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

Wu Shigong was talking and laughing with the officers and soldiers around him, when he suddenly heard someone shouting behind him. They hurriedly turned around, only to see Li Sanhe running over with more than a dozen personal soldiers.

There are also very strict rules of conduct in the Runing military camp, one of which is that unless it is an emergency, everyone is not allowed to ride or run in the camp, at most they can walk briskly. So seeing Li Sanhe running nervously, everyone's faces became serious.

The guards on the periphery immediately made way for Li Sanhe, and Li Sanhe ran to Wu Shigong's side and whispered to Wu Shigong: "My lord, those Shaanxi bandits who surrendered to Cheng confessed an important piece of information. The Shaanxi bandits not only have these people opposite us, they also 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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Wu Shigong came out of the tent where the peasant rebel cavalry was holding Tou Cheng with a heavy expression. Just now, Wu Shigong repeatedly asked the Toucheng cavalry all the details about the peasant rebels. However, the status of those defective cavalry in the peasant rebel army was not high, and they only knew that there were other peasant rebel armies taking other routes, but what was the specific route? How many people are there? These defective cavalry can't say why.

So as soon as he got out of the tent, Wu Shigong immediately instructed Tao Xin: "Go to Cunyi quickly, let him interrogate all the prisoners, and then report to me all the Shaanxi bandits." Also, call all the officers above the regimental commander to my big tent. ”

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"The Shaanxi bandits we faced were only more than 100,000 at the beginning. Later, two Shaanxi bandits were reinforced one after another, which increased to 300,000. So how many other bandits can be left? Do you think the Shaanxi bandits will really scatter beans into soldiers? Besides, are the other Ming troops all eating grass? When there were many bandits, they didn't dare to go up, and now when there are few people, don't they dare to go up? As long as they entangle the other Shaanxi bandits for a period of time, we can easily wipe out the Shaanxi bandits in front of us. Then go to reinforce the other Ming troops. ”

"You're a light fart. Now we know that only Zhang Xianzhong, the leader of the Shaanxi bandits, is famous, and the big leaders of the Shaanxi bandits, Gao Yingxiang and Luo Rucai, are not on this road, which shows that the strength of the other Shaanxi bandits is stronger than this road. In case they attack Runing in the south or Guide in the east, will we be able to hold on to the militia groups and Minzhuang who remain in the local area? Don't let us eat this small fish in front of us at that time, but our nest was taken by Shaanxi bandits. ”

"You two don't quarrel anymore! Let's be practical. Of course, defending the hometown is more important than eliminating the Shaanxi bandits on the other side. If you don't say it, everyone understands it! Let's talk about how we get home. Now we are entangled with the Shaanxi bandits on the opposite side, but the Shaanxi bandits on the opposite side are also entangled with us. We retreated recklessly, and what should we do if the Shaanxi bandits on the opposite side pressed over? Also, we are now retreating in an absolutely advantageous position, how can we explain it to our sons? If we let them know that our hometown is in danger, what if the morale of the army is in turmoil? What to do if the troops are scattered? ”

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Wu Shigong frowned tightly and listened to the arguing officers in the big tent. Suddenly. The door of the big tent was opened, and Xue Cunyi, who had gone to interrogate the prisoner, walked in. Seeing Xue Cunyi, all the officers immediately stopped arguing and waited for Xue Cunyi to tell the results of the interrogation.

Xue Cunyi did not delay, he immediately saluted Wu Shigong and said, "My lord! Fang Cai's subordinates took Erlang and tortured all the leaders of the Shaanxi bandits. These circumstances were revealed in response to the testimonials. ”

"Luckily, one of those leaders was a close confidant who was following the King of Chaos. He told me: On the twelfth day of the last month. The leaders of the Shaanxi bandits held a military meeting in Xingyang. But because its status is too low. He didn't know the details of the military discussion, but he only knew that the Shaanxi bandits had indeed decided to divide their troops in the military discussion. ”

"When I was in Xingyang, the number of Shaanxi bandits was indeed only about 300,000, but they were known as millions. However, the little leader also said that there were only 50,000 or 60,000 Shaanxi bandits on their southern road when they set out, but there were constantly chaotic bandits taking refuge along the way. So yujian was already more than 100,000 by the time we were. Therefore, the subordinates estimated that the total number of Shaanxi bandits should be between 600,000 and 700,000. ”

