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Chapter 171 The Best Way to Prevent Information Leakage Is to Go Alone
After entering Tashan City, Zheng Chenggong got a lot more detailed information about the frontline army than what he learned from Wu Sangui a few days ago.

After all, Li Fuming has been here for half a year. Although he has been besieged, he can still figure out who the enemy is and how many soldiers there are.

Right now we need to cooperate sincerely, so Li Fuming will tell you everything he knows:

"... Now the enemy situation around Tashan is like this. I heard that the old slave has been seriously ill since the twelfth lunar month of last year.

Today, those who stay between the pines, apricots, towers, and brocades to besiege and divide the city are mainly Azig, the pseudo-jun king and the owner of the bordered white banner, who is stationed at the front.And Jierhalang, the false prince who besieged Jinzhou in the rear and the owner of the Zhenglan Banner.

The deployment of the Tartars was based on Azig's overall plan to cut off the connection between our three cities, besiege Songshan, and use Jierhalang as a backup.Azig himself is now stationed in Machang Town between Songshan and Xingshan, camped across the Xiaoling River, and temporarily built a bridge on the Xiaoling River.

In this way, no matter which side of Songshan and Xingshan wanted to break through and contact, he could divide his troops to stop them, and there was no need to gather troops across the river temporarily.

Under Azig's command, there are also two Jiala in the Xiangbai Banner, which are respectively located in Yaoxiang between Songshan and Tashan, and Beitun between Xingshan and Tashan. These are the necessary links between Tashan and the other two cities The main way of the scriptures.

Alas, God bless me, Daming. To be honest, the number of troops left by the Tartars today is at least half less than that of the war half a year ago. Flag siege.If the old slave had fallen ill a few months earlier, before the decisive battle, maybe Governor Hong would have won the bet! "

As Li Fuming spoke, he became emotional again, remembering what he felt sorry for, he couldn't help patting his thigh so hard that the nail leaves rattled.

His last emotion was well known among the front-line Ming army, but Zheng Chenggong and others didn't know it, so they couldn't help asking curiously.

Li Fuming also said a few more words, telling them that Huang Taiji, the fake sweater, was actually seriously ill during the decisive battle in the early winter of last year.

Later I heard that in winter, the old slave's false concubine died of illness (Hai Lanzhu, Bumbutai's sister), and the old slave suffered another serious illness.

After Zheng Chenggong listened to it, he inevitably regretted it for a while.

After all, according to history, Huang Taiji only has more than a year left to live, but there are no traversers here, so no one knows this.If Shen Shuren was here, he would never be surprised.

Many unofficial histories say that Huang Taiji was murdered by Dorgon during his last serious illness, but these are obviously not credible. Huang Taiji's health was already very poor in the last year before his death.

It's useless to worry about the health of the enemy chieftain. Zheng Chenggong quickly regained his forward-looking mentality. After summing up, he said:
"Since that's the case, there are only two Tatars on the Songjin battlefield now. I heard that the Tartars have one banner with five Jiala, one Jiala with five Niulu, and each Niulu has three hundred households. During the war, each household has its own out a ding.

So one Jiala has 5000 riders, one banner has [-] riders, and the full number of two banners means [-] horses. There must have been losses in the previous battles, and it is estimated that it is barely [-].We have tens of thousands of officers and soldiers in the three cities, right?Why was he surrounded and unable to move at all? "

Hearing this, Li Fuming couldn't help sneering, thinking that Zheng Chenggong's dude was ignorant of the sky and the earth: "It's easy to say! There are a lot of two banners. In the decisive battle last year, although all eight banners were sent out, our army also had 13 eight generals!

After the decisive battle that day, as many as [-] to [-] of our army were wiped out, and countless people were trampled to death across the sea at Bijia Mountain!The remaining soldiers and horses in the three cities are no more than [-] at most.

