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Chapter 46: Hearing Thunder in Winter, War Will Begin (Part 2)

The entire Slave Army was mobilized for this transaction. By the third day of the second month of the Tianqi year, most of the supplies had been transferred. The civilians who came to help Zhang Ping'an transport supplies not only got one stone of food, three taels of silver, but also five kilograms of mutton. Zhang Ping'an also promised that if he helped transport supplies next time, he would get the same amount of money. The result was naturally happy.

In a blink of an eye, it was the eleventh day of the first lunar month. Zhu Zhengshan sent someone to inform him that the second transaction was completed on the 16th day of the first lunar month. Zhang Ping'an sent the messenger away and began to prepare.

Chen Liang of Ponu City also tripled the Ponu City under the instructions of Zhang Ping'an. Due to the return of Li Chen and Wu Tianxing, Ponu City had more than 10,000 troops. Chen Liang also found 300 gunners. The cannons and * transported back were only available at this time.

Zhang Ping'an used this time to integrate the team and set up an investigation office. Hu Ming served as the commander, and Xu Yian served as the deputy commander. He sent spies to Guangning Prefecture and the surrounding guards. He also bought a shop next to the governor's yamen as a stronghold.

The transaction was completed on the 16th, and the materials were transported, and they received the first information from the Investigation Office. When Zhang Ping'an saw the Jurchens attacking in large numbers, he was shocked and knew that his peaceful days had come to an end. He immediately issued an order: He asked the Investigation Office to not only investigate the movements of the Tartars, but also understand the basic situation of Guangning Prefecture; especially the arsenal and grain deposits. Unexpectedly, before the order was issued, Zhang Ping'an got the inventory list of Guangning Prefecture and the surrounding forts.

This was bought by Xu Yian with fifty taels of gold. As Zhang Ping'an said, there were no officials in the Ming Dynasty who dared not sell it. After Zhang Ping'an got the account book, he immediately ordered the clerks to make the books according to each garrison, town, fort, and post. He was preparing to compete with the Jurchen Tatars when the Ming officers and soldiers fled, and try not to let these materials go to the Jurchen Tatars. At the same time, he ordered the captured three thousand Korchin Tatars to Taiping Fort.

That morning, Zhang Ping'an gave Lu Deyin a ruling order, saying that he was thinking about fighting and had no major military information and was not allowed to disturb him. At this time, Zhang Ping'an was carefully looking at the map and sand table in the study of the General Manager's Mansion. He often recorded the key points he thought of. He knew that this was the biggest test he faced and could not be careless.

At the end of the evening, the door of the study suddenly opened, and Zhang Ping'an, whose eyes were red, looked determined: "Give silver, please inform everyone of military discussion! Bring me the meal!"

Lu Deyin said: "Brother, they have been waiting for you in the meeting hall. The meal has been ready. Should you eat first or discuss matters first?"

Zhang Ping'an smiled and said, "Old rules, eat and chat!" Zhang Ping'an knew that he could not have any uneasy expression at this time. Otherwise, the people below would be even more uneasy.

Zhang Ping'an walked to the conference hall and was surprised to see Li Chen also there, so he asked him: "Why are you here!"

Li Chen was also surprised: "Did I receive your order or Mr. Chen personally confessed it. This is the letter Mr. Chen gave you."

Zhang Ping'an read the letter and said, "This Chen Liang, I asked him to transfer 6,000 auxiliary soldiers, but he transferred you. But it's okay, I'm more sure of you when you come! What do you think about Xu Liang and Xu Zhen?"

Li Chen said: "These two boys are good. Xu Zhen is stronger, so it's okay to lead troops! They each brought 300 veterans from the battalion, and asked for 400 people from me to form two new battalions. Each battalion had about 4,000 people. Mr. Chen also found a talent from Wutian Xingzhang. He was a man named Liu Chong. He was very terrifying in the war and had the style of a great commander. It was the wound you personally sewed him, and he was the loyal man of the great commander!"

Zhang Ping'an nodded and said, "I know this person. The battle he commanded the second generation of officials. No one died. His battalion was newly formed, so what is the combat power?"

Li Chen smiled: "I saw through Nucheng. His camp was the strongest. Among the four thousand people, there were 1,600 veterans who had been injured. And they were all veterans who dared to fight and fight. Especially the families of these veterans were all in Nucheng. Do you think his camp was still a new camp?"

Zhang Pingan pulled Li Chen to sit down: "I'm relieved, okay! Let's start the military discussion!"

Zhang Ping'an picked up the small wooden stick and began to arrange it: "This time the military discussion is not to call the commander. As the old rules, call the boss, so it is casual. First of all, Hu Ming wants to move. Your detective office must find out the movements of the Tartars, the deployment of troops, and the equipment. You want money to give money, and horses! Chen Poe, you bring your troops and horses to Li Chen's troops and Li Chen's troops ten miles northwest of the Daqing Fort, here is ambush!" Zhang Ping'an pointed to the foot of a mountain at the sand table.

