After the three shogunate officials sent by Li Zuoche questioned the scouts in detail, their faces immediately changed color.

In this world, there will be no one else who can carry the banners of "Qin" and "Meng" in the march, except for the world-famous Jiuyuan Hou and the great general Meng Tian. Although Meng Yi is also surnamed Meng, everyone knows that Meng Yi is only a Wenchen and has never led an army to fight.

When Meng Tian and Meng Yi were released by Hu Hai, Hu Hai did not hype it up. Therefore, so far, not many people outside the customs know that Meng Tian, Meng Yi and others have been reinstated.

This can be regarded as a benefit of the cold weapon era.

The remnants of the Six Kingdoms raised troops here and there, and by the time Hu Hai received the news, they had already lost a lot of cities; But in the same way, the mobilization of Great Qin's military strength will also inevitably delay the news, and by the time they know, Great Qin's army has already reached the bottom of their noses.

Everyone has the disadvantage of slow information transmission, so when the armies meet, it is whoever has the bigger fist and who takes advantage of it more. Although Great Qin is no longer as strong as it used to be, it is not something that the remnants of the Six Kingdoms can resist.

This advantage is not obvious now, but once Hu Hai's cavalry is trained, at that time, the slow and closed transmission of information will inevitably be the source of many people's nightmares.

"The three gentlemen are talking about how our army should act now?" Peng Yue looked at several shogunate officials who were looking at each other and said impatiently.

"General, now the Qin army has suddenly appeared in Handan, and the leader is Meng Tian, the general of the Nine Plains. We should immediately order someone to fly to report to Lord Xiangguo, so that Lord Xiangguo can prepare early. One of the officials said.

"Then you can order Pegasus to report to the Prime Minister. But how should our army respond at the moment? The Qin army must be tired from afar, so if we take advantage of the fact that the Qin army is not firmly established, our army will rush and kill for a while, and frustrate the Qin people's spirit. What do the three of you think? Peng Yue is obviously more concerned about how he should deal with it now.

Peng Yue was still very grateful to Li Zuoche for promoting himself as a pillar country, and he did not hesitate to hand over his 50,000 troops to lead him south to Handan. He wanted to make some achievements to repay Li Zuoche for his trust.

But Peng Yue's seemingly good suggestion was immediately opposed by the three shogunates.

"General, never! Although the army that Meng Tian is leading now is not necessarily the elite of Jiuyuan under his command, but Meng Tian is a famous general in the world, how can he be so careless? Presumably, at this moment, Meng Tian's army has already set up a position, just waiting for our army to enter the urn. One of the officials said.

This official is called Bang Tuo, who has followed Li Zuoche for many years, has always been calm, very strategic, and also very good at being a man. Li Zuoche sent him to assist Peng Yue, and he deliberately introduced him to Peng Yue before that. So for Bang Tuo's suggestions, Peng Yue will generally listen.

The other two officials next to him heard Hama's words and even claimed to be.

"You can't attack, you can't attack! Is it possible for our army to retreat? Peng Yue hummed.

"The general is really smart." Bang Tuo obviously saw Peng Yue's unhappiness, and patted Peng Yue without a trace and said: "The Qin people have come from afar, and it is already dark now, Meng Tian will not attack with a tired army." The general could order the whole army to retreat twenty miles, set up camp, and rest for the night. Wait for Bai Yu to compete with the Qin people, and tonight I can also explore the reality of the Qin army. ”

Peng Yue didn't have a better way than this, and Bang Tuo's sycophant was not taken in vain, so he simply put this wise decision on Peng Yue's head. Peng Yue also went down the steps and responded very simply.

Peng Yue gave an order, and the 50,000 army immediately retreated twenty miles and set up camp. Then, at the suggestion of Bang Tuo, the open sentry, the dark sentry, the surprise sentry, and the plundering sentry came out in all directions, strictly guarding against the night attack of Meng Tian's army, and also probing the reality and military situation of the Qin army.

These scouts were carefully selected by Li Zuoche in an army of nearly 300,000 people, a total of less than 2,000 people.

In the opinion of Peng Yue and others, these elite scouts were enough to probe the reality of the Qin army in one night.

As soon as Peng Yue's army retreated, Zhang Wu, who was waiting for the battle, received a letter from the scouts who had been roaming outside.

Hearing the retreat of the enemy troops in front, Zhang Wu secretly breathed a sigh of relief. The Jiuyuan Army was never afraid of night battles, but if he fought at night with enemy troops who were several times his size and most of them were foot soldiers, it would be very disadvantageous to his front army.

After all, the cavalry of the Jiuyuan Army was not equipped with the three cavalry artifacts made by Hu Hai at the moment.

However, there were only 5,000 foot soldiers in the 20,000 troops of the front army, and the front army, which was mainly cavalry, did not carry heavy weapons such as large repeating crossbow machines, so the cavalry was not conducive to charging and maneuvering at night, and it was difficult to say the result if the battle was fought at night.

The Jiuyuan Army can be said to be invincible under the leadership of Meng Tian over the years, and whether it is lost or drawn, it will greatly dampen the morale of the 80,000 Jiuyuan Army who went north to quell the chaos.

At that time, he Zhang Wu was dead and could not be redeemed.

As soon as Zhang Wu ordered the army to set up camp, Meng Tian came with hundreds of personal guards.

Seeing that Zhang Wu did not rush forward to attack the enemy, Meng Tian let go of the heart that had been hanging since receiving the letter. He was well aware of the shortcomings of the front army, which was fine during the day, which was conducive to cavalry maneuvering and charging, but in the night it was greatly reduced.

