Chapter 400

Stepping into thousands of homes, the feeling of facing is also different from that in the past.

Although thousands of households are busy at ordinary times, their faces are relaxed. Few people walk with their faces taut, and they won't feel an urgent atmosphere at such a moment as now.

"Sir, the latest news from the south!"

As soon as I got to the door of the public house, I saw Wang Yiming waiting there with a rubbing copper bar. I looked very anxious.

Shen Hao didn't speak. He opened the door of the public house and went in. Wang Yiming then came in.

After the porter delivered the tea, he closed the door. Shen Haocai pointed to Wang Yiming and said, "don't shout so hurriedly in the future. Just shout outside the door. Are you afraid that others won't listen?"

Wang Yiming smiled and said, "my subordinates are careless. Thank you for your advice. Sir, this is the note that just arrived. The southern border army and the barbarians fought again 30 miles northwest of Jianchuan last night. This time, the border army seems to have suffered some losses."

Suffer?

Shen Hao frowned slightly, reached for the note in Wang Yiming's hand and opened it. There was a printed copy, but the content was the same as the original.

Written:

... on the night of May 20, our mixed battalion explored Jianchuan at night, and encountered an enemy night patrol team 15 miles northwest of Jianchuan. Then we made tentative contact and retreated after a battle with incense. During this period, dozens of people were lost, but the enemy pursued them. Later, we waited for reinforcements 30 miles northwest of Jianchuan. The number of descendants reached nearly two mixed battalions and fought back.

Nanman never retreated. At the beginning of 1911, Nanman welcomed two reinforcements, a total of more than 6000, and wrapped up our two mixed camps.

At Haizheng, our two mixed battalions returned to the stronghold and the enemy recovered.

In this battle, our army killed more than 800 people, injured more than 300 people, and the enemy's loss is estimated to be more than 800

Shen Hao also frowned after reading it. Although he didn't know anything about military affairs, he could see from the war report that the border troops had indeed suffered losses this time, and they suffered great losses in a single battle.

The number of people killed in the war is the same as that of the other side. This is still an estimate. According to the ratio of the two previous war losses, the army in the old Jing Dynasty has obviously higher combat effectiveness. Now it has been leveled off, and counting the number of injured people, it has almost destroyed the establishment of a mixed battalion!

What's more annoying is that the night detective behavior was obviously discovered in advance, otherwise the barbarian reinforcement could not be so fast and the pursuit would not be so firm.

In addition, it may be that the two previous contact wars took advantage of the old Jing Dynasty, which was somewhat careless psychologically. If you saw the other party's reinforcements coming and retreating immediately, you should not lose so much.

"Fortunately, an army stronghold was built before, otherwise the retreat would probably lose the front line in the northwest of Jianchuan, which would make the barbarian pincer attack in the North threaten the rear again. However, after this battle, the initiative in Jianchuan will be in the hands of the barbarians. Unless the border troops pass by again, the border troops in the stronghold will not get out at all."

Wang Yiming analyzed a few words. This is the change in the war situation after suddenly losing this game.

"In your opinion, how likely is it that Zuo Yuliang will send more troops there?" Shen Hao found that Wang Yiming seemed to have some research on military affairs, so he wanted to hear this guy's opinion.

"My Lord, my subordinates dare not speculate about Zuo Shuai's idea, but if it is under the command of my subordinates, my subordinates will immediately order the two partial troops in the middle road and Xialu to launch exploratory attacks on the two barbarian strongholds in baitouxia and huzhuyuan, and send reinforcements opposite Jianchuan, which is our stronghold on the road.

At present, the two sides are mainly engaged in confrontation, and we are obviously not ready, while the barbarians seem to be equally unprepared, and no one dares to press on. Therefore, we can't lose our fixed position at this moment. Once the barbarians attack the pincer attack, it will be difficult for us to stand on the east of Wuhu. "

Shen Hao is noncommittal. He is an outsider. He just finds that his adjutant has many abilities that he hasn't found before. But right and wrong have to be tested by time.

After saying that, Wang Yiming stepped down. As soon as he went out, Wang Jian knocked on the door, came in and closed the door.

"My Lord, there is progress over Wu Kai!"

With news again. Shen Hao was relieved when he heard the speech. Jiang Cheng's deadline order made him and all the black flag camps in charge of the "Ma San case" feel pressure.

Just look at the dark circles on Wang Jian's face. This guy probably hasn't rested for many days.

"My Lord, under the guise of buying pills from Xie Kai, Wu Kai hooked up with Xie Kai, and tested whether Xie Kai had better pills than Xiao Peiyuan Dan, such as Da Peiyuan Dan. Xie Kai said yes, but he needed to exchange them with inferior spirit stones or magic tools. He didn't accept money.

Wu Kai's idea is whether to buy some better pills from Xie Kai to gain the other party's trust... "

Wang Jian's words were interrupted by Shen Hao before he finished.

Shen Hao snorted coldly, "Wu Kai thought very well. He bought himself pills with Xuanqing Wei's money. Now he has the idea of inferior spirit stones and magic tools. He can be greedy. However, he would have followed him in the past, but now time is too tight to give him more time to build trust slowly.

Did Xie Kai disclose where these withheld military funds came from? I'm afraid the captain of a Tuen military academy didn't get something like da Pei Yuan Dan from Nike? "

"Yes, Xie Kai really doesn't have the ability to buckle to Da Peiyuan Dan. That's the quota ration of the general. But if he can buckle to the quota ration of the general, at least he needs to pinch the whole baggage of the beach stone to death."

"That is to say, it involves the military commander in charge of logistics?"

"Yes, sir, but this can only be regarded as speculation. If you want to be honest, my subordinates think it's better to let Wu Kai actually contact. Do you think..."

"No, time is too tight." Shen Hao refused again. He was aware of Wang Jian's concerns. After all, relying solely on speculation could not be counted as investigation evidence written into the file, which was inconsistent with the above requirements. It's too slow to feel the melon slowly, and there's no bottom whether you can succeed or not.

"Then do you think you can ask those monitoring envoys in the Tun army to help?" Wang Jian rubbed his hands with a smile and finally said it after thinking for a long time.

"Supervision envoy?" Shen Hao was stunned. Unexpectedly, Wang Jian suddenly mentioned this and looked at him.

Wang Jian was uncomfortable and said with a smile: "My Lord, this is the only way that I can finish the investigation in two months. I use Wu Kai and a large number of Xuanqing guards in the border army to exert pressure on all targets, and then wait for the opportunity to act quickly to expand the results. However, the monitoring makes us out of reach there. We need your help and coordination."

Shen Hao understood Wang Jian's plan when he thought about it carefully. This is to see that "insufficient troops" should borrow those Xuanqing Wei supervision envoys to assist in the investigation. Indeed, there are many people and great strength. If you want to speed up the investigation and make a major breakthrough, it is not enough to rely on the spies in the border army.