"Is Tao Bairen full?" Li Yanzhao asked with a smile as he took his already empty water bladder.

Tao Heng was full of water and food at this time, thinking of his embarrassed eating appearance just now, he couldn't help scratching his head a little embarrassed, and then burped with satisfaction, and replied: "Thank you for the general's hospitality, the last general is full." ”

When Li Yanzhao heard this, he also smiled kindly, and said, "Since you are full, it is the best." Tao Bairen listened to me in detail, which is the strategy for me to wait for the attack. ”

When Tao Heng heard this, he was also extremely respectful and said: "The last general will obey the general's orders." ”

Li Yanzhao took out a miniature version of the map from his arms, and then beckoned, and a cavalry pawn in the Guangwu cavalry formation came over, and when he heard that Li Yanzhao was ordering a torch, he lit a torch according to the order and held it in front of Li Yanzhao and Tao Heng.

As soon as the torches appeared, the two of them suddenly brightened up a lot of room. On top of this abridged version of the map, Li Yanzhao marked two locations in pencil. Then he said to Tao Heng: "As shown in the picture, these two positions are the positions where the vanguard of the Zhao Army is located at the moment. ”

Li Yanzhao pointed to the previous position, then drew a circle with a pencil, and said: "Here, this is the Zhao army that was defeated by our army at the mouth of the valley. Now they have just been defeated, and it is panic. It took 20 miles to cut down trees and set up a village, which shows how jealous he was of our army. ”

"Our strategy is to take advantage of the fact that this Zhao army has not yet gained a stable foothold, and after the new defeat, the army's heart is undecided, and the camp has not been established, we will go out of the valley to attack and harass it. We don't have to try to kill or wound the enemy, we just need to make them uneasy and delay their establishment. Tired soldiers. Wait until tomorrow morning, and then decide whether to attack or not, depending on the situation. ”

When Tao Heng heard about Li Yanzhao's arrangement, his eyes lit up: "I just saw that among the cavalry behind the general, there are many soldiers who are armed with gongs and drums and other things, so it must be used here to exhaust the enemy?" The general's plan is really a clever strategy. ”

Li Yanzhao nodded quietly, and then the pencil in his hand pointed to a point at the bottom of the map, and said, "This is where the rear team of the Zhao army is stationed. My cavalry has already found out before that most of the Zhao troops here are Qiang people, with more than 10,000 people, and they have set up camp in the mountains, which is not an easy place to take. ”

Tao Heng nodded when he heard this, and said, "The general's strategy for attacking this time is already clear to the general. I am willing to go with the general to break the enemy! ”

Li Yanzhao put away the map, then supported Tao Heng and got up with him. When I looked at the camp on the east side, I heard the sound of rumbling horses' hooves gradually coming from far and near. The two looked up, but they saw the cavalry sent by Li Yanzhao before, driving a group of war horses and walking over this way.

When the horses came near, the commander who received the order dismounted and resumed his life. Li Yanzhao relieved a few words, and then ordered the rest of the cavalry to come over to replace the military horses. Li Yanzhao led a horse by himself, pointed to the harness on the horse's back, which was completely different from the Longxi horseman, and introduced the use of stirrups to Tao Heng.

Tao Heng heard this, but he felt even more novel, when Li Yanzhao handed over the reins of the horse to him, he struggled to get on the horse, kicked on the stirrups with both feet as he said, drove the horse around a few laps, and when he returned to Li Yanzhao's side, he couldn't help but praise: "This thing is wonderful, and it is no wonder that the general's subordinate horsemen can fight with the Huns without falling behind." ”

Li Yanzhao saw Tao Heng galloping freely on horseback. I was relieved. He gave the order to go down, and a group of Guangwu cavalry soldiers changed horses one after another, and then traveled to one place. The Longxi cavalry also found a replacement military horse under the leadership of their hundred-man commander according to the order, and then climbed on the horseback, and was quite curious about the new thing such as the stirrup.

After the Longxi cavalry got used to it, Li Yanzhao gathered the whole army, and then each team led the number of points to count the number of battles. His own two hundred and fifty-seven people, plus twenty-six Longxi cavalry, made a total of two hundred and eighty-three. The horsemen then inspected their weapons, horses, and firecrackers. Liu Jiwu also allocated a batch of arrows to them, and many of the blades of Longxi pawns were curled in the fight of Fang Cai, and they were also replaced.

