Chapter 203: (Liang Xi's arrangement)

October 27 of the first year of Fengtian, before the beginning of the hour, Liaocheng City

At this moment, Liaocheng City still maintains its original prosperity, although it is the border town of Qi State, but because it borders Hebei and Henan, the merchants of the three places come and go frequently, and it is also a rare place for business, and it is precisely because of this that this place is also the place of three wars. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

More importantly, the name of Liaocheng comes from the Liaohe River not far from the north of the city, the Liaohe River goes down to the south, encircles Liaocheng, the river goes around the city wall, only there is a falling bridge in the west of the city into the city, and there is nowhere else.

Liaocheng County Shoufu is located in the center of the city, surrounded by wine shops, brothels and gambling houses, crowds come and go, people from all over the world are in the wine shops and brothels around the county Shoufu to spend the night.

In the county guard's mansion, Liang Xi is watching "Spring and Autumn", which is also his only pleasure, although there are many brothels and liquor stores around, he is the only one in the army who does not go out of these places.

"General, the scout came to report, there were many young and middle-aged men with Yuzhou accents in the city, and they were gorgeously dressed, very conspicuous, and they were generous in the gambling house, and their subordinates thought that there must be something abnormal, so they came to tell them, and asked the general to decide."

Liang Xi put down the bamboo slips in his hand, then frowned and said, "But those merchants from Yuzhou? ”

"Back to the general, the report said that these people did not bring any goods into the city." The man replied.

"Immediately reject the guards to go and investigate carefully, if it is a spy of the Dynasty, I will be arrested and interrogated properly." Liang Xi said.

"No—" The man said yes and went out.

Scout Guard, the unit run by Liang Xi, borrowed from Shangguan Yin Feng's model of founding Jinyiwei, and it is also a news investigation organization that Liang Xi is very proud of, specializing in the transmission of military intelligence and counter-espionage work, and the sentinels in various places in Liaocheng are planted in the hands of the scout guards, because of the geographical location of Liaocheng, it is also a place where the spies of various princes often come and go.

In a gambling house not far from the county guard's mansion, a group of young men in brocade clothes were gambling money, and a young man in brocade ran into the gambling house in a hurry, and whispered to a middle-aged man in brocade who was watching the excitement: "My lord, I have taken the bait." ”

The middle-aged man stretched his waist, then patted those who were still gambling, turned around and walked towards the door behind the gambling house, followed by the young people who were still gambling before.

The backyard of the gambling house is a quiet place, and compared to the bustle in front of it, it is just a family's residence, and those gamblers are also convenient here.

"My lord, the scout guards have already arrived, and there are about a dozen of them, and they have all entered the workshop." A young man ran into the backyard and said with a fist clenched at the middle-aged man from earlier.

The middle-aged man nodded and said, "Go according to the plan, remember, the appeasement has high hopes for us, don't let the adults down." ”

"No," everyone in the courtyard said in unison.

Two quarters of the hour, thirty miles outside the city

"Lord Wang, Jinyi Wei has captured a few scout troops sent from Liaocheng." Huang Wei walked up to Shangguan Yin Feng and said with his fists clenched.

At this time, Shangguan Yin Feng was talking to Shen Lihua, and when he heard that he had caught several of Liang Xi's subordinates, he stood up and said, "Is there any important news to ask?" ”

Huang Wei said with an embarrassed face: "These people are extremely stubborn, after being captured by Jinyiwei, three people committed suicide on the spot, and the remaining four were captured alive by Jinyiwei, in order to prevent them from committing suicide, those people have been gagged, and their subordinates have not interrogated them." ”

Shangguan Yin Feng had also heard about Liang Xi's establishment of scout guards a long time ago, and now it seems that most of these scouts are the scout guards of his subordinates, which are not ordinary sentry scouts, these people have received professional training, and it can be completely seen from the fact that they committed suicide when they were caught: "No need to interrogate, kill them directly, order the people of the Jinyi Guards to disperse a little, don't leak the news." ”

"No...," Huang Wei nodded.

