Daming: Stealing Chen Yuanyuan at the beginning

Chapter 141 Show the Enemy Weakness, I'm Afraid He's Not Crazy Enough

"Elephant soldiers? Heh, interesting!"

When Li Cunming arrived at Luliangwei, it happened that Qi Dazhuang led the vanguard and turned back. After listening to Qi Dazhuang's report, he was not angry, but in high spirits.

Qi Dazhuang said: "It's not that I don't want to fight to the death, but those elephant soldiers are really powerful. I can't just watch the soldiers die in vain, so I choose to retreat. Your Majesty, I lost this battle, please punish me!"

Li Cunming waved his hands and said: "In war, there are winners and losers. Who can guarantee victory in every battle? I don't blame you. On the contrary, I want to reward you for being able to judge the situation and avoid greater casualties. I have never seen an elephant Bing, please describe it to me in detail."

Qi Dazhuang calmed down, and said: "The chieftain army dispatched more than [-] war elephants, relying on the impact of the elephants to tear apart our formation, the elephants have soldiers on their backs, holding bows, arrows and muskets, and the rest of the enemy army followed suit. Charge behind the elephants."

Li Cunming squinted his eyes and imagined for a moment, then said to himself: "It's almost the same as in the TV series!"

Then he stroked his chin and said, "I never imagined that Sha Dingzhou would be so strong that he could afford so many war elephants. No wonder his husband and wife are so ambitious!"

Domesticating war elephants costs a lot of money. First, you have to work hard to capture the elephants, artificially feed them, and tame them. You also have to make the elephants adapt to war and obey the command of the elephant soldiers.

A war elephant does not have three to five years, and it is difficult to put it on the battlefield. The money spent during this period is enough to feed hundreds of war horses.

Yunnan is close to Southeast Asia, and there is no shortage of wild elephants.There must be more than twenty war elephants in Sha Dingzhou's hands. His strength should not be underestimated. It seems that if he wants to complete the counter-insurgency within half a month, he must first gnaw down the tough bone of elephant soldiers.

Li Cunming ordered Jin Yiwei to interrogate the captives. After collecting many confessions, after analysis, it was estimated that there were more than 100 war elephants in Shadingzhou.As for whether all the more than 100 war elephants were sent to Maitreya, further investigation is needed.

"No matter how many war elephants Maitreya has, only by finding a way to restrain the war elephants once and for all!" Li Cunming paced around.

Suddenly remembering the "Sacred Fire Flying Crow" and "Pear Blossom Spear" that he got by signing in when he was in Qujing, Li Cunming's eyes lit up, he clapped his hands and said with a smile: "I have an idea!"

Immediately whispering in Qi Dazhuang's ear for a while, Qi Dazhuang was also full of surprises, and exclaimed: "Your Majesty is resourceful, and I admire him, so let's go to prepare."

Li Cunming said: "Wait a minute! General Qi, there is still a crucial step for this plan to succeed, and that is to show the enemy weakness, understand?"

"I understand!" Qi Dazhuang took the order and left.

Three days later, Qi Dazhuang once again led the leading troops to attack Maitreya, but set up camp more than 30 miles outside the city of Maitreya Prefecture, confronting the chieftain army far away.

At the same time, Li Cunming sent an army of 5 people to attack Guangnan Prefecture, claiming to go to Ami Prefecture by detour from Guangnan Prefecture.

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The Ming army went and returned, stationed outside Maitreya City, but did not fight.

Sha Dingzhou sent spies to inquire about the situation of the Ming army, and the spies reported: "The general who leads the army is still Qi Dazhuang, but he has added troops, about 3 people."

Tang Jiabin laughed contemptuously and said, "We have more than [-] people, and there are also elephant soldiers, why should we be afraid?"

Sha Dingzhou said: "We still can't take it lightly. I heard that Chongzhen used his troops like a god. Since he moved to the south, he has not lost a battle. Qi Dazhu must have received instructions from Chongzhen when he returned to Lu Liangwei. Who knows if they will cheat or not?" By trick?"

"Brother-in-law, you are too careful!" Tang Jiabin said, shaking his goose feather fan.

Sha Dingzhou said: "Be careful sailing for ten thousand years, no matter what, I can't afford to lose! The Chongzhen family has a great career, and we don't even occupy all of Yunnan. How can we compare with the Ming Dynasty? In a word, fighting consumption Let's fight, when the Ming army runs out of food and grass, they will retreat."

"As long as the Ming army retreats and our army is still in our hands, we will have bargaining chips to negotiate with Chongzhen. Not to mention being the king of Yunnan, at least let the Ming Dynasty acquiesce in our existence!"

Tang Jiabin asked: "My sister thinks so too?"

Sha Dingzhou didn't speak, Tang Jiabin snorted coldly: "Brother-in-law, don't hide it from me, my sister is determined to be a princess..."

