Chapter 232: The Prisoner's Work
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When the generals saw that the governor had spoken from Li Zhi's captives, they recognized Li Zhi's attitude a little more. From the mouths of these low-level soldiers, it seems that there is no classified information, but it is enough to get the general layout of the enemy and the distribution of troops. What's more, the battle situation is unpredictable, and the slightest miss will make a difference of thousands of miles. Sometimes, seemingly useless information can improve a general's decision-making and make a difference in the outcome of a battle.
After interrogating these Tartars, Lu Xiangsheng was still unsatisfied, and said: "How does General Longhu plan to use these Dongnu prisoners?" β
As soon as Li Zhi heard this, he knew what Lu Xiangsheng meant. He arched his hand and said, "If the governor wishes to interrogate these captives in detail, he will send them to the governor's army in the evening." β
Lu Xiangsheng was overjoyed and said, "Okay! The Governor wants to get more information out of these captives! β
In addition to being delighted, Lu Xiangsheng raised the water cup and raised it towards Li Zhi, and said: "General Long Hu has a big difference in governing the army. After a pause, Lu Xiangsheng said: "Wait for the army to fight with Dongnu in five days, and the governor will work together for the general!" β
Seeing the governor saluting Li Zhijiu, the other generals were very envious. But who let his soldiers and horses not have the ability to catch a few Tartars? The generals were also convinced that Li Zhi was courteous.
Li Zhi picked up the rice wine on the case and drank it all.
Then the banquet began, and the generals began to toast each other. Of course, it is Li Zhi who is the most respected. At this time, the Ming Dynasty was in flames, and the rules of the territory of the civil and military forces gradually collapsed, and the Ming army had a tendency to become warlords, and the towns in the army were the most powerful. If you make friends with powerful military attachΓ©s, you can speak louder in the court, and if you make a mistake and are impeached by the official or punished by the governor and governor, if you have a friend who saves you, you can also save the day.
When the general soldiers heard that Li Zhi's soldiers and horses were strong, and saw the Tartar captives captured by Li Zhi, they all secretly said that this Li Zhi was unusual and had the intention of befriending him. Although they were a little stupid when they first saw Li Zhi so young, after seeing the prisoner that Li Zhi caught, everyone secretly said that Li Zhi could not do it himself, so they accepted the fact that Li Zhi was a young hero.
For a time, Li Zhi's case was staggered, and the deputy generals of the general army came over one after another, and Li Zhi drank more than a dozen glasses of rice wine in one go.
Drinking too quickly at once, Li Zhi felt his face flush.
After the deputy general of the general army finished drinking, a group of generals came over again, and Li Zhi drank more than a dozen cups, which was really a little unbearable. When those guerrillas came back to pay respects, Li Zhi asked Zheng Kaicheng and others behind him to drink for themselves.
After a round of toasting, the generals began to enjoy the wine and meat. Most of those generals were rough people, and Li Zhi only saw a scene of gobbling up.
Yang Guozhu stuffed the meat into his mouth with chopsticks one by one, tilted his head and bit the meat fiercely, as if he was fighting with mutton. The Shanxi chief military officer Hu Dawei was even more rude, he thought that chopsticks were not easy to use, so he directly grabbed the meat with his hands and ate it, eating a mouthful of oil in his hand.
Among the eating photos of everyone, Wang Pu, the chief soldier of Datong, is the best-looking. He chewed the mutton with chopsticks and ate it slowly, eating very decently. Occasionally, he takes a sip of wine from his glass, and his movements are also very chic.
Lu Xiangsheng is a civil official after all, but he is more literate than these martial artists. However, he ate a huge amount of rice, and he actually ate three bowls of rice in one go, which made Li Zhi amazed. You must know that the rice bowl in the army is very large, and those three bowls of rice are worth four bowls of rice in a private family.
After eating wine and meat, Li Zhi said goodbye to the governor and returned to his barracks. Li Zhi first asked the soldiers to send the prisoners to the governor, and then he fell heavily on the altar and fell asleep at once.
At dawn the next day, Li Zhi got up and heard a report from a scout.
"General, all the 100,000 troops of the Tartars have pulled up their camps and gone south!"
Li Zhi was stunned, and secretly said why this tartar left. It seems that after the Tartars tried for a while, they did not have the confidence to break through the capital of the Ming Dynasty with a drum. The Tartars lived in the bitter cold land of Liaodong, the population and materials were scarce, and all they longed for was to burn and loot on the periphery of the capital of the Ming Dynasty, and do some profitable and unlost trade.
Li Zhi felt that he was still a little hungover, shook his head, and asked, "Have all the soldiers and horses been withdrawn?" β
The commander of the scout platoon said loudly: "There are still 1,000 soldiers left, half of them are vests, stationed fifty miles east of the city, it seems that they are preparing to follow my Ming army and collect information about my Ming army!" β
"What an arrogant Qing army, dare to leave spies down when the main force is gone!" Li Zhi snorted and asked again, "Half of those Tartars are vest soldiers?" β
The scout platoon commander said, "It should be, I can't see clearly." These Qing soldiers were all very arrogant, and as soon as we got close to them, we rushed up and chased them together. My cavalry platoon tried to get close several times and saw clearly, but failed. β
Li Zhi interrogated the living Tartars and knew that the Qing army had reformed the military system at this time. The Qing army no longer used Niulu as the basic combat unit, but drew all the soldiers into the three major battalions, and the emperor appointed the officers of each battalion in a unified manner. These three battalions are the Kabush Xian Battalion, the Bayala Battalion and the Aliha Chaoha Battalion.
The most elite is the Kabush Xian battalion, and the soldiers are filled by two brave and strong people selected by each Niu Lu of the Eight Banners of Manchuria and the Eight Banners of Mongolia. The second is the Bayala battalion, where ten people are selected for each Niulu, and all of them are elite Bayala soldiers. Finally, there is the Aliha Chaoha battalion, and each Niu Lu selects forty people, and the ones selected are all brave vest soldiers.
The rest of the infantry and auxiliaries followed behind the vest soldiers of the Aliha Chaoha battalion.
Half of these 1,000 Tartars were vests, and it seemed that they were a combat unit under the Aliha Chaoha battalion.
Li Zhi nodded and shouted to the herald: "Let Zhong Feng come out with a thousand riflemen, and follow me out of the camp to eat these thousand vests!" β
The herald shouted the order and passed on Li Zhi's order. It didn't take long for Zhong Feng to order his soldiers and horses and prepare for the expedition. Li Zhi wore the armor given by the emperor, rode on his jujube red horse, and waved the banner, leading the soldiers of the 1,000 Xuanfeng Regiment to the east to kill.
After traveling forty miles to the east, Li Zhi saw that there were many Qing army sentries nearby. When these sentry detectives came to Li Zhi's soldiers and horses, they all ran to the barracks more than ten miles away, as if they were going back to report the news. But soon a new sentry rode out from near the Tartar camp and circled around Li Zhi's military horses. The Tartars still seemed to be very relaxed, not believing that Li Zhi, the Thousand Ming Army, would dare to attack them.
Li Zhi led his troops all the way east, until he reached within five miles of the Qing army camp, and the Qing army became alert.
The Qing army sounded the horn and set up a battle queue outside the camp.
Li Zhi looked at the camp of the Qing army with a telescope and found that the Qing army really had horses. Half of the Qing army rode tall war horses, probably vest soldiers. Li Zhi asked Zhong Feng's soldiers to load and reload, and pressed towards this Qing army little by little.
The Qing army lined up outside the camp and rushed towards Li Zhi on horseback. (To be continued.) )