In addition to the five thousand Xia army and the general Xu He brought back by Gao Xuan, the five thousand Xia army has Xu He as the commander, Xu He and Gao Xuan are both people from Yan'an Mansion, and they are also together after joining the army, compared with Gao Xuan, Xu He is one level lower, Xu He has always positioned Gao Xuan as the target he is chasing, but if Xu He is under Gao Xuan, I am afraid that there will never be this opportunity.
On this day, Xu He was bold after some weighing, and came to the Chinese army tent of Li De, the king of Liang, Xu He exhaled deeply and walked into the Chinese army tent, at this time Li De was sitting in front of the handsome case to review the official documents, Xu He came in and knelt down on one knee to salute Li De and said: "The last general Xu He will see the prince." ” "General Xu, why did you come to find this king?"
asked Li De while reviewing the official documents.
Xu He said hesitantly: "The last general, the last general has something, I want to ask the prince for permission." ” "There are words, there are farts; This king doesn't have time to listen to your.
Li De said with some displeasure; Li De usually annoys most about his subordinates talking and talking.
"Lord Wang, General Gao was ordered to attack Xiapi to the east, and the last general also wanted to lead a group of soldiers and horses to attack the Song army, please ask Lord Wang's permission."
Xu He knelt on the ground and pleaded.
"Where do you want to lead the troops to attack alone?"
Li De put down the pen in his hand and asked Xu He.
Xu He walked to the map, pointed to the map and said to Li De: "Lord Wang, please see, the Song army's troops in the north are mainly deployed along the Daimyo's Mansion, due to the pressure of our army's front line, the possibility of the Song army's northern army elite going south is very small, and the Song army's western army is the same, so the last general thinks that our army is stationed in the Mangdang Mountain camp, and the next step is the Song army's southern reinforcements, that is, the Jianghuai forbidden army under the personal control of the Song Emperor; The Jianghuai Forbidden Army has two offensive routes, the first is to attack from the east through the line of Xiapi and Xuzhou, and the other route is to rely on Bozhou and Suzhou, with Yongcheng as the main camp, to attack our army from the south of Mangdang Mountain; Therefore, the last general asked for the order to lead the army to attack Yongcheng, so that our army can have an additional barrier to the south, and if it is possible, the last general thought that Suzhou and Bozhou should be captured."
Hearing Xu He's analysis, Li De said with a smile: "General Xu Shen seems that this king really underestimated you before, I didn't expect you to have such insight, what you said is the same as what this king thinks, originally this king was going to personally lead the troops south in two days, since you put it forward, I will hand it over to you, say how many soldiers and horses do you need to take Yongcheng." ” "Lord Wang, the last general only needs five thousand elite soldiers."
Xu He clenched his fists and said to Li De.
Li De nodded and said: "Okay, this king will give you 5,000 elite soldiers, after this king allows you to capture Yongcheng, you can recruit 10,000 new soldiers by yourself, and in the future, you can recruit 10,000 soldiers for every state capital that captures the Great Song Dynasty, and how many soldiers and horses you can recruit depends on how many cities you can capture." ” Xu He knelt on the ground excitedly and said, "The last general will thank the prince." ” "Get up" Li De said with a smile, through this conversation, Li De found that Xu He is also a general, and there will be one more fierce general under his command if he trains more in the future, so it's no wonder that Li De is not happy "Lord Wang, the last general has another suggestion, Yongcheng is too far away from the Mangdang Mountain camp, which is not conducive to our army's long-term defense, the last general suggests strengthening the city defense of Baoan Town, so that it can become a barrier for the Mangdang Mountain camp in the south."
Xu He suggested to Li De.
"This king has his own plans, just do his own thing, and go to the camp to collect how much grain and grass he needs."
Li De said with a big wave of his hand to Xu He.
"Yes, thank you Lord Wang, the last general will retire" Xu He bowed and saluted.
In addition to cultivating him, Li De used Xu He to cultivate him, there is also an important reason to check and balance Gao Xuan, Li De cannot allow Gao Xuan's family to dominate under his command, even if this person is not Xu He, it will be someone else, this is inevitable, Li De needs all the forces under his command to reach a balanced state to ensure that everything is under his control, in fact, this is the art of the emperor.
Besides, Gao Xuan, after leaving the Mangdang Mountain camp, returned to Xuzhou as quickly as possible, at this time Gao Xuan has 25,000 troops, although most of the grain and grass in Xuzhou City have been transported to the Mangdang Mountain camp, but Gao Xuan still left a part of the grain and grass in Xuzhou City, which is enough for Gao Xuan in Xuzhou City for a month, in order to attack Xiapi City, Gao Xuan made full preparations and requisitioned the people in Xuzhou City to transport grain and grass baggage.
Of course, all the strong men in Xuzhou City have been built for the Xia army to build the Mangdang Mountain camp, Gao Xuan can recruit a group of old and weak women and children, Gao Xuan's 25,000 army only 5,000 are Xia army elite cavalry, the rest of the 20,000 people although after a few days of drills, but still a gang of rabble, and although the grain and grass for them are all men, except for the children from ten to fifteen years old is forty-five years old and sixty-five years old; Together, there are more than 60,000 people.
Although there are 60,000 people, but the combat power is worrying, even so Gao Xuan also claims to have 100,000 troops, so Gao Xuan took the so-called 100,000 army to embark on the journey of conquering Xiapi, Gao Xuan's marching speed is very slow, the daily march is only 20 miles, this nearly 130 miles of distance Gao Xuan walked for six days to come to Xiapi City, not so much that Gao Xuan commanded an army, not to mention a group of rabble.
In Xiapi City, the Huaiyang military forces commanded Huo Chong's urgent regiments; Huo Chong is a big fat man, the official position of this commander was also bought with his own money, after Huo Chong arrived in office, he was greedy for military rations, deducted silver, and ate empty salaries to feed himself into the pig-like figure he is now, but the entire Huaiyang army was sucked dry, and now the Huaiyang army is only 5,000 old and weak, and even the weapons and armor are not complete, and the only elite in Xiapi City is Huo Chong's personal guards, which are only more than 500 people.
After arriving in Xiapi City, Gao Chong also wanted to write a letter of persuasion to Huo Chong, but when Huo Chong saw the letter of persuasion, he tore up the letter, and killed the messenger sent by Gao Xuan, the reason why Huo Chong was so bold was entirely because the ending of Jia Kun, the governor of Xuzhou, was in front of him, although Jia Kun survived, he was still the assassin of Xuzhou, but everything in the Jia family and Xuzhou City was basically emptied by Gao Xuan, which was absolutely unacceptable to Huo Chong, who regarded wealth as his life.
Outside the city of Xiapi, the camp of the summer army.
Gao Xuan said angrily: "Bold Huo Chong, he dared to behead the general's envoys, and ordered the three armies to attack Xiapi tomorrow, leaving no men, women and children in the city." ” "Obey the General's Orders" In fact, there is no need for Gao Xuan to send a large army to attack Xia Pi City, just need to open the embankments of Yishui and Surabaya outside the city, and the flood will naturally submerge Xia Pi City; The reason why Gao Xuan chose to attack, and the battle with the Song army in the city is actually completely for training, the new recruits of the Xia army, not to mention fighting, even the training has not been carried out today, if you want this new army to form combat effectiveness as soon as possible, that is, to go to the battlefield, through killing to improve the combat power of the army, although this will cause a lot of losses, but Gao Xuan doesn't care at all, it's a big deal to recruit after death, Gao Xuan wants an army that can fight well.
There's been a lot of things in the past two days.,The last chapter was a noon break.,I'm too tired to finish this chapter and sleep: