Chapter 202: Blitz (bottom)
A deafening cheer suddenly came outside the house. Tu Lichun, who was sitting in front of the window, looked outside, but saw the cheers were the cavalry he brought.
"Why are the little boys so happy?" Tu Lichun was a little confused.
Liu Chenglin leaned over to catch the wine glass in front of Tu Lichun, filled it with him, and said with a smile: "I have captured the base camp here in Henghai and got a lot of money. Maybe Zhu Shou is preparing to reward the soldiers and motivate morale. So I have rewarded every cavalry who came to support for twenty stalks. It doesn't take much effort to get it on your way back!"
"Governor Liu is proud." Tu Lichun gave a thumbs up. Two thousand cavalry, each with twenty stakes, which is 40,000 stakes, not a small amount of money. For Liu Chenglin, who has just become independent and requires money for everything, it is indeed generous. He did not refuse. The soldiers were indeed hard enough to attack along the way. Without a lot of rewards, how can the morale always be high?
"It's so great for others!" Liu Chenglin raised his glass and said, "If you earn it hard, you will feel distressed."
The two raised their glasses and drank them all in one go. Tu Lichun said, "What are you going to do next? Zhu Shou suffered such a big loss, and it would be a joke to attack you. I guess he will focus on protecting Hejian and other confidant places. Do you want this Suning?"
"No!" Liu Chenglin said decisively: "I can't handle Jingzhou affairs for a while. I'm greedy for too much and don't mess around. It's better to leave it here and ignore him first."
"The same is true for the young master." Tu Lichun said: "If you occupy Su Ning, it is equivalent to catching the enemy under Zhu Shou's nose. He must be unwilling to accept it. Maybe he has to bite the bullet and fight, but if you withdraw, it can be considered as giving him a step to go. Both sides are not stationed in Su Ning, but there is a buffer zone."
"It's only one or two months. After the autumn harvest is completed, both sides will inevitably fight. Li Ze means that, right?" Liu Chenglin asked.
Tu Lichun nodded: "Yes, after the autumn harvest, our Yizhou has also completed military reorganization. At that time, we will launch a large-scale attack on the Henghai. At that time, can you send troops on time?"
"There is no problem to send troops on time. I am just worried that when my main force leaves, Shi Yi from Yingzhou will take advantage of loopholes." Liu Chenglin frowned. The only Shenzhou army that could restrain Shi Yi had a strange relationship with Li Ze, and he didn't dare to count on it.
"The young master will find a way to put pressure on Shenzhou from the senior leaders of Chengde. I think our Jieshou will not be unable to see the powerful relationship here." Tu Lichun said.
"This can only be seen again at that time. But you reassure Li Ze. Even if Shi Yi is really uneasy at that time, I will still send troops to watch the fire from the other side of Shenzhou. Compared with the entire Henghai, the gains and losses of Jingzhou are not important anymore."
Listening to Liu Chenglin's words, Tu Lichun gave him a thumbs up. Liu Chenglin said this, just to replace himself with Li Ze's overall interests to consider. Indeed, as long as he could take over Cangzhou, Dizhou and other places, even if Shi Yi took advantage of the situation and robbed Jingzhou, he would not be able to defend it.
Instead of viewing Jingzhou as his own private land, Liu Chenglin was willing to cooperate with Li Ze's overall strategy, which made Tu Lichun immediately admire him.
"Did you say Cao Xin has handed over all the military power in Yizhou to Li Ze?" Liu Chenglin asked thoughtfully while drinking slowly.
"Yes, it's before Cao Gong went to Shiyi to propose marriage to your parents." Tu Lichun said: "Just relying on the strength of the young master, you don't have to think about taking Henghai. So the troops of Yizhou must join in, but even so, it would be useless without you, Governor Liu, from Jingzhou to cooperate."
"Is the reorganization still going smoothly?"
"Smooth!" Tu Lichun said: "Who is Cao Gong? He has long considered all the details. Those senior and complicated generals are now following Wang Wenshu to play under You Yong to prepare for the attack on Zhenwu. Those who stayed are all simple and easy to manage, so the Wuyi reorganization has basically not had much waves, so it was successfully completed."
"So, there are still some twists and turns?"
"That's of course, the military orders and regulations of our Wuyi Army were somewhat different from the original Yizhou Army. The Yizhou Army initially resisted it, but after a few fights, it stopped. "Tu Lichun smiled and said, "A man in the army is really unable to speak, so just use his fists to speak, it's a mule or a horse. Isn't it enough to pull it out and slip it away?"
"There is such a thing?" Liu Chenglin's eyes shone. "It seems that your Wuyi Army won the battle?"
"Three battles and three victories!" Tu Lichun said with a smile: "The two sides each went out to three villages, and decided the victory and defeat on the school ground. The Yizhou Army was defeated three times. If you don't agree, you have to be convinced."
