Chapter 247 The Backwardness of Military Means of Communication
"Report! On the main road to the north, more than 20 horsemen are driving one person and coming here! I saw a scout hurrying back to where the army was, and bowed to a general who was watching his training on the flat ground by the side of the road.
When the general saw this, he looked in the direction he was pointing, and as expected, he fled with all his might, and saw that there was a trail of dust behind him, and there was no doubt that there were pursuers, and the general did not alarm the army, but rushed away with his horse, and the scout and eight or nine of his relatives immediately urged the horse to catch up.
"Where did you find something unusual?" I saw that the general was calm and relaxed, and asked the scout as he walked.
"Back to the general's words, more than ten miles to the north!" The scout replied.
"Why don't you fire the arrows? Instead, choose to rush to report the news alone? The general replied.
"Villain...... The villain was afraid that the arrow would alarm these two groups of people and miss a big event, so he rushed back to tell each other first! The villain asks his companion to stay where he is and continue to monitor the situation on the road! The scout said in trepidation, for fear that the general would blame him.
"Well done! Scouts are not simple eyes, especially when the news cannot be transmitted back in time, but also to be a brain that can think and think, only when everything is well considered, it is a scout who can rest assured! By the way, what is your current position? The general asked.
"The villain is now a detainees!" The scout was agitated, but still able to keep his composure and replied respectfully.
"Tell your military envoys (100 generals, equivalent to the head of the infantry army), just say what I said, let you lead ten generals first!" The general spoke, and the scout's thanks rang out in his ears, and the general waved his hand, but his mind had turned to the inconvenience of the scout's means of communication, and it seemed that when he had time, he would like to talk to his brother about it, and he was well-informed, and maybe there would be a good way to solve this problem.
While the general was pondering, the man who had fled for his life had arrived, and he saw the face of the man who stood in the way. If he met a savior, the tense nerves along the way suddenly relaxed, and then a sore feeling hit, making him unable to bear all his strength, and staggered off the horse.
Seeing this, the general hurriedly turned over and dismounted, helped the man up, and said, "Master Hu, why are you so alarmed?" ”
The person who came was Hu Cheng, who escaped alone, and he saw that the other party still remembered himself. Immediately rejoiced: "I don't want Leader Hao to remember the villain!" To make a long story short, the villain Zhuangzi asked the official army to break, and someone chased me to this point at this time! ”
Hao Siwen nodded, asked the two relatives to help Hu Cheng, and called the scout to return to the mountain to report the news, while he turned over and got on his horse, bent his bow and arrows, and looked at the pursuers who came in a hurry.
Those twenty or so horsemen are no better than the local garrison in Jingdong, and they are also elite soldiers in Tong Guan's eyes. At this time, seeing someone on the opposite side raising an arrow, he immediately scattered to make evasive actions, Hao Siwen smiled slightly when he saw this, but aimed at the two horsemen who turned their heads and fled. Two arrows were fired in succession, and the arrows hit the enemy at the sound of the bowstring, but the two did not fall off their horses. Instead, they accelerated their escape.
Hao Siwen shook his head when he saw this, and suddenly remembered the joke Tang Bin made with him, to the effect that his archery skills were just right. If it's too bad, it's too embarrassing to lose the face of "mastering all eighteen kinds of martial arts", if it's too good, Gong Wang will definitely be shot to death, and the cottage will have one less leader, or like now, it's not good or bad, it's the best just now.
Except for the two horsemen who escaped with arrows, the rest of the cavalry did not retreat, but still charged here, Hao Siwen saw that these people were all gunners in the horse army, and they did not match the bow, so he turned around and took the spear, urged the horse to step forward, and collided with these people all the way.
Hao Siwen's personal entourage knew that the master of his family was in the future, and did not come forward to disturb, all of them were Le Ma for him to sweep the formation, and saw Hao Siwen stabbing left and right in these more than 20 horses, every time he shot and collected the gun, a horse must fall, only Hu Cheng was stunned, remembering the scene of meeting in front of the village gate that day, and he couldn't help but be afraid at this time.
