Chapter 501 Ming Gong's good plan
June 18th, Dongdu battlefield.
The alliance army began to plunder Nanguo in the early morning. Li Fengyun had a clear goal and only robbed Fengcheng City and Datong City. It was not allowed to burn, kill and loot in other places. If there were any offenders, they would be killed without mercy. In this case, the soldiers of the alliance were all "professional" and had a "golden mountain" in front of him. Who would still compete for "small profits"? Even without Li Fengyun's orders, the soldiers of the alliance would not rob them randomly, let alone kill innocent people. That was all despicable robbery. Now the alliance is raising the "righteous" flag, so it is a major event of "robbing the rich and helping the poor". It is a benevolent and righteous teacher. How can they do anything wrong?
The alliance army occupied the major city gates of Nanguo at the fastest speed. Li Fengyun ordered that the Song Yu Yi army of the Han Prime Minister would not be allowed to enter the city to prevent the robbery and blood from flowing into a river; he would not be allowed to enter the city to prevent the city from being controlled by Yang Xuangan; at the same time, the people in the city would not be allowed to escape in scattered areas, worrying that they would collapse due to excessive fear. The consequences can be imagined.
After dawn, the Prime Minister of Han found Li Fengyun, and was furious, accusing Li Fengyun of betrayal and dominating Nanguo, taking over the spoils of war, and demanding that Li Fengyun immediately open the city gate and let his army enter the city to rob.
Li Fengyun refused, without even saying the reason for rejection, and gave Han Prime Minister two choices. Either you and I turned against each other and fought hard. With the strength of the alliance, it was enough to defeat the Song Yu Yi army and eat nothing left. Or you and I continued to cooperate, listen to me, I robbed it in the city, and you moved to my camp, but not "moved" to your camp, but as our common spoil, "moved" to Xingyang. You and your 100,000 troops took this opportunity to leave the battlefield of Dongdu, and the troops were on the river, and prepared to cross the river.
Prime Minister Han suddenly calmed down. Li Fengyun said it clearly enough that he was leaving. After this robbery, the alliance had already made a lot of money on the battlefield of Dongdu. If he didn't leave at this time, when would he stay? Will Li Fengyun keep his promise and work with Yang Xuangan sincerely to help Yang Xuangan enter Guanzhong? Go dreaming, Li Fengyun didn't have that idea at all. He has been deceived by Yang Xuangan.
"Are you going to withdraw?" asked Han Xiangguo.
"You have another choice." Li Fengyun looked at him contemptuously, not despising to answer this childish question at all, "You go and follow Yang Xuangan and follow Yang Xuangan to Guanzhong, and maybe you can still be granted a marquis and prime minister in the future."
Han Xiangguo sneered and turned a deaf ear to Li Fengyun's teasing, "I have my own choice, and I can take my army south to Yuzhou."
Li Fengyun smiled, "Are you confident that you can persist under the all-round encirclement of the Guardian Army?"
"Do you have confidence?" Han Prime Minister asked angrily, "What is the difference between someone going south to Yuzhou and crossing the river and going north?"
"Of course there is a difference." Li Fengyun smiled, "You go south to Yuzhou alone, alone and helpless, and you will definitely die. When you cross Hebei, there are various rebels from Hebei to respond everywhere, and some alliance brothers open up the road to the north for you to go north. There is hope everywhere, and it is hard to die."
"Crossing the river north?" Han Xiangguo sneered, "Do you think the Yue Guild let you leave Dongdu with a swagger?"
"Who said that I was leaving Dongdu?" Li Fengyun pointed to Han Xiangguo and smiled even more vigorously. "You are leaving Dongdu, taking advantage of the Xijing army that has not arrived yet, and the rescue officers from all directions have not yet come from all directions. Before the situation in Dongdu is completely out of control, you will take our spoils and your 100,000 troops to Xingyang quickly and evacuate the Dongdu battlefield first."
"Xingyang?" Han Prime Minister immediately woke up and realized that this was the retreat plan made by Li Fengyun. He misunderstood Li Fengyun. Not only did Li Fengyun not take away the spoils, he also tried every means to use this opportunity to withdraw himself and Song Yu Yijun from the Eastern Capital first. Li Fengyun never mentioned the "retreat" before, of course, it was to keep it confidential, so as not to interfere with Yang Xuangan and increase the difficulty of the alliance robbing the Eastern Capital.
The Prime Minister Han blushed and was quite embarrassed, bowed to Li Fengyun and apologized, "Please give me advice?"
Li Fengyun waved his hand disapprovingly, "You must make a choice."
"I heard from Ming Gong." The Prime Minister of Han no longer hesitated and made a decisive decision.
It is obvious that Li Fengyun's retreat was guaranteed. After arriving in Xingyang, if he could not cross the river north, he could still fight back to Qilu. In short, he was far away from the capital and could escape the pursuit of the Wei army from all sides. The chance of persisting was very high. He returned to Yuzhou alone and continued to struggle on the front line of Tongji Canal. The chance of survival was too small. He could not use this inferior strategy until he had to. Besides, Xingyang is upstream of Tongji Canal, close to Songzhou and Yuzhou. Once things were not done, he could escape nearby, so it was not too late to make the final choice when he arrived in Xingyang.
