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Chapter 251 Zhuge Rarely Is Careless

The day Shen Shuren went north to Ruyang and Shangcai was already September [-]th. After a stalemate and trial for a while, Li Zicheng attacked Shangcai City with all his strength twice, at the end of September and the beginning of October respectively.

Therefore, later on, the two sides adjusted their tactics and mobilized their respective forces, and prepared for the battle. When Huang Degong obeyed his orders and prepared for the attack, the time had come to mid-October.

During the Little Ice Age in Henan, the early winter was already a bit cold, and the time will naturally become more and more unfavorable for the attacking side, and it will not get better until next spring.

In normal years, the Yellow River can only be frozen in the twelfth lunar month. With the weather in the 15th year of Chongzhen, thin drift ice may form in the middle of November of the lunar calendar, and it will be frozen by the end of November.

Of course, the freezing of the Yellow River is also limited to the main stream in the north.As it turns into Bianshui, Shahe, and Yingchuan, it gradually confluences southward and seizes the Huaihe River into the sea. The section near the Huaihe River system will definitely not freeze.But even so, this bad effect is bad enough for the troops who want to rescue Kaifeng, which means that the waterway may not be able to directly reach the city of Kaifeng.

If Shen Shuren wants to transport food to keep Kaifeng City going, it must be completed before the end of mid-November.

Shen Shuren Huang Degong knew this very well, and Li Zicheng on the opposite side knew it too.Otherwise, even if Li Zicheng besieges and does not attack, Kaifeng will be starved to death in the spring of next year.

It's a pity that knowing it in my heart doesn't mean that I will always be on guard.

There is only a thousand days to be a thief in the world, but there is no one who can guard against a thief for a thousand days.

Li Zicheng has played the role of the attacker for a long time recently, and he has been pressing Shen Shuren to dare to fight. He is equivalent to being a thief for a long time.

……

The more relaxed Li Zicheng was, of course, the better time for Shen Shuren to make a move.

On October 4th, he brought two waves of troops with a total of more than 1 people secretly assembled together with Huang Degong, as well as more than [-] sailors and sailors who secretly called for help from Nanzhili. Fifty to sixty thousand, finally turned into a formal attack.

Of course, it may take two or three days if all these troops are to be assembled in one place for reorganization and instruction.The assembly of large troops is not so fast, after all, the attack base is not in one place.

Huang Degong originally thought that Shen Shuren would wait for all the three parties to join forces, but Shen Shuren's decision once again exceeded his expectations. He decided to make a time difference and let the 2 people from Shangcai County immediately rush to attack Chen County——

It's not that Shen Shuren's decision was so clever that Huang Degong couldn't think of it.In fact, it was no big deal to surprise Chen County. If Huang Degong led the army himself, with his recklessness, he would definitely dare to make such a decision.

The point is that Shen Shuren has always given people the impression that he is very cowardly and stable, which is even more exaggerated than "Zhuge is only cautious in his life", so this temporary decision really swayed Huang Degong with a shot, which made him exclaim:

"My lord, wait for two more days, can't we join forces with Ruyang's soldiers and attack again? We've all been waiting."

Shen Shuren said wisely: "What we want is this kind of effect that will not come. If we didn't inform Ruyang soldiers to go north at all from the beginning, we would have to fight alone for a long time when we arrived in Chen County.

If you wait for the Ruyang soldiers and even the Yingchuan waterway army to be fully in place, then you will definitely not be able to hide from the eyes of the scouts from the opposite army. Li Zicheng will definitely be more wary when he sees that we have assembled a large number of troops.

As it is now, taking advantage of the eve before the vigilance of the invading army increases, the probability of success will be greatly increased if there is a sudden attack.And once we succeed, our army doesn't need to stand alone for a long time, and all the friendly troops will arrive soon, and it won't be beautiful if there is no time difference for the Chuang army to defeat each one. "

After hearing this, Huang Degong felt that it really made sense. Although the risk must exist, the adults have made a decision, so let's take a gamble and see the effect.

"Since that's the case, it's better to stay in Shangcai, my lord, and take the vanguard to attack Chen County first!" Huang Degong said compromisingly.

"What are you thinking? Are you still worried about missing the sneak attack? I don't do things that I'm not sure about, and Sentinel has figured it out a few days ago."

