Chapter 1285 - Out of the City
Chang Yu asked for a plan, and a resourceful person like Li Muxian bluntly said that there was no other way than to attack, and fierce generals such as Wu Sangui and Ma Ke, who were good at fighting, also agreed with him and asked for battle.
The generals were also unwilling to get up and ask for battle, Wang Zamao wanted to follow it, and took a look around, hey, how can he be worthy of competing with these people, and sat down silently.
However, Chang Yu was not ready to start a war with Bai Wang immediately, during this time, the soldiers were very fast, whether it was the soldiers and horses he brought from Nanjing, or Wu Sangui, Ma Ke and other troops were either marching in a hurry or fighting, the strings collapsed too tightly, the soldiers were tired and tired, if they were not eased and repaired in time, it would only aggravate the attrition, and the tired army was extremely unbearable in terms of morale and results.
In addition, he also planned to consume Bai Wang, after all, at this time, the officers and soldiers were in Tongling City as a base, and the maintenance of men and horses and the logistics and supply were guaranteed, but Bai Wang, he was far away from Chizhou, and the logistics supply was insufficient, coupled with repeated setbacks, low morale, and camping in the barren mountains and mountains, the conditions were difficult, and if he encountered a rainy day, he would collapse without even beating himself.
After listening to Chang Yu's analysis, the generals all agreed, and took a three-day break to defeat the enemy in one fell swoop.
Knowing that there had been no war in recent days, the generals let go of the pressure and let go of eating and drinking, and the feast was full of joy until late at night.
The sky was cloudy and the night was dark, Chang Yu went up to the city accompanied by Wu Sangui and stared at the southeast, only to see the fires on the riverside, and even the fire flashed on the mountain in the east, it seems that Bai Wang's blockade line is very tight, and he has also ambushed troops in the mountains to prevent officers and soldiers from entering the mountain to attack.
"Bai Wang has nearly 10,000 soldiers, and he is in danger, we have no other way but to attack, as General Wu sees, how many points will the same force win?"
Wu Sangui glanced at the side, and Wang Tizhong was drunk and did not go to the city: "Although the thief army is not good at horse fighting, its combat power is not bad, if the Nanjing soldiers and horses are in battle with the same strength, I am afraid that it will only ...... Ahem, if the last general joins forces with General Ma and Dongchang's subordinates, at least seventy percent of them are sure."
"With General Wu and the three battalions of the East Factory, they are only seventy percent sure? Is the white thief's combat power far superior to that of the thief? Li Muxian exclaimed in a low voice beside him.
Wu Sangui glanced at him and said: "The general has never fought with the thief, I don't know what his combat power is, but the combat power under Bai Wang's command is indeed strong, if the two armies fight in the field in a frontal formation, even if they don't use the cavalry, the general will have eight or nine points of certainty, but at the moment, it is the limit of its geographical advantage, and it is already the limit to be able to have seven points of certainty."
Chang Yu nodded in agreement: "What about razing and razing?" ”
Wu Sangui knew that he was talking about fighting in the middle of the royal body, and he had already muttered: "The royal body has indeed shown courage in the past few days, but the people who have participated in the battle in the past few days are all his henchmen, but I don't know if the other troops can face the ruthlessness of the thieves in the past, and the new army is not stable soon...... The Overseer should be careful, if you rebel in time of war, you will only be afraid of ...... It's a big deal! ”
is worthy of being a battle-hardened veteran, and he knows all aspects of military affairs well, Chang Yue, who listened to Wu Sangui's words, also frowned: "This matter has to be guarded against, but it should not be overly concerned."
Early the next morning, Chang Yu practiced boxing and washed up after the generals got up one after another, it can be seen that the fatigue of these days of travel, after breakfast, Chang Yu summoned the city officials rich gentry, and the generals went to appease the various departments to make pre-war preparations.
In the middle of noon, the drizzle fell in the sky, Chang Yu looked around the city, the two armies in the south of the city explored the horses and rubbed constantly, looked up at the sky and whispered: "There is a heavy rainstorm", everyone around them laughed loudly, if this heavy rain comes, Bai Wangbu will retreat without a fight!
