Early the next morning, when Wang Zhubo came to the gate of Tianhou Temple with 30 strong porters, he also felt a little wrong.

However, Wang Zhubo was a civil official, and he only noticed the decrease in the number of sentries at the gate and the silence in the courtyard, but did not notice that the sentries had changed their guns.

Ding Liqiu, who came to hear the news, shook his fan and welcomed Wang Zhubo into the Tianhou Palace.

The Tianhou Temple has changed from noisy at this moment, and the hot-blooded military camp style has returned to the quiet and peaceful temple style of the past.

Following behind Ding Liqiu, Wang Yuanzai, who was getting more and more infiltrated, couldn't help it, and opened his mouth to ask, "Mr. Ding, where is the army?" ”

"Hehe, I left last night."

"Huh!?" Wang Yuanzai paused when he heard this, and then he chased after him again: "But those two cannons haven't been with the army yet?" ”

"That's used to confuse bandits, what kind of cannon do you need to break the stockade."

"Oh......" Lord Wang's face changed several times, and then he twisted his beard and smiled: "I see, sure enough, the soldiers are not tired of cheating, Mr. is smart!" ”

"If you are clever or not, that's it." The two of them arrived at the door of the headquarters, Ding Liqiu turned around at this time, pointed to the few prisoners at the door who were kneeling on the ground and tied up by ropes, and said, "These brothers, Lord Wang should be no stranger, right?" ”

"Huh?" Lord Wang bowed his head when he heard this, and the soldiers standing behind the prisoners also cooperated at this time to grab the prisoners' hair, tilt their heads back, and reveal their faces.

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

Without waiting for him to perform again, Ding Liqiu shook his fan and pointed at the prisoners one by one and said: "These are all stalkers who have been sticking to the woods outside the gate since October, and they were easily arrested before the troops left last night...... Well, there's Lao Wang's subordinates here, right? ”

Wang Yuanzai laughed dryly at this time: "Mr. said that he was joking, this kind of thief Wang doesn't recognize it." ”

"What about this one? The martial master of Yantou Village, you should always know each other, right? Didn't you have a private meeting yesterday? ”

"Sir, don't talk nonsense!" Looking at Lin Dajin, who was embarrassed and had a fierce look in his eyes, Wang Yuanzai was already a little incoherent at this time.

"You don't have a good memory, you? Well, when you go to Zhangzhou Prison, you will naturally be able to remember. ”

Seeing Ding Liqiu's cold eyes, Wang Yuanzai knew that the matter had been revealed, and he couldn't help but take a step back in horror. However, his form suddenly stopped: two more hands came out of his shoulders and pressed him in place.

Wang Yuanzai turned around and found that there were two more people behind him. These two people, one old and one young, have vaguely similar faces, wearing flying fish suits and embroidered spring knives on their waists, which are Ma Rulin, Ma Jigong's father and son.

"Take it and take it to Zhangzhou to hand it over to the judicial office!"

With Ding Liqiu's loud shout, the soft feet on Lord Wang's thin head were knocked off by the majestic brocade guard, and then his knee was stepped on, and a certain father and son tied up Wang Yuanzai who was kneeling on the ground very quickly.

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 the bandits actually died because of the uneven distribution of the spoils and his own family...... Am I right? ”

......

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

The word "Red Gun Battalion" was actually temporarily named after coming to Longyan. This unit was a regiment, a battalion, and a company of the Imperial Army.

Counting the defenders of the forts, the regular Imperial Army, which was less than a regiment in later generations, was the most important mobile unit.

To paraphrase the description of later generations: this is a long-established army, born in the early days of the state, the same age as the empire.

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

This is a company of sharp knives with excellent military skills. All the soldiers have undergone more than a year of hard training and have participated in a number of actual battles. A large number of high-quality and politically qualified top-notch soldiers have emerged in the ranks -- these people have now been promoted to officers one after another, and have become the seeds and backbone of the new unit.

We have no doubt that this heroic unit will become the cradle of generals in the future.

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

As the core of the tactical force, the equipment is naturally the best.

The all-green "jungle style" military uniform with an all-cotton mechanism has a similar version to the camouflage uniforms of later generations, but the color is a little bumpy...... No way, don't look at the later generations even migrant workers wear camouflage, but it is also a digital camouflage programmed by a computer, with chemical fiber blended fabrics, which is not at all produced by a certain copycat force in the 17th century.

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

As for the weapon, needless to say, the twenty-eight big cover + explosives pack, this combination can probably be used until the end of the world.

