Chapter three hundred and eighty encounter new problems
"What's the date today?" Wu Shigong asked.
"No. 14, Master!" Tao Xin replied, "It takes half a day to reach Jining."
"Let's rest for an hour. We can't enter Jining City even though we are in full armor. We are traveling in such a hurry these days, but even the horses can't bear it. Except for this beast!" Wu Shigong lovingly patted the crazy horse on the butt.
After a while, Ren Lai Crazy let out a long hiss with great enjoyment.
The guards immediately dismounted, found some dead branches nearby, and lit a few bonfires on the roadside. On the bonfire, Wu Shigong and the others roasted the frozen dry food they had brought with them and the cooked food they bought on the road, and then burned them
A pot of hot water and lunch.
This time, all fifty members of the Shanchuan Division's action team were dispatched. Under the leadership of captain Zhang Rubao, they all became Wu Shigong's guards. The reason why he brought the Shanchuan Division's action team with him was that Wu Shigong was prepared in case he was trapped.
While in the capital, the Yamakawa Division's action team can help him escape. After all, the guards of the Guards are not as professional as the Yamakawa Division's action team in doing this kind of thing.
Zhang Rubao absent-mindedly bit into the white flour pancake sandwiched with bacon, looked at Wu Shigong sitting beside him, made a firm decision in his heart, and said to Wu Shigong: "Sir, I have something to tell you."
"Huh?" Wu Shigong suddenly turned to look at Zhang Rubao, "What's the matter?"
Although Wu Shigong's attitude was still very kind, Zhang Rubao felt that the courage he had just gathered seemed to be scattered, and his back was sweating nervously. But at this time, the arrow was on the string. Zhang Rubao swallowed a sip and said:
"Sir, our action team has been practicing for so long, and the brothers can't sit still. Is there any task for us to do, sir?"
Wu Shigong understood. After the Shanchuan Division Action Team was established, there really was no other action except to assassinate the head of the Qi family, a salt merchant in Yangzhou. The reason why Wu Shigong established the Shanchuan Division Action Team at that time was also misled by modern movies and TV series.
Overemphasis is placed on the role of special forces.
You must know that the power of modern special forces is reflected in their high-tech weapons, communications, intelligence and transportation. Even the operations of several special forces members will be supported by military satellites.
In the Ming Dynasty, there was no need to set up any special forces at all. Military special operations could be completed by elites in the army. And assassinations could also be trained from ordinary people, and some could even be recruited from the world.
Killers don't need such a high-cost, high-quality action team at all.
When the action team was established, people like Zhang Rubao were selected elites from the entire army. To be honest, if these people had stayed in the Runing Army, they would all be officers now. And with this major expansion of the Runing Army,
There also happens to be a shortage of a large number of experienced officers. So it can be said that these members of the current action team are a bit wasted.
Wu Shigong thought about it for a moment and immediately agreed to Zhang Rubao: "When we get back, all the members of your action team will be integrated into my own personal team. I will make up for all the classes you missed, and then you will be released based on your performance."
"Alas!" Zhang Rubao didn't expect that his persuasion went so smoothly, and he immediately beamed with joy. And some members of the action team who listened with their ears perked up also beamed with joy.
The Runing Army had been on the offensive for four days. At this time, they were already 130 miles away from Ye County. Xue Yongli and other officers of the Runing Army were listening to Zhang Biao, who was in charge of the reconnaissance cavalry, reporting on the reconnaissance situation.
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"This situation is really unclear!" Zhang Biao ran up and complained, "Up to now, we can say that we have met the Shaanxi bandits, or we can say that we don't know where the main force of the Shaanxi bandits is."
"There are groups of people gathering on the road and in the fields. It's impossible to tell whether they are fleeing people or Shaanxi bandits. They all wear the same clothes. The only difference is whether they hold weapons in their hands. But even the Shaanxi bandits have huge weapons.
Most of them are farm tools such as hoes, which makes it difficult for us to distinguish them."
"We can only judge from the number of people gathered. We think that a crowd of more than a thousand people is a Shaanxi bandit. Yesterday morning, a group of children took the initiative to attack a bandit group of nearly a thousand people to try the Shaanxi bandits.
Their fighting power and their tactics. I never expected that with a few rows of muskets and fifty horses charging like this, this group of Shaanxi bandits would collapse."
"And the funny thing is that they threw away their weapons when they fled. After a while, we didn't know who the common people were? Who were the Shaanxi bandits?"
"After the young one got the news, he led two companies of cavalry to press forward, and cooperated with ten squads of reconnaissance cavalry, a total of 700 cavalry. Yesterday, a total of four bandit groups were defeated. The largest bandit group had three or four thousand people.
people."
"But they were all defeated in one blow. We killed more than 700 people in total and captured more than 600 people. To be honest, more people were trampled to death when they escaped than were killed by us. Basically, most of the captured people
There is no food and grass, and there is no need to talk about the seized junk goods. To put it bluntly, if the Shaanxi bandits all have this kind of fighting ability, there is no need for Mr. Li to bother, just let Xiao go up with the cavalry regiment, and the Shaanxi bandits can be defeated.
