Lu Xiao was awakened by the sound of fighting. He suddenly turned over and sat up. It was only the fifth day since the army entered the mountain. How could there be a sound of fighting here?
The key is that the place Lu Xiao is in is still a logistics camp. Although he is now the commander-in-chief and has been registered, the soldiers in the camp all have their own owners. He has no one under his command, and he does not know who he is.
Return to that camp. So I just stayed in Lu Wenzhao's logistics camp to recuperate.
"What's going on?" Lu Xiao grabbed a soldier who was running over and asked.
"Return to your lord, there are Tatars attacking the camp."
Lu Xiao's expression changed slightly, and he immediately followed with the knife in hand.
It must be said here that Lu Xiao actually never really wanted to change the outcome of this war. Because it could not be changed at all. The root cause of the failure of the war was the corruption of the Ming Dynasty. This was not something that he, a forest hunter, could change.
He led the scout team to achieve great results before, just to give himself a certain background. But now it seems that what he did seems to have caused a certain butterfly effect. Unfortunately, it is bad, not good.
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During the melee, some people shouted loudly, General Du was dead and the front line was defeated. Everyone, run away.
Lu Xiao followed the sound and was stunned for a moment. He originally thought it was a Tatar who was spreading rumors to disturb the morale of the army. But when he rushed over and took a look, he found that it was actually a Ming army soldier.
With a bang, Lu Xiao punched him hard in the abdomen, until he was beaten into a shrimp.
"Tell me, who asked you to shout like that?"
Lu Xiao drew his sword and put it on the opponent's neck, and asked.
"Sir... I'm not just yelling, I'm really defeated... I just escaped from the front line."
"Fart, we didn't see the Tatars yesterday. A total of 30,000 troops were completely defeated in less than a day? We already knew the layout of all the camp's troops in advance, how could they be defeated so easily?"
"No, sir, I really don't know. I just saw that the mountains and plains were full of Tatars. As soon as the fighting started, General Du was surrounded by the Tatars, so we had no choice but to run away..."
He didn't finish the rest of the words, because Lu Xiao had already slit his throat with a knife. He shouted at him in his camp and shouted that he must die in the army if he failed in this kind of behavior.
Perhaps his intentions were good. He thought he could save a few of his comrades in this way. But what he didn't know was that the more this happened, the faster the remaining Ming soldiers would die.
After cutting down several Tatars who rushed in, Lu Xiao finally found Lu Wenzhao after searching for a while.
"Lu Defei, the frontline rout is real."
"It really can't be true anymore."
"How is Mr. Du doing?"
"It's fine, but my head is gone."
"grass!!!!"
This was the only thought in Lu Xiao's mind. The reason why he was anxious to ask Lu Wenzhao to assign him the position of Commander-in-Chief was because he knew that Juniper was unlikely to survive in this war. In order to prevent this
Just in case, you have to settle things quickly.
It's just that he didn't expect that one of his operations would accelerate Juniper's defeat. This really made him feel a bit magical. But when he thought about it carefully, it seemed a bit natural. Because the late Ming Dynasty was itself a magical era.
"Burn grain and grass." Lu Xiao said after thinking for a moment.
"What?"
"Since the front line has been defeated, it is impossible to hold this place. Burn all the food and grass and cannot leave it to the Tatars."
Historically, even though the Tatars won the Battle of Sarhu, they failed to immediately attack the Central Plains. This was because they were extremely short of supplies. In the Battle of Sarhu, Nurhaci actually bet on the fate of the country. The key is this guy
In the end, I won the bet.
After the Battle of Sarhu, the Tatars captured countless supplies, which allowed them to survive the most difficult winter. Since then, the Ming Dynasty has actually been unable to compete with the Tatars head-on.
Lu Wenzhao also understood what Lu Xiao meant. Then he summoned his personal guards.
"Take kerosene, go to the baggage camp, and burn all the baggage. Listen, you can't leave a grain of rice for the Tatars."
"Yes!" A group of personal guards took the order and left. At this time, many Tatars had already rushed in.
At this time, the Ming army in the logistics camp was already frightened by the news. There was a picture of a Tatar chasing more than a dozen Ming soldiers everywhere. Seeing this made Lu Xiao feel helpless and heartbroken.
Lu Wenzhao was also a master of swordsmanship. The two of them joined forces and quickly strangled a group of Tatars who rushed in. They were also surrounded by a dozen soldiers with good skills.
"Lu Shouwei, where are the supervisors on our road?"
Lu Wenzhao was not stupid and immediately thought of the crux of the problem. They had been defeated all the way, and even the general soldiers were killed. These little pawns below would probably not end well.
If the supervisor also dies, it will be completely over. By then, other senior officials will have taken advantage of the situation and shifted all the blame to this party.
"Follow me." Lu Wenzhao shouted and rushed towards the supervisor's tent.
The supervisor of Jun Song's road was named Guo Zhen. At this time, he was hurriedly packing his things and preparing to run away. But at this time, there was already a mess outside, and he didn't know how to use weapons. Just a few steps out of the door, he was attacked by someone.
run down.
Fortunately, at this time, Lu Xiao and others arrived in time. Otherwise, the eunuch of the Supervisory Army would have been trampled to death by his own people.
"Guo Jianjun, we have been defeated all the way. Now we need to retreat quickly. Come with us."
Guo Zhen shouted in disbelief.
"How could it be defeated? How could it be defeated? There were tens of thousands of people, so how could it be defeated?"
"It is said that the other armies did not arrive in time to support us."
This was said by Lu Xiao. He actually didn't know the real situation, but at this time, the real situation was not important. Anyway, in the end, it was impossible for the emperor to know the truth.
The key is to avoid responsibility as much as possible. He said this now to leave a subconscious impression on Guo Zhen. The army was defeated because the remaining troops did not provide timely support.
In fact, this is similar to the historical records. Originally, Juniper should have cooperated with another general, Marin's men, to attack Saarhu from a flank. But Marin did not arrive.
There was no special reason. In fact, after the war, even the group of people behind Marin could not find a reasonable reason for Marin to be late. In the end, a mock lake tactic was used, which was to insist that Juniper delayed the fighter plane.
Anyway, Juniper was already dead at that time, and a dead person would not defend himself. On the contrary, some records from the Manchu and Qing dynasties later recorded more truthfully.
The group of people protected Guo Zhen and rushed outside the camp, but were soon noticed by a group of Tatars. The group fought another bloody battle. During this period, a Baihu man with good skills also joined the team.
Lu Xiao glanced sideways, and coincidentally, he was the protagonist again.
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"In Xian Shen Lian, hundreds of households under Du Zongbing's command."
"I am Lu Wenzhao, the garrison under General Du. This is the supervisor Guo Zhen, Eunuch Guo, and this is General Lu Xiaolu."
Lu Xiao and a dozen other soldiers were the only ones who finally broke out of the siege. They stood on a hilltop not far away, looking at the camp that was burning with fire. Everyone was silent.
After a long time, Lu Wenzhao spoke again.
"Tens of thousands of lives were lost like mowing grass. I'm afraid we've lost this battle."
