"What a waste." The bearded general yelled.
Apart from a few curses, you can't really ask a general to pour a chamber pot for you. If you do this, no one of the generals below will be willing to risk leaving the camp again.
The commander-in-chief was kneeling on the ground and did not dare to speak back.
The bearded general who had been scolding for a while waved his hand impatiently and said, "You go back first, and I will punish you next time."
"I would like to thank the general for your kindness." The commander-in-chief kowtowed, then stood up and exited the tent.
The bearded general wiped the beard on his face and murmured to himself: "Damn it, I didn't expect this bandit to know how to set up an ambush. It seems that it is not that easy to deal with. No, I will inform General Wang of this matter." .”
With that said, he stood up from his seat, turned around and walked out.
As a general of the Xuanfu border army, it was not that he had never suppressed bandits. He had led many of the bandits in the mountains to be eliminated, and he had even killed herders from some tribes on the grasslands.
After all, whether it is a bandit or a Mongolian, the head is a military merit.
This time when he came to Datong to suppress bandits, he felt that the Tiger Character Banner was no different from the bandits he had wiped out before. No matter how powerful they were, they were not much stronger.
The soldiers and horses raised by a company are not that powerful.
That's why he sent a team of cavalry to capture the bandit sentries appearing around the camp, and in his opinion, it was just a matter of easy capture.
You know, even if the cavalry under him are not as good as his own soldiers, they are not much worse.
The dozen or so cavalrymen of the official army didn't look like much, but even if they faced hundreds of bandits, they could easily kill these bandits and flee in defeat. What's more, even if they couldn't defeat them, they could easily escape.
However, the dozens of cavalrymen of the Tiger Character Banner were able to chase down a group of his own cavalry until only one person escaped, which was enough for him to understand that the strength of the Tiger Character Banner's cavalry was by no means weaker than that of the frontier army's Ye Bushou.
Yang Guozhu and Wang Bao each led a group of soldiers and horses to Xinping Fort in different directions.
Wang Bao only brought less than 20,000 troops and horses. Even if they all went in the same direction, they did not go together, but separated into several large camps.
Each large camp has at least one or two thousand soldiers and horses.
The bearded general is the vanguard of the army. He and his battalion are at the forefront of the army.
After leaving the big tent, he asked his soldiers to prepare their horses.
Then he led a group of soldiers to the Chinese army camp where Wang Bao was located.
The Chinese army's camp is seven or eight miles away from General Bearded's camp, with nearly 10,000 soldiers and horses stationed there.
The bearded general entered the Chinese army camp on horseback and went straight to the tent where Wang Bao was. Then he got off his horse and handed the horse to the soldiers around him.
"Is the commander-in-chief inside?" the bearded general asked the flag officer holding the sign outside the door.
Seeing the other party nodding, he stepped into the big tent.
"The last general will see the general." Facing Wang Bao, he clasped his fists and saluted.
Wang Bao looked up at him and said, "Why did you come to the Chinese army camp if you didn't clear the way in the front camp? Could it be that something happened to the front camp?"
"To be fair to the general, there is indeed something that the general feels very nervous about and must report it in person." Then, the bearded general told the story of the cavalry he sent encountering the tiger-shaped flag cavalry.
After listening, Wang Bao waved his hand and said disapprovingly: "You are overthinking. The reason why the cavalry of the Tiger Character Banner is so powerful is that they conquered the Tumut tribe and had good horses and a group of cavalry with excellent riding skills." , but when it comes to actually taking action, the only thing that matters is their infantry. By the way, they call their own soldiers soldiers, which is really a joke. I really thought that naming them soldiers would be really powerful."
He curled his lips disdainfully.
From the bottom of his heart, he had never looked down upon the so-called soldiers raised by the Tiger Flag.
He didn't think that a group of guards who were only used to escort caravans were very powerful.
In particular, the weapons used by these guards were firecrackers. They also had such weapons as the border troops, but they were not that easy to use.
Even if the quality of the gun is fine, the time required to load and discharge it is enough for the opponent to rush to you.
Once the advantage of distance is gone, the firecracker is just a fire stick, not as threatening as a spear on the battlefield.
"Chief Soldier, I think we should be more careful. They can defeat the officers and soldiers here in Datong. I think they have some skills." The bearded general reminded.
Wang Bao laughed and said: "You are too cautious. If the Tiger Character Banner were really capable, they would have captured Datong long ago. They would not have failed to take action for so many years and instead fled to the grassland."
Liu Heng took the Tiger Character Banner to the grassland. Although he conquered the Tumote tribe, this made him think that the Tiger Character Banner did not have the strength to resist the imperial court, so he had to flee to the grassland.
He had just learned the news that the Tiger Character Banner had conquered the Tumed Tribe, and he was also shocked. However, as time went by, he saw that Omubuhong was still the leader of the Tumed Tribe, had the status of King Shunyi, and was a Khan living in Qingcheng. palace.
In his opinion, the so-called conquest of the Tumote tribe by the Tiger Character Banner was more of a cooperation with the Tumute tribe, and even this cooperation was still dominated by the Tumute tribe.
Otherwise, why didn't Liu Heng live in the Khan Palace and keep Ombuhong, the heir of the leader of the Tumut tribe?
As for the things that were circulated about how powerful the Tiger Character Flag was in the Tumote tribe, he didn't believe it at all, thinking that the Tiger Character Flag deliberately leaked the news to make outsiders feel that the Tiger Character Flag was powerful.
"Maybe the general is unfounded!" The bearded general felt that what his commander-in-chief said made sense.
Although the cavalry he sent out suffered a big loss, this does not mean that the Tiger Flag is really powerful. After all, it is not surprising that the Tiger Flag has several powerful Mongolian cavalry.
Wang Bao picked up the tea cup and took a sip of tea, and then said: "You came just in time. I have just received a letter from General Yang. He hopes that I can speed up the march and try to reach Xinping Fort in two days to attack Xinping." Fort for a pincer attack."
"Are two days too short? There are bandits on the road. The general's camp needs to be careful every step it takes to prevent it from falling into an ambush." The bearded general frowned.
Reluctant to speed up the march.
Wang Bao scolded: "Don't make excuses for me. Do you really think that I don't know anything? Let me tell you, this time I agree with General Yang's opinion and speed up the march. We must arrive at Xinping in two days." Fort.”
"Why did you let the bandits escape if you didn't bring more than ten people with you? I think you, the commander-in-chief, should stop doing this. Go and pour the chamber pot for me!" the bearded general said with a gloomy face.
The commander-in-chief trembled and hurriedly explained to himself: "General, calm down. My subordinates started to chase the rebel sentry cavalry very smoothly. Unexpectedly, the rebels set an ambush halfway, and my subordinates failed to check for a moment and fell into the ambush. "
As he spoke, he lowered his head again.
