Perhaps it was because the last fiasco had a great impact and burden on Fang Dongquan, so this time he went to Shuilongzhai to become extremely conservative.

On the first day of the march, the left army led by him was at the front, but it walked very slowly, keeping a large number of spies in front of him at all times, and only after ensuring safety did it continue to advance.

This conservative and cautious attitude can be said to be timid, which makes Butcher Chen quite dissatisfied, and even Liu Bagou has a lot of complaints about it.

Butcher Chen said: "Your Majesty, today we have only walked ten miles a day, this is not good, if we spend too much time on the road, the food we bring is not enough, we must speed up, we must rush to Shuilong Village within three days!" ”

Liu Bagou also said: "What General Chen said is also reasonable, our army has very little food to prepare for travel, and the soldiers bring their own dry food, which is only enough for three or four days, even if you add the rice grain brought by the Chinese army, it is only enough for seven days at most." ”

Fang Dongquan on the side immediately said: "Shuilongzhai came to our Huangzhu Mountain last time, and was repelled by us, now they must be on guard, we have come out so much this time, the other party is very likely to have noticed it, if we set up an ambush on the road, it is very likely that our light troops will be ambushed by the other party!" ”

At this time, Li Xuan was also a little hesitant, in fact, he, like Fang Dongquan, maintained a cautious and conservative attitude.

But this time, the army of Huangzhushan went out, although it boasted of being a large army and a battle for the country, but in fact there were only about 130 people, and in addition to the weapons and food that they carried, they basically didn't bring any baggage, not even tents.

It is a veritable light march, according to reason, the speed of the march should not be too slow, even if you can't walk forty or fifty miles a day, but twenty or thirty miles is still very easy.

Moreover, when they went out this time, they did not bring much food, not that they didn't want to bring more, but there was not much food in Huangzhu Mountain, and more than 100 of them went out to fight, and they took away all the best rice grains to ensure their physical strength, which left only a small amount of rice grain and those miscellaneous grains for the old and weak women and children in Huangzhu Mountain.

Their original plan was very simple, that is, after capturing Shuilongzhai, they would directly eat the grain of Shuilongzhai, in Liu Bagou's words: they would eat the enemy.

However, if they spend two or three more days on the road, and when they arrive at Shuilongzhai, the food will almost run out, and the time left for them to attack Shuilongzhai may not be enough.

Who knows what the specific situation of the attack on Shuilongzhai will be, if it goes well, it may be able to take it in half an hour with a charge, but if it doesn't go well, it may take several days.

Thinking of this, Li Xuan glanced at Fang Dongquan.

At this time, Fang Dongquan saw Li Xuan's gaze towards him, and said after a while: "It's not impossible to start speeding up the march tomorrow, but the risk is still a bit big, and you have to send out more spies!" ”

Li Xuan nodded.

This expedition, although nominally Li Xuan personally commanded the expedition, there were many things that he didn't understand, such as taking that road, sleeping there at night, etc., all of which needed to be decided by Fang Dongquan, a person who was familiar with this mountain.

Since Fang Dongquan said so, he should have some confidence in his heart.

The next day, the speed of the march had indeed increased considerably, and on this day, they had walked a full thirty miles.

Don't look at this thirty-mile road for the future generations to be just more than ten kilometers away, normal people can walk for three hours to get there, but you have to know that Li Xuan is not a big road when they go to it, they are all walking paths in the mountains and forests, these paths are generally hunters, mountain people will go, usually only allow single people to pass, and many places are curved and steep, it is not easy to walk.

Even sometimes the path they walk cannot be called a road, but a wilderness with fewer weeds and trees.

Therefore, it is very difficult to walk, and the speed of this travel is naturally not there.

This is because they all advance lightly, and if it were those regular troops with a lot of baggage, it would be quite good to be able to advance twenty miles in one day.

In addition to the difficulty of the road, it is also related to Fang Dongquan's caution, whenever he passes through some more dangerous areas, such as valleys and dense forests, Fang Dongquan will always send spies to check first, and only after confirming that there is no danger will he pass.

However, the speed of traveling thirty miles a day has already made Liu Bagou and Butcher Chen more satisfied, at least Butcher Chen did not say that Fang Dongquan was timid, and deliberately dragged the army not to advance.

That night, everyone camped in the wilderness as usual, they didn't even have tents, only some people brought thin blankets, some brought thick coats, and some simply didn't bring anything, everyone found a leeward col and rested directly on the ground for the night.

It's all Li Xuan, covered with a quilt when he sleeps at night, this is what Mrs. Bai prepared for him, afraid that his son would fall ill, the last time Li Xuan escaped and fell ill from heat stroke, but it made Mrs. Bai worried, this time Li Xuan said that he would personally lead the army to go out, he was also worried, and he asked for warmth before leaving, and he couldn't wait to prepare everything for Li Xuan.

Even Dong Yunyun showed a worried look, and gave Li Xuan a cloak the night before the expedition, well, this was sewn by her own hands, and Zhu'er also helped a lot.

It's a pity that although this cloak is sewn with good silk and satin materials, Li Xuan's appearance has increased significantly after wearing it, and he looks elegant, but this thing is useless, neither can keep out the rain, nor does it keep warm.

So although he brought this cloak, Li Xuan naturally wouldn't put it on on the march, at most, when the battle of Water Dragon Village was about to start, the cloak was pretended, so that those turtles in Water Dragon Village could see the demeanor of the Tang Dynasty.

There was nothing to say all night, and the next day they hurried as usual, but on this day, it was obvious that everyone had lost the relaxed look of the previous two days, because they all knew that the Water Dragon Village was about twenty miles ahead.

Moreover, it is impossible for the people of Shuilongzhai not to set up sentry posts on the periphery, so it is very likely that after a few hours, they will encounter the people of Shuilongzhai in the peripheral area of Shuilongzhai.

As the sun rose, they walked more and more carefully, and only in the afternoon did they walk fifteen miles, and now, it was less than five miles away from the water dragon village.

Fang Dongquan in front had already sent someone to report, saying that he had found the traces of the sentry post in Shuilongzhai, but it was already empty.

The people of Shuilongzhai really set up a sentry on the periphery, but the people in the sentry had already left, and it was obvious that they had found the people from Huangzhushan and evacuated first.

Maybe it won't be long before a large number of people from Shuilong Village will appear, and a big battle will break out between the two sides!

But to Li Xuan's surprise, although the people of Shuilongzhai obviously discovered their traces, the expected large number of people in Shuilongzhai never appeared.

There's something strange about that!

It's not just Li Xuan who thinks so!

Liu Bagou also frowned and said: "If something goes wrong, there must be a demon!" ”