724 long run

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Li Zixiao looked at the map in his hand, rode on his horse, and fell into deep thought.

At this time, Li Zixiao was faced with a problem, whether he chose to face Dolgon, who was closer and was in Pingyin, or attack Duoduo, who was hundreds of miles away.

"Dolgon is in Pingyin, with cavalry in his hands and more than 25,000 foot soldiers, which is not easy to fight, and with Dorgon's treachery, it is even more difficult to deal with.

And Duoduo, who is far away in Shouzhang, although he has more than 10,000 cavalry in his hands, is easier to deal with than Dorgon.

Moreover, if Benjue led his army to Shouzhang overnight, he would be able to arrive at dawn tomorrow, and Duoduo would probably not have thought that Benjue would come.

Surprise and attack unprepared, this is Benjue's chance. ”

Li Zixiao thought quickly in his heart, and in the end he gave up on dealing with Dorgon's main army, and chose to attack even Shouzhang's Duoduo.

"The whole army obeyed the order and rushed to Shouzhang overnight, trying to arrive before dawn, Benjue didn't want to see a single person left behind."

Immediately, after Li Zixiao made up his mind, he gave an order to the nearly 5,000 White Dragon Army cavalry behind him.

"Han Tong." Then, Li Zixiao wanted to call Han Tong.

"The end will be."

"This time you go to Shouzhang and deal with the Tartars of the Duoduo Division, so you don't have to follow Benjue.

Benjue has more important things to leave to you.

You send some scouts to keep an eye on Dolgon's headquarters in Pingyin, and report every move of Dolgon's army in a timely manner.

At the same time, you send a team of elite scouts to get ahead of the Benjue's army, rush to Shouzhang, and keep an eye on the Duoduo army.

You scouts are all one man and two horses, and you will definitely be able to rush ahead of the Benjue cavalry and rush to Shouzhang.

Also, after Ben Jue leads his army away, you gather some scouts and form a special herald team.

contacted Zilong, who was in Jinan at this time, Li Tianba, who entered Gaotang Prefecture, Qin Zhen who was in Dezhou, and Liu Zeqing, who was in Shanghe in the north.

In the event of an emergency, I want you to deliver it to each of them as soon as possible and as quickly as possible.

Sometimes, a timely delivery of military information can save a war from victory, and you must do it well, understand? ”

Li Zixiao said to Han Tong seriously, Li Zixiao has always attached great importance to military intelligence.

"Yes, sir, the last general will always do this well."

Han Tong was a little disappointed when he heard Li Zixiao at first and didn't let him follow him to Shouzhang, so he finally waited for a big battle.

But immediately, when he heard that Li Zixiao had indeed arranged something very important for him, Han Tong was relieved.

"Oh, yes, I almost forgot. The people from Zhang Fugui's intelligence bureau will contact you with a token representing their identity.

You also need to establish communication channels with each other, and sometimes the rich side can get more timely news.

When the time comes, Benjue's army will be on the move, and it will be difficult for the people from the intelligence bureau under Fugui and his command to find it, so they will have to contact Benjue through you. ”

Li Zixiao was just about to ride away, but suddenly remembered this incident again, turned to Han Tong in time, and said again.

"Yes, the Admiral remembered. Sir, you must be very careful when you go. ”

"Rest assured, Benjue knows."

Thundered!

Immediately, Li Zixiao led nearly 5,000 cavalry of the Flying Dragon Battalion, as well as a large group of cavalry from the Scout Battalion, to attack Shouzhang overnight, preparing to deal with Duoduo first.

Li Zixiao understood very well at this time that this time the Tatars turned to Yanzhou, and they won one after another, and their morale soared, and he needed a victory to hit the morale of the Qing army.

This time to Shouzhang, against the more than 10,000 Qing cavalry of Shang Duoduo, whether he can win, Li Zixiao has no bottom in his heart.

It's just that Li Zixiao went to Shouzhang here, and he didn't expect to really annihilate Duoduo's more than 10,000 Qing cavalry in a battle, which was impossible at all.

What Li Zixiao had to do was to defeat the Qing cavalry led by Duoduo once and hit their morale.

Let the Qing army not dare to continue to run rampant, and delay the time for the Qing army to go deep into Yanzhou, so that Li Zixiao can have time to make more adequate preparations.

For the cavalry of the Qing army, Li Zixiao was most afraid of their flexible mobility, which could fight fast and slow, and run long distances, often allowing the enemy to be quickly defeated before he was ready.

Cavalry is equivalent to the armored forces in the era of cold weapons, and it is the best type of troops to launch blitzkrieg in cold weapon warfare.

War is such a thing, the advantage of numbers, it is really not as good as the timing, the quality of the soldiers, these elements, otherwise there would not be so many examples in the history of the world in which the weak defeated the strong and defeated more with less.

