As expected, instead of following, Ji Yao went to consult Cao Chizheng, who lukewarmly agreed to continue serving as the avant-garde, but asked him to go on the road first under the pretext of last night's casualties.

In this way, the distance between the forward and the main force of the coalition army was five miles away, and it was quickly stretched to ten miles, and Ji Yao did not have a telescope, so he did not know that Cao Chizheng had led the army to the north and threw it off.

At four o'clock in the afternoon, two and a half days away from Xiaochi, Bai Liyan (Wei Xian) pointed to two inconspicuous mountain bags twenty degrees north-west.

"The field of vision here is wide and endless, and there is no place to hide soldiers, only those two mountain bags can hide ambush soldiers."

Sikong Nan took out his telescope and looked at it carefully, and said when he was young:

"The mountain bag is less than forty miles away from our army, so it is not too thorough to set up an ambush at such a distance."

"If our army were to go another thirty miles to the west, only a few miles from those two hills, and they would suddenly attack while they were at ease, our army would be annihilated. They attacked our troops last night in an attempt to delay our march.

If the coalition forces had suffered heavy casualties last night, they would have set off in the early afternoon today, and they would not have been able to reach the current position of our army. According to this calculation, if the coalition army continues to follow this route as planned, it will be in the underground fortress north of Shanbao thirty miles ahead tomorrow night, so that the barbarian army can launch a surprise attack at night and crush the main force of the coalition army in one fell swoop. ”

"Then according to this, our army will not be in danger tonight!" Lu Gao said worriedly.

"No, our army will rush another thirty miles, and camp at the foot of the mountain, the barbarian army will not see the main force of our army, and they will not dare to act rashly, and the Qi army is more than twenty miles behind our army, the barbarian army has not figured out the plan of the coalition army for a while, and it will be tomorrow at the earliest, and their scouts will find that the main force of the coalition army suddenly detoured north, so they will attack us, or the Qi army. So you can take a risk tonight. ”

At this time, Su Hong said.

"The last general thinks that it is better to be careful and delicate, if this errand is easy to do, why don't you do it yourself. In case the barbarian army repeats the old trick of using beast soldiers to attack at night, our army's men and horses are not enough for those beasts to stuff their teeth. ”

Bai Liyan shook her head and said calmly:

"Rabbits don't eat the grass next to the nest, Jin Xuedi wants to annihilate my main force with this, and he will definitely not attack the vanguard of our army, so it is more likely that he will not attack me."

The skill of setting up an ambush lies in cutting off the head and removing the tail, concentrating superior forces, striking the enemy's main force in the middle by surprise, forcing the enemy to rescue in the middle, and finally continuously investing all forces to block the enemy's retreat and annihilate together.

Now the coalition forces are only seeing their heads but not the main force and the baggage of the rear army, and rashly attacking the Xian army is tantamount to exposing the ambush site.

Cao Chi is familiar with the terrain of the south, and on the way to Xiaochi, he knows where to set up an ambush and where it is conducive to a decisive battle. Yesterday, Cao Chi was making a plan, and it was expected that only Pingshuang Mountain and Gansi Lake could be ambushed on the way to Xiaochi, of which Pingshuang Mountain refers to the two mountains in the northwest.

This time, the barbarian army crossed Xu Tu and attacked Xiaochi directly, and its strategy can be seen, and it is by no means an ordinary barbarian general, and he will never make such a low-level mistake. Cao Chizheng expected Jin Xuedi to learn some fur from the Central Plains culture, and learned to start pretending to be "far-sighted", so he wanted to follow the cat and draw the tiger and pose in front of the coalition army.

As everyone knows, Cao Chi is doing the opposite, and he will not immediately start to startle the snake after the barbarian army discovers the abnormality, even if he wants to try, he will not do it until he finds out the situation in the rear of the Qi army, and he will never launch a tentative action under the nose of the ambush site of his main force.

