Just after careful consideration, I made the East-Invasion troops who ambushed Luo Beiren near the sharp-to-top slope on the Dongtenggeri Grassland, Ling Tianfang's reply also came to me, with only one short sentence on the letter: "If the army can be kept confidential, this plan is the best solution to Luo Beiren." In fact, regardless of whether Ling Tianfang's support or not, I have made up my mind to implement it according to my plan.

Part 1 of the Guards' Regiment disguised himself as two horse thieves took advantage of the excuse of changing defense and sneaked out of Qingyang and into the Dongtengri Grassland. The two teams were led by Yueshan and Yuchi Bin respectively, responsible for cleaning up the Luobei herders from Qingyang to Jiantoupo. The order I gave them was that no matter what method was taken, they could act cheaply. There was only one requirement, strictly keep their identity confidential and avoid alerting the enemy.

The news came back soon, and the cleanup was going very smoothly. Since the Luobei people had no regular garrison in this area, the "horse thieves" led by Yueshan and Yuchi Bin frantically burned, killed, and looted in this area, and sent people to create rumors that the horse thieves would be active here for a long time and would rob all the herdsmen and their property. The herdsmen, regardless of men or women, would be sold to the Sithro Empire as slaves. These news soon spread among the herdsmen in this area. Many herdsmen simply moved north with their families, drove their livestock, dragged their children and their daughters, and fled this area.

Yue Shanze and Yuchi Bin led the "horse thieves" to conduct a carpet-style inspection of this area. Fortunately, there were not many herders in this area, so they quickly cleaned up the area into a vacuum area. Even after passing caravans learned that a large number of horse thieves appeared in this area, they took a detour.

On September 14, 693, I received an intelligence report that Luo Beiren's expedition to the east had been mobilized. On September 8, the army set out and began the east invasion. According to their normal marching speed, it was estimated that it would arrive in the Jiantoupo area around September 27. I immediately made corresponding arrangements and ordered Qingyang Prefecture and Jinzhou Prefecture to be under martial law. Especially since September 15, Qingyang Prefecture will only be allowed to enter and leave the city. Without my warrant, no one will be allowed to act at will. The Security Bureau and the Police Bureau will also do their best to implement my orders to prevent enemy spies from spying.

Cui Wenxiu's Qingyang Second Security Division only retained one regiment of infantry garrison in Qingyang, at the junction of Jinzhou and Bonan, and all retreated to Qingyang. At the same time, he strengthened Qingyang's urban defense alert, and acted as if he wanted to fight against Luobei people in Qingyang Fucheng. In addition, he ordered the government officials of grassroots rural towns outside the Fucheng to organize local people to move to remote areas deviate from the main road to paralyze the spies arranged by Luobei people in Qingyang.

At the same time, I frequently mobilized the troops day and night, and declared martial law in Qingyang. No ordinary residents are allowed to go out at will, otherwise they will face imprisonment. These measures are mainly used by Luo Beiren's spies who could not effectively grasp the mobilization of my army. I also used these real and false mobilizations to continuously mobilize the troops out of the city, gather secretly outside the city, and on September 20, they personally led the army to secretly sneak into the area of ​​Jiantoupo on the Dongtengri Grassland on September 23, and hid in the ambush site that had been prepared.

Before departure, I ordered the army to carry dry food, drinking water and forage for ten days, and the small engineering troops that infiltrated in advance also secretly built some facilities in the ambush to facilitate the subsequent large troops to station.

Time passed day by day, and I had been in this damn place for five days, but there was still no news about Luo Bei's main army. In order to prevent the enemy's scouts from discovering problems, I strictly restricted the entry and exit of the scouts on my own side. Except for sending a very small number of elite guard scouts, I did not send anyone else to reconnaissance. According to analysis, Luo Bei should have arrived at Jiantoupo yesterday, but the news brought back by the scouts was that no sign of an army was found in the nearby 50 miles.

It is so difficult that the enemy really discovered us? I immediately denied this idea. If we were discovered, we just needed to detour behind us to attack, and we might have been wiped out. That is, Luo Beiren was delayed on the road, but if it was delayed for a long time, there would be no need for Luo Beiren to attack us. We all had to escape back to Qingyang with our tails in shame. Food and forage can only be supported for two days at most.

I couldn't help but feel confident and calm on the surface, as if everything was under my control. From time to time, I led other officers to various barracks to inspect the lives of soldiers, cheering for the already a little anxious soldiers.

"Report!"

"Come in!"

It was already evening. Just as I was sitting in the tent and having a headache about Luo Beiren's whereabouts, Kang Jianguo and other personnel who went out to reconnaissance finally returned, bringing me the good news I had always dreamed of.

"Report to Master, my brothers and I have been delaying some time because of the larger reconnaissance scope and more verifications. Please forgive me." Kang Jianguo was also a little excited. Since this reconnaissance was of great importance, he personally brought several brothers with agile and flexible mind for several consecutive days, and finally got rewards today.

