Aspirations for Nation and Beauty: Chapter 40: Concealing the sky and crossing the sea (1)

The drastic change in the situation in Tianshui was quickly fed back to the Cheng Dayou Department of the Taiping Army, which was rapidly advancing from Hejian to Tianshui. Fleeing, actually left an empty city for the Northwest Army who arrived first, which made the Taiping Army lose such an opportunity in vain. The remorseful Cheng Dayou had to re-examine the bloodiness of these so-called royal nobles. When the regular troops of the three divisions heard that the rebels they said were coming, they ran away without saying a word, and even ran away for a long time. In Erjing, even local government officials disappeared together, which is really an anecdote in the world.

The presence of the Northwest Army made Cheng Dayou face a difficult choice. Cheng Dayou, who had dealt with the Northwest Army twice, clearly knew that the combat effectiveness of the Northwest Army was far beyond that of the empire, which claimed to be a regular army. For example, the last Lulong raid made Cheng Dayou deeply feel the bravery and tenacity of the Northwest Army. Although he managed to escape, he knew that it was just because the other party regarded him as an ordinary Taiping Army. In that way, I also paid a considerable price, not only except for my own soldiers who escaped by chance, but almost all his subordinates were abandoned by him in Lulong and became corpses and prisoners.

The lesson taught to him by the Northwest Army is still vivid in Cheng Dayou's mind, and it reminds him of a sentence at any time - there are heaven and man outside the sky, and there are people outside the sky. Right now, they were planning to use Situ Jun's pride to encircle and wipe out Situ Jun's leading army in one fell swoop. Unexpectedly, Situ Jun ran away and let the evil wolf of the Northwest Army in. How should this battle proceed?

This caused Cheng Dayou to fall into extreme distress. The fighting power of the Northwest Army is unquestionable, especially the Liang Chongxin Division, which is known as the number one ace in the Northwest, is even more extraordinary. A division that arrived later, reinforced from Bonan, was an infantry division of pure Gaoyue soldiers. Gao Yue people are not only famous for their bravery and fearlessness, but also their personal loyalty to Li Wufeng is an open secret. If he wants to take Tianshui City from this opponent, Cheng Dayou himself knows that he will have to pay a huge price, maybe The only advantage of his own side is the huge disparity in numbers. Of course, Cheng Dayou is also full of confidence in the soldiers of the Taiping Army who have been trained by himself.

Is this battle to be fought or not? If it is opened, can Tianshui be taken with confidence within a few days? Once it can't be solved, it is said that the Northwest Rapid Response Force mechanism, which has already begun to take shape, is likely to be transported up by one or even two divisions of the army. Xia Tianshui's strength, but maintains a strategic advantage over Tianshui, he can have many choices.

In fact, Cheng Dayou has already made a decision in his heart. Although he likes to use surprise soldiers to do tricks, it is also based on a certain foundation. It only shows the general's incompetence.

After making some arrangements, the Taiping Army, which had approached less than 50 miles away from Tianshui City, began to retreat slowly, but only retreated to the junction with Hejian Mansion, which was 80 miles away from Tianshui City, and began to set up camp , and continued to carry out large-scale military exercises. They didn't know whether to show off their force or intimidate the Northwest Army in Tianshui. Even Liang Chongxin, who had been paying attention to the changes in the situation, couldn't figure out what the **** this Cheng Dayou was doing.

Just as almost all the surrounding forces watched the performance of this huge military force with tense and suspicious eyes, time passed day by day, and when the sunrise accompanied the beginning of a new day, the Taiping Army was still in Hejian and Tianshui borders are conducting boring exercises, and even the spies and scouts of various forces are tired of this worthless and aesthetic performance. It seems that the Taiping Army intends to stay here for a long time. A large number of food trucks and luggage vehicles continue to arrive at Panlong Town, where the Taiping Army camps from the direction of Hejian. The scouts are getting stricter, strict traffic control and curfew, as well as high transit taxes, and even single travelers in the past are forced to pay expensive head fees. From Sishui Ridge in Hanzhong, and then from Hanzhong to the south or east to the Central Plains and Jiangnan, although the journey is difficult and far away, it is still much more cost-effective than the high transit taxes.

Liang Chongxin, who had already received reinforcements from the Guards Division, did not let the Guards Division go to Tianshui, but let Song Tianxiong sit in Longdong to support him. Stability factors, the spies and spies planted by the Taiping Sect here spread all over the government, and they lost their preparations to set off new riots, and those conservative nobles were also hostile to the arrival of the Northwest Army, perhaps only those wealthy businessmen and some enlightened The nobles welcome the eastward expansion of Wufeng forces, and it will take time to adjust and bridge the contradictions and doubts.

