The three cities of Pucheng, Guangxin and Dingyang are in the shape of a zigzag, and the thunder will pull the people to station between the three places, no matter which city they go to, the rapid march will only take one day. On the contrary, if one of the three places was attacked, the 30,000 cavalry of Ye Xin and Bailiyan (i.e., Wei Xian) would have to make a detour and run for their lives.

At the same time, if Pucheng is occupied by the Jin army and then surrounded by the thunder army, it will become a dead end that has to be saved. At that time, even if Bailiyan didn't want to save the Jin army, the Jin State would have to pressure King Xian to send troops to rescue, and all the troops in the entire Beihai County would be dragged into Pucheng, and finally form a situation of encirclement and reinforcement.

Hearing this, Qin Han said worriedly:

"In case we provoke the Jin army, the Jin army and the Xian army will join forces to fight, and our army will not be able to fight well."

"The Jin Kingdom has a ghost in his heart and will not save him when he sees death, how can the Xian Kingdom be willing to relieve the siege for him. Besides, the Jin army failed to land from Pucheng, and it was inevitable to go to Guangxin to land ashore, and the Xian army could let the Jin army enter Guangxin. ”

Nowadays, warships do not have hovercraft, amphibious landing craft, dock ships, etc., and they cannot land close to the coastal waters, so they must enter the port and land, or drop the small boat from the big ship and row a small boat to land on the beach. This caused a serious problem, when Pucheng was occupied by the Jin army and besieged by the Black Turban army, the port was gone.

There are only three options left for the Jin army's reinforcements, either 70,000 or 80,000 people forcibly occupy the port, or they can land on the beach outside Pucheng, but obviously the Black Turban Army will definitely have to take over the port with heavy troops, relying only on the existing technical conditions, it is obviously unrealistic to storm from the warship and wait for the well-prepared Black Turban Army on the shore.

It would be even more dangerous if a small boat was rowed near Pucheng and landed on the beach. Seventy or eighty thousand people took turns rowing small boats to go ashore, and even if there were no rebels to stop them, 70,000 or 80,000 people would not have been able to go ashore in eight or nine days. In eight or nine days, the rebels had already rushed to the beach to face the fierce attack.

Therefore, Pucheng was besieged, and if the Jin army in Leicheng wanted to reinforce, the quickest way was to land ashore from Guangxin nearby.

But the lack of virtue is the lack of virtue in this place, can Guangxin let seventy or eighty thousand Jin troops fight in the city? What if you don't leave after entering the city!

As a result, the Jin army could not enter Guangxin City, so they could only land on the beach east of Guangxin.

But there is a fatal problem here, the Jin army attacking Pucheng must be lightly armed, and they don't bring much grain and grass. It takes two days to reach Leicheng from the news of the siege of Pucheng to Leicheng, and when the Jin army stationed in Leicheng learns the news, it will take one day to make a decision, assemble a large army, and mobilize warships, and then arrive in Pucheng by ship from the sea, which is another two days.

Then the landing in Pucheng was unsuccessful, and it was a waste of two days, and at this time, the Jin army went to Guangxin along the coastline, which was more than a day. As a result, Guangxin was not allowed to enter, and for a day, the Jin army could only land on the beach from the periphery of Guangxin, and the result was another seven or eight days.

That is to say, from the news of the siege of Pucheng to the landing of the Jin army on the beach east of Guangxin, even if there is no problem in the middle, it will take at least 20 days, if you count the Jin army from the east of Guangxin to Pucheng, even if there is no rebel blocking, it will take three days at the earliest.

In other words, it took about twenty-three or four days for the Jin army to arrive in Pucheng, and the Jin army in Pucheng at this time had already starved to death.

Therefore, Lei Ting gave up Pucheng to the Jin army, the most direct problem is that the Xian army will not send troops, in fact, there is no force to break the siege, let alone let the Jin army enter the city, the Jin army in Pucheng was finally besieged to death, and finally led to the contradiction between the Jin army and the Xian army to become public.

