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The military horn in the Yehu City had already sounded, and Ling Yun was on the military parade outside the city. After a brief and powerful speech, five thousand men faced the morning breeze and marched westward with neat steps in dew.

Shan Xiongxin and Qin Shubao, the cavalry officers, were appointed as the left and right vanguards of the expedition by Ling Yun before they set off. At this time, each led 200 elite cavalry in the regiment to walk in front. Ling Yun, Wei Zheng, Wang Bodang, Gao Jia and more than a dozen generals, led more than a thousand soldiers to serve as the central army. Lai Liulang, Li Dangren, Huang Junhan and more than a dozen generals led more than a thousand men and horses to follow closely. Gao Yi, Zhai Rang, Cheng Lou and more than a thousand men led 1,500 men and horses to escort the baggage, and walked several miles behind.

Five thousand people were divided into four major parts and walked in sequence, each unit was separated by two miles. Each unit was still traveling a hundred steps away. On the left and right of this long marching line, light cavalry rushed past from time to time. They were the cavalry of the left and right guard teams, both responsible for the military discipline and the prevention and spy. On the farther periphery, Dou Jiande's scout regiment was active. They were exploring everywhere and acting as the eyes and ears of the army, ensuring that the troops would not suddenly fall into the enemy's ambush when they marched. The farthest reconnaissance cavalry had even gone thirty miles away to investigate the situation, while the baggage battalion was ten miles away from the vanguard.

The team is not moving fast. Although the light cavalry can march with all their might, and can run 300 miles a day and night, and infantry can force it to march for more than 100 miles a day. However, such speed is usually the case when the baggage is abandoned and the rapid march cannot last long. It plays an unexpected tactical role. Once the action is discovered, the result of failure is failure. Under normal circumstances, it is possible to travel 78 miles a day.

But Ling Yun's requirement for his troops was to march thirty miles a day.

When the army was moving, the people in the military band beat the drums, and the soldiers marched according to the rhythm of the drums. Although the cavalry was fast, they still kept moving at a speed of thirty miles a day. The baggage team walked slowly, but they could still walk forty miles a day. Therefore, they were not tired at a speed of thirty miles a day. In this way, although the entire army was moving a little slower, the front and rear units kept a safe distance and maintained sufficient physical strength at any time.

Once again, he refused the request sent by Shan Xiongxin to send a messenger to lead him to accelerate the forward. He hit the old sword and beat the old sword and a surprise request. Looking at the messenger's back helpless return, Ling Yun's heart was filled with peace. He can use the military to use the military to use the strange. If he has no chance, use the strange, and use the strange means taking risks. High returns also means high risks. For the old sword and his allies, Ling Yun had no intention of taking risks. Although he took the initiative to attack the old sword and his horse with more than 10,000 soldiers, and he attacked the crowd with a few, he did not feel that he was at a disadvantage and needed to use risks. He did not take those mobs seriously at all. To deal with them, he just needed to do it step by step, advance step by step, and then defeat them in a dignified battle.

If you have a little advantage, you will be rude. That is not his Yi Lingyun's personality.

For Ling Yun, this battle was only a warm-up at most. A pre-war warm-up battle against the Turks. There is no need to worry about the outcome of the war. What he needs now is to take advantage of this opportunity to learn to control the command of troops. How to arrange troops, how to march, camp, and how to issue orders. He also took charge of the troops not long after he had won the Battle of Shihe, but that was nothing.

Dou Jiande's scout camp has been completely spread out, and various military information has been sent back. Taoshan is now becoming more and more lively. Many people arrive every day, with more than a hundred and a few dozen or dozens of people. Things are becoming more and more interesting. Under the rumors of Lao Daozhazi and other people who are mainly thirty-six villages, their alliance action this time was not forced to form an alliance because of the sense of crisis caused by the increasing strength of the Tiger Alliance, but evolved into civil strife of the Tiger Alliance. Yi Shisan killed the elders in the Alliance, and then used a plan.

The brothers imprisoned the righteous brothers and stole the power in the alliance. After they came to power, they were cruel and unkind and attacked the nearby Green Forest colleagues. Lao Daozhezi was one of the nine elders of the Tiger League, and he couldn't stand it. Therefore, he came forward and invited various alliances to ask Huaihuang for guilt and presided over the Green Forest. Under this rumor, there was another rumor that Yi Shisan had recently extorted and robbed, and countless gold, silver and jewelry were piled up in Huaihuang City, and beautiful women and horses. This time, everyone went to Huaihuang to divide Yi Shisan's money and beauty.

Under this rumor, all the people in the village who were still waiting and watching came, fearing that they would miss the opportunity to fight the rich and eat the wealthy people if they came too late. Some of them were not people in the green forest at all, and some small tribe herders and hunters on the border also came one after another, attracting some brave merchants who were not afraid of death. They also ran to Taoshan and talked about business with Lao Daozhaozi and other village owners, patted their chests and expressed their willingness to cooperate, underwriting the spoils from Huaihuang Town, and transported them to the Central Plains for sale, and exchanged them for the money, grain and weapons needed by the masters of the villages.

