: Don’t help me when I die

Yangpi Beach, Daxi Military Camp.

Sun Kewang was sitting in the tent with a gloomy face. In the middle of the morning, the second messenger sent by Li Dingguo had already arrived at Yangpi Beach. Gu Yan had discovered a large group of Ming troops outside Xiangyang City, and it was the most elite Ming Central Army. Li Dingguo asked Sun Kewang to lead the main force of the Daxi Army to speed up the marching speed and immediately rushed to Xiangyang.

Sun Kewang was in a dilemma.

If Sun Kewang led the main force of Daxi to Xiangyang, and with the huge force of the Daxi Army, it would be fine to defend Xiangyang, but in this way, Li Dingguo's contributions would be confirmed. If others could not take away this great contribution, Sun Kewang would not be able to take away him. Zhang Xianzhong knew that he could only admire Li Dingguo more, and the crown prince of Daxi would be even less of Sun Kewang.

But if the troops were not sent, the Daxi Army would miss the opportunity given by God. Although Sun Kewang did not have the courage and strategy of Li Dingguo, he was not useless in military affairs. Sun Kewang still understood the current situation. Li Dingguo's surprise attack on Xiangyang was like a dagger slashing straight into the heart of the Huguang defenders. The Daxi Army can be said to have taken all the initiative!

If you miss such an opportunity, it will be basically impossible to have such a good situation in the future.

What to do? Or not send troops?

"General." When Sun Kewang was hesitating, the voice of the captain of his personal soldiers suddenly sounded outside the tent again, "The second general has sent someone again."

"Oh?" Sun Kewang's heart beat, and he said in a cold voice, "Let him come in."

"yes."

The personal captain took the order and soon took a dusty soldier into Sun Kewang's tent.

When he saw Sun Kewang, the soldier in Daxi knelt on the ground and cried: "General, the attack of the Central Army of the Ming Dynasty is very fierce, and our army suffers a lot of casualties. Please send troops quickly, otherwise Xiangyang will not be able to defend it!"

Sun Kewang took a breath of air conditioning and said in a voice: "Let me tell me slowly, what's going on?"

The soldiers of Daxi briefly described the situation of the fierce battle between the Daxi Army and the Central Army in five minutes this morning to Sun Kewang, and then gasped and said, "The musket team of the Ming Dynasty Central Army is so powerful. With just one bag of cigarettes, our army had already suffered four or five hundred casualties. If the general does not send troops to rescue him, the city of Xiangyang will be suspended!"

"I understand." Sun Kewang nodded and said in a calm voice, "You go back to Xiangyang first, I will send troops now."

"Thank you, General."

The soldiers of the Daxi Army kowtowed repeatedly and stood up and left the tent.

Watching the figure of the Great Western Army soldier go away, the captain of the personal soldiers said, "General, the villain is here to go and pass the order."

"Come back." Sun Kewang frowned, "Do you know what military orders should be issued?"

The captain of the personal soldiers said: "The General didn't say that he was sending troops to Xiangyang!"

"You know what a fool!" Sun Kewang groaned and cursed, "Didn't you hear that guy just said that the Ming Central Army killed and injured the second general four or five hundred elite soldiers in just one bag of cigarettes! The three thousand elite soldiers under the second general are all elite soldiers selected from one hundred. If you change to another camp army, the casualties will be even greater. How many troops can the Daxi Army have? Can it withstand such casualties?"

"This..." the captain of the personal soldiers scratched his head and said in confusion, "What does the general mean?"

"Go and send orders right away..." Sun Kewang said coldly, "The whole army retreats and returns to Qingtong Pass!"

"What?" asked the captain of the personal soldiers, "No matter how the second general?"

Sun Kewang said in a deep voice: "I have said that Xiangyang City is not so easy to capture unless it is a trap of the official army. Now it seems that this is indeed a trap of the official army. Li Dingguo did not observe the official army's treacherous plan for a while. It was his mistake to place 3,000 elite soldiers in danger, but I cannot make mistakes and bring the 80,000 main force of the Western Army into danger!"

The captain of the personal soldiers said: "But..."

"Nothing but." Sun Kewang said angrily, "Why don't you go and pass the order quickly!"

"yes!"

The captain of the personal soldiers shivered in excitement and took the order.

Xinye, Front Enemy Command.

In order to better grasp the battlefield situation and better command the operations of various departments of the Central Army, Liu Rushi has moved her front-line headquarters from Nanyang to Xinye.

In the lobby of the headquarters, Liu Rushi was surrounded by more than a dozen staff officers, and the sand table was filled with small flags of various colors. These colorful flags represent the locations of the Central Army, the Daxi Army and the Dashun Army, as well as the configuration of troops respectively.

