The next day, October 27, around noon, Xue Ao, Zhao Yu, and Li Meng led 60,000 Jin troops to Xianping.

Under Xue Ao's order, he commanded 5,000 cavalry, immediately divided into 100 teams, and began to search for the traces of the rebels, as for the other 5,000 foot soldiers with war horses, they continued to advance in coordination with the two armies of Henan and Yingchuan.

The rebels in the Xianping area immediately discovered the large number of cavalry, known as 300,000 rebels, and immediately entered the stage of preparing for war.

An hour later, there was news about several camps of the rebels, which was immediately sent to Xue Ao by the Taiyuan cavalry.

Xue Ao marked it on the map and introduced the situation to Zhao Yu and Li Meng.

According to the report of the Taiyuan cavalry, the rebels have built three camps in Xianping County, which are located on the west, southeast, and east sides of Xianping County, which are about ten miles away from the county seat, and they are surrounded by the county seat on three sides.

In view of this, Xue Ao pointed to the map about ten miles northeast of Xianping County and discussed with Zhao Yu and Li Meng: "Let's pretend to build a camp here first......

Before the words fell, a herald hurriedly came to report: "General, the cavalry has come to report, there is a rebel army coming straight to our army garrison, with more than 10,000 people!" Looking at the banner, it is the rebel general Xiang Xuan! ”

"This is coming?"

Xue Ao showed a slight subtle look on his face, and then took Zhao Yu and Li Meng to ride to the outside of the station, and climbed a dirt slope to look.

Sure enough, about a moment later, an army appeared in the south, but the strange thing was that this army was not too close to the garrison of the 60,000 Jin troops, but stopped about four or five miles away from the Jin army, with a solemn posture.

"Looks like you're not going to come......"

Li Meng, the governor of Henan, watched for a while and muttered.

Hearing this, Zhao Yu said with a smile: "It seems that the rebel army is just to interfere with our construction of a camp on the spot......

After that, he turned his head to Xue Ao and said, "Do you want to continue to order soldiers to build camps?" ”

Xue Ao said with a smile: "It's all here, how can you retreat because of this coercion from the rebels?" Li Meng, send 10,000 soldiers under your command to cut down the trees and put on a posture to build a camp, and the remaining 20,000 soldiers will resist the enemy with us...... Zhou Hu, the Yingchuan army under your command is more elite than Li Meng, with you as the middle army, the army under my command will be the left army, and Li Meng will be the right army......"

In view of the past few days of getting along, Zhao Yu has gradually gained Xue Ao's trust, so Xue Ao has gradually become casual in his title, and gradually does not use the relatively distant 'Zhou Duwei' to call him.

But the order he gave at the moment made Zhao Yu secretly complain.

After all, the Chinese army is the backbone of an army, which is not conducive to him fishing in troubled waters.

"Don't really fight......

Zhao Yu muttered to himself.

After all, once the fight really started, under Xue Ao's gaze, he would not be able to release the water.

For a time, the 60,000 Jin army entered the stage of preparing for war, with the Yingchuan army led by Zhao Yu as the central army, the Henan army as the right army, and the Taiyuan army as the left army.

Seeing this scene from afar, the rebel general Xiang Xuan looked solemn.

"It's menacing......," he muttered to himself.

Xiang Ji, the general under his command and his nephew, advised: "General, the Jin army rushed more than 80 miles from Liangcheng to Xianping, and the sergeants of his army were bound to be exhausted, so it was better to take the opportunity to kill him by surprise." ”

Xiang Xuan stared at the Jin army array in the distance without turning his eyes, frowned and said, "What you are considering, do you think that Xue Ao and Zhou Hu on the other side can't think about it?" ”

I have to say that if he were an ordinary Jin general, he Xiang Xuan might have attacked.

However, at this moment, the person leading the troops on the other side, is that an ordinary Jin general?

Let's not talk about Xue Ao, one of the five tigers of Chenmen, Zhou Hu, the commander of Yingchuan, and Li Meng, the commander of Henan, these are two difficult characters to deal with.

Needless to say, Zhou Hu was forced to give up attacking Yingchuan, just because of this!

And Li Meng, he Xiang Xuan did not defeat Li Meng on the battlefield at the beginning, this incident alone is enough to make Xiang Xuan more vigilant against Li Meng.

