Shang Cheng took two steps forward in response to Wang Yi's words, leaned down on one knee, and carefully examined the marching map drawn on mulberry paper. He originally thought that as the general of Zhuguo's escort army, the topographic map of the hussars must be stronger than the piece of torn paper sent to him by Moganzhai, who knew that he would be disappointed at a glance This map is too simple, there are only a few words and symbols on the five-foot square mulberry paper, the "mountain" type symbol represents the hills, the "Chuan" shape symbol represents the river, and seven or eight large circles and double-layer circles are sparsely distributed in the middle of the drawing, accounting for less than one-sixth of the mulberry paper, all marked with words: Mogan, Heishui, Shuangma, Alegu ...... There are also a few ink lines of uneven thickness that connect the big camp represented by these large circles with the old camp of the grain depot; On the edge of the line, like the sesame seeds on the hemp cake baked by a miser, there are some small circles sprinkled one by one, which are small village military stations set up to guard the traffic of the grain road. The top of the entire map is almost completely blank except for the three big ink-black characters of "Sudden Exhaustion," and there are no topographic signs, nor the names and positions of the various departments of the grassland, and there is not even a shadow of the military dynamics such as the advance route, tactical objectives, the direction of maneuver, and the situation of the enemy and us.

Shang Cheng swallowed his saliva helplessly, pushed away his blindfold and stared at the simple marching map, pointed his finger at the Algu grain depot and asked, "Is this the Alegu military village?" ”

The generals gathered around the map were silent, but only raised their eyelids and glanced at him in a little astonishment. The map is clearly marked with the word "Alergu". Wang Yi nodded lightly and said, "Yes, that's Alegu." ”

Shang Cheng sighed and shook his head slightly. The river on the picture, which is not much longer than an earthworm, is the Alegu River? He knew that the Alegu River was one of the three largest rivers in the city, extending from the depths of the grassland in the north to Shuangmayu in the south, with a total length of at least thousands of miles, and the maximum marked on this map was no more than 100 miles...... Alas, this map is the same as the one in his hand, and I don't know when it was drawn by which bastard, and the terrain is undulating and the direction of the river is all wrong. And the diagram is also extremely loose. It is six or seven hundred miles from Alegu to Moganzhai, which is only slightly longer than two on the map, and it is only about fifty miles from Alegu to the camp of the Left Route Army, but it is also more than half a palm...... But it would be nice for him to at least be able to clearly point out the location of a few of the enemy's forces.

He measured the distance between the grain village and the big camp with his fingers, pointed to the place south of the grain road, and said: "We are now in this place, about five miles from the grain road, and ten miles from the Alegu River. Of the three groups of enemies found in the morning, two were on the north side of the grain route, probably searching for alert; The grain team is here, twenty miles from the crossing point. Most of the pack horses and camels in the grain team did not pull grain, and the pack racks were empty. He raised his head and said to Chen Zhuguo, who had been staring at the map without saying a word, "In addition, near the big camp, there is at least a detachment of more than 3,000 people. Between the Great Camp and the Alergu River, there were also many small groups of the enemy, ranging from thirty to fifty to one or two hundred. Of the three temporary camping sites we had set up last night, the smallest group of the enemy was less than thirty men, and the largest group was about one hundred and sixty or seventy men. ”

Wang Yi groaned and said, "The scale of the enemy horse team we met last night is getting smaller and smaller. It seems that the enemy's large contingent has gone east. His assertion seemed to be speaking to everyone as well as to himself, and the two generals and the three hussars on the side of the map all had grim expressions on their faces, and they looked down at the map carefully, but they did not say anything.

Wang Yi continued: "You can't go to the west now. To the north is the hinterland of the Turgitz, which cannot be walked. The eastward assault brigade had just passed, leaving behind the men to meet the rear team along the way. But now, we can only go south, down the river to Shuangma Beach. There are 1,500 soldiers stationed there, and when we get there, we will have enough room for maneuver, and then whether it is to converge with the army on the east and the middle road, or to retreat to Yanshan in the south, we can think about it in the long run. ”

A general with his hair and beard burned to a curl shook his head and said, "You can't go south. The defeat of the Left Route Army was of course due to the lack of preparedness and the loss of the grain depot and the loss of the grain route, and the fact that the army's morale was fluctuating, but the fact that several forts in the upper reaches of the Alegu River in the north did not detect the movement of the Tuqi people in advance, which was also the key reason for the defeat. Judging from the enemy's strength, it is definitely not only the left and right Da Teng Liang and Wan Nu Er ...... to encircle us," he instigated his lips and repeatedly reviewed the map, and only said slowly in a low tone for a long time, "I think that the 20,000 big tent soldiers of the King of Donglu Valley were also dispatched in this battle. Otherwise, it is impossible for the army on the left to collapse in a day and night......"

