Chapter 34 Li Yan sends a letter and Liu Chenghuang is ambushed

Hearing this whirring wheezing, the special forces knew that there were dogs in the yard, and they were specially trained dogs. Because the dog does not bark when it hears outside sounds, such dogs are often terrible. At this point, I didn't find it during the investigation, because the soldiers of the Dashun Army had difficulty eating and few had dogs, so I found it before I entered the yard. As long as it is discovered, a dog will not be able to resist the special forces. A special soldier took out something from his backpack and threw it at the yard, and it was obvious that the dog in the yard pounced on it. Then he munched on it. After a while, there was a few humming sounds in the courtyard. The dog is no longer a threat. The special forces threw another stone into the courtyard, and there was no response. The special forces climbed into the courtyard one by one by taking the human ladder. After entering the park, everyone leaned against the wall to observe for a while, and there was no problem, and the two of them quietly climbed along the wall towards the beacon tower. They entered through the south gate of the beacon tower, and as they were about to go to the top of the beacon, they heard the snoring of someone sleeping. The special forces all stopped, and a special soldier quietly climbed to the beacon tower with both hands and feet, and saw a Dashun army sentry wearing a torn sheepskin quilt by the starlight, sleeping soundly in the shelter of the beacon tower. The special forces raised the pistol in his hand and pulled the trigger on his head. With a "poof", the sentry was gone in his dream. I don't know if his soul knows how he died.

The special forces went to the beacon tower and waved to the courtyard to signal that it had been resolved. The leader and the rest of the people hid behind several barracks in the courtyard. Quietly sent a signal to the squadron leader through the radio. After receiving the signal, the squadron leader and the remaining special forces quietly came to the wall of the river under the Baohe platform in a rubber boat, and under the guidance of the special forces who received them, they came to the river one by one and landed on the shore, and quietly climbed into the courtyard.

The squadron leader, under the guidance of the special forces who came in front, assigned the barracks for everyone. The special gates quickly came to the door of the barracks they were responsible for. Lookout, everyone is ready. With a wave of his hand, the squadron leader gave the order to act. The special forces all leaned over, gently opened the door of the barracks, and then rolled into the barracks. There was hardly much sound, and after a while, the special forces came out of the barracks one after another, but when they came out, they all brought out a smell of blood.

The squadron leader couldn't help but cover his nose and scolded: "If you do some work, you can't be clean, a bunch of fools!" "In fact, the squadron leader is very satisfied with the performance of the special forces today.

Hearing the squadron leader speak, the special forces who had been holding back knew that today's task had been completed, and they all smiled and began to speak. Someone said, "It's too easy." ”

"Don't be too crazy, it's a problem to make a mistake," said the squadron leader, "hurry up and send a report, the head is still waiting for our news!" A small group of you go out on guard. ”

A squad leader said yes and took people out to guard.

A special forces soldier said: "Maybe Mr. Zhang is also waiting for our news in Yaogang?" ”

"Don't talk nonsense, of course Mr. Zhang is waiting for our news." The squadron commander then ordered, "Hurry up and get all the corpses out of the barracks, open the doors and windows, let in the air, and clean up all the blood." These barracks were immediately of great use. ”

The special forces were reluctant to do this work, and some people muttered: "Use us to kill, and use us to clean up." If you know, if you don't use the knife, it's not so troublesome to strangle you directly. ”

"Humph! If you get dirty, who will clean it up if you don't clean it up? Said the squadron leader.

"There's no reason for that!" The special forces muttered and got to work.

Liu Yun and Liu Chenghuang received the news that the special forces had succeeded, so they gave the order to cross the river.

Liu Chenghuang personally boarded a tugboat with a string of barges, left the ancient wharf of Hequgu, and led more than 1,000 soldiers across the river.

At this time, Liu Yun knew that the big thing had been decided, and there was no suspense for these people crossing the river to block the Dashun army, so he immediately sent the information to Chen Yufeng and Ouyang He. At this time, Chen Yufeng and his team marched overnight, clearing many checkpoints of the Dashun army along the way, and had come to a place not far from Weinan. The Xiurong warship almost sailed to the city of Weinan. Chen Yufeng received a telegram from Liu Yun and immediately sent a telegram to Zhang Zhimu, who was in the command center. There were only a few words on the telegram "everything is fine".

