Lin Yuan thought for a while and said: "Even if the Qing army camp is covered tightly, it is impossible not to interact with the outside world, there must be ordinary people who have entered the barracks, have you asked the people to inquire?" ”

Xiao Yingwu said: "It's strange to say this, there are basically no people in the counties around Hejian Fucheng, and our reconnaissance team has turned around several counties and has not found the shadow of the common people!" ”

Lin Yuan said: "The strong wall is clear, it must be the Qing court who got the people away!" ”

Xiao Yingwu said: "We checked the household registration book of Hejian Mansion and found that there are a total of six county towns from the capital city to the Qing army camp, with a total of more than 30,000 people. ”

Lin Yuan said: "It's actually not difficult to get rid of more than 30,000 people, as long as they publicize our bad deeds, the people will be scared away by them." I would like to know how much grain there is in their camp, 100,000 people, and two catties of grain per person will cost 200,000 catties a day, which is too much consumption. ”

Xiao Yingwu said: "From our point of view, it seems that they want to Tuntian. ”

Lin Yuan asked, "Tuntian? What do you mean? ”

Xiao Yingwu said: "Our scouts found that many people would come out of the camp every day to do farm work. ”

Lin Yuan frowned and asked, "Do farm work?" Now that the sorghum has been tasseled, and they are waiting to be harvested in a few days, what farm work do they have? ”

Xiao Yingwu said: "Our scouts found that a lot of wasteland on the edge of the camp has been turned into cultivated land, according to some experienced old people in the city, those lands were originally inferior, and they could only grow some beans on it, and they should have planted beans on it." ”

Lin Yuan smiled after hearing the "flutter" and said, "Planting beans? Beans are so prolific! 100,000 people starved to death if they ate beans? Forget it, let's go to their camp first and take a look, and defeat them. ”

Lin Yuan and Xiao Yingwu then went to the camp, Xiao Yingwu sent a reconnaissance company to follow, and when the car drove out of a section, Lin Yuan heard the sound of "bang, bang, bang" in front of him, so he asked: "Is the camp of the Qing army built on the big river?" ”

Xiao Yingwu said: "Yes, there is a river in front of the big camp, called the Ya River, and it happens to be a wet season in August, so the river is more than 50 meters wide and four or five meters deepest, and it is precisely because of this that our troops did not beat their big camp." ”

Lin Yuan and Xiao Yingwu came to the river, Lin Yuan saw that it was facing the position of the Qing army camp, and his troops also dug out trenches, Lin Yuan and Xiao Yingwu entered an observation post, Lin Yuan raised the telescope in his hand and looked at the opposite side, only to see that the barracks on the opposite side were built on a high slope, stretching for three kilometers to both sides, and there was a chest-deep wall outside the camp, with holes in the wall, but no heavy weapons such as machine guns were found on the wall.

Lin Yuan pointed to the chest wall and asked, "Is that gun strong?" ”

Xiao Yingwu shook his head and said: "I don't know, we don't know the enemy's combat effectiveness, and we haven't sent a reconnaissance unit to see it yet." ”

Lin Yuan looked at a heavy machine gun on the position on the side, so he said: "Use that big guy to shoot a shuttle bullet into the wall to see if you can penetrate it, remember, hit tracer bullets." ”

The machine gunner pulled the trigger with a yes, and a string of bullets flashed green light in the night sky, flying across the river and hitting the breastwork, Lin Yuan raised the telescope and looked at it before putting it down and said, "The magnification of my telescope is too small, is there a high magnification?" ”

Xiao Yingwu ordered someone to bring a large-caliber reconnaissance telescope and put it in front of the position, Lin Yuan looked through the telescope, and saw a bunch of bullet holes on the wall, but the bullet holes were not empty, Lin Yuan knew that the bullets did not penetrate the chest wall at all, so he said: "The enemy's chest wall is only thick, not hard, if we attack, put a bulldozer shovel in front of our tank, and push it directly, their wall will definitely not be able to stop it." ”

Xiao Yingwu said: "Actually, we don't need to be so troublesome, our divisional artillery battalion is equipped with a hundred 122mm howitzers, I think we can put them here directly, the battalion on the opposite side is only three kilometers wide, our anti-personnel grenades, if the time fuse is set, it can explode over the camp, and the fragments can probably kill and injure a living target within a radius of about 20 meters below the explosion point. ”

Lin Yuan smiled and said: "Although this method is good, it can be saved for the use of fighting little devils, the camp is full of our compatriots, and they should all surrender if we go over." ”

Xiao Yingwu said: "But how do we cross the river? There is only one small bridge over the river, which has been washed away by the flood, and we now have two options, one is to build a bridge and the other to dive across. ”

Lin Yuan thought for a while and said: "The enemy's camp is too close to us, whether it is to build a bridge or sneak across, the enemy will definitely find out, now there is only one way!" ”

Xiao Yingwu hurriedly asked, "What way?" ”

Lin Yuan said: "With our artillery unit, covering the bridge-building unit, the 122 artillery can't be used, the killing range is a bit large, what is the artillery weapon at the brigade and regiment level?" ”

Xiao Yingwu replied: "100 mm self-propelled assault guns and 75 mm plus howitzers." ”

Lin Yuan said: "It's still a little too big, so let's use 81 mm and 60 mm mortars at the battalion and company level." ”

Xiao Yingwu said: "It's good, then I'll arrange it." ”

Lin Yuan nodded and said, "When attacking, pay attention to letting the psychological warfare detachment follow, break the morale of the other party, deploy as soon as possible, and try to launch an attack in the near future." ”

The two then returned to the camp, and the next morning someone came to report: "The Qing army has sent a messenger, and he is now outside the barracks." Lin Yuan immediately became happy when he heard this, and asked Liu Yufeng, the head of the guard, to bring him, but after a long time, he didn't see anyone come in, Lin Yuan hurriedly asked, "Didn't you say that it was outside the barracks?" Why haven't you seen anyone come in? ”

Liu Yufeng said helplessly: "Lin Shuai, he has to change his clothes, we have no choice but to find an empty barracks for him to change clothes." ”

Lin Yuan asked helplessly, "What clothes does he have to change?" ”

Liu Yufeng replied: "He came on a small raft, and his official uniform was wet, so he had to change into a new official uniform." ”

Lin Yuan thought helplessly: "Alas, what a guy who wants to save face!" After a while, Lin Yuan saw the tent door open, and a middle-aged man wearing a brand-new official uniform walked in, not only was the official uniform new, but also smeared his hair with oil, a smell of oil, Lin Yuan asked with a smile: "Your Excellency, you changed your clothes before seeing me, you look up to me too much." ”

The envoy snorted coldly and said, "I am the envoy of the commander of the Hejian camp, and I am a courtier who serves the king loyally. ”

Liu Yufeng and the others in the tent saw that this person was so arrogant, and they all glared angrily, but Lin Yuan didn't care, and asked with a smile: "Hejian camp? What is this institution? I also used to be an official in the court, why haven't I heard this name? ”

The envoy did not answer directly, but asked proudly: "Lin Wei, do you know the Jiangbei camp set up when the Great Qing Dynasty exterminated the Mao bandits?" ”