Central Plains has indeed changed." Li Weiqun held the horse and laughed loudly, "But there have been major changes that are beneficial to the Chu army and not beneficial to the Ming army."
Chen Zilong, Fang Yizhi, and Xu Du, who were also riding on the war horse, had a very complicated mentality when they heard this sentence. The three of them were originally loyal scholars to the imperial court, and they all came from families with many honors.
Because Hou Xun, Gao Qian and others brutalized Zhongliang, and he was impulsive and reckless, he was inexplicably "reduced" to the point of going to Liangshan.
Judging from the true intentions and emotional habits of the three of them, they certainly felt very uncomfortable when they heard Li Weiqun bluntly say that "the situation of the Ming army is unfavorable."
Li Yuan didn't feel anything at all. He asked directly: "Oh? Did the Generalissimo achieve some results in Luoyang?"
When he mentioned the major victory achieved by Generalissimo Li Zicheng in Luoyang, Li Weiqun's eyes lit up. With a smile on his face, he explained to Li Yuan and others:
"The thing is like this: Didn't the old grandson lead an army of 100,000 to fight the Chuang army in the Lingbao area earlier? The old grandson was particularly cautious in using troops. When the Qin army fought against the Chuang army, they kept arranging their formations and could not easily defeat them.
We fought with our troops in waves. On the Yellow River, there was also a fleet of boats commanded by the governor of Henan, who helped the Qin army supply food, supplies, and equipment along the way.
The general wanted to penetrate behind the Qin army and divide and surround them, but he couldn't do it!"
"Ah! Sun Chuanting is indeed a famous general and minister in the imperial court. Among the existing major governors, he is the only one with rich military experience, so he will naturally become the strongest enemy that the invading army will encounter."
"Hey, if the old grandson keeps dragging it on so carefully, maybe the generalissimo can only continue the stalemate with him near Lingbao or Luoyang. But later, I don't know why, maybe the old grandson came up with a trick on his own
The unexpected troops came to defeat the Chuang army. He actually asked Huang Shu, who once wanted to break the dike under the city of Kaifeng, and later ran to Yunyang and became our enemy, and ordered Huang Shu to lead an army of Niuchenghu to attack Yunyang from the Xing'an area.
, I want to take advantage of the situation and attack Huguang."
Fang Yizhi frowned and couldn't help but interjected: "Since the officers and soldiers were in a stalemate with the Chuang army in the Lingbao area and were unable to advance, it is not unexpected that Sun Zhitai would choose another way to seek a breakthrough.
Something?"
Li Weiqun glanced at Fang Yizhi out of the corner of his eye, ignored the scholar's words, and continued to say to Li Yuan:
"Old grandson may have thought well, because our commander-in-chief left Suizhou and took many elite soldiers and generals with him! Huang Shu, the man he sent to attack Yunyang, contacted many people in Huguang who harbored resentment towards our commander-in-chief.
, among the officials and gentry who harbored secret resentments, there was a man named Qiu Zhitao, who happened to be still serving as the governor of Yunyang Prefecture!
Huang Shu had received the secret report from Qiu Zhitao and thought that the rebel army was in Yunyang and there were not many troops left in the Xiangyang area. How could he have imagined that Qiu Zhitao had long been closely monitored by our red team. Huang Shu
He thought he had a plan, but in fact it was completely planned by General Guo and Chen Jiedu.
Not only Qiu Zhitao threw himself into the trap, but also the large number of officials and gentry contacted by Huang Shu and Qiu Zhitao in Yunyang and Xiangyang, all of them were exposed at this time. Chen Jiedu didn't waste much effort.
Suizhou mobilized a small army to wipe out all these unreasonable rebellious officials and gentry."