Yong Zheng might not have thought of this, but he still did it. It was really unreasonable. Could it be that things were not as simple as he saw?
When Galdan saw Hong, he was thoughtful and silent, then asked: "What are you thinking about?"
Hongshi came back to his senses and said: "Returning to what King Khan said, I was wondering whether Yongzheng was too confident in himself and thought that with just a few hundred people, he could hurt our foundation, or was there something that we didn't think of?
?”
Galdan thought for a while and said: "You mean, Yongzheng's plan is more than what we see?"
Before Hongshi had time to speak, the night sky suddenly lit up. The bright light was not lightning piercing the night sky, but a huge fire shooting out not far away.
Not only him, but other people also saw it. Under the firelight, everyone's faces became extremely ugly, because there was...
Ali said in a trembling voice: "There...isn't that a granary?"
Before he finished speaking, Galdan and Hongshi had already rushed to the place where the fire was burning. There was already a mess there. The soldiers were trying to put out the fire. There was no water nearby. Fortunately, there was a lot of snow, so they just shoveled the snow.
We tried to put out the fire, but the fire was too strong. As soon as it was extinguished a little, it ignited again elsewhere, and it was too late.
Galdan's face turned green when he saw it, and he said sternly: "Call everyone to put out the fire, hurry up, move fast!" He had no choice but to be in a hurry, this is food and grass, once the food is burned out, he will
Tens of thousands of troops will be in trouble.
The fire burned for half an hour before it was extinguished, and all the snow in the vicinity was used up. In the end, they even went to the Sarik River, which had just broken through the ice, to scoop water to put out the fire.
After some inventory, in addition to the warehouses, a lot of tents were also burned. Fortunately, there were no casualties, but the food and grass were almost burned and only a small part was left. Maybe it seems to ordinary people that there is a lot, but
For an army of more than 100,000 people, it only lasted a few days.
Galdan said with a cold face: "Why did the granary suddenly catch fire?"
The soldier who was originally guarding the granary stepped forward tremblingly and said: "King Qi, someone suddenly threw something at the granary just now. It was dark. I couldn't see what it was, so I didn't look for it carefully. However, my subordinates chased him out, but
No one was found. Later, a few rockets were shot in, and when they landed in the granary, they started to burst into flames. The fire spread so fast that my subordinates had no time to put it out."
"They are all just a bunch of losers!" Galdan was so angry that he kicked him to the ground and said sternly: "Isn't it just a few rockets? How big the fire can be, not to mention that it has just snowed recently and it is wet.
It's very easy to put out the fire. You guys must be lazy, that's why it burned so violently. I will never take this lightly."
All the soldiers guarding the granary knelt down. One of them said: "King Khan, please forgive me. As soon as my subordinates saw the rocket, they immediately put out the fire. But for some reason, as soon as the rocket landed on the granary, the fire started."
It’s so scary that you can’t even get close to it.”
"Excuses, they are all excuses." Galdan could not hear this at the moment. Without food, he would have no confidence. If he could not seize enough food before the food bottomed out, or attack the capital, there would be no need for a war.
, the army immediately disintegrated.
Galdan said angrily: "Come here! Drag all these bastards who ruined food and grass down and whip them to death!"
Without waiting for the soldiers to plead, Hongshi, who had been inspecting the burned granary, said: "King Khan, they did not lie. The fire did get bigger in an instant."
Galdan looked at him coldly and said, "I haven't settled the accounts with you yet. I'll leave this matter to you. You said you could definitely defend the granary, but what's the result? You see for yourself!"
Hongshi took a deep breath and said: "Please forgive me, King Khan. I did not think carefully enough about this matter. I did not expect that Yongzheng not only attacked sneakily, but also attacked in the east and west, deliberately using those hundreds of people as bait to lure us into the bait.
So that the remaining people can set fire to the granary."
Alimo sneered from the side: "Didn't you say you were very confident before, but now you say you didn't think carefully enough? Hongshi, your words turn out quite quickly."
Hongshi ignored his words and said in a deep voice: "King Khan, I am indeed negligent in this matter. You may blame or punish me, but I have no complaints!"
Anger flashed in Galdan's eyes, and he said coldly: "We'll talk about this later. You just said they didn't lie. How do you know you weren't here when the fire first broke out?"
Hongshi picked up a charred wooden stick from the ground and said: "Because I smell the smell of white phosphorus here. If I guessed correctly, the first thing they threw into the granary should be white phosphorus. This
Things help the fire the most. Once it is ignited, it will burn everything that can be burned and there will be no time to put out the fire."
"White phosphorus!" Galdan read these two words bitterly. This kind of thing was rare in Jungar, so neither he nor the soldiers thought that this was what the Qing soldiers threw into the granary.
Alimo said bitterly: "You Qing people are so cunning and abominable that you actually resorted to such despicable means."
"I have long said that I am no longer from the Qing Dynasty, and I would like to ask the general not to confuse me with them." Hongshi defended himself and said, "The reason why Yinzhen sent those hundreds of people on the ice to fight against
Our fight was not only to attract our attention, but also to confuse my judgment and make me think that my judgment was wrong."
Galdan said coldly: "What's the use of talking about it now? Most of the food and grass have been burned, and what's left is only enough for a few days. Hongshi, it's you who advised me to stay here, and it's you who advised me to stay here."
Don't attack rashly. Now that it's like this, you should tell me
My king, what should I do next? Continue to stay here and starve to death? I have always trusted you, letting you train soldiers, appointing you as a vanguard, and listening to your strategies. But now I am really very worried.
I wonder if I mistrusted you?"
It was obvious that he had never truly believed it, but only wanted to use it, but when he heard it from Galdan's mouth, it turned into complete trust.
Hongshi heard the murderous intention in his words and quickly knelt down and said: "Of course not. Yongzheng's move was indeed something I didn't expect. Since this incident happened because of me, I will definitely find a way to do it."
, please King Khan, believe me this time. I can swear to God that I will never be disloyal to King Khan."
There is no truth to each other, and use and interests are everywhere between them.
Although Galdan wanted to kill Hongshi, he understood that killing at this moment would not solve the problem, and would even make it more complicated. He barely suppressed the anger in his heart and said: "Okay, I will give you another one."
If you have the opportunity, follow me into the camp, Alimo, and you guys will also come in to discuss the next move."