Li Zhi saw the appearance of the big guys, turned to the veteran who jumped out first and said, "Dare to ask the name of Shangguan?" ”

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A middle-aged general next to him said loudly: "Boy, look at it, this person talking to you is the governor of Zhengerpin, the chief military officer of Liaodong, Zu Kuan!" ”

It turned out that this veteran was a general soldier, a big officer.

Li Zhi arched his hand to the veteran general and said, "Shangguan, what if the soldiers and horses under him have good combat strength and make meritorious achievements in the battle against thieves?" ”

The veteran closed his eyes and said, "How can you be a defensive soldier?" ”

Hearing this, all the generals sneered, and they all seemed to agree with this Zu Kuan's statement.

Li Zhi said: "What if the 1,000 soldiers and horses under can kill 2,000 enemy soldiers? ”

Hearing this, Zu Kuan opened his eyes and glanced at Li Zhi playfully. Halfway, he sneered.

Seeing Zu Kuan smiling, the generals in the big tent immediately burst into laughter and laughed and discussed.

"It's unlikely to kill 2,000 enemies, but it's possible to kill 2,000!"

"Not only were their own soldiers and horses killed, but they were also disrupted by the thieves to disrupt our army's formation, causing the flanks of the soldiers and horses in other towns to be attacked by the enemy!"

"This son is so arrogant! One defender, even dare to boast of killing two thousand! ”

"Tian 0 Jin actually sent a madman to help!"

Li Zhi took a sip and said loudly, "Do you know? On the way here, the soldiers and horses under the order encountered more than 2,000 thieves in Luo 0yang! The soldiers and horses under repelled the thieves and captured the first two hundred! ”

Hearing this, the generals in the big tent of the Chinese army fell silent.

A defensive officer! Met 2,000 pond horses and retreated? Two hundred heads? Are you kidding? The thieves' pond horses are very powerful, how can a weak army on the defensive resist them?

Half a sound, and then someone gradually said:

"Pity the people of Luo 0yang!"

As soon as this sentence came out, the other generals shouted one after another.

"This son has killed good people for the sake of war exploits!"

"In order to fight for face, a defense actually used the means of killing good and risking merit!"

"Tian 0jin's military attache is a good means!"

Li Zhi wanted to prove his strength, but the more he depicted it, the darker it became.

These generals did not believe that Li Zhi could kill the thieves, and they all thought that Li Zhi was the first rank who killed ordinary people and pretended to kill the enemy. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the morality of military attachés was degraded, and it was not uncommon to kill good people and take meritorious deeds. But this is, after all, a dirty deed, and it is disgraceful to say it. At this time, the generals not only looked down on Li Zhi's strength, but also looked down on Li Zhi's character.

Even Prime Minister Lu Xiangsheng did not believe that Li Zhi could repel more than 2,000 Tang horses, not only was he not ready to make contributions to Li Zhi, but he didn't even bother to check Li Zhi's captured head. He had no intention of talking to Li Zhi anymore, sighed and said, "Okay! Stand down. The congregation will continue to deliberate! ”

Li Zhizhi and these generals despised them to the end, and they were very unhappy. Especially the two hundred heads that he had captured, they were so lightly regarded as killing good and risking merit, which made Li Zhi very annoyed.

However, Li Zhi knew the strength of his troops and knew that his strength would be shown as soon as he entered the battlefield. With a straight face, Li Zhi retreated to the outermost part of the tent and stood at the end of the generals.

A guerrilla general beside Li Zhi disdained to be in the same column as Li Zhi, and when he saw Li Zhi coming, he hurriedly walked a few steps to the side and moved away.

For several days in a row, Li Zhi stood alone at the very end of the military commander array, and no one paid attention to him. Premier Lu Xiangsheng and the adjutant generals of the General Army discussed how to meet the enemy, and the discussion was very intense, and Li Zhiren could not intervene in his words. However, listening to their discussions, Li Zhi probably knew the current situation of friend and foe.

At present, there are three thieves entrenched in the vicinity of the official army, that is, Gao Yingxiang, the king of Chuang, Li Zicheng and Lao Hui Ma Shouying.

Among them, there are two thieves in the north, Gao Yingxiang and Li Zicheng.

King Gao Yingxiang is the leader of the thieves, and his family has 90,000 people. The reconnaissance of the horses determined that there were 40,000 hungry soldiers, 15,000 old thieves, and 5,000 pond horses. The hungry soldiers are the people carried by the thieves, who have no combat effectiveness, and are used as cannon fodder by the thieves. The old thief is the main force of the thief, a veteran who has been a thief for many years, and has considerable combat effectiveness. Tangma is a cavalry, is the elite of thieves, often more than one person and horses come and go like the wind, and the combat effectiveness is considerable.

