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The day after Wei Changhai passed through the telescope of the Jianguan Tower and discovered that there was an abnormal movement in Huguan, an officer hurriedly ran to the Jianguan General's office and reported to him the latest news: the soldiers on duty found that there were enemy movements outside the Jianguan. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Wei Changhai's face sank, he had expected this, the enemy finally came.

There were preparations and deployments, Wei Changhai did not panic, and immediately led people to climb the high platform on the city wall to control the overall situation.

However, when Wei Changhai climbed the high platform of the city tower, he discovered a fact that surprised him.

Outside the city, there is a newly built Xia Army camp, which appeared in front of the Sword Pass!

That's the enemy barracks!

Wei Changhai was furious! No one knew about such a major enemy situation, or did they not report it if they knew about it!

Immediately, Wei Changhai scolded sharply: "When did the Xia army start camping outside the Sword Pass? Haven't any of you found out? Or do you not report it immediately if you know about it? Do you know what it means to delay the military situation?"

Wei Changhai's angry shouts frightened everyone on the high platform of the city tower, so that they understood the seriousness of the situation.

"I'm sorry, sir. The officer on the night shift immediately pleaded guilty to Wei Changhai, and the trembling voice revealed the horror in his heart. Indeed, such a mistake could not be tolerated, and he was deeply afraid that Wei Changhai would hold him accountable for a capital crime.

As far as Wei Changhai is concerned, this kind of mistake that affects the military situation is indeed an intolerable low-level mistake!

The battle between the two armies is imminent, and the enemy army has made such a big move, and they are already camped in front of the sword pass, and the officers of our army did not react to this in time.

But Wei Changhai finally suppressed this anger for the time being, and did not continue to entangle his subordinates' mistakes. Xia Jun's army is close at hand, and what should be done at this time is not to get to the bottom of it. Because if an officer or several sergeants are punished at this time, not only will it not be able to help the situation in any way, but it will disturb the morale of the army.

Therefore, in front of all the soldiers and soldiers, Wei Changhai bitterly reprimanded these officers and soldiers on night duty who were negligent in their duties, and ordered them to continue to serve for their crimes, and then talk about their merits afterwards.

Then, Wei Changhai turned to look at the Xia army camp in front of him and began to pay attention to the enemy's movements, the expression on his face was unfathomable, and the officers on the side did not dare to speak rashly.

After a while, Wei Changhai opened his voice and asked, "What are they doing?"

"They built guard towers, set up fences for the camp, laid out horses to resist horses, and dug trenches in front of the camp......," the subordinate who knew about it immediately reported the situation one by one.

Wei Changhai thought about it, his face turned even darker, and he said, "Xia Jun is in a posture of fighting for a long time. ”

This conclusion made the officers present stunned!

"Sir, are we going to shell their camp. A subordinate officer gave Wei Changhai advice.

On the wall of Jianguan, there are two hundred mortars, if they are used to hit the camp of the Xia army, it should be the most direct and effective, continuous attack, and the lethality is enough to raze the entire camp of the Xia army.

"Not for the time being!" Wei Changhai thought for a moment and said, "Rushing into battle is not conducive to our army defending the city. If there is an offensive movement of the enemy, it is not too late to carry out artillery bombardment. ”

Wei Changhai was not worried, the enemy set up camp here. The Xia army stationed in the camp is equivalent to revealing their whereabouts, which is better than not seeing their traces and being raided by the enemy. Moreover, fortunately, the enemy's camp was discovered in time, as long as they kept an eye on the movements of the Xia army, even if they wanted to launch an attack, there would be traces to follow, which was conducive to Wei Changhai and their timely response. Therefore, for Wei Changhai, it is beneficial.

Of course, the reason why Wei Changhai decided to let this tumor exist and not use mortars to blow up the enemy camp immediately was because, with this tumor, the Xia army would not necessarily send another army to attack, which would be conducive to Wei Changhai's defense, and more importantly, Wei Changhai had another consideration.

"The reinforcements from Shucheng will arrive at Jianguan in two days. Don't waste shells until reinforcements arrive. Wei Changhai said what was in his heart.

At present, the sword pass is indeed to be defended.

If he is not sure of destroying the enemy army at one time, Wei Changhai's best choice is to hold on. The sword pass is the gateway to Yunzhou, and the sword pass is guarded, which means that the Xinghua Empire still controls Yunzhou.

Wei Changhai believes that the stock of artillery shells in Jianguan and the number of arms reserves in Jianguan will directly determine how many days Jianguan can hold in the future.

