Chongzhen Undergraduates

"Master, what you said is that we should call for help, but we have tens of thousands of people. The big guys are all scattered in various villages and towns in several counties nearby, and less than half of them have come here. Other counties The road to the residence is a bit far, I guess I can arrive tomorrow night." Li Erniu's words stunned Zhu Cihong.

On the scale in front of you, there are thousands of people in a town, and they are crowded here one after another.

"Go to Commander Li quickly, and ask him to arrange someone to lead the way into the mountain." Zhu Cihong hurriedly told his subordinates, if they don't guide these people, it's nothing to be crowded here.

"Master, have you forgotten where we came from?" Li Erniu said with a chuckle, "We all came from Dabie Mountain. We are familiar with the road here, as long as we assign tasks."

Zhu Cihong slapped his forehead, these people themselves lived in the Dabie Mountains, and now they are just going back to their hometown.This is not a task for them at all.

Just at this time, the scouts sent by Li Dingguo had been divided into several teams, and they quickly disappeared into the vast mountains under the leadership of teams of common people.

They are as fast as they come home.

Chapter 562: Careful thinking will eventually lead to bad things

It is true that Wu Sangui is good at leading troops.

Although in a dangerous situation and with many difficulties, Wu Sangui still has priorities.

Several large bags of refined salt were placed in front of him, which was the result of the Zhou army's robbing of the surrounding people.The amount of salt in front of us is far from enough to supply [-] troops, at most it will be enough to feed [-] troops for two or three days.

Wu Sangui first gathered his own soldiers, which he wanted to use to save his life.A person without salt is weaker at best, but a soldier without salt in a war can only be killed by the enemy.Wu Sangui needs to find a group of people to come out to explore the way, so that he can stand out from the encirclement.

Refined salt, horse broth and warm white flour cakes, this is how Wu Sangui treats his soldiers.

"Crack" Wu Sangui opened a map at once, on which the topography of the Dabie Mountains was impressively drawn.

"Wang Pingfan, here is Guangshan to the east. Although the road is a bit far, the terrain is relatively flat. The most important thing is that no one would have thought that we would break through to the east."

Wu Sangui stared at Wang Pingfan, this is his trusted general who came from Liaodong, and he was more reliable than Wang Fuchen and others.

"Your Majesty, when will we leave?" Wang Pingfan's heart tightened, he knew that this was Wu Sangui's reassurance for him, but it also meant that the road ahead would be very difficult.

"Is it possible to give you three hours of rest time?" Wu Sangui said ruthlessly.As for whether the soldiers under Wang Pingfan can recover their combat power in six hours, only God knows.

After explaining to the barracks, Wu Sangui changed his majestic face, and then came to several other generals and said: "My love, now the root cause of our army's poisoning has been found. As long as everyone eats non-toxic refined salt for a few days, their lives will be saved." worry free.

But now we are surrounded by the Ming army, we can only find a way to break out.Let's discuss the direction of our breakthrough. After Wu Sangui finished speaking, he pretended that he had no idea, obviously waiting for others to join in.

"Your Majesty, I thought it would be better to fight back from the same road. There is a dam on the road going south, which is not conducive to the cavalry's attack, but there is no flood behind us. The Ming army just followed, and we took advantage of the unstable foothold to break through in one fell swoop. Come out." Wang Fuchen was brave, and he didn't pay attention to the Ming army at all.

"No. Your majesty, I think that the spies in our army have not been found out, and we should find out the spies first, otherwise we will be known by the Ming army wherever we go." Hu Guozhu and Liu Xuanchu have a good relationship, and he does not believe that the spy is Liu Xuanchu .

"It's not good, Your Majesty Qizuo, some soldiers from each battalion have fled, and I'm afraid they surrendered to the Ming army."

While everyone was debating whether to continue to investigate the mole, another bad news came.If it was before, it was normal for some deserters.In ancient times, the conscripts were so strong that some third-rate troops had not yet arrived on the battlefield, and half of the soldiers could escape.

Even if it is a strong army, it dare not say that there is no deserter.

But at this time, there were large-scale deserters in the Zhou army. In addition to the normal deserters, it also explained one thing: that is, there were indeed spies inside the Zhou army, and there were quite a few of them.

Because of the siege, the spies in the army couldn't connect with the outsiders, so they simply sent people to defect.This is blatant betrayal, especially for people like Wu Sangui, he can betray others, but he can't stand others betraying him.

"Send someone to catch them quickly." Wu Sangui's roar was like a hoarse lion, full of despair amidst rage.

Now that Wu Sangui's mood has become like this, who dares to mention breaking out?But Wu Sangui changed his expression when he turned around.In the name of chasing down the spies, he sent out five thousand soldiers, heading east all the way to explore the way.

Wu Sangui also knew that a large number of deserters would leak the news, so he had to find out the way first and make preparations for running away in advance.

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The night was very quiet, so quiet that even the sound of crickets seemed far away, and there was only the sound of burning torches around.More than [-] deserters were tied up and knelt in a row by the river. Behind each of them stood an executioner holding a ghost knife. The atmosphere at the scene was very gloomy.

