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Chapter 743 Offense and Defense

Ding Haijun's sudden joining forces with the rest of the red-coated thieves was beyond everyone's expectations.

The more experienced the general, the more he can see the danger of the situation at hand.

The Kaifeng court of the Kingdom of Jin has a vast territory of thousands of miles from the north to the west, so it can form a situation of its own, and it is a rival to the court of the central capital, and Kaifeng Mansion in Nanjing is in the center and hub of the vast territory.However, Kaifeng Mansion is located in a flat area, which is easy to attack and difficult to defend.Moreover, the east side of Kaifeng Mansion is facing Shandong, and there is almost no depth at all.

For this reason, the Kaifeng court's response strategy was to support the generals of Hebei West Road and Xijing Province in the north, maintain a confrontation with the Ding Navy, and keep the remnants of the Red Coat Army in the east as a separation between the two.

Who would have thought that the remnants of the Red Coat Army would suddenly merge with Ding Haijun?
When the Red Coat Army was at its peak, didn't Kaifeng and Yidu work together to destroy it?Can the local thieves in the mountains have some morals?

This kind of military cooperation involving tens of thousands of people, the two must have deep trust and long-term cooperation.God knows how long this cooperation has been going on, and God knows how long these two families have kept this secret!

Since the two are in a cooperative relationship, it means that the Dinghai Navy has long put the Kaifeng court on the chopping block.They are just waiting for an opportunity.

And this opportunity...

The ridiculous thing is that this opportunity was also given by Dinghai early on.In Zhongdu, they managed Monan, changed emperors, and formed a hegemony. Copper coins, trying to show poverty to the outside world.

These situations fell into the eyes of the equally impoverished Kaifeng court, which created a time window for plundering southward as soon as possible.The Kaifeng imperial court seized this window, and a large number of soldiers of the thirteen captains directly under the Kaifeng imperial court went south. The surrounding areas of Kaifeng and even the Guide Mansion and Xuzhou in Shandong, which were facing Shandong, were weak in strength.

As a result, the rest of the Red Coat Army and Ding Haijun moved immediately.

That Guo Ning is worthy of being an evil tiger, he is good at lurking like an evil tiger, and when the evil tiger leaps and preys, the life of the prey is already in danger!

Now that Xuzhou has been lost, Danzhou, Caozhou and other places will not be able to keep it sooner or later, and they may be lost too.

In fact, the westernmost part of Caozhou is already bordering on Kaifeng Prefecture, but between Caozhou’s Dongming County and the former site of Dongming County, and between the former site of Dongming City and Chenqiao Town of Kaifeng Prefecture, there are all silt and yellow sand brought by the flooding of the Yellow River. Unless there are wings on the ribs, it will be difficult to climb over.

In this way, Guide Mansion is the most important stronghold to the east of Kaifeng Mansion, and it is also the only stronghold that can support the army to gather and continue to confront the Ding Navy!
Xuzhou has been lost, Guide Mansion cannot be lost no matter what...

The problem is, Guide Mansion has been lost!
This majestic city that the Kaifeng court relied on as a barrier to the east has been lost!
Wan Yanbi underestimated the enemy and rushed forward, eager to break the siege of Xuzhou, so he brought all the soldiers under his command to rescue early.As a result, the Ding Navy set up an ambush under the city of Xuzhou with the main force and wiped out Wan Yanbi's troops; while using a small number of elite soldiers to avoid the real and attack the false, they directly captured the Guide Mansion!

The only good thing right now is that the Dinghai Navy obviously captured the city with a small number of elite soldiers, and it intends to use the food and fodder hoarded by the Guide Mansion as a support for subsequent advances.So instead of setting fire or destroying the city, they made up a ridiculous story to delay the time and wait for the arrival of the rear troops.

This became the only chance that Wanyan Wuli and Naherun could grasp.

After Wan Yanbi escaped from the Xuzhou battlefield in time, he discovered that there was an accident at the checkpoint east of Guide Mansion on the way back, so he turned and headed straight for Haozhou, and thus bumped into Naherun's headquarters. An urgent dispatcher notified Wanyan Wuli.

It is no small matter that Guide Mansion changed hands.Once the news came out, the Kaifeng court didn't know what kind of shock it would be, so under Wan Yanbi's plea, the two families did not publicize it, but only hurriedly urged troops.

Right now, the troops of the two captains were able to arrive ahead of time, but the reinforcements of the Ding Navy did not.

This little time, maybe a day, maybe half a day, maybe an hour, maybe even less, is the chance to take back the return to De Mansion!
"be quick."

