After a little consideration, Ji Wei secretly made a decision, and looked at Liu Cun with blazing eyes: "If you don't dislike your short-sightedness and inferior martial arts, you will be willing to be a pawn of adults!" ”

Liu Cun looked at Ji Wei who was slowly crawling in astonishment, and after a while, he remembered to step forward to help: "My brother has strong martial arts skills and magnificent spirit, and my younger brother dreams of working with talents like my brother, but it's just ...... If the elder brother believes in Liu Cun, it is better to wait a few days before resigning from the county office, and then leave together when the younger brother returns, so that the face of the upper and lower levels can be taken care of, and the elder brother can walk comfortably and calmly. ”

Ji Wei felt reasonable, smiled embarrassedly, pointed at Xu Sheng and said to Liu Cun: "Please take this son away later, let him follow the adult saddle before and after the horse to fight on the battlefield, everything in the family is in charge, and the adult does not need to worry." ”

"Xu Sheng is willing to follow the adults to fight on the battlefield!" The smart Xu Sheng hurriedly knelt down and pleaded.

Liu Cun looked at Mother Xu, and when he saw Mother Xu nodding with a smile, he had to help up the physically strong Xu Sheng: "Good job!" Then enter my guard for the time being. ”

Xu Sheng was overjoyed, turned around and ran to Xu's mother and knelt down to say goodbye, Xu's mother reluctantly looked at her son, who had grown up, and held back the sadness in her heart and whispered.

Seeing this, Liu Cun simply pulled Ji Wei out of the door, walked slowly and discussed in a low voice.

Seeing Xu Sheng leading two companions with blue noses and swollen faces to come over timidly, Liu Cun instructed Xu Sheng to take his companions to report to Qin Yi, the captain of the personal guard, and then enter the main hall with Ji Wei to report the results of the discussion between the two just to Xu's mother.

At night, Liu Cun and Cheng Bing, Mi Zhu, Juxian County Commander and others said goodbye one by one, and led the guards and 500 cavalry to the north of Qiaoshan.

Xu Shengze, who was wearing brand new armor, followed the captain of the guard, Qin Yi, and felt that everything he had at the moment was exactly what he dreamed of, horses, armor, horizontal knives, and shackles, everything was so solid and novel, majestic, and even the hazy road under the starry sky made him full of expectations.

The more than ten miles along Mushui to the north is wide and flat, which is very comfortable for the cavalry, and it has been completed in less than half an hour, if Liu Cun saw that his strength was still very weak, and the plan of assembling the high bridge saddle and horseshoe was hidden deep in his heart, just adding an inconspicuous stepping rope sleeve on the other side of the war horse, the speed of the cavalry would be greatly improved.

Wang Qi and the left and right lieutenants Yan Shen and Zhai Yue led the main force of 5,000 people who had rested at the foot of the mountain for most of the day, and were very happy to see Liu Cun, and after the ceremony, they would discuss the next march plan with Liu Cun.

Liu Cun, who was happy to haha, pulled Xu Sheng behind him and introduced him to Wang Qi and the others.

Xu Sheng, who was quite shy, hurriedly knelt down on one leg, reported his name loudly, respectfully greeted Wang Qi, Yan Shen, and Zhai Yue, and then gave a military salute in a similar manner.

Wang Qi was quite surprised, but he knew that the person who was so valued by Liu Cun would never be bad, so he kindly ordered Xu Sheng to get up and speak. Yan Shen and Zhai Yue returned the salute with their fists, carefully looking at Xu Sheng, who was about the same age as him.

Liu Cun motioned for Xu Sheng to follow, and walked side by side with Wang Qi into the only supported marching tent under the big tree, and discussed in a low voice around the map on the four wooden boxes in the center of the tent.

The candlelight in the big tent was bright, and Xu Sheng, who was excited in his heart, stood behind Liu Cun and listened with his ears up, and after about a quarter of an hour, Xu Sheng was already dumbfounded.

He followed his father to practice martial arts to learn the art of war since he was a child, and clearly remembered the nearly 100 ancient and modern war examples that his father and uncle explained to him.

However, Liu Cunjun's intelligence analysis, pre-battle preparations, battle plans, and so on were very thorough and meticulous, far beyond Xu Sheng's understanding, and only the marching plan under discussion included the impact of three undulating terrains within ten miles of Dong'an City on the cavalry, the degree of infantry weight and physical exertion, the timing and sequence of crossing the river, the handling of unexpected situations, etc., almost every small problem that affected the marching operation was repeatedly discussed by Liu Cun and others, and almost every possible accident was in the calculations of Liu Cun and others.

