stubborn thief

The battle only happens at the moment when the fighter plane arrives, but the war is a long and boring wait.

With Camel City as the center, Mo and Jing, relying on Mongolian soldiers to guard their positions, are waiting; Lin Chengdong, who is under siege in the west, is waiting;

In the handsome tent, Liu Chengzong looked a bit decadent, but in fact, not only him, but no one in the entire Huben camp was much better.

The place where he garrisons is called Xu Sanwan, which is only a dozen miles away from Luotuo City. This place is also an ancient city, but it is an abandoned ancient city. Sanjiehuilangtou Suokang, who accompanied the army as a guide, said that this city was founded in Hongwu It was built in five years, and it was called Gaotai Station at that time. Later, it was the Gaotai Thousand Households Governance from the 12th year of Hongwu to the seventh year of Jingtai.

The reason for the abandonment is simple. Desertification makes it impossible to cultivate land, and there is a shortage of water, very short of water. Therefore, Gaotai Qianhusuo was moved to the bank of the Heihe River in the east.

At this time, it showed that Lin Chengdong, the general of the Ming army who led the car camp, was familiar with the terrain around Ganzhou. The location of the car camp was very good. It was outside the abandoned village between Luotuocheng and Xu Sanwan. for their use.

But Feng Ru and Wei Qian'er, who built the wall outside, were not so lucky. They dug several wells underground, but no water came out.

Fortunately, there is an ancient city in Xusanwan, which has been cultivated intermittently for 200 years. Although there are no farmlands today, only indistinguishable barren hills, the labor of the predecessors can still guide the flow of groundwater for Liu Chengzong.

In fact, this matter is not complicated. It is difficult to find out whether a place has groundwater in the desert, but it is not difficult in this abandoned barren hill. It is now spring, and sparse weeds grow in the barren land. Where the side is dense, or where grass grows, there is likely to be water below.

And in winter, where the snowflakes that fall on the ground are slightly larger than the sides, there is water; on the contrary, if the snowflakes are small and the sides are normal, then there are stones, ores, tombs or ancient city walls underneath.

The Huben Camp easily drilled a few wells in Xu Sanwan, but the shallow water in the wells was bitter, not to mention the water flow was not large, so it was difficult to satisfy the Huben Camp for their own use. Provide water support.

The water for their two battalions had to be transported from Camel City, more than ten miles away.

This is the best season for them to fight. There is a snow-melting river in Qilian Mountains that passes through Camel City. This river only has water in spring.

In the commander's tent, several officers of the Huben camp had already drawn up the situation according to the three victories reported by Tang, and the map was placed on the table. Liu Chengzong looked at the map, and the situation was very clear.

The chief general of the Ming army and him are taking risks to varying degrees, but in terms of the situation alone, the Marshal's Mansion is at a greater disadvantage.

Because the Ming army had mobilized heavy troops to pursue Gao Yingdeng, even with Zhang Tianlin's troops behind him, the troops on the eastern battlefield were still at a disadvantage; and the chariot camp surrounded by him was just a piece of chicken ribs.

Surrounding them with troops is a waste of troops and has little impact on the battle situation; don't surround them, the firepower of the chariot battalion is very strong, regardless of them can become a foreshadowing of defeat.

Liu Chengzong looked at the map and frowned secretly. The key to winning the round was to find Yang Jiamo. …

The battle situation was indeed different from Liu Chengzong's original idea. He sent troops from Suzhou in order to lure the Ming army out of the defensive position, annihilate them in the desert, and cut off the Gansu frontier army first.

But now that the annihilation was unsuccessful, part of the enemy army was mobilized in the opposite direction. This was something he never expected at the beginning of the war.

The good thing is that the front lines of both sides have been stretched for four hundred miles, and the forces that can be pushed out are already on the table. Liu Chengzong has no reserve battalion, and only the Huben battalion of the Chinese Army is still hiding.

But counting, the Gansu frontier army lost more than [-] troops when they were defeated, annihilated, and encircled in the confrontation, and at least [-] troops went east to support Zhuanglanghe. It is very difficult to have a fully organized Ming army battalion again.

Liu Chengzong calculated that Yang Jiamo should have a battalion of the general army with strong combat power left in his hands, and at most a battalion of the deputy commander-in-chief, counting [-] troops, which was exhausted.

There are only so many active and immovable troops in Gansu, both internally and externally.

Calculated in this way, it is now a race against time. To the west of the battlefield, the Marshal's Mansion can gather strength advantages; to the east of the battlefield, the Ming army can gather strength advantages.

Liu Chengzong sent people to call Yang Yao, the brigade commander who besieged the car camp, and general Wei Qian'er, who was besieging the car camp.

As soon as Wei Qian'er came over, he made a report on the work of besieging the car camp.

Liu Chengzong only listened to half of it, and couldn't stand it anymore.

In the Battle of Hehuang and the siege of Camel City, the Marshal's Army already had a set of conventional siege tactics for facing a formidable enemy.

