Fenghou

There was no army stationed at Hukou. At this time, the magistrate rushed to the pier with several county officials. They had just received the news that a huge army began to dock.

Wu Yonghui, the county magistrate, didn't know the other party's situation, and thought it was Zhang Jun's army, which made him very nervous, lest Hukou County would be wiped out.

Several county magistrates were brought before Liu Qiong, and Liu Qiong asked, "Who is the county magistrate?"

"The next official is!" Wu Yonghui hurriedly raised his hand and walked out.

Liu Qiong said: "We are the Western Army, and we need to use Hukou County as a logistics supply point. Is there any open space in the county?"

Wu Yonghui and the county magistrates exchanged glances, and they all breathed a sigh of relief at the same time. It turned out to be the Western Army, so don't worry.

Wu Yonghui wondered: "General Qi, Hukou County is a small county with a population of several thousand. It is about three miles from east to west, north to south, and if it can barely accommodate thousands of troops, it will be difficult for tens of thousands of people."

Tang Qian said from the side: "The county is too small, we set up the military camp outside by ourselves, so we don't need to bother them."

Liu Qiong had no choice but to nod and said: "Then I won't trouble you, we won't stay here for too long, if you don't want to become the enemy of the Western Army, then please keep silent, do you understand what I mean?"

How could everyone not understand, and hurriedly said: "We must keep it a secret!"

The [-] cavalry of the Western Army immediately set up a camp in the south of Hukou County.

The first thousand and 250 chapter two communication

In the middle of the night, several cavalry scouts rushed from the south, but were soon stopped by the outer patrols and led them to the camp.

Dozens of candles were relit in the big tent, and the lights were brightly lit. Liu Qiong and a dozen generals returned to the big tent of the Chinese army. In the middle of the big tent was a sand table of Jiangnan West Road, which was successfully made a few years ago. , which didn't work until now.

The scout commander Wei Sheng explained the latest information to everyone in front of the sand table, "At present, the [-] troops led by Han Shizhong are in Linchuan County, Fuzhou, while the [-] troops led by Zhang Ziqi are in Nanchang County. The distance between the two armies is about [-] miles.

"How long has Han Shizhong's army stayed in Linchuan County?" Tang Qian asked.

"Reporting to Tang Dutong, I just arrived in Linchuan County this morning."

"What about the logistics?"

"The logistical supplies consist of [-] carts, which are traveling at the same time as the army. They are also in Linchuan County, and they mainly consist of food."

Liu Qiong pondered for a moment and asked: "How is the equipment of Han Shizhong's army? Do you have cavalry?"

"About 3 cavalry, the equipment is relatively ordinary, all leather armor, spears, and knives, and 3 people seem to be relatively elite, and the other [-] people obviously feel like recruits, lacking rigidity and murderous intent. recruits."

"Where are the siege weapons?" Liu Qiong continued to ask.

"Reporting to Dutong, the [-] carts have only food, and the siege weapons have not been seen."

Liu Qiong nodded and said to the crowd: "Zhang Jun's Huaixi Army carries a lot of fire oil. It is obviously unrealistic to use Han Shizhong's [-] troops to attack the city. Moreover, Han Shizhong's army only has [-] elite troops, and the other [-] troops are relatively weak. In addition, there were only [-] cavalry, while the Huaixi Army had [-] troops, which was superior in terms of strength. Therefore, Han Shizhong's army went to Jiangnan West Road, and put on a posture to compete with the opponent for Jiangnan West Road, but it was actually just a false move. , His fundamental purpose is to prevent the Huaixi Army from attacking Lin'an Mansion, but he just pulled the defense line to Jiangnan West Road."

Tang Qian also laughed and said: "This can explain clearly why Han Shizhong's army did not carry siege weapons, because he never considered attacking the city at all."

Li Fuxing said slowly: "Then we have to let the Huaixi Army understand this."

"There is a way!"

Liu Qiong pondered for a moment, then slowly said: "We have an intelligence point in Nanchang County, we can let the intelligence point find a way."

……

Nanchang County is now in a state of war. Every day at noon, the south city gate is opened for an hour to let the people in the city go out to buy vegetables, and then they must come back within an hour, otherwise they will be locked outside. At the vegetable stalls, the city residents and vegetable farmers bargained for prices, and it was extremely lively.

