526 Kou can go, I can go

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"I will command 10,000 horses, meet you in Zhenjiang, and maintain contact with Phi Dao, this is our retreat, and there is no room for loss."

Finally, Li Zixiao said to everyone.

The importance of Zhenjiang is self-evident, and Li Zixiao knows it very well, so he will personally sit in charge.

"Also, after you have captured your target city, you will start clearing the city of the Tartars and transferring all the people there.

Now that we have set foot on the territory of the Tartars, the people must be transferred, and any people who are unwilling to leave will be regarded as the lackeys of the Tartars, and there will be no mercy.

In addition, the fields, the houses, the grain and grass, all the things here have been destroyed, and I will leave the Tartars with a desolate land that is uninhabited. ”

Li Zixiao squinted his eyes slightly, his eyes flashed with ruthlessness, and he opened his mouth to say to the generals.

"This ......"

Luo Chao and the others, after listening to Li Zixiao's words, also showed shocked expressions.

"Now we are fighting a national war with the Tartars, and since it is a national war, we must do everything we can to weaken the enemy's strength and strengthen our own strength.

In the past, the Tartars repeatedly invaded our Daming Pass, and each time they had to plunder hundreds of thousands of people, which was nothing more than a lack of population for the Tartars, grazing and farming for them.

Population is the biggest weakness of the Tartars, and moving the people here is a weakening of the strength of the Tartars. ”

Li Zixiao also saw everyone's expressions, and then explained.

"But, General, if you relocate the people here, it will be a very huge project, and I am afraid that the people here will not be willing to cooperate!"

Although Luo Chao and the others also knew that what Li Zixiao said was right, if they really did what Li Zixiao said, they would be busy.

"Didn't I say that those who are willing to move away are still my Ming people, and those who are unwilling to leave are willing to be lackeys for the Tartars, that is our enemy.

Treat the enemy without mercy, I want the Tartars, in the next few years, not to think of receiving a grain of tax from here.

All the people who were relocated were relocated to Tamna Island, which was just used to develop the island, and Tamna Island was enough to settle all the people who were relocated from here. ”

Li Zixiao said coldly.

In fact, don't think that the outside of the gate is occupied by the Tartars at this time, at this time there are millions of people living outside the gate, most of whom are still the people of the Ming Dynasty.

Even, many of them have been swept over from the customs in the past few decades.

The real Tatar people, there are only five or six hundred thousand people, and most of them are gathered in the Shengjing area, and Li Zixiao at this time can't beat it at all.

"It's a pity that most of the people here are still the same Han people as they used to be, and I can't kill them, if they were all Tartars, it would be easy to do."

Li Zixiao thought helplessly in his heart.

After all, such a move to relocate the local people will undoubtedly be more difficult than killing.

In order to make his plan go smoothly, Li Zixiao had actually hinted to Luo Chao and other generals.

When necessary, coercive measures can be taken, and even for the most recalcitrant elements, they can be directly exterminated, in short, these people will not be left behind, and they will continue to contribute to the survival of the Tartars.

"To borrow a phrase from Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, 'Kou can go, I can also go', do you hear clearly!"

At this time, Li Zixiao's eyes were full of light, and his eyes were deep and shining, like stars in the sky, which made people dare not look directly.

"Hear clearly, obey the general's orders."

Hearing Li Zixiao's loud shout, all the generals knew that Li Zixiao had made up his mind, so they responded in unison.

With Li Zixiao's order completed, the three-way army left the White Dragon Army camp outside Zhenjiang Fort half a day later.

"Report! Lord Qiyu, the Ming army outside Zhenjiang Fort has sent troops, and there are a total of three people, distributed in the direction of Tang Station, Dangerous Mountain Fort and Xuancheng. ”

Shortly after the White Dragon Army sent its troops, in a dense forest more than ten miles southwest of Zhenjiang Fort, a Tartar cavalry scout was reporting to Ilgen Jueluo Doro and had detected the situation.

"The Li thief seems to be ready, but he still sent troops, and as soon as he struck, he shot in three ways, but the hateful old man did not have enough troops in his hands and could not confront his army.

However, Li Thief was still too arrogant, and dared to take the initiative to divide his troops to attack, if they got together, the old man couldn't do anything about them.

But now that they're separated, it's our chance. ”

Ilgen Jue Luo Doro's eyes showed a fierce light, and he thought in his heart, and then said to the Tartar scout: "You continue to investigate, and look at the three Ming armies, which one is the weakest.

