open sea

Chapter 490 Surrounding
Liu, Yu, Chen, and the three southwestern routes of the Ming army. Except for Chen Mu, the other two armies have already remitted to Shenglong City, with a radius of [-] miles. Chen has [-] soldiers, just waiting for the emperor of the Northern Dynasty to abdicate.

Yu Dayou suffered a small defeat at the beginning of the Lang Son area, and was blocked by the terrain. Later, Bai Yuanjie led a fleet into the Red River, bombarded the Jincheng of Haiyang Prefecture in the east of the Yangtze River, and cut off the retreat of the Northern Dynasty army. Yu Dayou fought out with three battles and three victories. The first soldiers of the three armies approached the troops under the city of Thang Long.

Liu Xian was a bit slower, marching on the north road was difficult and dangerous, and it took time to gather troops at Xuanguang and other Wu Gongji, but Shenglong's troops were all trapped by Yu Dayou and could not go north to support them. Instead, they became the smoothest marching army.

On the [-]th day when Liu and Wu left Xuanguang, they drove [-] li. Without any fighting along the way, they drove straight to the city of Shenglong.

"Where's Shuai Chen?"

Liu Dadao's father is old and strong, and he thought that he could catch up with the soldiers of the Northern Dynasty under Shenglong City, but unexpectedly, Yu Dayou divided his troops into five sentries and surrounded Shenglong City tightly. The army withdrew from Hexi and set up defenses, and returned to the town of Hedong.

"I thought I would meet Chen Shuai, whom I had been friends with for a long time, but I didn't expect him to be late."

At the North Camp in Annan, where Yu Dayou's army was stationed, Liu Xian, his son Liu Ting and other generals entered the camp, and Deng Quan and other Guangxi military generals who came to greet each other exchanged salutes, encouraged Deng Quan, and walked side by side with Yu Dayou, saying: : "This is Annan's general envoy Qingyanghou Wu Gongji, this must be Bai Shuai."

Sending troops out, assigning responsibilities all the way can be called a commander, Bai Yuanjie is also the leader of the way, but his gold content is low, old commanders like Liu Xian and Yu Dayou call him handsome, he himself is ashamed, he dare not even call him handsome.

There is no other reason. His army is a maritime transport army. [-] boats sound very impressive, but except for more than [-] military ships, the transporters are either merchants or fishermen, and all the boats that enter the river are fishing boats. , Merchant ships.

Not to mention that such a duty on land is not enough to be called a commander, most of his men are not even called soldiers, so how can he presumptuously call himself a commander?

Bai Yuanjie hurriedly took a step back, cupped his hands and said, "This junior is only able to lead the way because of the power of the sea, so I don't dare to be praised by Liu Shuai."

"That's a bad word."

Yu Dayou always looked sleepy and sleepy in the Governor's Mansion of Guangdong and Guangxi, but his battles were different. Even though he was old and frail, he and Liu Xian were not only victorious in every battle, but also famous for their personal bravery. It is also a common appearance of battlefield warriors.

The two generals' bellies were bigger than the other's. Bai Yuanjie's normal and muscular figure was sandwiched between the two old generals like a child.

Old Master Yu opened his hands to speak, patted Bai Yuanjie on the shoulder and said, "Chen Shuai's fishing boat is very powerful. Bai Shuai can manage the fisherman properly and bombard him with Annan's army, which is even more wise and brave!"

After Yu Dayou finished speaking, all the generals raised their heads and laughed, even the guards in the command tent lowered their heads and chuckled.

Who doesn't know that the fishing boats driven by fishermen from Guangdong and Guangxi were all Xiangshan warships at first. This is a beautiful misunderstanding.

When those ships were in the Ming Dynasty, they were originally positioned as the backbone of the coastal navy. It was only later that Chen Mu went to the north to serve as General Zhenshuo, but the Xiangshan Shipyard continued to build ships, which led to the large number of civilian fishing boats.

They are fishing boats, but they are all warships.

"Okay, if you say you are Bai Shuai, you are." Liu Xian waved his hand to settle the matter, and then said to Yu Dayou: "When Yu Shuai is in front of you, Liu will not be polite. Yu Shuai knows that our army still has more How much rations are there, and how long is it estimated to take to conquer Thang Long City?"

"This city is tall and thick, so we have to dispatch large ships to bombard it, or use Chen Shuai's method of overturning the Guanghai Weicheng in his early years, push a few coffins in and let him blow it up!"

