Zhao Bing had lunch with the soldiers of the newly formed brigade. Although he knew the reason why it was difficult to adjust the word, he ordered people to allocate more pasta to the two brigades. However, he also knew that eating habits were not unchanged, but it only required a certain amount of time to adapt. You should know that in order to save manpower and financial resources, military rations were generally supplied nearby. As the war unfolded, the Japanese front would inevitably extend northward and away from the rice-producing areas, making it even more impossible to ensure that the military rations were all rice from the south of the Yangtze River. Therefore, he felt that the recipes in the army should also be changed to be able to harmonize the north and south, rather than accommodate the army in one place.

After lunch, Zhao Bing ordered the army to speed up the construction of the city and to be initially completed before the black was too dark. The messengers of each unit also kept sending the battle reports. At present, the army occupying the outer edge of Yangzhou is stepping up the construction of city walls and extending to friendly forces in order to prepare for the siege. However, if the battalions want to be integrated and finally complete the encirclement, it cannot be completed in one day or two days. Therefore, even if the army can support and respond to each other, they are still in a state of fighting each other, and the camp is their support.

"Your Majesty, the attacking attack came to report the enemy's reinforcements of Taizhou. About 10,000 people have set out. The vanguard army is less than twenty miles away from our army camp. Should we send troops to fight?" At Shen Shishi, Ni Liang hurriedly got on the tent and reported.

"Ento Town is thirty miles apart from Yangzi Town. There is still a gap of more than ten miles between the two battalions. Can troops be stationed there?" Zhao Bing looked at the map and asked with his head up.

"Both units are stepping up the construction of camps. At present, there are no troops arranged between the two battalions, only patrols and posters sent out. If there is no reinforcement, the existing strength is not enough to intercept the enemy's brigade, and even delaying their marching speed will be very bare." Ni Liang reported.

"Tell them to leave quickly when they encounter an enemy with a little contact, and there is no need to get entangled." Zhao Bing thought for a moment and asked.

"Your Majesty, if our army allowed it to pass safely, will the enemy attack the camp while our army is not stable?" Ni Liang asked.

"It's not impossible, but the probability is not high!" Zhao Bing said.

"Well, what Your Majesty is concerned about," Ni Liang thought for a while and said, "Yangzhou is an important town in Linjiang and a place of taxes. The enemy will not give up easily. If the enemy is engaged in battle, it will face the attack of our two armies, and Tuolie will not sacrifice his power to do such things. But if he let them go so easily, his subordinates feel unwilling to accept it!"

"What do you think?" Zhao Bing asked with a smile when he saw that he was still honest and honest.

"Your Majesty, my subordinates want to send an army to lie on the east bank of the canal. After the enemy brigade passes, the rear team's supplies will launch a surprise attack and destroy its food and grass. This will speed up the consumption of food and grass in the city. Once the food and grass are not enough, they will ask for help everywhere, and the plan of Your Majesty to siege the city and fight aid will be reached." Ni Liang scratched his scalp and said.

"You are the head coach of the camp. You can decide how to do it yourself. There is no need to ask me for instructions in everything!" Zhao Bing smiled. He looked at the honest partner in front of him, but he felt a little moved. He was no longer the ignorant reckless man that day, but he was already the general with tens of thousands of soldiers in his heart. He could let him do it.

"This... can I do it?" Ni Liang was a little vague after hearing this and asked with his head down.

"Why can't you? You are my brother, a close minister, and a general who commands the 100,000 imperial guards. If you are so frightened in such a little bit of battle, it would be better to go home and hold the child!" Zhao Bing waved his hand pretending to be angry after hearing this.

"Yes, I'll make arrangements here!" Ni Liang immediately straightened his body and saluted, with a lot of confidence in his eyes, and he went out to find a tent to prepare for the battle.

On this side, Ni Liang had just left the camp, and Chen Fenglin sent people to report that the enemy from Zhenzhou came to help took advantage of the dusk and suddenly advanced rapidly from the gap between the two battalions of Dayi Town and Yizheng Town. When the two battalions of dispatched troops intercepted, they were not interested in fighting, leaving only one to cut off the rear and delay our army's actions, and most of the troops headed straight to Yangzhou City. Since the enemy was all cavalry, they could not pursue it and entered the city by them.

"Brother Du has learned his lesson!" Zhao Bing was not surprised when he heard the news and said with a smile.

"Your Majesty, why are the enemy reinforcements still so calm when they enter the city?" Wang Yinglin, as the head of the subordinates, had his entire affairs fallen on him. He worked hard for a day before he returned to the camp in the evening. He was shocked to see this.

"Governor Wang, Duge Wanhu Prefecture is stationed in Zhenzhou. Last year, the battle of Guabu Town broke out in its jurisdiction. His Majesty commanded our army to cross the river with the first division and wipe out the Habichi Qianhu Prefecture, and rescued the trapped officers and soldiers. It also severely damaged the two thousand-man teams that the enemy came to help, shocked the enemy. He did not dare to cross the river and invade the territory. It also forced Boyan to turn attack into defense, build a fortress along the river and build a city. After Duge's army was severely injured by our army, he was even more frightened. Moreover, it was his opponent's first and second divisions in Hexi that he would go straight to the city regardless of everything without fighting with our army." Tan Fei, who was beside him, answered.

