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Chapter 82 Investigation ([-]rd update today, [-]nd update)

Chuzhou is really only two hundred miles away from Yiyi. Because it was an ambush, Zhu Yousong's team marched differently from Huang Degong's. After choosing the route in advance, their 3 horses stayed in the day and night, and they left Chuzhou only two days away. The sky appeared in the mountains and forests in the north of Yizhen.

Yizhen is the current generation of Yizheng City, Jiangsu Province. In the Ming Dynasty, Yizhen was a county. Zhu Yousong calculated this time. Huang Degong's troops left Chuzhou and attacked near Fengyang at least one day later than them, and then Gao Jie had to pass by here again. In the area, it will be at least three days later, so they brought a few days of dry food when they came.

Because the weather is very hot now, fortunately they hid in the shade of trees during the day and slept after eating and drinking enough, and marched at night, so the weather would be much cooler. Therefore, on this journey, Zhu Yousong’s 3 People and horses enjoy much more happiness than Gao Jie's team, at least they don't suffer from the scorching sun.

This is the first time for Zhu Yousong to lead an expedition. He is covered in armour, and there are no eunuchs and maids around him, nor are there any generals like Zheng Hongkui and Huang Degong accompanying him. There are only capable factory guards like Zu Hai and Li Quan in uniform. Escort, right now he doesn't look like an emperor at all, he is both handsome and general.

But Zhu Yousong still felt very comfortable, riding a strong horse, wearing a helmet and armor, commanding thousands of troops, how majestic it is!Looking at his team again, he was lined up into a long line, which could not be seen from front to back, mighty and mighty, with swords and guns like ears of wheat, and swords and halberds like hemp forests. It seemed that he had become the Guan Zhang of the Three Kingdoms period, Zhao Yun and Ma Mengqi, with a heroic spirit. cloud.

The feeling along the way is the word "prestige", but how to fight this ambush must use your brain.

If you want to use 3 horses to ambush Gao Jie's [-] army, if you don't talk about some strategies, you may be asking for bad luck.

Fortunately, there is still time to make full preparations. Before arriving at a suitable ambush site, Zhu Yousong first scattered and hid his troops in the dense forest, and sent scouts from all over the world to conduct investigation and counter-investigation. Here, if Gao Jie's scout finds out, all previous efforts will be wasted.

Zhu Yousong entrusted this task to Li Quan. The young man used to be one of Zheng Hongkui's subordinates, who was stationed in Zhenjiang with Zheng Hongkui. All became Zheng Hongkui's personal guard captain.After Zheng Hongkui came to Beijing to serve as Jinyiwei, Li Quannu moved with his master and worked as the head of the East Factory. Because of his repeated military exploits, he is now promoted to be in charge of Qianhu in the East Factory. Zhu Yousong also likes him very much.This time Zhu Yousong personally conquered Yizhen, and he and Zu Hai became the leaders of Zhu Yousong's imperial army.

As the reconnaissance agency of the imperial court, the Factory Fan's job is to collect intelligence, monitor officials, and deal with prison orders. Now it is a professional counterpart to spy on the military situation.It was therefore only fitting that this task should be undertaken by him.

After taking the order, Li Quan started working with several capable factory fans. These factory fans were made up by Li Quan and Zhu Yousong when they left the capital. Zheng Hongkui and Gao Hongtu were in charge. At that time, even the Golden Queen had no inside information. The task of Li Quan, Zu Hai and these other factory fans was to escort them secretly.

Now Li Quan has picked out these capable factories again from the imperial camp. They are soldiers themselves, and they don’t need to ride horses. They are still dressed as ordinary generals and schools. Direction, when encountering military information, timely transmission, when encountering enemy scouts, catch them if they can, and kill them if they can't catch them.

It is precisely because Li Quan led these several factory fans to engage in reconnaissance activities nearby that Zhu Yousong's 3 horses can hide safely in the forest in this area, and it also provides a safe environment for Zhu Yousong's reconnaissance of the terrain.

Of course, Zhu Yousong didn't just sit around waiting for Gao Jie's arrival. He had to survey the terrain in advance to predict which route Gao Jie's men would take, where to set up an ambush, how to deal with any situation, and so on.These key decisions and layouts must be done by him personally.

Therefore, Zhu Yousong wandered around this area with Zu Hai and a dozen relatives. Yizhen's topography is not dominated by mountains, but by plains and hills, from Yangzhou to Fengyang. Zhu Yousong explored both the official road and the small road, and finally concluded that Gao Jie must take the official road. First, the official road is a road suitable for large troops to march quickly. Second, the trail is not much closer than the official road, but the hills are undulating, and he has cavalry. With infantry and supplies, Gao Jie probably wouldn't choose the path when he was in a hurry to save Fengyang, unless his brain was flooded.

Where to ambush is the key question, the enemy is outnumbered, and this time it is not a battle of annihilation, the main purpose is to capture and kill the culprit Gao Jie and other high-level figures, as for other ordinary soldiers, they mainly make forced landings, and they will not kill if they can. They are all military horses that he paid for and nourished.

Zhu Yousong was sober-minded, and wanted to find an ambush in this area between two mountains and a ditch, but after wandering around for two days, he couldn't find it. Although they spent most of their time in the forest, they could still feel the ambush of late summer and early autumn. The sun is like a fire.

It will be difficult to fight if you can't find a suitable ambush point. He wiped the sweat off his face and looked at it from a distance and up close. It is not suitable, because the ambush must be concealed, so that the opponent can enter the encirclement without knowing it, and kill it unexpectedly. However, such a narrow hiding place is difficult to find.It's not about ambush a few people, but tens of thousands of soldiers and horses.

Only then did Zhu Yousong realize that things were not as simple and easy as he imagined. In two days, he had already traveled more than 100 miles in this area. For the first time, Song experienced the suffering of the ancients in the army.

Although there is no mirror, he can still feel the change of his skin color in the past few days, because there is a young banner commander in the guards next to him. When you see him, you see yourself.

Zhu Yousong made another calculation that time is running out, and he must make a decisive decision on where to set up an ambush.But where is the right place?

The weather was already hot, but Zhu Yousong's anxious face was sweating again.He looked at the afternoon sun, which was still hot, and then at the guards beside him, all of them were soaked in sweat, and their armor was soaked.

At this time, Zu Hai said to Zhu Yousong in surprise, "Master, there is a small river over there, do you want to go wash your face and get some water?"

Zhu Yousong turned his head to look at the sound. Sure enough, there was a small river like a ribbon under the slope on the left side of the forest, winding near the official road.

Only then did Zhu Yousong feel that his throat was so dry that it was about to emit smoke. At this time, if he could go to the river for a drink and then wash his face and wet his clothes, that would undoubtedly be the most pleasant thing. The rest of the guards showed the same longing expression on their faces one by one.

Suddenly, Zhu Yousong's eyes flashed, "The ambush site is here!"

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