A lieutenant standing on the side leaning over to look at the map interjected, "...... Lu Fang's soldiers, as well as a brigade of the Shenwei Army, are all upstream of Alegu, less than a hundred miles away from the camp, and they have not been seen until now, so they may have been eaten. ”

Another officer said, "These two teams are mostly finished." Otherwise, when they saw the grain depot on fire, they would definitely go to the rescue. Even if you don't rescue the grain depot, you will move closer to the camp......"

Someone else said, "Maybe they didn't see the depot on fire?" ”

The officer, who concluded that Lu Fang and the Shenwei Army were finished, snorted and said, "They are closer to the grain depot than us, and if they can't see such a big fire, unless they are blind." ”

The man he rebuked immediately retorted: "If there is a grassy slope and hill between the two camps, they will not see the fire in the Algu grain depot, and it is not unusual." ”

Someone in the crowd whispered: "If Lu Fang dares to set up the stockade like that, he should cut off his head!" ”

Wang Yi turned his face, squinted his eyes and looked at several officers who were bulls regardless of the occasion, and snorted coldly in his nose. Seeing that those people all shrank their heads and closed their mouths, he turned his head and asked, "General Wei said that he can't go south, why can't he go south?" Do you think that the Tututz have already set up in the south? ”

That General Wei thought for a moment and said, "It should be like this. While setting up bait to lure us in, the Turks were secretly transferring troops, and with such a large arrangement, they must have planned more than a day or two in advance, and what they wanted was to swallow all the left army in one bite. Since they have scattered their pockets on the east, west, and north sides, how can they let us survive again? There must be heavy troops in the south! Maybe the Wei plan of Shuangmatan is also finished. ”

"So, what about us going east?" Wang Yi's words had just come out, and he himself felt that this question was ridiculous. In front of them is the tens of thousands of main forces that have just passed, even if they don't do anything, one person can drown all their thousands of people by spitting. "I mean, let's cross the Alegu River first and wait on the right bank. One by one, it is at least better than pressing on the small area between the Great Camp and Alepgu. ”

General Wei carefully observed the map, nodded slowly for a long time, and said, "This is a good idea. ”

A hussar captain hussar huddled in the crowd said: "There are still a thousand enemies guarding the crossing site. Half of them were the Great Horde. ”

Someone said: "The enemy we just defeated will definitely not give up, and will come back, if they want to eat us, they will definitely go to the crossing point to mobilize troops, so there will not be so many troops there now." ”

Someone else said, "Not necessarily. The people of Tuqi are not stupid, can they still know that as long as we hold the shallows of crossing the river, unless we are willing to spend our lives to attack, we will have to walk dozens of miles to find another place to cross the river? Moreover, most of the river crossing points in the upper and lower reaches are now in the hands of the Tukutz people......"

The former person sneered at each other: "Then according to what you said, we all have to fight hard anyway, why don't we fight now?" ”

"I didn't say that. I'm just saying that it is impossible for the Turks not to know what is at stake......"

"Then let's head south. Even if there is no Wei Fu to answer halfway, as long as we are vigilant, it is not impossible to return to Yanshan. ”

"It's not impossible, it's about making sure it's all right! From here to Yanshan for five or six hundred miles, the grain, grass, provisions, ordnance, route, organization, and dispatch on this road are ...... Also take into account the enemy engagement along the way. It all has to be well planned! ”

"Food can solve ...... on the spot"

"What about the others? Solve it on the spot? If it can't be solved, what should I do? ”

The people who gathered around the march, except for Wei Ran and the two generals, were almost all officers such as staff officers of various departments of the Left Route Army. For a while, the public said that the public was reasonable, the mother-in-law said that the mother-in-law was reasonable, and the crowd had different opinions, but no one could convince anyone, so they had to compete with red eyes and green eyebrows to see who had a louder voice and a higher voice. Several of the officers who really commanded the war were pushed out of the crowd. Wen Mu and the two hussar captains both had low ranks, so in this case, let alone interject and speak, even if there was no place for them to stand on the map, they had to stand outside the crowd and look at each other with a wry smile. Shang Cheng turned a deaf ear to the quarrel around him, still squatting on the grass, staring at the map with his eyes blazing, and his eyes followed the direction of the upper reaches of the Alegu River, patrolling all the way north. Suddenly, as soon as he looked up, he saw that Chen Zhuguo, who was on the other side of the map, was also half-squatting on one knee and did not move at all. She bowed her head slightly, her eyes drooped, and her face was expressionless, as if she had no idea what was happening around her; I don't know what she's thinking.

