Poor Family Chapter 825

  Chapter 825 Detecting Intelligence

In the early morning, a group of cavalry passed through the endless rice fields, and the horses galloped on the ridge. A hundred steps away was a clear river, which meandered to the south, and in the distance was a small village. There are houses with white walls and black tiles, weeping willows, and white cooking smoke rising from the roofs. Several yellow dogs gather at the head of the village, looking warily at the galloping cavalry, and barking with their heads up from time to time.

The cavalry galloped past the field ridge, and soon left the small village behind. In front of it was a low and gentle mound. Thousands of years of vicissitudes made this sandy mound stretch across the plain, and the mound was only more than 20 high. Zhang, but it is at least three miles wide and more than ten miles long, and the hills are covered with lush forests.

  The cavalry rushed directly up the hill and rushed into the woods, and suddenly a lot of birds were startled from the trees.

   This cavalry is the intelligence battalion scout team led by Yan Qing, Zhang Shun is in charge of monitoring the waterway, and Yan Qing is in charge of monitoring the main force of the Jiangnan Army.

  Yan Qing had 500 people under him, divided into ten teams, distributed in various counties and counties in the south of the Yangtze River. Yan Qing led one of the elite scouts to track the main force of the Jiangnan Army going south.

  Just last night, Yan Qing caught two deserters, and after careful interrogation, he found out that they were Liu Yanqing's soldiers, and found an excuse to escape from the team during the march.

  Of course Yan Qing knew that the Jiangnan Army had internal strife two days ago. The commander Xiang Fa killed the deputy general Liu Yanqing, and the general Wu Ancheng led thousands of troops to the south.

   It was a little late for Yan Qing to send the news to the coach Li Yanqing. His information was sent to Wuxi County only after Jing Zhaojun surrendered the army of Wu'an City.

  Although the capture of two soldiers last night was not a sudden and major incident, judging from the escape of the two soldiers, Yan Qing had a bold guess in his mind, whether the morale of the Jiangnan Army began to have problems.

   Speculation is bold, but more evidence is needed to prove it.

The cavalry rushed to the hill, leaving a few soldiers to guard the horses, while Yan Qing led the others to climb up to the highest point of the hill. Although the hill was only more than twenty feet high, looking down from the height, the field of vision It is very open, and there are mirror-like rice fields in the distance. It can be seen at least thirty miles away, which is refreshing.

   "Control, they are coming!" A soldier pointed to the official road to the north and shouted in a low voice.

  Yan Qing was not surprised at all. They were originally tracking the main force of the enemy army going south. They only rushed to the front of the opponent ahead of time because the cavalry had the upper hand.

  The Jiangnan army ran ahead with a few outpost spies. They were responsible for checking whether there was an ambush on both sides of the official road, and the main force was three miles behind them. From a distance, it looked like a black worm wriggling forward.

  The soldiers led by Yan Qing are not ordinary scouts, but intelligence scouts. They have stronger analytical ability and are better able to find problems from some details.

The marching speed of the Jiangnan army has obviously slowed down. It has been an hour since they set off, but the marching distance is less than 30 miles. The Jiangnan army has changed from running in small steps yesterday to walking. Could this be due to the physical strength of the opponent? Running out of money?

Logically, it should be impossible. They have just started marching, and it should be the time of the day when they have the most physical strength. Obviously, the other party is deliberately conserving their strength and is no longer eager to catch up with the Jingzhao army who is going south. This shows that Xiang Fa has already learned that Jingzhao army is in Wu County. The news of the camp.

After nearly half an hour, the main force of the team finally passed by the hill. The army was mighty, and the flags covered the sky. Yan Qing's men were quickly counting information, such as how many cavalry, how many infantry, how is the equipment, the level of training, etc. etc. These basic intelligences are extremely important for the operations of the two armies.

In the team, soldiers kept rushing out and squatting in the bushes on the side of the road. At this time, a fault appeared in the team. The central army had already passed by, but the rear army was still a mile away. Three soldiers squatted in the bushes The soldiers saw the opportunity, turned around and ran towards the hill.

  Yan Qing was also pleasantly surprised, and immediately ordered: "Arrest the three of them!"

  The soldiers jumped and ran eastward one after another. After a while, the soldiers escorted three deserters over. The three were in a panic. Their helmets and shoes were dropped.

   "Take them to interrogation, let them speak as quickly as possible, and let them spit out everything they know."

