Chapter 330: Releasing Water on the Western Front

Unconsciously, the pace of time has quietly entered the first month of the big Tuesday year, and at the same time, it has also entered the New Year of the 14th year of the mite Qingkang Mazi. 【】

For these Eight Banners parasites in the capital who are accustomed to sucking the blood, sweat, sweat, wine, and entertainment of Chinese compatriots, this is undoubtedly an extremely difficult and bleak New Year, and all the adult bannermen have been conscripted into the army, and when they go to the south and Shaanxi and Gansu to fight with endless anti-thieves from all walks of life, most of them are dead or injured or missing or their lives and deaths are unknown, and the remaining old, weak, sick and disabled, women and children are struggling to survive, and they have not received the double salary of their husbands and sons for the New Year as in previous years, and they have to bear the soaring prices of rice, grain and prices. All of them are tightly counting the rice grains in the pot, and there is not much meat on Chinese New Year's Eve, and there are no new clothes and shoes on the first day of the new year. There are also many girls from mite families who are even more miserable, because Ama was conscripted into the army, so when she got married, she couldn't find anyone to dedicate her first night.

Compared with the Han people, the parasites of the Eight Banners are actually lucky, and the poor Han people in Gyeonggi, Zhili and Shandong are living hard. Due to population growth, land overexploitation and climate change, etc., Zhili Shandong has long been unable to achieve food production, coupled with the fact that Caoyun was cut off by Lu Fatzi, who killed a thousand knives, and the heavy burden of feeding the Mites Qing Imperial Court, hundreds of thousands of Eight Banner parasites and the Mites Qing Southern Expedition Army, all of them were transferred to them, not to mention the extremely harsh taxes and labor, and they had to be economically plundered by the military coins issued by the Mites Qing Dynasty, and they had to be exploited and looted by corrupt officials and corrupt officials. The vast majority of the people had no food in their homes.

Prices have skyrocketed, and a biscuit that a big man could buy now generally sells for 50 wen a piece, 20 wen copper coins for a pair of cloth shoes, and now it costs at least one tael of silver - if it is a military coin, it will cost three taels. The body of the Huanghua girl is not worth five catties of grain, the life of the Han people is not as good as a lame donkey, especially in remote and poor places, there has been a tragedy of cannibalism. The common people complained bitterly, and the local officials were desperately searching and pondering how to surrender to the anti-thieves, and the Qing court was all worried, all of them were counting on Yue Le's southern expeditionary army to exterminate the Jiangnan anti-thieves as soon as possible, and re-open the Cao Yun, so that the parasites of the Eight Banners could return to the good days of parasitic blood sucking from the Han people across the country.

As for Kang Mazi, after having to completely suspend the work of Chengde Summer Resort and Changchun Garden, all of Kang Mazi's hopes were pinned on Uncle Yue Le alone, otherwise, if Wu Laohan, Geng Jingzhong and Lu Fatzi were not killed, the economic collapse would collapse and Kang Mazi would collapse! No, Yue Le's army had just arrived at the edge of the Yellow River, and Kang Mazi had already issued an order, urging Yue Le to cross the river as soon as possible and fight a decisive battle with Lu Fatzi.

Receiving Kang Mazi's holy decree urging the decisive battle of crossing the river, Yue Le could only smile bitterly, and promised to give himself half a year, and now how much time has passed to urge, and in a few months, he will not be ordered to send troops with thirteen gold medals every day? But fortunately, the accurate news that the Fat Army and Geng Jingzhong's army had turned against each other had reached Yue Le's army, and Yue Le had to write the good news of Lu Geng's rebellion into a recital, and send it to the capital to hand over to Kang Mazi urgently, temporarily stabilizing the military straw bag Kang Mazi, and at the same time sending people to contact Shang Shan Tuhai, so that they could organize the Qing army on the Western Front to release water as soon as possible, so that Xia Guoxiang could enter Jiangnan and Lu Fatzi to merge.

In addition, Yue Le, who knew the magic of combining vertical and horizontal, had to send a secret envoy to the south to try to get in touch with Geng Jingzhong's army, and secretly joined forces with the north and south to flank Lu Fatzi.