Mainly, because no matter how well-trained the soldiers are, once the situation is lost, the army's spirit is broken, and after the war, even if it is a group of old and weak soldiers who chase them behind, they will be defeated.

Human beings are living beings, not machines, they will be dominated by emotions, they will be timid, they will be afraid of death, and they will not be able to remain rational and calm at all times.

Some people in later generations always looked at the number of people on the other side when they looked at the war, and once they had more people and better equipment, they thought that they would win the war, and this was what only military novices said.

And Li Zixiao led less than 5,000 White Dragon Army cavalry this time to Shouzhang to deal with Duoduo's 10,000 Qing army cavalry, he was not afraid, and still thought that he had a chance to win.

Because, although there are few people on their side, he has one of the biggest advantages, that is, most of the people in Duoduo do not know that he has led the army to arrive.

As long as the fighter is well grasped, Li Zixiao believes that it is not difficult to defeat 10,000 Tatar cavalry with 5,000 cavalry.

The 10,000 cavalry of the Qing army under Duoduo were all Tartar white flag cavalry and Mongolian cavalry, which were indeed elite cavalry.

But the cavalry of the White Dragon Army on Li Zixiao's side is also not comparable to the cavalry of the Ming Army, it is also elite, who is afraid of whom, as long as the war is not fought, no one can say for sure.

In later generations, some military novices, as soon as they saw that they fought more with less, they felt outrageous, and they scolded and complained, which would only show your ignorance.

If you really have a little common sense of military history, you will find that many impossible battles in history have happened.

Those examples of defeating the strong with the weak and losing more with less seem to you to be outrageous, and it will not happen in 10,000 years.

On the morning of 7 October, just after dawn, in a forest seven or eight miles east of Shouzhang County, the 5,000 cavalry of the White Dragon Army led by Li Zixiao had just arrived here.

"The whole army is in the forest to rest, and no fires are allowed."

Li Zixiao saw that the sky was not yet bright, and although his eyes were a little tired, he couldn't stop the sharp energy, and gave orders to the cavalry of the White Dragon Army behind him.

After hearing Li Zixiao's order, the five thousand cavalry of the White Dragon Army rode into the forest one after another, and then dismounted to rest.

After half an afternoon yesterday, plus a long night of long-distance raid last night, the 5,000 White Dragon Army cavalry led by Li Zixiao arrived here after a long run of more than 140 miles.

And before that, they rushed from Jinan to Yanzhou, almost a day.

After two consecutive days of long-distance running, these White Dragon Army cavalry were all tired, and at the same time, their war horses were also very tired.

Therefore, after Li Zixiao led the army to the Shouzhang area, the first order he gave was to rest.

This small forest, which is not far from Shouzhang County, has a wide field of vision, and is relatively hidden, has become Li Zixiao's most ideal choice.

"Ziwu, take the two of them, find the scouts who arrived in advance, and let them come to see me."

Li Zixiao got off the horse, found a dead wood to sit on, took off his helmet, and said to a young man next to him.

This young man named Li Ziwu is also a child of the Li family in Jinling, a few years younger than Li Zixiao, and is Li Zixiao's cousin.

Although Li Zixiao set up another door and became independent from the Li family in Jinling, no matter what they say, they are also from the same family, and they are blood relatives.

In the past two years, many children of the Li family have come to join Li Zixiao.

Not only the Li family in Jinling, as Li Zixiao's power grows and he occupies more and more territory, many businessmen and families have bet on Li Zixiao.

These businessmen and families have sent many capable and talented children to come to Li Zixiao, which finally made Li Zixiao's subordinates no longer worry about the lack of talents.

These merchants in China, the family's bets, have been there since ancient times.

When a dynasty declines, those big families, discerning businessmen, will do the same, and choose the powerful to take refuge.

Once the power they bet on in the future succeeds in taking charge of the power of Huaxia, then their original bet will be rewarded handsomely, which is enough to ensure the prosperity of a family for a hundred years.

Moreover, they are not betting on a single force, among these businessmen and clans, some people have taken refuge in Li Zixiao, some have taken refuge in Li Zicheng, and some have even taken refuge in Tartar.

They do it all for the benefit of their own family.

Therefore, at this time in China, the concept of family is greater than the country, which is also the main reason why Li Zixiao decomposed the major families on his own territory, carried out the policy of 'separating the family', and promoted the concept of the country.

In ancient times, in a village or town, sometimes the head of a town appointed by the imperial court was not as useful as the head of a large family in his town.

Li Zixiao hates this big family system very much, and he wants to eliminate this family system in the future.

What Li Zixiao wants to do is to eliminate the big family system in China in the future.

At this time, when Li Zixiao treated these children from the Li family in Jinling, he was nominally the same as other families who came to take refuge.

In doing so, Li Zixiao was also the idea given by his subordinates, and some of his strategists thought long-term.

