A rapid sound of horses' hooves broke the silence of the evening, and a Song soldier wearing a Fan Yang hat and a red scarf around his neck broke into the camp on horseback, and the flying horsetail almost threw on the guard's face, and the guard guarding the camp was about to scold, and another soldier on duty next to him stopped and said: "Lao Li, save it, the scout who came back to report like this is already the third, I'm afraid it's going to start." ”

The old Li Wuzi was nagging on the side, and happened to come over a few soldiers passing by, listening to what the soldiers on duty said, he hurriedly took over and said: "There are few thieves and soldiers, I heard that the thieves of the Jin country fought in the north have lost the battle, this time, guarding the Jiehe, the thieves can't even get together 40,000 people, and there are also temporarily recruited homeless people." ”

"Where do you know? This time, I heard that there was an order from the imperial court that no one was allowed to kill or injure. No matter how many people there are, is there a hairy use? ”

"Who the fuck ordered this? If you can't kill, how can you fight?! ”

A few soldiers who were not on duty said as they walked, and walked away.

In the tent of the Chinese army, all the generals above the commander of the Western Route Army have gathered, and Xin Xingzong, the commander of the Western Route Army, is in the middle, and he is listening to the scout report standing in the middle of the big tent with great interest, and then asks carefully: "Then Xiao Gan really went to Wuhuiling?" ”

The scout bowed his head and replied, "My lord, I have indeed gone." ”

Xin Xingzong couldn't help but stand up, paced back and forth for two steps, and asked, "How many people did Xiao Gan take with him?" ”

The scout still replied clearly: "Lord Hui, before Shen Shi today, Xiao Ganqin led nearly 10,000 soldiers and horses to the southwest of Yizhou Wuhui Ridge. ”

The generals of the various departments in the big tent listened quietly to the conversation between Xin Xingzong and the scout, in fact, the scout had already had a very clear general information. Xin Xingzong was the commander, and the scout said that Xiao Gan was leading his troops to the direction of Wuhuiling, knowing that this must be Yang Keshi's surprise attack on the army, which disrupted Xiao Gan's deployment.

But the surprise came too quickly, and he continued to pace in the tent. In fact, there have been two groups of spies coming back to report the news, and the first group of spies reported that there was a battalion of thieves and cavalry heading to the west of Yixian County. A battalion of people, not too much, no less, only five people in a battalion, that is, about 500 people, Xin Xingzong didn't take it seriously; But not long after, another spy came to report, saying that there were 5,000 cavalry troops in Xiao Gan's camp heading southwest from the Laishui camp. The five thousand cavalry made Xin Xingzong think about it for a while, and the result of his thinking was to explore again. Across a boundary river, the Fan army can't cross, and they can't cross the river if they want to. There can't be a disturbance in the army, there must be some movement on their side.

Unexpectedly, after two hours, Xiao Gan took tens of thousands of horses and horses to go back to the mountain five times. Wuhuiling is in the southwest mountains of Yizhou, and it is the only way for the Song realm to lead to the Liao realm. There were three groups of people before and after, and there were always 15,000 men and horses rushing to the southwest of Yizhou, and now the army has almost become an empty camp when it arrives at the Laishui camp. He also has 50,000 horses under his command, the previous time he ordered Yang Keshi to sneak into the Liao realm to attack the rear of Xiao Gan, and now he really succeeded, it was when he Xin Xingzong went north to win the first major achievement of this Liao invasion, with 50,000 horses, all the way north, directly took the Laishui camp of the Fan army, and then waited for Xiao Gan to wait for the work, not to worry about not breaking the army. Hahaha, Xin Xingzong suddenly felt that everything was in the palm of his hand.