At this time, the rapid bell rang from the top of the city, "Dang! Dang! Dang!" This was urging everyone to enter the city.

There is only one stick of incense time between the ringing of the bell and the closure of the city gate. Thousands of people outside the city rushed into the city with baskets of vegetables. Disputes often occur at this time, such as short scales and less change, but everyone doesn’t care. It's up, we can only talk about it tomorrow.

Thousands of people flocked into the city, the city gates were closed immediately, the drawbridge was pulled up, and the people went home. In fact, the control was not very strict, and if spies sneaked into the city, they would not be able to find it.

A middle-aged man in a short jacket also sneaked into the city. His name was Wang Yong, and he was a cavalry soldier who joined the army. He was chosen because he was from Yihuang County, Fuzhou and could speak Fuzhou dialect.

Wang Yong quickly found the Ping An Inn near the south of the city. The Ping An Inn was the intelligence point set up by the Western Army in Nanchang County, and it was also the intelligence point of the entire Jiangnan West Road. They were not collecting military information, but collecting information on population, cities, shipping, To disclose information on grain production, prices, officials, etc., and at the same time establish contacts with wealthy noble families on Jiangnan West Road.

The shopkeeper's name is Ge Wenli, a native of Nanchang County. He has been collecting intelligence on Jiangnan West Road with five staff for nearly three years. All the information collected is sent to Ezhou, and then transferred to the Intelligence Department.

When Wang Yong walked into the inn, the shopkeeper greeted him warmly, "Welcome to stay in the store!"

Seeing no one on either side, Wang Yong asked, "I'm looking for Ge Wenli!"

"Ah! I am."

Wang Yong took out the military badge and showed it to him, and Ge Wenli hurriedly said, "Please follow me!"

The two came to the inner hall and sat down. Ge Wenli poured him a cup of hot tea and asked with a smile, "Your Excellency is also from the Intelligence Department?"

"No! I am Wang Yong, who rides Cao Canjun under the tent of Tiger Benwei. I am a civil servant. I came to Nancheng to act under the order of Liu Dutong."

"It turned out to be a civilian officer, no wonder!"

Ge Wenli smiled again and said, "From the accent, Wang Canjun seems to be from Fuzhou! Fuzhou people have a strong accent, so you can hear it."

"That's right, I'm from Yihuang County, Fuzhou, that's why I was picked here."

Ge Wenli nodded, "What is Wang Canjun's mission?"

"I want to see Zhang Ziqi, the commander of the Huaixi Army, and tell him the information about Han Shizhong's army. General Liu doesn't want them to confront each other."

Ge Wenli pondered for a moment and said: "Although I can find him directly, I can't expose it. How about it! I'll take you to meet a wealthy patriarch, also surnamed Wang, who is also very famous on Jiangnan West Road. Let him take you there."

"It's all right, you arrange it!"

……

The person Ge Wenli was looking for was Wang Lusheng, the largest landlord in Nanchang County and even Longxing Mansion, and one of the three wealthy families in Nanchang County.

Wang Lusheng had already bought a house and a shop in Jingzhao City, and in fact he bet his family's fate on Chen Qing. Ge Wenli was of great help in collecting intelligence on Jiangnan West Road.

Hearing that he was looking for Zhang Ziqi, Wang Lusheng agreed without hesitation, and immediately took Wang Yong to the Marshal's Mansion.

Of course Zhang Ziqi attached great importance to local tyrants, and when he heard that Wang Lusheng was visiting, he greeted him personally.

Wang Lusheng clasped his fists and said, "Excuse me, Marshal Zhang. This is Wang Yong, my younger brother. He came from Fuzhou and was conscripted by Han Shizhong's barracks for a few days. I want to know something and see if Marshal Zhang needs anything."

Zhang Ziqi was overjoyed, he was worrying that he didn't know about Han Shizhong's military situation, yet someone with knowledge came to his door.

Zhang Ziqi hurriedly invited Wang Lusheng and Wang Yong to the back hall. The three guests were seated, and Zhang Ziqi served tea again.

