On the north bank of the Ji River, the Chu army was marching, and got the outside scouts to warn him. Knowing that a large number of enemy cavalry appeared, they connected the accompanying vehicles into a formation and leaned against each other.

When the Qi army cavalry rushed in, the Chu soldiers gathered in the chariot formations and prepared for combat.

Some light cavalry approached the chariot array, but was forced back by the arrows shot out. However, these light cavalry didn't go far and circled around the periphery of the chariot array.

There were more and more Qi cavalry. After a while, the commander of the Qi army, the King of Xianyang Wang Huluguang, also arrived, rode his horse and stayed on a mound, and looked at the heavily guarded Chu army chariot formation in front of him with a thousand-mile mirror.

This Chu army was dominated by infantry, with only a thousand cavalry, and its strength seemed to be about five or six thousand.

The car arrays are intact and leaning against each other, and there are no flaws for the time being. If you attack with force...

He looked around and saw that his cavalry was increasing, obviously more than this surrounded Chu army.

Although it was not the main force of the Chu cavalry, eating these thousands of people could shake Henan and make the enemy troops who were following like shadows become more anxious.

Hu Luguang quickly made a decision to let the troops of each unit take action separately.

Some of them wandered around the Chu army's chariot formation, forcing the other party to form a formation and unable to march.

Others, scattered to the periphery, have to search within dozens of miles.

He judged that this convoy with thousands of infantry was a bait, and once he stayed here for too long, the enemy cavalry would surround him.

Because the scout had previously detected the marching route of this army, it can be said that it was going straight: from the west to Jiyin, along the Jishui River, all the way west.

There were a large number of horse-drawn carriages accompanying him, which seemed to be transporting grain and grass. It was a large-scale grain transport team.

However, the scouts judged based on the depth of the ruts and the fact that there were no obvious sprinkling of rice grains, husks, and grass leaves along the way, and believed that this was the bait:

The car may not be carrying a large amount of food and grass. The reason why the convoy looks huge is simply to attract them to attack.

Huluguang received the report from the scouts, and after thinking about it, he also came to the same judgment: this was a bait deliberately released by the enemy, which led them to the bait.

After his troops entered Henan, they basically couldn't plunder much food, so when they learned that there was a "Chu Army Grain Transport Team" approaching, they would inevitably be unable to resist attacking.

In this way, he fell into the opponent's plan. The team walked west along the Ji River, and there must be cavalry following him around.

Once the Qi army attacked the convoy in order to seize grain, it would be easily attacked by the Chu cavalry that followed, or "bitten" it, and could never be shaken away.

It took a lot of effort to calculate each other.

Huluguang made arrangements before, deliberately letting the Chu army discover the traces of his troops. He originally wanted to attract the other party to pursue them and then fall into the ambush circle he set up.

As a result, the other party was very cautious and refused to pursue him relentlessly. Now he sent a bait to attract him to the trap with great fanfare.

Huluguang looked at the Chu army's chariot formation in the distance, and shook his head with a smile.

He had many cavalry under his command, basically one man and two horses, so even if the Chu army designed this way, he was confident and solved it together with the bait and the people.

Now that the convoy is surrounded, it will be dead.

You want to leave? No way!

He only needed to send a small number of cavalry around the periphery to keep an eye on this team, five or six thousand people, which was equivalent to a dying person and could do nothing.

If other Chu troops come, they will only have one fate when facing a large number of cavalry on their side.

Huluguang thought about it and soon thought of Li Yang.

The Lanling King Gao Changgong led his army to station in Liyang Mountain and supported each other with the Liyang defenders, trying to hold the invading Chu army and guard the gateway south of Yecheng.

After all, Liyang is only a hundred miles away from Yecheng.

Huluguang led his army into Henan to find the flaws of the Henan Chu army, annihilated several troops, causing chaos in Henan and forcing the Chu army invaded north to retreat south.

Now, he didn't know how the battle was in Liyang. Now he has been in Henan and has been dealing with a large number of Chu troops for more than ten days, so he should have a record.

Otherwise, it would be a bad idea to hold on like this.

The king of Chu was the famous Li Li. Huluguang did not think that the other party suddenly rushed to invade the north after five years of silence. It was a temporary decision.

This person personally led his army to the war, but it would not be so easy to let it go. Li Yang may not be able to last too long.

After all, the other party has mysterious and powerful weapons, and it attacked Yecheng more than ten years ago. Now, it will not be blocked by Li Yang for too long.

Thinking of Yecheng, Huluguang thought of his son-in-law, Emperor Gao Wei.

Gao Wei was looking for fun every day, ignoring government affairs, and controlling the government affairs for the peace of the scholars and other slanderaries.

If Li Yang falls and the Chu army approaches Yecheng, these slander ministers may instigate the emperor to go to Jinyang and ask others to guard Yecheng.

If this is the case, it will be troublesome: the enemy is facing, but the emperor left the capital and ran away. This move will inevitably lead to panic in the army and people in Yecheng.

However, among the ministers appointed by Gao Wei, the Minister of Shangshu Pushe Tang Yong had real talents and practical skills, and was both literary and military. Therefore, before Hu Luguang went to war, he persuaded the emperor to use Tang Yong to preside over the defense of Yecheng.

So, Li Yang can hold on for a while, right?

Huluguang was thinking about the situation of the battle, and unknowingly became immersed. For some reason, he felt a little uneasy.

He felt more and more that he should go back instead of consuming it in Henan.

I don’t know how long it took, but the follower whispered: “King, there is movement in the enemy’s formation!”