I could see the joy in his eyes, and knew that there must be good news. I calmed down a little and asked, "What's the discovery?"

"Sir, my brothers and I discovered the enemy's scout about thirty kilometers away from here this afternoon, and found the enemy's vanguard at 60 kilometers away from here. Later, we sneaked to the near the enemy's main force for reconnaissance, and now we have basically figured out the situation of the enemy." The chest was still rising and falling sharply, and I don't know if he was too excited or exhausted his physical strength, or both.

While deliberately controlling my excitement, I signaled Kang Jianguo to sit down and say slowly.

"When we left, the enemy's vanguard troops were already camping and preparing to rest, just on the flat ground by the river about thirty kilometers away from us. The enemy's vanguard troops were iron armored heavy cavalry, with about 40,000 people. The central army was mainly infantry, and heavy infantry was deployed behind the vanguard's vanguard. Light infantry and baggage troops followed closely, and finally some light cavalry and heavy cavalry. The enemy's flag could also be seen there, probably the enemy's camp. The entire army dragged several miles and could not see the head at first glance."

I pondered for a while and asked again: "In your opinion, is there any abnormality in the enemy? How is the enemy's alertness?"

Kang Jianguo thought for a while and immediately answered, his tone was very affirmative: "I can't see anything abnormal, and the enemy's alertness is also very ordinary. Their scouts were just searching around one or two miles on both sides of the road in routine. I think they were all perfunctory. After all, this place is still about 300 kilometers away from our territory. It takes four or five days to march, and they have to pass one of their villages."

I quickly calculated in my mind that if the enemy was very alert, it was possible to find out the abnormality here. I was going to lead the cavalry to attack the camp tonight, but my cavalry had only 30,000 people. I was not sure whether I could defeat the enemy's main force in one fell swoop. Since the enemy was so careless and did not notice our existence at all, I decided to proceed as planned and ambush at the scheduled location tomorrow.

The order was quickly passed to various departments, and it was another sleepless night. I looked at the moon-like night sky and prayed silently, hoping that tomorrow's battle would give me a satisfactory ending.

After dinner, the General Wule, the Great General of the East of the East, was lying in the big chair of the coach camp with satisfaction, and the tea set on the desk was emitting a scent of scent. "Buda, have the scouts returned?"

"I have returned, and there are no special abnormalities. But I heard from the scouts that horse thieves were rampant in this area some time ago, and many local herders fled to the north. I always feel something is wrong, but I can't tell what's wrong." The reply was Buda, the deputy general of Ule, who was a very cautious general, and Ule has always been very at ease with his affairs.

"Maybe it was the Mot or the thief among the Guerres. Maybe they wanted to follow us. When we defeat the Tanghe people, we could take advantage of the situation and get a piece of the pie." Ull did not think about other adverse situations. After all, this place is still far from the territory of the Tanghe Empire. "I don't know if they dare to make any decisions about us. I don't know where they are hiding now."

Although Buda felt that something was wrong, he could not figure out what was wrong after thinking about it. He had to instruct all levels to strengthen night duty and night patrols to avoid any accidents.

But the night passed quietly, nothing happened, and Buda felt a little suspicious when he didn't sleep all night. After the troops gathered, they followed the normal march route, like a winding giant snake, slowly moving forward.

Before dawn, the entire army was like a awakened giant, carrying out various pre-war preparations in an orderly manner. After breakfast, the soldiers placed their weapons and bows properly, and the war horses were already full of food, just to prevent the cage of neighing sounds from still hanging on their mouths.

Soon the soldiers of various units gathered under the leadership of the officers and entered the designated ambush area as planned. Everything was going on silently, and everyone knew the importance and seriousness of the battle. The war mobilization had been carried out many times before departure.

According to the plan, Liang Chongxin and Cui Wenxiu, I led 30,000 light and heavy cavalry to ambush on the shallow hill about four miles away from the plains of the riverbank where the Luobei army marched. There were dense forests growing there. After the hard work and disguise of engineers, the Luobei scouts, one or two miles away, could not find that there were so many troops ambushing here. Kamapov led nearly 30,000 light infantry to follow behind the cavalry, and after the cavalry destroyed the enemy's defense line, they followed and eliminated the remnants.

Mulige's task was also quite arduous. He led 15,000 heavy infantry, 10,000 spearmen and a small number of engineers to ambush in the woods at the bend of the sharp slope, and was responsible for 40,000 iron armored heavy cavalry to block the enemy's vanguard. This was also a life-and-death battle. The heavy infantry he led must firmly stick to the enemy's vanguard troops and not let the enemy escape. Because the enemy does not know whether there are cavalry behind Mulige's troops, they must break through Mulige's defense line and defeat them before they can free themselves to deal with our main cavalry. Otherwise, if there are cavalry behind the infantry, it will cause a collapse of the entire line. But once the enemy breaks through our heavy infantry defense line in a short time, they can quickly return to the army and form a pincer attack on our main force, the situation will be very passive.
Chapter completed!