As the sun set, the troops retreating from the direction of Guiping looked like they were afraid of tens of thousands of people, and they were all listless, but there were many veterans in the ranks, and the moans and wails of many wounded did not make the soldiers in this team look frightened or frightened.

But that kind of fatigue can't be hidden, even the main general Zhao Fu, who was surrounded by his own soldiers, was also helpless and tired, and after being dragged for five days, he returned in vain, and no one could be happy. It should be said that if the array fights, Zhao Fu will not suffer a loss when he leads these veterans from the border towns, and even sometimes he can have a slight advantage.

It's just that Hou Dagou's department is not ready to fight in an array at all, this is not the grassland outside the pass, Guangxi is mountainous, and many times when Zhao Fu gathered soldiers and horses to kill the generals, Hou Dagou's department has been reduced to zero and escaped into the mountains. The officers and soldiers are not locals, where can they catch up?

It's not that Zhao Fu doesn't have blood and bravery, this time he just bit one of them, led four or five thousand people to kill all the way, and chased into the canyon, and a rockfall blocked the way, if it weren't for his long-term experience in the battlefield and the opportunity to hide quickly, he was afraid that there would be more than these hundreds of people who would be killed and injured.

In fact, at the beginning of Huaiji City, Hou Dagou's troops were not ready to fight in array, but wanted to use 2,000 cavalry to drag the attacking defenders, and 5,000 foot soldiers to steal the city. It's just that Ding Yi really knows too well the combat style of Hou Dagou's side, so he first sent soldiers to Du Ziteng, and then attacked from three sides, forcing the righteous soldiers to fight a decisive battle.

"Send it to the Ding family's field hospital." Entering the barracks outside Wuzhou City, Zhao Fu gritted his teeth. Untied his family heirloom sword, and said to his subordinates, "Fuck it." Take it as a pledge, that place is darker than the Qinglou! The handsome man looks at the handsome son, and he can also recommend pillow seats, field hospitals, and he can watch people die at the door if he has no money! ”

In the past few months, many wounded patients have been sent to the Ding family's field hospital, and the money and silver have been almost spent. The above military rations have not been paid for a while. Zhao Fu was also helpless, so he had no choice but to make this decision.

He doesn't like Ding Yi, and even he hates Ding Yi. So Zhao Fu also didn't like the Ding family's field hospital in Wuzhou. But the other generals didn't hate Ding Yi, it is said that in the field hospital, like the slaughterhouse, those doctors are all wielding bright knives. But the soldiers who were seriously wounded on the battlefield. After being sent, there was a recovery rate of more than 30 percent, and the number of minor injuries was even higher than 70 percent of the survivors, but it achieved the reputation of the field hospital.

So gradually, there was a legend, saying that Ding Rongcheng was not called Abang Rakshasa by the Tartars? In the field hospital, in fact, the ghost pawns of the underworld were invited to help, and those ghost pawns were paid for and asked them to help change their names in the book of life and death. Why are all the doctors covering their faces? All the people are invited to come up in the underworld, and they can't see any ghosts!

So a certain hour was derived. Rumors that the chance of survival is relatively large, etc., some people also brought incense and candles, and after sending people in, they lit them at the door...... The field hospital and her half-baked surgeon and nurse explained many times, and finally had to let it go.

This time, it was Zhao Fu's own soldiers who were stabbed twice, and their intestines flowed out, he was on the battlefield for a long time, and he knew that he was injured, and he looked for a bone-setting doctor to see, and nine out of nine were helpless, so he taught people to send them to the field hospital, and he said to the subordinates: "They said how much money they wanted, just listen to him, don't quarrel with the Ding family, and tell them that as long as Zhao does not die, he will definitely pay the money to redeem this knife!" ”

The casualties are so great that only a general who is older than the military formation will understand the significance of a veteran, especially a veteran who has been wounded, to return to the battlefield. This kind of veterans who have shed blood and seen life and death, fighting in battle, is not comparable to several recruits, especially on the battlefield of this kind of cold weapon.

At this time, another herald flew in: "Report! General Zhao, General Shi Taibao! ”

Zhao Fu patted the subordinate on the shoulder, signaled to quickly carry the guards to the Ding family's field hospital, turned over on his horse, and led several personal soldiers to the tent.

The generals gathered in Shi Pushuai's tent all looked listless.

The attrition is too serious, not because of how Hou Dagou's soldiers benefited, but because the climate of Guangxi first ravaged these men from the north, and then the miasma in the mountains, and taught them to endure all the hardships.

Shi Pu sat in the first place, and he was also quite helpless.

He is the governor of Datong, Xuanfu and other border towns of military affairs, if he does not know the army, it is absolutely impossible, and the money and food given by the imperial court are also sufficient, but in the past few months, large and small and Hou have fought dozens of battles, but it is really rare, and it is really rare to even have a few victories.

Because often Hou Dagou's side of the people are hit by knives and arrows, they are all villagers, dragged and ran away, and basically will not line up to fight, are several times or even ten times the official army, they will rush up, and Hou Dagou's soldiers, equipped with a lot of horses, not a good horse, donkeys and mules also have, are not used to rush into battle, is used to run, once the official army is strong, they will ride a big animal to run into the mountain, into the mountain will be separated, the official army is not familiar with the terrain, either chased lost, or ambushed, like Zhao Fu, by heart, can be regarded as a good general, and the troops under other generals have even greater casualties.