In this situation, the Allies at the foot of Taoshan Mountain even thought that Huaihuang Town was ready to take advantage of it and that they were already the winners.

The foot of the mountain was like a summer party camp, with people everywhere. Each family occupied a position based on the first and then arrived, and there was no overall scale arrangement. The family members had no rules and regulations. They laughed and laughed, drank and gambling all day long, and even had a few copycats who even brought camp prostitutes and took the opportunity to start a business.

The entire foot of Taoshan is like a bustling market. No one thinks that the Tiger Alliance dares to attack. Everyone thinks that the Tiger Alliance must be extremely frightened now, and is busy repairing the city walls all day long, preparing for the war. Therefore, when the leaders of various parishes drink all day long to welcome the new leaders, they will hold meetings to discuss how to divide the troops into the main army and the surprise soldiers, and even begin to discuss how to divide the spoils after the war, how many shares each family can get, etc.

People from various families travel around, make friends, drink, prostitution, even gambling, hunting, fighting...

Zhang Jin said that he had joined the summer party camp with more than a dozen riders a few days ago. Regarding their arrival, only two people came to Taoshan to ask which brothers they were on the road, the size of the horses they had. Zhang Jin said that he borrowed the identity of the team of horse thieves who had intercepted the captives outside the camp for newspapers. The other party had no worries at all, so he turned around and left after registering. Before leaving, he looked at the piece of gold that Zhang Jin said had given him, which was several taels of gold, and he smiled happily. Therefore, he kindly pointed out a piece of open space to them as their temporary camp, and even gave him a detailed introduction to the number of horses and horses in the camp and other precious information such as the camp's station.

Later, Zhang Jin said that he set up a tent under the eyes of Lao Daozhan. He stationed. He made generous moves and often treated guests and drank, so he quickly became a good person in the camp. And his dozens of subordinates also took a lot of gold and silver every day, and each quickly made a large number of friends. Drinking, prostitution, gambling, and fighting together. In just a short time, Zhang Jin said that his party had already heard countless precious information. The number of people and horses of Lao Daozhan's alliance, the strength of each family, which leaders were talking about in the alliance, which one is responsible for commanding the troops, etc., they knew clearly. These news was sent to the outside of the camp quickly and handed to Dou Jiande outside the camp, and then quickly whipped it to Ling Yun.

Ling Yun had already led 5,000 troops to march towards Taoshan, but there was no such precious news on Taoshan. It was not that Zhang Cheng, the old sword, did not send out the trick, but that their trick had been completely captured by Dou Jiande's scout camp. Dou Jiande pretended to be a scout in Taoshan every day and sent fake news back to Taoshan. Zhang Cheng and others didn't know at all. He had never thought that his scouts died and surrendered, and had already surrendered the Tiger Alliance. He was in Cao's camp and was in Han, and he was doing things for Yi Lingyun every day.

In the message sent back by Shisaku Momoyama who had surrendered, the Tiger Alliance is now preparing for war, holding its troops in the new cities, and is stepping up repairs to the city walls, without any intention of leaving the city to fight.

Therefore, the Taoshan Mountain became more and more at ease and discussed how to send troops and how to divide the spoils.

In fact, as the commander of the Allied Army, Zhang Cheng hoped to send troops as soon as possible. However, it was not so easy to send troops. There were so many people, so they must be initially reorganized before sending troops. At the same time, the most troublesome thing was the supply of food and grass for this army. Of course, according to Zhang Cheng's plan, Lao Daozhe led a large army, with tens of thousands of people, making full use of momentum, attracting the attention of Huaihuang soldiers and attracting them over. Then, several prestigious camp leaders each led a soldier and horse, feinted attacks everywhere, and muddled the water. Finally, when the Tiger Alliance was in chaos, Zhang Cheng led an elite soldier composed of elite soldiers from each village, and saw the loophole and entered Huaihuang in one fell swoop...

However, the plan is very simple, but when it is implemented, it is very troublesome. There are all debates about which company is led by the leader Lao Daozi to take on the task of frontal attack, which village leader leads the troops to feint attacks, and which teams he leads. And which teams he will select, how many companies to take on different tasks, how to divide the spoils at that time, etc., all of them have to argue one by one. The leaders of these copycats are not showing any weakness when they fight, slap the table, and even fight directly in the hall. It is simply lively, which makes things very slow.

At this time, Lingyun's team passed by a small river about twenty steps wide. The river was not wide, and the deepest was only deep at the knees. The cavalry that had entered the previous one was flowing through the water. However, Lingyun waved his hand and summoned the command troops to send orders, asking him to suspend his advance, and set up five wooden bridges on the river. During the march, when the water was opened, the road was opened and the bridge was opened when the water was met. For Lingyun, the troops also needed to adapt to these. Now that he had the opportunity, he had to practice.

