Fenghou

Chapter 301 Longevity
Chen Qing's army arrived at Changshou County, Yingzhou. In the night, he looked at the dark county town from a distance, and felt a little emotional in his heart.

He now knows why Li Gang fights so hard, and always loses more than wins. The fundamental reason is that Li Gang doesn't pay attention to intelligence, can't know himself and the enemy, and always fights with others in a smear, how can he win?

The reason is very simple, how much food does the [-] puppet Qi army confronting the Song army have?Li Gang didn't know if there was any eyeliner he planted in Changshou County, but it turned out that there was none. Then the enemy army occupied Changshou County, do they need supplies?Li Gang still doesn't know.

One question and three questions really made Chen Qing depressed. How could he win the battle with such negligence?
Li Gang didn't plant an eyeliner in Changshou County, but Chen Qing did. Hu Yanlei sent two brothers to sneak into the county seat to find out all kinds of information about the county seat.

Now he had to find a way to get in touch with these two people, Chen Qing immediately sent someone to find Zhao Xiaoyi.

Not long after, Zhao Xiaoyi hurried over, clasped his fists and said, "Please give orders!"

"I'll give you two things. First, send someone to Changshou County to investigate and see if the enemy army knows we're coming. Second, send a few more brothers to Hanshui to inquire and contact the Niugao fleet that came from Hanyang. !"

"Follow the order!"

Zhao Xiaoyi left in a hurry.

Chen Qing immediately ordered the whole army to rest on the spot.

At this time, Yang Zaixing stepped forward quickly and said, "Dutong, a local big family has sent more than [-] carts of black beans!"

Chen Qing stood up and smiled, "Where is it? Take me to see it."

Chen Qing came to the south of the woods. Outside the woods, there was indeed a large convoy. A kind of middle-aged man was saying something to the soldiers?
"Everyone is here!"

A soldier shouted, and everyone moved away.

In front of a cart that Chen Qing was leaving, he grabbed a few handfuls of black beans and took a closer look. The quality of the black beans was good, the grains were plump, and more importantly, there was no croton in the black beans. This was what Chen Qing was most concerned about. The enemy's strategy.

The soldier led the middle-aged man forward, and he knelt down to salute, "Xiaomin Zhang Qifa greets the general!"

"Come on, Mr. Zhang, thank you for the black beans!"

Zhang Yuanwai sighed and said: "Originally there were [-] catties of black beans at home, but the puppet Qi army crossed the border, and all the granaries were robbed. Dozens of fat pigs and more than a hundred sheep were also robbed, leaving only the cellar. The five thousand catties."

"Is this group of puppet Qi soldiers very cruel?"

"Actually, it's not cruel. I didn't kill or set fire, and I didn't rape prostitutes, but it's disgusting. I specialize in robbing food, pigs and sheep, and it's called temporary requisition by the army. The food, pigs and sheep are forced to take away. It's possible. still coming back?"

Chen Qing's heart moved. Judging by this performance, the other party's food supply really had a problem.

"Do they have a heavy truck?" Chen Qing asked again.

Zhang Yuanwai shook his head, "I didn't see the heavy carts, they were just infantry, they just snatched some carts to load pigs, sheep and food."

This is a bit strange, the puppet Qi army had barracks and large tents in Changlin County, but the army did not carry any luggage, so where did these things go?
After thinking about it for a while, Chen Qing probably understood that the opponent's troops should have left in two ways, the luggage team went north, and the main force was afraid of being overtaken by him, so they would move lightly. This should be the case.

In the afternoon, Zhao Xiaoyi sent someone back to report that they had contacted Niu Gao's fleet, and the fleet led by Niu Gao was berthed thirty miles south of Changshou County.

In addition, Zhao Xiaoyi has sent someone to sneak into the city to contact Hu Yanlei's subordinates.

Chen Qing asked: "Can people from outside still enter the city?"

The soldier shook his head, "Just open the gate of the city for half an hour at noon, only exits are not allowed, and only in special circumstances can we enter the city. Our brother pretended to be a coachman and entered the city with a cart delivering food to the army. They are Special case."

Chen Qing nodded. It seemed that the enemy army had spies near Changlin County. They knew that he had led the army to Yingzhou, so they controlled it so strictly.

When it was getting dark, Chen Qing led his army to set off. They did not go to the county seat, but passed through the south of the county seat to the Hanshui River, where a hundred thousand-stone carts and boats were moored. The carts and boats were full of grain and tents. The supply ship of Chen Qing's army.

In fact, regardless of whether the enemy army has withdrawn to Yingzhou or not, Chen Qing will lead his army to the Hanshui River to get supplies from the fleet.

