Lu Wei hurried to Juxiang Restaurant again and found Wang Shuang. He sat down and drank a glass of wine and said straight to the point: "There is some valuable information, do you want to buy it?"
Wang Shuang raised his eyebrows and chuckled, "How much does Lu Sima think this information is worth?"
Lu Wei held out a finger and said, "This is the number!"
"A thousand strings?" Wang Shuang asked.
Lu Wei shook his head, "One hundred taels of gold?"
"Is it that important?"
Lu Wei said frankly: "This is my asking price, and I still follow the old rules. If I say it, and you think it's not worth it, then don't adopt it. But once you adopt it, you have to pay me according to my asking price, otherwise you will have to pay me the price in the future."
There is no more cooperation.”
"Okay, you can say it!"
Lu Wei said after a while: "Taiyuan Prefecture only has 5,000 garrison troops!"
Wang Shuang was stunned, "How come there are so few?"
"Niugao led an army of 30,000 people south, so there were only 5,000 troops left in Taiyuan. The defenses of Jingxing and Fuyangxing were strengthened to prevent the Hebei army from sneaking into Taiyuan Prefecture."
"Don't we still have 50,000 troops in Jingzhao? Why not strengthen Taiyuan's defense?"
"No matter how important Taiyuan is, it is not as important as Jingzhao. Jingzhao's 50,000 troops will never move. This is the bottom line."
Wang Shuang secretly calculated in his mind that there were 180,000 troops from the Central Plains, 50,000 troops from Bashu, and 50,000 troops from Hedong. This was 280,000 troops, plus the 50,000 troops from Jingzhao, and the Jingzhao army.
Troops are stationed in Hunan Road, Hexi Corridor, Lingxia Road, Xihe Road and other places. The Western Army really cannot send troops to support Taiyuan.
This information was so important that Wang Shuang immediately took out a hundred taels of gold and handed it to Lu Wei, "Let's make a deal!"
There is a cloth shop in the south of Taiyuan City, called Laosong Cloth Shop, which specializes in high-quality cloth. The cheap cloth sold in Pingcang store is coarse cloth, which is usually bought by the lowest class people. People with a slightly better family background will buy high-quality cloth.
cloth to make clothes.
But Lao Song Buzhuang actually had another identity. It was Wan Yanchang's intelligence point in Taiyuan.
Taiyuan Mansion is the foundation of Wan Yanchang, how could he be willing to lose it like this? Wan Yanchang has always been obsessed with Taiyuan Mansion, so it is logical to set up an intelligence point in Taiyuan Mansion to understand the situation in Taiyuan.
Moreover, Lao Song Buzhuang is not the only one Wan Yanchang has set up in Taiyuan Prefecture. Lao Song Buzhuang is the main intelligence station.
The shopkeeper of Buzhuang's surname is Jian. This surname is relatively rare, but his first name is very common. He is a man in his forties. Wan Yanchang is not like the Western Army Intelligence Department, which uses middle-aged and elderly people to collect intelligence.
Wan Yanchang did not have this mechanism. His intelligence personnel were basically Han soldiers, and the leaders were his staff.
Jian Fu is Wan Yanchang's staff, a native of Daming Prefecture, and was appointed as the intelligence chief in Taiyuan last year.
Jian Fu also received news that Niu Gao was leading his army south. He had just received an order from Daming Prefecture, asking him to determine two key points. First, did Niu Gao really go south? Second, how many garrison troops did Taiyuan Prefecture still have?
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Jian Fu immediately sent more than a dozen spies to various counties to check whether there was any news about the garrison. He also used their insider information in the government to find out some inside information.
Of course, they can't bribe any high-ranking officials, they are all low-level officials, but snakes have their own ways, and shrimps have their own ways. Although they are small officials, they are in the government after all, and they also have ways to get information.
Early that morning, a man wearing official official uniform walked into the cloth shop. When he entered the door, he asked: "Is shopkeeper Jian here?"
The clerk knew the person coming. He was an escort from Taiyuan Prefecture, surnamed Wang. He was considered the highest official they had bribed in Taiyuan Prefecture. Although he was also a civil servant, he was a high-ranking civil servant.
"Are Wang Yasi here to make clothes? My shopkeeper is in the back room, please come quickly!"
"Yes! I need to make two nice clothes."
Wang Yasi walked into the inner room and soon met the shopkeeper Jian Fu.
"I'll give you some definite news. There are only five thousand troops in Taiyuan Prefecture, led by Hu Yantong. The other troops followed Niu Gao south."
"But isn't there 40,000 troops stationed there? 30,000 troops went south and 5,000 stayed behind. So where are the 5,000 troops left?"
"In Queshu Valley, Chitang Pass and Jingxing Pass, these dangerous passes have strengthened their defenses."
Wang Yasi took two pieces of cloth and left. At this time, Jian Fu also received reports from spies sent by various counties. There were no troops stationed, which proved that Wang Yasi's information was accurate. Only five thousand soldiers were stationed in Taiyuan City.
