Staff Secretary Zhaoma Li Jize frowned: "Your Highness, then, my Beijing camp will be directly colliding with the elite thieves..."

Zhu Cilang understands Li Jize's worries.

Although the Jingying camp showed a certain combat power, it was a new army after all. In the plan formulated by the General Staff Office and the Young Sima Wu Di, the main force in Zhuxian Town and cannon fodder was the main force, and Zuo Liangyu's elite troops were mainly Zuo Liangyu's 50,000 elite troops, and 20,000 Jingying camp was responsible for defending the prince and harvesting the final victory, so Zuo Liangyu's troops would be in the front. But now the prince has changed the marching organization. In addition to the cavalry, most of the soldiers of the Zuo Jian had to move to the back, and the vacancy they left behind would be borne by the Jingwu Jian. In this way, fighting face to face with the bandits, the one on the front line became the Jingwu Jian. Regardless of whether the war was going smoothly, the Jingwu Jian might suffer huge losses, but the Zuo Jian could preserve its strength.

Zhu Cilang pondered: "The Zuoying marched slowly and the soldiers were tired. When they were in a hurry, they would definitely be defeated when they encountered a thief. For the overall situation of Kaifeng, my Beijing camp must take the lead! Of course, we can't make the Zuoying too relaxed. In addition to the cavalry, we ordered Zuo Liangyu to select a 10,000 elite in the field who could keep up with the pace of my Beijing camp. I think he could still do it."

Wu Yan nodded and bowed, "I understand, I will go and pass the order now."

Zhu Cilang shook his head: "Tell him before he set off the camp tonight, he will go to the army all night and let him have a good sleep."

Wu Yan and Hou Xun were quite moved. They did not expect that the prince was so considerate to Zuo Liangyu. In history, most of the favors of civil officials to military generals were wanted to use. Of course, there were reasons for the prince's compassion for Zuo Liangyu, but in addition, they also had people's intentions. I hope that Zuo Liangyu could regain his original intentions - with Zuo Liangyu's intelligence, he should be able to understand the prince's painstaking efforts.

At dusk, before the army was about to detach the camp, Zhu Cixuan received the latest information from the Military Information Department.

Yesterday, the bandits continued to attack Kaifeng City and did not stop until late at night. They used cars, ladders, artillery, bows and arrows, and even used the art of bombing the city, but they were all defeated by the defenders one by one...

After reading the information, Zhu Cilang breathed a sigh of relief.

Gao Mingheng and Chen Yongfu lived up to expectations, and Kaifeng successfully withstood Li Zicheng's three tricks.

"Where are Ding Qirui and Yang Wenyue?" Zhu Cixuan asked.

Zhang Jiayu immediately replied: "According to the plan, Ding Qirui went to the north of Ningling County today at dusk, and Yang Wenyue went to the south of Ningling County."

Ningling County belongs to Guide Prefecture, more than 80 miles away from Shangqiu City, where Guide Prefecture is located. Ding Qirui and Yang Wenyue set out from Shangqiu at Shenzhao (4 o'clock) yesterday afternoon. The current marching speed is normal.

"At the latest tomorrow evening, the thieves will get news from our army..."

Zhu Cilan stared at the map and muttered to himself.

Qi County is 110 miles away from Kaifeng. Ding Qirui will enter Qi County at dusk tomorrow. Yang Wenyue will arrive at Guanmiao Town in the southwest of Qi County and make an stance to march towards Zhuxian Town. Qi County is already Li Zicheng's eyeliner, and his scouts are everywhere. General Li Guo has also garrisoned in Chenliu, so the news will be delivered to Li Zicheng soon.

In order to avoid being attacked from both sides, Li Zicheng would temporarily withdraw from Kaifeng City and move the army to Chenliu and Zhuxian Town, preparing to fight the decisive battle with the official army.

I hope he can wander among the two banners of "Zuo Liangyu" and "Take the Sky to Expedition". It doesn't take much. As long as he has half a day of hesitation, Zhu Cilang's hope of success in the plan will greatly increase.

Before the army set out, Wu Yan announced the prince's new order to Zuo Liangyu.

Zuo Liangyu happily obeyed.

As a veteran on the battlefield, he knew the danger of marching at the vanguard than anyone else. The speed of the marching of his troops under his command last night made him quite dissatisfied. The new army of the prince's Beijing camp was energetic, but his elite troops in all battles were listless and dragging on, which was really ashamed. Although he even issued military orders, he could not increase the speed of the marching. He originally thought that before he could set off the camp tonight, he would find a way to explain the difficulties of the Zuoying camp, or could he reduce the speed of the marching? Unexpectedly, the prince had already made arrangements for him before he could tell him.

After the arrangement was completed, the army was deported.

The vanguard was Zuo Liangyu's 10,000 soldiers, then the 3,000 soldiers of the Jingwu Camp Shenji Camp, and finally the 40,000 soldiers left by Zuo Liangyu.

Unlike yesterday, every soldier has three days of dry food in his pocket today.

The so-called dry food is fried noodles.