After the preparation was completed, Cao Jian's team was in the front, Shao Lei led the troops to suppress the formation, and the rest of the main force, as well as the four hundred people and the hundred generals, were all in the middle and slowed down.

Under the orders of the leaders of each team, the sentry cavalry went out in all directions, shouldering the task of vigilance and reconnaissance. The sentinels in front of them will return once in a while, and after confirming that there is no threat, the main force of the brigade will continue to accelerate forward.

If so, before the hour came, this part of the cavalry led by Li Yanzhao was already approaching the temporary camp of the Zhao army that had been reconnoitred earlier.

Because it is less than three miles away from the Zhao military camp. The sentinels who came out before had already killed several Zhao army sentinels. Therefore, although Li Yanzhao's department was not exposed for the time being, Li Yanzhao still handed over the reins of the horse to others, personally led a cadre of generals to climb the top of the mountain on the upper side, and then looked at the Zhao military camp three miles away.

Li Yanzhao stood on the top of the mountain, and saw that the place where the Zhao army was designated as a temporary camp, although the fire was bright, but most of the soldiers were working with palpitations, and fatigue and hunger constantly attacked them, making them cut down trees and build a village, which was comparable to a snail.

The battle at the mouth of the valley was over, and until this time, it had been nearly two hours, but the Zhao army here had not even erected an outer fence. Although there were many repulsive horses scattered around the camp, and most of them were facing the north side where they were at this time, in Li Yanzhao's eyes, this tired army was really not ordinary.

In the camp, the Hun cavalry also gathered their horses one after another, and immediately the generals sat around the fire and began to eat to restore their strength. However, in the mountains and forests on one side, the Han and Qiang warriors who still endured fatigue and hunger, and struggled to cut wood, were far from being treated so well.

They starved and set up a fortress, but they also endured the shouting and whipping of the Hun cavalry who supervised the progress of the project. This difference in treatment can't help but make these Han people and the remnants of the Qiang even more resentful. However, under the whipping of the Huns, they could only cut down wood step by step, and then transport timber and set up a village.

Probably because their slow movements aroused the dissatisfaction of the Hun generals, and after a burst of nonsense in the camp, many Hun horsemen got up from the fire where they lived, and then picked up the horsewhips in their hands and came straight to them. In the blink of an eye, when the Hun cavalry got closer, they were whipped and scolded like a storm.

The Zhao soldiers who were cutting timber back and forth, under the strong sense of the majesty of these Xiongnu overseers, had to speed up with all their might, transport one piece of timber after another to the camp, and then turn back. Although on the surface, these Zhao soldiers did not have any intention of resisting, but many of them secretly clenched the axes in their hands. It was only under the stern eyes of the robes around him that he did not make any radical moves.

The smell of cooking by the Huotou Army in the camp at this time was also wafting out, and the Zhao Army foot soldiers who were directly teasing were itching. However, the Hun cavalry who was holding a whip to supervise the work on the side opened his mouth and said in stiff Chinese: "If you don't finish your work, don't want to eat!" ”

So those hard-working Zhao soldiers had to step up their work, hoping that after erecting the outer fence of the camp, they could enter the camp and have a hot and full meal.

At this time, the construction of the camp had not yet been completed, and Song Qing, Tao Heng and other generals came forward one after another, suggesting that Li Yanzhao attack immediately, and return after a while.

Li Yanzhao was silent, and observed the camp for a while, before he said lightly: "This is not the best time, you wait, look at it, the Hun cavalry in the camp is very close to the place where the war horses are concentrated, and they are all bows and knives, although the outer fence of the camp wall has not been erected, but in the direction where we are going to attack, a lot of horses are arranged. ”

"Even if we can quickly rush into it and catch the Zhao army by surprise, we still don't have much chance of surviving under the counterattack of the numerically superior Zhao cavalry. Why don't we wait for the fence outside the camp wall to be erected, and then we cover the horse's hooves, quietly approach, shoot several waves of arrows into the camp to cover it, and then beat the golden drum, and the soldiers all shout to kill. The Zhao army in the camp did not dare to move lightly. ”

"If the cavalry of the Zhao army abandons the camp and chases out, how should we resist?" Hearing that Li Yanzhao was tired of the enemy's arrangement, Song Qing was puzzled, but he couldn't help asking.

"If the Zhao army abandons the camp to attack, I will let them suffer another big loss!" Li Yanzhao was full of confidence, and then took off a cloth bag on his back and threw it to Song Qing.