When the sun is scorching, the rotten fruits attract a large number of ants, mosquitoes, flies and other insects that suck sweet water, and even a herd of deer that passes by eats the fresh fruits on the ground.

The scouts of the Black Turban Army will find out about the situation and send it back to Shaoping as quickly as possible, and it is already afternoon when it arrives, and a war horse is exhausted to death.

Hearing the news that the pioneer camp was dumping fruits on the road that the baggage camp had to pass, the Divine Power Heavenly King was puzzled, this time he really couldn't understand what Baili Yan wanted.

In the afternoon, locusts came one after another, and the number of insects gathered reached an unprecedented number, and all kinds of insects were densely spread on the ground, among which many of them were very large locusts were greedily eating fruits and sweet water. Bailiyan (Wei Xian) led people to beat fifteen male deer and seven wild boars, washed and skinned, and then raised the fire and roasted them:

"Go, go, you three don't have a share." Bailiyan drove Su Hong, Sikong Nan, and Lu Gao.

Su Hong rubbed his hands and said with a cheeky smile:

"The general is really a god, and the locusts will come when he says he will come."

Sikong Nan echoed:

"The general is like a god, how can he be as dull as me." As he spoke, Sikong Nan stretched out his hand to cut the meat, but was hit by Baili Yan with a wooden branch and retracted again.

"You have all seen that in addition to locusts, flies, ants, grasshoppers, praying mantises, aphids, and countless insects are drinking sweet water, you say, is this a fantasy?"

"No, no, the general is like a god, where can it be a fantasy." Lu Gao hurriedly boasted, his eyes staring at the pork on the shelf, and he was already drooling.

Bai Liyan said again at this time:

"I can tell you that this march and battle not only requires the art of war, but also the geography of the heavenly civilization and all things in the world to be invincible, and even if it is defeated, it can win back two more games. After the Yongxing River is stabilized, I will plan to open a martial arts hall and select outstanding soldiers to enter the hall to listen to the school. ”

"I'll understand!" The three of them said in unison.

"Well, for your sake, eat meat. After eating, continue to rest, and after dark, go on the road and join the army. ”

The peach juice lived up to expectations and attracted a large number of locusts, the locusts happily gnawed on the fresh fruit, sucked the sweet water, and the locusts flying all over the sky came and went, it was only half a day, and the nearby airspace was already densely packed with hundreds of thousands of locusts, as well as a large number of birds that prey on insects for a living.

That night, the scouts of the Black Turban Army saw the vanguard battalion marching away, and came to the mainland to carefully investigate the situation, only thinking that the Xian army had done some kind of trap and wanted to find out the real situation, but the result was that the smear stepped on it and was almost scared to death. With a snort, a black wind suddenly rose, and a group of people were lifted on their backs.

Tens of thousands of insects snorted in the air, covering the sky and the moon like a black wind, making the scalp tingling and startling several scouts, so frightened that several scouts fled for miles in a row.

When he rode back to Shaoping, it was already the second morning and dusk, and the king of supernatural powers learned that the scout had come to report, so he hurriedly got up from the couch and came to the front hall to ask questions.

Knowing that the Xianjun had been eating, drinking, and doing nothing all day, the Divine Power Heavenly King couldn't help but be even more suspicious:

"Did the Xianjun really do nothing?"

"Respect to the Heavenly King, the little one and the others have seen with their own eyes, since the Xianjun sprinkled peaches in the morning and trampled them on rotten, they have beaten a dozen deer and wild boars, eaten and drunk in the forest, and nothing else has been done."

"Hiss......" Shentong frowned, puzzled: "In addition, are there other abnormalities?" ”

"This ......"

The scout tried to recall, and when he thought of the ten thousand insects in his face before, his face immediately turned pale, and when the divine power saw that he was abnormal, he immediately asked:

"Say, what's wrong with the bottom?"

