Lebao's judgment is quite accurate.

If his judgment had been heard by Zhao Hongrun, the latter would never have believed that it came from a recruit who had only been in the army for five months.

"Dangshan Army...... Cheng Gao Jun ......

In the felt tent, Zhao Hongrun stared at the position of the two black chess pieces representing the Dangshan Army and the Cheng Gao Army respectively in the mud plate.

In fact, he guessed that these two armies were definitely no longer in the positions marked in the mud plate, but the problem was that due to the loss of contact with the outside world, Zhao Hongrun had no way to judge the true whereabouts of these two armies.

He could only judge the movements of the two armies from the strategic guidelines they had discussed in advance.

Yes, before these two armies left Luocheng, Zhao Hongrun had consulted with Sima An and Zhu Hai respectively, and arranged corresponding tasks for these two generals.

For Sima An, Zhao Hongrun ordered him to lead an army to attack the tribal camp of the Qiangjiao tribe in a roundabout way, and attack the Sanchuan tribe that he encountered along the way and assisted the Qiangjiao tribe.

Although Zhao Hongrun said it very vaguely at the time, Sima An was obviously able to grasp the meaning of it, and he deeply agreed with the decision made by His Royal Highness King Su.

As the saying goes, "In troubled times, heavy canons should be used, and severe diseases need to be taken with fierce medicine", which is called "evil treatment"!

"Note: Severe cases require strong medicine, this sentence is used here to mean something similar to "fighting poison with poison" and "treating a dead horse as a live horse doctor".

And today's Sanchuan, especially the people of the Qian people, they have no respect and fear for the Wei people, occupying the master's courtyard, and actually have to fist and kick the master, for this kind of evil neighbor, being too polite will only make the other party gain an inch, and do not put you in your eyes.

The best way is for the master to summon the house slaves and teach them a hard lesson.

And Sima An and the Dangshan Army under his command will definitely be the best candidates to make the Qiang people regain their awe of the Wei State.

As for Zhu Hai and the Chenggao army under his command, Zhao Hongrun did not arrange any tasks for him, after all, he predicted at that time that the Qians would inevitably use cavalry to cut off the connection between the two armies and Luocheng, so instead of reluctantly commanding the Chenggao army in the case of the whip commander, it is better to let Zhu Hai fight independently, after all, this is also a general who is not inferior to Sima An and Bailiba, and it is absolutely impossible to go anywhere for the grasp of the battle situation.

It is undeniable that the command method that only gives Sima An and Zhu Hai a general strategic direction, but allows them to consider specific matters on their own, is undoubtedly the best, after all, the plan is not changing quickly, and the rapidly changing battle situation depends more on the generals to respond to the situation.

However, the biggest problem with this arrangement is that Zhao Hongrun has no clue about the daily movements of the two armies.

For example, Zhao Hongrun could predict that the Dangshan army must be heading towards the tribal camp of the Qiangjiao tribe, but Zhao Hongrun had no way of knowing how many distances they traveled every day, where they were on a certain day of the month, or whether the sneak attack on the tribal camp of the Qiangjiao tribe was successful.

This is quite important.

For another example, suppose that the Qiangjiao people noticed the attempt of the Dangshan army, so that the latter's plan of a sneak attack for hundreds of miles failed, but the Qiangjiao people deliberately pretended to be attacked in the rear tribal camp and evacuated in a hurry. Then, if Zhao Hongrun wanted to expand the results of the battle and rashly sent troops to pursue, it was very likely that he would be ambushed by the Jiaojiao people, so he would be defeated.

"It seems that it is necessary to train a group of sentinels, otherwise, the fog of war all over the map, this is still a fart? Half of the battle was lost.'"

Pinching the bridge of his nose, Zhao Hongrun muttered to himself.

At this time, Zong Wei raised the tent, walked in, clasped his fists, and said with a chuckle: "Your Highness, it is estimated that the people of Qianjiao will not come to attack the city today." ”

"Are the people of the Horns still busy setting up camp?" Zhao Hongrun asked casually, and when he turned his head to look at the trick, he found that the armor on his body was wet, so he asked, "Outside, it's raining?" ”

"It's raining." Chong Zhao nodded, and then said with a wry smile: "It would be good if this rain came a day or two earlier." ”

Zhao Hongrun smiled slightly.

After all, a day or two ago, the people of the Qiangjiao still held the dream of immediately capturing the city, and had not retreated five miles to build a camp and set up a tent.

To say the least, this wind and rain can at least bring the Wei people a thirty percent chance of winning.

But it's a pity that this rainstorm happened to fall today, which made the Wei army disappointed, and they could only comfort themselves with words that were better than nothing: Anyway, this rain could dispel the attempt of the Jiaojiao people to attack the city today, and it dragged on for another day.

And in this regard, Zhao Hongrun felt funny.

"Don't dream, how can the people of the Qiang tribe say that they are also a tribe that has lived in this land for generations, and they are extremely familiar with the climate of this place, how can they be tricked? Perhaps, they predicted heavy rain today, so they took precautions to retreat five miles and set up camp. ”

"That's just as well." After thinking about it, he felt that His Royal Highness made sense.

But despite this, he still felt a little regretful and let out a sigh of "God is not beautiful".

However, in this regard, Zhao Hongrun didn't think there was anything to be sorry for, after all, he never thought of using time to win a war.

