Zhang Xian did not express his position immediately, but he accepted Chen Qing's personal letter.
Liu Qiong can also understand Zhang Xian's difficulty. After all, it is all his own words, and whether it is true or false cannot be determined.
Liu Qiong didn't try to persuade her any more. She returned to Dengzhou directly in the afternoon and rushed all the way to Xuchang.
After Chen Qing captured Yingchang Prefecture, he was not in a hurry to march to Kaifeng Prefecture. He needed to observe Wanyan Wushu's strategic intentions. This is like a master playing chess. When it is time to be fast, be fast. Open and close quickly.
Like a galloping horse, like an autumn wind sweeping away fallen leaves.
But when it's time to slow down, you have to be patient, make some internal adjustments and improve logistics. If Wanyan Wushu wants to take the initiative to attack, then you might as well take a defensive position, use defense as offense, and wait for opportunities.
In the military camp, Chen Qing stood in front of the sand table and was discussing the next step of army deployment with Zhang Xiao.
"Currently, Wanyan Wushu still has 100,000 Jurchen troops in his hands, as well as Li Cheng's 20,000 elite sign troops. I heard that he has recruited hundreds of thousands more sign troops. These sign troops are all the former puppet Qi troops. They have already
Disarmed and returned to the field, and now being re-recruited, these hundreds of thousands of troops have a certain combat effectiveness, but they are more of a military deterrent, distracting our troops and energy, and disrupting our combat plans, but in fact, we don't have to worry about it
it."
Zhang Xiao pondered for a moment and said: "These hundreds of thousands of troops are actually very trivial. Your Highness must not underestimate them. For example, they can capture Chenzhou, Caizhou, Yingzhou, Tangzhou and other places. We don't have many troops deployed. Once ten
Tens of thousands of troops swept away, and the troops we deployed could not resist it. Secondly, if Wanyan Wushu handed over these hundreds of thousands of troops to Li Cheng, it would be really difficult to deal with it. So Beizhi suggested yesterday that we should have corresponding measures.
This is what the response strategy means.”
Chen Qing knew Zhang Xiao's plan, which was to bring back the 10,000 troops from Dengzhou and Tangzhou to bring Xuchang's troops to 90,000, and then assemble the 20,000 troops from Chen, Cai, Ying, and Bo, and Li Qiong's three
Ten thousand troops were united, and the 50,000 troops were crushed into one fist and deployed in Chenzhou. Liu Cui and Yang Zaixing were then ordered to send 80,000 troops out of Hulao Pass and deployed in Zhengzhou. Three big fists were formed. Twenty-two
Ten thousand troops, and if we unite these 220,000 troops, we can fight against the Central Plains Jin soldiers no matter what."
Chen Qing did not agree very much with this plan. He had great concerns. He was worried that if these troops originally used to defend against the imperial court's surprise attacks were gathered together, once the imperial court and Wanyan Wushu colluded, the imperial army would also use the excuse to restore the Central Plains and attack from behind.
What to do if you attack yourself?
For example, Li Qiong's 30,000 troops, no matter whether Li Qiong surrendered to him or not, the imperial court would definitely annihilate them all and wash away the shame of the past.
Now the Emperor is a surrender faction, Qin Hui is a surrender faction, Empress Dowager Wei behind Zhu Shengfei is a surrender faction, and there is still a so-called neutral faction Xu Xiantu. Once Wanyan Wushu sends an envoy to ask the imperial army to go north, the imperial court will definitely agree.
The emperor Zhao Gou's fear and hatred of the Western Army far exceeded that of the Jin Kingdom. He would rather the Jin Kingdom rule the Central Plains than conquer the Central Plains himself.
Chen Qing walked a few steps with his hands behind his back: "I want to mobilize the 50,000 troops left behind in Guanzhong to join the war to make up for the shortcomings of the Eastern Front."
"Then the whole Guanzhong is empty, isn't it?"
"Then the Military Department was ordered to transfer all the state troops from various regions to Guanzhong on the grounds of centralized training, put them in regular army armor, and provide them with money and food subsidies every month. There are hundreds of thousands of troops!"
Zhang Xiao understood King Yong's concerns, and King Yong considered the issue very deeply. He had to admit that this was indeed a possibility, and things that seemed extremely ridiculous would often happen.
"Then without further delay, we will send a letter to Lu Qingshan and the Military Department at the same time, and the Guanzhong garrison and various state armies will be mobilized together."
Chen Qing immediately issued his own order with eagle letter, and mobilized 50,000 troops from Guanzhong to rush to the battlefield in the Central Plains. At the same time, he ordered the Military Department to transfer the state army and militia troops from various places to Jingzhao for centralized training. In fact, Guanzhong was not completely empty, at least in Beijing.
There are also 10,000 internal guards in Zhaocheng and 20,000 civilian regiments in Guanzhong.
