In the late Ming Dynasty, rising from the grassland

Chapter 162 The one I want to get rid of most is Lin Ruina Wooden Bell

"Superintendent, what's going on? Why did Wang Pu and the others suddenly withdraw without consulting beforehand? Isn't this a scam?"

"I knew that guy surnamed Wang was not a thing. He was full of evil. If I had known, I shouldn't have let them stay with us in the first place. I should have let them camp alone!"

At this time, Yang Guozhu and Hu Dawei had also finished pacifying their men, and came over to kill him with overwhelming anger. They also wanted to cut Wang Pu into pieces, especially Hu Dawei, who had long been grudged.

"This governor will definitely report this matter to His Majesty when he returns, hold them responsible for escaping without permission, and give an explanation to the soldiers who died last night!" Lu Xiangsheng said with burning eyes.

In fact, he also knew that if it weren't for His Majesty's will to retreat, Wang Pu wouldn't dare to escape without permission even if he had the courage to do so.

"Supervisor, what should we do next?"

"Although Jiannu has temporarily stopped attacking, we are already surrounded. Staying here is not a long-term solution!"

Seeing that Lu Xiangsheng had said this, the two of them had no choice but to suppress their anger towards Wang Pu, looked at him and asked.

"Although the food and grass in the camp can still last for half a month, the western camp is occupied and we can no longer get water, so we can only break out south."

"Let's do this. I will lead the people to recapture the south camp first. Tomorrow, General Tiger will lead [-] infantry to clear the way first. General Yang will lead [-] cavalry to cover the retreat of the young people. This governor will lead [-] Tianxiong troops to the rear. All People only carry three days of dry food, and the food and other baggage that cannot be taken away will be burned and must not be left to the slaves!"

Lu Xiangsheng thought about it and said, let alone the inconvenience of getting water now, even if it is convenient, tens of thousands of people are compressed into such a narrow area and cannot hold on for a long time, so they can only choose to give it a try and force a breakout.

Otherwise, once Jiannu launches a fire attack, or if the other two groups of soldiers and horses are mobilized to besiege him, they will be absolutely unstoppable.

The two looked at each other, and Hu Dawei said tentatively: "Superintendent, it is unwise to retreat with those civilians at this time, otherwise..."

"No, we must retreat together, and we must not leave those civilians behind!"

Lu Xiangsheng naturally knew what the two of them were thinking and objected sternly.

"Yes!"

When the two saw this, they had no choice but to give up.

Immediately, Lu Xiangsheng ordered the civilians to prepare dry food and distributed the remaining weapons to them. Food and other materials were also piled into the big tent, ready to be set on fire at any time.

Just when Lu Xiangsheng was planning to lead the Tianxiong Army to recapture the South Camp and open up a retreat channel, Jiannu actually gave up the South Camp and retreated to the East and West Camps.

Obviously Huang Taiji was not sure of eating the remaining Ming army, so he simply gave up the South Camp to let the Ming army retreat.

After all, the real warriors of Jiannu were only [-] Han soldiers and [-] cavalry. Now that the Ming army had regained its breath, a forced attack would only cause heavy casualties.

Surrounded on all sides, the troops were too dispersed, and it was difficult to defend, so it was easy for the Ming army to concentrate its forces and break through on one side.

If you can't trap them and can't eat them, then you might as well let the enemy break out to the south and leave the camp, so that the cavalry's advantages can be brought into play.

Of course, the most important thing is that Huang Taiji wants to resolve the war here as soon as possible and eliminate Lin Rui and Namu Zhong. After all, time waits for no one.

If there were hundreds of miles away from the Great Wall, Lu Xiangsheng would not choose such a desperate retreat, but it is only more than 100 miles away from Yanghe, and only eighty or ninety miles away from the valley, plus there are [-] cavalry.

Therefore, knowing that Jiannu deliberately let them out of the camp, he led the army to retreat without hesitation early the next morning.

As for sending someone to notify Lin Rui, he didn't care anymore. Besides, in this situation, it didn't make much sense whether to notify Lin Rui or not.

Seventy-eight thousand troops first withdrew from the main camp of the Chinese army to the south camp, and then withdrew from the south camp one by one and headed south.

Jiannu did not chase immediately, but rushed into the Chinese army camp and started to put out the fire. Only after the fire was extinguished did [-] cavalry rumble in pursuit.

Lu Xiangsheng led nine thousand Tianxiong troops to the rear. When he found that the Jiannu cavalry was chasing him, he immediately set up his formation in a desperate posture.

Abatai and Yang Guli saw that the opponent's formation was stable and their fighting spirit was overwhelming, so they did not dare to charge directly into the formation. After testing the perimeter, they had no choice but to bypass the Tianxiong Army and continue southward to pinch the weak persimmons.

If so many of the Jiannu cavalry had not been wiped out by Lin Rui, Huang Taiji might have forcibly destroyed the Tianxiong army, but now he really couldn't afford to hurt them.

Abatai and Yang Guli led the cavalry and rushed forward again, preparing to attack Hu Dawei who was out of the way. However, although the 8000 people of Hu Dawei were not as good as the Tianxiong Army, they also knew that they could never run away at this time, so they were all Hug each other tightly.

In addition, there were Tianxiong troops and [-] cavalry behind them. Abatai also did not dare to attack by force. He just raced around and shot arrows in an attempt to disperse the opponent's formation.

In the end, I saw that although the opponent's formation was chaotic, it never dispersed, so I had no choice but to aim at the civilian husband in the middle.

Sure enough, there was no order among the civilians. Seeing the charging cavalry, they were all frightened and ran southward.

