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The second task is assigned to all the generals, since Ma Yong and Wei Changfeng are here, and they will have to arrange the matter of guarding Princess Nina and the prince in a while, Zhu Ling will arrange it to Ma Yong and Wei Changfeng in advance: this time the number of the Han army is full of 100,000 again, and General Zhu decided that it is still about 100,000 soldiers, and the right army is 70,000, led by Zhu Ling himself, and takes Liaozhong, the important land of Donghu 300 miles away, and the left army of 30,000, led by Fang Zhenhai, marches hand in hand with the right army to capture the Black Mountain, which is also 300 miles away from Jinzhou. The two cities were about 150 li apart, and if they were to occupy both at the same time, 30% of the territory occupied by Donghu would be in the Han Empire's pocket.

It should be said that Zhu Ling's arrangement is still very reasonable. Liaozhong is an important place in Donghu, and it is natural to attack with heavy troops, Montenegro is on the side of Liaozhong, and the two route armies are advancing in parallel, which can echo each other, and send Wei Changfeng to the side, which can prevent Princess Nina and the princess from being in danger. Of course, attributing important credit to Zhu Ling at the same time is also one of these considerations.

Fang Zhenhai knew that Zhu Ling was half a tactical need, and half was a meritorious. There is no large-scale Donghu army stationed in Montenegro on the left road, it is believed that the Donghu army in Montenegro was originally less than 10,000 people, and the Donghu army was defeated before, and the Montenegrin defenders were transferred half, so it can be said that this time the left army will not even meet the big resistance, so this time it is more about watching the scenery. So he ordered the 30,000 troops to be divided into three routes, and Ma Yong's headquarters was the second road on the left, and they marched in the center.

With the sound of hooves, the Left Second Route Army marched all the way, and it was now the third day, and it still had not encountered the enemy. This time, the soldiers were very relaxed, and they kept talking and laughing on the road. There is one person who is angry, though.

This man is the prince.

The first thing that displeased him was that his carriage did not follow. Ma Yong's eyes were round when he saw the carriage of the prince, and he resolutely refused to allow the prince to sit in the carriage. This big carriage is going to go on the road, and when it touches that narrow place, how many people have to open the mountain to pave the road to make it pass? If there were a pit in the road or something that would sink the wagon, how many people would have to be able to lift it out? Therefore, Ma Yong said that he would not agree to the prince to take the carriage, but only allocated another carriage to the prince. Although this carriage should be not small according to Ma Yong's point of view, it is too small for the prince.

He was now angry in this small excessive carriage, feeling that the seat of the carriage was too hard, the surroundings were too small, and the smell was too unpleasant.

However, this is not the most angry for the princes. Before he was developed, he was also a child of a poor family, not to mention the carriage, the horse had never touched it, and he walked with two feet no matter how far he went, and he didn't even have shoes. Therefore, although the carriage displeased him, he would not be unable to walk by the carriage. However, whether it is Fang Zhenhai, Ma Yong, or Wei Changfeng, they all treat him with a false color, which is what makes him angry the most!

When he was a child, he was often reprimanded, and once he was even stripped of his clothes and hung up in public, and at that time, he did not dare to think that he would respond to all calls in the future. But since he entered the palace, whenever he went out to do errands, which official dared not flatter him? Even when he came here, General Zhu flattered him from the past and behind, but since he followed the Left Route Army to attack, General Fang seemed to ignore him, and although Ma Yong came to ask twice, it was only a few simple words, and he was completely businesslike. As for that Wei Changfeng, because he was so attracted to him, he actually had a business-like demeanor, so far, Ma Yong and Wei Changfeng have come to see him a total of four times, and they have to come!

That's right, it stands to reason that he, the eunuch, is unofficial and unemployed at all, theoretically, a small soldier can ignore him, but which soldier dares to ignore him, a eunuch with no official position and no position? The prince doesn't care about money, although he has some secret income, but compared to other eunuchs, he is really a drop in the bucket, so he has a reputation for honesty, which also makes the emperor trust him very much. However, he cares about face. From the time he was a child when he was hung up and beaten by the servants, he vowed to surrender to the ground, and when he finally realized his childhood dream, he found that he had hit a wall in the Left Army.

He couldn't tolerate that.

However, he didn't show it, and even became more affectionate to Wei Changfeng and Ma Yong. Life in the palace gave him great endurance and taught him how to be inconsistent. It's just that in his heart, he hates Ma Yong and Wei Changfeng very much, especially Wei Changfeng. You must know that he didn't have time to win over Ma Yong, and this kind of reckless man can do anything in a hurry, so it's better to ignore it. But Wei Changfeng is shameless! My prince is interested in wooing you, but you don't know how to lift, if this kind of thing spreads, won't you be laughed to death by other eunuchs?

So the prince sat in the carriage, laughing and getting angry at the same time, and thinking about how to find trouble with Wei Changfeng while getting angry. This matter can't be too straightforward, you must know that Princess Nina is very interesting to Wei Changfeng, if you provoke Princess Nina, His Majesty the Emperor will have to kill him alive!

(2) There was a sudden shout from the front, and the team stopped.

