Chapter 211 210 Change the plan

Dong Yiyuan's question made Li Zhen also turn her attention to Wei Guangde.

To be honest, although I don’t really like this fledgling little Chuanlu, my power is really incomparable, and I can only listen to him here.

Wei Guangde thought for a moment before saying, "I have an immature idea. When we came out of seclusion, we had the situation that Altan's troops were stationed outside Baoanzhou and Yanqingzhou, and there were also Chang'anzhou. There were only occasional detective cavalry in Huailai.

But yesterday, Tartars were frequently exploring cavalry in Huailai County. I don’t know if this is the case on other routes. If the Tartars really start to conduct strict investigations around Huailai, we will be discovered by the Tartars as soon as we leave Huailai.

Such a large convoy will definitely not be able to escape the opponent's four legs, and the defense in the field cannot be prevented.

If there is any mistake in this batch of food and grass, the military morale in Bao'anzhou will definitely be in chaos, and I am afraid that it will not go to war."

"Master Wei can't think about leaving?"

Dong Yiyuan frowned when he heard Wei Guangde's words. He knew very well that the status of food and grass in the army. Burning food and grass would lead to a great chaos in the morale of the army, but if the military camp was cut off, it would be a great chaos in the morale of the army.

"The Tartars came here in their arms to send cavalry, we can't leave."

Wei Guangde was also very direct and said his thoughts very simply.

"What should I do if I have no food in Baoanzhou?"

Dong Yiyuan immediately asked.

"I went there this time because the Xuanfu Army refused to fight and said that there was no food, grass, and no desire to fight, so I forced us to go this trip.

Our location is now very close to Baoanzhou. The convoy is about five days away. Even if the Xuanfu army drove from Baoanzhou, it only takes three or four days, and the fast horse will arrive in less than two days.

Since we know that delivering food was dangerous in the past, why do we need to send it to us and ask them to send someone to pick it up?"

Speaking of this, Wei Guangde stood up and walked two steps in the house before continuing: "Let the Xuanfu army move, even if there is no real sword and gun fighting with the Tartars, at least the Tartars will definitely divide their troops to monitor.

Lord Li knew the purpose of my trip. As long as the Tartars come over, if they are not strong, we will take this opportunity to urge them to fight with the Tartars first. But I was a little confused about whether to set the battlefield in Huailaiwei or go to Huailai County."

"You want to use these foods as bait?"

Li Zhen was already standing up suddenly and said in surprise, "This batch of food and grass is very important to Xuanfu, but it cannot be lost."

Wei Guangde certainly knew about Li Zhen’s reminder, and the most troublesome thing was because Altan’s unit strengthened the blockade and investigation of Huailai, which made their previous ideas fail.

According to Weng Pu’s original idea, there should not be many Altan’s detective cavalry around Huailai at this time, and the grain transport convoy would be safer.

In fact, Wei Guangde and Weng Pu also discussed in private why Altan's army stayed here for more than half a month and did not leave.

According to their analysis, it may be for the transaction, but after so long, the transaction should have been completed, and Altan's department should immediately withdraw from Xuanfu, and would never continue to stay here. They also sent troops to threaten Bao'anzhou and Yanqingzhou.

However, after he arrived at the Huailai Guard, he realized that Altan Khan might have planned. Perhaps his idea was that since he was here, he would touch Xuan's army here and try the weight of the Ming army. If it was a soft persimmon, in Huailai, the security guards defeated the main force of the Ming army, and then he could attack the pass along Juyong Pass and advance to Beijing again.

Before coming, Wei Guangde really didn't expect that the Xuanfu garrison would be so unbearable. You should know that the nearest army around the capital was Jizhen and Xuanfu. Originally, Wei Guangde thought that the army here should be relatively powerful, but the appearance of the military he saw when he arrived at Huailai was very different from what he imagined.

In Zhang Ji's words, it feels worse than the Jiujiang Wei in the previous period.

The Jiujiang Guards had actually been unable to cross the line earlier. They had long since followed Taizu to fight the country, but they were much better than the beggar guards here.

As for now, it's even more incomparable.

Because of the outstanding performance of Jiujiang Guard, the Nanjing Governor's Office and the Ministry of War were both impressed by them. Naturally, they tried their best to provide equipment and supplies, so that they could not be able to pull out the team at critical moments.

Of course, there will be no less money to pay, but it will no longer delay as casually as before.

Wei Guangde sighed in his heart. Thinking of the people he saw when he was confiscating Yu Ding during the day, it was really difficult for them to rely on these people to guard the huge northern defense line.