After reading the telegram, Zhang Zhimu handed the telegram to Yan Boju, who was guarding the command center, and said, "Uncle Chen has sent a telegram, everything is normal!" ”

Yan Boju's little eyes were almost gone, he took the telegram, glanced at it, and said, "I'm going to sleep for a while." ”

Zhang Zhimu immediately called Editor-in-Chief Fan, who was waiting at the radio station, and said, "Everything is normal. Then he went back to sleep.

Editor-in-Chief Fan knew that this was agreed, and important news would be broadcast this morning as planned.

Yaogang Radio started the news broadcast on time, and those loyal listeners began to listen to the day's news on time. However, all of a sudden, the broadcast was cut off. A solemn voice came over the radio: "Listeners! Ladies and gentlemen, Yaogang Radio now broadcasts important news. Now for the big news! ”

Those who are accustomed to listening to the news of Yaogang after getting up are surprised to stop all activities in their hands and listen to the radio. Because Yaogang Radio has never interrupted its broadcast to broadcast important news.

The news that came immediately made everyone stunned. "Ladies and gentlemen! In accordance with the imperial court's order and the emperor's decree, our Yaogang People's Army launched an offensive operation from the southeast and southeast directions against the entire territory of Shaanxi occupied by Li Zicheng in the early hours of this morning. The purpose of this westward expedition was to liberate the entire territory of Shaanxi, eliminate and expel the thieves and rebels, and liberate the people of Shaanxi. In the early hours of this morning, after fierce battles, our East Route Army has successfully passed through the Yellow River and occupied the Datangkou Baohetai, the eastern starting point of the Great Wall of Shaanxi, and is now marching into the hinterland of Shaanxi.

Ladies and gentlemen, We will broadcast to you at any time about the battle situation of our Yaogang People's Army. Listen in! ”

No one was listening to the normal news that followed.

This short news story lasted a few minutes, but the sensational effect was indescribable. Almost everywhere in the Ming Dynasty, people talked about this thing. For the first time, radio broadcasting played its important role.

The most shocked person to hear the news was Li Zicheng. According to the habit, Li Zicheng listened to the news while eating breakfast.

Although Li Zicheng had long been prepared for the attack on the Yaogang people, when the matter came, Li Zicheng was still confused. The news from the Weinan front has not yet arrived, and the broadcast of the Yaogang people arrived first, not to mention the Yulin side. I'm afraid that the Yaogang army didn't arrive in Yulin, and they didn't know about it yet. Li Zicheng sat there in a daze, feeling a little funny, like a joke. Don't the people of Yaogang know that this will make me Li Zicheng hear? I will know by all means. But why do they do it? Are they not afraid that I will be prepared for this? It seems that they are not afraid, and this is also telling me that they don't care if I am not prepared or not.

Thinking of this, Li Zicheng got up and turned around twice, and said in his heart, "My two precious prime ministers and military advisors should also arrive." Every time they pretend to be confused with me, in fact, they have a radio at home, and they are more active than me in listening to the radio of the kiln workers. ”

But these two Li Zicheng and others did not arrive, but they waited for another Wenchen, Yushi Li Wen.

The Imperial Historian was responsible for supervising the dereliction of duty and wrongdoing of the imperial court and the princes' officials, and was also responsible for keeping the archives and documents of the imperial court. Li Wen is Li Zicheng's absolute confidant and his relative. He can see Li Zicheng at any time. But at this time, Li Wen came, which made Li Zicheng's heart even more uneasy.

This Li Wen is really a very upright person, and he used to have a good relationship with Li Yan's temperament. Someone came to Li Wen's house early this morning and wanted to see Li Wen. The person who came said that he was entrusted by a man named Li Yan to send a letter.

Li Wen hurriedly came out to see this person, this person said that he was a businessman, and when he passed through Tongguan, a man named Li Yan gave him some silver and asked him to deliver the letter, and he didn't know anything else.

Li Wen rewarded the person and let him go.

Back in the study, Li Wen opened the letter, and then tried to find the person who delivered the letter, but the person was long gone.

It turned out that there was indeed a letter written by Li Yan to Li Wen in the letter, Li Yan told him that the Yaogang people were about to attack, please send another letter sealed in the letter to Li Zicheng as soon as possible, 100,000 urgent.

After reading the letter, Li Wen knew that the person who sent the letter could never be a businessman, and it was absolutely impossible to entrust an outsider if he chose such an important letter and delivered it so punctually. Li Yan knew that only he could see Li Zicheng at this time. That's why the letter was delivered to his house.

