Turbulent Times Chapter 1611: Chen Yaojin disappeared

After all, as far as the present is concerned, among the battalions of the Far Eastern Army, the Wagang Battalion has the least combat exploits. And they also know now that seeing the establishment of the Far East Army is imminent, His Royal Highness King Qin An will soon be enthroned as the emperor. At that time, he must be appointed to official positions based on his merits, and be awarded titles and honors, okay?

"Commander Xie, please tell me about the intelligence of the various forces in Sichuan and Sichuan and the reconnaissance of the road from the Central Plains to Sichuan." Xu Shiji waved his hand and directly interrupted the two captains who wanted to speak, and said calmly.

Xie Yingdeng is still in charge of the intelligence affairs of the Wagang Camp. At this time, he got up quickly, first saluted Xu Shiji, Cheng Yaojin and the purple-faced demon Chen Xiaogou, but ignored the others, took out a topographic map and laid it on the table, and then Said: "Everyone, please see that the land of Sichuan and Shu is mainly controlled by two forces on the surface. One is Zhu Can who has occupied the two counties of Hanzhong and Champion. The other is the Chengdu Mansion in the south of Hanzhong and Xiao Milling."

"Zhu Can was a county official when he was young. Later, he took advantage of the chaos and called himself King Garuda. He was very cruel. Most of the places he captured were robbed. He once led his subordinates to eat human flesh. The real ogre king, the prince once strictly ordered that he must be captured alive, and then cut him into pieces."

Cheng Yaojin echoed: "Since the prince wants to capture him alive, Zhu Can, the ogre king, must be captured alive."

Xu Shiji nodded slightly, expressing that he also meant the same thing, and asked, "So what about Xiao Xian?"

Xie Yingdeng looked serious, and said: "According to the information provided by the Military Intelligence Office and the military situation obtained by the spies I sent, this Xiao Mi is not easy to deal with."

After a pause, Xie Yingdeng continued with a solemn expression: "Xiao Xian was born in the Xiao family of Lanling, and was originally a descendant of the Liang Dynasty. In the first year of Daye, due to the kindness of his relatives, he was granted the magistrate of Luochuan County. In the eleventh year of Daye, Xiao Xian raised troops in Luochuan and called himself King of Liang. Last year he proclaimed himself emperor in Yueyang, and his country name was Liang. Named Mingfeng, set up hundreds of officials, just like the old system of the Liang Dynasty, the sphere of influence extends to Jiujiang in the east, the Three Gorges in the west, Jiaozhi in the south, and Hanshui in the north. It has 400,000 elite soldiers, which can be said to be one of the largest forces in the south. But this person has a flaw, that is, he is jealous of the generals, so according to the analysis of the data of the Military Intelligence Office, this person's subordinates have limited loyalty to him."

Xu Shiji nodded and said, "Li Shimin only brought more than 50,000 people into Sichuan. Even though the Li family had made many arrangements before the Sichuan and Sichuan lands, the current targets must be Zhu Can's Hanzhong and Champion counties. Therefore, Our ultimate goal is also to take the land of these two counties. In this process, our enemies mainly have two parties, one is Zhu Can, the man-eating devil. But the main one is Li Shimin. We must not underestimate or despise you in the slightest, Ying Deng, tell us about our route to Sichuan now."

Xie Yingdeng nodded and continued: "So far, there are only two roads to Sichuan known to the world, one is land and the other is water. Enter Sichuan from Kuimen in the east."

"The land route to the north is obviously impossible, because if we want to take this route, we must first penetrate Luoyang or take down Luoyang, and then enter Guanzhong, and according to the information from the Military Intelligence Office, Li Shimin is taking this route Dao, this road must have left soldiers and horses to control the road, and they are all places that are easy to defend and difficult to attack."

"The possibility of taking the water route is also very small, because the land that the water route passes through is Xiao Xian's territory of the Liang Kingdom, and what we are going to fight now is Zhu Can's two counties of Hanzhong and Champion, which have not yet arrived. When provoking Xiao Mian, it is obviously not enough to rely on our Wagang 1st Battalion to fight Xiao Mian."

Cheng Yaojin frowned and said: "According to the scriptures, our Wagang camp cannot enter Sichuan at all?"

Xie Yingdeng came to the edge of the map with a smile, and said: "General Chen, please be patient. Thanks to the detailed map provided by the Military Intelligence Office, I found a mountain road from the map."

Speaking of which, Xie Yingdeng has already drawn this mountain road with charcoal, and continued: "It is impossible to be sure just by looking at the map, so I have already sent people to walk this mountain road according to the map, and even sent people to Some places have been repaired."

Everyone was overjoyed when they heard this.