It took another half a year. We and Xingshan have fewer people, and the consumption of military rations is slow. The main force is in Songshan. I am afraid that they have already started eating dead people.Such a tired army would never be able to fight against the two flags.What's more, this is just to say that Manchuria Zhentar came with two banners, and Azig also had the Mongolian army flag and the Han army flag. "

Li Fuming was also afraid of boosting the enemy's morale, so he didn't say "Jurchen is invincible", but the expression and tone in his words were already very obvious.

Zheng Chenggong also knew that he didn't understand the situation, and he was young and inexperienced, so he immediately expressed that he was open-minded and educated.

Li Fuming saw that he was only a young boy, and he was full of vigor, and he was urgent and righteous enough to come to the rescue, so he didn't bother him much.

The two cooperated sincerely again and planned a specific way to break through.

After some calculations, Zheng Chenggong suggested: "Now it seems that it is absolutely impossible to rescue Hong Dushi in Songshan. You only have 8000 to [-] people here. As long as our fleet at sea is well hidden, it will not be discovered by the Tartars in advance.

It is only 25 miles to Bijia Mountain. Taking advantage of the gap between enemy patrols, the infantry may rush to Bijia Mountain. There are deep water berths there, and large ships can dock directly. Can turn around and fight to the death, buying time for friendly troops to board the ship.Therefore, it should be no problem to rescue Guibu.

But according to what you said, there are at least 1 friendly troops at Cao Bianjiao Cao Junmen in Xingshan Mountain. They are not far from the sea, and it is about 45 miles to Bijiashan Pier. Fan can be regarded as a consummation of merit and virtue.

Why not, let's make an appointment at Bijia Mountain at dawn the day after tomorrow. You can calculate the time yourself and leave the city in the middle of the night to try to avoid the eyes and ears of the Tartar scouts, or simply make sure to intercept and kill a team of Tartar scouts.

If possible, it is better to pretend to be fleeing to the southwest with a small number of cavalry by land, so as to confuse the attention of the Tartars. In this way, it will be more sure to escape at night.

Where is Xingshan, I will send a small sampan to Beiwan to land tomorrow, and try to notify, regardless of whether the Xingshan defenders are notified, we will go to Bijiashan at dawn the day after tomorrow. "

Zheng Chenggong thought very clearly that if Li Fuming was directly asked to go overland to Xingshan, sixty miles away, to inform Cao Bianjiao, he would definitely be stopped by the Qing army.

Therefore, it can only be a detour, first sneaking back to the sea in the dark, and then sending a few ships to the northeast to detour for [-] miles, and then find a shoal to go ashore.

The Tartars guarded the arteries of communication between the cities very closely, but they did not guard against the long coastline and shallows.In addition, the Ming army has binoculars, so they can always find a gap.

However, Li Fuming still found two flaws in Zheng Chenggong's plan.He thought for a while, shook his head and said: "There are still two loopholes in this method. First, Zheng Tiju informed our army and Cao Junmen in Xingshan, at least one day later.

But before you entered the city in the dark this morning, you intercepted and killed a small group of Tartar scouts on the way, and now the Tartars may have discovered that one of their scouts has not returned to camp, wouldn't you be vigilant?If you drag it on any longer, you will inevitably frighten the snake and startle the snake with long nights and dreams.

Therefore, if we have to notify Cao Junmen of Xingshan to launch together, we have to do some drama here today, at least a hundred and ten riders, pretending to break out of the encirclement to escape back to Shanhaiguan by land, and have to fight with the enemy scouts , Expose your whereabouts, so that you can conceal your presence.

Otherwise, maybe the siege around Tashan will be strengthened tomorrow, and it would be foolish to want to sneak out of the city by then. "

When Zheng Chenggong thought about it, this was indeed the case. It was really difficult not to alarm the Tartars in advance.

Li Fuming saw that the other party also agreed, his face turned cold, and he turned to command his guard Li Tongtai: "How many horses are there in the city?"

Li Tongtai felt a chill in his heart and had a bad premonition, but he still said: "It's only two hundred horses, and many wounded and sick horses have been killed for meat. We haven't shipped rations for five months. today."

