Chapter Ninety-Seven: Changes in Longxi
When Wang Li in the clouds received Qin Zheng's order, he quickly organized five hundred elites, including one hundred martial knights, to follow Lin Jiang to Longxi.
Moreover, before leaving, several local little sweaters also expressed their loyalty and arranged more or less Tumut riders to follow, so by the time Lin Jiang turned to the five hundred Qin army and five hundred soldiers in the north, his entire team of light soldiers had reached 1,500 people.
This team not only had all the armor, but also had two horses, and was followed by a supply team of several hundred people, so the result was naturally that the march was fast and morale was high, and it arrived in Longxi a day and a half ahead of schedule.
Longxi was originally recovered by the Northland Army, and then only relied on the original fortress to establish a defense in the local area, which was scattered as a whole, and there was no actual commander.
Therefore, the entire 3,000 people in Longxi don't even have a Sima-level general, except for a 2,500 lord (thousand commanders), the others are all 500 lords and 100 generals, and Lin Jiang's arrival can be regarded as giving them a backbone.
The only Qianchang Zhongxingyu in Longxi is a descendant of the generals of Wei, and his family has not been very popular in the army because he only got the title anyway.
He can only manage the role of a good man, although it can be regarded as stabilizing the morale of the army, but in this way, those old Qin five hundred lords will not obey him.
So before Lin Jiang came, his role was only a central mouthpiece, and the various fortresses did not directly accept his command, and his thousand-man team was also stationed in Lintao, the only big city in Longxi far from the border, ———.
This time, he still carried forward his style and came to pick up people early, but from a distance, he found that Lin Jiang's team was far more than he imagined, and it had almost reached twice the order.
When Lin Jiang and his party finally arrived outside Lintao City, Zhongxingyu hurriedly stepped forward to greet him: "General, welcome to Longxi, I will wait for you to be the first to look forward to in the future!" ”
Lin Jiang saw that Zhongxingyu was so afraid of sycophants, and thought that he would not be a rigid person, and he could use it for the time being, so he returned the salute: "It's all for Daqin, for Your Majesty, work hard together." ”
In this way, the two entered the city while praising each other. The population of Lintao City is not large, but fortunately, with Li Zicheng's "Loving the People Order" in front, the discipline of the Qin army is not bad, and this place is basically not destroyed, and it is like a paradise compared to Hedong.
"Bank of China, can you tell me who the enemy is? Is it good to make progress in infiltration? Lin Jiang asked straight to the point.
Bank of China frowned, and said with an embarrassed expression: "We have actually determined the target forces, and this group of people should be the mother country of Brother Li Lingning, the Xia Kingdom."
However, there is still one problem, our infiltration troops can only imitate their appearance, and they do not understand their language, so they cannot inquire about too much information. Even so, we found a significant situation! ”
"Oh?" Lin Jiang hurriedly stepped forward curiously, took out the paper, and planned to record while listening.
Zhong Xingyu continued: "We found that there are not only the troops of the Xia Kingdom here, but also the men and horses of many other tribes, but the warring sides are very unstable.
Today is the Xia country fighting the foreign tribes, tomorrow it will be the Xia country taking some foreign tribes to fight the other part, and in a few days it will become the Xia internal fighting, and even those foreign tribes in the back have joined it to help some of the Xia people, but they are obviously about to win, and they fled again......"
Although Lin Jiang wrote down all the words of the Bank of China, he didn't see what the situation was after reading it for a while......
The Zhongxing Yu next to him stayed here for a month or two, and he was still confused, let alone helping Lin Jiang sort out his thoughts, so their infiltration speculation plan was almost at an impasse.
In the next two days, the commanders of the Qin army in various fortresses sent representatives to meet the chief general personally appointed by His Majesty.
Only then did Lin Jiang see how embarrassing the position of Bank of China was, and most of the five hundred lords didn't care about him at all, which was not good news for Lin Jiang, he had no foundation to rely on at all.
In the next few days, Lin Jiang didn't have time to think about the enemy's situation, he had already chosen to start internal rectification, eliminate discrimination, and eliminate the idea of eliminating the mountain.
It took him several more days to complete this task, but fortunately, now Lin Jiang's orders can be unimpeded, and for the first time, Bank of China Qianchang can command others openly.
In such a situation, Lin Jiang boldly decided to send another elite "ninja" to infiltrate, and the Qin army would no longer stand still.
Lin Jiang had to use his forces to complete a feint attack to force the other side to make mistakes, because only in this way could he get more useful information.
Just do it, Lin Jiang hurriedly prepared all kinds of equipment, materials, grain and grass, and waited for the day of departure, he first let more ninjas infiltrate it, and then quickly attacked when the enemy did not react, and concentrated his superior forces and drove directly into the Hehuang area.
As a result, the local situation was completely beyond the group's prediction, and the entire river was actually full of soldiers' corpses, densely packed with thousands of people. Even a person with excellent psychological quality like Lin Jiang can't stand it.
But he came with Qin Zheng's order, and he had to figure out what was going on here, so that he could find a way to deal with it in order to safeguard the interests of Great Qin.
So he hurriedly halted the advance, built a defense on the spot, and then began to investigate the national power of these people, and most importantly, the cause of death.
It's a pity that they came too late and missed the battle, and now they can't even find a living mouth, and it's unrealistic to ask the "tongue".
After comparison, the only thing that can be determined is that the vast majority of this group of people are not from the Xia Kingdom, but several other similar small tribes.
But the real relationship between them is really quite complicated as Zhongxingyu said, and there are not many Xia Guoren and Buluo people who were killed by "their own people" on this battlefield, and they were deliberately killed.
That is to say, they were divided into different factions and fought against each other, and the advantage of the Xia Kingdom was not obvious, although after a hard battle, they were finally forced to retreat.
How Lin Jiang hoped at this time that both parties had suffered serious losses and hurt his muscles and bones, so that he could reap the benefits of the fisherman, but unfortunately they were too late.
"General, are we going to move on?" BOC Yu asked tentatively.
Lin Jiang was a little entangled, he was afraid of being ambushed, so he didn't dare to move forward quickly, so he could only speak: "Don't move forward for the time being, but we still have to hold a collective funeral for these people."
“? General, why is this, shouldn't we take advantage of the confusion of the enemy and pursue and annihilate them as soon as possible? Why do you have to collect their corpses for them? Bank of China asked puzzled.
Lin Jiang looked into the distance and said meaningfully: "Since ancient times, we don't know each other's reality, so we are afraid that they will be forced to fight the trapped beasts, then we will lose more than we gain."
As for collecting corpses for them, the main thing is to prevent the plague, we don't know what they will do in the future, but we Qin people will continue to reproduce here, and we must not let the epidemic break out! ”
"Hey!" Bank of China hurriedly agreed.
Lin Jiang's handling was quite steady, but he didn't know that this change had just begun......