It is not impossible to go to war, and launching an artillery bombardment can indeed blow up the enemy's camp relatively easily, but it cannot fundamentally stop the unfavorable factors against the sword pass. Even if this camp is blown up, the enemy may immediately send troops over and camp again, and this resurgence will only consume the arms of the sword pass in vain.

In this way, it is not good for the sword pass. Unless the empire has a steady supply of munitions, but there is no need to waste it, even the gold and silver mountains will be consumed.

Unless, it is to use the arms on the most critical points, and hit the enemy's vital parts with a single hit.

Therefore, leaving this one enemy barracks can prevent the creation of new barracks.

Wei Changhai's consideration is not a lack of confidence in the empire, but a cautious and prudent performance.

In order to find out the details of the Xia army, Wei Changhai simply climbed the tower and used a telescope to observe the Xia army camp.

In the distance, in the camp of the Xia army, there were tents everywhere. And in and out of these tents, there are all soldiers and generals of the Xia Army, and people come and go, so it's not lively.

However, this liveliness is different from the liveliness of walking through the streets and alleys and playing in the market street, on the contrary, there is always a strong aura of slaughter in it, even Wei Changhai, who is far away, can vaguely feel it.

At ten o'clock in the morning, Wei Changhai saw the Xia army camp, and a carriage came out of it and drove away.

Wei Changhai was stunned for a moment, and then immediately kept an eye on every movement of the enemy camp and carefully observed.

Then, Wei Changhai ordered the soldiers in charge of the herald to go to the artillery camp and immediately bombard the positions of the Xia army.

"That's the enemy's siege machine, order the artillery battalion, aim at them, destroy them. Wei Changhai said.

Sure enough, Wei Changhai guessed correctly, the items on those carriages were long-distance catapults. It was precisely because of the discovery of these long-range attack weapons that were not conducive to the Sword Pass that Wei Changhai suddenly made a decision, he had to take the lead and attack immediately!

The commander of the Jianguan artillery battalion received the order and set up mortars on the city wall.

Boom......

At the beginning of the first round, the mortars of the Jianguan Artillery Battalion fired the first shells, completely detonating the fighting on the border between the two countries.

The catapult positions of the Xia army were devastated by mortars. The Xia army's catapult position has not yet been fully arranged, and there are only a few catapults, throwing boulders. Boulders, thrown into the sword pass, caused two houses to collapse. In addition to this, the losses of the Xinghua army were negligible.

On a guard tower at the rear of the Xia army's camp, Bai Qi saw that his side had suffered heavy losses and regretted it.

"Traditional catapults can no longer pose a threat to the enemy. Bai Qi said lightly.

"Shenwu cannon, it's still being debugged. A lieutenant of the Xia army said.

Bai Qi smiled: "I didn't mean to rush you. ”

In Bai Qi's mind, he already had a new attack plan.

This plan must not be discovered by the enemy in order to be effective.

Bai Qi said: "Tomorrow, I will prepare a surprise attack. This raid must not have been imagined by the Xinghua army in Jianguan. ”

"Please show me the general!" the general asked.

"Tomorrow, I need a thousand-man shield-wielding death squad, one Shenwu cannon, a hundred Shenwu cannons, and a large number of archers. Bai Qi said.

"Yes, General. The general beside Bai Qi said.

Bai Qi turned around, jumped off the watchtower, left the camp, and returned to Huguan. As for the catapult outside the camp, Bai Qi didn't mean to pay the slightest attention. In Bai Qi's heart, catapults are already old and outdated siege weapons, and there is no need to go to pity.

Under the sword pass, Xia Jun's catapults suffered heavy losses.

However, in Wei Changhai's heart, there was no joy. Because no matter how he looked at it, he felt that Xia Jun didn't pay attention to this battle.

Subsequently, the battle report of this battle was sent back to Shucheng.

Shucheng, Qin Zhengguo, Zhao Chang and others held the third operational meeting to discuss the work of supporting front-line operations and supporting logistics. Among them, the report of Wei Quai, the county seat of Pingxin, attracted their attention.

"I really didn't expect that there would be so many members of the Black Dragon Society in Shucheng. Zhao Chang took the report of Wei Quai's illness and said with murderous anger on his face.

