"Brother Liu, where are the reinforcements from the Zheng family and the Bolingcui family? Are they far from Guancheng?"
Wuningfang, in the tunnel of the residential compound rented by Liu Rengui.
Xiao Yu'er asked quickly after listening to Wei Zheng's analysis.
Liu Rengui shook his head and said: "This Liu is unknown for the time being. Logically speaking, the Boling Cui family's army should be in Dingzhou, and the Zheng family's army should be in Guancheng County. But since they decided to fight with Qinghe Cui If they rebel against the imperial court together, they will definitely ambush their troops in the prefectures and counties adjacent to Zhengzhou in advance, but we don’t know which prefecture it will be at the moment!”
Ye Fashan frowned and said: "Based on time, it will take at least two days for the imperial army to reach Guancheng. And the reinforcements from the Zheng family and the Cui family, as Brother Liu analyzed, are in a certain county near Zhengzhou. If they are lurking, then their reinforcements must have arrived in Guancheng first!”
"Then what should we do?"
Xiaoyuer suddenly became anxious.
Liu Rengui suddenly asked: "The imperial court is sending a large army to rescue this time. I wonder if they will bring a telegraph machine with them?"
Xiao Yu'er's eyes lit up and said: "You will know if you try it! The army must be much closer to us now than we are to Chang'an. Maybe we can communicate with it without going to the Songyue Pagoda. !”
"That's right! Then Miss Li Yu, try using the telegraph machine!"
"No! Using a telegraph machine underground will greatly hinder the delivery of messages. At the very least, it should go above ground!"
Li Yu shook his head.
Liu Rengui thought for a while and said: "The Cui family and the government have been busy dealing with the army outside the city these days. They should not be able to go to the minfang for inspection. Xu Fang of Wuningfang knows that several of us have gone to join the army. There must be no one in the house. People, once the gate outside the courtyard is locked, most people won’t break in, so why don’t you all dress up in disguise and go live in the backyard in the past two days! But don’t light candles at night, and don’t go out during the day!”
Wei Zheng frowned and said: "No! If we all go up and live there, there will be too many targets. Once an outsider breaks in, so many of us will not be able to escape! Let Miss Li Yu go up and live alone. She needs to keep in touch with the army, and If someone breaks in, it’s easy for her to hide alone!”
Although he also wanted to live there, at this critical moment, he didn't want to show his flaws and end up falling short!
"Well! We really should put the overall situation first!"
Ye Minglei nodded in agreement at this time.
Seeing this, Liu Rengui had no choice but to say: "Miss Li Yu, take your telegraph machine and live in the attic in the backyard. If the imperial court or reinforcements send a telegram, you can know it in time!"
Xiao Yu'er pouted and shook his head: "No, no, no, I'm alone, and I'm not allowed to light the lights at night, so how dare I live here? How about... why don't you let Aunt Ye go up and live with me?"
She wanted to let Ye Fashan go up, but what would it be like to live alone in this huge backyard with a man and a woman alone? So Li Yu thought about it seriously and decided to ask Ye Minglei's wife to accompany her.
Mrs. Ye looked at Ye Minglei and saw that the latter nodded, so she smiled and said: "Okay, in that case, I will go up and stay with Miss Li Yu for a few days!"
After the decision was made, Li Yu, Mrs. Ye, and Liu Rengui took the telegraph machine, climbed to the ground, and then the three of them walked towards the backyard.
"Didi~didi~didi!"
A quarter of an hour later, a slight "didi" sound came from an attic in the backyard.
Inside the room, Li Yu was using the weak candlelight to control the telegraph machine to send messages. In order to prevent the candlelight from leaking out, a screen surrounded her.
"Okay! I sent it, let's see if anyone can receive it and respond to me!"
After a while, Li Yu clapped his hands and said.
Liu Rengui nodded and said, "Then we'll wait!"
Li Yu took this opportunity to ask: "Brother Liu, how are you doing in the military camp? Is there anyone above making things difficult for you?"
Liu Rengui shook his head and said with a smile: "That's not true. The captain of our camp is an alcoholic. I promised him two altars of immortal drunkenness, and he wished to treat me like a brother. Why would he embarrass me?"
"The Immortal Drunk? Where can I buy the Immortal Drunk at this time? If I were in Chang'an, I could help Brother Liu get some Immortal Drunk, but now I am in Guancheng..."
Xiao Yu'er frowned and said in confusion.
Liu Rengui said with a smile: "It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter. I don't think the captain will be lucky enough to get drunk after taking a sip of it!"
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A hundred miles away, in an open space, there were countless camps, large and small, with bright bonfires and teams of soldiers constantly patrolling the camp.
"Didi~didi~!"
At this time, a "didi beep" sound suddenly came from a small tent.
"Did Xiaoyuer send a telegram?"
Meng Wenhao reacted immediately. He quickly took out a pen and paper, lay on the ground and started recording.
After a while, the sound of the telegram died down, and Tiedan asked curiously: "Wen Hao, what did the telegram say?"
In order to prevent the telegraph machine from being known to more people, he lived in a separate tent with Meng Wenhao and Pang Feiji.