What did this female pillar come to the grassland for? Shang Cheng suddenly felt a little curious in his heart. But he soon put that thought behind him and refocused on the map. Although a simple map can't provide much useful information, it's better than nothing!

Seeing that the staff officers were making some trouble, Wang Yi stood up and waved his hand, and said with a cold face: "Don't make noise!" Said one by one. He is General Mingwei from Sipin, who is actually the supreme commander here, and the sentence "Don't make noise" immediately quieted everyone down. A look of satisfaction flashed in his eyes, and he stood for a moment before squatting down again and asking, "General Linde, do you think we have a better chance to go south, or do you have a better chance to go east?" ”

Linde is the word of General Ran. This is a middle-aged man with a short figure, about forty years old, but he has an old face, not only with white temples, but also with the word "Chuan" on his forehead that cannot be opened. His thin, bloodless lips were tense at all times, the corners of his mouth drooped downward, and he barely spoke; The two deep wrinkles of misery were like knives carved into his face. This person has been an official military Sima very early, and in the early years, he fought against Tujici, Wuduo, and Silla, and he won more and lost less, and he was also a general; However, in the thirteenth year of the Eastern Yuan Dynasty, because of his slow rescue, the two county towns under the rule of Bohai were burned to the ground by the Silla people, and more than 3,000 people were plundered. The next year, he was inexplicably involved in a case, and he was imprisoned for five years, almost losing his life. It wasn't until Yanshan set up a camp last year that he was remembered to be re-sponsored. However, he was not able to reinstate himself when he came out, and only served as a counselor in the camp. He is a person who has experienced a great disaster and fell and then got up, he is the most cautious and cautious on weekdays, except for the affairs ordered by the above, he refuses to say half a superfluous word, and he will not spit out a superfluous word, and now he heard Wang Yi call his name, hesitated for a moment, and then said slowly with a frown: "General Yu: I thought about it carefully, but I had a small idea, but I haven't thought through the subtleties clearly, and I don't know whether to say it or not." ”

"Brainstorming is the only way to get the best of the day, you just have to say it."

"Then I'll share my thoughts and let's discuss them together." Ran Linde drooped his eyebrows, didn't look at anyone, stared at the map and said, "Let's not go south, because we don't know the situation over there, and we must not take risks; Nor to the west, for there may be a large number of cavalry rushing to the top, and the road is unpredictable; We can't go east, because it's impossible to get food supplies to the east, let's sort it out in the east, and the people of the Turks will fight again in the past, and the grassland people will flee to death, and our food will definitely not be replenished, and we may not even have a place to get food......"

Everyone stared at him in bewilderment. There is no way to go from the east, west and south, do you want everyone to go north?

"Let's go north. Tracing the Alegu River to the north, it goes straight to the heart of the Tulchuci. This has three benefits: First, it is unexpected. The Turks would never have thought that we would throw ourselves into the net, so their defenses in the north are not strict, and their army is dispatched, and the rear is absolutely empty, and it is the time for us to show our strength. Second, it is easy to get food. There are definitely many pastures along the Alegu River, where the Turks graze their cattle, sheep and horses. Third, attacking the enemy must save and overcome the enemy's vital points. Speaking of this, a fierce look suddenly flashed in Ran Linde's originally cloudy eyes. The king of Donglu Valley kicked our camp, and we will burn his feather tent! ”

Wang Yi was also a little moved by what he said, pinched and clenched his hands with his ten fingers together, nervously calculated the gains and losses in his mind, and asked: "We only have a thousand soldiers, I'm afraid it's not enough." ”

"Don't be afraid. The Turks are in a hurry to the east, and there must not be many people left behind to clean up the remnants of the army on the left, so we can gather people and horses here for a day or two, and by the way, sweep away the rear team of the Turpents to replenish military resources. ”