Lu Ming

Chapter 297 Longyan Battle ([-])
Early the next morning, when Wang Zhubo came to the gate of Tianhou Palace with 30 strong porters, he also felt something was wrong.

However, Wang Zhubo was a civil servant. He only noticed the decrease in the number of sentries at the gate and the silence in the courtyard, but he didn't notice that the sentries had changed their guns.

Ding Liqiu, who heard the news, welcomed Wang Zhubo into the Tianhou Palace with a fan.

At this moment, the Tianhou Temple changed from the noisy and passionate military camp style to the quiet and peaceful temple style of the past.

Wang Yuanzai, who was walking behind Ding Liqiu, couldn't bear it any longer, and asked with his mouth open, "Mr. Ding, where is the army?"

"Hehe, I left at midnight last night."

"Ah!?" Wang Yuanzai paused when he heard the footsteps here, and then he chased after him: "But those two cannons haven't joined the army yet?"

"It's used to confuse the bandits. What kind of cannon do you need to break up a broken village?"

"Oh" Wang Zhubo's face changed several times, and then he twitched his beard and laughed again: "So that's how it is, it really is true that soldiers never tire of deceit, sir is brilliant!"

"Smart or not, that's all." The two of them reached the entrance of the command department after speaking, Ding Liqiu turned around at this moment, pointed to the prisoners who were kneeling on the ground at the door and tied up with ropes, and said: "These few My dear friend, Mr. Wang must be familiar with it, right?"

"Huh?" Wang Zhubo lowered his head when he heard the sound, and the soldier standing behind the prisoner also grabbed the prisoner's hair at this time, and tilted their heads back to expose their faces.

After seeing the faces of these people clearly, someone couldn't help taking a step back.

Before he could perform again, Ding Liqiu pointed at the prisoners one by one while waving his fan and said, "These are all stalkers who have been guarding in the woods outside the gate for ten months. They were arrested last night before the troops left. Well, there are Lao Wang's subordinates here, right?"

Wang Yuanzai laughed dryly at this moment: "Sir, you are joking, this kind of thief Wang doesn't recognize him."

"What about this one? Lord Wu of Yantou Village, you should know him by now, right? Didn't you guys have a private meeting yesterday?"

"Sir, don't talk nonsense!" Wang Yuanzai was already a little incoherent at this moment, looking at Lin Dajin who was in a state of embarrassment and had fierce eyes.

"Have a bad memory, you? Forget it, when you go to the Zhangzhou Prison, you will naturally remember it."

Seeing Ding Liqiu's cold eyes, Wang Yuanzai knew that the matter had been revealed, he couldn't help but took another step back in panic.However, his figure stopped suddenly: two hands came out from his shoulders, holding him in place.

Wang Yuanzai turned around abruptly, and found that at some point, there were already two more people behind him.These two people, one old and one young, had vaguely similar faces. They were wearing flying fish suits, with spring knives embroidered on their waists and hips.

"I won it, and I will take it to Zhangzhou and hand it over to the judicial office!"

Following Ding Liqiu's loud shout, the soft-footed headband on Wang Zhubo's head was knocked off by the majestic Jin Yiwei, and then his knee was stepped on, and a certain father and son were very swift. Wang Yuanzai, who was kneeling on the ground, was tied up.

Looking at Wang Zhubo who was speechless in horror, Ding Liqiu smiled and finally said to him: "I'm afraid you don't know that there is a word called background check. Well, by the way, your nephew who was killed by bandits , In fact, because of the uneven distribution of spoils, he died in an antagonism with his own family. Am I right?"

When Ding Liqiu, who stayed behind, was cleaning up the ghosts and monsters in the county, Wei Yuan had already taken the main force of the Red Spear Battalion to have breakfast in the forest 50 miles away.

The term "Red Spear Camp" was actually named temporarily after coming to Longyan.This force is a regiment, a battalion, and a company of the Imperial Army.

Counting the defenders of the fort, the regular imperial army, which is less than a regiment in later generations, is the most important mobile force.

To apply the description of later generations: This is an army with a long history, born in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, at the same age as the Empire.

This is a meritorious company with outstanding military exploits. It has gone through a series of wars such as the Tainan Public Security War, the Zheng Zheng War, and the Taipei Colonial War. It is the minion of the empire's external expansion.

This is a sharp knife company with excellent military skills.All soldiers have undergone more than a year of hard training and participated in many actual battles.A large number of top soldiers with excellent qualities and political qualifications have emerged in the team one after another—these people have now been promoted to officers one after another, and have become the seeds and backbone of the new army.

We have no doubt that this army of heroes will become the cradle of generals in the future.

Wei Yuan set off with his troops at exactly 12 o'clock last night.Since it was a long-distance raid, the soldiers all carried individual luggage and dry food.

As the core of tactics, the equipment is naturally the best.

The all-green "jungle style" military uniform with a cotton mechanism is similar in shape to the camouflage uniforms of later generations, but the color is a bit shabby. There is no way, even migrant workers wear camouflage in later generations, but it is also a digital camouflage programmed by a computer. The fabrics with chemical fiber blends were not produced by a certain cottage force in the 17th century.

