When the Ming army marched south, it would inevitably require food channels.

The specific food route is not easy to analyze where it is. It must be hidden well by the Ming army, but the point where it must be rescued when attacking the enemy is the essence of military strategy.

As an important town behind the Ming army, Nanyang, regardless of whether the food supply is close, can the Ming army still let it go and not save it?

The main forces of the army went south to attack Xiangfan, and the main forces were all dragged down by the Xiangfan defenders. Isn’t this a good time to surround Wei and save Zhao?

Li Xianzhong decided to exert his subjective initiative and launch a bold attack on the Ming army.

Since the war between the Song Dynasty and the Song army started, all the generals of the Song army were afraid of the Ming army and did not dare to compete with the Ming army head-on. However, Li Xianzhong, who had experienced the previous active offensive battle, did not think he was inferior to the Ming army at all, and did not think he would definitely lose to the Ming army at all.

He dared to use 10,000 people to challenge more than 20,000 Ming army, but this time he dared to use 80,000 people to fight 70,000 Ming army.

Among the 80,000 reinforcements, 30,000 were the absolute main force and the direct troops he trained himself. He was very confident that he would fight against the Ming army based on these 30,000 people, and he was sure to defeat.

Then he began to design tactics.

He had heard some of the battles of the Ming army before, and he really admired Su Yonglin, the founder of the Ming army.

When Su Yonglin was weak in his troops, he used the weaknesses of the powerful enemy Jin people to destroy the territory of the Jin Kingdom many times, making the enemy's main force sway, while he eliminated the enemy's main force in the movement and battle.

He felt that he could learn from Su Yonglin.

Judging from the current situation, it is a good way to attack the enemy and rescue it...

Use the strategy of attacking Nanyang to mobilize the Ming army to return to the army to provide assistance, reduce the pressure on Xiangfan, give the main army an attack on Xiangfan, and cooperate with the Xiangfan defenders to defeat the Ming army inside and outside to create opportunities.

The Ming army surrounded Xiangfan and attacked, and there was always the idea of ​​surrounding and attacking aid, but Li Xianzhong decided to do the opposite.

He believed that the strength of Xiangfan was by no means easy to break through the Ming army. Under such circumstances, what would happen if he attacked Nanyang, which was far less solid than Xiangfan?

Moreover, according to the information, the main force of the Ming army was the Henan Corps. There was no other Ming army corps going south to participate in the war. Except for 30,000 people stationed on Huainan East Road, the entire Henan area was actually only 70,000 Ming troops.

To attack Xiangfan, a large army must be dispatched. The number of Ming troops who stayed to defend Henan must be very small, and only 10,000 or 20,000 to death. Therefore, the Ming troops who went to Xiangyang were about 50,000.

According to previous judgments, the total number of bandit troops on Jiangnan West Road may be relatively large, but their front line is so wide that it is estimated that the number of troops that can be invested in Xiangyang is only 20,000 to 30,000. Together, the total number of troops in the Ming army is about the same as the number of reinforcements of the Song army.

In the absence of first-hand information, Li Xianzhong made such a judgment, but it was not that he was unwilling to get more secure and reliable information, but that they really couldn't get more accurate information.

The detailed work sent to spy on the news, the whistle cavalry went more and came back less, and brought even less information. At present, they could only achieve this. Li Xianzhong clearly realized that the Ming army had consciously responded to the spy on the Song army.

And the effect is very good.

Despite this, Li Xianzhong felt that he could also analyze the approximate numbers, and the rest of the aspects must be achieved through tactics.

The so-called rescue of the enemy is very reasonable in the art of military affairs. He believed that he would send troops to attack Nanyang and would mobilize large Ming troops to return to the rescue. There was no need to send too many troops, ten thousand was enough, but the momentum was loud, and he would create a scene for the Ming army to attack Nanyang and force the Ming army to return to the rescue.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, he used his main Song army to attack Xiangyang, lift the blockade line, and eliminate the remaining Ming army, so as to reverse the battle situation.

Therefore, although the battle situation is critical and the enemy is strong, the Ming army can retain only 40,000 to 50,000 troops on the battlefield by then, while the Song army still has 70,000 main force and 40,000 Xiangfan defenders.

110,000 to 50,000, the advantage lies in me!

