Unparalleled Concubine

   Chapter 523 Moves and Dismantles

   The Chinese New Year is getting closer.

   At this time, the situation in the southwest has been tense for more than a year, and it is becoming more and more tense, but this tension does not affect the people of Jincheng to welcome the upcoming New Year.

   This is normal.

   From ancient times to the present, as long as the descendants of Zhuxia are still alive, no matter how difficult it is, it will not affect everyone's celebration of the New Year. Moreover, the current situation in Jincheng is very optimistic, and the situation in the southwest has not affected it much.

If there is any impact, it is that the price of food has risen a lot during this period, but the price of food in Jincheng is far less than that in other places in the southwest. The price of grain in the city has barely doubled, unlike in Fu County, where it has more than doubled.

  Jincheng, as the center of the southwest, is also the capital of the former Nanshu. Compared with other places, it is much richer here. Although the rise in food prices has affected them for the New Year, it will not be too difficult.

   However, on the 11th day of the twelfth lunar month, when there were less than 20 days before the Chinese New Year, an urgent report was sent to General Pingnan's Mansion and delivered to Li Shen.

  The content of the military newspaper is very simple.

  The imperial army in Fucheng started to attack Mianzhu on the tenth day of the twelfth lunar month.

   When Li Shen received this urgent report, he did not panic, but frowned and thought.

   Because he was not sure what Li Xin meant by this.

No matter how bad Mianzhu is, there are 10,000 troops stationed there. Compared with Fucheng, Mianzhu is still a big city. A city of this size cannot be taken down in a short time. If Mianzhu is well defended, It's not a problem at all to hold back an army that is several times its size.

And now the man stationed in Mianzhu is Li Chuan, the deputy general of the Pingnan Army. This person is responsible for the defense of the entire southwest. He may not be very good at offense, but he is very good at how to defend. Li Xin will want to take Mianzhu for a while. Basically impossible.

General    Zhuguo held this urgent report and frowned.

   The most terrifying thing about leading an army to fight is not how fierce the opponent's troops are, or how big the disparity in strength between the two sides is. The most terrifying thing is that you can't grasp the mind of the enemy's main general, and you don't know what he is going to do.

   Now Li Shen doesn't understand what Li Xin is going to do. His attack on Mianzhu at this time is meaningless to Li Shen.

The one who came to report the news was a captain of the Mianzhu defending army. He was quite anxious at this time, and he half-knelt on the ground and kowtowed: "General, the first wave of these imperial troops' offensive was about 5,000 people, and they had an offensive attitude. Very resolute, Lieutenant General Li was worried about Mianzhu's loss, so he asked Jincheng to ask for help!"

  Li Shen put the emergency report into his sleeve, and slowly lowered his eyebrows: "This will know, you go back to Mianzhu first, Jincheng will send troops to support Mianzhu later."

   The captain was overjoyed when he heard the words, and said solemnly, "The last commander will obey!"

   After he withdrew, Li Shen opened up the letter asking for help, and after an unknown amount of time, the general Zhu Guo said solemnly to the guard at the door, "Go and call Cheng Ping over."

   Someone at the door immediately agreed.

"Yes!"

   Not long after, Vice-General Cheng Ping Cheng, who was a bit short and stout, walked into Li Shen's room and slowly lowered his head: "Cheng Ping, the last general, I have seen the general."

   "The imperial court is concentrating its forces to attack Mianzhu. Mianzhu is the most important acropolis in Jincheng, and it must not be lost."

   Having said that, Li Shen paused and continued.

   "You are now ordering 10,000 people to support Mianzhu."

Fatty Cheng was originally from the main war faction. He was overjoyed when he heard the words. He looked up at Li Shen and said, "General, the last commander will invite 20,000 people. If only 20,000 people are needed, the last commander will definitely help the general to dismantle these imperial troops. , thoroughly clean it out, and let the southwest hinterland return to peace!"

   Li Shen glanced at Fatty Cheng lightly.

   "The general said that he wanted you to help Li Chuan defend the city, not to let you attack."

   The General Zhuguo's tone was calm, but his voice was loud.

   Fatty Cheng lowered his head and said, "General, you can't just wait for them to fight Mianzhu, right?"

   "The imperial army in Fucheng has at least 20,000 people."

Li Shen muttered: "These 20,000 people are the imperial imperial army who are trained every day. They are the army brought out by Pei Jin and Pei Saburo. They are not inferior to the Pingnan Army. Ten thousand people, can you guarantee to eat the imperial imperial army?"

   "You can promise, Ben will give you someone right away."

In terms of personal treatment, the Imperial Guard near Gyeonggi is the best of all the armies in the entire Jin Dynasty, and they should also have the most training, especially in the past ten years, who is the head of the Imperial Guard. The so-called iron-faced Pei Saburo, so the military quality of these banned troops is very strong, and they are definitely not young masters.

  Although they have some less combat experience than the frontier army, it is basically impossible to use 20,000 to 30,000 ping southern army to eat 20,000 forbidden troops.

   What's more, there may be more than 20,000 troops in Fucheng.

  Cheng Ping dripped sweat on his forehead.

   After a while, this Fatty Cheng finally confessed, he lowered his head and said, "The last general will prepare now. In any case, he will definitely help Lieutenant General Li to defend Mianzhu."

   "You don't have to keep it."

Li Shen said indifferently: "If you can't support it in Mianzhu, and you are about to fall, remember to send a letter to Jincheng. At that time, you will have all the troops of Jincheng and be separated from the army of the imperial court. high and low."

   It is very simple. Once Mianzhu falls, Jincheng is like a young girl who has been stripped of her clothes. At that time, Jincheng had no choice but to do her best to fight against the army of the imperial court.

   At that time, it was a matter of life and death.

   Fatty Cheng wiped his sweat again, lowered his head and said, "General, the last general will go down to prepare."

  …

  Cheng Ping moved quickly.

   In the early morning of the second day, he ordered a full 10,000 people and prepared to bring them to support Mianzhu.

   Li Shen personally saw the fat general off, and told him clearly that in Mianzhu, unless there was a great opportunity, he would only defend and not attack.

   Fatty Cheng and his subordinates agreed with a bang, and 10,000 people left Jincheng in a mighty manner.

   In the face of Li Xin's bold move, General Zhu Guo thought hard and didn't understand what Li Xin was going to do, so he could only choose the most conservative response,

  The departure of 10,000 people did not weaken the power of Jincheng too much, so naturally there would be no tricks to tune the tiger away from the mountain, and it would not affect the status of Jincheng as impregnable.

  Pingnan Marquis stood on the tower of Jincheng and watched Cheng Ping leave.

   After Cheng Ping et al. walked away, the former general of Zhuguo slowly closed his eyes.

   He was thinking about the situation in the entire southwest and guessing what Li Xin was going to do.

   Just when the Great General of Zhuguo was thinking hard, a soldier who delivered the letter stumbled up to the tower and knelt directly in front of Li Shen, almost crying.

   "Great... Great General!"

   "Those survivors of Nanshu in Hanzhou City suddenly proposed to leave Hanzhou, and the brothers naturally disagreed. Those survivors of Nanshu began to openly take up arms and prepared to forcibly leave Hanzhou City!"

   The soldier stammered and said, "He... they still have a lot of people covered!"

  Whether it is a sword or a sword, there will not be too many problems in the folk circulation, but the armor is different.

   Anyone who hides armor and does not report it to the government will be dealt with as a treason after verification.

   And the meaning of this messenger is that those remnants of Nanshu have armor!

   Hearing this, General Zhuguo's breathing began to quicken.

   (end of this chapter)