When they saw the personal soldiers bringing the meal in, everyone was old brother and they were not polite. They picked up the noodles and mutton and listened to Zhang Ping'an's arrangements while eating.

Zhang Ping'an ate the mutton: "Let's go tomorrow. I will lead the main force, which is my personal military camp, Zhang Li's army, Huang Zhi's army, Huang Wei's army, and Zhang Tong's army, a total of 12,000 people to Guangning Prefecture. If the official army abandons the city, we will occupy Guangning. Chen Pang's army quickly approaches me. Li Chen's army has a heavy task this time. Your army wants to seize and hold on to the Qing Fort. You bring the 1,000 auxiliary soldiers I specially train. You must bring the things that should be brought with me. I have to prepare the silver!"

Zhang Ping'an took a sip of soup and said with his throat: "Let me talk about the division of labor after entering the city. Xu Yi'an is responsible for transporting supplies; Hu Ming led the operation team of the detective office to wipe out the wealthy and unkind wealthy families, and got silver to lead 500 personal soldiers to cooperate with Hu Ming to arrest the Jurchens in the city. If he resisted, just one word: Kill! After entering the city, Chen Pai led his troops to lead Huang Wei, and Zhang Tong was responsible for the city gate and wall. Huang Zhi was responsible for collecting the defeated soldiers. Zhang Li was mobilized, and if needed, he would go to emergency. Zhang Li's army finally entered the city, and arranged a trap fifteen miles west of Guangning City. It was here." Zhang Ping'an pointed to the position where Zhang Li's army arranged the battlefield.

Zhang Ping'an continued: "We cannot stay in Guangning for too long. The Jurchen old slave is also a veteran of the battle formation. With his temper, he will never fight with us. He will definitely think we will run to Shanhaiguan, so he will pass through this path. When we wait for us at Shisanshan Post, we will let him wait. We must transfer supplies as soon as possible. Let me talk about the order of material transportation. The first is weapons, iron and copper; the second is grain, the third is cloth and medicinal materials; the fourth is tea and cotton; the last is wealth. I hope everyone will remember clearly. The people arranged some of them to go to Yizhou Post, most of them to Daqing Fort and Dajing Fort. Hu Ming immediately arranged for the civilians who helped us transport things to leave. Let them go home and let them take their families to us."

Zhang Ping'an smiled sinisterly and said, "The Jurchen Tartars probably only know how to defend the city and not fight with them in the field. I want them to see that we are no worse than them in the field. By the way! Huang Zhi, how did the musket I gave you be trained? Has the three-stage strike I mentioned formed?"

Huang Zhi promised with great confidence: "Don't worry, my unit! The silver wolf is not a waste of time, otherwise he will be the leader of the wolf!"

Zhang Ping'an clapped his hands: "Okay! Now let me talk about the order of the troops' retreat. Huang Zhi's army and Zhang Li's army went first, and there was a small hill in the northwest of the battlefield. After receiving the order, Li Chen's army quickly occupied it! Huang Zhi's army held the retreat intersection and arranged muskets and crossbows soldiers. Zhang Li's army protected his left wing in the northeast. My personal army and Zhang Tong's army went in the second batch, three miles outside the west gate, to meet Chen Poe and Huang Weila who were finally retreating. When you retreated, you burned Guangning City. OK, do you have any more to add?"

"Boss! Are we preparing some Tartar armor? Anyway, we have so many of them. We can put on makeup at that time to scare the city's official army." Hu Ming suggested at this time.

Zhang Ping'an raised his thumb: "Good solution! Is there any more? No, I'm going to sleep."

Chen Poe said: "All scouts were sent out! No blind spots left! And the escorts came to the Korqin Tartars, how can they go?"

Zhang Ping'an thought for a while and said, "Li Chen was escorting away because they were to prevent the Jurchens and Tartars from using the Ming people to rush forward. Just watch the custody on the preset battlefield. There were not many soldiers in the Qing Fort, less than two hundred, and the wall of the western fortress of the Qing Fort had collapsed. Also, ignore the defenders of the Dajing Fort, there were even fewer soldiers there!"

Ru Deyin interrupted and asked, "Brother, aren't you afraid that the Tartars will attack the city?"

"Not afraid! In fact, the old slaves are just like us. They are doing robbery business. What they fear most is that they have too much losses. There are only a few Jurchen Tatars and how many people there are in our Ming Dynasty. Relatively speaking, it is easier for us to replenish people than them. Especially in big cities like Guangning, how many people they have to die to capture. As long as we move fast enough, the Jurchen Tatars cannot grab supplies and the population will win!"

Rudeyin asked again: "Why do you want a strong household?"

Zhang Ping'an smiled and said, "No one is robbing everyone. If you have a good reputation, you will not rob them! You mainly robbing officials and bad gentry! Xu Yian is doing this, and this kid is flexible in doing things. I didn't say he was checking it! Okay, there is nothing else, everyone should prepare early!"
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