Mingyue of the Great Song Dynasty http://www./0_1/Chapter 57: See you on the battlefield without seeing the world (Sixth)

Three days have passed since we arrived in Xinshi. In these three days, the army in Wancheng did not move south again.

Despite the humiliation, at least now, the Chongling Army has a place to live. With the development of the Green Forest Army in Xinshi, more than 30,000 people have gathered. Although the equipment is simple and most of the soldiers are just refugees, relying on Green Forest Mountain as the core, it has resisted the imperial court's several encirclements and suppression.

Now, Liu Yan and the Chongling Army led by him have completely become subordinates of the Green Forest Army.

Although the Liu clan who lost Liu Liang still had some dissatisfaction with this, he had already expressed some dissatisfaction, but fortunately, under Liu Yan's years of preaching, he still did not break completely. After all, the general trend is in front of him, and even if he does not join the Green Forest Army, what else can he do?

Xinshi is also a township under Nanyang County. In Xinshi, there is a Green Forest Mountain. Although it is not high, it can accommodate tens of thousands of people on the mountain. After being accepted by the Green Forest Army, the Chongling Army obtained a flat land between the valleys for them to station.

Now, in the camp of the Chongling Army, several officials from the Chongling Army gathered together. Even Li Tong, who had just woken up from a coma, forced his injured body and sat among the crowd.

"Master, according to the rewards from the city, the more than 2,000 cavalry returned to Wancheng after the pursuit was fruitless. But now, the troops in Wancheng have begun to mobilize again. It seems that the army will go south soon." Ren Guang hurriedly walked in outside the tent and reported to Liu Yan.

Although Xiaoyue Tower was captured before, Liu Yan's hidden forces were still deeply rooted in Wancheng. Even though all the swordsmen have been killed, Wang Mu, who had just arrived, could not have been able to uproot the remaining intelligence network in a flash and sweep it away.

Therefore, after being driven out of Wancheng, Liu Yan could still obtain information from Wancheng, although it was not very detailed.

"I knew I would come sooner or later. Although I don't know why, Wang Mu always wanted Ah Xiu's life." Liu Yan said coldly.

"I'm sorry, lord..." Li Tong's left arm was broken, wrapped tightly with a white cloth, hanging on his chest. When Xiaoyue Tower was attacked, although Ren Guang tried his best to rescue him, he still fell into a coma. It was not long ago that he had just woken up from a coma.

At this moment, he was lowering his head with guilt on his face, not daring to look directly at Liu Yan's gaze.

He claimed to have made complete plans, but this time he gave a completely wrong result. How could Li Tong not blame himself?

"No... it's not your fault." Liu Yan shook his head instead: "You are right, I'm wrong."

Li Tong's whole body was shocked and he looked up in surprise.

"The results of your divination are correct." Liu Yan smiled self-deprecatingly: "We did easily occupy the South Gate, and Zhang Fang was indeed killed. If you want to blame, you can only blame me for asking you to divinate, and these two questions were raised."

"But...that's because of my incompetence..." Li Tong was still guilty: "If I weren't just good at calculating such small things..."

"Everyone has its own strengths. It's already great that you can calculate small things so accurately. But... I will add more of my own judgment in the future." Liu Yan gently patted Li Tong on the shoulder: "Okay, let's not talk about this. Let's take a look at the relationship between us and the Green Forest Army in the future."

"Strictly speaking, we are also part of the Green Forest Army now..." Liu Xiu smiled bitterly: "Brother, have you forgotten that we have already joined them?"

"Hmph... What is the momentary attainment?" Liu Yan snorted disdainfully: "Wang Kuang and Wang Feng are just tools for us to live in temporarily. I must be the one who will eventually win the world!"

"Because the boss... is the one who bears the destiny!" Liu Ji grinned and laughed.

More than 7,000 people, after three years of preparation and careful planning, the attack that they thought was bound to win was seen through by the opponent and lost a lot, which led to the loss of the troops and generals, and they fell to the point of surrendering to the Green Forest Army.

If it were other troops, I would have been depressed and panic at this moment. However, none of the few people in the camp now felt depressed at all, but everyone was full of fighting spirit.

Because they all witnessed those two miracles with their own eyes.

If the first hail can barely be called a coincidence, then the second river water cut off and then flowed again without warning, can only be regarded as a complete destiny.

So although there are only more than 2,000 remaining troops in Chongling Army, they are full of great confidence in Liu Yan from top to bottom.

"So, how many troops are expected to be attacked?" Liu Yan looked at Ren Guang.

Ren Guang nodded: "What we know originally is that the troops in Wancheng are about 10,000, including more than 1,000 cavalry. But this time, the troops brought by Wang Mu had 30,000. Adding up the two sides, even if some of them were left to defend the city, the subordinates believed that... the troops that could attack us would not be less than 30,000."

