I'm really not the carpenter emperor

"Yes, the supervisor has already spoken, and he wants to submit a confession to His Majesty. That's it, forget it! Don't think about it anymore, you will still have the opportunity to make meritorious deeds when you return to the pass."

Li Hongji was thoughtful, but he was a little speechless in his heart. Look at him, he looked heartless, and he ate quite deliciously.

"I can not eat."

Putting down the bowl, Li Hongji didn't give Li Guo a chance to reply, he opened the roller blind and walked out.

"Hey, Brother Li, you finished eating so early!" A familiar laughter came from a distance, Li Hongji looked over and asked in surprise:

"Why did you come back?"

Like Li Hongji, the person who spoke was also a general. He was in charge of guarding around the gunpowder magazine with three or five officers and soldiers.

Now it's meal time, so I will change the guard and come back to eat.

"Switch the defense!"

The man smiled, came to Li Hongji and patted him on the shoulder, didn't say anything, just shook his head, sighed and went to pick up the food.

Inside the Ming army camp, there are busy figures everywhere.

The intersection of iron armor and leaves, the "clinking" sound of weapons colliding together, and the voices of the crowd's discussion merged together. This is a unique symphony in the military camp.

Some had just changed their guards to pick up their meals, and some had finished eating early and came out to clean up the plates for eating.

Of course, there are also some supply battalions, because there are many things, they are always busy contacting the people at the next outpost.

When the army retreated, the supply battalion was the first to withdraw, followed by the firearms battalion.

Many of them knew Li Hongji and would greet him kindly when they passed by.

Maybe it's because of the reform of the daily training and accommodation mode in the New Drill Code, now Li Hongji already has a very comfortable circle in the Ming army.

"Oh, I really want to go back like this." Li Hongji squatted on the ground, a little dejected, and his eyes followed to the turf on the ground.

Subconsciously, he froze.

Why are these stones placed so strangely...

It may be because they are about to withdraw, so the food in the past few days has been good, and a piece of meat is given every three to five days.

"What are you looking at?" Li Guo's mouth was dripping with oil, while wiping his mouth with his hands, he came out to the bucket to wash the dishes.

With a little eyesight, he even took a look at Li Hongji's side.

"Come and see, do you find these stones strange?" Li Hongji didn't even take his eyes off the ground when he spoke.

"Shitou has a good-looking fart. If you want me to say, you are stupefied." Li Guo glanced at it, and didn't take it seriously at all.

"Although it's hard to get out of the customs, we are still young, and the one in the capital is also young. There will always be a next chance. It's time to sleep."

"Come over here and take a closer look." Li Hongji still kept his eyes on the ground, and his tone was a bit dignified.

Hearing his tone, Li Guo still didn't believe it, but he couldn't help it, so he walked over after washing the dishes, and said as he walked:

"Come on, let's take a look—"

"These broken stones, how about you squatting and looking at them for so long?" When he came to the other side and squatted down, Li Guo didn't think anything at first glance, but the more he looked, the more he felt familiar.

"This... this is a bit like it!"

Li Hongji smiled, "What do you think?"

Li Guo changed direction again and pointed at one of the stones.

"Does this look like our current location? If this is our current location, then this, the camp on the edge of the Quye River, makes sense."

"Did you see it?" Li Hongji grinned, stood up and looked around, and said very firmly:

"The Mongols have camped here, or at least they have been here!"

"I'm not sure about this, are you?" Although Li Guo could see it, he still felt that the relationship was so important that he couldn't boast, "What if it's a coincidence?"

"Coincidentally, there is such a coincidence in the world?" Li Hongji believed more and more that this was once Chahar's camp.

"Even if it's a coincidence, it's not a problem to search the surrounding area carefully before breaking out of the camp, right?"

Li Guo still felt that it was too much of a fuss, "Brother! Even if the Mongolian Tartars came, wouldn't they clean up the surrounding area before they left? They couldn't find it."

"If you don't want to go, I'll go." Li Hongji threw a stone, and went straight to the commander's tent while speaking, "I'll go find the supervisor."

"Oh, my brother, my dear brother, why do you think it's only a matter of time!" Li Guo couldn't resist, so he had to follow.

……

Handsome tent, Sun Chuanting looked at the three dishes and one soup that the guards put in front of him, but he didn't have the slightest appetite. This battle was really muddled.

If all the captives in the future learn to avoid and not fight like this, will they still have to follow Huo Qubing and lead the cavalry straight to Khan Court?

This is unrealistic, and no one will support such a rash style of play.

Just as he was thinking, a soldier came in through the curtain.

"Report to the supervisor, the Ningxia Youbiao Battalion asked Li Hongji, the general manager, to see something, and said that...the traces of the Chahar cavalry were found!"

5 Chapter Fifty

"what?"

Sun Chuanting was startled subconsciously, and because he stood up too quickly, he even overturned the soup bowl, but at this time, he didn't care about these things, and said quickly:

"Let him in!"

"Young one, see the supervisor!" Li Hongji knelt on the ground and said with his fists clasped.

In fact, the first time he entered the commander's tent, he was still a little nervous about meeting the supervisor, but soon, he saw the simple layout in the commander's tent, and he also had a little respect for the supervisor in his heart.

No one thought that the two people who would become deadly rivals in later generations would meet in advance as Tianqi's subordinates for more than four years.

If the two people in history knew, there might be a kind of emotion called grass mud horse running in their hearts.

"You said you found the traces of the Xilu cavalry? Is it the traces of camping, or the traces of the passing cavalry?" Sun Chuanting seemed a little anxious, and he opened his mouth straight to the point.

At this time, he really couldn't tolerate a moment's delay. Now that the whole army is seeking a battle, it is difficult for him to find the enemy's camp. Of course, the sooner he finds the traces of the Xilu, the better.

