Chapter 99 Plan of Increase and Decrease
"No wonder Wu Huai'en agreed to duel with us so readily. It turned out that he also had someone secretly and wanted to fight for a battle!" Lin Feng said softly.
Li Congqian widened his eyes and looked at the Han army camp at the foot of the mountain. He really couldn't understand why Lin Feng came to such a conclusion.
"The truth is in the details!" Lin Feng handed the telescope to Li Congqian, pointed to the location of the hidden tent, and explained softly:
"A large camp with 20,000 people does not need to set up more than a dozen hidden tents. I think it must be the person responsible for building the hidden tent that there are subsequent people coming. I am afraid that the camp will be filthy and will directly build a hidden tent that accommodates more people! The specific number of enemy reinforcements depends on whether Hu Zi and the others can find the hidden location of the enemy's aid!"
Li Congqian thoughtfully and kept observing with a telescope.
"Brother, our fleet has arrived!" Duan Rui touched the stone below and said whispered.
Lin Feng immediately looked to the west and saw a long warship team that had already docked on the banks of Lishui. Soldiers began to disembark first to alert, and subsequent men and horses were gathering in a steady stream of disembarkation.
"Let's go, let's get Wu Huaien a suspicious plan!" Lin Feng said softly, signaling everyone to hide their bodies and retreat quietly.
Wu Huaien, the commander of the Northwest of the Southern Han Dynasty, naturally learned that the Chu-Tang coalition forces were arrived at the first time. He led the commander of the giant elephant Wu Xun and other generals to the corner tower on the northwest side of the camp to carefully observe the enemy situation.
Because they were really far apart, Wu Xun and the other commanders immediately divided the work and cooperated, and could only estimate the number of enemy troops based on the color blocks of the opponent's military uniforms.
After counting, Wu Xun's face became less and less beautiful. Why are there so many enemies?
In the end, Wu Xun and several other commanders were responsible for each of them. They found that the number of enemies who had disembarked by the enemy had exceeded 35,000, which was immediately enlarged. With only 40,000 reinforcements on his own side, they also divided 5,000 people to Mengzhou, leaving behind 2,000 Wuzhou, and the number of people currently exceeds 33,000. What should we do?
When the anxious Wu Xun told the number that Wu Huai'en, who had been silent, Wu Huai'en's body had been as unmoved as two hours ago, and his eyes were staring at the fleet in the distance.
"What a Lin Feng, I'll take a plan to reduce troops, and he'll take a plan to increase troops!" Suddenly, Wu Huaien smiled, and then turned into a hilarious laugh, pointing to the ships in the distance and explaining, "How many people can a warship accommodate besides food and weapons? Each warship can actually hold 500 soldiers? Killed from Changsha Prefecture, Chu State, how did so many people spend the more than ten days on the ship?"
Wu Huaien said the more he said, his expression became more relaxed, pointing to a group of people who were coming down from the third boat and said, "You pay attention to the third boat, that bearded general. I have seen him go back and forth and get off the boat at least four times in the morning!"
Wu Xun tried hard to open his eyes, and indeed found the long-bearded general. He looked around and soon discovered something strange that he had not noticed just now: many teams kept getting on and off the boat back and forth, and even the formation, number of people, and the boats they had never changed, and they laughed.
"I have counted it carefully. The real number of enemy troops is no more than 25,000! We will definitely win!" Wu Huai'en said firmly.
On this side, after entering the camp for the fourth time, Lin Feng threw his fake beard made of horse mane into the corner, then found a hidden place and took out a telescope to watch. When he saw Wu Huai'en and his party still observing at the corner tower, but his expression became very excited, he couldn't help but smile.
After arranging the defense of the camp, before Sihou, Lin Feng and a large group of people rushed back to Guizhou City and met Ma Xiyin, Peng Yanhui and other lieutenant generals in the Jiedushi's Office Conference Hall.
After listening to Peng Yanhui's introduction to the generals of Guizhou Army, Lin Feng glanced at the generals, retreated his body backward, gave up Liu Renshan, and introduced loudly: "Dear generals, this is the old general Liu Renshan, the governor of Wuchang, the Tang Dynasty, and will represent Lin to secretly preside over the war in Guizhou!"