Li Xianzhong decided to believe that his comrades could rely on Xiangfan City to hold on and support him until his support arrived.

So he immediately began to mobilize troops and choose "excellent general" to undertake the task of rushing to Nanyang.

Who is this lucky person?

After much selection, he chose Wang Chong.

He decided to send Wang Chong to lead a more elite army with his own rations to attack Nanyang, and not to fight with the cities controlled by the Ming army that he encountered along the way, and to attack Nanyang in one go.

Nanyang should have Ming army guards, but the number will not be large. As long as the raid is fast enough and unexpected enough, it will not be a problem to take Nanyang.

In this way, the Ming army's retreat route and logistics supply line could be cut off, causing chaos in the Ming army.

Even if you cannot quickly take over Nanyang, you will burn, kill and loot around Nanyang to replenish food, and then continue to harass the north, destroying production in the mainland of Ming Dynasty, and then go back to Xinyang to end the combat mission.

They do not need to achieve any important strategic mission, but mainly mobilize the main force of the Ming army to return to the aid from Xiangyang. As long as this goal is achieved, it will be considered successful.

In order to mobilize as many Ming troops as possible, they also needed a majority of flags, which made the Ming people think that the main force of the Song army came to attack Nanyang, and forced the Ming army to return to aid.

He led the main army and did not advance for the time being. After the Ming army began to take action, he would bypass the Tongbai County in the border area and arrive in the Zaoyang area, waiting for an opportunity to capture Zaoyang, and then quickly rush to Xiangfan to defeat Xiangfan Ming army and peasant army, and lift the siege of Xiangfan.

He felt that the tactics he designed were good, but Wang Chong had a different view on the execution level of this tactic.

"General, it is quite difficult to perform this task. The general feels that he is not capable enough and cannot complete this task smoothly, so he also asks the general to choose another good general."

Wang Chong, the deputy commander of the marching, believed that his ability was not enough to complete this forced marching, so he hoped that Li Xianzhong could select a warlike general to go.

What a joke, I will attack Nanyang first. It is best to attack. If I can’t defeat it, I have to continue to go north to enter the hinterland of Ming Kingdom, and then go back to Xinyang after going around a big circle...

Who do you think I am? A super brave general?

Or do you think my army is the elite in the world?

The army of the guards' horse army is considered elite, but this elite does not mean that the combat effectiveness is strong, but that the soldiers are of good quality, all young and strong, and they are not old or weak, and the soldiers are still in their health.

However, fighting also requires combat experience and combat literacy. In this regard, the rebuilt short-term guards, the Ma Junsi, was relatively lacking.

They are all new recruits, and they only lasted half a year after they were training. The soldiers had no combat experience, let alone combat literacy.

Li Xianzhong's request was obviously to marches for a long distance or even forcibly, and in this case, they brought a group of new recruits...

Isn’t this unhappy for yourself?

Maybe I am the only commander left when I run!

Wang Chong expressed his difficulties to Li Xianzhong in a dilemma.

"Although most of the soldiers under the last generals are young and strong, but they have only been training for half a year and are not yet skilled in the warfare. They may not be able to perform such heavy tasks, and they are afraid that they will fail the general's instructions and delay national affairs. Therefore, they still hope that the general can choose other good generals and elite troops will go there."

Li Xianzhong looked at Wang Chong and was immediately dissatisfied.

"Commander Wang, your mission is not to fight the Ming army to death, but to attract the Ming army to return to aid through bluffing. I don't need you to defeat the Ming army. I just need you to do some damage, even burn, kill, loot, and achieve the purpose of mobilizing the main force of the Ming army to return to aid.

I believe General Wang and his troops can do this. As for the rest, they will lead other elite main forces to complete it and will fight the Ming army to the death here. Does General Wang think it is easier to fight the Ming army to the death?"

It’s not that it’s easier for anyone to do it. He just thinks that staying here and fighting to the death is a little more likely to survive. He goes to Ming Dynasty to fight the Qiufeng to attract the main force of the Ming army, and may be caught in the fire.

It would be difficult to come back.

Wang Chong is not a fool either, so of course he knows the difference between the two.

So he insisted on resigning.

"I would like to ask the general to understand that the last general is incompetent and the new recruits under his command are not strong enough. I may lose the general's entrustedness and delay national affairs."
Chapter completed!