Li Fuming gritted his teeth, and said solemnly: "Tonight at dusk, you take a hundred riders to break through, take all the horses away, strive for one man and two horses, and then bring all the remaining meat in the city.

You try to choose warriors and officers with high martial arts skills in the army, so that you can fight against Tartar scouts.It's dusk when you're out of town, and you should be able to get away after dark.

Then run as far south as you can, and if you are lucky, run back to Shanhaiguan by yourself. If you are unfortunately intercepted halfway, the other Paoze brothers will remember you.

I will give you a personal token that Wu Sangui from Shanhaiguan should recognize.As long as you get there alive, you won't be considered a deserter. "

Li Fuming did not dare to write a secret letter to explain the situation to Wu Sangui, because he was afraid that if Li Tongtai was intercepted by Tartar cavalry halfway, the secret would be leaked.

If you only bring the token, there is no risk for Li Tongtai to verbally relay the situation. Anyway, the Tartars will not understand the token, and the token itself has no confidential information for interpretation.Even if Li Tongtai was injured and captured, he wouldn't be able to voluntarily confess confidential military information that even the Tartars could not have predicted.

After listening to the commander-in-chief's orders, Li Tongtai knew that it was a great achievement to accomplish this, and that he might indeed rely on the only horses of the Tashan Army to sneak away and return to a safe place faster than Paoze.There was no room for him to refuse, and he agreed as soon as he gritted his teeth.

After Li Fuming confirmed that nothing would go wrong here, he turned around and pointed out another flaw in his plan to Zheng Chenggong: "You want to meet at Bijia Mountain at dawn the day after tomorrow.

Bijia Mountain is a peninsula to the east of this place that is isolated from the land during high tide and integrated with the land during low tide.Just half a year ago, before the Songjin War started, there was a temporary granary built there to store the stored grain transported by sea from the rear.

After the failure of the decisive battle at that time, Azig led people to burn and seize the grain stored in Bijia Mountain.Since the facilities are complete there, it is impossible for there to be no defenders.Today, it seems that there is still a Jiala establishment stationed there.

Considering that the Tartars had suffered a lot in previous battles, it is impossible for a Jiala to be full of [-] riders, but even if it is [-] riders, plus occasionally one or two Niulu were sent out to patrol, and three soldiers were stationed at Bijiashan Wharf. It's a dissatisfying record, and it's not something that some of your sailors can rush to defeat.

And you can't do it in advance, because if you do it in advance, you will startle the snake.Sudden attacks can only be made shortly after the time of meeting at dawn the day after tomorrow, at most half an hour, or even a quarter of an hour.

And if our army and the retreating troops of Cao Junmen in Xingshan want to join forces with you inside and outside to attack the defenders of Bijiashan, it will be as difficult as climbing the sky.The Tartars are already brave, and relying on the wharf camp, our army has to march 25 miles in a hurry at night, and Cao Junmen has to march in the dark for more than [-] miles. When they arrive at Bijia Mountain, how can they spare no effort to immediately engage in fierce battle and attack the camp? "

Li Fuming didn't know Zheng Chenggong's military strength, so he didn't dare to expect that Zheng Chenggong would land on the beach and annihilate the Qing army guarding the pier before responding.

When Zheng Chenggong heard this number, he was also slightly terrified.But after all, he is a genius, and he doesn't think his life is valuable. Anyway, he hasn't made much achievements yet, so he quickly adjusted.

In the past few years, he has been using Big Brother Shen as an example. Big Brother Shen has made great achievements and is well-known all over the world.

"Don't worry! Our army actually has [-] soldiers this time! There are also Hongyi cannons on board the sea ships, and if they attack a pier by storming the beach, the Tartars may not be able to use their cavalry and shooting skills! That's it, it's settled!

Our army is taking the Beacon Hill Wharf at Liming Yinshi the day after tomorrow!Regardless of whether you and Cao Junmen come or not, we will stick to Bijiashan Pier for an hour and a half!At the beginning of the hour, go to sea and retreat!No expiration date!In an hour and a half, how many people can break through to Bijia Mountain and escape to the boat, and each will live in peace! "

Zheng Chenggong absolutely did not dare to stay longer, otherwise the main force of the Tartar cavalry might arrive.The cavalry can march fifty miles an hour at night.

