Chapter 880
"Your Majesty, the Jiannu army has left the camp and seems to have plans to attack other castles." During this period, Li You also found out the whereabouts of Guanning Army and Jiannu. The places where they set up camps were not far apart, forming a horn. No matter whether they attacked any of their camps, they would be exposed to the attack of the other side. Therefore, Li You did not act rashly, but sent someone to monitor their movements. The matter of Guanning Army providing food and grass to Jiannu also completely fell into his eyes. He would settle the accounts with Zu Dashou and others after winning this battle.
"Oh? They dare not attack Ningyuan City, so they go to harass other castles?" The defense line of Ningyuan Jinzhou is not only these two cities, but also various fortresses of different sizes. Logically speaking, these fortresses should have sufficient food, gunpowder and bullets, as well as large troops to guard them, but now these have been taken away by the Guanning Army.
"This is to lure us to attack." Lu Xiangsheng quickly guessed Jiannu's plan. They wanted to lure the defenders in the city out of the city and introduce them to an ambush site that was beneficial to them, and then gather and annihilate them.
"If they stayed in the camp, we might not be able to deal with it, but since we were out, we wouldn't think about going back." With the strength of Jiannu, we can't bring all the cannons weighing thousands of pounds when we go to war. The same is true for the Guanning Army. This will be equivalent to weakening the greatest threat to the Song army and the new army. Li You have absolute confidence to defeat them, "Transfer my will, gather all the troops, and prepare to go out of the city to completely solve these Jiannu."
Jiannu and the Ming army had been fighting for many years, and seemed to have taken their attack. The Ming army's defense was a habit of thinking. In fact, it was considered this model under Zunhua City. I'm afraid it would be difficult for them to imagine that the Ming army would take the initiative to attack and seek field battles with them, right? Now the Song army and the Xin army under Li You are very different from the Ming army before. They have enough strength to defeat Jiannu's army in the wild.
"I am willing to be the pioneer at the end!" As soon as this statement came out, Lu Xiangsheng, Cao Wenzhao and others asked for his orders, but they did not have the timid intention of fighting as other Ming troops. Instead, they regarded it as a good opportunity to make achievements.
"Don't worry, wait until you find out the truth of the enemy." Now, from the news coming, I only know that Jiannu sent an army of more than 10,000 people to attack a certain fortress, but who was the general and the troops under his command, the other Jiannu army and what the Ning army were, the dynamics of the Ning army were still unclear, so it is not advisable to make arrangements early.
The reconnaissance cavalry scattered everywhere, as well as the spies hidden in Jiannu and Guanning Army of Li You, will soon find out the information clearly, and it will not be too late to arrange a plan to fight at that time.
These people did not disappoint Li You, and soon found out the news that Li You needed. The 10,000 troops were led by Yue Tuo, and most of them were old, weak, sick and disabled. There were very few white-armored soldiers. It was clearly the bait thrown by Huang Taiji. Huang Taiji led a large group of people to follow him. Once the Ming army and Yue Tuo fought, he would come out from the rear.
As for the Guanning Army, they also came out of the camp. Zu Dashou hid on the flank with the Guanning Iron Cavalry who was loyal to him, and planned to come out to get a bargain when Li You's army and Huang Taiji were both injured. However, they had a good plan, but Li You would never let him get what he wanted. Zu Dashou and others were destined to be disappointed.
After this period of rectification and investigation, most of the Guanning Army's detailed work was found, and the local people's armor was completed. There was no need to arrange a large number of soldiers to guard the city. Therefore, after obtaining the exact news, Li You led all the troops who could fight out of the city to go north.
Lu Xiangsheng received the important task of the pioneer as he wished, but the target of his attack was not the old, weak, sick and disabled led by Yue Tuo, but the Jiannu's formation led by Huang Taiji himself. Tens of thousands of troops wearing cotton coats and coats of armor slowly drove out of the city and then disappeared into the wilderness. They would use Liaodong as the battlefield to launch a desperate battle with Jiannu and the rebellious Guanning army.
"The emperor of Ming Dynasty has finally left the city." Huang Taiji also received this mixed news. He was happy that even though they didn't have to attack the strong Ningyuan City, they could use their advantage in field battles, while he was worried that this battle did not take place as he expected. Moreover, judging from the last Zunhua battle, the army led by Li You did not seem to be much inferior to them in field battles. The Guanning Army, who was sitting on the side watching the tiger fight, added many variables to the result of this battle.
"Khan, I am willing to lead my troops to take the imperial ranks of the Ming Emperor." Last time, Ajige, who thought that he had missed the battle of Zunhua by Huang Taiji, did not see the strength of Li You's army, so he felt less afraid. He still looked at this enemy army with his old thinking, so he asked for battle with confidence.
Huang Taiji wanted to refuse at first, but then he thought that the strength of Ajige, Dodo, Dorgon and others would even threaten his Khan position, and this battle was destined to be severely damaged. So it seemed a good idea to let Ajige fight, so he nodded and responded.
Looking at the excited Ajige, Dorgon, who was standing by, opened his mouth, but he didn't say anything after all, because someone always had to take on this task. If Ajige didn't go, it might be his turn, so it would be better not to speak for the time being.
On the fertile soil of Liaodong, three armies of more than 50,000 people gradually gathered together. As the distance approached, the three troops slowed down and were ready to attack at any time.
Li You set up camp at the location that had been surveyed in advance and rested for a night. Early the next morning, he personally led the army to slowly push towards the Jiannu camp ahead. Lu Xiangsheng rushed to the front with one horse, and behind him was a mixed army composed of five thousand Song troops and five thousand new troops.
On Jiannu's side, Nurhaci's twelfth son Ajige also led the bannermen with the Bayala soldiers as the core to welcome them. Both sides were fighting drums and cheering for their own army, hoping that their army could defeat their enemies and get a good start.
Lu Xiangsheng held a big sword weighing dozens of pounds, dancing like a wheel. I am afraid that anyone who sees this scene will not believe that this person is actually a scholar who has passed the Jinshi exam, right?
Chapter completed!