These more than 20 horsemen called Hao Siwen to kill half of them, and the rest saw that the situation was not good, and when they were about to retreat, they asked Hao Siwen's personal entourage to stop, seeing that they could not escape, and there was no life in fighting, so they had no choice but to dismount and surrender, Hao Siwen asked people to get off their armor and weapons, and led more than 20 captured horses and sent them up the mountain.
Hu Cheng got rid of the chasing soldiers, hurriedly stepped forward to thank him, and said: "The two who ran away are Zhu Long and Zhu Biao of Zhujiazhuang, and the two of them led the officers and soldiers to the villain's village, at this time Zhuangzi was broken, my father killed this guy, and the sister also fell into the enemy's hands, and the villain was desperate, so he came to join Liangshan, and asked Hao Leader to help introduce him to the mountain!" ”
Hao Siwen saw that he didn't dare to slack off, so he hurriedly led Hu Cheng up the mountain, and when he arrived at the Li family crossing, he saw Qin Ming and Huang Xin who were training on the flat ground outside the store, Hao Siwen said the details, and asked Huang Xin to take care of his subordinates for himself, Huang Xin responded with a smile, Hao Siwen had no worries, and led Hu Cheng up the mountain diligently.
Several people crossed the big lake and came to the golden beach, just when they met Wang Dingliu in the transfer of boats, Hao Siwen saw this and asked him why, Wang Dingliu smiled and said: "My brother is going to pick up Teacher Xu and come back, and ask my younger brother to arrange a boat!" ”
As soon as Hao Siwen heard this, Xu Ning completed the task of delaying the attack on the official army of Qingfu, so he settled in Erlong Mountain, and by the way, he taught them the method of training soldiers to a few leaders of the horse army, which was all agreed between his brother and Chao Gai before.
"Where is my brother now?" Hao Siwen asked hurriedly.
"I'm at Brother Meng Kang's place, watching the progress of the ship!" Wang Dingliu replied.
Hao Siwen arched his hand to Wang Dingliu, and then took Hu Cheng to the shipyard, walked for a long time, and finally saw Wang Lun standing in front of a 2,000-material sea ship, listening to Meng Kang's introduction, and then suddenly saw Hao Siwen leading Hu Cheng over, he was surprised, stopped Meng Kang, stepped forward, nodded to Hao Siwen, and greeted Hu Cheng.
Hu Cheng saw Wang Lun, his eyes turned red, and he knelt down and said: "The villain's whole family is in danger, the old father has been killed, and he begged the leader of the king to send troops to save him, and the villain is willing to vote for Dazhai and repay him with his life!" ”
Wang Lun hurriedly stepped forward to help Hu Cheng and said, "Let's talk about it carefully, which way of people trapped your Zhuangzi, and what is the situation at this time?" ”
Hu Cheng hurriedly told what happened from beginning to end, and Hao Siwen said angrily: "An old man on the hospital bed, they can also do it!" is still the official army of the imperial court, I think it is worse than bandits! ”
"Since Sister Ling fell into the hands of Dong Ping, this matter must not be delayed, if it is too late, I am afraid that something will happen!" Wang Lun looked at the anxious Hu Chengdao, and then instructed Jiao Ting: "Lin Jiaotou is leading the army training on the north bank of Shuibo, passing on my military order, telling him to prepare for battle, you ask Lu Fang and Guo Sheng to set up a pro-military camp and follow me to the ship!" In addition, send someone to inform the three military divisions! ”
Jiao Ting took the order and went, and Hu Cheng saw that Wang Lun made a decision immediately. Without delay, I felt nostalgic in my heart, and I wanted to bow down again, and said: "In the past, the villain offended his brother, and he didn't want his brother to mind, but at this time, he was dedicated to rescue, and when the villain saved the sister, he was willing to serve Dazhai with her, even if he was a pawn in front of his brother's account, he was at ease!" ”
Hu Cheng didn't appear much in the original trajectory. So Wang Lun doesn't know much about him, he only knows that his martial arts are average, but after a few previous dealings, Wang Lun found that this person has a stable personality and is relatively old-fashioned, but the most surprising thing is that this person is still a maritime businessman, and there is no leader similar to him in the cottage at present. His joining this time not only fills the shortcomings of the lack of talents in this aspect of copycats. also brought her sister Hu Sanniang to the cottage by the way, but isn't it a beautiful thing to kill two birds with one stone?
