Crazy at the end of the Ming Dynasty

When Wu Shigong led the soldiers to turn around, on the way to the north of Guide Mansion, several military households drawn from other thousand households fled.

And the Qianhusuo where these fleeing military households were located happened to be near the road that Wu Shigong's army turned to, so these fleeing military households were very familiar with the nearby roads.In addition, Wu Shigong and the other officers were not prepared, so these military households escaped smoothly.

After hearing the news that some soldiers had fled, Wu Shigong was furious.But Wu Shigong didn't have much free time to catch these fugitive soldiers, so Wu Shigong sent people to Guidefu City to inform Zhao Ming, the commander of Guidewei, the names of those fugitive military households, hoping that Zhao Ming could arrest them. These deserters, and give those deserters the punishment they deserve, that is, beheading.

In addition, not long after the turn, Wu Shigong ordered to stop the march and set up camp on the spot after the soldiers fled.After setting up the camp, Wu Shigong immediately arranged for officers at all levels to do a good job of stabilizing the soldiers immediately so as to prevent any more soldiers from fleeing.

In addition, Wu Shigong didn't trust the military households of these other thousand households. He put the camps of these military households in the inner circle of the big camp, and the soldiers of his own thousand households were stationed in the outer circle. Monitor every move of these military households.

Now Wu Shigong is only more at ease with the soldiers of his Qianhu Station.In his view, these soldiers eat and use his own, and give them military pay, and he treats them with the utmost benevolence.Therefore, there will be absolutely no problems with your own soldiers.

But what Wu Shigong never expected was that some of his own soldiers were planning to flee.And these soldiers are precisely the cavalry that Wu Shigong trusts and relies on the most.

Because the army suddenly turned to march, and because many soldiers did not fully understand the reason for the army's turn, rumors quickly spread among the soldiers.

In the spread of rumors, the reason why the army turned to marching became: the Tartars attacked the capital, and the capital was in a hurry.Therefore, Wu Shigong's army turned to go directly north to fight directly with the Tartar army.

And after learning of this rumor, those soldiers often go to those soldiers they think are well-informed, and let these well-informed soldiers give them an idea.

But now among Wu Shigong's cavalry, there are not many guards who accompanied Wu Shigong to Guide Mansion from the capital, and those guards have basically become officers of various troops.

Among the soldiers of the cavalry, most of them were promoted by Wu Shigong later, and they were better trained soldiers.In addition, there were also some bandits who surrendered with horses at that time, because they were better at riding, they were directly retained by Wu Shigong as the cavalry.And there are seven to eighty such people among Wu Shigong's cavalry.

These bandit-born cavalry were mainly concentrated in the cavalry reconnaissance squadrons of Zhang Biao and Li Sanhe to give full play to their specialties.However, this also makes it easy for them to form a small group in disguise.

Song Xiang is the leader of such a small group.Because he had served as a soldier in Liaodong before, he was defeated by the army and scattered to the people.Because he had received some military training, he soon became a small leader of the bandits.

After Wu Shigong issued the order to recruit security, Song Xiang also followed his group of bandits and was recruited by Wu Shigong.Now, Song Xiang is sitting in his tent, surrounded by members of his small group.

One of the members asked Song Xiang, "Brother Song, now my lord is going to the capital to fight the Tartars, and you have fought in Liaodong, so give me an idea, what should we do now?"

Song Xiang opened his mouth with a "cao!", and then said, "Your Excellency is good at everything, but he is too young and energetic, and he doesn't know the heights of heaven and earth. He thinks Tartars are like those rioters who only know how to farm and rebel with hoes? Tartars They are like wolves and tigers, and this time I heard that they have tens of 10 people, and if we fight with only a few people like us, it will definitely be sent to death."

Speaking of this, there was an impatient person asking: "Brother Song, what should we do?"

Song Xiang looked at the people around him and saw that they were all his confidantes, so he lowered his head and said in a low voice: "We will never do the job of sending you to death. We don't keep you here. We have a place to keep you. We Just do it..."

However, there are not only one, but two people who have Song Xiang's thoughts.When marching on the second day, although he was still walking on his own land, Wu Shigong still followed the marching routine and sent out spies from the reconnaissance squadron one by one to investigate the situation ahead.

But at noon, the first batch of spies sent out should have come back to report the news, but two spies who were originally from bandits did not come back.

At this time, Wu Shigong didn't notice anything wrong, he thought that something dangerous happened to the two spies.Therefore, he asked Zhang Biao and Li Sanhe to make arrangements for the spies to form a small team and go to the direction where the two spies disappeared.

But when Zhang Biao and Li Sanhe were arranging, Song Xiang gave his confidant a look, and seven or eight of them came out collectively, and without any reason, they galloped away into the distance.

Everyone was baffled by Song Xiang's actions.In the end, someone finally understood that Song Xiang and the others had become deserters, but at this time, Song Xiang and the others had disappeared without a trace.

When Wu Shigong heard the news of Song Xiang's escape, he immediately became furious.Wu Shigong never thought that the most trusted cavalry had the biggest problem.

In fact, it is not surprising that this happens.You must know that the other soldiers are all locals, and even if they want to be deserters, they have nowhere to escape.Because if you can run away, monks can't run away from the temple.Therefore, the few military households who were deserters before will definitely have no good fruit in the future.

As for Wu Shigong's own soldiers, there is no problem with soldiers from other backgrounds.Not to mention the guards brought out from the capital, the family members of the other soldiers basically lived in or near the Qianhusuo.If they become deserters, the evil star Wu Shigong will definitely wipe out all of these deserters.So these soldiers didn't dare to escape at all.

But those cavalrymen who were born as bandits were different.Although some of them surrendered to Wu Shigong with their family members, some of them had no family members, so they had nothing to worry about.Coupled with the previous banditry of these bandits, and the fact that they all have horses that can easily escape quickly, Song Xiang and the others escaped.

Seeing the incidents of soldiers fleeing one after another, Wu Shigong didn't dare to neglect anymore.Otherwise, the soldiers would just keep fleeing like this, and after arriving in the capital, there would not be many people left around Wu Shigong.They're going to be commanders-in-chief.

So, Wu Shigong immediately ordered to set up camp on the spot, and wait until everything subsided.Speaking of which, Wu Shigong's expedition this time was really not smooth.Although Wu Shigong's original intention was to delay the journey during the march, but now the suspension of the march these few times is entirely due to accidents.

At this time, Wu Shigong simply made up his mind, stopped marching, and asked the army to temporarily station on the spot.Wait until the food is delivered from Guide's mansion.

After being stationed, the atmosphere in the barracks became a little tense.This time Wu Shigong did not flee among the soldiers brought out from his thousand households, and now there are more than 100 soldiers of bandit origin remaining in the barracks.In order to prevent them from fleeing, other soldiers guarded them.

And these bandit-born soldiers, no matter what they thought in their hearts, they also felt threatened at this time, because they didn't know whether the soldiers guarding them would attack them.

Therefore, they also gradually moved closer together, and under the leadership of another soldier of high prestige who was a bandit——Zug, they confronted the soldiers guarding them.