Chapter 200 Sending troops, Ximen Qing’s combat plan

For more than ten days after being promoted to the Yanyun Jiedushi, Ximen Qing was very busy. He had to select soldiers, arrange food, grass, weapons, and gather generals to discuss the matter of placing troops.

For this reason, Ximen Qing recalled Gongsun Sheng and Zhu Wu to Bianliang. Ximen Qing took out a carefully prepared map and placed it in front of the two, hoping that the two of them could learn more and come up with a better plan to arrange troops.

Gongsun Sheng and Zhu Wu were also a little excited. Although Gongsun Sheng was a Taoist priest, Gongsun Sheng, who had just debuted, was also a passionate young man who roared when he saw unfairness. His debut was to go to Dongxi Village and actively sought Chao Gai to make a birthday gift together. Compared with the three Ruan Heroes, Wu Yong needed to visit him, and his words were inspired to come out of the mountain, and he was more independent. His appearance was also shining and eye-catching, similar to Wang Xifeng's appearance in "Dream of Red Mansions". Before he met, he heard his voice first.

After the incident of the birthday gift, Gongsun Sheng, Chao Gai and others fought hard to kill the retreating army and fled to Liangshanpo. Huo Gang Wang Lun, Chao Gai became the boss of Liangshanpo, and Gongsun Sheng also soared and became the third leader of Liangshanpo. In this series of activities, Gongsun Sheng was always proactive and devoted himself. What was he for? It was power. Isn’t half a lifetime of fighting for today?

Now there is a better way to become famous than the Seven Stars Gathering, and Gongsun Sheng is naturally very happy.

As for Zhu Wu, he is even an underrated character in Water Margin.

Liangshan actually has two military advisors, the main position - Zhiduoxing Wu Yong, and the deputy position - Shenji military advisor Zhu Wu. Zhiduoxing Wu Yong is a great military advisor of Liangshan. In fact, Zhu Wu's strategy is definitely not inferior to Wu Yong. What is better than Wu Yong is that he is also good at martial arts.

Zhu Wu can be regarded as both civil and military. In addition, his background cannot be underestimated, because he was born as a mountain king and was a great domineering place. In order to strengthen his strength and achieve the merger of the three mountains, Zhu Wu led his brothers to Liangshan.

The heroes of Liangshan’s great gatherings mainly come from three aspects. The first is the merger of the three mountains, namely the merger of the three forces of Liangshan, Qingfengshan and Shaohuashan; the second is that the idle people in society are famous for joining the mountain; the third is that they are forced to go up the mountain because of a crime.

After the gathering of Liangshan, Zhu Wu did not show off his mountains and did not show off, he rarely spoke, and rarely participated in decision-making on major events. When arranging his posts, Zhu Wu's title was "Counselor Military Affairs Leader", which means that Wu Yong was the official military advisor, Gongsun Sheng was the first deputy military advisor, and Zhu Wu was the second deputy military advisor. Positions like Zhu Wu were basically in name only.

The deputy position is extremely challenging in Liangshan and has a glory, but it is actually a "sad tears". In comparison, the deputy coach Lu Junyi did a frustrated and embarrassing job; the deputy military advisor Zhu Wu did it relaxed and freely. The reason is that Zhu Wu had the wisdom of understanding the workplace and the strategy of advancing and retreating appropriately.

In layman's terms, Zhu Wu has a high IQ and a higher EQ.

In terms of strategy, Zhu Wu is above Wu Yong.

When Song Jiang wanted to recruit people many times and couldn't find a way to seek the right person, Zhu Wu proposed to find the "good person" Su Taiwei. Su Taiwei helped, and the recruitment was successful. This shows that Zhu Wu is quite wise in identifying people. He and Su Taiwei were just one-on-one encounters. In theory, Song Jiang, Wu Yong and Su Taiwei had even had close contact, but did not realize that this person was a "noble man". Zhu Wu just looked at him from a distance and judged that Su was a good man.