"Respect the king, this rotten peach flowed all over the ground, attracting tens of thousands of insects, like black clouds, reaching out and not seeing five fingers. The subordinates personally investigated and were almost eaten by insects. ”

"What? The Xianjun tossed for two days, just for this matter? ”

The Divine Power Heavenly King felt that the Xianjun would definitely not run sixty or seventy miles, and the road was to feed the insects, and there must be an ulterior purpose, but he couldn't figure out what was going on.

For the sake of safety, Shentong sent three messengers to report to Shen Duchi from the three routes, so that he could pay attention to the movements of the Xian army when passing through this road, and at the same time send Langzhong to Shaoping City to prevent the Xian army from poisoning insects and introducing diseases into Shaoping City.

Two days later, Shen Duchi's army arrived outside Shaoping City, and the Shentong Heavenly King ordered Shen Duchi's army not to enter the city, and camped ten miles outside the east of the city, and at the same time sent Lang Zhong into the army to check whether there was any epidemic to prevent the disease from entering the city.

Shen Duchi arrived in Shaoping with sporadic locusts and pheromones that could not be seen or smelled.

A large number of grain bags contaminated with pheromones were moved into Shaoping City, and it didn't take long for the locusts gathered seventy miles away to eat and drink, and the men and women loved to lay eggs, and then flocks followed the smell of pheromones drifting, all the way to Shaoping, and after more than a month, dozens of times the number of locusts broke through the ground, and the remaining grain fields east of Shaoping will also be eaten before the summer harvest.

Shen Duchi was turned away from the city for five days, but did not find anything unusual, and the forage for the horses in the city was exhausted, and the horses were getting thinner and thinner.

"General Shen Duchi, more than 40,000 war horses in the city are in urgent need of feeding, the general immediately dropped people to move the horses out of Shaoping, looking for pastures to graze horses east of Shaoping, you can't feed the horses for green seedlings, can you remember?"

"The last will be remembered. In addition, there is another matter, and the king of heaven is asked to make it clear. ”

"But for Chen Feishi's navy?"

"The king of heaven is like a god, it is reported that Chen Feishi, the governor of the Xian army, is still six days away from Shao Ping, and it will not exceed ten days at the latest, if he is allowed to meet with the Xian army, our army will fall short. The last general suggested that the timber platoon rammed the warship to prevent Chen Feishi's naval army from meeting the Xian army. ”

"But if Chen Fei retreats in the face of difficulties, General Shen thinks that the Xian army will not be able to return to the Yongxing River?"

"This, not really, the Xian army can take the land route, but if it is accompanied by a naval army, it can be attacked and defended by land and water, and it will be difficult for our army to annihilate it."

"Then do you know how Ye Xin's cavalry will respond if Chen Feishi's navy arrives in Shaoping, and our army blocks the waterway from the Changchao River to the Milong River and traps Chen Feishi's navy here."

"Shhh...... What does the king mean by the Heavenly King, if the salty army cannot retreat eastward, and is trapped in the water by our army, or fights to the death, or abandons the ship and goes ashore and flees eastward on horseback? ”

"This is one thing, and second, our army cannot give it the opportunity to scuttle and burn the ship, and seize the warships of the Xian army in one fell swoop, so that our army can use it for training the navy. Third, if the road to the east of the Changchao River is blocked, Ye Xin's troops will inevitably have to stay on the shore to cover the naval army and not be attacked by our army's land equipment, so its two forces of men and horses will inevitably merge, so that the cavalry mobility on which the Xian army depends for a living can be restricted, and then it will be better to choose the opportunity to annihilate it.

If Chen Feishi's westward advance was blocked at this time, and the Xian army would not see Chen Feishi's navy a few days later, it would definitely go west to erect a pontoon bridge to cross the Changchao River, and then go east to the Yongxing River, so that the Xian army would not have been let go. ”

"Will the Xian army cross the river at this time, and then go all the way east along the south bank, and after meeting Chen Feishi's army on the way, the two armies will return to the Yongxing River together, wouldn't it be safer?"

"It's not impossible, but has General Shen ever thought about why the Xian army stayed west of Shaoping and didn't leave?"

"Naturally, I feed the horses with green seedlings, which damages my grain and grass."

