Crazy at the end of the Ming Dynasty

"Get out of the way! Get out of the way!"

Wu Shigong was chatting and laughing with the officers and soldiers around him when he suddenly heard someone shouting behind him.They turned their heads quickly, only to see Li Sanhe running over with a dozen of his own soldiers.

There are also very strict codes of conduct in the Runing Army camp, one of which is: Unless it is an emergency, no one is allowed to ride or run in the camp, at most they can walk quickly.So seeing Li Sanhe running nervously, everyone's faces turned serious.

The soldiers guarding the periphery immediately made way for Li Sanhe. Li Sanhe ran to Wu Shigong's side and whispered to Wu Shigong, "My lord, those Shaanxi bandits who surrendered have given us an important piece of information. The Shaanxi bandits not only have The people opposite us, they have several other soldiers and horses."

Wu Shigong's face changed suddenly, and he immediately ordered: "Go! Take me to meet them!"

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With a heavy expression, Wu Shigong came out of the tent where the cavalrymen of the peasant rebel army who surrendered were detained.Just now Wu Shigong repeatedly asked the defected cavalry about all the details of the peasant rebel army.However, the status of those defecting cavalry in the peasant rebel army is not high. They only know that there are other peasant rebel army taking other routes, but what is the specific route?How many people are there?These defecting cavalry can't tell why.

So as soon as he got out of the tent, Wu Shigong immediately told Tao Xin: "Go to Cunyi quickly and ask him to interrogate all the prisoners in custody, and then report to me the situation of all the Shaanxi bandits. Also, send the police officers above the head of the regiment. All the officers are called to my tent."

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"The Shaanxi bandits we faced were only about 30 at the beginning. Later, two Shaanxi bandits were reinforced, and this increased to [-]. How many other Shaanxi bandits can there be left? Do you think the Shaanxi Are the bandits really capable of turning beans into soldiers? Besides, are the other Ming soldiers eating grass? They didn’t dare to go up when the Shaanxi bandits had a lot of people, don’t they dare to go up now when there are few people? As long as they entangle the other Shaanxi bandits for a period of time, we can easily wipe out the Shan bandits in front of us, and then go to reinforce other Ming troops."

"You fart lightly. Now we know that Zhang Xianzhong is the only famous leader of the Shaanxi bandits on the opposite side, and the top leaders of the Shaanxi bandits, Gao Yingxiang and Luo Rucai, are not on this road. This shows that the strength of the other Shaanxi bandits is stronger than this road. .In case they attack Runing to the south or Guide to the east, will the militias and militias we left behind be able to defend? Don’t we eat the little fish in front of us, our own Instead, the old nest was taken over by the Shaanxi bandits."

"Stop arguing, both of you! Let's talk about something practical. Of course, guarding your hometown is more important than eliminating the Shaanxi bandits on the opposite side. This truth is understood by everyone! But let's talk about how we go home. Now we are entangled The Shaanxi bandit on the opposite side is trapped, but the same Shaanxi bandit on the opposite side is also entangled with us. We just retreated regardless, what should we do if the Shaanxi bandit on the opposite side overwhelms us? Also, we are now in a situation where we have an absolute advantage Retreat, how to explain to our sons and daughters? If we let them know that our hometown is in danger, what should we do if the army is in turmoil? What if the troops are broken?"

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Wu Shigong frowned and listened to the quarrel among the officers in the big tent.Sudden.The door felt of the big tent was lifted, and Xue Cunyi, who was going to interrogate the captives, walked in.After seeing Xue Cunyi, all the officers stopped their quarrel immediately, waiting for Xue Cunyi to tell the result of the interrogation.

Xue Cunyi didn't delay, he immediately saluted Wu Shigong and said: "My lord! Just now, my subordinates took Erlang to torture all the leaders of the Shaanxi bandits. I found out the situation by corroborating the confession."

"Fortunately, one of those leaders was a close friend who followed King Huntian at that time. He told me: On the [-]th of last month, the leaders of the Shaanxi Bandit held a military meeting in Xingyang. But because of their low status, the military He also doesn't know the details of the discussion, but he only knows that the Shaanxi bandits did decide how to divide the troops during the military meeting."