"Not at all." After Li Hongji said this, he noticed the disappointment in Sun Chuanting's eyes that could not be concealed, and quickly added: "But the supervisor, I found the evidence that the Western captives arranged formations to spy on our army's movements!"

"If you can give me 500 people and let me search around the camp, there is likely to be a bigger discovery."

Sun Chuanting sighed. In fact, he no longer had any expectations in his heart, but he still said:

"Let's talk about the search of the camp, first take me to see the evidence."

"Supervisor, please!"

Li Hongji was sweating profusely, he quickly lifted the roller blind, and stepped aside.

Not long after, Sun Chuanting arrived outside the camp of Li Hongji and Li Guo. As the news spread, many people had already gathered here.

He Renlong folded his arms around his chest, looked at Li Hongji and Li Guo, and sneered, "One general and one cavalry soldier, what can they find?"

Zhang Wanbang seemed a little dissatisfied when he heard this sentence, "Could it be possible that you, He Renlong, reached the sky in one step, and didn't you come up step by step from a small soldier?"

"What Zhang Shuai said makes sense..."

He Renlong was about to retort, but when he saw who the other party was, he quickly yelled and said nothing.

"Where's the evidence?" Sun Chuanting squatted here and found that the stone was gone. He looked back coldly, his face full of impatience.

Li Hongji thought of it suddenly, as if he had thrown it away in a moment of excitement, and quickly half-kneeled on the ground, bowed his head and said:

"Master, I dare not tell half a lie."

"There were a few stones here just now, and their positions were distributed according to the positions of our army's Quyehe camp, Chahar camp, and several major departments on the left wing."

"It's just that the little one accidentally threw one just now..." Even Li Hongji thought it ridiculous when he said this.

However, the fact is like this, is it possible to miss this opportunity?

He Renlong was about to laugh, but when he saw Zhang Wanbang's eyes, he forcibly held back and stood to one side, watching with a serious face.

"Forget it." Sun Chuanting stood up and was about to leave, but all the generals thought it was a farce and they were about to disperse.

Zhang Wanbang frowned and stood still, looking carefully at the fixed end of the tent where Li Hongji was.

After watching for a while, he took a few steps forward, then knelt down and touched the soil with his hands, "Master Supervisor, there are indeed people who have camped here!"

"If the general's expectations are correct, there are Mongols camping near Li Hongji's camp three to five days ago!"

Sun Chuanting immediately turned around, came to Zhang Wanbang, stepped hard on the nearby soil, and then frowned.

The soil around the camp here is very soft, and the turf has even been pulled out in some places, which means that someone must have camped recently.

However, according to Sun Chuanting's knowledge, the Ming army only arrived here yesterday, and no one had camped at all.

"Zhang Wanbang!"

"Supervisor, please order!"

"I order you to take the Datong Army to investigate carefully around the camp, and don't miss any details!" Sun Chuanting said as he walked.

"Li Hongji, if you discover the Mongol camp this time, the governor will give you a great credit!"

"And He Renlong, increase the scale of sentry cavalry nearby, and you lead Shanxi cavalry to explore a radius of fifty miles, no! One hundred miles!"

"Within a hundred miles, we must investigate thoroughly. If there is any trouble, don't startle the snake, report it immediately!"

He Renlong didn't expect these two little soldiers to find traces of the Mongolian camp, and felt incredible.

Seeing that everyone was excited, he didn't dare to neglect, he clasped his fists and shouted:

"Don't worry, Supervisor, the last general used to do this exclusively!"

Li Hongji was very excited when he heard Sun Chuanting's assurance, he exchanged a glance with Li Guo, and then shouted:

"Thank you, Master Supervisor!"

……

Zhang Wanbang attached great importance to this discovery, and appointed Ye Bushou, who had the most exploratory experience under his command, to quickly search the inside and outside of the camp.

If you don't check, you don't know, but when you check, you are shocked, and you really found traces of a large-scale garrison inside and outside the camp.

According to the battle experience, these traces may be as early as five days ago.

That is to say, the Chahars have been playing tricks on themselves.

These Mongols were very smart on the grassland, and even the range of the Ming army's outposts could be deduced based on experience. In fact, they had been camping within [-] miles around the main force of the Ming army.

However, the range of the general sentry of the Ming army often ends at ten or twenty miles, even if the range of the sentry is not closed at night, the furthest is about fifty miles.

If the coincidence that the two parties happened to choose the same place did not happen today, the Ming army might never have found the traces of the Chahar cavalry.

Of course, Zhang Wanbang was very curious, how could this little Li Hongji have such a keen sense of the battlefield.

Although this kind of trace was left, it was almost difficult to find without careful inspection. Even he himself observed it for a long time.

Maybe this is why the Mongols set up the stone array but did not destroy it. Who would a normal person think of such a big thing after seeing a few stones?

Even if ordinary soldiers think of it, no one will report to the supervisor at the risk of beheading.

Li Hongji found out, and went straight to do it.

After confirming that the Mongols camped here on a large scale within five days, there are many things that can be deduced.

Sun Chuanting immediately summoned the generals to raise their accounts and announced a new strategy.

Now Lindan Batur must think that he is going to withdraw his troops, so give him a trick and pretend to continue to withdraw.

In fact, Sun Chuanting handed over all the scouts to He Renlong, a Shanxi guerrilla, and asked him to determine the specific camping location of the Chahar tribe before tomorrow.

Although He Renlong was a bad-mouthed person and not very likable, there must be a reason why Zhu Xieyuan recommended this person to lead the army.

"He Renlong!"

"The end is here!"

"Zhang Wanbang!"

"Please tell the supervisor!"

"Li Changling!"

"exist!"

"As fierce as a tiger!"