Li Chengqian turned over and dismounted, took off his helmet and held it in his arms, and let out a long breath, the sweat on his forehead was nothing.

The armor he was wearing now was actually stuck to his body because of the sweat on his body.

In addition, the current weather is already autumn.

The cold wind blew on Li Chengqian's body, making him feel a biting cold wind.

"Second Highness, are you alright?"

Gan Mao's condition is much better than Li Chengqian's, after all, although he has not participated in military life for ten years, after all, experience is here.

"It's okay, General Right doesn't have to worry about it."

What Li Chengqian said is a bit false.

Because anyone can see it, Li Chengqian's face is now very pale.

After a long journey, although Li Chengqian experienced several years of ascetic life, he still couldn't bear it after running on horses for several days in a row.

The bumps in the horse alone were enough for him to suffer.

Jiangxia City is two hundred miles away from Changban Slope.

On a normal march, it would take about four or five days to get there.

But what about them?

It took them two days to march all the way from Jiangxia City to Changbanpo.

The average daily speed of traveling 100 miles, the 4,000 soldiers of the North 1st Army under the command of Rao is Gan Mao are all cavalry, and they are inevitably a little unbearable.

In the two days, Gan Mao and the others only stopped halfway to rest for less than two hours, and the rest of the time was spent on horseback.

Four thousand cavalry, this is all the cavalry up and down the Northern First Army.

Among the many legions in Nanli, there are very few cavalry of 4,000.

In this regard, the Northern First Army was allowed to transfer horses from Jinling to form cavalry because Bai Qi was named as a lieutenant in Tiance Mansion.

And because of the heat of the cavalry in the northern battlefield, the Northern First Army still specially selected 4,000 elites to form cavalry.

Most of them have some experience right away.

This makes them not the kind of infantry on horseback, although they are not half a star compared to the iron cavalry of the Northern Warriors.

However, for the Upper Central Plains Coalition Army, it is already good.

"Pass the order, and the whole army will dismount and rest."

After Gan Mao gave an order to the captain standing behind him, he took Li Chengqian with him, and the two walked forward, came to a lawn, and sat down.

"Second Highness, it is said that you were the first to mention the garrison at Nagasaka Slope?"

Li Chengqian suddenly heard Gan Mao's question, he was stunned at first, and then replied without thinking

"It's me, what's wrong?"

I saw Gan Mao laugh, there was nothing unusual in his expression, he looked at Li Chengqian with some appreciation, and then continued

"It's okay, I just didn't expect that His Royal Highness's vision in military strategy was so outstanding, Nagasakapo, few people can perceive the importance of this place."

Hearing Gan Mao's somewhat complimentary words, although Li Chengqian's face was pale, he still showed a look of embarrassment, coughed slightly, and lowered his head

"It's just an accident, I still need to learn a lot."

However, I saw Gan Mao clapping one hand on Li Chengqian's left shoulder, and said in a tone full of appreciation

"Second Highness doesn't have to be modest, in your generation, Second Highness is the most outstanding person I have ever seen in this regard."

As soon as Gan Mao said this, Li Chengqian's embarrassed expression became even more obvious, although his face was pale, but the quietly ruddy color showed that he was shy.

"Here in Changbanpo, if it was a few decades ago, four thousand soldiers were stationed here, there was no danger, and if it was garrisoned by cavalry, the combat power would be greatly weakened."

Gan Mao didn't notice the change in Li Chengqian's expression, and just continued to take care of himself

"At that time, there were still many lakes on Nagasaka Slope, although it was not as good as a hundred years ago, but the waterlogging land also occupied most of it, and the cavalry was stationed here, and mobility would become his shortcoming."

Speaking of this, Gan Mao's approving eyes looked at Li Chengqian again, just as he met Li Chengqian's eyes as soon as he raised his head.

Although Li Chengqian quickly lowered his head again, Gan Mao still looked at Li Chengqian and said

"It's different now, since the earth-shattering battle fought by the prince of Zhou, the lakes of Changbanpo have completely dissipated, and Changbanpo is just like its name."

Li Chengqian knew this, otherwise, he would not have put forward the idea of stationing in Changbanpo.

A hundred years ago, there were many lakes on Nagasakapo, but most of them were small lakes, and the water army could not drive on them, and the lake was too small.

A few decades ago, the lakes of Nagasakapo slowly decreased, and the appearance of waterlogging replaced these disappearing lakes.

In the last era, when Zhou Dunyi was in command against a million coalition troops, at the end, the corpses of the Central Plains soldiers were completely filled up with those scarce and small lakes.

Although the cleaning on the battlefield behind fished out the corpses one after another, it was too late.

Probably because of geography, the few remaining lakes on Nagasaka Slope are slowly decreasing, and it is only a matter of time before they disappear.

But that battle can be regarded as a lot of advance of this time.

Therefore, the lake is now a rare thing.

There are many slopes, waterlogged land and large plains.

And because of geography, Nanli only needs to garrison a few thousand cavalry here, and he can rely on cavalry tactics to fight against opponents who are several times his own.

Of course, if the number of opponents reaches a high limit, then Gan Mao and them will naturally be easily defeated.

However, I think that the Central Plains coalition army will not be used as the main front here in Nagasakapo, and the troops sent will only be a few partial divisions.

Four thousand horsemen are enough.

"Since the idea of garrisoning Nagasaka Slope was proposed by His Second Highness, then Second Highness, can you talk to the general, and how our army should be stationed next?"