The prince immediately stretched out his head out of the window to see the carriage in which Princess Nina was sitting. He doesn't care about anything else, only Princess Nina, as long as Princess Nina is okay, he is fine.

Of course, Princess Nina was fine.

However, there was something wrong with the Han army forward.

Fang Zhenhai and Ma Yong stood there, looking at each other.

In front of them was a river, and there was a bridge over it, a broken bridge.

The bridge had been torn down in the middle, and it was so completely dismantled that it would have been impossible to restore it without seven or eight days. Of course, this can't be the idle and boring people who demolished the bridge, it can only be the Donghu people who demolished it. The problem is that the Heishui River in front of him is neither deep nor wide, there are many places to cross the river upstream and downstream, and the Donghu people are not idiots, knowing that it is useless to demolish this bridge, at most let the Han army's shoes get wet, why do you want to do such useless work?

"Maybe the Donghu people are scared and confused." Ma Yong said with some confidence.

Fang Zhenhai shook his head suspiciously: "It's not so confused, right?" His words were also a little lacking.

Behind him, the sound of horses' hooves sounded, and Wei Changfeng arrived. It was said that he should march in the middle of the team, but as soon as a situation arose here, Fang Zhenhai and Ma Yong ordered almost at the same time: "Call General Wei to come forward!" In the minds of these two people, Wei Changfeng is an absolute senior staff officer.

Wei Changfeng came to the front of the team and saw this situation, and knew what Lu Dao was called to do, but he didn't know what Lu Dao Donghu was doing for Lu, and after watching it for a long time, he could only shake his head.

"The middle route army moved left to cross the river," Fang Zhenhai ordered, "The distance between the three armies has shrunk to five miles, General Wei, you will follow me, and the task of protecting Princess Nina and the princess will be transferred to General Bai Shen." ”

Wei Changfeng nodded in agreement.

Fang Zhenhai is a ship that is carefully sailing for ten thousand years. The situation in front of him may also be the stupidity of the Donghu people, or it may be some kind of strategy, so Fang Zhenhai ordered the three troops to shrink closer, so that they can take care of each other at any time, let Wei Changfeng stay by his side, and if something happens, he can discuss with Wei Changfeng immediately.

However, nothing happened. There were no other losses except for two soldiers who slipped and fell while crossing the river, soaking wet. Until the evening camped down to the village, there was not even a trace of a Donghu person.

Fang Zhenhai had to temporarily think that the Donghu people were stupid and excessive, but he still arranged a double alert to prevent the Donghu people from sneaking attack, and he was only two days away from Blackwater City, so he didn't want to be attacked halfway.

Nothing happened that night. Early the next morning, the sun was shining, and the army continued to march.

After less than twenty miles of travel, there was a report from the front: another broken bridge was found.

Fang Zhenhai immediately called out to Ma Yong and Wei Changfeng to the front together.

This time the bridge broke even more wonderfully.

There is a small river in front, the river is not more than three zhang wide, but not knee-deep, the bridge on the river is built by the people for the convenience of walking, it is really not a bridge, hundreds of people can be restored in less than an hour, and such a shallow river, why bother to restore the bridge? Just wading through the water is fine.

It can't be stupid. No matter how stupid the Donghu people are, they can't be so stupid.

Fang Zhenhai and Ma Yong looked at Wei Changfeng together.

Wei Changfeng only smiled bitterly. He really didn't understand what was going on, and no matter how smart he was, he couldn't see everything at first sight. He shook his head.

Ma Yong was a little disappointed. But Fang Zhenhai didn't say anything, but ordered continuously: "Investigate the upper reaches of Lu to see if there is a dam to block the river, and the whole army will retreat five miles." ”

His guess was that the Donghu people might have built embankments upstream, and waited until the Han army waded across the river before breaking the embankment and flooding the Han army.

The Han army retreated five miles, waited for an hour, probed the Malay newspaper, and probed to the upper outposts of Lu for twenty miles, but found no signs of building embankments, and the river water has always been so shallow, and there is no sign of deep water on both banks.

As a result, everyone frowned.

"Three armies in one." Fang Zhenhai ordered, "The whole army crosses the river quickly." ”

Wei Changfeng listened to Fang Zhenhai's order on the side, and faintly felt that something was wrong, but he couldn't say what was wrong, if he was allowed to stand in Fang Zhenhai's position now, he was afraid that he would also give an order like this, 30,000 people together, even if all the 5,000 people in Donghu abandoned the city, it would be difficult to defeat the Han army, this is the safest way at present. So he could only remain silent.

Fang Zhenhai also seemed to have some premonitions, he frowned, and kept scanning the surroundings, only to see that there were faint hills in front of him, and there were endless plains in front of him and on the right, and as far as his eye could see, there was no trace of the Donghu army, not even pedestrians. What's going on here?

The Han army crossed the river safely and continued to move forward, and the hills gradually became clear. This is called Montenegro. Close, found that this hill can not be said to be very beautiful, although compared with the high mountains is indeed not high, but in the hills is also high and wide, the mountains are pine and cypress, small rivers and blue lakes, but also very beautiful scenery.

The Han army was moving forward, and suddenly, there was a faint sound of horns!