Chapter 627: Bright Sword Against the Enemy
Late night stay in Urn City.
Song Che was just sleeping when suddenly there was a knock on the door, and Nangong Yue's eagerness came from outside the door:
"Boss, General Jiang asked you to go to Beiying quickly, saying that there is an important military situation!"
Song Che hurriedly sat up, at this juncture, anything could be shocked, he didn't dare to delay in the slightest, wrapped up his clothes and went out of the room.
Come to the barracks.
The various ministries will gather together, and there will be a Hu man who has been tied up with five flowers and beaten with blood all over his face.
"What's going on?" Song Che asked.
Jiang Yuntian kicked the Hu man over with one kick and angrily reprimanded: "This guy is wandering outside our military camp disguised as a herdsman, but fortunately, the outpost soldiers caught him back with sharp eyes, and he is a spy of the Hu people." β
Song Che couldn't help frowning, there were already spies, indicating that the enemy army was not far away.
"This guy is a hard bone, and he won't open his mouth no matter how he fights."
Jiang Yuntian was about to raise his foot and kick again, but Song Che pulled him back and sighed lightly: "Even if you beat him to death, he won't say anything, so why waste your strength." β
He stretched out his hand: "Knife." β
Nangong Yue handed over a short knife.
Song Che walked up to the spy with a short knife and shook it, and asked softly, "Are you afraid?" β
The spy said stiffly: "If you want to kill, you must chop, listen to the respect!" β
"Okay, you have backbone, and you can speak official language, so I won't kill you." Song Che used a knife to cut the rope on the spy's body.
The spies were visibly surprised.
The generals drew their swords and gathered around them.
"Hey, he's been beaten like this by you, can he still jump up and resist?" Song Che waved his hand, and the generals put away their knives and retreated, but they also held the handle of the knife in their hands and stared at the spies without blinking.
"You've been captured by the outpost, so you must not have found any information, right? So, how about we make a deal otherwise? I'll tell you our information, and you tell me your information," Song Che paused, and then said:
"Of course, information needs to be exchanged at an equal price, and as a scout, you definitely won't have access to any high-level secrets."
The spies were even more surprised.
"If you don't speak, then you will acquiesce, then in order to show sincerity, I will come first," Song Che said: "Our army has taken the city of Weng, the defender Hazai has been beheaded, and 60,000 soldiers and horses have been subdued; Our army of 500,000 men, with two camps in the east and west, will continue westward at the latest. β
After speaking, he looked at the spy: "This information is not a secret, the battle between the two armies in Japan will be known sooner or later, there is no need to hide it." β
The spy hesitated for a moment before he said, "Our Hu country's 600,000 troops have entered Chitong City, and we will come to crusade against you tomorrow, if you know each otherβ"
"Shut up!"
Song Che scolded, "You are a spy, not a general or a messenger, you are not qualified to speak ruthlessly!" It's like buying and selling a product, you can tell you how good it is, but you can't force the customer to buy it, you know? β
The spy's cheeks flushed.
Song Che pointed to Jiang Yuntian beside him again: "This is the commander of our army, his name is Jiang Yuntian." May I ask who are your Hu generals? β
The spy said loudly: "He is the most heroic, fearless, and invincible Shenwei general Chachai in our Hu country!" β
Chachai?
Well, well, it's just him.
Song Che didn't ask any more, and asked people to take Hazai's head, put it in a wooden box and brocade cloth, and handed it to the spies: "You take this thing back to Chitong City and give it to Chachai, and it is said that Song Che gave it to him." β
The spies were then blindfolded and expelled from the camp.
Song Che turned to the desk, pointed out the location of "Chitong" on the map, and said: "This city is about eighty miles away from us, the army can be reached in a day's march, if it is a light cavalry, it will only take half an hour, whether what the spy said is true or not, the Hu army must be very close to us, let the outpost keep an eye tonight, beware of the enemy's night attack." β
"Do you think they really have an army of 600,000?" Jiang Yuntian asked.
Song Che shook his head and smiled: "I also told him that we have 500,000, but in fact we only have 300,000, not counting the logistics supply, there are only 1230,000 people who can really go to the battlefield, and the Hu State will definitely have more troops than us, after all, this is their land, but it will never exceed 200,000 available soldiers." β
"The enemy general Chachai is the stupid big man who raised his crown with one arm at the Mid-Autumn Festival banquet in Jinling in the past?" Jiang Yuntian asked.
"Yes, it's this bastard, when he was in the capital of Hu Kingdom, he bullied me a lot, and he also injured Yue'er, this evil breath is waiting for my brother to come out for me!"
"Kill the general, who is the only one!"
"Kill these Hu slaves, why do you need the commander to go out, I am already hungry and thirsty when I wait for spears and big knives!"
"Good! Whoever can kill the enemy tomorrow should be credited! β
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In the second half of the night.
Our scouts also found out the military situation, the Hu army has been stationed in Chitong, Song Che immediately ordered, the whole army set up a stove to cook, and set off to Chitong at three o'clock.
The enemy army only entered Chitong in the early morning, which means that they are marching rapidly all the way, and this is the time when they are tired, and the Liang army has just won the battle after a night of rest, and the morale is high - the enemy is tired, it is the fighter!
At dawn at night, the scouts in front came to report, and as expected, the enemy had led the army out of the city and was taking the initiative to approach the Liang army.
It's an encounter!
When the sky was bright, the figure of the enemy army gradually emerged, and all the heavy armored cavalry swept in like a black wave.
"Brother Jiang, this encounter is a tough battle, you must be careful, just repel them, don't chase them." Song Che told before the battle.
Jiang Yuntian was confident and relieved, and led the horse infantry to continue to advance, while Song Che stayed behind the formation, dividing the two hundred artillery pieces into two wings, and only waiting for the enemy to get close to the firing range.
"Ready!"
"Refill ammo!"
Song Che held the telescope in one hand and the musket in the other, and waited for the opponent's cavalry to be less than five miles away from the artillery array:
"Smack!"
"Fire!"
The artillerymen were instructed to fire in unison.
"Boom ......"
The deafening sound of artillery completely kicked off the encounter.
No matter how elite the heavy cavalry, the sword is acceptable, and it is completely vulnerable in the face of cannonballs, which has been fully reflected in the battle with Dijon.
In successive rounds of shelling, the enemy suffered hundreds of casualties, but the Hu people were more brave than the Dijon, and even if they suffered heavy casualties, they still came forward one after another!
When the enemy was less than half a mile away from the front of the formation, the artillery stopped bombarding, and the front row of the Liang army took turns to shoot cross-fire with strong bows, hard crossbows, and muskets, and in a moment they shot down hundreds of enemy cavalry!
"Horse infantry! Rush with me! β
Jiang Yuntian met the enemy with a bright sword, reined in his horse, and led the Liang Iron Cavalry to charge.
"Kill!"
The sound of killing shook the sky, rendering the world!