prosperous age

Chapter 211 210 Change Plan
Dong Yiyuan's question made Li Zhen also look at Wei Guangde.

To be honest, although I don't think much of this fledgling biography, but the power and authority are really incomparable, so I can only listen to him here.

Wei Guangde deliberated for a moment before saying: "I have an immature idea. When we left the customs, what we knew was that the Alda Department had certain troops stationed outside Baoan Prefecture and Yanqing Prefecture, and there were also troops in Chang'an Prefecture. There are only occasional scouts here.

But since yesterday, the Tartars in Huailai County have been frequenting scouts. I don’t know if it is the same on other routes. If the Tartars really start to closely investigate around Huailai, we will be killed as soon as we leave Huailai. Tartar found.

With such a large convoy, it would definitely not be able to outrun the opponent's four-legged opponents, and the field defense would not be able to defend against it.

If there is a mistake in this batch of grain and grass, the troops in Baoan Prefecture must be in disarray, and I am afraid that they will not go out to fight. "

"Master Wei, you don't want to leave, do you?"

Dong Yiyuan frowned when he heard Wei Guangde's words. He was very clear about the status of food and grass in the army. If the food and grass were burned, it would cause chaos in the army, but if the barracks were cut off from food, it would also cause chaos in the army.

"The Tartars are here to drop scouts, we can't leave."

Wei Guangde was also very direct, expressing his thoughts very simply.

"What if there is no food in Baoan Prefecture?"

Dong Yiyuan asked immediately.

"The reason why I went there this time is because the Xuanfu army has been reluctant to fight for a long time, and said that there is no food and grass, and the soldiers have no fighting spirit, so we are forced to go this way.

Now our location is very close to Baoanzhou. The journey of the convoy takes about five days. Even if the Xuanfu army drove from Baoanzhou, it would only take three or four days, and the Kuaima would arrive in less than two days.

Since we know that sending food to the past is very dangerous, why do we have to send it and let them send someone to pick it up. "

Speaking of this, Wei Guangde got up and took two steps in the room before continuing: "Let the Xuanfu army move, even if there is no real fight with the Tartars, at least the Tartars will divide their troops to watch.

Master Li knows the purpose of my trip. As long as the Tartars come, if they are not strong, we will take this opportunity to urge them to fight the Tartars first. But I am a little undecided. I want to set the battlefield in my arms Wei still went to Huailai County. "

"You want to use these grains as bait?"

At this time Li Zhen got up abruptly and said in surprise, "This batch of food and grass is very important to Xuanfu, but there is no room for loss."

Of course, Wei Guangde was aware of Li Zhen's reminder, and the most troubling thing was that the Anda Department strengthened the blockade and investigation around Huailai, which made their previous ideas come to nothing.

According to Weng Pu's original idea, there should not be many detectives around Huailai at this time, and the grain transport convoy will be safer.

In fact, Wei Guangde and Weng Pu discussed in private why the Anda Department stayed here for more than half a month and did not leave.

According to their analysis, it may be for the purpose of a transaction, but after such a long time, the transaction should have been completed, and the IDA Department should immediately withdraw from the Xuanfu, and will never stay here any longer, and even sent troops to threaten Baoan Prefecture and Two places in Yanqing Prefecture.

But it was only when he arrived at Huailaiwei that he became aware of An Dahan's possible plan a little belatedly. Perhaps his idea was that since he was here, he would meet the Xuan Dajun here and try the strength of the Ming army. , If it is a soft persimmon, the generation of Huailai and Baoan defeated the main force of the Ming army, and he could attack the passes along the Juyongguan and march into Beijing again.

Before coming here, Wei Guangde really did not expect that the guards of Xuanfu would be so unbearable. You must know that the nearest army around the capital is Xuanfu except Ji Town. Originally, Wei Guangde thought that the army here should be relatively strong, but when he arrived at Huailaiwei, he saw His military appearance was quite different from what he had imagined.

In Zhang Ji's words, it feels worse than the previous Jiujiangwei.

In fact, the Jiujiang Guard in the early days was already at the end of its stride. It hadn't had the grand military appearance when it fought with the Taizu, but it was much stronger than the beggar guard here.

As for now, it is even more incomparable.

Because of Jiujiangwei's outstanding record, the Nanjing Metropolitan Government and the Ministry of War admired them. Naturally, both equipment and supplies were given vigorously, so as not to have a team that could be pulled out at critical times.

Naturally, the money that should be distributed will not be less, but it will not be delayed as usual.

Wei Guangde sighed inwardly, thinking of those people whom Yu Ding saw during the expropriation during the day, it was really difficult for them to rely on these people to guard the huge northern defense line.

