Chapter Ninety-Eight: The Hunt
On the evening of November 9, Lin Feng held a torch and led a group of special soldiers and elite fighters to the east gate of Guizhou City.
Guilin's name is derived from "osmanthus into a forest". As early as the Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties, Guilin belonged to the residence of the "Baiyue" people; In the 33rd year of Qin Shi Huang (214 BC), he unified Lingnan and "placed Guilin, Nanhai, and Xiangjun to confuse the people, and mixed with Yue at the age of thirteen." This is the earliest origin of the name "Guilin". After the construction of many dynasties, the city of Guizhou has also begun to take shape, with a circumference of nearly 30 miles and a wall height of nearly six meters, which is already one of the largest cities in the Lingnan region.
Lin Feng took out the warrant under Ma Xicao, as well as his Yun Lu General Seal, and handed them to the soldiers guarding the door for inspection, and was immediately respectfully released, and some soldiers reported in advance.
After Lin Feng entered the city, he walked up the city wall quickly, carefully watched the defensive preparations on the city of Guizhou, and then set off to the Jiedu Embassy in the center of the city.
Far away, Lin Feng saw a large group of people holding torches to greet him. The leader is a young man in Chinese costume and a middle-aged military attachΓ©, needless to say, it is the deputy envoy of Jingjiang, Ma Xiyin, the governor of Guizhou, and Peng Yanhui, the commander of Guizhou.
Lin Feng bowed his hand slightly, which was considered to be a courtesy, and asked directly: "How many people are in the Han army?" β
Peng Yanhui was stunned for a moment, and immediately continued: "According to the defenders of He and Zhao who retreated, the Han army had nearly 100 warships and more than 20,000 infantry troops. β
Lin Feng's face immediately sank, and he shouted, "Nearly a hundred? Seventy or ninety? How many are there? More than 20,000 people? One person is also a surplus, and nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine people are also a surplus, how many people are left? Have you sent people to reconnoiter these days? β
Peng Yanhui never expected Lin Feng to reprimand so mercilessly, his face turned red, and he replied: "The enemy army is fierce, the advance speed is extremely fast, and the prevention and control is very strict, we have sent three groups of nine people to reconnoitre, and only one person has returned, and at present, we only know that the other party is camping in Qinglongpi, which is five miles away from the city in front, and the size of the camp is about 20,000 people. β
Lin Feng's anger did not subside, he pointed at Peng Yanhui, and said sharply: "Is our 20,000 ** battalion set up?" β
Peng Yanhui hurriedly bowed down and said: "The outer camp has been set up, but the camp tent in Guizhou City is not enough, only about half of it has been set. β
Lin Feng nodded, his face softened slightly, and he said loudly: "Two things should be done immediately: first, the patrol troops on the city wall have been doubled, day and night, and the defensive materials must be complete; 2. Inform all officers in the city to attend the proceedings in the council hall tomorrow! β
After speaking, Lin Feng waved his hand, took his brother and turned around and walked quickly along the way he came, leaving Peng Yanhui and Ma Xiyin, who had not said a word, and the others were stunned on the spot.
Under the surprised gaze of the soldiers defending the city, Lin Feng led the people out of the east gate and went straight to the east along the Lishui.
Along the way, Lin Feng quickly arranged a reconnaissance strategy: the elite troops divided the area into a group of five people, and swept the Southern Han scouts one by one, leaving no enemy behind; The special forces were divided into six groups of three people to reconnoiter eastward from water, land, and mountain routes, and to find out the enemy's situation within three days. , all of whom are credited to the merit book according to the number of the opponent's left ear. After the last, Lin Feng pulled Lin Renzhao, Feng Jingyun, and Chen Desheng over, and gave a few special words, and the three of them nodded solemnly.
As soon as the task was assigned, the special soldiers immediately formed their own teams like cats smelling fish, beat their chests three times silently to Lin Feng and the others, and disappeared into the cloudy darkness. The rest of the elite troops reacted a little sluggishly, but everyone also did the same, grouped themselves into groups, saluted Lin Feng, and then fled into the night sky.
Lin Feng looked at the remaining children around him, such as Li Congqian and Chen Fei, and said with a smile: "Let's go, let's explore the enemy's camp." β
A brutal hunting game quietly kicked off in the darkness of the night.
The late autumn in Lingnan was not too cold, so these soldiers from the north did not feel much cold, but had a warm and comfortable feeling, and the bloodthirsty impulse also increased. The special soldiers who took the lead in opening the way were like ghosts, silent, and when they encountered a clear sentry, they hid their whereabouts, and quickly interspersed with them, and when they encountered a dark sentry, they unceremoniously sneaked up, or stabbed with both hands, or with knives, and swept by like the wind, and the enemy was silent.