When the military order was passed, the departments immediately began to follow the Huaihuang Army's teachings issued by Ling Yun earlier, with well-trained and orderly movements. The cavalry team quickly dispersed to take on the alert tasks, and the archers also began to set up bow and arrow positions by the river. Then some infantry went to cut trees under the protection of the cavalry, some were responsible for making bridge boards, and some were responsible for driving piles in the river. Soon after, five brand new wooden bridges were laid on the river.

The troops retreated in sequence, and then reorganized and passed through the five bridges.

The troops had just crossed the river, and Ling Yun looked up at the sky. It was not long before afternoon, and the sun was still hanging in the air. Ling Yun had already said, "Send the order and camp in Heibagou ahead."

Gao Jia said: "It's still afternoon now, it's still early, and even if you set up camp in the evening, you can still march for a long time. If you walk a little longer today, we will be able to reach Taoshan before dark tomorrow."

Wei Zheng disagreed, "We can march for a while today, then walk for a long time first, then rest and reorganize the army. After it is dark, we will continue to march and raid them in the dark."

Ling Yun shook his head, "The terrain of Taoshan is dangerous, and there are crowds of people gathering at the foot of the mountain. The camps are spread for more than ten miles, so it is difficult for us to quietly touch Taoshan. If we cannot capture the thief and capture the king, we will only be able to alert the snake. What I mean is to march according to the original plan and marching steadily. At that time, we will fight them upright at the foot of Taoshan, defeat the old sword and capture the thief and capture the king."

Everyone agreed.

"Sent to Heibagou camp and build a camp!"

After the order was passed, the horse team in front had already arrived at Heibagou, and began to stop moving forward and then got off the horse and rested. Soon the infantry behind also arrived, and then the rear army and the baggage team also arrived. As soon as the baggage battalion arrived, they immediately began to surround the baggage chariots to the selected battalion site, and then some people began to delineate the various positions of the camp, set up camp areas, and demarcate fences, camp gates and other positions. After all, they began to set up camps, cut trees, and dig trenches. Some people began to set up tents in the marked positions, some soldiers went to dig pits, and some went to dig soil to build stoves. Everything was well organized and followed the instructions of the tutoring.

The cut wood was quickly transported back and began to make wooden fences, camp gates, horse-resisted horses, and antlers. Some people set up arrow towers and watchtowers in the camp. Some people took strings of caltrops from the chariot and laid them along the digging trenches. These four corner nails were arranged in a string, which was very convenient. When they were placed on the ground, there was always an iron nail to deal with cavalry attacking the camp. In addition, some infantry were holding small shovels in the camp outside the camp. These small pits were not big or small, and they just could sink into a piece of horse legs, which was also a wonderful way to deal with cavalry attacking the camp. Iron caltrops, wooden horse-resisted horses, horse-resisted horse-resisted horses, and deer feet. These are the ultimate skill in setting up anti-cavalry in the camp.

Ling Yun had the intention of training troops, so he knew that no one would attack the camp, but he still did not save any trouble. He had a lot of caltrops, horse resistance, horse pits, and deer feet. He also dug trenches, wooden fences, wooden walls, arrow towers and watchtowers. In addition, he even formed a second line of defense in the camp with supplies and horse resistance, and established an internal camp.

Ling Yun did not put all the five thousand troops in the camp. He set up a small battalion of Shan Xiongxin and Qin Qiong on the left and right side to serve as a warning.

By the time a solid camp and two small camps were completed, the sun was just west and it was just dusk.

At this time, smoke from the camp was pouring out, and the aroma of the food was floating in the air. Wei Zheng smiled and called Lingyun to have a meal.

"This strong camp can be considered comfortable tonight." Wei Zheng shook the bone in his hand again, "Today's dinner with white rice and soy sauce soup, and fifty pigs were killed in the camp. Well, this bone was cooked well." He sucked the bones hard, and the boiled bones immediately slid into his throat. Wei Zheng smacked his tongue, and he could not tell whether he was a marching or a camping or an outing.

Ling Yun shook his head and walked towards his big tent.

This is also because the opponent is too weak this time. In addition, although they are fighting, they are only thirty miles away from Yehu City. Speaking of which, it is actually an inside battle. Therefore, the troops are easy and have sufficient supplies. Although they did not bring auxiliary troops to transport grain this time, Ling Yun arranged 1,500 people to transport supplies. In addition to transporting a small amount of supplies, they also carried twenty cows, one hundred live pigs, and five hundred sheep to improve the food during the march. On the first day of camping, they killed fifty pigs, with an average of one hundred people and one pig. Such conditions really make people sigh!
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