After listening to Xiao Ruxun's speculation, Li Chengliang and Chai Guozhu looked at each other.

They only thought about defense, and when they saw the cowardice of the soldiers under their hands, who would dare to attack? I'm afraid that even if they dare to lead the troops to attack, these old soldiers in the Beijing camp dare to leave the general and run away by themselves, such as the old soldiers of the guard who left Qi Jiguang and ran away by themselves.

If there were more than 20,000 cavalry brought by Li Rusong under his hands, Li Chengliang would dare to let Chai Guozhu lead his troops to attack at night to try the opponent's catties, but he has not received assistance, so he can only defend passively.

And now that Xiao Ruxun said this, he thought about it again, huh? It seems that this is really the case!

Except for a few times with political purposes, the northern captives came to attack the Ming Dynasty, basically they robbed and walked away without entanglement with the Ming army, their cavalry encountered a strict infantry military formation is not beneficial, must be quickly robbed and left, so that the Ming can not react, the Ming cavalry did not dare to pursue rashly, can only suffer a dumb loss.

But this time it was very abnormal, they suddenly went south to attack, and they were about to attack Jingshi, without any prior signs, and I Da and Yexian entered the army on a large scale with the premise of a political event, and this time they did not have a unified political order but dared to go south, and even wanted to loot Jingshi, what kind of thing is this?

"Even if they were going to attack Jingshi, there should be some forewarning, such as the conflict between the Ming and a certain tribe that intensified to the point of irreconcilability, which caused a major crisis.

But this time it's just a matter of lack of food, and going south to loot and loot grain should be their only purpose, so what is it to attack the Jingshi? Aren't they worried that Da Ming will be provoked and come back to their senses to take revenge on them? Naturalization City is not far from us. ”

Xiao Ruxun kept raising his doubts, so that Li Chengliang and Chai Guozhu didn't know how to answer.

Li Rusong felt that what Xiao Ruxun said seemed to make sense, so he asked: "What does the Admiral mean, is it a trick for these northern captives to attack Bauhinia Pass?" Actually, there is another purpose? ”

Xiao Ruxun nodded.

"The art of war cloud, the real is virtual, the virtual is real, there must be a demon when things go wrong, the current Beiyu is not the Beiyu of the past, there is no unified regime and order, there is no basis for a large-scale war against the Ming Dynasty to the south, attacking the Beijing Division and the Ming Dynasty to fight the national war is definitely not their purpose, their only purpose is to grab food."

Li Rusong frowned and said: "But this time the intensity of the northern captives going south is too great, and 100,000 people go south, no matter how you look at it, it looks like a national war!" ”

"No, they have no motive, what is the purpose of their war with Daming? The north is in the cold, they want to grab food, the cold in the north is too severe, they need to send more people to grab more food, I don't believe that the king of Guiyi is really a hero who aspires to the world, otherwise, how could he be suppressed by a woman to rebel until today?

The three generations of the Tumut tribe have not had a major conflict with the Ming Dynasty, and the sudden conflict with the Ming Dynasty can only be caused by the most direct lack of food, if you want to fight a national war with the Ming Dynasty, I am afraid that there are not only 100,000 people, they must be just for food and survival. ”

"So what are they doing this for? Attacking Bauhinia Pass to threaten the Gyeongshi, isn't it to plunder Gyeonggi? They've done it before! ”

Chai Guozhu hurriedly asked.

"Just because I've done it before doesn't mean I'll do it now, I used to have it and I answered it first, but now they don't have such a person, and they don't have such a unified command regime, who will give orders? Who will take command?

The emergence of a unified order on the grassland is not something that can be achieved by a mere alliance, and it will inevitably go through countless bloody battles to determine the strongest one, have we ever heard of a big battle on the grassland over the years? ”

"It's really not ......"

Chai Guozhu muttered quietly.

"So, I think that they definitely didn't attack the Bauhinia Pass to plunder the Jingshi and threaten the capital of the Ming Dynasty, they must have another purpose, and the plan is not small."

Xiao Ruxun lowered his head and pondered.

Li Chengliang suddenly said: "At this time, there is no other good place for the Beiyu, if you don't come to Zijing Pass to plunder Jinggi, then you can only go south to Taiyuan, Taiyuan has more than 100,000 soldiers and horses of Wang Inspector's Division is defending, even if there are tens of thousands of cavalry in the Beiyu, they don't dare to rush south, in addition, either go north or west, where else can they go?" ”

"It is impossible to advance westward, several major military towns in Yulin, Ningxia and Gansu in the west are guarded by Xiao generals, they absolutely dare not really mobilize all the nine sides, they don't have so many troops, it is possible to go north, that is, they are going to retreat, and send people to guard the Bauhinia Pass here to cover the retreat of the large army.

But they are cavalry, they move quickly, if they want to retreat, the Ming Dynasty has no way to stop it for the time being, just to cover the retreat, and there is no need to attack the Bauhinia Pass to stimulate the Ming court, just guard the Pingxing Pass, why do you want to attack the Bauhinia Pass? ”

Li Rusong's analysis is also very reasonable.

Xiao Ruxun raised his head, looked at Li Rusong, and said thoughtfully: "In this way, the most likely thing is to go south, attack Bauhinia Pass for the purpose of going south, and attract the attention of the Ming army, what are you trying to do?" Taiyuan?

Wang Inspector's more than 100,000 soldiers and horses are in Taiyuan, is it possible for them to really be sure that they will not be able to take Taiyuan? And more importantly, how did these northern captives supplement their grain and grass? ”

The three of them looked at each other, and no one could say why.

At present, there is too little information that can be obtained, in addition to scout observation, there is only some information brought by the fleeing people that is difficult to distinguish between true and false, if you don't go out of Bauhinia Pass, I am afraid that you will not be able to know more information, as far as the current intelligence is analyzed, Xiao Ruxun can't analyze anything.

So he set his sights on the Mongol barracks.

"If they use artillery trebuchets and bed crossbows, it proves that they must have captured a group of border town soldiers to operate these siege equipment for them, these northern captives will not operate these equipment, there must be a large number of prisoners in their barracks, and these prisoners may have been captured by them all the way from Datong."

As soon as Xiao Ruxun's words came out, Li Rusong's eyes suddenly lit up.

"If we can catch some of the captives they captured, we will definitely know from their mouths the movements of these northern captives and what they have seen along the way, so that we will not be blinded like we are now!"

Xiao Ruxun smiled and nodded: "That's right, that's right, if you want to know the virtual and real movements of the northern captives, you must catch those captured soldiers and rescue them back, without further ado, we must prepare immediately, it is late today, the weather is colder, it is inconvenient to fight at night, and when they come to attack the city again tomorrow, they will be defeated in one fell swoop!" ”

"And what if they don't come?"

Chai Guozhu asked, "They didn't come to attack today. ”

"Not coming? That's easy to do, I'll lead the troops to kill it directly! Raise soldiers for a thousand days, use soldiers for a while, if soldiers dare not fight, what kind of soldiers do they do? ”

Xiao Ruxun's words were murderous.