"It turns out that he is a defeated general, no wonder this is so!" Last year, the young emperor secretly left Beijing and went to Jiankang to command the rescue operation, and punished two senior generals who were unfavorable in combat. The outside world did not know about this, but he knew about it. After hearing Tan Fei's explanation, he suddenly said.

"Bring the letter back to Chen Dutong and tell him not to be careless because of the enemy's cowardice. He should strictly guard the camp at night to prevent the enemy's attack at night, and be prepared to attack the city tomorrow!" Zhao Bing ordered again.

"Your Majesty, aren't we siege and not attacking? Why are we going to attack the city tomorrow?" Ying Xi, who was accompanying the service, intervened and asked.

"Siege without attacking is a strategic arrangement, but tactical does not mean not attacking." Zhao Bing sighed in his heart. Ying Xizhen was not a general, but he still explained to him, "Our army attacked Yangzhou first at the moment, is a void, one is to lure the enemy across the river; the other is to prepare for the next step of besieging the city to attack the city and attack aid. If we do not move after crossing the river, Yuxi Timur will see through our plan. Only the siege after a long time cannot be captured can make it possible for our army to intend to capture Yangzhou and have restrained the main force here, so that it will feel at ease to invade the south of the Yangtze River and get into the trap set up."

"Oh, it turns out that Your Majesty is using a feint attack to lure the enemy and play a show for the enemy chief." Ying Xi thought for a while before he understood the meaning.

"It can also be said that the enemy will be deceived by the fact that the more we play, they will be relieved to mobilize their troops to invade the south!" Zhao Bing nodded and said.

"But your Majesty is also in danger? If the enemy refuses to fall into the trap, he will rescue Yangzhou with one force. Wouldn't such an arrangement be lost in both places?" Ying Xi remembered something and asked.

"The plan will never keep up with changes, which requires the generals to be good at grasping the fighter opportunities. If the enemy really rescues Yangzhou with one force, then I can immediately change the combat mission, concentrate troops to conquer the city and attract the enemy here. The troops waiting in the south of the Yangtze River quickly cross the river and gather to annihilate the siege, and also complete the combat purpose of annihilation of the enemy's living forces. Instead of implementing the predetermined combat plan in a constant state, as long as the strategic goal can be completed, it is successful." Zhao Bing had to point out again.

"I understand, let's send an order now!" Ying Xi nodded and bowed and went to send an order.

"Your Majesty is meticulous and can move forward and backward without any attack or defense. Such arrangements are invincible." Wang Yinglin praised.

"I know that I am dull and have little capital. I can only think more than others, put in some hard work!" Zhao Bing said with a wry smile.

"Your Majesty, I think there is something wrong!" Wang Yinglin laughed a few times, and seemed to have something to say, but hesitated and wanted to speak but stopped, but after thinking about it, he still politely said.

"Governor Wang has something to say, don't have any worries." Zhao Bing had already seen his expression unstable. He had something to do in his heart, so he smiled and let him sit down and said.

"Your Majesty, I have just returned from outside and found that the central army only had the third regiment of the personal guard brigade and the baggage brigade garrison, and the camp was only guarded by the guard brigade. The front army was the first brigade, the cavalry brigade was arranged on the left wing, and the right wing and the rear army were the fourth and fifth brigades of the guard brigade. Is the power of the central army too weak in this way?" Wang Yinglin organized the following words.

"Governor Wang can speak frankly, there is no need to turn around." Zhao Bing thought for a while and had already guessed it.

"Your Majesty, the Fourth Brigade and the Fifth Brigade of the Guards were adapted from the captured Mongolian and Yuan Han Army. If they colluded with the old master and launched a mutiny, wouldn't it be that your Majesty was placed in a dangerous place? Therefore, I think it would be better to move the brigade to the central army." Wang Yinglin bowed and said.

"Does Governor Wang think that the Fourth Brigade and the Fifth Brigade of the Guards are not trusted?" Zhao Bing frowned and asked back.

"I think it's better to be careful, after all, there's no need to be in Jiangnan. Now we have entered the enemy territory, so it's better to be careful!" Wang Yinglin said.

"..." Zhao Bing didn't say anything after hearing this. He knew that the difference between the south and the north had penetrated into the bones of scholars in Jiangnan, and even the Han people were wary of coming from the north.

Therefore, in ancient times, prisoners of war were relatively safe and did not waste manpower, and they were still invested in some wars that were irrelevant to the overall situation but were of the same scale. For example, after Qin destroyed the six countries, a large number of prisoners of war in the six countries were put into the war to attack Baiyue, allowing these soldiers to conquer and pioneer the territory, which consumed a large number of prisoners of war, and at the same time greatly expanded the territory of the Qin Dynasty. During the Mongolian and Yuan dynasties, Kublai Khan's two conquests against Japan also sent a large number of prisoners of war from Goryeo, Jin Dynasty, and Southern Song Dynasty.

After suppressing the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom in the late Qing Dynasty, in addition to a considerable number of Taiping Army prisoners of war were sentenced to death, a considerable number of them were sold to Latin America as "Chinese workers". The actual status of these so-called "Chinese workers" was actually equivalent to slaves. However, one interesting thing is that because these former Taiping troops had superb military literacy, they were often able to show their skills in a series of Latin American democratic movements such as the Cuban Revolution and wars between Latin American countries.
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