Especially the people who are heading to the soup station, if my expectations are good, this way of the Ming army should be going to the old man's Phoenix City.

The strength of the Ming army is estimated not to be the weakest, so we can only pick the other two ways to start.

We must be on this road, before the Ming army arrives in Phoenix, we thwart the attack of the Ming army all the way, and then turn around to defend Phoenix City and wait for reinforcements. ”

As a veteran of the Tartars, the situation was already extremely unfavorable to the Tartars at this time, but he was still calm and thoughtful.

"Lu Yuan, after I leave, Zhenjiang Fort will be handed over to you, and continue the reinforcement of the walls of Zhenjiang Fort and Jiulian Fort and the construction of fortresses.

By the way, you send someone to send a letter to Hong Sheng, asking him to send someone to Jinzhou to contact Liu Chong, so that he can also take action and make a fuss.

At the same time, let Hongsheng be sure to protect our sea transportation line, which is our lifeline.

As the battle line is lengthened, the ships of the three fleets of your navy are gradually overstretched.

When I left Jiangbei this time, the Qingjiang Shipyard was rushing to build a batch of sand ships.

Yesterday, Jiangbei sent someone to deliver the news that this batch of sand boats has been completed, and they will arrive on Tamna Island in a few days, and will be received by your navy.

When the time comes, this batch of sand ships will be equipped with your navy, which will be enough to strengthen your transportation capacity. ”

At this time, Li Zixiao led an elite group of soldiers composed of white dragon soldiers, standing at the gate of the military camp outside Zhenjiang Fort, and said to Lu Yuan.

"That's great, now our navy is shouldering the transportation task from Jiangbei to Tamna, and then to Phi Dao and Lushun, and the sand boats in our hands are indeed a little insufficient.

Next, the general was going to move the people here to Tamna Island, and his subordinates were worried about the lack of ships, so the general had already prepared in advance. ”

After Lu Yuan heard Li Zixiao's words, he was also pleasantly surprised, and said happily that this batch of sand boats was too timely.

You must know that at this time, the supply of grain, grass, and ammunition for the entire nearly 30,000 troops of the White Dragon Army all depended on the naval fleet of Lu Yuan.

In the past few months, Lu Yuan's naval fleet had to travel back and forth between Tamna Island and Haizhou Port every few days, transporting a large amount of materials that Li Zixiao had hoarded in Haizhou Port to Tamna Island to support Li Zixiao in this battle.

Fortunately, Li Zixiao can use sea transportation this time, otherwise he will have to use tens of thousands of people for this huge logistics transportation alone.

"The general must be extremely careful when he goes out this time, as far as his subordinates know, that Ilgen Jue Luo Doro is an old thief with rich experience in leading troops, and it is not easy to deal with."

Immediately, Lu Yuan's joy receded, his eyes showed worry, and he said to Li Zixiao.

"Well, I know. It is precisely because we know the difficulty of this old thief that we must not leave him, this poisonous snake must be killed, otherwise it will seriously affect our actions. ”

Li Zixiao's face was also gloomy at this time, and he said coldly.

Li Zixiao did not allow a Tatar cavalry of nearly 4,000 men to roam in this area, otherwise their next action would not be able to be carried out at all.

Who knows when Ilgen Jue Luo Doro will rush out and attack the White Dragon Army, especially when Luo Chao and the others are moving the people, it is also the time when the White Dragon Army is the most vulnerable to attack.

This time, Li Zixiao made the decision to divide his troops to attack, and he knew that the division of troops would reveal flaws.

However, Li Zixiao also believes that Ilgen Jue Luo Doro will never let go of this opportunity to break through.

But this is not a trap set by Li Zixiao for Ilgen Jueluo Doro, and Li Zixiao's bait is the Japanese army led by Zhao Zilong.

Among the three-way army sent by Li Zixiao, Zhao Zilong's Japanese army was the weakest, and there was no musketeer that the Tartars feared the most.

Li Zixiao believed that Ilgen Jue Luo Duoluo would definitely attack Zhao Zilong along the way, so at this time, he took the elite of the three thousand White Dragon Army and left Zhenjiang Fort to follow Zhao Zilong.

The 3,000 White Dragon Army led by Li Zixiao was composed of his escort battalion, an elite musket team, and an artillery team.

Li Zixiao also understood that there was only one chance, and if he couldn't annihilate the cavalry led by Ilgen Jueluo Doro this time, let him run away.

