Five thousand rebels?

All the generals were shocked, and their expressions were a little heavy.

Indeed, the strength of the rebels put pressure on the Jinzhou generals. This time, they only had 700 people in the south, but the rebels had 5,000 people, and the gap between the enemy and our forces was huge.

Thinking that there is still the main force of the rebels in Dengzhou, if too many troops are consumed by these 5,000 rebels, how will the battle be fought in the future, will Dengzhou go or not? If you go, what can you do with this little remnant? If you don't go, how can you explain it to the court?

The generals all had doubts in their hearts, and they were all a little worried, and the bold Cao Bianjiao also realized how much the Jinzhou Army's current operations were constrained by too few troops.

If it is not 700 people who go south, but 5,000 people, then it goes without saying that there are 5,000 rebels, or 10,000 more, and the generals will not feel troublesome.

However, the fact is that the Jinzhou army has only 700 people, which will inevitably make every move of the Jinzhou army have to be cautious and cautious, and they cannot easily lose their troops, otherwise, they will not go to quell the rebellion, but to send them to death.

Shi Dayong also felt very tricky, the sudden appearance of the enemy situation caught him a little off guard, before that, he had always thought that the rebels had all gone to Dengzhou, so he thought that as long as he arrived in Dengzhou day and night, he would complete the military order, and then under the unified command of Zhu Dadian, the governor of Shandong, a decisive battle with the rebels, the victory or defeat of the battle. Where did he know the road, but he suddenly jumped out of the way halfway, which disrupted his overall plan and made his rapid march in the past few days become wishful thinking.

Why didn't Shandong report such an important enemy situation to me?

Shi Dayong couldn't understand, 5,000 people, it's not 500 or 500 people who can easily hide, what kind of food is eaten in Shandong, and they don't even know at all, didn't they send sentry horses to investigate!

In the case of completely ignoring the deployment of the rebels, he repeatedly urged himself to speed up and rush to Dengzhou, didn't this make his Jinzhou army collide with the rebels like a blind man!

If it weren't for Gao Qiqian's letter, if he really encountered the rebels suddenly without knowing anything, Shi Dayong didn't dare to imagine what the consequences would be.

Days of rapid marching had drained the soldiers of too much physical strength, and they were caught up in unsuspecting encounters with the rebels

Shi Dayong didn't dare to think about it anymore, and scolded Zhu Dadian, the governor of Shandong, in his heart, then breathed a sigh of relief, waved his hand at Guo Yi, and ordered: "Take the map." ”

Guo Yi heard the order and hurriedly went to get the picture. This map was sent by Xie Yiqing, the director of the Ministry of War when he left Beijing, and this map is not a complete map of the Ming Dynasty, but a partial topographic map of Hebei and Shandong. And unlike the maps of later generations, the maps drawn on this map are only simple lines, listing key points such as the city, mountains, and avenues, and the rest are not marked more. Strictly speaking, this is not a combat map, it is a bit too simple.

However, it is this simple topographic map that is like a light in the dark night for the unfamiliar Jinzhou army, without it, Shi Dayong doesn't even know where he is and how far away he is from his destination.

After taking a closer look at the picture, Shi Dayong raised his head and asked the two sergeants of the Shenji Battalion: "The rebels are entrenched in the Sand River?" ”

The tall sergeant replied: "Back to the general, the thief general Chen is indeed camped in Shahe sometimes. ”

Turning his finger away from Shahe, he glanced at the prefecture near Shahe, and asked the two sergeants, "Where are your Shenji Battalion stationed now?" ”

"Shang County." It's still the tall sergeant who replied.

"How long have you been in Shang County?" Shi Dayong asked as he watched.

"Seven days."

"Since you have arrived in Shang County seven days ago, why have you not taken action against the Shahe rebels to this day?" Shi Dayong glanced at the two Shenji Battalion sergeants with some dissatisfaction.

"This" The tall sergeant didn't know how to answer this question, to be honest, the Son of Heaven Imperial Forest Army was afraid of the enemy like a tiger, which really made the sergeant with a little blood in his heart ashamed.

The shorter sergeant next to him said: "The general doesn't know, the rebels in Nashahe are all Liao soldiers from the original Dongjiang River, and they are quite good at fighting, and the rebels are not less than us, so Gao Gonggong is afraid of losing, so he ordered us to wait for reinforcements to come."

Before he finished speaking, he was cut off by Shi Dayong, "What are you waiting for reinforcements?" Your Beijing camp is the reinforcements, which one can you wait! To put it bluntly, your Beijing camp is afraid that you won't be able to defeat the rebels, so you don't dare to move in Shang County, right? ”

The short sergeant froze, blinked, and did not speak.

The tall sergeant raised his head and said with some grief and indignation: "Gonggong Gao won't let us go out of the city, we just want to get out of the city, what can we do?" ”

Hearing this, Shi Dayong shook his head, Chongzhen will not comment on whether the Tai Supervision Soldiers are good or bad, but the Beijing camp is indeed rotten, and I don't know what the imperial court spends so much military pay every year to raise this group of waste! If these salaries were used on other border armies, I am afraid that the situation would not be as bad as it is today.

These words are useless to these two soldiers, and they have no intention of being too harsh on them, after all, they are also obedient to orders. The duty of a soldier is to obey orders, and it is understandable that the Beijing camp obeys the orders of the eunuchs who supervise the army and does not go out of the city.