But God didn't seem to give face, it was still a drizzle at noon, Chang Yu secretly scolded, and after dinner, he went to the city again, and several groups of thieves and thieves scurried around in the south of the city, and there was fire in his heart, so he said: "Let's go and see Bai Wang too."
The implication is that this is to go out of the city to reconnoiter on the front line, according to common sense, how can the boss be in danger, and his subordinates should strive to dissuade him, but Chang Yu's subordinates are all restless masters, and he also knows that no one can stop him from deciding on his temperament, so the generals echoed and invited them to go, and even Wu Sangui was aroused to go together.
However, the city should keep the general in charge, Li Yan is not in Wu Sangui is the best candidate, after a dispute, Chang Yu took Tu Yuan, Ma Ke and dozens of guards went out of the city from the south gate.
The officers and soldiers scouts outside the city saw that there were soldiers and horses out of the city, although they didn't know who they were, but when they saw the battle, they knew that they were not ordinary people, so they came on horseback, although they didn't know Chang Yu, they recognized Ma Ke, and they all went forward to salute and explained the surrounding situation carefully: because the officers and soldiers were tightly blocked five miles outside the city, the thieves tried to go deep several times and returned in vain.
Ma Ke waved away the scout and turned his head to look at Chang Yu: "It's not so much that the thieves want to go deep into the city to reconnoitre, but to prevent our army scouts from infiltrating, after all, there is nothing for them to scout under the city."
Chang Yu nodded, looking at the thieves and spies who began to gather in the distance, and roughly counted nearly hundreds, it was obvious that they also found that the officers and soldiers were a little special and came to surround them.
"Lord Inspector, should we continue to go south?" Ma Ke smiled, his right hand subconsciously touched the handle of the knife on his waist, Chang Yu looked at the movements in his hand and smiled: "It's rare to have such a cool day, let's go to the event" said and patted the horse away, all the relatives and guards followed each other like shadows, and Ma Ke was also proud to whip up and follow.
In the distance, the thief army has found that this group of officers and soldiers is not good, but it is not a dozen without fear, and the horse is ready to come forward, and the other party is about to start working when he sees the other party rushing unabated, so he screams and is about to shout and scold to meet the battle, a sudden burst of arrows shot over, and more than ten thieves who rushed to the front were shot under the horse, and the rest of the people were shocked and obviously did not expect the officers and soldiers to ride ** Zhan so, but at this time it was too late to think about it, and in a blink of an eye, the officers and soldiers rushed to the front, and had to face the battle.
Tu Yuan rushed to the front, and with a loud roar, he split a thief into two pieces with his sword, and the momentum was so fierce that the thief army was horrified, how could he have seen such a fierce person!
Chang Yu and Ma Ke did not participate in the battle, but led more than ten horsemen to bypass the war group and go straight to the south, and after two miles, they saw more than ten horsemen rushing from the west of the river to intercept them.
Guo Ren intercepted them, Chang Yu shouted loudly, and Guo Ren led a few horses to meet the fight, and Chang Yu and Ma Ke only led five horses to continue to run south.
After another walk, he saw that there were hundreds of thieves in front of him to intercept him, so Chang Yu slowed down and turned a blind eye to the fierce momentum of the hundreds of thieves, but he couldn't help frowning when he looked around.
This place is in the southwest direction of Tongling, the east is the mountains, the west is adjacent to the Yangtze River, the rivers and mountains are separated by only 300 steps, remove the river beach and the foot of the mountain, the road can be walked, the road is less than ten steps, and at this time, Bai Wang has dug the road and dug more than ten ditches, and even piled up with rocks and branches everywhere......
It is clear that this is to deal with the cavalry of officers and soldiers!
This trick is exactly the same as Chang Yu's original digging ditch outside Taiyuan City, and the other party's army of Li Zicheng!
Obviously, Wu Sangui's Guanning Iron Cavalry had made Bai Wang feel great pressure, and the two tiger generals under his command, Wang Yien and Yuan Sanzhong, had suffered a big loss under the cavalry, and he couldn't help but guard against it!
In addition, the eastern mountain is also crowded, it can be seen that Bai Wang has already made all possible preparations, and it is really as Li Muxian said, if you want to cross this road, you can only attack hard.
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