Late Tang

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Shunzhou.

On the south bank of Qidu River, Niulan Mountain.

Legend has it that this place was originally a barren mountain with barren mountains and no vegetation, and the people were poor.Later, a golden bull came from nowhere and lived in a cave in the mountain to help the people plow and reclaim wasteland, turning the barren mountain into good fields.In order to commemorate this golden bull, later generations called this mountain Niulan Mountain.

At this time, Lin Wu led [-] cavalrymen of the Crane Control Army to come here from the upper reaches of the Qidu River, hiding in the woods at the foot of the mountain.

Fan Dongjun, Zhang Degong and Zhou Zhi, together with the soldiers and young men who had escaped from Liaoxi and Huairou counties, were stumbling along the road down the mountain, hurrying westward.This road is not a great road, only two horses can ride side by side. The soldiers and civilians who fled the road are sparsely populated. Fan Dongjun and other about [-] soldiers on horses, mules and donkeys ran in front.Followed by a large number of people, in groups of twos and threes, stretched for several miles.

A small group of cavalry rushed to the woods at the foot of the mountain, and the leading knight jumped off his horse, walked directly to Li Juyi, and saluted.

Lin Wu very politely said to the leader of the team with the ninth-rank Peirong captain on the badge: "Guo Peirong, how is the situation?"

The school lieutenant whom Lin Wu politely called Guo Peirong was named Guo Wei, and he was only 25 years old.Although he is only a small team leader, the reason why Lin Wu is so polite is because he is not directly under Lin Wu's command, but belongs to one of the nine divisions under the Supervision Office under the jurisdiction of Daxingtai Li Jing himself. Military Intelligence Division.

The Office of Supervision is a newly established organization with nine divisions, namely, Lijingmen, which is in charge of external intelligence, Jinyiwei, which is in charge of internal intelligence, and the Military Intelligence Bureau, which is in charge of military intelligence. Bureau.

In addition, there is a secret service bureau that is responsible for senior officials such as guard Li Jing, and a special police bureau that is responsible for the execution of sentries and sudden snoring incidents in important areas.

There is also the Meihua inner guard who is responsible for scouting officials and civilians, spying on suspects who may threaten the actions and remarks of the commander-in-chief Li Jing, Daxingtai and the Northeast Army.

Then there are six departments that are responsible for the arrest and interrogation of intelligence, rebellion and gang crimes, and the last one is responsible for maintaining military discipline, ensuring the execution of military orders, and responsible for military arrest and interrogation.

The Ninth Bureau of the Supervision Department, this newly established department is extremely mysterious, but extremely powerful.

The inspector general has no real power and is only responsible for administrative coordination.The nine subordinate bureaus are not subordinate to each other, and all are only responsible to Li Jing, the Minister of Daxingtai.Lijingmen, Jinyiwei, Military Intelligence Bureau, and Investigation Bureau are all responsible for intelligence agencies.

But the Secret Service Bureau, the Armed Police Bureau, the Plum Blossom Internal Guard and Six Gates, and the Gendarmerie are in charge of guards, guards of honor, prisons, patrols and arrests, and are engaged in activities such as reconnaissance, arrest, and interrogation.

The Nine Bureaus each have their own divisions and do not interfere with each other.The power is huge, and the entire Northeast military and government are all within its scope.However, each bureau supervises and checks and balances each other. For example, Lijingmen only has external missions and has no domestic tasks, nor does it have the right to arrest and interrogate domestically.The Military Intelligence Bureau is only responsible for military intelligence, and the Investigation Bureau is only responsible for analyzing intelligence and coordinating various bureaus.Jin Yiwei has the right to investigate, but not the right to arrest and interrogate.

The Secret Service is only responsible for guards, and the Secret Service is responsible for on-duty and emergency handling.The plum blossom inner guard only has the right to scout.The Six Doors only have the power of arrest and interrogation, but no power of investigation. After Jin Yiwei and Meihua Internal Guard investigate and file the case, they must hand over the arrest list to the Investigation Bureau, and then the Investigation Bureau will issue it to Six Doors, Six Doors after review. Only then can people be arrested and interrogated.While the gendarmerie, in addition to maintaining military discipline, also has the right to arrest and interrogate military personnel, but it is limited to arrest and interrogate military personnel.

Each of these nine bureaus has different tasks and checks and balances each other.

The chief of the Ninth Bureau is a doctor, second only to the senior officials of Pu She, Shang Shu and Shi Lang.In particular, they are only responsible to Li Jing and have more weight.

Guo Wei belongs to the Military Intelligence Bureau, and the Military Intelligence Bureau has set up a military intelligence department in each army, which is responsible for military intelligence.The Military Intelligence Bureau, like the Gendarmerie, has a direct subordinate organization in each army. The Military Intelligence Department and the Gendarmerie of each army are also under the jurisdiction of each army in name, but in fact they are read outside of it.

Therefore, Lin Wu, the newly transferred leader of the Crane Control Army, was also very polite to Guo Wei, the leader of the Crane Control Army's military intelligence department.

Regarding Li Jing's sudden establishment of the Supervision Office and the establishment of nine new bureaus, but they are actually nine department-level agencies second only to the Ministry, and they are still responsible for matters such as intelligence, reconnaissance, arrest and interrogation, the officials of the Northeast Army are worried It is clear that this is a means for the county king to strengthen internal control.All dynasties and dynasties have not lacked such institutions. Although the government has a formal judicial institution, as a superior, it always needs to secretly set up a set of reconnaissance institutions that are directly under him and obey his will.