"Excuse me, why does Mr. Wang work in Han Shizhong's camp?" Zhang Ziqi asked with a smile.

Wang Yong said in crappy official Chinese with a distinct Fuzhou accent: "Han Shizhong's army recruited a group of scribes to write letters to the soldiers. I was one of them. I stayed in the camp for three days. There was a conflict over wages. , I won’t do it.”

"What's the problem with wages?"

Wang Yong was a little unhappy and said: "At first, it was three pennies a day, but later it became twenty pennies for a letter. I write slowly, so I can only get ten pennies a day at most. I think they are not trustworthy." , After three days, I quit, and it happened that the clan brother asked someone to send me a message, asking me to be the manager of the manor, so I came over."

"So that's the case. It's really not right to go back and forth. I wonder how much Mr. Wang knows?"

Wang Yongxiang thought: "I probably know a little bit about them. Chat with their soldiers, and their soldiers will say everything."

Zhang Ziqi hurriedly called for the deputy general Han Jin. Zhang Ziqi was also a civil servant, but it was the deputy general Han Jin who could really represent the war.

After listening to the introduction, Han Jin frowned and asked, "Mr. Wang, does Han Shizhong have a hundred thousand troops?"

Wang Yong was stunned, shook his head and said: "They only have 6 people! I haven't heard that there are 10 people. Who did the general listen to?"

Han Jin was actually just trying to test Wang Yong to see if he was talking nonsense. It seemed that the other party really understood the situation.

Han Jin laughed and said: "I heard some rumors, it seems that the rumors are not reliable!"

"What does General Han want to know?"

Han Jin thought for a while and asked, "Are the 6 people all veterans?"

Wang Yong curled his lips and said: "What veterans? There are 3 sailors, and the other 3 are recruits. The newly recruited recruits were all scared to death. They cried and begged their family members to find a way to transfer them back. If you fight, you will die, and they don't want to die."

Han Jin's eyes widened all of a sudden. Of course he knew that it was about morale and combat effectiveness. This information was too important.

"How is the training for these recruits?" Han Jin asked anxiously again.

Wang Yong sneered and said, "What kind of training! There was no time for training. Many soldiers cried and said that they couldn't even use a crossbow, so the superiors forced a crossbow into them and let them be crossbowmen."

The first thousand and 250 chapters and three crossing the river

After Wang Lusheng and Wang Yong left, Zhang Ziqi asked, "General Han, do you think what this man said is credible?"

Han Jin pondered for a moment and said: "It sounds more believable. Since Li Hui's army was completely wiped out, the imperial court has less than [-] troops available. They can only recruit recruits, so half of Han Shizhong's new army and half of veterans are completely in line with the facts, and Han Shizhong Going through the mountains, we can’t carry siege weapons, so we can only move lightly. There is no problem with these things. If our army goes south and challenges Han Shizhong’s army, we can completely overwhelm the opponent with superior forces.”

"What does General Han mean, we attack?"

Han Jin nodded, "Han Shizhong just wanted to drag us on Jiangnan West Road. The confrontation between the two armies is in his interest, not in our interest. I think we should take the initiative to attack."

"Do you want to ask the prince for instructions?" Zhang Ziqi hesitated.

"Marshal, the lord is far away in Yangzhou. This trip will take at least half a time, and the military plane will be delayed. Moreover, the lord is aggressively attacking the south of the Yangtze River. If the marshal completely annihilates Han Shizhong's army and attacks Lin'an Mansion from the southwest, it will be of great help to the lord's main battlefield. "

In fact, Han Jin was very dissatisfied with Zhang Ziqi in his heart. He was mediocre, timid, cowardly, and irresponsible. He was timid even though his strength was far superior to the opponent's. He led a hundred thousand troops to defend the city alone. Not the city guard of Nanchang County.

But Zhang Ziqi is the prince's eldest son and will inherit the throne in the future, so no matter how dissatisfied Han Jin feels, he must endure it.

Zhang Ziqi hesitated for a long time and asked again: "If our army goes south, what will happen to Nanchang County?"

"Marshal, it is impossible for our entire army to go south. At least [-] troops must be left to defend the city."

"Isn't that ninety thousand against sixty thousand?"

