On the second day after Lu Zhishen arrived, Yang Zhi led his troops back to Lingshou City and reported to Gaokan at the government office.
When they met, they found out that Lu Zhishen had already arrived, but he was very drunk the first day and hadn't woken up yet, so he had to stay away until he sobered up.
Gao Kanqe said to Yang Zhi: "This time, Coach Yang, you are running between Cigu and Lingshou. In addition to investigating the comings and goings as a spy, have you detected any movements of the Jin army?"
Yang Zhi shook his head when he heard this and said: "The gold thief is hiding in Cigu Town. It is heavily guarded there. My subordinates asked people to try several times, but they were unable to sneak into the city smoothly. The gold thief soldiers and horses inside never left the city, so there was no detection. We can get some clues about the situation of the Jin Army from the details of the arrest."
Hearing this, Gao Kan's eyes lit up and asked: "How to say it?"
"According to those detailed reports, there are a lot of Jin Army cavalry in Cigu Town, at least about a thousand, all of them are gathered in a barracks in the town, and outsiders are not allowed to approach," Yang Zhi explained.
After hearing this, he raised his eyebrows and touched his chin in thought.
The secret message sent by Wu Song earlier said that the Jin army coming from Lingqiu this time should number three or four men, let alone six or seven thousand.
That trip to Cigu Town, even though it was a vanguard force, it was estimated that there would be no shortage of troops, probably about two thousand.
If according to his original deduction, there are two thousand Jin Army cavalry in Cigu Town, then they need to be very careful in their actions.
It is easy to resist these Jin troops in the city defense, but if they go to the wild and the cavalry charge, even an army of 10,000 people may be smashed into pieces in a few times.
It was also because of this calculation in the original work that Gao Kan only acted in the city for so many years after he had been in charge of Lingshou City, and never thought about setting up arrangements outside the city.
But if it is certain that there are only a thousand gold cavalry in Cigu Town, it will be different.
With half the men and horses missing, although it would not be possible to directly attack Cigu Town, at least Gaokan could safely send troops out of the city to deal with matters in other places.
At present, with Cigu and Zhendingfu as the lines, the entire northeastern boundary of Zhendingfu is under the control of the Jin people.
Although Gaokan had Lingshou, Pingshan and the East and West Villages in his hands, he was still under control going up the Tuo River, but he was no longer under control as he went south.
Those places had not been occupied before, and were still governed by officials from the Zhao and Song official families.
The imperial order has been received, and now Gao Kan is actually the highest official of the Song Dynasty in Zhending Mansion. It is said that he can control all the official areas of the Song Dynasty in Zhending Mansion.
However, he was an outsider who landed in the air after all. As the saying goes, the strong dragon cannot suppress the local snake, those local officials will definitely not care about his "True Recruitment Envoy".
But Gao Kan couldn't let his back be held in the hands of someone he didn't know. He might be stabbed in the back without knowing when.
From the beginning, Gaokan planned to follow the two waterways of Tuohe River and Yehe River to control the upstream and downstream of the mountain.
After having such a large area, we can use this as a foundation to advance towards Zhending Mansion.
By going to Jingjing and Huolu, we can achieve a semi-encirclement of Zhending Mansion. At that time, it will be easy to plot Zhending Mansion as long as the Jin army does not have a large army to help.
Although we were previously worried that the vanguard of the Jin Army in Cigu Town might leave the city for a sneak attack, if we could confirm that there were only a thousand soldiers and horses among them, there would be no need to worry anymore.
A thousand cavalrymen, if they really dare to leave Cigu Town, Gaokan can surround them to death.
He was calculating in his mind, so he raised his head and asked in a deep voice: "Can you find a way to confirm the number of Jin army soldiers and horses in Cigu Town?"
"Unless someone from Cigu Town can go into the city to investigate for us, I'm afraid we won't be able to get in if there are unfamiliar faces." Yang Zhi replied.
Anyone with a strange face will not be able to enter Cigu Town, which is a troublesome thing.
After thinking again and again, Gao Kan continued to ask: "Have any of those captured spies been left alive?"
"I kept some and took them all back and handed them over to the government prison for custody." Yang Zhi nodded and replied.
"Okay, ask Cui Zheng to go there, select a few obedient ones, and let them go to Cigu. No matter what, they must confirm how many golden soldiers there are in Cigu Town." Gao Kan said in a deep voice.
"Yes, my subordinate will do it now."
After Yang Zhi accepted the order, he went out to find someone to ask Cui Zheng to go to the government prison.
With Gao Kan's previous training of Cui Zheng, there shouldn't be much of a problem in dealing with the spies that Yang Zhi picked back.
As long as the situation of the Jin army in Cigu Town is confirmed, Gaokan can start the next step.
After everything was settled, Gao Kan asked Yang Zhi not to leave the city again, told him what he had discussed with Lin Chong before, and asked him to stay in the city to train his troops.
In the afternoon, Lin Chong and the others woke up and met. Lin Chong took him and called Lu Zhishen and Yang Zhi to go to the place where the five hundred men were secretly training.
Two days later, we finally had conclusive information on the number of Jin Army soldiers and horses in Cigu Town. Indeed, there were only about a thousand soldiers and horses in total.
After receiving the news, Gao Kan was overjoyed and immediately asked Cao Qi to mobilize a thousand soldiers and horses from the military camp. After reorganizing the army, he sent out from the city and first went to the east mountain stronghold to wait for the news.
Then he called several messengers and wrote official letters respectively, and asked people to send them to the government offices in various places along the Yehe River.
Gao Kan planned to pay homage first and then send troops, and asked those in charge of government offices along the route to pay an audience in Lingshou City.
It would be okay if these people came to see him honestly. It happened that there were many management positions in Lingshou City that had not yet been filled, so they were given promotions and asked to stay in Lingshou City.
As for their original places, Gaokan will choose his own people to go there when the time comes.
Of course, the thousands of soldiers and horses that were mobilized will also be assigned and stationed all the way to the government offices along the way.
In this way, Gao Kan can ensure that these places are completely under his control, and he will be informed of any disturbances in time.
If those people don't obey the order, then these thousand soldiers and horses will push them all the way.
Of course, there are a lot of benefits to doing this. At least the officials in the government offices along the line must have collected a lot of gold and silver in private. Everyone has taken it, and the money is of course his.
After everything is arranged properly, everything is waiting for the letter.
However, when Gao Kan was in the city, the first thing he waited for was not the reply from the frontline officials in Yehe, but the special envoy from Taiyuan Prefecture.
Tong Guan was in trouble in Taiyuan. Wanyan Zonghan's army had already broken through Shouyang and completely encircled Taiyuan Prefecture.
The soldiers and horses of the Pingding Army managed to recapture Shouyang, but the Jin Army set up an ambush, resulting in heavy casualties. Even the town of Pingding Army was in danger, and they were unable to reinforce Taiyuan.
So Tong Taifu thought of Gaokan and ordered him to immediately send troops to reinforce the Pingding Army, and together with the Pingding Army's troops and horses, they rushed to reinforce Taiyuan Prefecture.