It was also at this time that the lame one-legged Tuhai and the light cavalry team of the mite Qing Beile Shangshan finally arrived at the first line of the battle between the Qing army on the Western Front and the Xia State of the Wu Army - Anqing City. And when passing through Luzhou on the way, Shang Shan Tuhai had also conveyed Yue Le's order to Jieshu, the prince of Kang, who was stationed here, ordering Jieshu to send troops east into Chuzhou and directly threaten Nanjing City, the base camp of Lu Fatzi - the key is not to let the grumpy and high-ranking Jieshu make trouble on the western front.

In the face of Yue Le's strategic deployment, although Jie Shu questioned it, worried that the Qing army's forces would be too dispersed, Tuhai and Shang Shan coaxed Jie Shu to say that Yue Le's move was to disperse Lu Fatzi's troops, so that Lu Fatzi's four major armies could fight separately and could not support each other's rescue, so that the Qing army could break through. Jie Shu felt that it also made sense, and he hated the enemy Lu Fatzi who killed his son and cut off his fingers, Jie Shu still didn't say anything, and immediately agreed to send troops east as soon as possible, and personally commanded the main force of the Qing army in Luzhou to Chuzhou to wait for his life.

Tuhai monk Shan arrived at Anqing City, and the mite Qing Zhennan general Niyahan, the commander of the water division, Gente Batulu, and the governor of Anhui, Jin Fu, naturally led the city's Chinese military officials to meet them outside the city, and Shuncheng Belle Erjin, who was stationed in Tongling, received the order in advance, leaving his deputy Shu Shu to temporarily lead the army, and had also rushed to Anqing to join his former comrades. When the old friends who went south together to conquer Yungui met, things were different from people, and the grades of titles were also very different, so naturally they had to sigh and sigh.

"General Niyahan, where is the army of Wu Dog Xia Guoxiang?" Tu Hai was also relatively practical, and before he had time to enter the city, he asked Ni Yahan, the commander of the Qing army in Anqing, about the situation of the Wu army.

"On the twenty-ninth day of the lunar month, Wu Gou Xia Guoxiang and Ma Bao met in Wangjiang, and spent the New Year there." Ni Yahan quickly replied: "Three days ago, on the second day of the first lunar month, two teams of Wu dogs marched east side by side from the north and south banks of the Yangtze River. Ma Bao dog thieves marched very cautiously, and Xia Guoxiang has always maintained a synchronous tone, and at present, Xia Guoxiang and Xia Guoxiang have set up large camps on the north and south banks of Huangshiji, so it is not ruled out that Xia Guoxiang dog thieves crossed the river at the ferry. ”

"It is also possible that the Mabao dog thief crossed the river to the south bank, followed the example of Lu Yifeng's dog thief, and bypassed Anqing City to kill Jiangning by land." Anhui Governor Jin Fu added.

"If that's the case, we'll be relieved." Tu Hai sighed: "It's a pity that with Xia Guoxiang's consistent conservative style of using soldiers, let him take this dangerous move, regardless of the grain road and retreat to attack Jiangnan, he doesn't have the courage yet." ”

"Don't worry, Lord Tu, Xia Guoxiang's dog thief is indeed inferior to Lu Yifeng's dog thief." Zhangtai Bei Ziye, who had not shown up for a long time, said with a smile: "Before we arranged more than 2,000 troops to defend in Pengze and Xiaogushan, it was to block his 70,000 army for 12 days, and from the Xia Guoxiang dog thief fought Nanchang for more than five months, this dog thief must be very bad at tackling tough battles, our Qing army in Anqing has a strong city to defend, and there are sufficient troops and grain and grass, and there is absolutely no problem in blocking the road of Xia Guoxiang's dog thief and Lu Yifeng's dog thief. ”

Tuhai mung bean rolled his eyes, glanced at Zhangtai, and then glanced at Ni Yahan, Ni Yahan understood, and whispered in Tu Hai's ear: "Don't blame Lord Tu, the general's order, the last general didn't dare to let Bei Ziye know, for fear that he would repeat the mistakes of Jiujiang and miss the major events of our army." ”

Tu Hai understood, understanding that Hekang Mazi was a military straw bag with goods all the way Once Zhangtai knew Yue Le's order, and knew that Yue Le ordered the Anhui Qing army to deliberately release water, there was a chance that there would be no tricks, and Ni Yahan would hide him from him rather than let him make trouble. At the moment, Tuhai didn't say much, just urged everyone to hurry into the city and station, and by the way, he asked Le Erjin about the battle in Taipingfu, and Le Erjin told Tuhai sullenly, saying that he had gathered 40,000 troops to attack Taipingfu, besieged Wei and rescued Zhao to relieve the crisis in Zhejiang, but because the fat army rockets were sharp, they didn't even see the walls of Taipingfu City, and the forward team was beaten by Han Daren in the field battle as soon as they arrived in Wuhu City, and they lost more than 3,000 troops and were forced to return to the division.

