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Chapter 170 Secret Letter from Yuzhou
In the beginning, in Hong Chengchou, [-] officers and soldiers from Zuo Liangyu's troops were dispatched to the south. Even if they could not directly recapture Nanyang City, they could still create huge pressure on the so-called rural protection army.

As long as part of the enemy's troops are restrained, then the follow-up can wait for Lu Xiangsheng to lead the army to Yunyang, and Huguang troops to go north.

At that time, under the attack from the north and the south, the bandits protecting the countryside will undoubtedly be defeated.

At the same time, if only 1 people are transferred to the south, it will not affect the war in Shaanxi and the Central Plains too much. After all, from the current point of view, Gao Yingxiang and the others have been defeated and surrounded by officers and soldiers many times, and now they are running around like bereaved dogs.

Therefore, the deployment of some troops to the south will not affect the battle situation in the Central Plains too much.

It's just that Hong Chengchou didn't expect that the thieves protecting the countryside would attack Xiangyang for a long distance, let alone that Xiangyang City would be taken by the thieves so easily.

In mid-May, Hong Chengchou learned that Xiangyang had fallen in early May, and Gao Yingxiang and other thieves were no longer as powerful as before, so he immediately sent more than [-] people from He Renlong's troops to the south.

In the end, more than 5000 officers and soldiers were gathered in Lushan County. Of course, the officers and soldiers will not only have officers and soldiers, but also a large number of civilian husbands. The total number is about 3.

This is also the reason why the scouts of the Second Mixed Brigade found tens of thousands of Ming troops in Lushan County.

When Zuo Liangyu, He Renlong and the others gathered their troops in Lushan County and were about to go south, they found that the bandits of the Township Protection Army had seized Luyang Pass.

Luyang Pass is a real pass. If you want to conquer it, you can only attack it by force. At the same time, the thieves are stationed at Luyang Pass with heavy troops and heavy artillery.

I am afraid that a strong attack will have to pay a huge amount of casualties, and it will definitely be won!

As a last resort, Zuo Liangyu and He Renlong turned to the east, passing through Yexian County, and then entered Fangcheng Ancient Road, and finally arrived at the foot of Yuzhou City.

But I didn't expect that Yuzhou City was also captured by the thieves' army, and after inquiring, the Xiangbao Army still captured Yuzhou City just a few hours before they arrived.

This once made Zuo Liangyu quite depressed, but he didn't pay much attention to it at the time, because according to the news that the scouts had learned before, coupled with the surrounding people, especially the gentry who escaped from Yuzhou City in the early stage, the attack on Yuzhou There are only more than 2000 soldiers in the security guards in the city.

Moreover, when they attacked Yuzhou City, they went through a hard battle and paid a considerable price to win Yuzhou City.

The summary is that the thieves who seized Yuzhou City are not strong enough.

And when he and He Renlong combined, there were 5000 officers and soldiers alone, including [-] soldiers, and [-] elite cavalry.

It is not a big problem to take down Yuzhou City, which is guarded by two thousand remnants.

However, when we really fought today, we discovered that these security thieves are really not easy to fight.

After some tentative attacks, he found that the security guards stationed on the top of the city had nearly [-] artillery pieces of various types. It is also enough to cause major damage to the attacking Ming army.

More importantly, the Ming army led by Zuo Liangyu and He Renlong didn't have any artillery!

Not to mention the long-barreled heavy artillery such as the Hongyi cannon, even if it is a general cannon, there are not many medium and large Frang machine artillery, only a few light tupao artillery, that is, short-barreled artillery that is tens of catties to hundreds of catties .

In today's attempted attack, they found that their side was at an absolute disadvantage in long-range firepower!
Without the cover of long-range firepower, it is naturally more difficult to fight only by infantry.

After a tentative attack, hundreds of people were lost without even touching the edge of the city.

This had to make Zuo Liangyu re-examine the subsequent attack on Yuzhou City.

If you want to fight all the time, relying on your own absolute superiority in strength, as long as you are willing to pay a certain amount of casualties and rush up in one go, you can also win Yuzhou City.

The problem is, Zuo Liangyu is reluctant to pay too many casualties!

Similarly, He Renlong, who was fighting with him, was not an idiot. He also saw that the enemy security army on the other side was not easy to fight, and he was also unwilling to cause too many casualties to his soldiers.

Under such circumstances, today's attack could not continue. In the afternoon, after a brief discussion between Zuo Liangyu and He Renlong, they decided to retreat first.

This city of Yuzhou still needs to be fought, but it needs a long-term plan, and more siege equipment needs to be built. For example, it can withstand all kinds of light artillery. The shield vehicles for the guns are seriously insufficient, so we have to build another batch temporarily. .

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An Yongduo on the top of the city watched the Ming army in front retreat one after another, and finally retreated directly to their camp 1000 meters away, and he was a little relieved.

At this time, Fei Bingqing, the deputy brigade commander of the Fourth Mixed Brigade beside him, also said with a lingering fear expression: "It seems that today we don't hesitate to spend a lot of ammunition, and it is good to directly play the prestige, at least it will make them feel better." Don't be afraid, you won't attack directly."