"Am I the toast, or are you the toast?" Sha Dingzhou glared at Tang Jiabin.

Tang Jiabin shut his mouth in resentment, but he really looked down on Sha Dingzhou in his heart, thinking to himself why are we so arrogant, we all rely on women for food!

A few days later, news suddenly came that the Ming army had arrived at the city of Funing in Guangnan Prefecture.

Sha Dingzhou was taken aback, and shouted: "If the Ming army takes Funing, they will occupy Guangnan Mansion, and then they can attack Wenshan from the east, thereby threatening Mengzi. Well, it turns out that the Ming army has come to cover up Chencang!"

Mengzi is Sha Dingzhou's old nest, and it is only natural that he feels worried and uneasy.

Almost all the chieftain troops in Shadingzhou have arrived in Maitreya, and there are not many troops stationed in Mengzi and Ami Prefecture. Once the Ming army breaks through the eastern defense line, these two places will be in jeopardy.

"No, I have to rescue Funing!" Sha Dingzhou said.

"What about Maitreya?" Tang Jiabin asked.

"You bring [-] soldiers to guard here, please remember, don't go to battle lightly." After Sha Dingzhou finished speaking, he mobilized his troops and left Maitreya quickly.

With Sha Dingzhou gone, Tang Jingjia became the supreme commander of Maitreya's army. No one could suppress him anymore, and he became arrogant again.

He sent many spies, disguised as local residents, to spy on the mountains near the Ming army camp.

The spies came to report one after another: "The soldiers of the Ming army are slack, their weapons are not good, and the soldiers are war-weary and uninhibited. Qi Dazhuang ordered people to erect two huge paper monsters in the camp, with oil lamps inside, saying they were 'cowardly elephant lamps'." , the elephant will back away when it sees this.”

Tang Jingbin almost laughed out loud and secretly rejoiced, thinking that such an army was really vulnerable. How could there be any cowardice in the world? Qi Dazhuang was so frightened that he acted mysteriously.

"Call the soldiers and prepare to go out of the city to defeat the enemy!" Tang Jiabin ordered.

The staff hurriedly stopped him: "When the general government left, we were told to stick to it and not to fight. Why did General Tang make such a claim?"

Tang Jiabin said: "The spies came to report that the morale of the Ming army is low, and there is no way to restrain our elephant soldiers. If we don't fight now, when will we wait?"

"General Tang, the matter is very important, please think twice! In case the Ming army deliberately shows weakness, what should we do?"

"Whether Qi Dazhuang is deliberately showing weakness or not, you will know once you try."

Tang Jiabin held his temper and sent many soldiers to the Ming army camp to yell and curse, which was very ugly.The Ming army only dared to scold each other in the camp, but they never dared to fight.

He sent someone to give Qi Dazhuang a piece of women's clothes, and Qi Dazhuang even wore it on his body, and returned a gift to Tang Jiabin.

Silly Dazhu jumped up angrily, and said, "General Qi, have you been frightened by the elephant soldiers? He, Tang Jiajie, sent women's clothes, obviously imitating the story of Zhuge Liang insulting Sima Yi. If you want to be Sima Yi, we won't stop you. How can I swallow this breath after losing the face of my Ming Dynasty?"

Qi Dazhuang flicked his wide sleeves and said with a smile: "Shunhou, do you think I look good in this dress?"

"It's between good-looking and ugly, so ugly!" Silly Dazhu panted heavily, and almost pointed at Qi Dazhuang's nose and cursed, "General Qi, you are so aspiring to others and destroying your own prestige, you ask yourself, Are you worthy of the emperor?"

"Grow other people's ambitions, haha, I'm afraid he Tang Jiajie is not arrogant enough!"

As Qi Dazhuang said that, he left the tent in women's clothes and walked around in the barracks.

The soldiers of the Ming army looked ashamed, while the soldiers of the chieftain army who came to call for battle saw this scene and laughed.

When Tang Jiajie learned about this, he no longer had any doubts, and said: "Qi Dazhuang led the troops back to Maitreya. It was a plan of suspicious soldiers, in order to cooperate with the Ming army attacking Guangnan Mansion to play a show and contain our troops. I Qi Dazhuang must have been frightened out of his nerve by the elephant soldiers, otherwise how could he endure the insult twice or three times?"

"We are sending troops to attack the Ming army now, and we can win a big victory. It can not only improve morale, but also reduce the pressure on the direction of Guangnan Prefecture, killing two birds with one stone."

"The three armies obeyed the order and immediately left the city to attack the Ming army!"

Tang Jiabin was confident, and immediately dispatched elephant soldiers, cavalry, and infantry to the Ming army's camp, and the sound of killing was loud.

(End of this chapter)