From the beginning of the Wei army's attack on Runan, the strategic objectives of both the Ming and Wei sides were shown.

The Wei army used the Huguang battlefield to attract the main force of the Ming army and seek an opportunity to break through from Huainan, while the Ming army was the opposite, intending to use the river defense to block the Wei army's attack, and then unite with Sun Kewang to defeat the Wei army in Huguang.

At this time, in terms of troop deployment, the Wei army invested a total of 150,000 elites in the Huainan battlefield, and most of them were elite soldiers who fought against the Qing army and Mongolia all the year round, and many participated in the battles of Hedong and Hebei and Shandong, while the Ming army Huainan plus Jiangfang only had 100,000 troops to defend.

In Huguang, the Wei army had 200,000 troops, and it seemed that there were more men and horses than the two Huai, but they were mainly local armies of the C and D types, with only a small number of B battalions, and their combat strength was far less than the 150,000 elite soldiers in the Huainan battlefield.

The army invested by Nanming in Huguang has reached 230,000, including 80,000 in Wuchang and 150,000 in Hunan, and Sun Kewang's 150,000 western army has also entered Hunan.

The Zhusun coalition army in Huguang has a strength of 380,000 troops, which is really full of soldiers and overwhelming.

In addition, it is the two battlefields of Bashu and Guanwai, the Bashu battlefield, Sun Kewang sent 100,000 troops, led by the general Liu Zongmin, together with the Tusi of southern Sichuan, with the intention of attacking Chengdu, and the Wei army had the supervisor Liang Yizhang, and the general Wang Deren led the 100,000 Wei army to defend.

On the battlefield outside the Guan, Li Dingguo and Wu Sangui led 70,000 Wei troops against 80,000 Haoge soldiers.

At this time, Gao Yihuan stood on the top floor of the Heavenly Pavilion, looking down at Chang'an City, which was distributed like a chessboard, and behind him was a huge sand table, with mountains and rivers on it, and the city military camp was clear at a glance, full of small flags representing all forces.

Now the three subjects that have caused great controversy in Chang'an City have come to an end, and many scholars have been disqualified from the literary examination because they took the lead in participating in the trouble, as well as the meritorious reputation of the Jinshi, but Gao Yihuan opened up the net and allowed them to participate in the examinations of the military and engineering subjects.

This makes the troublemakers differentiated, continue to fight will be punished, do not fight there are two ways to be an official, and many people who fail the literary test also want to try the other two ways, everyone is not the same heart, and the protest will end without a problem.

At this time, after the imperial examination, Gao Yihuan's attention returned to the battlefield from scratch.

"Your Majesty, now it seems that the importance of the war in Bashu and Guanwai is far less than the two battlefields of Huguang and Huainan." Chen Mingxia stood by the sand table and saluted Gao Yihuan's back.

Gao Yihuan turned around and asked, "How is the battle situation in Huguang?" ”

Chen Mingxia said: "The battle situation in northern Hunan is not very optimistic, the western army has entered northern Xiangbei, and Wuling City may fall." ”

In order to introduce the Ming army into Huguang, it was necessary to make the Ming army mistakenly think that they could win in Huguang, so Gao Yihuan intended to gather his troops in Hanyang to sell a flaw to the Ming army, so that Zhu Cihong thought that there was an opportunity.

After sensing that Zhu Cihong was going to counterattack in Hunan, the Wei army immediately cooperated and continued to show weakness, making Zhu Cihong think that he only needed to increase his strength to defeat the Wei army, so that the Ming army could increase its troops little by little, and the Ming army in Hunan soon increased from 20,000 to 150,000.

If the situation continued to develop like this, the Wei army would undoubtedly realize its strategic intentions, but it was not expected that Sun Kewang would actually send troops to Huguang.

At this time, the situation made Gao Yihuan pacing back and forth, he originally wanted to show weakness in Hunan and lure the Ming army to attack, but he didn't expect to attract not only the Ming army, but also Sun Kewang.

In this way, the strength of the Mingxi coalition army surpassed the Huguang Wei army, and Huguang became his loophole.

Gao Yihuan walked back and forth a few steps, and finally stopped in front of the sand table, and asked urgently: "Has Runan beaten down?" ”

Chen Mingxia said worriedly: "The military report from Huangdu Governor said that the defenders of Runan were very tenacious, and the army attacked several times, but they were all repelled by the defenders. ”

"How did Huang Bingzhong and Hu Dawei fight!" Gao Yihuan was a little annoyed, "60,000 horses, five of them are against the enemy, and they haven't been defeated yet!" ”

"Your Majesty is angry, the defense of Runan City was personally presided over by His Majesty at the beginning, and the guard Chen Ming is good at defending it, so it is difficult to attack the city." Chen Mingxia hurriedly said: "I believe that the two governors are also very anxious, and they will definitely take this city as soon as possible." ”

Chen Mingyu is one of the three fierce men who held on to the 81st day in Jiangyin with a group of villagers and under the siege of more than 200,000 Qing troops.

The key to the Huainan Campaign was to be swift, to gather the main force of the Ming army's river defense in the north of the river, and then take advantage of the weakness of the river defense to force the Yangtze River and seize Nanjing, so as to win the world in a battle.

If Runan fights for too long and the Ming army in Jiangbei retreats to the south of the Yangtze River, then it will be too late.