I remember when I was a child, my father was bragging about the strength of the border army in front of him. If Wei Guangde knew that this was the case at that time, hehe.

It is also because of this that Wei Guangde speculated that Altan Khan might just want to defeat Xuan Da’s army here, and these drawn troops may be the most powerful army in Xuanda Town. As long as they are defeated, the Xuanda defense line will be useless in the future.

The things discussed with Weng Pu at first were definitely not used. If they continued to follow the plan, they would probably have to explain their lives here. Altan's army would never sit by and watch such a large grain transport fleet enter Baoanzhou, and they are afraid they also care about food at this time.

At this time, Li Zhen and Dong Yiyuan were thinking about what Wei Guangde said, asking the troops from Baoanzhou to come to pick up the food by themselves. If the Tatars did not have many troops, they could fight a battle with their backhand, and the initiative was still in the hands of the Ming army.

Moreover, when we get here, Huailaiwei can at least gather some soldiers to join the war, which will also increase the strength of the Ming army.

"If you plan like this, we have to communicate with Huailaiwei commanders. The defenses of Huailai Acropolis and Huailai County are better."

At this time, Li Zhen fully supported Wei Guangde's proposal. There was nothing else, and the risks were much smaller.

Before, he was also very worried about the safety of this trip, followed by food and supplies, and his life is here.

According to Wei Guangde's opinion, at least his life can be saved and his work has not been delayed. The best of both worlds is naturally agreed.

At this time, Dong Yiyuan was recalling the Huailai County where he had been. After all, he was from Xuanfu and had been wandering around Xuanfu with his father and elder brother.

After a long time, Dong Yiyuan clasped his fists at Wei Guangde and said, "Mr. Wei thinks the plan of Mr. Wei is feasible. Mr. Li said just now that we need to choose Huailai Acropolis or Huailai County. In fact, Wei Yi has been here before. Of course, the defense of Huailai County is not as good as that of the Acropolis. But if we really want to attract Altan's invasions, we may still need to meet Huailai County more safely.

First, it is closer to Baoanzhou and is easier to get support from Baoanzhou. Second, if we do not take action, the Tartars may not know that we exist."

I can only say that the battlefield blocking was done better before. He sent nearly half of the cavalry to block Altan's reconnaissance cavalry, and he also took the remaining cavalry to support him, so that Altan's reconnaissance cavalry only knew that there were troops coming out of Juyongguan, but he had no idea what the specific situation was.

In fact, these intelligence wars on the battlefield were not proposed by Wei Guangde. Dong Yiyuan had already arranged this way. The war wisdom of the ancients was not worse than that of modern people. They all understood what they should understand.

As for the errand of delivering food, they had planned to continue at risk before, that is, they abide by orders more strictly and did not have Wei Guangde's arbitrary right to act on the spot, so they often could not respond in time according to changes in the battlefield and could only act according to orders.

"If you let Huailai Guard guard the Yongding River Bridge closely, you can protect the safety of the Acropolis and draw some soldiers to follow us to Huailai County and prepare to fight there."

Wei Guangde thought that he should communicate with those commanders of Huailaiwei. Because it was involved in tomorrow's food transportation matters tonight, Wei Guangde did not call Huailaiwei. But since his ideas were accepted by Li Zhen and Dong Yiyuan, Huailaiwei naturally had to participate in cooperation.

Wei Guangde turned to Zhang Ji outside the door and shouted: "Zhang Ji, go and invite the commander of Huailaiwei to come over and call Yu Guangdou over by the way. I need him to write a document to Lord Weng."

Yu Guangdou was a clerk brought by Wei Guangde from Juyongguan, who helped him handle some official documents.

Before these clerks came, Wei Guangde could only do the errands for writing official documents. When Changping sent the people, Wei Guangde naturally became the one who managed them and no longer dealt with these things.

Soon, Yu Guangdou was summoned here, but at this time he could only stay aside. When the commander of Huailaiwei arrived here, Wei Guangde first told him what Huailaiwei needed to do now.

When he heard that Wei Guangde was going to take away five hundred soldiers from the Acropolis, the commander of Huailaiwei changed his face.

"I want to take the people to Huailai County. You can recruit some people here to make up for it."

Wei Guangde did not want to get involved with the people in the Xuanfu too much. Now he directly used the privilege of counselor military affairs to intervene in the military system.

As for the current situation of Huailaiwei that Wei Guangde saw, he had no good face to face the commander.

