Chapter 104 The Plan of Suspects

On March 25, a team of officers and soldiers stepped on the grass that had just grown on the ground and began to leave Ruzhou and embarked on the road to Yichuan. In front of them were 3,000 Guanning iron riders led by Zu Dale and Zu Kuan. They were accompanied by 2,000 auxiliary soldiers transferred from Wuyang, while Chen Yongfu led 4,000. The officers and soldiers brought by Kaifeng followed closely, with more than 2,000 Xiang Yong dispatched from Ruzhou as auxiliary soldiers to transport heavy grain, and began to embark on their grand journey.

After Wang Shaoyu received the order in Ruzhou, Pi Xing Daiyue took Ma Rutian to take a detour back to Yiyang County and rectify the soldiers and horses on March 26. This time, Wang Shaoyu was also completely ruthless. While squeezing out thousands of silver from Feng Yijun's place, he took out 10,000 taels of silver from his pocket. In order to pay for the money, he finally temporarily stabilized the military heart under his command and gathered nearly 5,000 soldiers and horses. Only two thousand soldiers were left in the Yiyang camp to guard Yiyang County. He personally led these 5,000 soldiers and horses out of Yiyang, crossed the Luo River in the direction of Yichuan and killed Yichuan.

At this time, in the Xingtian barracks in Gaoling Village, Xiao Tianjian was also paying close attention to the movements of the surrounding officers and soldiers. As soon as the soldiers and horses of Ruzhou Zu Dale and Chen Yongfu moved, the scout soon sent the news to Xiao Tianjian.

After hearing this, Xiao Tianjian looked at Niu Jinxing and smiled and said, "Mr. Niu is really expected to be like a god. The officers and soldiers still chose Yichuan to do it first. It seems that there will be a good show here this time!"

Niu Jinxing smiled indifferently and said, "The handsome man is overreputed! This is not the credit of the humble position, or the general's suspicious tactics have played a role. Although we came here this time, the general has constantly mobilized Ruyang's soldiers and forth, so that the officers and soldiers can't figure out the number of troops we have in Ruyang for a moment, so they are so swaggering to Yichuan!

However, this time, according to the commander-in-chief's arrangement, only such a battalion of troops are left and stationed here. Once Zu Dale's troops rushed over, with only this little troops, can you stop them?

For the big strategy, Xiao Tianjian adopted Niu Jinxing's opinion, but in terms of specific tactics, how to do Niu Jinxing is out of the matter. Now that Xiao Tianjian has been fighting for so many years, he has already grown into a quite smart tactical expert. How to allocate the troops at hand to maximize it. Efficiency is not what a reader like Niu Jinxing can master. Niu Jinxing can only listen to Xiao Tianjian in this regard.

Hearing Niu Jinxing ask this question, Xiao Tianjian smiled in his heart. After all, Niu Jinxing is still a scholar, and his grasp of tactics is still too far worse. Although he is determined to stay and follow him, such a question exposed his guilty heart, so he laughed and said, "Of course, I can't stop it!" Why should I block them? Sir, I don't think that I want to completely defeat Zu Dale and Zu Kuan's 3,000 Guanning iron riders here with less than 2,000 troops! Ha ha! It can't be stopped! I'm just going to drag them here!"

After Niu Jinxing thought about it carefully, he understood the intention of Xiao Tianjian's arrangement, so he immediately laughed and said to Xiao Tianjian with a fist: "The general is wise! In this respect, the inferior position is far worse than the general! ......”

After Zu Dale and Zu Kuan left Ruzhou, there was no stop on the road. As soon as they left Ruzhou less than ten miles, a small group of thieves began to wander around them and sent troops to chase them. They ran away and stopped like flies. Generally, it's really lingering when it's surrounded. It's a little annoying as a tarsophre maggot.

Zu Dale had to send more night and light riding out to chase and kill the light riders of these thieves, but the other party was very slippery. As soon as he touched it, he could fight a small fight. If he couldn't beat it, he turned his head and ran away, so that the officers and soldiers could not catch up at night and lightly, so he could only return.

In this way, it slowed down the marching speed of Zu Dale's department, and also seriously interfered with the search line composed of the night collection sent by Zu Dale, so that these night collection were always suppressed by the light riding of the Xing Tianjun, so that it could not go too far forward as a team, and could only carry out activities within the sight of the officers and soldiers of the brigade.

Such a situation made Zu Da Le feel a little worried. If these thieves are all their scouts, he doesn't believe it at all. Even the Guanning army, which is dominated by cavalry, like him, it is difficult to send so many light riders, let alone the thieves who lack horses, and the thief army does this. For what? So Zu Dale came to Zu Kuan and said what he was worried about.

Zu Kuan has actually noticed this problem, and is also thinking about the purpose of Xing Tianjun's action. Before Zu Dale invited him to come here, Zu Kuan has come to a conclusion. After listening to Zu Dale's inquiry, he relaxed and said to Zu Dale, "It seems that the thief army has also found something. Not good! I guess it was found that we did not go straight to Ruyang County this time, but directly sent troops to Yichuan, and then sent their cavalry to use these cavalry to hold our legs and give them time to transfer troops to Yichuan! In my opinion, the thief army is probably in a hurry this time!