"Whoever tells the truth will not die." Wang Pingfan said coldly.

As soon as Wang Pingfan uttered a word, several men peed their pants in fright, and most of them yelled nonsense.

"Cut these off." Wang Pingfan pointed with his index finger, and these deserters who were scared to pee on the spot were sentenced to death.

Shatou is easy, except that the distance of the head rolling is different, the death of these people is almost the same.

"Forgive me, General, the villain is obsessed with his mind, he shouldn't be a deserter." There are a few brave people who were not frightened in the first wave of intimidation, but now they will be frightened by the dead again, and these people did not expect to kill people In the past, if you were a deserter, you only needed to give some money, and at most it was a military stick on your butt.

"What I want to hear is not this, what I want is who is a spy in the army. If you say it first today, I will spare him." Wang Pingfan showed his hole card angrily.

As soon as he said this, the entire execution ground began to speak nonsense.Just the confessed spies implicated almost all officials under Wu Sangui, large and small.It is almost impossible for anyone to recognize Wang Pingfan himself.

"Report to the emperor, the deserter who was captured has already confessed." Wang Pingfan handed the confession to Wu Sangui, on which were written three names: Fang Guangzhang, Wang Fuchen, and Hu Guozhu.

There is no Liu Xuanchu because Liu Xuanchu has already been guarded, so it is naturally impossible to send someone to inform the Ming army.There are even more names on the other side list, reaching hundreds of people.

Wu Sangui didn't know if this list was true, but he knew that he couldn't trust anyone now.If he goes through the review according to the list, he is destined to lose control of the army.But if he doesn't investigate the spies, he will be sold to the Ming army.

My most trusted hundred thousand cavalry, why is it like this now?Wu Sangui couldn't figure it out.

"Report: In the opening ceremony for the emperor, the battalions are accusing each other, and the attacks on each other are already in full swing. Wang Fuchen's department and Liu Guozhu's department have divided the camps to confront each other. Please go to the emperor to uphold justice."

Just when Wu Sangui was about to forget about the spies, Fang Guangzhang ran over to report urgently.The self-respecting Wang Fuchen confronted Liu Guozhu because he accused Liu Xuanchu, and Fang Guangzhang just came to report to Wu Sangui.

Wu Sangui regretted not listening to Liu Xuanchu's words. Now the soldiers in the entire barracks don't know whether to break out or negotiate peace.After all, the suspicion among the soldiers was because some people believed that Wu Sangui would break through, while others believed that he would choose peace talks.

Regardless of whether it is a breakout or peace talks, everyone thinks that the other faction is spies, so there will only be more and more spies in the camp.

"Fang Aiqing, go and tell them that I will uphold justice tomorrow. It's too late today, and I have already rested." Wu Sangui found a solution and fought Fang Guangzhang.

"Don't check anymore. Wang Pingfan, get ready to go tomorrow!" Wu Sangui felt physically and mentally exhausted, and now he just wanted to escape from here.Wu Sangui, who is best at leading troops, finally couldn't bear it in his heart under the terrifying situation of spies.

Chapter 563: Use the enemy's method for yourself

Fengdian is just a small place name, and it is still just a small village. The people in the village have a meager grain output. Because there are some fruit trees and mountain products, they have not immigrated to the Great Plains.

Dense forests surrounded the village, and Zhou Jun swaggered out from one side of a mountain ridge. When they saw Fengdian, they swarmed down the mountain on their horses like fish seeing water.

When hundreds of villagers saw a large group of people rushing towards them, they were so frightened that they dropped all their work and ran in the opposite direction with their wives and children in their arms.

The more embarrassing the people ran, the more joyful the bandit-like Zhou army shouted, and except for some cavalry chasing the villagers, a large number of Zhou troops plunged into the village.

This group of gangsters neither robbed women nor robbed goods. They all poured into the kitchens of common people's homes and rummaged around, throwing away food and collecting poor salt jars at the same time.

Er Niu was originally a hunter in this mountain, so he brought a hundred Zhou Jun and thousands of young and strong men to Chaofeng Store.

In the distance, when Er Niu turned around a mountainside and was about to show off and introduce his hometown to outsiders, the somewhat chaotic scene immediately aroused everyone's vigilance.The person walking in front found a place to hide in an instant, while Er Niu took a Ming army officer to find a hill with a good view to check.

The situation is obvious, the Zhou army has already broken through to Fengdian, and the Ming army came a step late.It wasn't the Zhou army's small army that came to Fengdian. There were a full 5000 troops, which was obviously a main force. As for whether it was all of them, it's hard to say now.

"Master Jun, if there is anything we need to do, just tell us." Li Erniu said, patting his chest.

"It's getting late today. I think they'll spend the night in the village. Just rushing over like this is not enough for the enemy's teeth. Let's retreat first, send a fast horse to report to the headquarters, and wait overnight. Build a wooden village ten miles away just in case."