After occupying Le'an County, the Huolin Army did not start to control the surrounding towns and villages, and let it remain as before. However, the Huolin army stepped up its preparations for battle, preparing to fight with the army of Yanshan Fort in the north and south, and completely defeat them. The best time to do this is five days later when the grain is delivered.

After waiting for four days in Lexian County, the situation in Le'an County finally reached Zhao Xun's hands, and Zhao Xun's heart was finally put down.

Nothing went wrong! After reading the information of Le'an County, Zhao Xun said secretly. The news he received was actually two days after Le'an County was occupied by the Huolin Army.

"Looking at your appearance, I guess things must be almost ready, isn't it time to act?" Seeing Zhao Xun's relaxed appearance from a few days ago, Su Ziyan asked with some annoyance. For several days, he repeatedly asked him, but he used the excuse of military secrets to prevaricate himself.

Zhao Xun looked at Su Ziyan, thought about it, and handed over the information in his hand.

"What is this?" While receiving the letter handed over by Zhao Xun, he asked angrily, and at the same time muttered: "It's not a military secret this time?" ”

"Le'an County...... You've already taken Le'an County in the south? When did you send someone? Also, how did your team spare the Yan Warrior army south of Yanshan Fort? Su Ziyan asked in disbelief.

Seeing Su Ziyan's situation, Zhao Xun knew that some of the actions of the Huolin Army shocked her a little, which could also give her an advantage when negotiating with the Shunzhou Army in the future.

Zhao Xun said lightly: "These are the elite teams of my Huolin Army, and it is naturally not a problem to cross mountains and mountains." From Yanzhou Mansion to Le'an County, the main road is not passable, and the trails are everywhere, which is not a problem. ”

"Now that Le'an County has been occupied by our side, it is time to launch an operation against the Yan Ya army outside Yanshan Fort. Before the Chinese New Year this year, the Yingzhou government must be included in the command. Zhao Xun said with a proud face.

"Come on, gather the guard battalion, we rush to Yanshan Fort, and at the same time, the captains, make preparations in the plan!"

Subsequently, Zhao Xun first went north under the escort of the guard battalion, and after going around to a secluded place, he was broken into pieces, and then sneaked to Yanshan Fort.

Yanshan Fort is not a passage to intercept Yanzhou Mansion and Yingzhou Mansion, and the official road between the two prefectures does not pass through Yanshan Fort, but passes five miles away from Yanshan Fort. After the Huolin Army occupied Yanzhou Mansion, the merchants of Yanzhou Mansion and the merchants of Yingzhou Mansion have always been in contact with each other, and neither the Huolin Army nor the Yan Army have forbidden the past of the merchants of the two places. Therefore, there are still a lot of spies coming and going, and Zhao Xun has to be careful.

For this reason, many people in the Huolin army have built a connection between the north and the south, first, to prevent the spies of the Yan army from probing the situation in Yanzhou Mansion. Second, it was also for the sabotage of Yanzhou Mansion by the Yan Army. For this reason, the Shadow Guard captured dozens of secret agents of the Shadow Guard.

However, Zhao Xun understood that the foundation of Yanzhou Mansion was weak, and if he distributed land to ordinary people and vigorously encouraged merchants to do business, he must not let the trade routes be blocked. Snooping for intelligence? At that time it was relative, both sides. At the same time, the merchants could also convey the situation of Yanzhou Mansion to the outside, especially the policy to ordinary people and merchants, which greatly increased the attraction to them. Of course, it is not without harm, at least those big landlords and some officials hate Huolin Jun and Zhao Xun to the core. What the Huolin Army did to the big landlords in Yanzhou Mansion is widely known. In other state capitals, Zhao Xun and the Killer Demon King are basically equal.

Yanshan Fort was built in the remaining veins of Yanshan Mountain, backed by a cliff and high mountain, and in front of it was the official road of Yanzhou Mansion and Yingzhou Mansion. It may be because there was once a large flood or mudslide eruption here, so that the passage in front of Yanshan Fort for dozens of miles from north to south was full of stones of different sizes. Only the official road in the middle, which barely allows two-wheeled carriages to pass through guò, is slightly better.

Yanshan Fort is not big, but it is not small either. The northern mountain wall has been carved out by craftsmen to form large and small caves, which are the places where Yanshan Fort stores supplies. Yanshan Fort is nine meters high, and the city walls are all built with boulders two meters long and one meter wide, and one foot thick, and are bonded with glutinous rice slurry, and the outer bread is covered with adobe bricks, which is extremely strong.

When Yanzhou Mansion fell into the Yan Army, the government army of Lexian County immediately retreated to Yanshan Fort under the leadership of Captain Ma Ziyun, and Yanshan Fort was in the hands of the government army, and it did not move at all. When the Huolin army occupied Yanzhou Mansion and Lexian County, they were also as stable as a mountain. When the Huolin army arrived in Lexian, it was not without thinking about taking back Yanshan Fort from the government army to defend against the Yan army in the south. However, considering the strength of the defense of Yanshan Fort, it has not been moved.

