Chapter 25 Tracking
On the river embankment after the heavy rain, the moist air was mixed with a fresh smell of fragrant grass, accompanied by the earthy smell brought by the river breeze, Liu Yu took a deep breath, and his mind immediately became sober.
Everything in Taiping Prefecture has been explained to Meng Zhijin, and after a few days, this person is quite obedient. Although he was not active, he still ordered his subordinates to wait for the implementation of them one by one.
There are already more than 2,000 people who have been recruited, Liu Yu ordered them to clean up all the way along the official road, fill in the disrepair, and if people are idle together, there will be accidents, Liu Yu can only use this method to let them consume excess energy.
Ten accompanying forbidden soldiers rushed to Lugang with two walkie-talkies, on the one hand, to facilitate communication with Hu San Province, and on the other hand, to protect his personal safety.
The group of people under Wang Dutou is still very effective, with the assistance of whips and scolding, everyone has learned at least three things, turn on the power switch, press the receive button, be obedient, press the launch button, and speak.
As for the more complicated task of replacing the battery, charging the generator is something that only a few people with a very smart mind can do. And these people were all gathered by Liu Yu and were responsible for managing the repeater station and the generator. Too much time had been wasted, and he had more important things to do.
Riding a horse galloping on the official road by the river, because there were too few horses, Liu Yu only followed two entourage. As expected, Wang Lixin and his entourage should have entered Jiankang City, and they couldn't get specific news, which made people feel irritable, Liu Yu didn't like this feeling very much, so he brought a few walkie-talkies and prepared to rush over.
All the way through quarrying, Majiadu, Jiangning Town, until Banqiao, Liu Yu ordered everyone to rest in the horse, running for so long, people are not tired of the horse can no longer stand it.
"Don't be in a hurry, there is already Niutou Mountain in front, and you can see Jiankang City after this mountain." Seeing that his brow was furrowed, a sergeant spoke comfortingly.
"Well, everyone has worked hard all the way, so sit down and eat some." Liu Yu nodded, beckoned everyone to tie their horses, and entered the food shed on the side of the road. Although this roadside stall is a little simple, it is still clean, and a middle-aged man saw a few people coming in and was busy greeting them politely.
After filling some food into his stomach at will, Liu Yu put it down and turned his head to look at the town. Several Fuzi families were closed, and the few passers-by were in a hurry, as if something had happened.
"It's the first time for an official to come to Jiankang Mansion, no wonder I'm not used to eating this thing." The middle-aged man saw that Liu Yu hadn't eaten much and thought he wasn't used to it.
"It's not like that, I've been riding the horse for too long, and I don't have much appetite. Just look at the two of them, your food here is very good. ”
"If you can't do it, you can just enter it. How many of them are from the government, and they are here for yesterday's events? Seeing Liu Yu so polite, the middle-aged man asked casually.
"Oh, what happened yesterday?" Liu Yu was interested.
"Hey, I heard that yesterday, the forbidden army in Jiankang City rose up to make trouble, and the movement was quite big, and finally the city gates on all sides were closed." The middle-aged man lowered his voice and said mysteriously.
"Later." Liu Yu was suddenly shocked in his heart, how could this matter be advanced, the war has not started yet, what is going on? On the surface, he continued to inquire quietly.
"After a while of making trouble in the city, they all ran away, and now the city is empty. I heard that even Taishou left the city. Hearing this, Liu Yu stood up suddenly, and Zhao Wei ran away, which was beyond his expectations.
"You see a large group of men coming into the city from here?" Liu Yu's mind is turning, has Wang Lixin entered the city?
"There were indeed people passing by yesterday, I don't know if it was the team that the official said. I can't read and write, and I don't know what is written on the banner. The middle-aged man thought for a moment and replied to him.
"Thank you, shopkeeper." Liu Yu threw down a silver ingot, beckoned the two sergeants to go out and get on their horses, and galloped towards Jiankang. Bypassing Niutou Mountain, the tall city in the distance is clearly visible.
"Look at it quickly, it's the banner of command!" The sergeant accompanying him shouted, Liu Yu looked up, and a group of cavalry came not far ahead, dusty, and the first banner was a "gold" word.
Liu Yu and the three stopped on the side of the road, and the accompanying sergeant kept waving his hand at the comers, this team of more than ten people, the leader was not tall, but it was Jin Ming's little sister pheasant slave, seeing Liu Yu and others, Qi Qi stopped the horse.
"Brother Yu, how did you get here?" The pheasant slave turned over and dismounted and ran to Liu Yu's side.
"How's the deal, where do you want to go?" Liu Yu let go of her hand and slowly dismounted.
"I entered the city yesterday and ordered me to wait to look for you, and who knew that you would come by yourself." Hearing that Wang Lixin was fine, Liu Yu also relieved his heart.
"It's just in time, there is something I want you to do." According to the history books, Zhao Wei ran back to Lin'an directly, since he didn't meet him along the way, then he was very likely to take the line of Liyang, because his brother Zhao Huai was an official there.
According to Liu Yu's instructions, more than ten people brought by the pheasant slave and Liu Yu's own two entourages formed a team, Yan Lishui tracked all the way, Liu Yu took out a walkie-talkie with a adjusted frequency and handed it to one of the entourage, so that they could grasp their whereabouts at any time.
Watching the group walk away, Liu Yu took the pheasant slave towards Jiankang City. Through her mouth, Liu Yu also learned that the rout in the city had been cleared, and finally a total of thousands of people were contained, and Jin Ming did not come in person because of this.
When entering the city from the south gate, Liu Yu deliberately looked at the sergeant guarding the gate, and it was indeed not the uniform of the forbidden army, but they were all red and bright, and their spirits were excellent.
