Lieutenant General Nan Dingzhou demonstrated the level of a mid-level military officer.
Although emergency documents from Zhaoyang City came like snowflakes, he still slowed down his advance ten miles north of the city and sent a large group of scouts to investigate.
This made Lin Hai very unhappy.
After all, the guests are already seated and it’s time to serve the food. What does it mean if you refuse to put the main dish into the pot?
But unfortunately, neither the scouts sent by Xinyuetu nor the killers from the Intelligence Department were able to keep all the scouts in Nandingzhou.
Lin Hai was helpless about this. After all, even if he killed all the enemy scouts, the fact that so many scouts failed to return was enough to explain the matter.
The scout captain who had lost an arm reported what he had seen and heard to the lieutenant general. In short, the siege of Zhaoyang City was real, and the troops besieging the city were definitely regular troops. Judging from the flags they wore, they were Cambodian troops. There were not many of them, only a few hundred people. After all, the scout captain was not Superman, and there was no way he could break through the entire blockade line by himself to find Xin Yuetu's main force.
But this information is enough.
“Warn all the surrounding cities and the general that these are definitely not a small group of Khmer stragglers who sneaked in through a small path. I suspect that the defense line of Chongzuo has been lost. Although I don’t know why the other party wants to come to Zhaoyang City, which has no military value, we must not watch the Khmer people break through our city.” By now, the lieutenant general believed that the co-governor was willing to give him half of his wealth. After all, if the city fell, as a local official, he would have only two outcomes: either die with the city or run away, and then be caught and chopped to death by the Jinyiwei.
Although the military law of the Great Chen Dynasty was not the harshest among the four countries, its tolerance for local officials losing cities and territories was still zero.
Of course, the Tongzhi could still surrender and survive for a while, but now that I'm here, I can't allow him to do that.
"The entire army will rest for an hour, then advance slowly, with the cavalry in front and the infantry behind, to reinforce Zhaoyang City." The lieutenant general made up his mind and turned to the scout captain. "Everyone in the scout team will be rewarded handsomely. The injured will receive double the reward, and the dead will receive triple the reward. Now I need you to make another run. You will lead the team yourself and deploy all the scouts to provide as much cover as possible for the battlefield. If the notification from Zhaoyang isn't a spy, the enemy will at least not know how many of us are coming, and we can catch them off guard."
The scout captain knelt on one knee, tossed his knife aside, and wiped his face with his hand. The mud mixed with blood, cement, and sweat had left several finger marks on his face. "Your Excellency thinks highly of our scout team. It's a honor for us. Don't worry, even if the whole team fights to the death, we will keep the enemy spies out."
"Withdraw our people." As the casualties of the Zhaoyang Station action team increased dramatically in a short period of time, Lin Hai finally gave up getting involved in this war.
"Our main force isn't here, and the Chen and Khmer troops participating in the battle aren't the same useless bunch Xiao Cheng had originally brought in. Therefore, today's battle is not one we can interfere in." Lin Hai stood on the hillside, watching through binoculars as scouts from both sides engaged in a fierce battle within a two or three li radius of Zhaoyang City. Within this area, the surviving assassins from the intelligence station's operations team had all been evacuated. There was no other way. For the regular army's gluttons, the assassins only had one chance to attack, and regardless of whether that attack would succeed, they would be unable to withstand the subsequent counterattack launched by the regular scouts.
"Let those responsible for recording come, spread out, and write down everything they see from all angles. We need to carefully evaluate the combat effectiveness of the regular armies of various countries, and today is a good opportunity." Lin Hai said to Xue Wuxia as he saw through the telescope that a Khmer scout shot a Chen Dynasty scout off his horse with an arrow.
"It has been arranged. This is very important for our intelligence work and it is also a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity." Xue Wuxia replied while watching the Chen Dynasty scout who was thought to be dead by an arrow suddenly jump up and stab the other party with the dagger in his arms when the other party dismounted and approached him to behead him.
"We need to discuss this when we get back. Beheading and rewarding meritorious service is too risky. It will be turned around by someone else." Lin Hai looked thoughtful.
Through the telescope, the two men who had just been fighting desperately were no longer breathing. However, as the intelligence of the obstructed reconnaissance was transmitted back to the rear, and as both sides continued to increase their troops, the scout battle had gradually evolved into a confrontation between the front lines of both sides. Behind this front line, a large group of infantry led by Lieutenant General Nan Dingzhou had already put on their armor and were ready to kill through the Khmer army besieging the city under the cover of cavalry. Further south, Xin Yuetu had deployed his formation early, with the two wings stretched out particularly long. The Khmer soldiers, who were good at running in the mountains, kept stretching their formation, hoping to use their numerical advantage to put the Chen Dynasty's army into their own pocket.
"Send someone to tell Brother Xin that the news of their coming in has leaked out. We don't have enough manpower to stop all of the enemy's messengers. Tell him to be careful that the enemy may have reinforcements." Lin Hai said.
"My lord, you know that the Khmer have divided their troops to attack and plunder all the nearby cities. The Chen Dynasty's troops are tied up, and they can't wait for reinforcements for a while." Xue Wuxia was a little puzzled.
"Yes, I know, you know, and I believe Big Brother knows it too. But he doesn't know that I know, so I have to say this. After all, we are friends." Lin Hai said very seriously: "Friends should help each other."
"Are we friends with the Khmers?" Xue Wuxia asked in confusion, "You know where we are. There's no way we can be friends with the Khmers."
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