However, the Yingzhou Mansion had no scruples, and they had always been invincible, thinking that the defenders of Yanshan Fort would also attack the counties of Yingzhou Prefecture in one fell swoop. As a result, after they hit their heads and broke the blood flow, and after losing more than 2,000 people, they had no choice but to retreat and give up this Yanshan Fort.

Subsequently, under the persuasion of the Huolin Army, coupled with the orders of Xue Lei, the former general of the Longxiang Army, and the Yanzhou Prefecture Assassin Mansion, they handed over the Yanshan Fort in their hands to the Huolin Army, so as to defend this place against the Yan Yan Army in the south. Seeing that Yanshan Fort had fallen into the hands of the Huolin Army, the Yan Ya Army was worried that the Huolin Army would move south, so they established a large camp of Yanshan Fort ten miles south of Yanshan Fort, with 8,000 troops.

Outside Yanshan Fort, the north and south are not suitable for cavalry battles, so the Yan Yan soldiers of the Yanshan Fort battalion foster their war horses in Le'an County. Of course, not being suitable for cavalry combat does not mean that cavalry cannot be used, but that cavalry cannot effectively stay here for a long time, and it is inconvenient to transport supplies, which is why it is not suitable for cavalry combat.

"Report to the general, our spies have sent news that Zhao Xun, the commander of the Huolin Army, left Lexian this morning and returned north to Yanzhou City. There was no sign of a large army movement around Lexian. ”

The handsome tent of the big camp of Yanshan Fort, a forty-year-old man with a tiger's back and a bear's waist, steamed buns and long hair casually draped, listened to the soldier's report while looking at the map on the table. This person is the commander of the Yanshan Fort Battalion, Lei Yan.

Lei Yan didn't look up, but after a simple hum, he asked, "But what did you see with your own eyes?" ”

The soldier said: "General Hui, it is indeed what the spies saw with their own eyes, and Zhao Xun of the Huolin Army returned north with the guard battalion. ”

"Can you see them going back and forth to Yanzhou City?"

"This ...... This, the spies just saw them return and didn't follow! ”

"Okay, you go down, please come over Yansu for a while."

Not long after, an ordinary-looking young man entered the big tent.

"Meet the general, I don't know what instructions the general has for recruiting his subordinates?" The young man didn't seem to be very afraid of General Lei Yan, and asked indifferently.

Lei Yan put down the map, looked up and said with a smile: "Sit down, this map of the Yan people is very detailed, no wonder in terms of intelligence, we are not as good as the Yan people." ”

Seeing the young man's face change slightly, Lei Yan then smiled and said, "Oh, I'm not talking about you, after all, we have only been here for three months, and the people of Yan have lived here for hundreds of years. Of course, we've been exploring this area for years. But I have compared the map, at least in Yanzhou Mansion and Yingzhou Mansion, there are five trails that can lead to people. Although the army is impassable, the small team is convenient to travel to, which is not good news for us. ”

The young man glanced up at Lei Yan and said coldly: "General Lei Yan, you called me here to listen to your reprimand?" We, the Sea Eagle Division, are not your subordinates! ”

Lei Yan didn't care, and smiled: "I'm not reprimanding you, Captain Yansu!" Any intelligence information of your Sea Eagle Brigade is related to whether the Yingzhou Mansion can continue to be in our hands. Every piece of news you has is related to the lives of tens of thousands of warriors of the Yingzhou Prefecture and even the Yan Kingdom. ”

Yan Su said coldly: "What does this have to do with General Lei Yan?" ”

"The information from your subordinates is all half-, and the news has been given before it has been determined. In case of an estimation error, do you know the result? Can you afford it? ”

Yan Su sneered: "If General Lei Yan thinks that my subordinates are not good, then good, please be smart!" With that, he turned and walked away.

"It's so hateful, it's so arrogant! It must be reported and the authority of the Sea Eagle Department must be reduced, otherwise, there is no way to act at all. Lei Yanqi's face turned pale, but there was nothing he could do. The Sea Eagle Department is the intelligence department of the Funi Department, which was established specifically for the southern attack on the Yan Kingdom, and no one else has the right to govern it except for their direct superiors. Yan Su is the team leader sent by the Sea Eagle Department in Lei Yan's first section, responsible for cooperating with Lei Yan to collect intelligence.

Yan Su sneered as he walked: "I am all interested in the authority of my Sea Eagle Department, and it seems that something is wrong with Le'an County, I originally wanted to sue you. Since you don't like us, I don't have to cooperate with you. ”

In this way, a vulnerability that could have been discovered was ignored by him. Le'an County only entered but could not leave, resulting in a lot fewer caravans going north, these situations were inadvertently discovered by Yansu, who originally planned to sue Lei Yan, but seeing that Lei Yan was so arrogant, he did not speak. He didn't know that what he was hiding was a piece of news related to the fate of Yingzhou Capital.