Fenghou

Chapter 314
In the Jiangling City barracks, a sergeant entered the barracks and trotted all the way to a large tent in the left camp. The sergeant said loudly: "Report, there are important discoveries!"

"Come in!"

The sergeant opened the curtain and walked in. The lights inside were bright, and several generals of the Song Army stood at the table discussing something in a low voice.

This large tent is the main tent of the internal affairs battalion, which is also called the third scout battalion. It belongs to the general Chen Qing, who is in charge of finding and arresting enemy spies, and the commander is Wang Hao.

At this time, Wang Hao was standing in front of the table, staring at the map of Jiangling City on the table, and he and several deputies were discussing the hiding place of the enemy spies.

They were under a lot of pressure, and Chen Qing asked them to find out the enemy spies in Jiangling City within three days and eliminate them.

It was already the second night, and they found a lot of clues, but these clues were rather messy, without a clear direction, which really annoyed them.

They didn't care too much about the sergeants who entered the tent. All kinds of clues were reported by the sergeants at any time. This might be another clue.

"What clue?" Wang Hao raised his head and asked.

"A beggar in the humble jurisdiction reported that there was an old Shunchang teahouse, and he felt abnormal."

Wang Hao divided Jiangling City into [-] districts, and assigned five soldiers to each district to mobilize the beggars and rascals in the district to search for clues of various anomalies.

"What's unusual?" Wang Hao asked again.

"It has too many guys, there are more than a dozen guys, and there are no women in the teahouse."

Wang Hao's heart moved slightly. Generally, there are only three to four waiters in teahouses, and there are more waiters in larger teahouses, but there are only seven or eight people at most, and teahouses must have good-looking tea ladies who are responsible for ordering tea. There is no need for men to order tea. of.

How can a teahouse with more than a dozen people be profitable, and there are no women, which is really strange.

Wang Hao asked again: "Other than that, what else is suspicious?"

"There is also a teahouse where guys go out of town every day!"

Wang Hao finally felt that this clue was a bit reliable. He immediately got up and said, "Assemble all the brothers, I will apply for the army!"

Half an hour later, Wang Hao led fifty internal affairs battalion sergeants and five hundred soldiers to surround the old Shunchang teahouse,

When Wang Hao gave an order, the soldiers kicked open the door and rushed in. Seeing that they had been exposed, the guys swung their knives and came out, but they were no match for the Song army. In just a moment, everyone was knocked down and tied up.

The leader, Wang Guan, was also brought up with his back tied behind his back. He said coldly, "Don't expect me to say anything, kill or cut whatever you want!"

After speaking, he closed his eyes and said nothing.

Wang Hao waved his hand and asked someone to take him away.

He then said to several of his subordinates: "Find out five people who don't want to die, and tell them, whoever tells where the pigeon letter is? You can let him go home, and then interrogate him alone."

The subordinates left in a hurry, and after a while, they came forward and said: "Report to the commander, the five of them have explained that the carrier pigeon is just outside the city, and they are willing to lead the way, and they can set off at any time!"

Wang Hao nodded, "Notify the brothers to assemble, let's go now, take away both the people and the pigeons, and none of them can escape!"

Three days after crossing the Yangtze River, under the cover of night, the [-] cavalry returned to the north bank of the Yangtze River in a large ship. They did not enter the city, but were deployed more than ten miles outside the west city.

But Chen Qing returned to Jiangling City under the escort of his own soldiers, and the [-] cavalry were handed over to Liu Cui and Liu Qiong. Liu Cui had no problem leading the cavalry, but he was inexperienced in defending the city, especially the [-] recruits.

Chen Qing had already ordered Niu Gao to come back as quickly as possible, but he didn't know if he could reach Jiangling City before the Puppet Qi Army attacked Jiangling City.

On the top of the city, Chen Qing looked at the north with his hands behind his back. He had already understood Wanyanchang's layout. Wanyanchang's next step would be to attack Yingzhou on a large scale, but their target was not Yingzhou, but Li Gang's [-] troops.

If Li Gang could not take back Hanyang County before the enemy's large-scale march southward to Hanyang, then his army would be in danger, facing the serious situation of being attacked by the enemy, and it is very likely that the entire army will be wiped out due to this battle.

Chen Qing also saw the danger, so he ordered Zheng Ping to take Jiangxia back, and then use warships to support Li Gang's main force to cross the river at any time.

