Turbulent Times Chapter 1475: Li Mi kills three birds with one stone

Wagang Mountain's main village, the lord of the eleven counties in the Central Plains, Li Mi, the leader of the Thirty-seventh Route Bandit Army, was extremely annoyed by Li Jing's method, because Li Jing's move completely disrupted his plan.

Facing the menacing 40,000 Far Eastern Army that came to the door, Li Mi, Xu Shiji and others discussed and decided that the overall strategic goal was to shrink the force, draw the enemy deep, and then find an opportunity to mobilize enough troops at the right place and at the right time. With an army of 200,000 to 300,000 troops, they besieged and killed 40,000 Far Eastern troops at the same time.

Although Li Mi is proud, he has a natural fear and deep jealousy towards Wang Junlin, and he is even more like an enemy to the Far Eastern Army, which has never been defeated once, even though the Far Eastern Army only came with 40,000 people.

No way, although Li Mi is the top hero in the world, he has suffered several big losses at the hands of Wang Junlin.

Four years ago, I rebelled with Yang Su once.

Secretly and in collusion with Yu Wenhuaji, the bandit army and officers and soldiers gathered more than 200,000 men to besiege and kill the 5,000 men led by Wang Junlin.

Which time is not more than less?

Which time is it that someone who is not Wang Junlin wins more with less?

So although Wang Junlin only sent 40,000 horses, Li Mi did not dare to underestimate him.

Because not mentioning the 40,000 violent bear battalion, just because Wang Junlin dared to send these 40,000 people over, this in itself shows that Wang Junlin has great confidence in these 40,000 people.

As for Wang Junlin's past history, Li Mi has studied it a long time ago. He even sent a large number of people to the place where Wang Junlin stayed in the northwest, where he first appeared, and when he was in Chang'an, especially in Fanyang County. for.

He collected a lot of information, conducted in-depth and careful research, and found that Wang Junlin's past was a miracle, with too many unreasonable things, too many unbelievable and unbelievable things. It gave Li Mi an unfathomable feeling.

As for the people around Wang Junlin, it's not that he hasn't investigated and studied. For example, Wang Junlin's mysterious junior sister Nie Xiaoyu, the result of his investigation is not to take it seriously. This is related to his natural contempt for women, so he thinks that Nie Xiaoyu It's just Wang Junlin's right-hand man. Everything on Snake Island, the training camp, and many things that are said to be caused by this woman are all instructed by Wang Junlin.

In short, Li Jing's small trick broke the strategic plan that Li Mi, Xu Shiji and others had discussed for many days, forcing them to renegotiate the plan.

On the contrary, Xu Shiji, although he is very familiar with Wang Junlin's fierce reputation, has never fought against Wang Junlin, nor has he fought against the Far Eastern Army. Ask for a battle with Li Mi, and he will lead 50,000 horses from our village to Huihui Baoxiong Camp with 40,000 horses.

Li Mi resolutely opposed Xu Shiji's invitation to fight, but this aroused Xu Shiji's dissatisfaction even more, especially because his fighting spirit was fermented day by day, which made this second person in the Tang army second only to Li Jing in history. I suffocated.

This is naturally what Li Mi is happy to see, and in fact it is also a very important link in the series of plans of the scheming Li Mi.

Because Li Mi knows very well that although he is good at strategy and winning people's hearts, he thinks he is also good at governing the people, but he knows that he is only half a bottle of water when it comes to training soldiers and fighting, at least a lot worse than Xu Shiji, so he has a good opinion of Xu Shiji. Xu Shiji relied on many things, especially when dealing with the 40,000 Far Eastern Army this time, whether he could annihilate the opponent or drive them out of the Central Plains mainly depended on Xu Shiji and the 80,000 Wagang Village inner camp he had trained and built.

However, considering that the inner battalion of the 80,000 Wagang Army is the real support of the Wagang Village and the capital to compete in the world in the future, Li Mi does not want to destroy the Stormy Bear Camp and cause the inner battalion to suffer too much loss.

So, his plan is to let the large and small cottage armies attached to Wagangzhai consume the Far East Army. For this reason, he specially called a meeting of all the bandit chiefs to unify their thinking, and even made up for the various cottages. Food, grass, ordnance and equipment, unfortunately, were taken care of by Li Jing

A small trick was shattered.

