Chapter 397 The Southern War (4)
"Yongjun Gate, Huaijun Gate invites you into the camp, he has been waiting in the big tent."
Before Yonggui could speak, the two of his close deputy generals who followed him were furious and said, "Huaiqing is so arrogant. Our military gate is here, and he doesn't even come out to greet him. It's too much!"
Another deputy general also said: "Yes! Military Sect. Huaiqing is a villain who is successful. If he doesn't come out to pick you up, we won't go in to see him today. We might as well bring the team to fight Ganzhou and see how Huaiqing beats Nanchang alone."
Yonggui frowned and said, "Don't talk nonsense. Now you should put the overall situation first. If Huaiqing doesn't come out to greet you, it's just a trivial matter. Let's go in and go in. When you see Huaiqing, don't talk nonsense."
It turned out that Liangbi and Yinchang decided to merge the central and southern routes of Deyou's army to attack Nanchang together, and ordered Huaiqing to control the two troops.
After receiving this appointment, Huaiqing was naturally overjoyed. Among the three routes of Deyou Army, the Central Army had the most dazzling record. He conquered Yichun, Fenyi, Yuanzhou, Qingjiang and other places, and drove through more than 400 miles. Now he had gone around to the southern end of Nanchang, and his troops were approaching Fengcheng County, less than 60 kilometers away from Nanchang, and he passed along the way. The Yuan army was defeated like a mountain and fled. It can be said that he had great military achievements. Therefore, Huaiqing believed that he had a high talent for military use, so he now regarded himself as a famous general.
In contrast, Tieliang on the North Road failed to attack Xiushui County repeatedly, and the generals were lost; although Yonggui on the South Road also fought well and occupied Yongxing and Ji'an Prefectures, every battle was very difficult, so he had to talk and laugh like this and use troops and freely. Therefore, it is natural to let himself control Yonggui's army.
If Nanchang is won, the Deyou court will be able to basically lock in the victory of this Southern War, and Huaiqing naturally made great contributions. In the Deyou court, it is possible that he will surpass Tieliang, Liangbi and others and become the most important figure in the military.
Huaiqing had no objection to the joint army to attack Nanchang. Anyway, the main general was himself, and after the two sides joined forces, the number of troops increased, so it was more certain to take down Nanchang. But at this time, a close friend told Huaiqing that it was not difficult to capture Nanchang with only Huaiqing's army, but Yonggui's troops were going to join in. This arrangement was obviously unusual. It was Liangbi, Tieliang and others who did not want Huaiqing to achieve the full contribution of conquering Nanchang alone, so Yonggui was asked to share Huaiqing's contribution.
Huaiqing also agreed after hearing this. In fact, he and Yonggui were also considered old men from the Deyou court. When they fled from Beijing, they began to follow Pu Wei. However, both of them were not very high in the status of the two, but they were just ordinary bannermen. However, both of them had studied in the Beijing Martial Arts School for a few years and knew some modern military knowledge and skills. Therefore, Tieliang also valued the two. After fleeing Beijing, they appointed them as captains (equivalent to company commander). However, since there were not many troops fleeing to Xi'an, both of them were still captains.
However, after arriving in Xi'an, Pu Wei proclaimed himself emperor and expanded his army. Their positions were also promoted. Later, Han Wei entered Sichuan and his army expanded further. Now the two can lead their own army and stand on their own.
In fact, when they first left Beijing, the relationship between the two was pretty good. After all, they both studied at the Beijing Military Academy and had a friendship with classmates. Moreover, when their positions were low, they were somewhat sympathetic and wanted to keep warm. However, as the two men promoted their military positions, their awareness of competition continued to increase, and thus gradually aggravated. However, since both of them were basically promoted at the same time, their positions were always comparable. Although they regarded each other as their opponents in their hearts, their relationship did not deteriorate and they were still passing on the surface.
In this war, both of them led an army and stood alone. Moreover, their plan before the war was to cooperate with the Northern Route Army to fight, so they were not dissatisfied. They just wanted to perform well in this battle to prove that they were better than the other party.
But now the situation of the war has changed, and the Northern Army was blocked. The two of them took the lead. Huaiqing, who was the middle-level Huaiqing, was the main general of the attack on Nanchang. Huaiqing was proud and his mentality changed. As a result, he suddenly realized that the attack on Nanchang was his own attack, but now he had to divide half of it to Yonggui. Naturally, he was very dissatisfied. However, Huaiqing did not dare to disobey Liangbi and Yinchang's general order, so he wanted to give Yonggui a warning first. When Yonggui led his army to Fengcheng to meet with Huaiqing's army, Huaiqing did not go out to welcome Yonggui, but was sitting firmly in the tent and let Yonggui meet in the interior.
In fact, Huaiqing's attitude made Yonggui very angry, but Yonggui also understood that the current situation was stronger than others, Huaiqing was in the limelight, and Liangbi, Yinchang appointed the main general to attack Nanchang, and even himself was subject to Huaiqing's restraint. Therefore, now is not the time to turn against Huaiqing.
