At the meeting, Wang Shuo put forward a plan to grab grain, and everyone discussed it for a long time, thinking that it was a good way to solve the current food crisis, and then began to discuss the details of the plan.According to the information obtained from the reconnaissance, after more than a month of rest and recuperation, the Shun army has grain and grass in its hands, and the number of men and horses has exceeded 30,000.Lu Wenbin released 20,000 troops in Longxi, 10,000 in Fuqiang, and Ningyuan in the middle, with only 3,000 soldiers.The people of Ningyuan and Fuqiang have been killed or driven out of the county seat by the Shun army, and only some coolies who have been captured to transport grain and grass remain.These two places have completely become the military fortresses of the Shun army, and their only role is to store grain and grass and serve as a transfer station.Lu Wenbin's intention was that Ningyuan was barren and had limited production, and it was enough to put only 3,000 defenders in the city purely for defensive purposes.The defenders of Longxi and Fuqiang took care of grabbing grain and escorting grain and grass along the way.Further west of Tianshui and Chencang, there is a mighty general Li Tong under King Chuang in charge, which is the direct pro-army of King Chuang, who came from Hanzhong after Lu Wenbin broke through Longzhong, and is much more powerful than Lu Wenbin.It is not possible to ambush the grain transport team of the Shun army in Longxi and Fuqiang, if the grain is grabbed in these places, the Shun army has many soldiers and horses, and it is easy to be surrounded and cannot leave.The place of grabbing grain should be placed near Ningyuan, Ningyuan to the Fuqiang line, close to the side of Ningyuan, making it difficult for the defenders of Longxi and Fuqiang to rescue.With the goal of the Fuqiang garrison who came to Ningyuan to carry grain and grass, try not to directly provoke Lu Wenbin in Longxi, and the location should be changed frequently, not fixed, so that the Shun army is unable to defend against it.There should be a special unit for fighting the war, which should be divided into two parts.Part of the army was responsible for destroying the Shun army transporting grain and grass, and part of it was responsible for monitoring the enemy's reinforcements, and before the looted grain and grass were transported, they had to block the Shun army that came to support.The transportation of grain and grass is the responsibility of the people organized by the county order.After the people removed the grain and grass, some people were also responsible for removing the traces on the road, so that the enemy army could not find out who did it and where the grain and grass were transported.Some people should also be left at home to guard the city to prevent accidents.At the same time, the stolen grain and grass cannot all be stored in the county town, and it is necessary to establish a base in the deep mountains as soon as possible to reserve grain and grass in case of emergency.The advantage of the square table meeting is that everyone sits there and feels much more intimate with each other, and it is completely a consultative atmosphere.In this way, everyone will think hard and put forward their ideas seriously.As a result, there is a very detailed analysis and coping strategy above.Everyone discussed the details of the operation, assigned a special person to be responsible for each link, and then the county ordered to go back to organize the people, and the generals went back to mobilize the soldiers and prepare weapons and appliances according to their own tasks.Due to the careful preparation, the grain grabbing plan was carried out very smoothly, and in just one month, more than 100,000 catties of grain were robbed of the Shun army, more than 1,000 Shun troops were killed, and a large number of weapons and armor were seized.The grain and grass of the Shun army were repeatedly robbed, and the number of troops escorting the grain and grass increased from a few hundred to thousands, but it still could not solve the problem.The Shun army began to pay attention to this army, which was always robbing their grain and grass, and sent troops to search for the enemy who robbed the grain near the places where the grain and grass were easy to rob.Some small groups of bandits were killed by the Shun army as a potential threat.Wang Shuo knew that if this continued, sooner or later the Shun army would find him, and while stepping up preparations for war, he would send sentinels to inquire about the news of the Shun army.Sure enough, the reconnaissance team of the Shun army began to expand the search area, and from time to time the Shun army broke into the area around Zhangxian County.Wang Shuo was not polite, the sentry found the enemy team, and immediately organized troops to encircle and annihilate it, not only training his own soldiers, but also capturing the enemy's weapons and armor to arm himself, killing two birds with one stone.It didn't take long for Lu Wenbin to aim the main spearhead at Wang Shuo, and sent a lieutenant general, led 5,000 men and horses, and came from Longxi directly into Zhangxian County with great momentum Through robbery and his own small batch of weapons and leather armor, Wang Shuo had armed 3,000 regular troops, and he was ready to fight a decisive battle with the enemy's 5,000 troops on the open ground in front of Zhangxian.Regarding the combat effectiveness of Shunbing, Wang Shuo did not pay attention to it.Most of the Shun troops were composed of hungry peasants and surrendered Ming troops, and the peasants did not know how to fight in array, and most of the surrendered Ming troops were soldiers, lacking training, and there was not much difference from ordinary peasants.Their only advantage is that they have fought, seen blood, and killed people.He has seen such an army, just like those Mongolian horse bandits who often break into Longzhong to rob, when fighting a good battle, it is incomparably brave, no matter what battle formation, it is to kill with death.Once their offensive is contained, or even counterattacked by the other side, they will immediately lose their fighting spirit, flee without their lives, and be defeated like a mountain.Although Wang Shuo's new army has few people, they are all trained in battle formations, and they are well-founded in advance and retreat, and the large array is majestic, and they can scare away this rabble.He was to temper his men and give them the confidence of invincibility through such a decisive battle in which he would win more with less, and which he saw as not much danger.An army that has confidence in itself is invincible.However, when Shunjun really appeared in Wang Shuo's field of vision, his complexion changed.A large amount of smoke and dust rose in front of the enemy, and he knew from experience that it was cavalry Wang Shuo originally thought that the enemy would come from the mountain road, even if there were cavalry, the mountain road would be difficult to walk, and there would not be too many.But judging from the smoke and dust on the road in the distance, the enemy cavalry was no less than a thousand.The cavalry was a large-scale shock battle formation, which was completely different from the infantry.Thousands of war horses galloped, and the earth would tremble with the power of the war horses' impact, and two or three soldiers holding shields together could not resist it.Although his troops were also trained against cavalry, it was only training after all.In the face of the smoke and dust stirred up by thousands of war horses, the earth trembled like a drum, and the rapid impact of war horses, Wang Shuo had no confidence in whether his three thousand soldiers could withstand it.However, the enemy forces were already approaching, and it was too late to retreat
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