Sang Liangtian didn't look at him, and said as he walked with his hands behind his back: "General Liu, you yourself also said that since you are a soldier and eat food, you will inevitably suffer casualties in the battle." If every battle is fought, General Ben will make it clear to you, then General Ben doesn't have to do anything else every day, just sit in the big tent and talk about it. ”

Liu Hong saw Sang Liangtian's unhappy look, although he knew that he was vicious and vicious, and he was extremely strict, and he was going to kill people when he turned his face, although he was frightened in his heart, but the matter had come to this point, he was like an arrow on the string, and he had to send it. I only heard Liu Hong say to Sang Tianliang: "If it is a confrontation in the battle, it is a different place, and the brothers have nothing to say." It's just that this battle obviously doesn't have to be fought so hard, and some brothers' lives don't have to be lost in vain. The brothers have some incomprehension, but they are also reasonable. ”

Sang Liangtian turned around abruptly and said to Liu Hongyin with compassion: "Is it your soldiers who are puzzled, or are you General Liu puzzled?!"

Liu Hong said: "The brothers don't understand, and the last general doesn't understand either!"

Sang Liangtian sneered and said, "If the soldiers dare to question the commander, they will commit a big crime. Tell me, how many of the soldiers who took the lead in questioning you killed?"

Liu Hong was taken aback and said: "General, if the brothers ask a few words, they will be killed, then I am afraid that there will be no one to fight for us again!"

Sang Liangtian still said coldly: "General Liu, you were recommended by Master Li to serve in our army last year!"

Liu Hong said: "Not bad. The humble post was indeed recommended by Lord Li of the Ministry of Officials to serve under General Sang. It's just that the lowly position of a general is not exchanged for silver. He served as a soldier in Dengzhou for five years, and later went to Fujian with General Wang to fight the Japanese and was promoted to guerrilla with military merits. Four years ago, he was transferred to Xuanfu, and with the Gao general soldier ambushing the Tartar soldiers in Taohuagou, he was beheaded at the seventy levels, and the military department gave three preferences. Last year, there was a vacancy in General Sang's army, and Lord Li of the Ministry of Officials recommended him to serve in your army. The humble position knows that it is not the old man under General Sang's account, and it is not easy for you to use the humble position. However, I have long heard of General Sang's name, and I know that you are famous in Xuanfu and Datong, and you are a good man who is not afraid of Tartar soldiers. It is a humble privilege to serve under your account. In the past year, there is nothing offensive to the general. ”

Sang Liangtian said: "Since you have come to my account, you must listen to the orders of this general." Let you go east, you will go east, let you go west, you will go west, that is, there is an abyss ahead, as long as the order is given, you must jump down without blinking. This is the only way for General Ben to lead his troops to win battles over the years. The adjutants, staff generals, and guerrillas under the general's account all follow the general's methods, so that they can work together to conquer everything and be invincible. General Liu, if you are dissatisfied, you can raise it earlier, and this general will write to the military department and the official department, and ask you to find another job. It's just that now that the army has been dispatched, if you say these words that disturb the morale of the army, don't blame General Ben for engaging in military law. ”

Liu Hong said: "General Sang, you haven't heard what is going on in your humble position, so you have to engage in military law, I'm afraid that some of them can't be justified." ”

Sang Liangtian said: "Even if you don't say some nonsense, General Ben knows what to ask." The front and rear left and right middle five battalions, only your left battalion is dissatisfied with the general's plan, if you say that no one is agitated, you are afraid of ghosts and do not believe it. ”

Liu Hong said: "The general is thinking too much. The left battalion was full of 600 men, and when he took office, he brought only more than 200 people, and most of the rest were soldiers from you. Besides, when you took up your post, you only brought soldiers, not a single officer, and all the officers and officers above the commander of the left battalion were all old people you had brought before. Most of the more than 200 brothers who died in the battle under Yong'an City today were soldiers brought from Xuanfu. Those who want to ask the general for an explanation are the generals you originally made. I am afraid that I will not be able to stir them up with the power of my humble position. ”

Sang Liangtian slapped on the long case and said sharply: "General Liu, you are here to fight with General Ben!"

Liu Hong took a step back, bowed down and said, "The general's words are serious, how dare he be so lowly?"

Sang Liangtian sneered: "Okay, General Liu has repeatedly emphasized that you are not a veteran under me, if I blindly suppress you, you will definitely be unconvinced." Then the general will listen to your words. ”

Liu Hongdao: "General, these articles are not mentioned by the lowly position, but the three or four hundred brothers of the left battalion want to be lowly and proposed to the general. ”

Sang Liangtian snorted and said, "Say it!"