Wanyan Bi said in a deep voice: "It doesn't take an hour to prepare the ladders, just remove the fences in the camp and make ten or twenty. You don't need to wait for the two Chinese troops to arrive, just use the current strength to press on to the top of the city!" The soldiers and horses behind have arrived, don’t rest anymore, go directly to the city to fight! At this moment, no matter how many casualties there are, we must take back the Guide Mansion as soon as possible!”

Wanyan Wuli and Naherun looked at each other, knowing that this was a critical moment, they both nodded.

Wanyan Wuli said: "I have [-] Qingqi under my command, let them patrol eastward and send out a hundred miles, so as to be safe."

Nahe Herun said: "I have a team of elite soldiers who are good at climbing, let them climb first."

The plan of the three generals has been decided, the camps scattered outside the city of Guide Mansion are like disturbed ant nests, and the generals are rushing like an ant colony, lining up towards the city.

The soldiers of Dinghai, who were watching from the top of the city wall, rushed into the meeting hall: "My lord, the enemy army has already moved... the local grain shooting army we gathered on the top of the city wall did not know what happened, and they were a little restless."

Guo Ning waved his hand: "Just go and appease them, and let them watch obediently."

Xu Yu bowed in response, turned and left.

Peng Yibin opened his mouth, wanting to say a few more words, Guo Ning got up and stood in the middle of the hall, and stretched:
"Old Peng, I started too fast and my foundation is very shallow. I always have to win people's hearts and win the sincere admiration of my subordinates. And my subordinates are mostly out of recklessness. For them, just giving wealth , is not enough. Therefore, I am used to relying on my own courage and bravery to win people's hearts. I have to let the soldiers know that Guo Ning is not a symbol of superiority, but a robe who can fight side by side with them and go through life and death. This , you just need to get used to it slowly. As for the situation in front of you, it’s actually not dangerous..."

Right at this point, Ni Yi hurried over.

Holding a box of things in his hand, he said cheerfully: "Guo Gong, there is indeed the second hall, I found it."

Peng Yibin looked at the thing intently, it turned out to be a box of cinnabar.

Before Guo Ning returned to the desk, he dipped a pen in cinnabar and added a thick line on the map.This thick line is very long, starting from the direction of Dongpingfu, going straight to Liangshanbo, and then along the Nanqing River to Peixian County.

In Peixian County, there is Fengshui running through the main trunk and forks of the Yellow River, and the middle section of the waterway is the famous Daze.This stroke followed Fengshui and Daze, crossed the Yellow River to the west, and then followed the fork of the western section of the Yellow River all the way up to Guide Mansion.

"This is……"

Peng Yibin patted his forehead hard, knowing that he cared about it, but he was confused and forgot about a major event.

When he raised his head again, he relaxed and grinned: "This is Yin Chang's army! There are also the elite subordinates of Fang Guosan and Zhan Hui from Dongping Mansion! There is also Zhang Rong. Liangshanbo water thieves! They also arrived early?"

Yin Chang is also a senior general in the Red Coat Army, but he was recruited by the imperial court as early as the Taihe period and became the military jurisdiction of Binzhou. Later, he followed Li Quan to raise troops again, and was recruited by Guo Ning to betray Li Quan and win for himself. He took the official position of Jiedushi of Jinan Tiande Army.

As far as Yin Chang is concerned, it is natural that good birds choose trees to live in.The final choices of Liu Erzu and others were no different from his.But Peng Yibin obviously looked down on Yin Chang a bit, and he was an old boy when he opened his mouth and kept his mouth shut.

"It's them."

Guo Ning smiled slightly: "I am the Duke of the state, and even if I do great things, how can my subordinates dare to slack off? This army has also traveled a long way, and it passed through Yucheng last night. After I ordered it, I stopped and marched. We are currently preparing for battle in Meng Zhuze in the north of the city."

This force was arranged by Guo Ning and Liu Erzu when they jointly agreed to send troops.They met Guo Ning at Weishan five days ago and planned to attack Shanzhou.However, Monk Luo defeated Wan Yanbi's elite soldiers in the first battle, and Shanzhou and Caozhou had already become fishes and meat. When Guo Ning decided to go straight to Guide Mansion, he dispatched them and asked them to go directly to Guide along the waterway. government reinforcements.

The emphasis placed on water transport by the Ding Navy surpassed that of any regime of the time.When Monk Luo was in Shandong, he used the fleet to transport people.

This time they also joined the water thieves in Liangshanpo, and took out a variety of ships of no less than two hundred sizes. It's only seventy miles away.It only took two days for the soldiers to reach the outside of the city with oars, oars, sails and poles.

And once the reinforcements of the Golden Army started to attack the city, it gave this force a chance to kill with one blow.

Guo Ning patted the map and said with a smile: "Old Peng, I've been reading military books a lot these days, and there's a sentence I like very much."

"What?"

"He who is good at war will harm others but not harm others."

(End of this chapter)