Daming: I asked you to hang yourself, but I didn’t ask you to rebuild the Ming Dynasty

When it got daylight, the gentry quietly poked their heads out, only to find that the Ming army was missing.

They hurriedly sent people to check and got the news that the north gate was open and only the horse hoof prints were heading straight to the north.

Everyone hurriedly asked people to close the city gate, and then rushed to the county government office to put out the fire.

However, they saw Xiong Qucai, who was sweating profusely and fully clothed, with a look of astonishment on his face inside the yamen that had been burned into ruins:

What's going on here?

Why did I just take a nap and feel that the heat was unbearable, so I crawled out to check, who knows...

The county government is gone!

What the hell, what's going on?

I am still the county magistrate, but the county government office is gone...

Xiong Qucai was stunned!

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Li Guo galloped all the way, and it was getting late before he arrived outside Yongqing City.

After asking around for a while, there was no trace of the Ming army!

Li Guo's expression condensed:

How can it be?

Around the capital, only Daxing is a plain area. All armies have always marched through Daxing!

Even the Donglu who surrounded the capital several times wanted to go to Daxing.

"What a fool, I was almost deceived!"

Li Guo slapped his forehead!

The Dog Emperor never takes the ordinary path, and it’s not like he doesn’t know it!

This must be because the Dog Emperor saw everyone walking in great excitement, and was afraid that he would stand in front of him, so he took a detour!

Since the Ming army did not go to the plains between Yongqing and Daxing, they had no choice but to go north along the canal!

In other words, I have to go east...

Li Guo refused the magistrate's request to reward the army and immediately left Yongqing. He was about to order the army to turn back east and go straight to the canal bank to intercept, but he saw that half of the sky in the west turned red!

At night in the plains, not to mention setting fire to a house, even if you light a straw stack, you can still see the flames twenty miles away!

The blazing flames burning in Gu'an City can be clearly seen standing in Yongqing City fifty miles away.

"That is?"

According to the direction, it should be Gu'an.

Li Guo was dumbfounded.

He came from the new city, and he asked the spies to check it out. There was no trace of the army marching along the way!

Yesterday, the Ming army was still in Bazhou. If they took a detour towards Gu'an, they would have collided with them head-on!

But he didn't encounter the Ming army along the way...

Could it be that the Ming army just flew over?

He suddenly remembered that Emperor Ming flew out of the Forbidden City on a flying dragon!

Is it?

Has Emperor Ming been able to use flying dragons in large numbers?

God!

If Emperor Ming made a large number of flying dragons and parachuted them directly to the capital—

Uncle is in danger!

Li Guo was shocked.

Li Guo didn't know that after Zhang Luofu wandered around Bazhou and took a shot, he wrapped the hooves of his horse to prevent leaving marks, then turned back, walked around Bazhou, walked back for a while, and then turned back to Direction to New Town.

Zhang Luofu hid his men near the new city and waited for Li Guo's army to cross the Liuli River before heading straight to Gu'an.

In fact, the closest distance between the two armies was only more than ten miles!

However, it happened to be outside the scope of the spies' exploration...

All of this was put forward by Zhu Youjian and set up and perfected by Fang Zhenghua!

Spy investigation is divided into marching investigation and ground investigation.

If you set up camp, you sit on the ground and conduct reconnaissance.

Scouts need to survey a radius of at least twenty miles, which is half a day's journey.

For example, Wang Guoxing's investigation range was a whole day's journey away.

When he found Chuang Jun, he ran all night in order to send back the message and killed two horses alive.

As for marching reconnaissance, usually only reconnaissance cavalry sent straight ahead can have a longer reconnaissance distance, which can be as far as hundreds of miles.

The spies on both sides usually only need to investigate a range of three to five miles.

Regardless of whether it is ancient or modern, China or foreign countries, the use of scouts has always been based on this rule.

In the late Ming Dynasty, the army began to use telescopes, and the role of left-right spies was further weakened.

The reason why Zhang Luofu was able to avoid the detectives sent by Li Guo...

In fact, it still takes advantage of the limitations of ancient thinking.

Telescopes have already appeared in the military!

In the seventh year of Chongzhen, when Zhang Guowei was the governor of the ten prefectures, he encountered Zhang Xianzhong's attack...

Zhang Guowei sent people to ask Bo Jue, the master of manufacturing at the time, to make a large number of telescopes and artillery to help defend the city.

However, people in this era already know that telescopes can see distant objects clearly, and they have begun to subconsciously equip telescopes in the military.

Unexpectedly, the undulating debris on the ground seriously hindered the observation line.

They never imagined that if they stood high in the sky, the telescope could play a greater role!

As the simple truth goes: apart from luck, the winner of a war is determined by who makes fewer mistakes.

Of course, cheating like Manqing doesn’t count...

……

The Ming army had Zhu Youjian, a later generation, and even if he had just one idea, he would be the winner of the war!

The balance of victory has gradually begun to tilt towards the Ming army.

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Li Guo did not dare to stay, so he marched straight into Daxing with his army.

He wanted to prepare Daxing defense before the Ming army.

Daxing is based on Guojing County and is the last pass between Gu'an and the capital.

The terrain here is flat and there is no danger to defend!

Once the Ming army attacks this place, even if Li Guo is Li Zicheng's adopted son and nephew, he will not be able to escape the blame!

Li Guo left in such a hurry that he didn't even have time to visit Gu'an in person, so he had to send a group of spies.

……

At this time, Zhang Luofu had already feinted a shot again, turned around and headed towards Bazhou.

Bazhou is the meeting place agreed upon by Zhu Youjian and him...

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Outside Bazhou City.

Li Laiheng frowned.

The city in front of them was smoky and smoldering, as if they were surviving a disaster.

Outside the city, there was also a pile of sand, broken military connections everywhere, and there were even government officials cleaning up floating corpses.

Much like what it looked like after a brutal battle.

In fact, each of the government officials and minzhuang were wrapped in bloody bandages. He tested several people and found that the injured places were all real wounds.

As for the heads piled aside, they were mostly strong men.

All this is in line with the appearance of the two sides after fighting several times.

Wu Piaolin stood aside, his body straight and his three-inch long beard swaying in the wind, looking like a wise general with both wisdom and courage.

"Mr. Wu, can you tell me more about the situation at that time?"

Li Laiheng asked again.

He didn't know what was wrong, but he always felt something was fishy. He had asked three times, but he still felt something was vaguely wrong.

"General, please don't call your subordinates like this. If Wu is called "Zhao", the general can call me "Piao".

Wu Piao Lin smiled coyly and ruined his image of a master as soon as he opened his mouth.

Li Laiheng nodded in praise:

"Mr. Wu, what a good name! What a good calligraphy!"

"Oh, your nickname is not worth mentioning, and you cannot be praised by a general."

Wu Piaolin said this on his lips, but he didn't take it seriously in his heart.

Who doesn’t know that your Li family’s ancestors and grandsons all came from mud-legged backgrounds?