"When his two armies are not in harmony, our army will send another strange army to attack Thunder City, and the Xian army will die."

"Attack Thunder City? Could it be ......" Qin Han suddenly realized.

"Hmph, the Jin army has 150,000 troops in Leichengtun for a year's military needs, our army occupies Leicheng, the rest of the Jin army eats and drinks what, and then put the Jin army prisoners back to them, hundreds of thousands of Jin troops eat and drink Lazar have to be carried by Xianguo, even if the Jin army transports grain from the Jin State and transmits the news from Beihai County to the Dacang in the north of the Jin State, even if it is reported with 600 miles at the earliest, it will take ten days.

Wait until the Jin army organizes the people to rush to transport grain and grass, wait for the boats, and use the ships to transport them from the sea, let alone forty or fifty days have passed. Qin Caidong thought that in the past two months, more than 100,000 people in the Jin army had eaten and drank, and if Xianguo did not give food, would the Jin army of more than 100,000 people still be able to starve to death?

If the Xianguo gives grain, the hundreds of thousands of Jin army people for two months eat horses and feed, at least hundreds of thousands of stone grain and grass will be consumed, and the Xianguo will be able to hold out for a few months at that time! ”

"The Heavenly King's plan is really high, the Xian army thinks that our army is here for a quick battle, and now our army's sword is going sideways, dragging them to death!"

"Not only that, the foundation of the Jin army in Leicheng is uprooted, and our army can draw the troops of Xianxi County, Sangnan County, and Sangbei County for the Changsun Kingdom to Beihai County without any scruples, wouldn't this situation be more favorable."

After the Black Turban Army occupied the two counties last year, there were still more than 10 miscellaneous troops attacking Shutian County in the west, and the Jin army in Leicheng was like a nail wedged between the two countries.

Only by pulling out the Jin army of Leicheng can the battlefield commanders of Xianguo and Changsun State be completely united, and the miscellaneous troops guarding the three counties of Xianxi, Sangnan and Sangbei can be reorganized and transferred to the front line, and attacking Pucheng will undoubtedly provide an opportunity to uproot Leicheng.

Half an hour later, Thunder gave up the plan to attack Dingyang and led the army to divert westward.

At the same time, Ye Xin and Bailiyan met at the time of Yin.

"General Wei, how is the situation of the black turban thief?"

"No news yet." Baili Yan Road.

"The governor of Pontus has ordered someone to move the horse to the Yongxing River, but I don't know what Zhao Shuai wants."

"If this plan is successful, it can nail the 150,000 horses of Thunder to death between Pucheng, Dingyang, and Guangxin, so that he can't move, and Yongxing River will benefit without any harm, Zhao Shuai should agree to this plan."

While the two were talking, a fast horse galloped in:

"Report, report to the general, the enemy army is suddenly advancing westward." The scout said quickly.

"To the west! hiss...... "Bailiyan was taken aback.

Ye Xin hurriedly said:

"How can they go west, do the rebels want to retreat to Xianxi County?"

"Take the topographic map." Baili Yan Road

The guards took the map, spread it out on the ground and lit torches, found the current location, and searched westward, but there was no castle at all.

"There are no castles and dangerous places along the way to the west of this place, what is the Black Turban Army doing suddenly to the west?" Bai Liyan said to herself, and asked the scout: "Is the thief army going west, or is it a part of the soldiers and horses going west, or first to the west, and then dividing the army." ”

"General Wei, there are still two scouts secretly watching, and I don't know if there is a division of troops."

"You go down first."

"No."

Bailiyan looked at the picture again, from the rebels' camp tonight to the northwest for a day and a half is Pucheng, is Pucheng, is the rebels going to fight Pucheng? Do you need 150,000 people to fight Pucheng?

At this time, Ye Xin said:

"Does the Black Turban Thief want to choose a place to camp?"

"Camp? Camp to wait for our army? The longer the time drags on, the more adequate the war readiness of Guangxin and Dingyang, and if it drags on for ten days and half a month, the rebels will have to pay more than twice the previous casualties if they want to attack the city, and Thunder will not know this truth.

