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Shunzhou.

The south bank of the Qidu River, Niulan Mountain.

Legend has it that this place was originally a barren mountain and bald mountains, with no vegetation and no trees, and the people were poor. Later, out of nowhere, a golden ox came to inhabit the caves in the mountains, helping the people to cultivate and reclaim the wasteland, so that the barren mountains became fertile land. In order to cherish the memory of this golden bull, later generations called this mountain Niulan Mountain.

At this time, Lin Wu led 3,000 cavalry of the Crane Control Army to circle here from the upper reaches of the Qidu River, hiding in the woods under the mountain.

Fan Dongjun, Zhang Degong, and Zhou Zhi, with the soldiers and young men who had escaped from the two counties of Liaoxi and Huairou, were stumbling along the road down the mountain and hurriedly heading west. This road is not an avenue, only two horses can be used in parallel, these soldiers and civilians who fled the road are also sparse, and in front of them are about 300 soldiers on horseback, mules, mules and donkeys. It was followed by a large number of people, in groups of three or two, stretched several miles long.

A small group of cavalry rushed to the woods at the bottom of the mountain, jumped off the horse for the first knight, walked directly to Li Juyi, and saluted.

Lin Wu said very politely to the leader of the team with the captain from the ninth rank on the badge: "Guo Rong, how is the situation?" ”

The lieutenant who was politely called Guo Peirong by Lin Wu was named Guo Wei, who was only twenty-five years old. Although it is only a small team leader, what can make Lin Wu so polite is because he is not directly under Lin Wu, but belongs to the Military Intelligence Department, one of the nine divisions under the supervision department under the jurisdiction of Li Jing of Daxingtai.

The Office of the Ombudsman is a newly established body with nine divisions, namely Lijingmen, which is responsible for external intelligence. Jin Yiwei who is in charge of internal intelligence. The Military Intelligence Agency in charge of military intelligence. The Bureau of Investigation, which is responsible for the overall analysis of intelligence and the coordination of intelligence sharing among various intelligence agencies.

In addition, there is a secret service dedicated to guarding high-ranking officials such as Li Jing, and a special police bureau dedicated to carrying out sentry posts and snoring emergencies in important areas.

There are also Meihua internal guards who are specially responsible for reconnoitring officials and ordinary people, spying on suspects who may threaten the marshal Li Jing, Daxingtai and the Northeast Army.

Then there are six special departments for arrest and interrogation related to intelligence, rebellion and gang crimes, and the last one is the gendarmerie unit that is responsible for maintaining military discipline and ensuring the execution of army orders, and is responsible for military arrest and interrogation.

The Ninth Bureau of the Supervision Department, this newly established department, is extremely mysterious. But it is extremely weighty.

The Director of the Inspectorate has no real authority and is solely responsible for administrative coordination. The subordinate nine bureaus are not subordinate to each other, and all of them are only responsible for Li Jing, the secretary of Daxingtai. Lijingmen, Jinyiwei, the Military Intelligence Bureau, and the Investigation Bureau are all in charge of intelligence agencies.

However, the Secret Service and the Armed Police Bureau, the Meihua Internal Guard, the Six Gates, and the Gendarmerie are in charge of the guards, honor guards, prisons, patrols and arrests, and engage in reconnaissance, arrest, interrogation, and other activities.

The nine bureaus have their own divisions and do not interfere with each other. The power is huge, and the entire military and political government in the northeast is within its scope. However, the bureaus supervise and balance each other, such as Lijingmen is only external. There is no domestic mandate and no power of arrest and interrogation in the country. And the MIA is only responsible for military intelligence. The Bureau of Investigation is also only responsible for analysing intelligence and coordinating the bureaus. Jinyiwei has the right to investigate, but not the right to arrest and interrogate.

The Secret Service is only responsible for the guards, and the Secret Service is responsible for duty and handling emergencies. The plum blossom internal guard also only has the right to scout. The six doors only have the right to arrest and interrogate, but there is no right to investigate, and the arrest list must be handed over to the Investigation Bureau after the Jinyi Guard and the Meihua Internal Guard investigate and file the case, and then the investigation bureau will review and send it to the six doors, and the six doors can arrest and interrogate. The gendarmerie, on the other hand, has the power to arrest and interrogate military personnel, in addition to maintaining military discipline, but only to military personnel.

Each of these nine bureaus has different tasks and checks and balances on each other.

The chief of the Ninth Bureau is Langzhong, a high-ranking official second only to Servant, Shangshu and Shilang. In particular, they are only responsible for Li Jing and have more weight.

Guo Wei belongs to the Military Intelligence Bureau, which has set up a military intelligence department in each military to be responsible for military intelligence. Like the gendarmerie, the military intelligence bureau has direct organs in each army, and the military intelligence services and gendarmerie of each army are nominally under the jurisdiction of the respective armies, but in reality they are independent of each other.

Therefore, Lin Wu, the newly transferred commander of the Crane Control Army, was also very polite to Guo Wei, the leader of the Crane Control Army's military intelligence department.

Regarding Li Jing's sudden establishment of the Supervision Department and the establishment of nine new bureaus, but they are actually nine department-level institutions second only to the ministry, and they are also responsible for such matters as intelligence, reconnaissance, arrest, and interrogation, the officials of the Northeast Army know very well that this is a means for the county king to strengthen internal control. There has always been no shortage of such institutions in all dynasties and generations, and although the government has a formal judicial body, as a superior person, it is always necessary to secretly set up a set of reconnaissance institutions that directly belong to him and obey his will.

"Report to the military master, there are about three hundred Lu Longjun, all of them have mounts, and they are fleeing towards us, intending to Changping and Junduguan. Behind them, there were about two or three thousand people, who carried hundreds of livestock, hundreds of ox carts and camel carts, towing their families and mouths. Guo Wei reported seriously.

