The Ma Guerrilla subordinates kneeling on the ground recounted the story of their sneak attack and ambush.
"Confused!" Zhao Shujiao slapped the armrests of the table and chair with his palm and said angrily, "The rebel bandits can defeat several frontier armies in a row. How can they be a mob? Hundreds of people want to attack the camp. It is simply stupid."
He was really pissed off at this point.
The dead Ma Guerji was his favorite general. He was very brave and more than one slave and traitor died in his hands. But such a tiger general had no time to display any of his skills and died in an ambush by the enemy. He also died on his own. Not to mention, the whole army was wiped out along with the five to six hundred Guan Ning cavalry under his command.
Losing so many cavalry at once, even though he still had more than 10,000 troops under his command, still made him feel heartbroken.
It is not easy to train each cavalryman. The money and food it takes to feed one cavalryman is enough to feed several battalions, especially war horses. Although some can be obtained from the Mongols, the number is limited after all. He is the general soldier. There are even fewer in hand.
Now that the horse market between Xuanda and the Mongols was cut off, after he went to Datong to take office, he still didn't know how long it would take to assemble the war horses needed for a few hundred cavalry.
"Everyone is dead, there's no point blaming him now." Zuo Fu comforted him from the side.
Zhao Shujiao took a deep breath and said: "This rebel bandit is more difficult to deal with than I expected. The next battle between us and the rebel bandits may not be so easy."
"Are you looking down on them a little? After all, we are also the elite of Liaodong. We can easily capture a rebel bandit without too much trouble. Besides, we have an army of 30,000 and the opponent only has more than 10,000 soldiers and horses. We also have a sufficient advantage in terms of military strength, and there is no way we can lose this battle." Zuo Fu said disapprovingly.
There were more than one rebellion by rebel bandits in the Ming Dynasty, and at most it would cause some trouble to the state capital. As long as the guard army or major battalions sent troops to clear it up, the rebel bandits would be quickly wiped out.
A few years ago, the Wenxiang Rebellion caused such a huge stir in Shandong that it was completely wiped out in just a few months.
From his point of view, Xuanda's rebel bandits were just a group of rebels. They relied on their large number of people to cause such a big event. This has always been the case with mobs.
Zhao led the teacher and said: "A rebel bandit who knows how to set up an ambush to prevent the enemy from stealing the camp after dark, knows how to dig horse pits and use strong fire oil, and even uses cannons, is no longer an ordinary rebel bandit. There must be some masters among us, and we must not be careless when we meet them."
"The rebel bandits of Xuanda defeated Xuanda's border troops and occupied the entire Datong and part of Xuanfu. They had stale fire oil and cannons in their hands. Compared with other rebel bandits, at most this rebel bandit had some With the addition of the border troops, the reversible bandits are rebellious bandits after all and cannot be put on the stage. Not to mention our 30,000-strong army, even the more than 10,000 soldiers and horses who came with us from Liaodong can still deal with this rebellious bandit." Zuo Fu I feel that Zhao Shujiao takes Xuanda's rebel bandits too seriously.
Zhao Shujiao nodded slightly.
He felt that what his lieutenant said was reasonable. With the strength of the troops not much different, he also felt that it was impossible for him to lose to this army of rebels.
"The rebel bandits have surrounded Huailaiwei. I think we should hurry up and start Huailaiwei. Otherwise, if the rebel bandits enter the city, we will suffer great losses if we attack the city. And the rebel bandits have more than this army in Xuanda." , our soldiers and horses still need to be retained to regain Datong." Zuo Fu said.
Zhao led the teacher with his forehead raised and said: "Take them down to rest first."
Several of Ma Guerrilla's subordinates were taken out.
The imperial army of tens of thousands continued to march towards Huailaiwei.
Huailai Acropolis head.
Kang Shu led his men to guard the city wall, and since he was woken up by the sound of cannons at night and went up to the city wall, he had never come down from the city wall, especially when he learned that the Ma guerrilla army that had attacked the rebel camp was wiped out. , and was even too scared to sleep, worried that the rebels outside the city would attack Huailaiwei at any time.
"Guan Jun, eat something! You haven't had a mouthful of water or rice all morning." Shi Tongzhi persuaded Kang Shu to eat something.
Kangshu couldn't get off the city wall, and they couldn't leave from the city wall either.
We climbed to the top of the city in the middle of the night and stayed here all morning after dawn. My nose was cold and my nose was dripping with snot, and I couldn't speak very fluently.
Fortunately, it's past the beginning of spring and the weather has become a little warmer.
If they had been frozen for so long a month ago, people like them who were used to being pampered would probably have been carried down long ago.
"What do you think will happen if the rebels outside the city attack the city?" Kang Shu turned back to look at Shi Tongzhi.
Shi Tongzhi comforted him and said, "Guan Jun, don't worry. If the rebels outside the city were to attack the city, they would have taken action long ago. They won't wait until now to take action. Guan Jun might as well go back to the mansion to rest. Once the rebels come to attack the city, I will send someone to notify him." Manage the army."
"No, I will stay here. I will watch the rebels outside the city attack the city with my own eyes." Kang Shu looked at Shi Tongzhi, who was freezing cold, and said, "You all go back, I am alone. It’s good for people to stay here.”
Seeing how miserable his colleagues were in the cold, he couldn't leave these people on the city wall any longer.
Shi Tongzhi hesitated for a while, but finally couldn't resist the temptation to return home, and said: "Then I'll go back first, and then I'll take over Guan Jun's place."
Other surrounding guards officers also bid farewell to Kang Shu, the guard commander.
Soon, apart from Kang Shu, there was only one general left on the city wall. The others were some low-level soldiers and low-level officers who controlled these soldiers.
Kang Shu waved to the general who was guarding the city and summoned him to his side.
"Do you think the rebels outside the city will come to attack the city?" he asked the commander who came to him.
Na Zong hesitated for a moment and said, "I thought it wouldn't be possible."
"Tell me your reasons?" Kang Shu did not let the other person go, but continued to ask.
General Manager Jiang saw that he could not do it, so he said: "The rebels ambush the Ma Guerrillas and others at night. Now that the rebels don't have the threat of cavalry, they can attack Huailaiwei at any time. But they haven't taken action for so long, which shows that they I didn’t expect to take down Huailaiwei so quickly.”
None of these people in front of me can do anything.
"It's getting so late, could it be that Ma Guerrilla leading people to attack the camp?" Shi Tongzhi asked tentatively.
Kang Shu frowned slightly and said: "It's not impossible to say so. I hope he can succeed, which can be regarded as eliminating the threat of the rebel bandits to Huailaiwei."
I think what Shi Tongzhi said makes sense.
It was so late, and the rebel camp was ablaze with fire and shelling. Apart from the attack on the camp, Jean could not think of what caused such a commotion in the rebel camp. It couldn't be that the rebel camp was blown up by themselves.
"This horse guerrilla is really brave and resourceful. He actually took advantage of the rebel bandits' unstable foothold to attack the camp. I think they have a good chance of success." Shi Tongzhi said again.
