The plan has been decided, Liu Wei arranged all the chief officers of the army one by one, properly explained their respective affairs, and finally led Zhang Liao's seven or eight fellow villagers, relatives and friends, plus half of the weak recruits who came and went from other counties, went to the military brocade robes, changed into ordinary linen pleated hemp trousers, and found a few tattered and messy yellow turbans, placed them in the package bag, and went straight to Yingyang City in the northwest direction.

And Yang Gu, who stayed in place, was already wearing a brocade robe at this time, with a blue ribbon and silver seal, at first glance, he looked like a young Sima, if it wasn't for the person who had seen Liu Wei, it would be difficult to distinguish between it and it.

As for Zhang Liao, at this moment, he also went to ordinary clothes, and put on a silver armor given by Liu Wei and others, although his body shape is slightly higher than Liu Wei's half-head, but there is not much difference between the skeleton framework of the two, so Liu Bian's silver armor is now worn on Zhang Liao's body, but it also looks extremely matched, so that Zhang Liao, who was originally just a reckless teenager, is actually a proud appearance of a young general.

However, what is astonishing is that Yang Gu, who was appointed as the commander of the ministry for Liu Bian, actually favored Zhang Liao, who was also highly valued by Liu Bian, although Zhang Liao was only 14 years old, but since Liu Biao and Tang Qi went to the northwest, in this army, no matter how big or small, Yang Gu has carefully discussed with this Zhang Liao, and it is by no means despised because of his young age.

In this way, the rest of the soldiers in this army naturally did not dare to tell any more stories about this Zhang Liao. After all, the Wenzong on the main monument of Luoyang Hongdu Gate, others don't know, but the three hundred tiger ben armor soldiers are clear and clear, Yang Gu is recognized as Hongdu Wenzong by Liu Wei himself, so these three hundred tiger ben armor soldiers naturally respect him very much, and the tiger armor soldiers respect Yang Gu, and the seven hundred new army naturally has nothing to say.

As for Zhang Liao, it's just the same trace.

After Liu Wei left the military camp with Tang Qi and more than a dozen fellow villagers from Bingzhou, Yang Gu immediately began to exert his right to act as Sima and prepare to set up camp.

And now Liu Bian's department is about 200 miles east of Xiangcheng, and there is still a hundred miles away from Nandun, and Sun Jian and Cheng Pu are about 50 or 60 miles away from the location of Liu Bian's department at this moment. ”

The leader of the team didn't think about it, so he replied: "If you don't spare horsepower, only seek speed, and you can reach it in about half a day after galloping fifty miles." ”

"If you don't spare any horsepower, you can travel more than 50 miles in most of the day, and naturally you will have no combat power, right?" Yang Gu thought for a moment and continued to ask.

The team leader nodded, and said: "Naturally, so the cavalry marches and does not covet the speed of the journey, and the fifty miles a day is also the limit, if the two horsemen are parallel, I am afraid that thirty miles a day is quite a lot." ”

Yang Gu frowned and sighed: "This cavalry march seems to be completely different from when I was a believer. ”

"That's nature." The team leader smiled calmly: "In terms of the speed of the messenger alone, the speed of the cavalry march is naturally far from comparable, you must know that the messenger's itinerary, there are galloping roads, post stations, can do all kinds of supplies, naturally there is no need to spare horsepower, the speed is naturally extremely fast, but the cavalry march needs to transport ordnance and iron tools, and such things often have pack horses." ”

Before the team could finish explaining, Yang Gu nodded again and again and interrupted: "No matter what kind of ordnance or iron weapon, whether it is a light tool or not, the transportation of pack horses is naturally extremely laborious, so the speed will never be too fast, in this case, the speed of the cavalry is also limited." ”

When the team leader heard this, he also nodded again and again and agreed: "That's exactly the reason, but why is Team Yang asking some questions?" ”

Yang Gu smiled bitterly and said, "I was thinking that the moth thief cavalry might have to carry out a surprise attack, so I need to calculate the distance so that I can prepare in advance." ”

The team leader was stunned when he heard this, obviously Yu Yanggu's words were incredulous: "What? These moth thieves will bypass the first two Simas and attack our department. ”

"Yes, maybe." Yang Gu nodded, frowned and said, "Actually, I don't know, it's just that His Highness had already told Zhang Liao about this before he left, and asked him to stay here and defend against the raid of the moth thieves with me." ”

When the team leader heard this, Liu argued, and even if there was no doubt, he asked earnestly: "In that case, what does Team Yang want?" How to resist the raid of the moth thief, can there be a plan? ”

Yang Gu smiled bitterly, shook his head, and sighed: "As you said, if this moth thief is attacked by cavalry, it will take more than half a day to get here, and after this half a day, it will already be night, so you can't do stupid things like night fighting, right?" ”

The team leader shook his head again and again.

Seeing this, Yang Gu seemed to let go of half of his heart, and smiled with relief: "You think so too, right?" ”

"Not necessarily." Unexpectedly, the leader of the team objected and said: "In my opinion, if the moth thieves are determined to attack our troops, they may not necessarily send cavalry to come. ”

Yang Gu has never had battlefield experience, and he heard that the current team rate is so calculating, so he naturally doesn't know, judging from his experience in later generations, this kind of surprise attack on the battlefield is nothing more than sending a cavalry, running for thousands of miles and then forming a powerful charge, and then causing absolute damage to the enemy formation, if you don't send cavalry to raid, do you send foot soldiers? Can a foot pawn still be called a raid?

