It was another early morning.

The wild birds in the distance fluttered their wings and flew past the treetops. A few crisp bird songs were alarmed by Lu Yao, who was focusing on the map in front of him.

Lu Yao rubbed his sore eyes, stretched his shoulders and arms, stood up shakingly, and pulled open the curtain.

The drizzling drizzle in the middle of the night turned out to be that it had not stopped yet. The curtain of the tent was lifted a little, and the cool breeze wrapped in the drizzle dripping was swept into the tent. The pine torches in the tent were about to burn out, but when the wind blew, they struggled to destroy them several times, and finally extinguished.

Lu Yao simply opened the tent more. Two entourages who were sleepy outside the tent suddenly woke up. When they were about to jump up, Lu Yao waved to them, indicating that he had nothing to do and there was no need to be nervous.

Turning back, he held the map on the table to the door. Lu Yao stomped his feet and found that the ground was not wet, so he sat on the ground and continued to look at it in the light of the east and calculated.

The reason why he was so exhausted was not because the arrival of the East Sea King disturbed his thoughts, but because Lu Yao led his troops to cross the river, the situation on the battlefield changed wildly. It has to be admitted that every change in the battle situation was beyond Lu Yao's expectations; every move by Shi Le also made it difficult for Lu Yao to judge his purpose.

Four days ago, Lu Yao originally judged that the bandits would have taken advantage of the coalition forces to attack halfway, so he was ready to fight against Shile King Mi in the east and south respectively. However, the bandits in the south attacked for a few days and were weak; in the east, the Lihu line, Shile's troops never appeared from beginning to end. This was the first thing that Lu Yao expected.

Three days ago, the imperial prince Lu Jun, who was originally captured by the bandits, secretly came to the central army and brought Shi Le's intention to give up the strategy of jointly attacking with the Huns and Han countries, and then leave the battlefield of the Central Plains and turn to Qingxu. This is the second thing that was beyond Lu Yao's expectations.

Two days ago, the Donghai Shogunate army, which was guarding Juancheng, suddenly collapsed without being attacked. Hundreds of thousands of troops rushed and dispersed, which made the internal and external responses that the Youji coalition had originally expected suddenly become a bubble. The strongest strength that the imperial center relied on was so fragile, which was the third thing that Lu Yao expected.

As for the news brought by Zhang Wu last night, as a warrior, Lu Yao was determined not to consider these things for now. But facing the collapsed King of East China Shogunate, Shi Le bandits could resist the jackal spirit and did not launch troops to chase them. This was really strange... This was the fourth thing that was beyond Lu Yao's expectations.

Do they really want to leave the Central Plains battlefield as Lu Jun said? I'm afraid not? Lu Yao shook his head.

He believed in Lu Jun and believed that Lu Jun would never deceive him, but Lu Jun was a literati after all, and did not know the deceitful way of the battlefield. Moreover, Lu Yao still remembered what kind of methods Shi Le, who was recorded in the historical books, acted. So the question came back, what was their real purpose?

Various

Questions are like unclear and endless messes. The harder you analyze, the more you can analyze the group, the more you can never tell. This is like a two-person game of chess, one side can make a move, and the other side can guess the purpose and the way it is roughly enough, so that it can be said that if one side makes a move, the other side is confused and confused... that would be a big problem.

We must figure out Shi Le’s plan! And as soon as possible!

"Zhu Sheng!Zhu Sheng!" Lu Yao suddenly shouted loudly.

The spies, spies, scouts and other work under Zhu Sheng's charge have become more and more important in these days. Therefore, his camp is not far from the left side of Lu Yao's commander's tent, so that he can report military information or receive instructions at any time.

After Lu Yao shouted for a few times, Zhu Sheng rushed to his side. Perhaps because when he was lying with his clothes, half of his face pressed against the sleeves of his shoulders, and there were still deep marks of armor leaves on his face.

Hearing his footsteps, Lu Yao didn't raise his head: "From now on, all your subordinates will no longer change shifts, and they will all be dispersed!"

Zhu Sheng's men had more than 200 scouts used for battlefield reconnaissance, with more than 300 horses, about 300. The people were all skilled in riding and smart, and the horses were also selected good horses. According to the combat command needs and the size of the reconnaissance range, scouts were usually divided into two or three shifts and took turns to be dispatched. If there were no shifts, the number of scouts could surge by two to three times in the short term, and the density and range of patrols would increase.

But that alone is not enough. No matter how much Youzhou Army attaches importance to battlefield reconnaissance, it is a guest army. After all, it is a geographical ghost who understands the surrounding terrain and landforms. If you want to solve the current confused situation... it is not a solution to sit and watch Shi Le pretend to be a god. He still needs to take a plan and force Shi Le to respond. The military strategy says: "If you plan it, you will know the strategy of gains and losses, and if you do it, you will know the principle of movement and stillness."