The scouts were divided into three groups and quickly took the three deserters aside. Not long after, one of the soldiers in charge of interrogation came back and bowed to Yan Qing, "The deserters have already confessed to the system. They are not the first A group of deserters appeared last night."

   "Are they Liu Yanqing's subordinates?"

"Exactly! There are more than 10,000 people under Liu Yanqing, who were scattered and resettled, and they were discriminated against in the army, and their treatment was very low, which made the morale of these more than 10,000 people very low. I just want to run away."

  Yan Qing thought for a while and asked: "How are they distinguished in the army!"

  The subordinate handed over a helmet, "The commander looks at this helmet!"

  Yan Qing was stunned, the helmet was actually green, with a layer of green paint, "Is this their logo?"

   "They all wear this kind of green helmet, and they are called green soldiers in the army."

  At this time, the other two interrogating soldiers also hurried over, clasped their fists and saluted, "They have confessed everything to the control system."

  Li Yanqing's army was stationed in a field about 15 miles north of Wuxian City. Thousands of large tents and hundreds of thousands of double-pointed defensive wooden formations obtained from Wuxian's military arsenal became the guarantee for the Jingzhao Army's garrison.

The military camp covers an area of ​​about 2,000 acres, with 3,000 large tents set up. There are no camp fences around, but 300,000 defensive logs are laid out. The so-called defensive wooden array is a large array composed of two sharpened wooden sticks. About one zhang, one end is inserted into the soil, and the other end is facing outwards. The dense deployment prevents the enemy cavalry from approaching.

In addition to the defensive wooden array, trenches were dug around, and antlers, spikes, etc. were buried in the trenches. In addition, wooden towers were built to look out for posts, and a large number of scouts were deployed within a mile outside, making it difficult for the enemy to attack. Sneak attack near the camp.

  At present, the Jingzhao Army has a total of 46,000 people, including 3,000 cavalry.

In the commander's tent of the Chinese Army, Li Yanqing and several generals were listening to Yan Qing's report, not only reporting the situation of the scouts, but also reporting the information held by the intelligence department. At present, the Jiangnan army has entered the boundary of Suzhou, about 50 miles away from Wu County in the afternoon, and in the Set up camp there for the night, that is, forty miles away from the military camp.

"According to various intelligence analysis, the enemy's strongest fighting force is the Huben Army and the Flying Bear Army, and the equipment is also the best. There are about 20,000 soldiers. These are Zhuang soldiers trained by the three foreign relatives for many years. They have been distributed in manors and mines all over the place. , It was only more than a month ago that all the states in the world gathered in Hangzhou, followed by the 40,000 Xiang Army, which came from the Jiangnan states. , so the combat effectiveness is relatively strong, and other states in the south of the Yangtze River are generally undertrained, which is equivalent to the township soldiers in Hebei."

   "Introduce the commander-in-chief and main generals of the opponent."

As the coach of the Jingzhao Army, Li Yanqing cares more about the situation of the opponent's coach and general. , Even if the soldiers under him are relatively weak, they can give full play to the potential of the soldiers.

Yan Qing bowed slightly and said: "Xiang Fa is Xiang Zongliang's second son. He studied martial arts since he was a child, and he developed a strong martial arts at the age of twenty. He can be regarded as a relatively accomplished child in the Xiang family. At the age of twenty-five, he was an official. General, Ning Haijun Jiedushi, he served as Marquis of Dragon God Guard Xiang Duyu in the Forbidden Army since he was 30 years old. He has more combat experience, but he is very narrow-minded and cannot tolerate any opposition in the army, which is why he killed Liu Yanqing."

   "Where is his general?" Li Yanqing asked again.

"Reporting to Dutong, Xiang Fa has six generals under his command, named Xiang Yong, Zheng Chen, Zhu Hongying, Guo Huaisu, Li Mo, and Zhao Wenkai. Together with Xiang Fa, these six people control the current 70,000 troops. Except for Xiang Yong, The other five are generals of the Forbidden Army who have followed Xiang Fa all along and participated in the battle against Fang La, Xiang Yong is the adopted son of Xiang Zongliang, he is in charge of the cavalry, and he is unstoppable."

  Wang Gui smiled and said, "This Zhu Hongying has something to do with the Zhu Hongliang I captured!"

   "They are brothers, and they are all descendants of the foreign relative Zhu's family."

  Li Yanqing nodded and asked again: "Does General Yan know where the biggest weakness of this army is?"

  Yan Qing lowered his head and pondered for a moment and said: "The biggest weakness of this army should be Liu Yanqing's army, also known as the green-headed army!"

  (end of this chapter)

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