Then it will be even more difficult to annihilate him again.

The vast area outside the pass, as well as the complex terrain here, the mountains are high and the forests are deep, so a Tartar cavalry that is good at raiding is too threatening.

Soon, Li Zixiao also led his troops to leave Zhenjiang Fort a day after Zhao Zilong's men left.

Li Zixiao's guess was not wrong, after Ilgen Jue Luo Duoluo sent people to find out the general situation of the three groups of the White Dragon Army, he really chose to attack Zhao Zilong's people first.

Zhou Dazhu and Luo Chao are two people, their strength is stronger, and they are far away from their current location, so they are not the best choice.

There are only Zhao Zilong's people, not to mention the least number of people, and they have not seen the most feared firecrackers, who are all infantry.

This made Ilgen Jue Luo Doro see the opportunity, and at the same time, he was secretly a little vigilant in his heart, worried that this was a conspiracy of the White Dragon Army to lure him into the bait.

But in the end, Ilgen Jue Luo Doro decided to attack, because if it was a trap or not, he had to make a move.

Otherwise, when Luo Chao attacks Phoenix City, he will have no chance, compared to Li Zixiao, in fact, Ilgen Jue Luo Duoluo has fewer choices.

Outside the gate in late May, it was not so cold, and a team of nearly 4,000 people was driving on the road to Xuancheng at this time.

This group of men and horses is very strange, because this group of people and horses are all a group of dwarfs, but fortunately, at this time, these Japanese soldiers have all changed into the armor of the Ming army.

In addition to their height that cannot be concealed, I can't see any difference between them and ordinary Ming soldiers.

Along the way, Zhao Zilong and the others passed by three villages.

The people in the village were afraid of the Ming army that suddenly appeared, just as they were afraid of the Tartars.

In the three villages, in each village, there are about 100 households, three or four hundred people, which is not a lot.

After these people learned that Zhao Zilong and they were the Ming army, the old people in the village were also very excited, and they were once the people of the Ming Dynasty.

In fact, these people lived during the reign of the Ming Dynasty, and their lives were not very good.

But compared to the extent that the Tartars didn't treat them as human beings at this time, the days when they were the people of the Ming Dynasty were simply too happy.

Although the annual taxes and field rents of the Ming Dynasty were also extremely heavy at that time, at least the Ming Dynasty would not forcibly arrest the young and strong men in the village as slaves.

Compared with heavy taxes and heavy rents, the people in these villages do not want to see their sons and husbands captured by the Tartars to fight.

However, when Zhao Zilong vaguely proposed to let them move away, the old people in the village also vaguely expressed their reluctance to leave.

After all, they have already taken root here, and although the oppression of the Tartars has made their lives very difficult, they can survive after all.

However, if this is migrated, who knows what will happen.

At least before providing generous guarantees and giving these people great confidence, Zhao Zilong felt that it was very difficult for these people to move away.

"Hey, is it really necessary to use strong measures?" Zhao Zilong sighed in his heart.

As a last resort, Zhao Zilong did not want to see them forcibly relocate these people.

But Zhao Zilong also knew that this time Li Zixiao had made up his mind, and in the end, whether it was soft or tough, these people had to move away.

Zhao Zilong did not start the migration of these people for the time being, and now he needs to first lay down the Xuancheng, mainly to annihilate the Xuancheng Tartars, and then move the work of the people in the Xuancheng and the surrounding areas.

"Stop."

Suddenly, Zhao Zilong noticed that something was wrong, shouted, and ordered the whole army to stop advancing.

"General Zhao, what's wrong?" Shuiichiro Yoshino rode over and asked suspiciously.

"Don't you notice something is wrong? The scouts I sent out asked them to report back every two or so incense sticks.

However, this time, it has been nearly three incense sticks since the last scout returned, but no scout has yet returned. ”

Zhao Zilong's face was solemn, he felt a hint of danger, and said to Shuichiro Yoshino.

"Perhaps, what delayed the scouts sent out?"

"No way, the scouts I sent out, knowing my rules, whether they find out about the situation or not, they have to report back every two or so incense sticks.

Now that everyone has returned, there is only one possibility, something happened to them, could it be that some Tartars attacked them? ”

Speaking of this, Zhao Zilong suddenly had a realization in his heart, thought of something, and showed an expression of sudden realization.

But then, a wry smile appeared on his face, and he whispered to himself: "It turns out that the test given by the general is actually this, and it is really difficult enough." ”