"Han Daren has a lot of rockets in the army of dog thieves?" Tu Hai was most concerned about this question, and hurriedly asked: "Lebel, then in the battle between you and Han Daren in Wuhu, how many rockets did Han Daren use in the dog thief?" ”

"At least three thousand rounds, and another one hundred and fifty or sixty pieces of artillery were put into service." Le Erjin replied helplessly: "Fortunately, I was on guard and seized the Baima Mountain Heights in southwest Wuhu in time, limited the flat firing power of Wugou rockets, and scattered the army, so I only lost more than 3,000 people, otherwise, the loss of troops would definitely be more than this number." Later, I saw that the situation was not good, so I had to order the Chinese army and the rear army to turn around and retreat, and did not continue to touch the hard nails. ”

"Three thousand rockets? One hundred and fifty or sixty guns? Tu Hai shuddered, and said in his heart that Lu Yifeng is only a legion of dog thieves, does he have so many firearms, and the four legions go into battle together, how many rockets and artillery are there, do we dare to imagine? If we don't quickly find a way to deal with these firearms, will our Qing army and Lu Yifeng's dog thieves still dare to fight in the field?

Entering Anqing City, Ni Yahan and Jin Fu and other land snakes had to put on a banquet to entertain Shang Shan, Tuhai and Le Erjin three guests from afar, but forced to the current situation has reached this point, although the banquet is still luxurious and extravagant, the atmosphere in the banquet is quite depressing, everyone is not much to say, only Zhangtai Bei Ziye is foaming at the mouth, constantly taking out the Qing army to collect the information that Xia Guoxiang is attacking Nanchang, Pengze and other cities is slow to laugh, and there is to laugh at Xia Guoxiang's preference and voice, Every place must first collect beautiful dancing girls, and the army will bring dozens or hundreds of singing and dancing concubines at any time, but they will be lazy but neglected military affairs.

At the end, Zhangtai Bei Ziye also patted his chest and assured that the Anqing Qing army would inevitably suffer enough under the impregnable Anqing City of Xia Guoxiang, so that Xia Guoxiang and Lu Fatzi's dream of meeting together would be completely shattered! Tu Hai had no choice but to give Shang Shan, Le Erjin and others a look, and asked them to join forces to pour wine into Zhangtai, until Zhangtai was drunk and crawled on the table without waking up, and the banquet hall finally quieted down.

"General Ni, Jin Zhongcheng, Lebele, General Ghent." Without the troubles of Zhangtai Bei Ziye, Tuhai drove away the personal soldiers and maids who were waiting for the marquis, and then turned the conversation to the point, and said straight to the point: "Xiaguan and Shang Beile came to Anqing on the orders of Prince An, and nominally said that they came to understand the military situation on the Western Front in the Jiangnan battlefield, but what is it actually for, I think you all know very well - to put it mildly, I am here to supervise and command you to release water to the dog thieves of Xia Guoxiang!" ”

The banquet hall was silent, and the four commanders of the Qing army on the Western Front, Leerjin, Niyahan, Ghent Baturu and Jin Fu were silent and did not dare to speak. Seeing this scene, Shang Shan opened his mouth and said: "The three generals, Lord Zhongcheng, I believe that you must be very difficult to understand the secret order of Prince An, the western front obviously has a great hope of blocking the eastward advance of the dog thief of Xia Guoxiang, why do you take the initiative to release water, deliberately let Xia Guoxiang break through the cities along the way, and let this dog thief enter Jiangnan and join Lu Yifeng dog thief?" ”

