The winter moon is over, the wax moon is coming, and the New Year's flavor in Qingzhou City has gradually become stronger. After a whole year of hard work, people have put down their work in the fields and choose to rest and have a good year at this time.

Different from the rest and recuperation of the people, the movement of the drill in the Qingzhou military camp is becoming more and more intense, not only the camp is shouting and shouting from morning to night, and the whole city is heard, and there will be a large number of people and horses running around the city in a neat line every day, which can open the eyes of the people in the city.

A tough battle is very likely to be imminent, which makes the generals at all levels in the army from Sun Tu dare not have the slightest relaxation at this time, adhering to Sun Tu's attitude of sweating more in peacetime and shedding less blood in wartime, so that the soldiers under his command can train hard day by day, in order to make these township soldiers from various state capitals can be put into the real battlefield as soon as possible.

The effect of hard work and hard training in these days is still quite obvious, at this time, this army composed of many people and horses has gradually had a serious appearance, whether it is the queue or the battle formation, it looks like a look, with the sound of the order, the movements of the soldiers wielding weapons in each platoon are also uniform, and it looks quite imposing.

But even so, these performances still feel far from enough in Sun Tu's eyes, because what is presented now is just an appearance, and this army lacks a spiritual spirit after all, which is a kind of mysterious and mysterious, but it can be clearly felt by the army's fearless temperament.

Only when an army has this temperament can it truly be reborn, and it can be called elite soldiers, even in the face of a powerful enemy, even if they are in danger, they can work together and fight under the reasonable command of the generals. But this temperament is not something that can be obtained through ordinary exercises, it is only after experiencing the test of life and death, after the baptism of war, and poured with iron and blood, it is obvious that this official army is far from this now.

Perhaps, when they can defeat a possible strong enemy this time, the whole army will be able to get that temperament, and thus make a qualitative leap.

The officers and men in the army are training hard under the command of the generals under them, and Sun Tu, as the supreme commander, does not have to come forward to train the troops in person at this time. But he was not idle, and for the past few days, he had been studying the hiding place of the foreign army that might launch a surprise attack on Shandong, and the real target location of them this time.

However, because there were too few relevant clues at hand, even if he had discussed with Zhu Wu and the others for a long time, he still couldn't get the point, so it seemed that everything would have to wait for the scout camp brought by Shi Qian to send the information in time.

As the scout who is best at gathering intelligence, this time migration really did not disappoint Sun Tu, seven or eight days later, a scout team named Gao Hui brought back some important news and reported it to Sun Tu:

"Metropolitan Supervisor, we have conducted a careful investigation in Lingzhou and several nearby prefectures this time, but we found that except for a group of suspicious ginseng sellers in Lingzhou City, there is no sign of a large number of people and horses pouring in anywhere else. Also, the city of Zengtou has been very low-key lately, and the four gates of their small city have been closed almost all day, and it took our brother a long time to get in with them, and they have been driven out before they can investigate carefully. ”

"Only Lingzhou has more people? Visiting the guest ......" Sun Tu frowned, of course he knew that there were many prolific ginseng in the Jurchen territory, and it was not surprising that these guys would enter Lingzhou City as ginseng sellers, but would they really target Lingzhou? That's where the foundation of Zengtou City is, and they're really so desperate?

Zhu Wu was also suspicious, and seeing that Sun Tu didn't mean to continue speaking, he asked, "What about the situation in other county towns other than the prefecture?" Have you sent anyone to investigate? Maybe those guys are cautious, and they will hide their hands in those obscure county towns, and just wait for the time to suddenly attack. ”

"Well, we didn't have many people in the past, so we haven't taken care of the county town below. However, it stands to reason that the county seat is a more difficult place to hide people, after all, there are few people there, and suddenly there are many unknown people, and the government will definitely be alert. ”

"Well, what you said is true, but if they are willing to put some thought and effort into it, it will not be easy to find them. In addition, if it is really a Jurchen, with their skills, it is not too difficult to hide in the wild for ten days and a half months, which makes it even more difficult to find their whereabouts. Sun Tu glanced at Gao Hui with some approval, this scout team has a clear mind, but he is a talent that can be created.

Suddenly, his heart moved, and he looked at Zhu Wu: "You just said that they will do it when the time comes, which is a bit interesting." For outsiders, it is not easy to blend into the territory of our Shandong, let alone hide here. But they were not in a hurry to act after they arrived, but kept dragging their feet, so tell me, what time are they waiting for? ”

These words really knocked down Zhu Wu, who was a little scheming, and after opening his mouth, he didn't know how to answer for a while. If it was the summer and autumn season, he could have explained that the enemy should be waiting for the autumn harvest to grab the new grain. But now it's winter, and all the grain taxes that should have been collected have reached the treasury, and as long as they can really break the city, the goods in it will be theirs, so why wait?