Otherwise, the supply of [-] cavalry would be very troublesome, and it would be impossible for them to carry logistics supplies, which would seriously hinder their high-speed mobile march.

The river network in the Huguang area is dense, so it is undoubtedly wise to use the fleet to replenish.

Immediately, the army set up a large camp by the Han River, without a barracks, and Chen Qing sent hundreds of patrols to patrol around the camp.

In the big tent, Niu Gao reported to Chen Qing the situation of the battle in Hanyang. Chen Qing nodded. The other party forced ships on the Han River, and they couldn't all be cargo ships of two thousand shi, which meant that the puppet Qi army still had a lot of five hundred shi in their hands. They will definitely use the Han River to transport grain and grass supplies to Changshou County.

The government in Changshou County did not store food, Li Gang was sure of this, and the [-] puppet Qi troops themselves did not carry food and grass, they could only exploit food from the people, even so, to meet the food problem of the [-] soldiers, they had to rely on the people alone Food is also difficult to meet.

Xiangyang will definitely send food supplies to Changshou County.

What Chen Qing thought of was not to cut off the opponent's supplies, but to use this fleet. This was an opportunity to seize Changshou County.

Changshou County is the seat of the prefectural government of Yingzhou. The county seat is very large, and the city wall is [-] miles in circumference, but it is not a strategic place like Xiangyang City, so although the city wall is very long, it is not tall and strong, the moat is not wide enough, and the city gate is very tight. old.

According to the combat plan of the puppet Qi army, they will use Xiangyang City as the fulcrum, and then launch an attack on the west, middle, and east lines. The west line is Xiazhou. It is necessary to take Xiazhou and open the passage to Bashu.

The central line is to seize Jiangling Mansion, control the Yangtze River waterway, lure Wang Yanjun to go north and wipe them out. This is the central line strategy. In this sense, the central line strategy has already succeeded for the most part.

But the focus of the Puppet Qi is still on the Eastern Front. Their Eastern Front strategy is divided into two steps. The first step is to seize the west of Hanshui to capture the symbol of Hanyang, and then they will take Changshou County and Hanyang County as the fulcrum to the east of Hanshui Expand and seize the entire north of the Yangtze River.

It's a pity that their strategy had just begun to advance, and they were attacked twice by Chen Qing's army, losing more than [-] people.

However, Changshou County was the starting point of the Puppet Qi Army's strategy of advancing eastward, and it was of great strategic significance to the Puppet Qi Army, so Dong Xiancai ordered [-] troops to withdraw eastward to Changshou County.

As long as Changshou County is firmly held, whether it is expanding to the east or capturing Hanyang County to the south, it will have a foothold.

There is a Gaochang inn near the south gate of Changshou County. The scout Zhang Hua who sneaked into the city at noon lived in this inn. In the county seat, where to find two of Huyanlei's subordinates.

Zhang Hua is the head of the scouts, with very high martial arts skills and strong adaptability.

He was sitting alone in the room, waiting patiently. At this time, there was a knock on the door outside, very rhythmic, 'Boom, boom, boom, boom! '

Zhang Hua drew out his dagger, stood up and opened a crack in the door, "All is well!" He asked in a low voice.

"It's business as usual!"

Zhang Hua opened the door, and a sixteen or seventeen-year-old boy came in. He smiled and opened his sleeves, revealing a blue mark on his arm, which was the logo of the Second Scout Battalion.

"Sit down!"

Zhang Hua asked the other party to sit down, poured him a cup of hot water, and took out the token from his waist to show him.

The young man was in awe, "So it's Zhang Dutou, it's rude to be humble."

Zhang Hua smiled and asked, "What's your name and how old are you?"

"My name is Wangdu, from Jingzhao, and I am sixteen years old."

The other party was actually just a young man, but Zhang Hua was not surprised at all. The Second Scout Battalion was like this. There were men, women, young and old, and they were engaged in all walks of life, so that they could sneak into the enemy's rear to inquire about intelligence.

"What do you two do?"

"Practicing medicine, I am a medicine boy, responsible for grabbing, dispensing, decocting medicine, and carrying the medicine box for Master."

"Why didn't your master come?"

"He was conscripted into the military camp to see a doctor, and many soldiers in the military camp had diarrhea."

Zhang Hua was startled, "Is there a disease?"

Wang Du shook his head, "Master said it wasn't an epidemic, but the climate was unacceptable. Many soldiers had diarrhea after drinking raw water."

"I want to know some information, how much food is left in the enemy army, and how is the morale? You should know!"

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