The camp was in a mess, with many things piled up in a mess, and it seemed as if they were in a hurry to leave. There wasn't anything meaningful in it, so, after checking it out for a while, there was basically nothing out of the ordinary. Soon, a great fire broke out of the city. Zhou Tong and Peng Lin continued to lead the thousand men and horses to the west, as if they were going to chase Zhang Ju and others who had withdrawn their troops in a hurry.

Not long after they had walked out, the spies who had been sent out before came back and reported: "Qi Qi two generals, the enemy army is marching westward. It's only more than 20 miles away, and it looks like it's in a hurry, and it's very slow! ”

"Got it, probe again!" Zhou Tong nodded and commanded.

"Yes!" The scout replied, and then turned and left.

"General Zhou, it seems that the enemy is as we expected!" Peng Lin looked at Zhou Tong and said to him.

"That's the best! We're ready to do our thing! Let's do what we have discussed! Zhou Tong smiled and then said.

The two immediately ordered the troops to roll out their flags and move forward quietly. Thanks to this time, when the army came to support, it brought a lot of horses. Therefore, when these thousand soldiers and horses moved, they all rode forward, which was much faster.

It didn't take long for their group to be more than 20 miles away from the county seat. Although there was no trace of the enemy in front of them, the spies sent by the enemy army were able to find them from time to time.

This also shows that they should not be too far away from the enemy, but Zhou Tong and the others are not in a hurry at all, and they are slowly moving forward with the army.

The sky is getting darker and colder, and this kind of night is a good cover for both the Liangzhou soldiers and horses and Zhou Tong.

Under the dark night, in the dense forest at the foot of the mountain, there were a number of soldiers and horses lurking at this time.

At this time, he was at the foot of Nanshan Mountain, more than 30 miles west of the county seat of Yuanwei. And looking at him, there are a lot of people lurking here like him.

"General, General Qiyu! The Huashan army really chased out of the city! Now, they are slowly moving westward, far behind the vanguard army, and they are already more than twenty miles away from the county seat! In the darkness of the night, a knight hurried from the west, turned over and dismounted in front of Zhang Ju, and reported.

"How many men do they have?" When Zhang Ju heard this, he couldn't help but be overjoyed, and then asked.

"It's about a thousand people, and it seems to be led by Zhou Tong! However, these thousand people are all on horseback, I don't know if it is the cavalry of the Huashan Army! With their speed, I'm afraid they will soon catch up with our army of forwards! The spy hurriedly replied.

"Only a thousand? Well, if it's a cavalry, it's fine! Inquire again, and if you find anything, report back to me immediately! Hearing this, Zhang Ju couldn't help frowning slightly, as if talking to himself, and then ordered.

"Yes! The little ones are going! The spy got up and went.

"Give the order, all the troops will follow me, do not make any noise, and be sure to keep it secret!" After the spies left, Zhang Ju quickly issued a new order.

After hearing this order, Liangzhou soldiers began to come out of the woods on the side one by one. A rough estimate shows that there are nearly five thousand, and most importantly, there are more than 1,500 cavalry present!

It is really incredible that such a large army is hidden more than 30 miles west of the county seat of Yuanwei. After Zhang Ju's order was issued, the group took advantage of the cover of night to quietly march towards the county seat of Yuanwei along the northern foot of the southern mountain range.

The terrain to the west of Yuanwei County is relatively flat, except for the one near the foot of the two mountain ranges. In terms of shape, the area outside the west city is like a trumpet, and the closer you get to the county seat, the narrower the distance from north to south, and the farther you go west, the greater the width.

Outside the county seat, the distance between the two mountains is less than ten miles away. But all the way to the west, to the county seat sixty or seventy miles away, the north-south width of the place has reached more than fifty miles.

In this weather, there is not even a moon, and if it is deliberate, it is almost possible to reach out and not see the five fingers. Zhang Ju led the army all the way forward, and did not encounter any thrills along the way, so it can be said that he returned to the two miles outside the city of Yuanwei County smoothly.

Looking at the torch lights on the head of the county town, as well as the soldiers of the Huashan Army who were heavily guarded and patrolling back and forth, Zhang Ju couldn't help but sigh. After all, the city has been holding itself back for a long time. If I can't do it tonight, I'm afraid I won't have a chance to come back here in the future.

"When I take this city, I will tear it down!" At the end, Zhang Ju said hatefully in his heart.