As for following Yang Xuangan, the Prime Minister of Han no longer considered it. Although Li Fengyun inferred that Yang Xuangan had a "backhand" in Guanzhong, the possibility of entering Guanzhong was still very high, but strength was always fundamental. Without strength, he could only be slaughtered. Yang Xuangan has too many powerful people around him, and he is an ant-like existence. Even if he was not "sacrificed" by Yang Xuangan, he would not have a chance to make a name for himself in the future. Instead of being a servant of Yang Xuangan and being in danger all day long, it would be better to be brothers with Li Fengyun. After all, he was a hero and brave. If he could get along, he would go his ways. He had great autonomy and was just right.
"You must now go to Xingyang as quickly as possible." Li Fengyun said, "If you fail to seize Jindi Pass before the Donglai Navy blocked the Dahe Waterway and tear a breakout gap on the defense line of the heavenly chasm, our retreat path to the north or east will be completely cut off, and we can only go south in the end, and going south is just a stalemate, and the entire army will be wiped out by the encirclement and blockade of the Guardian Army."
The Prime Minister of Han was puzzled, "The alliance army is on the white horse, very close to Xingyang. With their support, we are still afraid that we will not be able to break the siege?"
"They have evacuated the white horse and crossed the river to the north." Li Fengyun said calmly, "If nothing unexpected happens, the King of Qi has controlled Li Yang and the White Horse. Therefore, although we have lost the support of the alliance army, we still have a chance to escape because of the tacit understanding with the King of Qi. If we want to seize this opportunity, we can only rely on ourselves."
Han Xiangguo was surprised, "Have you crossed the river? Going north? Have your troops evacuated early? Did they abandon you?"
Li Fengyun shook his hand and said with a smile, "The reason why he entered the Eastern Capital was to help the alliance go north. This is an established strategy. This sudden change and response strategy is also as we expected."
"Your solution is to seize Jindi Pass?" Han Xiangguo looked at Li Fengyun in disbelief and asked, "Are you sure to break through Hulao Pass, Xingyang City, Tongji Canal, and break through many obstacles?"
"I wasn't sure before." Li Fengyun smiled, "but now I'm sure."
Han Xiangguo knew it very well, "Is it because of Han Shiye and Gu Jue? In this way, Yue Gong accidentally helped you."
"Mr. Yue did not help someone by accident, but wanted to cut off someone's retreat, forcing someone to burn his boats and join forces with him to fight against the Xijing army." Li Fengyun shook his hand and sneered, "Don't you really think that Yang Xuangan attacked Xingyang to welcome the King of Qi into the capital, right?"
Han Xiangguo understood it. He did think so before, but after Li Fengyun told him that Yang Xuangan was going to enter Guanzhong, he knew that this was a trick to confuse the enemy, which could confuse the opponent and make wrong judgments and make wrong decisions to promote the situation in a direction that was beneficial to Yang Xuangan. However, what he was negligent was that this move actually had the effect of blocking Li Fengyun's retreat.
"The sudden change in the situation in Liyang is not only beyond my expectations, but also beyond my expectations." Li Fengyun briefly introduced the rapid changes in the situation in Liyang, and even the secrets behind the sudden changes in Liyang were told the truth. "But because of this, Yang Xuangan was even more worried that a certain person would flee the battlefield of Dongdu and need to capture Xingyang and cut off a certain person's retreat. In addition, the King of Qi lost control of the situation in Liyang due to the outbreak of internal conflicts. Various rescue troops, even the army under the King of Qi, could kill Dongdu as quickly as possible. Therefore, he not only could not change or adjust the strategy of attacking Xingyang, but instead had to implement this strategy more resolutely, speed up the attack speed, and seize Xingyang before various reinforcements to cut off the route of various reinforcements from Xingyang or through Tongji Canal to rescue Dongdu."
The Prime Minister Han looked solemn and his emotions were fluctuating. He was shocked by the secrets revealed by Li Fengyun. He never expected that Li Fengyun, Yang Xuangan and King Qi had such a complicated relationship, which was far beyond his imagination and had a deeper understanding of the storm. It was precisely because of this that his idea of escaping from the battlefield in Dongdu became even stronger.
"According to a certain inference, Han Shiyan and Gu Jue could take down Hulao and capture Xingyang City, but they would not cross the Tongji Canal, nor would they attack Jindi Pass, because after they took down Hulao and Xingyang, they had already completed the intended attack target and would not fight again. If they continued to fight, they would tell King Xun (Yang Qing) that they would tear open the defense line of the capital and welcome King Qi to enter the capital. This touched King Xun's bottom line. King Xun would definitely do his best to counterattack and defend Jindi Pass at any cost."
The face of the Korean Prime Minister changed slightly. In this way, wouldn’t he be stubbornly blocked by the Wei army on the front lines of Tongjiqu and Jindiguan?
"You are the thief commander, your subordinates are a group of mobs. You have robbed Dongdu and have achieved your goal and are about to escape. But Yang Xuangan does not give you the chance to escape and insists on forcing you to attack Xingyang. So when you cross the Tongji Canal and the troops are at the Jindi Pass, how will King Xun (Yang Qing) deal with it?"
"Of course, it is surrounded and annihilated." Han Prime Minister was frightened and couldn't help but shout, "There is a natural chasm in front and a large canal in the back. There is no way to go to the sky and no door to the ground. I dig my own grave."
Li Fengyun smiled, "In this way, King Xun wants to underestimate the enemy."
The Prime Minister Han was stunned for a moment, then woke up and slapped the table, "Ming Gong is a good plan."
Chapter completed!