Niu Jinxing hurriedly saluted Li Zicheng and replied: "Outsiders are afraid of the tiger and wolf of General Wu's army, but in fact, he no longer has the courage of the past, so he will be forced to go to Liaodong by the imperial court." ”

"Really?" A smile immediately appeared on Li Guo's face, and he hurriedly asked, "Where does Mr. Niu come from?" ”

"All the generals are people who know the soldiers, so do you know how many soldiers can be raised with Runing and Guide?" Niu Jinxing asked with a smile.

The people in the tent all set their eyes on Gao Yigong, and he was the authority in terms of logistics supply. And Gao Yigong also thought about it in his heart for a while, and replied: "It's only forty or fifty thousand!" ”

Niu Jinxing nodded in agreement and said, "That's exactly the number." Runing and Guide are a fixed number of acres, and the grain and salary in a good year can raise an army of up to 50,000, not to mention the natural disasters. ”

In the period of agricultural society, the number of soldiers raised can be estimated by the amount of grain produced in a place, such as the number of "stone heights" mentioned by the Japanese daimyos. And Niu Venus is a person who is proficient in this way. However, Niu Jinxing and the generals who broke into the camp did not know that Wu Shigong's financial resources were to vigorously develop industry and commerce, and to raise a large amount of money through the financial industry to buy grain and feed the army, so the true number of Runing's army far exceeded their estimates.

And Wu Zongbing has fought fiercely with the Tartars in the river, and although he won a great victory, the Tartars still returned to Liaodong safely. The students thought that this victory was very strange, perhaps because the court boasted that it was just to reassure the people. Even if you take a step back, it is a lose-lose situation, and there must be tens of thousands of losses from General Wu's soldiers. In this way, even if General Wu returned to Runing to replenish the source of troops, the courage of his soldiers was far worse than in the past. ”

"And now that General Wu is rushing to Liaodong with the elite, how many troops are there left behind in Runing and Guide? That's 30,000 ears. And there are two righteous armies in the south of Runing and Guide, the Eight Kings and the Fifth Battalion of Gezuo, does the army of Runing dare to break into the camp in a decisive battle? ”

"That's right! We were a little frightened by Butcher Wu. Mr. Niu! You mean a war with the Wu butcher? Li Guo asked. Hearing that the strength of the Runing army was not strong, the generals who broke into the camp in the tent were a little geared up, because they had opened up Runing and Guide. Then there is more room for manoeuvre.

"Definitely!" Niu Jinxing smiled a little mysteriously, and he continued, "Before talking about this, let's talk about why General Wu sent troops to Ruzhou? ”

Seeing that the people in the tent were staring at him, Niu Jinxing's expressive desire became even stronger: "Now both the enemy and I know that Ruzhou is an important place for soldiers, and it is the road to cut off the confluence between the camp and Cao Cao, so why does General Wu want to send troops to Ruzhou?" Did he want to fight a decisive battle with the two armies of Chuang Ying and Cao Cao in Ruzhou? Isn't he afraid that the Eight Kings and the Fifth Battalion of Gezuo will take advantage of the situation and attack Runing and Guide from the south? ”

"This is a big violation of the common sense of soldiers, and there must be fraud in it. Students think. General Wu was a partial division in Ruzhou, and it was a feint attack on the camp. ”

"Wow!" There was an uproar in the tent. Li Zicheng couldn't help but put the felt hat on his head again, he leaned forward and asked, "Sir, do you have any evidence?" ”

"Before the account was recorded, the students asked the people who had returned from Ruzhou, and they said nothing. But there is a suspicious place, none of the returning troops have fought with General Wu's army. How so? are just afraid of the power of General Wu's soldiers in the past. But how many officers and troops are there in Ruzhou? I don't know how many of them. "Of course, Niu Venus won't take his word for it. He had already verified his judgment before it was credited. So now it seems confident.

"Send someone down quickly, and ask Mr. Niu again." Of course, Li Zicheng needs to be questioned again, and such important information cannot be overvalued.

Watching Li Guo receive the order to come out of the account, Niu Jinxing continued: "The student also estimated that in Runing and Guide, there must be another army of General Wu's army. They will also enter Kaifeng Province. "That's all the judgment of Niu Venus. Because of what he said just now, Li Zicheng and they also believed it a little.

"It turned out to be a sound of sound hitting the west!" Tian Jianxiu said.

"Definitely!" Niu Jinxing's answer surprised the people in the tent again, "This way is also a feint." Both of these are false soldiers. ”

"Huh? Where is the main force of Wu Butcher? Tian Jianxiu asked again.

"There is no main force!" Niu Jinxing replied affirmatively, "The reason why Wu Zongbing is like this. is a bluff, you have to let the camp go west, and fight to the death with Zuo Liangyu's army. ”

"Oh!" The people in the tent immediately understood Niu Jinxing's words, and He Shaoqi couldn't help but ask, "Then Butcher Wu is not afraid that we will see through it?" ”

Niu Jinxing smiled and stroked his long beard and replied, "What if you see through it?" If it is not good to break into the camp, General Wu can turn from virtual to real, and just defeat me to break into the camp; If the camp is attacked by Runing and Guide, General Wu can retreat to the garrison and block the camp from entering with the city defense, which is the so-called step-by-step calculation. ”

"Then we can't break this game?" He Shaoqi asked again.

