Chapter 159 Impossible Tasks

On the other side of Shanxi, Yan Chongxi basically swept away the surrounding area of Taiyuan Prefecture for more than a month after the Spring Festival. Even the general of Shanxi general Hu Dawei also abandoned the city and fled, and secretly surrendered Yan Chongxi and was sent to Henan for resettlement by Yan Chongxi. Taiyuan can be said to have become a lonely city, but Without any power to counterattack, he could only wait for the Xingtian Army to attack the city.

Wang Chengping and Li Lingfeng, who were active in Jinbei, were mainly responsible for leading their troops to monitor the movements of the officers and soldiers in the area of Xuanda University, and at the end of February, in the area of Sanggan River in Shanyin County, they blocked the people and horses of Wang Pu, the general soldier of Datong, and the two sides then launched a fight.

Wang Chengping led 2,000 steps to ride Chen on the south bank of the Sanggan River, and was responsible for blocking Wang Pu's troops from crossing the river into Shuozhou, while Li Lingfeng led another 2,000 elite riders and hid in the mountains and forests north and west of the Sanggan River.

Wang Pu saw that there were not many soldiers and horses in the Xingtian army, so he sent troops to try to forcibly cross the Sanggan River and defeat Wang Chengping's troops. However, when crossing the river, he encountered the tenacious resistance of the soldiers of the Xingtian army led by Wang Chengping. From the morning war to the afternoon, the casualties of both sides were very large, but Wang Chengping always defended the south bank of the Sanggan River. No return.

Wang Pu was shocked by the tenacity of the Xingtian army. He was afraid that he would not be able to defeat the Xingtian army on the other side before night, so he ordered to temporarily withdraw the troops and fight again in the future. However, just as Wang Pu withdrew and prepared to camp to rest, Wang Chengping on the south bank of the Sanggan River suddenly shouted that the officers and soldiers had been defeated. At the same time, he launched rockets to the sky, and then Li Lingfeng led the elite cavalry out of Wang Pu's right wing and suddenly attacked Wang Pu's army.

Wang Pu was originally an official who was sold with money. Although he was very glamorous, he was a greedy person who was afraid of death, and his soldiers were even more unbearable. In the first two years, when the Tasan entered the bandits, Wang Pu didn't know how to speculatively. He killed more than a dozen fallen Tarot soldiers and killed some ordinary people. As a result Unexpectedly, he became a general officer of Datong. In fact, he was just a mediocre talent. In history, during the Songjin War of the Ming and Qing Dynasties, it was Wang Pu who first led his troops to escape. As a result, the collapse of the officers and troops under Hong Chengchou, which led to the defeat of the Ming army in the Battle of Songjin. In the end, the general Cao changed Jiao, Wang Tingchen and Qiu Min died in the battle. Hong Chengchou and Zu Da Shou were captured and surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, which completely collapsed the outer defense line of the Ming Dynasty. Later, when the court discussed the crime, Wang Pu, a fugitive general, was killed alone.

So Wang Pu is a standard person who is greedy and afraid of death. If the soldiers brought out by such a person have combat effectiveness, it will be really strange.

When crossing the river in the morning, at least the generals under Wang Pu saw that there were not many officers of the Xingtian army on the other side. Under Wang Pu's supervision, they exerted a certain combat effectiveness. However, when the soldiers were collected in the afternoon, Xing Tianjun suddenly shouted that the officers and soldiers were defeated across the river, and suddenly many officers and soldiers were in chaos, like headless flies. Then he ran back and ran back. In addition, Li Lingfeng took advantage of the situation to suddenly kill and slammed the flank of Wang Pu's army, which made the officers and soldiers under Wang Pu immediately collapse on the spot and began to escape.

More than ten thousand officers and soldiers raced to escape, and the Mabu army seized the road and trampled on each other. In addition, the two thousand unparalleled Xingtian army cavalry led by Li Lingfeng slashed and killed in the back. As a result, Wang Pu's army completely collapsed in Shanyin County. In the end, Wang Pu fled back to Datong Mansion with less than 300 defeated soldiers, nearly 10,000 soldiers and horses. They were completely annihilated by Wang Chengping and Li Lingfeng, and most of the Datong officers and soldiers surrendered to them.

