national surname chiming

Chapter 262
The words are divided into two ends,

While Yuan Zongdi was crippled by Huang Degong alone, and he also found an excuse to gather the remnants and move slowly, his last bit of loyalty to Li Zicheng was not ambiguous.

Failure to personally lead the troops back to the main battlefield in Chen County did not prevent Yuan Zongdi from sending fast horse soldiers as messengers to warn Li Zicheng and explain his plight.

The location where Yuan Zongdi was frustrated was only near Zhecheng County, and there were still [-] to [-] miles left to Chen County. Of course, it was only delivered in the middle of the night that day.Early the next morning, Li Zicheng personally saw Yuan Zongdi's urgent letter.

"What? King Lu and King Fu are really in Shangqiu City? Yuan Zongdi planned to attack Shangqiu by accident and bring food to the front lines of Yancheng and Chen County?

It's a pity that Liang Yizhang, the magistrate of Shangqiu, refused to surrender, and was attacked by Huang Degong with tens of thousands of cavalry, broke through the encirclement, and rescued King Lu and King Fu? ! "

After confirming the news, Li Zicheng was shocked and speechless for a long time.

He was very angry and wanted to find all the counselors he could find to reprimand and vent and ask for countermeasures.Naturally, Song Xiance was the first to be summoned, and other counselors who were more miscellaneous were also summoned one after another.

However, when Song Xiance came before him, Li Zicheng was just about to curse, but suddenly found that he had no position to scold at all——

Song Xiance suggested to him from the beginning that he could "pretend that the Chuang army had a unique source of information, announce that King Lu and Fu Wang were in Shangqiu, and use the appearance of trapping the domain to lure the main force of the Ming army to come out and annihilate them in the field."

Although this strategy was very useless in the end, there was no need to lie at all, Shen Shuren came out, and even made a time difference in advance to take down Chen county.As a result, Li Zicheng just moved from one siege battlefield to another siege battlefield after spending a long time.

But looking at it now, Song Xiance's bad idea at the beginning was at least right in the prediction: Lu Wang Fu Wang is really in Shangqiu City!If I had put all my eggs in one basket at the beginning, maybe it would have happened!
Could it be that Song Xiance really knows the destiny and the prophecy, is he a fortune teller?

Thinking of this, an uneducated Cao Mang like Li Zicheng, who was in awe of mysticism, would not dare to speak harshly.

"Now that Huang Degong defeated Yuan Zongdi in a roundabout way, rescued Lu Wang and others, and destroyed our army's troops to go to Guide Mansion to raise food, what should I do? Sir, you must teach me?"

In the end Li Zicheng regained his politeness and asked for advice in a restrained tone.

After Song Xiance had a general understanding of the situation, he also had a bitter face, helpless.

This situation is already quite unfavorable for Chuangjun.

Song Xiance thought about it and said, "Although we have been weakened by the army several times, the remaining combat power of our army should still be higher than that of Shen Shuren. If there is a decisive battle, we only need to worry about whether the morale can be maintained and whether Shen Shuren will fight.

If these two points can be resolved, the King still has a great chance of winning.But the difficulty is that these points are difficult to guarantee.

Shangcai, Chenxian, and Shangqiu were defeated several times in a row. The morale of the remaining [-] main forces of our army has been demoralized. Surround but not fight, no casualties and setbacks.

As for the fighter planes, we are now benefiting from a quick fight, but Shen Shuren will never fight us quickly.The people in Guide Mansion who were on food were injured, and the food and grass they found were not enough to sustain the army for a long time, and they couldn't even survive this winter.Shen Shuren will definitely consume my army.

For today's plan... The students advised the king to make preparations early, or give up the competition with Shen Shuren in Henan. "

Hearing this, Li Zicheng immediately stood up from his chair, pacing back and forth angrily: "If we take a step back, will those Luo Rucai and Ma Shouying old men still be convinced by us?
At the beginning, he took advantage of the prestige of breaking Luoyang and killing King Fu, and took the opportunity to kill Luo and Ma and annex his tribe.After the merger, is it not as good as before?How can you stand up if you can't even take down an important town that is a hub of a province? "

Song Xiance was also very difficult to deal with, so he could only swallow his dry throat, and said euphemistically: "After all, your majesty defeated Yang Sichang, Sun Chuanting and Zuo Liangyu's allied forces three months ago. Have you forgotten? This merit is barely enough. , even if the city of Kaifeng cannot be conquered, it can be explained.

At the beginning, we felt that we could continue to expand the results because of the morale boosted by the winning streak, so we kicked the iron plate of Shen Shuren.Now it's just a stalemate, not a big loss. As long as the publicity is good, you can definitely get out of the whole body. "

Li Zicheng closed his eyes for a while in pain, and let out a long sigh.

If he had known this was the case, he would have left two months ago.If he left at that time, it would be like retreating bravely, and he was safe at the top position.

Now the situation has dropped a lot, and if we go again, it will be like stockholders of later generations cutting their positions and cutting their flesh, very unwilling.

He thought about it for a long time alone, and finally raised two concerns: "Don't talk about this matter to the outside world, so as not to shake the morale of the army. It's not impossible for us to consider breaking up with Shen Shuren, but I'm afraid that he will feel the same. We are weak and can be bullied, so we insist on stalking.

