Seeing this situation, the defenders on the top of the city cheered involuntarily.
The thieves really have to go!
For how many months, we have been besieging and attacking Kaifeng, and finally we are gone!
Kaifeng defended once again!
After that, you no longer need to worry about bandits suddenly attacking the city, and you don’t have to be trapped in the city all the time without being able to go out. You can also go and bring back your relatives who have moved north of the Yellow River!
After so many months, I don’t know what happened to them. They are a group of old and weak people. They are in a foreign land, even if they are not very far away, but in today’s world, are they okay?
In short, the evacuation of the bandits outside the city made everyone in Kaifeng City happy!
Sun Chuanting, who rushed to the city after hearing the news, immediately used a telescope to observe. He not only observed one bandit camp, but also carefully looked at the bandit camps in other directions.
Judging from his experience, there is indeed no discovery that the bandits are really breaking camp and leaving.
Through the telescope, he could see more clearly than others. The ordinary thieves were all very happy and obviously happy that they could leave Kaifeng. If there were only one or two like this, it might be fake. However, Sun Chuanting passed
You can see clearly with a telescope, and this is true for almost all bandits!
In addition, he also saw several bandit leaders whom he knew, such as Liu Zongmin, who was not happy, but obviously unwilling. On the contrary, Li Yan, a scholar among the bandits, seemed to be happy.
Judging from various signs, the bandits are really leaving!
In other words, Kaifeng really needs to be defended!
However, Sun Chuanting was not happy about this situation.
What he wants most is that the bandits can stay here until the training of the Beijing camp and the Yongwei camp is completed, defeat the Jianlu who entered the pass, and then go south to rescue Kaifeng, and then sweep across the world!
Because in that case, Li Zicheng and Luo Rucai, the strongest bandits, would be easily wiped out by the imperial army when they are at their weakest!
But now, the bandits are leaving. Although Kaifeng has been defended, the bandits will go to cause harm to other places, and they will replenish the supplies and troops that have been consumed in the past few months. They may even become stronger than they are now. This is Sun Chuanting.
Don't want to see it.
Therefore, when the excited Gao Mingheng and others came to see Sun Chuanting, they were surprised to find that Sun Chuanting was indifferent to the evacuation of the bandits and still had a dead face.
Therefore, some people think that Sun Chuanting is a calm person, while others think that Sun Chuanting is really a lump and has no emotions.
On the other hand, Kaifeng Commander-in-Chief Chen Yongfu thought of something after seeing Sun Chuanting's appearance, and quickly asked Sun Chuanting: "Supervisor, have you noticed that the bandit is deceitful?"
Sun Chuanting didn't say anything, but Gao Mingheng replied first: "The thieves are cheating? What kind of deception? You didn't see clearly, the thieves have already broken camp and left!"
After finishing speaking, he pointed to the outside of the city and said: "Besides, outside Kaifeng City there are plains, endless as far as the eye can see, what else can be deceitful?"
Chen Yongfu couldn't help but feel speechless after hearing this.
He himself didn’t think that the bandit was deceitful? But look at Governor Sun’s face, he wasn’t happy at all about the bandit leaving. Maybe he saw that the bandit was being deceived?
However, Gao Mingheng was the patrol commander in Henan, and he did not dare to talk back. Just as he was thinking about what to say, he heard Sun Chuanting say: "Towards evening, you will lead my own bodyguard of fifty cavalry and find a way to capture a few homeless people."
The thief is back!"
After saying this, he put down the telescope, turned to look at Gao Mingheng, and said seriously: "Everything in the city remains as usual, be vigilant and guard the city!"
This is so prudent!
After hearing this, several people around him, not only Gao Mingheng and Chen Yongfu, all thought this in their hearts, and then immediately agreed.
After Chen Yongfu agreed, he watched the bandits leave outside the city and said with some emotion: "It's a pity that there are no elite soldiers in the city. Otherwise, if the bandits are evacuated and lead the army to chase them, they can defeat these bandits!"
As a soldier, you always want to make great achievements.
However, for Gao Mingheng, the Henan patrol commissioner, if he could defend Kaifeng, he would definitely be promoted. Although defeating the bandits was good, being safe was the first. Therefore, at this time, he instead said to Chen Yongfu: "If we really want that,
That’s why you have to worry about the thieves being deceitful, just to lure you out of the city and then kill you!”
There are many such bridges in history!
Chen Yongfu heard this, although he was a little disapproving. After all, he had already said that he would lead elite troops in pursuit, not mediocre troops. However, Gao Mingheng was the patrol officer, so whatever he said would be what he said.
This little incident does not affect the atmosphere of Kaifeng City.
There are hundreds of thousands of thieves outside the city, and it is impossible to withdraw at once. They are moving out one after another, but the speed is not very fast.
As evening approached, Chen Yongfu took fifty of Sun Chuanting's personal guards and suddenly left the city to kill the bandits who were still stranded outside Kaifeng City.
In fact, the bandits didn't have much precaution, and when they saw that only fifty people came out to ride in the city, they didn't pay much attention.