Wanting to use artillery to blow down the capitals of the Annan and Northern Dynasties would cost more than ten times more gunpowder than a few coffins. Bai Yuanjie smiled and said, "There are many ways to destroy the city. Yu Shuai just waits for Liu Shuai to discuss it."

Yu Dayou nodded and waved for everyone to sit down and discuss matters.

Although Wu Gongji was from the Northern Dynasties, he led the Annan General Envoy of the Ming Dynasty and the Marquis of Qingyang. Therefore, there is no embarrassment in the military's discussion on how to break through Shenglong City, the capital of the Northern Dynasty.

He cupped his hands to the commanders of the Ming army one by one, and said: "Everyone, the heavenly army is powerful, but after all, Tokyo has been the capital of several generations, a famous city in Annan, from the southern and northern dynasties, and half of the people live here. If the public besieges the city, it can be broken, so why break the city again?"

Shenglong City is extremely strong, Wu Gongji sent troops to attack Shenglong for the Li family many times, but every time he fell under this city, he certainly wanted to break through the city.

It's just that people like Yu Dayou, Liu Xian, and Bai Yuanjie said that breaking the city is like playing, and feeling uncomfortable is just one of them.

One by one, this one wants warships to enter the river and blow up the city, and the other wants real gunpowder to overthrow the city. These are all extraordinary means to destroy the city, which is too difficult to accept.

Regardless of what he was thinking, Liu Xian raised his hand to stop him from talking, with frowning eyebrows and a cold face, he tapped his knuckles lightly on the desk of the commander-in-chief, and said: "Xuanguang Wu's [-] soldiers, the old man brought [-] from Yunnan and Sichuan. Not counting the [-] people stationed in Xuanguang, Yu Shuai, how many people do you have?"

Yu Dayou raised two fingers and said, "[-] are in Langshan, and [-] are in Zhennan Pass."

Liu Xian was afraid that Bai Yuanjie would not be able to remember the number of fishermen and merchants, so he simply said: "Bai Shuai doesn't count, Shenglong's grain and grass are one hundred thousand stones a month, and Bai Shuai can last for another two months?"

"Go back to the governor, three months, within three months, food and grass will not be a problem."

Bai Yuanjie shook his head and smiled wryly. Since ancient times, food and grass have been the first to fight. When it comes to food and grass, everyone has a big head. He raised his hand and counted: "The military government still has 17, and the provincial governments of Guangdong and Guangxi allocated 20 shi. The prosperous merchants in Jiangsu and Zhejiang are also raising food. But that’s for Myanmar.”

"Enough, within half a month, break Shenglong, how can we break it." Liu Xian turned his head to look at Yu Dayou who was sitting in the middle of the handsome tent, and said, "Yu Shuai made up his mind."

There are many miasmas in summer in southwest China, Liu Xian didn't want to stay here any longer, he said, "When will Shuai Chen come? The day before yesterday, Yunnan Kuaiqi came, and Yang Xuanwei from Bozhou sent Meng Yang to be in a hurry, and the war in Annan cannot be delayed."

Yu Dayou nodded slightly, and said: "Bai Shuai has discussed with the old man before. There are three water gates on the east wall of Shenglong. When the water gates were opened, Bai Shuai led his battalion of barbarians to capture the city gate. The army entered from the east gate and captured The outer city and the inner palace city are nothing to worry about."

"If you can't do it like this, then you want to lift the coffin and destroy the city."

"Chen Shuai can't come and join forces with us, and we will have to rely on our strength to break Shenglong City."

Mentioning Chen Mu, Yu Dayou's majestic face changed into helplessness, and said: "A few days ago, Chen Shuai sent a letter saying that he led eight thousand elite troops under his command to encircle Mo Jingdian's one hundred thousand army in Nanshan area, saying that the opportunity is once in a thousand years."

"People have been sent to Shenglong City to spread the rumors that Mo Jingdian was killed by Chen Shuai, that [-] troops were surrounded and wiped out by Chen Shuai and Pan Gongji of the Southern Dynasty, and that the Northern Dynasty is over. It will not take half a month for Shenglong City to be broken. This is in the past few days."

Liu Xian's expression was wonderful, the old general opened his mouth for a while, he didn't know what to say, he was stunned for a long time before he said: "One hundred thousand army, surrounded by eight thousand, how cheeky is Chen Shuai to say such a thing?"

　Good morning!

　　
　
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