A fluttering smile on Gan Mao's face made Li Chengqian's originally tense expression finally relaxed.

After Li Chengqian came to the Northern First Army, he did not have any deep friendship with the Northern First Army, and it was only because Bai Qi had taught him for a while that he wanted to see Bai Qi differently, and Sima Cuo and Gan Mao's words, Li Chengqian's views on these two generals.

In other words, strangers who have met each other.

However, this period of military life made Li Chengqian feel a little lonely.

Looking up at Gan Mao's back, Gan Mao immediately understood what Li Chengqian wanted to do, summoned a school captain, took a map of Changban Slope from him, and spread it out on the ground.

Li Chengqian stretched out a finger and lightly touched his fingertip to a place called Dangyang Dao on the map, looked up at Gan Mao, and said

"Here, it can be divided into two thousand."

Gan Mao's eyes narrowed slightly, and he looked over with Li Chengqian's finger, frowned, and after thinking for a while, he said

"Dangyang Dao? Is this suitable for cavalry garrison? ”

But as soon as he finished saying this, Gan Mao reached out and patted his head, and said with some annoyance

"I'm stupid, it's not suitable for cavalry to garrison anything, Second Highness, do you mean to set up ambushes on both sides of this place? That's fine, but 2,000 people, that's too many. ”

Li Chengqian didn't speak, he was still a beginner in this area, his palm was up, and he motioned for Gan Mao to say, he was listening here.

Gan Mao chuckled and tapped his finger at a place called Baling.

"This was originally a village, but since the battle before the battle, the villagers in the village have almost gone, and it has become an abandoned village, there is a bridge here, Baling Bridge, these two are on the northwest side of Dangyang Road, the defenders of Dangyang Road, two thousand are too many, only five hundred."

Li Chengqian frowned, Baling Village, he knows, but it is already extremely close to Xinye City, and the distance from Xinye City is less than one hundred and fifty miles, Xinye City is the bridgehead of the Central Plains Coalition Army, and Gan Mao's arrangement is really some.

Too bold.

If you march quickly, it will only take two or three days to get here from Shinno Castle.

As if seeing Li Chengqian's concern, Gan Mao grinned

"Second Highness, don't worry, the Central Plains Coalition Army, it's not like you think, it will take two or three days to march urgently, as far as those things inside them are concerned, four days are possible, and four days is enough for us to deal with the opponent in front of us."

Hearing Gan Mao say this, Li Chengqian nodded with some difficulty.

It's not that he's timid, it's Gan Mao's hand, it's too bold.

Four thousand people dared to garrison less than two hundred miles from Xinye City, a military city where 200,000 Central Plains allied troops gathered.

If it weren't for the fact that all their men were cavalry, it would have been absolutely impossible for Li Chengqian not to worry.

But fortunately, the mobility of the cavalry, if you can't beat it, then run.

How can a two-legged infantry outrun a four-legged cavalry?

"Since His Royal Highness has no objection, then it will be arranged in this way, rest here for half an hour, and then go to Baling Village, as for Dangyang Road, when the time comes, send five hundred people to build fortifications, after all, there is still a Baling Bridge in the middle, how to say it, it is not a lot of peace of mind."

Gan Mao seemed to have finalized this arrangement, and did not continue to ask Li Chengqian's opinion, but just talked to himself.

And Li Chengqian smiled bitterly and didn't have any response.

"Xiangyang City, what does General Gan think?"

Li Chengqian suddenly came up with such a sentence.

"Xiangyang City?"

Gan Mao's expression froze.

To tell the truth, Xiangyang City is a buffer zone left by the Central Plains over the years.

The Taishou of Xiangyang City, although he is a courtier of Nanli, is just that.

In fact, Nanli has played no role in Xiangyang City over the years.

Because the Taishou of Xiangyang City was the general of one of the Central Plains countries.

The general was appointed as the Taishou of Xiangyang City for some mysterious reasons after the end of the war because of the reason that he defected to the south in advance in that war.

Since then, Xiangyang City has become one, which can be regarded as the man's private domain.

The decree of Nanli could not be conveyed to Xiangyang City.

And any change of officials in Xiangyang City, there is no way for Nanli to change them.

To put it simply, that general has become the soil emperor of Xiangyang City.

Forget about the soil emperor, according to the news that Jin Yiwei has sent back from Xiangyang City over the years, it can also be seen that this Xiangyang Taishou has been eye-to-eye with the Central Plains countries all these years, and it is ambiguous.

It stands to reason that this kind of wall grass, the south of the empire, can be easily pressed to death with a finger, but the strange thing is that the emperor has not pulled out this thorn for a long time.

"Second Highness, what do you mean by this?"

Gan Mao's face turned cold, his impression of Xiangyang Taishou was not much better, after all, that guy was an out-and-out traitor.

"It's nothing, I just want to say, why, don't we ask Xiangyang Taishou for reinforcements? And Xiangyang City is only a river away from Xinyeke. ”

Li Chengqian was unaware of these secrets, and even if he hadn't arrived at the Northern First Army, he wouldn't have known that Xiangyang City was originally the territory of their southern departure.

"Asking for help from Xiangyang? Heh, Ben Jiang still persuaded His Royal Highness to dispel this idea in advance, His Royal Highness only needs to remember that Boss Bai has not moved any thoughts about this matter. ”