Starting in Saarhu, it is a bit difficult to make a comeback.

Chapter 35 Spies are everywhere (please read the new chapter)
After Huang Taiji defeated the Liaodong cavalry, he immediately pursued the Ming army non-stop.

Due to Zha Huizu's obstruction and the heavy snow blocking the mountains, their marching speed was still greatly affected, and they finally arrived outside Shenyang City at dusk.

However, due to the continuous snowfall for several days, and the news of the Ming army's defeat in Saarhu spread in the past few days, the people nearby were panicked, and many people hid in the city in advance.

A few hours ago, Zhou Yongchun, the governor of Liaodong, sent people to evacuate the people urgently, so they didn't gain much around Shenyang.

When he saw the heavily guarded Ming army in Shenyang City, Huang Taiji knew that he was still a step too late. The Ming army in Shenyang had already taken precautions.

After the Jin army marched continuously, their troops were exhausted and their horses were exhausted, so they were naturally unable to attack the city. Huang Taiji could only camp ten miles south of Shenyang City; while waiting for Nurhaci's main force, he expanded the scope of the search and plundered the villages around Shenyang first.

Although the South Route Army entered the city during the day and the display of many Tatar heads greatly inspired people.

However, the appearance of the Tatar cavalry in the evening and the influx of a large number of surrounding people into Shenyang once again caused unrest in the city.

After receiving the task of screening out the Queen's golden spies, Inspector Chen Yuting immediately came to a military camp in the city.

Shenyang guerrilla Lu Shan said: "A total of 821 former West Route Army generals, soldiers, cooks, etc., who have returned to Shenyang from the Sarhu battlefield in the past few days, are all here. I also asked Chen Xun to screen out spies."

After all, Yang Hao has been in the military for a long time. Although his military command level is indeed limited, he still has basic military qualities.

He knew that there must be Tatar spies who would mix with this group of people and enter Shenyang, so he ordered from the beginning that all these people would be imprisoned in the camp.

Chen Yuting was not ambiguous and immediately arranged for his scribes to check the identities and birthplaces of these people one by one with the roster.In order to prevent others from impersonating, they are also asked to confirm each other's identities, and those who have not been confirmed by others must be investigated separately.

I thought that this way, I would be able to uncover some spies.Unexpectedly, they had been busy for a long time, but not even a single spy was caught.

All the information matched, and someone else confirmed the identity.

If it were anyone else, it would probably be the same, but who is Chen Yuting?What they patrol censors are best at is picking the bones out of the bones and eggs, and then picking out the bones again.

If three or five spies were uncovered, perhaps this article would be over.

But now there are no spies, which is very problematic.

Although Du Song is the commander-in-chief of Shanhaiguan, he is from Yulin, Shaanxi, and many of his close friends followed him from Shaanxi.So he pointed to the name of a man whose native place was Yulin and said, "Go and bring this Lu Dayou to me."

I saw a man about 30 years old with a scruffy beard being brought up.

Chen Yuting said: "Are you a fellow countryman of General Du?"

The man said slightly panicked: "The villain Lu Dayou is from Yulin, Shaanxi Province, and is indeed a fellow countryman of General Jun Jun."

Chen Yuting suddenly shouted loudly: "Then where are you from Yulin? Why don't you speak with a Shaanxi accent?"

Seeing the man hesitating, he added: "What is Yulin's specialty? When does the Yellow River freeze every year?"

Chen Yuting soon found out a spy, and then he said to his subordinates: "You are going to check it for me, and who confirmed his identity just now? That person also has problems, and he must be investigated by this patrol one by one. Dig out the spies!"

If you don't dig up, you won't know. Actually, 210 spies were dug out.

Some of these people followed Li Yongfang and surrendered to the enemy, and many more were former Ming people who had been captured by the imperialists over the years. Now these people are all acting as spies and endangering the Ming Dynasty.

More than 200 spies were dug out at once, which frightened Yang Hao.

