Chapter 185: Lost sheep on the wrong road
A leopard can be seen in a tube. -----------Liu Yiqing of the Southern Dynasties and Song Dynasty, "Shi Shuo Xin Yu Fang Zheng"
It is said that since Tang Zhou betrayed his mentor and friend, he has been exhausted physically and mentally. He is always worried about current affairs and is extremely low-key. Unexpectedly, even though he followed Zhu Jun to fight in the mountains and swamps, he was still captured by the enemy. For a moment, I was relieved to find that I was tied up with ropes and fell asleep under the steel knives guarded by the special forces team members.
Chen Long shook his head and said: "If I had known this, why did I do it in the first place!" He ordered someone to tie him to the horse and continue to go south to ask for the pursuers. Zhu Jun saw that pursuing the enemy in the dark was unfavorable, and that the enemy seemed to be well prepared, as hidden arrows kept coming in the dark, so he told everyone to stop pursuing. After returning to the camp and lighting up torches for a thorough investigation, only Tang Zhou was missing. Two unconscious guards were found in his tent.
Zhu Jun was sitting in the middle of the tent, remembering that Tang Zhou was the one who surrendered to the Yellow Turban Party, he couldn't help but secretly wonder, thinking that the remnants of the Yellow Turban Party still had such means and never gave up chasing Tang Zhou. He asked his subordinates to take some of the feather arrows left by the attackers. They were all wooden poles with white feathers. They seemed familiar, but they couldn't remember any clues. Zhu Jun had no choice but to order the entire army to stand by and wait for dawn before making plans.
After Zhu Jun expressed his depression, Chen Long and others rushed to Jiangxia overnight, and their men gradually gathered together in the dark night. At dawn, when passing by the town, Chen Long ordered the entire army to rest, and sent people into the town to buy a simple carriage and horses. He hid Tang Zhou in the carriage and continued southward. At night, we were finally only a few dozen miles away from the scheduled Huang Zhong warship.
Traces of the march of the large army can be clearly seen here. It is thought that the First Army of Qinglong also passed by here, and they may have just boarded the ship. Chen Long saw that the horse manure on the road was not too fresh, so he thought that maybe his trip was one day later than the rest of the army. Did Huang Zhong leave a boat for him?
The mountain road along the Yangtze River was winding, and it was impossible to reach the river for a while. The surrounding dense forests were getting thicker and thicker. Chen Longling abandoned the carriage and tied Tang Zhou to the horse to move forward. Tang Zhou had already woken up, but he could only say a word.
As he was walking, suddenly a head stuck out of the jungle beside the road and shouted: "My lord, I've finally waited for you!" Chen Long recognized him at first glance. It was Zhu Yong, Liu Yong's subordinate of the Fourth Division of the First Army. Yes, it was me who arranged for him to go to the army camp. He asked hurriedly: "Liu Yong sent you here to take care of him."
Zhu Ting hurriedly came out of the woods. He was covered in rags and rags, and his leather armor was in pieces. Chen Long was startled and said, "Why do you look like this? What happened?" He ordered someone to bring some food to Zhu Ting. Water and dry food.
Although Zhu Ting pressed his chest against his back due to hunger, he persisted and said: "My lord, the army crossed the river yesterday and was safe and sound. After the whole army crossed the river, because the lord had not arrived yet, my subordinates were ordered to lead a squad of 100 people to protect a warship. The boat is waiting for the lord here."
"Unexpectedly, very early this morning, dozens of Jingzhou warships suddenly appeared in the morning fog. Our army was caught off guard. There was only one warship. Countless people were shot to death by the Jingzhou navy, and the warship was also burned."
Chen Long frowned when he heard this. He didn't expect that there would be an unexpected incident. It seemed that Liu Biao had detected the movement of his heavy troops. Then he asked, "Do you know who is leading the Jingzhou navy?"
Zhu Ting shook his head and said: "I'm not sure. I escaped desperately and waited for the lord on this inevitable road for a day. It was foggy at the time and I couldn't see the enemy chief clearly."
Chen Long nodded and asked Zhu Ting to rest and have a meal. There was no mastermind around him, so he could only think about it by himself. He couldn't help but mutter to himself to Lu Chang: "It's foggy? How many people are coming from the Jingzhou Navy?"