"When I was in Xingyang, the number of Shaanxi bandits was only three or 10,000+, but they were said to be in the millions. But the little boss also said that there were only 6 to 60 Shaanxi bandits on the South Road when they set off, but there were constantly The bandits took refuge. So when we met us, there were already more than 70. So my subordinates estimated that the total number of Shaanxi bandits should be between [-] and [-]."

"According to the interrogation, the Shaanxi bandits may have the following routes. One way back to Shaanxi; one way across the Yellow River into Shanxi; one way in the middle to support; one way eastward into Kaifeng. The two routes into Shaanxi and Shanxi will not threaten our Runing army. The road in the center basically came to reinforce the road in front of us. The Shaanxi bandits like Zhang Xianzhong who came later came back from the east road to rescue them. Now we have nailed them here."

"So my subordinates did some calculations. The Shaanxi bandits on the East Road are at most 15 people. If Zhang Xianzhong's is subtracted, it will be [-]. Moreover, the soldiers of the Shaanxi bandits are not all soldiers, they are all armed At most, [-]% of the males who can fight at home. Therefore, the Shaanxi bandits heading east now are at most [-] soldiers."

After listening to Xue Cunyi's report, everyone in the tent breathed a sigh of relief.With the obstacles of the Iron Triangle and the mountainous area south of Runing, it is absolutely impossible for the peasant rebel army on the East Road to invade Runing and Guide.

Moreover, after the Runing Army fought several times with the Peasant Rebel Army, they found that the physical fitness and strength of the soldiers of the Peasant Rebel Army were even far inferior to the village and road guards of the Runing Army.If [-] to [-] village guards and road guards are pulled out, plus the rest of the Guide Army remaining in the Iron Triangle, the Runing Army is even confident that they will completely defeat the peasant rebels on the East Road in field battles.

Now that they knew that the threat of the peasant rebel army was no longer great, the officers in the big tent relaxed.Zhou Xun also praised: "Cunyi did a good job! You can learn so much in such a short period of time. From then on, I will leave it to you to interrogate the prisoners!"

He Fei also laughed and joked: "It's not a piece of cake for Cunyi, is it? As long as he pokes his head over and lights it up, which prisoner won't be frightened?"

There was a burst of laughter in the big tent.During the Battle of Ruzhou, Xue Cunyi's face was severely injured by a wooden gun, resulting in blindness in his left eye and a complete disfigurement of his left face.However, his resilience was quite good, and he was alive and well after recuperating for more than two months.

When Xue Cunyi was recovering from his injuries, Wu Shigong once wanted to retire Xue Cunyi and arrange for Xue Cunyi to be Xue Qiang's deputy in the Department of Internal Affairs, but Xue Cunyi refused.When Wu Shigong saw that Xue Cunyi was recovering well, he complied with Xue Cunyi's wishes and still let him be the head of the engineering regiment.

But don't look at Xue Cunyi's scary appearance now, but he is a very gentle person, so he didn't get angry at all when facing those jokes, he just smiled and said: "Success! From now on, I will leave this kind of thing to me !"

Of course Wu Shigong wanted to knock on the wooden fish at this time.He tapped the big case a few times to keep the officers quiet, and then said: "It's not the time to be happy, it's true when you eat what you put in your mouth. Yongzi, get ready, I'll give you an hour, Then immediately take your infantry regiment back to Germany."

"Our plan remains the same. We will swallow the Shan bandits on the opposite side after they are worn out. Yongzi, pay attention. You and Qian Qi must guard the line of Qianhusuo fortress. It is best to take the Shan bandits on the east road as well." Get entangled."

"And after our main force swallowed the Shan bandits on the opposite side, we immediately went eastward and circled behind the Shan bandits on the east road. Even without the cooperation of other officials and troops, we still clamped the Shan bandits on the east road at both ends, trying to get rid of the Shan bandits on this road. It was also swallowed. Since our Runing Army has come out, it's time to serve us a big meal."

There was a burst of laughter in the big tent.Seeing that Wu Shigong had made arrangements, the officers saluted and retired one after another.After they all retreated, Wu Shigong thought to himself: "It seems that I didn't pay attention to the importance of prisoner interrogation on the battlefield before, so I have to make up for it in the future!"

At this time, although Wu Shigong had already learned that there were several other groups of peasant rebels, he still felt that everything was still under his control. (To be continued..)