The wind rises at the end of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 71 Lead the snake out of the hole
The lights were brightly lit, Chen Wang sat on the bright hall, while looking at the map in his hand, he listened to the report from the soldier in tattered sackcloth in front of him.

The news reported by those sentries was much clearer than Chen Wang expected, and even drew a rather detailed map, marking several important information.

It is not a secret that there are nine hundred Liao cavalry in Chunhua City.

Those vagrant spies who had already entered the city had already used various means to get their news out of the city.

In order to prevent the Ming army from attacking the camp, breaking into the military camp is now declared martial law.

Many people only know that Li Zicheng was born in the post station, but in fact, after the post station was abolished, he also served as a frontier soldier and became the general manager all the way.

Li Zicheng himself has some experience in leading troops to fight, and then he led the rebel army to fight.

In many battles with the Ming army, Li Zicheng's progress can be seen with the naked eye, and the basic skills of camping and fortification are not bad.

In the camp facing Chunhua, although the camp walls were not erected due to time constraints, many obstacles were placed.

A defensive position was set up, and the arrangement was almost watertight, without many flaws.

But after all, there are too many old and weak in the rear battalion, and the defense is not strict, and all the sentinels have mixed in.

All the news that came out was summarized, and roughly outlined the general situation of the rogue camp.

Li Zicheng only divided into a team of about 1 people, and more than 3000 cavalry guards.

The cavalry station is at the end, the troops are outside, Gao Jie and Han Zheng guard the north and south of the rear battalion, Gao Jie guards the south, and Han Zheng guards the north.

Zhang Chengde led the troops in the west and guarded the rear camp.

Han Zheng and Zhang Chengde were slightly lower than Gao Jie, but they were also generals under Li Zicheng's command.

Chen Wang also got a piece of information that Prime Minister Hui Deng was not with Li Zicheng, but was heading north all the way, and he didn't know where he went.

However, Li Zicheng's cavalry team has about 9000 people, and the Jingqi has expanded to 3000 people.

There are 4 troops and [-] old and weak including the rear battalion.

Compared with when they met in Qiutou Town, there are much more horse troops and fine cavalry, and their strength has almost doubled.

Chen Wang knew that some of Li Zicheng's horse troops and fine cavalry might not be here. They were guarding the official road from Binzhou to Sanshui to prevent being attacked from both sides.

Now Li Zicheng is actually taking risks. On the line from Sanshui to Chunhua, there is only one road to pass through at this time, and two mountains are sandwiched.

If Zuo Liangyu defeated his troops in the rear, they only needed to defend Sanshui, and they would become the turtles in the urn.

At that time, it was extremely difficult to escape with only the elite cavalry.

Because of the need for defense, the camp of Gao Jie's garrison is on the periphery.

The rogues are no longer the chaotic group they used to be. They already have basic discipline, and there are even relevant regulations in the old, weak and hungry barracks.

However, Chuangjun's control over the old, weak and hungry soldiers is not high, and it does not go too deep into the grassroots. Most of the people still don't know each other, so they also gave opportunities for sentry.

No one in Chuangjun thought that the Ming army would send sentries to infiltrate the back camp.

The sentries who entered the camp found out a lot of things. In the camp after breaking into the army, the guards of all the soldiers were extremely low. Except for the slightly tighter defenses near the periphery, the rest were extremely lax.

There is almost no defense set up for the old, weak and hungry camps inside. In some places, the soldiers on duty at night are even sleeping, and there are not many patrols watching the night.

Chen Wang put away the map in his hand, raised his head, and stared at the waiting sentry in front of him.

Getting in touch with Gao Jie doesn't seem to be a difficult task now.

But when things came to an end, Chen Wang couldn't calm down.

He was a little hesitant, whether he really wanted to send a letter to Gao Jie and ask him to cooperate with him internally and externally.

There are still many variables in this, and there is no guarantee that it will be foolproof.

In case any accident happened and the news leaked, Li Zicheng would use his tricks and set up an ambush.

When the time comes when he leads the troops into battle and encounters tens of thousands of ambushes, even if he saves his life, I am afraid that the battalion general will not be able to do it, and all the efforts he has made all this time will be in vain.

Compared with civil servants, military officers are promoted much faster during wartime.

But civil servants make mistakes, and at most they are fined and demoted.

However, if the school is defeated, he will be dismissed from his post at the slightest, and beheaded if he is convicted of a crime.

Even if the plan was successful and Gao Jie stirred up trouble in the back camp, he only had less than [-] troops capable of fighting in the field.

The guards were not bad at defending the city, but if he really let him go into battle with a knife and gun, he might run faster than anyone else in the event of a headwind.

A total of 5000 cavalry and [-] infantry were deployed around Li Zicheng's front camp, while the central army was guarded by [-] fine cavalry, totaling [-] people.

Two thousand to fifteen thousand, more than seven times the difference in strength...

All kinds of messy thoughts lingered in Chen Wang's mind for a while.

If you are not careful, you will be in the abyss...

The past of the Battle of Qiutou Town is still vivid.

Chen Wang's expression was deep, his eyes flickered with the lights in the tent.

All the military academies in the hall held their breath, waiting for Chen Wang's decision.

Chen Gong and Hu Zhili are the only ones who follow Chen Wang's lead in everything.

Tang Shiping, on the other hand, watched Chen Wang go from being a servant all the way through a hundred bosses to general bosses.

Up to now, he has been promoted to the head of a thousand, and even leads a battalion alone.

He was originally a vice president, but now he took advantage of Chen Wang's shareholder style and was promoted to acting general.

Tang Shiping had already made up his mind to follow Chen Wang, and following Chen Wang was undoubtedly the best choice he made.

Zhao Huailiang was silent, and he also learned about Chen Wang's rapid promotion all the way.

It took him more than ten years to become general manager, but Chen Wang was directly awarded the position of general manager from the beginning, temporarily acting as general manager, and now he is in charge of a battalion alone. Everything happened in just two months. .

Although he has been demoted to deputy commander-in-chief, Chen Wang let him do the affairs of the deputy battalion general, and did not exclude him from the core ranks.

Most of the hundred bosses in the hall are servants under Cao Wenzhao's command, and they came to assist after receiving the order, so naturally they all turned towards Chen Wang.

Today's military discussion can be said to be Chen Wang's speech.

But because of this, no one can discuss with Chen Wang now.

Chen Wang now needs to bear tremendous pressure alone.

The more he thought about it, the more Chen Wang felt that the original plan was too rough.

Take the initiative to attack, the enemy army is heavily guarded now, and there are not many soldiers under his command.

Even with Gao Jieli's cooperation, it may be difficult to defeat the more than [-] intruders outside the city. Once they fall into a fierce battle, it means defeat.

The Chuangjun led by Li Zicheng was not the complete mob outside the city of Binzhou.

And the Liao cavalry he led was not an elite servant who had followed Cao Wenzhao for many years, and he himself was not Cao Bianjiao, and he did not have the reputation of being brave in the three armies.

Chen Wang raised his head slowly, the candlelight in the bright hall kept dancing in his eyes.

He wanted to understand some things. He had fallen into a misunderstanding before, and he didn't need to take the initiative to attack.

Like him, Li Zicheng is also waiting for internal response.

Why doesn't he do something about it, lay down the bait, and lure the snake out of the hole...

(End of this chapter)