In a residential house near the city gate in the south of the city, the fire pit was blazing and it was warm. Chang Yu told Chunxiang, Duan Wuhu and other small leaders that they wanted to lurk in Wenshui.
Sure enough, several people thought Chang Yu was crazy.
But after knowing that his intention was decided, he had no choice but to calm down and plan the matter.
"It's late at night at this time, and it's the time when the two armies' spies are most intensively dispatched. It can be said to be the most dangerous time. I don't recommend setting off now." Duan Wuhu shook his head and said.
"Why don't we leave at dawn? There will be refugees fleeing north at that time. The crowds are so crowded and chaotic that we can hide our whereabouts," Zhou Tianpeng, the leader of the Fujun Guards, suggested.
Chang Yu smiled bitterly.
Duan Wuhu immediately choked out, "Silly. Although there are many refugees during the day, we can hide our tracks, but the refugees are all fleeing to the north. Let's go south. Who are the people going south at this time? Doesn't that clearly tell others that we are officers, soldiers, and spies?"
Zhou Tianpeng blushed and touched his head.
"How about setting off at dawn, when people are most tired and their precautions are lax, and after a night of hard work, both spies will return to their nests at dawn, which just gives us a chance," Chunxiang suggested.
"What we can think of, the thieves will also think of, and the chances of encountering it are still great." Duan Wuhu shook his head.
"Why are you afraid of encountering"
Chang Yu spoke out: "On the border of power, it is inevitable for the two armies to come into contact with each other. If you encounter them, kill them. If you can't kill them, run away. You are very afraid."
"But we are going to Wenshui to inquire about information. If we can avoid it, we will avoid it. If we are too ostentatious, it will be difficult to enter the territory, and we may even be trapped and annihilated." Duan Wuhu is a veteran and has full experience.
Chang Yu nodded: "The traitor army can pretend to be refugees and enter our sphere of influence, but our people can only sneak in secretly, which makes it difficult to get success. Up to now, we are not even sure whether the traitor army has captured Wenshui, let alone
We have reached the den of the bandits in Fenzhou Prefecture."
It’s really frustrating!
"Take the west mountain road," Duan Wuhu suddenly said.
In fact, the more than ten cities starting from Taiyuan in the north and reaching Jiexiu are actually in a basin. Directly west of Jiaocheng are the vast mountains. If you go south along the mountain side to Jiaocheng, although the road is bumpy, it is located in a remote place and can be hidden.
There are many places, and the chance of encountering bandits is small.
"Wouldn't the thief also think of it?" Zhou Tianpeng rolled his eyes.
Hey, Duan Wuhu glanced at him: "The rebel army can turn into refugees and go north openly, so they won't go to the trouble of walking through the mountains. At most, they can set up a few overt posts and hidden sentries, but everyone knows that the other side will think of this. It's false and true.
It’s hard to say, but it’s much less risky than going head-on.”
Chang Yu deeply agreed, and he also looked at Duan Wuhu with special eyes. The veteran really crushed the rookie in terms of experience.
Several people discussed for a while and decided to allocate 30 people, divided into three teams, one team of ten people, and lurked along the west mountain towards Wenshui in a finished formation.
In the second half of Chou hour (around two o'clock in the morning), Chang Yu led a team of 30 people out of Jiaocheng's north gate. At the city gate, they met Zhou Yuji, who was handling military affairs.
Looking at the winding fire dragon due north, Chang Yu knew that it was the support force that had arrived.
"The command in the middle of the night, Beidou Guangchang, facing the tiger and the dragon." Niu Yong told Chang Yu the command at the city gate.
Zhou Yuji sighed slightly, knowing that it was useless to persuade him, so he ordered a few veterans in the army to stay up all night to lead the way for Chang Yu. Then he handed Chang Yu away and watched Chang Yu disappear into the night.