Between the swaying of the road grass, beside the rippling water, and under the swaying of the mountain trees, except for two more corpses, calm quickly returned.
As soon as the dark sentry was gone, the elite troops that followed closely behind it were easy to handle, and in the vast darkness of the night, they were also like tigers opening the gates, quickly clearing out groups of Han squads that were patrolling at night.
As soon as the two rounds of people passed one after another, the narrow area east of Guizhou City and south of Lishui was like a land that had been cocooned twice, and it was immediately clean and empty.
Late at night, when Wu Huaien was woken up by his subordinates in the northwest of the Southern Han Dynasty and told him the news that the outposts in front of the camp had been hunted one after another, Wu Huaien breathed a sigh of relief and put his tense body back on the delicate bed.
Previously, don't look at Wu Huaien's analysis of Wu Xun Lin Feng seems to be the first thing, in fact, he has no bottom in his heart, I don't know if Lu Dao's decision not to attack the city overnight missed the opportunity. Now, Lin Feng began to send people to hunt and kill the sentinels, but instead he decided that Lin Feng did have an ambush in the city, and seeing that he did not attack, he began to take the initiative to lure himself to attack the city!
Wu Huaien thought for a while, and immediately ordered: "Pass the order, strengthen patrols around the camp and on the east road, and kill all suspicious people; All patrol personnel are doubled, and all scouts must be dispatched in groups of more than five people! β
His men immediately received the order.
Because the front had already been cleared, Lin Feng took Li Congqian and them to rush forward leisurely, and soon arrived at Qinglongpi, where the two armies were camped.
The first thing they encountered was their own camp, which was naturally located in the west, behind the wooden walls, scattered with a few tents, and only a few torches swimming and patrolling inside.
Two miles ahead again is the camp of the Southern Han Dynasty, at this time, in front of the camp from south to north in a line distributed several fires, groups of patrol groups behind the fires are constantly patrolling, the camp is full of torches, a look of being ready for battle.
Lin Feng looked at the surrounding geography and immediately recognized the location vision of the Han army camp.
The mountain peaks on the south bank of the Li River are steep and straight, with different shapes, continuously, but when they arrive at Qinglonglong, the mountain suddenly closes southward, just like a person suddenly takes a sharp breath, and his abdomen is deeply deflated, forming a vacant land of hundreds of acres here.
Because the military camp of the Southern Han Dynasty was settled in advance, the location was exactly in the most central Tianyuan position of this open space, and the road to Zhaozhou and Mengzhou passed through the center of the camp, and the camp was about a mile away from Qinglongpi in the south and the Li River in the north.
Lin Feng led the five children around the back of his camp, sneaked to Qinglongpi, and then walked to the top of the hill under the cover of low bushes and small flowers.
Lin Feng listened intently for a while, quickly dived over, and immediately found that there were two corpses of Han soldiers behind a stone on the top of the mountain, obviously the special soldiers had swept over here.
Lin Feng immediately let out a birdsong to indicate safety, and Li Congqian and Chen Fei quickly ran over and rushed to Lin Feng's side. Lin Feng pointed to the two boulders in front of him, and softly ordered them to separate and take turns to rest.
Lin Feng took out the bamboo telescope he was carrying, and tried to adjust the lens to look at the Han army camp. Although the clarity of the lens has improved a lot after several days of adjustment and pondering, because the sky is too dark, Lin Feng can only see some moving figures.
Lin Feng gave up his efforts, motioned to Li Congqian beside him to squint for a while, tightened his clothes, and looked at the military camp below with a boulder.
Except for the faint sound of the breeze and the chirping of unknown insects, there was no sound, and the quiet and frightening autumn night in Jiangnan passed quickly, and the sky had already emitted a faint morning light.
After Lin Feng was woken up by Li Congqian, he took the binoculars from his hand, rubbed his eyes, and continued to observe the Han army camp.
At this time, the Han army camp has begun to wake up slowly, and people continue to come out of the camp tent and walk to more than a dozen lonely camp tents in the northeast corner, and there are also people in the camp tent who keep lifting their pants and coming out of it.
Lin Feng observed for a while, then turned his head and asked Li Congqian: "Congqian, you collected the information compiled by Huzi and them, is there one article that says that Wu Huaien is particularly clean?" β
Li Congqian was stunned for a moment, thought for a while, and replied in a low voice: "That's true!" The tongue caught by Lord Lin Renzhao once confessed that Wu Huaien's body was spotless at all times, and he hated other people's things that soiled him the most, and hated all unclean people and things! β
That's right! Lin Feng excitedly patted the stone under him, he finally discovered the biggest secret of the Han Army!