It is really good to say that Huailai is located in a good location. There are two rivers around it, the Sanggan River, and the Yanghe River flows through. The river after the intersection of the two rivers is the Yongding River. The river passes through Chongshan and the Great Wall and finally flows through Beijing and finally enters the Haihe River.

But don’t think about the waterway, because the waterway is not smooth, so the materials transported from the pass can only be transported by land. As for the Yongding River near Huailaiwei, it is stable to sail.

As for why we didn't send the food ship directly from Huailaiwei to Baoanzhou, it was not that Wei Guangde did not consider taking the water route, but that there were no sufficient ships here.

Although this section of the river is dozens of feet wide, the river channel upstream is still relatively narrow, especially in Bao'anzhou, which is close to the Yanghe River, which is much narrower and cannot prevent the attack of the Tatar cavalry shooting bows and arrows on the shore. They are upstream.

He agreed with the commander of Huailaiwei that Dong Yiyuan would go to the guard office to order all the people to set off tomorrow morning. After the commander of Huailaiwei left, Wei Guangde ordered Yu Guangdou to start writing official documents.

This time, for the sake of his life, Wei Guangde still had to work hard and revised the plan he had set with Weng Pu before. Naturally, at this time, he needed to inform Ju Yongguan that Weng Pu was the admiral of military affairs and the boss of the war zone.

After Wei Guangde dictated it, he asked Li Zhen to hold the official document written by Yu Guangdou in his hand and read it carefully. After confirming it, he asked someone to send it out.

Then he asked Yu Guangdou to write a document to transfer a unit of Xuanfu Army to Huailai County to transport grain. He had only asked the unit of Xuanfu Army to send a unit to respond, but now the plan has changed, so he naturally has to write a document again.

After seeing this, Wei Guangde and Li Zhen immediately asked Dong Yiyuan to send several people from their confidant servants to Baoanzhou to deliver letters. Dong Yiyuan's servants were all from Xuanfu, so they were naturally familiar with each other.

Now that the overall situation has been decided, Wei Guangde breathed a sigh of relief in his heart. After learning about the military newspaper sent by Huailai County in the afternoon, Wei Guangde's heart was always squeezing.

In fact, Li Zhen is the same mentality as him. Since he was arranged to be in the position of military preparation, he naturally knew some military affairs. Even if he didn't know about it before, he knew a lot after sitting in this position. After all, he was not a fool.

I won’t say it before, because I knew when I was in Juyongguan that the plan was decided after careful analysis of the operation, and naturally he didn’t dare to say it, nor could he say anything.

The room became quiet, and at this time, only Wei Guangde and Li Zhen were left in the room. Although they were sitting face to face and there were tea cups at the table, they were both considering the previous arrangements, and they didn't say much, nor did they drink tea.

War is actually a logical deduction. One party’s commander must make a series of reactions based on the information he has mastered to release the situation more beneficial to him.

What Wei Guangde is now planning for Altan Khan's reaction. He will know the information and then make what kind of reaction he will respond, and how should Wei Guangde respond.

As for whether the soldiers can win if they fight against each other, it is not within his consideration for the time being.

To be honest, if the troops in Baoanzhou were similar to those in Huailaiwei, Wei Guangde felt that it would be safer to retreat to the border town under Dong Yiyuan's protection, and wait for the arrival of the Datong Army there.

However, Wei Guangde also heard from Dong Yiyuan that most of the Xuanfu Army’s garrisons were similar to the Huailai Guard, but the generals under the General of the Xuanfu Army and the guerrillas could still fight against the Tartars. At least when the strength of both sides was close, the winner was 55.

As for Dong Yiyuan's father, Dong Yang, who was previously a guerrilla general of the Xuanfu, and died when Altan's army invaded Dishui Cliff, it was also a huge difference in strength and weakness, and the Xuanfu reinforcements did not arrive in time.

In fact, the attacks of the grassland cavalry against Xuanfu and Datong military forts were quite guerrilla warfare. They knew that they would attack the weak with strong attacks without strong attacks. They usually cruised outside the military fort to look for fighter jets, and once they selected a weak target, they would suddenly attack.

Therefore, every time they attacked the Ming army forts, they often used their superior forces to raid, pursuing quick battles and decisive decisiveness. When most of the Ming army arrived for support, the Mongols had retreated and walked away.

If the grassland cavalry had enough personnel and strong enough, they would often ambush the Ming reinforcements that came. Therefore, the Ming army in the border town was too tired of dealing with the tatars' fighting style, and in the end they became afraid and unwilling to fight.

After a long time, Wei Guangde suddenly sighed, "I don't know where the Datong Army has been?"
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