Wanli 1592

Chapter 537 Suspicious cloud of food
Li Rusong's killing has not stopped yet, Xiao Ruxun's interrogation has already begun.

Li Rusong is more concerned about how to kill all the enemies in front of him, while Xiao Ruxun is more concerned about the whereabouts and strategies of the northern captives. He should be able to get a lot of useful information from the mouths of these captured border guards. Xiao Ruxun believes that of.

Sure enough, after a period of severe interrogation, Xiao Ruxun got some very important information, and he realized some terrible things.

First, Xiao Ruxun asked where they came from, they cried and replied that they were captives captured from Datong.

Xiao Ruxun promised not to kill them, and then asked how many northern captives were in the barracks, and whether there were more than 4 northern captive cavalry as rumored.

The captured guards cried bitterly and replied that when they attacked Pingxingguan, the northern captive army had already divided into two groups, one to attack Yanmen Pass and the other to attack Pingxing Pass. There were more than [-] people in each of the two groups. Fifty thousand horses of the Mert tribe.

After the capture of Pingxing Pass, they ransacked and slaughtered the city and divided into two groups, with [-] riders going south to Taiyuan, and [-] riders carrying them to Bauhinia Pass. Off onslaught.

But the strange thing is that four days after arriving at Bauhinia Pass, most of the [-] riders left Bauhinia Pass quietly at night, leaving only about [-] riders to continue to attack at Bauhinia Pass, and most of them disappeared.

Xiao Ruxun immediately realized that this was the crux of the problem, so she asked sharply where the northern captives had gone. The prisoners looked at each other and said that it was late at night and they were all falling asleep. Where it is is unknown.

Xiao Ruxun asked again, saying that those who provided clues would be rewarded with five taels of silver. Finally, one person raised his hand and said cautiously that he got up in the middle of the night to relieve himself, and saw some dark shadows going in the direction they came through the fence.

It should have gone west, and he didn't know after that, because he only saw so much, and didn't pay attention to it at the time.

Thirty-five thousand cavalry quietly left Zijing Pass at night, and they left only four days after arriving here. They stormed Zijing Pass at first, and then left strangely. Why?
Xiao Ruxun thought carefully, and suddenly remembered what Chai Guozhu said - they attacked very fiercely at the beginning, but recently they didn't know what happened, and it became like this...

If they really attacked Bauhinia Pass deliberately to attract the main force of the Ming army in the Kanto, and prevent the main force of the Kanto from leaving the Bauhinia Pass and entering Shanxi to fight, then the onslaught at the beginning is understandable. It will leave behind the influence of the northern captives who stormed the Bauhinia Pass fiercely and fiercely, so that the cowardly Ming army would not dare to leave the pass.

The purpose of keeping 5000 people is to continue to maintain this impression. Once the inertial thinking is formed, it cannot be changed by a few words of a few people.

Both Li Chengliang and Chai Guozhu were famous generals for a while, but they were the ones who stayed in the pass and dared not attack. Of course, there was a reason why the soldiers in the Beijing camp were unusable, but there were also the impressions left by the previous strong attack by the northern captives.

Leave such an impression, and use this impression to make the Ming army stand still and dare not attack, thus achieving the goal of realizing the real strategic goal. Their strategic goal has never been Bauhinia Pass or the capital, but ulterior motives. What exactly is it? It has to do with the direction they left.

But if it is just to take away the looted materials to facilitate the retreat, there is absolutely no need to use the method of attacking Bauhinia Pass. Their real purpose must be solved by means of war, so as to buy time and not let the Reinforcements arrive to disrupt them.

What are they for?
and many more!

Xiao Ruxun suddenly thought of something.

"Let me ask you, what do the northern captives eat when they are marching and fighting these days? What is the military ration? You must tell the truth, and you are not allowed to hide it!"

Xiao Ruxun asked these guards sharply.

Guardsmen, look at me and I look at you, and then one of the leaders said: "The villain dare not hide it from the admiral. These northern captives eat wheat rice, grain, a lot of grain, and they eat three times a day." Every meal is dry rice, and what we are given is a few bowls of porridge."

Xiao Ruxun's eyes widened immediately.

"There is a severe cold in the north and a severe cold in Guanzhong. There is a shortage of food everywhere. The northern captives also went south to rob food because they had no food. If they had enough food to eat three meals a day, why did they go south to plunder? Isn't that The absurdity of the desolate world? If you dare to talk nonsense, I will not forgive you!"

Seeing this, Wang Hui next to Xiao Ruxun immediately stepped forward and shouted: "The pistols raise their pistols!"

There was a bang, and hundreds of muskets were aimed at these guards. The guards were so frightened that they knelt on the ground and kowtowed desperately.

"Don't dare! Don't dare! Admiral Mingjian! The villains dare not hide anything! Don't dare hide anything!"

Seeing that their kowtows were bleeding, and there was no sign of lying in their tone, Xiao Ruxun waved his hands and asked the soldiers to put down their muskets.

"Do they really eat wheat rice for three meals a day? Or dry rice?"

"Yes, it's all wheat rice, it's all dry rice. They have a lot of food, carts and carts. Now, they probably haven't finished eating it yet. You can see it when the admiral captures their camp. It's all wheat rice. We Brothers don’t even know where they got so much food!”

Xiao Ruxun frowned, faintly feeling that something was wrong, very wrong, if the northern captives had so much food, why did they go south to plunder?
The only purpose of their going south is to rob food, not to fight the national war with Ming Dynasty, otherwise they would not just pretend to attack Bauhinia Pass, but if they have enough food, why would they go south?This is clearly contradictory.

If they went south with so much food, it could only be said that they had other purposes, but all signs showed that they went south for food, but they got so much food and ate three dry meals a day. Even one of them can't be justified. If all of them are like this, it's too scary.

The temperature dropped sharply, the food production was greatly reduced and frozen to death, and the entire northern region was short of food. I don’t know how many people were sent to Myanmar. Where did so much food come from?
Xiao Ruxun's interrogation continued, while Li Rusong's attack had come to an end. To be honest, he had never fought such an easy one-sided massacre battle since he went to the battlefield to fight against the northern captives. , the northern captives were almost powerless to fight back.

He was aiming to kill, and suddenly felt an empty space in front of him...

He had already pierced through the enemy formation, and there were no more northern captives in front of him, but when he looked back, a small number of northern captives were still fleeing, but basically there was a mountain of corpses and a sea of ​​blood behind them.

(End of this chapter)