Chapter 52 Crisis
However, when Li Xin and others arrived at Funingwei, Lu Xiangsheng had long been waiting for their arrival here, and Funingwei had already defected to the Dazhong Army at this time. At present, it has become a material transfer base of the Dazhong Army. When Yan Chongxi and Wang Chengping led the troops out of Juyongguan, Li Lingfeng stayed. Guarding the town of Xuanda.
The reason why Li Lingfeng, an important general, was not to keep him guard against the counterattack of the officers and soldiers, but to let him be responsible for sitting in the area of Xuanda to prevent the Jiannu army from breaking through the customs again from the Xuanfu area. Once Jiannu is allowed to break through the barrier in Xuanfu, then for their left army and the whole Shanxi, there is nothing Doubt is a terrible thing.
Therefore, although Yan Chongxi led the troops to live in Yongguan and rushed to Shanhaiguan, they did not forget the importance of Xuanda, so they left Li Lingfeng, an independent general in the area of Xuanfu Town, outside the border gate where he could watch Xuanfu. At the same time, what Li Lingfeng had to do was to do from the mountain. The West continuously transported all kinds of material resources to the front line to ensure the combat needs of Yan Chongxi's left army.
Since Yan Chongxi led troops into Shanhaiguan, Li Lingfeng began to organize 3,000 soldiers and a large number of large vehicles in Xuanfu Town to transfer various grain ammunition and weapons from Shanxi to Xuanda through the help of the war people, and began to continuously transfer to the front line of Shanhaiguan.
Although the soldiers of the Dazhong Army belong to the logistics force, their combat effectiveness should not be underestimated. They are not only auxiliary soldiers responsible for the transportation of materials, but also basically firefighters. The proportion of self-made firearms with the army is extremely high, and to a certain extent, they imitate the Daming's chariot battalion, and also retains a light flan on the chariot. Machine guns, so although they are soldiers, their combat effectiveness is not weak.
The reason why Li Lingfeng used so many soldiers to transfer supplies for Shanhaiguan is mainly because the long distance from Juyong Pass to Shanhaiguan is hundreds of miles, and the Dazhong army has not fully controlled it. Along the way, he only collected and surrendered some forts stationed by the Ming army, and left a small number of Dazhong army generals, accompanied by some of the Ming army's surrenders. These bunkers are used as temporary military stations. Most of this section of the road are basically under the control of the Ming army, and the remaining Beijing battalions around the capital still have considerable strength. These Ming army is seriously short of food and salary at present, so the military discipline has been extremely corrupted. They are soldiers in the Ming Dynasty, but in fact, they are basically doing it secretly. It's all banditry, so they don't care what the materials sent by the Dazhong army are going to do. In order to eat, they don't care about the national righteousness. Once they have the opportunity, they will definitely grab the supplies of these Dazhong army.
Some time ago, the Beijing camp robbed the grain that the Dazhong Army gave to the Guanning army under Hong Chengchou's command. Therefore, in order to ensure the safety of transportation, Li Lingfeng had to organize a large number of barracks and act collectively to supplement materials for Shanhaiguan. What's more, now they are responsible for supplying more than the people of the Left Army. Even the Ming army headquarters under Wu Xiang's command of Shanhaiguan, they are also responsible for supplying grain and ammunition. Now it is impossible for Daming to send troops to Wu Xiang to transport supplements.
Therefore, under Wu Xiang's order, Fu Ningwei returned to the Dazhong Army as a material hoarding place behind the mountain customs. Wu Xiang also pulled the remaining guards of the five guards in the front and back of Funingwei and handed them to Yan Chongxi. He asked Yan Chongxi to collect them and send them to lead them to protect Funing. Guard this logistics base.
When Li Xin, Diao Zheng and Luo Li led their troops to Funingwei, there happened to be a batch of materials from Xuanda. Just arrived here, Lu Xiangsheng was also here to supervise the transfer of materials, while waiting for the arrival of Li Xin and his middle army.
When they learned that Lu Xiangsheng was waiting for them here in person, Li Xin, Diao Zheng, Luo Li and others did not dare to ask for it. They immediately rushed to Lu Xiangsheng, who was waiting for them on the road, and greeted Lu Xiangsheng.
"See the director for the humble position! Please forgive me for waiting for the armor, and I can't be completely courteous!" As soon as Li Xin, Luo Li and others saw Lu Xiangsheng, they immediately saluted Lu Xiangsheng with a smile.
Lu Xiangsheng is now in the position of general supervisor of the Supervision Institute. Although his grade is not too high, he is independent of the six departments. He is mainly responsible for supervising hundreds of officials in public and secretly. His status is very detached. To some extent, it is a bit like the combination of Daming's Jinyiwei and the Metropolitan Inspectorate. He has a lot of power, but Xiao Tianjian did not give them It's just the power to directly arrest and interrogate, so as to avoid their abnormal development in the future, so that they have become abnormal secret service organizations like Dongchang and West Factory. To some extent, it gives them enough power, but it also limits their power and puts them within control, so as to avoid causing too many wrong cases, but It is Lu Xiangsheng's status, but it can't be ignored by anyone, and his identity is enough to make everyone except Xiao Tianjian respect him.
"Thank you for your hard work, generals! Don't be so polite! You have traveled thousands of miles. It's very hard. How dare Lu accept your gifts! Now that the war is urgent, let's not stick to the customs! Although it should be a good time for you, I'm afraid Lu doesn't have time to do it now! Let's talk about the war in this area first!" Lu Xiangsheng also quickly returned the salute to Li Xin and other generals, and then said to them anxiously.