Qin Zhengguo nodded and said, "In Shu City, there are more than a thousand members of the Black Dragon Society lurking, which is really a shocking thing. ”

"This list is the information that Wei Qubing got to arrest Chen Sheng, a member of the Black Dragon Society. I think it's extremely credible. At this point, it's better to believe it. These people must be arrested, put in prison, and kept under strict guard. Be careful so that you don't get pulled back. Zhao Chang said.

"Give the list to the police department, and send in the reserve army to assist in the arrest. Resistors, kill directly. In extraordinary times, do extraordinary things. Qin Zhengguo said.

"I agree!" Zhao Chang and other officials unanimously agreed with Qin Zhengguo's response measures.

"As for the Shadow Hall mentioned by Wei Quai, it is obviously a spy of the Xia Kingdom. These shadows, which we are not aware of for a while, are always potential threats. How are we good?" Qin Zhengguo asked.

"Order the Imperial Intelligence Bureau to take over, first guard the mansion in Shucheng City, the Logistics Department of the Xinghua Army and other departments, screen out suspicious targets, and ensure that some key positions are not mixed by the enemy. Zhao Chang replied.

Qin Zhengguo thought about it and agreed to Zhao Chang's proposal.

"Qin Chengjun, can you solve this problem?" Qin Zhengguo directly asked Qin Chengjun, the director of the Shu Army Intelligence Bureau, who was sitting in the corner of the conference room.

Qin Chengjun smiled and replied, "Report to the chief, this is our job. ”

At the end of the meeting, Qin Chengjun came out of it, did not stop a step, walked to a carriage, and left in a carriage.

In the carriage, Qin Chengjun said to the intelligence staff of his intelligence bureau: "The empire is determined to sweep mines and eliminate spies from other countries. ”

"Director, we are professional. We're going to dig them out. The subordinate laughed.

"Well, the reason why they were able to hide in Shu City safely in the past was only because we ignored them. Now that we're doing it, we can't give them any chance to escape. Go back and immediately convene a meeting of the intelligence officers in Shucheng. Qin Chengjun said.

Qin Chengjun and the others returned to the Shucheng Intelligence Bureau and immediately held an operational meeting.

Qin Chengjun set up three working groups to screen the Shucheng Civil Affairs Bureau and related employees, the city guard and related employees, and the Yunzhou Army Logistics Office and related employees. The reason why they targeted these three places was very simple, these three places were in contact with the three aspects of the Xinghua Empire's stability in Yunzhou: the hearts of the people of Yunzhou, the headquarters of the Yunzhou Army, and the army's logistics supply line. Any accident can have a certain impact on Yunzhou.

"It is better to kill by mistake than to spare one. Priority is given to investigating the Castle Guard and the Army's Logistics Office. Qin Chengjun said.

"Yes, Director. The crowd replied in unison.

After a while, Zhao Chang sent someone to send a roster of staff, which had a more detailed personal profile.

Time is pressing, Qin Chengjun and they have to conduct a screening in their resumes.

"Chen Liuming, a native of Shucheng, was born as a landlord, literate, and is currently the account office of the city guard...... He couldn't reach the command center of the castle guard. ”

"Hai Xiangrui, a native of the county, was born as a shopkeeper, is literate and hyphenated, good at calculation, and serves as the deputy housekeeper...... There's a chance he's a spy, to be screened. ”

"Huang Hualang, a native of Shucheng, a servant of the city guard, entered the mansion two months ago, has a kind personality, does things perfectly, and has not made any mistakes. ”

……

After a simple selection of the Shucheng Intelligence Bureau, a large number of suspected spies appeared.

"How many people?" Qin Chengjun asked.

"The 126 people are quite suspicious! Their suspiciousness is mainly reflected in the following points: First, relatives and friends live in distant places or deep in the mountains and old forests, and it is not easy to meet them, which means that they have no worries about the future; second, they have not been in the department for a long time and have behaved too well; and third, their whereabouts are suspicious. The subordinate reported.

"Okay, contact the police. Qin Chengjun said.

After a simple selection of the Shucheng Intelligence Bureau, a large number of suspected spies appeared.

"How many people?" Qin Chengjun asked.

"The 126 people are quite suspicious! Their suspiciousness is mainly reflected in the following points: First, relatives and friends live in distant places or deep in the mountains and old forests, and it is not easy to meet them, which means that they have no worries about the future; second, they have not been in the department for a long time and have behaved too well; and third, their whereabouts are suspicious. The subordinate reported.

"Okay, contact the police. Qin Chengjun said.

"Okay, contact the police. Qin Chengjun said. (To be continued.) )