Xue Ao, Zhou Hu, and Li Meng, these three people touched together, which made Xiang Xuan really tense his nerves, and he didn't dare to take a step beyond Lei Chi easily.

After thinking about it for a while, he immediately ordered the left and right: "Send someone to contact Chen Shuai immediately, just say that the Jin army ignored our coercion and still decided to forcibly build the camp, and even worse, put on a posture of not hesitating to fight, and the last general would not dare to call the shots, please Chen Shuai decide." ”

I have to say that Xiang Xuan, who has always done his own thing and is highly subjective, rarely decided to ask his boss this time.

"Yes!" Left and right clenched fists and left.

A moment later, Xiang Xuan's henchmen came to the main camp of the righteous division and informed the commander of the righteous division, Chen Miao, of the confrontation between the two armies that had occurred in the northeast of Xianping County.

After learning about the situation, Chen Miao was also surprised: This Xue Ao has such a fierce personality?

He didn't dare to slack off at all, and immediately led people to Xiang Xuan's place.

When he arrived at the place where Xiang Xuan was, he took a look, and sure enough, tens of thousands of Jin troops on the opposite side had already set up a formation, which could be called heaven and earth, and the scene was very spectacular.

But the strange thing is that although the Jin army put on a posture of fighting, it does not seem to have the intention of attacking.

"Is it really going to build a camp?"

Chen Miao looked solemnly for a while, then gritted his teeth and said: "Someone, inform Cheng Shuai and General Wu Yi, please ask Yuzhang and Jiangdong to send troops to help, today, we will definitely beat that Xue Ao's arrogance back!" ”

"Yes!"

Not long after, from the direction of the main camp, countless Yuzhang volunteers and Jiangdong volunteers quickly reinforced Xiang Xuan, under the dispatch of Chen Xuan, these volunteers who rushed to reinforce the army, with Xiang Xuan's army as the central army, also put up a position in this empty land.

During this period, the Taiyuan cavalry under the command of Xue Ao may have harassed the righteous division by shooting from a distance to gather troops, but because the main force on their side did not act rashly, the three righteous divisions of Jiangxia, Yuzhang, and Jiangdong finally set up a formation about four or five miles away from the opposite Jin army. Follow-up

But what next? Is it really a fight with the Jin army on the other side?

Chen Miao frowned and estimated the victory or defeat.

In all fairness, the strength of his righteous division is indeed less than the so-called '300,000', about 180,000, of which, there are 60,000 Jiangxia troops including Xiang Xuan, as well as 80,000 Yuzhang troops and 40,000 Jiangdong troops.

But the absolute superiority in strength was not enough for Chen Miao to have a decisive battle with the opposite Jin army without any scruples.

You must know that the Jin army on the opposite side is by no means a weak brigade, 10,000 Taiyuan army, 20,000 Yingchuan army, and 30,000 or 40,000 Henan army, which are all opponents that are enough for his righteous teacher to be vigilant, not to mention, the 10,000 Taiyuan army on the opposite side are all cavalry - he mistook the other 5,000 'foot soldiers on horseback' under Xue Ao for cavalry.

A whole 10,000 cavalry......

Rao is side has a full 180,000 troops, and Chen Miao does not dare to underestimate it at all.

"Do you want to fight?"

Cheng Zhou, the righteous teacher of Yuzhang who heard the news, asked Chen Miao in a low voice.

"It's not easy to fight."

Chen Miao shook his head and said in a low voice: "On the opposite side of the Jin army, the Yingchuan army is in the middle, the Henan army is on the right, Zhou Hu is not only good at using tricks, but also good at buying the hearts of the army with heavy money...... Once our side is entangled and helped by the Yingchuan army, the Henan army and the Taiyuan army will immediately outflank from both sides, I have never dealt with the Henan army, but according to Xiang Xuan, the Henan army is not weak, and furthermore, in view of the fact that our righteous division stopped at Yingchuan, the Henan army remains relatively intact, even I dare not make a judgment...... But the most troublesome thing is the 10,000 Taiyuan cavalry, my righteous division is all foot soldiers, and there is no way to contain this group of cavalry, once the melee begins, these cavalry will begin to outflank in a roundabout way, I am afraid that when the time comes, we will be the first to be chiseled and torn apart by these cavalry......"

