Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 467 Confrontation of Famous Generals ([-])

At this time, Zhu Youjian received Yan Yingyuan's battle plan to send surprise troops to attack and occupy Zunyi City.

"Yan Yingyuan's strategy is considered to be the best strategy, but Dalou Mountain is steep and sparsely populated. It is impassable except for the bird path used by woodcutters and farmers. I wonder if he can cross such a mountain within ten days."

Li Yan expressed his doubts about Yan Yingyuan's battle plan, and Zhu Youjian said:
"Before coming, the Seventh Army of the Guards focused on the selection of children from Sichuan, Hubei, Yunnan and Guizhou for reorganization, and they also received intensive training in Huguang Wudang Mountain. There should be no big problem. I agree with his battle plan! However, I am worried now. What is more important is that Li Dinghui will just wait for our soldiers to attack Zunyi, and does he have nothing to do?"

Zhu Youjian didn't dare to despise Li Dingguo, just like he didn't dare to despise Duoduo and Azige back then.

He doesn't know how evil these historical figures are, so even though he has already lingered Duoduo, defeated Azig, forced Dorgon to go to the wild, and captured Hong Chengchou alive, but now when he is fighting Li Dingguo, he You still have to think about it carefully.

This is also the difference between Zhu Youjian as a time traveler and contemporary historical figures. He knows who is a strong man in which aspect, so whether it is official tactics or military tactics, he knows who he cannot take lightly.

Even if he has Li Yan as a military adviser by his side now, he has to take the initiative to think about how if he is Li Dinghui, he will turn around when he is on the defensive.

The sky had begun to clear up, and the thick dark clouds were broken into pieces by the summer sun, emitting golden rays of light, shining brightly on the wooden building where Zhu Youjian lived.

The Miao women in silver ornaments have already danced on the hills in the distance. In this southwest mountainous area where Han and Miao live together, these people are ordinary. own sacrifice.

Therefore, Zhu Youjian did not prohibit their entertainment activities, and gave them the same treatment as the citizens of Ming Dynasty.

However, Zhu Youjian is not in the mood to listen to the singing from the mountains at the moment, and he is still considering how Li Dinghui will deal with his hundreds of thousands of troops.

Zhu Youjian asked Li Yan to carefully analyze Li Dingguo's military strategy.

Li Yan has been the governor of Yunnan and Guizhou for more than half a year, and the time he has been in contact with Li Dingguo is not short. Zhu Youjian believes that he can summarize Li Dingguo's military habits with his meticulous thinking.

"Reporting to Your Majesty, Li Dingguo is good at making surprise troops, and he likes to use big skills in battles. In the battle in southern Sichuan in the past, he was different from Sun Kewang who fought steadily and steadily. Instead, he suddenly attacked our southern Sichuan provinces, from Wumeng to Zhenxiong, Wusa and other mansions. .”

"Later, when our officers and soldiers thought he was going to enter Yunnan and gathered heavy troops in Qujing, he suddenly attacked Pu'an, occupied Anshun, surrounded Guiyang, and then occupied Zunyi when our army was aiding Guiyang. At one time, he almost controlled the whole of Guizhou. This person does not care about the gains and losses of a city or a pool when he fights. He does not fight to the death and does not defend to the death. He is flexible in combat, but because of this, he is less stable. He gains quickly and loses quickly, but he likes to use the strategy of capturing the thief first and capturing the king first. He pays attention to hitting the snake and hitting seven inches. I have hundreds of thousands of officers and soldiers, but there have been two incidents where my supervisor and the governor's office were almost besieged , and it often leads to total collapse because of this, giving Li Dingguo an opportunity to expand his achievements."

Li Yan expressed his observation and analysis of Li Dingguo.

As a military adviser of the Ming Dynasty, although he is the governor of Yunnan and Guizhou, he is more of a counselor for Ma Shiying behind the scenes, and before he came to the southwest, Zhu Youjian had already asked him to pay more attention to Li Dingguo, so now he is very concerned about Li Dingguo. Li Dingguo's understanding is naturally deeper, at least deeper than Li Dingguo's understanding of Li Yan.

And Zhu Youjian himself muttered to himself:

"Don't fight to the death and don't defend to the death. Don't care about the gains and losses of a city or a pool. Capture the thief first and capture the king. Isn't it just a good mobile warfare? It has something to do with his habit of being a thief. No wonder that in the original Nanming history, although Li Dingguo once recovered Guizhou, The whole territory of Guangxi was not defended in the end, this man is good at fighting but not good at governing."

"Li Yan, you said that he used to start by capturing the thief first, so will he still find a way to beat Tongren this time?" Zhu Youjian asked Li Yan again.

Zhu Youjian's emperor's palace was in Tongren, and the governor Ma Shiying and the governor of Yunnan and Guizhou Li Yan were both in Tongren.

After hearing his Majesty's question, Li Yan couldn't help thinking seriously: "Your Majesty, even if he wants to, it's hard to do it. There are countless mountains and rivers from Zunyi to Tongren, and the Wumeng Mountain in the middle is as steep as Dalou Mountain. Really dare to cross Wumeng Mountain."

"Even if Yan Yingyuan dared to cross Dalou Mountain, Li Dingguo would not dare to cross Wumeng Mountain?"

When Zhu Youjian asked, Li Yan said without even thinking: "Then the First Corps should be ordered to assist Tongren immediately, and at the same time, the Gaojie Ministry should strengthen vigilance and defense, and the chieftain soldiers of each ministry should guard the place, and report any suspicious troops immediately! "

"Prelude!"

Zhu Youjian immediately approved Li Yan's request.

But at the same time, Zhu Youjian couldn't help worrying about Yan Yingyuan. He was thinking that he could think of Li Dingguo crossing Wumeng Mountain, and whether Li Dingguo would also think that the Ming army would cross Dalou Mountain.

"Is Your Majesty starting to worry about Yan Yingyuan's Second Corps? My minister boldly said that it is better for Your Majesty to relax. Victory or defeat is a common matter in the military. The best policy, even if Li Dingguo sees it through, he still has to choose this way, not to mention that Deputy Commander Yan has his own team of suspects."

After Li Yan's reassurance, Zhu Youjian did feel a little more at ease, but he couldn't help asking suddenly: "You said that if Li Dingguo came to attack Tongren himself, would we have a chance to capture Li Dingguo alive?"

"This person comes and goes without a shadow, as slippery as a loach, and my Ming officials and soldiers want to catch him, please rest assured, if he dares to come, I will set up a net to capture him alive!"

When Li Yan said this, Zhu Youjian couldn't help but patted him on the shoulder: "If you can capture this person alive, order him down, so he can entertain you!"

Zhu Youjian didn't know if his meeting with Li Dingguo would be a victor facing a captive, and he began to look forward to it more and more.

But Zhu Youjian was disappointed that Li Dingguo never came to attack Tongren himself.

However, after Li Dingguo learned that Emperor Zhu Youjian of the Ming Dynasty had arrived in Guizhou, he fantasized about capturing Zhu Youjian alive, and wrote directly to his subordinates Feng Xianchu and King Zhang Xianzhong:

"I heard that Ming Emperor Zhu Youjian has arrived in Guizhou, and he is most likely in Tongren. If he can be captured alive this time, Daxi can gain several provinces in the southwest without a fight, or avoid fighting for a hundred years. It is hopeful that we will rule the southwest in Daxi for a hundred years. There may be a chance to rule the world in time!"

(End of this chapter)