"What?!" Hearing the report from the sentry, Xiao Shilian's face couldn't help but change greatly, "It's only forty miles to the north?!" ”

Li Xinchen also turned his head and looked at the dusty and panting sentry.

"Panic!" Xiao Maha snorted coldly, obviously very dissatisfied with his son being so panicked, "When the sentry comes, you will panic like this, if the barbarian army is killed, won't you have to pee your crotch!" ”

Xiao Shilian smiled and didn't dare to say more, and Xiao Maha turned to look at the sentry and said in a deep voice: "Come, mark it on the map!" ”

The sentry didn't dare to hesitate, and hurriedly stretched out his hand to draw a circle on the approximate position on the map: "General Qiyu, we met a group of barbarian cavalry in this place, numbering more than a dozen, but they seem to be just forward sentinels, they don't love to fight, they are ready to go, it seems that the number of troops following them should not be much······"

"Not much?" Xiao Maha raised his eyebrows and waved his hand, "Explore again!" ”

The sentinel hurriedly answered, turned and strode away. And Xiao Maha's eyes kept falling on the map, and he stroked his beard lightly: "Not much······ Is it really not how? ”

"Come to the sentry at this time, is this damn guy Wang Liang ready to kill again?" Xiao Shilian said in some surprise, but immediately saw his father's cold eyes, and hurriedly lowered his head slightly and didn't dare to say more.

And Li Xinchen also looked curiously at the location marked by the sentinel on the map just now, and his face changed slightly. Because the position where this group of Northern Zhou sentinel cavalry appeared was due north of the Nanchen camp, and it stands to reason that Wang Liang's army had advanced to the lower reaches of Luliang Shui, there should be no army in the originally scheduled attack direction directly north of the Nanchen army, so naturally there was no need to send sentinel cavalry.

Xiao Maha turned to look at Li Xinchen: "I don't know what the virtuous nephew thinks?" Would you like to refer to a particular one? ”

Li Xinchen hurriedly frowned and said: "The sudden appearance of barbarian sentry cavalry in the north should not be sent by Wang Rail, after all, Wang Rail's hands are not very many, and we have to block the entire lower reaches of Luliang Water, beware of our army's possible attack at any time, and will not reshift our attention to our north at this time, then it can only mean that a new Northern Zhou barbarian has arrived." ”

"This reinforcement is really endless." Xiao Maha sighed heavily.

What Xiao Maha said was actually an important problem that Southern Chen could only compete with the Northern Zhou, but it was difficult to defeat the Northern Zhou. Even if the population of Jiangnan has been developed by the Southern Dynasties for several generations, it is still difficult to compare with the north, especially the previous Hou Jing Rebellion had caused heavy damage to Jiangnan, and now Jinghu has fallen into the hands of the Western Liang supported by the Northern Dynasties, so the two places owned by Nan Chen, one is Jiangnan who has experienced war for many years, and the other is Huainan, which has not been interrupted by war for hundreds of years, and its biggest problem is the lack of soldiers.

The problem of insufficient military resources in the south has not been a year or two, since the Eastern Jin Dynasty crossed to the south, the number of troops in the Southern Dynasty has not been comparable to that of the Northern Dynasty. In the Battle of Weishui, only 80,000 troops could be used in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and when it came to Chen Qingzhi's Northern Expedition, there were only 7,000 white-robed troops.

Therefore, the south has been pursuing a policy of elite soldiers for many years, whether it is the Beifu soldiers, the Xifu soldiers or Chen Qingzhi's white-robed army, in fact, they are the embodiment of this policy.

Compared with the Southern Dynasties, although the Northern Dynasties were also war-torn and fragmented, the advantage of a large population base was still there after all, and the Northern Dynasties also had Emperor Xiaowen of the Northern Wei Dynasty and Emperor Wu of the Northern Zhou Dynasty who were quite capable monarchs to recuperate and restore people's livelihood, so the Southern Dynasties have always maintained a military advantage, especially the current annexation of the Northern Qi by the Northern Zhou, which is equivalent to turning the original Northern Qi army into its own, and the army gathered by the strength of the two countries, although it looks a bit of a rabble. But at least in terms of numbers, it was enough to crush Nan Chen.

When the number of soldiers in the army is large to a certain extent, it is completely possible to defeat the elite enemy with a rabble. This kind of simple crowd tactic is simply a deadly threat to Nan Chen.

Especially now, in addition to Wang Liang, a large army that is enough to compete with the Southern Chen army, the Northern Zhou Dynasty obviously has a steady stream of troops pouring towards the small part of Luliang, this posture is naturally very obvious, even if it is a sea of people tactics, it is necessary to directly drown the last main army of Nanchen that can threaten the Northern Zhou here!

Li Xinchen is very clear that in history, the Northern Zhou Dynasty is to use the absolute numerical advantage to trap the army of Nanchen in Luliang, and in the end, only Xiao Maha led the cavalry to break through successfully, and the main force of Nanchen was annihilated.

Therefore, for Nan Chen, the battle of Luliang was careless.

Especially now, the balance of victory in the Battle of Lüliang is gradually tilting towards the Northern Zhou.

After hesitating for a moment, Li Xinchen gritted his teeth, but still made up his mind and said, "At the moment, we have no other way but to retreat. ”

Xiao Maha nodded slowly, and although Xiao Shilian, who was standing next to him, felt a little unwilling as a young man, he had to admit that this was indeed the best and only choice for the current Nan Chen.

"Actually, we are retreating now, and it is not a failure." Li Xinchen saw that Xiao Maha was the same consideration as himself in the main tone, and immediately breathed a sigh of relief, it seems that the ancients were honest and did not deceive me, according to historical records, in the later stage of the battle of Luliang, Xiao Maha, who had been rushing to the front, realized that things were not right, and repeatedly asked to retreat, but unfortunately he was always vetoed by Wu Mingche, and finally caused the fiasco of Luliang.

"Oh?" Xiao Maha's voice raised slightly, "Let's talk about it." ”

Li Xinchen snorted: "The reason for the battle of Lüliang is that our army wants to seize Lüliang, a springboard from Huaibei to the Central Plains, especially when the Northern Qi was weak, so Da Chen did have a chance. And the facts have also proved that the successive defeats of the Northern Qi are just as Da Chen guessed before. ”

Xiao Maha showed a look of surprise on his face: "The virtuous nephew knows a lot. ”

Li Xinchen was stunned, and immediately realized that he seemed to have said something wrong, and immediately arched his hand, and said with shame: "This is really not the credit of the younger generation." When Daddy was alive, he often sent people down the mountain to inquire about the news, hoping to stay away from the war, so he knew a little about the Battle of Luliang, and Daddy and several uncles in the village also talked about it······"

Hearing Li Xinchen's voice was a little depressed, Xiao Maha suddenly understood that it was reasonable for Li Cheng and the veterans who had turned the entire Central Plains upside down to care about their surroundings, so Xiao Maha looked at Li Xinchen with some apologies: "Even the virtuous nephew is sad when he mentions the old man, and he is guilty of sin." ”