Chapter 1181: Wrong Intelligence

For a whole day, Shi A looked at almost all the places in the city that needed to be carefully observed. Seeing that it was about to get dark, Shi A prepared to return to the inn to rest. Who knew that when he was about to return to the inn, the rumbling sound of horse hooves suddenly came from the city gate, and then he heard the shouts of the city gate soldiers: "Quick, everyone make way! Captain Hao is back!"

As soon as the words came out, the pedestrians on the street were frightened and immediately leaned to both sides of the street. There was a commotion on the street. Seeing this, Shi A also followed the pedestrians to the door of a shop next to the street.

Soon, a thousand cavalrymen roared from the city gate, stirring up dust all over the sky. Even so, the pedestrians on both sides of the street covered their noses with their hands, but no one dared to show resentment on their faces. This shows how much power Hao Meng had accumulated in Shangdang County. Seeing that a thousand cavalrymen were about to rush through the street, Shi A secretly beckoned to the cavalrymen. Suddenly, a cold light flashed through his eyes, but he quickly concealed it.

The reason why Shi A had such a reaction was because the news that Shadow sent back to Luoyang said that Zhang Yang and Hao Zhao's personal guards were ordinary sword and shield cavalry. Although they also carried bows and arrows on horseback, they were not good at riding and shooting. But when Shi A took a look just now, he found that the bows and arrows on the horseback of the thousand cavalry were not ordinary cavalry bows used by the Central Plains cavalry, but horn bows that were more suitable for cavalry on horseback. Moreover, Shi A could conclude that the sophistication of these horn bows was far better than ordinary cavalry bows. The reason why he was so sure was that Hu Yandu's cavalry used the most sophisticated horn bows, which were even better than the horn bows used by various tribes on the grassland.

The thousand cavalry in front of the eye glue used horn bows. It can be seen that Hao Zhao was not just an ordinary cavalry general as Shadow sent back, but a general of archer cavalry. Don't underestimate the difference of this word. It may cause huge losses of troops on the battlefield, and may even reverse the entire battle situation.

"Damn you!" Shi A cursed in his heart: "You even got this wrong!"

Originally, he was thinking about going to the base of the Shadow Guard today to meet with the person in charge of the Shangdang, but seeing this situation, Shi A changed his mind again. He decided to observe the situation of the soldiers in the city in person before deciding on the next step. After this incident, Shi A also found that there were still some shortcomings in the Shadow Guard.

Watching the sky slowly getting dark, Shi A once again went to the southeast of the city. This area is the most prosperous area in Changzi City. There are many wine shops, and it is also the place where the city's fireworks are, but it is also the place where dignitaries and dignitaries appear.

Finding a luxuriously decorated restaurant, Shi A walked in without looking back. Under the guidance of the waiter, he came to a secluded place on the second floor and sat down. He ordered a few dishes and asked the waiter to serve a pot of good wine. Shi A sat there while eating and concentrating on listening to the people around him.

However, what disappointed Shi A was that after dinner, he didn't hear much useful information. Seeing that there were fewer and fewer people in the restaurant, Shi A also finished his dinner, and then got up and left the restaurant.

After returning to the inn, Shi A blew out the lights after washing up and went to bed to rest.

At the second watch, the window of Shi A's room quietly opened, and he appeared in the window in a black suit. He turned over, gently closed the window, and then jumped onto the roof of the inn. Standing on the roof, Shi A confirmed the direction, found the location of the military camp in the south of the city, and went to the direction of the military camp without hesitation.

During the day, Shi A had carefully looked around the military camp in the south of the city and saw several places that were easy to observe. Since he had found that the information about Hao Meng's personal guard cavalry was wrong, Shi A decided to observe the situation of the soldiers and horses in Changzi City carefully to prevent any more mistakes.

After half an hour of running, Shi A arrived at the southwest corner of the military camp in the south of the city. A few dozen steps away from there, there was a house with a tree several feet high in the house.

During the day, Shi A observed and found that he could observe the movements in the military camp from the tree.

The military camp in the city is like this. Unlike the camp outside the city, the surrounding area of ​​hundreds of steps can be cleaned up. It is not possible in the city. It is impossible to let people clean up all the areas within a hundred steps around the military camp. This gave Shi A an opportunity to take advantage of.

After turning over and entering the yard, Shi A quickly came under the tree, climbed up the tree in a few steps, found a suitable position, hid his body, squinted his eyes and rested, quietly waiting for the dawn to observe the training of the soldiers in the camp.

Soon, it was five o'clock, and people began to move around in the barracks. It should be the cooks who started to prepare breakfast. At 5:30 a.m., the entire military camp seemed to come alive all of a sudden. After a horn sounded, teams of soldiers began to put on their armor and appeared on the parade ground in the middle of the camp.

Hearing the sound of the horn, Shi Awei opened his eyes slightly and looked towards the military camp through the dense leaves. He saw teams of soldiers starting to line up, and soon the square formations were arranged in the middle of the parade ground. Shi A counted them, all of which were square formations of a thousand men, but there were only nine in total. Five of them were obviously much more orderly and strict, and they should be the five thousand soldiers. The other four square formations looked much worse, and they should be the county soldiers. In addition, there was a group of guards at each of the four gates in the city, and a group of soldiers patrolling. In this way, it just matched the number of 10,000 infantrymen.

As for the two thousand cavalry guards, they must be arranged in the military camp at the north gate, which is close to the two governors' mansions and the commander's mansions, just enough to protect the safety of the two.

There is no problem with the strength of the troops, so the next step is to observe the combat effectiveness of the soldiers. However, they are not fighting now, so the only thing to see is their training. Fortunately, Shi A personally gathered intelligence. If it were ordinary shadow guards, it would be difficult to tell the combat effectiveness of the soldiers just by watching their training. After all, Shi A had fought with Huangfu Chaobo for many years and had seen countless soldiers. In addition, the guards had always been the most powerful soldiers. Shi A often saw their training, so his assessment of the combat effectiveness of the soldiers was relatively accurate.

After observing for half an hour, Shi A had a rough idea of ​​the combat effectiveness of these soldiers. These soldiers should be comparable to the ordinary soldiers of the Tang army, and slightly inferior to the elite soldiers; while those ordinary county soldiers were far behind the guards of the Tang army.

Seeing that the sky was about to brighten, Shi A did not delay. When he saw that there was no one in the yard, he quickly slid down from the tree, then turned over with a yazi and left the yard, and then rushed all the way back to his inn.