It's night, Wang Pu's big tent.

Wang Pu called Xiao Qi and asked, "Xiao Qi, how many firearms are there in the camp?" ”

Xiao Qi is Wang Pu's cronies, and he is in charge of the military rations and salaries in the army, so he took out an account book from his arms and looked at it, and replied: "Counting the bird guns, fire guns, and three-eyed guns, there are more than 2,300 firearms in the camp, but ......."

"But how?"

"But there are only a thousand that can really be used."

Wang Pu said angrily: "What's going on, why are less than half of the firearms available?" ”

Xiao Qi said aggrievedly: "General, you forgot, you said that it costs too much money to maintain these firearms, so they were thrown in the warehouse and no one cared for them, so more than half of the firearms were rusty and could not be used." ”

"Okay, if there are 1,000 firearms, then send someone to collect all these firearms, and then match twice the amount of fire and lead pellets according to the number." Wang Pu frowned and said, "In addition, gather all the family members, oh yes, and distribute three days of dry food per person." ”

Xiao Qi was stunned and said, "Now? ”

"Yes." Wang Pu said in a deep voice, "Now, it's too late." ”

This is not nonsense, Hong Chengchou is still thinking about a decisive battle with the Qing army tomorrow, but Tang Tong and Wu Sangui must have been thinking about escaping overnight, and as soon as these guys escape, the Qing soldiers will take the opportunity to attack, and it will be too late at that time, so we must act before Tang Tong and Wu Sangui escape.

"Okay, the villain will do it."

Xiao Qi nodded and took the order.

Half an hour later, Xiao Qi summoned more than 1,000 families to the school field.

Wang Pu looked around, under the firelight as bright as day, more than a thousand cavalry were looking at him for a moment, these more than 1,000 cavalry were all Wang Pu's cronies, all of them were the elite of the elite, in their eyes, there was only Wang Pu as the master, and there was no Ming Empire. The Jiading army is a special group in the Ming army, and it is a deformed product in the evolution of the military system of the Ming army.

[Here it is necessary to briefly introduce the military system of the Ming Empire:

After Zhu Yuanzhang established the Ming Empire, he created the world military system, incorporated the country's army into the local guards, and distributed the fields to the fields according to the head to implement the tuntian army, which not only solved the army's food and salary supply, but also defended the locality, the world military system did play an important role in the early days, but with the passage of time, the disadvantages of the world military system were gradually exposed, some officers wantonly occupied the fields and property, and the public resources of the guards were privately owned, and the military households at the bottom gradually became slaves exploited by officers at all levels.

By the time of the Jiajing period, the shortage of soldiers in various places had been as high as more than 70 percent, and most of the remaining 30 percent who did not escape were old, weak, sick and disabled, and they could not afford to fight.

In order to replenish the soldiers, the rulers of the Ming Dynasty had to adopt other methods, so there was a conscription system, and the conscription system was soon replaced by the conscription system because of the uneven quality of the recruited soldiers, and by the late Ming Dynasty, conscription had become the main force of the army.

Unfortunately, the conscription system also has incurable congenital defects.

They are only willing to spend money on private troops, and are not willing to spend money on the state-owned standing army, so the standing army of the Ming Empire generally has various problems such as insufficient soldiers, lax armament, lack of training, etc., which will lead to repeated defeats of the Ming army.

The most typical is the battle of Sarhu, the Ming army claimed to be 200,000, but in fact there were 70,000 or 80,000 at most. In fact, even if it was a four-way division of troops, even if the troops were at an absolute disadvantage, if it weren't for the fact that the Ming army was rotten to the bones, with only the 50,000 or 60,000 backward Eight Banner soldiers in Houjin at that time, Nurhachi would not be able to win the battle of Sarhu even if he had the ability to penetrate the heavens and the earth. 】

Seeing that the more than 1,000 family members were full of energy and fierce momentum, Wang Pu nodded with satisfaction and asked Xiao Qidao beside him: "Have the firearms and dry food been distributed?" ”

"It's all delivered." Xiao Qi nodded and said, "Two portions of fire yao lead pills per person, and three servings of dry food." ”

"The horse's mouth is all covered?"

"It's all ready, and the horse's hooves are wrapped in cotton cloth." Xiao Qidao, "General, don't worry, you can't make a sound when marching at night, and the villain still knows this common sense." ”

"That's good." Wang Pu said, "Put out the torch and go." ”

Xiao Qi ran two steps, stood in front of the parade platform, and shouted at the top of his voice: "The general has an order, extinguish the torch and go!" ”

More than 1,000 people extinguished their torches, then turned over their horses, and surged towards the gate under the dark night sky, it was impossible for such a large scale of army movements to hide from the soldiers in the battalion, more and more soldiers ran out of the tents, these soldiers did not know what was happening, they began to speculate, and the uneasy atmosphere began to permeate the army.

