As soon as he got out of the gate, Zhen Youcai couldn't wait to catch up with Wang Pu's footsteps, and asked in a low voice: "General, do you think about it again, you can't grab cattle, sheep and livestock, and Zhang Zi'an is the only one who is unlucky, and it has nothing to do with us. ”

Wang Pu stopped, turned around and asked, "Youcai, do you really think that the attack on Sanbula River is for Zhang Zi'an?" ”

Zhen Youcai was stunned and asked rhetorically, "Isn't it?" ”

"Of course not." Wang Pu shook his head and said in a heavy tone, "I seem to be doing this for Zhang Zi'an, but in fact, it is for the more than 10,000 Datong border troops, for the hundreds of thousands of people in Datong Mansion, and for ourselves. ”

"This ......," Zhen Youcai said confusedly, "I don't understand my humble position." ”

If you want to talk about playing with intrigue and tricks, Zhen Youcai can indeed be regarded as a good hand, but when it comes to planning royal plans, he is not so good, that is to say, Zhen Youcai can only be a dog-headed military advisor if he dies, and he will never be able to become a character like Wang Zuo Chen Ping, because he has no strategic vision.

As for Wang Pu, he seems to be just a person with a very bloody surname and a lot of righteousness but no brains, but in fact, Wang Pu hides a not simple head under the seemingly simple surface.

Wang Pu's blood surname and righteousness will only be shown to his life and death brothers and lovers, in order to protect his brothers and lovers, Wang Pu even does not hesitate to sacrifice himself when necessary, such an approach is considered by many people to be idiots, fools, and impulses, but Wang Pu does not think so, he has his own principles.

So sometimes, Wang Pu looks like a brainless reckless man!

However, when Wang Pu faces the enemy, he will change to a completely different face in the blink of an eye, he will bring his cold and cruel side to the extreme, he will become more ferocious than a wolf, more cunning than a fox, this is not empty words.

In the battle of Songshan, Wang Pu keenly found out the fatal flaw of Jiannu, and stabbed the heart of Jiannu Shengjing with surprise soldiers, so that Jiannu's siege of Songshan and Jinzhou fell short.

In the eyes of Jiannu and the Mongols, Wang Pu was definitely a murderous and cunning devil.

Therefore, it is difficult to tell what kind of person Wang Pu is, in short, Wang Pu is Wang Pu, sometimes it seems very simple, but sometimes it doesn't look like that at all, for example, now, Zhen Youcai doesn't think as far as Wang Pu, he doesn't know what Wang Pu thinks in his heart?

Looking at Zhen Youcai, who was full of confusion, Wang Pu asked, "Youcai, you really can't figure it out?" ”

Zhen Youcai shook his head honestly and replied, "I really don't understand." ”

"Okay." Wang Pu nodded and said, "Then let me ask you, from the beginning of winter last year to the present, has it rained in the entire Datong Mansion and even in the entire Shanxi?" ”

Zhen Youcai nodded and said, "There is such a thing." ”

Wang Pu said again: "Originally, there should have been a heavy snowfall in winter, so that the drought in Shanxi and Datong would be alleviated, but now it is the sixth day of the first month, but there is still no sign of snow, right?" ”

Zhen Youcai nodded again.

The expression on Wang Pu's face began to become solemn, and then said: "Have you ever thought about what the consequences would be if there was no snow all winter and spring? ”

Zhen Youcai thought for a while and said in a low voice: "If this is the case, all the green seedlings sown by the people will die, and the wheat in the spring of next year will be harvested. ”

"Starving to death isn't the worst." Wang Pu said in a condensed voice, "I'm afraid that the thieves in Henan will send people, at that time, the hungry people in Shanxi have no way to live, and then people will be incited, and then people will definitely rise up, there is an old saying, there are no eggs under the nest, if even the whole Shanxi is in chaos, it is impossible for us to be alone." ”

Zhen Youcai finally understood Wang Pu's good intentions, but after thinking about it, he was still puzzled: "But there are millions of people in Shanxi, and it is far from enough to rely on the cattle and sheep of the Tumut people?" And aren't these cattle, sheep and livestock to be used to pay the soldiers of the border army? ”