"Judging from the fact that they have retreated after a short battle several times in a row today, Zuo Liangyu is just as ruthless as the rumors say. With our army's guns raging, it is unlikely that he will attack fiercely, no If there is an accident, they will spend a few more days building more siege equipment before launching a new round of offensive."

An Yongduo also nodded and said: "This effect is what we want. As long as they stop their offensive for a while, whether they are timid or build siege equipment, we can buy at least three days."

"As long as we delay for a few more days, part of the troops of the third mixed brigade will be able to approach Yuzhou City. At that time, Zuo Liangyu will inevitably be far behind. As long as we delay for another six or seven days, the main force led by the general will also arrival."

"With reinforcements from our army approaching, Zuo Liangyu is unlikely to have the determination to launch a desperate attack in just a few days!"

"He's not a fool. It's impossible for him not to know that if he can't attack Yuzhou in a short period of time, then when we attack Yuzhou with strong reinforcements, he will be defeated and die!"

"Zuo Liangyu cherishes soldiers more than life, it is impossible to make such a risky choice!"

Now Ernst and Young already know that the third mixed brigade in Nanyang City has moved eastward.

Although he didn't know that Luo Zhixue had personally led more than [-] troops all the way north from Xinye City, but based on his understanding of his own general, once he knew that Yuzhou was in danger, he would definitely lead the main force of the rural protection army northward.

The location of Yuzhou City determines that the Township Protection Army cannot give up this place.

The Township Protection Army will control the entire Nanyang Basin in the future. If they want to rely on the Nanyang Basin and even Chubei to develop and grow, then they must keep the Ming Army and the bandits out.

Luyang Pass and Yuzhou City, these two cities are strategically important places to prevent the Ming army from going south from north to south. No matter what, the rural protection army will guard these two places.

This point, Er Yongduo, who was once the chief of staff, is very clear, and he is even more aware that his own general also knows this point.

Because the entire strategic plan for going south to capture the Nanyang Basin, and even the entire northern Chu, was finalized by his own general. No one knows the importance of Luyang Pass and Yuzhou City better than Luo Zhixue.

After thinking for a while, Ernst and Young said: "Send troops tonight to carry encrypted letters out of the city to cross the blockade, report the situation of our brigade to the third mixed brigade and the general in the rear, and request reinforcements as soon as possible!"

Deputy brigade commander Fei Bingqing said: "I'll make arrangements now!"

Although it was explained that after the army arrived in Yuzhou City, they besieged Yuzhou City, but Zuo Liangyu did not completely siege the city in order to reduce the difficulty of the siege and shake the morale of the defenders in the city. The west city gate was used to allow the defenders to escape.

Of course, in fact, some of Zuo Liangyu's cavalry had secretly bypassed Yuzhou before, and are currently stationed a few miles west of Yuzhou. The cavalry entangled, and in the end the whole army was inevitably wiped out.

At the same time, these Ming army cavalry also continued to block the in and out connections of Yuzhou City on the periphery.

However, this kind of blockade cannot be truly airtight.

It is naturally impossible for the messengers to swagger through in broad daylight, but when the sky is darker in the evening or at dawn, or even in the dark at night, the messengers of the Township Protection Army can still sneak through the blockade of the Ming army. To bring news to the rural protection army in the two places outside the city.

After night fell that night, the dispatch order of the Fourth Mixed Brigade set off with encrypted letters.

In order to prevent the messengers from failing to cross the blockade, and then being captured by the patrolling forces of the Ming army, the secret letter was found, and the reality of the township protection army was learned.

The letters carried by the dispatch orders sent by the Fourth Mixed Brigade are all encrypted letters.

Without the corresponding password book, I don't know what the messy numbers above mean.

It's not a particularly complicated password system, it just uses a digital password plus a word table system.

What is written on the letter is a series of numbers, these are passwords, and the plain code itself is meaningless.

After receiving the secret letter, it will first be translated into plain code by the cipher table held by the communication staff of each brigade.

But after translating it into plain code, it's still a bunch of numbers that don't have any meaning in themselves... nothing can be seen!
Because of Luo Zhixue's double insurance, a secret letter had to be translated twice to get the final content.

After the cipher code is converted into plain code, it is necessary to use the plain code to compare the word list (usually a book) in charge of each brigade commander or deputy brigade commander to translate into the final text.

After the text is translated, this is a secret letter that can be understood.

In this way, you will not be afraid of losing the letter, especially after being captured by the Ming army, you will learn the military information of the Xiangxiang Army.

And An Yongduo personally watched the two messengers quietly descend the city wall in a gondola in the night, and then set off in different wind directions and disappeared into the night.

I don't know whether these two orders can pass through the blockade smoothly, but as long as one messenger can pass through the blockade, then the situation of Yuzhou City, the Fourth Mixed Brigade itself and more importantly: the Fourth Mixed Brigade can be analyzed. Report some Ming army intelligence that has been detected so far.

Only when the general knows the detailed real situation of the enemy and us in Yuzhou, can he make more favorable arrangements and better defeat the Ming army outside the city.

Only in this way can the siege of Yuzhou City be resolved, and I and the [-] soldiers of the Fourth Mixed Brigade can survive!
But, is the General really on his way north?How many troops did you bring?

If you come, how many days will it take to reach Yuzhou City?

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