"This is the township soldiers under the command of Yuan Tongju, I heard that they have made great contributions, if it weren't for them, I don't know what would have become of the city." Seeing his puzzled face, the pheasant slave whispered on the side.
"Yuan Tong's sentence?" Liu Yu searched in his mind, but there was no impression of this person.
"It's this man, I heard that he used only three arrows to disperse a large group of routs, but unfortunately we walked slowly." The pheasant slave sighed, as if he was still unsatisfied.
The place where Wang Lixin collapsed was Zhao Wei's Yamen, and all the people he saw were acquaintances, all of whom called him "Jiyi" and saluted him with fists.
"Ziqing arrived so quickly, I'm sending someone to look for you." Wang Lin walked out of it with a document in his hand.
"Are you free? Where are you going. Liu Yu stopped and looked at him, the two knew each other very well, so they didn't need to be too polite.
"Go quickly, I'm waiting for you, I'm going to check the treasury." Wang Lin replied to him twice, and went out by mistake.
Entering the inner hall, Liu Yu saw Wang Lixin standing under the dripping eaves, looking at the sky with his hands behind his back, and his face was not bad.
"Recruitment, I must have slept well yesterday, so I don't have to rest for a while." Liu Yu bowed as he spoke, and now he can make these movements naturally, as if he was born with it.
"Ziqing, it seems that you already know, as you expected, tell me, how did you expect it?" Wang Lixin saw him and smiled.
"What's so difficult about this, how did Zhao Wei get the official, don't say that you don't know, a certain person doesn't believe that he will die with the city." Liu Yu's words are full of confidence, in fact, aren't they all recorded in the history books.
"It's just that I didn't expect that this guy would be so incompetent, the enemy soldiers did not arrive, and the battle was not divided, so he actually fled first." In the end, this is not the result of his little wings flapping, Liu Yu is not sure, if there is no longer a trajectory to be found in the future, it will be difficult to do.
"According to the confession of the defeated soldiers, someone deliberately spread rumors in the city to provoke them to disperse, and their hearts can be punished." Wang Lixin restrained his smile and looked stern.
"Who did it, Yuanren spy?" Liu Yu's first thought was this, leading the party? It is indeed punishable.
"How can a spy have that ability, it is some people with dirty minds, and there are so many traitors and villains." Wang Lixin waved his hand, his face full of melancholy.
"Why did Zhao Ke do this?" Liu Yu was taken aback, it doesn't make sense, it's not the army pressing the border, if you want to run, you will run, but why disbanded the garrison?
"You don't understand, if the guards gather and roar, he, the vassal, can be forced to leave the city, and he doesn't have to bear the responsibility for losing the city." These twists and turns in officialdom are indeed not something that Liu Yu, a little otaku, can understand.
"This kind of villain, don't mind soliciting, but there are less than 10,000 people in the city now, so it is better to open the treasury immediately to recruit troops." Liu Yu thinks that it is better to run away to avoid being hindered.
"Well, this matter is already being done, and the matter of recruiting troops is handed over to that Yuan Hong, this person is indeed extraordinary, brave and strategic." It can be seen that Wang Lixin admires this person very much.
"There are two other things that need to be planned early." Liu Yu thought about it, and some plans could be advanced.
"Come on." Wang Lixin looked at him.
"First, the Wenning State Mansion and the Jiangzhou County in Huaixi, the forbidden army of the Ministry of Dispatch and the naval army along the river came. Second, all the large and small ships in Jiankang Mansion will be requisitioned, and the boatmen will be released to Dangtu County as soon as possible. ”
Ningguo Mansion and Jiankang opposite the Hezhou Wuwei Army and other places, are the closest states and counties, after the battle of Dingjiazhou in history, they all rushed to surrender the Yuan army, Liu Yu wanted to draw out the local garrison in advance, so as not to become an accomplice in the future.
As for the navy, Liu Yu now needs a large number of ships, the more the better, and the faster, and when the army is defeated, it will be too late. After what was happening in front of him, he was no longer sure whether the war would begin at that moment as recorded in the history books.
Wang Lixin thought for a while, nodded, called in a scribe, wrote the text on the spot, and sent someone out quickly. Wang Lixin looked at Liu Yu standing on the side, a little unpredictable, this son seemed to have known that the army would be defeated, and he even expected the time of defeat, why should he?
In Wang Lixin's eyes, Liu Yu's arrangements are all prepared for the rout of the army, even so, with those defeated soldiers with no morale, how can he hold this Jiankang City.
"Recruitment, when Zhao Wei left the city, he took away the seal letter in the house." Liu Yu suddenly remembered a key question.
"Well, in this house, except for the heavy pieces, everything that can be taken away has been taken away, and naturally there will be no seal left, otherwise how can he return to the court." Wang Lixin didn't quite understand why he asked this.
"I want to borrow his Jiankang prefect's big seal for use, so I asked." Liu Yu didn't hide it from him and told him bluntly.
"You want to know Jiankang Mansion, this is too much to stay in the capital, Wupin Zhengtang, and besides, Zhao Wei has already run away, how can he agree." Wang Lixin shook his head and smiled, feeling that he was a little whimsical.
Liu Yu also smiled, how would he know if he didn't try, when he first entered Wang Lixin's mansion, how could he be sure. At this moment, there was a sound of "beep" in his arms, Liu Yu took out the walkie-talkie, pressed the receive button, and heard a voice sound.
"It's opportune, people have caught up, just past Moling Town, but there are only 100 people, and the words are finished."
"Got it, follow them closely, listen to my instructions at any time, finish speaking." Liu Yu pressed the launch button and said loudly.
After finishing speaking, he looked at Wang Lixin, who was stunned on the side, and said with a smile: "Recruitment, people have already entered the hub, and if you want to borrow 300 soldiers from Zhao, I don't know if it is possible?" ”