Liu Hong said: "Yes." General, we are the defenders of the Imperial Mausoleum, and the emperor and the military department have given us a lot of face and let us move to Shandong. However, the general said that he had received a secret order from the imperial court and the transfer of troops from the military department, and asked us to go to Beijing to go to the side of the Qing monarch. The brothers have always been suspicious about this matter, because we are not the soldiers and horses of the three major battalions in the capital, and leaving the garrison to enter the capital without permission is a major crime of rebellion. ”

Sang Liangtian said: "You have all seen the holy decree, the transfer of troops was personally brought to the army by Lord Zhao of the Ministry of War, and the deputy generals and staff generals have also seen it with their own eyes, do you want to resist the decree?"

Liu Hongdao: "The holy decree and the transfer of troops are indeed not fake, and the humble position is just suspicious, and there is no intention to blame the general." However, since we have been ordered to enter Beijing, we should go straight to the capital and capture the traitorous ministers, why should we garrison the city of Yong'an? Moreover, when we arrive in the early morning, we should take advantage of the unpreparedness of the defenders in the city to attack the city with all our might. General Sang, however, ordered all his troops to set up a large camp, wasting a day in vain, and only then launched an attack when the defenders of the city were ready to stop. General Sang is a famous general who has been on the battlefield for a long time, and it is not surprising that the brothers are puzzled by such a dispatch. ”

Sang Liangtian said coldly: "General Liu, this general asked you, when the military horses of the headquarters are in the imperial tomb, how many days is the supply of military rations?"

Liu Hong said: "Five days is limited. ”

Sang Liangtian said: "That is to say, five thousand military horses can only get a military food supply in five days." Then when we start from the Imperial Mausoleum, how many days of surplus food will there be in the army?"

Liu Hong's face was a little embarrassed, and he said, "I haven't thought about this humble position......"

Sang Liangtian snorted and said, "General Ben is here to tell you." When the army started, there was only one day of military rations left in the army, so they waited outside the imperial tomb for three days, and then marched to Yong'an City when there were three days of surplus food in the army. When they arrived at the city, the vanguard army wanted to earn money and enter the city, but the defenders saw through it, so they set up a large camp and did not immediately attack the city. When the army and horses of the headquarters were in Xuanfu and Datong, there were 2,000 cavalry. It was only transferred to the Imperial Mausoleum, and most of the cavalry stayed in Xuanfu on the orders of the Ministry of War. General Liu, do you know how many cavalry we have now?"

Liu Hong said: "There are 300 cavalrymen. ”

Sang Liangtian paced back and forth in the big tent, saying as he walked: "Although the distance from Yong'an to the capital is not far, if we don't sneak attack with cavalry, when we run to the capital, we will be exhausted, and there will be no military rations and baggage, so how can we fight? In addition, they are also waiting for the cavalry of the three guards to come to help. When we arrived here, there were no siege equipment, and it was only in the evening that five ladders were sent and three cars were crashed, do you think that General Ben only attacked the city at this time, is there anything wrong?"

Liu Hong's forehead was dripping with sweat, and he bowed down and said, "It's a lowly and abrupt ......."

Sang Liangtian said: "This time General Ben was ordered to enter the King of Jingqin, although it is an urgent matter of 100,000 people, but he can't joke with the lives of 5,000 brothers. If we attack in a hurry and have no basis for advancing or retreating, not only will the errand sent by the military department not be handled well, but we will also have to lose our 5,000 lives. It's because of this Yong'an City, we have to take it down no matter what!"

Liu Hong said: "There are still two things I don't understand, can the general make it clear?"

Sang Liangtian said: "You can say it." ”

Liu Hong said: "The army was gathered at the east gate, and only a few hundred suspicious soldiers were sent to the north, west, and south. During the day, he went around the other three gates and found that there were very few defenders. At present, the strength of our army far exceeds that of the defenders of Yong'an City, why didn't the general send a group of men and horses, take advantage of the opportunity of the defenders to concentrate on the eastern city, find the weak points of the defenders in the north, west, and south directions, and attack with all their might, Yong'an City will inevitably fall. If the general can be trusted, he is willing to lead the brothers of the left battalion to these three city gates, take the opportunity to seize the city, and make the first contribution to the army. ”

Sang Liangtian said: "Can you think of any of the defenders of Yong'an City who can't think of it? General Ben has received a secret report, and in addition to the 1,200 officers and soldiers in Yong'an City, there are also more than 1,000 martial arts masters in the rivers and lakes. These people are strong in martial arts, and one can defeat ten. Your strong archers in the left battalion have suffered heavy casualties today, and they are the hands of these people. General Liu, do you also want to try these people's bow and arrow kung fu?"

(End of chapter)