Chapter 833: Just below the soup
After nightfall, the lights in the Jiangpu camp flickered brightly, the soldiers were busy preparing for the upcoming battle, and the officers and soldiers of the Nanjing Navy Division were also busy making up the key points of the water war for these landlubbers who had no experience in water warfare.
Song Nan's big tent was also lit up, in fact, a secret meeting was going on nervously, Song Nan was sitting behind the Shuai case, and there were two black and bloody things on the Shuai case, which looked very disgusting. But Song Nan didn't seem to care about this, and only looked at the two bamboo tubes in his hands intently.
"My lord, this is the military pigeon captured by the harrier eagle in the army to deliver the news, and I feel that the matter is serious, so I sent it to my lord to see." In recent years, Song Nan has often led his troops to fight and has extremely high requirements for intelligence, so he deliberately set up a separate post of scout for 100 households in the Jinyi Wei personal guard battalion, which is specifically responsible for spying on intelligence and delivering news. Large-scale domestication of harrier eagles is part of their daily routine.
Song Nan has long been aware of the difficulties of information transmission in these years, the manual transmission takes too long, and it is also restricted by factors such as distance, road conditions, weather, horses, etc., which is sometimes very wrong. Although the way to promote the message of the military pigeon has begun to be very fast and effective, but the military pigeon also has limitations, there have been military pigeons to transmit the message of the lost, and finally found out that it was preyed on by the eagle falcon in nature, so that the message transmission was delayed.
Inspired by this, coupled with the fact that he had seen the Tatar domestication of the harrier eagle, Song Nan had already ordered the large-scale domestication of the harrier eagle, firstly, in order to transmit information more accurately, and secondly, the harrier eagle's other use was to directly solve the pigeons that transmitted news in the air, which was equivalent to the spy interception work in later generations, and its significance was very important.
When he came to Nanjing this time, Song Nan had already had a heart, he knew that there were many officials in Nanjing who secretly colluded with Zhu Chenhao, and these people couldn't see it on weekdays, although Song Nan saw several officials feasting with Zhu Chenhao on that trip to Nanjing, but the more so, the more Song Nan was at ease with these officials. With Zhu Chenhao's wisdom, it is impossible for him to expose the person he really bought in front of Song Nan, which is also the reason why Song Nan couldn't deal with Huang Jue and others yesterday.
For this battle, Song Nan was most worried not about facing the rebels, but about a fire in the backyard, once he fought with the rebels in the front, someone in the rear led the army to rebel and make a rebellion, giving himself an internal and external attack, then there is no need to say anything, it will definitely be defeated.
So is there a powerful faction in Nanjing that has become Zhu Chenhao's dead party? In order to know this answer, when Song Nan arrived in Jiangpu and set up camp, he ordered Li Rong to release dozens of domesticated harrier eagles to block the sky west of Nanjing.
If someone secretly communicates with Zhu Chenhao, then it is impossible for them not to inform Zhu Chenhao of the news of the arrival of their army and their behavior in Nanjing, and there is only one way to inform them, which is to pass the news through the guò military pigeon. The pigeons do not beat around the bush, they will fly towards the target in a daze after they are released, and they will never be able to avoid the western sky blocked by the harrier eagle, and the significance of intercepting these messages is self-evident.
Now it really worked, after dark today, the two harrier eagles respectively captured two military pigeons and fell to the ground, the bloody and fluffy mass on the table was the dead pigeon, and the two bamboo tubes were hidden in the pigeon's belly at the base of the thigh.
In the expectation of everyone, Song Nan slowly pulled out a wooden cork with a bamboo tube mouth, poured out a roll of parchment from it, unfolded it and read in a low voice: "Song Nan's army arrived yesterday, the number is less than 50,000, and at this moment it is recruiting ships to fight the prince's army, those ships are all unusable civilian ships, and the number of military ships should be more than 100, so there is no need to worry." But you can rest assured that the soldiers led by Song Nan are not accustomed to water warfare, and they fight in small boats, so they have no combat effectiveness at all, so they don't need to be taken by his momentum. At that time, the lowly rank should be defeated in one fell swoop, and the city of Nanjing will instantly become the king's bag. ”
"Damn, there really is an inner ghost, and I pulled out and broke the corpse into thousands of pieces." The generals scolded angrily, and some people even said that they would bring troops into the city to clear the ghosts.
Song Nan quietly opened another bamboo tube, the content of the information inside was exactly the same, thinking that he was worried about the loss and delay of the information, so he came in duplicate to increase the accuracy of the transmission.
"My lord, if there are people in the city who should cooperate with Zhu Chenhao inside and outside, this battle will not be able to be fought, please give an order immediately, and we will immediately eliminate the ghosts in the city." The generals were screaming and making noise.
