"I have deployed a relatively strong army in Henan, in addition to wanting to block this Grand Canal at a critical moment and gain military and political advantages, I also have other plans."

Chen Xin said to Zhong Fulin casually, while raising his baton and pointing on the map, "This place in Henan, located in the Central Plains, is a strategic place where enemies are on all sides, and in the south of the Yellow River, there are extremely important cities such as Kaifeng and Luoyang, which can clamp down on the nine important towns of the Ming Kingdom.

However, the so-called soldiers and horses on the nine sides are really low, and I don't care too much, as long as there is a brigade of men and horses, our army can rely on the two places and force the army of the nine sides to land.

Actually, I am more concerned about Nanyang, Xiangyang, and even the areas along the Wuchang line, and the Ministry of Commerce and Trade is now infiltrating these places, and your intelligence department should also pay attention to it, and move around more of these places, and our trading companies will go to these places, and your intelligence department will also follow with them. ”

Zhong Fulin looked at the first-line area on the map, nodded knowingly, and said, "The minister has written down, and my National Security Committee will definitely follow your orders and carry out this task." ”

Chen Xin looked at Zhong Fulin with a smile and asked, "Do you understand my intentions?" ”

"Yes, your lordship, the minister has understood, the line you mentioned just now is the avenue from Henan to the Huguang area, and it is also the granary of the Ming Dynasty, no wonder the king attaches so much importance to Henan, if he occupies this line, then he will control the food lifeline of the Ming Dynasty, and at the same time, this can also connect the Sichuan side together."

"Hahaha······ that's right, that's the truth." Chen Xin laughed and sat down again.

"If on that day, our army can occupy Wuchang, and then arrange for the river fleet to go down the river, then the lower reaches of the Yangtze River will be pointed out by our army.

In addition to the huge mobile advantage of being able to transport troops along the direction of the canal, the richest area of the entire Ming Dynasty is a meal that our army can put on every day.

When the time comes, with money, food, people, and an industrial system to rely on, we will be able to easily enter the Central Plains. ”

Zhong Fulin was also the first time to hear Chen Xin confide in the general strategy of the Ming Dynasty, and he was also in a mood when he heard it, and when he learned that he could one day enter the Central Plains, he was also enthusiastic.

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"Yesterday, all day, a total of five waves, more than 200 Houjin troops entered the fort of Thirty Miles, and at the same time, more than 30 people walked out of the fort and headed towards Gaizhou.

According to what we have observed, the number of people who went out of the fort to fetch water, and the amount of cooking smoke that floated up during cooking, it is estimated that the total number of people in the bunker is about more than one, but less than two full cattle records.

According to the establishment of Houjin, there should be between 300 and 400 armor soldiers during the period, and the same number of Yu Ding or Baoyi soldiers.

On the way back, we also encountered a patrol force of the Tartars, killing three enemy soldiers, wounding four, and taking one prisoner. In our reconnaissance team, one person was killed, and one was injured and sent back to the rear field hospital. ”

In a hidden forward camp in the Twin Mountains, Major Li, the head of the camp, carefully listened to the battle report of the reconnaissance squad under his command.

This is an advance base of the reconnaissance battalion of the 1st Mixed Brigade near Fuzhou, and the camp is hidden in the most densely wooded place on the mountainside.

About a kilometre up the camp is a naturally formed rock observation platform. The view is extremely wide, and you can overlook the whole situation within a radius of tens of kilometers.

In this kind of good place, there are three reconnaissance squads stationed for a long time, and at the same time, there is also a detachment of the alpine observation unit formed by Tian Jianwu and directly under the General Staff.

There are at least two other such camps, which are closer to the Golden State, as support and supplements.

The Twin Mountains camp is the closest to the Tartars, and at the same time the most arduous one, and it is impossible to light a fire during the day or at night.

As a result, members of the reconnaissance unit in the camp were rarely able to eat a hot meal.

Of course, the difficulty is not only that there is no hot food, but in fact the biggest difficulty is the environment of the camp.

Camp deep in the woods, full of tall trees, tall weeds growing on the ground, and in such a place it is extremely humid all day and night, and there are a lot of small insects crawling everywhere. The warriors were not even able to sleep.

In this kind of place, as long as you stay for one night, you may go crazy, even the most elite members of the Royal Army's reconnaissance unit, usually have to rotate once in five days, otherwise, I am afraid that they will lose their combat effectiveness.

However, Major Li, who was the head of the camp, had been here for two decades. When he heard that two more Scouts had been killed or wounded, his face became even more gloomy.

It is really getting harder and harder for scouts to go deep into enemy-occupied areas to find out information, and the number of Tartar scouts has increased several times. It is basically difficult for the Chinese scouts, special service regiments, alpine observation units, and other special units to cross the Twin Mountains to go deeper.

In the first few months, when the Houjin side had not increased its troops, and only a few men and horses in the two banners of Duoduo and Yuetuo defended this place, the Huaxia army and the enemy attacked and defended each other, and the Tartars were once pressed to the west of the Fuzhou River by the soldiers sent to the front line by Huaxia.

During that time, the entire vast area on the east bank of the Fuzhou River became the territory of the Huaxia Army's troops.

However, later on, the number of Tartars had become more and more, and the Huaxia army was also oppressed by the enemy's large force of cavalry scouts and retreated a full distance of more than ten kilometers to the east.

Even now, the Huaxia army does not dare to cross the Twin Mountains during the daytime. Generally, they can only take advantage of the night to go deep into the mountains near Fuzhou and lurk in the mountains for a day or two, and then return to the camp at night after obtaining the information that needs to be investigated.

In this way, in terms of the timeliness of information, it is much worse than before.

Someone has been injured or even sacrificed many times, after all, it is on the battlefield, as long as there is a battle, this kind of thing is inevitable.

For example, in the 20 days since Major Li came here to serve as the person in charge, their four batches of scouts have also captured a full twenty-three Houjin soldiers.

After a brief interrogation, these captured enemy scouts were all sent to Lushun and handed over to the intelligence agencies for more in-depth interrogation.