As soon as Meng Tian arrived at the gate of the camp, Zhang Wu came out with generals at all levels to greet him.

"The last general will wait to meet the general!"

"No need to be polite. Zhang Wu, how can you set up camp at this time? If the rebels take advantage of the situation to attack, can you resist the 20,000 former soldiers? Hum! Meng Tian turned over and dismounted, and when he saw Zhang Wu, he shouted and reprimanded.

Zhang Wu heard Meng Tian's words and smiled bitterly: "The general is angry. The last general received the thief army and set up camp twenty miles before ordering our army to camp here. It's just that the letter hasn't had time to report to the general. ”

"Oh? I see. The Handan County Shou once said that Li Zuoche's thief army now has more than 200,000, although most of them are rabble, but Li Zuoche and his people should not be underestimated. Now that the rebels have appeared here, the giant deer must have been lost. It's just that this "Zhao" character flag is so strange. Meng Tian frowned.

"General, this Li Zuoche is the grandson of the late Zhao general Li Mu, could it be that this Li Zuoche established the Zhao State again?" Zhang Wu guessed in his heart.

Meng Tian was silent when he heard Zhang Wu's words, and after a while, he ordered: "The middle army and the rear army came here tonight to camp. Ming said that the army marched to Handan. ”

"Whoa!"

April 28.

As soon as the sun rose, the Qin army camp that was silent with a rapid drum beat began to get busy, and after breakfast, the 80,000 army began to prepare to march forward. Last night, the Chinese army and the rear army received Meng Tian's order and rushed to the camp overnight.

An hour later, the 80,000 Jiuyuan army had already completed its formation, and it was still advancing in the arrangement of the front, middle and rear armies.

It's just that the current front army has become 10,000 infantry and 10,000 cavalry, and it is still commanded by Zhang Wu; Meng Tian's Chinese army had 10,000 foot soldiers and 30,000 cavalry, and the remaining 20,000 foot soldiers were responsible for grain, grass, and heavy ordnance, and were still led by Ling Hu Fan as the rear army.

Not long before the Qin army left the village, Peng Yue received a letter from the scout.

In fact, the battle had already started as early as yesterday night, not only Peng Yue wanted to find out the reality of the Qin army, but Meng Tian also wanted to find out the reality of the Zhao army, so after the two armies set up camp, they all went out to scout and cavalry, not only to prevent the other party from attacking the camp, but more importantly, to probe the other party's military situation.

In the vast darkness of the night, the scouts and raiders of the two armies shuttled between the two large camps forty miles apart, on the roads, in the wilderness, in the mountains and forests, almost as long as the scouts of the two sides touched, it would immediately be a life-and-death fight.

Spying on counter-spying, scouting on counter-spy.

It can be said that at this time, the Great Qin and even the whole of China had reached the peak of the level of warfare in classical warfare, and all the attention paid to it was almost completely known to the soldiers.

This night was unusually long for Peng Yue and the others.

Because of this night alone, Peng Yue's scout army lost most of it at once, and hundreds of people never came back after they went out, and they didn't need to think about it to know that they were killed on the way to investigate the reality of the Qin army.

Compared with the tragic situation of Peng Yue's scout army, the losses of the scouts in the Great Qin army were much less, and dozens of people were injured and none of them died. The Jiuyuan Army was originally the most elite army in Great Qin, and the Jiuyuan Scout, who could make the fierce Hun scouts talk about their color change, was even the elite of the elite.

Peng Yue, the scout, compared to the scout of the Jiuyuan Army, cannot be said in the same way at all.

After a night of temptation and secret battles, Peng Yue, Bang Tuo and other generals became more and more bottomless in their hearts. In particular, the scout soldiers who were regarded as elite by them lost most of them in just one night, but they did not find any useful information, which made Peng Yue and the others very frustrated.

The Qin army was advancing, and the 20,000 black-armored foot soldiers of the front army lined up in a neat line and went straight to Peng Yue's army.

"General, since you don't know the reality of the Qin army now, there is only one battle. The Qin army has sharp crossbow arrows and many cavalry troops, our army can find a dangerous place to re-encamp, if the Qin army is weak, we can fight as much as possible, and if the Qin army is strong, we can hold out.

With the grain and grass of our army, and the fact that the giant deer is only a hundred miles away from where we are now, I think Lord Xiangguo will definitely make a decision after receiving the letter. When reinforcements arrive, we can flank the Qin army in front and back, and we will definitely be able to win the battle. ”

Bang Tuo also felt very tricky about the current situation, and attacked rashly without knowing the reality of the Qin army, with the ability of Meng Tian and the advantage of the Qin army's weapons, if it was outnumbered, it would be fine, if it was outnumbered, then his 50,000 army was estimated to be gone.

Although Peng Yue didn't know the bottom in his heart, he still wanted to fight with Meng Tian, a famous general in the world. At this moment, Bang Tuo's suggestion obviously not only satisfies his desire to fight with Meng Tian, but also keeps the army from losing, and even thinks about the future counteroffensive, which can be said to be the best policy.

Subsequently, the 50,000-strong army of the Zhao army began to set up camp. Later, the camp was re-established under a lonely mountain about 100 meters high, and the horse pits, tripping ropes, horse rejection piles, copper thorns, copper nails and other things were widely distributed outside the camp, leaving only a road in front of the camp gate that was not more than ten zhang wide to enter and exit.

An hour later, 20,000 Qin infantry soldiers dressed in bright black armor appeared on the avenue southward of the giant deer.

(To be continued)