The 5,000-strong crane army was divided into three divisions at this time, and Wang Yanzhang and Gao Siji respectively led 1,000 people to enter Lu County and Yongnu County.

After Lin Wu took Liaoxi County, he didn't plan to let go of Lu Longjun, who fled. However, he did not drill at the end of the line, but relied on the route pointed out by the Military Intelligence Department, directly along the Qidu River to the west, and then went around to the front of the deserters, where he waited, ready to ambush.

The soldiers in the army did not think that there was a need for an ambush, and their strength was ten times that of the enemy. Nowadays, the official position of joining the army has been established in all armies, and in the army, there is a special staff office, the commander is a staff officer, and his subordinates are in the army. Most of these soldiers were transferred from the martial arts hall after their training, and the rest were some young scribes who joined the army. Li Jing set up a staff office in the army, first, to train more reserve officers, and secondly, to increase the level of command and strategy of various armies.

However, these young soldiers, although they can write and write poems, are obviously inexperienced.

Lin Wu just smiled and didn't adopt their method.

Pursuing from behind, although it can be won, it is difficult to completely annihilate the captured enemy army.

With 3,000 cavalry in his hands, Lin Wu was not satisfied with just defeating this enemy army, he also had to wipe them all out, and not a single one of them would slip through the net. In his heart, there is a more important plan, which requires him to take down all this deserter.

He divided his six cavalry battalions, hid three of them on the north side of the woods, and sent two more cavalry battalions to the west, then three hundred cavalry to the south, and two hundred cavalry as reserves.

It's a foolproof arrangement.

As Guo Wei reported, Fan Dongjun and the others panicked at this time, and fled all the way to the west, and there was no time to send someone to open the road in advance. Hundreds of cavalry hurried into Lin Wu's ambush circle.

Lin Wu watched as Lu Long's defeated soldiers broke into the ambush circle defenselessly, raised his bow, and shot an arrow into the eyebrows of one of the defeated soldiers.

The horseman fell from his horse with a scream, and fell less than fifty paces away.

As Lin Wu shot an arrow, the crane control cavalry, who had been waiting for a long time, immediately opened their bows and shot arrows.

All of a sudden, arrows rained down, and the more than 300 defeated soldiers who rushed in front fell one after another. Screams and exclamations came one after another, and the defeated soldiers were caught off guard and in chaos.

After three arrows, the crane cavalry in the woods stopped shooting arrows and turned on their horses, and Lin Wu's trumpeters blew their horns.

At the sound of the trumpet, the iron hooves of the war horse flew up, and the heavy knock on the earth made a dull thunderous sound.

Fifteen hundred cavalry from three battalions slaughtered through the woods like a torrent.

Without waiting for the ambush soldiers from the other three sides to attack, Lin Wu had already led the cavalry from the north to directly crush the 300-person deserter team. Fan Dongjun and the others were completely frightened, they couldn't resist at all, and in the face of the imposing Northeast cavalry, their faces were like ashes, they threw down their weapons, jumped off their horses, knelt on the ground and surrendered.

"It's down, it's down!"

Fan Dongjun shouted in front of the bright riding spear and saber, and his voice trembled.

"Tell me who you are!" A Northeast soldier shouted.

"Shunzhou Liaoxi County Ling Fan Dongjun!"

"The deputy town of Liaoxi Town, Shunzhou, will be Zhang Degong!"

"Shunzhou Huairou Town Team Leader!"

Lin Wu rode on his horse, looked down at the fish he had caught in the net, and nodded with satisfaction.

Changping, the barrier of the military capital.

At dusk, suddenly a group of cavalry galloped in, and when they got closer, they found that they were extremely embarrassed.

With the appearance of this group of cavalry, behind them, there was also a sparse long line of people.

The defenders at the head of the city couldn't help but get nervous, and hurriedly sounded the alarm. Soon, the defense in Changping City made Duan Dashan put on armor and climbed to the top of the city. Looking at the cavalry and those people who were getting closer and closer, he couldn't help frowning, what was going on?

"Stop coming, report your name!" The captain of the garrison at the head of the city opened his bow and shot an arrow, which crossed a fox line and landed sixty paces below the city.

The rushing cavalry reined in front of the arrow, and one of them rode his horse to the city alone, shouting loudly: "Fan Dongjun, the county commander of Liaoxi County, and Zhang Degong, the deputy town general of Liaoxi, and Zhou Zhi, the head of the Huairou team. ”

A lieutenant next to Duan Dashan said loudly: "It is indeed Fan Dongjun, he also escorted grain and grass to the military capital a few days ago. ”

"Pham Minh Mansion, why are you here all of a sudden?"

"General Duan, Li Jing suddenly sent troops to attack my Youzhou Town, and now Liaoxi County and Huairou County have been lost, and we are worried that Li Thief will come to attack Changping and Junduguan, so I have come to report and reinforce. Please open the city gate quickly, the pursuers are behind, and ask the general to send someone to pick up the people behind to enter the city. ”

Hearing that Li Jing was going south, Huairou in western Liaoning had already been lost, and Duan Dashan was also extremely frightened.

Changping was very important as a barrier behind the military capital, but there were only 3,000 defenders in the city. If the thieves suddenly attack, it is indeed dangerous. However, Duan Dashan was still very cautious and sent a team of personal soldiers out of the city, and only after verifying the identities of Fan Dongjun and others before he ordered the city gate to be opened.

The city gate of Changping slowly opened, and Fan Dongjun, Zhang Dezhang and others led more than 300 defeated cavalry soldiers to crowd towards the city gate. (To be continued......)