After recruiting the people, the Liangshan Army worked for the court and fought south and north. Once they encountered the enemy's formation, Zhu Wu could always solve it easily, while Wu Yong became completely confused (pretending to understand without saying a word). The most typical example is when he was fighting Youzhou, he met the formation of Wuyan Yanshou, a young general of the Liao Kingdom. "Wuyan Yanshou, under his father's hands, learned the formation and knew the mystery." He successively formed the Taiyi Santa Clause and other formations. No matter how the formation changes, "Zhu Wu has already recognized it" and broke through the four formations in a row.

During the Liangshan period, Zhu Wu was content with his idle job, and he was not fighting or robbing. As a deputy, he was too eye-catching and enthusiastic about showing off, which was offside and generally had no good ending. Facts proved that Zhu Wu's strategy was very effective. Military advisor Wu paid great attention to his presence, not big, and had many methods. Lu Junyi, Xu Ning, Zhu Tong... These brave warriors have all experienced the methods of military advisors and expressed their conscience.

Zhu Wu's status in Liangshan is far worse than Wu Yong. One important reason is that he is too distant from his leadership.

So when he found that the war was finally about to start, Zhu Wu and Gongsun Sheng were a little excited and kept observing the large map on the table.

Ximen Qing continued to be busy with the task of dispatching troops.

Tong Guan led the most elite Western army to encircle and suppress Tian Hu. Only 50,000 Western army were left behind and continued to guard the northwest border.

If Ximen Qing wants to go to war, he must mobilize him among the 800,000 imperial guards.

It is said that it is an imperial guard. These people are basically composed of disaster victims, with a poor sense of belonging and a weak battle.

Fortunately, Ximen Qing planned to use five thousand great cavalry to stab the enemy in the back.

It doesn’t matter if the Song army is weak at all, as long as it can restrain the other party.

Gongsun Sheng was wearing bright silver armor and a cloak, constantly watching the map.

Zhu Wu was wearing a cotton coat and a scholar's scarf and was watching constantly.

The two looked very carefully and reached an agreement after a moment. "Report to the lord! We can seize the city in Yunzhou first and let the army use the ancient Great Wall to defend it.

"Then set out from the east, the army attacked Youzhou, surrounded Youzhou, and surrounded the site and attacked the aid."

As Gongsun Sheng said, Ximen Qing nodded in agreement. Although Yunzhou is difficult to fight, it is easy to defend after the fight. Then surrounded Youzhou and attracted the Liao army to come to rescue and kill them all.

This is a very common way of fighting in war.

Unless the other party gave up Youzhou, he would definitely come to save him, otherwise Youzhou would be taken down.

"Well! I agree with your ideas, so I will develop strategies around this.

After listening, Ximen Qing nodded in agreement.

"This Liao Kingdom is so strange. There are actually five capitals." After Gongsun Sheng said, Zhu Wu said curiously.

It seems that I have never heard of that a country can have so many capitals.

Seeing this, Ximen Qing smiled slightly.

Zhu Wu's words were not fake. Liao Kingdom was so boring, with five capitals.

They are: Shangjing Linhuang Prefecture, Zhongjing Dading Prefecture, Dongdu Liaoyang Prefecture, Yanzhou Xijin Prefecture, and Xijing Datong Prefecture.

Among them, Shangjing is the real capital.

Liaoyang Prefecture established the capital mainly to suppress the Jurchen tribes, in order to strengthen its rule and influence there.

Datong Prefecture was Yunzhou that the Song Dynasty always wanted, and was an important military center of the Liao Kingdom.

Because it is surrounded by ancient Great Wall and is close to Yanmen Pass, it has a very high military effect on both the Liao and the Song dynasties.

Therefore, the Liao Kingdom has been operating here for a long time and has set it up as one of its capitals.

As long as Yunzhou is captured, Youzhou will be at the edge of Ximen Qing.

Nanjing Xijin Prefecture is the Youzhou in the population of the Song Dynasty. Because of its flat terrain, it belongs to the important economic center of the Liao Kingdom. In addition, if the Song Dynasty wants to attack the Liao Kingdom, it must take down Youzhou in order to cross the Yanshan Mountains and the Great Wall and enter the territory of the Liao Kingdom in the north.

So the Liao Kingdom deployed heavy troops here, and was in the same area as Yunzhou.