Unexpectedly, Xie Yingdeng said again: "But there is a problem with this mountain road. Zhu Can sent people to build a pass outside the mountain road near Champion County. The Longguan they just conquered recently was too late. It is really impossible for one man to control the pass. According to the exact information reported by the Military Intelligence Office, this devil pass is like

There are 10,000 Zhu Can's garrisoned today. According to the intelligence analysis and judgment of the Military Intelligence Office, it will be difficult for an army of 100,000 to conquer it in a few months. "

Huang Tianhu immediately said: "It's hard to take it down with gunpowder."

Xie Yingdeng was a little dissatisfied with Huang Tianhu's questioning of what he said, and said with a cold snort, "The Devil's Gate Wall is not built artificially, but a natural mountain stream and cliff. Although the gunpowder pack is powerful, Huang Tianhu, do you think you can still destroy the entire city?" The mountain will explode."

Huang Tianhu's expression froze and he stopped talking. After experiencing the power of the Far Eastern Army's gunpowder weapons in training these days, Huang Tianhu was extremely obsessed with gunpowder weapons.

Xu Shiji thought for a while, and said: "My lord sent us 500 special forces experts. If we let these 500 special forces experts sneak into the devil pass, can we break through from the inside."

Xie Yingdeng explained: "General Xu doesn't know something. Except for the entrance and exit of the mountain road, the Devil Pass has high mountains and steep slopes on both sides. They are all stones, and there is no vegetation higher than knees. As long as the defenders send out one or two sentries, no matter whether it is day or night, any lurking will be hard to escape the eyes of the sentries. To tell you the truth, the Military Intelligence Department and I also wanted to inquire about the Li family army. The situation in the cottage, but no matter whether it is me or the more than a dozen spies sent by the Military Intelligence Office, they have never returned, including a master of the military intelligence office who is in the stagnation period. Of course, if Huang Tianhu is as light-hearted First-class experts may be able to sneak in, but it is absolutely impossible to sneak in on a large scale. But the number is too small and it is difficult to break through from the inside.”

Xu Shiji frowned slightly, nodded and said, "I see."

Huang Tianhu couldn't help shouting: "Commander Xie, you've been saying for a long time that we can't enter Sichuan at all, right?"

Xie Yingdeng ignored Huang Tianhu, but looked at Xu Shiji, clasped his fists and said, "My subordinates have sorted out all kinds of information provided by the Military Intelligence Office. After combing and analyzing, I found that the guard of this devil's village is addicted to alcohol..."

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Hedong, Taiyuan City.

Today, five of the seven counties in Hedong have been captured, and they have been firmly controlled by Pei Yuanqing and Wang Xuyi Wen Yiwu. Du Ruhui led Du Ruhui's civil and military officials from Fanyang County. Some policies of Fanyang County are in Hedong The implementation of the various counties is fairly smooth, and it is progressing steadily.

This is mainly because the Pei family and the Wang family took the lead in contributing half of their fields as public land, and then according to the Fanyang County model, these fields and the fields obtained by the Far East Army through other methods will be contracted in the form of five, ten, or five years. Fifteen, twenty, or even thirty years are all contracted to poor farmers for a period of one period, and they only need to pay the government a small amount of taxes every year.

After Wang Junlin asked Guan Xiaotong's Iron Hammer Camp troops to enter Hedong, some of the remaining forces and troops of the Li family in Hedong did not dare to make any changes.

Now there are only two counties left near Guanzhong, and the 50,000 Pegasus Battalion led by Wu Si and the 50,000 Xiaoyu Battalion led by Pei Yuanqing attacked simultaneously.

Little Rain Camp was formed by Pei Yuanqing with the subdued Li family soldiers and horses as the main force. Wang Junlin thought that Pei Yuanqing would think of a very prestigious camp name, but it turned out to be called Little Rain Camp.

At that time, after Wang Junlin heard Pei Yuanqing's choice, he was also a little emotional. This Pei Yuanqing is really infatuated with Xiao Yu, but this is destined to be fruitless!

As long as Wu Si and Pei Yuanqing take the last two counties, all the seven counties in Hedong will be under Wang Junlin's rule. So far, there will be only nine counties in Guanzhong and two counties near Luoyang in the whole north.

These days, there are only two things that really worry Wang Junlin. One is that since the beginning of last year, the Far Eastern Army has first attacked the Central Plains and then the Hedong. During the war, the Far East Army's hoarded food and grass were almost exhausted.

Liu Ziming, who is in charge of finance, knows that if Qian Yuechan hadn't led the Fanyang Chamber of Commerce to grow rapidly, especially the amazing profits of maritime trade, and continued to **** blood from the Annan Kingdom of Koguryo Peninsula to support the army, the Far East Army would really have a financial crisis up.

So, after all of Hedong was captured, the only army that the Far Eastern Army could use was the Wagang Camp, and no amount of troops would be enough to provide food and grass.