Lu Yao summoned an entourage: "Send someone to Baimajin to wait. After Shen Jin led his troops to cross the river, he asked him to come to see me immediately."

In the past five days, the Youji coalition forces collected a large number of boats and ships, and used tens of thousands of civilians in Jizhou to transport the army day and night. However, the river was surging and the boatmen worked very hard and needed rest. Secondly, the loss of the equipment for crossing the river was difficult to avoid during the use. Therefore, the speed of the army crossing the river was actually slightly slower than expected. As a general of the Youzhou army, Shen Jin stopped and ran around to arrange the dispatch of ships to organize the crossing of the river. The discussions with the Jizhou army were particularly complicated, which made him very anxious.

Previously, there were rumors in the army that Shen Jin connected all the robes, intending to beat Li Yun and other Jizhou generals to completely subdue the Jizhou army. The rumors may not be true, but groundless, and may not be without cause. At least it can be confirmed that Shen Jin's personality is too tough and violent and is not suitable for the rear army to coordinate the generals. This task was first of all, Lu Yao was wrong.

Since it is wrong, it must be corrected. The day before yesterday, Lu Yao had adjusted the order of crossing the river and ordered Shen Jin to hand over the relevant matters to Chen Pei, leading the Liao army to come south in advance

.There is an important task that he needs to take on.

Not to mention the chaotic matters of the coalition crossing the river. By the current situation, more than 20,000 people have been on the south bank of the river and can be put into battle at any time. This number is smaller than the initial estimate, but it is already quite large. More than 20,000 people are the three thousand followers of Lu Yao's team as the backbone, the two thousand Xianbei cavalry of the right Sima Duan Wenyang as the minions, and the Dingbian Army of Youzhou Military Prefecture and the Du Liao Army arrived in the early stage. In addition, more than 10,000 people are the Jizhou Army under Li Yun, and the leading general is Bo Sheng.

The Jizhou Army was huge in scale, but its combat effectiveness was far inferior to that of the Youzhou Army. This was mainly because Li Yun expanded his army too quickly after becoming General Yangwu, and his soldiers' training and equipment failed to keep up for a while. Fortunately, the Qihuo Army, as the core force of Jizhou, still maintained a considerable level. After experiencing the brutal war with the Xiongnu in Bingzhou, the Qihuo Army was able to best play their tenacious characteristics in the tug-of-war and protracted war; the current situation of their clans as soldiers also ensured the cohesion of the army. Bo Sheng led the elite Qihuo Army who had always been stationed in Guangzong.

The brave Youzhou army was used as the spear and halberd, and the tenacious and deadly Jizhou army was used as the shield. There is no doubt that this is the most capable configuration to exert its combat effectiveness. Even if it faces ten times the enemy, it will have the power to fight. Therefore, as an important general in Jizhou, Bo Sheng also acted with Lu Yao and has been in Wating these days.

When Lu Yao had finished planning all night and began to divide the military affairs, Bo Sheng was awakened from his sleep in the tent of the central army of the beggar army. He was about to stare at and scold him, but he found that the man who was shaking himself, over thirty years old, had thin eyebrows and long beards, was Zheng Ping, an extremely capable aide recently.

"Brother Yunli is fussing?"

Zheng Ping, whose courtesy name was Yunli, was one of the literati who surrendered to Jizhou after General Qihuo took over the military power. Since general Qihuo was generally unwritten, although Zheng Ping was called an aide, he was actually an important deputy in charge of the Ministry. At this moment, he looked shocked and suspicious, and the sparse beard trembling under his jaw seemed to have made extremely important discoveries.

"The general, there is indeed something strange in the military camp of Youzhou people."

"What's wrong?" Seeing Zheng Ping's seriousness, Bo Sheng stopped the yawning beside his mouth and hurriedly sat up from the couch.

"Yesterday, a team of people came from the east and entered the Youzhou Army camp at night. It is said that the guards after entering the camp were tight and no one could get close to them."

"Come from the east?"

"It's from the east! It's also said..." Zheng Ping lowered his voice: "After people coming from the east entered the camp, the general Pingbei's tent was lighted all night."

Bo Sheng suddenly cursed and sweared. He got up and opened the tent, looked in the direction of the Central Army camp, and saw that the sky was getting whiter, and the towering enemy towers and high platforms in the camp, the cavalry patrolling were as bright as silhouettes. Turning around, he sneered a few times: "I didn't expect...I didn't expect. This young man from Wujun also learned to be scheming."

(End of this chapter)

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