Youzhou was an important source of the economy of the Liao Kingdom, so naturally he refused to let the Northern Song Dynasty take it away.

Therefore, the Song Dynasty always wanted sixteen states, but the Liao Kingdom was unwilling to give up even if it started a war.

The area of ​​the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun is equivalent to the current Goryeo Kingdom.

If Ximen Qing can take it down, he will have a place to establish himself. "The Liao people have a vast land and are sparsely populated, so he must strengthen his rule to have five exaggerated capitals."

With a slight smile, Ximen Qing immediately explained.

Asking the two to continue their research, Ximen Qing came to the Ministry of War and decided to take Zhang Shuye away.

This person has a good way of fighting and is one of the few people available at present. He hopes to be with him.

"General, please come in quickly!

Yang Jian was sitting in the warm room and cooking fire. After hearing that Ximen Qing had arrived, he hurriedly bowed to see him.

Ximen Qing is the second rank, and Yang Jian is the second rank, so he naturally has to perform the etiquette of a lower official.

"Sir Shangshu is so elegant and the tea must taste good."

Ximen Qing had never passed by the Ministry of War and looked at the old houses around him. The high-ranking official smiled.

The war is about to go to war, but Yang Jian is here to burn the fire, which is obviously inappropriate.

"Sir, I praised it. I just cooked the tea, but I didn't expect that the adult would arrive. Please have a cup of hot tea.

Yang Jian was afraid that Ximen Qing would cause trouble for him, so he smiled in a duck-sounding voice and hurriedly poured tea respectfully.

The high-ranking official didn't like the eunuch's voice very much and decided to leave early.

"Don't be busy drinking tea, are all the military supplies ready?"

War is a complicated matter and there are many things to prepare.

For example, crossing wall ladders, chariots and horses, etc.

There are also civilians, ox carts and donkey carts responsible for transporting materials. These are all subject to discussions between the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Revenue, and finally the appropriate quantity is produced.

"Your Majesty! Everyone in the lower lord is ready, just waiting for Taiwei Gao to stamp the seal.

Yang Jian did not dare to neglect Ximen Qing's affairs, and immediately nodded and bowed.

In his words, he pointed out that Gao Qiu was a little slow and seemed not very happy.

Hearing this, Ximen Qing's face turned slightly cold.

"I want to take it to the battlefield, do you have any objections?" Ximen Qing said loudly after suppressing Gao Qiu's matter.

He came here mainly to take Zhang Shuye away, and Gao Qiu ignored it. As long as he dared to delay, he would be unable to take it.

"Of course I have no objection, so I will take it away.

With Yang Jian's agreement, Ximen Qing quickly took Zhang Shuye away.

Unexpectedly, Zhang Shuye didn't expect that the boy would take him to the battle, and he felt a little nervous.

"Mr. Zhang, this time you are responsible for the dispatch and transportation of materials. You must not be careless. If you win this battle, I will ask you for me in front of the emperor."

Ximen Qing didn't talk nonsense, and he explained his thoughts when he walked on the road. It surprised Zhang Shuye when he heard this.

"The officials must do it well!

Zhang Shuye found that he had faced such a big challenge shortly after he took office, so he hurriedly said that there was no problem.

Although the risks are great, the chances are equally great.

If he could make achievements, he would definitely be valued by the court. After arranging the matter, Ximen Qing felt relieved. As expected, Gao Qiu was just procrastinating and did not dare to really cause trouble for Ximen Qing.

After one month of preparation, 150,000 imperial guards were assembled. This is a real 150,000 army, not the kind of army that Tong Guan earned a salary.

A large army of fifteen square formations stood in the open space by the Yellow River. Ximen Qing only saw the black heads, all over the mountains and fields.

These people were all poor people in the Song Dynasty.

Looking at the passionate bodies standing proudly in the cold wind, Ximen Qing was full of passion and fighting spirit.

Perhaps I knew it would be a tragic battle, the wind and snow were getting heavier and heavier, and the cold was biting.

However, after a month of preparation, all soldiers were given sufficient items to keep warm.
To be continued...