At this point, the troops in the outer battalion's cottages have lost their will to fight, so they can only change their plans.

"Mi Gong, although the Far Eastern Army is powerful, my Wagang Inner Battalion is not bad. The 80,000 Inner Battalion fought against the 40,000 Far East Army." Seeing that Li Mi's previous plan had failed, Xu Shiji came to ask for orders again.

Li Mi shook his head without hesitation and said: "The Far Eastern Army is invincible in field battles. It is said that when the Turkic army besieged Yang Guang in Yanmen City two years ago, Wang Junlin brought only 10,000 cavalry and defeated 20,000 cavalry in the field. Turkic cavalry, when the Turkic people were defeated and fled to the north, it is said that the Far Eastern Army chased them all the way and consumed all the Turkic Khan’s 40,000 wolf cavalry, so Maogong should not act rashly, otherwise even if the Far Eastern Army is defeated, Wagang’s inner camp will suffer heavy losses At that time, the cottage troops in the outer battalion may have different ideas and shake the foundation of my Wagang."

Xu Shiji wanted to say something more, but Li Mi said without doubt: "I plan to order all the troops not to go out to fight no matter how the Far East Army provokes them. If they want to attack the cottage, let them attack. I don't believe they will not consume it."

Xu Shiji sighed and said, "Mr. Mi, this will make others feel too angry."

Li Mi said with emotion: "Mr. Mao, you have never fought against Wang Junlin's army. Neither Wang Junlin nor his army can be treated with common sense. The Far East Army, otherwise we win and lose. Besides, there are more than 300,000 troops in our outer battalion, good and bad, and low combat power. I want to unify the army and hand it over to you for training. These idiots don't agree. , this time I just used the Far Eastern Army to beat them, and when they were hurt by the Far Eastern Army, Maogong led the inner camp to defeat the Far Eastern Army, which was tired of attacking the cottage and had a certain amount of consumption, just to highlight the power of the inner camp In the next step, I can use this to integrate foreign camps, which can be regarded as killing two birds with one stone."

Li Mi's chief shi Fang Yanzao interjected: "Mr. Mi, although the Wagang Army's outer battalion is not well trained, but now our inner battalion and outer battalion have more than 400,000 people. If Wang Junlin It’s nothing more than leading the Far East Army to come here. Now only a young general in his twenties is sent to lead 40,000 horses to attack. Calculated by one soldier, the ratio of seven or eight men to one of the invading Far East Army, I really don't understand why Mi Gong is so afraid of the incoming enemy."

Fang Yanzao told Li Mi that he couldn't get off the stage, and his face was a little embarrassed. This Fang Yanzao is a well-known talented person in the world. He is one of the group of talented people who believe that Li Mi is the true son of heaven. reuse.

But this person is a bit arrogant. In Wagang Village, apart from Li Mi, only Xu Maogong can catch his eyes. Others, including Zhai Rang, such as Cheng Yaojin and Shan Xiongxin, are in his eyes. It's just some recklessness.

Li Mi's embarrassment was only a momentary thing, and he soon returned to normal. He smiled and said: "Yan Zao doesn't know about King Qin An, but when facing the King of Poison, if he is a little careless, he will lose everything In the end, it is not easy for our Wagang village to accumulate up to now, if these family properties are destroyed, what will we use to compete in the world."

"Mr. Mi's words are justified, but the officials are not careful and thoughtful enough." Fang Yanzao knew that what he said just now was too much, so he didn't dare to say more on this matter. Spread rumors out of your mouth and disturb our army's morale, although Mi Gong already has a long-term plan to defeat the enemy in his mind, in order to prevent the alienation of the troops in the outer battalions and to arouse their fighting spirit, we should also think of an emergency method!"

Li Mi smiled and said, "Don't worry about Yanzao. The villages in the outer camp are short of food and grass. I have sent an order to receive rewards from the heads of soldiers of the Far East Army at Wagang Village. Each head of the Far East Army can be exchanged." One stone of food, double the food for killing thousands of people, and the leader can be promoted by one.

Level. "

Fang Yanzao said with a look of admiration: "Mr. Mi is far-sighted."

