Chapter 506: The Enemy Arrives
"Leave a few live questions! Don't kill them all! ”
Wang Miyuan rode on a horse in armor, grabbed the reins, and shouted loudly to the soldiers in front of him.
After all, spies are just spies, and in a hurry, the information they get is often limited, and what is really useful still needs to be typed once in many cases to be clearer.
This time, he led two hundred soldiers to explore the thief, and sure enough, after only half a day's journey, he ran into the forward sent by Jiaozhi to explore the way.
As soon as the two sides fought, Wang Miyuan felt that something was wrong.
He has been in the Guangxin Army for many years, and he is very familiar with the Jiaozhi soldiers, generally speaking, the strikers will be elite, but the strength of this team of soldiers is really a little weak.
Two hundred against ten, his own side is elite, and the other party is just an ordinary soldier, so he is not so nervous when he fights.
Wang Miyuan no longer stepped forward, only stuck behind him, blowing a cold wind while watching the situation in the field.
However, he has only been away from Quang Nam for a few years, and he is already a little uncomfortable with the winter here.
The mountains and forests were clammy and cold that penetrated deep into the bone marrow, and the cold wind mixed with the moisture blew on people's faces, not like a knife cut, but like a needle prick, bringing a smell of blood that he hadn't smelled for a long time.
Half an hour later, this small battle finally came to an end, from the mountain road to the steep slope, dozens of corpses of thieves were poured horizontally, some with spears in their bodies, already motionless, and some with arrows in their bodies, still struggling slightly and crying out in pain.
In the distance, several diminutive figures fled quickly.
There was no need for Wang Miyuan to give an order, a soldier had already chased after him, and a quarter of an hour later, the escapees had already been caught by one of them and fell to the ground one by one.
After fighting in Quang Nam for several years and defending for a long time, Wang Miyuan could also talk to some people, and without the help of the guide, he put his foot on the shoulder of one of the soldiers and personally interrogated: "Who are you under the command, how many people are in the tent, and who is the general of this trip?" ”
In the cold wind, the soldier was covered with sweat, and his mouth was open for a long time, but he still didn't say a word.
Wang Miyuan didn't have time to talk nonsense with him, his hand raised the knife and fell, but before the other party could react, his head fell to the ground with a "plop", splashing a small pool of blood on the ground.
Seeing this lingering, there was no need for him to ask any more questions, and a few cross-toed soldiers on the side scrambled to shout.
"I'm from Xidong, Guangyuan Prefecture, and the owner of the cave is Li De!"
"More than 700 people have come to our mountain!"
"General, the people who came to Qinzhou and Penzhou are all Jiaozhi people, we haven't robbed anything in Xidong, and we didn't put the fire!"
"Yes, yes, we were forced!"
A few pawns explained quickly, but unfortunately they didn't know much, most of them were half-guessed and half-blinded, and some of the questions asked by Wang Miyuan, they obviously didn't know, but they all answered nonsense.
Wang Miyuan is very familiar with Guangnan, and after listening to the answers of those people, he pieced together the general situation.
This time, the soldiers were divided into two routes, headed by Li Fuzai, the lieutenant of the auxiliary state, and went north by sea and land, and the general Tan Zong led tens of thousands of troops and parted ways with Li Fuzai.
The whole army claimed to be 200,000, and widely distributed "Cutting Jin Lubu" along the way, preaching along the way that "the Jin lord is mediocre and does not follow the holy model", and said that Jiaozhi "must sweep away the filth of the filth, and Ge Yao Tian enjoys the good period of Shunri", a large number of Great Jin provoked military affairs, banned trade, and invited hundreds of cave masters in Guangyuan Prefecture to invade together.
Guangyuan Prefecture was originally a wall grass, when there is nothing to do, you have to come to the border of the Great Jin Dynasty to follow the autumn wind, at this time I can hear that Yang Kui is dead, it is said that Chen Hao, who has only been in Yongzhou for a few months, is also sick and dying, only some remnants of the army are defeated, Yongzhou, Pennsylvania, Qinzhou and other more than a dozen states and counties in the south, there are no 10,000 troops, and there are also Zhizhou in Yongzhou City who are bent on opening side affairs, and from time to time they lead troops to drill, and they look like they are preparing for war.
As soon as the cave masters in Guangyuan Prefecture discussed, they thought that Yongzhou had made a lot of moves recently, and Xu Jiong's matter a while ago, they felt more and more that instead of waiting for the Dajin to clean up when they were fighting, it was better to take the initiative and follow Li Fuzai, and they could also pick up some cheapness.
Because Jiaozhi Li and Tan only govern their subordinates, they do not directly manage the soldiers in Guangyuan Prefecture, and only assign things to them to do, so they are much looser.
The stragglers in the stream cave in front of them should have followed the army, and they didn't know what the reason was, but they left the team, and they weren't elite forwards, so they didn't know much.
Wang Miyuan finished asking, but he understood how much deception was in what these people said.
The local soldiers in Guangyuan Prefecture took advantage of the situation to burn and kill and plunder, and there were countless things in the past, and now I can't say why they will leave the team, but you can see what they are carrying, what they are carrying, and there are two donkeys in the back, and a few things hanging on horses, all of which are soft and soft, chickens and ducks, and it is clear that they have robbed the things of the people in the village near the left.
He didn't talk nonsense to these people, but threw them to his own soldiers, turned over his horse, and climbed halfway up the hill in the direction they pointed, wanting to see how well the march of the Cochin army could be seen here.
When he came back, the battlefield had been cleaned, and nearly 100 corpses had been dragged to the forest to be buried on the spot, but the trail near Yongzhou was mostly dirt roads, and there were still large pools of blood on the road.
Wang Miyuan put the long knife in his hand back into the scabbard at his waist, and sent a team of men and horses to send back the thin and soft, donkeys and horses behind him according to the place, and then regrouped and returned to the camp.
Even though he was behind all the brave soldiers in the Guangxin army who had fought in Guangnan for many years, and there were horses straddling under him, he still didn't dare to stay here for many years.
The reports received in this period were very frequent, but they were different from the predictions of the Jiaozhi troops.
A spy reported that the thief claimed to have raised 300,000 troops. There are also spies who report that Jiaozhi is only 30,000 or 40,000 troops.
Hearing that the natives in Guangyuan Prefecture reported 200,000, Wang Miyuan probably had a number in his heart.
Guangyuan Prefecture has been attached to Jiaozhi in most of the mountains, according to the Xidong seven or eight hundred people, the rest of the mountains increased or decreased, not to mention twenty or thirty thousand people, plus the thieves, if there is no total of 100,000 troops, it is really a bit self-deceptive.
Wang Miyuan was a little nervous.
He marched and fought a cautious character, even Yang Kui had praised him for being "stable", now he calculated his own strength, and then compared the number of soldiers in Jiaozhi, and then thought about Wu Yi, who had insufficient success and more than defeat in Yongzhou City, how could he put his mind at ease, so he urged the horse to go quickly and hurried back to the camp outside the city.
When he returned to the camp, several lieutenant generals were discussing matters in the tent, and when they saw him coming, they didn't say anything, and one of them said directly: "The thieves are only thirty miles away from here, Li Fuzai leads the troops, Deputy Marshal Tan Zong, and tens of thousands of troops in Guangyuan Prefecture, there should be 1230,000 horses coming, and it will be tomorrow." ”