Li Zicheng took Li Yan's letter, and his hands trembled a little. He didn't know if this letter would bring him good or bad news, but no matter how bad it was, it wouldn't be worse than the Kiln Gang people attacking, right?

Thinking of this, Li Zicheng quickly opened Li Yan's letter and read it through the light.

Li Yan first greeted Li Zicheng in the letter, and also said that he was misunderstood by Li Zicheng, and only when he arrived in Yaogang did he know that this time it was Yaogang people, and his good friend Ouyang He made a divisive plan, and Mr. Zhang of Yaogang had already told himself about it, and their purpose was to invite me to Yaogang to conspire with them. Because they also knew that they were no longer reused by King Chuang, so they took the opportunity to resort to means. However, after arriving at Yaogang, I felt that everything in Yaogang was very suitable for me. Not much to say about this.

The purpose of today's letter is to inform King Chuang that the Yaogang people have begun to march to Shaanxi. Due to his scruples about you and me, Mr. Zhang agreed that I would not participate in the action in this direction. I went north of the Great Wall to solve the problem of the Ordos people once and for all. About King Chuang, I have introduced it to Mr. Zhang many times, and Mr. Zhang also admires King Chuang. After the matter of this attack on Shaanxi was decided, Mr. Zhang and I talked about the issue of breaking the king. Although the younger brother did not participate in the operation, he was still worried about the safety of King Chuang. In this regard, Mr. Zhang said that this time we only need Shaanxi not to Li Zicheng.

After discussion, Mr. Zhang agreed to let Wang out of the customs. We have already sent people to destroy half of the roads on the Shangyu Ancient Road and the Dasanguan Ancient Road, which can be opened to people and horses, but not to traffic. But we will not put a guard to let you pass. However, Mr. Zhang put forward one condition, that is, you cannot destroy the city. Mr. Zhang also asked me to tell you that it is not easy for the people of Shaanxi to live after a long war, so don't let them suffer more disasters. This is also what King Chuang should be happy to see. Please also rest assured that King Chuang, we will treat the elders of Guanzhong well.

Li Yan promised with his personality that he could not follow King Chuang's family out of the customs, and after Shang Yu repaired the ancient road, I sent someone to send King Chuang out of Wuguan. Mr. Zhang also agreed to this matter.

After we recover Weinan today, we will march to Xi'an tomorrow, and ask King Chuang to leave Xi'an before our army arrives. Otherwise, the war will be ruthless, and there will be no way for my brother to help.

Li Zicheng visited Li Yan's letter, and his heart was mixed, and at this time, Liu Yun and they had already begun to erect a pontoon bridge.

Their side is different from Baotou's, the river is narrower than that side, but the current is faster. Fortunately, a large pier was poured underground with cement on the side of the ancient ferry of Hequ very early, and there was a large protruding rock on the hillside below the pier platform on the other side of the river. This protruding rock is one foot five feet high.

According to the prior design, a hemp rope was used to drag across the river, and then a wire rope was pulled by a horse to cross the bank, and one end of the wire rope was tied to the cement pier of the river crossing. Because this cement pier was poured with a steel plate groove for binding the wire rope, it was easily fixed with a cat's paw. The stone on the other side of the river was huge, but if it were tied directly with a wire rope, it would break the rock. So first of all, a lot of steel slats are placed around the rock, and the wire rope is tied to the steel plate. In this way, the two banks are connected by wire ropes. For safety, tugboats were used to drop several huge cement anchors in the middle of the river, so that the wooden boats were fixed with cement anchors and wire ropes to form a pontoon bridge over the Yellow River. What Liu Yun didn't expect was that during their construction of the pontoon bridge with such fanfare, no one from Li Zicheng's Dashun Army came to see the situation of the pier platform here.

The pontoon bridge was built, and the brigade began to cross the river.

After Liu Chenghuang waited for a regiment of cavalry to cross the river, he led them to a quick surprise attack. Along the way, several piers and checkpoints were quickly eliminated by them without reacting.

However, just as they were going all the way, suddenly behind them, the pier that had just been knocked down suddenly burst into wolf smoke, and then there was a "bang" of cannons. Liu Chenghuang knew that he was careless, there must be a soldier of the Dashun Army who slipped through the net, and after they left, he lit the wolf smoke and lit the horn cannon.

