Ever since he summoned the generals of the Eastern Route Army and publicly announced the operational strategy of dividing the troops into four routes to cross the river and attack Chen, Yang Guang was looking forward to the early fog on the river to cover the army's crossing of the river.

When he gave orders to He Ruobi and Han Baohu, Gao Ying explained to the two generals separately after the meeting, that he also had to wait for the weather to change and take the opportunity to cross the river to fight when there was heavy fog on the river.

However, the sky is not beautiful, it is obviously the foggy season in the middle of winter, I waited for more than ten days in a row, every day is a sunny day, warm and warm, standing on the north bank of the river, you can almost see the other side of the South Sergeant Chen is holding a knife, or a sword. This made the generals of the Sui army, including Yang Guang, anxious and helpless.

The anxious Han Baohu couldn't wait for the fog to fall, so he came to Yang Guang twice in three days and asked to lead the army to cross the river, but Gao Ying persuaded him.

After the military meeting to determine the combat strategy for crossing the river, Zhang Heng, according to Yang Guang's explanation, specially found Han Baohu and persuaded him not to rush to launch an attack on the quarry town, and kill Xu Zijian, who sent assassins to assassinate Yang Guang in Shanyang, so as not to expose the location of the Sui army's surprise attack across the river too early, and Han Baohu reluctantly agreed. But in order to wait for this fog, he waited and waited, and finally couldn't help but avoid Gao Ying, and directly found Yang Guang in front of him to ask him to fight.

Yang Guanggang received the edict of his father Yang Jian, the little eunuch Li Yuer, ordering him to cross the river to attack Chen from the river quickly, and at the same time, he was also embarrassed by a message from Yang Jian that Li Yuer brought to him, and was explaining to Li Yuer the reason why he had not crossed the river to fight. Resting on the warship by the river, no, come to me again to ask for war? I ask my father-in-law to explain clearly to my father, crossing the river on a sunny day, the movement of our army is very easy to be discovered by the enemy, Chen Shubao has mobilized the main force of the southern Chen water army in the lower reaches of the river near Jiankang, if the river is forcibly crossed, it will inevitably cause heavy casualties, and it is extremely unfavorable to continue fighting after crossing the river. Therefore, it is best to wait patiently for a few days, as long as there is fog on the river, our army should immediately cross the river and launch an attack on Jiankang, the capital of Emperor Nanchen. ”

Li Yu'er is a eunuch selected by Yang Jian from among the thousands of eunuchs who are on errands in Daxing Palace, and it is the first time that he has been ordered to go out to run an errand capital, so he is particularly serious, after listening to Yang Guang's explanation, he pursed his lips and thought about it, bowed down to Yang Guang, and asked with a smile: "Lord Wang, don't blame our family for talking too much, it is really the Holy Lord's urgent explanation, our family has to think more carefully, and when we return to the Eastern Capital, we can also show the true situation of the former enemy to the Holy Lord, so that the Holy Lord can understand the hardships of the prince." Since the prince said that he would wait until the fog on the river surface to set the date for the army to cross the river and attack Chen, our family dared to ask the prince, why didn't he choose to cross the river at night, and crossing the river at night could also reduce and avoid casualties? ”

Without waiting for Yang Guang to answer, Han Baohu grinned and replied first: "Little father-in-law doesn't know, the Nanchen Navy has long expected that our army will choose to cross the river at night, not only is the vigilance along the river at night much stronger than during the day, but every time it gets dark, they also spread floating bells from the tidal flat in the center of the river to the south bank, but whenever there are a large number of boats crossing the river at night, they will alarm the enemy army early to prevent our army from crossing the river. ”

Yang Guang nodded, echoing Han Baohu and explaining to Li Yu'er: "Since the enemy army has expected our army to cross the river at night and strengthened its vigilance in advance, our army will do the opposite. I plan to wait for the fog on the river during the day, first use the small group of strange troops on the left and right to take the fog as a cover, quickly cross the river and capture the fortress along the river on the south bank, and then form a flank attack on Jiankang from the east and west, and then the follow-up troops will follow up with reinforcements to consolidate the existing results and launch a fierce attack on Jiankang. Please ask your father-in-law to play back to your father, with the assistance of Dugu Gong, Ah Zong will never disappoint his father. ”

Yang Guang's words have reached this point, and Li Yuer is inconvenient to ask too many questions, but she is still afraid that she will go back and spread bad words, which will cause a misunderstanding between father and son, so she dared to ask Yang Guangdao: "Since the prince has become a bamboo in his chest, our family has no more words to ask." I also asked the prince to write a piece of music to write down in detail the strategy and reasons for crossing the river that the former enemy had determined, and bring it back to our family and present it to the saint, so that our family would not be clumsy and misconvey the meaning of the prince. ”

Yang Guang saw that although Li Yu'er was only sixteen or seventeen years old, she was very thoughtful and cautious, and he couldn't help but suspect that the message he brought to his father was not the true meaning of his father Yang Jian.

Thinking about how he should complete the secret mission entrusted by Yang Jian in the future, Yang Guang smiled at Li Yu'er on the surface: "What my father-in-law said is what this king should do, so I ask my father-in-law to wait here for a while, and this king will draft a reply to his father now." ”

He saw that Han Baohu was still standing in the hall, so he instructed him: "The general's intention is already known to the king, and I ask the general to wait patiently for a few days, as long as the fog on the river is together, this king will be the first to give the general an order to cross the river and cut down Chen." ”

Han Zhuhu vaguely guessed from the dialogue between Yang Guang and Li Yuer that he was most likely ordered to come to urge Yang Guang to send troops to cross the river to fight, and he took the opportunity to hug Yang Guang in front of Li Yuer and ask for battle: "Seeing that the New Year is about to be celebrated, the defenders of Nanchen on Chinese New Year's Eve will be slack, if the fog on the river rises before Chinese New Year's Eve, it will be fine, if there is still no fog by then, the last general will ask the generalissimo to allow the last general to lead 500 dead soldiers to cross the river by fast boat overnight, and surprise the enemy army on the south bank, and he will surely win a complete victory." ”

Yang Guang's face was displeased, and he was about to open his mouth to say goodbye to Han Baohu, when he saw Gao Ying, the governor of the Generalissimo's Mansion and the head of the dynasty, Gao Ying, walked in from outside the hall with a happy face, and hurriedly changed his words to introduce Li Yuer to Gao Ying, and asked him: "Dugu Gong has built a high altar outside the city for several days, and invited the world's masters to watch the sky at night, I don't know if you can see when the fog rises on the river?" ”

It turned out that Gao Ying was also anxious because of the sunny days in the past, and she was in a hurry, remembering the story of Kong Ming building the Seven Star Platform during the Three Kingdoms, seeking the east wind, and breaking the Cao Army, so she visited the world's masters who could recognize the celestial phenomena, and also built a high platform outside Guangling City, and personally accompanied the masters to the stage to observe the celestial phenomena and predict the time when the fog would rise. Today, Yang Guang saw him running back to the Shuaifu with a happy face, and guessed that it was likely that he had obtained satisfactory results from observing the celestial phenomena for several days, so he asked this question.

"When Fang Cai was outside the hall, he heard that General Han asked Wang Ye for battle, and he thought that Wang Ye should agree to General Han's invitation, and the day of crossing the river to cut down Chen should be set on Chinese New Year's Eve." Gao Ying twisted her beard and replied with a smile.