The news of the enemy's dispatch did not come as a surprise to Shang Cheng. Since the Turquoise rangers are in the vicinity, it is likely that this will be the result, after all, the Turpents are good at attacking and not good at defending, and they can only be beaten passively if they are cowered in the camp; What's more, they are all cavalry, a cavalry that cannot maneuver to fight, and its role is often inferior to that of infantry.

Out of an abundance of caution, he asked, "Did the news confirm it?" ”

"Confirmed." Wen Mu said, "The three sentry agents all brought back the same news. ”

"How many enemies have come out?"

"It's not clear. The fog was too great and the enemy was on alert, so several sentries could not get close to the camp of the Tujitz, but they all said that they heard the orders in the enemy's camp and the movement was very large. Two sentry reports that they saw more than one black flag in a procession outside the camp. ”

"Hmm." Shang Cheng nodded and stopped speaking, raised his head and furrowed his eyebrows, his eyes staring at the direction of the Tuqi camp, as if he wanted to carefully observe and judge the enemy's movements through the white mist.

Wen Mu and Guo Biao didn't speak, quietly waiting for him to make a judgment and decision.

The fog curtain has thinned a little more, and the flags of the brigades and battalions in the vicinity can already be clearly distinguished. The pale face of the sun is like a boiled and peeled chicken egg, hidden in the thin clouds of the sky, lazily throwing a little warmth. Yesterday evening, the big grass beach, which was still yellow and green, seemed to change its face overnight, and the green grass hung with mist spread from under his feet to the slowly rising meadow three or four miles away. The meadow, which had been vaguely outlined just a moment ago, gradually became clear; Much of the fog faded and swirled like a veil under the meadow. On the green grass carpet, large clusters of yellow flowers, red flowers and purple flowers bloom one after another, the spring breeze between breaths disturbs the fragrance of flowers, and the fragrance in anticipation is blurred......

Shang Cheng withdrew his gaze from the grassland and said to Wen Mu: "Order all battalions to take turns to rest as soon as possible." ”

"Yes!"

Waiting for Wen Mu to leave, Guo Biao took two steps and stood beside Shang Cheng, and said in a deep voice: "The big battle is coming, shouldn't we let the battalions reorganize their teams first?" ”

"There's no hurry." Shang Cheng said. He glanced back at Guo Biao. Just now he was annoyed with Guo Biao's hesitant attitude, and he didn't distinguish between the importance of his words, and now he feels a little regretful when he thinks about it, although the positions of the two people are divided up and down, no matter how Guo Biao is also a senior...... Seeing Guo Biao's expression as usual, he smiled and said, "What I said just now, don't take it to heart......" Seeing Guo Biao's white face, his face flushed, and his eyes also showed a look of shame, so he stopped looking and said. After a pause, he changed the subject and said, "We are seven miles away from the camp of the Tututs, and the enemy is only now beginning to line up, and it will take at least half an hour for them to move over when they are in order; When he got to the opposite side...... he didn't look at the group of young generals who were beckoned by Guo Biao, and casually pointed to the meadow opposite and talked eloquently. "I guess their command post will be there. The terrain is high, so you can keep track of the details of the battlefield. When they arrive, we need to send outposts to reconnoiter our weak points, and then adjust our deployment, and it will take another half an hour to do this......"

A young man who looked to be only sixteen or seventeen years old raised his hand, waited for Guo Biao to nod his head, and first respectfully saluted before asking loudly: "Commander, you said that the Turks will readjust according to our military formation, why can't we make adjustments according to the deployment of the Turks?" My father once said that whenever the enemy first arrives, there must be a risk that the ranks will be chaotic and the orders will not work, and this is the time to take the enemy by surprise. ”

Shang Cheng glanced at the young man, he didn't know or remembered whether he was sent by the military department, and said casually: "The people of Tuqi are all cavalry. After saying that, a lieutenant next to him immediately ran over with a knife on his waist, and the people on the left and right were close to him, but no one heard what Shang Cheng said clearly, and then he saw the captain leading the order, and in a blink of an eye, the two heralds stepped on their horses and galloped to the left and right. When everyone retracted their eyes and looked at Shang Cheng again with a confused face, Shang Cheng had already turned his face and stopped talking, everyone, you look at me, I look at you, everyone is a paste, squeezing each other's eyes and picking their noses and gesticulating, but no one dares to come forward to ask Everyone knows that the Tuqi people are all cavalry, but what does this have to do with "taking advantage of the enemy's foothold to seize people first"?

