On the banks of the Si River, in Luliang City, Li Li climbed the city to look into the distance, looking at the white snow on the field, frowned.

The official army has recovered Xia Pi in Wuzhou, but Qingzhou on the right wing (east) and Jizhou (all established by overseas Chinese) are still fighting, while Tongzhou on the left wing (southwest) are also siegeing the city.

If the Wuzhou official army continues to advance along the Sishui River, it will throw its left and right wings away, forming a "single and deep" situation, and it will be easy for the enemy to surround the rear.

Therefore, after taking down Luliang, northwest of Xia Pi, he could only station troops here and consolidate the left and right defense lines.

After such delays, the Qi army in Xuzhou was also ready.

Li Li withdrew his gaze and looked at Luliang City.

Luliang is located on the banks of Sishui River between Xia Pi and Pengcheng, located in the south of Lu County, about a hundred miles away from Pengcheng. Because the Sishui River section is limited by the mountains on both sides of the river, there are stone beams at the river channel, forming a torrent, so it is named "Luliang".

The mountain next to it is called Luliang Mountain, and this rapid river section is called Luliang Hong.

Confucius' famous sigh: "The dead are like this, and they will never leave day and night." It is said that when he was traveling near Lulianghong, he was inspired by the rushing river.

Luliang is the only place to go to Pengcheng when Xia Pi, so there is a fortress. Now the Liang army has taken it down, and the road to Pengcheng is open.

However, Xuzhou Pengcheng is a strategic location and has always been a place that military strategists must fight for.

In the Southern Dynasty, Pengcheng could be found outside, Henan and Qingqi lands, and peace in Huai and Si were maintained.

With Pengcheng in the Northern Dynasties, you can take a bird's eye view of Huai and Si and wait for an opportunity to guide Huainan.

Therefore, if the Liang army attacked Pengcheng in the northern expedition, even if it captured and sent heavy troops to guard it, Qi would definitely do its best to seize it, which was equivalent to a strategic decisive battle.

The Liang Kingdom cannot stand up for such a strategic decisive battle, and the Liang army cannot stand up for a battle in Pengcheng, and it is even more impossible for them to do their best to protect this place of battle after capturing Pengcheng.

So under normal thinking, after the Liang army recovered the Huaibei prefectures and counties such as Wuzhou and restored the Huaibei territory in the first year of Taiqing, it should be switched to defense.

However, as soon as the tiger in Qi ate Wuzhou and other places, Liang State came to "snatch food from the tiger's mouth" and snatched Wuzhou and other places back. This was intolerable to tigers.

Whether the Liang army's Northern Expedition was just to recover lost territory or to attack Pengcheng by the way, this was the same for Qi. It can be imagined that the scale of Qi's subsequent troops going south would not be small.

Then, whether the Liang army attacks Pengcheng next or not, they will face the fact that the Qi army is approaching.

The other party will definitely fight a battle with the Liang army next, at least it will cut off Liang's thoughts on Pengcheng.

Therefore, no matter whether Li Li thought about it or not, there will definitely be a large number of "elite monsters", "rare monsters", and even "rare elite monsters" in the "Huaibei" map.

It is impossible to withstand this army that went north along Si Shui to recover lost territory.

According to the strategic plan, the recovery of the Liang army in Huaibei requires the support of the partial army, which is in Mianbei thousands of miles west.

The Liang army in Mianbei would attack eastward and attack the important Yingchuan.

A few years ago, the East and West Wei fought fiercely around the control of Yingchuan. At that time, the Eastern Wei used more than 100,000 troops and horses to siege the city for more than a year and recovered it.

Therefore, this time the Liang army attacked Yingchuan will inevitably attract the Qi army.

This can share the pressure of the Liang army in the east. For Qi, Pengcheng in the east and Yingchuan in the west are both very important, and the reinforcements commander must be a senior official.

Even a famous general-level figure, if described in game terms, is a "rare elite monster".

Thinking of this, Li Li suddenly looked forward to it: So, if we first browse the map of the "Rare Elite Monster", will it be Yingchuan or Luliang?

He stayed at the top of the city for a while, walked down, and came to the military camp outside the city.

There were many soldiers gathered in the hollowed-out area of ​​the camp, and many war horses were tied aside.

Everyone was holding a big bowl, and Li Li personally poured wine for these soldiers and filled himself with a bowl.

When everyone had wine in their bowls, Li Li raised the bowl, looked at these familiar faces, and whispered: "Li is not talented, I need the help of all the heroes."

"You are so lucky to go here. If there is any accident, your relatives in your family will be my Li's relatives!"

"I wish you all a safe return!"

After saying that, he drank the wine with everyone, and then smashed the bowl on the ground.

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In the morning, it was cloudy and although it was not snowing, the wind was cold. In a leeward position on the top of the mountain, Lu Ji and several friends squeezed into the pit to keep warm to each other.

"Today is New Year's Eve, and Poyang must be very lively."

One person said softly, his face full of longing smiles, and Lu Ji nodded: "Yes, it must be very lively. Everyone at home changed into new clothes, a chicken was boiled in the jar, and a big fish was fried in the clay..."

"No, no, no, no, no, no, no, you have to fry it in an iron pot, fry the fish head, and then make the soup." Another person interrupted, as if he was in the kitchen and was cooking.

"The fried fish head is boiled and the soup is boiled, and it will be whiter and delicious. Haha, this is the trick to cook fish head soup. I heard from my brother-in-law... My brother-in-law is the master of Dongshan Restaurant."

"Dongshan Restaurant? I think the dishes there are not to suit your appetite and are too oily. It's good to come to the restaurant often."