"The factory supervisor is truly a strange person"
Watching Chang Yu and the others go away, Niu Yong shook his head lightly and whispered with a smile on his face.
"Are you a strange person?" Zhou Yuji smiled bitterly.
"Yeah, but it's even more surprising." Niu Yong withdrew his gaze and looked at Zhou Yuji: "Sir, in addition to raising the wages of Ye Bu ten times, the factory supervisor also gave a reward of ten taels of silver to each person killed in the army.
Ling, this is not a small sum of money."
"It doesn't cost you or me any money. Didn't the factory supervisor say that? Then a silver car arrived. He did this just to boost morale. It's worth spending some money, not to mention he has money."
"Is the factory director very rich, or does he use the money from the court?"
Niu Yong asked curiously.
Zhou Yuji shook his head gently: "I don't know whether it's the court's money or his. I don't know if he has money. I only know that he has a way to make money."
After detouring to the south of the city, Chang Yu and others headed straight to the west. There were bonfires every one mile along the way. These were sentries set up by officers and soldiers, each with ten people on them.
After receiving the passwords, Chang Yu passed them one by one until they reached the foot of the West Mountain. After giving some instructions, they separated. Duan Wuhu led ten people to go ahead, Zhou Tianpeng led the people to the east side, Chang Yu went to the west side, and the three teams finished the work.
The characters are a hundred meters apart, and they are blackened along the foot of the mountain and heading south.
The night-time veterans sent by Niu Yong to lead the way were also divided into three teams as leaders. They were experienced and knew how to lurk, were good at discovering and avoiding enemy outposts, and communicated with each other in simple animal language.
Although it was at the foot of the mountain and not deep into the mountain, there were rocks and thorns everywhere, plus they had to move cautiously in the dark. It took half an hour to walk less than ten miles, which made the group feel hot all over.
The Ming army deployed a large number of outposts in the south of Jiaocheng, trying to lurk in the enemy-occupied area and snipe the rebel spies. This area is extremely dangerous. Chang Yu heard the sound of killing several times along the way. In the dark night
It's chilling.
After traveling for more than ten miles, a signal came from the front: An abnormality was found.
After a while, after confirming that they were one of their own, Chang Yu and others hurried over and saw four tired but energetic men in a pit between several big rocks at the foot of the mountain, with three corpses lying next to them.
Of course what Chang Yu could think of, the Ye Bu Sheng veterans would also think of. They also knew that although the foot of the mountain was remote, the danger was low, and someone would definitely be wading through the water, so both the Ming army and the bandit army set up an ambush in this area to ambush those people.
A lucky spy.
Those three corpses were the thieves' spies, and they were killed by the four Ming soldiers at night. Although the thieves could pretend to be refugees and swagger in, they were never allowed to sneak in. Maybe this was the Ming army.
The final dignity.
Chang Yu carefully looked at the pit. It was hidden behind a few big rocks to avoid the wind. Moreover, they dug a deep pit and used stone slabs to block the fire for warmth. As long as there was no firelight in the dark, the target would hardly be exposed, but those
Experienced veterans also follow the smell of smoke.
We used the smell of smoke to lure them into the bait. We kept laughing all night long, stood up, and pointed at a few piles of rocks about ten meters away. There was a fire pit there, which was actually the bait.
"Do we have enough manpower?" Chang Yu asked in a low voice.
Ye Buzuo shook his head. "Except for the men who passed by in the past few days, since the bandit army broke through Fenzhou Prefecture and extended its tentacles to Wenshui yesterday, our men have been unable to get through. The blockade there is also strict. There were people just now.
Several groups of brothers went over, but later they retreated. The risk was too great and it was extremely difficult to sneak in quietly."
Chang Yu was silent. Before he arrived in Taiyuan, when the rebels were still in Pingyang Prefecture, Wu Mengming, who had arrived in Taiyuan before him, had already sent people south to investigate. At that time, the military in Taiyuan Prefecture did not send spies until he
After he and Zhou Yuji went to Taiyuan for a meeting in the city tower, the military sent spies south. By that time, the rebel army had already arrived in Jiexiu.