Shen Shuren was about to take advantage of this to establish his prestige and credibility, so how could he give up personally commanding the entire army.

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2 horses set off immediately, left the city in the evening, and headed northeast overnight.Two days before the attack, the troops had already adjusted their biological clocks in Shangcai City. They slept during the day and worked at night for two consecutive days, so they were very energetic at the moment.

Chen County is Zhoukou, Henan in later generations, while Ruyang is Zhumadian, and Shangcai is Shangcai. The names of Ming Dynasty and later generations have not changed.

From Shangcai to Chen County, the straight-line distance is just over a hundred miles, and it is a plain terrain.If the troops march without luggage and recharge their batteries for a short period of time, they can indeed run there within a day, and even have the strength to fight a stick after arriving.

The 2 members of the Shen family's army walked for about midnight, took a short break in the middle, and traveled more than 60 miles in three hours, still fifty miles away from their destination.

Huang Degong was also a little nervous, and confirmed the situation with Shen Shuren, and all the cavalry scouts who had been scattered reported back, saying that there were no intruder scouts from the brigade nearby, and a small number of them were caught up and killed by the cavalry of the Shen family army, leaving no one alive.

The combat power of the cavalry scouts of the Shen family army is definitely beyond the charts in the world today.After all, there are two types of equipment, the revolver nozzle and the rear-mounted double-barreled nozzle, which are simply artifacts for cavalry hunting.

Ordinary soldiers ride on bumpy horsebacks and shoot arrows straight ahead in a mane-split style. It may be a grassroots officer or even just a scout soldier.

With the short-pipe sprayer, the ordinary cavalry of the Shen family army can exchange numbers for hits. As long as they catch up to the enemy within [-] steps, the escaper is basically sentenced to death.

So there was this classic scene, Shen Jiajun marched for more than 60 miles in a hurry, and a scout who broke into the army did not let go.

Shen Shuren's original plan was to attack the city urgently when he got there. At most, he would temporarily build some flying ladders to hit the wood, and then make a surprise attack. The city of Chen County is not much thicker than Shangcai Gao. If the enemy's defense is not strict, it is too late to mobilize the reserve team The wall is likely to be successfully attacked.

It is nothing more than paying more casualties, and filling them with human lives as quickly as possible.

Since ancient times, there have been only two mainstream styles of siege warfare: either take the time to build a large number of heavy equipment and attack slowly, or attack in the first wave of surprise and go into battle with light equipment.Neither of the two methods can be done, and the only option is to besiege the city for a long time and starve to death.

The most unacceptable thing is the middle-of-the-road style of play that is neither fast nor slow. It not only loses the suddenness of sneak attack, but also loses the bonus of heavy firepower and solid equipment for steady and steady fighting. In the end, the advantages of both ends are not enjoyed.

However, finding that his side's secrecy was better than expected, Shen Shuren had a bolder idea. At this moment, just after the talent period, Shen Shuren called Huang Degong and Zhu Wenzhen to talk to them alone.

"The secrecy of our army is better than expected, maybe we can be bolder, I took Jin Shenghuan and the others, and led [-] infantry to march normally, and it is estimated that we will arrive at the city of Chen County at Mao.

The two of you lead [-] cavalry ahead. Instead of going straight into Chen County, you can take advantage of the speed of the cavalry to bypass the city for about [-] miles, find a place to wade across Yingchuan, and then go north from the east bank of Yingchuan. Go, go to the northeast of the city and turn back, and you can arrive almost before dawn.

At that time, you will try to pretend to be the troops who went to Guide Mansion to return with rations, and send rations to the defenders of Chen County.Chuangjun is now at a stalemate with us for a long time, and he must be hungry.If the troops sent out to rob food were neglected, they might give priority to other places.

Just try to use this kind of psychology to see if you can cheat to open the city gate, or simply wait until dawn to open the gate, the time should be about the same.If you can't succeed, there is no loss, and you can also attract the attention of the defenders to the northeast. By then, the main force of the infantry will almost reach the city, and you can launch a strong attack. "

Huang Degong had long been depressed by this sneaky state. Hearing that he could take risks, he immediately took orders. Zhu Wenzhen was naturally unambiguous, and the two led the cavalry from their headquarters.

