Chapter 567: Zhou Yuji
There is a ghost town in the vast wasteland between Hejian and Jingzhou, not Xian County, Xian County is at most an empty city, it is Fucheng! Luwan once played an empty city plan here, and the Qing army was killed by flooding and fire, so it completely angered Abatai, and after entering the city, he burned the empty city with anger, and nine out of ten houses in the city were burned down, and there was not even a single wild dog!
The cold wind was howling, the surroundings were deserted, and the light snow flying in the sky gradually covered the ruins in the city, just at dawn, a large army slowly entered this ghost town, not too many people and horses, more than 20,000 people, lightly armed, no baggage!
A simple military tent was set up under the ruins, two heroic young generals were discussing something with a map, the soldiers outside the tent were busy looking for typhoon shelters, and a large number of officers and soldiers at the city gate and above the city walls were vigilantly patrolling around.
Encamped, made fires and made meals, arranged troops to patrol, this group of men and horses began to carry out the basic marching elements in an orderly manner after entering the city, after a rest, when all the officers and soldiers were asleep, the walkie-talkie in the commander's tent screamed, the two generals quickly got up and listened, half a ring, the two looked at each other and smiled, and there was a chill in their eyes: "General Cao, we finally don't have to just wave the flag!" ”
"What General Zhou said is that it's time for us to show our skills to the little marquis, otherwise people will really think we are waste!"
Needless to say, these two people are Zhou Yuji and Cao Bianjiao, the pioneers of Lu Wang's deployment in the rear of the Qing army! Late last night, they were ordered to run overnight from Xian County to Fucheng, and after just a few hours of rest, they received an early warning message from Huang Degong, and the Qing army was at least 30,000 horses attacking, so that they should be prepared to eat this army!
"Brother Zhou, didn't the little marquis always let us only surround and not fight, why did you suddenly change your mind?" Cao Bianjiao sat on the wood next to him with a smile on his face!
"General Cao, you are pretending to be confused", Zhou Yuji laughed, "This is the little marquis who has come to weigh our weight!" ”
Cao Bianjiao smiled and nodded, then frowned: "It will be at least afternoon to reach here at the speed of the Qing army's march." What is General Zhou's good plan? ”
"Encircle and annihilate, the 30,000 iron cavalry of the Qing army is not something that our brothers can bear, so we will mobilize other people and horses to surround it as planned!" Zhou Yuji frowned, "Do you know the specific location of the other centaurs now?" ”
"Li Fuming and Wang Tingchen are now in Xianxian, Wu Sangui and Tang Tong are now in Hanzhuang Town, thirty miles northwest of the city, and the two Bai generals are now in Gumiao Town, twenty miles east of Fucheng, the distance is not too far, and they can be mobilized at any time," Cao Bianjiao said
"Alright, let's start weaving nets now." Zhou Yuji exhaled: "There is a war on a snowy day, the atmosphere is good, looking back at Cao Bianjiao, you and several other generals will discuss the arrangement, and I will go out to set up defenses" said and walked out of the tent!
"Is General Zhou planning to die in the city or ......" Cao Bianjiao hurriedly asked, and Zhou Yuji's voice came out outside: "There is no gate in this ghost city, how can you die if there is no danger to defend, Master Hou wants to see us resist, General Cao." It's time to show off your real skills! ”
Although the snow outside was small, after all, it had been raining for a day and a night, and the ground was still not deep or shallow, and the boots creaked and creaked when they stepped on it. Zhou Yuji walked from the ruined city with a few personal soldiers in the small snowflakes flying in the sky, and looked up at the soldiers on the city wall from time to time, that was his subordinates, although he was also a general soldier, but the number of his subordinates was not much, and the total number of Cao Bianjiao was only 30,000 horses. Compared with Huang Degong and Zuo Liangyu before, He Renlong's kind of real power is even less than half!
However, the soldiers are not more about the fine, Zhou Yuji and Huang Degong, like Huang Degong, climbed up from the military merit. The style of leading the troops is all fierce routes, and his subordinates are also a rare one of the Ming officers and soldiers with strict military discipline, and it is even more commendable that they can be pulled out to fight tough battles at any time, which is incomparable to other horses! So although there are few people, they are full of confidence!