"It's too oily? That's because you eat too much oil. Which ordinary guests don't like more oil? So Dongshan restaurants are always full."

As they were talking, everyone's stomachs suddenly roared.

Looking at the sky, it is almost dusk and it is time to eat at night, but they cannot make fire on this lonely mountain, otherwise the rising smoke will make people in several miles of radius realize something is wrong on the mountain.

If it is on weekdays, it is nothing. The key is that if you are in the enemy's situation, if you are not careful, you will not be able to protect your life and will ruin Li Sanlang's major affairs.

Li Sanlang is Li Sanlang of Poyang, whose surname is Li, and his name is Li. Outsiders call him the title of Xinping Hou, but people in Poyang call him "Li Sanlang".

Li Sanlang is a big figure in Poyang. He is very capable and valued by the emperor. He returns to his hometown to be a parent and benefit the countryside, so many people respect Li Sanlang.

Having the opportunity to give Li Sanlang a life is an opportunity that many people can't get.

Now, they are working hard for Li Sanlang, and they are well treated and have a lot of support from all over the world.

This time they were dispatched, they received three times the military pay, which was equivalent to giving their lives to Li Sanlang. However, their lives were small, and Li Sanlang's major affairs could not be delayed.

Therefore, you must be cautious in your actions. You must wait until night and the sky is dark before you can make a fire, cook water, and roast food.

The smoke rising at this time will not be obvious, and as for the slightest light of fire, you cannot see the foot of the mountain.

"We are lucky today for the New Year and bought some New Year's goods."

Lu Ji said while taking out the "New Year's goods", but several birds that were shot dead were already frozen.

"When it's dark, I'll see if I'm showing off my skills. I'll keep everyone from eating it until they're going to chew the bones."

The other few were full of expectations because they had seen Luji's craftsmanship before: "How did you practice this craft?"

"Isn't this last year... the two years ago, the rebel King Yueyang occupied the city and sent troops to attack Nanchang. Li Sanlang sent us as scouts to investigate the enemy situation."

"If you want to eat better, you can practice your skills."

"I had also been a scout at that time and had a sleeping place in the open. Why didn't I practice this craft?"

"People are different, this is called talent, hehe." Lu Ji smiled and smiled happily: "This time I went to the battle, my inner self is already big-bellied, and it seems that it's time to give birth."

"If the one born is a handheld, I have to invite you all to have a good meal."

As he was talking, the companion outside who used a thousand-mile mirror to observe the enemy situation around him shouted in a low voice.

Everyone climbed out of the pit, came to the 'observation post' and asked, "Why, the big fish is here?"

"Here, here!" The man still looked at the Qianli Mirror that was set up, and pointed with one hand at the direction the Qianli Mirror looked at - the north.

"Here, the dust is flying, the vastness of the world, and it is quite big."

Lu Ji wanted to see it, but there was only one Qianli Milestone, but there were many people. It was easy to break the Qianli Milestone when squeezed around.

Because the "multiple" they used was very high, they were quite big, so they had to be put on a tripod to watch smoothly. Lu Ji raised his eyes to see how "dust is flying and vast in the wilderness more than ten miles away."

But at this distance, only this "high-magnitude" Qianli Mile Mile Mile without the interference of rain, snow, and fog can you see clearly the situation "opposite".

They were scouts who worked for Li Sanlang, acting in a team, equipped with different kilometer mirrors. After years of training, the commonly used reconnaissance method is to use a high-power telescope to observe the enemy situation around them on the top of a hill.

This high-power telescope is inconvenient to carry, but it is really powerful. It can clearly see the movement of a person's arm ten miles away. If it is a large army, it can be seen from more than ten miles away.

Then, the teams cooperated to establish their respective "observation posts" through the telescope, look at the symbols drawn on the white cloth hanging from each post, and then hang the same white cloth himself to convey simple messages backwards.

The meanings of each symbol have been determined, so as long as the observation posts are well arranged and scaled, Li Sanlang's scouts can set up a "surveillance network" to roughly understand the movements of soldiers and horses of all sizes in the "net".

This is true when I was in Nanchang, and it is also true when I am here in Pengcheng.

Xuzhou's terrain is flat overall, but there are still mountains in some areas.

Like Luliang, like Hanshan.

There are also some small mountains around Pengcheng, with few people on the top of the mountain, but there may be people picking and hunting at the foot of the mountain or on the side of the mountain, so it is quite dangerous to lurk.

Scouts risked their lives to lurk on the hills, or in the more hidden plains, woods, hills, and sleep in the open air. Using high-powered kilometer mirrors to build a surveillance network.

Monitor the movements around Pengcheng, and then pass the scenes you see through one by one to the next.

Lu Ji and his companions carefully observed for a while, and based on experience, they estimated that the army coming from the north and heading to Pengcheng had about 30,000 to 40,000 troops.

"About 40,000 people, hang up the cloth quickly and don't write the wrong symbol."

Lu Ji carefully reminded that his "post" was about thirty miles east of Pengcheng, and several miles south of the mountain. There was another observation post, paying attention to the movement here every day.

As long as they hang out white cloth, the other party can see it, and then hang out white cloth with the same symbol to pass the message to another observation whistle.

In this way, without the need for close reconnaissance, they took a rough look at the enemy situation and passed it backwards.

However, this method is easily affected by the weather. Once it rains, snows, fogs, and the view is blocked, it will not work.

As the sun sets, Lu Ji looked at the earth dyed yellow by the afterglow of the sunset and prayed silently: Xu Zhenjun, you must bless Li Sanlang to defeat the enemy this time!
Chapter completed!