The dry food carried by the soldiers is compressed biscuits brought from the officers.This kind of high-calorie compressed biscuit wrapped in oiled paper, mixed with beef, sugar, oil, and nuts, is doped with precious sodium nitrite, which is a special supplement that can only be used during wartime.

As for the weapons, needless to say, Erba Big Cover + Explosive Pack, this combination can probably be used until the end of the world.

Guided by flashlights, fluorescent vests, infrared night vision goggles, and nearby special forces, the well-trained soldiers, wearing cowhide boots, walked silently and quickly on the official road, just like the ghost soldiers in the story.

Anyone who has seen old photos of the late Qing Dynasty knows that the so-called "official road" in ancient times is actually a muddy ditch below the road after leaving the city.

Both sides of this kind of mud ditch are messy and pressed out ruts.On a main road like Beijing and Tianjin, the width of the road surface can only allow two horse-drawn carriages to cross each other.

Therefore, when the emperor travels, the loess padded road is not just for pretending: to pass through the deep ruts on both sides, if one is not careful, the wooden wheel will be misplaced or sunk. Wouldn't it be bad to throw it out and eat dirt?
The Longyan official road in the 17th century was not so particular: the roads outside the county town have few ruts, and there are narrow, undulating, and dilapidated dirt roads everywhere: this is a mountainous area, where pack horses and donkeys are popular, and carriages are very popular. few.

Even so, official roads are still very important compared to those forest trails—troops must use official roads to travel more distances before dawn, otherwise it will be more troublesome during the day.

Fortunately, the soldiers in the company are all elite, and they often conduct night march training, so the march that night was very fast.After two short breaks on the road, by dawn, the troops had traveled more than 60 miles northeast of Longyan and arrived in Ningyang County, about 30 miles away from Tsushima Ridge on the mountain road.

At this time, the soldiers can take a good rest in a col on the roadside.

The plan of the whole campaign is as follows: yesterday morning, the cross-travelers have conveyed the false news of today's departure to the gangsters through the traitors.

After sending out the false news, the troops will march in a hurry that night, with the goal of arriving at the ambush site not far from Tsushima Ridge as early as possible during the next day.

As for the gangsters, because the information they got was wrong: the officers and soldiers would bring cannons and kill them slowly, so they would be dispatched very late.

According to the normal marching logic of the Ming Dynasty's army, the army would have to walk nearly 100 miles of mountain roads to reach the county town at the earliest that night. As for launching an attack, it would have to spend the night first.

So Wei Yuan is not in a hurry now, just arrive at the preset location before noon.

After eating dry food, drinking the water in the iron kettle, and resting for an hour, the troops set off again.At this time, although it was already bright, in order to avoid pedestrians, the speed of the troops was slower than at night: the mountain trails were in poor condition, and in order to reduce the rate of non-combat attrition, the marching speed had to be reduced.

At 10 o'clock in the morning, the troops passed through the gangster's preset ambush point: Huluyu.

As its name suggests, Huluyudi is composed of two connected circular basins.These two basins are large and small, with narrow mouths in the front, back and middle, surrounded by smooth cliffs, dense forests and rocks on top, and are most suitable for ambushes, where the weak can defeat the strong.The bandit only needs to push down the rock from the top of his head to block the narrow opening at the moment of activation, and then continue to push the stone.

Huluyu is not only dangerous in terrain, but also the only way to Tsushima Ridge.They were also very cautious before crossing Huluyu. The large forces entered one after another under the observation and command of the special forces who went around to the commanding heights in advance.

After passing through the Hulu Valley, the troops walked another seven or eight miles on the mountain road. At this time, the ambush point belonging to the crossing people finally came in front of them: Tuzigou.

Travelers have very low requirements for ambushes: as long as there are no gullies, dark passages and stone forests that can help prey escape, the Bald Ditch is very suitable.

A long stone ditch with smooth cliffs as high as more than 20 meters on both sides. Except that the front and rear intersections are relatively wide, which is not suitable for closing the door and beating dogs, everything else is good.

The bandit brigade starting from the direction of Tsumaling also had to go to Tuzigou first if they wanted to go to Huluyu to ambush the officers and soldiers.At that time, there will be no special forces above the bandits' heads to help find the enemy with binoculars and infrared search devices. Let's wait and see.

After the troops arrived near Tuzigou, they were divided into two. Led by the special forces who had scouted the terrain in advance, they walked along the stone path on the cliff to the woods above Tuzigou.

From this moment on, the 200 soldiers who were divided into two by Tuzigou officially entered a state of ambush.

According to the deduction, if the gangsters think that the officers and soldiers can only spend the night near Ningyang County in the evening, then the best time for them to go to Huluyu, more than 20 miles away, is the early morning of tomorrow.

So the troops need to lie in ambush from noon until tomorrow morning. Of course, the deduction is only on paper after all, and the gangsters may move ahead or postpone their actions, so the troops must always remain vigilant.

(End of this chapter)