After Yang Guozhu, who arrived a little later, learned the news of Wang Pu's defeat, he immediately camped on the spot and did not dare to attack Shuozhou again. He was afraid of following in Wang Pu's footsteps. The other reason was that Xing Tianjun had been grateful to Yang Guozhu and many others in the battle of Julu. The Xuanfu generals, so Yang Guozhu and the Xuanfu generals under his command are not willing to be enemies of the Xingtian Army. Therefore, once the battle is started, Yang Guozhu also knows that even if his troops are superior, he may not be able to win. Therefore, since Wang Pu has been defeated, he excused to help guard Datong and turn into Datong. So far, the offensive launched by Xuanda on the Xingtian Army in Shanxi was completely disintegrated by Wang Chengping and Li Lingfeng in just a few days.

On February 22, Xiao Tianjian quietly arrived in the territory of Damingfu with the guard camp. At this time, within a radius of dozens of miles in Nanle County, southeast of Damingfu, it had already been blocked by a large number of criminal soldiers, scouts, hidden sentries and road cards. All the people who passed through here were only allowed to enter and exit. , which was imprisoned in several reception stations. Some people specially provided them with temporary tent shelters and provided them with food and drink. It can be said that the area of Nanle County has become a vacuum area.

When Xiao Tianjian arrived outside Nanle County, the periphery of Nanle County had already become a huge barracks. The barracks stood out of the city in an orderly manner. All kinds of banners were hunting in the cold wind, and the surroundings were full of patrol scouts and light riders. People constantly met Xiao Tianjian's guard camp along the way to investigate. Looking at their identities, after learning that it was Xiao Tianjian's guard camp, Shi Li quickly retreated and led them to the middle camp in front of them.

Along the way, Xiao Tianjian saw a lot of Xingtian Army battalion numbers. In the small Nanle County, no one would have thought that the backbone barracks of the four main divisions of the Xingtian Army were gathered. Among them, there were not only most of the backbone battle camps of Luo Li's headquarters, but also six battle camps of two guards divisions, and Li Shuanzhu's The two battalions of the department, as well as two battalions of Liu Bao, two cavalry battalions led by Situ Liang, three artillery battalions led by Huang Shengqiang, two barracks of Li Fusheng and Liu Xiyao, and of course, nearly 10,000 temporary reserve battalions specially transferred to transport supplies and help the people.

After these combat-assisted reserve battalions and the people's strongmen transported a large number of materials to Nanle County, in order not to reveal the news, they were all left in Nanle County. Therefore, in the small Nanle County, this matter can be said to have gathered nearly half of the most elite people of the Xingtian Army, all the battle camps except the soldiers and auxiliary soldiers. Basically, they are the best A battalions of the Xingtian Army. Except for those auxiliary troops, the total strength has reached more than a dozen battle camps and cavalry and artillery battalions, and the foot cavalry strength has reached more than 20,000. If the reserve battalions and artillery battalions that assist the battle are added, the strength will exceed 35,000.

These soldiers and horses were gradually transferred from all over the country in the past month. The two farthest battalions even started from the south of Huguang a few years ago and did not arrive here until this time.

And these soldiers and horses were all divided into small batches after the Spring Festival, from several ferries of the Yellow River, or directly across the ice, crossed the Yellow River, and then took different routes in Huaiqingfu, Weihuifu and other places in the north of the Yellow River, and gradually entered Nanle County. Even in the past month, many soldiers and horses have It was to cross the river at night, hide along the way, and enter Nanle County in batches by marching at night.

And Nanle County, more than a month ago, the people and horses who arrived first were completely martialized, and the local people were taken to the village as units, and personnel were assigned to take care of them. No one was allowed to leave here. In this way, it also put an end to the details of the government. The news of the army was sent out, and a large number of bright and dark posts were set up around Nanle County, which stuck all the exits. In addition, a large number of scouts wandered around. Whenever they found someone in the vicinity, they immediately forcibly took them to the shelter to watch. During this period, more than a dozen details sent by the government alone caught. At the same time, more than a dozen officers and soldiers were dug up in Nanle County.