When Shen Shuren fought fiercely with Zhang Xianzhong before, the cavalry unit of Zhu Wenzhen's department reached 6000 people. After the annihilation of Zhang Xianzhong's main force, and the addition of new recruits from Huguang, the cavalry has further expanded.However, in this battle, he directly brought about 5000 people, not the whole army.

On Huang Degong's side, there have always been [-] cavalry, and the number of combined troops has reached [-]. It is already a very terrifying force.

Over the years, thieves and thieves have done a lot of defrauding the city, but the officers and soldiers rarely sneak around. It would be a pity not to take advantage of this paralyzed mentality.

……

Two hours later, when the sky was about to light up, Chen County's government office.

A thief general with a mustache was still soundly asleep in the inner courtyard, when his subordinates suddenly called him up.

This man's name is Li Jiyu, a native of Dengfeng, Henan, who has been farming since he was a child. Because there are many monks practicing martial arts in Dengfeng, he also practiced a few wild hand styles in his spare time when he was young.

Li Jiyu was originally a man of duty, but in the 11th year of Chongzhen, the people in the village were forced to pay taxes by Yan Tinghui, the magistrate of Dengfeng County, and they felt that he was highly skilled in martial arts, so they recommended him to the county government to appeal.

As a result, he was severely beaten by Yan Tingjiao, and was also tied to the leg of a stone lion at the gate of the county government with iron chains for public display.Fortunately, Li Jiyu was strong enough to break the stone lion's leg with the iron chain tied to his body in the middle of the night, and escaped.

More than two years later, when Li Zicheng broke Luoyang and the peasant army incorporated bandits around Luoyang, Li Jiyu took the opportunity to join forces. However, Luo Rucai and Ma Shouying were the most active near Songshan and Funiu Mountains at that time. Li Jiyu first voted for Luo Rucai. It was not until Luo Ru was killed that he returned to Li Zicheng.

As a result, he was not only a newly attached army who "had only participated in the rebellion for two years", but also became a slave with multiple surnames, which was even more unpopular than directly joining Li Zicheng's troops.Of course, his men were not taken seriously. When he stormed Kaifeng City this summer, Li Zicheng used Li Jiyu, Yu Dazhong, Shen Jingbang, Zhou Ruli and other locals in Henan to vote for Luoshan bandits as cannon fodder, and they were exhausted miserably.

Later, the food in Kaifeng city was not sustainable, and food was needed everywhere, and when Shen Shuren went north, the surrounding counties needed to be guarded, so Li Zicheng kicked Li Jiyu to this poor place to temporarily station.The strength of his men is basically those who were born in bandits in Dengfeng County.

Of course, Li Jiyu was very angry about being woken up by his subordinates when he was sleeping.

"Don't be angry, general! It's the cavalry sent by General Yuan Zongdi Yuan outside the city for food. They wanted to enter the city to rest, and they said they would give us some food. wait to open the door again,
But General Yuan's people got angry, saying that they, the old battalion from Shaanxi, gave us... the bandits in Henan to give us military rations.Ji Zhanglu was afraid of offending others, so he asked the little one to come over and ask for instructions. "

Hearing this, Li Jiyu woke up a little bit, relieved his qi and blood pressure instability, and realized that he had met Yuan Zongdi's soldiers, so he didn't dare to neglect.

"Immediately put on my clothes and go to the city, I'll go and see for myself! Those Shaanxi bastards have a bad temper. Forget it, don't put on your clothes and prepare your horses!"

Li Jiyu also had no choice. In fact, his troops had run out of food a while ago, and they had raised their own food and grass for the past ten days.
Although it was not enough to eat nothing, what the soldiers ate in their stomachs was no longer grains, but all kinds of miscellaneous things from wild vegetables and grass roots, and at most they could occasionally mix some bran.

You can't offend the army that the king sent to Guide Mansion to rob food.

In less than two cups of tea, Li Jiyu rode straight to the east gate of Chen County without washing his face or changing his clothes. He just took a quick glance and found that the soldiers, horses, armor and banners that came were indeed There are many cavalry among those who break into the army, so there is no doubt.