Li Xin and others saw that Lu Xiangsheng was so anxious, so they saw that the situation of the battle in Shanhaiguan was not very good, so they immediately became nervous. They didn't even have time to find a tent to sit down and talk. Several people let the soldiers and horses continue to march under a big tree on the roadside, went to camp outside Funing County, while standing. Even if he asked Lu Xiangsheng about the situation of the war here.
Lu Xiangsheng simply told them about the fact that Wu Xiang had thrown it to the Dazhong Army, and briefly told them about the cooperation between the two armies and the deployment of the front line of Shanhaiguan.
"You don't have to worry about the war situation on the side of Shanhaiguan. The old Ming army under our army and Wu Xiang's command have a total strength of more than 30,000 people. In addition, there is no problem to guard Shanhaiguan with the surrounding people who came to help the war during this period.
Moreover, these Japanese generals and Yan led their troops to join hands with Wu Junmen in this area. They have repeatedly repelled the repeated attacks launched by Jiannu, and have repeatedly re-created the slave army, especially those who have built the Han Eight Banners and the Mongolian Eight Banners, which have suffered heavy losses. As of yesterday, Dorcon, the slave chief of Jiannu, has had to Ordered to temporarily rest and rest and supplement! Otherwise, those soldiers of the Eight Banners of the Han Army and the Eight Banners of Mongolia will be unstable!
Therefore, the war situation in Shanhaiguan is still relatively optimistic. These days, although we have suffered great losses in the face of the fierce attack of the Jiannu army, which is more than our army, it is not a big problem to hold here before the emperor leads the army!" Lu Xiangsheng said to Li Xin and others.
After hearing this, Li Xin, Luo Li, Diao Zheng and other generals often breathed a sigh of relief. They rushed here day and night, but they were afraid that they would come a little slower. Yan Chongxi's left army could not defend the mountain customs, so that the Jiannu army rushed into the customs like a flood of the dike. In that case, with their strength, it is not enough to stop so many soldiers and horses of Jiannu. For Guannei, it will undoubtedly be another disaster. For this reason, Li Xin, the chief of general staff, has formulated several sets of combat plans along the way with a group of staff officers on the way to deal with all kinds of possible situations. Even they were ready to bump into the Jiannu who poured into the customs head-on.
So although they rushed towards this side during this period, they also kept sending scouts to inquire about the news back and forth on the road, so they also learned more or less about the situation in Shanhaiguan.
Now I heard from Lu Xiangsheng that after Yan Chongxi rushed here, they had forced more than 20,000 defenders from Wu Xiang and Shanhaiguan, and cooperated with the old Ming army under Wu Xiang to successfully block the Jiannu army outside Shanhaiguan. Everyone finally breathed a long sigh of relief.
"It turns out that Lord Lu and General Yan have done so beautifully. I would like to congratulate you on your first contribution! After he came to the sun, he was expected to have a great joy. This reward must be indispensable!" Li Xin then smiled at Lu Xiangsheng.
Lu Xiangsheng shook his head and said, "We are not doing these things to grab meritorious deeds or for any reward. The emperor has repeatedly said that Jiannu is the biggest enemy of my Han nation! If it is made to enter the customs, it will be a disaster for our Han nation. Lu deeply feels the same as this, so he dares not live up to the expectations of the emperor. Even if he is crushed, he vows to block the Jiannu from the gate!"
After hearing this, Li Xin and others immediately respect Lu Xiangsheng and immediately stood up and shouted, "Shang Yingming!" Lord Lu is so elegant, and we can't wait for it!"
"Since Lord Lu and Mr. Yan have blocked Jiannu under the gate, I don't know why Mr. Yan and Lord even sent people to urge us to come. It seems that there is still something else. Lord Lu didn't say anything!" Li Xin then asked Lu Xiangsheng.
Lu Xiangsheng asked the generals to sit on the pony sent by the soldiers again, and then he said worriedly, "It's true! General Li asked the question! Although we have temporarily blocked the army of Jiannu under Dorgan's command, so that they are not allowed to enter! However, a few days ago, the slave chieftain Taiji led hundreds of thousands of subsequent slave army and had arrived in the former Tunwei area outside Shanhaiguan. We found that after the slave chieftain Taiji arrived at the former Tunwei, he stopped moving forward and attacked the Jiannu army in Shanhaiguan, still led by Dorman. In fact, there were not many additional troops, so we suspected the slave chief. Huang Taiji may have another conspiracy, and it is very likely that he will send another general to lead an army of construction slaves and break through the pass from somewhere in the west!
Once this is the case, then our current military strength is limited, and we can't divide our troops by being dragged to Shanhaiguan. Jiannu, another group of people, can easily sweep the land of the Ming Dynasty, and may even attack and seize the capital. If that's the case, our efforts here will be wasted! Moreover, once the Jiannu breaks through the pass from somewhere in the west, it will immediately cut off our supply route and make us suffer from the enemy in the Shanhaiguan area. I'm afraid the situation will be dangerous at that time!
And in the past few days, we have sent a lot of scouts. We risked our lives to sneak out to the area of the former Tunwei to inquire about the news. The scouts who came back reported to me. Although Jiannu had a large army stationed in the former Tunwei, it was not as much as expected. They tried to catch two Jiannu and interrogate them. It is known that Jiannu has indeed divided his troops. Huang Taiji's 40,000 troops, led by the slave chiefs Abatai and Hauga, have gone west into the mountain to find another way to enter the customs! Therefore, I'm afraid the situation will be very dangerous. This is also the reason why Mr. Lu and Mr. Yan even sent people to urge you to come!"