All these hundreds of thousands of people were wiped out."
Zhang Biao's words caused a burst of laughter among the officers.
Zhang Biao continued: "But we all know that this is wrong. From the second year of Chongzhen to the present, the Shaanxi bandits have been encircled and suppressed by the army many times, but they have become stronger and stronger, so they must have two brushes. Therefore, we are also sure
We haven’t encountered the main force of the Shaanxi bandits.”
"But the main force of the Shaanxi bandits is hidden among the rabble. We have no way to find them unless we remove all the rabble on the periphery. But in this case, our food and grass are not enough, so we don't have so much time to go there.
Search carefully."
What Zhang Biao said is indeed the actual situation.
When the peasant rebel army was surrounded, there was still a clear distinction between the Ming army and the peasant rebel army. However, after the peasant rebel army crossed the Yellow River, a large number of refugees joined in, and they entered a Ming court defense
In the vacuum zone, the peasant rebel army immediately spread like a flood from a broken embankment, raging in all directions.
Besides, it is impossible for the peasant rebel army to gather its troops together, because they cannot afford to supply food and grass for so many people, so they can only send various rebel armies to go out and plunder food on the spot.
And as more and more people took refuge, to be honest, even the leaders of the peasant rebel armies couldn't tell which army was their own, let alone the Runing army.
At this time, although the peasant rebel army attacked from north to south and the Runing army attacked from south to north, the route of the peasant rebel army was along the western border of Henan, while the Runing army was slightly closer.
To the east. Therefore, the main force of the Peasant Rebel Army and the Runing Army were located in the left front of their respective positions. Therefore, what Zhang Biao encountered was indeed the cannon fodder group on the periphery of the Peasant Rebel Army.
But even these cannon fodder regiments have brought a lot of trouble to the Runing Army. The key point is that they cannot distinguish between ourselves and the enemy. The Runing Army cannot tell who is the peasant rebel army and who is the refugee? Not necessarily the Runing Army.
Kill everyone you see along the way!
In addition, the Runing Army also knows that the identities of the fleeing refugees and the peasant rebels can be switched at any time, and it is useless to distinguish them clearly. In addition, the defeated peasant rebels can regroup as soon as they arrive at the rear.
It can be said that they are invincible. If they are not completely eliminated, it can be said that even if the Runing army is victorious in every battle, it will be exhausted in the end and defeated by these invincible little enemies.
The Runing Army has encountered a brand new kind of battle, which is completely different from the previous battles between the two armies. The Runing Army is like a giant with a big spine, but it keeps waving towards the air, which is a kind of waste.
I feel like I have no results despite my strength. It’s true that ideals are beautiful, but reality is cruel!
Xue Yongli walked to the large hanging map and looked at it carefully. The other officers also gathered behind him and looked at the map carefully.
After studying for a while, Xue Yongli said: "It seems that the possibility of us wanting to fight the main force of the Shaanxi bandits is very small. Then let's fight according to our own ideas."
Then Xue Yongli pointed to a point on the map: "It's right here, Qingshui Bend. Don't let our scout cavalry out anymore. Zhang Biao, you take your cavalry regiment of 1,300 people, and cooperate with five more troops."
The motor company of the two-horse carriage detoured eastward and arrived at Clear Water Bend two days later."
"Remember, don't get entangled when you encounter enemies along the way! The goal is to block the key point of Qingshui Bend. And I led the main force to press forward and crush all the Shaanxi bandits along the way. I estimated that we will reach Qingshui Bend in three days.
area."
"After that, we used the fastest speed to wipe out all the Shaanxi bandits between the two armies. Then we retreated to Ye County. On the way back, we kept the walls strong and cleared the fields. We took everything we could and everything we couldn't bring.
Those who saw it were destroyed. Anyone who saw it, whether they were Shaanxi bandits or refugees, were arrested and brought back to Ye County."
"No matter what, we can't increase the strength of the Shaanxi bandits. All the prisoners will be screened after they go back. Those who are Shaanxi bandits will be taken to the iron mines as slaves. Those who are refugees will be left to the local government to give them a headache.
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"In this way, although we may not have encountered the main force of the Shaanxi bandits, at least we have achieved results and can give the rear a little peace of mind."
"So Mr. Li." Li Sanhe asked, "What if the main force of the Shaanxi bandits bites us when we retreat? We have prisoners and captures, but we can't run fast?"
"That's the best! It doesn't matter if we lose those ragtag prisoners and worthless seizures. If the main force of the Shaanxi bandits comes up, then we will turn around and beat the main force of the Shaanxi bandits thoroughly. To be honest, we are afraid that they will not come.
"Xue Yongli is extremely heroic.
There was another burst of laughter in the big tent.