When Zhu Yuanzhang saw Wu Laoliu's hesitant expression, his heart sank.
Because if something happened to Wang Shoulin, then the burning of food and grass might not be true.
If this is the case, then the ensuing war may be inevitable.
Although Zhu Yuanzhang is not afraid of the Jurchens, at this moment the food route is not open and the soldiers are tired, so it is not a good opportunity for a war.
Especially if he cannot quickly deal with the Jurchens, Li Zicheng will definitely take the opportunity to send troops, there will be an upcoming rebellion in the south, and those restless generals...
At that time, he may not only be fighting on two fronts, but may be fighting on three or even four fronts.
Thinking of this, Zhu Yuanzhang no longer wanted to talk to Jiang Dejing in detail. After taking the opportunity to dismiss the other party, he looked at Wu Laoliu and said, "But there is news about Wang Shoulin?"
Wu Laoliu nodded and said with a heavy face: "The young one has found Wang Qianhu."
"But he was seriously injured. After reluctantly telling Xiao Xiao what happened, he passed out again, and the others may...may have all been killed!"
Zhu Yuanzhang was shocked when he heard this, and then he forced himself to be calm and said: "What is going on? Are they being overtaken by the Jurchen navy?"
Wu Laoliu shook his head and said: "They were not overtaken, they were betrayed by traitors and fell into Bumu Butai's plan..."
It turned out that after Wang Shoulin and Li Sanbao left North Korea, they hid their whereabouts and quietly rushed towards the Jurchens.
During this period, Wang Shoulin felt that the target was too big. In order to avoid being discovered by the Jurchens, he first asked Li Sanbao to lead people to lurk, while he and a few people quietly came ashore in a small boat.
He was shocked to learn that Dorgon and Hauge had led nearly 100,000 people to invade the south through the servants of Dorgon, Hauge and others, as well as the news from Han slaves.
At this time, he accidentally learned that the Jurchens had too much food and grass, so in order to save labor, they used water transportation for the first time.
Since Kong Youde and Geng Zhongming wanted to aid North Korea and believed that the Ming navy was already in North Korea, they took away most of the soldiers to ensure victory on the Korean battlefield, leaving only 3,000 elite soldiers and several soldiers for Shang Kexi, who was responsible for transporting food. Thousands of sailors and slaves.
Wang Shoulin was overjoyed when he learned about this. After he found out Shang Kexi's grain transportation route, he quietly returned to the ship.
Then he and Li Sanbao divided their troops into two groups. First, Li Sanbao led six or seven hundred men to harass Shang Kexi's fleet.
After Shang Kexi transferred most of his troops to encirclement and suppression, Wang Shoulin attacked Shang Kexi's rear at night. Not only did he burn the grain and fodder that had been loaded onto the ship, he also used the artillery on the ship to capture and burn the military pay on the shore.
When the Jurchen cavalry monk Ke came over after hearing the news, Wang Shoulin had already sailed away.
Since the harvest from this battle was so great, both Wang Shoulin and Li Sanbao couldn't believe it.
They were worried that they had fallen into a scheme, so after discussion, Wang Shoulin quietly went ashore to investigate.
When Wang Shoulin learned that Bumubutai lost his temper over this and almost arrested Duduo for punishment, but fortunately Daishan and others dissuaded him before giving up, and he felt relieved.
They then reported the matter to the court and monitored it secretly.
Unexpectedly, the messenger left, and they were attacked by a gratifying siege.
After a fierce battle, Wang Shoulin and Li Sanbao escaped with 500 remaining soldiers.
After this battle, Wang Shoulin discovered that Shang Kexi's elite number was at least 10,000, which was quite different from the information he had received previously.
He suspected that he had fallen into the opponent's scheme, so he asked Li Sanbao to take the remaining troops to chase the messenger, while he took seven or eight people to sneak into the Jurchen again.
Not long after Wang Shoulin landed, he received the news that Li Sanbao's entire army had been wiped out, and he felt even more sad and angry.
For this reason, he risked his life and sneaked into Shengjing to find out the truth of the matter.
With the help of many Han slaves, he learned that the so-called transportation of grain and grass by water was actually a conspiracy of Bumbutai.
Because the real grain and grass had already been transported to Datong by the Chahar and Horqin tribes, and except for a very small part of the grain and grass they burned, it was all fake.
It turns out that Fan Wencheng has always had eyes and ears in the Tianjin Navy, so when Li Sanbao and Liu Wenbing set off from Tianjin Port, Fan Wencheng
Cheng got the news.
Fortunately, it was Li Sanbao who came forward in the first place. Fan Wencheng did not know about Liu Wenbing's existence and thought they were reinforcements from the Ming court. He did not take any action, but he made a plan to burn the grain and grass.
The reason why they did this was that Dorgon was powerful and wanted to use this to undermine the opponent's arrogance and consolidate imperial power.
Secondly, they wanted to take the opportunity to paralyze Ming Ting, making Ming Ting think that they lacked food and grass and could not fight for a long time, thus making wrong decisions.
So when Wang Shoulin led his army, the Jurchens had already arranged everything, just waiting for him to fall into the trap.
Wang Shoulin was shocked when he learned the truth and hurried back. Unexpectedly, he met the traitor halfway who went to Shengjing to be sealed for betraying them, Wu Lianchi, the former commander of the Tianjin Navy.
Although Wang Shoulin wanted to cut the opponent into pieces with a thousand knives, he also knew that the most important thing now was to send the news back, so he suppressed his anger and avoided the road.
Unexpectedly, Wu Lianchi discovered Wang Shoulin and ordered his soldiers to capture him. Z.br>
Thanks to the help of Han slaves, Wang Shoulin managed to escape, but everyone who accompanied him died in the battle...
Zhu Yuanzhang felt very heavy when he listened to Wu Laoliu's story.
His heavy heart was not only because he had not burned the Jurchen grain and grass, but also because he was worried about Bu Mu Butai, Fan Wencheng and others.
Because he was able to defeat Li Zicheng before, in addition to being good at fighting, more importantly, Li Zicheng was not a hero, and his soldiers were in disarray.
But judging from Wu Laoliu's story, Zhu Yuanzhang felt that Fan Wencheng was not an ordinary seller seeking glory, but a strategist with deep scheming and proficiency in strategy.
Although Bumbutai is a female streamer, she can control Fan Wencheng, Dorgon and others, and her methods may not be simple.
And Dorgon has been fighting in the north and south for many years without ever losing. He is definitely a strong general.
Although according to Wang Shoulin's news, Bumbutai and Dorgon seemed to be at odds, Zhu Yuanzhang had some doubts about this.
Because Bumbutai is not mediocre, even if she wants to suppress Dorgon, she will not do it so obviously. After all, the matter of fake food and grass cannot be hidden from Dorgon in the end.
What's more, she also asked the Horqin Department to send food to Hauge, which was clearly a way to win over Hauge.
If she had not told Dorgon beforehand, she would have angered Dorgon and unbalanced the government.
Therefore, Zhu Yuanzhang suspected that Bumbutai was taking advantage of the rumors he had spread before, and wanted to trick him into misunderstanding that she and Dorgon were not compatible in order to profit from it.
If this is the case, Bumbutai is definitely a formidable opponent.
Zhu Yuanzhang frowned when he thought that the Jurchens had such a group of people in power, and they also had hundreds of thousands of cavalry. It might not be easy to defeat them in a short period of time.
After Wu Laoliu finished his story, he asked for some details and then asked Wu Laoliu to go out.
And he came to Kun Yutu again, staring closely at the Jurchen Shengjing.