"To be honest, I had a hard time understanding it at first." Shang Shan continued: "But after thinking about it carefully, I feel that Prince An's hand is extremely clever, how powerful the firearms of the Wu Dog army are, you all know, not to mention anything else, just Wu Gou's three good rockets, as long as the number is sufficient, in the field battle, we don't care about the infantry and cavalry, don't think about rushing into the one mile in front of the Wu Dog formation, what to fight?" There are also the soldiers of our Qing army, the elite is basically gone, and they are all lost in Guizhou, Huguang and Jiangxi, even if Wu Gou has no firearms, real knives and real guns and Wu Gou's elite hand-to-hand combat, there is not much chance of winning. ”

"So there's no way." Tu Hai added for Shang Shan: "Since we can't beat Wu Gou, we just let Wu Gou kill each other, deliberately let Xia Guoxiang's dog thieves enter Jiangnan, let Xia Guoxiang and Lu Yifeng, two dog thieves, fight in Jiangnan in the dark, consume their firearms and army, and when they lose both, we will take advantage of the fisherman!" ”

"You must ask, why did Prince An conclude that when the Xia Guoxiang dog thief entered Jiangnan, he would definitely fight with Lu Yifeng's dog thief?" Shang Shan said again: "Now I can tell you for Prince An, Prince An is absolutely sure, and we are absolutely sure!" Judging from what Lu Yifeng's dog thief did in Jiangnan, this dog thief must already have the ambition of the world, and he is already preparing to betray Wu Sangui's old thief to stand on his own, and fight the world with Wu Sangui's old thief and our Qing court. That is, to make the two of them kill each other. ”

"What about the evidence?" Jin Fu, the governor of Anhui, finally spoke, and asked in a deep voice: "Master Tu, Shang Beile, what evidence do you have for believing that the dog thief of Xia Guoxiang will be in a fight with Lu Yifeng's dog thief?" ”

"Lu Yifeng's dog thief would rather send troops south to fight Zhejiang than send troops to the west to meet Xia Guoxiang, this is the evidence." Tu Hai replied: "Otherwise, Jin Zhongcheng, you can think about it, if Lu Yifeng's dog thief is really loyal to Wu Sangui's old thief, what is the most correct choice after he gains a foothold in Jiangnan?" Should we send troops to the west, open up land communication with Wu Sangui's old thief, strengthen the strength of Wu Gou in the south of the Yangtze River, and wait for the opportunity to launch the Northern Expedition? But he chose to send troops to Zhejiang, isn't this ironclad evidence that he tried to betray Wu Sangui and become a thief? ”

"But tactically speaking, it's not wrong for Lu Yifeng to send troops to Zhejiang?" Ni Yahan hesitated and said: "In order to exterminate Geng Jingzhong's dog thieves, our Qing Dynasty has deployed heavy troops in Zhejiang, and his southern front is in crisis, and his sending troops to Zhejiang to weaken our Qing army is also a correct tactical choice?" On what basis did he conclude that he had the self-reliance to betray Wu Sangui's old thief? ”

"Yes, it can be explained." Tu Hai nodded, and asked again: "Then it has been nearly a month since Lu Yifeng's dog thief returned to the division, and the news of Xia Guoxiang's dog thief's expedition to the east should have reached his ears, why is he still standing still on the western front and refusing to send a soldier to meet Xia Guoxiang's dog thief's eastward advance?" ”

"I heard that it's because this dog thief and Geng Jingzhong's dog thief have turned their faces." Jin Fu replied: "The accurate information we sent to Jiangning is that Huang Kun, the messenger of Geng Jingzhong's dog thief, was rude in words and deeds, molested one of Lu Yifeng's concubines, and forced Lu Yifeng's concubine to commit suicide, which completely angered Lu Yifeng's dog thieves, and Lu Yifeng's dog thieves were ready to start a war with Geng Jingzhong's dog thieves, so he couldn't spare his hands to send troops to meet Xia Guoxiang's dog thieves. ”

"And this?" Because he had been on the way to Anqing on a detour, Tuhai and Shangshan really hadn't heard the news. After listening to Jin Fu's detailed introduction, Tu Hai immediately scolded the case, "The Lu Yifeng dog thief, really deceitful!" Let's not talk about whether this news is true or not, even if it is true, Geng Jingzhong's messenger is just an excuse to send him to the door, and now he is fighting with Geng Jingzhong's dog thief, which not only occupies morality, so that Geng Jingzhong has nothing to say, but also has an excuse not to send troops to the Western Front, so that Xia Guoxiang will continue to fight alone and will not be able to enter Jiangnan! ”