As far as he knew, Shen Gouguan's troops were the Huguang Army, mainly southerners, with very few cavalry, and if they wanted to attack the city, how could they use cavalry?

And along the way, he also wanted to understand that to the east of Chen County was Zhecheng County of Guide Mansion, and further north was Shangqiu County of Guide Mansion.This team of cavalry came from the northeast, didn't they come back from the Guide mansion to raise food?

Out of last resort, Li Jiyu shouted and asked a few words on the tower: "I don't know what the name of this general is. Which troops under General Yuan's command? These thousands of cavalry, I am afraid that General Yuan came personally, right? Where are the grain and grass we have intercepted?"

"What nonsense! I am under the command of General Yuan, and Wang Guangxing, the 'Tatian King'! Of course, the food and grass are brought with the army, and there is only so much for you. If you want love, there is not much! If General Yuan said You are starving to death, and you are worried that Shen Gouguan will come to Guide, so I am too lazy to take care of you!"

The accent of the visitor was Shaanxi accent with the back of the tongue. Before he was angry, some cavalrymen untied a few ration bags from their horses while talking.

It seems that these thousands of cavalrymen carried a sack of grain with them, and it is estimated that the total amount will not exceed two thousand shi.These people should have passed by here, and there is not much food to distribute to the Chen County defenders.

But mosquitoes are small, but they are meat. The more aggressive the other party is, the more Li Jiyu believes that the other party is an old battalion from Shaanxi, especially those who have already voted for the King of Chuang, and when they meet the new army attached to Henan in private, they still have to put on airs and show off their bandits, mentioning "so and so" back then. The demeanor of the "Wang" name is definitely the style of the Shaanxi People's Army.

In a hurry, Li Jiyu couldn't tell any more, so he ordered to open the door.

There is no urn city in the small town of Chen County, and you can go straight to the county government office after entering the gate, and the road has been smooth since then.The visitor rode his horse directly into the city, Li Jiyu went down to meet him, and was about to further confirm his identity.

Unexpectedly, a row of cavalry in the front row of the opponent suddenly pulled out a short-barreled utensil he had never seen before, and then pulled the trigger without firing a fire, and the flintlock hammer that had been drawn in advance went down. With a single shot, more than a dozen groups of shotguns sprayed out.

Li Jiyu didn't think about anything, and was instantly beaten into a hornet's nest.

"One hundred thousand heavenly soldiers from the imperial court have arrived! Those who surrender will not be killed!" Zhu Wenzhen yelled immediately after succeeding in the sneak attack.

Afterwards, Huang Degong was like a mad tiger, cherishingly holding the runner short tube that Shen Shuren had just issued to him, and holding a steel spear in the other hand, he leaped forward and sprinted, blood stained the long street for a while, killing Li Jiyu's subordinates. .

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Note: In history, the Qing army had just arrived in Henan Province in the 17th year of Chongzhen, and had not yet entered Dengfeng County. Li Jiyu took the Dengfeng County and Ruzhou Prefecture he occupied, and the remaining population of more than 20 voted for the Qing Dynasty.

So if this kind of traitor is killed, he will be killed. Don't feel that it is a pity to die in the first chapter.Just to clarify, lest someone spray me on killing peasant army NPCs indiscriminately.My principle is to give priority to killing the generals of the peasant army who would be traitors without firing a single shot in history. Those who participated in the Anti-Qing Dynasty can be killed less and cautiously as appropriate.

I am not a collector. When I wrote Three Kingdoms, I was not afraid of offending the fans of certain characters. I killed them when I needed them. Writing about wars is very real.What's more, it's only at the end of the Ming Dynasty, and I won't merge the villain's similar items for the so-called "it's not easy to create a villain supporting role, and it takes a while to create it, and it takes a little longer to deepen the reader's impression".

Especially the grades of this book are not good, and I don't attract fans of any camp characters to pay for it. Whether to kill or not is all based on the core consideration of reality, and I will no longer sacrifice historical authenticity for the rhythm of the plot.I would rather not look good, but also be real (in the future, when other books get good grades, I will compromise on the balance between authenticity and commerciality as appropriate. Don’t worry, everyone, I have that strength. It’s just that I don’t bother to write for monthly A price difference of up to a few hundred yuan is a compromise).

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