Jiang Yu waited for Li Chong, he had been waiting for a long time.

Originally, such a matter as intelligence contact should be handed over to Meng Liang, who is relatively closer to him, to be responsible. However, considering that he needs to ensure his presence and power in Mengyang City, which is relatively unfamiliar with the environment, in addition to the six hundred troops under his command, that is, two battalions, he also needs people around him to support the scene, so as not to lose his prestige in front of other officers.

Meng Liang, who was more astute and sharp-eyed, was left behind, and instead sent Li Zhong to Mang Castle to wait for news.

Before Li Chonglin left, Jiang Yugang explained a lot of things to him.

At first, Jiang Yugang actually just wanted to say a few words and explain the important things clearly, but as he told the really key content, the surging uneasiness made him say a lot more.

For example, there is a great possibility that Li Zhong can't wait for news from the Mansi Village; And if the news of the Mansi Village does not come, then Li Zhong needs to wait forever.

And so on, the news that should not be revealed to his subordinates, he said it without any scruples, on the one hand, he trusted Li Chong, and on the other hand, he was uneasy in his heart and could not be suppressed.

He worked hard to establish what may be the most developed intelligence agency in the Luchuan area, with nearly 300 people serving in the middle of the country, collecting all kinds of intelligence confidence in the Mengyang area, but the comprehensive result of this information was difficult for him to face and bear.

That's a huge number of enemy troops, close to a total of 100,000 people, of which there are at least 40,000 soldiers, and it's not that there are no more possibilities.

And the total number of all the defenders on your side is only 6,000, and in this disparity of proportions, any tactical mistake will lead to serious results.

Among them, the most dangerous and most likely tactical mistake is the support of reinforcements.

Because Jiangtoucheng held back too much attention from the Ming army, within two hundred miles of Mengyangcheng, except for the defenders of Mengyangcheng itself, there were hardly a large number of Ming troops stationed, which also brought great difficulties to the timely support of reinforcements.

First of all, because the battle line is too long, it is impossible for reinforcements to simply provide realistic conditions for efficient support; Secondly, that is, there are still a large number of main forces of Luchuan in the direction of Jiangtou City, and a large number of main forces of the Ming army must devote all their energy to ensure the progress of the offensive in the direction of Jiangtou City, and they do not have the realistic conditions for sending a force to support Mengyang City.

Once the number of transfers is too large, it is likely to bring about problems in the battle in the direction of Jiangtou City, and once the Ming army's Jiangtou City defense line is defeated, the result is likely to be a complete defeat on the Luchuan front.

In this land, the Ming army was actually not familiar with people and things. This is a great era, and the warriors who created this era have been on the expedition.

It is also for this reason that the Ming army is ostensibly encircling the Luchuan army, but in fact, the entire Luchuan forces are surrounding the Ming army, once the Ming army loses on the battlefield of the decisive battle with the Luchuan army in Jiangtou City, the entire Luchuan will no longer fear and respect the Ming army, everything can happen at that time, and the biggest possibility is that Luchuan will become the biggest trap of the Ming army.

In order to ensure that there were no accidents in the battle at Jiangtou City, there were no extra troops to support Meng Yangcheng for a long time, and Meng Yangcheng could not resist the Luchuan army alone, so the only way was to urgently transfer troops from Jiangtou City in the event of a battle, and then transfer the troops back to Jiangtou City as soon as possible.

And the only flaw in this is the road.

Although Luchuan was one of the richest and most developed areas in the Indochina Peninsula at that time, compared with the plains of the Central Plains, there were still many jungles and mountains, and there was still a big gap in the degree of development, the most obvious point being the roads built.

From Mengyang to Jiangtou City, if it is a straight-line distance, Jiang Yugang estimated that it may be fifty kilometers later, that is, about a hundred miles long, which is still a length that can barely march in a day, and with the help of horses, it may be possible to realize the support strategy of marching in a relatively short time.

However, because of the actual terrain and road conditions in the Luchuan area, the road that allowed the army to pass bypassed the Manggu Mountain, so there was a big turn, and the actual length of the road was extended to more than 100 kilometers, and the Li of the Ming Dynasty was more than 200 li, which was no longer the distance that a fast march could support.

Coupled with the complexity of the road conditions, even the cavalry marching with the help of horses can not do it all the way at high speed, and many terrains on the way can not be ridden at all, which is also the principle of the design of the connection line of Jiang Yugang's secret academy observation hall, through the analysis of the road sections along the way, while considering the different road conditions and the length of the road sections, and choose the appropriate location to set up the connection point.

In areas where horses cannot be used, the message is often transmitted by the heralds, and where the road is strong enough to support the passage of horses, stables are built at both the departure and terminal points, where horses are used for access.

However, the mode of connecting the lead is not suitable for a large number of troops, because the marching speed of a large number of troops may be very slow, and it is close to a miracle to be able to achieve it in two days, and from the second time he sent information to the barbarian temple village, until the time when the Luchuan army launched an attack in the intelligence, the total length of only one day has passed.