Now the sudden westward movement is really incomprehensible. I thought that he would be in camp step by step, close to Dingyang City, as long as he could find a way to drag him for three or two days, he would be able to pull the defenders of Guangxin to Dingyang City, but I never thought that he would run away! ”

It was originally planned to drag the thunder for two to three days, and at the same time use 20,000 of the 30,000 cavalry under Ye Xin's department to go to Guangxin to transport the recruits to Dingyang, and take two people to ride a horse in two days to walk the original one-day road, so as not to hurt the horses.

At the same time, another 30,000 empty horses rushed back to the Yongxing River from Dingyang in four days to take the Guangxin army stationed in Yangting to the periphery of Dingyang City.

In this way, there are 30,000 cavalry and 25,600 infantry troops outside Dingyang City, and Guangxin recruits soldiers again, according to the city, with 30,000 cavalry and Guangxin Army as the driving force, the rebels are nailed to death in Beihai County.

If Thunder wants to withdraw his troops, he will pursue and intercept them with cavalry, and if he counterattacks, he will flee on horseback, and if he attacks the city, he will fight him to the death. All in all, the 150,000-strong army of Thunder will never be allowed to return to the Woody River easily.

It's good now, Thunder suddenly retreated westward, which made Bailiyan lose his mind for a while.

The situation was unknown, and Bai Liyan did not dare to rush out, so he scattered more scout scouts to move west, south, and north.

Soon after the sky brightened, the first batch of scouts returned one after another, and the news they got was that the rebels continued to move westward without exception, and there was no sign of dividing the troops, which made Bailiyan even more confused.

The rebels marched westward, and there was no sign of sending troops to the northwest to attack Pucheng, so did they really retreat to Xianxi County? Then what is the point of them tossing and turning in Chenling for half a day, isn't Gongsun Yue sacrificing in vain.

At four o'clock, the army had breakfast, and then marched northwest to the site of the rebel camp last night, and Bailiyan came to a conclusion that the rebels did not retreat in a hurry, but in an orderly manner.

"Metropolitan Governor, you see, the rebels took away all their baggage, and even the bonfire had time to be extinguished, obviously it was not a hasty evacuation after learning the news of our army, but an orderly evacuation."

"What does General Wei mean?"

"Will the rebels change their plan to attack Dingyang, there are other plans."

At this time, Xu Jin said:

"Will you attack Pucheng?"

Bailiyan denied this statement:

"No, to attack Pucheng, the rebels don't need to be so vigorous, they can continue to confront our army last night, and secretly transfer 350,000 horses to attack Pucheng. If our army bypasses the pursuit of its main force, it will be ambushed by its main force. At present, the rebels are all retreating westward, and such a large number of troops are by no means necessary to attack Pucheng. ”

"Simply, it's not over chasing after you and killing his mother!"

Gu Zhong proposed, but it was recognized by Ye Xin and most people:

"General Wei, what General Gu said is not unreasonable, our army has more than 30,000 people, and the soldiers are divided into three ways to march together, following after them to chase and kill, are you still afraid that they will not be able to set up an ambush."

"It makes sense." agreed, Bai Liyan continued: "Our army of more than 30,000 people attacked in a group, and it was blocked all the way to help, and it was indeed not easy to set up an ambush. Then kill them for a while, and see what the thunder plans to do. ”

Sometimes, the more unclear the situation, the more you can only use the most primitive method to knock the opponent and urge him to react. It is not ruled out that the Black Turban Army is suspicious and deliberately delaying time, but it is better to follow him and kill him.

After Ye Xin's deployment was completed, Sikong Nan returned to the pioneer battalion system, Bai Liyan led the vanguard battalion and the Guangxin Army to serve as the North Route Army, Ye Xin personally led the main force as the Middle Route Army, Gu Zhong and Xu Jin were responsible for the southern flank, and Xiao Qu led the headquarters to respond after breaking off to prevent the enemy from setting up ambushes in the rear.