Your Excellency, according to the humble position, let's not care about them, speed up the march towards Yichuan, so as to get to Yichuan County before the thief army increases Yichuan. In that way, the thief army will be in chaos, so that we can kill the thief army!"

After listening to it, Zu Dale immediately nodded and said yes. He felt that Zu Kuan's words were very reasonable, so he ordered him to speed up and send a letter to follow their Chen Yongfu. He asked Chen Yongfu to speed up and arrive at Yichuan as soon as possible to recover Yichuan.

So after the thousands of Guanning army got the order, they began to shrink, no longer care about the Xing Tianjun's light riders and scouts that appeared from time to time, and rushed towards Yichuan County in a group.

After Chen Yongfu got the news of Zu Dale, he did not think so. He felt that Xing Tianjun's move was a little abnormal. In his opinion, in the situation of Xing Tianjun, the number of cavalry should be limited. Obviously, he had an idea to spread the continuous attack in Ruzhou. Maybe he wanted to take advantage of their army to go to Iraq. Chuan, take advantage of the empty military strength of Ruzhou to attack Ruzhou. In this way, it has become a situation where their officers and soldiers are attacked by the enemy.

So Chen Yongfu did not listen to Zu Dale's words. Not only did he not speed up to keep up with Zu Dale's department, but instead, he sent a fast horse back to Ruzhou City and informed Wang Jiazhen of his idea.

Wang Jiazhen was originally a civil official and was not familiar with the military. Although he had decided to gather troops to attack Yichuan, when he heard that Chen Yongfu said that the thief army was likely to take advantage of the weak strength in Ruzhou and attack Ruzhou first, Wang Jiazhen was a little uncertain. .

Ruzhou is a state of Zhili Prefecture in Henan Province, and its status is also quite important. Once there is a loss, let's not talk about whether it can recover the five counties under the Tianjun. Even if he recovers the five counties and loses Ruzhou, he is still guilty and incompetent. What's more, Ruzhou's troops are indeed relatively empty at the moment. After Zu Kuan and Chen Yongfu led their troops to leave. There are less than 3,000 defenders left here, and they are all local garrison. The combat effectiveness is very worrying, and the Xingtian Army is said to be very good at attacking the city. Once the Xingtian Army sends troops to attack Ruzhou first, even his own life will become a problem.

While Wang Jiazhen was hesitating about this, a news came from Feng Chun on the other side of Lushan that Zhang Xianzhong, the Eighth King, suddenly led 30,000 people to leave the Suizhou area of the recent activities. The soldiers directly guided Yangfu. The Nanyang governor urgently recruited Feng Chun to return to Nanyang. As a general of Nanyang, Feng Chun naturally You can't sit idly by and return to Nanyang.

In this way, Feng Chun's Nanyang soldiers and horses threatened the thief army in Ruyang County, and the plan to contain the thief army could not be implemented, which aggravated Wang Jiazhen's concern about the security of Ruzhou.

So after thinking about it again and again, Wang Jiazhen sent people to order Chen Yongfu not to enter the army for the time being and camped in the southwest of Ruzhou to prevent the sudden attack of Ruzhou by the thief army in Ruyang County.

In this way, the originally planned plan of Zu Dale and Chen Yongfu to join forces to attack Yichuan has also lost its meaning, but Wang Jiazhen did not make Zu Dale's troops give up attacking Yichuan. In his opinion, with the strength of Zu Dale, coupled with the strength of Luoyang Wang Shaoyu, it is enough to defeat Yichuan County. Leaving Chen Yongfu to keep an eye on Ruyang is a safer way.

After hearing that Wang Jiazhen temporarily changed his plan, Zu Dale immediately scolded, saying that Wang Jiazhen was really a fool. Now that he had made up his mind, how could he change like this? The most taboo thing in military affairs is to change gossip, and Wang Jiazhen, as a civil official, is soft-eared and timid. Xing Tianjun scared him a little and didn't know what to do. In addition, this matter must be Chen Yongfu in the back, and Chen Yongfu had a quarrel with them and did not want to cooperate with him to instigate Wang Jiazhen to change his gossip.

But Zu Da was happy, but there was nothing he could do about this matter. This time, he was personally ordered by Xiong Wencan and sent here to listen to Wang Jiazhen's dispatch. Wang Jiazhen asked him to continue to attack Yichuan, so he had to follow it, and he also felt that Chen Yongfu's judgment this time was reasonable, but it was him. I'm still looking forward to it. It's better for Xing Tianjun to beat Ruzhou now, so that Chen Yongfu, the bastard, will simply be beaten!

To be honest, Zu Dale really doesn't have a good impression on the civil servants in the court. When they followed Yuan Dushi outside the customs, they did their best to serve the Ming Dynasty. However, just because the Jin army entered the customs, Yuan Dushi led them thousands of miles to chase the King Jiannu Qin. On the contrary, they were defeated by the officials in the court. In the end, he ended up being killed.

So in Zu Dale's view, few of these civil servants are good things. They eat and make money one by one, but few have the real ability to do practical things. Fighting is originally a matter of military generals, but military generals have to be restrained by the dispatch of civil servants. Why?

So Zu Dale, with full of slander, helplessly and Zu Kuan continued to march towards Yichuan.