What exactly is Cheng Dayou planning? Hundreds of thousands of troops just whirled around the border line without knowing why, but they refused to take a step forward. It took more than half a month in a flash. Dayou has definitely given up on attacking Tianshui, but he let these hundreds of thousands of elites just stay here. The training is not like military training. The drills have been done several times, and nothing new has been seen. Liang Chongxin has imagined countless times. Although they have passed the purpose of opposition, but have not been able to figure out the real intention of the other party, I believe that the other forces around them are also in this confusion.

Without blocking the traffic, but with such a high border crossing tax, the business travelers will no longer take this route, but instead go to Hanzhong. If it is to reduce financial pressure, then the other side should change course when they see this situation , but unexpectedly, those patrols seemed to enjoy it, but became tighter. This is too strange, then their purpose is not for money. A flash of inspiration seemed to flash through Liang Chongxin's mind who was thinking hard.

"You said that during this period of time, there have been a large number of supply vehicles and grain and grass vehicles coming from the river?" Liang Chong's confidence moved slightly, and he immediately called several experienced scouts and spies.

"Yes, my lord, during this period of time, a lot of transport vehicles have come over almost every day, bringing in a lot of food, grass and other supplies. It seems that the Taiping Army will stay here for a long time." A scout didn't know why Why did the general suddenly become interested in this information? I still answered honestly.

"What about these vehicles?" The eyes under the thick eyebrows looked at several people, revealing the tension in the general's heart.

"This is not very clear. The Taiping Army imposed a curfew, and because of high taxes, no one was willing to take the road from Tianshui to Hejian. A curfew was imposed at night, and the control was even stricter. We all It is impossible to understand these situations." A scout replied.

"Doesn't anyone know where the carriages from Hejian went?" Liang Chongxin did not give up his efforts.

"My lord, it seems that these carriages returned to Hejian overnight. Some informants once reported to me that the Taiping Army probably did not have enough transport vehicles, so they had to return the loaded transport vehicles to Hejian overnight. He once saw the convoy heading across the river at night." Another spy hesitated for a while before saying.

"Oh? Then did he see any cargo in the carriage?" Liang Chong asked immediately, his confidence tightened.

"He didn't mention it, and he probably couldn't see it, because this time the transport vehicles of the Taiping Army were all large trucks with high compartments, which were so tightly covered that they couldn't see the inside at all. If it drives out directly, outsiders may not be able to know what it is pulling."

"Oh? High vans? Is it well covered? Can the transport vehicles returning to Hejian be empty or heavy?"

"My lord, I didn't pay attention to this. Unless you approach it at night, it may be difficult to tell whether it is an empty vehicle or a heavy vehicle. During the day, there are heavy vehicles coming from the river. Now it is the dry season, and the rut marks of the vehicles are coming and going. They're all mixed together, so it's hard to tell them apart." I didn't expect the general to ask such a detailed question, and the spy personnel had to bite the bullet and explain.

"Hmph, it's hard to tell? I'm afraid you didn't notice to check the tracks of those vehicles, did you?" Liang Chongxin snorted~IndoMTL.com~ but didn't say anything more. It's no wonder that the spies' attention is all on the enemy's actions and exercises. The vehicles from Hejian just pulled some food, grass and supplies. There is nothing surprising about it. Who would pay attention to returning to the air? Will the car pull anything?

However, this information is enough. Liang Chongxin has already realized that this Cheng Dayou is not ordinary cunning. , Strong logistics, put on an appearance of staying there for a long time to fight a protracted war, keeping the outsiders in the dark, but inside they are secretly arranging a vicious killing move, if I hadn't suddenly had a flash of inspiration and thought of this transportation In the car, I am afraid that one thing will still be played around.

Turning his head and asking the man next to him who hadn't spoken, "What about you? Don't you have any news?"

The man shook his head, "There is no news. Since retreating to Panlong Town, there has been no news from inside. It may be that they have taken confidentiality measures or something happened to them. In short, there has been no news for so long."

"How is the Taiping Army's drill going?" Liang Chongxin nodded and continued to ask.

"It was very lively some time ago, but this time it has been restrained a lot, and the scale has become much smaller. Maybe they also think this kind of exercise is meaningless." A scout replied.

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