Dong Ce smiled slightly, revealing a mouthful of snow-white teeth, but what he said was indeed as cold as ice: "Let's talk about the ugly things first, if you dare to play any tricks, don't answer my question honestly, don't let you go today, it's your life, and you have to stay here." ”

After hearing this, Zhao Dadu shuddered and hurriedly said: "Don't worry, I will say whatever I know, and I will never dare to talk nonsense." ”

"Good!" Dong Ce stroked his palm and smiled lightly: "If you are like this, then at least your life is saved." ”

The scare was almost too much, Dong Ce estimated that Zhao Dadu should not dare to talk nonsense, so he immediately threw out a series of questions.

"Since you are Li Zicheng's subordinate, you should know how many soldiers are there around Zhenning County now, how many soldiers are there, how many infantry troops are there, and how many cavalry are there? Also, when did you get here? What is the purpose? Is it to ambush Lord Cao Wenzhao, what kind of plan do you have? ”

Zhao Dadu thought that he was frightened, and sure enough, as he said, he really knew everything, and he knew everything, and he even knew all the questions that Dong Ce asked.

Sure enough, as Dong Ce guessed, Li Zicheng Chen Bing was in Zhenning County, in order to ambush Cao Wenzhao,

At present, all the people concentrated around Zhenning County are the men and horses of the general Li Zicheng, and there are no other troops of the righteous army. And these horses, almost all of them were cavalry, adding up to more than 23,000 people. According to Chen Dadu, almost all the cavalry troops under the command of Gao Yingxiang, the entire king of Chuang, were concentrated here in Li Zicheng, the general of Chuang.

Their strategy is also quite simple, that is, to lure the enemy deeper. After discovering Cao Wenzhao's whereabouts, he first met Cao Wenzhao in the southeast of Zhenning County, and then pretended to be invincible, and retreated all the way.

He was ready to lead Cao Wenzhao's army there, and then all the cavalry under his command laid a huge encirclement in Hutou Town, once Cao Wenzhao led his troops in, he immediately attacked it in a group and surrounded Cao Wenzhao's troops, this time Li Zicheng's purpose was to annihilate Cao Wenzhao's troops.

After listening to this, Dong Ce couldn't help but gasp.

Li Zicheng's move is really ruthless, if Cao Wenzhao's troops are completely annihilated, then the last cavalry team with strong mobility in the three towns of Shaanxi will be completely lost. Although even if Cao Wenzhao's troops were annihilated, in Shaanxi, the Ming army led by the trilateral governor Hong Chengchou still had an advantage in overall strength, but the problem was that most of the remaining Ming troops were foot soldiers. These armies, almost all of which were foot soldiers, might still have some upper hand against the other generals under Gao Yingxiang, the king of Chuang, but if they fought against Li Zicheng, the general of Chuang, they would have to face a huge force that was almost entirely cavalry. Then it will be very passive, people can fight if they want to, and they can leave if they want to, and the officers and soldiers will not be able to catch up at all.

If you can't beat them, you can run away, and you can't do anything about them. Want to chase? No way!

Therefore, if Cao Wenzhao's department is annihilated, it will be an extremely important blow to the Ming army in Shaanxi. At the strategic level, Cao Wenzhao's cavalry is not too many, only three thousand, but it is extremely combative, elite enough, and has strong enough mobility. With them, Hong Chengchou will have a lot of choices in arranging troops, and if there is no them, then some battles will not be easy to fight in the future.

In fact, in Shaanxi, on the whole, the official army and the righteous army were in a state of stalemate, and the official army had a slight upper hand, but it could not completely overwhelm the righteous army, let alone annihilate it -- at least for a short time.

And Li Zicheng's move, starting from the overall situation of the entire Shaanxi war situation, this blow directly hit the key point. After the annihilation of Cao Wenzhao, all the rebel armies in Shaanxi were suddenly full of life, and the official army was going to turn passive.

Not to mention that Li Zicheng is powerful, this vision, this means, not to mention the righteous army, looking at the entire Ming Dynasty, how many people can do it?

Moreover, Cao Wenzhao, who is now about to be surrounded and annihilated, has not even realized this. When Cao Wenzhao set out to avenge Ai Wan, Hong Chengchou shouldn't have realized this, but now even if he has realized it, it is too late.

Dong Ce asked again: "Then when are you going to ambush Cao Wenzhao?" ”

Zhao Dadu smiled bitterly: "I really don't know this, although my eldest brother will say a lot of things to me, he once told me that this matter is too difficult, and he can't be sure." It's not that we can ambush Cao Wenzhao when we set it, but Cao Wenzhao himself has to be fooled. But I guess it won't be a few days, right? In the past few days, most of the troops in the city have been dispersed, and most of them have been sent to the east, and there are so many of them, if you want to fight, Cao Wenzhao will definitely not be able to defeat them. But there is no news of Cao Wenzhao's defeat yet, indicating that they must be laying a trap. ”

Dong Ce said lightly: "Your eldest brother Li Zicheng is really good to you, he even tells you this kind of thing, I ask you, you will say everything, don't you feel sorry for your eldest brother?" ”

"What's wrong with that?"

Zhao Dadu smiled: "Even if I tell you, you can't do anything to my eldest brother." I can see it clearly, you only have a few hundred people here, but my eldest brother has tens of thousands, can you be my eldest brother's opponent? That's why I'm not afraid to tell you this. ”

He looked at Dong Ce, and said with some seriousness: "Brother, listen to me, let me go now, and then retreat with your people quickly!" You are definitely not my eldest brother's opponent, my eldest brother is busy dealing with Cao Wenzhao now, it will definitely be too late to chase you, you can still run away. When he cleans up Cao Wenzhao and frees his hands to deal with you, it will be too late to run away at that time. ”

Dong Ce smiled dumbly: "You are really a bit interesting, but you persuaded me at this time." ”

As for why Chen Dadu's self-confidence in Li Zicheng is so strong, Dong Ce roughly understands. Whoever comes will think that it is easy for Li Zicheng to clean up Dong Ce.

Chen Dadu flattened his mouth: "If you don't appreciate it, forget it." ”

He paused, and shouted at Dong Ce again: "Now that you have finished asking all the questions you should ask, and I have said everything I know, can you let me go now?" ”

Dong Ce said lightly: "Why did you let you go?" ”

Zhao Dadu was anxious, and said angrily: "Didn't you say just now, as long as I said it, you would let me go?" ”

Dong Ce said: "I just said that I want to think about it, when did I promise you?" ”

Zhao Dadu thought about it carefully, and found that it seemed that this was indeed the case, Dong Ce really didn't agree to him, but he thought that as long as he could answer Dong Ce's questions, Dong Ce would let him go. In fact, Dong Ce has not made any promises in this regard at all.

"You mean!" Zhao Dadu shouted.

Dong Ce said in a deep voice outside the tent: "Bai Zhongqi, come in." ”