Turbulent Times Chapter 1570: The base area behind the enemy and the special forces
Hedong, Taihang Mountains.
In a valley between some desolate mountains, a small river passes through the valley quietly, and the current is not rushing.
On both sides of the small river, all kinds of crude buildings are gathered, but it seems that the outlines of the settlements have been outlined, and there is a tendency to be abandoned.
The name of the small river is Baima River, and beside it is a small abandoned village called Baimahe Village. It has been abandoned for many years, but at this time there are tens of thousands of camps that are constantly being built.
In late autumn, the mountains are cold and gloomy, but by the Baima River and in the mountains, thousands of people who have already begun to look like troops are busy, and under the command of some small leaders, they are proceeding in an orderly manner.
There used to be a small courtyard on the hillside, but after repairs, it was able to live in. At this time, under the big locust tree in front of this small courtyard, stood a man of eight feet who was as strong as an iron tower and as strong as a bear.
This big man is none other than the leader of these tens of thousands of people, or the notorious leader of these tens of thousands of thieves. His nickname has been widely known in the east of the river these days --- blood knife.
Blood Knife is a bandit leader who suddenly rose up in Hedong these days. These days, under the encirclement and suppression of Li Yuan's army, he traveled to many places and was full of dangers.
That's right, the Blood Knife was one of the thousand dead men selected and sent by Wang Junlin and Nie Xiaoyu. At that time, he led ten dead men to the east of the river according to Wang Junlin's order to secretly annex the bandits and bandits. This process continued for more than three years. When Wang Junlin ordered the Far Eastern Army to start attacking Hedong, he jumped out and began to attack cities and looting everywhere. Doing less has restrained many Li Yuan Group's troops and horses in the counties and counties in Hedong.
Just half a month ago, Xuedao received the latest order from the secret liaison officer of the Military Intelligence Department to establish a base behind the enemy.
Xue Dao and others were trained by Nie Xiaoyu in a special way at the beginning. They are real dead soldiers. They will not hesitate or discount the orders of Wang Junlin and Nie Xiaoyu. There will be no hesitation.
Therefore, Xue Dao immediately followed Wang Junlin's order strictly, sent most of the refugees away, and brought only 7,000 people who had been carefully selected by him, who had killed people, seen blood, and were physically strong, and their families. here we go.
This place was found by the Military Intelligence Office in the Hedong region, and it is most suitable for what Wang Junlin and Nie Xiaoyu said to be used to develop the enemy's rear base.
"My lord ordered you to train in secret, and wait until the critical moment to give Li Shimin an important blow." In the small courtyard, someone from the Military Intelligence Office said to Xuedao.
Xue Dao's expression did not change at all, he nodded indifferently, and said: "I know, I will definitely act according to the prince's wishes."
The contact person of the Military Intelligence Office also said: "Five thousand sets of armor and weapons imitating the soldiers of the various counties in Hedong, as well as two thousand horses and one hundred thousand shi of grain, will be divided into twenty-five times and appear in various ways. To let you know, we will send these items to the designated place, you can arrange someone to pick them up. In addition, I will send you more than a hundred craftsmen this time. These craftsmen are all from the Yancheng Weapons and Equipment Production Base, but they are all treasures. Pimple, you have to protect them."
Blood Knife's expression remained unchanged. It was vaguely similar to Nie Xiaoyu and No. 1 Killer King. He just nodded and said, "I see."
The contact person of the Military Intelligence Office was obviously used to the blood knife's dead appearance, and he didn't mind, so he nodded and left.
After Xue Knife arranged the hundred artisans brought by the liaison officer, he took a few leading artisans and began to patrol the site.
Finally, Xuedao decided to listen to the suggestions of several craftsmen and planned to build a wooden bridge on the White Horse River at the foot of the mountain.
In this way, tens of thousands of people live on the east side of the Baima River, and the wide land on the west side of the Baima River can be transformed into fertile fields. Weeds and shrubs on the south side of the Baima River can be burned at night and extinguished before dawn.
After ten days of burning, a thick layer of ashes can be piled up on the land south of the Baima River, and these ashes can be buried in the soil. After a year, when the next spring begins, the habitat there will be It will become ripe and the first crop will grow here.
Two of the hundred craftsmen are responsible for water conservancy construction, including pedal waterwheels and wind-powered waterwheels that have been widely circulated in Fanyang County and the nearby counties under the Far East Army. Get the water in the water, and these fields are paddy fields.
According to Wang Junlin and Nie Xiaoyu's estimates, although they are now victorious in the northern battlefield, they are not making much progress in the east and west, especially the east is blocked by Li Shimin.
With the financial resources, military strength and talents of the Li Yuan Group, it is very difficult for the Far East Army to take down Hedong and Guanzhong in a short time, especially the war with Li Shimin.
In addition, the place where the blood knife is located is too deep in the hinterland of the river east, whether it is the military intelligence office or the Fanyang chamber of commerce, it is not easy to send food and grass in, and they need to grow here secretly for a long time, it is impossible He has always relied on the food and grass support of the Far Eastern Army, which requires him to be self-reliant and have enough food and clothing.
