Alem led 50,000 cavalry, crossed the long mountain range of Dongling, and finally arrived at the border of Southern Chu. Qu'an County is a small county town on the northwest border of Southern Chu, with a remote geographical location and has never been valued by the imperial court. Tuoba Yan also took a fancy to this, so he was surprised and chose Qu'an County.

With people and horses wrapped in hooves, Alem arrived in Qu'an County when the sky was bright. He saw the soldiers guarding the city with their spears, all listless, as if they were about to fall asleep. Seeing this, Alem smiled slightly, raised his hand and released the arrow, and shot the soldier in the heart with an arrow.

The soldier fell to the ground silently, startling the other guards. They exclaimed: "Enemy attack, enemy attack!" Suddenly, there was a panic on the city tower, and the entire Qu'an County seemed to have just woken up.

Seeing this, Alem smiled proudly, and then ordered: "Siege!" ”

In an instant, Xiang Qiang's soldiers drew their bowstrings and shot out of the city gate. The Southern Chu soldiers on the city gate were killed by surprise, and people kept falling to the ground with arrows.

Alem smiled contemptuously and ordered the soldiers: "Rush, directly attack the city gate." ”

"Rush!" Xiang Qiang's soldiers were in high spirits, and they rushed in the direction of the city gate.

However, just when they thought they were sure of victory, suddenly, the cavalry had just rushed to the center when countless arrows suddenly shot from above the city wall. Like a rain of arrows, they were sprinkled all over the city. Xiang Qiang's cavalry hurriedly dodged, unfortunately, they were rushing to an open place, where was there a place to hide? Xiang Qiang's soldiers were suddenly routed by the crossbow.

Alem wielded his sword, interrupting the rain of arrows. He didn't expect that the soldiers of Nanchu, who were still weak just now, suddenly increased in number. Could it be that they had already prepared and knew that Xiang Qiang would come to attack Qu'an County today?

Indeed, the guards of Qu'an County just deliberately showed weakness, allowing Alem to underestimate the enemy and rush forward. When all Xiang Qiang's soldiers and horses were dispatched, they released arrows and shot them all in one go.

"Withdraw, withdraw." Alem shouted. In the first encounter, Xiang Qiang fell into an ambush by the enemy, and he was unwilling. It is impossible for Nanchu to know their whereabouts, and when Alam crossed the Dongling, he thought that his whereabouts were not exposed. Then there is only one possibility, there are people in Danyang City who are in the South Chu.

Abutai's forces, like Alem, were also attacked. They were even more miserable, and before they reached the edge of Jingyang County, they encountered a sneak attack. Outside the county seat of Jingyang County, there is a canyon with high mountains and lush forests on both sides, * narrow. The defenders of Jingyang County ventured out of the city and ambushed their soldiers and horses on this necessary road. When Abutai and his cavalry entered the canyon, they threw stones and arrows to wipe out Abutai's men and horses.

However, Abu Tai was much calmer than Alem, and he saw that the trail was high and narrow, and it seemed that it was easy to sneak attack. He stopped at the entrance to the canyon.

"General Right, what's wrong?" The adjutant general asked suspiciously.

Abutai asked inexplicably: "If you want to go to Jingyang County, do you have to take this road?" ”

"yes." The adjutant general understood Abutai's worries, "General Right, it's impossible for the Chu people to know that we will come to attack Jingyang County, so don't worry." ”

But Abutai shook his head and pointed at the birds in the sky with his whip, "The birds do not fall, but there are people in the forest." ”

"That'...... Send the vanguard to explore the way? The adjutant asked.

"It's fine." Abtai agreed.

The ambushers on the hill saw a small group of men and horses enter the canyon, but their general did not move and did not give the order to attack. Until the group gradually stepped out of the attack range, the general still did not give orders. The soldiers were restless, and at that moment, another unit came in.

"This should be their workhorse." A lieutenant general of Nan Chu said.

"General Feng said that the enemy has a total of 50,000 cavalry, which is not the main force." The commander ordered, "Let this team go." ”

After Abutai released the three teams of cavalry, there was still no movement in the canyon. The adjutant general persuaded: "General Right, let's go." ”

"The whole army set off, pay attention to precautions." With his legs between his legs and the back of his horse, Abtai led the main army into the canyon.

The generals of Southern Chu roughly counted the number of people and found that this was the main force. Their lord will immediately order: "Shoot the arrows!" ”

As a result, Abtai's army was also attacked by a rain of arrows, but fortunately, Abtai was prepared in advance, dodging the attack, while leading everyone to retreat in an orderly manner. Abutai also sensed that it was inside their Danyang City that there was a fine work.

Abutai's casualties were slightly better than Alem's, but the plan to attack Jingyang County had been dashed. He wrote down the situation into a military newspaper overnight, sent soldiers to hurry up, and passed it on to the khan.

At the same time, the news of Alem's defeat also spread to the Golden Palace.

"How can it be?" After reading the two battle reports, Tuoba Yan was so angry that he threw the military reports directly. The second prince watched his younger brother get angry inexplicably, he squatted down and picked up the military newspaper, and after looking at it at a glance, his face suddenly grew long.

"This is someone collaborating with the enemy." The second prince said bluntly, "Khan, the intermediates of Danyang City have not been eliminated, they saw through our counter-intercourse last time, they were too cunning. ”

Tuoba Yan no longer denied that there were people in Danyang City, if only one county had made preparations, maybe it was a blind cat that met a dead mouse, but neither county succeeded, it means that there must be an intelligence leak that let the enemy know their battle plan.

"Say, who leaked the news?" Tuoba Yan thought about it, but he didn't figure it out, where did the people know that they were going to attack Qu'an and Jingyang counties.

Alem is gone, and Jimmy has no idea the strategy of attacking the two counties. So what other channels will leak secrets?

"Qin Luo did it." The second prince said firmly.

Although Tuoba Ling didn't know where Qin Luo knew about this news, he relied on his accurate intuition to suddenly reveal the mastermind behind the scenes.

"Qin Luo?" Tuoba Yan waved his hand and said, "Impossible. ”

"In Danyang City, we can see through our counter-plots, and we are from Chu again, and there is only Qin Luo." Tuoba Ling said.

Tuoba was stunned, he still didn't believe that Qin Luo would betray him. He asked, "Second brother, how does Qin Luo know about the two counties we are going to attack?" ”

"I can't guess for sure." Tuoba Ling frowned, and suddenly found what he was holding in his hand, and he had a flash of inspiration, "It's a military report." ”

"Military newspapers?" Tuoba Yan laughed and said, "The military newspapers were all handed directly to me by the front-line soldiers, and the envelope was sealed with fire paint, no one had read it before I split it, how could Qin Luo intercept the information?" ”

The second prince was also a little puzzled, it was impossible for the fire paint seal to be fake, so how did Qin Luo know that Xiang Qiang was going to attack Qu'an and Jingyang counties?

However, the two brothers never expected that there would be problems in the well-guarded Khan's dormitory.

Tuoba Ling waved his hand and said bluntly: "No matter how he obtained it, if he is arrested first and tortured, I won't believe it, and Qin Luo won't recruit him." ”