"I have a chance, I want to give it a try too!" Liu Chenglin gave a try.
Speaking of which, although the Jiedu governors are dominating the other side, they are nominally still Tang army, and basically use the same kind of Taoist script. Even if the style of play is different, it is closely related to the general's habit of leading troops. However, the most basic things are still exactly the same. Tu Lichun said that Wuyi Army and Yizhou Army are different, so naturally they are different from the ones he is familiar with now.
"There must be opportunities. When we take down Henghai together, we will set up a stand in Cangzhou City to fight together!" Tu Lichun raised his wine glass.
Liu Chenglin smiled and raised his glass and clinked it. With a crisp sound, the two of them looked at each other and knew their own thoughts.
There are more profound meanings in Liu Chenglin's words.
Cao Xin has handed over the military power, so how should he deal with Liu Chenglin when he conquered Henghai? Since Tu Lichun talked about the above matter, Liu Chenglin felt that he could follow his example and lose. He justified his command of the army and win, and he could still maintain a certain degree of independence.
He was not worried that he had no army to lead. Even if he voted for Li Ze in the future, would Li Ze not allow him to lead the army to fight? The difference was just the final belonging of this army.
"Next, I will go back to Jingzhou. Are you going to go back to Wuyi?" Liu Chenglin asked.
"I'll go back, but this cavalry won't go back." Tu Lichun said, "They will continue to find trouble for Zhu Shou."
"Continue to harass him?"
"It's not just that." Tu Lichun lowered his voice: "After the autumn, we marched into Henghai, and hundreds of miles of unmanned land in Dezhou. For us, it is also an obstacle. This cavalry will conduct harassment operations in Cangzhou, Dizhou and other places. In fact, it is to cover us to establish secret supply points in Dezhou. These supply points will advance towards Cangzhou. In this way, when the war starts, our pressure on logistics supply will be greatly reduced. So far, we have established five effective strongholds, but it is not enough to support the army we will attack at that time, so more needs to be built."
Liu Chenglin stayed for a while before finally regaining his soul again.
"Li Ze, this kid, really took one step, and looked at ten steps. After these strongholds were burned down, he had already started planning, right?"
Tu Lichun laughed and pointed to a young cavalry general outside the window: "The man was named Li De, a young general who the young master liked very much. After the fire of Dezhou, he kept moving in Dezhou with a cavalry. The route we attacked this time was actually that he had explored it before, and arranged the contact points along the way and prepared corresponding supplies. We came so quickly. Next, I will take the young master's personal guard camp back, and the remaining more than a thousand cavalrymen will be handed over to him."
"Harassment, destruction, made Henghai exhausted his life. He sent the army to surround him, and the cavalry retreated back to Dezhou. When his army left, you attacked again." Liu Chenglin exclaimed: "This can further destroy the autumn harvest of Henghai, exhaust his soldiers, and lay a good foundation for the battle after the autumn."
"Governor Liu has come to the point, and the young master also asked me to bring a sixteen-character policy to Li De." Tu Lichun gave a thumbs up.
"I hope to hear it carefully!"
"The enemy advances and I retreat, the enemy retreats and I chases, the enemy stands and I disturb them, and the enemy is tired and I will fight!" Tu Lichun said word by word: "This is the essence of the battle technique of fighting against the air."
"It's really an incisive explanation!" Liu Chenglin applauded. "Sometimes I'm really a little strange. People like me, you, have been struggling on the battlefield for many years, have some experience in war. Why is his understanding of war so profound at such a young age? The battle in Texas is really amazing, and the fighting method of guerrilla war is even more amazing!"
"Or this is born to know! The young master is born to accomplish great things." Tu Lichun said proudly.
Liu Chenglin was silent.
The next day, the two armies parted ways, and Liu Chenglin led his troops back to Jingzhou. He could not wait for a moment. Now he was worried about Shi Yi's actions on the other end.
At this moment, Shi Yi, who was in Zhang Wu, dared not advance because the army in Shenzhou had already gathered on the border. He originally thought that Shenzhou would at least sit in the mountains and watch the tiger fight, but he did not expect the other party to dispatch the army, which forced him to think about it again and again.
At the same time, Zhu Shou and Heng Haijun, who were still in Renqiu, were dejected. Renqiu's Liu troops were indeed defeated by them, but they easily defeated this army and found that they had been trapped by Liu Chenglin's plan to lure the tiger away from the mountain. However, they realized that they were too late. When the left-behind troops in Suning were hit hard and even the big camp was lost, everyone knew that this conquest had failed.
Not only did the challenge of Liu Liu fail to succeed, but he also lost his troops and generals. This is far from a problem of making a comeback. The bleak future across the sea has been clearly shown in front of everyone.
Chapter completed!