All the generals were shocked and their expressions were a little heavy.
Indeed, the strength of the rebels has put pressure on Jinzhou's generals. This time, they only have 700 soldiers going south, but the rebels have 5,000. There is a huge disparity in strength between the enemy and ours. If we really want to fight head-on, this battle will be difficult to win.
, even if it could be defeated, the casualties would probably be heavy.
Thinking that there is still the main force of the rebels in Dengzhou, if too many troops are consumed by these five thousand rebels, how will the subsequent battles be fought? Should Dengzhou go or not? If so, with this few remaining soldiers and
What can I do? If I don’t go, how can I explain to the court?
All the generals have doubts in their minds and are also a little worried. Even the brave Cao Bianjiao realizes how much the small number of troops is constraining the current actions of the Jinzhou Army.[
If instead of 700 people, there are 5,000 people going south, then not only 5,000 rebels, but even if there are 10,000 more, the generals will not find it difficult.
However, the fact is that the Jinzhou Army only has 700 people. This will inevitably make every move of the Jinzhou Army be cautious and cautious, and they cannot easily lose their strength. Otherwise, they will not go to suppress the rebellion, but will die.
Shi Dayong also felt that it was very difficult. The sudden appearance of the enemy caught him off guard. Before that, he had always thought that all the rebels had gone to Dengzhou, so he thought that as long as he arrived in Dengzhou day and night, the military order would be completed.
Under the unified command of Shandong Governor Zhu Dadian, he fought a decisive battle with the rebels, and the outcome was determined by one battle. Unexpectedly, a tiger suddenly jumped out of the way halfway, disrupting his overall plan and making his rapid march these days become wishful thinking.
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Why didn't the Shandong side inform me of such an important enemy situation?
Shi Dayong couldn't understand. Five thousand people, not fifty or five hundred, could be easily hidden. They didn't even know what they were eating in Shandong. Didn't they send out sentries to investigate carefully?
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Without knowing the deployment of the rebels at all, he repeatedly urged himself to speed up and rush to Dengzhou. Didn't this make the Jinzhou Army run into the rebels like a blind man?
If it weren't for Gao Qiqian's letter and his sudden encounter with the rebels without his knowledge, Shi Dayong couldn't imagine what the consequences would be.
The rapid march for several days had exhausted the soldiers' physical strength, and they encountered the rebels without any precautions.
Shi Dayong didn't dare to think about it anymore. He scolded Zhu Dadian, the governor of Shandong, in his heart. Then he breathed a sigh of relief, waved to Guo Yi and ordered: "Get the map."
Guo Yi heard the order and hurriedly fetched the map. This map was sent by Xie Yiqing, the head of the Staff Department of the Ministry of War when he left Beijing. This map is not the entire map of the Ming Dynasty, but a partial topographic map of Hebei and Shandong. And it is different from the maps of later generations.
What is drawn on this map are only simple lines, listing the key points such as cities, mountains, mausoleums, and roads, and the rest are not marked. Strictly speaking, this cannot be regarded as a combat map, it is too simple.
However, for the Jinzhou Army, who was unfamiliar with the place, this simple topographic map was like a beacon in the dark night. Without it, Shi Dayong would not even know where he was or how far he was from his destination.
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After carefully examining the picture, Shi Dayong raised his head and asked the two sergeants from the Shenji Battalion: "Are the rebels entrenched in Shahe?"
The taller sergeant replied: "To tell you what the general said, the traitor general Chen Shichou is indeed camping in Shahe."
He moved his fingers away from Shahe, looked at the prefectures and counties near Shahe, and asked the two sergeants: "Where is your Shenji Battalion currently stationed?"
"Shang County." The tall sergeant still replied.
"How long have you been in Shang County?" Shi Dayong asked while watching.
"Seven days."
"Since you arrived in Shang County seven days ago, why have you still not taken action against the Shahe rebels today?" Shi Dayong glanced at the two Shenji Battalion sergeants with some dissatisfaction.
"This" the tall sergeant didn't know how to answer this question. To be honest, the emperor's guard was as fearful of the enemy as a tiger, which really made the sergeant with a little blood in his heart ashamed.[
The shorter sergeant next to him said: "The general does not know that the rebels in Shahe are all Liao soldiers from Dongjiang. They are quite good at fighting, and the rebels are no less powerful than us, so
Eunuch Gao was afraid of making a mistake, so he ordered us to wait for reinforcements to arrive."
Before he finished speaking, Shi Dayong cut him off, "What reinforcements are you waiting for? Your Beijing camp is the reinforcements, so why wait? To put it bluntly, your Beijing camp is just afraid that it won't be able to defeat the rebels, so that's why you are hiding in Shang County.
Do you dare to move?"
The short sergeant looked stagnant, blinked his mouth, and said nothing.
The tall sergeant raised his head and said angrily, "Eunuch Gao won't let us leave the city. We just want to go out, so what can we do?"
Hearing this, Shi Dayong shook his head. He didn't comment on whether Chongzhen's Ethereal Supervisory Soldiers were good or bad, but the Beijing camp was indeed terrible. He didn't know what the imperial court was doing with spending so much military pay every year on raising these wastes!
If these military salaries had been used on other frontier troops, I'm afraid the situation wouldn't be as bad as it is today.
These words were of no use to these two soldiers. It was okay to criticize them too harshly. After all, they were obeying orders. The duty of a soldier is to obey orders. It is understandable that the Beijing camp obeyed the orders of the eunuchs and did not leave the city.