If the camp is not stable, it will charge, if it cannot advance, it will be surrounded, if it cannot be surrounded, it will be a field battle, if the enemy does not dare to fight in the field, he will be trapped.

This is a very mature process for cleaning up the car camp or castle defenders, and it is also a combat habit that Liu Chengzong has developed for a long time.

Those with cannons, those with cities, and those with cars are all powerful enemies. Strong enemies mean enemies whose attack and defense have been strengthened. This kind of enemy is a big fool who doesn't take the lives of his subordinates seriously if he fights head-on with these things. , the ancestors have already made it clear.

Sun Tzu's Art of War said that order should be used for chaos, calm should be used for uproar, nearness should be used for distance, loss should be used for labor, and food should be used for hunger.

He interrupted Wei Qian'er's report with a wave of his hand, and said, "I didn't call you here for this. Tonight, your battalion will switch defenses with the Huben battalion. Tomorrow morning, I will hold my army flag and go to Camel City. Jing called out and walked towards the high platform."

Wei Qian'er blinked, he knew that Liu Chengzong was about to start performing for the Ming army again.

Liu Chengzong said: "If you don't meet the enemy, go to the high platform and thin Ganzhou, and prepare to attack the city with strong walls and clear fields; if you meet the enemy, be extremely careful. It must be Yang Jiamo, the general soldier of Gansu."

When Wei Qian'er heard the name Yang Jiamo, the hairs all over his body stood up with excitement, and asked: "The commander-in-chief thinks Yang Jiamo is in Ganzhou?"

Liu Chengzong shook his head: "Not necessarily, I just hope he is in Ganzhou."

He exhausted all the possibilities in his mind. Yang Jiamo had brought two standard battalions to squat in Ganzhou City earlier, and this meeting has already raised his horse's hoof and stepped on Gao Yingdeng's face, which is the worst one.

It was precisely because of this that he planned to let Wei Qian'er and Hubenying change defenses at night, and then sent Wei Qian'er to the front. …

This is not to lure the enemy, nor to capture the city, but to besiege Wei and save Zhao. If Yang Jiamo leads the army to deal with Gao Yingdeng and besiege Ganzhou before Gao Yingdeng and Zhang Tianlin's troops are wiped out, Yang Jiamo can make Yang Jiamo give up the annihilation The enemy, back to aid Ganzhou.

At the same time, Liu Chengzong is also making two-handed preparations. Yang Jiamo may not join the ranks of chasing Gao Yingdeng, maybe he is thinking about waiting for him to lead the army to rescue Che Ying, or like him, let Tang Qi rummage through the desert to find him Woolen cloth.

Right now, Tang Bing has no information on Yang Jiamo, and these situations are uncertain. Liu Chengzong believes that a battle must be avoided as much as possible, but if the soldiers reach Ganzhou smoothly, it will be a real siege.

Because even if he didn't know Yang Jiamo's location and command strength, Liu Chengzong's time couldn't help but be wasted.

The battlefield is changing rapidly. The worst situation at present is that Gansu General Yang Jiamo is intercepting Gao Yingdeng, but if it drags on for three to five days, the worst situation is not like this.

But either Hong Chengchou or Yang Jiamo will come to a six-hundred-mile maneuver, regardless of whether it is Liu Chengzong or Liu Chengyun, they will have to face a sudden increase of more than [-] enemy troops. This is a huge pressure that neither of them can bear unilaterally.

Therefore, such things as the speed of soldiers and the siege of the city are absolutely impossible for Liu Shizi to let Wang Ziyong squat in Suzhou, control the village and land, and open the city from inside and outside, all of which need the help of the Sanjie congregation.

In the afternoon of the same day, Liu Chengzong's order guard rushed to Suzhou with letters to convey his call to Wang Ziyong.

As night fell, Liu Chengzong immediately dispersed the Huben camp, and teams entered the besieged camp in the dark, and then Wei Qian'er's troops also escaped in an orderly manner, and the two battalions completed their defense in the quiet night.

In the early morning of the next day, the battalion led by Wei Qian'er laid out Tangqi on the Gobi, and drove cautiously towards Camel City, then joined Mo and Jingbu, and continued to drag the sand and dust towards Gaotai Qianhusuo .

Yang Jiamo, who was stationed in Gaotai, didn't need Tangqi at all. The distance was only forty or fifty miles away, and the residents near Gaotai Qianhusuo were already in fear. A village fort quickly reported the news to Gaotai.

Correspondingly, Wei Qian'er also learned from the common people that Yang Jiamo was in Gaotai at the beginning of sending troops.

The news quickly reached the ears of Liu Chengzong who was surrounded by the car camp. For him, this was undoubtedly a dream come true, so he no longer hesitated and ordered the camp to be pulled out first. Then he met Feng Ru and said, "Brother, the siege Che Ying depends on you, Yang Jiamo is on the high platform, I have to find him."