"Report to the military master. There are about 3000 Lulong troops. They all have mounts and are fleeing towards us. Livestock, hundreds of ox carts and camel carts, dragging the family and the family." Guo Wei reported earnestly.

The 5000-strong Crane Control Army was divided into three divisions at this time. Wang Yanzhang and Gao Siji led 1000 people to station in Lu County and Yongnu County respectively.

After Lin Wu took Liaoxi County, he had no intention of letting Lu Longjun escape.However, he did not take the lead, but relied on the route pointed out by the military intelligence department, went directly westward along the Qidu River, and then went around to the front of the deserters, waiting here, ready to ambush.

The soldiers in the army thought that there was no need to ambush, and their strength was ten times that of the enemy.Nowadays, all armies have the official position of joining the army. In the army, there is a special staff office. The chief is the staff officer, and his subordinates are joining the army.Most of these soldiers were transferred from the lecture hall, and the rest were young scribes who joined the army.Li Jing set up a staff office in the army, firstly to train more reserve officers, and secondly to increase the level of command and strategy of each army.

However, although all of these young soldiers can write, count, and write poems, they are obviously inexperienced.

Lin Wu just smiled and did not adopt their method.

Although chasing from behind can win, it is difficult to completely annihilate the captured enemy army.

With [-] cavalry in his hand, Lin Wu was not satisfied with just defeating this enemy army, he wanted to kill them all, without missing a single one.In his heart, there was a more important plan that required him to take down all the deserters.

He divided his six cavalry battalions and hid three of them in the north of the forest. As a precaution, he sent two cavalry battalions to the west, then sent [-] cavalry to the south, and left two A hundred cavalry served as a reserve.

This is a foolproof arrangement.

As reported by Guo Wei, Fan Dongjun and others panicked and fled westward all the way, there was no time to send people to open the way ahead of time.Hundreds of cavalry hurriedly plunged into Lin Wu's ambush circle.

Lin Wu watched Lu Long's defeated soldiers break into the ambush circle unsuspectingly, raised his bow, and shot an arrow between the eyebrows of a defeated soldier.

With a scream, the cavalryman fell off his horse and fell not fifty paces away from him.

As Lin Wu shot an arrow, the crane-controlling cavalry who had been waiting for a long time immediately opened their bows and shot arrows.

All of a sudden, arrows rained down, and the three hundred or so defeated soldiers rushing forward were shot down one by one.There were screams and exclamations one after another, and the defeated soldiers were caught off guard and in chaos.

After the three arrows passed, the crane-controlling cavalrymen in the woods stopped shooting arrows and got on their horses one after another. The buglers behind Lin Wu blew their horns.

Amidst the sound of the horn, the iron hooves of the war horse flew up and slammed heavily on the ground, making a dull thunderous sound.

Three battalions of [-] cavalry rushed out from the forest like a torrent.

Without waiting for the ambush soldiers from the other three sides to attack, Lin Wu had already led the cavalry from the north to crush the 300 deserters.Fan Dongjun and the others were completely terrified, unable to resist at all. Facing the imposing Northeast cavalry, they were ashamed, threw down their weapons, jumped off their horses, knelt down and surrendered on the ground.

"Down, down!"

Facing the shining lance and saber, Fan Dongjun shouted tremblingly.

"Report your identity!" A Northeast Army shouted loudly.

"Fan Dongjun, magistrate of Liaoxi County in Shunzhou!"

"Zhang Degong, deputy general of Liaoxi Town, Shunzhou!"

"Shunzhou Huairou Town team first week!"

......

Riding on the horse, Lin Wu looked down at the fishes and nodded in satisfaction.

Changping, the barrier of the military capital.

At dusk, suddenly a troop of cavalry galloped up, and when they got close, they were in a panic.

With the appearance of this team of cavalry, behind them, there are also sparse long queues of people.

The defenders on the top of the city couldn't help becoming tense, and quickly rang the alarm bell.Soon, the defense in Changping City made Duan Dashan climb to the top of the city in armor.Looking at the cavalry and the people who were getting closer, he couldn't help but frown. What happened?

"Stop those who come, tell us your name!" Zhang Gong, the captain of the defending army on the top of the city, shot an arrow, the arrow crossed a fox line, and landed [-] steps away from the city.

The cavalry who came running stopped their horses in front of the arrow one after another, and one of them rode his horse to the city alone, shouting loudly: "Fan Dongjun, the magistrate of Liaoxi County, and Zhang Degong, the deputy general of Liaoxi County, are behind, and Zhou Zhou, the leader of the Huairou team, is here. "

A school lieutenant next to Duan Dashan said: "It is indeed Fan Dongjun. A few days ago, he sent food and grass to the military capital."

"Fan Mingfu, why did you come here suddenly?"

"General Duan, Li Jing suddenly sent troops to attack our Youzhou Town. At present, Liaoxi County and Huairou County have already fallen. We are worried that Li Thief will attack Changping and Junduguan, so I am here to report and reinforce. Please open the city gate quickly. , the pursuers are right behind, please send someone to escort the people behind into the city.”

Hearing that Li Jing went south, Huairou in Liaoxi had already fallen, and Duan Dashan was extremely panicked.

Changping is very important as the barrier behind the military capital, but there are only [-] defenders in the city.It would be really dangerous if the thieves suddenly killed them.However, Duan Dashan still cautiously sent a team of personal soldiers out of the city, and only after verifying the identities of Fan Dongjun and others before ordered the opening of the city gate.

The city gate of Changping opened slowly, and Fan Dongjun, Zhang Dezhang and others led more than [-] defeated soldiers and swarmed towards the gate. (To be continued.)