Han Jin was about to explode. He gritted his teeth and said, "My lord, the other party also wants to keep troops to defend the city. It is impossible to fight all of them!"

"So that's the case, let's try it!"

Zhang Ziqi finally let go, fearing that he would go back on his word, Han Jin immediately went out and ordered loudly, "Order the whole army to assemble, and the army is ready to go south!"

That afternoon, the Huaixi Army left [-] troops to defend the city, and the [-] troops led by Zhang Ziqi and Han Jin marched towards Fuzhou...

At the same time that the Nanchang Huaixi Army took the initiative to attack, Zhang Jun also launched an attack on Zhenjiang Mansion on the Yangtze River.

Wu Ling led an army of [-] troops to blockade the wharf of Zhenjiang Mansion. A warship full of soldiers approached the wharf. Immediately, arrows rained down. Countless gunpowder arrows shot at the warship, and trebuchets threw fire at the big ship. Several large ships were captured. Gunpowder arrows and tinder were ignited, and they had to turn around and leave.

Wu Ling has rich experience. He has established three defense systems: long-distance, middle-distance and near-distance. Large ships still on the river use trebuchets to throw firecrackers at long distances. At a distance, dense crossbow arrows were used to shoot and kill the soldiers who disembarked.

From noon until dark, nearly a hundred large ships docked in turn, but none of the soldiers on the large ship successfully landed. Hundreds of warships simply moored in the Yangtze River, as if waiting for something?

"Du Tong, something is wrong!"

Commander Song Yun whispered to Wu Ling: "I feel that the other party is not attacking with all their strength. There is no way for them to attack like this."

Wu Ling also felt something strange in his heart. The opponent's attack was indeed very conservative. No soldiers forcibly disembarked. They retreated immediately after being attacked. They must have a purpose in doing so. What kind of medicine is sold in the opponent's gourd?

At this moment, a soldier rushed to report, "Dutong, something is wrong. Dantu City was attacked by the enemy and has fallen!"

"what?"

Wu Ling's eyes widened suddenly, why did this happen, where did the enemy come from?

"How many enemy troops attacked the county?" Wu Ling asked anxiously.

"About 5000 people!"

There are 5000 defenders in the city. If the opponent has only [-] people, they can still support for a while.

Wu Ling urgently ordered: "General Song, you lead 5000 people to rescue Dantu County urgently!"

"Follow the order!"

Song Yun immediately led [-] soldiers from the headquarters to Dantu County, three miles away.

At this moment, Wu Ling was in a state of confusion. How could the enemy suddenly appear behind him? No wonder the enemy's attack was so weird. It turned out that they had a plan...

wrong!Wu Ling suddenly realized that the other party must have landed from somewhere else, such as the Jiangning Mansion, and if they came over again, there would definitely be more than 5000 people.

Song Yun led the army to rescue the city and would definitely be ambushed. He hurriedly ordered to his soldiers: "Rush immediately and inform General Song to withdraw, there will be an ambush!"

As soon as the words fell, there were screams in the distance, followed by shouts of killing, which were in the direction of Song Yun's army, and they were ambushed.

At this time, someone shouted: "The enemy is coming!"

There were also shouts of killing from the west, and in the darkness, only countless figures appeared in the distance, and arrows shot towards this side like a rain of arrows.

"Hold me up!"

Wu Ling shouted, at this moment, he could no longer care about Song Yun, and urged his horse to run towards the place where the enemy was coming, "Follow me, brothers!"

More than 1 soldiers of the Song Army followed Wu Ling to fight west...

"Boom! Boom! Boom!" The drums sounded like thunder, and [-] Huaixi troops came from the west and fought fiercely with the Song army. The Huaixi army came from the north.

Thirty-five thousand Huaixi troops crossed the river from Yangzi County, Jiangning Prefecture, and 5000 people sneaked into Zhenjiang County. Ten thousand troops lay in ambush halfway, ambushing the Song Army who was going to rescue the county town, and another [-] main forces attacked the Song Army at the wharf across the board.

The sound of war drums is a signal, and the warships full of soldiers in the river are approaching the pier again. In the front are three Wanshi ships, each of which is full of a thousand soldiers. The strong defense has disappeared. The soldiers began to quickly disembark and assemble.