In this way, it will be delayed until tomorrow, and it will never wait until the day after tomorrow, if it waits until the day after tomorrow, the Xian army will appear outside Xiaochi City.

The soldiers can live in dangerous places, and Bailiyan is so underground at this time, and the barbarian army is very likely to give a head-on attack tonight to test the movement of the coalition army.

He led the army to continue to march west for thirty miles until it was dark, and Ji Yao sent scouts in a hurry, saying that the army had left the Qi army and the Xian army and ran away, and asked Bailiyan to immediately move closer to it. Bailiyan ignored it, how did the people come, how to send them back.

With the scouts sent away, Lu Gao couldn't help asking:

"General, it is not righteous to mislead the people of the country like this."

Bai Liyan rolled her eyes:

"We were pitted by Cao Chi, so let's be righteous?"

"Well, this ......," Lu Gao said.

Lu Gao is half well-intentioned, half bad-hearted.

After all, Bailiyan is a Qi person, and it is unreasonable to put the Qi army in a dangerous situation in this way. But if Bailiyan really knew about the Qi army, not to mention that the plan was revealed, Ji Yao could shrink back and run away overnight, leaving the Xianjun to death.

Lu Gao is a son of a salt lord, and this matter will be known to the king of salt in the future, which will inevitably cause unnecessary trouble. In public and private, now is not the time for the Lao Qi army. What's more, Ji Yao is not a friendly army that can be assured, and there are so many things about dead friends and poor people. In the face of the great enemy, protecting one's brothers is the king.

Soon after the army set up camp, Bailiyan ignited three flying canisters every half an hour, which could disturb the enemy army, make it unaware of the intentions of the Xian army, and make it fall into doubt. Second, they create the false impression that the main force of the coalition forces is nearby, so that they misjudge and are in a hurry, and they dare not act rashly.

As expected, the night was so peaceful that some people had the delusion:

"General, there was no movement last night, the barbarian army will not be bluffing." Bai Hedao.

"If it were you, would you be two or three hundred miles away from Xiaochi, eat enough, hold on, take hundreds of hungry beasts to find death, and then run back the same way?"

"No, the end."

"Isn't this done, since it won't, the barbarian army that attacked our army will definitely repair and replenish where the main force is nearby, and it will definitely not bluff. Tell me that there will be a fierce battle today, and I will be full of breakfast. ”

"No!"

Continuing to drink hot black tea and savor the refreshing pleasure brought by theophylline, five miles east of the Xian army, Ji Yao led the Qi army to gallop all the way. It was dark this morning, and Ji Yao hurriedly urged his men and horses to move closer to the Xian army, so as not to be thrown off by the Xian army.

Panting heavily, Ji Yao ignored the harmonious relationship for many days, and angrily reproached:

"Okay, you Wei Xian, what is the intention of leaving our army in the wilderness and running fast by yourself."

"General Ji's words are serious." Bai Liyan continued to drink black tea, and said slowly: "The marshal ordered our army to go forward for thirty miles of the main army, because General Ji didn't want to follow our army, so why would he abandon your army." ”

"Hmph, it's clear that you and Cao Chizheng collaborated to harm our army, and did it on purpose. At present, the whereabouts of the main force of the army are unknown, and it is clearly using our Qi army as bait to lure out the barbarian army ambush. ”

Although Ji Yao doesn't have many achievements, he can mix with General Zhennan of Qiguo, and he is not an ordinary person. I already thought that Baili Yan wanted to capture him yesterday and indulge in deceiving him, the purpose was to make him refuse to act together, so as to become the bait for the main force of the coalition army.

Of course, Bai Liyan can't admit it, he has already unified the caliber with Cao Chizheng, and at the same time, the Qi army suddenly came to join forces.

