By the time the troops of the Elective Battalion returned to the ridge again, it was getting dark.

And at this moment, Yao Chang received the latest enemy situation reported by the spies: the enemy army is advancing north!

Yao Chang was extremely conflicted in the face of the tired and incomprehensible faces of the guards and captains, how to explain to them how to march next?

His heart was messy and his legs were sore.

Everyone is puzzled, Master Zhang, who has been fighting for decades, is no exception, back and forth a few times, but he is tired enough, if it weren't for the help of the forbidden army, he would have been tired and lay down, and now it is not much better.

"Deputy Envoy Yang, what's going on with them, the enemy hasn't seen it, what are you running back and forth, tossing for three or four hours, and you're full?"

Master Zhang, who has always had a good temper, finally has some temper at this time.

Yang Congyi was a little helpless, it was really no wonder that Yao Chang was fighting like this, and if he was to blame, he was too worried about the enemy's opportunity and wanted to fight a prepared battle.

"Master Zhang doesn't know, according to my guess, the selection of generals should have been deceived by the opponent. The scouts of the selection battalion were arranged from the mountain pass to the temporary camp, and from the moment the challenge troops entered the mountain, their marching situation was mastered by the selected generals, and under normal circumstances, the selected troops would have an absolute advantage. But there are also accidents, if the opponent guesses in advance the existence of the spies of the selected troops, they can use their spies to deceive them, such as a fork in the road, no matter which one you take, you can eventually reach the destination, the opponent can turn repeatedly at the fork in the road, the spies will be the first to know the new enemy situation, as long as the time difference between the repeated turns is controlled, it can affect the other side to make a good deployment in advance. ”

"The route in the mountains, the challenge troops have come in before, and they also have a map in their hands, this time the other party's choice of turning place must be a key point, as long as they turn to the march, the deployment of the selected troops on the ridge will be disappointed, because of this, the selected troops will be led by the nose back and forth."

After listening to Yang Congyi's explanation, Master Zhang nodded slightly, and the expression on his face gradually improved.

"It seems that this opponent is not simple, how are you going to deal with it?"

Yang Congyi smiled, shook his head and said, "This is not the business of the lower officials, how to deal with it depends on themselves." ”

"What would you do if you were commanding the selection of troops?"

Master Zhang thought carefully about the problem that had been repeatedly turned in key positions, and suddenly became interested, if he wanted to deploy in advance, how could he not have to be led by the nose by the other party?

"Respond to change with the same. No matter how it changes, because the distance between the two armies is too far, the military intelligence information will inevitably lag behind a lot, and it is inevitable that the other side will be held back and the army will be discouraged. In the face of this situation, if you can't stabilize it, there will be no victory. ”

Information asymmetry, this situation is actually difficult to crack, Yang Congyi thought about it carefully, and could only give such an explanation.

"What do you think this army will do? Can you jump out of the other person's trap? ”

On the one hand, Lord Zhang is interested in this tactic, and on the other hand, he hopes that the selected generals will quickly come up with a way, otherwise he will also be burdened and exhausted.

"It's hard to say. But I think they should be able to figure it out. ”

Having said that, Yang Congyi actually didn't have much confidence, the other party's move was to see that the selected generals would not take risks, and they would definitely fight a prepared battle, based on this, they had the initiative in when and where to fight a decisive battle.

In the face of tremendous pressure, Yao Chang convened all the lieutenants and convened a meeting of the temporary selection of generals.

All the deployments, in fact, have been explained in detail to everyone before leaving the camp, and now they are all disrupted, and I have to explain to them, otherwise the next battle will not be fought.

"Don't make any noise. There is only one reason for repeatedly changing the marching order before, and there will only be one reason for changing the military order, and that is the enemy situation! The enemy was at a three-way junction a dozen miles away, and when they reached that junction, the first thing I received was that they were moving in the direction, and if they came from this road, they would have passed this mountain this morning. But then I received another report that the enemy had retreated to the three-way junction, turned to the north, and prepared to make a detour to the makeshift camp, and that they were going from the north, and that it would be useless for us to wait here, and that we had to go down the hill to the north and lay an ambush ahead of them. Unfortunately, after we descended the mountain, the enemy again retreated to the three-way junction and continued to the east, and I had to order the whole army to return to the mountain. When we returned to the hill for the first time, we immediately received another report from the spies, and the enemy retreated to the three-way junction and turned to the north to march. At that time, I already understood that they were deliberately tossing us, but there was no way, they moved, we had to move. ”

Yao Chang patiently explained the ridiculous marching instructions in the afternoon to more than a dozen captains, and everyone was suddenly silent, no matter how unclear their minds were, they could also figure out that the other party was deliberately playing with them, but they had to be played by the other party.