Zheng Chenggong had already seen the map pointed out by Li Fuming just now. The horse farm town by the Xiaoling River where Azig himself was stationed was only fifty or sixty miles away from Bijia Mountain.

The retreating troops of the Ming army encountered the Tartar cavalry at the Jiala level, and they might block and delay it. When encountering a large army at the banner level, it must be a disaster.

Li Fuming also remained silent after listening.He knew that after Zheng Chenggong sneaked out tonight, he would not send anyone to contact him to talk nonsense, so even if there were changes in the follow-up, he could only choose to go or not, and it was impossible to have the opportunity to make another appointment.

If Zheng Chenggong failed to do so, and in the second half of tomorrow night he took the main force of the Tashan garrison to break through the siege, and arrived at Bijia Mountain in the early hours of the day after tomorrow but did not find the supporting troops, then the Tashan garrison would have given up Jiancheng and was lured by Azig in the wild. Annihilated.

For a moment, Li Fuming was still wondering whether "Zheng Chenggong is a spy sent by the Tartars to trick us into giving up our geographical advantage" even at this moment.

But reason told him that with so much evidence, and the battle has been delayed for so long, everything should be true.If you want to cheat, the Tartars should have cheated long ago.

Now, even if the Tartars don't do anything, they can still take Tashan after another two months of siege. Given the food storage situation in the city, people will be cannibalized in another month. Cannibalism eats up everything.

"Forget it, let's rush to Bijia Mountain for a field battle! It's enough to kill a few more Tartars! If we really wait to starve to death in Tashan City, the number of Tartars killed in the end may be less than that of the day after tomorrow. Woolen cloth!"

Li Fuming and Zheng Chenggong discussed until evening, and as it was getting dark, Li Fuming asked Li Tongtai to take more than a hundred horses to take the lead out of the city to Shanhaiguan to break through the encirclement by land, so as to be suspicious soldiers in advance.

After Li Tongtai left, he stayed up late at night before Li Fuming personally escorted Zheng Chenggong and others out of the city.

When the time came, Li Fuming was still a bit uneasy, and asked the last question: "When you come to help this time, you must act in secret, right? If the military situation is detected in advance, the whole army will be wiped out!"

Zheng Chenggong was very confident and proud that the other party finally asked about this concern, and he proudly said: "Of course, Brother Shen has already expected how unreliable these Beijing princes are.

Therefore, from the beginning to the end of our actions, Brother Shen paid out of his own pocket and contributed money to the public, and the court did not know the details at all.We only took wages for transporting military rations by water, but we did so many extra things just in time!

Even the ministers in the court don't know about it, where did the Tartars go to bribe them to spy on the military situation! "

Zheng Chenggong's simple reasoning immediately convinced Li Fuming, and the last stone fell to the ground. At the same time, he had a higher understanding of the righteousness of Shen Shuren and Zheng Chenggong.

Zheng Chenggong's behavior at the moment is like that of Admiral Hipper of the German Navy during World War I. At that time, the German Enigma had long been deciphered by the British army. Including the Battle of Jutland, all German troops carefully planned In fact, the battles in the past were all planned by the British.

But General Hipper often adapts to the situation and walks alone. When cruising outside with the battlecruiser unit, he keeps the radio silent and makes a vote on a whim.As a result, this kind of plan, which even the German staff did not know, often had miraculous effects, and instead won some British battle results.

After all, it is impossible for the British to decipher the Enigma that even the general staff does not know.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the confidential officials of the Ministry of War in Beijing did not know how many traitors around them were bought by the Tartars.This level of spying can be said to be no less than that of the British deciphering Enigma.

It's a pity that even Chongzhen, Zhou Yanru and Chen Xinjia didn't know exactly what Zheng Chenggong was going to do and how to do it.The spying of the Tartars will only lead to their paralysis and darkness.

(End of this chapter)