"What then?" Cheng Zhou asked in astonishment.

"Drag! …… Just drag it hard! ”

Chen Miao said with a solemn expression: "As long as the Jin army on the opposite side does not move, we will not move." …… As long as it drags on until dusk, it will be a victory for our side. In the meantime, we can retreat to the camp, where can he Xue Ao retreat? ”

Hearing this, Cheng Zhou frowned and said, "In case Xue Ao takes the opportunity to retreat into Xianping ......"

"That's better." Chen Miao chuckled and said: "Xianping County is small and can't accommodate these sixty or seventy thousand Jin troops, Xue Ao can only send twenty or thirty thousand Jin troops to Xianping at best, and the rest of the army can only withdraw to Kaifeng...... If he makes such an arrangement, although he can make Xianping Gou peaceful for a while, but once the heavy snow falls and the heavy snow seals the road between Xianping and Kaifeng, he will not have time to support Xianping, and this county will still fall into our hands, and even more, the 20,000 or 30,000 Jin troops he left behind in Xianping will also become a sacrifice ......"

"Makes sense."

Cheng Zhou nodded abruptly.

As a result, more and more righteous divisions gathered in the northeast of Xianping County to confront the 60,000 Jin army led by Xue Ao, and gradually, the strength of the righteous division has surpassed the Jin army, so that Xue Ao began to be a little jealous, and issued an order to the scattered cavalry to assemble in order to deal with the engagement that could break out at any time.

However, the two sides were in a stalemate for an hour, and the righteous division had no intention of marching.

"It seems that the righteous master intends to force us to withdraw our troops by means of deterrence and coercion......

Seeing this, Zhao Yu secretly breathed a sigh of relief and said to Xue Ao: "The rebels on the opposite side don't seem to plan to take advantage of the advantage of strength to fight a decisive battle with our army in advance......"

"Hmm." Xue Ao nodded and said, "They probably want to drag it out until sunset...... Zhou Hu, how about you say that our army stepped forward? ”

Zhao Yu's heart pounded when he heard this, and he whispered, "Then ...... Maybe it's going to be a fight. ”

"That being said......"

Xue Ao touched his chin, frowned and said, "But it's just such a stalemate, I'm afraid I can't deceive the other side, right?" Lao Tzu is also a little famous, if he is scared away like this, the rebels on the other side may not believe it, right? As he spoke, he smiled and said, "Tell the soldier to advance twenty paces." ”

"Twenty steps?"

Zhao Yu glanced at Xue Ao thoughtfully, and he felt more and more that this Xue Ao was really bold and careful.

"Don't hold your breath, Chen Miao......

Secretly praying, Zhao Yu ordered He Shun in a deep voice: "Order Wang Qing to order my soldiers of the Yingchuan Army to advance twenty steps!" ”

"Yes!"

Not long after, Li Meng also issued orders to his generals.

So, in the uproar of nearly 100,000 righteous divisions on the opposite side, the 60,000 Jin army approached neatly.

Seeing this, the generals of the righteous division were shocked and angry, and persuaded Chen Miao to enter the army and fight to the death with the Jin army opposite.

For a time, the atmosphere on the battlefield became extremely tense.

And at this moment, after twenty steps forward neatly, the Jin army stopped advancing in unison.

Seeing this, the generals of the righteous division led by Chen Miao also understood: the Jin army was putting pressure on them.

Chen Miao secretly breathed a sigh of relief, just now he almost ordered the whole army to march.

After being relieved, he asked left and right: "How many steps has the Jin army advanced?" ”

Left and right replied: "I don't know the details, about twenty steps." ”

Seeing this, Chen Miao nodded, although he was unwilling to fight the Jin army in advance without taking Xianping County, it would never weaken the momentum of his righteous teachers from all walks of life.

He immediately ordered: "Pass the order, and the armies will take thirty steps forward!" ”

"Yes!"

A moment later, nearly 100,000 righteous teachers took thirty steps forward in order.

And this is Chen Miao's reply to Xue Ao: If you go ten feet, I will go one foot!

For a while, the tense and dreary atmosphere quickly spread on this battlefield, and the soldiers on both sides were solemnly waiting for the next battle that might break out at any time.