Of course, the courage and fierceness of the Qing army has always been like thunder, and Zhou Yuji will not be arrogant to think that with him and Cao Bianjiao, less than 30,000 horses can withstand it, besides, there are so many people and horses in the back, why bother with pig brains, no matter how you fight, as long as you win!
Thinking about how to fight this hard-to-hard, I unconsciously went up to the city wall, took out my binoculars and looked around, except for the desolate four wilderness, the snowflakes were boundless, and there was not a single wild dog, let alone a person.
"Did the spies go out?" Zhou Yuji tightened his cloak, the city was indeed too cold,
"Back to the general, all the spies in the army have been scattered, I am afraid that there will be a vicious fight, and the Qing army has scattered a lot of spies around Fucheng" The soldiers around him quickly replied.
Zhou Yuji sneered: "It's been so many days, it's time to move, sending them out to investigate the military situation is secondary, and sniping the other party's spies is the main thing!" He let out a long sigh: "It's better for the little marquis to get that treasure for reconnaissance, by the way, did they let the bird out?" ”
The soldiers knew that the bird he was talking about was actually an aerial camera, and the unskilled personnel sent by Rwan were only walkie-talkies, and there were several drones used to reconnoiter the movements of the Qing army, which is why Zhou Yuji's men and horses had not sent a large number of spies to investigate recently, because it was almost unnecessary!
"They're on the south side of the city, general, let's go and see?" , The soldiers said, Zhou Yuji nodded, and walked along the city wall towards the south city, there are not many soldiers on duty on the city wall, except for the reason of the cold weather, it is not necessary, because the four city gates of the entire Fucheng County have been burned down, and they have no intention of standing in the city from the beginning! Today, I'm going to play the field battle that the Qing army is best at!
Hey, Zhou Yuji, who was walking, suddenly stopped in front of a soldier on duty, patted the snow on his helmet for him and sighed, and then took off his cloak to help the soldier tie it!
"General", the soldier was obviously flattered and wanted to stop it, and then he was glared back by Zhou Yuji with a look, obediently, tears rolling back and forth in his eyes!
"Let's go back and see if I can ask the little marquis for a batch of winter clothes, the clothes on the soldiers are too thin! ...... the imperial court" Zhou Yuji sighed again as he spoke, turned around and continued to walk towards Nancheng!
"I'm afraid the little marquis won't agree, I just gave food and silver some time ago, and now we want winter clothes again, I'm afraid ......" The pro-soldier muttered in the back, Zhou Yuji frowned, "Nodding, they all said that the little marquis is rich." However, he still has 100,000 troops to eat, drink and wear expenses, and it is said that he also supplies the rations of refugees from many cities, in fact, the pressure is not small! ”
"The subordinates also think so, but the general said that the little marquis is really righteous, the rations of more than 100,000 troops on our side were covered during the battle, not to mention, the most admired by his subordinates was that they also gave each person five taels of silver, then it was more than 500,000 taels of silver, the little marquis is really our lucky star as a soldier!" A few pro-soldiers behind you glanced at me and said Lu Wang's luxury, Zhou Yuji just smiled!
"Yes! The court has no money and no food, how can the soldiers fight without food and clothing, and it is the right time for this little marquis to go down to earth. But I'm a little puzzled, I heard that his Lu family has stores in several big cities, and he really makes a lot of money by selling some strange things, and it makes sense that he is not bad for money, but where does this food come from? Daming is now full of droughts, locust plagues, and there is no harvest in many places, even if you have money, you can't buy food, but you see that the little marquis directly threw down tens of thousands of stones of grain in the river last time. Don't even blink an eyelid! Zhou Yuji walked in front and expressed his doubts, and several pro-soldiers behind him also expressed puzzlement, and they all kinds of speculations!
The tower on the south gate has long been burned to ashes by the Qing army, and a small tent is now erected between the ruins and broken walls. There were six people in the tent, no doubt all of them were from the Military Affairs Department under Rwan, except for Zhou Yuji's small team, which had a large number of people, there were only two people in the other departments. Of course, their main task here is not to check military discipline, but to be responsible for detecting the enemy!
Now this small tent is actually a lookout, after the army has just entered the city. They chose this place in Nanchengtou as an observation post, don't underestimate this small outpost, Rwan's equipping them with intermittent high-tech gadgets in the later generations, in addition to two aerial cameras, there are also high-powered military telescopes, as well as night vision telescopes, although these things are military, but there are too many channels for procurement in later generations, and there is no need to go abroad at all!