"Bad!" Niu Jinxing smiled and shook his head, and said, "General He didn't hear clearly, no matter how real General Wu is, he will never take the initiative to attack me and break into the camp." ”

"So why?" Liu Zongmin also joined in the question.

"The student asks again: Does King Chuang want to win the championship?" Niu Jinxing asked with a smile.

Li Zicheng hurriedly waved his hand modestly and said: "Let's raise the banner of righteousness, just to let the people of the world live a good life and overthrow this dog court, I haven't thought much about it." Although Li Zicheng replied so, the people in the tent knew his true thoughts.

So Niu Jinxing continued: "Then General Wu also has a bad heart. But there is only one dragon robe, and the two of them will not wear it. Now if you break into the camp and fight to the death with General Wu, who will be cheaper? The Eight Kings? Cao Cao? Or is it that dog court? ”

Niu Jinxing's words caused a silence in the tent. At this time, both defeats also made both the camp and the Runing army disqualified from competing for the world. Li Zicheng also understood a little when he heard this, now he is afraid of a decisive battle when he breaks into the camp, and Wu Shigong of Runing is still afraid of a decisive battle, so the situation is not as bad as imagined.

"Mr. Niu! Just say something refreshing! How do we do that? At this time, Liu Zongmin asked Li Zicheng again.

"Gather the whole army and go to Ruzhou! As long as we avoid Ruzhou City, General Wu will never engage us in battle. Niu Jinxing affirmed again.

Not to mention, although because of the lack of intelligence and the lack of understanding of Xue Yongli's mentality, the basis of Niu Jinxing's analysis is somewhat biased. But Niu Jinxing's analysis of the two-way feint attack is quite correct, and it is also correct to analyze that the Runing army does not want to fight a decisive battle with the camp now.

But as soon as Niu Venus told the results of the analysis, there was silence again in the big tent. It was not that he distrusted Niu Jinxing's analysis, but he took the liberty of pinning his hopes for breaking into the camp on the passive avoidance of the Runing Army. It's also a little too risky. In case Niu Jinxing's analysis was wrong, the Chuang camp would immediately have a decisive battle with the main force of the Runing Army in Ruzhou, and such a decisive battle was avoided by the current Chuang Battalion, so Li Zicheng and the generals did not dare to make this determination.

But at this moment, Li Zicheng's personal soldier captain suddenly broke into the tent, and as soon as he entered the tent, he shouted loudly: "King Chuang!" Break the king! Oh no! Seventy or eighty miles to the south, we found an army of Wu butchers. ”

"Wow!" There was an uproar in the tent again, and everyone gasped, and they all looked at Niu Jinxing with deep admiration in their eyes, because what Niu Jinxing said just now was too godly.

"Don't scream!" Li Zicheng immediately shouted, "Iron Tiger! Is the probing clear? How many people are in that army of Wu Butcher? ”

"Forty or fifty thousand!" The captain of the personal soldier named Iron Tiger immediately replied.

But this answer made the people in the tent suspicious, with so many soldiers and horses, could it be that the Runing Army dispatched the main force? Their judgment of Bull Venus wavered again.

And Niu Jinxing still stroked his long beard unhurriedly, and said with a smile: "King Chuang!" Can you send spies closer to probe and see how many of its elite soldiers there are? If the students are not wrong, they will also use the imaginary number to intimidate us into the camp! ”

Li Zicheng understood all of a sudden, he basically accepted Niu Jinxing's statement, Ru Ningjun turned out to be playing this set of fiction and reality. So he immediately ordered: "Iron Tiger! Send more spies to see clearly. If the whole army is concentrated, as long as the spies report that what Mr. Niu said is right, we will go to Ruzhou. ”

"No!"

Where did this Runing army, which caused the sudden panic in the camp, come from? It turned out that Yao Liang and Fu Sheng had adopted their own tricks.

When Yao Liang and Fu Sheng roughly incorporated Chen Zhongzhi's troops, their whole army had more than 5,000 people, and thirty miles to their right rear, there were more than 2,000 soldiers and horses escorted by Shumo, so this army embarked on the road to Kaifeng City.

However, this expedition was a little frightened, they had to break through the encirclement of hundreds of thousands of camps and enter Kaifeng City, which was scary to think about. Although the combat effectiveness of the Runing Army is strong, many ants also bite the elephant to death. Not to mention that Chen Zhongzhi's army, which had just been recruited, was unstable.

So Fu Sheng and the others decided to pull up the tiger skin to support the banner, and used the banner of the Runing Army to absorb the homeless people and bandits all the way, so as to create a strong number of people.

And this co-optation is somewhat uncontrollable. In these years, the homeless people and bandits didn't care who they turned to, and they would rely on whichever family gave them food, just like food.

So the number of people is getting more and more, Yao Liang and Fu Sheng don't care about them, the old, the weak, the sick and the disabled, and those who drag their families and families, so they gradually gathered more than 40,000 people. However, among these people who have put together, there are only seven or eight thousand strong men who can really fight. Yao Liang and Fu Sheng made these strong men into auxiliary soldiers, and placed the rest of the people at the back of the team, and when they were about to enter Kaifeng City, they asked Shumo to bring those old and weak women and children back to Germany. In this way, the judgment of the camp spies was wrong. (To be continued......)