Jiao Anjie, the commander of the left army sitting next to him, couldn't sit still, and seeing that Xin Xingzong no longer inquired, he anxiously asked the scout: "Over 10,000 soldiers and horses?" Can you find out? ”

The scout still replied: "The villain is in the army, and the scout has been in the army for seven years, so he naturally knows how to listen to the law, and the military horse gallops, and he knows how much." ”

Jiao Anjie hurriedly turned his head to Xin Xingzong and said: "Dutong, we are waiting for the army to be here, but Xiao Gan is leaving us and others and heading west, isn't it to go west through Taihang and attack my back road?" ”

Xin Xingzong was originally on the rise, but he was poured a basin of cold water by Jiao Anjie, and said in a deep voice: "Yang Keshi, the former commander of the army, led 2,500 elite cavalry to attack the Fan army, and calculated the mileage. This is the time for our generation to work together and take advantage of the situation. ”

Xin Xingzong's words can be regarded as a transfer of the general's situation, and Jiao Anjie heard Xin Xingzong say this, so he didn't say more.

I saw a young officer in the tent, Huo Di, standing up, but it was Wang Yuan, the former deputy commander of the army. Wang Yuan stood up and bowed his hand to Xin Xingzong, and said: "My lord, Wang is not talented, I am willing to be the pioneer of the adult's northward march, take advantage of Xiao Gan's army to go west, lead my troops to the north, and take the first credit for the Northern Expedition!" ”

Xin Xingzong suddenly smiled and said, "Okay! General Wang is really a brave general in our army! ”

Xin Xingzong sat down again, raised his posture, and shouted: "The generals will listen to the order!" ”

The generals in the tent stood up together, clasped their fists in unison and said, "Yes! ”

Xin Xingzong looked at the generals with satisfaction, and said in a deep voice, "The former army Wu Zihou and Liu Guangshi led the headquarters to select the front army and return it to the royal capital, and the royal capital was unified and commanded to capture the Laishui camp. ”

Wang Yuan, Wu Zihou, and Liu Guangshi were ordered to retreat to the side.

Xin Xingzong was about to give another order, but Jiao Anjie, who was the commander of the Left Army, immediately complained to Xin Xingzong again: "Lord Dutong, I think that Xiao Gan is the king of the four armies of the Northern Thieves, brave and good at fighting, and has countless fierce generals. ”

Xin Xingzong twisted his beard and nodded: "Commander Jiao is worried, so he has to guard against it." After a pause, he said: "Jiao Tong led 7,000 people of the left army to garrison in Baigou Henan, and they were carefully on duty to protect our army's food, grass and ordnance. ”

As soon as Jiao Anjie heard that he didn't need to rush across the boundary river to fight, he just held the base camp, and hurriedly agreed loudly.

Xin Xingzong looked at the generals again and said: "I personally led the middle army, the right army, and the rear army to cross the river and camp forty miles east of Yizhou to prevent the Yizhou army and horses and Xiao Gan's army. This system is the king's control in the rear and presses the formation, and you will be safe. The army set off at once. ”

The generals in the tent responded in unison.

Military orders are handed down, and the armies act in accordance with them. Soldiers had already carried the rafts they had set up these days from the camp to the river, ready to cross the river.

Wang Yuan received the general's order, was the first to go north as a vanguard, and was busy commanding his subordinates to arrange to cross the river overnight. Wu Zihou and Liu Guangshi also came to Wang Yuan's camp to report and wait for the dispatch.

It was getting late, and the rest of the armies were going to cross the river tomorrow, only the 7,000 soldiers and horses led by Wang Yuan, since they were the vanguard army, they would cross the river by night tonight. So the Huotou army buried the pot to make rice, and in a short time, the meal was ready, and the seven thousand soldiers and horses, all of whom had used the rice, stopped in the whole bunch, brought all the weapons, grain and grass, and waited for the start of crossing the river.

Wang Yuan came to the river, his soldiers took ropes, wooden stakes and other things, selected the narrow place of the river, there were water soldiers to cross the river on rafts, tied ropes on the opposite bank, piled up pontoon bridges, less than half a day, set up three pontoon bridges in the river, Wang Yuan first led 7,000 men and horses to cross the river.