Otherwise, they would have to forcibly collect food and grass from the people, which was something Wang Junlin never wanted to see.

Another thing that worried Wang Junlin was that Nie Xiaoyu never rescued Shen Guoer.

Wang Junlin also did not expect that Nie Xiaoyu sent a secret report saying that Shen Guoer was first kidnapped by the No. 1 Killer King and wanted to use it

Shen Guoer failed to kill Nie Xiaoyu, but was snatched away by the Sword God.

Sword God is a real master level master, not even Nie Xiaoyu and No. 1 Killer King. She is a staunch supporter of Li Yuan, so Shen Guo'er falling into the hands of the Sword God is actually equivalent to falling into the hands of Li Yuan Group to a certain extent.

Fortunately, the Pei family captured Li Jiancheng alive, Wang Junlin ignored Pei Ji's hints, and prepared to exchange Li Jiancheng for Shen Guoer without hesitation.

But Wang Junlin didn't need to take the initiative to raise this matter, because the envoy sent by Li Yuan had already set off from Chang'an and was on his way to Taiyuan.

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Fifteen years of great cause, February 4th.

The mountainous area from Luokou City in the Central Plains to Chuanshu Champion County has been raining since the night before. The rain was not very heavy, and in the lower areas, there was only a thin layer of puddles on the ground.

However, after the rain in early spring, it was very cold. Besides, the weather made it even more difficult for Xie Yingdeng to walk the secret mountain path that Xie Yingdeng had found and explored from the map.

According to Xie Yingdeng's calculations on the map and the estimated speed of his horse, the distance of this mountain road is about 230 miles. , There are still some traces of artificial development on this road, and the traces are obviously done recently, and it was Xie Yingdeng who sent people to open up.

Even so, the grass grows knee-high in many places, and even overgrown with miscellaneous shrubs. It is said to be a secret road, but strictly speaking, there is no road at all.

But on the day of February 4th, 30,000 cavalry and 30,000 infantry suddenly appeared on this mountain road that was not a road, heading towards Champion County.

This is none other than the Wagang Battalion freshly released by the Far Eastern Army for the first time.

Because of the limited roads, the 60,000 troops led by Xu Shiji dragged on for a long time. Walking at the forefront of this cavalry were 150 reconnaissance cavalry personally selected by Xu Shiji. They were more than ten miles beyond the main force, and they searched and advanced cautiously. If there was any trouble, they would stop immediately and hide themselves in the road. Behind the nearby trees and rocks, hold on to the longbow and crossbow in your hand.

Occasionally, on this road, some hunting woodcutters will appear. The orders received by these scouts from the Wagang camp are to shoot and kill without mercy.

Although these unlucky hunters are almost impossible to be the enemy's spies, they are very likely to reveal the whereabouts of 60,000 people under Xu Shiji's troops, so that Zhu Can can prepare in advance.

So, these one hundred and fifty scouts were very careful. You must know that walking on this road, the mountains on both sides of the road stand gloomy. If the enemy army knows their whereabouts in advance and sets up an ambush on the mountains beside the road, the consequences will be unimaginable.

After all, even a simple search for the hills on both sides of the road is impossible. If that was the case, the speed of the vanguard small group of troops would probably be slower than that of the rearmost army. The mountain road of more than 230 miles may not be able to be completed in six or seven days.

About ten miles behind the one hundred and fifty scouts, there were 3,000 soldiers of the engineer camp who also rode horses, but held axes, long saws and other tools in their hands. The military uniform of the emblem, this is the largest support force sent by Wang Junlin to the Wagang Battalion besides the Special Forces and the Military Intelligence Office.

On the way, under the command of a captain of the engineering and supply battalion, the engineers skillfully felled and moved the trees on the road, and even had time to lay planks on some potholes and muddy places. This is the so-called paving the way.

A few miles behind them, there is a large cavalry force of 30,000 cavalry. And at the end of the team, the bullock carts dragging trebuchets and giant crossbows and gun accessories. It was the 30,000 infantry soldiers of the Wagang Camp who were responsible for escorting these ordnance.

In the past three days, although there are more than 20 places on this road that are difficult, after the repairs by the 3,000 engineers in front, the ox carts can barely pass.

However, no one expected the rain today. However, Xu Shiji was not in a hurry. When there was no road, he stopped the army and waited for the engineers from the supply battalion to repair the road. Sometimes when they encountered some troubles that three thousand engineers could not solve, Xu Shiji would even order the Wagang battalion People dismounted to cut down trees, and helped three thousand engineers to pave the road.

But from the beginning to the end, Cheng Yaojin, the number two person in the Wagang Camp, was nowhere to be seen. Besides, not even the 500 experts of the Special Forces who were ordered to strengthen the Wagang Camp were among them.

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