Besides, if you can't be self-reliant and have enough food and clothing, it's not true
Is the base behind enemy lines good?
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In a barren hill near Tongguan, Poison Eagle stood on the top of the mountain, looking at the cottage in the valley below his feet, full of a sense of accomplishment in his heart, but his eyes were full of burning ambition.
His original name was Wu Xiaoyun, and he was originally only a centurion commander of the Far East Army Special Forces. Under normal circumstances, it would be impossible for him to become a general in less than ten years, and the possibility of this is too small.
Just nearly a year ago, after Guanzhong was captured by the Li Yuan Group, Zhang Tiangang, the commander of the Special Forces, read the "Handbook for Developing Base Areas Behind the Enemy" written by Nie Xiaoyu to a thousand dead soldiers, and expressed his intention to take the initiative. Ask Wang Junlin to send a group of people to sneak into Guanzhong and Hedong.
Naturally, Wang Junlin would not discourage Zhang Tiangang's enthusiasm, and agreed, but made a modification to allow the special forces to concentrate on making troubles in Guanzhong. And a sum of money was allocated to let the Military Intelligence Office, Wulin Guild, Xiaoyu Theater, Fanyang Chamber of Commerce and other departments fully cooperate.
After Zhang Tiangang was approved, he immediately selected 100 experts of the Special Operations Team through active reporting and assessment and selection, divided them into ten groups, and sneaked into the Guanzhong area.
Wu Xiaoyun was the leader of one of the groups, and he asked for his order on his own initiative.
Because he knows that this time, lurking deep behind enemy lines and developing base areas, although it is hard and dangerous, there are great opportunities amidst the risks, and this is an opportunity to make great contributions.
Five of the ten special forces experts brought by Wu Xiaoyun died, and now he has five more. Thousands of soldiers, and none of these thousand soldiers had family members, they were all outlaws, many of them were originally bandits, horse thieves and robbers.
Wu Xiaoyun was born in the martial arts guild, and he is very familiar with the martial arts world, so he took the nine special forces experts he brought with him to pick out those gangs and go to them. He gathered more than two thousand gang members in various ways. Doing things, while fleeing, they are also training according to the training mode of the special forces team, tempering and growing through fighting again and again, the process is very dangerous and hard.
If it wasn't for the secret information provided by the Military Intelligence Office, he would have been encircled and killed by the Li Yuan Group's army several times. If it weren't for the sufficient food, armor, ordnance and weapons provided by Fanyang Chamber of Commerce and Xiaoyu Theater, the team would not be able to persist until now.
The range of mountains in this area is extremely wide, and there are many villages living in it. Some of them have little contact with the outside world, and they have even lived a life like a paradise.
Most of these villages were in troubled times in history. In order to avoid military disasters and enemies, the whole family, the whole clan or the whole village migrated to the mountains as a whole, settled down, and multiplied from generation to generation, and finally formed natural villages here. .
The valley selected by the Military Intelligence Office for Wu Xiaoyun was a small village, but it moved out of the mountain at some point. From the perspective of the terrain, it is far more hidden than other villages. If you go to the end of the valley, you will still be there It was found that dozens of large and small springs gurgled out from the cracks in the rocks, gathered into a large waterfall, fell into the mountain stream, and finally converged into a small river in the valley.
Dozens of strong huts stand beside the small river. The valley is full of busy people building houses. The five experts of the special brigade who are still alive each have 200 people under their command. In addition, because this is already the edge of Guanzhong, some supplies, food, armor, and craftsman Fan Yang Chamber of Commerce can be sent into the mountains relatively easily, and they start to play a role.
The thousand people, under the leadership of the craftsmen, did it by themselves. In just half a month, on the basis of the original small village, a small soldier village valley has begun to take shape.
"Boss, the people from the Military Intelligence Office are here again." A special forces expert led a man dressed as a businessman up the mountain and said to Wu Xiaoyun.
In order not to arouse the full encirclement and suppression of the Li Yuan Group, the Poison Eagle and his party decided to pretend to be a Jianghu gang called the Poison Eagle Gang, and he was the leader of the gang.
The official from the Military Intelligence Department who came here is obviously not low in rank, Wu Xiaoyun took the initiative to salute him, the other party nodded politely, and said: "Brother Wu, you can give up this place."
"Give up? Are you kidding me! It took us so much effort to make this place look like this." Wu Xiaoyun frowned.
The visitor seemed to have expected Wu Xiaoyun's reaction, and said: "First of all, this place is not concealed enough, and secondly, a Jianghu gang with thousands of people suddenly appeared in the Guanzhong area. .”
Wu Xiaoyun frowned tightly, he also thought of these questions, but it was impossible not to be suspected at all.
The visitor said: "You should know about the famous Iron Knife in Guanzhong!"
Wu Xiaoyun nodded and said: "I know, Guanzhong Tie Dao Liu Gang is a master in the breaking stage, and his strength is good. The Tie Dao Gang heard that they are close to the Guanlong nobles, so they never joined the Wulin Guild."