Moreover, even if you don't open the seal and don't go to Shangqiu, you still have to deal with the food this winter.Once retreating, we must find a new target of Liwei, stabilize people's hearts, and grab a wave of relief by the way. "

Seeing that Li Zicheng's attitude was loose, Song Xiance knew that there was an opportunity to persuade him, so he quickly used all his talents to help explain and analyze:

"Don't worry about this, Your Majesty! If our army withdraws, we will definitely have an excuse if we want to save face. Your Majesty might as well return to Luoyang, make some adjustments, and then approach Tongguan westward. Let's continue to trouble Sun Chuanting!
I heard that Sun Chuanting was exhausted for fishing again, and used the land of Shaanxi to raise some food and grass, at least enough for his troops to survive the winter.In addition, Sun Chuanting was defeated in the big defeat more than two months ago, losing troops and losing generals. I heard that he played Chongzhen again and went from Sichuan to Hanzhong to transport grain to Guanzhong.Even those Sichuan soldiers who were in charge of food protection were detained by Yang Sichang.

As long as the king breaks Sun Chuanting, he can definitely survive the food shortage in winter and spring, and he can also use this to stabilize the hearts of the various ministries after the retreat.

As for Shen Shuren, the student has calmed down and thought about it over and over again. He is definitely not a good man and a faithful woman, and he is definitely not a loyal minister who is willing to die for Chongzhen!He and Sun Chuanting are definitely two types of people!
This kind of person, we were too eager and aggressive at the beginning, and we felt that we should get more, so we provoked him.Otherwise, he might have chased and killed Zhang Xianzhong now, all the way to Guizhou, and maybe even got Zhang Xianzhong's head.

Therefore, as long as we properly express that we are not hostile to him, and everyone pulls away, we have made it clear that we will focus on dealing with Sun Chuanting, and Shen Shuren will accept it as soon as we meet—as long as we give Shen Shuren a step down so that Chongzhen can't blame him, he will definitely not Do more for Chongzhen!
At that time, we and Shen Shuren will both go back to the original base, and then we will go west separately. We will return to Guanzhong from Henan to deal with Sun Chuanting, and Shen Shuren will be free to go to Guichuan from Huguang to deal with Zhang Xianzhong first. We should be able to live in peace for at least a while. A year and a half.

And if we continue to fight with Shen Shuren and insist on seeing a winner, even if there is no danger right now, but after the winter is over and the road improves, Sun Chuanting will recover and will definitely fight us again! "

Song Xiance spoke convincingly, focused his analysis, and made at least one core point clear to Li Zicheng: no matter how strong Shen Shuren and Sun Chuanting were, at least Sun Chuanting's character was more loyal and reliable than Shen Shuren's.

Therefore, Li Zicheng put all his eggs in one basket to beat Shen Shuren. Once the stalemate lasted for a long time, and Sun Chuanting saw that "if I join, the court may be successful", then Sun Chuanting would definitely go all out to help Shen Shuren at the expense of personal gains and losses.

But on the other hand, if Li Zicheng was desperate to beat Sun Chuanting, would Shen Shuren go all out to save him... Then hehe, Song Xiance expressed doubts about Shen Shuren's character.

And even if he wanted to save Guan Zhong, it was determined by geographical factors. Shen Shuren wanted to save Guan Zhong, but he was beyond his reach.

"Sir, there is indeed some truth to what you said, but this tone is not so easy to swallow. We need an opportunity now, and we can't just walk away without a fight." After weighing repeatedly, Li Zicheng already had some thoughts in his heart.

Song Xiance carefully induced: "The king means..."

Li Zicheng waved his hand: "You also said that it can't last for a long time now. The main reason is the lack of food, and the food soldiers and horses have been hit again. But in fact, our army still has the only solution to the military food problem, and it has not been tried so far. — If there is no food, we can ask Shen Shuren to transport it to us!

From Shou County to Chen County, on the Yingchuan River for hundreds of miles, there are grain fleets going back and forth every few days. They stop at the Yingchuan Water Village outside the south gate of Chen County. Sustained!
Before our army was short of water troops, and the Yingchuan River was wide, we had never tried to force field battles to cut off food supplies.Now it's better to give it a try, just under the pretext that Huang Degong saved Lu Wang, we divide our troops to bypass Chen County, and use the posture of chasing Huang Degong to kill Lu Wang, trying to lure Shen Shuren to save Huang Degong, and fight against him.

If Shen Shuren can't shrink back, we can also use the pretense of chasing Huang Degong, try to block the water and build weirs in Yingchuan, or intercept the fleet with firearms and crossbows on the shore. It doesn't matter if they intercept it, in short, they have to fight against Shen Shuren's grain guard army.

If the Shen family's naval army is really invincible, we have a step down—it's not that we can't defeat the Shen family's army in field battles, but that the Shen Shu people are as cowardly as a mouse and can't shrink back. They either fight in water or defend the city. The defeat in the water battle will not affect the glory of my Northwest man. Going back and focusing on dealing with Sun Chuanting will save face and stabilize the morale of the army.

In addition, if our army really has to withdraw from the siege, Kaifeng City can't let it go well. Anyway, at that time, Shen Shuren can't stop Shen Shuren from transporting food to Kaifeng City and saving Chen Yongfu. Let's order Liu Zongmin to make some preparations and destroy a little bit in advance embankment of the yellow river,
When it's time to withdraw the troops, let the broken troops completely flood Kaifeng when the Shen family army advances to the vicinity of Kaifeng!If I can't get it, Shen Shuren can't even try to save it intact! "

(End of this chapter)