That is, relying on this kind of intermittent high-tech gadgets, the spies under Zhou Yuji are much easier, and they have almost not carried out tasks recently, once the Qing army enters the twenty-mile range, they will be discovered, and the whole army will be dumbfounded, but I don't know how the main general knows, because the existence of these six people is confidential, and only the high-level knows.
Zhou Yuji walked into the tent, the six people were busy, some people were controlling the drone, some people were pointing to the screen to compare something, some people were holding the walkie-talkie and saying something, anyway, after seeing him come in, everyone just nodded slightly and said hello, obviously this is a very impolite behavior, Zhou Yuji himself is okay, because after all, these people are all subordinates from time to time, and they can't control it whether they are arrogant or domineering, but the soldiers around him feel that they can't stand it anymore, but! And then the egg! The master didn't dare to shout at these six people, they were a bird's egg!
"Have you found any traces of the Qing army?" Zhou Yuji stood in front of the monitor and squinted his eyes, because it was snowing outside, the drone's vision was not very good, and he couldn't see clearly!
"Back to General Zhou, I haven't found it for the time being, the drone is only ten miles away now, and it is impossible for the Qing army to reach this range within half an hour of departure!" Guo Qingzi was the leader of the six-person team, and hurriedly replied when he heard Zhou Yuji's question!
"Why don't you fly farther, doesn't it mean that it's okay to fly thirty or forty miles, I want to see the battle of the Qing army......" Zhou Yuji was saying, Guo Qingzi interrupted him: "General Zhou doesn't know, the wind and the sun are good, and the signal in the wilderness is stable and it's no problem to fly for thirty or forty miles, but now it's windy and snowy outside, the drone can't fly too high, and we can't fly too far for safety......"
"yes, I see!" Zhou Yuji nodded, his eyes fixed on the monitor again, and his brows furrowed, "Are those black dots moving people?" ”
"Yes", Guo Qingzi said and zoomed in on the camera: "It's a Qing army spy!" ”
Yes! Zhou Yuji was taken aback, "The Qing army spies have already arrived within ten miles of us so soon?" ”
"It's not surprising, the Qing army spies have always been operating within our ten mile range, but the general only put our spies within five miles!" Guo Qingzi said lightly, and Zhou Yuji smiled: "This is the attention of your lord, but now it's also out!" ”
"Well, I see!" Guo Qingzi kept switching the screen as he said: "Oh, I'm about to meet soon, and it's indispensable to rush!" ”
"That's what you want", Zhou Yuji smiled, sat down, and stared at the screen, "There are really a lot of Tartar spies...... I rub! Dry up! ”
The tent was instantly quiet, and on the screen of the display screen, ten miles away in the wilderness in the ice and snow, more than ten people from the Ming army and the Qing army had already done it, and the number of people was equal.
"Not good!" Staring at the picture, Zhou Yuji suddenly frowned, it turned out that not far from the battle between the two groups of men and horses, a small pair of men and horses from the Qing army surrounded him!
"Run! Run, or you'll be surrounded and you'll die! Zhou Yuji clenched his fists and shouted,
"General, it's useless for you to shout and cut your throat, they can't hear it", Guo Qingzi smiled slightly, and then switched the screen, "Don't worry, there are a lot of spies on our side, and now they are all going to support!" ”
Zhou Yuji smiled embarrassedly, "It's a little too devoted!" Haha, this thing is really a good baby, you can see the scenery dozens of miles away, treasures, treasures! ”
"Actually, I heard from Master Hou that this treasure only has such a great mana in the Ming Dynasty, and if it is said that it is in the Celestial Empire, it can only fly ten kilometers away at most, that is, twenty miles!" Guo Qingzi began to show off, and sure enough, Zhou Yuji was curious: "Why?" ”
"It is said that our Ming environment is good, and the signal is not interfered with, but what is said that in the Celestial Empire, there are radio waves everywhere, and the transmitted waves cannot exert the maximum mana at all......"
"That means that in the Celestial Empire, this thing is flying all over the sky?" Zhou Yuji's eyes widened,
Guo Qingzi nodded, "It should be!" That's the Celestial Empire" (to be continued......)