Sighing, he changed the subject and asked them, "What else can Grandpa Gao say besides asking you to send this letter?" ”

"Nope." They both shook their heads at the same time.

Seeing that he couldn't ask anything, Shi Dayong said: "Shang County is also more than forty miles away from here, and the two of you have suffered a lot of wind and snow along the way in order to send a letter to the general, which is really hard, so please use some hot food in the general's camp and take a break before going back." ”

The two of them were really frozen, and when they heard this, they hurriedly thanked: "Thank you, General!" ”

At that moment, Guo Yi took the two of them to the room. After the two of them left, Cao Bianjiao hesitated, stepped forward and asked Shi Dayong: "General, we beat the people of the Imperial Horse Prison and detained the people of his Beijing camp, he didn't think about how to deal with us, why was he so kind to remind us not to be in danger?" ”

His question was also what Shao Wu and Jiang Wanli wanted to ask, and when they saw him ask, they looked at Shi Dayong in confusion.

Li Dashan didn't think about raising Qian'an's thoughts, but shouted unevenly: "There are 5,000 rebels in Shahe, why didn't Shandong report this military situation to us?" Urging us to go to Dengzhou, but not telling us that the road to Dengzhou was blocked by the rebels, what did Shandong An think? , isn't this telling us to die? General, according to me, it is okay not to go to Dengzhou, Hugh said that we cannot arrive within the time limit specified by him, and the five thousand rebels in front of him will be very difficult to deal with. What's more, Mrs. Gao supervised that the Jingying camp was in Shang County, and the rebels under his nose did not fight, but asked us to fight, what is the reason! In my opinion, he just borrowed a knife to kill people, and wanted to clean us up with the hands of the rebels, so as to vent his anger! General, we must not be fooled, we can't go to this sand river!"

When the generals heard this, they all faintly felt that this seemed to be the case, and they couldn't help but hesitate to move on. Even Guo Yi, who was packing up the map, heard it, and thought that Li Shoubei was right, and it seemed that he couldn't go to the Shahe.

Shi Dayong was so angry when he heard this, he pointed at Li Dashan angrily, and shouted: "Can the Liao soldiers of Dongjiang still be stronger than Jiannu?" We're not even afraid of Jiannu, but we're still afraid of his rebels? If you don't dare to fight, you will go yourself! ”

Li Dashan's mouth bulged, and he was about to talk back, but when he saw Shi Dayong's angry face, he was so frightened that he didn't dare to speak again.

"When he left Beijing, the prince once said to the general that there were only seven or eight hundred Liao soldiers in the Kong Youde Division, and the rest of the people were civilians who were coerced along the way, and they had no combat effectiveness at all. Kong Youde led the main force to attack Dengzhou again, how many elites can he leave in Shahe? ”

"A bunch of rabble, what's so terrible! Standing tall and fearing the enemy like a tiger, that is his incompetence in the Beijing camp! How can my Jinzhou army be as waste as his Beijing camp, I, Shi Dayong, am not his high eunuch! Shahe, let's go to the decided, Chen sometimes, Ben will also be killed! ”

As soon as he vented, Shi Dayong glared at Li Dashan fiercely, and the latter involuntarily took a step back.

After scolding Li Dashan, Shi Dayong turned his head to Jiang Wanli and said: "Gao Qiqian is calculating, he will be affected by his kindness, and he will not delay the advance if he is afraid of the rebels?" If the general really did not advance because of the rebels stationed in the Sand River, it would have fallen into his calculations. At that time, a piece of music will be performed, the general will not obey the military order, afraid of the enemy like a tiger, by then, the general will have 10,000 mouths and can't explain clearly, so he can only be disposed of by the imperial court. In that case, what am I leading you south for? Wouldn't you have directly disobeyed the order at the beginning? Since he is here, it is the king of heaven, and he will be killed in the same way! ”

All the generals were infected by Shi Dayong's emotions, and they were all a little excited, and they already had the will to fight.

Seeing that his subordinates were emotional, Shi Dayong said again: "If you continue to go east, you must pass through the Shahe, if you want to fight the Shahe River, we can only fight to the death with the rebels, if I am not mistaken, I am afraid that Gao Qiqian wants most is not that the general will be delayed, but that the lone army will attack the Shahe, when the time comes, seven hundred to five thousand, in his opinion, my Jinzhou army is not immediately annihilated!" Hmph, however, the general doesn't believe in this evil, Hugh said that he only has 5,000 rebels in Shahe, that is, 10,000, and the general also has the courage to break into this tiger's mouth! ”

The whip pointed at the Jinzhou army behind him, and said in a heroic voice: "Ben will believe that with these brothers who followed Ben Jiang to crawl out of the pile of corpses in the sea of blood, Ben will be able to wipe out his rebels in one fell swoop!"

I was going to tell Eunuch Gao, and I had to tell the people of the world that my Jinzhou Army was the strongest army in the world!

Ben will let the Son of Heaven know that only my Jinzhou Army is the pillar of the Ming Dynasty! ”

"Kill chickens with a knife, today, I will use a knife to kill chickens! Chen Sometimes, rats, in the eyes of the general, no matter how many soldiers and horses he has, he is just a chicken, killing him is like probing for something! Pass my general order, and the whole army will be killed in Shahe! ”

Today, I will accompany my wife to worship my ancestors, and tomorrow I will round the grave for my father-in-law, update a little less, and make up for it tomorrow night.