"General Ji, Wei doesn't like to hear what you say. If you want to say that it has become a bait, our army has run farther than the Qi army, is your army safer, or is our army safer, is it possible that the barbarian army will favor one over the other? ”

"You!" Ji Yao was angry and speechless, and then said: "Ben will not have a war of words with you, you are going to say, what is Cao Chi planning to do, your Xianjun suddenly came forward, it won't be as simple as just wanting to go faster." ”

"Hehe, Wei also acted according to the order, as for what the marshal's intentions were, Wei really didn't know. However, Yuke is known for his chivalrous style, and he will definitely not abandon his allies and flee for no reason, and General Ji must pay attention to proportionality when he speaks. ”

"Okay, okay, I can't talk about you. Then you have to tell the general that your army is going to do it. ”

"There is only one plan, to prepare for a fierce battle. General Ji can see the two hills to the north? ”

Bai Liyan pointed to the mountain that was clearly visible to the north, and Ji Yao was taken aback when he saw it. He certainly knows what that means.

On the huge plain, where it is possible to set up an ambush, only behind the blind spot of the field of vision can there be thousands of troops and horses.

"Wei Xian, you have led our army to death, what are your intentions."

"Hehe, our army slept here for a night, and there was no trace of half of the barbarians, what could the general have. It's General Ji, your army rushed twenty miles in the morning to catch up, it is better to seize the time to rest, it will not be long before it will be a vicious battle, rather than bothering here, it is better to save some effort and fight a bloody battle with the barbarian army. ”

If Ji Yao kept a distance of more than 20 miles from the Xian army as planned, the Xian army should continue to advance westward at this time. Now Ji Yao couldn't wait to lead the army to chase after him, and the plan had to be adjusted, and after the two armies combined, he took the initiative to find fighters to disrupt the deployment of the barbarian army. So after the sky was completely bright, the Xian army quickly moved to camp and posed a posture of occupying the commanding heights of Shanbao.

"Lu Cheng, send four groups of scouts, two groups to climb the two mountain bags on the left and right, and two groups to bypass me on the left and right, once you find the traces of the barbarian army, you will immediately take back the people."

"The last general obeys!"

"Sikong Nan, Lu Gao, Su Hong, Bai He, the number of barbarians and the speed of horses in this battle are far above our army, once you encounter the enemy, you will immediately detour to the south, and you must not fight!"

"General, why is it a detour to the south and not to the north, isn't the main force of our army in the north?" Bai He asked.

Sikong Nan took over the conversation:

"If it is to the north, the barbarian army will definitely judge that our army intends to lead it to the main force of our army, so it will only pursue it in small groups, and will not disperse its forces in a large way. If it goes south, the barbarian army will most likely know at this time that the main force of our army has a detour from north to west, and our army is going south, and most of the barbarian army will not pursue it with all its might, but will concentrate its forces on the decisive battle of our main force, and finally clean up our army. ”

"Sikong Nan is right." Bai Liyan affirmed: "Our army moved southward, and after the barbarian army chased out a certain road, it found that the situation was not right, and it categorically did not pursue it again, but left the men and horses behind, and led the army back to join its main force, and attacked the main force of our coalition army with all its might."

Therefore, our army is relatively safe, but our army must go the opposite way, and on the way to retreat to the south, with the length of our army's even archer crossbows, shoot a large number of barbarian cavalry, force them to pursue, if they do not pursue, our army will pursue them.

In addition, the horses of the Qi army are not as good as our army, and they are even worse than the barbarian army, and they can be used as a restraining force. You must pay attention to this matter, and when you use the Qi army to contain the barbarian army, shoot the barbarian army with a crossbow, and you must not blindly retreat south, but you all understand! ”

"The last general obeys!"

Everyone spoke in unison, and Bai Liyan instructed again:

"Finally, the battalions must remember that the men shoot the horses first, and the first goal is to give priority to the horses of the barbarians, who are easier to shoot than the armoured soldiers. Don't risk your life for the sake of your horse. What's more, these war horses are not trophies of our army in the end, and there is no need to spare their lives. ”