Li had already "escaped" back to Shengjing with Park Dong-hee, Kim Jae-yu and more than a dozen of his attendants.
After receiving the news, General Ye Keshu of Shengjing immediately sent troops to take Li to his camp. Park Dongxi, Jin Zaiyu and more than a dozen attendants were also detained.
"Lord Linping, how did you escape?"
"As far as I know, the Gaizhou Guard's Ming army is heavily guarded and has almost no flaws."
Ye Keshu looked at Li and others with scrutinizing eyes, his tone also full of doubts.
Xu Yingwei had already anticipated Ye Keshu's reaction and had a plan to deal with it.
Li told the truth directly: "Reporting to the general, it was the Ming army who deliberately let the minister come back to serve as an internal response, and it was not the minister who waited for him to find a way to escape."
"Ah? Did the Ming army deliberately let you come back to serve as internal agents?" Ye Keshu was really caught off guard.
"That's it." Li said sincerely, "So general, please lock us up quickly."
Ye Keshu originally really planned to lock Li up, at least for ten days and a half, but now that Li has taken the initiative to admit that it was the Ming army who released him, it seems inappropriate to lock him up any longer.
In any case, Li is the prince of North Korea.
If Li is really imprisoned, it will definitely affect the morale and morale of the five thousand North Korean troops.
If the five thousand Korean troops mutinied as a result, the gains would outweigh the losses. If the Ming army took advantage of the mutiny of the Korean troops to attack Shengjing, it would be even more troublesome, so it must be handled carefully.
At that moment, Ye Keshu waved his hand and said: "Lord Linping is joking. North Korea is our vassal state of the Qing Dynasty, and you are the prince of North Korea. How can I lock you up for no reason? However, since the Ming army is willing to let Lord Linping go."
When you come back, you must have a follow-up plan, but I don’t know what the Ming army’s follow-up plan is?”
Li didn't hide anything: "The Ming army's plan is to let the ministers secretly instigate rebellion against the Korean army to launch a mutiny, seize one or several city gates, and let the Ming army enter the city."
"This..." Ye Keshu's face became a little embarrassed.
Several Jiannu generals on both sides also looked at each other in confusion.
This plan of explaining the army is not necessarily clever at all.
Even an idiot can easily guess the Ming army's plan.
But being able to guess is one thing, but how to deal with it is another.
After a long while, Ye Keshu asked dryly: "How did Lord Linping reply to the Ming army?"
Li said with some guilt: "Reporting to the general, in order to escape as soon as possible, the minister had to pretend to agree to the conditions proposed by the Ming army. However, the minister could not prove himself, so he asked the general to detain the minister and his accompanying attendants.
It won't be too late to release him after verifying that what he said is true."
"It's not necessary." Ye Keshu could only wave his hand and refuse.
The more Li took the initiative to imprison him, the less Ye Keshu could not imprison him.
Because paper cannot contain fire, every word Li said in the general's residence will reach the ears of the Koreans. The Koreans have always had low self-esteem and are sensitive. Ye Keshu detained Li and more than a dozen of his attendants without any conclusive evidence.
, it will definitely offend the sensitive self-esteem of North Koreans and leave hidden dangers.
What's worse is that North Korea has been a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty for hundreds of years. From the King of North Korea to the lowest common people, the goodwill and loyalty to the Ming Dynasty are deep-rooted. Take the 5,000 Korean troops temporarily stationed in Shengjing.
, there are also many people who are familiar with it, and coupled with the fact that Li is in custody, it is really possible to lead to a mutiny.
Therefore, Ye Keshu could only let Li and his attendants leave.
Even if they monitor him, they can only secretly monitor Li from behind.
After Li and others left, Ye Keshu called his eldest son Daola over.
"Daola, send a few people to secretly keep an eye on Li, especially the dozen or so attendants who are following him. Once you find someone sneaking out of the city, or taking advantage of the night to deliver news outside the city, arrest him immediately."
"Hey!" Daola agreed, turned around and left quickly.
…
Early in the morning, Xu Yingwei and Zhu Cijiong led more than a hundred riders to meander north.
More than a hundred scout cavalry were divided into a dozen scout teams, spread out, and searched along the great plains.
When Xu Yingwei first arrived in Gaizhou Guard, the army only had mules and horses but no war horses. However, in the more than a year since he came to Liaodong, no large-scale war broke out, and the outpost battle between the scouts and Ye Bushou never stopped.
At the beginning, the Ming army was at an absolute disadvantage in the outpost battle.
The reason why he couldn't defeat him was firstly because he lacked actual combat experience, and secondly he didn't have a war horse.
However, as time went by, the Ming army's actual combat experience gradually improved, and some war horses were snatched from the Jiannu Ranch, so the situation became slightly better.
But it is only slightly better, and overall it is still at a clear disadvantage.
Because in small-scale outpost battles, the Ming army's flintlock guns had no advantage over Jiannu's large bows. The most fatal flaw was the poor continuity of firepower.
Although a well-trained scout cavalry can also complete loading on horseback, the speed is extremely slow. Normally, the loading operation can be completed in more than ten seconds, but on the back of a galloping horse, it takes a minute or more.
However, Jiannu's large bow could shoot more than a dozen heavy arrows in half a minute.
Therefore, in the outpost battle, the Ming army's scouts only had one chance, and the error tolerance rate was extremely low.
