Chapter 549: The Battle of the Snowfield (Part 2)
When Li Anmin rushed into the tent of Liu Chenglin, the general of the Right Guard, in a frustration, he was standing in front of the map, with his fingers slashing around on it.
Standing on the ground and stomped his feet. On the hat, the snow on the clothes fell down and fell around Li Anmin. A honeycomb coal stove in the big tent was burning vigorously. The water in the kettle was rolling and the heat made the tent extremely warm. The snow powder falling on the ground melted into water in a moment, but the ice chips on the eyebrows could not be melted for a while, and stuck to the eyelashes, shiny.
"Oh, Governor Li, this is coming all the way, right?" Liu Chenglin looked at the other party's appearance and walked to the stove in surprise, poured Li Anmin a cup of hot water, "Hot hot water warms the stomach."
Holding the hot water, Li Anmin's stiff hands finally felt some sense.
"My general, I can't drink water now." Li Anmin fell and said, "What happened to Li Rui."
Liu Chenglin pulled a stool and helped Li Anmin sit down: "I know everything, Governor Li, don't be anxious either. It's useless to hurry, right? Far water can't save the near fire. We are so anxious that we have to jump off our feet here, and Li Rui has to fight by himself."
Li Anmin stared at Liu Chenglin for a while, and confirmed that the other party was not joking, he couldn't help but frown tightly: "General, Li Rui is the most elite 5,000 tribes of the Right Guard. Li Rui is also a general trained by Li Xiang himself and valued it very much."
Liu Chenglin smiled, took a sip of hot water, and said slowly: "Governor Li, it is because he leads the most powerful army of the Right Guard that I am not in a hurry. I will not make any irrational decisions just because he is a general valued by Li Xiang and a disciple of Li Xiang."
"How can a irrational decision be made to send troops to rescue?" Li Anmin snorted.
Liu Chenglin kicked his feet on the ground, and the chair slid to the map. "Governor Li is also a long-standing person, so of course he can see the current situation. Now we can understand that the so-called slave army moved to the Pingzhou border and attacked the civilians in Mozhou many times, just to lure us to send troops to wipe out and set up a trap to annihilate the main force of our Right Guard, and thus break the balance on the border."
Li Anmin nodded.
"I have to say that in the first half, their plan was quite successful." Liu Chenglin slid back, lifted the rolling water and poured it into Tang Pozi, while saying: "Now Deng Jingshan's main force is gathered in Lingyuan and Jianping area, which restrains our main force, making me dare not act without action. Governor Li, if he arbitrarily mobilizes an army, the balance will be broken. With Deng Jingshan's ability, how could he miss such an opportunity? He will definitely take the opportunity to launch an attack. They are killing two birds with one stone!"
Of course, Li Anmin understood this.
"Even if we mobilize a force to rescue, there is no problem for the remaining troops to hold on. What's more, Xue Chong's troops will arrive soon."
Liu Chenglin smiled and said, "Governor Li, since Xue Chong's Jinwu Guard is coming, why do I still have to stick to it?"
Li Anmin was stunned and understood in an instant. "Are you going to let Li Rui defend to the death? Are you planning to launch an attack on Deng Jingshan?"
Liu Chenglin nodded, stretched his legs and stretched his big laziness: "Yes, Deng Jingshan has all the main forces, and he just wanted to restrain me and cannot rescue Li Rui. I, as I did not save Li Rui, but instead launched a fierce attack on him. Let him think I was..."
"I thought you were besieging Wei to save Zhao!" Li Anmin blurted out.
"Yes, he has a high chance of thinking that I was surrounding Wei to save Zhao. If I could not stand the beating him, he might ask Liu Siyuan for help. If Liu Siyuan goes to save him, then Li Rui will naturally be relaxed." Liu Chenglin said.
"Deng Jingshan's troops are not that easy to fight!" said Li Anmin.
"Of course, he will definitely be happy. In this way, he can expect Liu Siyuan to get around from Jianchang and attack me after annihilated Li Rui. Wouldn't this satisfy him more than what he designed earlier?" Liu Chenglin turned his cup and looked at Li Anmin, saying proudly.
"The change is Xue Chong's Zuo Jinwu Guard." Li Anmin had already fully understood Liu Chenglin's thoughts at this time.
Liu Chenglin stood up and paced back and forth in the tent for a few times before saying, "Governor Li, I have sent someone to see Xue Chong and asked him to lead the main force to arrive in Ningcheng within ten days, and then walk into Chaoyang as fast as possible, and take Chaoyang with a tremendous force."
"If Chaoyang is taken down, it will be cut off Deng Jingshan's retreat." Li Anmin walked to the map and looked at it for a while: "Even if Deng Jingshan's entire army is out, he will leave a unit in Chaoyang."
