Xu Miaoqing rushed to interrogate the Mongol captives, and Zhu Gui called a personal soldier and asked him to lead a team of people to Ganzhou to contact Zhu Hao, the king of Su, while he wanted to learn about the battle situation on the periphery.

After half a pillar of incense, Xu Miaoqing proudly returned with two Mongolian captives.

"Look, the stupid princess makes a move, and there is nothing that can't be done."

Zhu Gui looked at the soldiers on the side with an inquiring gaze, and the latter nodded helplessly.

It seems that they feel sorry that they even want the princess to take action in this little matter.

"What's wrong?" Zhu Gui looked at Xu Miaoqing.

"Just ask, he knows everything now." Xu Miaoqing said proudly.

Zhu Gui had no choice but to look at the Mongol captive in person: "How many people and tribes are there in your participation in the attack on King Su's fiefdom this time?" ”

"Lord Hui, there are more than fifty big tribes and 30,000 cavalry." The captive shuddered.

"Fifty big tribes are only 30,000 people? It seems that they are not as good as the Mongols outside Datong. Xu Miaoqing said with some disdain.

At that time, Datong Mansion was also besieged by 30,000 Mongol cavalry, and finally won the victory.

In contrast, this Su King has now lost one-third of his fiefdom, which can be said to be very humiliating.

Zhu Gui naturally knew what Xu Miaoqing meant, but he couldn't agree.

In fact, he was able to win by other schemes, not by defeating 30,000 Mongol cavalry on a frontal battlefield.

Not to mention that King Su would not have such sharp firearms, Hongyi cannons or even war horses as he did.

"Okay, now that the intelligence has been asked, let's take these captives down and let the new soldiers practice shooting."

Zhu Gui said.

Soon, a dense burst of gunfire rang out in the distance, which frightened the villagers into hiding in their houses and not daring to come out.

But Zhu Gui has become accustomed to this.

It's war time now, and taking these captives with you will only slow down his march, and it is naturally even more impossible to release them, and they can only be used for new recruits to train.

That night, Zhu Gui again sent several teams of scouts to explore in all directions.

At noon the next day, the personal soldiers in charge of going to Ganzhou came back with people, but there was an additional general in the team who looked dusty.

"Jiang Ning, the captain of the Ganzhou Health Institute, will meet the acting king." Jiang Ning half-knelt on the ground and gave a military salute to Zhu Gui.

Zhu Gui nodded and said, "How is the situation in Ganzhou?" ”

Jiang Ning's face was a little ugly and said: "The battle situation is surprising, the Mongols have been attacking the city more and more frequently in the past few days, I hope that the prince can enter the city to discuss the plan with King Su." ”

"Do the Mongols have engineering equipment?" Zhu Gui asked.

"Just a few simple ladders." Jiangning Road.

"Then why did King Su lose several cities in a row?" Zhu Gui asked puzzled.

"Actually, in fact, there were Mongol spies in the army, and the city was seized only when the inside and outside were combined." Jiang Ning's head pressed even lower.

Zhu Guileng paused, he didn't expect that there would be Mongol spies in the Ming army.

But at this point, he couldn't say anything more.

"Captain Jiang, as you can see, there are only more than 100 cavalry in this king's party, if you enter the city, it will only waste mobility, and it will not be of much help to defend the city, it is better to contain the enemy army on the outside."

Zhu Gui thought for a moment and said.

"However, the acting king is the supervising army, and there are still 3,000 soldiers in the Datong Mansion waiting to be sent by the acting king, and the king of Su cannot dispatch them."

Jiang Ning said helplessly.

This is the real reason why he came here, if the reinforcements from other domains are okay, they will all obey the command of King Su.

However, Xu Yingxu is not only the general of the Datong Mansion Guard, but also the second son of Xu Guogong, a general canonized by the emperor himself, and he cannot dispatch him.

What Jiang Ning didn't say was that if it weren't for Xu Yingxu, I'm afraid Ganzhou would have been attacked by the Mongols a long time ago.

But the more this happened, the more it made Su Wang Zhu Ao feel gloomy, so as soon as he heard that Zhu Gui's personal soldiers had arrived in the city, he immediately sent his henchmen to invite Zhu Gui into the city.

In Zhu Ao's opinion, although Zhu Gui, the acting king, has been in the limelight in Nanjing recently, he is still only a fourteen-year-old boy, and he, as an elder brother, can naturally easily handle him.

Zhu Gui naturally had no way of knowing Zhu Ao's thoughts, but he still trusted Xu Yingxu very much.

He thought for a while and said: "This king still decides not to enter the city, but you go back and tell King Su that if you want to end this war as soon as possible, it is best to hand over the command to General Xu, even if you can't do it, at least you have to discuss with him more before taking action." ”

Jiang Ning saw that Zhu Gui was resolute, so he had no choice but to sigh and leave.

Zhu Gui asked his soldiers about what he had seen in Ganzhou.

It turned out that several nearby domains and the imperial court had already sent reinforcements, but the situation of the Ming army was still very unoptimistic.

It was really the previous defeats that made the Ming army demoralized, and the Mongols obviously did not want to grab a handful and leave this time.

They want to occupy the city, and they look like they want to confront the entire Ming Dynasty.

The soldiers also brought a map of the entire vicinity of Ganzhou from Xu Yingxu, as well as a letter from him.

The letter said that more and more Mongolian tribes in the vicinity were gathering on the Ganzhou side, and that this war would be very difficult, and hoped that Zhu Gui would be ready for war in Datong Province.

The scouts who had gone out to explore the way had already returned, but they were all attacked by the Mongols, and many of them were injured, but fortunately, due to the difference in firepower, there were no casualties.

But it also meant that the Mongols already knew about his movements.

So Zhu Gui immediately ordered the whole army to start moving, leaving only a small team to help the villagers move in the direction of Ganzhou.

Sure enough, when Zhu Gui and the others traveled less than a hundred miles to the north, they saw a cloud of smoke rushing up to the sky in the direction they came from.

"Zhu Gui, we have such powerful firearms, why don't we fight them head-on? As long as you can defeat them, you can also reduce the pressure on Ganzhou City. ”

Xu Miaoqing asked puzzled.

"You are stupid, we are less than a hundred, the other party is at least a thousand, and don't underestimate the Mongolian cavalry, even if it is as you said, we really win, there will be a lot of casualties, it is not cost-effective for this king."

Zhu Gui said.

"And what do you want to do?" Xu Miaoqing asked.

"With so many Mongolian cavalry gathered in one place, the daily consumption of grain and grass is definitely not a small amount, and the best way now is to set a fire."

Zhu Gui said.

"Set fire? Okay, but do you know where the Mongols' grain and grass are? ”

Xu Miaoqing's eyes lit up and immediately asked.

"Catch the Mongols and ask?"