On the road from Runzhou to Xuanzhou, an army is slowly moving. The number of them www.biquge.info tens of thousands, and there is no end in sight, and the entire avenue is stuffed, and the pace of their advance shakes the ground, and it is the Huainan army led by Yang Wu and Tai Meng.

"Shizi, now that Tian Yan is leading a large army to confront General Li in Wuhu, and the rear is empty, it is a good time to drive straight in. Now, according to the marching speed of our march, when we arrive in Xuanzhou, I am afraid that Tian Yan will also withdraw and return, and this rare fighter will be lost! ”

The person who spoke was tall and rugged-looking, and it was Mi Zhicheng, Taimeng's general.

This person is brave and good at fighting, skilled in martial arts, especially making a good archery, which is extremely famous in the Huainan Army, and is as famous as Zhu Jin's lance method.

According to his opinion, now he should take advantage of the absence of Tian Yan's main force to lead an elite army to attack the empty cities in Xuanzhou day and night.

However, Yang Wu marched very slowly along the way, marching only thirty miles a day before he began to set up camp and stop to rest. And now, after entering the boundary of Xuanzhou, he only walked twenty miles before ordering the camp, and every time he built the camp, he built it very strongly, and all kinds of defensive measures were built.

This made Mi Zhicheng, who was eager to make meritorious contributions, full of doubts, and thought that Yang Wu was timid in his heart, so he couldn't help asking.

In fact, Mi Zhicheng was not the only one who felt doubts in his heart, other generals like Li Decheng and Zhu Siqing were a little confused, but they were deeper in the city government and did not ask, but Mi Zhicheng was much more anxious.

Yang Wu didn't answer directly, but asked Tai Meng with a smile: "When the general ordered the whole army to slow down, all the generals were a little surprised, but the general smiled and nodded. The general is my famous general in Huainan, so I must know what this general thinks? ”

Tai Meng smiled and tapped Yang Wu with his finger and said, "Shizi, this is an old man who wants to be admitted to the school." ”

His qualifications are very old, coupled with many military achievements, his prestige in the Huainan Army is extremely deep, and he and Yang Xingmi are fellow villagers, they have been old acquaintances since childhood, and later they are old brothers who started a business together. In his eyes, Yang Wu is like his nephew, so he speaks more casually.

"General Mi, in the old man's opinion, there are three reasons for the prince to order to go slowly: the first point is out of prudence. Tian Yan is also a veteran general in the army, he has fought for decades, and most of the generals under his command are good generals, plus there are many troops, so he should not be underestimated. If our army advances lightly, it is easy for the other side to take advantage of it. ”

"The second point is that the key to this counterinsurgency is to defeat Tian Yan's rebels and kill Tian Yan himself, not to seize useless territory. If the long-term method of direct entry can capture Xuanzhou in one fell swoop, it will be fine, but Xuanzhou City is heavily defended, and it is impossible to fight in a battle, so what is the use of just capturing those inconsequential county seats? ”

"On this third point, the news of our army's southward movement will inevitably not be concealed from Tian Yan, so he will definitely lead his army to engage our army. And the slower the speed of our army moving south, it means that Tian Yan needs to walk farther to rush over. They rushed from Shengzhou to Wuhu in a hurry, and now they are rushing back in a hurry, and they will be a tired army by then. And our army will be able to defeat the enemy in one fell swoop. ”

Yang Wu laughed, "It's still the general who sees it thoroughly, the general originally only thought of the first two points that the general said, but he didn't expect the general to think of the third point, and the general is ashamed of himself!" ”

And Mi Zhicheng, Li Decheng and other generals who were still puzzled before also woke up at this time and expressed their admiration again and again.

After some laughter, Yang Wu asked, "Now that our army is heading south, Tian Yu will definitely lead his army to fight me." In terms of troops, although our army has more than 20,000 troops, there are 60,000 people under Tian Yan's command, even if he wants to leave some of them to garrison various places, plus 10,000 people who were wiped out by General Li in the Battle of Jiyangji, but he should be able to mobilize more troops than us, plus Tian Yan is brave, and there are many good generals under his command, and the next battle will not be easy. ”

"The general is my famous general in Huainan, and he is well versed in the way of using troops, I don't know if the general has any clever plans to deal with it?" Recalling that Taimeng quickly quelled Tian Yan's rebellion in history, Yang Wu couldn't help but have some expectations.

Seeing Yang Wu humbly asking for advice, Tai Meng couldn't help but nod in satisfaction. Although he knew that Yang Wu had recently commanded a large army to fight and won victories one after another, he was also worried that Yang Wu would be complacent and underestimate the enemy, and regard Tian Yan as the Zhu Xingxian and An Renyi people he had met before, which would be a little bad.

But at this time, seeing that he had a clear mind and was not complacent because of the successive victories, he couldn't help but feel relieved.

"Shizi is worried that Tian Yan will mobilize too many troops to come, so that the enemy is outnumbered and difficult to defeat. The old man has a plan here to eliminate this problem, so that Tian Yan will not bring more troops than our army. ”

Yang Wu's eyes lit up, and he hurriedly rejoiced: "The kid is stupid, please teach the general!" ”

This was not because he was deliberately modest, but because although he had won many victories before, he had always engaged the enemy when the enemy army was at a disadvantage, and he had never had so many troops.

In the Battle of Suzhou, there were few enemy troops, and there were no reinforcements outside, and with Zhou Ben, the commander, in charge, Yang Wu did not play a big role in it; In the Battle of Jiaxing against Zhu Xingxian, he and the enemy army each had only 10,000 people, and the defeat of the other party also depended on Zhu Xingxian to take the initiative to attack his camp, and then defeat the enemy in one fell swoop after they were tired; The Battle of Changzhou relied on An Renyi's advantage of not knowing that Suzhou reinforcements had arrived.

And this time against Tian Yan was a big battle of tens of thousands of people, and Tian Yan's side obviously had an advantage in terms of troops, so he couldn't be cautious.

What's more, properly showing respect to these veterans is also conducive to winning over these people and letting other generals see their bearing, so why not?

"The old man's strategy is very simple, that is, to make a fuss while camping. Our army can send more scouts to prevent the enemy's scouts from approaching, so that the enemy can only judge the strength of our army from the size of our camp and the number of tents......"

"Wonderful, really wonderful!"

Without waiting for Tai Meng to finish speaking, Yang Wu reacted and applauded again and again: "The general's plan is very clever, and it will definitely confuse Tian Yu and make him despise him." In this way, our army and Tian Yan have not yet fought, and they have already won one battle! ”

On the side, Mi Zhicheng and the others were still puzzled and wanted to ask, but they saw Yang Wu and Tai Meng with smiles on their faces, looking unfathomable, obviously they didn't want to explain more, so they had to give up.

Fortunately, Yang Wu and the others did not let the generals wait longer, and then solved everyone's doubts when they set up camp. It turned out that Yang Wu ordered the camp to be built more than half smaller than normal when he set up camp, and many soldiers were huddled together and shared a camp tent. He also sent scouts to cover the surrounding three-mile area, so that Tian Yan's scouts could not observe closely.

In this way, when Tian Yan's scouts looked at the number of tents in the camp from a distance, they could conclude that the number of Yang Wu's side was only more than 10,000 people, so naturally there was no need to mobilize too many troops to come.