This is also the fact that Sun Chuanting found that Xing Tianjun was constantly increasing troops in the north of the Yellow River, but he had never been able to find out where these Xing Tianjuns crossing Hebei had gathered. Sun Chuanting sent a lot of details to Changde Mansion, Daming Mansion and Wei Hui Mansion to inquire about the news, but none of them could find the punishment. A large number of main forces of the heavenly army.

So after Sun Chuanting finally received the order of the Ministry of War, he learned the news of Xing Tianjun's assembly in Suzhou. Finally, he decided that Xing Tianjun should have put the direction of the main attack in Jiningzhou and Xuzhou, but he did not get Xing Tianjun at all. As early as a month ago, he began to Nanle County in the southeast of Damingfu. News about the hoarding of materials and troops in the territory.

Such a large-scale mobilization not only needs to transfer a large number of combat materials, grain and other goods, but also mobilize a large number of people and horses, but also to cover up people's eyes and ears. Xiao Tianjian's mouth is easy to say, but it is a very difficult thing to operate in practice, especially in this way, communication basically depends on people. In the era of transmission, it is even more difficult to coordinate so many people and materials to carry out such a large-scale operation. As soon as the action plan is proposed, it immediately makes Li Xin and other staff members busy, and even the logistics department is very busy.

Think about it. In addition to the fact that this big action basically does not involve many things in the town of Yan Chongxi, Shanxi Province, the soldiers and horses in the other towns have been pulled in. There are nearly 100,000 people and horses that need to be mobilized and adjusted, not including the number of people who help the war. The materials that need to be mobilized are calculated by hundreds of thousands of stones.

On the one hand, it is necessary to gather elite soldiers and horses in Nanle County and provide them with enough food and various ammunition and materials. On the other hand, it is necessary to form a guised corps in both directions of Jining and Xuzhou to provide cover for the assembly of Xing Tianjun in Nanle County. The organization is so difficult that it can be said that it is beyond Xing Tianjun. Over the years, it has been a severe test for all departments and ministries.

In the end, Xiao Tianjian had to personally host this large-scale mobilization operation. In order to ensure the secret of the operation, when they issued the order, even the generals at the battalion level were strictly sealed and locked the news. They only told the destination of the military generals of the unified level, and even the deputy did not inform them. Their destination is, and people who know the situation are strictly kept secret. Once the information is leaked in advance, they will be severely punished.

Therefore, many soldiers will receive orders to arrive at a place first. When they run to the place, they will know that this is not their final destination. In this place, they will receive new orders to tell them where to go next, so they have to continue to lead the troops on the road. Finally, before arriving in Nanle County, the military general Only then did we know that their destination was actually in Nanle County. Some people even thought that Nanle County was not their destination, and they would definitely get new orders in Nanle County to continue to the next location.

For such a situation, many generals are like getting into the clouds and confused. Soldiers on the road often ask where they want to go and who to fight with, but the officers themselves don't know, so naturally they can't tell them, so the generals are like this. The order can be said to be very dissatisfied. They went to their tops to inquire about the news. As a result, they couldn't get any news except for being scolded. Moreover, the unified generals told their subordinates that they were going to take them to fight a big battle. Just follow the order, and they will naturally know when they get there.

So among the gatherings and gatherings, few people know where they are going, so even if there are officials and soldiers hidden in the army, there is no way to know where their destination is and what their goal is. After arriving in Nanle County, they know that this is their destination. At this time Curfews have been imposed in each barracks, and it is not allowed to leave the camp on leave, so even if there are some eyeliners of the imperial court officials hiding in the army, the news can't be sent out at this time.

Completing such a large-scale transfer without revealing any information is an almost impossible task for this era, but with the efforts of Xiao Tianjian and a group of his subordinates, they still did this almost impossible thing.