When Hu Luguang heard this, he looked at it with a thousand-mile mirror, but saw that a shelf had been set up in the Chu army's chariot formation.

The shelf is still under construction, and it is currently about two meters tall, as if it is a well railing (a high-rise building that can accommodate a large number of archers shooting from a high place)

Huluguang looked at it for a while and felt something was wrong: the Chu army seemed to be ready and put on the airs quickly.

If it is to let the archer shoot arrows from a high position, this is a bit redundant, and it is more likely to be a lookout building.

He had the Qianli Milestone seized from the Chu army, so the other party naturally would not lack this thing.

The terrain here is flat, and the Chu soldiers are standing tall on the platform. They can use a thousand-mile mirror to see the movements and stills of several miles or even more than ten miles in a radius.

So...

Huluguang thought of the military information he had come to see carefully: the distance between fortresses in Henan is several miles away, and they can use the thousand-mile mirrors on the tower to convey messages with the patterns.

Therefore, the elevated mounts raised in the Chu army's vehicle array in front of us are probably not used to convey messages to the surroundings.

They wait here for the rabbit to wait for the rabbit, and every move they make will be passed on by the Chu army in front of them to the surroundings with a high platform, such as writing big characters on cloth and then hanging them up.

The outside Chu army scouts used a thousand-mile mirror to see the cloth hanging on the building, and they could clarify the situation around here.

If this is the case, the Chu army that arrived could deal with it calmly, and they were easily surrounded by each other.

"Retreat, send orders, retreat." Huluguang quickly made a decision to cancel the "hunting".

He led his troops into Henan and took great risks to deal with the Chu army. Seeing that there were more and more "hounds" and getting closer, he could not be arrogant.

If it really doesn't work, it's better to retreat.

......

In the early morning, the Chu soldiers who had blown the wind all night in the Ji River were waiting for reinforcements.

Li Xin, who was rushing to the road overnight, arrived here with her tired subordinates, and still lost her life, feeling quite helpless: the enemy was cunning and did not take the bait.

Along the way, there were scouts cruising around the periphery to prevent the Qi army from ambushing, so these scouts had already contacted friendly troops on the Ji River.

Li Xin knew more than an hour ago that the friendly troops on the Ji River were safe and sound, and the enemy had already left yesterday.

He got off the horse and started talking to the friendly commander and the marching commander Fan Yi.

Fan Yi, who was full of depression, sighed: "It is indeed the main force, but they are very cunning. They saw through our army's intentions and did not stay for too long, so they retreated to the west."

"It's not really going west, they circled around and then walked north." Li Xin said, this was the news from the "Fortress Wanglou Communication Network".

It seems that the opponent does not plan to stay in Henan anymore.

"They are leaving? Could it be that they heard some wind?" Fan Yi was a little curious. He received the news that the Northern Expedition Army had captured Li Yang on New Year's Eve, but most of the soldiers in the army did not know the good news.

Li Xin was not sure and expressed her opinion: "Maybe, maybe I think something is wrong and I don't want to stay in Henan."

The big fish that I finally attracted was about to bite the hook, but suddenly ran away. It was already here and complaining was useless.

He looked at the car formation in front of him, feeling a little regretful: It would be great if the enemy attacked force yesterday.

Li Xin knew that the enemy's main force was leading him to follow him and then introduced him into the encirclement, so he set up a trap with his friendly troops, which in turn lured the other party to take the bait.

The marching commander Fan Yi led the infantry to "escort" a large number of "grain trucks" and walked west along the Ji River, pretending to be a grain transport team.

The chariot was loaded with a large number of arrows, weapons, and a small part of food and grass, so it was just a bait, which made the enemy think it was a grain transport team, so they came to attack.

Li Xin, based on Fan Yi's itinerary, led his troops to follow him quietly on the periphery. Once he found the enemy surrounded Fan Yi's troops, the other party would take the bait.

In Fan Yi's army, there are equipment to set up high platforms. As long as you build a tall watchtower, you can see the surrounding situation clearly.

Then, the enemy situation was "hanged" and friendly scouts from miles away could learn about the approximate situation of the enemy besieging Fan Yi's army with a thousand-mile mirror.

Therefore, if an internal and external attack is not possible, it will cause it to suffer major casualties.

However, the enemy was cunning and cautious, and came, but left.

There is no way, the Qi army has many troops, all of which are cavalry, at least one man and one horse, with fast movement speed and strong combat ability. If you want to fight, you can fight and leave as long as you want to go, it is an extremely difficult enemy to deal with.

In the Great Plains, they tried their best to fight wits and courage with the other party. It was a good result without "being killed by the tiger but being harmed".

Li Xin and his subordinates rested in the car formation for about an hour, and a scout came to bring the latest enemy situation:

According to reports from many fortresses in the north, a large number of Qi cavalry headed north.

The enemy has passed Huangxu, and it seems that he is going to cross Hebei and return.

Huangxu is about a hundred miles northeast of Kaifeng, very close to the Yellow River. It seems that the Qi army does not plan to stay in Henan and return to Hebei.

It is the 14th day of the first lunar month, and the wind and snow are blowing heavily, and the weather is still cold, so the surface of the Yellow River is still frozen. The Qi army can easily cross the river north without boats in any section of the river.

"Let them run away." Fan Yi was a little depressed. Countless soldiers were busy for more than ten days, but they still couldn't keep the powerful main force of Qi cavalry in Henan.

But Li Xin was not worried: "I want to leave? I have no way!"
Chapter completed!