404 Traces, Spies

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"General, the rebel army stormed Yiyang for a day, but General Xu held it, after dark, Li Zicheng ordered the troops to retreat, and it is estimated that they will launch a more fierce attack tomorrow."

After dark, Luo Chao also returned to the mountains and forests and reported to Li Zixiao.

"Well, I have already handed over Yiyang to General Xu, and I believe he will not let me down.

Don't worry about Yiyang's affairs for now, Li Zicheng wants to take down Yiyang from the hands of General Xu, and it won't be so easy.

What I'm worried about now is where did the 20,000 troops that disappeared under Li Zicheng go? Hasn't Han Tong sent back the news yet? ”

Li Zixiao has been leading troops all day, hiding in the mountains and forests north of Yiyang, the more he thinks about it, the more uneasy he becomes, and he said anxiously at this time.

"There is no news from Han Tong yet." Luo Chao shook his head and said.

Li Zixiao was anxious at this time, and it was useless for him to do anything before he found the disappearing chaotic army.

On the second day, Li Zicheng continued to give orders to attack Yiyang, and the two sides fought a bloody battle in Yiyang City for a day.

On this day, the rebel army was finally able to get close to the Yiyang city wall, and with the help of a ladder, they almost climbed the head of Yiyang City several times, but in the end they were all beaten down again.

But this scene, in Li Zicheng's eyes, made him very satisfied, and he believed that if he was given two more days, he would be able to conquer Yiyang.

On the third day, the offensive of the rebel army became more fierce, and Li Zicheng did not care about the casualties of his men, in his opinion, as long as he could conquer Yiyang, these losses were acceptable.

The land under Yiyang City had already been stained red with blood, and the corpses were piled up as tall as one person.

Xu Wei didn't dare to let Li Zicheng's people go to the city to collect the corpses, but Li Zicheng didn't have the slightest intention of doing so.

In desperation, Xu Wei had no choice but to let people pour barrels of fire oil from the city and burn those corpses, so that they could also block the siege of the rebel army for half a day.

It can be said that since the third day, the rebel army has climbed the head of Yiyang twice, although it was beaten down by Xu Wei and others, but this is undoubtedly an incentive for the morale of the rebel army.

In three days, Li Zixiao finally had the news of the missing and chaotic army.

"They did go north?"

Li Zixiao held the information that Zhang Fugui had just sent back from Yiyang in his hand at this time, and said with a gloomy face.

Just yesterday, Yiyang was suddenly attacked by unknown forces and was almost captured, but fortunately, at the critical moment, Liu Zeqing found out in time and did not let the rebels succeed.

After the unidentified armed sneak attack failed, it disappeared immediately.

Although Zhang Fugui had not seen with his own eyes the unknown armed forces that attacked Yiyang, he got more accurate information by bribing Liu Zeqing's officers.

Most of the people who attacked Yiyang were Li Zicheng's rebellious army.

However, what is more strange is that even if the sneak attack of this chaotic army failed, why did it retreat immediately, is it too rash.

This made Li Zixiao very puzzled.

"Luo Chao, you take someone to the north in person, let Han Tong also go over, and find out the traces of the chaotic army as much as possible.

I don't feel at ease when he always lets such a poisonous snake hide in the dark, who knows when he will jump out and bite us! ”

Li Zixiao said to Luo Chao.

"Okay, I'll go."

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Ruzhou City, since Li Zixiao sent someone to warn Qi Wei to be more vigilant and be careful of the chaotic army sneaking up on Ruzhou City, Qi Wei has secretly laid out several means.

On the third day of the Yiyang offensive and defensive battle, there was really an accident in Ruzhou City.

Zhao Teng walked on the street and saw several white dragon soldiers gathered in front of him, and hurriedly asked, "Is something wrong?" ”

"Deputy Team Zhao."

Several White Dragon sergeants recognized Zhao Teng and saluted him, at this time Zhao Teng wore many hats, he was not only the secretary of the logistics department, but also the deputy general of the first logistics team of the White Dragon Army.

But these white dragon soldiers are generally commensurate with their positions.

At this time, a white dragon sergeant whispered to Zhao Teng, "Something has indeed happened, and a rebel army has sneaked into the city." ”

"Rebels?"

Zhao Teng was surprised: "Did you catch it?" ”

"When the patrol team was patrolling before, they found a guy acting suspiciously, and when he came forward to question, the man's words flickered, and the patrol team wanted to take him back for investigation.

Then the man began to run away, but he didn't run far, and he was caught, according to the preliminary interrogation, the man was a bandit, and this time he came to sneak into our Ruzhou City.

And he didn't come alone, more than a dozen of his fellow party members mixed in, and now General Qi is sending people to investigate, and the city gates have been closed.

We also found one just now, and when we were about to arrest it, we let that guy find out in advance, blend into the crowd and run away. ”

Zhao Teng turned around and walked towards the city, the camp of the White Dragon Army.

When something like this happened, he knew that soon Qi Wei would gather all the soldiers of the White Dragon Army.

In the military camp in the city, the soldiers of the White Dragon Army who were fully armed looked ahead with vigilant expressions with firearms.