"It's ......." Niyahan and Jin Fu were still a little worried. But at this moment, Le Erjin, who had not spoken, suddenly spoke: "Don't say it, I have ironclad evidence in my hand, which can prove that Lu Yifeng's dog thief is unwilling to join Xia Guoxiang's dog thief, and he desperately hopes that we will stop Xia Guoxiang and even run away." ”

"Lord Belle, do you have evidence in your hands?" Ni Yahan and Jin Fu were both greatly surprised, and Tuhai and Shang Shan were extremely surprised-before, they were most worried about this Le Erjin, worried that he would not be able to pay attention to Yue Le's subtlety of using thieves to control thieves, and vigorously opposed Yue Le's strategy, but they never dreamed that Le Erjin would help them speak.

"To be honest, I also thought Lord An's order was ridiculous." Le Erjin said slowly: "We obviously hope to stop Xia Guoxiang's dog thief and stop him and Lu Yifeng from being a dog thief, why do we deliberately release water?" What if after the Xia Guoxiang dog thief enters Jiangnan, Jiangnan Wu Dog's power is even stronger? However, an incident that happened a few days ago made me understand that Prince An's decision was correct. ”

"What happened the other day?" Everyone hurriedly asked.

"A Jiangning businessman came to me and wanted to sell me a batch of Wu Gou's rockets and grenades." Le Erjin snorted coldly: "Although the merchant explained that his rockets and grenades were smuggled out and sold by General Wu Dog, and he promised to give me free samples first, I still immediately understood that this must be the instruction of Lu Yifeng's dog thief, and I want our Qing army to have firearms to resist Xia Guoxiang's dog thief, and continue to use him as a free shield!" ”

"And this?" Tuhai and the others exclaimed.

Le Erjin didn't speak, reached out to his waist and took out a grenade and threw it on the table, sneering: "Look, this is the grenade sample that Jiangning merchant gave me, and he also offered a low price of three taels of silver!" Fuck Lu Yifeng's dog thief, take Ben Baylor for a fool? Lao Tzu sent people into Jiangning several times before, and he couldn't buy a piece of ten taels of silver, but this will kill the dog thief of Xia Guoxiang with all his might, and the cheap grenade will be sent to the door, there is such a coincidence in the world? It's not that Lao Tzu's meticulous work hasn't tried to sneak into Wu Gou's firearms camp, but he can't even touch the edges, a mere private businessman, can he get so many grenade rockets so smoothly? ”

"General Ni, Jin Zhongcheng, did you see it?" Tu Haixi said: "This is the deceit of Lu Yifeng's dog thief, in order to let us block the Xia Guoxiang dog thief, and even do not hesitate to steal and sell firearms to our Qing army, if we fall into his plan and stop the Xia Guoxiang dog thief for him, it is equivalent to being a watchdog for him!" ”

Ni Yahan and Jin Fu are not stupid, and they have long understood the deceitful and vicious nature of Lu Fatzi, and when they saw the ironclad evidence presented by Le Erjin, Ni Yahan and Jin Fu finally completely relieved their hearts, nodded together, and began to waver. Seeing that the time was ripe, Tu Hai hurriedly took out two warrants from his arms, handed them to Ni Yahan and Le Erjin respectively, and said in a deep voice: "General Ni, Lord Belle, please take it, this is the handwritten warrant that Prince An ordered you to release water to the dog thief of Xia Guoxiang, let the dog thief of Xia Guoxiang enter Jiangnan, if the two Wu dog armies are on fire, you return these two warrants to Prince An." If Prince An miscalculates, Xia Guoxiang's dog thief and Lu Yifeng's dog thief do not merge, and the court will investigate your dereliction of duty - how to use these two warrants, I believe there is no need to explain it to the lower officials, right? ”

Of course, Tu Hai doesn't need to explain, Le Erjin, Ni Yahan and others are very clear that Yue Le is gambling on his net worth, if he wins the bet, it is fine, if he loses the bet, then all the responsibility is borne by Yue Le alone, and it has nothing to do with anyone! Secretly admiring Yue Le's selflessness, Le Erjin and Ni Yahan both nodded together, carefully put away the warrant, and then said: "Master Tu, you give the order, how to let the Xia Guoxiang dog thief enter Jiangnan, you can arrange it." ”

