The move to drive the common people to feed the enemy is very cold-blooded and shameless, but it is not uncommon in the history of war.

Although doing this is a bit careless, it is undeniable that it can effectively consume the opponent's resources and attack the enemy's morale.

Compared to driving innocent people to attack the city, doing so is considered relatively kind.

However, this is the territory of King Zheng, and King Zheng must still have the intention to kill him, so it is not wrong to choose this way - you can't offend all the common people to death.

In fact, Li Yongsheng was a little strange at the beginning. Wang Zheng's army plundered heavily. Wasn't he worried at all and forced the Xishan people into the camp of Thunder Valley?

You should know that the Hisans are famous for their bravery and fighting. Most people in Yuzhou believe that although Tonghe is known as the mortal enemy of the Hisans, they are probably a little short of the Hisans in comparison.

The boy and the old woman of Hisan dared to kill someone with a knife if they had a disagreement.

Zheng Wang's army forced the Hisans to this point, so next, when the number of soldiers is relatively small, they should not go out casually. Once the Hisans get the chance, their fate will be very tragic.

After thinking about it, Li Yongsheng felt that there was only one possibility that could explain this phenomenon: the army of Xishan Camp was about to run away.

Otherwise, the people of Hisan could certainly go to the people of Lei Gu to ask for food, but they could also surround the camp to ask for food.

What... you said you don't give it? You can't give it, but when you see hunger everywhere outside, the soldiers of Hisan Camp will not feel comfortable and their morale will be hit.

Even if Thunder Valley sends troops to surround them, these people may even act as the pioneers of attack driven by hunger.

After all, it was Zheng Wang's army that robbed the food of the Xishan people, not the Leigu people who came from afar.

The Xishan Camp is not afraid of locals coming to surround him, which means that they are ready to run away.

Thinking of this, Li Yongsheng no longer hesitated and immediately started to rectify his troops and sent someone to notify Xia Zhenren.

Although Zhenren Xia made many small moves, he had no personal prejudice against Li Yongsheng. He rushed over quickly after hearing the news and asked without seeing any other place, "What's going on here? It's a mess... Are you preparing to pull out the camp?"

"That's right, I'll set up the camp," Li Yongsheng nodded, "How many people do you plan to pull away? Go to Guan as soon as possible and say, I don't have time to wait for you."

"Why are you anxious? It's hard to dig your corner," Xia Zhenren smiled disconcertingly, but soon he was stunned. "Are you planning to rescue the Xishan people and help them avoid being robbed?"

"It may not be possible to rescue much," Li Yongsheng said lightly, "I mean, I want to block the fleeing Zheng Wang's army..."

He explained his analysis, "...... They must have made plans to leave after robbing food so crazy."

Zhenren Xia pondered for a moment and nodded slowly, "I think your judgment makes sense, but...will they leave?"

As an officer in the court, the first thing he thought about was to recover lost territory. As for whether the opponent retreated voluntarily or was beaten away by him, this was not particularly important - well, if the opponent was beaten away by him, he would gain a relatively high reputation.

Of course, it would be even better if you can effectively kill the opponent.

"Not good at all," Li Yongsheng shook his head and asked back, "The food has been taken away. How do you face the entire Hisan?"

"This is also a problem," Xia Zhenren has a strong utilitarianism, but this does not mean that he will not care about the life and death of the common people. It is too troublesome to rule a county that lacks food. "Then let's... attack now?"

"Strike," Li Yongsheng nodded, "I plan to attack Xishan Camp. What do you think?"

"I think there may not be many people in Xishan Camp," Xia Zhenren thought seriously for a while, and Fang Shi replied, "They should be snatching food outside at this moment... No wonder I was ambushed by a team of tens of thousands of people."

Li Yongsheng spoke without hesitation, "No matter how many people rob grain, as long as Xishan Camp is still there, the robbed food must be placed there... and they can't be let go."

Zhenren Xia expressed his opinion without hesitation, "You are right, I am willing to cooperate."

The two tacitly put aside the previous dispute. At this time, it was really impossible to delay. Moreover, if the Hisan Camp really collected a lot of food, the little thing they had argued about before was not worth mentioning.

Not to mention, for Zhenren Xia, as long as he could recover Xishan, it would be a great achievement, and he would not even need to recruit the rebel army.

Once the army is unified, it will operate very quickly. In the evening, the two teams are ready. They look at each other and wave their hands together, "Get off and go to Hisan Camp."

It must be pointed out that the team led by the two, plus the defeated soldiers from Xiao Yang, had a total number of people close to 60,000. Such a huge number of people was impossible to advance quickly.

Just think about it and you will know that one person is two meters away, and one mile is only 250 people. Even the fifth column has only more than one thousand people per mile, and sixty thousand people can delay at least fifty miles.