Liu Rushi frowned slightly and was thinking about the problem. A sudden rush of footsteps outside the headquarters suddenly sounded. Then an officer hurried into the hall, saluted Liu Rushi, and said loudly: "Report to the commander, the reconnaissance brigade returns that the Daxi Army advancing east along the south bank of the Han River had advanced to Yangpi Beach last night."

Liu Rushi nodded gently and personally inserted a small black flag to the location of Yangsie Beach.

A staff officer frowned and asked, "The Great Western Army had already arrived at Yangpi Beach last night. It's almost noon now. Are there any movements in the Great Western Army?"

"No." The officer responded, "The reconnaissance brigade sent people to closely monitor the situation, and the Western Army did not move any abnormalities."

Liu Rushi said: "Continue to monitor."

"yes."

The officer saluted Liu Rushi again and turned around.

The officer had just left, and Liu Qingyan hurried into the hall again, winked at Liu Rushi. Liu Rushi's beautiful eyebrows couldn't help but frowned slightly, and walked to the side and asked in a low voice, "Sister Qingyan, what happened?"

Liu Qingyan looked around and was sure that the staff in the headquarters were busy with their own affairs. No one noticed her and Liu Rushi, and then she whispered: "Miss Rushi, something big happened."

Liu Rushi's heart thumped and asked in a voice: "What happened?"

Liu Qingyan said: "Last night, Xiangyang City was captured by the Daxi Rebels, and Huguang Governor He Tengjiao also became a prisoner of the Daxi Army!"

Liu Rushi was shocked and almost burst into screams!

After taking a few breaths of air conditioning, Liu Rushi forced himself to calm down and asked in a voice: "Xiangyang City had fallen last night. Why did you only know now that sister? After Xiangyang City fell, someone in the city's security team should have escaped. Why not send a message to the Central Army?"

"Don't mention it." Liu Qingyan smiled bitterly, "The intelligence personnel at the entrance of the Shengjiao Xiangyang Hall were working in the office of He Tengjiao's temporary governor, and were taken away by the Daxi rebels. This sister had just known about it, and the security team that broke through and fled also sent someone to send a message, but they went to Nanyang first and then returned to Xinye, so they had just arrived."

Liu Rushi winked at Liu Qingyan, and the two of them entered the inner hall one after another.

After closing the door first, Liu Rushi said: "Aren't the Daxi rebels still at Yangpi Beach? Yangpi Beach is at least two hundred miles away from Xiangyang. So which rebels attacked Xiangyang last night? And where did this rebels emerge? How did they hide it from our spies?"

Liu Qingyan said: "Nothing else is certain. What is certain now is that the Daxi rebels who attacked Xiangyang last night were the ones who surprisely attacked Xiangyang."

"Damn it." Liu Rushi frowned and stroked his forehead, "Where did this Daxi rebel army emerge? Since Xiangyang has been lost, the main force of the Daxi rebel army stationed in Yangpitan will definitely advance eastward after hearing the news, and arrive in Xiangyang in the shortest time to meet the rebel army..."

After saying this, Liu Rushi suddenly remembered something again, and his originally rosy pink face immediately lost its blood.

Liu Qingyan was surprised and asked with concern: "What's wrong with you, Rushi girl? Are you feeling uncomfortable?"

"No, little sister is nothing." Liu Rushi shook his head, looked back at Liu Qingyan with inexplicable eyes, and whispered, "Sister Yan, by time, the three musket battalions of Zheng Chenggong, Li Chengdong and Liu Konghe should have arrived outside Xiangyang City this morning. Since Xiangyang has been lost, they cannot not know, but it is almost noon now, but they have not heard any news yet. Could something have happened?"

"No?" Liu Qingyan said sternly, "Zheng Chenggong, the three musket battalions taken by Li Chengdong and Liu Konghe are the main forces of the Central Army. The officers at all levels in the battalion are veterans of the war brought by the Marquis from Datong. Even if there are hundreds of thousands of rebels in the Daxi who attacked Xiangyang, it is probably not that easy to swallow these three musket battalions, right?"

"Report!"

As Liu Qingyan finished speaking, a loud voice suddenly sounded outside the door.

Liu Rushi corrected his face and said in a deep voice: "Come in."

The closed hall door opened, and an officer walked in straight, saluted Liu Rushi and Liu Qingyan with a loud salute, and said, "Report to the commander, Xiangyang urgently handed over!"

"Xiangyang urgent delivery!?"

Liu Rushi's heart was finally settled. As long as Zheng Chenggong, Li Chengdong, Liu Kong and them had news back, it would mean that nothing happened to them. As long as there was nothing happening to these three main musket battalions, Liu Rushi felt confident and shouted loudly with his hands on his back, "Ignore!"