"Master Tu, forgive me for saying a few more words." Jin Fu hurriedly interjected and said: "Since Prince An has made up his mind, then as a subordinate, he naturally does not dare to object, but no matter what city and state capital are abandoned, only this Anqing City must not be given up!" The specific reason must be very clear to you, Anqing is the largest granary in Anhui, and it is also the general granary of our army on the western front of the Jiangnan battlefield in the Qing Dynasty, and it is absolutely impossible for the grain and grass in the city to be transferred to other cities within ten days and a half months, and in addition to the Chizhou capital city near Anqing, which must be abandoned, there is no big city to store grain, and it can only stay in Anqing City to ensure safety. ”

"Not bad." Ni Yahan hurriedly echoed: "Anqing is too important, we must not give up, we can only let the Xia Guoxiang dog thief bypass Anqing City from the south bank of the Yangtze River, as for the cities of Chizhou, Qingyang and Nanling, they can all be abandoned." ”

"It's not easy." Tu Hai frowned, and muttered: "Anqing is the gateway to the south of the Yangtze River, tightly choking the throat of the Yangtze River, the grain route of the dog thief of the Xia State must pass under the city of Anqing, if you don't take Anqing down, with his person, I'm afraid you don't have the courage to bypass Anqing and kill Jiangnan directly." ”

"Jin Zhongcheng and General Ni can send someone to contact Xia Guoxiang's dog thief." Le Erjin suggested: "Tell Xia Guoxiang directly that the dog thief can draw a river with him as a boundary, let him pass under Anqing City, and guarantee that his grain ships and military ships will not be stopped afterwards, so that his grain and grass baggage can be successfully transported to the front line." ”

"Will Xia Guoxiang's dog thief believe it?" Niyahan said with a wry smile: "For no reason, he proposed to draw the river as a boundary, give up the road on the south bank and guarantee not to intercept his grain route, and the dog thief of Xia Guoxiang must not suspect that we are laying a trap waiting for him to jump?" ”

"Just say that you have a grudge against me, and you want to borrow his hand to kill me." Le Erjin said impatiently: "The Tongling Mansion where I am stationed is also blocked on his way to the east, and the Xia Guoxiang dog thief will definitely have to fight with me when he advances eastward, you say that you plan to borrow his hand to kill me, he should believe that when he attacks Tongling, I will retreat to the north bank of the Yangtze River and give way to him." ”

Speaking of this, Le Erjin paused again and added: "If the Xia Guoxiang dog thief still doesn't believe it, you will give him hostages, hand over your son to the Xia Guoxiang dog thief, and let the Xia Guoxiang dog thief enter Jiangnan smoothly and then release your son, anyway, you will not lose your trust, as long as the Xia Guoxiang dog thief is trustworthy, your son will not be in danger." ”

Ni Yahan and Jin Fu stopped talking again, Le Erjin was taking their son at risk, so naturally they couldn't agree in one go. Tuhai said: "Don't mention the hostage in advance, send an envoy to contact Xia Guo first, and then talk about it, just do it according to Lord Belle's idea, saying that you deliberately let him go to Lord Belle to settle accounts, so you are willing to lend him the road." Next, how to make Xia Guoxiang trust you completely, I will find a way. ”

Ni Yahan and Jin Fu finally nodded, and agreed to Tuhai's arrangement together, and then Jin Fu immediately went to find a tongue warrior who could speak well as an envoy, and prepared to send Xia Guoxiang to the army, Ni Yahan and Tuhai and others also dispersed to prepare letters and gifts, and also considered how to make Xia Guoxiang rest assured to bypass Anqing and go straight to Jiangnan. As for Zhangtai Bei Ziye, who was drunk on the table, no one looked at him at all, but just asked his subordinates to carry him back to the room to rest.

What Tu Hai and the others never dreamed of was that Zhangtai Bei Ziye, who had just gone out on their front feet and was snoring like thunder on the table, suddenly opened his eyes, and continued to snore while sneering in a low voice, "Okay, I said that no wonder I have to pour my wine, and secretly talk to each other, it turns out that I want to hide from me to do such a good deceit!" ”

"Humph! Fortunately, Ben Beizi is familiar with military books, knows Tao Strategy, and has an amazing amount of alcohol - he went to the toilet just now and spit out some wine, otherwise, Ben Beizi would have missed a great opportunity to expose the ministers of the DPRK for his master. ”

(To be continued)