Don’t add oil to the iron pot, pour the flour and stir-fry slowly over low heat. It will be light golden and smell the wheat aroma. Add appropriate amount of sugar and salt to make fried noodles. The fried noodles are easy to eat, can be eaten dry or brewed in boiling water. The most important thing is that they are easy to store, not easy to mold, and easy to digest. When soldiers are hungry, they can grab a handful of them from their pockets and feed them to their mouths.

This was not invented by the prince, but the method passed down by the Ming army for a long time. When Emperor Chengzu of the Ming Dynasty conquered the Mongolian Yuan Dynasty, he issued an order: "Each army has fried noodles along the way... Each army has three dou of wheat." At that time, there was even a recipe circulating: "Two liang of white salt, four liang of ginger, five jin of fried noodles and two fennel".

Before the start of the expedition, Zhu Cilang summoned generals above the generals to give a short lecture, so that all the generals would be vigilant and not make any mistakes.

Leaving Juzhou tonight and entering Tongxu County is equivalent to entering the sight of the bandits. They may be discovered by the bandits at any time. In order to speed up the marching and to better conceal, the army will no longer bury pots and make rice in the next two days, but will focus on dry food until it reaches Zhuxian Town.

As the vanguard, Wang Yuncheng and Li Guoying should increase the scope of advancement and search. When encountering thieves' reconnaissance cavalry, they should annihilate them at all costs. The villages they pass must be controlled one by one, and the thieves' eyeliners must not be allowed to inform them.

That night, Zhu Cilang was still riding in a carriage, and because the Beijing camp was ahead, the speed of the march was significantly accelerated.

In the middle of the night, Zhu Cilang was very nervous and lifted the curtains of the car from time to time to look out. In the night, the army in front, back and left and right were moving forward rapidly, with horse hooves and footsteps sounding, and the torches spread for more than ten miles. Tian Shouxin, Tong Dingfang, Gong Yonggu and Zong Juntai were all looking solemn. The little eunuch Tang Liang sat on the shaft of the carriage and yawned repeatedly in the carriage.

The sneaking in the dark night and the circumcising forward is actually not the strength of the official army, but a tactic often used by the thieves. Today, the official army is also a show of its own skills.

In the second half of the night, Zhu Cilang was sleepy. He squinted unknowingly until he was awakened by Tian Shouxin's voice.

"Your Highness, Your Highness?"

"What's wrong?"

Zhu Cilang suddenly lifted the curtain.

It was a little brighter and a cool breeze. It turned out that it was almost dawn.

Tian Shouxin reported: "Your Highness, you have arrived in Tongxu County. Zuo Liangyu just reported that he found a thief in a small town in front..."

Zhu Cixuan immediately felt excited: "How many people are there?"

Tian Shouxin replied: "Zuo Liangyu said that there were about 800 people. The vanguard led by Wang Yuncheng and Li Guoying had bypassed the town and continued to move forward. Zuo Liangyu personally led the infantry to surround the town and prepare to wipe it out."

"take me!"

Zhu Cilang jumped out of the carriage.

Since traveling through time, although Zhu Cixuan has studied in the military books and battle formation every day, he has not witnessed any war with his own eyes. When he arrived at the battlefield in the last battle in Liudian Town, the war had ended, and he had seen nothing except the corpses of the thieves. The chef who had never tasted the fried spoon would not be a good chef. Although Zhu Cixuan himself did not have the luxury of becoming a military strategist, he had a special identity and shouldered a great responsibility in this chaotic world where the world was broken and the earth was broken. He had to do his best to understand and experience the military and political affairs, so he did not miss any opportunity to witness the war with his own eyes.

Under the escort of Tian Shouxin, Tong Dingfang and others, Zhu Cilang rode his horse and rushed to the front.

The army on the road flashed the way for the prince.

Three or four miles ahead, between the avenue and the river bank on the left, there is a town with more than a hundred families. With the light of light, it is clear that the town is of medium size and is mostly half a mile long along the riverside. Except for three or two tall double-story buildings, all the rest are low and dilapidated earthen houses. Outside the town is a large area of ​​bare freshly harvested farmland, but the harvest is not clean, and the haystacks left are tilted around, and the fields are also trampled in a mess, without any intention of preparing the land and planting them again. Needless to ask, it must have been seized by the thief.

At this time, Zuo Liangyu led a large army, and there was a siege in front of the front town.

I faintly heard commotion in the town and saw someone running around. Obviously, the thieves knew they were surrounded.

The prince came in person, Zuo Liangyu, who was covered with armor and handsome robe, hurriedly brought the generals to meet him.

Zuo Menggeng, Hui Dengxiang, Wu Xueli, Ma Shixiu...

In addition to Wang Yuncheng, Li Guoying, Lu Guangzu, who was stationed in Guide, and Ma Jinzhong, who was temporarily in charge of the Jing camp, the famous generals of the Zuoying were basically here. It is the Ming Dynasty that in the first year of Hongguang, when Zuo Liangyu tried to clear the emperor, it was these people in front of him who desperately encouraged Zuo Liangyu, so that Zuo Liangyu raised an army from Wuchang and made a big mistake. The 500,000 army was defeated by Huang Degong, and then surrendered to the Qing Dynasty.

