MTL - Poor Family-v2 Chapter 1011 Dispatch troops

  Chapter 1011 Deploying Troops and Generals

  Li Yanqing also placed a miniature ceramic map of thousands of miles of rivers and mountains in his inner study, which is only one or five feet long and wide, and placed in a separate room. He has been thinking about the Northern Expedition during this time.

   For Li Yanqing, the important thing in the Northern Expedition was not how many territories to occupy, but how many Jin soldiers to annihilate. The army is the key.

   Not seeking the overall situation is not enough to seek a region. Since taking the position of regent, Li Yanqing is no longer thinking about regaining the Central Plains and Hebei.

  He considered how to destroy the Jin Kingdom. The elimination of the Jin Kingdom can refer to the Xixia Kingdom.

In fact, the same is true for the Kingdom of Jin. The core population of the Jurchens is only one million, but it enslaves the Khitan, Xi, Bohai, Goryeo and other ethnic groups to work for him. This is the same as the party’s enslavement of other ethnic groups. The dispute turned against each other.

  Because he had a clear goal, Li Yanqing began to advance step by step, and his first step was the Daming Mansion.

  Li Yanqing took a box from the desk case. Inside the box was various information about the Daming Mansion project. Li Yanqing found one of the hand-painted maps, which was detailed information about the investigation of the Jin Bing and Sailor Army.

  Of course the Jin Bing did not have any navy, but they had a large number of ships on the Yellow River. The information Li Yanqing held was a map of the distribution of warships on the Yellow River.

This is bought by Wang Yan, the intelligence chief of Daming Mansion, from a Han official for three hundred taels of silver. It is marked that Jin Bing built seven piers on the Yellow River, large and small, with a total of 653 ships. , Fishing boats as small as 100 shi, ferries as large as 3,000 shi, and the number of ships distributed on the seven piers are also clearly marked.

Li Yanqing held a hand-painted map, compared it with the ceramic map for a while, and found seven Yellow River piers with small blue flags, all of which were located on the north bank of the Yellow River. This also shows that Jin Bing did not believe Liu Yu .

  At this time, a report from the female guard came from outside the door, "His Royal Highness, they are here!"

   "I see, you can find some companions to help!"

   Not long after, four female guards came in, Li Yanqing pointed to the ceramic map and said to them: "Help me move these two maps to the outer study, be careful!"

  The ceramic map is made up of two parts. Two guards carried a table and walked carefully to the outer study.

There is a conference room in the outer study room. At this time, six generals are already sitting in the room, including Wang Gui, Cao Meng, Niu Gao, Yang Zaixing, Zhang Shun, and Ruan Xiaoer. Several female guards brought in the ceramic map table. People hurried forward to help, at this time, Li Yanqing also walked in.

  He nodded to the four female guards, the female guards turned around and left, and two more maids came in to serve tea, Li Yanqing smiled and said, "Call everyone here before dawn, let's have some tea first!"

  Everyone picked up their teacups and drank, Wang Gui went to the map and looked at it for a while, and said, "You are handsome, have the golden soldiers crossed the river?"

  Li Yanqing nodded, "I just received urgent information that the Jin soldiers from Daming Mansion started going south yesterday."

   "It started going south yesterday, when will it cross the Yellow River?"

  Li Yanqing said with a smile: "It won't be so fast. They are cavalry and must transport fodder. I estimate that they will start crossing the Yellow River in three days."

  The few people didn't bother to drink tea, and hurried up to surround the map. They all realized that the war was finally about to start.

Li Yanqing walked to the map, picked up a wooden stick and knocked on Daming City, "Now there are only 20,000 Hebei troops in Daming City, this is our chance, Yan Qing's army should have already started to move, Yan Qing's 10,000 troops There should be no problem in capturing Daming City, but there are not enough troops to defend Daming City, so reinforcements are needed."

  Li Yanqing turned his eyes to Niu Gao and Yang Zaixing, "General Niu and General Yang, defending the city is your strength. You two can lead 20,000 troops to the north by boat to support Daming City!"

  Niu Gao and Yang Zaixing immediately clasped their fists together and said, "I obey the order!"

  Wang Gui was a little anxious, "What about us?"

  Li Yanqing laughed and said, "I knew you were impatient!"

  Everyone laughed, Wang Gui scratched his head and said, "Knowing that I'm impatient, it's still tempting me, why don't I talk about my mission first?"

   "Okay! Let's talk about your mission first, it's your turn anyway."

Li Yanqing smiled, and pointed at Yunzhou with a wooden pole, "The 30,000 Jin soldiers coming down from the south of the Yellow River must attack Yunzhou. After the Daming Mansion falls, the navy will cut off their retreat. At this time, the Jin soldiers can only go south." On the way, go to Xuzhou and join the other 20,000 golden soldiers, our task is to wipe out these 30,000 golden soldiers."