Wang Pu said: "The border army soldiers want silver, not cattle and sheep, when the time comes, our Wang family will spend silver to buy back the cattle, sheep and livestock from the border army soldiers, as for whether these cattle and sheep are enough, we can only do our best to obey the destiny of heaven, we can't take care of other prefectures and counties, but Datong Mansion must not be chaotic!" ”

"Understood." Zhen Youcai nodded, and said solemnly, "I understand what the general means, Datong Mansion is the foundation of the general's foothold, and the people of Datong Mansion are the foundation of Datong Mansion, and these cattle, sheep and livestock are the rations of the people of Datong to survive this famine year, so we must drive them back at any cost." ”

"Yes." Wang Pu nodded heavily and said, "Datong is our foundation, at least for now. ”

However, this is not the only reason why Wang Pu decided to attack Sanbulachuan, there is another reason that Wang Pu did not say.

Another reason why Wang Pu categorically decided to attack Sanbula River is actually the original intention of Wang Pu to lead his troops to attack and naturalize, that is, to train troops!

Due to Zhang Zi'an's unauthorized actions, the time for the Horqin people to send troops was advanced by two whole days, so the plan for a decisive battle with the Mongolian cavalry at the Mituo Mountain Pass had been aborted, and if he gave up now and withdrew to Datong with the army, it would mean that this surprise attack and naturalization had failed, and Wang Pu had not achieved the goal of training troops at all.

Although outside the Naturalization City, Wang Pu has already taught these veteran ruffians and horse thieves a discipline lesson, but this can only play a role in restraining their discipline, and it is completely wishful thinking to fundamentally change the will quality of these veteran ruffians and horse thieves.

After returning to Datong, will these veteran ruffians and horse thieves be completely loyal to Wang Pu Don't think about it first, what worries Wang Pu the most is how long they can hold out in adversity? Although these veteran ruffians and horse thieves are very capable of fighting alone, they lack one important thing, and that is confidence!

The veteran ruffians are accustomed to losing battles, and when they see that something is wrong, they instinctively turn around and run away.

The horse thieves usually do what they do is to rob their homes, and their life creed is to survive first, and they will immediately shout when they see that the limelight is wrong.

It is not an easy task to make these "miscellaneous soldiers" more confident and not psychologically inferior in the face of the most powerful enemies.

The best way to develop faith is to fight more battles and win more battles!

If you can win a hundred battles in a row, even a group of rabble will become more confident, on the contrary, if you lose a hundred battles in a row, even the elite army will become a rabble.

If time permits, of course, Wang Pu can slowly cultivate the confidence of his army, but unfortunately Wang Pu does not have too much time, Emperor Chongzhen will not give him enough time, and Jiannu will not give him too much time.

An indisputable fact is that Jiannu's Eight Banners can be said to be the most powerful army in the world at this time, and Wang Pu, who is familiar with history, has a clear understanding of this, and he will never deceive himself, that is, if he can't train this army before Jiannu is killed next spring, everything will be over.

An army that lacks confidence will not be able to resist the attack of the Eight Banners no matter what!

All in all, there is not much time left for Wang Pu to train his troops, and there are not many objects that can be provided for Wang Pu's military training, the thieves are too far away from each other in the Central Plains, the Tumut people have collapsed, and Jiannu is the opponent that Wang Pu is most unwilling to touch now, it seems that Wang Pu has no other choice, he can only use the Horqin people to train his troops.

Although the Horqin people wear the title of the golden family on their heads, compared with their ancestors who once swept the world, they are not one or two points worse, and even the cavalry and archery advantage that the Mongols are proud of has disappeared, and it is extremely ironic that the cavalry and archery skills of the four thousand cavalry under Wang Pu are even more exquisite than those of the Horqin people!

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Zhang Zi'an made a bank.

Several lieutenants, staff generals, and guerrilla generals in Datong Town have been called to their tents, and in the confusion of the melee not long ago, most of these high-ranking generals changed into the uniforms of ordinary soldiers in order to flee for their lives, and some even smeared blood on their faces in an attempt to lie down in the pile of dead people and pretend to be dead.