"Captain Wait."

In the sound of hurried hooves, Zhao Wuzhu, the deputy chief soldier of Datong, drove his horse to catch up with Wang Pu, and asked excitedly: "Lord General Soldier, what are you doing here?" ”

"How?" Wang Pu said in a deep voice, "Is it possible for General Ben to send troops to ask you for instructions?" ”

"This ......," Zhao Wuzhu said, "Since the chief soldier is going to send troops, he should always let us know, and besides, if you leave with your own soldiers without saying a word, what should you do with the more than 10,000 brothers in the camp?" ”

Wang Pudao: "You are the deputy chief soldier of Datong Town, if this general dies in battle or goes out, of course the more than 10,000 brothers in the camp are under your command, do you still want this general to teach you such a simple military rule?" ”

Zhao Wuzhu said: "But ......"

Wang Pu shouted: "Don't talk nonsense, get out of the way." ”

Seeing the murderous intent in Wang Pu's eyes, Zhao Wuzhu couldn't help but shudder and rode his horse out of the way, Wang Pule turned his horse head and walked away, when he was about to leave the gate, Wang Pu still couldn't help but glance back, a trace of compassion flashed in his eyes, Wang Pu didn't want to abandon the more than 10,000 Ming soldiers in the camp, but he had no choice.

Beacon Hill is lost, and the defeat of Songshan is decided!

Hong Chengchou still wanted to fight to the death with the Qing army, but Tang Tong and Wu Sangui would not give him this opportunity at all, staying was death, and following Tang Tong and them to escape was also death!

The Manchu slave chieftain Taiji has already transferred troops to punish the generals, and sent a number of elite soldiers to guard the inevitable way for the Ming army to escape, the so-called defeat is like a mountain, once the Ming army begins to retreat, the whole army will lose their fighting spirit, only hate their father and mother to give birth to two legs, coupled with the Qing army's front and back chase, the tragedy in history will be repeated again.

Even if Wang Pu can escape from the chaos and escape back to Shanhaiguan, the fate that awaits him in the end can only be death, Emperor Chongzhen has never tolerated the generals of the defeated army, and the reason why Wu Sangui in history was able to escape death was because the Ming Empire at that time was really unavailable, and he could only rely on him to support the situation outside the Guan.

So, stay and defend Songshan with Hong Chengchou?

That's a dead end! The 130,000 troops under the command of Hong Chengchou are already the last mobile troops of the Ming Empire, and Emperor Chongzhen has not sent many troops to relieve the siege of Songshan.

Is it death to escape, stay or death, Wang Pu seems to have no way out?

In fact, otherwise, Wang Pu still had one way to go, that is, to surprise attack the capital of the Manchu Qing Dynasty - Shengjing, and then make a detour to North Korea to seize the ship and go to sea, and return to Dengzhou by sea. As long as Wang Pu can capture Shengjing, the old nest of Jiannu and grab one thing, it will be enough to offset the great crime of defeating Songshan, and Wang Pu will still be able to be his Datong commander in peace.

Of course, the surprise attack on Shengjing can be said to be extremely dangerous, and it is by no means too much to describe it as a life of nine deaths, but at least there is a glimmer of life!

The current Datong general soldier Wang Pu was born in a gangster, and it has never been his style of doing things to sit back and wait for death, and it has never been his style of doing things.

Since it is a surprise attack, what is important is the word "strange", and it depends on winning by surprise, and if you want to win by surprise, you need to hide your traces and advance quickly, so Wang Pu can't bring more than 10,000 soldiers in the camp. The reason is actually very simple, after bringing these more than 10,000 soldiers, not only is it impossible to hide their traces, but also seriously delays the speed of the march.

There is a more important reason, the previous Wang Pu wantonly withheld military salaries and exploited soldiers, and the army had already complained about him, once these soldiers knew that Wang Pu was going to take them to attack the capital of Jiannu, it would definitely cause a mutiny. Rather than making a mistake at that time, it is better to cut through the mess now and directly abandon these more than 10,000 soldiers!

I can't bear the child's wolf!

Besides, Wang Pu left the camp with more than 1,000 family members, took advantage of the darkness to walk a few miles forward, and then turned into a low-lying land and lurked, not far in front of the Qing army camp, and then it was easy to be discovered by the Qing army, this time is a very moment, if Wang Pu did not guess wrong, the Qing army in the camp was afraid that it would have been waiting for a long time.

At this time, once it is discovered by the Qing army, it will be over.

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