Some of Li Zixiao's advisers, if Li Zixiao really becomes the emperor in the future, Li Zixiao will not have to canonize the Li family in Jinling at that time.

At that time, this branch of Li Zixiao's self-reliance will be the only orthodox royal family, and the Li family in Jinling does not belong to the royal family.

What Li Zixiao wants is this kind of legal definition, but in practice, Li Zixiao still appoints many children of the Li family.

This can also be regarded as a kind of compensation for Li Zixiao's Li family in Jinling.

Among the children sent by the Li family in Jinling to join Li Zixiao, most of them chose civil officials, and only a few chose to enlist in the army, and Li Ziwu was one of them.

At this time, Li Ziwu was a member of Li Zixiao's guards.

"Yes, sir, my subordinates will take someone to do it." Li Ziwu responded and immediately led people away.

At this time, the five thousand cavalry of the White Dragon Army had all entered the mountain forest, and they were distributed in this forest to rest in various brigades.

Because Li Zixiao ordered that no fire should be lit, the soldiers of the White Dragon Army had to gnaw on the dry food they carried, and they were used to it.

At the same time, they will also take out the soybeans they carry and feed them to the war horses, the soldiers of the White Dragon Army need to replenish their strength, and these war horses also need it.

Li Zixiao drank some water, nibbled on two mouthfuls of dry food, and sat on the dead tree to close his eyes and recuperate.

It didn't take long for Li Ziwu to lead a scout over.

"The subordinate scout battalion three teams and two banner generals Sun Xianxian, pay a visit to the lord."

A White Dragon Army scout battalion leader knelt down on one knee in front of Li Zixiao and shouted.

Han Tong attached great importance to exploring the situation on Shouzhang's side, and personally sent a very talented flag general to personally lead people to open the way for Li Zixiao.

"Sun Xianxian, good name, today you are the pioneer officer of Benjue!"

After Li Zixiao heard the words of this scout battalion general, he opened his eyes and said with a smile.

Hearing Li Zixiao say this, Sun Xianfeng was also excited, and said excitedly: "I am willing to serve the lord and never give up." ”

"Haha, loyalty, Sun Xianxian, come and tell Ben Jue about the situation of the Qing army on Shouzhang's side at this time?"

Immediately, Li Zixiao's face also became serious, and he was not angry and arrogant, and asked Sun Xianxian.

Seeing Li Zixiao put away his smile and look so majestic, Sun Xianfeng also replied seriously: "Back to the lord, my subordinates arrived in Shouzhang in the second half of the night yesterday."

The subordinates divided the men and horses they brought into three teams, two of which went out to investigate, one of which was responsible for resting, and the three teams of men and horses took turns to rest and maintain their physical strength. ”

Hearing Sun Xianxian's words, Li Zixiao nodded slightly, approving Sun Xianxian's approach.

The scout team ran all night, which was also very hard, and as a general, you must always find a way to complete the task while keeping your soldiers in the best condition.

Sun Xianfeng saw Li Zixiao nodding slightly, his heart was overjoyed, and he continued: "My subordinates led people to investigate the situation around Shouzhang overnight, and found that the Qing army was stationed in Shouzhang City.

At first, the subordinates thought that the Qing army was all stationed in Shouzhang City, and there were no garrisons outside the city.

However, as the sky was slightly brighter this morning, his subordinates led people to expand the scope of investigation, and just half an hour ago, a major discovery was made. ”

"What discovery?"

"My subordinates found a Qing army in the Daqing River south of Shouzhang City.

They also drove more than 3,000 young people to build three pontoon bridges on the Daqing River, where they stayed last night. ”

Sun Xianxian's words made Li Zixiao's eyes light up, and he immediately asked: "Where is the location where the Tartars set up a pontoon bridge on the Daqing River?" How many Qing troops were stationed where? ”

Li Ziwu immediately took out a cylinder from his back, took out an incomparably detailed map of Yanzhou from it, and spread it out in front of Sun Xianxian.

"Sir, here."

Sun Xianfeng pointed to the map and pointed to the Daqing River, a few miles southeast of Shouzhang City, and said.

"Sir, because Shouzhang is in the upper reaches of the Daqing River, the river surface here is not very wide.

The Qing army did not need too many manpower, and only brought 3,000 young men to be responsible for the construction, which was guarded by more than 1,000 Qing cavalry. ”

After hearing Sun Xianxian's words, Li Zixiao's eyes flashed with a cold light, and he said in a cold voice: "Duoduo doesn't seem to have any intention of stopping at Shouzhang, he still wants to continue to plunder south. ”

Li Zixiao built a pontoon bridge through the Tartars and guessed Duoduo's intentions.

After all, for cavalry, the plains were their best battlefield, but if they encountered a river, building a pontoon bridge was the fastest way to cross the river.

(End of chapter)