I remember when I was a child, my father still bragged about the strength of the frontier army in front of him. If Wei Guangde knew it was like this, hehe.
It was also because of this that Wei Guangde guessed that Al Da Khan might want to defeat the Xuanda army here, and these transferred troops may be the most powerful army in Xuanda Town, as long as they are defeated, the future Xuanda defense line will be useless.

What I discussed with Weng Pu at the beginning is definitely useless. If I continue to follow the plan, I am afraid that I will have to confess my life here. The Ministry of Answers will never sit back and watch such a large grain transport convoy enter Baoan Prefecture, and their Sometimes I am afraid and I also care about food.

At this time, Li Zhen and Dong Yiyuan were thinking about what Wei Guangde said, let the troops from Baoan Prefecture come to pick up the food by themselves, if there are not many troops coming with the Tartars, they can still fight backhands, and the initiative is still clear. in the hands of the army.

What's more, here, Huailaiwei can at least gather some soldiers to participate in the battle, which will also increase the strength of the Ming army.

"If your lord plans this way, we need to communicate with Huailaiwei Commander. The defense of Huailai Weicheng and Huailai County is better."

At this moment, Li Zhen fully supports Wei Guangde's proposal, without him, the risk is much smaller.

Before, he was also very worried about the safety of this trip, food and grass came next, and his own life was also here.

According to Wei Guangde's intention, at least his own life can be saved, and the errands will not be delayed, the best of both worlds, so naturally he agrees.

At this time, Dong Yiyuan was recalling the Huailai county he had been to. After all, he was from Xuanfu, and he used to travel around Xuanfu with his father and elder brother.

After a long time, Dong Yiyuan clasped his fists at Wei Guangde and said, "Master Wei's plan is feasible. Master Li also said just now that we need to choose between Huailai Acropolis or Huailai County. In fact, we have been here before, and the defense of Huailai County is of course It's not as good as the Acropolis, but if we really want to attract the Ida Ministry to attack, it may be safer for us to bring food and grass to Huailai County.

One is that it is closer to Baoan Prefecture, and it is easier to get support from Baoan Prefecture. Second, if we do not act, the Tartars may not know our existence. "

It can only be said that the shielding of the previous battlefield was relatively good. Nearly half of the cavalry was sent out by him to block the reconnaissance cavalry of our department. The specific situation of the army that came out is completely unknown.

These intelligence wars on the battlefield were actually not proposed by Wei Guangde, but Dong Yiyuan had already arranged them in this way. The ancients' war wisdom was no worse than that of modern people, and they knew what they should know.

As for the errand of delivering food, they still planned to carry it out at risk, that is, they strictly obeyed orders and did not have Wei Guangde's discretionary power, so they could not respond to changes in the battlefield in many cases and could only act according to orders.

"Let the Huailai guards guard the Yongding River Bridge to protect the safety of the Weicheng. We will send some soldiers to follow us to Huailai County, where we are going to fight."

At this moment, Wei Guangde thought that he should communicate with the commanders of Huailaiwei, because tonight was related to tomorrow's grain transportation, so Wei Guangde didn't call the people from Huailaiwei, but since his thoughts were overwhelmed by Li Zhen and Dong Once Yuan accepted it, Huai Laiwei was naturally required to cooperate.

Wei Guangde turned his head and shouted at Zhang Ji who was outside the door: "Zhang Ji, please go and ask Commander Huailaiwei to come over, and Yu Guangdou to come over by the way, I need him to write an official document to report to Sir Weng."

Yu Guangdou was a scribe brought by Wei Guangde from Juyongguan to help him with some official documents.

Before these scribes came, Wei Guangde could only do the job of writing official documents. When Changping sent people here, Wei Guangde naturally became the person in charge of them, and he no longer dealt with these things himself.

Not long after, Yu Guangdou was summoned here, but at this time he could only stay aside, and when Huailaiwei's commander arrived here, Wei Guangde first told him what Huailaiwei needed to do now.

Hearing that Wei Guangde wanted to take away [-] soldiers from the Acropolis, Commander Huailaiwei's expression changed.

"I'm going to take him to Huailai County, and you can just recruit Yu Ding to make up for it."

Wei Guangde didn't want to entangle too much with the Xuanfu people, and now he directly used the privilege of military counselor to intervene in the affairs of the military system.

As far as Wei Guangde saw the current situation of Huailaiwei, he didn't have a good face to face the commander.