The visitor said with a smile: "A few days ago, Mr. Chong took a group of experts from the martial arts guild to the Iron Knife Gang secretly. Now Liu Gang, the leader of the Iron Knife Gang, has become a puppet. You take your people to go there in batches." The Iron Knife Gang is at the helm."
Wu Xiaoyun was refreshed, his eyes sparkled, and he said with a smile, "That's right, all I need to do is occupy the magpie's nest."
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After a while, he added: "The relationship between the Iron Knife Gang and the Guanlong nobles will definitely not be suspected by Li Yuan and his gang, and it will definitely play an important role at critical moments."
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Daye 14th, October 20th, on the official road from Chencang in Guanzhong to Dasanguan and Longguan, a large number of soldiers were driving the laborers and the people were busy along the road. Or use manpower to resist the movement, and the heavy soldiers flow back and forth continuously.
Some people who looked like officers were still holding whips, and from time to time they lashed at those who they thought were stealing and playing tricks, and the people who were hit also gritted their teeth without saying a word, and speeded up their pace a little more, the road was tense busy weather.
In the dense forest to the east of the road, several scouts from the Special Forces of the Far East Army stood on a hill and looked towards the east.
From where they were, the road to the east was just a thin line looming in the mountains and forests. As for whether there were spots on the thin line, it was completely beyond the reach of human eyes. But the leader of them all was equipped with a telescope.
At this time, the team leader carefully stretched the length of the metal cylinder to adjust the focal length, and whispered a series of numbers at the same time: "...Seventeen grain trucks, eleven military equipment trucks, It looks like an arrow, and there are about a thousand people escorting it..."
As the team leader of the reconnaissance team reported several times, the people around him squatted on the ground and kept recording the numbers read by the team leader on a small notebook with charcoal pens. It took a whole day to climb the mountain, and they didn't pack their things until the sun was westward, and turned around and walked eastward. It didn't take long before their figures disappeared into the forest.
These scouts were swaying in the forest, bypassing dense forests and cliffs one after another. It could be seen that this was not the first time they had come. The captain stopped his steps and took out a black iron box from his arms. The others watched him carefully put the box flat in his hands, and then gently opened its lid.
"It's okay, I'm not lost, just make sure we've been heading northwest." The scouting team leader reassured his companions. While carefully putting away the black iron box, he strode forward again.
Others followed closely behind the captain without saying a word. This black iron box is the latest necessary equipment for reconnaissance, and it is said to be the new research result of the Gewu Research Department formed by the Momen gang.
That's right, it's not something else, it's just a compass that doesn't have a high technical content and is actually very simple to make.
When the compass was invented, Wang Junlin was preparing to order war against Hedong and Guanzhong. After Wang Junlin heard about this, he personally ordered the related ordnance factory in Yancheng to produce a batch as soon as possible, and gave priority to the equipment. The Ministry produced a batch for use by the military intelligence office and army scouts and spies. The members of the special forces team were allotted just before coming to Guanzhong this time.
The scouts of these special forces shuttled through the deserted wilderness forest like this, occasionally bringing the sound of one or two birds, pheasants, and small animals screaming and running around.
They walked northwestward for less than ten miles from the top of the mountain just now. Suddenly, a camp of about 3,000 people suddenly appeared in front of these special forces scouts. It was hidden in the dense forest. In the depths, fiery red military flags fluttered on the top.
There are a lot of fresh wood piles around this camp, which look like trees that have just been felled. There are hundreds of special forces soldiers around the camp, they are sorting bundles of wooden boards, as well as piles of mountain barrels and boxes. They performed their own duties, except for all kinds of hidden sentries, bright sentries, and mobile sentries, almost no one noticed the few scouts who had just returned to the camp.
That's right, the camp here is exactly the camp of the 3,000 Special Forces led by Zhang Tiangang, which has not appeared on various battlefields these days.
As the strength of the Far Eastern Army continues to increase, the Special Forces has been expanded several times in the past few years, and now it has five thousand troops. Jingde fought against Li Shimin.
Another thousand people followed Wang Junlin, protecting Wang Junlin, but also directly waiting for Wang Junlin's dispatch.
Considering that the troops of Zhou Hu, Shangguan Hu, Jiang Mulang, Wu San, and Su Changqing are relatively weaker, the main force of the special forces team of 3,000 people will be led by the general commander Zhang Tiangang himself, in cooperation with Shangguan Hu, Zhou Hu and others. Acting on the western battlefield, and at some point quietly came to the back of Longguan, the enemy's hinterland.
The leader of the reconnaissance team didn't talk much to others, but went straight to the central tent of the camp with the information he obtained. He ran to the door and said to the sentinel: "The leader of the ninth reconnaissance team returned from a mission. , report to the commander."
Zhang Tiangang quickly called the team leader in, and the latter first carefully reported to Zhang Tiangang what he had seen today. Then respectfully submitted the report on the enemy situation they observed.
After Zhang Tiangang asked the captain of the Ninth Reconnaissance Squad carefully, he asked him to retreat.
In Zhang Tiangang's big tent, there are many high-level special brigades, as well as many counselors. These counselors from Fanyang Academy or Fanyang Military Academy immediately picked up the data and began to calculate.