The bandit army broke into Fenzhou Prefecture, and it was thanks to the Jin Yiwei that he was able to get the information immediately. However, at this time, it was easy to get over there, but it was difficult to think about it.
If you can't lurk, just break in! Chang Yu secretly made up his mind, then looked at the corpses and asked: "How are you going to deal with this?".
"When we retreated after daybreak, we abandoned this place. Is it possible to build a grave for them?"
Chang Yu smiled after hearing this: "Cut off the head and take it back. Now there is an order in the army to reward every person who kills a thief with a reward of ten taels of silver."
"Really, then, isn't this thirty taels? Brothers, please don't play tricks on us." The four of them were overjoyed.
After half a cup of tea, Chang Yu and others left and continued sneaking.
After listening to the words of those Ye BuZhou, everyone cheered up and prepared to fight at any time. However, after walking for more than ten miles, the road was smooth. Although they encountered several suspicious places during the period, they were all stopped by the experienced Ye BuZhou.
The collection was bypassed.
Chang Yu actually felt a little bored. Looking at the sky, it was probably around four o'clock and close to five o'clock. Maybe the thieves were tired and had begun to retreat to their dens. Otherwise, how could they be so relaxed?
"Mr. Factory, there's something going on." At this moment, Ye Buzhi, who was leading the way in front of Chang Yu, suddenly whispered and made a gesture at the same time. Chang Yu and others quickly stopped, lowered themselves and looked around, whispering in their ears.
There were a few faint calls of pheasants, which were signals from the front.
At the same time, a bonfire was burning in the river a few hundred meters south of Chang Yu. More than ten people were warming up around the fire, and there were several figures walking around the bonfire.
"Hey, listen, is there any sound?" Suddenly someone said, everyone quickly shut up and listened, the bonfire in front of them was crackling.
"There seems to be a pheasant crowing," one person said, and everyone's expressions changed. They immediately picked up the steel knives beside them, kicked out the bonfire, and then ran towards the north bank with their waists bent.
"Gouzi, did you hear that sound?"
The man who was lurking on the shore nodded and pointed to the north: "It's only a hundred meters over there."
"Spread out and touch over!" one person in front whispered and made a gesture, and more than ten people spread out in all directions.
Fifty meters away from them, Duan Wuhu hid in a field ditch and asked Ye Bushou, who was lying on the field ridge in front of him and was looking around: "Du Laosan, have the people behind received the code?"
"received"
Du Laosan turned around and responded, then stuck his head out to look south, then suddenly retracted: "No, they put out the fire."
Duan Wuhu and others immediately felt nervous: "The fire is out, they evacuated?"
"It's possible, but it doesn't rule out that they also discovered us."
Du Laosan's expression changed: "Either there are secret sentinels near us, or the secret signal just now aroused their suspicion."
"The secret code will arouse their suspicion. You learned it very well." Duan Wuhu was confused.
"Brother, you don't know something. Using the sounds of birds and beasts as a code is a basic method used by night guards. It is commonly used by both officers and soldiers. Although the meaning of each other is not known to outsiders, when going on a mission, as long as you hear it
The chirping of birds and beasts subconsciously makes us suspect that even if it is a cry from a real beast, if we cannot understand it, we will think that the enemy is sending a secret signal."
Duan Wuhu suddenly realized that this kind of code is mysterious to outsiders, but to his colleagues, it actually reveals his identity!
"Then, they must have discovered us?"
Well, Du Laosan nodded: "So they must either withdraw now or prepare to ambush us."
"Then what do we do?"
"You lead people to lurk to the west, and I will run to the east. At the same time, send a code to the people behind to follow the arrangements." Du Laosan said, then he ran towards the east quickly along the ditch, making animal noises from time to time.
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