Shang Cheng could ignore this group of young generals, but Guo Biao couldn't help but speak. In the beginning of the spring, he brought dozens of officers of the Liyuan battalion to Yanshan, most of whom had already been dispersed by the Yanshan Wei Mansion and assigned to various ministries to do deputy positions, and now they are basically the children of the high-ranking nobles in the capital, saying that they are "learning military affairs", but in fact, they are coming to the border town to earn some military merits and qualifications, and they will not leave others to catch when they make other arrangements after they go back...... Coughing lightly, he said: "The enemy is cavalry, we are foot soldiers, and two legs will definitely not outrun four legs; Right now, we are fighting on the grassland, and there is nowhere to hide on all sides, and as soon as we move, the enemy will find out......"

He still wanted to say a few more words, but Duan Si, the deputy lieutenant of the Admiral's Mansion, had already come over with a dark and ugly face, the whip of the horse crackled and the grass and leaves flew around, and his mouth was noisy and scolding: "What are you doing to be famous?" Do you understand the rules of the military? Who the allowed you to stand so high? Give me ten steps back! Dare to step forward again and again or talk loudly, be careful of military law! ”

A group of young generals who were staggered and staggered back did not dare to speak up.

Duan Si's nose was not a nose, and his eyes were not eyes, he glanced at them, he didn't even look at Guo Biao, turned around and saluted: "Commander, Shao Chuan, please see you when you raise the banner!" ”

"Shao Chuan? What's the matter with him? ”

"I don't know."

"Let him come."

Shao Chuan soon came. He is also white and clean, in his early thirties, with three locks of beard, plus eyebrows and a serene demeanor, even if he is fully armored, he does not look like a general who licks blood with a knife, but more like a professor of Fuxue who has temporarily pulled the top number. However, those who are familiar with him know that this good skin is full of ghosts, in fact, he can't recognize a basket of big characters, and even the simplest documents in the army have to be guessed to understand, and there have been many jokes because of this. Fortunately, he took a few clerks with him wherever he went, and although he was illiterate, he was guided and corrected by someone next to him, and he was also cautious and meticulous, but he never made any major mistakes. This person has a flexible mind and is very good at fighting, can attack, defend, and fight horses, and is willing to spend time pondering, so he is very appreciated by the former Yanshan Admiral Li Wei, and in a few years he was promoted from an unknown soldier to a brigade commander; Mo Gan defeated Li Wei and resigned, and after Shang Cheng took up his fake post Yanshan, he trusted him even more, although his military position did not change, he was still the commander of the main brigade. Although the Yanshan Admiral's Mansion proposed to the Ministry of War last year to promote him to the rank of general, he was rejected by the Ministry of War because of his illiteracy, but this did not affect Shang Cheng's trust in him, not long ago he also had an errand of military command in Liuzhen, and had full control over the border army of the Guards in the direction of Liuzhen, a total of 19 battalions of more than 10,000 people, if you talk about the real power in your hands, it is actually higher than Sun Huan, the commander of the Chinese army, and the status in the army is only slightly lower than the three Sima generals and Zhang Shao, who is in charge of the Wei Mansion......

Shao Chuan's leg was a little lame, it was an old injury left by Mo Gan when he broke through the siege the year before last, but he still walked very fast, and when he got closer, he snapped to the ground, the spurs and the iron armor leaves collided with a loud sound, and he saluted with his cross arm and said loudly: "Commander, are you looking for me?" ”