So Yonggui could only swallow his anger and followed the guards into the camp and came to Huaiqing's big tent. The guards said, "Huaijun Gate is in the tent, please ask Yongjun Gate to enter the tent."
Yonggui endured his anger and saw Huaiqing sitting firmly behind the handsome desk in the middle of the city reading a book. Yonggui bowed and said, "Huaijun Gate has always been good."
Huaiqing then put down the book, stood up, pretended to be surprised, and said, "It turns out that Yongjun Gate is coming." He said to the people around the left and right: "Yongjun Gate is coming, why don't you come to report me to greet me!"
Yonggui had greeted everyone in Huaiqing's family in his heart, but in the end he held back and said, "Huaijun, there is no need to mention these trivial matters."
Huaiqing laughed and said, "It's better for Yongjunmen to be generous." He turned his head and said to the people around him, "If Yongjunmen hadn't been generous and hadn't bothered with you, I wouldn't be lucky. Why don't you see a seat for Yongjunmen and serve tea."
Someone brought a stool and asked Yonggui to sit down and bring tea. Huaiqing said: "In the military camp, everything is simple and inadequate. Please ask Yongjunmen to write more letters."
Yonggui said: "These are all small things. There is no need to talk about Huai Junmen. My army is stationed near Xiaohe Village 10 miles southwest. I don't know when Huai Junmen will attack Fengcheng County, but if we want to use our troops, we must do our best."
Huai Qing smiled and said, "If you are not busy, the Yongjun Gate's troops will definitely be very tired from coming from afar. Let's take a few days off. It's not too late to join the war after the troops recover."
Yonggui frowned and said, "As the saying goes, soldiers are more powerful than speed. Moreover, the war is urgent now, how can we waste more time? Although our troops come from afar, they are not tired. They can go to war immediately and will never miss things."
Huaiqing waved his hand and said, "It's not worth mentioning. Wherever our troops arrive, it's easy to break the city and seize the county. Why do you need to work for your troops? Therefore, in the past few days, your troops will have a good rest and accumulate strength. When our troops capture Fengcheng, we will join forces to attack Nanchang, and there will be fierce battles. That is when your troops show their skills."
After hearing this, Yonggui knew that Huaiqing was afraid of making meritorious service, so he did not allow himself to fight. But now Huaiqing had the final say. Although he was extremely dissatisfied, he was not good at saying anything. He had to say, "Since Huaijun Sect takes care of me in this way, he had to obey his orders and say goodbye." After that, he turned around and left the tent.
As soon as Yonggui walked out of the tent, Huaiqing couldn't help but say, "It turns out that he came to grab the credit, but it's not that easy to grab the credit from me."
After walking out of the tent, Yonggui couldn't help it anymore. He ignored the fact that he was still in Huaizhuang's camp and said angrily: "Huaiqing is too arrogant. He just won a few battles and thought there was no one in the world. As expected, he really had to conquer Nanchang. I don't know where the arrogance is. I want to see how he captured Fengcheng County."
In fact, Yonggui was convinced by Huaiqing's achievements and believed that Huaiqing was just lucky because the Yuan army arranged all combat-capable troops in the south and north directions. Therefore, the Yuan army that Huaiqing encountered was too weak to win so easily. After several hard battles, he defeated the main army of Yuan's army, so his victory was more valuable. If he had replaced himself to command the middle lane army, he would have done better than Huaiqing.
Moreover, Yonggui did not intend to seize Huaiqing's contribution. After capturing Ji'an Prefecture, he planned to continue to go south to attack Ganzhou Prefecture, the southernmost part of Jiangxi Province. After occupying Ganzhou Prefecture, southern Jiangxi was basically within reach. In this way, the Deyou court could expand its border with Guangdong and border with Fujian Province, and could directly attack the Fengde court in Fujian. Although the strength of the Fengde court was average, for the Deyou court, it was a disobedience to the throne and destroying the Fengde court, which was the political correctness of the Deyou court.
But Liangbi and Yinchang's orders, Yonggui could not disobey, so he could only give up attacking Ganzhou Prefecture and go north to join forces with Huaiqing to capture Nanchang. Na Zhi was treated rudely by Huaiqing and suspected that Yonggui was here to steal his credit. Yonggui was naturally extremely annoyed, but now the army has been brought, so of course he cannot be taken away. Yonggui can only hold back his troops and stop moving for the time being. Let's see how Huaiqing conquers Fengcheng County.
After sending Yonggui away, Huaiqing immediately sent troops to launch an attack on Fengcheng County. After all, he had already praised Haikou in front of Yonggui, so he could not waste more time.
Of course, Huaiqing was also very confident in the battle to attack Fengcheng County. He believed that like the previous wars, as soon as the Deyou army launched an attack, the Yuan army only resisted a little, and then immediately gave up the position and retreated. The Deyou army took advantage of the situation to attack and occupied the Yuan army's position.
Chapter completed!