According to the interrogation, the Shaanxi bandits may have the following ways. all the way back to Shaanxi; all the way across the Yellow River into Shanxi; All the way to the center; All the way east into Kaifeng Mansion. The two roads into Shaanxi and Shanxi could not threaten our Runing Army, and the road in the center of the strategy basically came to reinforce the road in front of us. And Zhang Xianzhong, who came later, and these Shaanxi bandits turned back from the East Road to rescue. We've all been nailed here now. ”

"So the subordinates also calculated that the maximum number of Shaanxi bandits on the East Road is 150,000, and minus Zhang Xianzhong's, it is 100,000. Moreover, the soldiers and horses of the Shaanxi bandits are not all soldiers, they are all brought with their families, and the men who can fight also account for at most 30%. Therefore, the maximum number of Shaanxi bandits going to the east road now is 40,000 soldiers. ”

After listening to Xue Cunyi's report, everyone in the big tent breathed a sigh of relief. With the Iron Triangle and the southern mountains of Runing, it was absolutely impossible for the peasant rebels on the eastern road to attack Runing and Guide.

Moreover, after fighting with the peasant rebel army several times, the Runing Army found that the physical fitness and strength of the soldiers of the peasant rebel army were even far inferior to the village guards and road guards of the Runing Army. If 20,000 or 30,000 guards and road guards were pulled out, plus the remnants of the Guide Corps left in the Iron Triangle, the Runing Army would even be confident that it would completely defeat the peasant rebels on the eastern road in the field battle.

Now that they knew that the threat of the peasant rebels was no longer great, the officers in the big tent were relieved. Zhou Xun also opened his mouth and praised: "Cunyi has done a good job!" So much can be learned in such a short period of time. Then I'll leave it to you to interrogate the captives! ”

He Fei also laughed and joked on the side: "This is not a piece of cake for Cunyi?" As long as he poked his head over and lit up, what captive wouldn't be scared? ”

A daxiao sound suddenly sounded in the big tent. During the Battle of Ruzhou, Xue Cunyi's face was seriously injured by a wooden robbery, resulting in blindness in his left eye and a complete disappearance of his left face. However, his recovery was quite good, and he recuperated for more than two months.

When Xue Cunyi was recuperating from his injuries, Wu Shigong once wanted to arrange Xue Cunyi's retirement to be Xue Qiang's deputy in the Department of Internal Affairs, but Xue Cunyi refused to live or die. Later, when Wu Shigong saw that Xue Cunyi was recovering well, he complied with Xue Cunyi's wishes and still let him serve as the head of the engineering regiment.

But don't look at Xue Cunyi's current appearance is more scary, but he is a very gentle person, so he didn't move at all in the face of those jokes, just smiled and said: "Cheng!" Leave this kind of thing to me in the future! ”

Wu Shigong also had to knock on the wooden fish at this time. He tapped the case a few times to silence the officers, and then said, "It's not time to be happy, and it's true to eat what is in your mouth." Yongzi, prepare quickly, give you an hour, and then immediately return to Germany with your infantry regiment. ”

"Our jihua is still the same, swallow it first after grinding the Shaanxi bandits on the opposite side. Yongzi, pay attention, you and Qian Qi must defend the line of the fortress of Qianhusuo, and it is best to entangle the Shaanxi bandits on the east road. ”

"And after our main force swallowed the Shaanxi bandits on the opposite side, we immediately went east and went around the back of the Shaanxi bandits on the east road, even if there was no other official army to cooperate, we still sandwiched the Shaanxi bandits on the east road at both ends, and tried to swallow the Shaanxi bandits on this road. Now that our Runing Army has come out, it's time for us to serve a big meal. ”

There was laughter in the big tent. Seeing that Wu Shigong had already made arrangements, the officers saluted and retired. After they all retreated, Wu Shigong thought to himself: "It seems that I didn't notice the importance of interrogating prisoners on the battlefield before, so I have to make up for this in the future!" ”

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