The angry Liu Chenghuang said "sigh", he was too anxious, he just wanted to get a little more results when the opponent didn't react, and it was best to rush into the Qingshui camp when the opponent was not guarded, and directly take the Qingshui camp.

There is no way, you have to be extra careful when you advance again, because you may encounter the Dashun army that comes to reinforce at any time in the future.

However, Liu Chenghuang was still very confident in the cavalry of a regiment he brought. There should be no problem against ordinary opponents.

Li Zicheng's Dashun army, although the supply has not been very good due to the large number of people, but the combat power of the elite army should not be underestimated. They couldn't beat the Yaogang people in Shanxi, first, they were not well prepared, and the weapons and equipment were too poor. However, after they took Shaanxi, they won several battles against the Mongols.

Due to the fiasco in Shanxi, the morale of the Dashun army was very affected. However, after returning to Shaanxi, after two years of rest, the vitality is also recovering. During this time, the power of the Ordos people north of the Great Wall was gradually increasing, and they crossed the Great Wall several times to loot. Li Zicheng has already strictly ordered the border guards, and if there is such a situation, they must not be allowed to go out easily. The defenders were also holding their back, trying to clean up the Mongols, who were becoming more and more rampant.

This morning, after a little training, the soldiers of the Shimizu Battalion began to organize their farm tools, because spring was about to begin, and they were about to start planting. Only when the harvest is a little better, the life of the year can be a little better, and the grain supplied by the imperial court cannot even be half full.

The sudden sound of artillery interrupted their work. Looking northeast following the sound, you can see wolf smoke rising in the distance. Without giving an order, the soldiers hurried to the corridor, took out the war horses, saddled them on, and assembled.

Qingshui camp is an important camp fort, responsible for the east to the Yellow River, west to the Dingbian camp of the Great Wall defense, because the Great Wall is too long, the Great Wall on the pier can only put a few soldiers and horses to play a sentry role, where there is an alarm, but also need the soldiers and horses in the back of the camp and fort to go out to support.

This Qingshui battalion has more than 3,000 cavalry and more than 2,000 infantry, and is personally commanded by a powerful general, which shows the importance of the Qingshui battalion. After the troops were assembled, General Weiwu sent a letter to Yan'an Mansion to arrange for the remaining officers and soldiers to guard the camp fort, and personally led 2,500 cavalry out to meet the enemy. They didn't bring infantry because they were too slow to fight the Mongols. Even then, the mighty general thought that the Mongols had come again. For the harassment of the Mongols, the Dashun army had to teach them a lesson. Therefore, after they left the Qingshui camp, they sent a few fast horses to go out and follow closely behind.

However, the scout horse who had gone out soon came back and reported a terrible news, a troop of cavalry came in front, with more than a thousand people, not Mongols, but the Yaogang people who seemed to have heard of it.

The words of the Yaogang people made the mighty general's back cold, and he knew that the million-strong army of the king was beaten by the Yaogang people. But what are they doing here? Come and eat sand with us? Anyway, people are coming, and it's moving fast. It's too late to think about it. Retreat, that is, to retreat to the Qingshui camp to wait for reinforcements from Yulin, war? The mighty general thought for a while, and the returning Tanma said that the opponent only had more than 1,000 people, but he was more than 2,500, more than twice as much. It's better to ambush him and suddenly hit him.

Li Zicheng's mighty generals were all promoted by accumulating military exploits, and they also had a lot of battlefield experience. He quickly judged the form, divided the cavalry into two routes, and laid an ambush in a sand-covered alluvial ditch on either side of the opponent's path. Li Zicheng's cavalry was well-trained, and after receiving the order, they were all hidden and there was no trace.

After Liu Chenghuang and the others knew that their whereabouts could not be hidden, the speed of their advance slowed down a little, and a team of cavalry was sent in front of them to do the forward road, and their large group of men and horses followed behind.

Walking all the way, Liu Chenghuang suddenly felt that something was wrong. The feeling of the battlefield was very subtle, although the striker in front did not return, indicating that there was nothing wrong, but Liu Chenghuang felt a murderous aura. Just when he reined in his horse and wanted to order the brigade to pause its advance. Suddenly, a trumpet sounded, and then a large group of cavalry was killed in the smoke and dust on both sides of the road. Rows of bows and arrows were fired at the same time, and although Liu Chenghuang's cavalry were all armoured, many cavalry in the team were shot off their horses.

All of a sudden, the situation was very critical.

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