Fortunately, with the cover of 2000 cavalry led by Yang Guozhu, Jiannu's cavalry did not dare to spread too thin and pursued them unscrupulously.In this way, the [-] Jiannu cavalry harassed them from noon until dark before returning. The Ming army only lost [-] people, most of whom were shot to death by arrows, but nearly half of the [-] civilians were lost. .

There is nothing that can be done about it. The only one to blame is the man who ran around. Otherwise, even if everyone walked slowly together, they would not have lost so much.

After all, there were Ming troops in front and behind, and there were [-] cavalry covering them. Jiannu's cavalry also couldn't let go. They were worried that the Ming army's cavalry would directly charge and kill them, while the infantry would take the opportunity to attack from a flank.

In fact, Huang Taiji could also send cavalry and infantry to pursue together, so the Ming army's casualties would definitely be greater.

But Huang Taiji is not such a greedy person, and he is unable to completely eliminate this group of Ming troops. It is better to go west as soon as possible to eliminate the group of horse bandits.

Early the next morning, Huang Taiji hurriedly set up camp and headed west. He only sent [-] cavalry to symbolically continue to chase the Ming army.

As a result, the remaining 2 civilians did not rest at all last night, and had already fled into the valley when Jian Nu came after them again.

And Lu Xiangsheng and the two general soldiers have also joined together, with more than [-] horse infantry, so that the [-] Jiannu cavalry can't take advantage at all, and they don't even dare to chase the civilians into the valley.

Apparently they were afraid that the Ming army coming from behind would directly block the entrance of the valley, so they withdrew only at noon.

When Lu Xiangsheng arrived at Yanghekou with more than 5 troops, Wang Pu and the eight guerrilla generals felt like they had seen a ghost.

Obviously, it is unacceptable that Lu Xiangsheng and others can come back with so many people, especially when the three cavalry combined still have [-], and the Tianxiong army also has [-].

"Wang Pu, I am your ancestor, you are a piece of shit that is worse than a beast..."

"You bastards, if you still dare to stay here, I will kill you!"

While Wang Pu and the guerrilla generals were still in shock, Yang Guozhu and Hu Dawei clenched their fists as big as bowls and rushed forward with curses.

However, although the two dared to scold Wang Pu, they did not dare to fight. They only vented their anger on the eight guerrilla generals.

The eight of them were all commanding princes who were used to being pampered and had guilty consciences. Even though they had the numerical advantage, they were beaten with hammers by the two of them, leaving them bruised and swollen.

The eight-man servants and bodyguards wanted to come up to help, but were directly stopped by the two cavalrymen and could only stare.

"That's enough! Yang Guozhu, Hu Dawei, what are you two going to do? Openly beat the guerrilla general who was conferred by His Majesty, do you still care about His Majesty's court? Believe it or not, I will report to Your Majesty right now, so that you can't bear to go around..."

When Wang Pu saw Lu Xiangsheng watching with cold eyes, he had no choice but to stand up and yell, pointing at the two men and threatening them.

Not to mention that the two of them were really a little scared. Although they were both chief military officers, if Wang Pu really impeached them and the court did not have a civil servant with enough weight to speak to them, it would be a sure shot.So although he cursed Wang Pu, his fists and kicks still stopped.

"Wang Pu, you led your troops to escape without authorization, causing the loss of more than half of my [-]-strong army. I will report this to Your Majesty truthfully."

It was only then that Lu Xiangsheng came up, said something coldly to Wang Pu, and then walked away.

Wang Pu's face changed for a few times before he replied coldly: "Governor Lu, you are disrespectful in resisting the order and deliberately delaying the retreat. I am just concerned about the safety of the capital and acted in accordance with the order.

What's more, in the past six months, you have not allocated one tael of military pay or one grain of food to me and others. I just happened to report to His Majesty to ask for instructions. Is it because the imperial court did not allocate the money, food and military expenses, or did you pocket them all! "

As Lu Xiangsheng left, the two groups of people also dispersed.

Obviously, Wang Pu and Lu Xiangsheng have completely broken up, and one of them will definitely be transferred or dismissed from office.

In fact, the reason why Wang Pu dared to go head-to-head with Lu Xiangsheng was not only because of his titles such as Pinglupp Prince Shaobao and the favor of Emperor Chongzhen, but also because there were almost all the generals of the Ming Dynasty standing behind him.

After all, the military attachés of the Ming Dynasty have been suppressed by the civilian officials for so many years. Now, with great difficulty, Wang Pu has emerged as the uncle. If Chongzhen and the civilian officials want to move Wang Pu, other military attachés will definitely support him.

If it weren't for the appalling merit reported by Wang Pu this time, and the perfect timing, which left the civil servants with no excuse, they would not have allowed Emperor Chongzhen to confer him the title of earl under any circumstances.

Therefore, although the civil servants in the court were fiercely fighting among themselves, they almost secretly supported Lu Xiangsheng in suppressing Wang Pu.

Even Yang Sichang gritted his teeth and rejected Wang Pu's overtures.

It can be said that in the entire Ming Dynasty, almost no civil servants are willing to speak to Wang Pu. The nobles in the capital also regard him as an alien and exclude him from the circle of nobles. His status is as embarrassing as it is embarrassing.

After returning to Yanghe, Lu Xiangsheng, as the governor, forced Wang Pu and eight guerrilla generals to stay in Datong Xuanfu, while he took Yang Guozhu and Hu Dawei to the capital Qinwang.

Wang Pu was naturally unwilling to give in, but he was worried that Jiannu would take advantage of the situation and invade Datong, so he could only grit his teeth and stay.

After all, if he goes along, once the Jiannu invade Datong, then Lu Xiangsheng will put all the blame on him, and His Majesty will definitely hold him accountable.

(End of this chapter)