Under the guidance of flashlights, fluorescent vests, infrared night vision devices, and nearby special combat personnel, well-trained soldiers wearing cowhide boots walked silently and quickly on the official road, like the Yin soldiers and paper horses in the story.

Anyone who has seen old photos of the late Qing Dynasty knows that the so-called "official road" in ancient times, after leaving the city, was actually a mud ditch lower than the road surface.

This mud ditch is full of messy, rut marks that have been pressed out. On a major road like Beijing-Tianjin, the width of the road surface can only allow two horse-drawn carriages to stagger and cross.

Therefore, when the emperor travels, the loess mat road is not just for pretending to be forced: to pass through those deep rut marks on both sides, a careless wooden wheel will be misaligned or sinking, if you don't use the soil pad in advance, in case the boss is thrown out to eat the soil, wouldn't it be bad?

..... In the 17th century, the official road of Longyan was not so exquisite: the road outside the county town even had few rut marks, and there were narrow, undulating, and dilapidated dirt roads everywhere: this was a mountainous area, and pack horses and donkeys were popular, and there were few carriages.

Even so, the official roads were still important compared to the forest paths - the troops had to use the official roads to cover more distances before dawn, otherwise it would be more troublesome during the day.

Fortunately, the soldiers of the company were all elite, and the night marching training was often carried out, so the march that night was very fast. After two short breaks on the road, by dawn, the troops had walked more than 60 miles northeast of Longyan and came to the territory of Ningyang County, which was still about 30 miles away from Tsushimaling.

At this point, the soldiers could rest in a col on the side of the road.

......

The plan for the whole campaign was this: yesterday morning, the traversers had already conveyed the false news of today's departure to the bandit den through the traitors.

After sending out the false information, the troops would march in a hurry that evening, with the goal of reaching the ambush site not far from Tsushima Ridge as soon as possible during the day the next day.

As for the bandits, because the information they got was wrong: the officers and soldiers would come slowly with cannons, so they would be dispatched very late.

According to the normal marching logic of the Ming official army, the official army could only walk nearly 100 miles of mountain roads to the vicinity of the county seat by night at the earliest.

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

After eating dry rations, drinking water from iron kettles, and resting for an hour, the troops started again. At this time, although it was already dawn, the speed of the troops was slower than at night in order to avoid pedestrians: the mountain roads were in poor condition, and in order to reduce the rate of non-combat attrition, it was necessary to reduce the speed of the march.

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

As the name suggests, Huluyu is composed of two circular basins connected together. These two basins, one large and one small, have narrow mouths in the front and back and in the middle, surrounded by smooth cliffs, and overhead are dense forests and rocks, which are most suitable for ambushes and defeat the strong with the weak. The bandits only need to push down the rocks from the top of their heads to block the narrow mouth at the moment of activation, and then continue to push the stones.

Huluyu is not only a dangerous terrain, but also the only way to go to Tsushimaling. They were also very cautious before crossing Huluyu in a row, and only under the observation and command of the special combat personnel who had gone around to the commanding heights in advance did the large units enter one after another.

After passing through Huluyu, the troops walked forward for seven or eight miles of mountain roads, and at this time, the ambush point belonging to the traversal finally came to the front: Balzigou.

The requirements for ambushes are low: as long as there are no ravines, tunnels, and stone forests that can help the prey escape...... Bald ditch is very suitable.

A long stone ditch, both sides are also up to more than 20 meters of smooth cliffs, except for the front and rear intersections are relatively wide, not suitable for closing the door to fight dogs, the others are good.

The bandit brigade that set out from the direction of Tsushima Ridge, if they wanted to go to Huluyu to ambush the officers and soldiers, they also had to go to Baldzigou first. And at that time, there were no special forces above the bandits' heads to help find enemy troops with binoculars and infrared searchers, everyone will see.

After the troops came to the vicinity of Balzigou, they split into two and followed the stone path on the cliff to the woods above Balzigou under the leadership of special combat personnel who had reconnoitred the terrain in advance.

From this moment on, the 200 soldiers who were divided in two by Bald Ditch officially entered an ambush.

According to the deduction, if the bandits thought that the officers and troops could only spend the night near Ningyang County in the evening, then the best time for them to set off for an ambush in Huluyu, more than 20 miles away, would be in the early morning of tomorrow.

Therefore, the troops need to lay in ambush from noon until tomorrow morning, of course, after all, the deduction is only on paper, and the bandits may also act in advance or later, so the troops must always remain vigilant.