At the beginning, he had the idea of inviting the brother and sister to go up the mountain, but because of various objective reasons, he never mentioned it in the end. I don't want Hujiazhuang to ask Erzhu to lead the official army to break this time, it is really everyone who has their own fate, it seems that their fate with Liangshan starts from this moment.
"Brother and sister Xian are here to vote. Call me a cottage fluffy glow! It's just that the polite words won't be said first, everything is to rescue Ling Mei! Wang Lun spoke, and Hu Cheng nodded his head. Everyone walked to the golden beach, and on the way they met Yuan Lang and Yuan Lang with the team, and the two of them hurriedly stepped forward to greet each other, so they listened to the thief and said: "Brother Junshi, where are you going in a hurry?" Hey, this one is a face student, but I haven't seen it! ”
Wang Lun smiled and introduced Hu Cheng to Hu Cheng and Yuan Lang, and briefly said about Hu Jiazhuang, and said angrily: "I waited for Hu Cheng to let go of the Hu Cheng brothers, but the government just made trouble for him, but didn't they take me Liangshan in their eyes?" Brother Junshi, needless to say, you must ask me to go with you! ”
Yuan Lang also stepped forward when he saw this: "The junior brother has the most divine arm bows in the camp, and he has fought with the horse army with this crossbow, and he has also had an experience, and I hope that my brother will allow my battalion to participate in the battle!" ”
Seeing that the two of them, especially Yuan Lang, solemnly asked for battle, Wang Lun thought about it for a while, nodded and agreed, and then asked them to go to other infantry camps to borrow the divine arm bow for a while, the two were overjoyed when they heard this, and went happily with Wang Lun's "Shang Fang Sword", Wang Lun smiled, and asked Jiao Ting to urge Lu Fang and Guo Sheng to gather people, and he took Hu Cheng to Jinsha, while asking Wang Dingliu to allocate boats, while waiting for his own pro-army and Yuan Ying to assemble.
At this time, a small boat shook on the lake, and there was a slender man standing on it, this man saw that Wang Lun was on the golden beach, and he couldn't wait for the boat to dock, so he jumped in the water and waded into the water, and reported to Wang Lunyu: "I just got the news, Dong Ping, the governor of Qingfu, led a thousand horse troops, broke through Hujiazhuang, and the son of the Hu family disappeared......"
I saw that he was talking, but when he saw the person next to Wang Lun, he was surprised: "When did the owner of the village go up the mountain?" He immediately sighed and said, "The news of the little brother is too late again!" ”
The intelligence mistake of the Yunzhou Hotel last time almost trapped the Liangshan army in a passive situation, but fortunately, Hao Siwen seized the fighter, so there was not much loss. In this matter, Zhu Gui just used people improperly and was not strict in discipline, but he still took the initiative to receive military law, first received a military stick, and was punished with a suspension of half a year's reward. And after this time, all the personnel of the Yunzhou Hotel were replaced, and after punishment according to the degree of personal dereliction of duty, they were transferred to other positions, and even three direct parties were sent to raise pigs. It served as a great warning to the personnel of the entire intelligence system.
Zhu Gui was guilty for the second time at this time, and the panic in his heart could be imagined, Wang Lun saw that he was ashamed, and persuaded: "You are only half an hour later than Hu Cheng's brother, which is very rare!" Who got the news this time? You're going to Leader Pei to ask for credit for him! ”
Hearing Wang Lun say this, Zhu Gui felt much better, but his face was slightly hot, and he was embarrassed to answer, but he heard Hao Siwen say: "Brother, according to the younger brother, if there is really an emergency, there is really no way to quickly deliver the news, after all, the fastest horse also has its limitations!" Then he told the example of the scouts in his own camp, and looked at Wang Lun to hear what he could do.
After listening to Hao Siwen's exclamation, Wang Lun secretly wondered if the Song Dynasty did not raise military pigeons on a large scale at this time? Just looked at Hu Cheng who was restless on the side, Wang Lun knew that it was not the time to talk about this matter in detail, so he lowered his head and thought about it, and then instructed Zhu Gui: "Brother, so I will give you a big matter, these days you are looking for the whole village to see if anyone is proficient in raising pigeons!" (To be continued......)