PDLP Chapter 202 Duke Dingguo is anxious
Chapter 202 Duke Dingguo is anxious
Ning Yi led a large army and confronted the rebels of Duke Dingguo outside Huazhou City.
But Ning Yi was not moved at all and just stayed there to defend.
Duke Dingguo wanted to attack by force, but there was no way to defeat them quickly.
Especially since Ning Yi still has 10,000 imperial guards, it is not easy to deal with the 60,000 Beijing troops.
We tried to attack by force, but found that it didn't work. If the losses were too great, the army below would not be stable.
Except for his own direct troops, almost all the other troops had their commanders eliminated, and the soldiers under them were forced to follow suit. There might have been heavy casualties, so they simply chose to quit.
As for the fact that the grain supply route was blocked by the cavalry of Duke Dingguo, Ning Yi didn't care at all.
"Don't worry about him. Although the prince's military rations are low, they will still be enough for half a month."
"But Duke Dingguo can't afford to waste time."
Ning Yi had originally planned to use a large army to delay Duke Dingguo's troops.
The real decisive battle is still to come, and now is not the time to confront Duke Dingguo head-on.
The first day of the confrontation between the two sides ended just like that.
At night, the distance between them was more than 20 miles, and the combined forces of both sides amounted to more than 100,000 troops. There were military camps everywhere, and it was very lively.
But Ning Yi ordered all the troops to set traps and prepare for night defenses. Although he was confident that he could deal with Duke Dingguo, he didn't want to be ambushed and capsized.
Similarly, the First Army at Hushan Pass has begun to frantically plunder supplies.
Large quantities of military rations were carried onto the carriages in sacks.
There are also a large number of weapons and equipment, all installed in batches.
Wang Hu came over and asked, "How's the preparation going? How long will it take?"
The Chief of Staff shook his head helplessly: "Too many. Hundreds of carriages have already been transported, and there are still many left. It seems that we can't transport them all."
"We must transport all the goods, no matter how much we have." Wang Hu said seriously, "Your Highness said that all the benefits must be transported away."
"Only when we transport them to the base will they belong to us. If we leave them here, they will only become the property of the imperial court."
They are all the Sixth Prince's men. If the Sixth Prince wants to ascend the throne, he must have sufficient strong military support.
If you want to have a strong army, you must have enough money, food, weapons and equipment.
Just look at the elite First Army they trained, each of them has armor, what a waste of money and food.
What's more, there is the Second Army and the newly formed Third Army. They are spending money like a rushing river and they can't hold on at all.
The Chief of Staff was also helpless: "Military Commander, isn't that all?"
"There's also a large amount of gold, silver, and various valuables in the Duke Dingguo's Mansion. It's not that easy to take them away."
Wang Hu thought for a moment and said, "Well, first you call someone to take away the gold, silver, and valuables."
"I'll have the various regiments of the First Army go to Hushan Pass to find enough carriages to take away all the remaining food and weapons."
The Chief of Staff thought about it and said, "Okay, we can finish moving it tomorrow at the latest."
Otherwise, if we only rely on their logistics team, they will not be able to transport all the goods.
Wang Hu began to give orders, asking each regiment to find their own horse-drawn carriages to transport supplies.
All the carriages in the city will be requisitioned, and those who refuse will be dealt with.
Similarly, all of Fang Chengyu's trusted officers and officials in Hushan Pass were dealt with.
Reorganize the 20,000-strong defensive army and start defensive work immediately. Make sure to stop Duke Dingguo and give him no chance to retake Hushan Pass.
On the second day, both sides remained calm.
Although Ning Yi appeared calm on the surface, he was actually waiting for news from Hushan Pass.
Finally, at night, the First Army from Hushan Pass sent news that all the supplies that could be moved had been moved away.
Ning Yi finally breathed a sigh of relief. He asked the First Army and the Third Army to prepare for evacuation.
Similarly, that night, Fang Chengyu also received the news that Hushan Pass had fallen.
Shocked, he grabbed the wounded Fang family soldier and said, "What did you say? Hushan Pass is gone?"
"This is impossible. I left 30,000 troops at Hushan Pass. How could they just disappear? What happened? Tell me."
The wounded soldier reported immediately with great pain: "Duke, their soldiers entered the city late at night two days ago. The city defense troops did not defend at all and directly opened the city gates, attacking from inside and outside."
"Damn bastard." Fang Chengyu gritted his teeth.
He thought he had controlled all the troops at Hushan Pass, and all the generals were replaced by his own people, including the important generals.
This won't be a big problem. They can just garrison the outer city walls, while the strongholds inside are all occupied by the Fang family army's direct troops.
"Where's Fang Weihong?" Fang Chengyu was now very disappointed with her eldest son. "Why didn't you come back to tell me the news?"
"What about the Duke Dingguo's Mansion? There are thousands of elite soldiers there. If the enemy wants to break through, it will take at least several days."
He was very confident in the castle-like Dingguo Mansion he built himself. He believed that only a few thousand people would be enough to withstand the attack of tens of thousands of people.
The wounded soldier wailed, "Duke, the young master had already sent word, but there are soldiers guarding the entire route."
"The little one, despite being injured, managed to get out of the jungle under the cover of night, retracing his steps and finally reaching the Duke."
"When I came out, the Duke Dingguo's Mansion had almost been breached."
Fang Chengyu sat down on the chair. He never thought that his army was just a few steps ahead.
I was still thinking about how to deal with the tens of thousands of Beijing troops on the opposite side.
But the Sixth Prince was a coward and refused to come out no matter what.
It's quite difficult to cause trouble to him.
A head-on fight would result in too many casualties, and Duke Dingguo felt it was not worth it.
But unexpectedly, Hushan Pass was attacked from behind.
Once Hushan Pass is lost, he won’t even have enough military rations.
The deputy general immediately said, "Duke, we should go back and retake Hushan Pass as soon as possible."
Fang Chengyu waited for a moment before gnashing his teeth and saying coldly, "Tell the cavalry to return as soon as possible and recapture Hushan Pass for this prince."
He had 8,000 cavalrymen with strong combat effectiveness. He also felt that the officers and soldiers who occupied Hushan Pass had only been there for two days and were still unstable, so they should be able to be taken down with a surprise attack.
A distance of three hundred miles is enough for cavalry to arrive in less than a day.
At daybreak, Duke Dingguo's cavalry did not march south to harass the food supply route of the Sixth Prince's army in the capital.
Instead, they all ran north in a hurry.
When Ning Yi received the news, he sneered: "Wait and see if Duke Dingguo is anxious this time."
Everyone else was still wondering what had happened to Duke Dingguo and why he didn't send cavalry to harass them.
The cavalry of the Fang family army are all Fang Chengyu's direct troops, and each of them is very powerful.
They received the death order in a hurry and rushed to Hushan Pass quickly.
But halfway through, suddenly a large number of rocks rolled down the hillside in front of them.
They were only a few dozen miles away from Hushan Pass, yet they encountered an ambush.
The cavalry were too anxious, thinking that the distance was still dozens of miles. The officers and soldiers were busy at Hushan Pass, so how could there be an ambush here?
But on both sides of the hillside, soldiers wearing round helmets appeared everywhere.