"Lord Wang, my ministry is ready to act at any time." Cao Zhen walked quickly to Shangguan Yin Feng and clasped his fists and said.

"It's unitary time, wait until the beginning of tonight, and then launch an attack on Liaocheng..."Shangguan Yin Feng's arrangement is to let Cao Zhen lead people to fight the vanguard, attract the enemy army in the west of the city, and then attack the north city wall with Shenwu cannons in the north of the city, and wait until the north city wall is breached, he estimates that Liang Xi will withdraw the defense of the north of the city because of the siege of the city wall by Liaohe in the north of the city, and concentrate on defending the west of the city, and then he can let Li Yanqing lead the infantry to build a bridge from the north of the city to attack.

"The last general commands..."Cao Zhen replied and retreated.

Shangguan Yin Feng looked at Li Yanqing and said, "Wen Ruoke is ready?" ”

"The last general has been fully prepared according to the instructions of the prince, just waiting for the prince's order." Li Yanqing stood in front of Shangguan Yin Feng and arched his hand and said.

Shangguan Yin Feng nodded with satisfaction and said: "Everyone, but when you see the fire in the city, it is the time to launch an attack, and please cooperate in the battle, don't let go of a single soldier in the city." ”

"No," the generals said in unison.

At two o'clock, Liaocheng County guarded the mansion

"General, it's not good..."A general ran into the county guard mansion in a hurry, Liang Xi had already fallen asleep at this time, and was still getting dressed after being woken up by the guards, because he couldn't wait, so he hurriedly ran to Liang Xi's backyard residence and said to the door.

The general's voice was urgent, and Liang Xi also got dressed with the help of the concubine and opened the door: "What's so alarming?" ”

"General, there is no news of the scout guards who came to the gambling house so far, and the last general sent someone to look for it, but there is no trace; Personnel outside the city reported that seven people had not returned to the camp and their whereabouts were unknown. The general truthfully told Liang Xi the news, which was also the news he got not long ago.

Liang Xi's face changed, it was an extraordinary time, in order to deal with the unknown Shangguan Yin Feng's attack, he hadn't slept well in recent months, and now all kinds of signs were a little strange, at least now he didn't know: "Although General Ben has an ominous premonition, it is still necessary to wait until General Ben's people come back." ”

As the saying goes, it's better to come early than to come by chance, as soon as Liang Xi's words fell, a guard ran into the backyard in a hurry, and arched his hand towards Liang Xi by the door: "General Qiyu, the spies are coming to report, thirty miles northwest of the city, the Cheng Dynasty army was found, and the word 'Shangguan' was written on the handsome flag, and there were a large number of people, and the preliminary estimate was about seven or eight, and the scouts in front were monitoring the movements of the enemy. ”

"What?" Liang Xi even lost his voice, he never thought that the troops of seventy or eighty thousand people would not be discovered until now, but after a while, he was a little relieved, after all, it was Shangguan Yin Feng's troops, and he was unaccustomed to it, otherwise he would not have taken down Beiping with the four-story city wall: "Shangguan? Could it be that Shangguan Yin Feng came in person? ”

"General, I heard that after the heavy snow in autumn in Hebei, the grain harvest has been greatly reduced, and the people are still unable to be self-sufficient, how can this Shangguan Yin Feng let these hundreds of thousands of troops attack in two ways?"

The doubts of this general are also Liang Xi's doubts, Shangguan Yin Feng is short of food, and it is snowing heavily in Hebei, he has already asked the sergeant to avoid the snow in Zhuangzhou City, why did he lead the troops to appear in the northwest of Liaocheng at such a fast speed: "Send the order down, gather at the three military academies, and order all the generals to wait for me in the big tent." ”

"No—" The general clenched his fists and hurried away.

Liang Xi also turned around and entered the house, put on his armor with the help of his concubine, and then rode towards the schoolyard in the west of the city, now his heart was a mess, if he looked at it like this, maybe something big would happen tonight.