Of course, this is just an algorithm. There are carriages that transport grain and cavalry. It is impossible for one person to be two meters or one person. If the army advances in unison, it is impossible for a five-way column to line up a fan that is ten miles wide.

In short, the troops were sent before dark. After one night, the army walked seventy miles, which was quite rare, especially on the road, and encountered some small contact battles.

Although the battle is not big, every encounter must be fought as a big battle.

Otherwise, if you are not prepared enough, if you really encounter an advantageous enemy, it would be easy for Xia Zhenren's army to be the 40,000 rabble in Thunder Valley will definitely scatter and flee.

At dawn, there were still fifty miles away from Xishan Camp. The army briefly rested. Zhenren Xia came to find Li Yongsheng, "How can we fight? Are you in front, or am I in front?"

Li Yongsheng frowned, "I feel that the situation is a little wrong. I haven't encountered much obstacles along the way... Could it be that these people have already retreated?"

In fact, he didn't believe his guess. Hisan's army was fed everywhere, and his reaction was not slow. How could the 60,000 troops retreat overnight?

It just so happened that Master Xia knew him, "I'll rush first, it's a bit messy when you call him."

Even if Li Yongsheng was strong, he could not deny this, so the two sides continued to move forward after a brief rest.

After the two armies set up their camps, the battle was fought. Twenty to thirty miles was a relatively suitable distance. If the enemy had any abnormal movements, they had enough space to react.

However, considering that there were still many Zheng Wang's army that might not have returned to collect grain, in order not to allow those people to easily escape into the camp, the two teams advanced to about fifteen miles away from the other side and began to set up camp.

During the camping process, we must release alerts, but the soldiers of Zhengwang Camp did not want them to camp easily, so we sent a team of two thousand people to try to harass them around.

However, the imperial army led by Zhenren Xia was not comparable to the straggling soldiers and bravery led by Li Yongsheng. He directly sent several teams to support the horse-resisting and shield formation, and there were crossbowmen to prepare to guard against the opponent's attack.

Of course, there were also teams of cavalry who were maneuvering on the side.

Unfortunately, their camping was still disturbed. Halfway through the camping, a scout released a warning firework - a large number of enemies were approaching.

Immediately afterwards, I saw smoke and dust rising not far away, and there were tens of thousands of cavalrymen rushing over from the other side of the camp and taking the side of Zhenren Xia who was camping.

Seeing this, Zhenren Xia was shocked, "Damn it, isn't Zheng's main force coming here?"

The cavalry of tens of thousands of people, even if it is placed on the border between Middle-earth and Rouran, is a huge military force.

If King Zheng throws all his troops into his hands, it will not be difficult to gather ten thousand cavalrymen, but even so, his combat power will be uneven.

But soon, Xia Zhenren discovered that he was a false alarm, "It turned out that most of them were horse-riding infantry."

There are many differences between horse-riding infantry and cavalry. The riding skills, impact force and horse breeds are different. The main reason is that they can quickly approach the enemy and maintain considerable physical strength. After getting close, they will dismount and fight in the field.

Immediately afterwards, the camp opposite also opened the camp gate, hundreds of chariots drove out, and behind them were the flying boats carrying troops.

Li Yongsheng and Xia Zhenren did not camp together. They were about ten miles apart from each other and relied on each other. Moreover, Li Yongsheng's side also divided the camp into two parts, so it was a triangular camp.

What made Xia Zhenren angry was that the two enemy troops all came straight to his camp, "Damn, labor and capital are regular soldiers, do you think we are too busy bullying?"

A personal guard next to him spoke to remind him, "Mr. Xia, the other party may... do not want to provoke Lei Gu."

Of course, Xia Zhenren considered this possibility. Hearing this, he spoke angrily, "Damn, I thought they were so brave. It turned out that they knew how to pick up soft foods by eating persimmons, but they actually dared to leave the military camp... Is it really a soft persimmon?"

He immediately began to set up defenses. To be honest, the imperial army was quite confident in fighting against King Zheng's army. If he fought in the wild, he would be confident in one or two.

However, the aggressiveness expressed by the other party also forced him to pay attention to it. He was riding and infantry, chariots, flying boats, and cavalry support beside the barracks. The equipment and troops were all rare and exquisite.

Zheng Wang’s Mansion is so well prepared, it seems like a big battle is going to be fought.

Therefore, although Zhenren Xia was not afraid of the other party, he still contacted Li Yongsheng with the voice transmission conch, "Can you send some soldiers to support me? There is no need for more people, just show your Lei Gu's support for the court."

"Leigu is not interested in supporting the court," Li Yongsheng replied coldly.

But the next moment, he chuckled again, "But there is no problem if you support Xia Zhenren..."

(It's another third update, and I'll summon monthly tickets loudly.)
Chapter completed!