Chapter 42: Important News Revealed by the Captives (I)

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Early the next morning, Luo Xuan came to the backyard of the county government. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info is here because he has sorted out the seized materials, and now he has to sort out the captured people.

The first to be escorted over was Sun Yingzhao, the chief soldier of Yongzhou Town, and Chen Yucheng personally escorted him. Coincidentally, when Sun Yingzhao fled in the middle of the night, he was discovered by the outpost of the second pawn of the front battalion of the left battalion division, and was finally captured by the second pawn holy soldier, and the commander of the leading soldier was Chen Yucheng.

Luo Xuan saw Chen Yucheng and remembered what he had said a few days ago. If Chen Yucheng's strategy was used to persuade the suspicious battalion in Ningyuan City to surrender, he would be promoted as the brigade commander. Now this kid has captured a high-level demon leader like the chief soldier of the Qing army, even if he wants to deny it, he can't say it's a joke. Thinking that the former battalion brigade commander was still vacant, at that moment, Luo Outline promoted Chen Yu to become the acting brigade commander of the front battalion of the left battalion division, and recommended the letter to Daozhou, and after the approval of the Holy King, the official photo could be turned into an official brigade commander.

Chen Yucheng couldn't help but thank Luo Xuan, looked at the left and right cards that cleaned up the room, and said mysteriously: "General, the villain still has important news to report to the general, this matter is very important, and I hope that the general will retire from the idle people." ”

Luo Xuan knew that Chen Yucheng looked like a young man, but in fact, the ancient forest was weird and had a lot of ghost ideas, so he let a few card tails go out according to his words, and glanced at Sun Yingzhao, who was yawning and fearful, and looked at Chen Yucheng suspiciously.

Chen Yucheng knew that Luo Outline was asking him why he had left Sun Yingzhao here, so he approached Luo Outline and explained softly: "General, this news is exactly what this demon head just told the villain, which brought him to meet you!" ”

It turned out that after Chen Yucheng captured Sun Yingzhao, he remembered what the Holy King had confessed in the night school that if he captured an important general of the enemy army, he must find a way to get some information out of his mouth, for example, some people who are not afraid of death are afraid of itching; For another example, there are some iron men who are not afraid of pain, but they are afraid that they can't sleep.

Chen Yucheng was a fanatical admirer of the Holy King, and he was convinced of Feng Shaoguang's every word. Therefore, the poor Yongzhou Town Chief Soldier Sun became the first test subject for Chen Yucheng to verify the method said by the Holy King.

After two nights and one day's experiments, it was fully proved that Sun Daren, who was originally afraid of death, no longer felt that death was terrible, and he was afraid that he would not let people sleep!

On the first night, Chen Yucheng asked Sun Yingzhao to tell him some of the information he knew, and of course the chief soldier Sun ignored this little thief. Chen Yucheng asked people to use a few large tung oil horse lanterns to face Sun Yingzhao all night, so that he could not sleep. Finally staying up until daytime, Chen Yucheng tied Sun Yingzhao to two benches, tied the legs of the stool with a gong, kept ringing, and even asked several holy soldiers to hold bronze mirrors to gather the sunlight at Sun Yingzhao's eyes, so that even when he closed his eyes, it was a burst of red light.

In the second half of the night, Sun Yingzhao couldn't stand it anymore, and he was desperate to sleep, so Chen Yucheng and several of his subordinates, in addition to repeating the large tung oil horse lantern the night before, made people forcibly pull their eyelids open from time to time, and all kinds of small means kept stimulating him, making him unable to sleep. But Sun Yingzhao, who is nearly fifty years old, really can't resist the sleepiness, he can fall asleep when he opens his eyelids and opens his eyes, but he didn't think about it, Chen Yucheng found some garlic water and sprayed his eyes, this time Sun Yingzhao collapsed, his eyes were so hot that he couldn't stop crying, even if he brought water to wash it, he still couldn't fall asleep in the end.