Then I thought again, only a few of the most trusted people knew my whereabouts, so the goal of the Jingzhou navy was definitely not to capture me. Liu Biao should have detected the location where the first regiment of the Qinglong Army was crossing the river, and sent sailors to intercept it. However, he arrived a step too late, mistakenly hit the auxiliary vehicle, and burned down the warship waiting for him. But I don’t know how many people came? Who is the commander? Logically speaking, it should be Zhang Yun.
Lu Chang naturally knew that his lord did not need to answer by himself, so he responded: "My lord, do you think they will go straight to Changsha?"
This sentence startled Chen Long. This is not impossible. If the First Army Corps arrives in Changsha and immediately sends troops to Jiangling, Changsha will be empty and it may be captured by Zhang Yun's sailors in one fell swoop.
Another thought, how could the First Army ignore Changsha defense when Guo Jia and Zhou Buyi were there. Thinking about it this way, I felt a lot more relieved.
Lu often frowned at his master's thoughts and did not dare to interrupt. Seeing that his lord's complexion improved, he asked: "My lord, if you don't have a boat, do you have to swim across the river?"
Chen Long waved his hands and said: "The Yangtze River is not as good as the Xiang River, and the water conditions are unknown, so swimming is too dangerous. We don't know if Zhang Yun's navy has blocked the Yangtze River, so we can only find another way. If Zhang Yun's navy has blocked the Yangtze River, even if Huang Zhong knows that something is wrong There is no way to send a ship to pick us up immediately."
With that said, a decision had been made. Jiangxia originally had its own intelligence base, so why bother looking for something far away? He immediately pointed to a fork in the road next to him: "Find a way and go straight to Jiangxia."
Nowadays, the situation in Jingzhou is complex and changeable. Without a correct goal and direction, we will go astray, just like a lost sheep on the wrong road. Jiangxia Huangzu was wavering, which was a big variable. Whether Zhang Xiu and Jia Xu can send troops to suppress the north bank of the Han River is also unknown. Now Zhang Yun has brought an unknown number of naval troops to Jiangxia. If he takes the lead in attacking Changsha and blocking the entrance to the Yuanjiang River, it will undoubtedly ruin his plan to besiege Jiangling.
Chen Long sighed, he underestimated Liu Biao, he would never sit still and wait for death. Because of his own negligence, he also caught up with Zhu Ting's team. There are still many capable people on Liu Biao's side, and the Kuai brothers alone are by no means good.
Dozens of special operations team members broke into pieces and followed the path to Xiling Ferry outside Jiangxia City. Due to the unknown situation in Huang Zu, the city defense was extremely tight and all ships were strictly prohibited from sailing. Only military patrol warships cruised on the river.
Seeing that Jiangxia's defense was so tight, Chen Long ordered his people to wait outside and found a village to stay. Naturally, it was not difficult for Chen Long to enter the city. After contacting the spies in the city, Chen Long discovered that the spies' ships were unable to cross the river. If he forced himself to cross the river, he might be discovered by Jiangxia guards.
In desperation, Chen Long made two preparations. First, he took the risk to contact Huang Zu personally, to gain advantage and show his affection, and then see Huang Zu's attitude; second, he went downstream to find another location, or to find a ship, or Swim across the Yangtze River with arms, return to Changsha first and then make plans.
Back at the location of the special forces, Tang Zhou was closely monitored and nothing happened. Chen Long weighed again and again. It was too far to cross the river downstream across Jiangxia. It would be even worse if the talks with Huang Zu collapsed. Finally, he decided to secretly use Jiangxia's warships to cross the river.
Chen Long's plan was to secretly seize control of a warship and cross the river disguised as Jiangxia soldiers. For two consecutive days and nights, Chen Long sent people to observe the patrols of Jiangxia warships and came up with a timetable.
Through this timetable, Chen Long discovered that during the day, warships basically went to the river to patrol and train, and only two ships remained stationary. By dinner time every day, basically all the warships on the river would return to the military port, and then the two warships in the port that were not stationary during the day would go on patrol on the river. Until midnight, there were almost no other ships on the river. As long as you can sneak into the docked warships in the harbor during the day and hide in the cabin without being discovered, then when you get to the river at night, you can naturally seize control and control the warships to cross the river without anyone noticing.
