It was already dark when I arrived at Luyuan Slope, and there were countless barracks and lights as far as the eye could see.

"These bastards!"

"General, what did you find?"

"Do you know why the barbarian army only invades the north once every twenty-five to thirty years?"

"Is it the lack of national strength?"

"It's just one thing, they have been doing nothing for 30 years, practicing how to defeat us all the time, and planning all the time to kill and plunder in the north. Look at their camp, a village of more than 200,000 people, advancing and retreating in such an orderly manner.

Even if you attack the barbarian camp head-on, you have no chance of winning, let alone a sneak attack. The camp of the barbarian army was flawless, and even with the strength of the famous generals of the princely states of the Central Plains, it was difficult to make more than 200,000 people arrange in an orderly manner in a short period of time.

If you look at it again, their military tents are all of average size, and compared with the military tents of the Xian army, how can they be completely consistent in style and regulation. ”

"What do you mean?"

"It has not been clear why the barbarian army has moved north so quickly in a short period of time, gathering and mobilizing more than a million troops, and why they have not captured their maps so far. Now it seems that in the past 30 years, the barbarian army has been preparing for the attack on our Central Plains all the time. Now that they have been practicing and planning for 30 years, how can they not win! ”

It sounds incredible, but there are some people and countries in this world, who spend their days forgetting to sleep and eat, all thinking about how to occupy the land and wealth of others, as if the meaning of their life is to expand for their own ambitions, and slaughter non-our races, Jin Xuedi is undoubtedly one of them.

Bai Liyan even suspected that Jin Xuedi must have established a huge exercise ground in his homeland, condensing the terrain of the entire southern border, and only needed to send a small number of elite troops to conduct exercises every year, and practiced day and night how to launch an attack on the Central Plains coalition forces, how to penetrate the defense line of the coalition forces, and establish a complete set of war plans. The civil strife in the Central Plains this time obviously made their plan succeed.

"General, this is too unbelievable and sensational, how can there be a person in the world who has been pondering the truth of this kind of thing all day long for twenty or thirty years." Lu Cheng said in disbelief.

"There is no thousand-day anti-thief, only the reason to be a thief for a thousand days. This method has far surpassed what people have seen today, and the royal guest has guarded the southern border for hundreds of years, and he has never thought of it. ”

"Then what to do tomorrow, this little bit of our army is not enough for the barbarian army to stuff the teeth."

"Don't worry, the barbarian army is a human after all, and if it is a human being, it must have its weaknesses. You find that no, there are no rumored unicorn horses in the barbarian camp. ”

"So what?"

"This place is only two days away from the base camp of the barbarian army outside Xiaochi, and the barbarian cavalry accompanying the baggage camp here is obviously redundant. Therefore, the grain and grass they carry is also limited, so if they exhaust their food and cut off their retreat, there is still room for a war in this battle. ”

"I'm afraid it can't. Even if the barbarian cavalry only brought half a month's worth of grain and grass, they could completely escort the grain and grass from the large battalion outside Xiaochi City, and continue to hold on to our coalition army. With only 5,000 of our army, it is impossible to cut off the food and grass of its more than 200,000 troops under any circumstances. The slightest carelessness can lead to catastrophe. ”

"The road of heaven and earth, haven't you noticed that our army is between the barbarian cavalry and the Xiaochi."

"So what, with only thousands of remnants of our army, how can we match the strength."

"Huh!" Bai Liyan sneered: "It is precisely because our army is located between the two places that the barbarian army expects that the coalition army will not be able to bypass it behind to reinforce Xiaochi, so they did not place scouts between the two places. Therefore, the position of our army is the safest now. Do you know why this place is called Luyuan Slope? ”

"Naturally, there are deer groups nearby, so it is called Luyuan Slope." Lu Cheng said without thinking.

"It is extremely true that since there are deer, there must be forests."

"The general wants to cut wood?"

"Looks like you've grown up too."

"But what's the use of logging, it can't stop hundreds of thousands of barbarian troops."

"You don't care about this, you send scouts to the northwest tomorrow to search for any woods, and at the same time check if there are any horses' hooves left by the barbarian army, and if so, come and report to me immediately."

After continuing to observe for another half an hour, the group quietly withdrew from the observation position and returned to the camp. The next day, Lu Cheng successively sent scouts to infiltrate between Xiaochi and the cavalry camp to look for clues, while continuing to monitor the development of the war.

In the afternoon of the same day, the scouts came to report that more than 30 miles northwest of the campsite had found horseshoe footprints coming and going, but no forest was found. Bailiyan couldn't help but wonder if it was due to human activities in the early years, the deer herd had already been hunted and cut down, and only a place name remained.

"General, what do you think in the end, the last general is really incomprehensible." Lu Cheng said.

"Have you ever had people continue to the northwest?"

"I probed, probed for another twenty miles, and looked carefully with a telescope, and there was nothing in the white expanse. But ......"

"But what?"

"According to the scouts, white smoke was found farther northwest in the telescope, and nothing else."

"Shhh...... White? Baili Yan was suspicious, and was busy asking, "Did you read that right?" Not black smoke! ”

"How can you be wrong about black smoke and white smoke, a large cloud of fog is the same as the white smoke from hot water boiling in winter."

"So, there's a hot spring nearby!"