"Could it be that they were waiting for the next soldiers to arrive, so our scouts couldn't find their whereabouts?" Zhu Wu guessed and said, but he didn't have enough confidence.

Sun Tu pondered for a moment, but still shook his head: "This shouldn't be quite like it." Since the other party has been planning for a long time, he is determined to win, and he is even about to use the card of Zeng Tou City, how can he not even prepare the minimum number of people? There must be another reason! By the way, do you have any other discoveries in Lingzhou this time? ”

"This ......" Gao Hui frowned and recalled, and then said: "By the way, it is said that a batch of military rations will be sent to Lingzhou a year ago, but because of the heavy snow, it was delayed, and the defenders in the city still mentioned this matter at that time!" ”

Sun Tu's gaze immediately became sharp, he took a deep breath, and looked at Zhu Wu. The latter was also shocked, but he had to accept this fact: "They really hit Ling Zhou with their ideas!" ”

I thought that the intrusion with Zengtou City's participation would inevitably exclude Lingzhou, but after going around in a circle, the target returned to the original point. Sun Tu pondered for a moment, and soon inferred: "If this is the case, it is impossible for the leader of this matter to be Zeng Tou City, and it is even likely that they are forced to be helpless." No wonder Lin Chong went to Zengtou City once and easily brought the news out, this should be because of his internal disagreement, someone deliberately revealed the wind, and wanted to use the hands of the government to sabotage this incident. ”

Zhu Wu also nodded and agreed: "What the capital prison said is very true, Lingzhou is the foundation of Zengtou City, and they will never allow a big chaos to occur in the local area." It was only because he was held hostage that he had to obey orders. ”

"That's easy, as long as there is a rift between them, not one mind, one can be broken one by one." Sun Tu immediately stood up, strode to the map hanging on the side, and pointed to the location marked Lingzhou: "Without further ado, we will send troops to rescue Lingzhou!" ”

"Eunuch, are you in too much of a hurry, maybe they have another goal?" Zhu Wu still asked with some disbehesitation.

Sun Tu shook his head very firmly: "Judging from all the intelligence, our guess should not be wrong, their target is in Lingzhou!" If we drag on any longer, we will be passive, after all, no one knows when those foreign thieves will do it. If we really wait for them to do something before rushing over, we are afraid that hundreds of people will be killed, and then our responsibility will be great. ”

Sun Tu's words made Zhu Wu's heart move, and he glanced at him with admiration. He had just returned to Shun not long ago, and he didn't know enough about Sun Tu, and he only heard other soldiers and people say how Sun Dujian loved the people and was upright, and it was not until today that he really felt the true side of Sun Tuweimin, which made him really respect Sun Tu.

Subsequently, Zhu Wu thought of Liang Shanbo's so-called heroes who were robbing and killing people outside under the banner of "doing the right thing for the sky", compared with them, Sun Tu was the one who was righteous and did the right thing for the sky!

Thinking of this, Zhu Wu's spirit immediately perked up, and he hurriedly hugged his fists and said: "Humble and obedient, this time I will definitely break this enemy with the capital eunuch!" ”

Sun Tu didn't care too much about the change in the other party's mind, but just smiled faintly: "Beat the drums, gather the generals!" ”

With this order, the sound of drums quickly resounded throughout the barracks, and after a while, generals and leading officers at all levels rushed to Sun Tu's barracks one after another. After hearing what he said and the decision to send troops, everyone obeyed and asked for battle one by one.

However, this time, Sun Tuzhen, as he said before, only selected 3,000 men and horses transferred from other state capitals to rescue Pingkou, but left the most elite Qingzhou army. Of course, for the sake of insurance, he still brought 300 pro-soldiers with him, all of whom were the soldiers who had followed him for the longest time and had the strongest combat effectiveness.

After everything was properly arranged and the other generals continued to train their soldiers and horses in the city, Sun Tu left Qingzhou City with his troops.

When the people in the city saw Sun Dujian's banner fluttering and leaving Qingzhou, everyone was a little at a loss, this is almost the New Year, why did Sun Dujian lead the army to leave again? Is there another war, and there are thieves and thieves? But recently, there has been a lot of peace in Shandong, and there have been no soldiers.

So a saying began to circulate that Sun Dujian was requisitioned by the imperial court to quell the chaos elsewhere, which immediately made the people panic, for fear that Sun Tu's departure would cause a big mess like before. Today's people in Qingzhou have long been inseparable from Sun Tu and regard him as the patron saint of the whole city......