He immediately ordered Shenyang to implement a curfew and strictly prohibited anyone from taking to the streets at night. Violators would be killed without mercy!

But before he could issue the curfew, the camp in the north of the city housing refugees from outside the city began to catch fire.

He had to ask people to put out the fire first, and sent troops to block the streets to prevent refugees from taking advantage of the opportunity to run around.While the north of the city was in chaos, one or two carriages carrying straw were seen galloping from east to west near the south gate. The driver shouted in panic: "The horses are frightened, everyone, please get out of the way."

At this time, the Ming troops guarding the south gate were also attracted by this scene. The Ming troops below the city were avoiding the approaching carriages, and the Ming troops on the city were also watching the excitement.

Just when everyone was paying attention to the carriage, suddenly two knives secretly slashed at the rope hanging the two heads.

The two men secretly removed the wooden cage containing the head and threw it to the passing carriage.

Just when the two of them thought that God was unaware and ghosts were unaware.

Suddenly, a large number of Ming troops holding torches appeared directly behind them. Li Huaizhong said: "The commander-in-chief's guess is indeed correct. There are also spies from Hou Jin on the city gate. Please escort these two people down."

Then a spear flew down from the city. The spear was like a sharp sword, inserted directly from the horse's neck, and blood splashed out; with a painful neighing sound, the horse fell heavily to the ground, and the driver He was also thrown out hard.

The two boxes containing the heads also rolled to the ground along with the overturned carriage. Suddenly, seven or eight masked men with weapons rushed out from nearby and went to snatch the heads.

They were agile and reached the edge of the head in just a few steps.

When a person just picked up the head, he heard a "bang, bang, bang" sound.

Soon the masked men were hit by the fire cannons on the city, and they fell down unwillingly with a burst of blood mist.

But this group of people seemed unwilling to accept it, and soon several more people rushed out.

At this time, the sound of horse hooves was heard nearby, and a large number of Ming cavalry rushed out from the surroundings, killing these people mercilessly.

The commotion was quickly quelled.

Not long after, Li Huaizhong said: "To report to the Commander-in-Chief, there were indeed a large number of Tatar spies trying to seize their heads. In this battle, 17 spies were killed and 3 were captured alive, including 2 spies who had infiltrated the South Gate garrison."

Yang Hao said: "General Li has worked hard. Now that the Jianlu troops are approaching the city, the hearts of the people in the city are floating, and the curfew will continue to be enforced by the laborers."

Wang Keshou, the governor of Jiliao, said: "It is really shocking that there are so many spies of Jianlu in Shenyang City. It seems that the complete destruction of Jun Song's Western Route Army is no accident."

"Yang Jing's strategy was superior. He used two fake heads to lure out the spies lurking in the city."

Yang Hao said with a smile: "Governor Wang is ridiculous. Thanks to your wise eyes this time, you arranged for Chen Patrol to screen the spies in time. Otherwise, the spies in this city will definitely cause a catastrophe."

"There are definitely more spies in the city, but now that the curfew is in place, they won't be able to make any waves."

After the two complimented each other, Wang Keshou also went back to rest.

At this time, Yang Hao decided for the first time to personally inspect each gate. He originally thought that Shenyang City was as solid as a rock and that the Jin army would not be afraid at all.

If Li Xianzhong hadn't reminded himself to strictly investigate spies and came up with this method of using a fake head to lure the snake out of its hole, the consequences would have been really unimaginable.The spies can cut off the rope hanging the head today, and tomorrow they may be able to lower the drawbridge and help build and seize the city.

It's just that this strategy of strengthening the wall and clearing the country can defeat Hou Jin's attack, but if it takes too long, he will inevitably be punished by the court.

At that time, the censors and officials in the court may impeach themselves for entering the pass and plundering the population.No matter how many Tatars you kill, they will still attack you.

I'm afraid that I didn't die under Jianlu's sword and gun, but fell first in the battle in the court.

Now he can only hope that Li Xianzhong can ask Nurhachi to withdraw his troops as soon as possible.

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