The generals in the tent all whispered: "Why don't you learn Ding Rongcheng's method, recruit Ding Zhuang on the spot, and practice it, at least you won't get sick...... "Yes, it is said that Ding Rongcheng's side is full of new Ding, and there are not many major casualties, but Taibao is an old man......"

Shi Pu sat in the handsome position, although he was over seventy, he was still clear-eared, where could he not hear the whispers of the generals below? But when he heard it in his ears, he only smiled bitterly: "Do you think that the old man is so narrow-minded, because of the methods used by Ding Rongcheng, the old man abandoned it for the sake of face?" Ding Rongcheng eats and drinks, and the old man doesn't eat or drink in order to appear smarter than him? ”

The generals below this sect gritted their teeth and held back a smile, and suddenly they cheered up and had some vitality.

"Ding Rongcheng's side, he doesn't eat empty salaries." Shi Pu sighed, and said to the generals under his command, "That's really not an empty salary, you have to go to Ding Rongcheng's army to have a look, he gives the new army three dry meals a day, and he is full, and there are fish and meat for lunch and dinner." In fact, what he didn't know was that Ding Yi not only did not eat empty salaries, but also paid extra salaries to the soldiers, and set up various awards, as long as the soldiers meet the standards, such as rock climbing or hindered running, and those who meet the standards within the specified time will also be rewarded.

"Taibao, Ding Rongcheng is rich! We can't compare! The next general spoke up, and after Shi Pu nodded and allowed him to speak, he came out to hug his fists, "The generals of the border town, sending his nephew to study in his Rongcheng Academy, may not be able to get in, they have to be tall enough, heavy enough, and they have to lift heavy objects and run, even if they can get in, one person has to pay tens of thousands of taels of silver!" Tens of thousands of taels is not much, like Zhu Qian, who passed away last year, when he sent his child Zhu Yong in, I heard that he directly sent 200,000 ......"

Shi Pu smiled and waved his hand to teach the general to enter the ranks, but he said with a beard: "Don't talk nonsense, why don't you say that the children of the poor family are enrolled in the school and eat and live?" You are obviously from a family of generals, but you insist on going to study, collect more money, and subsidize poor students, what is not to do? "After all, he is a scholar in Shilin, and he always feels that it is a good thing to open a academy.

However, the military strategy still has to be discussed, but when I ask the generals below, no one has any good ideas.

So Shi Pu had no choice but to be ruthless: "Let him come a few ways, I will only go all the way, first go to the state capital, and then level the four sides!" "The army is stationed in Wuzhou, unable to annihilate Hou Dagou's vitality, although the imperial court has not yet issued an official document to urge, but Shi Pu, who has gone through several dynasties, knows very well that the patience of the imperial court is limited, and will never send enough grain and grass, and gave himself tens of thousands of elite soldiers in the border town, and then let him stay in Wuzhou with nothing to do.

And he knew better that the food and salary of the imperial court could not be pulled out for a long time, and the reason why he was transferred to the elite soldiers of the Nine Sides was to fight a quick battle, and then to deal with the war on the Yungui side. If it drags on for another two months and there is no progress, even if the emperor supports him, Yu Qian's side also supports him, and the court will not be able to pull out the salary.

"First stop the trouble of Guilin Mansion, and then go down to Liuzhou Mansion, and sweep Nanning Mansion ......" Shi Pu's strategy is not clever, but there is no mistake or omission, if he can really follow what he said, Wuzhou, Guilin, Liuzhou, Nanning four mansions have all swept away Hou Dagou's back horse, and then use the four mansions as a base to surround Xunzhou Mansion - that is, Guiping, Hou Dagou's place of fortune, then his strategic purpose, of course, can also be achieved, Hou Dagou's department, if it is interspersed and surrounded in Guiping, and Guangxi can be recovered, it will naturally not be a problem. Even if you take Nanning and Guilin, you can see if you can join the imperial court officers and troops in Yungui......

Two days later, in Huaiji County, Ding Yi received the official document of the Yamen of the Governor of Liangguang, but he laughed: "Shi Taibao, I'm afraid I'm thinking too much." But he instructed Hu Shan, "I can't leave Huaiji without permission, you can go to the south side of the city, and tell the Yao people there about the situation in Huaiji, and you can also ask them to send someone to take a look...... and said to Wen Fatzi, "You go to Mengshan, talk to their Yao king in Dayao Mountain, bring a few more people, and bring more wine." "Dayao Mountain is the Jinxiu Yao Autonomous County of later generations, in fact, Guiping also belongs to Dayao Mountain, but Guiping is in the south, and Mengshan is in the north.

Ding Yi didn't believe that the entire Dayao Mountain listened to Hou Dagou's orders.

And Huaiji is here, if King Yao is willing to send someone to investigate, Ding Yi doesn't believe that he will not be moved.

This is Ding Yi's strategy, only by fundamentally isolating Hou Dagou and making him lose his mass base can Hou Dagou be dug out, otherwise, these 100,000 mountains, how many soldiers come will all be in vain. (To be continued......)

PS: The third bullet of the monthly pass plus the update, the fourth one after half an hour.