Traveling through the Ming Dynasty, as soon as you open your eyes, you will die

Chapter 25 Opening the Net and Waiting
  After winning a battle, morale is high and confidence is doubled.

The battlefield has been cleaned. Looking at the rich captures and glorious results, groups of soldiers waved the Ming Dynasty flags in their hands and cheered and celebrated on the battlefield.

Lu Mou stood quietly with his hands behind his hands and began to think about the plan for the next battle.

Looking at the vast plain to the south, through the space between heaven and earth, it seemed that he saw the enemy he was about to face, Li Guo, the famous general of the Chu army.

Li Guo had 50,000 troops. Although 40,000 were family members of the old camp, they were still soldiers.

What's even more terrifying is that he controls a cavalry that has experienced hundreds of battles.

Facing such an enemy, do you still have a chance of winning? But as Li Yan judged, he could only achieve a miserable victory, which would be a complete defeat for him.

There are only so many soldiers that he has trained so hard. But if tigers and wolves are raised in an environment, they cannot afford to lose.

But Li Guo had to defeat, in order to open up such a gap in the airtight North Zhili where the Qing Mongols and the rogue bandits were trapped, so that the Ming Dynasty could get a breath of fresh air.

But if you want to defeat Li Guo without losing too much, you have to start from another direction.

There is a Li Yan around me. Li Yan has a grudge against Li Guo. It is a shortcut to ask for his opinion and understand Li Guo's situation. He will not hide it: "After Li Guo heard the news that you were surrounded and annihilated by me, , what action will you take?”

"He will gloat." Li Yan replied angrily.

"I'm not talking about this. I'm talking about, will he be afraid of me and retreat back to Henan, or go north to join Li Chuang?"

Li Yan smiled contemptuously: "You think too highly of you, you think too much. Li Guo is a fierce general, nicknamed a tiger. If he knew that I was surrounded and annihilated by you, my entire army would be wiped out. Although he would hesitate, he would never retreat to Henan. , let alone go to the north to join Li Chuang, but will occupy Baoding and wait and see what happens."

At this time, he had unknowingly stopped calling Li Zicheng King Chuang, and instead followed Lu Mou in calling him Li Chuang.

"But if he knew that there was a prince of the Ming Dynasty here, he would come over immediately and pick off your head. Because he really needs a head of the prince of the Ming Dynasty to compete with Liu Zongmin."

Lu Mou was surprised: "Are Liu Zongmin and Li Guo at odds?"

Li Yan replied again: "The world is about to fall into the hands of Li Chuang, and Li Chuang has no heirs, so Liu Zongmin, the second person in Li Chuang's army, will inevitably want to inherit."

"But didn't Li Chuang have a double happiness with an adopted son?"

Li Yan smiled disdainfully: "Although Shuangxi is named in name, he is actually Li Chuang's groom, and he is not qualified to be a prince. The only one who is qualified is Li Chuang's nephew Li Guo. Do you think Liu Zongmin and Li Guo can get along?"

Lu Mou smiled: "Is this why Li Chuang sent Li over to monitor you? Doesn't he want to win you over and help him?"

Li Yan shook his head in pain: "That's even more impossible."

"why?"

"Because in his heart, he thinks that I am one of his two biggest competitors. Besides me, he is even more eager than those two bastards Niu Jinxing and Song Xiance."

Lu Mou laughed loudly: "You said that you were in the army and got to this point. Is it because you are jealous of the talented people, or is it a matter of character?"

Li Yan was not angry that Lu Mou actually questioned his character, but sighed: "I wholeheartedly want to bring peace to the world and seek peace for the people of the world."

He was right. His idea of ​​setting up officials to govern Henan went against the subconscious principles of action that Li Zicheng's bandits had formed over the years. He is an outlier in the bandit group. Those who are different are naturally ostracized.

Lu Mou no longer asked Li Yan, but walked towards Wuxiang City with confidence. Li Yan was escorted and had no choice but to follow.

As a result, he saw that Lu Mou seemed confident of defeating Li Guo, and he also wanted to see the fate of Li Guo, his enemy. So, he couldn't help but ask: "I see that you seem to be very confident in defeating Li Guo. Where do you get your confidence?"

When Lu Mou heard this, Li Yan began to ask himself questions, and he felt happy in his heart. Li Yan is getting closer to him, and the opportunity has come to accept him as his younger brother.

"After listening to your analysis, I understand Li Guo's thoughts on the situation. The one who really controls the military power of the rogues now is the commander-in-chief Liu Zongmin. I also estimate that even if Li Guo's situation is difficult, he will never send a single soldier. Reinforce him and help him. Therefore, I am ready to defend Wuxiang, raise the flag, and wait for him to chop off my head."

"He will surely come."

"Then I relied on the Wuxiang City Wall to consume him, mainly his time."

Li Yan frowned and didn't understand.

"He has more than 50,000 horses, so the daily consumption will be huge. Especially his 10,000 horses. One horse requires at least five people to eat and drink, and he will never get Li Chuangyuan to support him, so he will We must follow the old path of rogue bandits and plunder on the spot.”

Li Yan nodded.

"However, your army of 20,000 troops has been looting here for more than ten days. You must have robbed everything around you."

"Yes, there is nothing to grab within a hundred miles."

"Then he has to go hundreds of miles away to rob? When the time comes, he relies on his old camp to rob. Can he come back in one day? That is impossible. If he wants to rob the necessary consumption every day, his only way Just use his cavalry to attack and rob everywhere."

Li Yan's eyes lit up.

"As long as the prince holds a large army outside the city, specifically targeting those scattered troops who go out to collect food, and annihilates Li Guo's cavalry one by one, Li Guo will be finished."

Then he asked again: "But Your Majesty, do you still have such soldiers now? According to our original intelligence, there are no more soldiers available in Beijing."

"Then I will tell you for sure that I still have 6 soldiers like this in the city of Beijing, and 3 uniformed guards. At the same time, there are 5 Guan Ning cavalry rushing back to Beijing."

Li Yan was shocked: "Aren't they all unusable?"

Lu Mou laughed loudly: "There are no soldiers in the world that cannot be used. There are only generals who cannot use soldiers. And I am the one who is best at using soldiers."

After Li Yan was silent for a while, he sneered and said, "If you send troops there again, your capital will be more likely to be taken over by Wu Sangui."

Lu Mou smiled indifferently: "You are right, but why should I mobilize the 6 troops in the capital?"

This question confused Li Yanwen: "If you don't mobilize the troops there, where will you mobilize the troops?"

Lu Mou said proudly: "I have an army of 40,000. As long as I leave 10,000, can't I still defend this Wuxiang?"

Li Yan had to admit: "With the combat power of this army led by the prince, ten thousand are enough to defend Wuxiang."

"Then I will leave the banner, find someone to dress me up, and attract Li Guo in this city. I will take the remaining 3 troops, and I will cooperate with the Jin Yiwei who are the best at reconnaissance and spying. Do you think I can , using an invisible net to trap Li Guo to death here?"

Li Yan clapped his hands: "Your Majesty, you really have a good idea. If you execute it like this, Li Guo will definitely be defeated."

(End of this chapter)