In the afternoon, Liu Qiong rushed back to Xuchang and found the coach Chen Qing in the military camp.
"Your Highness, I have talked with Zhang Xian.
"What did he say?" Chen Qingxiao asked.
"It can be seen that he is quite conflicted. He is loyal to Yue Dutong, but he is unwilling to serve the imperial court. He especially hates the imperial court's mediocrity."
Chen Qing smiled and nodded, "I understand what you mean. He is still waiting for news from the court before deciding his attitude. He also expects the court to reinstate Yue Fei to his post."
"That's right! He will not surrender to us until the last desperate moment."
"I can understand this. After all, once you take this step, it will be difficult to look back. Let's be ready to receive it!"
Liu Qiong added: "I heard what Zhang Xian said. Not only him, but also many of Yue Fei's generals are disheartened. If Yue Fei is demoted to Lingnan, they all want to resign and return home."
Chen Qing smiled slightly and said: "I have arranged for the Intelligence Department to contact them one by one, including Yue Yun, to win over them and their subordinate troops. I will get at least 50,000 of Yue Fei's 100,000 troops."
Only then did Liu Qiong realize that His Highness had already made arrangements, making him worry in vain.
While Chen Qing was actively fighting for time, his opponent Wanyan Wushu was also fighting for time. The camp of hundreds of thousands of new troops was located in the north of Bianliang City, and tens of thousands of tents stretched for dozens of miles.
In the wilderness, hundreds of thousands of troops were being divided into dozens of large formations for training. Wanyan Wushu, accompanied by dozens of generals, inspected the training of new recruits. The more he watched, the darker his face became. He was not someone to be fooled easily.
When he came over, the soldiers shouted slogans loudly. As he walked over, the voices immediately became weaker.
He stopped in front of a spear formation of five thousand men and slowly narrowed his eyes. Zhang Zhongxiong was personally training the spear formation of five thousand men. Although the movements of these five thousand soldiers were uniform, each of them had two feet.
It is weak, has no power in wielding the spear, and naturally lacks the murderous momentum. It is completely a grand formation with only a superficial appearance.
He felt annoyed. He asked Zhang Zhongxiong to be responsible for the training. Was he just using this method to fool himself?
At this time, Zhang Zhongxiong saw Wanyan Wushu and hurriedly ran over to greet him, "For this humble position, please see the marshal!"
Wanyan Wushu pointed at the formation with his horsewhip, laughed twice and said: "It looks quite neat!"
"Prince Qi, it is indeed not easy. It was very messy before, but it took a lot of effort to train it neatly."
Wanyan Wushu turned around and shouted to a strong young general: "Digunai, lead one hundred of my soldiers to accompany them for actual combat training!"
This majestic young general is called Wanyan Digunai, the second son of Wanyan Zongqian. He is only 18 years old and was named General Fengguo. At the beginning of the year, he joined Wanyan Wushu's army as a member of Wanhu and was appointed as the general.
A captain of ten thousand men commanded an army of ten thousand men.
The reason why we introduce him a little more is because his Chinese name is Wan Yanliang, and historically he was the fourth emperor of the Jin Kingdom, King Hailing.
Wanyan Digunai cupped his fists and saluted, "Follow the order!"
He turned around and waved, and a hundred-man cavalry rushed like arrows. Wanyan Digunai shouted, "Follow me and fight in!"
The hundred cavalry roared, waved their spears and followed Wanyan Digunai like a group of tigers towards the five thousand New Army soldiers. Zhang Zhongxiong was shocked and turned pale. What is this?
The actual combat training Wanyan Wushu mentioned is killing with real swords and guns, without mercy.
Wanyan Digunai was the first to reach the front of the army. He swung the mace iron rod weighing fifty kilograms and smashed three heads into pieces. The brains were scattered everywhere. Wanyan Digunai laughed wildly and waved the mace up and down and left and right.
Wherever he passed, flesh and blood flew everywhere, bones and tendons were broken, and he charged into the formation in one breath.
The hundreds of cavalrymen behind them were like fierce tigers. Each of them killed a hundred with one kill. The five thousand new soldiers were crying and peeing and running away. How could the five thousand new soldiers stop the charge of a hundred Jurchen cavalry? Two quarters of an hour later, there were already casualties.
Thousands of them were covered with broken bones and corpses, and rivers of blood flowed. The formation had completely collapsed. The soldiers were scrambling for their lives and running around in the wilderness. The other training troops were completely stunned.
"armistice!"
Wanyan Wushu gave an order, "Woo--" the horn sounded, and hundreds of cavalrymen, led by Wanyan Digunai, came back like a gust of wind, without losing a single person, not even an injured soldier.
Zhang Zhongxiong's face turned pale when he saw it, Wanyan Wushu whipped him across his head and face, and he yelled, "This is the elite army you trained, and it's worse than shit!"