Gao Yihuan paced back and forth in front of the sand table, suddenly stopped, and said resolutely, "I want to go to Runan." ”

……

At the beginning of May, the Wei army's attack once occupied Wengcheng in Xicheng, Chen Mingyu was in a hurry, personally led the guards to supervise the battle, and joined the battle group with a knife, and inspired by him, the Ming army soldiers worked together to block the Wei army, and the Wei army failed again in the siege.

In the camp of the Wei army, there was a sound of scolding, and after the arrogant soldiers and fierce generals were repeatedly frustrated, they could only scold and vent when the defenders of Runan were not broken.

The soldiers still have the strength to scold, which shows that the soldiers still maintain a high degree of courage, but after more than a month of siege and thousands of soldiers, no results have been achieved, and Huang Bingzhong is still discouraged, and he doesn't know how to explain to the emperor.

I can't say that it's not that I, Huang Sanlang, can't succeed, but that His Majesty built Runan too strong at the beginning, and Chen Mingyu strengthened the city again, and the whole thing is solid.

On this day, the Wei army retreated again, and after the attack was frustrated, Huang Bingzhong summoned the generals and the army to review and find a new way to break the city.

"Such a hard attack will definitely not work, the brothers have too many casualties, and they can't attack for a long time, which will inevitably hurt morale!" Yuan Shizhong licked his chapped lips and said.

"How do you fight that?" Huang Bingzhong asked.

Yuan Shizhong said: "It's better to concentrate your strength, attack one side, and pile up earth to attack the city!" ”

Huang Bingzhong frowned slightly, he walked a few steps and glanced at everyone, "Prepare with both hands!" It's all on the line, and it doesn't matter if it takes a little more time. While piling up the earth, digging tunnels, if the pile of soil can't be attacked, the city wall will be blown up. ”

As he was talking, Li Yuanyin came in and said urgently: "Governor, Your Majesty has arrived in Xiangcheng." ”

……

Three days later, outside the camp of the Wei army, Huang Bingzhong led a group of generals out of the camp to greet each other, and saw Gao Yihuan wearing gold armor from a distance, surrounded by iron guards, coming mightily.

Huang Bingzhong and Yuan Shizhong immediately led more than 100 cavalry to gallop over, restrained the war horse in the distance, flew down, stepped forward and saluted: "Ministers welcome Your Majesty!" ”

Gao Yihuan reined in the war horse, glanced at a few people, was silent for a while, signaled his dissatisfaction, and said half-loudly: "Get up!" ”

Huang Bingzhong and the others lowered their heads, not daring to look at Gao Yihuan, His Majesty actually came in person, which means that they made His Majesty anxious.

"Where's Hu Dawei?" Gao Yihuan suddenly asked.

Huang Bingzhong hurriedly said: "Back to Your Majesty, Ma Shiying sent the Ming general Fang Guoan to lead the troops to reinforce Runan, and the Huguo Gong led the cavalry to block it." ”

Gao Yihuan bowed slightly, "How is the situation in Runan?" ”

Huang Bingzhong said ashamedly: "It is still in the hands of the Ming army." ”

At the moment, Gao Yihuan raised his whip and did not enter the camp, "Go with the lonely and guard the generals for a while." ”

……

At the head of Runan City, Chen Mingyu was patrolling with a knife, commanding soldiers and people, cleaning up the equipment in the city, and carrying rolling stones, sasswoods and fire pots.

"General, look!" Zeng Hualong, the general next to him, exclaimed.

Chen Mingyu turned his head to look, and saw a huge guard of honor coming to the city of Runan and stopping three miles away.

At this time, a group of cavalry rushed out of the honor guard, and the horse was stationed a hundred steps away, and as the first horseman, he led the cavalry to shout to the city wall, "Chen Mingyu, His Majesty the Emperor of Great Wei has a saying, if the general surrenders, he can be crowned a prince!" ”

Chen Mingyu heard the cavalry shouting at the head of the city, and snorted coldly, "This general is deeply favored by the emperor, how can he be a thief!" Saying that he made people say it back.

Gao Yihuan was riding on a horse, and when he heard the reply, his face was gloomy, and Huang Bingzhong next to him knew Chen Mingyu's temper, afraid that Gao Yihuan would be scolded by Chen Mingyu like Hu Dawei, and he was bored, so he hurriedly persuaded: "Your Majesty, this person is stinky and hard, forget it!" ”

Gao Yihuan adjusted his mood, pretended to be generous, and said with a faint smile: "Although it is hostile, but loyal and righteous people, come and admire me." Naturally, you need a little more patience to surrender, and then go to spread my message, Nanming is rotten, the general is for the people, for the world, when you know the rise and fall, block the general trend, but only increase the casualties of the people, it is better to descend early! ”

Soon the cavalry galloped over and shouted loudly again, and immediately a reply was heard from the city, "What is the general trend?" The country is in danger, if it is strong, it will fall, where is the righteousness, and where is the backbone. He has a strong enemy coming to Wei in the future, and all the thieves will bend their knees and tie their hands? The high thief Hugh wants to say more, which makes people laugh! ”

In an instant, Gao Yihuan's face turned into pig liver, and he angrily pulled the reins of the horse and returned to the Wei camp.

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