Where will the reinforcements be able to go in such a short time? If they want to get to Mengyang City, how much time will it take for reinforcements, in other words, how long will they still have to fight?

There is also the third problem that worries Jiang Yu the most: if the Mansi Village did not send reinforcements, but decided to attack after the battle broke out, and they independently learned the information of Mengyangcheng, then what chance would Mengyangcheng have to be able to hold it? After such a long battle, could they really hold this fragile Mengyang City?

All the questions lingered in his heart, and Jiang Yuyan lost sleep for the second time.

The first insomnia was the first night he had just come to the Ming Dynasty, and the reason for his insomnia at that time was largely due to the fact that it was too uncomfortable to sleep on the haystack where he was lying, and it had nothing to do with the mental restlessness, or even that he was never so tired because of the impact of too many things on that day, whether it was physical or psychological.

And this night is different, it is simply a surge of thoughts, and I can't feel at ease for a long time.

Once he came here, he was alone in the true sense of the word, and with the memory of the world that was incompatible with the people of this era, he came to the Luchuan battlefield completely unfamiliar.

Before that, he was an antique collector who lived in no fixed place and wandered all over the world, and in fact he was a light and lonely person, and he had no worries about any time. But in the past few months in Luchuan, he has continuously won the trust and recognition of the people around him by chance, and there are more and more people around him, almost from scratch to build a Mang Castle of thousands of people, from a small nameless small flag officer, to an important commander of the entire Mengyang City defense line, inadvertently, he has carried a lot of things.

Once, Jiang Yugang was just a name that could exist or not exist, and in later eras, no one would know his life and death, and he was too small in the face of the great battle of the Battle of Luchuan.

But now Jiang Yugang is no longer such an insignificant existence, and it can even be said that his existence deeply affects the trend of the entire Luchuan situation.

It is true that he only controls the thousands of people in Mang Castle, and he is not a first-class figure in Luchuan, and even the influence of a character like Bai Qianfan may be far greater than him. But now Jiang Yugang is playing a real and irreplaceable role, whether it is the advanced firearm technology, or the developed intelligence system, all these changes have happened quietly.

Now Jiang Yugang has already got the ticket to the chess table that really affects the fate of Luchuan, and all the chess players who have sat on it, whether it is Si Jifa, Si Lu or Wang Ji, or the Mu family in Yunnan, or even the people in the Ming court behind the scenes thousands of miles away, are quietly waiting for this young man who controls the strongest garrison in Mengyang City to take a seat and show his strength in a gesture.

And Jiang Yu, who was burdened with this burden for the first time in his life, had insomnia.

In fact, if it weren't for all the things that happened in Manggu Mountain in the past few months, whether it was the initial death fight with the Luchuan Army or the development and construction of Manggu Castle, he would still be able to maintain a relatively peaceful attitude.

At that time, it was impossible for him to know that tens of thousands of people were going to attack Mengyang City, and there were only a few thousand people on his side, but he still had to make up his mind to win the battle and defend the city. He could have followed the commander or the thousands of households and hundreds of households under his command to retreat to Jiangtou City together, and then retreated with the army of followers, there was no need to challenge the limit and wait for a miracle.

But now he has inadvertently become no choice, or rather, he himself took the initiative to choose the most difficult choice, there will certainly be a lot of benefits behind this choice, if things can go according to his vision, Bai Qianfan is dead or punished, instead of Bai Qianfan to defend Mengyang City, he will become the person with the greatest merit in this battle, and the thousands of people under his command will support him to get the reward he deserves.

And to get all this, it is not so simple, although he has worked hard to implement the plan smoothly enough, trained a large number of troops equipped with birds, and won the trust of Bai Qianfan, and undertook the task of defending the city, but there are still the most important things that have not been fruitful.

That's reinforcements.

If there had been no accident with the information sent from Mengyang City to the camp in Jiangtou City at the beginning, the messenger who took the shortcut should have been able to send the information for help to the camp before dawn, and if the camp sent troops immediately, or if the response to the call for help was sent back immediately, then he should have received the information description of the reinforcements before the sun set.

But the reality was obviously not as smooth as planned, not to mention that the sun was setting, and the moon's position in the sky was about to begin to fall, and he still didn't see Li Chong's figure.

"Could it be that Li Zhong encountered danger on the way from Mang Castle to Mengyang City?" Jiang Yugang had already begun to analyze whether there was a problem in this, and for a moment, he was still a little angry with himself, why didn't he arrange a few more people to convey the news from Mang Castle to Mengyang City as Li Chong's unexpected preparation.

But when you calm down and think about it, this arrangement is really unrealistic. Because the journey from Mang Castle to Mengyang City is not far in the first place, and there is no dangerous place; Secondly, there are two important Ming army strongholds near this road, and when the Luchuan army in Manggu Mountain is most active, no one dares to invade this area, let alone such a sensitive time as it is now on the eve of a battle.

Although many soldiers in the Luchuan Army lacked training, the officers and leaders still had basic military qualities and would not do such low-level things as disrupting the overall battle arrangements before the war.