Lu Xiangsheng asked the prisoners more than a dozen questions before letting them go and letting Li Zhi's men take the prisoners away.
When the generals saw that the governor had coaxed words from Li Zhi's prisoners, they recognized Li Zhi's attitude even more. It seemed that they could not get confidential information from these low-level soldiers, but it was enough to get the enemy's general layout and troop strength.
Distribution. What's more, the battle situation is unpredictable, and a slight mistake can lead to a huge difference. Sometimes some seemingly useless intelligence can often improve the general's decision-making and influence the battle situation.
After interrogating these Tatars, Lu Xiangsheng was still unfinished and asked: "How does General Longhu plan to use these Dongnu prisoners?"
As soon as Li Zhi heard this, he knew what Lu Xiangsheng meant. He raised his hands and said, "If the Governor wants to interrogate these prisoners in detail, he will send the prisoners to Governor Biao's army at night."
Lu Xiangsheng was overjoyed and said: "Okay! I want to get more information from these prisoners!"
Overjoyed, Lu Xiangsheng raised his water glass towards Li Zhi and said: "General Longhu is very different in running the army. This time he has made intelligence contributions. I will toast the general with water instead of wine!" After a pause, Lu Xiangsheng said.
: "When the army fights Dong Nu in five days, I will join you to commend the general for his merits!"
Seeing the governor toasting Li Zhi with wine, the other generals were very envious. But who made his own troops incapable of capturing a few Tatars? The generals were also convinced that Li Zhi was treated with courtesy.
Li Zhi picked up the rice wine on the table and drank it all in one gulp.
Then the banquet began, and all the military generals began to toast each other. Of course, the one who received the most respect was Li Zhi. At this time, the Ming Dynasty was in raging war, and the battlefield rules of civil and military control gradually collapsed. The Ming army already had a tendency to become a warlord.
Strength is the most important thing in every town. If you make friends with powerful military attaches, you can speak louder in the court. When you make a mistake and are impeached by the officials or punished by the governor or governor, if you have a friend to save you, you can save the day.
When the generals heard that Li Zhi's troops were strong and saw with their own eyes the Tatar prisoners that Li Zhi had captured, they all secretly thought that Li Zhi was unusual and wanted to make friends with him. Although they were a little surprised at how young Li Zhi was when they first met.
They were resentful, but after seeing the prisoners captured by Li Zhi, everyone secretly thought that Li Zhi could do what they couldn't, so they accepted the fact that Li Zhi was a young hero.
For a while, people were drinking and drinking in front of Li Zhi's case. The general and deputy generals came over one after another. Li Zhi drank more than a dozen glasses of rice wine in one breath.
Li Zhi felt his face turn red as he drank too quickly.
After the deputy general finished his drink, a group of generals came over again. Li Zhi drank more than a dozen glasses, and he really couldn't eat anymore. When the guerrillas came to pay tribute again, Li Zhi asked Zheng Kaicheng and others behind him to drink for him.
After a round of toasts, the generals began to enjoy the meat and wine. Most of the generals were rough men, and Li Zhi only saw a scene of gobbling up food.
Yang Guozhu stuffed the meat into his mouth with chopsticks, tilting his head and biting the meat fiercely, as if he was fighting the mutton. The Shanxi military officer Hu Dawei was even more rude. He thought the chopsticks were hard to use, so he just used them.
If you eat the meat with your hands, you will get fat in your mouth and hands.
Among everyone's eating photos, Wang Pu, the commander-in-chief of Datong, was the most beautiful. He held the mutton with chopsticks and chewed it slowly, eating very decently. Occasionally, he picked up the wine glass and took a sip of wine, and his movements were also very graceful.
After all, Lu Xiangsheng was a civil servant, but he was more polite than these warriors. However, he had a huge appetite and actually ate three bowls of rice in one go. Li Zhi was amazed. You must know that the rice bowl in the army is very big, and those three bowls of rice are worth the amount in a civilian household.
four bowls of rice.