Feng Ru nodded heavily, cupped his fists and said, "Don't worry, Commander, if they dare to break through, I'll fight them."

In fact, the battalion of the Marshal's Mansion is a relatively gentle Liu Chengzong who leads a group of reckless troops. Only when the decision-making power is in the hands of Liu Chengzong, they will choose to besiege this kind of army that uses a lot of troops, takes a long time, and has slow returns but small losses. Tactics.

Changing the original intentions of the battalion generals, chief executives, and chief executives, people actually prefer to fight hard.

Especially Feng Rou.

Feng Fen is a veteran who came back from Sarhu with Cao Yao. He met two conditions in terms of temperament and experience. First, he knew how the Houjin Army stormed the car camp; One of the few people who is afraid of starvation. …

When hunger comes, others are just afraid of not being able to fill their stomachs, but Feng Ru is afraid of recalling the memory of running from Liaohe to the Yellow River on one human leg.

In the car camp, 4000 people ate food and grass for [-] days.

According to his own thinking, when he saw the height of the car camp, he wanted to rush.

At this moment, when Liu Chengzong said that he would keep him here as a battalion, all Feng Ru thought was that he had to strengthen the wooden cart, and was going to storm the cart battalion against the cannon.

It never occurred to him that even if Liu Shizi left, he would have to do a little bit of manipulation before he left.

Liu Chengzong said: "Then, you send Mr. Qian to go with me."

"what?"

Feng Ru thought, originally two battalions were surrounding the car camp, so it's fine to take away one battalion at once, but you still transfer one of the three thousand bosses?
Seeing his doubts, Liu Chengzong casually pointed to the east and said, "When I go forward, Che Ying will try to break through the encirclement. They don't know that I am going to fight Yang Jiamo, but they will definitely know that there are troops leaving."

"A cavalry soldier from the thousand headquarters followed me and stopped at a place where the car camp could not be seen. Occasionally, if he showed himself under the eyes of the watchmen of the car camp, they would think that I was withdrawing to set up an ambush, and I could hardly stabilize them. day."

After all, people, you want to sweep the floor later, but before you go to sweep the floor, someone comes to urge you to let you sweep the floor, and you don't want to sweep the floor.

The art of war is a psychology, the core of which is suspicion. What the enemy does not want you to do may not be the right choice for you, but what the enemy wants you to do must be wrong for you.

Originally, Che Ying wanted to break out of the encirclement, but Liu Chengzong wanted to make Che Ying mistakenly believe that the marshal army also expected them to break out of the siege. Once this misunderstanding became true, the chances of Che Ying taking the initiative to break out of the siege would be very low.

Feng Ru listened and felt that this was indeed the case, so he agreed first, and then asked: "Then Commander, if they still break through, then I will fight them?"

Liu Chengzong froze for a moment, thinking that there was no such possibility.

There are trenches and earth barriers, and the officers and soldiers can't carry vehicles to break through the siege. Right now, there are too many grain, grass, materials, artillery and equipment in the car camp, and it is impossible to go without carrying chariots.

What's more, the besieging troops showed the meaning of luring and ambush, and they would convey a message to the car battalion very accurately: the besieging troops were in a hurry and eager to win.

Therefore, unless there is a huge change in the battlefield situation and the car battalion is aware of it, they will not take the initiative to break through.

But Liu Chengzong didn't say anything dead, he said: "If they still break through, then brother will act according to his own circumstances. Soldiers are impermanent, water is impermanent, if you can fight, you will fight, if you can't fight, you will leave."

"Walk?"

Faced with Feng Ru's doubts, Liu Chengzong nodded his head naturally: "One battalion can't kill another battalion. There are so many of them, and they can only be defeated by a whole attack. Therefore, whether the enemy breaks out of the encirclement, whether to fight or leave depends on the odds of my brother's victory." No matter how old he is, if the chances of winning are not great, it’s fine to let him go.”

Liu Chengzong didn't expect Feng Ru to be able to keep the entire car battalion with a single battalion, so he didn't have to force others. Of course it would be best to win, but if he won a miserable victory or even lost, there was no need for a war in terms of the current situation.

This car camp is tasteless, if you eat it and your throat gets stuck, you might as well just throw it away.

"But I just have one request, don't let them take away chariots, artillery, food and grass." Liu Chengzong said confidently: "As long as we don't let them take these away, the next time we meet is the time when we will wipe out the remnants of the enemy. "

After receiving such an order, Feng Ru felt extremely relieved. He clasped his fists and said, "Don't worry, Commander, I will try my best to keep them. Even if they can't, they don't even think about running away with their baggage!"

"I'm relieved."

Liu Chengzong took a deep breath. Although the battle line is very long now, each battalion has found its own opponent.

The sound of the bugle to pull out the camp sounded in the siege of the camp. Liu Chengzong looked to the east, which was the direction of Gaotai Thousand Households. Now only he and Yang Jiamo were left.