"Hot springs? What is a hot spring? ”

"It's a soup bath, but the difference is that this soup bath comes from the ground and is hot. But why isn't it on the map? ”

Bailiyan looked at the map, and there was a blank space for forty or fifty miles to the northwest, and there was no sign of the existence of hot springs.

"Unless it's ...... Oh no, it's an ambush, the barbarian army has set up an ambush forty miles away, waiting for the coalition army to throw themselves into the net! ”

"This ...... Is the general saying that the coalition forces deliberately detoured behind the back of the barbarian army? Spotted by the barbarians! ”

"No, it's a detour of reinforcements from Mingzhou. It has been more than 10 days since our army broke away from the coalition forces, and it is completely unknown how the battle situation will develop, and the snow north of Xiaochi is much shallower than that of Tiannan Pass. It is entirely possible that the marshal mobilized reinforcements from Mingzhou, or even north of Mingzhou, forcibly conscripted the people into the army, and came on horseback. ”

Bai Liyan suddenly discovered that the people's army was probably Cao Chizheng's true intention.

"The people in the south are all farming and warfare for hundreds of years, and the combat power is far from being comparable to the people recruited in the Central Plains, and the equestrian skills are even higher than the cavalry of weak countries such as Qiguo, if the people's army is urgently recruited from Mingzhou, Dunping, Bitian, and Wanglu, and assemble in Mingzhou, the fastest is to arrive on horseback in these two or three days. Otherwise, what is the point of the marshal forcibly fighting a decisive battle in Luyuan Slope? ”

"Shhh...... When the general said this, it is quite possible. But why is there white smoke? ”

"It's easy to say, do you know whether boiling water freezes fast on the ground in winter, or cold water freezes fast on the ground."

"Of course it's cold water, how can hot boiling water freeze faster than cold water."

Lu Cheng said as a matter of course, but Bai Liyan shook his head and said:

"Actually, it's not, it freezes faster with boiling water than with cold water."

Lu Cheng was surprised when he heard the news:

"This can't be!"

"You don't believe it? If you have no space, you can insert a stake into the ground and douse it with boiling water, which will definitely freeze faster than cold water. ”

"This ......" Lu Cheng was a hundred unbelieving.

"The white smoke rising was the barbarian army pouring boiling water on the ground with boiling water, so as to speed up the construction of the camp and prevent the reinforcements from detouring behind the barbarians. It's good to exhaust the coalition cavalry, and then counterattack the coalition reinforcements! ”

The people in the south are farming and grazing, and the wartime farming and warfare are combined, and the people are also the army.

Since the barbarian army invaded the Qianyue Mountains last year, all parts of the southern border have been put into a state of war readiness, and the people have not only undertaken wartime transport, but also accepted drills to prepare for war, and the agricultural production labor has gradually shifted to women, which is a hidden force that cannot be underestimated.

In previous wars, the people's army in the south was used as a large amount of logistics transportation and supply after the Central Plains materials were transported into the south, not as the main armed force on the battlefield.

Cao Chi is fighting the barbarian army in Luyuan Slope, and now it seems that there is no chance of victory, and the civilian army into the war is undoubtedly the fastest effect, and it is also the last measure to quench thirst. If we fail to achieve a quick victory, hundreds of thousands of young and middle-aged civilian troops will be thrown into the battlefield to attrition, which will create an extremely unfavorable passive situation in the southern border next spring.

And Jin Xuedi has been at war with the Central Plains for many years, and the Central Plains thieves are secret agents, so he knows the wartime system in the south well. It must have been detected in advance that Cao Chi was making this deployment, and he ambushed the troops and horses in the northwest of the junction of Xiaochi and the barbarian cavalry in advance to eliminate and block them. After destroying the heavily damaged Cao Chizheng cavalry, he then detoured behind the reinforcements of the coalition army and dealt a devastating blow.

After talking to Lu Gao, Sikong Nan and others in detail, everyone was worried, and Lu Gao was worried:

"Whether to let the scouts investigate clearly before making a decision, in case the news is wrong, our army will waste another day in vain."

"It's too late, with the current situation, reinforcements will arrive as soon as tomorrow and tomorrow, and three days later at the latest, one more day for our army will be one less chance. Now set off at full speed, arriving before the first half of the night, and then reconnoiter to find out the enemy's situation. ”

"General, with just a few wisps of white mist, it is too hasty to conclude whether the barbarian army is deployed here." Sikong Nandao was suspicious of the barbarian army's camp.

"No, the current situation of the enemy and us is extremely unfavorable to our Central Plains coalition army, Cao Chizheng will not know that the coalition cavalry will not be able to resist, and here he must have mobilized reinforcements and inserted them behind the barbarian army. It's just that the barbarian army also learned the news and fortified in advance to block the reinforcements from making a detour to the south. As long as the former is true, the latter is 50% certain.

Now the former must be established, and whether our army goes or not, the reinforcements will inevitably make a detour behind the barbarian army. If our army goes to respond, it can also avoid the loss of reinforcements, if not, the reinforcements may be blocked, and Cao Chizheng's coalition army is more likely to be defeated, causing a more unfavorable situation. It makes sense that we all have to go. ”

"But after going, the barbarian army built a blockade on the spot, relying on us alone, how to break it?" South Sikong Road.

"Let's go first. Our army set out at this time, and could arrive before the first half of the night, and while the stars were shining on these two days, we could go to the camp at night to find out. If it is impossible to attack, it is not too late to make a detour to report the news. The battalions prepared immediately. ”