Besides, Xu Shiji's eyes flashed a hint of disdain and sarcasm towards Fang Yanzao. He really couldn't stand the hypocritical dialogue between the two literati, and interjected: "Mi Gong, since the troops of the Far East Army are like this It's difficult, why don't you and I persuade Mr. Zhai to return Zhang Xutuo's body to the Far East Army, so that the people in the outer battalion will no longer have doubts, and Mi Gong's plan can go smoothly Implement."

Fang Yanzao also said: "What Mao Gong said is very true. Now Mi Gong is the man of destiny, and he is the true son of heaven who wants to re-establish a new dynasty. This kind of bandit behavior of cutting off people's heads and detaining corpses for ransom can no longer be done. Do it, otherwise it will be extremely detrimental to Duke Mi's reputation if it is spread out. Besides, returning Zhang Xutuo's head to his family will prevent the Far Eastern Army from using it again and again to alienate the troops in the outer village."

"Maogong and Yanzao don't know something. I have advised Mr. Zhai several times, and even tried hard to persuade him, but Mr. Zhai thinks that Zhang Xutuo's body can be exchanged for a lot of ransom, and Mr. Zhai thinks that Mr. Wa Some rules of Gangzhai cannot be changed lightly, so I won’t listen to Li’s remonstrance! Also please Mao Gong explain to the following people the meaning of Zhai Lao’s leadership, so as to stabilize the army’s morale.” Li Mi shook his head again and again, sighing, but his eyes A flash of light flashed in the depths, thinking that if Zhai Rang returned Zhang Xutuo's body on his own initiative, wouldn't the third of my plan to kill three birds with one stone be in vain.

Few people know that Li Jing used the words of the defeated army to exaggerate Wagangzhai's failure to return Zhang Xutuo's body. In fact, in some respects, it hit Li Mi's arms, and the latter immediately realized that this was beneficial to him.

He wants to take advantage of the resentment in Wagang Village aroused by Li Jing, and put the blame on Zhai Rang intentionally or unintentionally. At that time, no matter how many people in Wagang Village are killed by the Far Eastern Army, they will all be counted on Zhai Rang. , Then he can take advantage of the situation to force Zhai Rang to completely give up and hand over power, or even remove him, so as to truly complete the centralization of Wagangzhai.

Fang Yanzao didn't know that Li Mi had so many thoughts, and he didn't hide his dissatisfaction and disgust with Zhai Rang in front of Li Mi. Under Migong’s care, it is quite different from the past. Besides, tens of thousands of pieces of meat may not be enough to make the main village fat. If you lose the hearts of the brothers in the foreign camp, the gain will not be worth the loss. Those who dominate the world still have limited vision."

Although Li Mi is currently in charge of the Wagang village, Zhai Rang's position is aloof, which has caused the Wagang village to be divided into two camps.

Although Zhai Rang believes that Li Mi is the true son of heaven, he has given Li Mi great privileges, and many things are left to Li Mi to decide, but he himself still has a great influence among the commanders of the battalions, and Zhai Rang has great influence on money and food. On the other hand, he has been watching very tightly, holding it firmly in his hands, which makes Li Mi secretly hate and fear.

But considering that the timing was not ripe, Li Mi never took action to get rid of Zhai Rang, and the arrival of the Far East Army now is an opportunity.

Of course, in order to take advantage of this, the premise is to wipe out the 40,000 troops of the Far Eastern Army, or at least drive them away. Instead, we must try our best to prevent the elites of the inner camp from losing too much.

Li Mi is very aware of Fang Yanzao's character, he knows that the latter has a big mouth and likes to complain the most, he believes that there is no need for him to say more, because Zhai Rang is stubborn and conservative, and he did not return Zhang Xutuo's body. The news spread that the Poison King's Far East Army came and caused everyone's casualties.

There are other people sitting here, most of them are from Li Mi's lineage, especially those descended officials from the Sui Dynasty who took refuge in Wagangzhai, and they only recognize Li Mi.

Li Mi saw these people's dissatisfaction with Zhai Rang in his eyes, and he was very satisfied in his heart, but on the face he gritted his teeth hard, and said resolutely: "Forget it, Mr. Zhai has some wrong ideas, I can't No matter, I will go to stroke the tiger's beard again today, and persuade him to return the corpse of Zhang Xutuo to the other party."