Time passes.
Li Qin, in the camp, looked at the list of grain collected this time.
With a serious expression, he looked at the trembling grain collection officer kneeling on the ground before him and asked:
"What's going on? Why is there so little grain being requisitioned this time?"
The grain requisitioning officer, kneeling on the ground, said tremblingly:
"Reporting to the young marshal, a remnant army of several thousand men has suddenly appeared in the Youyan region and is constantly attacking our grain transport convoy."
"A few thousand remnants of the army?"
Where are those few thousand remnants of the army?
Li Qin looked at the grain collection officer in front of him and asked angrily.
"No, I don't know, but he had Jizhou garrison, a quiver in the style of the capital, and weapons on him."
"Jizhou? The capital? A few thousand remnants of the army?"
After hearing this information, Li Qin immediately began to think about these key points.
The person who was able to gather and integrate several thousand remnants of the army in such a short time must have been of high rank and capable.
Otherwise, even if he had the ability, without the official rank and prestige, he wouldn't have been able to unite these few thousand remnants of the army.
Li Qin immediately ran through the list of people who met these criteria in his mind.
He immediately thought of one person: Zhao Shuaizhen, the governor of Jizhou who had managed to escape.
These few thousand people are very likely the ones he gathered and integrated to disrupt his supply lines.
Thinking of this, Li Qin also felt a surge of disgust.
According to his younger brother Li Wenqi's report, You Chu, the former garrison commander of Jinzhou, had led more than a thousand men to disrupt his supply lines in Liaodong and Liaoxi.
Now Zhao Shuaizhen is actually disrupting his grain supply routes in the Youyan region.
Fortunately, during his rest period, he had sent a large army to collect some grain and fodder, in addition to what he had captured and what he had gathered locally.
The army's food supplies are now sufficient to last for a period of time.
Moreover, Zhao Shuaizhen's troops were few in number; at most, he could only disrupt his own supply lines, reducing the amount of grain he received.
It cannot completely cut off the grain supply.
With our own food supplies, plus those transported via the grain transport routes, we can last for a long time.
However, they could not ignore it, so Li Qin immediately returned to the main camp and wrote a letter to his younger brother who was in charge of the army's logistics at Shanhaiguan.
They also allocated him a reinforcement of 5,000 men, in addition to his several thousand troops at Shanhaiguan.
He was tasked with eliminating the two armies disrupting the supply lines as much as possible.
Just after he handed the letter to a few of his junior officers, ordering them to take the letter, along with five thousand reinforcements, to Shanhaiguan and deliver it to his younger brother, Li Wenqi.
His personal guard captain, Qi Duchen, suddenly rushed into his tent, beaming with joy, and said:
"Go, go up, it's all done. Those shallow tunnels that lead directly to the city walls of the capital are all done."
Upon hearing the news, Li Qin immediately stood up excitedly from his seat.
The tunnel is finally finished.
After taking a deep breath, he suppressed the joy in his heart.
Then, looking towards the distant city walls of the capital, he said:
"Order the army to prepare for a strong attack. This time, we will use the elite troops from our Liaodong headquarters."
"yes."
Upon hearing Li Qin's order, Qi Duchen immediately responded with a joyful expression.
He then immediately went out to relay Li Qin's orders.
As Li Qin's order was relayed, the entire army in the camp began to assemble.
At this time, those who had been watching the battle since arriving in the capital, except for the time they used it in the tunnel, had been observing the battle.
They watched as Geng Zhixiang and the Green Standard Army, who had surrendered, attacked the city for so long without making any progress, and they were getting impatient and wanted to take over themselves.
Upon hearing that Li Qin was finally going to send them up, they excitedly donned their armor and assembled outside.
Seeing that the army had assembled and was ready, Li Qin immediately waved the military flag in his hand and ordered the army to begin the attack.
As they began to advance, the sheer force of their army was unmatched by the previous Green Standard Army or Geng Zhixiang's large army.
At this moment, on the city wall of the capital, Yu Gan, who had been busy and exhausted for some time, saw the attacking army through his telescope.
It was immediately apparent from their equipment that Li Qin had finally deployed his Liaodong headquarters this time.
A fierce battle is definitely in store.
He then struggled to his feet and ordered the surrounding army to prepare.
During this period, he was exhausted from the harassment and attacks he was subjected to by Geng Zhixiang's army and the Green Standard Army, which were arranged by Li Qin.
He felt that if Li Qin continued to harass him like this, he would be exhausted before Li Qin even withdrew.
Especially recently, Li Qin sent people to wave the flags of the Henan army below.
Tell them that their reinforcements have been defeated and urge them to surrender as soon as possible.
Only then did he realize that the reinforcements from Henan had actually been defeated by Li Qin.
This dealt a significant blow to the morale of the troops, and it took him a great deal of effort to restore it.
At this moment, on a high point in the camp, Li Qin held a telescope and watched the army advance outside.
He immediately gave the order to his personal guards:
"Set it on fire."
"yes."
After receiving Li Qin's order, the guard immediately waved the flag in his hand, ordering the people in the tunnel below to set it on fire.
Li Qin ordered the army to stop when he saw that the army was about to enter the range of the capital's cannons.
Meanwhile, Li Qin ordered the excavation of dozens of shallow tunnels leading directly to the city walls of the capital.
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