"He will leave a unit, but he probably wouldn't have expected that Xue Chong's entire Zuo Jinwu Guard attacked Chaoyang." Liu Chenglin said.
"Have you ever thought about it? The time you requested was very urgent. Xue Chong's 30,000 left Jinwu Guards could not reach all the places." Li Anmin raised his head and thought for a while, and said, "It would be great if he could reach half of the power of his cavalry and the power of the livestock he could use."
"The main body of Xue Chong's Zuo Jinwu Guard is the Luzhou soldiers." Liu Chenglin said: "Governor Li, you can't underestimate them because of the unfavorable years of the past few years. They are still very capable of fighting. Most of their defeats are non-war crimes. So even if only 15,000 people rushed to Chaoyang and took them down, I don't think it's a problem."
"That's right!" Li Anmin also smiled and said, "The most beneficial thing to us now is that Deng Jingshan doesn't know that Xue Chong is not far from us at all, and he is even more unlikely to know that before this battle, Li Xiang ordered Xue Chong's left Jinwu Guard to move to Mozhou. Even if Xue Chong could not take Chaoyang, wherever they appeared, it would be enough to cause Deng Jingshan's army to be in chaos and had to retreat. With your General Liu's ability, during his retreat, he should have a large-scale killing of his main force."
"Deng Jingshan plots against me, so I can also plot against him." Liu Chenglin sneered: "After this battle, the balance will of course be broken, but we must be the ones who take advantage of it. After this battle, half of them and half of them in Pingzhou. Everyone is here to each other."
"What if Li Rui can't stand it?"
"I bet he can hold on." Liu Chenglin said lightly: "Even if he can't hold on, the entire army of 5,000 people will be destroyed. I believe Liu Siyuan will suffer a great loss. Even if his entire army is destroyed, it will be worth it if it is exchanged for the destruction of Deng Jingshan's main force and half of Pingzhou. Since he is Li Xiang's parent-child, of course he can understand my intentions and will not feel resentful because I threw him out and fend for himself. Everything is for Li Xiang's great cause. Therefore, anyone can make sacrifices for this, whether it is him, me, or you, governor Li."
Li Anmin was silent for a moment and nodded.
"There is another situation, have you considered it?"
"What's the situation?" Liu Chenglin asked back.
"That is, if Liu Siyuan suffered heavy losses in the process of attacking Li Rui, he just surrounded him and stopped fighting, and wanted to waste Li Rui to death, because Li Rui himself did not have enough food. As long as he was caught without food, Li Rui would naturally break through. Then he set up a trap to annihilate Li Rui in one fell swoop. But in this way, Liu Siyuan would not suffer too much. Once you start, he would know that something was wrong." Li Anmin said.
"You are worried that Liu Siyuan will come to support Deng Jingshan. Haha, I bet he will never come." Liu Chenglin said: "A thief like Liu Siyuan will only think of himself, but only his family. Even if he still has the main force, he will come to die when he sees such a formation. He will use the power he has accumulated so hard to accumulate with us in vain, so he will definitely run away. Unfortunately, Li Rui has no ability to pursue him."
Li Anmin looked at the map again: "If this is the case, Liu Siyuan will definitely run to Jinzhou."
Liu Chenglin clapped his hands and said, "We can be happier if he occupied Jinzhou. Deng Jingshan is Zhang Zhongwu's direct descendant, and Liu Siyuan is not. Well, Governor Li, if this is the case, we will kill Deng Jingshan and lose his strength and then let him go back. What do you think?"
Li Anmin said understandingly: "At that time, Deng Jingshan, the governor of Pingzhou, will be weak, and Liu Siyuan, a powerful soldier, will be filthy, even if they are former allies."
"Yes, a sect thief like Liu Siyuan essentially needs to eat more and stand more, and he wishes to hold everything in his arms. Deng Jingshan, after his strength is greatly damaged, urgently needs to replenish blood. In this case, the conflict between him and Liu Siyuan will appear. In addition, Liu Siyuan did not go to save him and ran away on his own, which will make Deng Jingshan feel even more aggravated. If the two families start working, this will be of great benefit to us in the future!" Liu Chenglin became more and more excited: "That's it, that's it. Deng Jingshan can't let him die, he has to let him go back."
"Since the general has set a strategy, I can only hope that the last situation will happen. In this way, Li Rui can still survive." Li Anguodao: "I will go back now and raise some military rations. At the same time, I urgently summon the young man to show that you cannot escape from here and I want to lead the young man to rescue me. Maybe I can also deceive the other party."
"You Governor Li are planning to let those young and strong follow us to get the bargain after I win?" Liu Chenglin smiled.
Chapter completed!