Although Lin Feng was not happy to hear it, the unsuppressed exhalation of the audience immediately came into his ears.
Upon hearing this news, all the generals present breathed a sigh of relief without any hesitation. Although everyone did not say it in person, in private, they did have a lot of doubts about Lin Feng, a young Confucian scholar, who served as the commander-in-chief of this key battle. The most basic doubt was that Lin Feng commanded a few people, could he command tens of thousands of people? But Liu Renshan was different. He led his troops for decades, and the Wuchang Army was adjacent to the State of Chu. Everyone had heard of his reputation as being kind and righteous and knowledgeable in the army, and he felt relieved.
After throwing a reassurance first, Lin Feng continued to throw out the second one: "Dear generals, during this battle in Guizhou, our elite Tang Dynasty soldiers and reinforcements arrived with the ship. The number of people is not the 3,000 people that everyone has heard of, but 15,000 people!" Here, Lin Feng still attacked the ambush of the 5,000 Tang army and the 3,000 Yuan Tanzhou surrendered soldiers.
Wow, some people couldn't help but exclaim. There were 3,000 defenders in Guizhou and 13,000 reinforcements from Chu. If you add 15,000 people from the Tang Dynasty, a total of 31,000 people. In response to the 20,000 soldiers from the Southern Han Dynasty, Party B has already taken the advantage of the number of people!
Lin Feng was not finished and said loudly again: "Before this trip, after Lin fought for it, the King of Chu specially allocated 300,000 guan as a reward for victory in the Great War! Here, Lin first explained the basic principles of reward and punishment: each combat soldier pays more for the monthly salary, and every enemy killing on the battlefield will be rewarded for one, and there will be no cap on the top! The injured on the battlefield will be treated for free and will be given ten guan; those who fight bravely on the battlefield will be given a hundred guan pension! All remaining bonuses will be divided equally by the generals in the army! I, Lin Feng, myself, will be treated as a soldier and will receive the reward according to the number of enemies killed!"
Wow! Now all the officers are ready to go. Lord Lin is really generous and fair! If this were in the past, which Shangguan would not take away half of it or even the big head first!
Lin Feng and others were excited and continued: "You must tell all soldiers after you go back to these three things! We must emphasize to everyone that on the battlefield, whether it is the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty or the soldiers of the Great Chu, everyone must be treated equally and fairly. I only emphasize one military discipline: orders are prohibited. On the battlefield, those who do not obey orders will be killed on the spot! Those who are afraid to retreat in the battle will be killed!
Now, please ask General Liu to make combat arrangements for everyone.”
The fully armed Liu Renshan took a step forward. The old general's long beard shook slightly, his body was as motionless as a mountain, and he was not angry and powerful. He straightforwardly clarified the first strict order: From now on, the front gate of the east camp in the city is the boundary line. Anyone or any soldier crossed this line without authorization, no matter what the reason, he would be killed immediately on the spot!
Subsequently, Liu Renshan made arrangements for the offensive and defensive tasks of the Guizhou Battle:
He himself and Lin Feng led the Chu reinforcements and the Tang reinforcements participated in the decisive battle;
The commander Peng Yanhui was the leader of Guizhou City, and the soldiers of Ma Xiyin's office temporarily ordered him to command the city, responsible for guarding Guizhou City. Peng Yanhui also arranged personnel to guard all land routes and accesses around Guizhou City and upstream of Lishui. Those who did not obey the order will be prohibited from passing through, and those who have any abnormal movement will be killed on the spot!
Starting immediately, no one is allowed to enter and exit Guizhou City unless he is ordered. Military curfew is imposed in the city. Anyone who walks on the street after a son will be killed on the spot!
Starting immediately, any troops in Guizhou City should be mobilized, as long as there are more than five people, there must be two commands of Chengdong Daying and Commander Peng at the same time, and any abnormal movements will be surrounded and killed immediately!
From today on, every morning, change the pass patrol order from the hour of the morning. Any soldier who answers the wrong order will be killed on the spot...
Chapter completed!