Song Nan waved his hand and said, "How do you sue me for purging?" This article. How do you know who is the inner ghost? At present, is it difficult to arrest the generals of the guards in Nanjing? So how do you work together to meet the enemy? ”
"But sir, don't you care? I don't know how many carrier pigeons this ghost sent to pass the message, and the harrier eagle can't capture them all, the news must be passed on, wouldn't it be more troublesome in wartime? ”
Song Nan smiled and said, "You guys, you just don't have brain teasers; Now that I'm aware of this, don't I care? How to deal with this interesting thing requires wisdom, wisdom! Got it? It's just braining. ”
"Interesting?" The generals' eyes flew wildly, their eyebrows were burned, and the adults said it was funny.
"Do you already have a plan?" Peng Yang, the commander of the Second Foreign Army, was a general cultivated by Song Nan, and after learning Song Nan's successes, when Ma Ming and the others were puzzled, he frowned and thought hard, and he was also very calm.
Song Nan smiled and said: "If you lose your horse, you don't know if it's a blessing." It's bad news, but bad news doesn't necessarily mean good news, it's all about how we take advantage of it. ”
Peng Yang suddenly said: "Do you want to do it?" ”
Song Nan stroked his palm and praised: "Pengyang has made progress, and that's exactly what I mean." Now that we know that someone is tipping off the news, why not take advantage of this and let Zhu Chenhao into me. ”
Peng Yang said: "But, you have to find out the inner ghost first, who is this inner ghost?" ”
Song Nan shook his head and said: "Don't look for it, it's nothing more than that handful of people, the pro-army Wei Jin Wuwei and the two guards are stationed in Nanjing, Zhenjiang Wei and Jiang Ningwei and other guards are all west of my camp, this news is sent from the city of Nanjing, listening to this tone and a general with soldiers and horses, can you still jump out of the circle?" Don't be in a hurry to take him, tomorrow I will summon Jin Wuwei and the generals of the pro-army guard to tell them about my detailed plan to meet the enemy. ”
"Huh?" The generals who were a little slower in their brains exclaimed in surprise, not only did they not catch it, but they also told them about the battle plan? Outrageous?
Peng Yang laughed and said: "Gao Ming, really Gao Ming, the adult's plan is absolutely clever, and he is humble." ”
Song Nan smiled: "Do you understand?" ”
Peng Yang nodded and said, "I understand, I understand, I really understand my humble position." ”
Song Nan smiled and said, "It's good to understand, wait and see, the show is on." ”
Early the next morning, news came from the upstream that Zhu Chenhao's army had conquered Wuhu County, only one step away from Nanjing, and the rebels were going to march to Nanjing in the evening; After hearing the news, the tense atmosphere in Nanjing became even stronger.
When Song Nan rushed to the lobby of the Nanjing Military Department in the city early in the morning to discuss the matter, the hall was full of mourning and was at a loss.
Song Nan stopped their noise and asked them not to worry, and at the same time told them that their battle plan had been drawn up, and they were waiting for Zhu Chenhao to teach him whether he would come or go.
Song Nan's statement stabilized everyone's feelings from a certain distance, and everyone asked what arrangements Zhenguo Gong had, Song Nan smiled and did not answer, only said that this plan should not be exposed, and finally, Jin Wuwei commanded Yan Ping and said: "Zhen Guogong, since you want me to cooperate with the Nanjing Jin Wuwei pro-army and guard, how can you not inform us of the battle plan, and then we don't know how to fight?" It would be a sin to act recklessly and ruin the plans of the adults. ”
Song Nan thought for a while and said: "That's what I said, but this plan can only be conveyed to Jin Wuwei and the generals of the pro-military guard, and the others should not listen well, there are many people, if the intention is leaked, everyone will be suspicious at that time." In this way, Jin Wuwei and the generals of the pro-army Wei Qianhu and more than 1,000 households will stay, and the rest of the adults will be busy preparing for war. I will only explain the plan in detail with the generals of the two guards. ”
The officials also felt that it made sense, if everyone knew the battle plan, if it was leaked out, wouldn't everyone be able to get out of it, and besides, the civilian officials were only curious about the battle plan, and they couldn't hear that they were ugly, so they retreated one after another, leaving more than ten generals of Jin Wuwei and pro-military guards in the hall.
Song Nanmans explained the battle plan to everyone one by one, and answered their questions, and it took a full hour to let the generals of the two guards have no doubts. When leaving the lobby of the military headquarters, Song Nan squinted at the sun and laughed. I'm afraid this so-called battle plan is about to fly into the hands of Zhu Chenhao, Zhu Chenhao, unless you have a good heart, otherwise, you can bear it.