The general is the famous Li Zicheng. However, at this time, Li Zicheng was not the leader of the thieves, but only one of the thirteen thieves in the seventy-two battalions. He had 70,000 troops, including 30,000 hungry soldiers, 13,000 old thieves, and 4,000 horses.

There was a thief in the east, and the leader was called Ma Shouying.

Although Ma Shouying is not as strong as Gao and Li, this person is fierce in battle, and he is also the stronger of the thirteen thieves. Tanma reported that he had 30,000 troops, including 13,000 hungry soldiers, 5,000 old thief foot soldiers, and 3,000 Tang horses.

The Ming official army concentrated in Ruzhou had 15 reinforcements with a total of 29,000 soldiers and horses, including 24,000 infantry soldiers and 5,000 cavalry.

After three days of discussions, Lu Xiangsheng and several senior military attachés finally reached an agreement and determined the tactics of the officers and men -- it was decided to use a small number of troops to contain the soldiers and horses of Ma Shouying, and then attack Gao Yingxiang and Li Zicheng's soldiers and horses head-on with the main force. The combat effectiveness of officers and men is stronger than that of the thieves, and as long as Ma Shouying's soldiers and horses are pinned down and cannot support Gao and Li, it is believed that more than 20,000 officers and soldiers will be able to defeat the thieves of Gao and Li.

However, on the issue of who to send to contain Lao Hui and Ma Shouying, the discussion fell into a quagmire.

Everyone knows that it is not a good thing to contain Ma Shouying. Ma Shou should have 5,000 foot soldiers and 3,000 cavalry, which is quite combative. Any reinforcement of soldiers and horses with two or three thousand officers and soldiers can entangle him, but the price to be paid is also obvious -- that is, it may have to sacrifice hundreds or even thousands of people. Moreover, this kind of headwind battle is generally fought very hard, even if it persists until the main force defeats Gao and Li, I am afraid that the soldiers and horses responsible for containing the enemy army will not be able to achieve much combat success, and they will not be able to take the head of a few thieves.

What's more, with a small number of soldiers and horses against 8,000 thieves, if the team is accidentally overwhelmed by the thieves, it will collapse, and a small life may not be saved.

No one was willing to do such drudgery, so Lu Xiangsheng asked the military attachés to take the initiative to ask for help. A bunch of military attachés were silent for a long time, and not a single one came out to ask for their lives.

Lu Xiangsheng stroked his beard and sighed: "No one wants to contribute to the country and be the mainstay of this?" ”

The generals looked at each other, nose and heart, and no one spoke.

Seeing that no one was willing to be a containment force, Zu Kuan, the chief military officer of Liaodong, said: "Your Excellency, although this tactic can gather the main force to attack the enemy and defeat the thieves in one fell swoop, it has too high requirements for containing troops. It's not that the subordinates are prevaricating, but they are really afraid that they will be overwhelmed by the old Huihui if they can't contain it, so it's better to think of other tactics? ”

Lu Xiangsheng said dissatisfiedly: "This tactic can defeat the puppet king Gao Yingxiang in one fell swoop, deter other thieves, and make them afraid of our officers and soldiers, which will greatly benefit the future battle." Otherwise, when will all the thieves be wiped out? What's more, Cao Wenzhao, the chief soldier, died at the hands of thieves a few months ago, and the officers and soldiers all over the world were terrified, and now the morale of the army is low, and even some officers and soldiers dare not fight in the face of thieves. If you don't defeat Gao Yingxiang head-on, if you don't stand up here, it will be difficult to succeed in the plan to suppress the thief! ”

Hearing Lu Xiangsheng's words, all the generals were silent. Although the current officers and troops are full of troops, their morale is indeed low, and they need to be strong.

But the prime minister's tactics are good, but who wants to take such a big risk to do thankless drudgery? And this is not an ordinary chore, only soldiers and horses with strong combat strength can take this job. If you don't have the ability, you will lose your life if you are crushed by the old Huihui.

Lu Xiangsheng stroked his beard and looked at the silent generals who bowed their heads and frowned.

Is it true that no one is willing to come forward to contain the old man?

After a long time, Lu Xiangsheng sighed and was about to speak, but he heard a voice from the back of the big tent:

"The soldiers and horses of the subordinate officials are willing to do this to contain the troops!"

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