Zhao Teng walked to the door, raised his head, pointed to the unique badge of the White Dragon Army on his chest, and took off his team badge from his waist and lit it up.

One of the chiefs in charge of today's defense looked at him with scrutinizing eyes, and after confirming his identity, he saluted him and asked the soldiers to open the door and let him in.

After entering the barracks, Zhao Teng found that sure enough, the atmosphere in the barracks became tense, and there were heavily armed White Dragon soldiers everywhere.

Zhao Teng walked towards his team's barracks, and as expected, Qi Wei's order came down quickly, and all the White Dragon sergeants and soldiers were immediately fully armed, standing on the edge of the small school field, waiting for orders.

In the dark prison of Ruzhou City, Qi Wei, accompanied by several officers of the White Dragon Army, walked into a dungeon at this time, and the dungeon was very cold and dark.

There was a musty smell wafting in the air, and Qi Wei stood there for a while, until his eyes adjusted to the darkness of the dungeon, and then continued to move forward.

This dungeon is not big, nor is it small, it was set up long ago when the Ruzhou City Inspection Department was used to hold arrested bandits and smugglers.

Deep underground, there is only one exit, and the cell is closed by an iron fence, and trying to escape from here is tantamount to a fool's dream.

Two rows of cells are set up along the stone walls on both sides of the dungeon, with a passage of more than two feet in the middle.

At the end of the wall, there is an open space, which is a temporary interrogation room, or torture department.

On that wall, there were all kinds of torture instruments such as soldering irons, leather whips, iron sticks, sharp knives, etc., and even in the dim light, there was a line of large characters written in white plaster on the wall.

"Be lenient in confession, and strict in resisting."

Under the eight big characters, several jailers saw Qi Wei coming, and they stopped what they were doing and stood on both sides.

Behind them, on a wooden pole, hung a full-body man. The naked young man already had many whip marks on his body at this time, and he was covered with bruises.

"How's it going, did you ask what?" Qi Wei asked a jailer leader next to him.

"Returning to the general, he has already made all the moves, even if he is a hard-mouthed person, in the hands of the small, he can also make him speak."

The leader of the jailers smiled flatteringly and handed his audit record to Qi Wei.

Qi Wei picked up the record book that was still stained with blood, looked at it a few times, and asked, "Are you sure they are Li Zicheng's subordinates?" ”

"It's all the work of the thieves, a total of fifteen people have infiltrated the city, and they have all been taken down by us."

Although the rebels were cunning, they still did not escape the eyes of the White Dragon Army patrol.

These people had just infiltrated Ruzhou City, and before they even had time to make a move, they were arrested one after another.

Of course, this is also inseparable from Qi Wei's deployment arrangement.

At this time, Ruzhou City implemented a state of full martial law, and the large-scale movement of people in the city was not allowed to facilitate the control and management of the White Dragon Army.

Anyone who is still wandering outside at night will be arrested as soon as he is discovered.

Moreover, once the people find out that there is a stranger who does not know the surrounding neighbors, they need to report it to their security chief immediately.

If the last person is really a bandit and a traitor, after being caught, anyone who reports it can get a reward of fifty taels of silver.

In this way, those rebel spies who infiltrated Ruzhou City, as soon as they entered, they still wanted to blend in with the people and hide.

However, it didn't take long for them to be immediately discovered by the people around them, and they were all fresh faces, and soon the soldiers of the White Dragon Army arrived.

"Since they have all been interrogated and confessed, these bandits will be dealt with."

Qi Wei glanced at the young man who had been hung up and had passed out, and said indifferently.

For these people, Qi Wei has no mercy.

"Come and don't be rude, since Li Zicheng has the idea of beating our Ruzhou City again, then let him taste our power by himself.

Ordered the generals of all teams to go to the barracks for a meeting, I will assign tasks, from now on, the whole city will be under high martial law, not only allowed, but also the people are not allowed to go out casually. ”

Qi Wei ordered.

The fourth watch, the last dark hour before dawn, is also the time of the day when people sleep the deepest.

To the north of Ruzhou City, Li Guo, a general under Li Zicheng, has quietly arrived with a large group of bandits.

Li Guo is Li Zicheng's nephew, and in the early years of Chongzhen, Li Zicheng rebelled, and now it has been more than ten years since he rebelled.

Over the years, he followed Li Zicheng to fight in the south and the north, plundering the east and the west, and he could be regarded as having endured strong winds and waves for a long time.

Moreover, Li Guo is a very strategic person, and he is also famous in history, before he took nearly 20,000 rebels and left Song County at night, avoiding Han Tong's scouts.

After Li Guo led his troops out of Songyang, he went all the way north, disappeared from his tracks, and waited for an opportunity, his goal was Yiyang.

It's a pity that two days ago, he failed to succeed in a sneak attack on Yiyang, so he resolutely retreated and went straight to Ruzhou City.

In Li Guo's plan, Yiyang could not be obtained, so he took Ruzhou City, he knew that Li Zixiao did not have many troops in his hands, and Ruzhou City was of course empty at this time.

If he led his troops by surprise and attacked Ruzhou City, he might be able to take it easily.

In this way, Li Zicheng won the battle of eastward expansion into Ruzhou.