After calming down, he ordered the army to wait quietly, waiting for the time to act. However, as time slowly passed, nearly two hours passed, but the scene he imagined still did not appear, which made everyone a little arrogant.

"It's been so long, and it stands to reason that I'm supposed to be back, right? Why hasn't it arrived yet? Could it be that something happened in the middle? Zhang Ju couldn't help but start thinking about it in his heart.

This time, because he was unwilling, he decided to fight back again before leaving. And his approach was to pretend to retreat, but in fact only half of the people in the army were retreating, and those people were slowly moving forward in front of them, in order to attract Zhou Tong and them to chase after them.

The real power is actually the roundabout troops led by him and Niu Ba.

Zhang Ju and Niu Ba, each led 5,000 men and horses, and retreated one step ahead of the vanguard army when they took the lead. But in fact, the two of them changed their directions when they walked more than 40 miles away from the county seat of Yuanwei.

Niu Ba led the army to the north, rushed to the foot of the North Mountain, and lurked in the mountains and forests first. When it got dark, he immediately led the army along the foot of the mountain to rush back to the county seat. And Zhang Ju is the same, except that he turned around and went south, along the foot of the mountain range to the south.

If all went well, they planned to outflank the Huashan army that was leaving the city. First lurked not far from the outside of the city, and when the Huashan army returned, they would directly kill from the north and south, cutting off the Huashan army's way back to the city.

And at this time, if the 10,000 army that was used as a bait before took advantage of the situation to kill it back, it would be impossible for that part of the Huashan army to escape.

Of course, if it was just a simple roundabout, it would not have used so many people. But Zhang Ju still had the last thought in his heart, that is, when the soldiers and horses outside the city were surrounded by them, the defenders in the county town would go out of the city to rescue, and he could take the opportunity to kill into the city.

In this way, maybe you can take the county seat of Yuanwei. Even if he didn't take the county seat in the end, as long as he eliminated the Huashan army chased out by Zhou Tong, it would definitely be of great benefit to his next real retreat.

And the Huashan Army, which had just experienced a great defeat, must not dare to chase it out again to prevent it from retreating back to Gulangxia Pass! As long as he is not contained, he successfully returns to the Gulang Gorge Pass, and then takes the pass back, and all the problems will be solved.

"Go, ask Niu Ba if it's ready!" Zhang Ju, who was a little restless, thought for a while, and then sent someone to contact Niu Ba on the other side.

However, his messenger had not yet departed, but another messenger had come from the west.

The person who came hurriedly ran over, and after finding Zhang Ju, he said: "General Qiyu, General Yi sent a villain to tell the general that the Huashan soldiers and horses who were originally following the army disappeared on the way. Please also ask the general to be vigilant and stay safe! ”

Yi Tu is the commander of the forward army, with 10,000 troops in front as bait, they must always pay attention to the movements of the Huashan army behind them.

"What? How could the more than 1,000 people of the Huashan Army disappear? Could it be that these big living people can still disappear out of thin air? Hearing this, Zhang Ju was a little stunned, and after reacting, he suddenly said angrily.

"The little ones don't know, the Huashan army did follow the army far away, but after about twenty or thirty miles, they disappeared silently!" The messenger replied with some reluctance.

Hearing this news, Zhang Ju's whole person was not good. At this time, he suddenly realized that it was not Huashan Army who was ambushed, but himself! I designed a good one, and I wanted to turn defeat into victory before leaving, but the result was that someone was calculated!

It's no wonder that the scouts he sent out never came back, presumably because they were discovered by the Huashan army. No wonder the Huashan Army, which should have returned a long time ago, couldn't be seen for a long time, it turned out that they had already seen through their plans! As for himself, he is still stupidly waiting for someone to come in.

"Damn! When someone came, he immediately sent more scouts to search for the traces of the Huashan Army, and he wanted to see people dead or corpses! The more he thought about it, the more bad it became, Zhang Ju immediately sent a lot of people out to investigate the traces of the Huashan army.

What he is most worried about now is that he doesn't know what Huashan Jun wants to do. Since they are out of the city, they can't always come out to wander, and they must have a purpose. It's just that Zhou Tong's target is himself, or Niu Ba's side, or the 10,000 army of the forward!

"Come on, go and call Niu Ba to me!" After thinking about it, Zhang Ju only felt that his head was in a mess for a while, and he hurriedly sent someone to find Niu Ba over, and he was ready to discuss it. Take a hundred plating to read the latest chapter of "Eastern Jin Dynasty Tang Wang's Claw Book House" for free for the first time.