Under the arrangement of the General Staff, various affairs were carried out in an orderly manner, and the gangsters in Yangzhou City suddenly felt the strange atmosphere in the city.

After that, some of the original deserted houses were suddenly cleaned up, and a large group of workers from other places were cleaning up, and it was said that the workers from other places were invited from other places, and the security forces in Yixing Hutchison in the city suddenly increased a lot, and there were more jugglers and sellers of Dali pills on the street.

In short, I feel that the whole Yangzhou city is weird, not only in the city, but also in the countryside outside the city, I heard that there are bandits, many people who walk at night have disappeared, even in some deserted roads during the day, people are often missing.

After Yangzhou's public security deteriorated, it is said that even Weiyuan Dart Bureau has transferred a group of good players from other sub-bureaus to strengthen the number of escort teams and strengthen the strength of the Dart Bureau.

Shi Qian was sitting in a teahouse listening to the news from all over the place, these days are very critical, Zhang San stuffed all the Praetorian Guard army battalions into Yangzhou City, and a battalion of the Praetorian Guard had 1,500 soldiers.

In addition to the Praetorian Guard Battalion, a large number of intelligence personnel from the military department and national defense also flooded the city of Yangzhou, making the atmosphere in Yangzhou very strange, so Zhang San specially ordered to move over to lead the intelligence work in Yangzhou for fear of accidents, so as to be foolproof.

According to the plan formulated by the General Staff, the navy was responsible for raiding 100,000 forbidden troops to the south, but according to the habit of transporting troops in the imperial court, it was estimated that dozens of ships would be recruited to transport them in two or three batches. As a result, some of the stranded Janissaries may flee into Yangzhou once the attack begins.

In order to ensure the success of the Yangzhou Campaign, Zhang San stuffed 1,500 people from the entire army battalion of the Praetorian Guard into Yangzhou City, preparing to take Yangzhou in one fell swoop, without giving the Song army time to react.

And now there are at least five or six days before the arrival of the Song army, and the task of Shi Qian is to ensure that these people are not exposed in these days.

However, the recent actions of the military department outside the city have made the public security in Yangzhou suddenly much worse, and the people outside the city are so frightened that they dare not go out, and for a time the whole Yangzhou is depressed a lot, coupled with the impact of the forbidden army transit, there are a lot fewer people.

In addition, since the Great Song Dynasty drove out the Ryukyu envoys, the Great Song Dynasty was banned from the Ryukyu Sea, and there was less maritime activities, and Yangzhou was depressed for three points, and several things were mixed together to make the atmosphere in Yangzhou weird.

At this time, Yang Tai was shopping in Yangzhou with Zhang Yuanba, although Yangzhou was slightly depressed, it was much more prosperous than Tamsui City, especially for Zhang Yuanba, there were many more types of snacks here than Tamsui City.

Yang Tai is watching the streets and alleys everywhere, planning a suitable attack route and retreat route, since taking over this task Yang Tai is also under great pressure, in Zhang San's words, that is, to do a good job is the first merit of the Yangzhou Campaign, if you don't do well, then try to come back alive.

In the evening, Shi Qian brought the latest Yangzhou defense map, compared with the old map, everyone re-marked, Yang Tai asked about the exploration of the city wall and the city gate, Shi Qian can only say a rough, some confidential places outsiders are not allowed to enter easily, and Shi Qian intends to see it in person at night.

The two exchanged for a while, Shi Qian hurriedly left, and in the second half of the night, Shi Qian came to the east gate of Yangzhou, Shi Qian climbed the city wall by a shadow, because there was no war, and the people on duty on the city wall also dealt with the errand, and Shi Qian easily hid and came to the vicinity of the city gate.

On the tower of the city gate, there are several braziers burning with fires, and by the light of the fire, I can see that there are a few guards in the city who are chatting and watching the city, and you can be bold and lazy elsewhere, but the quality of the general's personal guards near the city gate is slightly higher.

In the hall of the city gate tower, there are equipment for guarding the city, ten thick ropes are hung in the middle, and a stone slab is hung below, which is the so-called jack gate. If the war is urgent, the people outside the city who cut the rope and fall through the gate will not be able to do anything for a while.

The rooms inside are all bed crossbows, swarms of bees, arrows, push rods, fire oil and other standing supplies for defending the city, here is only a small amount of reserves for emergency use, the real large-scale reserves are in the warehouses under the city walls.

Walk up the stairs to the second floor, which is the place where the generals who defend the city rest, Shi Qian looked around and confirmed that there was nothing else before quietly retreating, and then walked around the military camp near the city gate, groping around and exploring the surroundings, and it was almost dawn.

Hurriedly returned to the place where he lived and marked down the places he had seen and gave them to Yang Tai, and he came back to sleep, and things went smoothly in the next few days, but there were some problems outside the city, it turned out that those guys in the military department made too much trouble, which attracted the attention of Yangzhou Mansion and sent some patrols to the countryside to search.

Seeing that the fleet was coming, this happened, everyone's hearts were raised for a while, and Shi Qian had to go out of the city to deal with these people, but Shi Qian obviously overestimated them, these people did not inspect them at all after leaving the city, but just went to the security chiefs everywhere to eat and drink a few times, and then collected some souvenirs and came back.

After this incident, the men in the military department obviously restrained a lot, and five days later, the vanguard of the forbidden army had reached Yangzhou City, and the fleet of the Ryukyu Navy had successfully entered the ambush point.

The vanguard began to collect ships the next day, in order to quickly cross the river to meet Guan He Fa asked Yangzhou to collect at least 200 large ships, but Yangzhou did not do so, although the above urged, but Yangzhou still only requisitioned a few dozen ships to deal with the errand.

Although there are many ships in Yangzhou, but the big businessmen have given money to protect it, and the rich and powerful people in Yangzhou do not want to be easily offended, so in the end the ships are some small businessmen or passing merchant ships.

After the ships were collected, the next day the large force of the forbidden army headed for the river. The commander of the forbidden army this time was a general named Liu Shouxin, who was said to have made many achievements in the war against the Western Xia, and was able to go to the southeast this time.

When the general arrived in Yangzhou, he did not first inquire about the situation of crossing the river, but asked if the local government had prepared supplies, and the Yangzhou government also gave silver according to the custom, wanting to send away this batch of plague gods as soon as possible, anyway, the Yangzhou government blamed the recent depression in the market on these thieves.

General Liu naturally did not know the palace after receiving the money, and decided to set off after repairing outside Yangzhou City for two days and arranging the order of crossing the river, at this time there was a problem that the staff officers did not expect, that is, the problem of the 100,000 people camping.

How big is a battalion for 100,000 people? I'm afraid that the scope of the Song army's activities will cover dozens of miles in the vicinity, so wouldn't the ambushed naval forces be exposed in advance? However, Shi Qian and others were obviously distracted, these Song troops did not camp along the Yangtze River, but along the canal, even if they occasionally deserted, they all went to Yangzhou to wave around.

So three days later, when these soldiers began to board the boat, no one had ever come here, and things were even better than imagined, because Yangzhou City, in order to prevent these soldiers from harassing them, asked the forbidden army to board the boat along the canal to the south of Yangzhou more than ten miles away, and the forbidden army boarded the boat from the bank of the canal, so Zhang San's ambush was behind the forbidden army, as long as the road was cut off, even the fear that the forbidden army would flee into Yangzhou Province.