After all, in Zhao Hongrun's view, the time of day is uncontrollable, and it is enough to use it to add icing on the cake. "Note: For example, Sima Yi, who was almost burned to death in the gourd valley by Zhuge Liang with fire, was saved because of a sudden heavy rain. This is a typical example of the time of day to send charcoal in the snow, which is rare in a hundred years."

Therefore, Zhao Hongrun did not have any regrets for the early or late arrival of this rain, even if this rainstorm did not drench those horned cavalry, only a small part of the slave soldiers, and caused even fewer of them to be infected with wind and cold, which was already a great help from God.

In the afternoon of the same day, because attacking the city in the rain-like downpour was a taboo for soldiers to get twice the result with half the effort, the people of the Qiangjiao did not "ingeniously" come up with a trick to seize the city in the rain, and honestly stayed in their camp to hide from the rain.

And the Wei army, on the other hand, also seemed to be a little idle.

Even Zhao Hongrun, as the commander, was bored to tell Una about the reason why the sky thundered and rained, and sorted out a legend about Lei Gongdian's mother, which made Una listen to it with relish.

No way, in an era when belief in gods is very strong, you will hardly be recognized if you tell people about the friction of cumulonimbus clouds and clouds to produce electric charges, and you will even be regarded as a fool by others.

However, at about two o'clock that night, an incident occurred in the city, and an incident almost caused the city to fall into flames.

The incident took place in the treasury in the north of the city.

It is said that it is a warehouse, but in fact it is just an open space full of felt tents.

I remember that a while ago, these felt tents were used by the Sanchuan tribe in the city to house the old people, children and women in the tribe, but later, the city was surrendered and the merchant army was stationed in the city, and the old people, children and women who were secretly sheltering in the shelter all returned to their respective tribal camps, and after just a few days, they left the city and moved to Gongdi, and even further east to Chenggao Pass.

These felt tents became warehouses used by the merchant and navy to pile up baggage, grain and grass, including barrels filled with oil.

Due to the potential safety hazards of oil barrels, Zhao Hongrun deployed heavy troops near these felt tents, which were closely guarded for twelve hours a day, and specially sent a merchant army of 3,000 people named "Xu Jiong".

It seems that these guards are even stricter than the northern and southern walls.

It's no wonder, after all, that it's oil that can be used to make what the people of the Shan and Shan tribes call the 'Immortal Heavenly Fire', and this is no joke in case it leaks in the city and is ignited by the fire.

It is precisely because he knows the consequences that Xu Jiong, the 3,000 people who shoulder the heavy responsibility, almost have to open one eye even when he sleeps, and he does not dare to sleep to death, and from time to time he leads a team of men and horses to patrol around, although this warehouse is surrounded by open and dark sentinels that he deploys.

Around the time of the day, Xu Jiong once again took more than 50 soldiers to check the stacking of oil barrels one by one.

After all, there has just been a rainstorm today, and many felt tents have flowed into muddy water, if the wooden barrels are soaked in water, it is not good that the oil inside will seep out due to decay, and as the muddy water flows to the low depression, if there is a little spark at that time, maybe the entire treasury of the merchant and water army will turn into a sea of fire.

Of course, this is just Xu Jiong's concern, but in his opinion, it is always right to be careful, after all, the "fierce fire oil" in their army is too dangerous.

Therefore, Xu Jiong led the soldiers to check the stacking of oil barrels one by one, and for those felt tents with serious water seepage, they put hay and a layer of sheepskin on the inside, so that the wet ground was isolated from the bottom of the barrels.

And by the time he finished doing these things, it was already early days, in fact, even Xu Jiong was a little sleepy, but because of his heavy responsibility, he still fought hard and patrolled around the warehouse full of felt tents.

Walking and walking, Xu Jiong vaguely glimpsed a dark shadow behind a felt tent in front of him, and suddenly, his sleepiness disappeared, and he whispered a few words to the soldiers behind him, and a group of people quietly surrounded him.

After going around to the felt tent and taking a look, Xu Jiong really found that there was a person hiding behind the felt tent, who looked about eighteen or nineteen years old, judging from his clothes, he was either a member of the Qiang tribe in the city or a member of the Qiang tribe.

"Who are you? What are you doing here? Xu Jiong asked in a deep voice.

It's a pity that the young man pointed to the north city wall and muttered a common language, Xu Jiong didn't understand it at all, but roughly judged that the other party was a Qi people who helped defend the north city wall, and he got lost because he was looking for a place to pee.

When Xu Jiong heard this, he became suspicious, you must know that the tribes in the city now, who don't know that this area has been listed as a forbidden place by the Shangshui Army, and no non-Shangshui soldiers are allowed to approach. Even, even if it is a non-commissioned officer of the merchant army, it has to be repeatedly checked.

What's more, it's actually because you got lost?

Xu Jiong looked the young man in front of him up and down a few times, and without saying a word, he forcibly searched his body, and found two objects.

A rather sharp dagger, and a black flint and steel.

Seeing these two things, Xu Jiong's complexion immediately changed at that time.

"Pass my orders! The whole army is on alert! …… You, quickly report this matter to King Su! …… You, go to the north city wall immediately, and ask General Zhai (Huang) to take down Lu Balong, the patriarch of the Lun clan! …… Also, you, you, you, immediately check all the felt tents, and if you find someone sneaking in, catch them! If they resist, they will be killed! ”

With Xu Jiong's order, the defenders of the merchant army guarding the treasury surrounded the entire felt tent. (To be continued.) )