Just after the hour, Zhao Rong, the grain supervisor, finally arrived on time, and the grain and grass escorted by 1,000 soldiers and 5,000 young men slowly entered the temporary camp.

Zhao Rong entered the big tent to drink saliva and immediately reported the Achilles heel of the four-wheeled grain carriage -- on narrow or muddy roads, the four-wheeled carriage was far inferior to the traditional two-wheeled carriage in terms of speed, stability and passing ability, and the four-wheeled carriage could only give full play to its advantages in speed and carrying capacity on a wide and flat road.

If it weren't for Zhao Rong's decision to return to Xiahe City after discovering the problem fifteen miles to Xiahe City, and urgently requisitioning more than 300 new two-wheeled carriages from his own chamber of commerce, various workshops, county offices, landlords and major merchants, and quickly transferring the grain on the four-wheeled carriage to the two-wheeled carriage to chase all the way, I am afraid that he would not be able to reach it by this time tomorrow.

After listening to Zhao Rong's report, Liu Cun immediately apologized to Zhao Rong, Wang Qi and others, solemnly reviewed his mistakes, and said that after returning, he would immediately organize manpower to improve, and he must make a more solid and practical custom carriage.

Zhao Rong and Wang Qi skillfully changed the topic after enlightening, Yan Shen and Zhai Yue stood with respect on their faces, and Xu Sheng was deeply touched and admired Liu Cun's mind and rigor.

Half an hour later, the 6,000 officers and men who had finished eating, under the leadership of officers at all levels, marched silently at a pace of eight miles in half an hour and a quarter of an hour of rest each hour, and quietly arrived at the foot of Yingshan Mountain in the east of Dong'an City.

This place is only ten miles away from Dong'an City, which is occupied by more than 10,000 Yellow Turban troops, if it is daytime, you can clearly see Dong'an City across the Yishui River when you climb the mountainside, and the scout teams that have been waiting for a long time will immediately report all kinds of situations, and the two teams responsible for the investigation in the direction of the ferry report the situation, which has aroused Liu Cun's great attention.

"More than 30 wooden boats moored at the ferry port on the other side?" Liu Cun asked solemnly.

The young scout team dressed as ordinary mountain people nodded heavily: "Your Excellency, counting the bamboo rafts at least eighty or more, all of them were looted by thieves from the villages of Dong'an on our side, and the subordinates led nine brothers to lurk in sections, carefully observed for two days and one night, and found that the thieves rarely crossed the river, and every day there were at most two groups of no more than five thieves crossing the east bank, and then went to Dongguan, thirty-five miles to the north, and returned to cross the west bank again the next day, and the subordinates judged that it was a messenger routinely sent by Andong City. ”

"How's the arrangement of the thieves on the other side?" Liu Cun asked again.

The shrewd team immediately replied: "Most of them stay in Andong City, only the south gate and the ferry on the other side of the city are stationed in a battalion of thieves, each battalion is about five hundred, yesterday at noon, the subordinates again took two brothers from the upstream five miles to swim across the opposite bank, bypassing the uninhabited village in the west to investigate, found that the thieves on the opposite bank sent more than ten cavalry scouts for more than an hour, the patrol range is within ten miles, it is estimated that there is no one in more than a dozen villages around, and there is no one in a hundred miles nearby, so the scouts of the thieves are very lazy, After a quick stroll, I went back, because the terrain around the city was flat and there was no shelter, so my subordinates did not dare to get closer. ”

Liu Cun looked at the map again, took out a homemade charcoal pen, and marked it on the map while asking about the rate of the scouts.

After a while, Wang Qi suddenly asked, "How wide was the section of water that you swam over at noon yesterday?" What is the flow of water? ”

The team leader hurriedly replied: "It is about two hundred and fifty zhang wide, it has not rained heavily in the past month or so, the water flow is relatively gentle, and there is a sandbar about fifty zhang long and ten zhang wide in the middle of the river in that place, so it is easy to swim over." ”

Wang Qi and Liu Cun, who looked over, looked at each other for a moment, and then quickly got together to quickly formulate a battle plan.

Liu Cun threw down the charcoal pen and resolutely ordered: "At this time, it is about an hour before the sky is bright, we must seize the opportunity to cross about 1,000 people, seize the ferry port on the west bank, and catch him by surprise, if you are lucky, you may be able to capture Dong'an City in one fell swoop!" ”

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