When Wu Shigong led his soldiers to turn, on the way to the north of Guide Mansion, several military households drawn from other thousand households fled.

And these fugitive military households, where they are located, happen to be near the road to which Wu Shigong's army turned, so these fugitive military households are very familiar with the nearby roads. In addition, Wu Shigong and his officers were defenseless, so these military households fled smoothly.

After learning the news that some soldiers had fled, Wu Shigong was furious. However, Wu Shigong didn't have any spare time to capture these fugitive soldiers, so Wu Shigong sent people to Guide Mansion City and informed Zhao Ming, the commander of Guide Guard, of the names of those fleeing soldiers, hoping that Zhao Ming could capture these deserters and give those deserters the punishment they deserved, that is, to kill their heads.

In addition, not long after the turn, after the soldiers fled, Wu Shigong ordered the march to be stopped and camped on the spot. After setting up camp, Wu Shigong immediately arranged for officers at all levels to immediately do a good job of stabilizing the soldiers and preventing any more soldiers from escaping.

In addition, Wu Shigong didn't trust these other military households of the Thousand Households very much, he put the camping places of these military households in the inner circle of the camp, and the soldiers of his Thousand Households were stationed in the outer circle, monitoring the every move of these military households.

Now Wu Shigong is only more at ease with the soldiers of his thousand households. In his opinion, these soldiers ate their own food and paid them military salaries, and he treated them with kindness and righteousness. Therefore, there will be absolutely no problem with your own soldiers.

But what Wu Shigong never expected was that some of his soldiers were also planning to escape. And these soldiers are precisely the cavalry that Wu Shigong trusts and relies on the most.

Because of the sudden turn of the army to march, and because many soldiers did not fully understand the reason for the army's turn, rumors quickly spread among the soldiers.

And in the spread of rumors, the reason why the army turned to march became: the Tartars attacked the capital, and the capital was in an emergency. Therefore, Wu Shigong's army had to turn to the north and fight directly with the Tartar army.

And after learning of this rumor, those soldiers often go to those soldiers they think are well-informed, and ask these well-informed soldiers to give them an idea.

And now among Wu Shigong's cavalry, there are not many guards who accompanied Wu Shigong from the capital to Guide Mansion, and those guards have basically become officers of various units.

Among the soldiers of the cavalry, most of them were promoted by Wu Shigong later, and their training was more haode personal soldiers. In addition, there were also some bandits who took horses to surrender to Cheng at that time, because they had better riding skills, and were directly retained by Wu Shigong in the cavalry. And such people, now in Wu Shigong's cavalry, there are seventy or eighty people.

These bandit-born cavalrymen, they were mainly concentrated in the cavalry reconnaissance squadrons of Zhang Biao and Li Sanhe to give full play to their strengths. However, this also makes it easy for them to form a small group in disguise.

Song Xiang is the leader of such a small group. Because he had served as a soldier in Liaodong before, after the defeat of the army, he broke down to the people and fell into the grass. Because he had some military training, he quickly became a small leader of the bandits.

When Wu Shigong issued an order to recruit An, Song Xiang was also recruited by Wu Shigong with his group of bandits. And now, Song Xiang was sitting in his tent, surrounded by members of his small group.

One of the members asked Song Xiang, "Brother Song, now that the adults are going to the capital to fight with the Tartars, and you have fought in Liaodong, you can give me an idea, what should we do now?" ”

Song Xiang opened his mouth and first came to "!" He continued: "Adults are good at everything, but they are too young and vigorous, and they don't know how thick the sky is. He thinks that the Tartars are like those rebels who can only farm and rebel with hoes? The Tartars are like wolves and tigers, and besides, I heard that hundreds of thousands of people are coming this time, and if we go to fight them, it will definitely be to send them to death. ”

Speaking of this, one of them hurriedly asked, "Then Brother Song, what should we do?" ”

Song Xiang looked at the people around him, and saw that they were all his henchmen, so he lowered his head and said in a low voice: "We will never do the work of sending people to death, there is no master here, there is a place to keep a master." That's how we do it......"

However, there are more than one, two people who have Song Xiang's thoughts. On the second day's march, although he was still walking on his own ground, Wu Shigong still sent out spies from the reconnaissance squadron one by one to investigate the situation ahead.

But by noon, the first spies sent out should have come back to report the news, but two bandit-turned-spies did not return.

At this time, Wu Shigong hadn't noticed anything wrong, he thought that something was in danger between the two spies. Therefore, he asked Zhang Biao and Li Sanhe to arrange for the spies to form a team and go to the direction where the two spies disappeared to investigate.

But when Zhang Biao and Li Sanhe were arranging, Song Xiang made a look at his henchmen, and the seven or eight of them came out collectively, and without saying anything, they galloped out into the distance.

Everyone was puzzled by Song Xiang's actions. When they arrived in Zuihou, someone finally understood that Song Xiang was a deserter, but at this time, Song Xiang and the others ran away without a shadow.

When Wu Shigong learned the news of Song Xiang's escape, he was immediately furious. Wu Shigong didn't expect that his most trusted cavalry would have the biggest problem.

In fact, it is not surprising that this happens. You know, the rest of the soldiers are locals, and even if they want to be deserters, there is nowhere to escape. Because he can run, the monk can't run the temple. Therefore, the few military households who were deserters in the past will definitely not have good fruit to eat in the future.

And Wu Shigong's own ones, there is no problem with other soldiers. Not to mention the guards brought out of the capital, the families of the other soldiers basically lived in or near the Qianhu House. If they become deserters, Wu Shigong, the evil star, will definitely destroy the full door of these deserters. Therefore, these soldiers did not dare to flee at all.

And those cavalrymen who came from bandits were different. Although some of them brought their families to surrender to Wu Shigong, some did not have family members, so they had nothing to worry about. In addition, these bandits used to be bandits, and they all have horses that are easy to escape quickly, so Song Xiang and their escape will occur.

Seeing the successive incidents of soldiers fleeing, Wu Shigong no longer dared to slack off. Otherwise, the soldiers would have fled like this, and after arriving in the capital, there would be few people left around Wu Shigong. I'm going to be the commander of the light pole.

So, Wu Shigong immediately ordered to camp on the spot, and wait for everything to calm down. Speaking of which, Wu Shigong's expedition this time was indeed too unsmooth. Although Wu Shigong's original intention was also to delay the journey during the march, the current suspension of the march was entirely due to accidents.

At this time, Wu Shigong simply relented, stopped marching, and let the army temporarily stationed on the spot. Wait until the food is delivered from the Guide Fuzhong.

After the stationing, the atmosphere in the barracks became a little tense. This time, Wu Shigong did not flee from the soldiers he brought out from his thousand households, and now there are more than 100 soldiers from bandits who remain in the barracks. And in order to prevent them from fleeing, the other soldiers took care of them.

And these bandit-born soldiers, no matter what they thought in their hearts, they also felt threatened at this time, because they did not know whether the soldiers who were guarding them would attack them.

As a result, they gradually drew closer together, and under the leadership of another high-prestige, bandit-turned-soldier called Zug, they confronted the soldiers who guarded them.