By this morning, Master Sun, the chief soldier who had not survived the test, had completely collapsed, telling all the information he knew about him and begging for mercy, and even the private relationship between him and his cousin-in-law when he was young was clear, but Chen Yucheng was not interested in that.

There are two things that interest Chen Yucheng.

First, Sun Yingzhao said, more than ten miles west of the suburbs of Guiyang City, there is a mountain forest called Baoshan, where the Manchu Qing Dynasty has a large number of silver, copper, lead, zinc ore mined, and there are several mines in the hidden part behind the mountain, and there are sulfur outputs in it. Guiyang Zhizhou secretly opened a medium-sized gunpowder manufacturing workshop in the mine.

Chen Yucheng immediately remembered that the Holy King had mentioned, sulfur is the most difficult raw material to make gunpowder, with sulfur, gunpowder can basically be made, no wonder these Chenzhou soldiers can bring so much gunpowder, it turns out that nearby Guiyang can produce gunpowder by itself.

Second, Sun Yingzhao revealed that the Qing army's defense strength in Guiyang and Chenzhou was weak. Most of the soldiers in the two cities were sent to Changsha to defend the city, Sun Yingzhao borrowed 2,000 Chenzhou soldiers, as far as he knew, there were only less than 1,000 soldiers in Guiyang City, and there were less than 2,000 people in Chenzhou City, and they were all because after the original guards were withdrawn, the township Yong drawn from the following counties was temporarily sent to the state city to guard.

Sun Yingzhao's meaning, Chen Yucheng understood. The regular soldiers, that is, the thousands of people who have been captured by the Holy Army now, are already relatively strong, and the rural warriors who are now defending the city, this combat power can be imagined, how vulnerable they are.

Both of these are great news! Chen Yucheng, who is highly enlightened, came to report impatiently early in the morning, wanting to say that Luo Xuan, the deputy general of the Jin Official, had the idea of attacking Guiyang and Chenzhou as soon as possible, so as to occupy those mines and make gunpowder by himself.

After listening to Chen Yucheng and Sun Yingzhao's speeches, Luo Outline carefully interrogated Sun Yingzhao about a few details, and basically determined that he was telling the truth! He thought about it for a while, and ordered his guards to invite Lin Fengxiang and Li Kaifang to come, and the three of them discussed together.

Unexpectedly, as soon as Lin Fengxiang and Li Kaifang heard it, they were both excited. Especially Li Kaifang, who usually looks dull and silent, but now he shouts: "What are you still discussing, hurry up and lead the brothers to kill it!" Great opportunity, a lot of loot is waiting for us! ”

Even Lin Fengxiang, who has always been calm, was eager to try, and Luo Xuan himself thought the same, so he said, "It seems that we don't need to discuss it much, so let's do it, it's okay to send troops, but you have to prepare a little, it's not bad for half a day, and you have to send someone to report to the Holy King." ”

"That's how it should be!" Lin and Li were overjoyed and hurriedly said yes! The two of them, who led the army to Ningyuan, did not have any military merits, they thought that they would have to run empty, but they never thought that there would be such an attractive opportunity to send them to the door, and then they thought about the captured spoils of the Holy First Army yesterday, and they were even more itchy, and they had to kill them immediately.

At that moment, the three of them discussed the specific number of troops to be sent and the number of people left behind by Ning Yuan. Lin Fengxiang asked Sun Yingzhao in detail about the strength of the Qing army in Guiyang Prefecture and Chenzhou, confirmed that the Qing troops in the two places were empty at this time, and proposed not to fight for one place and one city, but to send troops in three ways and go down together to take all the Chengui region.

Although Luo Outline felt that Lin Fengxiang's idea was bold, if he thought about it carefully, it did make sense. In the Chengui Mountains, the march was difficult, anyway, the Qing Demon did not have many troops, and the holy army was divided into three forces, and it still had an absolute advantage, so he agreed. Li Kaifang wants to be able to go all the way alone, and he has no opinion.