The officer unveiled a letter and said loudly: "The army has arrived, and the rebels in Daxi have been trapped in Xiangyang. The whereabouts of He Tengjiao, the governor of Huguang, are unknown. The rebels' strength is unknown. The general is unknown. I originally wanted to recover Xiangyang and report to the headquarters again. However, after a fierce battle in the morning, our army was defeated, twenty-nine people were killed and sixty-seven were seriously injured. He bowed down and begged for crimes, Li Chengdong, Zheng Chenggong, and Liu Konghe."

"knew."

Liu Rushi waved his hand and the officer turned around and left.

Liu Qingyan said relievedly: "No wonder Li Chengdong, Zheng Chenggong and Liu Konghe have only sent an urgent delivery now. It turns out that they planned to recover Xiangyang first and then report it together. Unfortunately, they underestimated the Daxi rebels who attacked Xiangyang. Unexpectedly, the invincible Central Army suffered a big loss under the city of Xiangyang!"

Liu Rushi shook his head and said in a narrow voice: "Twenty-nine people were killed and sixty-seven people were seriously injured. This is a great loss for the Central Army. You must know that when the Marquis was leading the troops, he had never suffered such a big loss even when facing the frontal assault of the Jiannu Iron Cavalry. If the Marquis knew about this, I still don't know what he would think."

Liu Qingyan said: "It seems that the group of Daxi rebels who attacked Xiangyang are not good at it."

Liu Rushi said: "The current situation is very difficult. If the main force of the Daxi rebels in Yangpitan advances eastward to meet with the group of Daxi rebels in Xiangyang City, it will be difficult to recover Xiangyang in a short period of time! Unless the cannon battalion can be pulled up, unfortunately, the ammunition of the cannon battalion has not been replenished yet and there is no attack power at all."

Liu Qingyan said: "If we cannot recover Xiangyang in a short time and regain the military city supplies accumulated in the inner town of Xiangyang City, the soldiers of the Central Army stationed in Hexun County in Qingtong Pass would be hungry!"

"It's not just that." Liu Rushi sighed and said in a faint voice, "Before leaving, the marquis repeatedly reminded her to keep the enemy outside the 'national gate' and never let the war burn into the hinterland of Huguang. But now the war has burned into Xiangyang. After the Daxi rebels entered the city, the people in Xiangyang City still don't know what kind of military disaster they will suffer, alas..."

Liu Qingyan advised: "It's useless to blame yourself for being Rushi, sister. Even if the Marquis is here, he would never have thought that a rebel army in Daxi would suddenly emerge from Xiangyang without knowing it... Hey, sister Rushi, where did you think this rebel army emerge?"

Liu Rushi smiled bitterly and said, "Maybe we should really ask the Marquis. When the Marquis led his troops to attack Shengjing and Sanbulachuan, Jiannu and the Tartars must have had the same confusion as we are now: Where did this Ming army emerge? How did they hide it from our army's spies?"

"Hiss..." Liu Qingyan took a breath of air conditioning and said in a calm voice, "Rushi girl, do you mean that the chief general and the marquis of this rebel army are the same type of people? Are they good at surprise attacks?"

"This..." Liu Rushi was startled when he heard this, and then an inexplicable look passed in his beautiful eyes and said anxiously, "Surprise attack!? I understand, my sister understands! The rebels' forces will not be too much. They did not suddenly emerge from the underground. They were catching small passes. Our eyeliners are mostly scattered on the official roads. No wonder they can't be found!"

Liu Qingyan suddenly said, "That is to say, this is just a small group of rebels?"

"Yes, it must be like this!" Liu Rushi said with certainty, "This must be a small rebel army. If an army has too many people, it will be difficult to hide its traces. Therefore, the number of troops in this group of rebels is only two or three thousand, and it may even be only about a thousand. Didn't the Marquis succeed in attacking Shengjing with more than a thousand elite soldiers?"

After saying this, Liu Rushi suddenly looked back and shouted in a sweet voice: "Come here!"

The commander from the headquarters had already come in and saluted: "What commander has he ordered?"

Liu Rushi said in a narrow voice: "Immediately send an order to Li Chengdong, Zheng Chenggong and Liu Konghe, and ordered them to lead their troops to launch a full-scale attack on Xiangyang City. At all costs, they must regain the city before dark, otherwise military law will be dealt with!"

"yes!"

The staff officer agreed.

"And..." The staff officer turned around and wanted to leave, but was called by Liu Rushi again. "I sent another order to Junzhou, and ordered Hongniangzi to lead the first battalion of the Central Army's cavalry and the second battalion to advance east along the north bank of the Han River, and crossed the Han River to the Guanghua area, preparing to intercept the main force of the Daxi rebels who might advance eastward."

"yes!"
Chapter completed!