"Just now, as soon as the whole army returned to the mountain, I received another report of the enemy situation from the front, and they once again returned to the three-way junction and marched again to the north. Tell me, what should we do? ”

As soon as Yao Chang's words came out, everyone frowned, the sky was dark, if the camp was pulled down the mountain again, I was afraid that the camp would have to be bombed, today the brothers were really tossed enough, no one knew the reason, the top priority was to explain it to them clearly, otherwise there would be a big problem.

"General, no matter what, my brother must not move again tonight, let them sleep well, how to deal with it, let's talk about it tomorrow."

"Yes, it's so dark, you can't go down the mountain anymore, it's too dangerous. I don't think they will go very far in the night, and they will have to stop as soon as it gets dark, so it's a big deal that we'll run faster tomorrow. ”

"Our brothers are very angry, we have to give them an explanation quickly, and then let them go down the mountain in the middle of the night, I'm afraid there will be a big mess."

............

Anyway, they can't go down the mountain tonight, and no matter what the enemy does, they will have to rest on the mountain for one night.

Yao Chang was silent for a long time, he was very embarrassed, if he didn't act immediately, he was afraid that he would fall behind the other party, they returned to the three-way intersection five times, maybe it was dark, so that the spies of the selected troops could not grasp their whereabouts, if it was not bad, at this time they should return to the three-way intersection for the sixth time, and take advantage of the darkness to realize their real marching intentions.

But the problem is that the current situation of the troops is very bad, the soldiers are led by the nose, running back and forth, and the morale is very low, and it is probably not appropriate to issue a marching order at this time, not only will it not catch up with the enemy army, but it will also be counterproductive.

"Order the whole army to rest on the spot for one night, and make a fire to cook on the east side of the ridge!"

As soon as the military order was given, the captains of the colonels breathed a sigh of relief.

"Also, when you go back, you must explain to your brothers what you have encountered today, and there may be more difficult battles tomorrow. We didn't lose the first battle, and we must win this battle! ”

"Yes!"

The lieutenants clenched their fists and left, and quickly returned to convey the commander's order.

Shen Jin raised his eyes to look at the night sky, how to solve this game laid by the opponent?

There is no answer in heaven, nor on earth, and the answer grows on the feet.

Shen Jin understood that the opponent was going to compete with them in the march, and in this mountain, whoever was good at marching would be able to grasp the initiative in this battle.

The selected generals are not afraid of marching, they come from the Xuanwei Army, how many places they have traveled from south to north, from the north to the south, from the Great Song Dynasty to the South Sea, from the South Sea to the West, the road they have walked with their feet is more than thousands of miles, and they will not be afraid of anyone who they are marching with.

The generals had been training in the mountains for a long time, and they were more familiar with the situation in the mountains than all the teams that came to challenge, so they had no reason to be afraid, but they did not expect to encounter such an opponent who repeatedly provoked them.

The bonfire rose, and Shen Jin seriously thought about the way to break the enemy, this battle really couldn't be lost.

At the three-way intersection more than a dozen miles away, the exhausted Divine Cavalry rested in place again.

The veterans had been walking for a day, and many of them were almost left behind, but fortunately they had been marching repeatedly within five miles of the intersection, and the reason why they did not collapse was because the whole team was divided into two, one of which began to march, and the other would quietly hide in the nearby mountains and forests to rest, no matter how they marched, whether it was to the east or north, there was always a team resting.

The first time the Divine Cavalry returned to the intersection, some veterans raised objections, and the team officer immediately explained the reason to them, and when they returned to the intersection for the second time, almost everyone in the army understood that they were teasing the selected troops in the mountains, although they were physically tired, but their hearts were very comfortable.

But when they returned to the intersection again and again, some people began to wonder if the other party would be molested, and in the end, they ran dozens of miles in vain, and the other party sat and watched the monkey show.

There is no way to explain this problem, Mingfu really can't guarantee that the other party will be fooled, but in his opinion, the other party may be fooled.

This intersection was carefully selected by him, from which to the east, you can reach the camp of the election general's troops, the distance is the closest, and from this to the north, although you can also reach the camp of the election general's army, but the distance is almost twice as much, and to the north, there are many forks, and the marching route can be adjusted at any time, making it difficult for the other party to figure out and arrange traps and ambushes in advance.

From the very beginning, this short road to the east was not a choice for Ming Fu, because this road has few variables, and the road in many places is unique, and this kind of place is easy to be ambushed by the other party and easy to be calculated.

At the fork in the road, the Divine Cavalry held a temporary marching meeting.

"Brothers, hard work today! This scene should be sung until dark, and it should be over. Tomorrow will be a more arduous journey, I hope my brother remembers, we are a god cavalry, without horses, we are still the fastest marching troops, even in the mountains, we will not be slower than people! ”

"Yes!"

The morale of the captains is very high, and if they can tease each other in each other's territory, they will win a small victory.

"The herald ordered to bury the pot and cook on the spot, and after an hour, continue the march north! The other party should have been dragged down by us, and if we work harder, we can win this one! ”

"Yes!"