"This is one of them, and the second is that the grain and grass brought by the accompanying horses are enough to last for about twenty days, and from here they return to the Yongxing River, and the Xian army will march at full speed for ten days at most, and it will be possible to arrive in as little as seven or eight days, and there will be more than ten days of grain and grass left, enough for them to continue to wait for the opportunity near Shaoping, do you know what they are thinking?"

"This ...... The last will be dull! ”

"Hmph, naturally it's my army horses!"

The Divine Power Heavenly King said coldly, Shen Duchi didn't believe it:

"Heavenly King, at present, the two passages in the north and south are blocked by Song He and Chen Hanxin, and the last general must be to feed the horses east of Shaoping, how can the Xian army go east. If you go far away, you will definitely be investigated by our army, how can you succeed? ”

"Perhaps. Our army has more than 60,000 horses of all colors, but the cavalry is only 20,000, and the forage in the city is exhausted.

This is also the reason why the king of heaven has not released the horses out of the city to feed, but he is afraid that as soon as the horses leave the city, the Xian army will definitely raise troops to take them.

Therefore, General Shen must be cautious when letting go of the horse this time, this heavenly king will take advantage of the night to send 5,000 crossbowmen and 5,000 infantry troops, hiding near the grassland, if the Xian army comes to seize the horse, General Shen will immediately kill it and defeat it. ”

"The last general obeys!"

The divine power predicted that the Xian army was beating the attention of his horses, and if the fifty or sixty thousand war horses were not fed, they could only wait to starve to death, and once they were released from the city, the Xian army might send troops to take away the horses.

Then Shen Duchi spent a day throwing the army, and successively moved more than 40,000 war horses in Shaoping City to graze horses outside the city, and at the same time, Shen Duchi's 20,000 war horses that had been fed were brought into the city, in case of a mistake, it would not be too much loss.

That night, 10,000 infantry troops quietly came out of the east gate and went to the pasture to hide, waiting for the Xian army to move out to take away the horses.

When the Xianjun got the news, it was already the second day. Sentinel cavalry crosses and goes, and they have to detour dozens of miles at night to lurk east of Shaoping, and a round trip is more than 100 miles, and it takes a day to ride a horse and hurry up.

Hearing the news that the Black Turban Army went out of the city to herd horses, Ye Xin thought at that time that it would be great if he could bring these horses and sheep over with him, so he summoned the generals to discuss the matter.

The generals had different opinions, those who were in favor saw that it was profitable, and those who disagreed were worried that the distance was too far and it would not be easy to achieve the set goal, and it was impossible for the Black Turban Army not to be defended, and besides, the 20,000 Black Turban Army released 40,000 horses, and the Xian Army had to go out to capture 20,000 horses in one fell swoop, and it was obviously not cost-effective to risk being surrounded for the sake of 20,000 horses.

"Metropolitan Governor, the risk of the end will be too high, if you can't pass through Shao Ping from the front, it is very likely to be surrounded by the Black Turban Army." Xu Jindao.

"What General Xu said is extremely true." Gu Zhong agreed, and then said: "If our army takes the horse, it is bound to dispatch 25,000 people to have an absolute chance of victory, so that only 4,000 people are left to take care of more than 50,000 donkeys and horses. ”

At this time, Ye Xin said:

"The horses of the Black Turban Army do not come together, this matter is obvious to all, even if the horses cannot be snatched, it is also a matter of great interest for our army to kill and injure the horses as much as possible, if this good opportunity is missed, it will be difficult to start in the future."

Ye Xin's voice fell, and Xiao Qu said again:

"Dadu Governor, it's not impossible to take the horses, our army's combat strength is far above the Black Turban Army, and the horses are faster than them, if you can use General Wei's flexible and flexible tactics to lure away the cavalry of the Black Turban Army, separate its cavalry from the horses, and then contain and drive them away, it will be feasible to do so."

When Ye Xin heard the news, he asked Bailiyan:

"General Wei, do you think General Xiao's method is feasible?"

Bai Liyan twisted his short beard and frowned, and he did not approve of taking the horse at this time.