Jian Fu immediately sent an important pigeon message to Daming Mansion.
On the Yellow River, hundreds of large ships slowly approached the mouth of the Bianhe River. The mouth of the Bianhe River is located in Heyin County in the north of Zhengzhou. This is actually the entrance to the Tongji Canal in the Sui and Tang Dynasties. The great breach of the Yellow River in the second year of Jianyan was not here, but
Hundreds of miles away in the Baimadu area of Huaxian County, Du Chong, who stayed behind in Tokyo, dug up the Yellow River embankments to prevent the Jin soldiers from going south. The Yellow River water swept southward, submerging Huaxian, Puyang, Juye, Zhencheng and other places, and then along the way
Head south to seize the Si River and enter the Huaihe River.
There was not much impact on the Kaifeng Mansion, and the Bianhe River was not affected either. It was still the same as usual, but there was something different, that is, the tense atmosphere. Twenty thousand gold soldiers were ambushing on both sides of the Bianhe River, waiting for the ships of the Song Army.
arrival.
The 20,000-strong army was led by Marshal Wanyan Alubu. The ambushed soldiers were about a hundred steps away from the Bianhe River to ensure that the crossbows and rockets could hit the boats in the Bianhe River.
Niu Gao stared at the wide mouth of the river and ordered: "Order the Jingzhao ship to enter!"
There were no soldiers on the three hundred boats coming from Jingzhao, but they were full of fodder. This was Chen Qing's arrangement. The fodder boat left first, and a long group of fodder sailed into the Bianhe River. The atmosphere on both sides of the Bianhe River began to become tense, and the ambush troops were all
He tightened his grip on the bow and arrow.
The fleet had traveled about twenty miles, and the three hundred forage boats had covered most of it. Suddenly, the ship in front sounded an alarm, "There is an ambush!" someone shouted.
"Dang! Dang! Dang!" The siren sounded loudly, and the ships turned around one after another.
Wanyan Alubu shouted: "Attack!"
There was a bang sound, and thousands of arrows were fired from both sides of the bank. They were all rockets, and they were shot at the Song fleet. The boatmen were so frightened that they jumped into the water to escape. Some boatmen were unable to dodge and were hit by the arrows.
Hundreds of thousand-stone flat-bottomed ships immediately burst into flames, especially because the dry fodder inside the ships further intensified the fire. In just a moment, all the ships were engulfed in raging fire.
Wanyan Alubu suddenly realized something was wrong. There should be Song soldiers screaming and rushing out to escape inside the ship, but he didn't see anyone, nor did he hear any screams.
"What's going on? Are there no Song troops in the fleet?"
At this time, several soldiers escorted two boatmen who jumped into the river. "Marshal, these two boatmen said they are our people!"
The two boatmen knelt down and said: "We are spies sent by Marshal Zuodu to Jingzhao, pretending to be boatmen!"
Wanyan Alubu was furious now. He didn't care about the spies. He pulled out his knife and put it on the boatman's neck. He asked fiercely: "Say quickly! What's on the boat? Why is there no Song army?"
"General Qi, the ships carrying the Song army are all behind, and our ships are full of fodder. For some reason, Niu Gao asked us to come in first to explore the way!"
Wanyan Alubu screamed, chopped off a boatman's head with a knife, and shouted: "Kill me with anger, you've fallen into a trap!"
Their ambush was exposed, and of course the Song army would not enter the Bianhe River again. Twenty thousand Jin soldiers waited in ambush here for three days, but their wait was in vain.
When the news reached Bianliang, Wanyan Wushu was really dissatisfied. This information held back their 100,000 troops for half a month. In the end, they burned 200 ships without even a single soldier being seen, delaying their progress.
deploy.
Otherwise, Wanyan Wushu would not have sent only 10,000 Donghu troops to participate in the battle of Ruzhou. He was worried that the Song army would sneak attack Bianliang from the Yellow River.
The more Wanyan Wushu thought about it, the more annoyed he became. He immediately wrote a letter to accuse Wanyanchang and asked him to immediately send 30,000 troops to support him. Since the two families were fighting together, Wanyanchang should show sincerity.
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Wanyan Wushu's letter was quickly delivered to Wanyan Chang, but Wanyan Wushu never expected that this letter offended Wan Yanchang. At the same time, Wan Yanchang also found the best excuse for the army to be unable to go south.
Niu Gao's fleet blocked the Yellow River. Chen Qing's sneak attack on the Bianhe River was fake, but the blockade of the Yellow River was real.
At the same time, Niu Gao's deputy general Shao Long and his son Shao Jichun led an army of 20,000 people to march quickly back to Taiyuan Prefecture.
Although Niu Gao led 30,000 troops to Mengzhou, it was just an act. How could he lead 30,000 troops on board ships and blockade the Yellow River? Ten thousand troops and 300 ships were enough.
The fundamental purpose of this big drama rehearsed by Chen Qing was to break up the alliance between Wanyanchang and Wanyanwushu.