The only difficulty in this plan was to board the warship docked in the harbor in broad daylight. To this end, Chen Long first raided a logistics warehouse in the city at night and only took away a hundred sets of Jiangxia military uniforms. No one takes inventory of these military uniforms once every six months, so naturally no one immediately discovers and reports them missing.
After everything was ready and the rhythm of the shift change at the military port was figured out, the first step for Chen Long's team was to set up an ambush on the road between the army camp and the port. The Army battalion sends four squads of soldiers, each of nearly twenty men, to the port for shift changes every day. There are about a dozen miles of mountain roads between the army camp and the port. Every day, soldiers go back and forth on foot, patrolling the countryside between the city and the ferry.
Tricks such as roadblocks and hijackings are the specialty of special forces. That afternoon, more than twenty patrolmen, led by their team leader, were lazily walking through the extremely familiar mountain road from the military camp to the port. Suddenly, they saw a group of small troops wearing their own military uniforms approaching from the opposite side. , the two sides were about to pass each other in a daze.
The squad leader felt strange. When he saw a tall man on the opposite side who was also wearing the captain's uniform, he asked: "Brother, which part of your password is it?"
With a smile on his face, the man walked closer and shouted, "Do it!" He struck the squad leader on the back of his neck with his palm, and it was Lu Chang. This was because he wanted to show mercy to Huang Zu in the future, otherwise the captain's life would be in danger. The special operations team members had already taken action together and knocked out the Jiangxia soldiers around them. More than 20 people fell to the ground in an instant.
Chen Long emerged from the forest nearby and looked at the results of the battle with great satisfaction. After hard training, the special forces have become more and more efficient in killing people. Unfortunately, the weapons are still lagging behind. If there were a few special warfare automatic firearms, I would think that 's too far.
Chen Long pretended to be dissatisfied, patted Lu Chang on the forehead and said, "You're stupid, how can you ask for the password when you're all dizzy?" He then motioned to the team members to drag Jiang Xia Bing into the woods and tie him up.
Embarrassed, Lu Chang poured cold water on the squad leader to wake him up. He gestured up and down with a dagger for a long time, which scared the squad leader to the point of excrement and urine. He confessed that the password for that day was Yangtze River, and the other party replied that it was natural danger.
After another commotion, there were no traces of fighting on the mountain road, and the soldiers tied up in the woods were also gagged with smelly socks. Tang Zhou was also wrapped up in the middle of the team, his mouth was gagged with a rag, and his face was wrapped with a cloth, and his head was covered with a helmet. Although the image was slightly weird, there was no flaw in it.
Chen Long first led a team of 20 people and swaggered outside the port military camp to give the order to change the shift. The captain of this shift had already assembled his team. Seeing Chen Long's face, he shouted: "Yangtze River!"
Chen Long responded: "Natural danger!"
The shift captain said with a smile: "You are new here! Isn't Da Liu's group coming today?"
Chen Long also smiled and said: "My younger brother is originally a guard in the city. It happened that Da Liu was transferred to my place to help, so the general temporarily replaced my team."
Shift changes in military camps are also common. The general on the scene issues an order at short notice. How dare the soldiers disobey? The captain did not doubt that he had it. He pointed to a few military tents in the distance with a smile and said: "Brother, those military tents are all It’s the night shift marines who are sleeping, and they are all thorns. Tell your soldiers to be careful when patrolling, so as not to wake them up." With that, he and his men left carelessly.
When Chen Long saw the changing team walking away, he waved, and dozens of special operations team members followed, carrying Tang Zhou, and quickly boarded one of the two warships docked on the shore. The warship is huge, and there is plenty of space in the bottom compartment. All the soldiers are hidden under the lowest deck. At that time, they were all sailing ships, and there were generally no soldiers to check the bottom warehouse. After the ship left the port and reached the river, all that was left was to deal with a ship of soldiers.
Chen Long left a few people to guard the gate so that the navy soldiers who were working the night shift would not wake up and the army patrolmen on the shore would not become suspicious. Chen Long requested that the last few remaining soldiers should just find a way to return to Lingling in the future.
In the bottom warehouse, I couldn't see my fingers, I could only hear the sound of people breathing. Chen Long closed his eyes tightly in the darkness and had a rare moment of calm. He couldn't help but think carefully about Liu Biao's military deployment and strategy. Suddenly the thought came to mind, since Liu Biao decided to fight with him, how could he be so isolated and helpless? If his helping hand was not Huang Zu, who would it be?