At this time, Meng Wenhao had already translated the telegram. He raised his head and said, "Nothing, this is just a test telegram sent by Xiao Yuer. She is not sure whether I can receive her telegram!"
"Then Wen Hao, please respond quickly!"
Tiedan said hurriedly.
"Um!"
Meng Wenhao nodded, pressed the handle of the telegraph machine, and began to reply to the telegram.
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"Didi~! Didi~!"
On the other side, Xiao Yuer was chatting with Liu Rengui about the battle between the two armies during the day. Suddenly, the telegraph machine rang!
"Come, come! There's a reply!"
Xiao Yu'er screamed and quickly started recording the telegram. After a moment, she stood up and said: "Brother Liu, they are reinforcements sent by the imperial court. They are currently located in the wilderness thirty miles east of Luoyang. They should be only more than a hundred years away from us. It’s here! The commander-in-chief of this march is Duke Wei Li Jing!”
When Liu Rengui heard this, he frowned and said: "Dong Wei leads the army? More than a hundred miles? In this way, it's hard to say who will arrive first and who will arrive later! Let's do this, Miss Li Yu, you will be in charge of the situation in the county. As well as the deployment of troops, it’s up to Manager Li to make the decision!”
"okay!"
Li Yu thought for a while and started to send the telegram. In the moment when she communicated with Liu Rengui, she had a preliminary understanding of the current situation in Guancheng County.
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Outside Luoyang City, the Tang Army camp.
This time there was a very long "didi" sound, and Meng Wenhao's hand recording the telegrams was almost sore. After a full quarter of an hour, the telegraph finally stopped ringing, and the next step was "translation" Fortunately, Meng Wenhao had memorized the code book by heart, so it didn't take much time to translate it.
"Wen Hao, how are you? What's the situation in Guancheng now?"
Seeing Meng Wenhao's handiwork, Tiedan quickly came over and asked.
Meng Wenhao frowned and said: "It's a long story, and the military situation is urgent. Let's go to see Manager Li together and report to him as soon as possible."
"good!"
A moment later, Tiedan and Meng Wenhao came to the Chinese army's tent. After a briefing, they saw Li Jing.
There were Qin Qiong, Cheng Yaojin, and Niu Jinda in the big tent, and they were probably discussing matters.
"See Mr. Li and several generals!"
Tiedan and Meng Wenhao saluted one after another.
Li Jing nodded and said:
"No need to be polite, Meng Wenhao, you said you have urgent military matters and you want to see me?"
"Yes! Manager Li, this is the information just sent via telegraph from Guancheng County!"
Meng Wenhao took out the message he had just translated, raised it above his head, and replied.
"Oh? Bring it to me quickly!"
Li Jing's expression changed, and he walked down directly and took the information from Meng Wenhao's hand.
The other three veterans in the tent also turned their attention to Li Jing at this time.
"Pharmacist, what is written on it? Why did you look at it for so long?"
After a while, Cheng Yaojin said impatiently.
Li Jing handed the message to Cheng Yaojin, and then said: "The Cui family in Guancheng County has assembled an army of 300,000 people and is preparing to attack Luoyang today. Fortunately, the Xuanjia Army, Ren Can and Wang Yu brought 150,000 troops." The government soldiers arrived in time and killed the rebels back into the city! But according to Bianzhou Junjun who was lurking in the city, the Cui family of Boling and the Zheng family of Xingyang must have reinforcements outside the city. If they don't want the Cui family to escape Guancheng , then we must reach Guancheng before the rebel reinforcements arrive!"
Qin Qiong stroked his beard and said: "In that case, let's march all night!"
Li Jing thought for a while, looked at Tiedan and Meng Wenhao below, and said: "Tiedan, you and Wenhao are now boarding the fairy lantern, and first send information to Guancheng, saying that we will definitely reach Guancheng before dark tomorrow, and then You send another message to Chang'an to inform His Majesty of the situation here, and say that the general planned to change the marching route, merge the three armies into one, and go straight to Guancheng!"
Li Er asked him before traveling that although he would not interfere with his battle plan, he hoped that he would regularly send the battlefield situation to the court.
The two little guys quickly clasped their fists and said, "Yes! Chief Manager!"
Li Jing looked at the three veterans in the tent again and said: "Zhijie, Shubao, Jinda, we originally planned to march into Zhengzhou in three groups tomorrow, but now the situation is urgent. The Cui family is huddled in Guancheng waiting for reinforcements. We must Join forces and set out immediately. We must rush to Guancheng before the reinforcements from the Cui and Zheng families arrive! This time, we will come to a encirclement point for reinforcements and wipe out all the hidden forces of these three families!"
"Okay! Then I, Old Cheng, will clean up the army and set off immediately!"
Cheng Yaojin suddenly became energetic and shouted loudly.
By the way, his horse is already very thirsty, so he just takes this opportunity to see some blood!
Qin Qiong and Niu Jinda also resigned.
Two-quarters of an hour later, all the camps were put away, and the 60,000-strong army was assembled. Then everyone holding torches began to march again, traveling under starry night, with the goal of heading straight to Guancheng!
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