After eating the wine and meat, Li Zhi said goodbye to the governor and returned to his military camp. Li Zhi first asked the soldiers to send the prisoners to the governor, and then he fell heavily on the jar and fell asleep immediately.
At dawn the next day, Li Zhi heard the scout coming to report as soon as he got up.
"General, the Tatars' 100,000-strong army have all pulled up their camps and headed south!"
Li Zhi was stunned, and secretly wondered why the Tatars left. It seemed that after testing for a while, the Tatars did not have the confidence to attack the capital of the Ming Dynasty in one go. The Tatars lived in the bitter cold land of Liaodong and lacked population and materials.
All they wanted was to burn, kill, and loot on the outskirts of the Ming Dynasty’s capital and do some business that was sure to make a profit without losing any money.
Li Zhi felt that he was still a little hungover. He shook his head and asked, "Have all the troops been withdrawn?"
The scout platoon leader said loudly: "There are still a thousand soldiers left, half of them in vests, stationed fifty miles east of the city. They seem to be preparing to follow our Ming army and collect intelligence about our Ming army!"
"The Qing army is so arrogant. How dare you leave spies behind after the main force has left!" Li Zhi snorted and asked, "Half of those Tatars are horse-armored soldiers?"
The scout platoon leader said: "Probably, we can't see clearly. These Qing soldiers are very arrogant with their horses. As soon as we got close to them, they rushed up to chase and kill them. My cavalry platoon tried to get close several times and failed to see clearly."
Li Zhi interrogated those living Tatars and knew that the Qing army had reformed its military system at this time. The Qing army no longer used Niulu as its basic combat unit, but instead divided the soldiers into three major battalions, which were uniformly appointed by the emperor.
The officers of each battalion. These three battalions are the Garbushxian Camp, the Bagala Camp and the Ali Hachaoha Camp.
The most elite is the Garbush Xian Camp, with soldiers from the Eight Banners Manchuria and the Eight Banners Mongolia. Each Niulu selects two brave and strong men to serve as the soldiers. The second is the Baya La Camp, each Niulu selects ten people, and the selected ones are all elite Baya.
Soldiers. Finally, there is the Alihachaoha camp. Forty people are selected from each camp, and all of them are brave horse soldiers.
The other infantry and auxiliary troops fought behind the horse armor soldiers of the Alihachaoha camp.
Half of these thousand Tatar soldiers and horses are vests, and they appear to be a combat unit under the Aliha Chaoha Battalion.
Li Zhi nodded and shouted to the messenger: "Let Zhong Feng bring a thousand riflemen out and follow me out of the camp to eat these thousand vests!"
The messenger shouted the order and passed on Li Zhi's order. Not long after, Zhong Feng ordered his troops and horses and prepared them for the expedition. Li Zhi wore the armor given by the emperor, rode on his maroon horse, and was
With a big banner, he led a thousand soldiers of the Selected Front Regiment to kill to the east.
After traveling for forty miles to the east, Li Zhi saw many Qing army sentries nearby. When these sentries spotted Li Zhi's soldiers and horses approaching, they all ran to the military camp more than ten miles away, seemingly returning to report the news. However,
Soon new sentries rode out from near the Tatar camp and circled around Li Zhi's army horses. The Tatars still seemed very relaxed and did not believe that Li Zhi and his thousand Ming army dared to attack them.
Li Zhi led his troops all the way east until they were within five miles of the Qing army's camp. Only then did the Qing army become alert.
The Qing army blew the horn and formed a battle formation outside the camp.
Li Zhi looked at the Qing army's camp with a telescope and found that everyone in the Qing army had a horse. Half of the Qing troops were riding tall war horses, probably horse soldiers. Li Zhi asked Zhong Feng's soldiers to load their weapons, little by little.
Press on this Qing army.
The Qing troops lined up outside the camp and rushed towards Li Zhi on horseback.