However, the accuracy of the flintlock gun was not good, so it was difficult to seize this only opportunity.
Therefore, in the small-scale outpost battle, the Ming army's scout cavalry was always at a disadvantage and suffered a lot.
As Zhu Cijiong rode his horse forward, he asked Xu Yingwei: "Xu Gijong, your formation is so scattered, aren't you afraid of being suddenly attacked by Jian Nu Ye Bu Ye?"
"Why are you not afraid?" Xu Yingwei said helplessly, "But it is more dangerous if you don't pull away."
Xu Wuniu next to him then continued: "King Ding, we did not pull apart when we were patrolling before. As a result, we were ambushed by a large group of Jiannu cavalry and were almost wiped out."
Xu Yingwei said: "Although it is all plains here, the grass grows too high. Thousands, eight hundred or even tens of thousands of cavalry are hidden in the grass. They cannot be discovered unless they get closer."
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Speaking of this, Xu Yingwei said again: "In order to avoid being encircled by the large group of slave cavalry, our scout cavalry can only widen the distance between each other, even if they can
Therefore, we would not hesitate to be attacked by Jiannu at night without taking charge. This is probably the lesser of two evils that the Holy One often said."
Zhu Cijiong asked again: "Then you must have suffered a lot at the hands of Jiannu Yebuzai, right?"
"That goes without saying." Xu Yingwei's face fell and he said in a deep voice, "In the past six months of the outpost battle, we sacrificed more than two hundred scouts."
"Xu Geijian, you will never have to suffer this disadvantage again from now on."
Zhu Cijiong said: "Because I brought you a good thing."
"Good stuff?" Xu Yingwei asked doubtfully, "What good stuff did King Ding bring?"
As he was talking, a horse neighed suddenly in the wilderness ahead, followed immediately by two gunshots. The gunshots were vaguely mixed with a groan of pain.
Xu Yingwei and Zhu Cijiong looked up quickly and looked ahead.
I saw a few hundred steps ahead of me, and at some point, a group of Jiannu horses emerged from the grass.
The cavalryman Jiannu stayed up all night and seemed to have just fired an arrow. Now he took a heavy arrow from the quiver on his back and was about to put it on the bowstring of the big bow.
Almost at the same time, a Ming army scout in front fell off his horse.
Obviously, this mounted Ming army scout had been hit by an arrow. It was unclear whether he was just wounded or had been shot to death.
"Damn it!" Xu Yingwei punched his fist bitterly and shouted, "Come back here, don't chase me!"
Xu Yingwei summed up a bloody lesson from countless outpost battles: Don't pursue Jian Nu at night, otherwise you will only shed more blood and suffer greater losses.
However, as soon as Xu Yingwei finished speaking, Zhu Cijiong galloped after him.
"Xu gives the advice, let's see." Zhu Cijiong shouted loudly, "Let's see how I can kill this Jian Nu Ye."
"Prince Ding, come back quickly!" Xu Yingwei was shocked when he saw this. He thought to himself that if Prince Ding had good intentions, how could the Holy Emperor spare him? This was the golden branch of the Ming Dynasty, and nothing could happen to it.
However, Zhu Cijiong turned a deaf ear and just urged his horses to rush forward in pursuit.
Seeing that he could not stop Zhu Cijiong, Xu Yingwei quickly ordered Xu Wuniu and Xu Yinglong to each lead a team of scouts to protect the two wings, and then personally led a team of scout cavalry to follow and pursue him.
However, Zhu Cijiong's war horse was a BMW brought from Nanjing.
The Mongolian war horses captured by Xu Yingwei and others could not catch up at all.
In a short while, Xu Yingwei and the others were left far behind by Zhu Cijiong.
Seeing this, Xu Yingwei was so anxious that he immediately beat the horse's buttocks with a whip. However, the horse's hooves fell off and he still could not catch up with Zhu Cijiong.
Xu Yingwei could only watch as Zhu Cijiong passed the scout cavalry in front.
At this time, there was no Ming cavalry between Zhu Cijiong and Jian Nu Ye Bu Sui. Jian Nu Ye Bu Sui in front had already discovered Zhu Cijiong who was pursuing him, and immediately tied his bow string to slow down his horse.
Jian Nu stayed up all night, turning his head occasionally to take a look at his pursuers.
Those who can take on the responsibility of not collecting food at night are the elite among the slaves.
Therefore, the effective range of the Dashao Bow can reach eighty steps.
Zhu Cijiong also has a clear understanding of this point.
In the blink of an eye, the distance between the two sides was only a hundred steps.
One hundred steps, this distance is already beyond the effective range for ordinary flintlock guns. Even if you stand and shoot, you can't hit accurately, and you can only take it as it comes when shooting on the back of a galloping horse.
But what Zhu Cijiong is holding is not an ordinary flintlock gun, but a rifled flintlock gun!
While the horse was galloping, Zhu Cijiong had already stood up from the horse, with his buttocks in the air and only holding the horse's belly with his legs. His whole body rose and fell with the rhythm of the horse, achieving the perfect integration of man, horse and gun.
At a certain moment, Zhu Cijiong gently pulled the trigger, and then there was a pop.
When he looked again, he saw that Jian Nu, who was a hundred paces away in front of him, had already fallen off his horse.
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