Zhang Zi'an was pointing at their noses and scolding: "Look at your little bit of talent, a person who is not like a human ghost or a ghost, only more than 2,000 Mongolian soldiers chased you and killed more than 10,000 people, and then look at the soldiers of the horse master, less than 400 cavalry dared to chase 2,000 Mongolian soldiers to kill, our family is really ashamed of you!" ”

"Father-in-law, this can't be compared." There was a guerrilla general called Qu Dao, "The soldiers of the master of the horses can receive five hundred taels of silver in a battle, and with so much silver, of course they dare to play with their lives, but you look at the soldiers of the border army in Datong Town, the military salary is less than a few taels of silver all year round, and they are still dragging it out, who is willing to play with their lives?" ”

"Dare to talk back!" Zhang Zi'an said angrily, "You all listen to our family, you are limited to collect the defeated soldiers within half a day, and then collect all the cattle, sheep and livestock within two days, and within five days, you must drive these cattle and sheep across the Great Wall!" If anyone fails to play the task and drags his feet, then don't blame our family for turning their faces and being ruthless, hum! ”

Obviously, Zhang Zi'an is really ruthless, if he talks back to him again, then he will really find his own death, although this old eunuch is just a eunuch of the prison army, but he has the power of life and death in his hands, if anyone offends him, this old eunuch can just find an excuse to transfer Jinyi Wei to kill him!

Several generals agreed with a bang, and no one dared to excuse each other.

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On the edge of Haizi, not far from the border army camp, Wang Pu's 3,000 cavalry were drinking and resting.

The soldiers were gathering in groups to discuss the encounter with the Mongols just now, and the leader of the horse thieves had changed into a Ming army, and the general Cheng Cheng was even more spittle: "You came back late so you didn't collide, the situation at that time was really thrilling, the Mongols on the opposite side had a full 2,000 horsemen, but we only had less than 400 horsemen!" ”

"God, four hundred horsemen against two thousand horsemen, how can this battle be fought?"

"yes, this battle can't be fought at all!"

More than a dozen soldiers around Cheng Cheng put down the sheepskin bags in their hands and looked at Cheng Cheng with intent.

"Go, can't fight? That's what you cowards think! Cheng Bei showed an extremely disdainful expression on his face, and then said, "Our general doesn't think so, guess what the general said at that time?" ”

"What did the general say?"

"Old Cheng, say it quickly."

"What a grandma's death-threatening person."

More than a dozen soldiers urged one after another.

Cheng Cheng sold enough passes, only then did he learn Wang Pu's tone and shouted: "There is no one in our Ming Dynasty who is a bad man, even if he dies, he will [***] rise to the sky, and even if he dies, he will die on the way to the charge!" ”

"Well, well said!"

"What a grandma!"

The soldiers applauded.

Cheng Cheng also sighed: "Don't hide it from your brothers, the difference in strength at that time was too great, and our old Cheng was also weak in his heart and his legs were fluttering, but after listening to the general's words, the evil fire in his heart rose to the ground, and he rushed up with the general at that time, hey, it was really evil, and the two thousand Mongolian cavalry on the opposite side were actually scared away by us!" ”

"Fuck it, you dare to say it's thrilling?" A disdainful voice suddenly sounded from behind Cheng Yu, "It's even more thrilling that you haven't caught up." ”

"Who the fuck is smiling behind Lao Tzu's back?" Cheng Cheng got up very unhappily and turned around, and when he saw who the person behind him was, the expression on his face immediately turned a hundred and eighty degrees, and he smiled and said, "Yo, it turned out to be Brother Scar!" ”

Brother Scar is naturally Scarface.

Scarface snorted and said, "Just before you and the Black Tiger arrived with two hundred-man teams, the general had already taken us to fight the Mongolian cavalry for two rounds, and the Mongolian cavalry was still two thousand horsemen, but we only had one hundred and fifty horsemen in total!" According to what you just did, shouldn't Lao Tzu be so scared that he peed his pants? ”

"How can that?" Cheng Cheng said with a smile, "Brother Scar followed the general from the water and fire, what kind of big scene has he never seen, and he can still be scared by thousands of Mongolian cavalry?" ”

"Scarface, Cheng Xuan, the general is looking for you."

When Scarface wanted to say more, Xiao Qi suddenly galloped from a distance.

(To be continued)