"Thirty thousand? How could Wang Mu bring 30,000 people!" Liu Yan frowned and looked at Ren Guang: "If Wang Mu had 30,000 men under him on the night we attacked Wancheng, we would never be able to escape! Besides, before that, we had been in Wancheng. He brought 30,000 people into the city, how could he hide it from our eyes!"

Ren Guang shook his head guiltily: "Until the night we launched the siege, Wang Mu's direct troops were only 500, just those soldiers holding giant shields and crossbows. When they entered the city, they were all casual clothes, and their weapons were disguised as goods transported into the city, just to hide from us and lure us into the game. As for the remaining 30,000 people, they arrived in Wancheng within these three days."

Liu Yan clenched his fists tightly.

This is indeed a game, a huge game that has been carefully planned for a long time.

Just to catch yourself in one go.

The intelligence network he had before had already penetrated into the entire Wancheng. If the army arrived from Chang'an, he would never have been indifferent. Wang Mu obviously knew this very well. He only brought five hundred people into the city lightly, concealed his intelligence, and waited to launch a countermeasure the night he started his army. It can be seen that Wang Mu's understanding of him and his strategy for this battle are by no means an ordinary person.

This is a terrible opponent!

"Thirty thousand people... If you only rely on Green Forest Mountain and defend with all your strength... there may be a chance of victory." Liu Xiu looked at his brother, and a wry smile appeared on his face.

The Green Forest Army currently has 30,000 to 40,000 troops, but even if the number is equal, its combat power will never be at the same level. After all, it is an army composed of refugees, and it can only be considered very ordinary in terms of equipment and training. Liu Xiu has already concluded in the past two days of observation, and it is not even as good as the Chongling Army.

At present, the entire army can only rely on Green Forest Mountain as its support. In that case, despite the gap in combat power, it is not impossible to fight. In fact, in the past few years, the Green Forest Army did resist Zhang Fang's encirclement in this way.

"It seems that's all." Liu Yan nodded: "Then... let's wait for the attack of the new dynasty army in Wancheng first."

But what surprised Liu Yan's side was that the imperial soldiers in Wancheng seemed to have been ready to leave the city, but they stopped mobilizing and stayed in the city again.

It only takes more than one hundred miles from Wancheng to Xinshi. Even if the army advances, it only takes two days at most. According to Wang Mu's previous actions, he shouldn't have reacted so slowly.

After spending half a month in doubt, Liu Yan and others received a tip from Wancheng.

New reinforcements have arrived.

According to time calculations, it was after Liu Yan and others escaped from Huang Chun's water that Wang Mu changed his mind and no longer planned to confront Liu Yan with his existing forces, but decided to make a contribution to one battle and use the overwhelming gap in force to defeat the Chongling Army and the Green Forest Army in one place.

Nearly two months later, it was the first month of the fourth year of the Dihuang, and the troops gathered in Wancheng gradually approached 100,000.

Such a gap in military strength is no longer something that Green Forest can resist. Even if it is based on Green Forest Mountain defense, it is impossible to win.

Fortunately, there are other rebels nearby.

In the Nanjun area to the west, there were more than 10,000 rebels led by Wang Chang and Cheng Dan, named Xiajiang Bing. Chen Mu, Liao Zhan and others gathered more than 5,000 people in the southeast area and named Pinglin Bing. Although they were both anti-Mang Rebels, they were just fighting on their own and did not have much exchanges with each other.

After all, before, the main force of the court fought against the Red Eyebrow Army in the north, and there were not many troops stationed in Wancheng. Even if they fought each other, the prefect of Wancheng, Zhang Fang, was not able to destroy any of them.

However, the sudden increase in troops in Wancheng now made everyone feel pressured, and the situation has forced them to unite.

When Wancheng had just begun to increase its troops, Wang Kuang and Wang Feng sent envoys to contact the two rebel armies of Xia Pinglin. No matter how unfamiliar they were before, everyone knew that since the court had gathered 100,000 people in Wancheng, it was impossible to just target the Green Forest.

This time, there will be a decisive battle.

After joining forces with the two rebel armies of Xiajiang Pinglin, the total number of Green Forest Army has reached more than 50,000. But the problem also exists - if the two rebel armies of Xiajiang Pinglin are added, the current situation will never allow the rebel armies to retreat to Green Forest Mountain as a plan to fight.

Otherwise, if Wang Mu used some of his troops to defend Lulin Mountain and the remaining troops went to sweep away Xiajiang Pinglin, then Wang Chang, Chen Mu and others would instantly turn into rootless water.

By then, they who lost their base will become vassals of the Green Forest Army, just like the current Chongling Army.

Therefore, although the leaders of several rebels met together in Xinshi and discussed for three days, they still failed to reach a compromise.

The decisive battle was held by Huang Chunshui! This is the final conclusion!

Although Wang Kuang and Wang Feng were not willing, they could not convince Jiang Pinglin's two rebel leaders in no matter what.

And the army in Wancheng finally began to dispatch.

Heading towards the south, their goal was indeed the new city occupied by the Green Forest Army.
Chapter completed!