   "Then how many troops are we?"

  Li Yanqing said slowly: "One hundred thousand troops!"

"Wang Dutong, this is a tough battle! But we have advanced firearms, sharp heavy armored infantry, and powerful crossbows. In addition, we have 30,000 cavalry. I believe we can defeat the golden soldiers." .”

   "Wait a minute!"

  Wang Gui suddenly understood a little bit, "Is Du Shuai also going to participate in this battle?"

  Li Yanqing nodded slowly, "How can I not participate in such a wonderful show?"

  Wang Gui said after a while: "But Dushuai wants to command the overall battle!"

   "You don't have to be in Lin'an to command the overall battle. I think Jinan Prefecture is more suitable."

  Wang Gui smiled wryly. He thought he was the chief general, but finally found out that he was the deputy general.

Li Yanqing smiled slightly, and continued to say to Wang Gui: "At that time, we will go northward in two ways. Cao Meng and I will lead 30,000 cavalry to go northward, and you will lead 70,000 troops to go northward with Niu Gao and the others. Specifically, how to land and how to meet up, I'll give you a detailed plan later."

  Wang Gui nodded silently. At this time, Li Yanqing said to Zhang Shun and Ruan Xiaoer: "Your task is very simple. Lead the navy to block the Yellow River, and prevent the golden soldiers from Yanshan Mansion from entering the Central Plains."

   "Follow the order!" Zhang Shun and Ruan Xiaoer bowed and saluted.

  Li Yanqing said to everyone: "This time is only our first step in the battle plan. My requirements for this plan are only three words," fast, ruthless, and accurate, that is, fast, ruthless, and punctual. Do you understand? "

  The six of them bowed together and agreed, "I understand!"

Yan Qing got the news earlier than Li Yanqing did. He received a pigeon letter from the Daming Mansion at noon that day, and he bid farewell to Zhang Rong immediately. The brothers led an army of 10,000 to march northward along the Jishui River, and at the same time carried various military resources and strategic items filled with 50 ships.

Two days later, they arrived in Licheng County. In the north of Licheng County, there is an extremely important tributary called Beiqing River. This tributary connects Jishui and the Yellow River. The entire Jishui is only connected to the Yellow River by this tributary. It has strategic significance No small matter.

   They turned into the Beiqing River, walked for another day, and arrived at Yucheng County, which is less than twenty miles away from the Yellow River.

  The county magistrate of Yucheng appointed by the Kingdom of Jin has run away, and now he is the head of the county lieutenant appointed by Yanqing before. After receiving the news of the army crossing the border, the county lieutenant rushed to Beiqinghe with a few people.

  The soldiers led the county lieutenant to Yan Qing, and the county lieutenant Wang bowed and saluted: "I may have some news to tell General Yan!"

   "County lieutenant, please tell me!"

   "I got news that a large number of golden soldiers gathered in Liaocheng, Bozhou, and there may be signs of crossing the river."

   This is the same as what Yan Qing and others judged. Jin Bing crossed the river in Liaocheng, and after they crossed the river, they came to Gaotang County. Gaotang County is about 150 miles away from Liaocheng, which is still relatively far away.

   "Have the Jin Bing started to cross the river?" Yan Qing asked again.

   "I got the news yesterday. I don't know if I crossed the river today."

  Yan Qing clasped his fists and laughed: "Thank you, County Commander Wang, for reporting the letter in time. Please protect yourself, County Commander Wang. In the future, when Da Song regains the Jingdong Road, County Commander Wang will definitely be reused."

  Wang Xianwei smiled wryly, if the Jin soldiers crossed the river, he would have no choice but to escape.

   "General Yan, take care all the way!"

Lieutenant Wang left immediately, and the army continued to go north, and soon arrived at the bank of the Yellow River. This place was originally called Luwang Town. At that time, a golden soldier went south from here on the ice and completely destroyed the town. It is still a piece of ruins. .

   In front of us was the surging Yellow River. It was late May, and the flow of the Yellow River was relatively stable. At this time, fifty thousand-stone warships sailed into the Yellow River one after another, fully loaded with supplies and the first batch of 3,000 troops sailed to the opposite bank.

   There is not much time left for Yan Qing, and the ships of Jin Bing transporting grain and grass are very likely to enter Beiqing River from here, and then enter Jishui, so they must avoid Jin Bing's ships.

  After the first batch of troops crossed the river, Ruan Xiaowu and Ruan Xiaoqi led the remaining 7,000 soldiers to immediately go northward for 20 miles, waiting to cross the river in the north, so that even if the Jinbing fleet came over, they would not find them.

  (end of this chapter)