Take the arsenal to Da Ming

Chapter 61 The Battle of Huanggang ([-])

Tangning only occasionally visited the outside of the city to give pointers on some projects, and then stayed in the inner city most of the time, not knowing what to do.

Three days passed quietly.

On this day, a group of people entered Shi Fu's Chinese army camp unimpeded all the way.

"How is it?" Shi Fu asked without waiting for anyone to speak.

The man said with a serious face: "Our craftsmen have seen it, and the craftsmanship is too exquisite. With our conditions, it is impossible to imitate."

"Master Zong Bing specially invited foreign barbarians to take a look. Those foreign barbarians couldn't figure it out, but wanted to ask us about the origin of these firearms."

"However, they looked at the writing on the musket, which looked a bit like their foreign language. However, they didn't know it, and they definitely didn't have such advanced firearms there."

Shi Fu seemed to have expected it, so he asked directly: "What does your lord mean?"

"Taking down Huanggang, grab that Tangning and come over and ask. For this reason, the commander-in-chief also ordered Mr. Zheng Cai to lead an army of [-] to attack from the right flank of Huanggang. The army will arrive soon."

Shi Fu's eyes narrowed slightly, as if he wasn't surprised at all, "Tangning, Tangning, I heard that you are a master of planning. I don't know if you have figured it out. We will take your Huanggang City."

Zheng Zhilong had to use more than [-] troops to attack the small and unexpanded Huanggang City, which shows that Huanggang City is bound to be won.

Of course, what he wanted was not the little Huanggang City, but all the secrets about Tangning.

At [-] o'clock the next day, before dawn, Shi Fu led nearly [-] troops and quickly moved towards Huanggang City with an order to break out of the camp.

He knew that speed is important in soldiers, so he left a small group of troops to protect the slow-moving six red cannons, and led the remaining light cavalry and infantry to rush towards Huanggang at the fastest speed.

The other 2000 people did not come to join, but had been ordered by him to move to the west side of Huanggang City before.

As for the east side of Huanggang City, the [-] army led by Zheng Cai is rapidly approaching.

That is to say, there are 2000 people in the west of Huanggang City, 3000 people led by Shi Fu in the north, and 6000 people led by Zheng Cai in the east. Only the south facing the sea is temporarily free of troops.

The movement of Huanggang City was continuously reported to the chief generals of Zheng Jun's army at the fastest speed by the spies.

Judging from the feedback information, Huanggang City at this time seems to be a quiet virgin, not much different from before.

With the current marching speed, they can reach the outskirts of Huanggang City before dawn, and the new army will be caught off guard by then.

However, Shi Fu did not let down his vigilance. Even though Tangning was just a yellow-mouthed child, he had already experienced many battles and was still very cautious.

Therefore, Shi Fu is always paying attention to the news from all parties, for fear of missing anything, the closer he is to Huanggang, the more spies he will release.

At this time, in all directions around the outer city of Huanggang, Zheng Jun's spies were secretly watching.

The outer city hadn't been built yet, and it couldn't even be called an outer city at all. After all, the foundation wasn't even laid, but there were a lot of building materials.

It should be to prevent theft. There are new army soldiers patrolling the outer city every night, but there are not many of them, so there are still many loopholes, especially for spies who are elusive.

Therefore, in order to further understand the situation, some spies have already entered the outer city and observed the distance between the outer city and the inner city at close range.

Didn't see anything out of the ordinary, but they were patient.

After an unknown amount of time, three lanterns suddenly rose from a high pole in the outer city, and the keen spy suddenly felt that something was about to happen.

Sure enough, after a while, the closed city gate suddenly opened a crack, and a figure rushed out from inside quickly, without saying a word.

"No, it's the new army, they are prepared." A spy was shocked.

"Quickly withdraw..."

The few people who had entered the outer city quickly withdrew. Two people were immediately sent back to report the situation, and the rest stayed behind to continue monitoring.

I saw those new army soldiers who left the inner city quickly left the outer city, rushed to the trenches, and then jumped down one by one, disappearing without a trace.

Obviously they all hid in the trenches, hiding their tracks.

"There are about 100 people, and there should be new troops in other directions..." a spy whispered.

"Yes. It turns out that the function of these trenches is not to build the city, but to defend and hide. They are the positions they arranged."

"However, these trenches were dug shortly after my lord left Huanggang last time. Doesn't that mean that Tangning already expected the general to attack Huanggang? Is this a trap?"

"It's not up to us to decide on this matter. Report the news back as quickly as possible. The general will naturally see the clues. I hope there is still time..."

"It's definitely in time. Now the army is still at least four miles away from the outskirts of Huanggang City. When the general receives the news from us, he will be at least two miles away from Huanggang."

"So, even if there is a trap, the general will have enough time to react."

With the conversation, the worries in the hearts of the two of them also eased a lot. Fortunately, these situations were discovered in time.

If this is really a trap, because their timely news was discovered by the general, it should be a great achievement.

Lord Zong Bing has always been very clear about rewards and punishments, he is never stingy with those who get rewards, and they are very generous.

It was also because of this that these people were very brave in battle, and they defeated those red-haired ghosts time and time again under the heavy rewards.

Time passed little by little, and the sky was getting brighter. The two spies who came back to report the news were running wildly in the forest. They had already heard the movement of the army, and they were not far from here.

At this moment, the two of them stopped abruptly, and then looked up at the sky in astonishment. It was as if a small sun had risen in the sky, illuminating the sky.

"Are these fireworks?" one of the spies asked suspiciously.

"The fireworks don't seem to be so bright, right? There's only one shot? There's no more firework. What's going on?"

The two of them were a little unclear, so they just looked at the place where the light rose just now. There was still some distance from here, and they didn't know whether they should go and check it out.

"The general should have seen it too. It's important to go back and report first." The two quickly reached an agreement and continued to rush towards the direction of the army.

At the same time, the spies who were still observing outside Huanggang City had a much wider field of vision due to the dawning of the sky.

One of them patted his companions, pointed to a few places between the inner city and the outer city, and said, "Look there, it seems that there are new army soldiers moving quickly."

The other person immediately moved his gaze over, looked at it for a while and said, "Isn't that the place they surrounded with sandbags? It's still covered with nets, what is hidden inside?"

"I always have a bad feeling that we might have done it wrong in the first place. Those few enclosed places are not for building anything, but hiding something important."

"Important stuff?" The other person frowned and said worriedly, "If Tangning had guarded against our army's attack early in the morning, she would have known that our spies would be watching."

"I understand, he is not afraid of us seeing those ditches. But he does not want us to see the hidden things in those enclosed places."

"So the soldiers patrolling at night focused on that area, so we had no chance to get close."

"Before we instinctively thought that it was an important building material, but now it seems that it is not at all..."

It seemed that the truth of the matter had been clarified, and the two of them took a deep breath. Now it was too late to go back and report.

But I still kept comforting myself in my heart. There are only a few hundred people in the new army to form a combat force. Even if they are prepared, can they still turn the world upside down?
(End of this chapter)