The puppet Qi army will definitely attack Jiangling City, but the only thing that is uncertain is when the opponent will divide its troops to Jiangling, whether it will start from Changshou County or after arriving in Hanyang. It is very important to clarify this point.

At noon the next day, Chen Qing received a message from Hanyang's flying eagle. With the help of the people in the city, Li Gang took down Hanyang City. After arriving in Hanyang County, they began to move supplies from Cangcheng to prepare for war.

This news made Chen Qing heave a long sigh of relief, God bless Song Jun, Li Gang was not as bad as he thought, he stood firm at the most dangerous moment.

Chen Qing then received the second news that Kong Yanzhou led [-] troops to kill Jiangling Mansion from Yingzhou.

This news also made Chen Qing a big rock fall to the ground.

The main force of the puppet Qi army that diverted [-] troops is probably only [-] to [-]. This force cannot capture Hanyang, which shows that they actually counted the [-] puppet Qi army that attacked Yuezhou as part of the attack on Hanyang.

Then Zhang Xiao's judgment is not wrong. Whether the puppet Qi army attacks Jiangxia or Baling, it is a false attack. Their real goal is to capture Hanyang. Before capturing Hanyang and Jiangling, they will not waste their limited resources to the outside world. troops.

Chen Qing immediately ordered the recruitment of civilian husbands throughout the city to assist in the defense of the city. The officials of the Jiangling government and county government went all out to mobilize the people to join the civil servants. The people signed up extremely enthusiastically. In just one afternoon, more than [-] people signed up. Participate in the defense of the city.

At dusk, Niu Gao led a dozen soldiers back to Jiangling City on horseback. This made Chen Qing overjoyed, and appointed Niu Gao's deputy to be responsible for organizing the civilians to assist in guarding the city.

Niu Gao didn't care about the exhaustion of the journey and didn't take a break, so he immediately rushed into the organization training of the militia soldiers with enthusiasm.

This is also what Chen Qing admires most about Niu Gao. He works like an old scalper, is loyal, patient, has no complaints, and has outstanding abilities.

On the large field of the barracks, [-] assisted defensemen were divided into ten square formations, wearing leather armor, holding swords and short spears, and trained sword and spear skills under the leadership of dozens of generals. They need to be like soldiers, but at least they have a feel for how to fight.

Chen Qing watched the training from the sidelines of the university on horseback, accompanied by Niu Gao, and took advantage of this opportunity to report Jiang Xia's information to Chen Qing.

"Jiang Xia was a bit beyond the expectations of Lao Zheng and me. We thought there would be a hard battle to siege the city, and we were worried about the lack of siege weapons. We didn't expect that we would break open the city gate with only a battering ram. encounter resistance."

"Where's Jiang Xia's defenders?" Chen Qing asked with a smile.

"That's the problem. After we entered the city, we found that there were less than a thousand soldiers defending the city. The battle flags on the top of the city were all illusions. We thought there were thousands of people, but in fact there were only a few dozen. tied to stakes, as if held by someone."

"This shows that they have no plan to occupy Ezhou."

"Exactly! Old Zheng and I also believe that whether the puppet Qi army attacked Jiangxia or attacked Baling County in a mighty manner, it was all a bluff. county."

"Your vision is right, and everything is inseparable from it. No matter how much the puppet Qi army bluffs, their target is still Jingxiang. To be precise, it is Hanyang and Jiangling. Threatening the puppet Qi army in Baling County has achieved their goal. They will soon Cross the river to the north and attack Hanyang from the direction of Fuzhou."

Niu Gao was a little worried and said: "Dutong, the other party has more than a hundred warships and a large number of troops. I am very worried that they will pose a threat to our warships."

Chen Qing smiled slightly and said: "I told Old Zheng, if you can't beat them, just run away, don't be ashamed, after we have trained the navy, we will take care of them."

Niu Gao scratched his head and said with a smile: "Dutong is right, if you can't beat them, run away, anyway they can't catch up with our vehicles and boats."

At this time, a soldier came rushing forward, clasped his fists and reported: "Several commanders, please go to the city and report something important!"

Chen Qing nodded, and smiled at Niu Gao: "We need to speed up the training of bow and arrow, I guess the puppet Qi army will arrive tonight and tomorrow morning."

With a promise, Niu Gao strode towards the school field, and Chen Qing also turned his horse and went to the city.

(End of this chapter)