Thinking about it like this, the question naturally blurted out: "Why can't you send cavalry?" ”

The team leader smiled calmly: "It's not that you can't send cavalry, in my opinion, the moth thief will not send cavalry." ”

"Why?"

The team leader pointed to his own war horse behind him and smiled: "Because horses are very expensive." ”

Yang Gu was even more speechless, naturally puzzled.

"Team Yang's rate can tell how much money this horse should have?"

Yang Gu shook his head in amazement.

The team leader stretched out two fingers and smiled: "Two million dollars." ”

Seeing that Yang Gu was shocked and speechless, the team leader continued to laugh and said: "Two million dollars a horse, and it is still some ordinary breeds, Rao is a sweaty and bloody horse like His Royal Highness, I am afraid it is more than ten million dollars." ”

Yang Gu stayed for a long time, but finally came back to his senses and nodded.

Seeing this, the team leader continued: "If the three Zhonglang will be ordered to go on the expedition this time, the money and food will be allocated by the imperial court, and it will only be a patchwork of 5,000 cavalry, Lu Zhonglang went north to Jizhou to crusade against Zhang Jiao, the war was hard, and he was divided into 3,000 cavalry, and Huangfu Gong and Zhu Gong were to fight against Yingchuan Bocai, there were only 2,000 cavalry, of which 300 knights were deployed by my Tiger Army, and the other 1,700 cavalry were deployed by Chun Yu Duwei and Cao Duwei. ”

Yang Gu suddenly felt in his heart, but he couldn't help but praise the insight of this team: "You know so much!" ”

The team leader smiled embarrassedly and bitterly, shook his head again and again, and said: "These stories are all told to me by His Royal Highness all the way from Luoyang, I am just a small official, how can I know about these many military affairs." ”

"I see." Yang Gu nodded again, and after a while, he said: "So the moth thief is reluctant to use cavalry to attack our department, so he will send infantry?" ”

The team leader shook his head again and said, "But it's not." ”

Yang Gu's face turned red, and he sighed and said, "How is it not?" ”

"I thought that the moth thieves didn't use cavalry to raid, not just because the cavalry was expensive and they were reluctant to use it." The team leader said calmly: "In the end, my Sima is now His Royal Highness the Prince, no matter how precious this cavalry is, how can His Royal Highness be valuable?" ”

Yang Gu breathed a sigh of relief and nodded: "If it is true, you can capture His Highness with such a blow and lose some cavalry, it is really not enough." ”

The team leader nodded and continued: "So I thought that the moth thieves would not use cavalry to raid, but because Na Bocai was also a general, he naturally knew that cavalry and attacking the camp were of little effect, and it was far less effective than the infantry attacking the camp in formation. ”

Yang Gu nodded again and again, and suddenly said: "If this is the reason, these reasons are also what His Highness told you." ”

The team leader nodded with a smile and said: "Although Your Highness is young, he has read through the past and the present, and has a clear understanding of the battlefield situation, and he is really the smartest person in the world." ”

Yang Gu smiled bitterly and said yes, but there was a strange feeling churning in his heart, as if he was very jealous of Liu Wei's intelligence and wit, but he was extremely puzzled by all the thoughts of this state of mind.

Just when he was in a trance, he heard the young general in the silver armor shouting loudly in the distance: "I have found a place to camp." ”

Yang Gu and the team led the two to look at each other and saw that the person who came was Zhang Liao.

The team leader was overjoyed, and he actually walked forward quickly, shouting at Zhang Liao: "But where is it." ”

Zhang Liao took the team and ran to Yang Gu with his left hand, squatted down, found a branch, and tossed towards the dust and gravel on the ground: "There is a big mound three or five miles to the south, and one mile to the east of the mound is a forest, and it is east, west, north and south, my department can camp on the mound, on the one hand, you can rely on the east woods to shade, and on the other hand, you can also climb high to detect the surrounding military situation, what do you think of the two teams?" ”

When the team leader heard this, he was also happy and said: "If it is as His Highness said, the moth thief should come from the east, and there is this woods to cover it, it is really better than a few points above the smooth road of camping, what does Team Yang think?" ”

Yang Guwu looked at Zhang Liao's many comparisons on the loess and asked, "How big is this mound?" Isn't it a small dirt bag? ”

Zhang Liao shook his head again and again, and said excitedly: "It is a huge mound, as big as half a mountain, and this mound is also covered with dense forests, covering thousands of our troops, which is no better." ”

Yang Gu frowned slightly, and asked, "But if the place where our department is sheltered is detected by the moth thief, and the moth thief leads the crowd to besiege it, then it will become a desperate situation." ”

Zhang Liao and the team leader were all stunned, and it took a long time to see Zhang Liao frowning and asking: "What if the 700 new army is divided into a large battalion and camped on the gentle slope east of the mound, and the 300 tiger knights are divided into a small battalion and camped in a hidden place on the south side of the mound, and the two battalions respond to each other's horns?" ”