Unexpectedly, the interception force faced Chen Yongfu and his fifty or so men. Even though their number was several times larger, they were defeated by Chen Yongfu's small team with overwhelming force.
However, Chen Yongfu was not eager to fight. Before the bandits sent out more troops, he captured a few injured bandits and returned to the city.
"Victory!" When the garrison soldiers on top of the city saw this scene, they all cheered loudly.
Although the scene just now was just a very small battle, it was a beautiful victory and I was in a good mood. The cheers were so loud that if you didn’t know better, you would have thought it was a big victory!
The injured bandit was briefly bandaged, and he quickly led the way to the archery tower at the top of the city. In front of Sun Chuanting, the interrogation began in person.
"What?" Sun Chuanting was a little surprised when he heard this, and couldn't help but confirm, "The Baigan Army defeated the army you sent to Wei Hui and suffered heavy losses?"
"Sir, I don't dare to lie!" the leading prisoner quickly replied, "General Liu... no... it's Liu Zongmin, the bandit leader, Yuan Zongdi, Gao Yigong and the others who returned to the camp after a great defeat.
They were defeated miserably and were defeated by the White Guards Army. It is said that the White Guards Army had at least several thousand people with sophisticated armor and was very difficult to fight, so they were defeated!"
Upon hearing this, Gao Mingheng beside him couldn't help but said angrily: "You are still lying when you are about to die? Believe it or not, I will kill you right now!"
Today's white-pole army has been fighting for decades and is almost like a beggar. How can there be thousands of people with sophisticated armor?
It's okay to lie to a ghost, but you actually dared to lie to him. Gao Mingheng was really angry!
Upon hearing this, the bandit prisoners panicked, kowtowed quickly, and explained hurriedly: "The little people don't believe it either, but there are many rumors in the army. Even...even the general...no, no, no, Li Zicheng thinks this is an exaggeration."
But...but it is absolutely true that Liu Zongmin was defeated!"
When Gao Mingheng was about to say anything more, Sun Chuanting waved his hand and said: "Take him down!"
Then, he asked others to withdraw from the archery tower, leaving only Gao Mingheng, Chen Yongfu and a few other core Kaifeng officials. Then he looked at them and said: "If I guess correctly, the fine armor and armor on the Baigan Army
The armors worn by my personal guards are the same. In terms of quantity, there may not be less, there should be several thousand pairs of armors!"
Upon hearing this, everyone was immediately dumbfounded.
To be honest, the armor on Sun Chuanting's personal guards is the envy of them all, especially Chen Yongfu. As a general, he knows better than anyone that wearing such strong armor can improve morale and combat effectiveness.
How big it will be!
Ever since he saw the armor on Sun Chuanting's personal guard, he had asked privately several times who made this armor, where to buy it, how much it cost, etc.!
But no matter who he asked, they all shook their heads and didn't even say anything in reply.
When I asked him urgently, I just said to him: "I can't say!"
Now, Sun Chuanting actually said that the Baigan Army had such strong armor, and there were thousands of pairs. He was really dumbfounded!
At this time, Gao Mingheng came to his senses first, immediately showed a worried look on his face, and said to Sun Chuanting: "Sir, if this is really the case, you have to be careful. No matter what, the Baigan Army is a chieftain army after all!"
In his opinion, even if the Baiganjun had always had a good reputation and was loyal to the imperial court, he was a chieftain after all and could not be of the same mind as the imperial court.
The simplest fact is that everyone in the imperial court believed that it was necessary for a civil servant to return his native land to exile. If this policy was to be implemented more intensively in the future, would the Baigan Army just sit back and wait for death?
If you don't sit still and wait for death, thousands of pairs of such strong armors are really not easy to deal with.
The rebellious Nurhachi of Jianzhou Jurchen in Liaodong not only raised troops with the so-called Thirteen Armors and turned Liaodong upside down, but now they have even reached the front line of Shanhaiguan.
While he was thinking so worriedly, Sun Chuanting waved his hand and said to him: "Don't worry, His Majesty gave the Baigan Army so many armors, so he naturally had some concerns, so don't worry!"
"..." When several people in the arrow tower heard this, they were immediately confused by what he said.
What do you mean? Your Majesty gave it to the White Guard Army? Thousands of pieces of armor, just given to the White Guard Army?
How is this possible?
This is absolutely impossible!
Seeing their expressions, Sun Chuanting knew exactly what they were thinking. He actually showed a rare smile and said: "You don't know, in the future, all officers and soldiers of the imperial court will be issued with this kind of armor. At least in the short term, Yongwei Camp will
Both the army and the Beijing camp will be issued this type of armor."
"..." Those who heard this were once again shocked and speechless.
Thousands of such armors were beyond their imagination. Now, Sun Chuanting actually said that both the Yongwei Camp and the Jingying Camp would be equipped with such armors. So they would need at least tens of thousands of armors, right?
Not to mention that the imperial court is extremely poor now, even when the Ming Dynasty was at its peak, there were not so many strong armors, right?
However, this was said by Governor Sun, so there was no way he could lie to them!