He sighed, changed the subject, and asked them: "Other than asking you to send this letter, what else did Eunuch Gao say?"
"No." They both shook their heads at the same time.
Seeing that he couldn't find anything, Shi Dayong said: "Shang County is more than forty miles away from here. You two came to deliver a message to me, and you suffered a lot of wind and snow along the way. It was really hard, so please stay at our camp."
Let’s have some hot food and rest for a while before going back.”
The two of them were really freezing, so they hurriedly thanked them: "Thank you, General!"
At that moment, Guo Yi took the two of them to the kitchen. After the two of them left, Cao Bianjiao hesitated for a moment, then stepped forward and asked Shi Dayong: "General, we beat the people from the Royal Horse Prison and detained the people from the Beijing camp.
, he has no idea how to deal with us, so why is he so kind to remind us not to take risks?"
His question was also what Shao Wu and Jiang Wanli wanted to ask. Seeing him asking, they looked at Shi Dayong in confusion.
Li Dashan didn't think about Gao Qiqian'an's thoughts, but shouted angrily: "There are five thousand rebels in Shahe, why didn't Shandong people report this military information to us? He urged us to go to Dengzhou, but
And he didn’t tell us that the road to Dengzhou was blocked by the rebels. What was Shandong An thinking? Damn it, weren’t we told to die? General, according to me, it doesn’t matter if we don’t go to Dengzhou, don’t talk to us.
If we can't arrive within the time limit specified by him, the five thousand rebels in front of us will be very difficult to deal with. What's more, Mrs. Gao supervises the capital camp in Shang County and doesn't want to fight the rebels under his nose, but wants us to
Go fight, what's the point? According to me, he is just killing people with a borrowed knife, trying to get rid of us with the hands of the rebels, so as to vent his anger! General, we must not be fooled, we can't go to this Shahe!
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After hearing these words, the generals all felt that this was the case, and they couldn't help but hesitate to move forward. Even Guo Yi, who was packing the map, thought that what Li Shoubei said was reasonable. It seemed that Shahe really couldn't do it.
go.
Shi Dayong was furious after hearing this. He pointed at Li Dashan angrily and shouted: "How can the Liao soldiers in Dongjiang be stronger than Jiannu? We are not even afraid of Jiannu, but are we still afraid of his rebellion? What if you are
If you don’t dare to fight, I will do it myself!”
Li Dashan opened his mouth and was about to talk back, but when he saw Shi Dayong's angry face, he was too frightened to say anything.
"When leaving Beijing, Wang Gonggong once told this general that Kong Youde only had seven or eight hundred Liao troops, and the rest were civilians who were held hostage along the way and had no fighting capacity at all. Kong Youde led the main force to attack Dengzhou again. How many elite troops could he keep?
In Shahe?"
"What's so scary about a bunch of mobs! He can stand tall and fear the enemy like a tiger, that's what his Beijing camp can do! How can our Jinzhou army be as useless as his Beijing camp? I, Shi Dayong, am not his high eunuch! Shahe, let's go and settle down
, Chen Shi, I will definitely kill you too!"
After venting his anger, Shi Dayong glared at Li Dashan again, and the latter took a step back involuntarily.
After scolding Li Dashan, Shi Dayong turned to Jiang Wanli and the others and said: "It's a good idea to rise high and dive low. He said that I would accept his kindness. Wouldn't he delay the advance because he was afraid that the rebels would have too many troops? If the general's true reason
There are rebels stationed in Shahe and he refuses to advance, which is exactly what he planned. When the time comes, a memorial will be announced, and I will disobey the military orders and fear the enemy like a tiger. By then, I will have ten thousand mouths.
I can't explain it clearly, so I can only leave it to the court. If that's the case, what's the reason why I led you south! Didn't I just disobey the order in the first place! Now that I'm here, I'm the King of Heaven, so I will kill him too!
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All the generals were infected by Shi Dayong's emotions, and they were all excited and ready to fight.
Seeing his subordinates getting emotional, Shi Dayong added: "If we continue to go east, we must pass through the Shah River. If we want to cross the Shah River, we can only fight to the death with the rebels. If I am not mistaken, I am afraid that what Gao Qiqian wants most is not
The general delayed, but attacked Shahe alone. When the time came, seven hundred versus five thousand, in his opinion, our Jinzhou Army would not be completely wiped out immediately! Humph, but I don’t believe this evil anymore.
He said that there are only 5,000 rebels in Shahe, even if it is 10,000, I would have the guts to break into this tiger's mouth!" [
Pointing his whip at the Jinzhou Army behind him, he raised his voice and said proudly: "I believe that with these brothers who followed me and crawled out from the pile of corpses in the sea of blood, I will be able to wipe out his rebel army in one fell swoop!
I want to tell Eunuch Gao, and even more importantly, everyone in the world, that our Jinzhou Army is the most powerful army in the world!
I want the emperor to know that I, the Jinzhou Army, are the pillar of the Ming Dynasty!"
"You can't kill a chicken with an ox's knife. Today, I will use an ox's knife to kill the chicken! Chen Tiezi, in the eyes of the general, no matter how many soldiers and horses he has, he is just a chicken. Killing him is like picking something out of a bag.
! Send my order to the whole army and march to Shahe!"
Today I will accompany my wife to worship my ancestors, and tomorrow I will round the grave of my father-in-law. I will update a little less, but I will make up for it tomorrow night.