As for the famous later, he first surrendered to the Qing Dynasty and rebelled against the Qing Dynasty, forced the killing of the Ming Dynasty, Yang Tinglin, and carried out the Ganzhou Massacre. He was appointed as the general of Jiangxi by the Qing court. He was then excluded by the governor and inspector appointed by the Qing court. He was also angry that the Qing court was too poor and rebelled against the Qing Dynasty. In the end, Jin Shengheng, who committed suicide by throwing himself into the water, was still just a small general, following the generals far away, and was not qualified to stand close to Zuo Liangyu.

To be honest, Zhu Cilang had no good feelings for the generals around Zuo Liangyu. During the period when Guide was stationed, although Zhu Cilang used a lot of tricks and means to subdue or correct some of the bad habits of the generals of the Zuo Fang, although it had some effect among the middle and lower-level officers, these trusted generals around Zuo Liangyu were stubborn and agreed on the surface, but they were still the same in private. Gradually, Zhu Cilang also figured it out that it was impossible to transform these people and inspire them with loyalty and righteousness. There was only one way to deal with them, that is, to use both kindness and power, one with a big stick and the other with a carrot, so that they would naturally lose and reduce their personnel in the war, and then find a way to lay off, or use the method of rising and descending openly and secretly to "pick them out" from the army. This will be a slow process. You cannot be anxious and not express it too clearly. You must "sneak into the night with the wind and moisten things silently."

The famous minister Yuan Jixian once said that "there is no righteous person in Zuoying." Although it is a bit extreme, it is not completely unreasonable.

The troops under Zuo Liangyu were divided into ten battalions, the first five battalions were personal troops, and the last five battalions were surrendered troops. At this time, the people following him were basically all the generals of the first five battalions.

After paying homage to the prince, Zuo Liangyu introduced the situation on the battlefield to the prince.

According to several "tongues" confessions, there were a total of 800 thieves in the town, who belonged to a grain harvest team under Bai Wang, the commander of the camp.

Bai Wang was a general who was not very prominent and had little records under Li Zicheng, but played a critical role in the chaos in the 167th year of Chongzhen. In the 16th year of Chongzhen, after Li Zicheng captured Xiangyang, he changed Xiangyang to Xiangjing, leaving the general Bai Wang to lead 50,000 elite troops to guard to prevent Zuo Liangyu from attacking him, and he led a large army to capture the capital. During this period, Bai Wang and Zuo Liangyu fought repeatedly without falling behind. In the 17th year, Li Zicheng was defeated and then suffered a great defeat in Tongguan, losing one after another.

The capital and Shaanxi were pursued by Jianlu, and had to be defeated to retreat to Huguang. Bai Wang, who was in charge of Xiangyang, personally welcomed Li Zicheng, hoping that the camp could gain a foothold in Xiangyang, use Huguang as the base to resist the attack of Jianlu, and wait for an opportunity to counterattack. However, Li Zicheng refused to listen and insisted on leading the elite Huguang troops to attack Nanjing, resulting in Huguang no defense and being easily defeated by Jianlu. Li Zicheng lost the only base area where he could gain foothold and could not defeat Nanjing. He was hesitant and confused, and eventually died in Jiugong Mountain.

This grain harvest team belongs to Baiwangying, and the leader is a little Zhangpan named Wang. They arrived at Tongxu County the day before yesterday, but they didn't find much food in the city, so they thought of trying their luck in the countryside. They entered the town yesterday afternoon, thinking of resting in the town for a night and continuing to set off tomorrow, but they didn't expect to be surrounded by the government army before dawn.

In addition, there are more than a thousand thieves in Tongxu County. This place is only forty miles away from Tongxu County. In order to prevent the leak of news, the thieves in Tongxu County have discovered that Zuo Liangyu has already sent people to set up a tight defense in the north of the town. Any pedestrians and people who dare to march to the county will be killed.

After listening to Zuo Liangyu's introduction, Zhu Cixuan asked calmly: "Is the news of our army passing by has been spread by the bandits in the town?"

"Nothing!" Zuo Liangyu said in a swearing manner.

Zhu Ciyang nodded: "How do Zuozhen want to annihilate the enemy?"

Zuo Liangyu bowed with his fists and said, "Go back to Your Highness, I plan to scare the enemy from three sides. I will drive the bandits out of the town and drive them to the open space in the south to annihilate them with cavalry."

Zhu Cilang nodded: "We shouldn't stay here for a long time, let's start."

"yes."

Zuo Liangyu bowed and agreed, turned around to face his generals, and began to pass orders one by one.

For Zuo Liangyu, who commanded 100,000 troops, the eight hundred thieves in the town were not even considered a starch, and could only be considered Yahui. He originally did not intend to command himself and was preparing to hand him over to his son Zuo Menggeng for training and disposal. However, the prince personally rode his horse to the front, obviously paying attention to this battle. In addition, since he arrived at Guide, his 100,000 army had not seen sword blood. He happened to show his performance in front of the prince today, and let the prince know the strength of his Zuo Camp. Therefore, he decided to command himself.

———Thanks to the reward of "Worry-free K-books, I'm still a boy when I return". Momoda.
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