To say that the location of Huailai is really good. There are two rivers, Sanggan River and Yanghe River, passing by. The river after the confluence of the two rivers is the Yongding River. The river passes through Chongshan and the Great Wall, and finally flows through Beijing City and finally enters the Haihe River.

Just don't think about the waterway, because the waterway is not smooth, and the materials transported from the pass can only be transported by land. As for the Yongding River near Huailaiwei, it is stable and can be used by boats.

As for why the grain was not sent directly from Huailaiwei to Baoan Prefecture by boat, it was not that Wei Guangde did not consider going by water, but that there were not enough boats here.

Although this section of the river is several tens of feet wide, the upper part of the river is still relatively narrow, especially in Baoanzhou, which is close to the Yanghe River. They are swimming upstream.

He agreed with the commander of the Huailai Guards that Dong Yiyuan would go to the guard post to collect all the men and set off early in the morning. After the commander of the Huailai Guards left, Wei Guangde ordered Yu Guangdou to start writing official documents.

For the sake of his own life this time, Wei Guangde still had to fight. He revised the strategy he had made with Weng Pu. Naturally, he needed to inform Juyongguan at this time. Weng Pu was the admiral and the boss of the war zone.

After Wei Guangde's dictation, Li Zhen was asked to take the official document written by Yu Guangdou in his hand and read it carefully, and then sent it out after confirming that it was correct.

Later, he asked Yu Guangdou to write an official document calling for a part of the Xuanfu Army to come to Huailai County to transport grain. Before that, only one part of the Xuanfu Army was asked to respond, but now that the plan has changed, it is natural to rewrite the official document.

After Wei Guangde and Li Zhen read it, they immediately asked Dong Yiyuan to send a few people from his trusted family members to Baoan Prefecture to deliver the letter. Dong Yiyuan's family members were all from Xuanfu, so they naturally knew a lot.

Now that the overall situation has been decided, Wei Guangde heaved a sigh of relief in his heart. After knowing the military report from Huailai County in the afternoon, Wei Guangde's heart has been tugging.

In fact, there is also Li Zhen who has the same mentality as him. Since he is assigned to the position of military preparation, he naturally knows some military affairs. Even if he didn't know it before, he knows a lot after sitting in this position. He's not stupid either.

I didn't say it before, that's because I knew when I was at Juyongguan that the commander-in-chief Weng Pu and Wei Guangde in front of him had a plan after careful analysis of this operation, so naturally he didn't dare to say anything, and he couldn't say anything.

The room became quiet. At this moment, only Wei Guangde and Li Zhen were left in the room. Although they were sitting face to face, and there was still a teacup in front of the table, they were deliberating on the previous arrangement, neither spoke nor drank. Tea.

Fighting a war is actually a logical deduction. The commander of one party must make a series of reactions based on the information he has to make the situation more beneficial to him.

And what Wei Guangde is planning now is the reaction from Al Dahan's side. He will know the information, what kind of reaction he will make, and how Wei Guangde should respond.

As for whether he can win the fight between soldiers and soldiers, that is not in his consideration for the time being.

To be honest, if the troops in Baoan Prefecture were similar to those of Huailaiwei, Wei Guangde felt that it would be safer for him to retreat to Zhenbian Town under the protection of Dong Yiyuan, and wait there for the arrival of the Datong Army.

However, from Dong Yiyuan's mouth, Wei Guangde also heard that most of the guards of the Xuanfu army are similar to the Huailaiwei, but the generals under the general of the Xuanfu army and the soldiers led by the guerrillas can still fight against the Tartars, at least on both sides. In the case of close strength, the outcome is [-]-[-].

As for Dong Yiyuan's father, Dong Yang, who was a guerrilla general of the Xuanfu before, and died in a fierce battle when the Alda tribe invaded Dishuiya, it was also caused by the large disparity in strength and the delay in the arrival of the Xuanfu's reinforcements.

In fact, the grassland cavalry's attack on the military forts of Xuanfu and Datong was a bit like guerrilla warfare. They knew that they would attack the weak by force and not attack by force. They usually roamed around the fortress looking for fighters. Once they selected a weak target It suddenly became difficult.

Therefore, every time they attacked the Ming army fortress, they often raided with superior forces, pursuing a quick battle. When most of the Ming army rushed to support, the Mongols had already retreated.

If the prairie cavalry had enough manpower and were strong enough, they would often ambush the coming reinforcements of the Ming Dynasty. Therefore, the Ming army in Bianzhen was tired of coping with the Tartars' style of play, and in the end they were afraid and unwilling to fight.

After a long time, Wei Guangde suddenly sighed, "I don't know where the Datong Army is?"

(End of this chapter)